tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> and you're watching booktv on c-span2. we're in las vegas at the freedom fest convention. a gathering of libertarians and authors. and one of those authors is new york times bestseller dinesh d'souza. his most recent book is called "the big lie: exposing the nazi roots of the american left." mr. d'souza, you write in your book that if you read the nazi platform without knowing its source, you could easily be forgiven for thinking you were reading the 2016 platform of the democratic party. >> guest: the nazis issued an official platform. it had, i believe, 25 points to it. and if you go down the list, you basically realize that they want a minimum wage, they want to have a national health care system, they -- as you read down, you bin to realize, wait a minute, this runs against everything i've been taught. because we've been taught, this has been an idea since world war ii, that fascism is on the right, that fascism is so

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tweet us, twitter.com/booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> and now i booktv want to introduce you to mark skousen who's an entrepreneur and author, an economist and the founder of freedom fest which is where we are right now in las vegas. what is freedom fest? >> guest: is the intellectual piece of the entertainment capital of the world. oscar goodman the former mayor says this is the most unique event in las vegas because usually las vegas is just about swapping entertainment and so forth. but with our renaissance gathering where we talk philosophy, history, science and technology, healthy living, music and dance. a little bit of everything. it's a little girl arts education. -- liberal arts. we have over three and 300 spey authors. whatever subtitles is great ideas, great books and great thinkers. we are one of the few organizations that as a conference at the center of our exhibit hall is a bookstore. we sell people hundreds of books at freedom fest. we are delighted to have booktv as part of the freedom fest. >> host: what's the political philoso

booktv live coverage the miami book fair continues -- you've been listening to walter talk about his most recent best selling biography on leonardo da vinci coming up we've got -- chris matthews taking calls on the bio, katy tur, gold star father will also be speaking, and it's a beautiful day down here in south florida. and question we have a booktv se middle of the festival, and as we do a couple of 250eu78 p time when is we've been down here we invite mitch kaplan to speak withdo us cofounder of the miami book fair. and hemi owns the books and chan down here inn south florida. mitch kaplan have you already read it? >> i haven't actually but selling it by the bushel i can't keep it in stock so grab one for myself. every time i take one home i have to bring it back for another customer. it is -- it is a phenomenon. you know as walter does he's struck a cord you know again -- and what he's done with this book will open up a educational tool for those who don't note story of leonardo. >> would you just say walter isakson has a new book coming out top pick pbd and would it sell? beginn

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and follow booktv on social media. @booktv is our handle. for our facebook and to graham and twitter. this is live coverage in miami. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. we are about to begin the next session. going to get started. good afternoon to everyone and welcome to miami book fair. as i look out, i see many of you who have been with us all morning. i am sure there are many who have been with us since last sunday. in my right? who opened the flare with a black sunday? it is truly a pleasure to welcome you to miami book fair 2017. let me say a special welcome as always conveying the gratitude to the circle of friends from miami book fair. we will continue this outstanding cultural or literary event for the community, and visitors came to the book fair in the month of november. the book fair is year-round. i hope you do visit us all year long but particularly on this 7 day extravaganza of wonderful authors, booksellers, presenters, chefs and many other lite

[applause] >> yep. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv. org. >> nye maim is liz set menendez, i am director of miami book fair. it takes place at downtown miami, at miami-dade college. we have over 525 authors representing every genre. everything that you can think of we're representing at miami book fair. >> join booktv for the miami book fair, from miami-dade college, sunday november 18th and 19th, on c-span2. >> here is a look at books being published this week. former vice president joe biden reflects how he balanced his proprofessional duties and tended to his ailing son, in promise my dad. ed bannon, white house reporter explores the life of steve bannon and future in american politics. kevin young, director of the new york public library i schaumburg center, provides history of forgeries and falsehoods in the united states, from pt bar numb to fake news. in award nominated "bunk." we look at the relationship and political careers of president's george h.w. bush and george w. bush, in "the last republicans." the "vanity fair" diaries

to amazon. >> some of these authors have or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> what about trump supporters? with questions by the way were submitted by many of you and uncle to try to work in as many as i can without dropping all these papers. obviously people turned on you. you need support. you were spent at. you would see families, look like lovely femmes, but look closer, , the dad is wearing a t-shirt that says hillary sucks more than monica does -- but not like monica. wait a second, they have small children with them. >> there was that, then the father with his two kids and his wife proudly wearing the shirt that called hillary clinton a [bleep]. there was a man you were short the set i wish hillary married o.j. i don't care what your political beliefs are, i don't care if you think democrats have all the wrong ideas for this country, if republicans all the wrong ideas in this country, that was a short have helped essentially hillary clinton was brutally stabbed to death in the 1990s. that is so far beyond

