tell us about the books with the book online buckley. >> this is the first full biography of buckley, the icon of the conservative arena. but he was really the father of conservatism as it is known today. this is the first full-scale biographer third. >> did he have access too any library records? >> every available resource. interestingly enough is more liberal in the persuasions so it is an interesting balance that will fascinate people on both sides of the i/o. >> somebody who is not liberal is not three have covered often victor davis hampton been no icn novel coming out. >> this is the first novel and remarkable epic about of a greek generals and extraordinary battles fought. he brings alive for fair in the ancient world that very few people can because he knows so much about ancient history. the book is a live with details. it is fascinating for him to write a novel and i think it will be a great success. >> mr. gibson? inside the criminal insurgency. >> the author who has lived in mexico the last 10 years have gone inside the drug insurgency in mexico interviewing everybody inv

let's start with carl bogus' book on bill buckley. >> this is a first autobiography of bill buckley. icon and the father of conservatism has it is known today. but a remarkable man. and very little has been written about him. this is the first full scale bioing a if i. >> did he have access to his library? >> he had access to every available resource. interestingly enough, he's more liberal in the political persuasion. it's very interesting balance. i think it's going to fascinate people on both sides of the aisle. >> somebody who is not liberal is an author that we've covered often on booktv who is victor davis hanson. now i see a novel. >> this is his first novel. remarkable, it is. the novel about the great greek and the extraordinary battles he fought. had brings alive warfare in the ancient world in a way that very few people can. because he knows so much about history and ancient history, the book is alive with that kind of detail. it's a fascinating thing for him stood to -- him to write an novel. it's going to be a success. >> inside mexico's criminal insurgency. >> well, ian

the younger age going how bergeron souses a knife a unanimous decision thirteen year old englishman buckley blamed the loss on the broken till last thing for another chance to deliver a knockout punch on a later date but daddy has been waiting in the wings that while with the brothers manager stating a fight could happen by the end of the. and finally the world the flood exchange and shapes take place next month in south korea with the annual memorial tournaments in the moscow region the last warm up event for russian hopes constantin bought up of was there for us. the biggest event of the season in athletics is approaching quickly and interdiction can petition just outside the russian capital is an important step in preparations said again mark out of his still among the best juggling throwers in the world and russia's number one is showing great form at big age of thirty eight beating his nearest challenger by three meters meanwhile women's shot put sabrina and i just up shoot from belarus set this year's world best distance with an astonishing throw of twenty meters ninety four centimete

chris buckley, the guys he trained he trained far two of the he decide she's having separate poor healthand he goes to london. even though the grand jury indictments of them are illegal, they're thrown out in court, he sees the writing on wall. he has done. huntington comes to stanford and says here's the evidence that you bought. the senate seat. here's what want you to do. we will send you back to the senate to you resign as president of the southern pacific river. stanford takes video. huntington takes it over and says he's getting the southern pacific out of politics but he's not getting it out of politics. instead which it is the southern pacific will be running three different candidates representing three different factions of the southern pacific. what the achieving 1892 is the miraculous. they allow somebody named stephen white, no relation to me, to become a democratic anti-monopolist senator from california. it's really white far more than hiram johnson the hiram johnson's father worked for the southern pacific or choose what the congressman who's who is in the pocket. he brea

enough, "memory" on broadway was an extraordinary moment on the the first night there when betty buckleydience applauded. just across it. >> wow. what were you thinking when that happened? >> i did think that's fairly extraordinary. robert stigwood, people remember, used to manage me. he ran down the aisle and said, andrew, you've done it. that was a great moment. now people run the other way. >> that leads me neatly to the irresistibility to women. what do you put this down to? you've had a series of beautiful wives. >> i'm not sure. i think sarah brightman and i had a great rapport through music, and that -- music says is a lot of things. there are a lot of people i think who should really love music, but people who do, then you can talk a lot about it. there's a lot of artists. >> do women find musical genius sexy? >> i don't know. because i don't think i am one. i do know you can sort of play -- >> you're being absurdly modest. anyone that can conjure up these kinds of melodies and become anthems around the world, that is genius, isn't it? >> i don't know. maybe that i have a good ea

the lengthening list of ceos blasting this administration includes george buckley.erney and paul otellini. terry savage is still with us and joining the situation editor for thomas reuter. are these just business folks lashing out at a guy who they don't like? >> i think the latter. i'm sorry you didn't have some of the wall street business ceos who are lashing out at the president. these complaints are familiar to us. i don't understand what they are whining about. the fact is taxes are still at the levels of george w. bush when you had the big, big tax decrease. the president spent a lot of money on the stimulus. i think someone like steve wynn should be really happy about that. that was an effort to sort of goose the consumer economy. i think what they don't like is he sometimes talks about tax increases but they haven't happened yet. >> terry, what do you think? >> i think business hates uncertainty. not with the uncertainty about the future. that's what's been generated out of washington. steve wynn doesn't need us to defend him. he's a man who's created thousa

the length of ceos blasting this administration is george buckley calling obama anti-business, jim mcnerney is still with us and joining the conversation, chrystia freeland. chrystia, are those comments justified or is this just business folks lashing out at a guy they don't like? >> i think the latter. i'm sorry you didn't have some of the wall street ceos on your list of businesspeople lashing how at the president. they've been complaining, too. the complaints are familiar to all of us. i don't really understand what they are whining about. the fact is taxes are still at the levels of george w. bush when you had the big, big tax decrease. the president spent a lot of money on the stimulus. i think that someone like steve wynn should be happy about that. that was an effort to goose the consumer economy. what they don't like is that the president sometimes talk about tax increases but they haven't even happened yet. >> terry, what do you think? >> business hates uncertainty. business in america has a very good ability to deal with current conditions but not with the uncertainty about the fu

