i had no idea that george carlin had ever heard of us, and maybe he didn't. but i got a phone call, and our administrative assistant put it through and said kelly carlin is on the phone. and i didn't know your name at the time. and you, i picked up the phone, and you introduced yourself as george carlin's daughter. >> and i wanted to let him know if you get some donation in my dad's name, i want you to know why. because i've decided that you're the organization that i'm going to tell people to donate to. >> well, apparently, your father was a big believer in the underdog -- >> yes. and that's whey i picked you guys. could have picked the aclu or pen, all great organizations, but my dad was always loved the underdog, and i thought, oh, here's a nice little organization. >> well, what you told me also was that you looked it up, you're looking up, researching organizations, and you thought that the thomas jeff isson center, and because we just posted it, there was a photo of your dad. >> the synchronicity was too much. i've gotta honor that. >> this is fate. >> y

including kelly carlin, george carlin's a daughter who talks about her life growing up the committee and in her book, a carlin home companion. sunday night at 9:00 p.m., afterwards with historian nancy cole, other breakthrough, the making of america's first woman president. she looks at women political leaders and the advances they are making in the political arena. she is interviewed by the chair cofounder of cornell's law school. >> .. &%c1 blp >> go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> tonight a special friday night edition of booktv with highlights from recent book festivals. steve osborne talks about his book the job. true life story from the life of a cop. and we talk about james madison's notes from the constitutional convention. and highlights of the tucson book festival. and from the savannah book festival we talk about post-civil war history experienced through sex generations of her african-american family.

including kelly karlin, kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter who talks about her life growing up with a comedian come in her book a carlin home companion. on sunday night at nine p.m., afterwards with historian nancy cohen. author of breakthrough, of breakthrough, the making of america's first woman president. ms. cohen looks at women political leaders and the advances they are making in the political arena. she is interviewed -- >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world, when one of our key allies does not allow women to drive, our most significant enemy at this time, isis, is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls. i think that sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. >> go to booktv.org for the complete we can schedule. >> john donovan and karen zucker are the authors of in a different key, a book about autism. they talk about how autism is diagnosed and treated in a conversation with bloomberg news managing editor, he editor, he thin. this is 45 minutes. >> sean, thank you and welco

talk a lot about the things that influenced them as a kid, they'll say, "well, i listened to george carlin's records as a kid," or "steve martin," or "andy kaufman." and, my understanding of your backstory here is that you didn't necessarily think, as a kid, "i wanna be a a comedian, i wanna do stand-up." you don't necessarily have that same story. - no, no, not at all. if anything, it was more of, "i want to be an actor." but i didn't even really think that. i didn't really have the capacity to think that i was somebody who could do something like that. you hear that a lot from people, maybe, "i didn't know that was a possibility," or, especially with comedy, i just thought, "i'm female, i'm kind of odd, "i'm kind of an interior person." and comedy was something where it was mostly a guy talking about his thoughts and being real... - right, extroverted. - extroverted, but as time went on, it started with me doing performance art, and then people... my performance art was always performer-audience based and i started getting laughter in places where i didn't necessarily intend to get laughte

including george carlin's daughter in her book a carlin home companion. and then author of breakthrough, the making of america's first president. looking at women political leaders and the advances that they are making in the political arena. she's interviewed by the chair and cofounder of cornell law school's avon global center for women and justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world, when one of our key allies doesn't allow women to drive and are most significant enemy of this kind, isis, is executing women and girls for being women and girls, i think that sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. >> booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> joined c-span on friday at 1:30 p.m. eastern, for the funeral service for former first lady nancy reagan at the ronald presidential library in simi valley, california. michelle obama, former president george w. bush and laura bush will be among the dignitaries attending the funeral. mrs. reagan will be buried next to her husband at t

