david maraniss: right. stified: the day he and went in to read the statement and the chairman said no. no.id maraniss: brian lamb: where was the family? how big was the family at that time, and did he have a job? david maraniss: he had just been earlier, from the detroit times, a hearst where he in detroit was the lead re-write man. would take all the feeds from reporters and put it into and write the stories. have a job.dn't 2 1/2.ily was, i was jeannie, was 5,, and jim was almost 7. my older brother. my mother. so it was family of five at that point. in we were living in detroit a flat, in detroit. i don't remember it. i say w, the first thing in this book is i have no memory of that day. rian lamb: does brother jim remember it? david maraniss: he does, very much. first of all, jim, my older brother, both my brother and sister are two of the smartest eople i have ever known in my life. jim has not a photographic memory ut a very sharp of certain things. he can recite any poem that he's read that sort of st

david maraniss: no.here were many people over the course of the years who did not take the fifth amendment. but took the first amendment, cited their first amendment rights, and they were cited for contempt. you can't cite someone for contempt for taking the fifth amendment. that's a constitutional right. covered by that, but if you try to claim the first amendment, you're not covered. so people ranging from arthur miller, who we haven't talked about, the great playright, who coincidentally, went to abraham lincoln high school in brooklyn before my father, then went to the university of michigan before my father, was a friend of my uncle, bob cummings, and a very close friend of ralph nevis , the other spanish civil war veteran, who was killed during the spanish civil war, years later, wrote arthur miller -- he was called before, because he had a communist past, and he didn't take the fifth amendment but he refused -- he didn't answer, he was asked the question and the subject turned away from that but h

david maraniss: yeah. brian: where were the seven moves? vid: well, from the time he was fired in detroit, our first move was to coney island, brooklyn, where my grandparents, my father's parents, lived. we lived in a small apartment on near se, near seek a -- eagate in coney island but not in seagate, which was a little more exclusive. then we moved back to -- we moved back to ann arbor and lived with my mother's parents briefly. then we moved to cleveland, ohio, where he briefly had a job with with the cleveland plain dealer until the publisher of that paper found out what had happened in detroit. which my father readily acknowledged. he was fired from the plain dealer. we moved back to detroit. he worked outside of the newspaper industry for a few years selling party favors for a labor organizational place. we moved twice in detroit. then, in 1956, he was hired to be an editor at the local addition of labors daily in bentondorf, iowa. the typographical union was on strike in the area, and my father got back into newspapers there. we were

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joining re doris kerns go goodwin, pat mccrory and david maraniss. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> this is" "meet the press with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. you are enjoying your memorial day weekend. democrats are facing a dilemma. growin activists base is asking, what are we waiting for? democratic leaders warn impeachment could be a fool'ser errand. in 2002, many chose to authorize an act they didn't believe in because the leaders thought it was good politics in the fall of an election y with a democratic senate that was in control by the democrats but sitting on the edge. it wasn't until it wasn't when the war went badly and democratic voters turned sour on those iraq war supporters. today's democrats sice a similar tuation. do they ramp up impeachment. president trump wants th remembering 73% for clton. do they fight him trading insult for insult? hillary clinton called his supporters a basket of deplorables. how did that work out? the president won't conduct the nation's businesses. democrats won the house by promising to f

. >> david maraniss sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a q&a. house intelligence committee chair adam schiff sad down with a conversation this morning with mike allen of axios. most of the conversation focused on the mueller report. later, we'll hear from house minority leader steve scalise.

joining us is now is associate ed editor for "the washington post" and author, david maraniss. being with us. i saw on "meet the press" today. thank you for staying with us. >> thank you, richard. >> i appreciate it. talk about the parallels your father a journalist accused of being a -- >> the mccarthy era of the early 1950s was an era where words were used recklessly like treason. anyone called before the committee or called un-american or communist or socialist was accused of being treasonous for expressing their beliefs. so the same reckless charges sa being thrown away today. the same demonization of outsiders and the same questions about what it means to be an american and a loyal american. >> those 26 times that it has been used, i was looking back, i know it started in march, if not before that, what are you watching for in terms of what the next step might be because right now it's just words and no steps have been under taken that we any about. >> i think with donald trump in this case words are everything. it's frightening the consider it's gone this far and everythi

