out and try to understand what's happening this is a deep systemic problem yes we see we see them craddick rule in israel and they're never seen before pressure we're seeing a prime minister who has on the one hand a very strong mandate from the people but at the same time though undoubtedly is very much in legal and somewhat ethical moral problems with with indictments that are out there for him he's supposed to stand trial starting january or actually now postponed to february and this is an unprecedented situation in israeli politics and the most amazing thing is again looking at his master in politics he manages to crash all of position arabs jews left right whatever happens he's a loser has the upper hand you have a child let's not just not take any of the responsibility away from the voters here be the voters have said time after time after time an opportunity to make their decisions known and they've done that and if apparently doesn't hurt that yahoo that he is facing criminal charges indeed indeed there was a very famous known of saying by david been going on the founder of the st

most major says so sial issues are bipartisan in nature most of them are complex financial you're craddick if you want to learn for instance about the. cos of the 2008 financial crash or about why military spending goes up every year you're not going to get that in a partisan interpretation of that is because these are bipartisan issues of bipartisan problems so that's why this kind of cleaving of the news audience is incredibly damaging for americans to they don't they tend not to learn a whole lot except. political hot topics and yeah those political hot topics just seem to again kind of pit us against each other rather than actually trying to figure out where what our differences are and then trying to you know work together to overcome them and that's one of the biggest problems and when it comes to this divide as you mentioned especially affecting newsrooms is that's what's playing a role in the in the rise in kind of acts of this subject unless we see leaving organized corporate media platforms we saw this recently with you know glenn greenwald in the enter sept is that playing a rol

so as he said not the synthetic craddick dialogue. it's a discussion that is often so rich and brings the discussion much farther than it might if somebody is kind of trying to pull off big dogmatic message at the end. his big mantra is skepticism is a first step towards truth in all matters. that sums up the way he thought and also the way he wrote. >> brilliant. we will check with our questions here. that would do it for now from the audience here, unless there is a final point you want to deliver on diderot. jim, if you want to make a cross here, to. >> i i will save the cross examination for later. >> brilliant. i want to thank our presenters very much for joining us today. if you would like to buy the book comes you can do so by clicking the buy the book button below. we hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend and that you tune in next week for our final the week of programming. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here's some programs to watch out for. today at noon eastern we are live with eddie

ron johnson of wisconsin pushed this hearing, michigan craddick senator mc peters criticized it, pointing out the courts rejected these election fraud lawsuits was then a discussion on russian interference, charges from democrats but johnson pushed russian disinformation when investigating hunter biden. >> had nothing to do with this report. you lied repeatedly. you lied repeatedly. >> russian disinformation, was an outright lie and i told you to stop lying and you continue to do it. >> this is not about hearing your grievances. don't know what rapport you're running down. >> reporter: hunter biden has acknowledged federal authorities are investigating him. his father, president-elect joe biden says his son should be in the clear. >> i am confident. >> reporter: senators argue over the last two presidential elections there is more voting ahead this season. runoff election in georgia early next month, two senate seats, if democrats sweep they will control the senate next year. mike pence hosts a defend the majority rally. back to you. todd: that was quite an exchange, thank you. carley: th

i think it's intention was to make the process more deborah craddick -- more democratic so more peopleable to get a say in who is representing them and not only the people who turn out in party primaries which tends to be a smaller selection of the electorate. i will say i do think it was important that i had to win voters who were not democrats in order to get elected. i think that is a unique approach but i also think that sometimes, because there is so much fear about two making it through, you end up having more of a say and more of a heavy hand i party structure than you otherwise would which is exactly opposite the intention. goals andof our talking to you is to let c-span viewers know a little bit more about the members who will be coming in so i want to spend a little bit of time on your life story. every biography of view points out you are the granddaughter of the founder of qualcomm, so let's start there. what influence did your grandfather have on your life, on your worldview? rep.-elect cammack: i am incredibly proud of everything that my grandfather has been able to do an

in retrospect, some jana craddick official early on or a campaigner looked at the ballot and got back to the board of elections and said, my god, look how confusing this ballot is, again. and buchanan's vote was way higher in that jurisdiction in a place that was very, very democratic. so that, there was no way he should have gotten most of those votes. that were intended for gore. there was no easy way to fix that after the election. by the way, there was a law passed earlier that, no one had any idea how this would affect the 2000 election, that made it easier for third-party candidates to get on the ballot, which helps create these complicated ballots in the election of 2000. it's the ultimate in unintended consequences. on his second point, he is so right to cite the idea that what often is called fraud on the other side of the election, is objections to who is casting ballots. i read that texas lawsuit that the supreme court through out last night. the outrageous, comical texas lawsuit trying to set aside this election. it was comical. but it was also kind of scary in the way it