when i look at the george carlin list, inference, compassion.anted to be the jerk of the i wanted to root for the bad guys here. >> you would be more at home in one of those edward hopper coffee shops, right? >> that's the diner. >> you love hopper, but do you love starbucks? it is the community place between work and home, isn't it? >> i go too much. to be serious and to tell you a secret, i prefer just deli coffee. >> you do? >> like when you go into a deli and you don't know how long it's been sitting there, and i don't know, but it tastes so good. it is like $1 versus the $4 for a cup at starbucks. the only ad i want to see in a paper from starbucks or a company trying to sell me something is a coupon. this is a sermon and i prefer my sermon from a priest and my caffeine from starbucks. >> it was preachy, but do you believe it was a direct hit at donald trump some. >> it was more like a corporate manifesto. he was doing what my crazy second cousin does on facebook. he put his political beliefs, but he uses the "new york times" and the "wall

he is not george carlin. >> that wasn't the point i was making. >> no, but i know we have to uh pont. we are conflating politicians and leaders and reality tv stars. >> i don't really care. andrew breitbart said comedy is downstream of culture. he was right. he said it is time for the politicians to speak the language of the culture. it is a course language and we have to battle them using the modern lingo and whatnot. >> i don't have a problem with the language. if i were a voter and i were upset and had been financially hard hit for a longtime the appeal of donald trump would not be diminished by an ad like that. i would say, you know what? these last eight years have sucked. and finally here is someone so mad he is not sensorring himself and he is not a politician. it solidify those who are about him. i am not worried about his language and courseness, but i am worried about his policies. i am not upset when in a spontaneous moment he drops the f-bomb or a filthy word here or there. i am worried when he is upset he is asking the military to perform illegal acts. he is asking the mi

including kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter who talks about her life growing up with the comedianin "a carlin home companion." sunday night, "after words" with the author of "break through the making of america's first woman president." sthee looks at the advances women are making in the political arena. she is interviewed by the chair and co-founder of cornell's law school avon center for women and justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one of our key allies doesn't allow women to drive and our most significant enemy at this time, isis, is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls, i think this sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. >> go to book tv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> i am a history buff. i do enjoy seeing the fabric of our country and how things, just how they work and how they're made. >> i love american history tv. the presidency. american artifacts. they're fantastic shows. >> i had no idea they did history. that's probably something i wo

george carlin's daughter who talks about her life growing up with the comedian in her book a carlin home companion. the author of the book the world's first woman president. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world, when one of our key allies doesn't allow women to drive, our most significant enemy at this time, isis is literally executing women and girls simply be because they are women and girls. i think this sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. to book tv.org for the entire weekend schedule. on c-span, they they can have a longer conversation and delve in to the discussion. book tv weekends, they bring bring you author after author after author. the book to and van.lic >> hello. hello everyone. welcome to the eighth annual tucson festival of book. my name is david garcia and i will be her moderator. thank you very much for joining us. our discussion today of politics, education and the session, they will be signing books. jonathan will not be able to sign immediately after peer i want everyone to know. he will

eastern, more from the virginia festival of the book including kelly carlin, george carlin starter who talks about her life growing up with the comedian in her book, a common home companion. then sunday night at nine p.m., afterwards with historian nancy:, author of breakthrough, the making of america's first woman president. ms. : looks at women political leaders, the advances the air making in the political arena. she is interviewed by the chair and cofounder of cornell law school's avon global center of women a justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country of the world, when one of my key allies does not allow women to drive in our most significant enemy at this time, isis, iswo literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls. i think that sends a powerful message from the bully pulpits about what america stands for. >> go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule.name t >> how are you doing? [laughter]'t my name is steve a sport, used to be a new york city cop for 20 years. and yes, the accent is real. [laughter] the funny thing i

george carlin's 1972 class clown was added.tine, seven words you can never say on television poked fun at language, censorship and what offends people. >> they will infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war. >> reporter: the new addition to the recording registry extend to the sports world too, including the night in 1962 when will chamber lane scored against the new york knicks. >> 100 points. >> reporter: a radio call of the entire fourth quarter made the registry's list which now numbers 450 recordings, including another new entranlt from the disco era >>> that's our broadcast. ali velshi is next >>> on target tonight maximum mum focus on minimum wage, the fight for $15 an hour and why some call it a job killer >>> here is one thing most americans support raising the federal minimum wage from its current level of $7.25 where it has been since 209. no wonder both democrats and republicans see the wisdom of boosting p

