james, you are on book tv with maureen dowd. caller: good day, maureen dowd. guest: good day, james. caller: i feel like i walked through a looking glass somewhere around evening on november 8, and has been wondering what's been going on and i'm in a alternative reality all of a sudden. you know, there is a great deal of concern regarding the amount of russian influence in our government through the election and now how much is here to stay ask how much has integrated itself into the fabric of our governments machine? a gate-- great deal of the important people seem to be ignoring its totally. they refuse to answer-- host: thank you. let's hear from maureen dowd. we have looking glass. guest: james, can't tell you the number of times i have written the word looking glass into a call amendment taken it out because i have used it so often and you are correct. its alternative universe and like bizarro world with alternative facts and i have to tell you the russian story is the strangest thing that my colleagues and i have seen in our careers. it's inexplicable an

maureen dowd, how do you view your job? guest: well, peter, that's a big question. i don't like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. as a watch dog and readers don'n understand i'm not coming from the left or the right. i was a political reporter formi 20 years and so i come at it more from a political reporting point of view. i'm just going to try and tell them, i'm going to -- it's like toto pulling the curtain wizardn or oz and i'm trying to givewhas them an idea of what is true and what is false and where they're lying and where they're rising to the occasion. >> host: the most recent book is call "the year of voting dangerously: the derangement of american politics." mum u.s. presidents have you covered? >> guest: i started dish covered the very tale end of reagan when he was on his way out. i dade few features on him. and actually i went on a trip with him to an asian economicyo summit and covered nancy. if covered nancy reagan did an interview with her, where ii failed to ask -- i asked he most important question but failed to get the right an

maureen dowd, how do you view your job? guest: well, peter, that's a big question. i don't like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. i view my job as a watchdog and times readers often don't understand that i'm not an ideological columnists, not coming from the left or right. i was a political reporter for 20 years and so i come more from a political reporting point of view. on just going to try to tell them-- it's like toto pulling the curtain in "the wizard of oz". i'm going to try to give our readers anything i can find out that they need to know about, you know, what is true and what is false

reporter peter dowd has the story. >> reporter: robert blake is set to reprise his most controversial role later this year when the actor becomes a husband for the third time. the 83-year-old will reportedly marry 55-year-old pamela hudak. the two reportedly have known each other for decades and dated briefly in 1991, something she revealed while testifying on blake's behalf while he was on trial for the murder of his second wife, bonnie lee blakley. she was shot to death in his car after they left a restaurant in 2001. prosecutors claim blake hired a hitman and detectives found $10,000 in his dresser drawer, but hudak testified blake often hid envelopes filled with money. >> she said in court, no, he always had lots of cash around, defended him. >> reporter: entertainment reporter jeannie wolfe covered the trial and said hudak testified she was with the married couple when blakley found out she was pregnant. >> he went with them to the gynecologist's office and back in the car she said nobody was happy. >> reporter: a three month murder trial and nine days of jury deliberation came d

with nation magazine national affairs john nichols, and ready," andople get "new york times" op ed dowd, and maurine sachs vice man president and her book "my dream, my american true story as undocumented immigrant who became a wall executive," book t.v. live from the tucson festival of ooks saturday at noon and sunday 1 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest, william galston brookings institute, governance study senior fellow, agenda of thishe president and role of congress. good morning. guest: good morning, sir. as an agenda, how has this president compared to ones?ous guest: this president so far has been long and strong on orders, but slow when it comes to actual legislation, to mention the president's budget, which technically was is going onth and now to be dribbled out over the next six weeks we've learned. that because of just the way he wants to conduct or because of issues such as with ties to russia, the things that popped up, have that affected put bility of agenda to be out there? guest: there have been a lot of distractions, some of t

social worker caitlyn dowd says it's become an epidemic. there's a whole trail, needles, baggies, spoons. debbie's son spencer died from an overdose in 2012. warfield blames oxycontin. she says that's where it began. >> oxycontin and heroin has taken such a toll on our family, you know, for the rest of our lives. >> reporter: the city of everett has now filed a lawsuit against the maker of the drug, purdue pharma. the lawsuit claims purdue knowingly, recklessly and negligently supplied it to pharmacies and physicians and monitored the illegal trafficking of its pills, knew high volumes were being distributed and didn't share the informations with law enforcement. everett's mayor -- >> i believe it's about greed, and they need to be held accountable to make our community high. >> reporter: purdue pharma denied our request for an interview but says it has a strong record of working with law enforcement and information it's provided in some cases has led to convictions. in a statement, they told us the lawsuit paints a completely flawed and in

