with colson whitehead, author of the 2015 best-selling novel, the underground railroad. which is awarded the pulitzer prize and the national book award. his other nobles include zone one, sag harbor and the intuition is. our special series, in-depth, fiction addition with colson whitehead, sunday, february 4, live from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern on booktv c-span2. >> at the us conference of mayors winter meeting in washington dc, ambassadors from mexico and canada talked about international trade and ongoing talks to revise the north american free trade agreement. it is moderated by the mayor of san diego. this is just under one hour. [inaudible conversations]

join us live next sunday, february 4 at noon eastern with colson whitehead, author of the 2016 bestseller "the underground railroad," awarded the national book award and the pulitzer prize. his other novels include "the intuitionist" and "sag harbor." in-depth fiction edition with colson whitehead, sunday, february 4 on book tv on c-span2. >> host: joining us now is c.j. ciaramella, a criminal justice reporter with "reason" magazine, here to talk about his recent piece about drug-free zones and sentencing. we are talking about it as part of our spotlight on magazines series. thank you for joining us today. guest: thanks for having me. host: what made you want to have a look at this topic in particular? guest: the reason we started looking into this is the tennessee legislature is considering shrinking the size of their drug-free school zones. they considered it last year at are doing it again this year. several states have also done this. drug-free school zone laws exist in all 50 states, including the district of columbia. basically, they enhance drug charges if you are caught with drugs

depth fiction edition with arthur colson whitehead -- author colson whitehead. >> live coverage continues in a couple of minutes with a review of president trump state of the union speech last night. moderated by former cbs anchor bob schieffer. that is getting underway shortly. house minority whip steny hoyer sat down with mike allen and talk about the state of the union address. >> the majority change hands three times back and forth. 1994 you have the new revolution , democrats got it back into the. republicans took the majority back in 2010. that inyour optimism january 2019 you will be forth, i think the again environment is such that you see lost 100 the country districts that we have good candidates and. the large number, charlie cook says a large number are competitive. on the republican side you see retirement particularly in districts that are meant to me just twon a threat -- you saw significant swings. i see this election as being in that context. i think we're on the upside. the president's popularity is low in 1930's. what is the that likelihood that you get the --ority >>>>

a meeting of chancellors but was there a meeting of minds on st sebastian colson germany's angela merkel have been trying to find common ground on the divisive issue of migration political correspondent will tell us how much progress they made. and catalonia is parliament reopens gearing up for further confrontation with the spanish government could lawmakers defy madrid once again invoke this man exam played a college pushed back into power. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us north and south korea have agreed to march under one flag at the opening ceremony of next month's winter olympics it's a small step towards less tension in the region but it won't be the first time the two koreas have marched together at the two thousand and three world university games they entered the stadium under the so-called korean unification flack and since two thousand they've also much together at three some of the picket. at the. at the talks inside the demilitarized that separates the two koreas the two sides also agreed to send a joint women's ice hockey team to

i can't tell from this whether hunt works for colson or colson works for hunt -- >> may i have it? for a fight. >> i'm not looking for a fight either. >> just aware of the fact you've only been here nine months. >> now, having known both of them, that was so true and that's what goes on in newsrooms. >> if you are going to do it, do it right. here's my notes. if you're going to hype it, hype it with the facts. i don't mind what you did. i mind the way you did it. >> the thing about bernstein that i think you captured so well was his assuredness about how right he was. you know, at the same time totally intuitive, totally instincti instinctive, where he had to push woodward. and you're rewriting me because you're a better writer. and you do it without even thinking how bruised it's going to be. >> woodward was, if the right word is, didactic. he would go a, b, c, d in his investigative work. and bernstein would go a, b, h. >> we had the luxury of a fat dynamic institution in the "washington post," it was right at its peak. >> there has always been some chicanery in american politics

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join us live sunday at noon eastern with colson whitehead, author of the 2016 best-selling novel the underground railroad which was awarded a pulitzer prize and the national board.his other novels include zone one, bag harbor and the intuition is. our in-depth fiction edition with author colson whitehead live from noon to 3 pm eastern on book tv on c-span2. sunday night on "after words", former speechwriter for president george w. bush and atlantic columnist david frum with his book trump accuracy, the corruption of the american republic. he'sinterviewed by book critic carlos lozada . >> trumpocracy which comes the same root word as democracy is a book about the study of power. that's what the suffix means. this is thestudy of donald trump's power. how does he get it, how does he get away with it? trumpocracy is the system of enabling. it's the system in the white house , the system between trump and the media that enable him and create an audience, it's a system that involves the republican donor elite, traditional elements that have succumbed to him and above all between him and th