at 11:00 p.m., another chance to see q&a with david maraniss. now, british prime minister theresa may takes questions on national health service funding, brexit, lending for schools and programs to assist working families. this is 45 minutes. rd in that regard. >> questions to the prime minister. janet devi. >> question number one, mister speaker. >> i am sure the whole house will join me in offering heartfelt condolences for family and friends of the first battalion guard who sadly died during anti-poaching operations. under the courts of the house, people will join me in sending my best wishes to the duke and duchess of sussex. monday marks the beginning of ramadan, a time of peace, devotion and clarity and members from across the house will want to join me in saying to muslims across the world ramadan, i will host a reception to celebrate the immense contribution of the sikh community to this country. this marks 20 years since the 1999 scottish parliament national family for wales in action. we remain committed to strengthening evolution in t

in his new book, "a good american family," david maraniss dives into his own family history and how his family was impacted during the mccarthy era. it's such a pleasure to have you here. tell me what you discovered when you started going through your family's history. >> my father never talked about that part of his life. he moved on and taught me all the lessons of journalism, to search for the truth wherever i could. going back into that era when he was as a young man, a member of the communist party, not a secret agent, was just espousing his political beliefs and was called before the house un-american activities commit and fired from his job and we bounced around for five years. it was about the end of those five years when i started to be conscious, i was 7 years old, and had not known what was going on before that. and didn't explore it deeply until four years ago. >> he was a veteran of world war ii and a patriot and there were -- there were people in our country who for a number of reasons, largely during the depression era, didn't believe in the economic policies, believed in

. >> david maraniss has written with great elegance about subjects as disparate as bill clinton and theity of detroit, and by all accounts, he has focused his amazing intellect on his own family. it is called "a good american family" and is the latest piece of work by this pulitzer prize winner. david, always a pleasure having you on. thank you. >> thank you, brian. >>> coming up, could it really be true that the number of democrats in the race for president is going to hit 23 tomorrow morning? (danny) let me get this straight. after a long day of hard work... ...you have to do more work? (vo) automatically sort your expenses and save over 40 hours a month. (danny) every day you're nearly fried to a crisp, professionally! (vo) you earned it, we're here to make sure you get it. quickbooks. backing you. >>> a battle in washington that you have spoken about. obviously you've been a very vocal critic of president trump's, and there is talk already that you may be considering a run for president in 2020. will you rule that out? you're shaking your head no. but will you rule that out right he

. >> david maraniss has written about subjects as desperate as bill clinton and the city of detroit and by all accounts he has focused his amazing intellect on his own family, called "a good american family," the latest piece of work by this pulitzer prize winner. always a pleasure to have you on. >> thank you, brian. >>> could it really be true that the number of democrats in the race for president is going to hit 23 tomorrow morning? >> about the battle in washington you've spoken about, you've been a very vocal critic of president trump's and there is talk already that you may be considering a run for president in 2020. will you rule that out, you're shaking your head no, but will you rule that out right here and pledge to new york city voters that you will remain in office all four years should they give you a -- >> i'm running for one thing and one thing only, for reelection as mayor of new york city, it's my honor to be mayor of this great city. i want to serve four more years. >> will you pledge to serve for four more years? >> i will pledge. >> bill de blasio pledging to serve o

. >> david maraniss tonight at eight eastern on c-span's q&a. >> typically what we talk about when weefer to natural rights, there are things the government may not do to you. positive rights, the rights to health care or rights to this with a government program. those are not what we would typically think of in terms of rights. it's something the government must provide for you and must therefore take away from someone else in order to give it to you. that might be something that an individual might regard as good policy i think it's important to make the distinction between what someone might believe is good policy, or not, and a right. we do serious violence to the term rights and to our rights when we dilute the use of the word, when we use it in circumstances that don't involve something that the government cannot do to you or allow and facilitate happening to you. >> afterwards airs saturdays at 10 p.m. and sundays 9 p.m. eastern and pacific on booktv on c-span2. c-span2. all previous afterwards programs are available as podcasts and watch online at booktv.org. >> we are so happ