. >>> turning now to abc news chief political analyst, matthew dowd. the president started off the week strong with that rousing speech to congress. are these new tweets about to derail his focus? >> pivot to a more presidential way on tuesday. as you know in basketball you have to have that pivot foot firmly planted. his pivo it's going to make it much more difficult to accomplish his legislative agenda in short term. and not only that, his unprecedented attacks on a former president, saying that former president wiretapped him is going to make it very difficult for him to unify the congress. >> matt dowd, thanks. >>> and much more on these breaking political developments coming up tomorrow on abc's "this week." >>> next to the bitter chill blasting americans from the great lakes eastward this weekend. some of incredible images from those cold temperatures. firefighters in new jersey dealing with ice like this. and the new drone images coming in tonight of that deadly pennsylvania pileup. that accident apparently triggered by a blinding snow squall. m

after that a call-in opportunity for you with new york times columnist maureen dowd. >> welcome to the ninth annual tucson festival of the books. hi name's lorraine. we want to thank cox communications for sponsoring this. mr. cohen and and the presentation will last one hour including questions and answers. we ask that you hold your questions until the end. immediately following this session the authors will be autographing books in the sales and signing area, and the u of a bookstore tent out on the mall, that's booth 141, and books are also available for purchase at this location. we do invite you to join the festival and become a friend of the festival by texting friend, you can text now but not later, okay? 520214 book or 5202142665. you can also visit the festival booth, and that's number 110, and that's out on the mall. out of respect for the authors and the audience, we ask that you, please, turn off your cell phones during the presentation. to get started though, i will welcome our guests today. adam cohen is a graduate of harvard, a former member of "the new york times" edito

new york times maureen dowd, the year of voting dangerously, the derankment of american politics and former goldman sachs vice president julissa arce, my true story at an undocumented immigrant who became a wall street executive. book tv is live saturday at noon and sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >>> we are joininged by alish sha coldwell and covers issues regarding immigration and homeland security, good morning. >> we're here to talk about this newly introduced travel ban by the trump administration. what was the administration trying to do this time around that it didn't do last time around. >> goal number one the administration said is actually the same as the original goal, keep would be terrorists or people with bad intentions out of the country but a very close second on this round is overcome the legal hurdles that blocked the first executive order. it was only eight days old by the time it was fully squashed or blocked rather by the federal court -- the whole court hearing has not worked itself out but it was put on hold about

some said it was quite thin —— peter dowds.see how brexit will pan out, and this idea of a war chest, the £25 billion he might have by the end of the parliament, when his spokesperson was asked about it after philip hammond sat down and said, he would not call it a war chest but a tank of fuel for a long journey. lots of people think there will be a lot of bumps in the road. the treasury said that 16,000 businesses nationally would benefit from £150 million of targeted support for smaller companies, while others may receive sums from a £305 million discretionary fund. but in a region like south west england that depends on small employers, is that going to be enough? tamsin melville reports now from cornwall. cakes now reduced! i've got white chocolate lemon tart or belgian buns. not a budget of big giveaways but for struggling high streets, some cause for cheer. from april neil was one of those facing a big hike in business rates, more than £300 a month extra and he had been taken over the rate relief threshold. now those incr

peter dowd, thank you.away from the budget. i'm with rupert harrison, who is portfolio manager of multi—asset strategies at black rock investments and was an advisor to george osborne between 2006 and 2015. we have a professor in the economics of innovation and public value. the financial times' editor lionel barber. good evening, all. ok, you have one takeaway each. rupert, let's start with yours. if i'm allowed two... no, one! i think philip hammond continued to get it spot—on. he is in an incredibly difficult position. your takeaway, come on! when it comes to caution on public finances and investment in the long term, he is making the right judgment. i think a lot of the focus inevitably tomorrow on the front pages is going to be this national insurance rise, that's the risk he has taken. i think it is a sensible change. you can defend the fact that the world is changing, that more and more people are choosing to be self—employed, the margin between employment and self—employment is much less well—define

magazine national affairs john nichols and ready," , "people get "new york times" op ed columnist aurine dowd, the year of voting dangerously, and former vice president and her book "my underground american dream, my true story as undocumented immigrant who became a wall street executive," the t.v. is live from tucson festival of books saturday at noon and sunday at 1 c-span 2.rn on >> "washington journal" continues. that besides travel ban was signed by the president yesterday, the main stories in takes a or newspapers look at previous guest was talking about this rollout of house tion by the republicans taking a look at what might be the future of the act.dable care headlines from washington times, republicans start to roll out repeal, replacement, oo many comparison to the affordable care act. president trump tweeting about this rollout. new healthcare bill is up for review and negotiation. and care is a complete total disaster and is imploding fast. lso, he tweeted out, don't worry, getting rid of state lines to promote competition in and three of the healthcare rollout, that is some inpu