joining us on our booktv said at miami-dade college katy tur of nbc. her book unbelievable, my front row seat to the greatest campaign in american history. katy tur reading this book there doesn't seem to be much of a filter. is that a fair assessment? >> guest: this was not coverage of the political campaign that i was following. it's not what happened in the donald trump orbit for every decision that has been made. this is the look about what it's like as a journalist to be there and to see it up close to show america what we do for a living, the hardships we go through, the long days, the longer nights the interactions we have with the campaign the interactions we have with supporters has humorous lighthearted moments but also very dark moments because this was how he be filtered about what happened in 2016. he was so unbelievable. >> host: one of the things you say throughout the book is don't count him out and you are sensing something out there. >> guest: i don't think anyone should have to and that's why i don't think anyone should count him not

is biographer mark elliott who's written about how icon charles heston talking to him on booktv about politics, when did he become political? >> he was political most of his life and part of the greatest generation. he saw action during world war ii off the coast of alaska. he was one of several mission trained as a radio man and enlisted after pearl harbor. it took about a year to call him up and just before he left, he married his wife and they were married for the next 65 years. they were about to invade japan for the final big push into the estimate is that it would move to a million men. so, when th bombs were dropped n hiroshima and nagasaki, he was overjoyed and even though there was a very controversial move more so as the years went by, that kind of cemented the political point of view for the greatest generation of men and women, there was a very clear delineation between right and wrong and between good and bad. all of those wit this with axiss were the bad guys. all of that kind of black-and-white definition, all of that fed into the acting career. it was part of a hero mi

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loss eight angeles you are on booktv. your reaction to van jones. >> caller: van jones is on point his statements is correct i like that analogy from the left in the right wing. we need people like van jones in the united states that is all i have to say. >> host: we appreciate everybody r calling to give their reaction to ruth van jones. another couple of opportunities with charles sykes "how the right lost its mind" you saw him earlier today and then sharyl attkisson she was on after words a couple months ago we will bring her back in and give you a chance to talk to her so those are coming up this afternoon. several events still at chapman hall where the authors are talking including a historian a book about charles dickens and also others we are all live with some of interviews on the set. in president emeritus of spelman college. the miami book fair is a week-long even to we're down here for the weekend but during the week they have offers such as the bush wins and former chair of the dnc she spokeke earlier this wee

booktv is on twitter and facebook , and we want to hear from you, tweet pus, twitter.com/booktv or postok page. facebook.com/booktv. >> i want to talk about the future of technology and that portion of the conversation actually starts in an unexpected place you're with your son he was born with scree brawl palsy he writes in detail about your early struggle with this but it has totally changed jr. outlook on the world, on technology on your life walk us through that if you would. >> yeah, as they know if i was born when i was 29 years old -- and his book perhaps more than anything else has shaped a lot of who i am perhaps today as especially probably one of the more harder parse of writing in the book to go back to reflect on it. in more concrete terms. as to what he is taught me. and as a 29-year-old with, you know, both my wife and me, you know we were only children of our parents so when zane was about to be born all exciting in the house and we were looking forward to him, and ready and whether we would get become to her work or how quickly can she get back to her work as architect

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that's all this weekend on booktv on c-span2. it's 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. television for serious readers. first up it's nelson demille who provides insight into his writing life and the historical underpinnings for his latest novel. he's in conversation with former congressman steve israel. >> hello. i'm dylan skolnick from the cinema arts centre delighted to see you all here on this very, very special evening. a rare program, around to ask for their guest so i don't think need enormous introduction. want to mention c-span is here covering this event so we are all being videotaped and will be able to see it on c-span which is i always find really fascinating. so this program is presented in cooperation with lit fest, great organization that you should check them out online and see all the other great programs if you haven't already been going to it. the organizer, the founder with that has been doing this for a while but it seemed new part of our cinema family has already presented some great, great program chair looking forward to a bunch of more in the fu

