leo you are on with author and professor carol anderson. >> ms. derson i enjoyed seeing your lectures on c-span when you speak to college students. my question is, stacey abrams changed her position. she used to be against the idea of acquiring people when they vote to present i'd d. i heard recently she changed her position. could you check explain why? >> guest: thank you for that question. part of what you are seeing has been basically the work of the sense that voter ids are reasonable. voter ids are everybody has an id. and we have voter fraud. voter fraud. voter fraud. and to show an id in order to protect democracy in order to protect elections. bait looked at polls and something like 70% of americans believe that voter fraud happens on a regular basis or something like that. and 50% believe it happened regularly. and so coming up against that tide, it allows for the discussion about we have got to get laws that protect our voting rights. when that show it runs up against is voter id, then you have got most americans believing voter ids are

as for the next call for professor carol anderson comes from pamela and maryland. hi pamela. >> caller: hi and thank you for taking y t my call and dr. anderson it's an honor to speak with you. i've been married 36 years and an african-american mom with two african-american sons and husband. i'd like youo to know, can you speak to the issue and the ideology that we are still hiding the confederacy and its ideology through the states rights that have been sued from andrew johnson and lincoln's assassination who was the staunch states rights supporter and the restoration of the confederate states for their civilo government to get back n power and as a result it deprived the freed slaves of their civil rights and liberties guaranteed by the federal government could for example they never got their 40 acres and a former would get the money for every slave around $300 a something to that effect. how all of this is still going on in the undercurrent today and how in the 60s like you said the republicans began to embrace the states rights ideology and i thought they were

you on with author carol anderson. >> , good afternoon, ms. anderson. i had a question and the concern. [inaudible] i am studying the 1900s from early 1900s up to the 1970s. are you familiar with -- [inaudible] at the new negro movement and his work? your book about "bourgeois radicals," i thought that the naacp had dropped the bomb in the work in our time. but when you explained the work that they have done for people of color and oppressed people outside the u.s., and inside the u.s., it gave me another perspective on them here but i think currently they are in my opinion dropped the ball in their efforts in being able to affect real change for people of color in america. >> host: we are going to leave it there but it did want ask you, is your research personal is a professional? >> caller: personal right now. i wish i had a teacher like her. i went to morgan state and i wish i had a teacher like her in morgan state. >> host: thank you for calling in. >> guest: kind of sort of, too vague for me to be specific. because i really focused in on the 1940s

leo, you are on with author and professor carol anderson. >> caller: thank you. ms. anderson, i enjoyed seeing your lectures on c-span when you speak to college students. my question is, stacey abrams changed her position. she used to be against the idea of requiring people when they vote to present ids. and i heard recently she change her position. could you explain why? >> guest: so part of -- thank you for that question. part of what you were saying has been basically the work of, of the sense that voter ids are reasonable. voter ids are, everybody has an id, and that we have voter fraud, voter fraud, voter fraud. and so that is not too much to ask for people to show an id in order to protect democracy, in order to protect our elections. they look at polls and do something like 70% of americans believe that voter fraud happens on a regular basis or something like that, and 50% believe that it happens regularly. and so coming up against that tied it allows for the discussion about we've got to have laws that protect our voting rights. when that becomes, when the sho

sue met keith, middletown, connecticut, book tv with author carol anderson siva i think you for takingnd i enjoyed listening to doctor anderson whenever i've had a chance to hear her speak on says as he spent. like many of your previous callers him i was very happy to rounded that she was going to be on your in depth show today and i wanted to make a couple of comments and get doctor anderson thoughts about them. regarding the bill of rights versus voting rights if i'm not mistaken, i believe there are four constitutional amendments that deal with voting rights and seems like we have numerous states that are trying to put a terrier's make it more difficult for people to vote. yet when we about the second amendment and people's rights to keep and bear arms. people are aghast when anybody tries to put any type of regulation or any requirements i just within the past week or two, i think it was very sad when the supreme court having ruled against your brother required people to show a cause for carrying a weapon outside of the home so to me it just seems like a bit of hypocrisy that we ca