you have to show the whole story. >> matthew dowd, a lot of assertions laid out. not a lot of how to pay for them. >> that was the most deliberate, disciplined speech i've ever seen him give. it was much more celebratory than carnage. but the rubber has to hit the road after tonight for a number of things. here's a couple quotes, we should no longer be burdened by our fears. it's time for trivial fights to be put behind us. we're better off with less conflict. well, in the last 18 months, the one most involved in trivial fights and separating us from our fears is donald trump. so, tomorrow will we see that? >> we'll find that out. we'll be back in just a moment with the democratic response. >> more from washington. a presidential address to congress, and the democratic response, after this. the thing that's really important to dentists is to make sure that that enamel stays ro and resilient for a lifetime. the more that we can strengthen and re-harden that tooth surface, the whiter their patients' teeth are going to be. dentists are going to really want to recomme

new york times op-ed columnist or rained out, the year of voting a range -- maureen dowd, and formeroldman sachs vice president and her book my underground american dream, my true story as an undocumented immigrant who became a wall street executive. book tv is live from the tucson festival of books today at noon and sunday and 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> the marine corps is investigating a private group on facebook that marines used to share nude photos of their female colleagues. at the

i have to start with matt dowd. president's address to the joint session of congress. we were talking about that this sunday. you said, oh, no. something huge is going to happen. something will happen. what did you know? >> ah the great carnac says -- >> even you wouldn't have predicted the tweet. >> i needed to do a number of those to make up for my election night predictions. i'm glad i got one thing right. every day is an unfolding on this. i think there was a misreading by many of the president that night that somehow he had totally changed. two things i can guarantee to the viewers. one, donald trump is never going the change. he's a 70-year-old man who is successful in behaving the way he was throughout his life. he will not change. two is donald trump doesn't tweet for stra jejic reasons. if he was tweeting for have a teejic reasons, what he just did is made the issue even bigger, the russia issue. moscow on the potomac. i can't decide whether donald trump is captain queeg or captain bly. one was mutiny on th

new york times op-ed columnist or rained out, the year of voting a range -- maureen dowd, and former goldman sachs vice president and her book my underground american dream, my true story as an undocumented immigrant who became a wall street executive. book tv is live from the tucson festival of books today at noon and sunday and 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> the marine corps is investigating a private group on facebook that marines used to share nude photos of their female colleagues. pentagon, robert kneller gave an update on the investigation. this is a half-hour. >> good afternoon. when i was a j three they never let me come in here. [laughter] hopefully we will all find out why i thought we were going to have a small little gathering in the dining room and have a roundtable to talk about this but it clearly has gone beyond that. let me make a quick statement and i will take some questions. i am the commandant of the marine corps. you all know we are looking at allegations that marines, specifically female marines have been subjected to cyber bullying, nonconsensual sharing of images, di

and let me go first to matt dowd.hair of the tree dom caucus says obamacare repeal is not dead. i think that is unlikely. it seems this brand-new coalition with democrats is in the card listening to chuck schumer. >> to me, we're in a very difficult time with these huge problems facing the country and two political parties that can't govern at all. if the course of this. i think the democrats, first, would be very smart to call the president's bluff. they said, here's the bill to fix obamacare. are you going to support it or not? basically, in many ways, you can't support it. >> it seemed on that that schumer was willing to go there assuming the repeal was dead. >> i don't think this will change. donald trump would have to become somebody he's not, right? he would have to become somebody that the american public would now support. the majority of the country doesn't support him. >> or become somebody who he was. he's been all over the map. at one point, he supported single parent health -- >> he would have to become a