booktv has covered that.you go to booktv.org, type in sally bedell smith, you will be able to watch that online. this is booktv on c-span2. >> here's a look at some of the best books of the year according to publishers weekly. in ants among elephants, a description of family history and upbringing in india. peter man sew, curator of religion at the smithsonian's national i museum of american history, recalls the life of william mumler, a photographer in post-civil war america known for his spirit photography in "the apparitionists." city university of new york professor ashley dawson explores how cities could be affected by climate change in "extreme cities." in "fear city," new york university's kim phillips fine recalls the fiscal collapse of new york city in 1975 and how the city's brush with bankruptcy reshaped ideas about government. and wrapping up our look at publishers weekly's best books of 2017 is "the color of law," richard rothstein's report on how local, state and federal legislation is responsib

booktv it son twitter and facebook, and we want to hear from you, tweet pus, twitter.com/booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. hello i'm dylan from the cinema art center delighted to see you here on this very, very special evening. a rare program it's not built around a film. but around 2 extraordinary guests don't take enormous introduction. i want to mention that c-span is here. covering this event so we're all being videotaped and be able to see it on c-span which is -- i always find really fascinating so -- so this program is presented in corporation with lisp fest a great organization to check them out online and see other programs you haven't already been going to them. the organize percent founder is doing this for a while but sort of a new part of our cinema family and already presented some great, great programs here and we're looking forward to a bunch more in the future. so to get the show on the road it gives me great, great pleasure to introduce founder claudia coppering. [applause] >> thank you. hi everyone. i'm claudia. you know how they say

booktv, television for serious readers. >> and for the 20th year in a row, booktv is live from the miamii. several author discussions, panels and live call-ins today and tomorrow. walter isakson, caser khan, chris matthews and nbc news' katie tour, her book is called unbelievable. it's about her

[inaudible conversations] ♪ >> you are watching booktv on c-span2, live coverage of the miami book fairhich began in 1984. for the last 20 years booktv has been covering it live, held on the campus of miami dade college in downtown miami. and joining us is one of the cofounders, doctor eduardo petrone who has a day job at miami-dade college. anytime we are down here, this looks like a street for but we are in the middle of the college campus. >> absolutely, this is our campus downtown, right here in the center of the city at the center option in miami, the civic life, political life, books and writers, what -- all year round. in november we do a book fair, hundreds of thousands of people to the campus and from all over the world and booktv. >> host: how many students attend here? >> guest: about 170,000, the largest institution in the nation. >> host: how did you get so big? >> guest: we are an institution. very high quality, very excessive community. this is everyone's college in miami, hardly a household's, nothing touched by this institution including me. it is an institution, touchi

hi, consecutive victim, you're on booktv. >> caller: hi, gentleman. , mr. mccullly first back i every bought of yours was 1776. i then followed it up with john adams. loved what hbo did with the miniseries and know you put a lot of work in on that as well. i can't help but wonder, if you ever thought about or any desire at all on your part to be involved in similar project for 1776, i think that would make a fantastic miniseries or docu-drama. every a consideration on your part? >> guest: not only is it under consideration, we have a number of people who have already done important work on the idea, and toll hanks -- tom hanks is interested in it and he is the one who produced in, had a very important role in the creation of the john adams miniseries on hbo. so the answer to your question is, yes, and i hope it will happen. hope very much it will health. >> host: who is running the country between the constitutional convention of '87 and george washington's presidency? >> guest: congress. congress had some difficult issues to settle. for one thing were in t

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. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 >> it's thanksgiving weekend on booktv. four days of nonfiction authors and books. this holiday you'll see many recent book fairs and festivals, including the national book festival and the brooklyn book festival, as well as past "in depth" programs. also this weekend, on our "after words" program, christopher bedford examines donald trump's leadership as a businessman, politician, and president of the united states. and rebecca frazer provides a history of the mayflower voyage and a family that traveled to america in 1620. a few of the programs you'll see on booktv on c-span2, television are for serious readers. breitbart, senior editor. tell us bat the 2016 election. >> guest: i was not opt mick city is about any republican's chance against hillary clinton. my co-author felt differently and predicted that trump would win in the nomination and go on to win the presidency and did than on the basis data he was looking at, particularly the

booktv, television for serious readers. .. >> x-ray current thank you for having me on. look forward to the conversation. i started at the sec as a staffer in 2012 and most recently served as general counsel of the disagreements before moving into this commissioner as a commissioner. his son to serve in various at the agency. >> host: full play. >> guest: that's right. we have a full plate of commissioners right now, all of them have at it. said the agency before so we been able to be quickly over the last couple months. fast-paced and enjoyable. >> host: john handel of "politico" is joining us to delve into that. >> host: commissioner, i want to talk about net neutrality. that's been one of the biggest things to happen in the last week and never once been looking forward to that. i'm curious what you see this proposal doing and also how it might affect consumers from high level, you hear reactions to it and a lot of people point to what it means for business in the economy, but also a lot of really loud kind of fears about this and whether you see any real changes that