with colson whitehead, author of the 2015 best-selling novel, the underground railroad. which is awarded the pulitzer prize and the national book award. his other nobles include zone one, sag harbor and the intuition is. our special series, in-depth, fiction addition with colson whitehead, sunday, february 4, live from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern on booktv c-span2. >> at the us conference of mayors winter meeting in washington dc, ambassadors from mexico and canada talked about international trade and ongoing talks to revise the north american free trade agreement. it is moderated by the mayor of san diego. this is just under one hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning mayors! we have had a busy morning. welcome to all of you. i encourage you to take your seats. we have a great panel this morning. welcome our live c-span audience as well. i am the mayor is the city of san diego. welcome. our session today is trade. the americas and beyond.one of the most important topics and we have been dealing with certainly in our area in our region. i think all of my fellow

with colson whitehead. his book was awarded the pulitzer prize. our special series, "in depth fiction edition" with author colson whitehead sunday february 4, live noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern. >>> next, a panel of scholars talks about people who disliked and opposed abraham lincoln during his presidency, including members of his own cabinet. this was part of the lincoln symposium. it's an hour and 15 minutes.

our special series with colson whitehead sunday, live from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >>> and we are live on capitol hill, standing by for a discussion to get under way about political civility and bipartisanship with a series of lawmakers. it is the snacks and cocktails portion of the event hosted by georgetown. we'll have live coverage when it gets under way here on c-span3. so we're waiting for the discussion on political civility to get under way. a group of lawmakers coming by here on capitol hill, this just a day before president trump is set to give his first state of the union address before a joint session of congress. our state of the union coverage begins tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern with a preview. we'll follow that with the president's speech at 9:00 and then get your reaction on the phone afterwards. all live on c-span. t also can watch at cspan.org or listen on the free radio app. earlier today we got a chance to preview his address from kellyanne conway. let's take a look at what she had to say while we wait for this eve

a meeting of chancellors but was there a meeting of minds all straight sebastian colson germany's angela merkel have been trying to find common ground on the divisive issue of why gratian political correspondent.

authors of historical fiction, national security thrillers, science writers, social commentators like colson whitehead and brad thor, brad metzer e gerald dean brooks and many others. their books have been read by millions around the country and the world. so if you are a reader, plan to join us for "in depth" on booktv. it's an interaboutive program the first sunday of every month that lets you call in and talk directly to your favorite authorities, and i -- authors, and it all kicks off january 7th at noon with david ignatius, author of ten national security thrillers. you can join us live on sunday is, january 7th, or watch it on demand at booktv.org. >> good evening, everyone. can everyone hear me well? good. i'm mary mclaughlin, program coordinator with the smithsonian associates, and i'd like to welcomeo you to what promises to be the very perfect halloween evening. [laughter] on the grisly world of vick vicn surgeon surgery. before we begin, i'd like to ask everyone the please check their cell phones and make sure they are

ultimately you viewers lose friends don't let us down because letting us down it's letting the room colson's you look which the united nations children's fund is warning there are sixty thousand children are at risk of starvation and north korea as international sanctions take their toll that they put in place but as of north korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs as in the headlines on al-jazeera but there stay with us and five story coming up next thank you very much for watching. russia hosts talks to end the war in syria but the main opposition stays away and others are suspicious russia is the biggest back of syrian president bashar al assad so can it play fact or will it simply enforce it's only vision of peace this is inside story. the at the at. the end. hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura kyle a new round of negotiations to saddle the syrian conflict is being held in the russian resort of sochi but moscow may have a hard time convincing the world it can act as an honest broker russian military might has helped tip the nearest seven year long war into the syrian

with colson whitehead. his book was awarded the pulitzer prize. our special series, "in depth fiction edition" with author colson whitehead sunday february 4, live noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern. >>> next, a panel of scholars talks about people who disliked and opposed abraham lincoln during his presidency, including members of his own cabinet. this was part of the lincoln symposium. it's an hour and 15 minutes. >>> good morning, i'm frank williams, chair of the lincoln forum, and welcome to this panel of forum 22, relating to lincoln's enemies. and i'm so pleased to have it distinguished, every time someone says distinguished i want to run to the merlot bar. it's like saying with all due respect in my courtroom. but we do have some great scholars with us this morning. stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln, and the nation's governors. jonathan white, author of "midnight in america," and soon to be with us, the book "our little monitor." and of course catherine clinton, no stranger to us, author of "mrs. lincoln, a life," and many othe

only one in france who really has big plans for europe and germany certainly wants to help but my colson needs a bit of help from the germans he needs some constructive talk that coming out of germany and mackel says that she wants that germans help all pro european but they don't want to see that terribly much mccall in the end when it comes to sherry so lot of open questions i'm not one hundred percent so whether she will necessarily be the default so there once we get to the nitty gritty of building this coalition it is all about the nitty gritty even though she isn't a strong position what happens if the talks at the begin on the seventh failed to produce a new government i mean we haven't talked about the social democrats at all. yes we have talked about them and yet they play the decisive role here because the real kingmakers and the real ones who have to say whether this grand coalition continues is the grass roots in the social democrat party who get to vote on whatever that agreement might be and if they don't really give the green light and there really is a lot of sentiment in

