[applause] >> a pleasure to be here with craig shirley -- craig shirley who high have known since the reagan white house in the early 80s. i did not know about lacrosse. i want to start with the basic question, people so kind, the book festival, why did you write this book? you have written extensively about reagan before. >> i guess if you're in friendly territory i am behind enemy lines. i am retired from all that but for making us ways we had to rename his tv show the four. i wrote this because it is an important part of american history, an important part of reagan's history that has never been explored before. winston churchill, martin gilbert was -- okay. martin gilbert was winston churchill's most famous biographer, a dozen books on churchill, various aspects of his life, the wilderness years and in the 20s and 30s churchill was cast aside by the conservatives in england, great britain and embarked on a new career of radio commentary and lecturing and it mirrors reagan because reagan was cast aside by his party and churchill was warning -- warned about spending his radio commen

noted reagan biographer craig shirley is that author, "reagan rising" is that book. the son of charter members of the new york state conservative party, mr. shirley comes by his love of reagan and conservativism honestly. "reagan rising" is more than a mere biography.ev it chronicles the journey of a who, having just suffered a devastating defeat in 1976,uf picks himself up and becomes the leader of a new brand of brand conservativism. trump's presidency, perhaps, offers the perfect backdrop against which to study reagan's ascendance. with the republican party struggling to define itself, it offers meaningful insight into the development of the philosophy that it serves as a touchstone for conservatives across the country.ne reagan's philosophy still inspires to this day. as a special aside in researching what i'd say in this introduction, i learned that mr. shirley played an instrumental role in having the sport of lacrosse designated as the state sport of maryland, and for that i'm sure he will always have a special place in the heart of all marylanders, so gaithers

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eastern, craig shirley. then, sidney blumenthal, author of "wrestling with his angels," and at 3:15, sally mark freeman on the jersey brothers. coverage lives all day of the gaithersburg, maryland book fair, starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. on "q&a," author and journalist tr reid takes a comparative look at tax systems around the world. >> i went to the world bank and imf and said, who has a good tax system? they said go to new zealand. new zealand followed the fundamental principle of good taxation, which the economists blr.ced to b that means broaden the base to lower the rates. said your salary, that his income, if you are an employer that pays health insurance, that his income to you. if you get free parking at the company, that is worth $20 per month. they text that as income. no deductions. you want to give to charity, we are all for it, but we do not give you a tax break. if you tax everything and give no write-offs, then you can set the rates very low. 8:00 easternht at

and craig shirley on "reagan rising: the decisive years, 1976 to 1980." and sydney blumenthal author of wrestling with his angels: the political life of abraham lincoln." brothers."he jersey watch ourive, all-day goverpblg of the gaithersburg book festival. book tv on c-span2. >> joining us for a conversation on brexit and transatlantic relations -- relations, and formf vote leave, matthew elliott. good morning. guest: good morning. host: could you remind viewers of vote leave when it comes to brexit, in your role in it. officialere was an leave campaign and an official remain campaign, and vote leave was the official leave campaign. host: what convinced you leaving the opinion was the best up for the 90 kingdom? guest: -- united kingdom? guest: when david cameron brought it up, i was open to try to getting a different -- better deal, but he did not get much in his negotiation. no power was brought back to the u.k. we are in a situation where 60% of the laws from the -- of the u.k. come from the eu, which many in the u.k. feel is undemocratic, and unaccou

craig shirley on "reagan rising: the decisive years." at 2:15, sidney blumenthal, author of "wrestling with his anthrops." freeman:15, sally mann on the jersey brothers, a missing naval officer in the pacific and hisily's ques to brie. tch live, yover stiv on an 2' book tv. >> during a joint news conference with colombian tossident, juan manuel san president trump discuss the naming of a special investigation. he called the investigation a witchhunt and said he fired the fbi director because he was unpopular with most people. this news conferences half an hour. president trump: thank you very much. it's a great pleasure to welcome president santos to the white house, colombia is one of our closest allies in the hemisphere and today we reaffirm partnership between our two great nations. president santos and i had a very productive meeting and we will continue to work very closely together to bring peace, safety, and prosperity to the hemisphere. perhaps no area is really more important in terms of cooperation than our joint effort to end