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watch "after words" tonight at nine eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> booktv takes hundreds of other programs throughout the country all year long. here's a a look at some of the events we will be covering this week. >> i'm jonah zimiles. i hope you've enjoyed the video about our storytelling a little bit about one of the things we do, which is bring authors to the store. we also want to make in the second part of our mission, my wife ellen and i have two children and her younger child daniel has autism. we open the book stress

you're on booktv., thank you for taking my call. >> guest: hi. >> caller: i was -- wanted to get your comment on the uniting amendment? >> guest: no, haven't heard of it. explain. >> caller: gist the crowd sourced constitutional amendment. the last few years people have been going on a web site and trying to write a new constitutional amendment and addresses a whole bunch of things, including, like, term limits for congress and legalizing pot, and getting rid of discrimination against sexual orientation, and sexual identity. all this stuff that congress won't do but the people actually want. and one thing it does that i wanted to ask you about was the tax system. it creates a tax that taxes all transactions with no exemptions or deductions, and the total transactions in the united states total over $1,200,000,000,000,000 per year. and when you tax that, if you tax less than 1%, like a half a percent, it comes out to over $6 trillion. >> host: ron, thank you for the call. any thoughts? >> guest: so, wha

at booktv is our handle, and we're on facebook, instagram, and twitter. this is beak tv's live coverage in miami. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. we're about to begin the next session. wonderful good afternoon to everyone and qk to o miami book fair as if i look out -- i see many. of you who have been with us all morning. and i'm sure there are had many who have been with us since last sunday who own od the fair request us last sunday? wonderful. i amm malu harris truly it is a pleasure to welcome you to miami book fair, 2017, and as other guests are coming in, let me also pay a special welcome as always convey our gratitude toll the circle of friends of miami book fair. and with your support, we are able to continue this oustanding cultural and literary event for the community. and also for the visitors that come from near and far for this book fair during the month of november. as you may know the book fair is really year round. so i hope that you do visit us all year long

booktv, television for serious readers. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> host: representative ann wagner, a republican from missouri, has authored a bill to regulate online sex trafficking. it would amend the communications decency act of 1996, specifically section 230 of that act. she's our guest on "the communicators." representative wagner, before we learn about your proposal, explain what the communications decency act and section 230 are. >> guest: well, this was an act that was done over 20 years ago in 1996 really at the dawn of the internet to make sure that good samaritans and those that are actually posting would not -- things online would not be subject to certain lawsuits and things of this nature. now, again, this was something that was done over 20

booktv's live coverage of the miami book fair continues. let's go back to chapman hall. up next is katy tur talking about her book unbelievable about the 2016 election. we will hear from the goldstar father and katie will be taking your phone calls. all live from miami. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [silence] [silence] [silence] hello everyone. please take your seat. we're about to begin the next session. as other guests come in, let me greet you with a good afternoon to everyone. i'm alu harrison and again welcome back to chapman session e her at miami book fair. i don't believe anyone this this room is joining us for the first time today, if there is anyone -- no thank you. thank you for being here with us i hope you had an opportunity perhaps to -- produce various booth and activities throughout the fair, and tonight is almost coming to a close. but not quite yet. and we have a real treat in store for you right here in

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booktv, television for serious readers. >> it's thanksgiving weekend on booktv. this holiday you will see many recent book fairs and festivals including the national book festival and the brooklyn book festival as well as past in-depth programs with eric metaxas and lynn olson, last weeks national book awards. also this weekend on our afterwards program christopher bedford examines donald trump's leadership as a businessman, politics

thank yo >> a familiar face on your screen on booktv, ed henry a fox news.we think of you when it comes to politics and the president but not jackie robinson. >> guest: are based for anything else that what i first are putting together this book i had a lot of peoples and white world to you write about baseball? they kind of want to cookie-cutter and say we know you're the one thing, and i believe you have to a passion for something else. i eat drink and sleep politics and it's also that we love c-span. but you have to have another passion and baseball something i would love since i was a. my father instilled that in me, passing it on to my son. we go to yankees games. tenures guys out dinner party at the thought of as would get some political gossip gospel. the ambassador sir pigeon which was discussing. started to open it up and there were little bones in there. the woman next to me said you can eat those bones. it's called squab. it's a delicacy. i said what is happening? the world series was going on because it's october 2007. i said i'm going to leave e