"new york times" maureen dowd of vote being dangerously. he derangement of american politics and my underground true story as, my an undocumented immigrant who became a wall street executive. tv is live from the tuscon festival of books saturday at 1:00 p.m. nday eastern on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. ost: at the table we welcome scott taylor republican of virginia serves on the ppropriations subcommittee on military construction and veterans affairs and homeland security. you have military service as as a navy your belt seal. guest: yes. served with some wonderful people. you have a woman view. host: the real thing, too. guest: yes, for you looking out it is the real thing. host: thank you for being here. military get to spending but i want to talk about the head line this morning adding 400 troops in syria o support assault an isis stronghold. what do you make of this strategy by the u.s. adding troops to this region? preface this by saying international relations a chess gn affairs is game and by the seconds move you re

with nation magazine national affairs john nichols, and ready," andople get "new york times" op ed dowd, and maurine sachs vice man president and her book "my dream, my american true story as undocumented immigrant who became a wall executive," book t.v. live from the tucson festival of ooks saturday at noon and sunday 1 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest, william galston brookings institute, governance study senior fellow, agenda of thishe president and role of congress. good morning. guest: good morning, sir. as an agenda, how has this president compared to

. >> reporter: social worker katlyn dowd says it's become an epidemic.t saw-- i mean, there's a whole trail-- needles and baggies and spoons and-- >> foils, all that stuff. so there's-- it's everywhere. >> big personality. >> reporter: debbie warfield's son, spencer, died from a heroin overdose in 2012. war field blames oxycontin. she says that's where his addiction began. >> oxycontin and heroin has taken such a toll on our family, you know, for the roast of our lives. >> reporter: the city of everett has now filed a lawsuit against the maker of the pain killer, purdue pharma. the lawsuit claims purdue knowingly, recklessly, and/or negligently surprised oxycontin to suspicious physicians and pharmacies and it alleges purdue monitored the illegal trafficking of its pills, knew high volumes were being distributed, and didn't share the information with law enforcement. everett's mayor ray stephanson. >> i believe it's about greed, and they need to be held accountable to make our community whole. >> reporter: purdue pharma declined our request for an interv

maureen dowd, the euro voting dangerously, the derangement of american politics.nd former goldman sachs vice mysident julie c are say, true story as an undocumented immigrant who begin the wall street executive. ocd is lit from the tucson festival of books today at noon and sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. afterwards,ght on the council on foreign relations president richard hoss examines challenges the foreign policy in his book "a world in disarray." he's interviewed by the former undersecretary of state for global affairs in the bush administration and senior fellow at harvard university future of diplomacy project. >> you said it was considerable continuity in how the world works. describe that. >> on lot of the structure of the world such as it was was based on this idea of sovereignty. the idea that borders were significant. that they do find nation states, countries, and there was a deal at their. -- out there. we will try to change her borders by force if you don't try to change hours. -- ours. >> washington journal continues. new is a policy anal

against jobless economy and citizenless democracy, "new york op ed columnist maurik aurikes -- maurine dowd, and julissa achs c.e.o., arce, "my underground american dream: my true story as an undocumented immigrant who became a wall street executive." book t.v. is live from the festival of books, saturday at noon and sunday 1 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> yes, they have very nice lifestyles, of course they have i do think y, but the superhubs make it to the top primarily ere or not motivated by money, they want to and standing and status want to be respected and want to have power. >> sunday night on q&a, beyond ceo, sandra navidi, discussing her book "superhubs," elite and ancial networks rule our world. >> i think many superhubs see the system, with but it is also one key question hold in the book, do they the system prisoner or are they prisoners of the system? it the eir fault or is system's fault? and in the end, after analysis, conclusion, it is interaction of both. eastern night 8 p.m. on c-span's q&a. >> "washington journal" continues. host: it is open phones to end our program today.

we have maureen dowd, evan thomas in the middle whose latest book is being nixon, a man divided. and finally to my left, stage right, joe conason, long time political journalist and founder of a website and the author of "man of the world" when focuses on the post-presidency of bill clinton. welcome all of you to tucson, arizona. we are on c-span today. [applause] >> those watching can know our weather is better than yours. let's start with maureen, how does it feel to be an enemy of the american people in >> can you hear me? it feels pretty good. having covered dick cheney for eight years and watched him try to dismantle checks and balances. they think you have a great resume and it is easier fooget away with hurting checks and balances than if you go on twitter at 3:00 a.m. and say crazy things because then, you know, everybody is on guard and the whole country is now on guard and journalists are wide awake with new investigative teams and the post has a new motto democracy dies in the darkness. the la times is selling t-shirts they say we will not shut up. everybody is at the