the book is out, which came out last september, i feel like on some level that i'm done being george carlin's daughter. i mean i still am but i'm actually able to now have my own time of personal grief. that i don't have to be on display anymore, and even though die events like this and do my show a little bit, it is a private space for me now because there's this -- the public thing here. so this is a fascinating -- i've been watching my journey and it's been fascinating. we got a time from the t lady. we're good? i'm going to sign some books if someone wants to buy books i'll sign them and we'll meet -- >> before we set off, please fill out an evaluation. you can turn your cell phones back on. the other thing i was going say, petition whatever local theater, paramount or something to have the play version of this book to bring this to charlottesville. it's such an entertaining production. >> thank you all so much. >> thank you for comping. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] nod >> next up from the recent virginia festival of the book, marjorie cohn talks about her book "drones and targ

eastern, more from the virginia festival a book, including kelly carlin, george carlin starter who talks about her life growing up the comedian and her book, a carlin home companion. sunday night at 9:00 p.m., afterwards with historian nancy :, author of, the making of america's first president. miss : she is interviewed by kim chair and cofounder of cornell law school. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country of the world, where one of our key allies have not allowed women to drive and are most significant enemy at this time, isis, is literally executing women and girls simply from being women and girls, i think a sense a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. go to booktv.org for the complete schedule. >> for this year student contest students produced documentaries telling us issues they want the candidates to discuss during the campaign. student slows the economy, equality, education, and immigration were all top issues. thanks to all of the students and teachers who competed this year and congratulations 12 are winners and every we

the call for the "100 point gain" and the speech on restoring europe after world war ii and the george carlin routine on the seven words you can never say on television. they are all part of this year's group. you can see the whole list at wjla.com. i was surprised some of those weren't already in it. scott: like "piano man." it doesn't get more classic. michelle: "i will survive." doug hears that every time he goes to the club. doug: sure. scott: speaking of the music we have an update on the rare beatles album o the ten-inch vinyl record that was called the holy grail for the beatles collectors was sold to anonymous british collector for $110,000. it was found stored away in another musician's attic. released in 1952 and includes the first song john lennon wrote called "hello, little girl." michelle: one of the founding members of a tribe called quest is being remembered today. he was the lyracist and he died of complications from diabetes. he was 45. scott: speaking of music, internet radio station trying to help the world mourn musicians once they die. radio dead only plays songs by artis

including kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter, who talks about her life growing up with the comedian in her book "a carlin home companion." then sunday night at 9:00 afterwards with historian nancy cohen, author of "breakthrough: the making of america's first woman president." miss cohen looks at woman political leaders and the advances they are making in the political arena. she's interviewed by kim azarelli, chairman and co-founder of cornel law school's avon center for women and justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one of our key allies doesn't allow women to drive and our most significant enemy at this time, isis, is literally executie ining women girls simply for being women and girls, i think that sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. >> go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> the need for horses on the farm began to decline radically in the 1930s. it was not until the 1930s that they figured out how to make a rubber tire big enough to fit on a tractor. and starting in th

george carlin's daughter talks about her life growing up. and after words with nancy cohen. author of break through; the making of america's first president. she is interviewed by the chair and co-founder of cornel law school's women and justice center. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful countries in the world when one of our keypkey allies doesn't allow women to drive and a key problem is about taking rights away from girls this is pretty interesting. >> watching the non-fiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. >> on c-span they can have a long conversation and dive in the subject. >> booktv weekends bring you author after author and spotlight the work of fascinating people. >> i love booktv and i am a c-span fan. >> welcome to the release of the national association of scholars new report. i am peter wood, president of the national association of scholars. in 2009, a young man heading for a sea side vacation in mexico picked up a heavy book for beach reading. an 800 page tome on the life of an 18th-century immigrant. 50 pages

on sunday more from the virginia festival of the book including kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter. then sunday night at nine afterwards with nancy cohen. looking at female political leaders in the advances they are making in the political arena, interview by kim as a really, chair and cofounder of avon global center for women injustice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one of our key allies does not allow women to drive in our most significant enemy at this time is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls, i think this sends a powerful message about what america stands for. >> started booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> american universities washington college of law hosted a discussion with legal scholars, the puerto rican political status. would like to welcome you joining us virtually. thank you for joining us today for public that a political status. the impact each option puerto rico versus sanchez bias. the panelists will also discuss the impact of these decisions on puerto rico. we are f

including kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter who talks about her life growing up with the comedianin "a carlin home companion." sunday night, "after words" with the author of "break through the making of america's first woman president." sthee looks at the advances women are making in the political arena. she is interviewed by the chair and co-founder of cornell's law school avon center for women and justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one of our key allies doesn't allow women to drive and our most significant enemy at this time, isis, is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls, i think this sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. >> go to book tv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> i am a history buff. i do enjoy seeing the fabric of our country and how things, just how they work and how they're made. >> i love american history tv. the presidency. american artifacts. they're fantastic shows. >> i had no idea they did history. that's probably something i wo

eastern or from the virginia festival of the book including george carlin's daughter that talks abouter life growing up with the comedian in her book the home companion then sunday at nine "after words" with nancy cohen author of breakthrough the making of america's first woman president. she looks at political leaders and the advances they are making in the political arena. the cornell law school center for women and the justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one of our key allies wouldn't allow women to drive and you know, our most significant enemy at this time, isis, is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls i think that sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. securities and exchange commission chair appeared before the house appropriations subcommittee to discuss her agency's 2017 budget request. some of the topics included combating security fraud, cyber security cybersecurity efforts, employee diversification i

eastern from the virginia festival of the book including george carlin's daughter who talks about her life growing up with the comedian in her book a carlin home companion. sunday night at 9:00, afterwards with historian and the cohan, the making of america's first woman president. miss cohen look that women political leaders and the advances they are making in the political arena. the chair and cofounder of cornell law school's avon global center for women and justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world, most significant enemy at this time, isis, is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls, sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. >> go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> for this year's student cam contest, students produce documentaries telling the issue they wanted candidates to discuss. students tell us the economy, equality, education and immigration are top issues. thanks to all the students and teachers who competed this year and congratulations to all the w

george carlin's daughter talks about her life growing up with her father. ter words."t, "af winning political leaders and the advances they are making in the political arena. she is interviewed by the cofounder of cornell law school's avon center. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one iraqi allies does not allow -- when one of our key allies in the allow women to drive, i think this is message from a bully pulpit. >> "washington journal" continues. continues. years, the last 15 there's been a 286% increase in deaths in the united states. estimated to cost -- the heroin epidemic is estimated to have an economic impact of about $34 billion a year in theft, economics, and in healthcare costs. hillary clinton has described it as a quiet epidemic. it was a major topic of the new hampshire primary. that's been our topic this morning, all morning, on the "washington journal," talking about heroin use, abuse, epidemic, whatever word you want to use. and how it's impacted you, how it's impacted communities, and how it's impacted or

on sunday, beginning at 1:30 eastern, more from the virginia festival of the book, including george carlin's daughter who discusses her life growing up with the comedian in her book, a carlin home companion." "breakthrough," by nancy cohen. for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in ce world, when one of our key allies to alow women to simplynd isis is executing women and girls for simply being women and girls, i i think itsense of -- sends a powerful message from the bulatovic. journalistsssian discussed the russian media under vladimir putin. then, michael hayden on u.s. intelligence and national security. the transpacific partnership agreement, and its potential impact on the best economy was the meeting of u.s. military customers. signed, and currently awaits u.s. approval. representatives from the chamber of commerce and national farmers union took part in the discussion. this is about 30 minutes. >> the next panel is going to talk about the tpp, the transpacific partnership, which , in both campaigns for president, and both parties, there has been a lot of discussion

including george carlin's daughter, who talks about her life growing up with the comedian in her book. then some a night at 9:00, afterwards, with historian nancy cohen. author of the book about the first woman president, looking at political leaders and the advances they are making in the political arena. chair interviewed by the and cofounder of cornell law school's center for women and justice. head andwoman to be a the powerful country of the powerful country in the world, doesone of the key allies not allow women to drive, and our most significant enemy at this time isis, is literally executing women and girls for being women and girls, i think this sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. announcer: go to book tv for the complete schedule. seven iranian hackers working on behalf of the government were cyberattacksseven on institutions and a dam in upstate new york. these charges come just a few days after the u.s. and iran and lamented a high profile nuclear deal and carried out a series of parallel deals, including a prisoner swap and a $1.7