. >> host: booktv coverage of the miami book fair continues. up next you will hear from novelist salman rushdie. after that, katie tore will be speaking and a gold star father, they will all be speaking and we will conclude by taking calls from katie, that is coming up today at the miami book fair and we will be live tomorrow. we will head back to chapman hall on miami-dade campus. salman rushdie is up next in a moment. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. good afternoon. i hope everyone is enjoying the fair. yes? that is great. our prayer goers are coming in. we are going to get started in the interests of time. i mary lou harrison. many of you know, very pleased to welcome all of you to the miami book fair and to the next session. miami-dade college is very proud to bring this book fair to miami. and to the many visitors that come into miami book fair every year. the fair would not be possible without the collaboration and support from many many volunteers, hundreds of volunteers many of whom are students of miami-dade college and als

. >> join us this weekend for booktv at the texas book festival in austin. coverage begins at 11:00 eastern and includes live, code girls. michael heard and his book thursday night lights, the story of high school football in texas, kevin young, author of bunks, the rise of hoaxes, plagiarists, pony, post fact and fake news. a farewell to ice, a report from the arctic. danielle allen and her book the life and times of michael hey. deep in the shadows, undercover in the ruthless world of human smuggling and ellen alden, author of light in code. a personal history of technology. on sunday live coverage starts at 3:00 pm eastern with carol anderson and her book white rage, the unspoken truths of our racial divide. bloodlines, the true story of a drug cartel, the fbi and the battle

booktv is on twitter and facebook , and we want to hear from you, tweet pus, twitter.com/booktv or postok page. facebook.com/booktv. >> i want to talk about the future of technology and that portion of the conversation actually starts in an unexpected place you're with your son he was born with scree brawl palsy he writes in detail about your early struggle with this but it has totally changed jr. outlook on the world, on technology on your life walk us through that if you would. >> yeah, as they know if i was born when i was 29 years old -- and his book perhaps more than anything else has shaped a lot of who i am perhaps today as especially probably one of the more harder parse of writing in the book to go back to reflect on it. in more concrete terms. as to what he is taught me. and as a 29-year-old with, you know, both my wife and me, you know we were only children of our parents so when zane was about to be born all exciting in the house and we were looking forward to him, and ready and whether we would get become to her work or how quickly can she get back to her work as architect

. >> host: thanks for being our guest on booktv. that wraps up day one of the miami book fair for this year. we will be back tomorrow for a full day beginning at 10:30 a.m. eastern time to be able to talk with charlie sykes. you will hear from van jones and several other authors. this full schedule is available at opb.org and.org and you can follow us on social media as well. app of tv is our enough for twitter, facebook and instagram. [inaudible conversations] welcome to arlington vermont on booktv. located on lake champlain about 45 minutes south of the canadian border. it's home to the university of vermont and it's the state's most populous city with about 42,000 residents. with the help of our comcast cable partners over the next hour we will feature the literary committee including author willard sterne randall on the war of 1812. >> a lot of people have misconceptions about the war of 1812. they think it was all about the "star spangled banner" and the british attack on washington and it was not very important like a hiccup i

. >> michigan you were on booktv. >> caller: i am a trump a voter i would think he gets a bad rap. he did totally condemn the neo-nazis white nationalist i do think he was referring to the confederate debate about the statues in symbols that there is is reasonable people almost sides. and with that white supremacist and that neo-nazis is because we never had a chance to find out who the speakers were on that side. they were shut down by the antifreeze speech people but anyway, it is about iran. so lettish opinion? do you think president trump should stay in?. >> it is the important question. this isn't a perfect deal i am not sure that was on the menu. but at this stage it is important iran is living up to the deal basically over 15 years can take the necessary steps to compare it with fact we wouldn't want that problem in stereo. ed isn't perfect. >> please go ahead. >> afternoon propelled thanks for your nice lecture. there is a piece of good news china has a huge air pollution problem that is a report done under the auspices of dr. ortiz under the secretary of defense under obam

. >> tonight on c-span2 it's booktv in prime time with biographies. c-span2. >> we will go live now to the use senate floor for a brief pro forma session. no legislation is scheduled for today. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., november 21, 2017 . to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable luther strange, a senator from the state of alabama, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: orrin g. hatch, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 11:00 a.m. on friday, november 24, 2017.

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