at 1:15, craig shirley on reagan rising, 1976 to 1980. at 2:15, sidney blumenthal, author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. at 3:15, sally mark freeman on , a missingbrothers naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watch our all-day coverage of the gaithersburg, maryland book festival saturday at 10:00 a.m. .astern on c-span2's booktv >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back in open phones. your thoughts on any debates happening around the country, we will go to chris in maryland, a democrat. what is on your mind? reeling from just what the congressman was talking about in regards to public land to was talking about and how we need to exploit public lands as needed to grow our localities economically. i think that is a little shortsighted. it is a clever play of words that he used public land and he talks about how these are lands that are ripe for the taking. it is important to note that whenever he is talking about public lands, he is talking about our nationa

at 1:15 eastern, craig shirley on reagan rising, the decisive years, 1976 to 1980.t 2:15 p.m., the author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. 3:15, sally freeman on the jersey brothers, a missing naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watch our live all day coverage of the gaithersburg, maryland book festival starting today at 10:00 eastern on c-span two's book tv. >> washington journal continues. host: joining us now is rush the ceo of the american association for the advancement of science. he is also a former congressman from new jersey. thes here to talk about future of federal scientific advisory boards under the trump administration's epa and interior departments. thank you so much for joining us. guest: good to be with you. host: let's start by explaining to our viewers what the american association for the advancement of dance is -- of science is. guest: we're the largest general science organization. we go back to 1848. our mission is to advance science for the benefit of all people. we have p

and craig shirley on "reagan rising: the decisive years, 1976 to 1980." and sydney blumenthal author of wrestling with his angels: the political life of abraham lincoln." brothers."he jersey watch ourive, all-day goverpblg of

at 1:15, craig shirley on reagan rising, 1976 to 1980.t 2:15, sidney blumenthal, author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. at 3:15, sally mark freeman on , a missingbrothers naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watch our all-day coverage of the gaithersburg, maryland book festival saturday at 10:00 a.m. .astern on c-span2's booktv >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back in open phones. your thoughts on any debates happening around the country, we will go to chris

craig shirley on reagan rising. the decisive years 19761980. 2:15, sidney blumenthal, author of wrestling with his angels, political life of abraham lincoln 1849-1846. 3:15 sally freeman on the jersey brothers, a missing naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watching live all day coverage of the gaithersburg, maryland, book festival. at 10:00 eastern on booktv. join us this weekend for cities tour to trenton, new jersey at the help of comcast partners, booktv and american history tv, feature the history area and literary culture of capital city. at 5:15 on booktv we visit the state library's book collection. >> a printing press was set up in new jersey to print paper money for the colony, the legislature wanted it closed, so they see the printing and at the time they did that they did this book. the first known printed book in new jersey. >> a conversation with william kidder, author of crossroads of the revolution, trenton, 1774-1783. >> washington spent more time in new jersey than

craig shirley on "reagan rising." blumenthal,ney author of "wrestling with his angels: the political life of abraham lincoln." the:15, sally freeman on jersey brothers, a missing naval offir in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. at 10:00 a.m.y eastern on book tv. los angeles mayor eric garcetti spoke tuesday at a conference. this part of the event also includes a discussion about economic growth in the workforce with senator jeff merkley of oregon. >> please welcome to the stage -- [applause] >> good morning, everyone. i am the president of the center for american progress and i am thrilled to welcome you to the 2017 ideas conference. we are thrilled to have people from all over the country here for our third conference. i think many of you know i am user so active twitter i encourage you to eat of -- tweet about today's event. the center for american progress is dedicated to improving the lives of americans. as you can tell from today's agenda, we strive to progress values on every possible front.

