barbara aaron height with her book natural causes that explores how the body ages and dies. she is interviewed by science reporter natalie enter. -- and juror. -- and your -- >> watch afterwards, sunday night at 9 pm eastern. on c-span 2 book tv. >> former white house counterterrorism advisor monaco, former john brennan and james clapper discussed national security in a forum hosted by the aspen institute here in washington dc. the moderator is msnbc nicole wallace. it's about an hour. >> okay we are ready. good evening everyone. i am clark urban the chairman of the aspen homeland kick security program. i'm delighted to welcome you guys for the preview event for the 2018 aspen security for him. a hearty thank you first of all to our sponsors for the form the summer. are major support comes from amazon web services, mattel, deloitte, lockheed martin, pwc. in additional support from american airlines and miter -- we are very happy to have our media order -- mediator nicole. she is an nbc political analysis and the host of the must-see tv show, deadline white house. which airs

barbara aaron height with her book natural causes that explores how the body ages and dies. she is interviewed by science reporter natalie enter. -- and juror. -- and your -- >> watch afterwards, sunday night at 9 pm eastern. on c-span 2 book tv. >> former white house counterterrorism advisor monaco, former john brennan and james clapper discussed national security

copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] is based i [crowd noise] >> sunday night on afterwards, barbara aaron book -- barbara ehrenreich with her book, "natural causes." >> that is one of the jobs of being old, passing the torch, taking what you know and have done or accomplished, or want done, and passing it on to younger hands. watch afterwards, sunday night

barbara aaron writes about the fear of falling. if you at the top and you look down and it's a big drop, you're going to hoard as much as you can. so then you're incentivized. equally, if you're at the bottom and you look up, the incentives are -- melissa carney speaks to this in the next panel, are going to be affected a little bit by what are the conditions like in the middle class. is it worth the climb. so i think the condition matters for the middle class but matters for those on either side, too. to insulate against the risk of downward mobility and to incentive upward mobility. so the state of the middle class matters kind of for everybody, especially if you put an intergenerational lens on it. >> great. thank you both. so i think one of the interesting questions about the term middle class is that it is used in a variety of different ways. as we just saw, lots of different definitions. and so what i want to ask our panelists to reflect on is what is the political significance of the term middle class? so heather, i'm going

barbara boxer, it's always good to hear from you. thank you for joining us. >> of course. >>> now let's go back to aaron gilchrist in new york. >>> thankngoing feud between president trump and amazon ceo jeff bezos takes a new turn. what's behind the president's wanting to sharply increase amazon's shipping costs. because they've chosen the industry leader. subaru outback holds its value better than any other vehicle in its class, according to alg. better than rav4. better than grand cherokee. better than edge. make every adventure a happy one with subaru outback. get 0% apr financing on the 2018 subaru outback. if you way too often...e moves then you might have a common condition called dry mouth... which can be brought on by many things, like medication and medical conditions. biotène provides immediate, long lasting relief from dry mouth symptoms. it is clinically proven to soothe and moisturize a dry mouth. plus, it freshens breath. biotène. immediate and long lasting dry mouth symptom relief. ♪ when i first came to ocean bay, what i saw was despair. i knew something had to be done. hurricane sandy really woke people up, to showing

>> sunday night on afterwards, barbara aaron book -- barbara ehrenreich with her book, "natural causes." >> that is one of the jobs of being old, passing the torch, taking what you know and have done or accomplished, or want done, and passing it on to younger hands. watch afterwards, sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. week takes upext the annual defense authorization bill. ,e are joined by joe gould "defense news" congressional reporter. tell us about key programs and policies in this annual authorization bill. the earlier this month, house armed services committee marked up its version of the national defense authorization act, which is the annual defense policy bill. hews to the top line of the two-year budget deal, so it is a 716 billion dollars, an increase from 2018, which was $700 billion. there is a number of policy provisions which also layout what sorts of hardware and what kind of numbers would be provided to the military. 77 f-35's in the bill, to virginia-class submarines. there is a 2.6% pay raise, an additional 16,000 troops, and there are policy prov