. >>> this week on "q&a" our guest is david stewart or of "the summer of 1787 the men who invented the constitution" ab t about. >> david stewart, when did you think you wanted to write a book about the 1787 constitutional convention? >> it was some years ago i was involved in a case in the supreme court and became motivated by myo posing counsel's argument and thought he wasn't telling truth about what happened in the convention based on what i must have known. so i did some research on my own and it look like he might have been telling the truth. so i bought madison's notes to the convention, which are about 500 pages, took them home over the weekend and read them. i was just knocked out. they were an amazing story of, you know, passion, wisdom, some foolishness, and it's also important to us every day. you can't pick up the paper without something in that newspaper involving what they did for those four months. they really wrote the rule book for the country. and it just seem like a wonderful story that i wanted to tell. >> how many timeses that been told before? >> a few. there's c

. >> david stewart, author of 1787, the constitutional convention in 1787, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> for a copy on dvd or vhs tape call 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q&a.org. they're also available as c-span pod casts. >>> this is the conversation we needs to have in this country that nobody is willing to have, okay? what role should the government play in housing finance? >> in recklessen dangerment pulitzer pliez winning gretchen morgan son detailed the 2008 financial meltdown and one continuing issue, government subsidized homeownership. >> if you want to subsidize housing in this country and we want to talk about it and the populous agrees it is something we should subsidize put it on the balance sheet and make it clear and make it evident and make everybody aware of how much it i

stewart will bat in the number 6 spot. and on the mound, david1-1 record, a good era. he has good stuff, the rookie right hander taking over, dealing with young, boesch and peralta. >> number 13, a lucky number for david phelps who retired 13 in a row for the yankees. >> game started by phil hughes on april 14. that's swisher, coming in, number 1. delmon young flies to right. 1-4 on the night. swisher can scmiel breathe easier as he went back on the ball and had to recover. >> the outfielders are playing a no-doubles defense. tony pena has the hand behind the back. so they are playing deeper than they normally would to prevent the extra base hit. >> here's brennan boesch. he's hit 5 home runs on the year, you can see the good breaking ball from the jaite right hander who may be a long-term option. who knows how long-term that could be. this fast ball for a strike, and it's an 0-2 count. >> it's goods to follow the breaking ball with the fast ball. that's what phelps did. >> on deck, peerality a. boesch is hitless on the night. breaking ball, base