carol anderson how long have you been at emory? >> i got there in 2009 from the university of missouri where i was there for 13 years. >> why did you move yourself to georgia? >> emory is an amazing university and it was an opportunity to really grow and thrive and to be in a place surrounded by scholars that are asking really tough hard questions and seeking the answers. and then there's atlanta, which is an amazing city. >> columbia missouri, atlanta. where did you start life? >> columbus, ohio. that's not accurate. my father was in the military, so i was born on an army base and then we lived in germany for several years and then when he retiredre from the military aftr 20 plus years he moved to columbus ohio because he wanted my brother to go to ohio state. so that's where i did a lot of my growing up in columbus ohio. >> and where did you go to school? >> my undergrad and masters are at miami university in oxford ohio and my phd is from the ohio state university. >> why did you decide to become a scholar? would appeal to you a

host: the last two hours our guestro has been author carol anderson. and have voter suppression is destroying democracy in the most recent book racing guns in a fatally unequal america thank you for your time.st >> welcome to "washington post" live my guess today ista the founder of one of the biggest investors of russia after the fall of communism now one of the biggest critics vladimir putin he has a new book freezing order the true story of money laundering of murder and surviving vladimir putin's wrath thank you so much. >> before we talk about this we went to ask the viewers to join in the conversation if you have questions please tweet them to us and we will try to select the questions that come in over the next half hour. second and interested in your sense of the battlefield right now as russia launches the second round, how do you assess the next phase of the war that began this week quick. >> putin doesn't do humiliation well. the last eight weeks say that the russia would roll into ukraine and take over and president zelensky would flee and

host: author and professor carol anderson three of her most recent books include white rage. one person, no vote. in the most recent is the second. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much, peter. it was wonderful. hey, mark, it's good to see you. thanks. joining us today. >> good to see you thank you for joining us today. >> this was a fun read. i just want to jump into the conversation. so to start off i went to explain obviously every and on google and youtube for years but what makes you decide you need to write a whole book aboutec quick. >> i have been covering google since 2015 then it became alphabet and then just an expanding business conglomerate and empire. the media division became increasingly important for the company's bottom line. also increasingly important for the political hurdles over the past seven years i was reporting on a c lot of the major crises from youtube and the parent company don't with. what i saw was a fascinating in a short period of time a whiplash of employees at google and youtube to see themselves as an underdog to traditional media

. >> host: author and professor carol anderson, what -- 3 of her most recent books include white rage, the unspoken truth of our age, racial divide, one person, vote, how voter suppression is destroying our democracy and her most recent book, the second, race and guns in a fatally unequal america. >> guest: thank you, this was wonderful. >> now on booktv, more television for serious readers. >> joining us now is journalist and author glenn greenwald, talking about his newest book "securing democracy: my fight for press freedom and justice in bolsonaro's brazil" in just a minute but glenn greenwald, we are at the libertarian freedom fest festival in las vegas and you are here. is there an oddity here? >> there is an oddity that is obvious. i don't think a lot of people at this particular conference but very early on, talking about politics, my focus was concerns over bush and cheney executive power theory and trampling of civil liberties and the war on terror. i always had an audience not just on the left but libertarians throughout my first book, and the cato institute, that gives you

i'm anderson cooper heading into the first round of big poll closings tracking the key contests and battlegrounds. want to go to the commonwealth of pains. jason carollphia. jason, you're learning about frustration among officials there. >> reporter: right. that's right. this is the processing center where all the votes coming out of philadelphia will be counted. as you know, already city officials are telling us that this is a process that was going to take a long period of time, now it's going to take even longer and that's because of something called voter reconciliation. basically the results of a gop lawsuit, the city decided just in terms of full transparency to reinstate this policy of how they count votes which is going to make things take even longer, basically what this means is what they're doing is this process is meant to catch people who accidentally voted twice, once by mail-in and once in person, so in order to make sure that that doesn't happen, they reinstituted this policy so that means it's going to take even longer to count all of these votes and when i spoke to a city official, i said how long are we talking here and how many v