charles lewis. [applause] thank you. that's magnificent. of those comments are humbling to put it mildly and we can just send everybody to the bar right now. [laughter] there are so many things to talk about i will try to be efficient. where do you start? first of all, there are some magnificent people here tonight but i want to honor and point out. most notably, my family all of which is in the front row. my mother, dorothy lewis. [applause] she has literally the last line in the book. i said an american original if ever there was one. and there is a story about her in the book. there is a little bit of memoir stuff. i try to keep it limited, but there was some. my fabulous daughter cassie -- [applause] i have so many stories i could tell. she wanted to see the office when she was a little girl about seven or eight or something and she said i really want to see the office. and i said kathy i don't know if you want to see it. it's not very big. she said no, really. because i was working basically at home. okay. so i drove her into dc to the

starting at 6:30 eastern charles lewis founder of the center for public integrity examines the way people in positions of power manipulate the truth to achieve their goals. at 7:45 congressman paul ryan talks about conservatism and the future of the republican party, talks with former governor and republican presidential candidate mitt romney. afterwards at 9:00 a.m. eastern dr. ben carson talks about political and social issues of the day with chuck todd of nbc news. :4 profiles three women, students, a single mother and grandmother who are deployed to iraq and afghanistan at 10:00 p.m. eastern. then wrap up tonight's prime-time programming with lawrence goldstone's recount of the right brothers efforts to be the predominance name in manned flight. it all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> robert weil is publishing director of liveright. what is liveright? >> liveright is the newly launched delusion -- division of w. w. norton. the home of the first books of hemingway, faulkner, american tragedy, it was bought in 1973, we have relaunched it in 2012 and we are in the third season wit

at 8:30 eastern we'll be joined by charles lewis, author of "935 lies," the future of truth and the decline of america's moral integrity. "washington journal" is next. >> good morning. it's tuesday, august 5th. it is primary today in four states. many will be watching in kansas to see if pat roberts can be knocked out there. in washington, african heads of states are here for the first-ever summit held by the obama administration. deals between african countries andus companies are expected to be announced today. president barack obama

host: charles lewis, thank you for talking to our viewers this morning. the book "935 lies: the future of truth and the decline of america's moral integrity." coming up next, we'll open up the phone lines and get your pulse on the midterm elections. do you plan to re-elect your members of congress? >> a u.s. official says about a dozen members was killed in the attack today. the details are still unclear and the numbers could change. a man dressed in an afghanistan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops at a base west of kabul. officials say the shooter was killed. general motors has made progress in fixing its recall website so that it correctly lists the cars that need the repairs. the company expects the site to be fully corrected this year. they said last week g.m.'s identification number lookup system has been incorrectly telling people their cars aren't being recalled. a new poll says 6 in 10 of us think the economic benefits of good highways, railroad and airports outweigh the cost to taxpayers. there ises will scant support found for some of t

will be joined by charles lewis. every day at 7 a.m. eastern.um on the effect of the latino vote posted by the national association of elected and funded officials. speakers included the head of the latino victory fund and the libre initiative. this is one hour. >> it is an exciting year politically as well. willu know and 131 days we -- it will be election day. what would like to do to start of the conference today is put this in a political context as to how we expect the latino vote and candidates to do in the midterm elections. it is one of the major themes of this conference that the chair will beother themes worked on but the elections are top of mine at the moment. as we talk about 2014 let's make sure we put this in context about 2010. in context about 2010. because when we compare elections, it's only fair to compare a midterm to a midterm. so let's not forget what happened back in 2010's midterm elections where the latino vote had a decisive impact. the democrats are only in control of the senate today because of the elections of these

lewis marching with dr. king and can reflect back on what happened more than 50 years ago and charles ogletree from harvard the famous law professor who studies this as an issue and will have reports from the scene as well and west lowry the reporter from "the washington post" who got into a confrontation with police. a lot to talk about on "meet the press.." >> ferguson is talking about it, but we want to talk about your round tables. you touch on hillary clinton and criticism of president obama's foreign policy. >> and we have experts on foreign policy, people from congress as well as ann gerring who came back from going around the world for "the washington post" with secretary kerry, so we're going to talk about where hillary clinton is dividing herself from president obama on foreign policy and what are the risks. political risks as well. >> see you talk about it all on "meet the press." >> thank you. >> for sure to be a jam packed show. >> a reminder you can see "meet the press" every sunday here on nbc 4 right after "news 4 today." >>> new this morning, pope francis celebrated mass at the closing of asia

flush charles lewis talks about the subject of his latest book at the way people in positions of power control information and manipulate the truth to achieve their goals. from the national press club in washington, d.c., this is just over an hour. >> i'm the executive director of the pulitzer prize-winning center for public integrity. [cheering]

setting a 630 eastern, charles lewis founder for the center of public integrity examines the way people in positions of power manipulate the truth to achieve their goals. at 745 congressman paul ryan talks about conservatives imminent future of the republican party, former governor and republican president candid and romney 31 who are deployed to iraq in afghanistan at 10:00 p.m. eastern. and then we'll wrap up to that's primetime programming and 11 that all happens tonight on c-span2 book tv says it. >> what do you do and did you work for? >> a vice president and senior director of publicity and acquiring editor at a capitol press. >> what is the capitol? what kind of books to you publish? >> all nonfiction, primarily in the field of history to a military history, biography. >> this is our 50th anniversary. >> some of the titles. some military books coming out. >> when i am particularly fond of his crucible of command, add to above roofie written by william p. davis. pre-eminence historian. he liked very much at the time in battle but also at the personal life and leaves it altogether.