. >> david maraniss is joining us, his book was just released, also with us is senior desires at move bill kristol. welcome all. bill, let's start with you. what did you glean from mr. baker. i feel like he was saying, look, we dealt with what we had in the moment, but at the same time, i think while he doesn't want to say he would do things differently, he gets how this looks to some. >> i also think he wanted to defend the integrity of the fbi. i thought it was an example of a more old-fashioned approach, not speculating things where it would be inappropriate, and a world way from donald trump obviously and half a world away from bill barr as he's behaving as attorney. and i know bill barr and i am -- jim baker wouldn't say this. but i'm disappointed that he doesn't say this is under review. it's going to be handled appropriately and with great care. i'm not speculating about how things might look on a first impression. it's inappropriate for the attorney general of the united states to do that, i think. >> when i -- when you saw bill barr and the person he appointed to review, it w

pulitzer prize winner david maraniss is author of an acclaimed biography.itics during his presidency. this is airing now for the first time. >> he spent about ten years of his young adulthood trying to figure himself out, not just racially, but politically and morally and ethically. and it was a profound internal search. and once he did that, he became somewhat of an integrated human being, more than most people. >> more than most politicians? more than most human beings? >> well, both, actually, but certainly more than most politicians. but that was both his strongest flaw and his greatest strength because he thought if i can figure myself out, and have i all of these contradicts in my life, you know, black and white and coming from hawaii and indonesia and a kenyan father, if i can figure out all of that and put it together into an integrated personality, why can the politicians figure things out in washington? >> maraniss' new book is "the good american family: the red scare and my father" about how his own family was targeted by anti-communists in the m

. >> david maraniss sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a q&a. house intelligence committee chair adam schiff sad down with a conversation this morning with mike allen of axios. most of the conversation focused on the mueller report. later, we'll hear from house minority leader steve scalise. mike: so you can make better decisions. would love to have breakfast every day. my newsletter axios a.m., mike's top 10. we would love for you to tweet along today if you're watching on live stream land, #axios360, #axios360. our first guest is the chairman of the house intelligence committee. california sunday magazine called him the sober narrator in a time when chaos reigns. he's a democrat of california literally the congressman from hollywood. is a graduate of stanford and harvard law, former federal prosecutor, he's adam schiff, chairman of the permanent select committee on intelligence. chairman schiff, welcome to axios. [applause] thank you for coming there. if you have any subpoenas in your pocket -- mr. schiff: i do not. mike:so you are from boston

joining us, two-time pulitzer prize-winning journalist, associate editor for "the washington post," david maranissgood american family: the red scare in my father," which is available and on sale today. great to see you, david. >> thank you, willie. >> this is an extraordinary book, because it's about your dad and his experience during the red scare. a guy who was a commander in world war ii and came home in the 1950s, found himself sitting before congress answering questions about why he was for the commies, effectively. tell me more about his story and whied y you wanted to take it o a book. >> my father is the center of the book, but it's really about what it means to be an american, told through the one story of my family and all the characters that came together in 1952 in a hearing in the house on american activities, in a time where fear was being used as manipulation in the mccarthy area, when there were questions about patriotism and loyalty. and here my father is being questioned about whether he was american by a chairman of the committee, which had one been a member of the klan, and my

author david maraniss. after that, senator cory booker liconia, new hampshire. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ when lamb: david maraniss, did you decide to name your book a good american family, the red scare and my father? it wasn't the first title of the book. i was calling it which is in room 740," the courtroom in detroit where conducted hearings in 1952

. >> david maraniss on c-span's q and a. >>> we go live now to capitol hill. the house panel on congressional modernization is looking at ways to increase transparency for the public. we'll hear from the university of maryland professor, plus the founder of dove track.us. this is live on c-span 3. >>> all right. the committee will come to order. the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. this hearing is entitled opening up the process recommendations for making legislative information more transparent. i now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. i won't use all of it. today we're going to hear from four experts who will discuss kusht transparency efforts under way in the house. the value and challenges of making legislative information more transparent and how sometimes too much transparency may impact the delivery of t