eastern craig shirley on dragon rising, but if-- decisive years. 2:15 p.m., sidney blumenthal, authorestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. 3:15 p.m. sally mark freeman on the jersey brothers coming missing naval officer in the pacific and his friend-- family's quest to bring him home. watch live all day coverage of the maryland book festival starting saturday, 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2 book tv. >> this past weekend sender chris murphy held a town hall meeting internet-- connecticut. his constituents asked about health care, trump ties to russia and the justice department criminal said theme guidelines. this is an hour and a half. [applause]. [applause]. >> sitdown. sitdown. thank you, everyone. that's very very nice. i have a massive cold and it that makes me feel better today. i feel more well given the introduction. thank you martin.

at 115 eastern, craig shirley on reagan rising to decisive years. 1976 to 1980. at 2:15 pm, sidney blumenthal author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. 1849 to 1856. and at 3:15 pm sally mott freeman on the jersey brothers, a naval officer in the pacific in his family's quest to bring him home. watch our live all-day coverage of the gaithersburg maryland book festival starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's booktv. quest nest the conversation potential economic implications our proposed tax plans from president trump and house republicans. topics include the corporate tax rate, us competitiveness and federal debt. the event was hosted by the cato institute. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon everybody would i want to welcome you all today i am peter russo, director of affairs at the cato institute. i want to thank you for coming. you are an old briefing of major tax reform in 2017. before we begin if you're watching via c-span for live stream and would like to join the conversation would love to hear from yo

at 115 eastern, craig shirley on reagan rising to decisive years. 1976 to 1980. 2:15 pm, sidney blumenthal author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. 1849 to 1856. and at 3:15 pm sally mott freeman on the jersey brothers, a naval officer in the pacific in his family's quest to bring him home. watch our live all-day coverage of the gaithersburg maryland book festival starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's booktv. quest nest the conversation potential economic implications our proposed tax plans from president trump and house republicans. topics include the corporate tax rate, us competitiveness and federal debt. the event was hosted by the cato institute.

at 1:15 eastern, craig shirley on reagan rising, the decisive years 1976 to 1980. at 2:15 p.m., the author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. and at 3:15, sally mott freeman on the jersey brothers a missing naval officer in the pacific. watch our all day coverage of the book festival starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >>> next, another look at infrastructure priorities and the ability to finance various projects. this was hosted by the environmental and energy study institute. it's just under an hour 1/2. >>> good afternoon, everyone. my name is carol werner. i'm executive director of the environmental and energy study institute. we are glad to welcome you here to this briefing. we are holding this briefing in conjunction with our partners, the national association of state energy officials, or naseo, because we are working together to take a look at america's infrastructure, its needs, the business case for investing in long-term reliability and sustainability, and what does this mean for us as a nation, for our

eastern craig shirley on dragon rising, but if-- decisive years. 2:15 p.m., sidney blumenthal, author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. 3:15 p.m. sally mark freeman on the jersey brothers coming missing naval officer in the pacific and his friend-- family's quest to bring him home. watch live all day coverage of the maryland book festival starting saturday, 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2 book tv. >> this past weekend sender chris murphy held a town hall meeting internet-- connecticut. his constituents asked about health care, trump ties to russia and the justice department criminal said theme guidelines. this is an hour and a half. [applause]. [applause]. >> sitdown. sitdown. thank you, everyone. that's very very nice. i have a massive cold and it that makes me feel better today. i feel more well given the introduction. thank you martin. i asked what i should say it he said whatever i say make it short. we have a lot to cover and i think he reference to we have, but i want to thank all the folks here at stanford. you do a fantastic job every single da