join us live sunday at noon ,astern with colson whitehead author of the 2016 best-selling novel "thenderground railroad, which was awarded the pulitzer prize and the national book award. his other novels include "zone one," and "the intuitionist." "in depth fiction edition" sunday live from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2 on book tv. c-span's history series "landmark cases" returns next month with a look at 12 new supreme court cases. experts join us to discuss constitutional issues and personal stories behind the significance of green court decisions. we begin monday, february 26. to help you better understand each case, we have a companion guide witton by tony mauro, "landmark cases: volume 2." to get your copy, visit c-span.org/landmarkcases. >> "washington journal" continues. host: this is reid wilson, the national correspondent for "the .com. at thehill a new story taking a look at city economies and what it does for the middle class. guest: how are you? host: thank you. what interests you? guest: this is part of a larger story that is driving the evolving shape of ameri

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don colson then saw the snowplow heading straight for her car. >> i heard crkkk and i held the brake.his feet. the police -- two police officers will to hold him up. they gave him a dwi testing. >> police say atia 's blood alcohol reading was nine time over the legal threshold for a commercial driver. he has been arrested three previous times for dui including once last month. the new jersey department of transportation officials say they are now investigating this case. >>> a massive chunk of ice fell from a high-rise and crushed a parked car in new york city. fortunately no one was in that vehicle when that ice fell. the building's department is using this as a warning for all residents as temperatures warm up this week and those icicles begin to melt and fall. >> chopper6 live over breaking news. let's gets you pictures right now. this is in southwest philadelphia where a fire broke out at an auto body shop and there was also an explosion. police and fire companies received those reports through 911 that there was an explosion at this place on greenway avenue near 67th street. once

broadcaster michael colson says the patriots' impressive run under the street you cannot go on forever kraft is seventy six i believe bill's sixty five and brady's forty and forty is is old for a quarterback not many quarterbacks continue to play effectively at that age so you wonder how many more they have how many more they have left they'll probably continue on until they get tired of winning and there was of course a huge conspiracy theory around that the theory was the owner had forced bill belichick to get rid of tom brady's backup quarterback to make up a low whose contract was about to expire they weren't going to be able to resign him and so the theory is that belichick wanted to dump brady i find a little hard to believe that you dump the most successful quarterback of all time while he's still playing well they were celebrations across the city of philadelphia as the eagles secured their super bowl spot against the patriots they beat the minnesota vikings thirty eight seven in the n.f.c. championship game the eagles have twice played in the super bowl most recently in two th

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before the final playoffs remarkably it stayed on the page until friday let's check now to michael colson who's an n.f.l. broadcaster and joins us from london michael good of you to join us why is there such a love hate relationship when it comes to tom brady. bess mostly hate to be missed it's because partly because of their success this is unprecedented in the n.f.l. brady's played sixteen seasons this will be his eighth super bowl twelve times he's been to the a.f.c. championship which is in effect the semi final it's a measure of consistent achievement that no one's been able to match so there's there's always that resentment of the leading team and partly it's because under bill belichick has been the coach through all of that they've had a couple of small scandals which have been blown up into into huge thing belet things belichick knows the rulebook better than anybody every time he makes changes that are legal they get made illegal with the league trying to catch up to him so there's there's that sense that the patriots are somehow cheaters embellish it doesn't do anything to disc

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our in-depth fiction edition with colson whitehead, live from noon to 3:00 p.m.astern sunday figure a fourth on c-span2 -- sunday, february 4 on c-span2. host: we will be talking about the latest in nafta negotiations. we are getting started with william mauldin, a wall street journal reporter and he is joining us from montreal the a skype -- via skype. thanks for joining us today. thank you, kimberly. host: what is been the focus of nafta negotiations? william: even though it is cold in montreal talks have th awed. the u.s. putting forth some radical proposals. canada and mexico not really wanting to engage except for a little bit in the last round. we've had canada joining mexico, engaging at the negotiating table, especially on delicate issues of autos and the rules for cars and how they are traded among the countries and how much of those cars have to be made in the u.s., canada or mexico. kimberly: and what happens after this round of negotiation ends? william: there will probably be more rounds. the ministers or not case u.s. trade representative in the uni

authors of historical fiction, national security thrillers, science writers, social commentators like colsonhitehead and brad meltzer, geraldine brooks and many others. their books have been read by millions around the country. and around the world. so, if you are a reader and plan to join us for in-depth on booktv, it is an interactive program first sunday of every month. it lets you call in and talk directly to your favorite authors. >> we got home and on came just trying to catch up on sleep and play with our dogs and we started the next day to go for walks in the woods which we like to do. but i was really, i was just in a state of total confusion. i did not know. and i relate in the book. i talked about what it felt like. the walks in the woods, yoga, cleaning my closets. my chardonnay and all of that. but then i began to see analysis or commentary about the election. and i just thought people were missing a lot of what i thought was critical to the outcome. we were just understanding what the russians had done. and after the election, the obama administration actually came out with eve

