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the national book festival live saturday at 10 am eastern on book tv on c-span two. >>> in the wake of the recent shootings in el paso, texas and dayton ohio, the house judiciary committee will return early from the summer recess to markup three gun violence prevention beers. high-capacity ammunition magazines, restricting firearms for those deemed by the court to be a risk to themselves and preventing individuals convicted of hate crimes from purchasing a gun. live coverage begins wednesday, september 4 at 10 am eastern on c-span and www.c- span.org. and if you are on the go, listen to our live coverage using the free c-span radio app. american history tv is lectures in history series continues now with a class looking at the american revolution and the continental army. we hear about how the american army differed from the british military and demographics, organization and officer selection process. this is about an hour. >>> welcome everyone to another exciting adventure in the history of war. today we have gotten to the continental army so welcome to all of you and welcome to many

eastern on book tv on c-span two. [inaudible conversation] >> iran is an immigrant. 1905, he and her two little sisters witnessed the russians revolution when she was just 12. from the window of her paris apartment. after the revolution, the communist came and took her parents business. all of the money, their home, for many years. she wandered and struggled but she has been inspired by what she saw on here and she was inspired by what she could do with pursuing her dream in america. she came here just six years after the franchise to vote. she did not speak a word of english. she became a writing machine. she wrote screenplays, she wrote books and then she wrote of course the epic novel we know her best buy. the fountainhead. in atlas shah rug. between those two books, she wrote anthem. it was a short sci-fi novel in this the one we seem to have chose to adapt as an graphic novel. >> will get to that in just a minute. what was her philosophy and why is she still relevant among a segment of society today. >> emily gue

two. enjoy the tv and every weekend on c-span two. also tonight and 930 eastern, about the future of representative democracy and relations between legislative branches. speakers include carl grove, former house majority eric cantor and former governors give hodges of south carolina and george allen of virginia. again you can watch a 930 eastern on c-span. on c-span three we are featuring american history programs. we are showcasing our weekly lectures and history series. taking her to college classrooms around the country. tonight we focus on native americans. he can watch it tonight starting at eight eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span three. tonight on the communicator, cnbc cybersecurity reporter kate panini on her book, kingdom of life. it's about the world of cybercrime. >> if you want to understand what all of these things are happening to us, whether it is the exploitation of the algorithms that run twitter and facebook in order to help the russian intelligent agencies influence an election. or things

eastern on book tv on c-span two. the defense department's advisory committee on sexual assault in the military held a public meeting in arlington, virginia with criminal law and justice division chiefs from the army, navy, marine corps, air force, and coast guard. the meeting began with committee members reviewing the conviction and acquittal rates for military sexual assaults in 2018. thank you, good morning. i would like to welcome the members and everyone in attendance today to the 13th public meeting of the defense advisory committee on investigation, prosecution, defense of sexual assault in the armed forces. of the 15 committee members, 11 members are present and a 12th member will be joining us by telephone at 10:00 this morning. two members were not able to attend today. major general marsha anderson and judge reggie walton. it was created in 2015 in accordance with the national defense authorization act in 2015 as amended. our mandate is to advise the secretary of defense on the investigation, prosecution, a

liveational book festival, saturday, august 31, at 10:00 eastern on book tv on c-span two. announcer: in the wake of the recent shootings in el paso and dayton, the house judiciary committee will return early from summer recess to mark up three gun violence prevention bills, which include banning high-capacity ammunition magazines, restricting firearms from those deemed by a court to be a risk to themselves, and convicted individuals of misdemeanor hate crimes from purchasing a gun. toyou are on the go, listen live coverage using the free c-span radio app. national public radio reports trade and economic tensions loom over the g7 summit in france. president trump and french president macron met in a seaside town. later, president trump tweeted, just had lunch with french president emmanuel macron. many good things are happening for both of our countries. big weekend with other world leaders. and here, the president and first lady arrived at a white house -- a light house for dinner with g7 leaders. formal talks are set to begin sunday morning.

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the national book festival live eastern on at 10:00 book tv on c-span two. >> up next, a conversation on the potential national security challenges posed by foreign student programs. the center for immigration studies as host of this event. mark: good morning. my name is mark krikorian, the executive director of the center for immigration studies, and we are doing this panel on the issue of the foreign student program. the admission of foreign students and scholars is a federal government program like any other, farm subsidies or what have you, and it is almost exclusively discussed in positive terms, but in fact like any other government program, it has benefits but also costs. pluses and minuses. the challenges that come from it, whether related to national security or other issues, are never addressed. we want to have a panel that will try to introduce balance into this discussion of the foreign student programs. our first speaker is dan cadman, a center fellow, a veteran of ins and dhs, and he has a report on the table outside and also online on the national security challenges th

tv. on c-span two. next, journalist christopher ketchum reports on conflicts over public lands in the western united states. then, bioethicist trevor reeder shares his personal experiences with opioid addiction. later, profiles female spies in world war ii. then i'll start now. [inaudible conversation] hello everybody. my name is david chaco i am the executive public library district. i am here with my friend and colleague doctor patrick burns of the dean of the ch you library. i want to thank our sponsors tonight, the library, the other library district and the friends of the morgan library the prudent leather library friends in the trust, the murray family, the holding her confluence, can you see, old firehouse books and all of those who are here tonight who contribute to these events. pat. >> thank you david. we got some really great events coming up for you. tonight again i want to remind you that our commitment to you is to get really great authors to you to come and talk to you. we can enjoy diffe

. >> watch book tv every weekend on c-span two. presidential candidate people to judge.- pete but a >> thank you. thank you. wow, what a fantastic group. thanks to mackenzie for that great introduction. we will hear a bit more from her later. for takinghank you the time and caring enough about our country to get together and talk about what we are going to do to make things better. we are in a chaotic and unstable and frightening and divided moment. but i believe it is in our hands to change all of that for the era that is ahead of us. we are lucky and unlucky enough to be among those americans who .et to be alive this is about more than who is a resident today, although lord knows, we will need a new president. applause]d we approach choosing whether to buy prescription drugs or and theto buy groceries president still focusing on whether or not to buy greenland, we have a problem. i don't think a person like the current president can ever get within cheating distance of the oval on -- oval office. we have to respond to the fact th

eastern on book tv on c-span two. the international spy museum in washington dc former cia chief of disguise john in mendez recounted her covert operations in moscow. here she talks about the realities of working in russia as an american diplomat. >> the book is called the moscow mules. it's the last of four books that tony and i've written. i do want the title to be misleading. we didn't write the rules. we didn't invent the rules. all we did was put them down on paper. the moscow rules were understood by most of our case officers who were headed out to moscow to be the rules of the comportment. how you managed herself on the street. they were themselves a form of tradecraft if you follow the rules you would probably emerge from your assignment in the belly of the beast unscathed. if you broke the rules all kinds of interesting things could happen to you. the book opens the first three pages of the book with a scene outside the american embassy in moscow june 6, 2016 and the middle of our last residential election wh