. >> this is like making an argument we shouldaboutant have moreen dowd.le who read the editorial page read opinions at night. >> you have 24 hours. when people he's saying what's bad, don't believe facts. when people believe ideology over facts. he's talking about people. >> you want to live in political isolation, fine. if you only want to read things that affirm your believes and watch things that affirm your believes, you can. we don't understand everybody else. >> that's why i like being on with you. >> i watch and read everything and i think people should do thatads an exercise all the time. if you're conservative, you should watch something you believe to be liberal. >> actually they -- >> i just -- i'm liberal, i'm conservative, i'm crazy. moeaki i'm just like my mother. no, controversy. wrong song. we'll be right back. finally get in shape. not to be focusing on my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis. so i made a decision to talk to my dermatologist about humira. humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inf

. >> but this is like making a argument we shouldn't have marine dowd. the same people who read the editorial page read opinions at night. >> you have 24 hours. when people he's saying what's bad, don't believe facts. when people believe ideology over facts. he's talking about people. >> you want to live in political isolation, fine. if you only want to read things that affirm your believes and watch things that affirm your believes, you can. we don't understand everybody else. >> that's why i like being on with you. >> i watch and read everything and i think people should do that as an exercise all the time. if you're conservative, you should watch something you believe to be liberal. >> actually they -- >> i just -- i'm liberal, i'm conservative, i'm crazy. i'm just like my mother. no, contrauversy. wrong song. we'll be right back. rough ances through dna i found out that i was only 16% italian. he was 34% eastern european. so i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors we thought was italian was eastern european. this is my ancestor w

should we do more dowd? i'm going to read it until you stop me.ther for a long time so i think i can be blunt. you know how you said at mpaignallies that you didn't like to be identifieds a politician, don't worry, no one will ever mistake you for a politician. after this week they won't even mistake you for a top-notch negotiator. my primary observation about washington is this. unless you're careful you end up turning into what you started off scorning. you, donald, are getting a reputation of a sucker, and a sucker that is the tool of the d.c. establishment. your whole campaign was mocking your rivals, jawing about how americans had turned into losers with their bad deals and obamacare disaster and you were going to fly in on your gilded plane and fix all that in a snap. you mused that a good role model would be ronald reagan. as you saw it, he was a big, good-looking guy with a famous pompdachlt our. he had also been a democrat and an entertainer. >> hold on one second. i want us to slow down and read this in slow motion because this is the mo

landon dowde edy has more on ho canada goose faired on its first public day. >> canada goose going publicesterday, soaring opening at $18 per share on the new york stock exchange. the stock closing with an increase of 25%. that performance making it the second best ipo of the year. goose priced its initial public offering of 20 million shares raising more than 2$255 million. co danny reese says he is excited about what's in store. >> our opportunity is in everything. we feel we have tremendous geographical expansion opportunities. i met with a lot of people while on the road, a lot of investors agree we can grow in the united states for sure. internationally, europe, asia and new products. >> what does the successful debut tell us about the health of initial public offerings? 21 ipos were priced this year raising 9$9.1 billion. of the 21 ipos to price this year, the only other firm that did better on the first day of trading was snap with a 44% gain. back over to you. >> landon, 1,005% from the money raised so far? huge. >> timing is everything. the winter storm was the perfect back drop,

. >>> more on this from jon karl, our chief white house correspondent, matthew dowd, our chief politicalst and, john, let me begin with you and saw the white house dismissing these. the democrats call for jeff sessions to resign but the pressure for the attorney general to recuse himself from this investigation as he's facing questions about his testimony is going to get intense. >> reporter: no question about that, george. look, it's important to say at first that i've been reporting on this issue of the russian connection for weeks now. nobody in any of these discussions has suggested in any way that jeff sessions would have been the conduit between the campaign and the russians if there was one but the white house knows sessions' staff knows, sessions himself knows there's at the very least there is an appearance problem. he is going to have to recuse himself. he cannot be the one making decisions about where this investigation goes. >> and, matt, intensely calls for a special prosecutor to look into it as well. >> the trump folks thought they had this great momentum 48 hours ago and

we've got political analyst matthew dowd with us here this morning. jon, first the big picture. remember a week before election day then candidate donald trump saying reming and replacing obamacare one of the single most important issues why we must win and great health care at a tiny fraction of the cost. so easy. how big of a defeat is this? >> a devastating blow not only because he fails to keep a key campaign promise but puts in question the rest of the trump agenda. can he get anything passed if he couldn't do this? can he even keep the government running which runs out of funding on april 28th. this gives trump a chance to become the transformational president that he wanted to be, because the only way out of this is to find a way to work with democrats. there is no longer a republican working governing majority. he could reach out to democrats on drug price, on infrastructure, even on closing special interest tax loopholes. >> you believe the defeat gives them that excuse. >> it gives him a chance to do it. democrats smell blood and trump has gone in the opposite directio