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has a new hire and colson's merger headhunter crashes with 70% losses in four years.oes to davos. david westin is in d.c. trump goes to davos. who's in the running? >> this is so exciting. we dragged peggy off of her desk onto the tv set because she has been working on this this morning. world's most famous investor and who is going to take over? >> our bed is greg abel. there's really two candidates that have been mostly in the running the last several years and the's greg moneymaker and brains behind the insurance operator who has given buffett all the money he has needed over the years to by other companies and become this giant conglomerate from dairy queen to battery company. >> what feels interesting about this -- the news is that both of these guys were put on the board. so even if the derby is not so close anymore it does sort of really increase their influence it feels like on the direction of berkshire which again this is a firm that probably is watched i more than any other. it's copied more than any other. alix: have all of these firms like it berkshire, b

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still feel good about their financial situations overall here for a "power lunch" exclusive is terry colsons schwab's executive vp and head of investor services. terry. welcome. good to have you with us. >> thank you. >>> what does your survey show and when did you do it >> our consumer survey shows that consumers are still very positive, very optimistic about the market we did this back in december of 2017 and we ultimately know that clients feel they're better off today than they were a year ago. this is the very best numbers we have seen in five years. but at the same time -- go ahead. >> at the same time they're challenged 40% of consumers believed there could be some pullback there could be some market correction on the horizon. >> so it looks like they were right. there is a pullback today and yesterday. are they as bullish on equities in this survey as they were in the prior year, or has that then the prior year or has that come down a little. >> it's gone up in terms of their overall concern about the market that's gone up about 10% from a year ago. >> their concern has gone up let

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overnight they have k-9 officers here we have had fire fighters, police officers, emt , my little buddy colsonady for the eagles in the super bowl. yes, he is. now, mike and alex, remember last week we were confused on the pro nunsing of was it moton, moton. >> we talk to the lady what was her name. >> i can't remember what her name was, she lived here like 30 years. >> yes. >> she could not tell us what moton had famous for, right. >> famous for shoe fly pie. >> this guy brought us the bakery's shoe fly pie from. >> wittson, from moton. >> from moton. >> they made them this morning , fresh, web site is on there. >> shoe fly pie, for everybody back at the studio, mike and alex, back to you guys. >> so much fun, thanks very much. >> real quickly last time we were i don't know if anybody got to saw it, interesting things happen, screen actors guild out there in hollywood, man, but we have heard there were, a surprises and dog man is coming inside. >> he is outside. >> if you punch up our camera, there look at this. >> look at the size have that dog head. >> yes, just a little bit. >> look at. th

our special series indepth fiction edition with colson whitehead sunday noon on c-span 2. we'll hear from representatives from u.s. postal service, state department, dea and customs. >>> this hearing will come to order. thank you all for being here. today's hearing continues subcommittee on investigations work to combat the opioid epidemic gripping our communities across the country. a bipartisan report on opioid related fraud, abuse and part d medical program. subcommittee held a hearing on buying elicit opioids over the internet and shipping them to the united states through the mail. the opioid crisis, sadly, continues to get worse, not better. last month, the center for disease control reported that more than 63,000 americans died in 2016 from drug overdoses. indications are that number increased in 2017. these overdose deaths are shocking. the number of deaths continue to grow. my own home state of ohio, we were told recently is now second in the country in terms of overdose deaths. it's heartbreaking. and increasingly, these overdoses are due to a synthetic heroin, i

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join a sunday noon eastern with colson whitehead, author of "the underground railroad," which was awardedhe pulitzer prize and the national book award. his other novels include "zone one," and "the intuitionist." sunday, live from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. "washington journal" continues. host: joining us for a discussion on many things, particularly in light of the white house and congress this week, are two guests. we are joined by darlene supervalu from the -- superville by adam weaver. if you look at the papers this morning, this is from "the wall street journal," that the president is expected to soften the tone on the speech as far as tomorrow's presentation. darlene, what do we get a sense as far as tone eating into the speech tomorrow? guest 1: the white house has said he is going to speak in more optimistic tones tomorrow. contrast that with the inauguration speech he gave a year ago when he talked about american carnage and painted this very dark picture of the united states of america. he is looking to do a little bit of the opposite and be softer, more optimistic

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