but we than stanford does is hook up with the guy who is the blind bias, chris buckley.stanford republican. what they do is essentially run stanford is elected senator and is very clear at the time. and then george hearst is very clear at the time. so there's a period where in fact it gazing up more ways against the odds. the octopus by 1892 stanford is utterly divided machine. they convene the grand jury. he dictates the suffering poor health, even though the grand jury indictment is illegal and ran out in court. he's done. stanford, huntington comes to stanford and says, here's the evidence you brought. here's what they want you to do. will send you back to the southern pacific ray road. you can keep the pacific. stanford takes the deal. beginning on the politics, he's not getting it. instead, what you have is the southern pacific will be running three different candidates, representing three different factions of the southern pacific. and let the achieve in 1892 is they allow somebody named steven wyatt, no relation to me to become a democratic anti-monopolist senator

it works its way in buckley versus valeo and citizens united. at this moment we have the strong-minded function of supreme court justices. replace them with ones that don't have to be of opposite points of view but once you are little more susceptible to academic and editorial opinion and use this decision. there are some other questions. >> david bernstein, george mason law school. one thing that you pointed out that law schools have become at least some more ideologically diverse which i agree with in the last 15 years or so. that has not happened from what i can tell of history, political science, sociology, anthropology. and so forth. and my theory is that it is in part as we have on the supreme court judges ray point -- appointed by republicans and these are taking these ideas seriously and faculties can't just write you off as a nut that if you have other explanations i would be interested by the bar has had a little bit of ship then leans towards other disciplines them into other ideological diversity's? >> that is an interesting question

charles was channelling bill buckley, who, of course, in 2005, basically whether we like it or not conservatives was being a conservative. we must respect what is in front of us. he's saying to the republicans you don't control the presidency. you don't control the senate. you control the house of representatives and you have to understand when to play your cards. that time is past. >> this was a hard thing to win holding only the house of representatives. they don't have the presidency and the big mic that comes with the presidency. they don't have the u.s. senate, which is democratic. they don't have the general media support in the mainstream media. what they have was the house. from the house, boehner has good leadership. they were getting as much as could be got. acknowledge reality. give it respect. you can try to change it. acknowledge it. know the facts. i thought the republicans went forward with people that knew who the facts were. they may be overplaying their hand at this point and the tea party doesn't know it. >> they don't know it or they don't care. let's talk to the democratic s

buckley jr.d george will and expressed the right but you didn't have the equivalence -- you did at the local level. there was the county radio show who was the demagogue say you have an artificial homogeneity that was policed by this establishment, which is broken down for the most part a thing to be welcomed. it existed by excluding people, but it means there's a kind of chaos now so things which always existed are now being expressed in a way that they were not in the past, and the other idea that i would like to float before wrapping up this the end of the cold war may have dyncorp to a certain amount of rancor in american politics. if you go back to the period facing the foreign threat after the end of the napoleonic war, after the end of world war i, the country would literally tear itself apart in the civil war in a time of great power and peace. .. which would suggest you are onto something. how do you square, politicians flourished by being divisive and we live in a representative governm

in the case of buckley vs. vallejo, the supreme court held that -- quote -- "any appointee exercising significant authority pursuant to the laws of the united states is an officer of the united states and must therefore be appointed in the manner prescribed by section 2, clause 2, of that article." in addition, the court has long recognized that -- quote -- "the power of removal is incident to the power of appointment." close quote. and, therefore, congress may not involve itself in the removal process insofar as it interferes with the ability of the president to exercise executive power and to perform his constitutional duty. professor harrison explained that because -- quote -- "an appointment is a legal act that causes someone to hold an office that otherwise would be vacant or held by someone else, a statutory extension of the term of an incumbent causes the current incumbent to hold an office that otherwise would have been vacant upon the expiration of the incumbent's term. it is thus a statutory appointme

in colorado at buckley, we made a $70 million reduction in the mountain view operations facility. in maryland at the joint base an tkraourbgs am pwaou -- andrews, ambulatory care center, a $121 million reduction. in maryland, we terminated funding for that facility. in texas, joint base san antonio, ambulatory care center, we cut funding in half. in texas at fort bliss at the hospital replacement facility, reduced funding by $27 million. in utah at camp williams data center, we cut funding in half saving $123 million. in total, we made reductions in 24 separate programs, including canceling the building i talked about, a whole new court for the court of veterans appeals. that's why this legislation came in $2.6 million even below the house, why it's $1.2 billion in budget authority below the president. and $620 million below last year's budget authority. reminding members there are no earmarks in this legislation. so my hope is 89 members voted for cloture on this legislation yesterday, which is why we brought it up. my hope is that those 89 members vote for cloture again on this

buckley jr. and george will expressed the right but you didn't have the equivalence of some of -- you did at the local level. there was the county guy with the radio show who is the demagogue. you had a homogenuity, for the most part the breakdown was welcomed. there is this kind of chaos now so that things which always existed these divisions are now being expressed the way they weren't in the past. the idea i'd like to float before wrapping up is that the end of the cold war may have un corked a certain amount of ranker in american politics. if you go back to the politics where we faced no foreign threats, after the end of the napoleonic wars, the world tore itself apart in the civil war. and the napoleonic wars where the jeffersonians and the hamiltonians said we need to repress this division in order to survive in this war of world and states. if you go back to the 1930's you had the lobby of saying that franklin roosevelt was a fascist. you had roosevelt announcing the economic royalists. as