eastern more from the virginia festival of the book including kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter ho talks about her life growing up with the comedian in her book: a carlin home companion and sunday night at 9:00 p.m. afterwards we have historian nancy:, author breakthrough, making of america's first president. looks at political leaders and the advances they are making. she is interviewed by-- call cofounder of cornell's law school for women and justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one of our key allies don't allow women to drive and are most significant enemy at this time, isis is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls and i think this sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. >> go to book tv .-dot orc for the complete we can schedule. >> the need for horses on the farm began to decline it radically in 1930s. it was not until the 1930s that they figured out how to make a rubber tire big enough to fit on a tractor and starting in the 1930s and 1940s you had almost

eastern from the virginia festival of the book including kelly karlin, george carlin's daughter that talks about her life coming up with the canadian in her book a home companion. the making of america's first woman president. she looks at the political leaders and the advances they're making in the political arena. the center for women and justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one of our key allies don't allow women to drive and the most significant enemy at the time of isis is literally executing women and girls for being women and girls i think this sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for treasury secretary jack lew says the analysts are working to find financial leads in the brussels terror attacks. before the house financial services committee chaired by the representative jeb hensarling. >> the committee welcomed order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess to the committee at any time. the hearing is entitled the annual testimony of the secretary of the treasury on th

sunday beginning at 1:00 p.m., more from the virginia festival of the book including kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter, who talks about her life growing up with the her book.n sunday night at 9:00, historian nancy cohen, author of : the making of america's first woman president," looking at women political leaders and the advances they are making in the political arena. she's interviewed by the chair and cofounder of cornell law women andenter for justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one of our key allies does not allow women to drive and our most significant enemy at this time, isis, is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls, i think this sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. booktv.org for the complete schedule. >> irs commissioner john cusk and yesterday warned that a cut in the agency budget could result in more people not complying with tax laws. from the national press club, this is just under an hour. [applause] welcome to tax season. americans have three weeks, 10

eastern, more from the virginia festival of the book including kelly carlin, george carlin's daughtero talks about her life growing up with a comedian. sunday night at 9:00, afterwards with nancy:, author of "breakthrough, the making of america's first woman president. so showing the advances women are making in the political arena. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in and are most significant enemy at this time isis is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls, i think the this since aink powerful message. booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> the most important issue for candidates is a refugee crisis going on in the middle east and europe. this is the largest military crisis since world war ii and is our duty as a first world nation to help those in need. i think the most important issue for a candidate should be the national debt and how they are planning to recover. this is my first election and i'm really excited. i am anxious to see what will happen. "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome back a

eastern, more from the virginia festival of the book, including george carlin's daughter, who talks about her life growing up with the comedian in her book, "a carlin home companion." and sunday night at 9:00 afterwards with historian nancy cohen, author of breakthrough, the making of america's first woman president. as cohen looks at women political leaders and the advances they are making in the political arena. she's interviewed by kim azarelli , cofounder of conel law school's central for global justice. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one of our key allies doesn't allow women to drive and, you know our most significant enemy at this time, isis, is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls, i think this sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit, about what america stands for. >> go to book tv.org for the complete weekend special. >> "washington journal" continues. host: in the last 15 years, there's been a 286% increase in heroin overdose deaths in the united states. it's estimated to cost -- the heroin ep

eastern more from the virginia festival of the book, including george carlin's daughter who talked about life growing up at the comedian. sunday night at 10:00, afterwards with historian nancy:, autho cohen. she looks at women u-local leaders and the advances she is making in the political arena. she is interviewed by acorn a law professor. >> for a woman to be at the head of the most powerful country in the world when one of our key allies does not allow women to our most significant enemy at this time, isis is literally executing women and girls simply for being women and girls, i think this sends a powerful message from the bully pulpit about what america stands for. >> go to book tv. for the complete we can schedule. drug policy is the agenda for the national lieutenant governors association this weekend. they take part in panels on the relationship between their states and the federal government. live coverage begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow on c-span2 . coming up tonight, a house foreign affairs committee on closing the u.s. detention facility in guantanamo bay, cuba followed