. >> let's get more from our chief political analyst matthew dowd and martha raddatz and, matt, let mein with you on these wiretapping claims. almost two weeks now, white house can't seem to shake the story at all. in some ways they don't want to, it appears. >> no, well, happy st. patrick's day. erin go bragh. the white house today, it would be akin to saying leprechauns are real and there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. it just doesn't exist. the white house is their version right now of march madness, started march 4th when he put the tweets out saturday morning from mar-a-lago saying that the former president wiretapped him. there is no way this president is going to get out of this unscathed. >> and the question, martha raddatz, is, you know, on this huge question of trust and credibility what's it going to mean for the president in a real national security crisis? >> you can talk about leprechauns but believe me, people have to trust the president. they have to and in a national security crisis in some sort of catastrophe not only do people here have to trust the pres

matt dowd, jon karl, here with us, thanks. great to have you both guys.in. >>> now overseas to turmoil in russia. mass demonstrations breaking out across the country. the biggest in years there by protesters angry about corruption. more than a thousand were arrested including a leading critic of president putin. abc's alex marquardt has the latest and joins us this morning. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. we haven't seen anything like this in russia in at least five years, far bigger protests than anyone expected. the official goal was to protest corruption but demonstrators there making it clear their anger is bigger than that. the largest gist play of defiance against vladimir putin in years. thousands marching in moscow and almost 100 other cities and towns across russia. they were billed as protests against corruption, but the bigger message was clear. russia without putin, they chanted surrounded by riot police, almost none of the rallies had been approved by the authorities, and the crackdown was swift. this woman lifted

chief political analyst matthew dowd says the trump administration is playing a political game of generationa, and if one piece -- jenga, and if one piece falls, rest will follow. >> i think it makes tax reform almost impossible. it makes the budget very difficult. it makes infrastructure plan that he has tried to say he wants to do soon, endanger it. it basically is a domino effect. >> want to bring a live look at the house floor now. lawmakers have been speaking for about 20 minutes on the health care bill. the house rules committee is also meeting on the bill right now. the vote is expected to start within the next few hours. >>> you mentioned the white house pulling out all the stops. that includes president trump's twitter account. he has been tweeting. within just the last hour, he said, after seven horrible years of obamacare, skyrocketing premiums and deductibles, bad health care, this is finally your chance for a great plan. also, this is notable -- going after the freedom caucus saying the irony is that the freedom caucus, which is pro-life and against planned parenthood, allows pla

"new york times" maureen dowd of vote being dangerously.e derangement of american politics and my underground true story as, my an undocumented immigrant who became a wall street executive. tv is live from the tuscon festival of books saturday at 1:00 p.m. nday eastern on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. ost: at the table we welcome scott taylor republican of virginia serves on the ppropriations subcommittee on military construction and veterans affairs and homeland security.

matthew dowd, the president looks happy, but he's entering with the lowest approval ratings he's ever seen. >> this is a crucial speech, at a time when the majority of the country seems concerned and confused about his presidency. he's offered a lot of confrontation and a lot of conflict, so he has three audiences to talk to. his base, and also the people in the hall. there's a lot of misgivings both on the democrat and republican side. >> and byron pitts, do they have ears to hear him? >> he's used to speaking in front of crowds that want to hear him. tonight, half aren't very fond of him. >> and the president handing the speech to his vice president. another copy for the speaker. the president was in a pretty buoyant mood when we met with him over lunch. excited about this opportunity. you see the white there, the democratic women wearing white. >> they say this is to throw back to the women's suffrage movement, and the color that hillary clinton wore one night against donald trump, i believe it was election night, and purple the day after, when she conceded. and you see it right th

all sorts of call-in programs today including one with maureen dowd of "the new york times." you can follow along with our programming and get behind the scenes pictures and videos on the site, facebook.com/booktv, insta graham @booktv and twitter@booktv. we are going live to the first author panel and this is on politics. >>> i think i see many of the faces we have seen at similar panels in the previous years. welcome to the ninth annual, can you believe the ninth annual festival ofestival of the books. it is incredible to have such speakers and authors coming from all over the country. my name is ron barber and i will be the moderator this morning. [applause] [cheering] thank you. you're very kind. i want to thank cox communication for sponsoring the venue and mr. david marinss is appearing with the star and is sponsored by cindy and build. please give a round for ourne sponsors. >> our special will last for about an hour and immediately following the session, the authors will go to the book signing tent. mr. nichols will be a little delay today that will be signing his boo