dave pratt discusses politics and economics and over house majority leader eric cantor and other programs this weekend include cnbc, economic policy similarities between presidents kennedy and reagan. and how russia has changed under vladimir putin, you will learn how four african-american women propelled the us to the space race and we will talk to richard campbell about the history of america's national identity. that is a few of the programs you will see this weekend on booktv on c-span2. for complete television schedule booktv.org is our website, booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. >> the trend has been in the wrong direction on both sides. the congress is not assuming its responsibilities which has forced at least this president to do more things by executive order. >> no question they should have come together and passed immigration reform legislation. [applause] >> they weren't that far apart. and yet this president and this congress would not sit down and talk it through. in the book i emphasize it doesn't take much to change this. it

dave brat remembers his victory over former house majority leader eric cantor. he is interviewed by former republican national committee chair ed gillespie. >> host: i am eager to talk to you about this. i enjoyed the read and you can tell i have dog eared pages and things marked here. as you know, i worked in the house of representatives as a staffer to a former economics professor named dick army who had a big impact on the house and provided intellectual under pinnings. here you are a former free economic professor and still in the house of representatives. >> i followed all of the guys and they have been role models for me. you can put free market economics and your values together in your politics. that is what i was fascinated about in your book. >> the book is, as you talk about it, this synthesis of fate, economics and public service. the fact is as a lot of people came to know you and your surprised victory, my old army was a house majority leader, you were the only person in the history of the u.s. house to beat a house majority leader and that as you

the question for eric cantor's this point in the campaign is how will you pay for these things and youse? he is promising 3.5% growth that is extraordinary. hasclinton campaign declined to give a number where the sea economic growth getting in the future. jeb bush said he would get us to 4% that was hard to emagin. 3.5% isn't much easier. it does he like he is becoming paul ryan on fiscal policy. he has adopted the republican proposed tax brackets and looks like he brings in the corporate tax rate down to 15%. he just he will do that for both corporations and past corporations. any partnership you get which is about half of the revenue for american businesses will be taxed at 15%. the other thing that struck me really is that his approach to cutting spending, how are you going to pay for this? is very similar to the kind of spending cuts that the house republicans proposed in their 2012, 2013,sal 2014. donald trump called at the penny plan. he will reduce nondiscretionary -- sorry, discretionary nondefense spending 1% a year over the next 10 years. he doesn't say how or what will be cu

discusses economics and politics and remembers his victory over former house major yet lighter eric cantor. interviewed by ed jill his -- jill less -- gillespie and a 11:00 p.m. they look at modern day russia and the effect of putinism. that happens on booktv and we kick it off with lawrence kudlow and bryan dim dough -- dough metro vic. and brian domitrovic. >> good evening everyone. my name is lena and my husband are and are owner's the book store. want to know if you can hear me. we have a new sound system. does work well? great, wonderful. well, we are obviously thrilled, honored, to be celebrating the publication of jfk and the reagan revolution. we have the two co-authors with us. a man who needs no introduction, mr. lawyer larry kudlow and his coauthor, brian domitrovic, the so-prefer and chair of the sam houston state university and they worked on the book together and will be talking about i together and we're so thrilled and so honored to have you both here. temperature for coming, and i should mention also, larry lives across the street and he is a regular customer here, has bee

and i will always remember eric cantor, the republican leader in the house at the time. i called him and i said, shimon peres is going to be 90 years old and it would be wonderful if we could get that gold medal done by the time -- during that he's 90. and eric delivered. it wasn't easy, but he delivered, and i always, always will remember that. it meant a great deal to this man who had received so many different awards, but to get the highest distinction that we as members of congress could give someone is something he deserved. as i've indicated, the most inspirational public servant i've ever encountered. when we met him in israel, he didn't let me down and was stunningly visionary, like i'd always known him to be. what i've said is not hyperbole is any way. i repeat, he was the most vision neared and inspirational leader i've -- the most visionary and inspirational leader i've ever known. let me repeat some of the stuff my friend, the republican leader, just outlined. prime minister of israel twice, acting prime minister twice, president of israel, minister of defens

some things like an eric cantor law, loss, the pressure of the border from central america, trump railed at this effort for us but i think speaker ryan is sincere about wanting to do this. i also worry that as this election moves forward we potentially lose some of our moderate. that the conference becomes more polarized, so the question is what does that vote count look like? currently the republicans can get anything off the house floor if they don't lose more than 28 of their fellow republicans. i think that fraction will be significantly smaller. and like i said it will be more of a concentration. we are not losing a lot of freedom caucus folks in this election. we have lost one but we will probably not lose a lot more. >> you can watch the rest of this on our website c-span.org. u.s.a. is about to gavel in continued work on a water projects bill, funding for flood control and hurricane damage in state and local loans to flint, michigan, and other cities with access lead levels in the water. votes at 2:45 p.m. advance of the bill. also government funding beyond september 32 to come u

some things like an eric cantor loss and the pressure at tborde derailed those efforts for us. sincere about wanting to do this. i also worry that as this election moves forward, we potentially lose some of the moderates. that the conference becomes more polarized, so the question is what does the vote count look like. currently, the republicans can get anything off the house floor, if they don't lose more than 28 of their fellow republicans. i think that fraction will be significantly smaller, and like i said, more of a concentration. we're not losing a lot of freedom caucus folks. we've lost one. they're in safe seats. we're going to potentially loose, i hope none of this is true -- hopefully not a hurd or sally, who have been champions on this. there are other seats that are the most question able. you see it in the senate there the most question able. you see it in the senattroublin bipartisan work, if this congress becomes more polarized than it is now. >> i take it if possibly president clinton sends, decides to do executive action again, that precludes any possibility of