>>'s new 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. >> i am so thrilled and excited to be here and i want to thank c-span for covering the national book festival. i'm so excited about that. >> one thing to remember about exceptional presidents cannot be said to often. they are the exception. [laughter] >> thank you all for coming today. this is a wonderful event. we are in heaven at this national book festival. >> i am i am a am a youth leaden sports today, let me see what i can do. >> there was an article from the atlantic showing we had a red blue map. but we do interviewed people, there was not a chasm. it was a little divide. the idea that the country itself is as polarized as washington is just wrong. >> i hope all people will realize whatever they have done in life is something that ought to be recorded and passed on to the next generation. that is the way we learn. we learn for the future by trying to understand the past. all of us have a past. >> when you talked about -- you only focused on saipan. you didn't talk about guam and tinian. why did you do that? brooks this is a great

c-span book tv and c-span 3's american history tv. and this month we're featuring the city's tour each day at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> sunday night on q&a former emergency manager of detroit kevin orr speaks about the financial issues and the job overseeing the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history. >> if detroit had taken the $1.5 billion that it borrowed in 2005 and 2006 when the stock market went down to 6,700 and just invested in a index fund, dow jones, s&p it is trading at 18,000, three times what it was. they would have tripled their money, they could have paid the pensions in full and got back in declaration of the 13th check, giving pensioners a 13th check at the end of the year in addition to the 12 they are due. so it could have fixed itself if there was a sober management going forward, just like any organization, the united states as well, if you have strong and focused leadership you can resolve the problems but it takes a lot of effort. >> on sunday night on c-span's q&a. >>> a panel of advocates and a panel of justice department officials testified before the senate homeland security committee on the effectivene

s. c-span 3, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your satellitee and provider. watches on hd and follow us on twitter and like us on facebook. q&a,"night on c-span's " the former emergency manager of detroit talks about overseeing the largest minas of old bankruptcy in u.s. history. that detroit had taken $1.5 billion it borrowed in 2006 when the stock market went down invested in an index fund, dow jones industrial, standard & poor's, the stock market is trading at 18,000 three times what it was. they not only would have tripled their money, they could've paid the pensions in full and gotten back in the business of declaring what is called the 13th check, giving pensioners a 13th check in addition to the 12. it could have fixed itself if there had been some sort of sober management going forward, organization, the united states as well. if you have strong leadership and some focused leadership, you can resolve these problems, but it takes a lot of effort. &a."onight on c-span's "q this month, c-span radio takes you to the movies. hear the supreme court oral argument from four cases and popular movies. from this summer's "wome

c-span-. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," robert kurson discusses his book, "pirate hunters" and the search for the ship the golden fleece, sunk off the coast of the dominican republic in the 1680'se captain, joseph bannister, was a respected merchant captain before he stole the golden fleece and became a pirate.

c-span, stephanie shri are -- schriock of emily's list. this is a group that supports women running for political parties who want to defund planned parenthood. announcer: tonight on "q&a," a discussion on the u.s.'s counterinsurgency and safeguarding efforts in afghanistan. guest: the ending of the war depends on how it begins. there is more reliance on interrogating myself and questioning myself to see how it will end. this is also possible in three years or five years down the road that we will be back in a civil war in afghanistan. i see it slowly emerging in this country and the taliban and is deeply entrenched and so if we end up five years down the road in a new civil war in afghanistan and you have a safe haven for the taliban and isis there, then i would say i would not be surprised. announcer: vanda felbab-brown tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "q&a." announcer: the hudson institute discussed lifting sanctions on iran to many suggested that lifting sanctions would embolden iran's leaders. host: good afternoon, thank you very much for coming to hudson institute for what i know is going to be a very interesting panel and a very important panel. this panel, i have now been here at hudson for

c-span-. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," robert kurson discusses his book, "pirate hunters" and the search for the ship the golden fleece, sunk off the coast of the dominican republic in the 1680'sthe captain, joseph bannister, was a respected merchant captain before he stole the golden fleece and became a pirate. robert kurson also talked about his work as a journalist and author. brian: robert kurson, author of "pirate hunters," here for the third time. this is your third book. before we talk about pirate hunters, i want you to tell us about your father and his storytelling. robert: my father was the single greatest storyteller i have ever known. he owned his own motorcycle paints and lubricants business when we were young. sometimes he had decent years, sometimes he didn't. but he functioned as its sole traveling salesman. so he was on the road for nine , or 10 months out of the year by car. we grew up feeling like we knew him, did not grow up feeling fatherless. my dad would call me out of school. sometimes for weeks at a time -- can you imagine such a dream for a kid? and he would take me on business trips across the united states. and it was all by car, all over the united

>> we featured her on c-span 2's book tv, and kirsten powers is here to talk about her new book "the silencing" about free speech. we're back in a moment. >> this sunday night on q&a, ontitute for studies fellow u.s. foreign-policy since 9/11, the recent negotiations with iran and the war on terror. origins, isis, their all of those questions are important. but what is more important because it is something we can do something about is what is the u.s. policy regarding isis? why isn't it working? can we really go to war against terrorism? are we doing the war wrong? i think those are the questions that are the most important and that will be the most useful. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific. with the senate and its august break, we will focus booktv programming weeknights starting at 8:00 eastern. and on the weekends, here are a few special programs. fromt 22, we're live mississippi for the mississippi book festival. with discussions on harper lee, civil rights and the civil war. on saturday, september 5, we are live from the nation's capital with the national book festival, followed on sunday with our live , with lynnegram cheney. booktv on c-span. t