at 1:15 eastern, craig shirley on reagan rising, the decisive years. 1976 to 1980. at 2:15, sidney blumenthal. the political life of abraham lincoln. 1849 to 1856. at 3:15, sally freeman. his family's quest to bring him home. watch our live, all day coverage of the book festival. starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on cspan 2's book tv. >> sunday night on afterwards, stuart taylor examines sexual assault processes at america's units. mr. taylor is interviewed by beth, editor and chief of the thashl law journey and medical times. >> what's your general thesis that we're look iing at here? what are we going dob reading about when we open the majors? >> the gist is that there's been a huge myth that's taken root. that there's an epidemic of camera tuss rape. there's a culture of campus rape, where it's encouraged and condoned, even by the administrators, that it's out of control, that it's increasing, that it's worse on campus than off and that it requires completely demolishing all due process in the presumgts of innocence for the accused people 99% of them are ma

craig shirley on "reagan rising." blumenthal,ney author of "wrestling with his angels: the political life of abraham lincoln." the:15, sally freeman on jersey brothers, a missing naval offir in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. at 10:00 a.m.y eastern on book tv. los angeles mayor eric garcetti spoke tuesday at

at 1:15 eastern, craig shirley on reagan rising the decisive years. at 2:15 p.m., sydney blumenthal author of the political life of abraham lincoln. and at 3:15, sally mott freeman on the jersey brothers, a missing naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watc live all day coverage starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >>> the democratic policy and communications committee and a group of senate democrats hosted a meeting on the republican health care replacement bill. witnesses included the pennsylvania insurance department commissioner and those affected by chronic illnesses. this is just over two hours. >>> good afternoon. we'll call our hearing to order. we know we have many more colleagues that are coming to join us. but we will get started in the interest of time. first thank our wonderful guests, our witnesses who have come here today to share their stories. as we look at the panel, i have to say it looks like the great lake states. i did not plan this on purpose, but we have indiana, michiga

craig shirley written about this everyone in the administration on own way was on message.mean and with is at stake here. everyone needs on same page. mattis saying this. mcmaster says this. donald trump says this. rhynes priebus has to go on television. i don't think that gets him anywhere. that is not how i would organize these interviews. i'm on the outside. it is easy to be critic pointing inward. i don't think that interview helped donald trump at all. steve: laura, you are not first person who told us today, there is message problem with the white house. too many messages. >> conflicting message don't help clarify things in very distressful time for americans. brian: thank you very much, laura. levens minutes after the hour. heather chilleds with breaking news. >> this fox news alert for you. urgent warning for americans traveling to europe, isis could be coming to you. the state department says terror groups have the ability to execute attacks using explosives, guns, knives and vehicles as ramming devices. we've seen that. follows a deadly year in europe where more t

at 1:15 eastern, craig shirley on reagan rising, the decisive years 1976 to 1980. p.m., the author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. and at 3:15, sally mott freeman on the jersey brothers a missing naval officer in the pacific. watch our all day coverage of the book festival starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >>> next, another look at infrastructure priorities and the ability to finance various projects. this was hosted by the environmental and energy study institute. it's just under an hour 1/2. >>> good afternoon, everyone. my name is carol werner. i'm executive director of the

eastern craig shirley on reagan rising the decisive years, 1976 to 1980. 2:15 p.m. sidney blumenthal, the political life of abraham lincoln 1849 to 1856. 3:15 p.m. sally mauch freeman on the jersey brothers, a missing a blockbuster in the pacific and his family quest to bring him home. watcher live all-day coverage of the maryland book festival starting today at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> this morning i want to begin by introducing you to someone from our book and that is kim power bridges. kim owns and operates bridges funeral home in tennessee, but she is not from tennessee. kim is actually from oklahoma. she started her first business there, but she had to leave oklahoma when she ran afoul of the law. turns out that kim was engaged in a very dangerous practice of selling caskets without a funeral directors license. before that in the early 1980s kim was on the executive fasttrack growing up in a family of hard-working people to learned the relationship between hard-working success and after she left college she enjoyed a lot of success in a num