h. r. mcmaster former trump administration national security adviser. >> the united states and of the free and open societies will do everything we can to protect ourselves against the efforts of the chinese communist party to subvert our free economic market systems and our democratic form of governance. >> and at 6:20 p.m. ruth gilmore, author and city of new york professor of mass incarceration in the u.s. >> the fact that most people leave prison do a little bit of analysis to see that we could be closing prisons already and jails already if we just cut my two weeks and three weeks and four weeks much less years the kinds of sentences people are serving. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> now on booktv is "after words" "new york times" magazine contributor thomas chatterton williams looks at race and identity turkeys interviewed by author and "new york times" columnist kwame athony appiah. "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. all "after words" programs are also available as podcasts.

other foreign universities and research labs with extracting technology these are the words of h r mcmaster he's a retired lieutenant general in the united states army as well as a former national security advisor for the white house now he's speaking up about the need to stop china from spying all across the united states and stealing technology especially dia's students now it's not just politicians professors are also speaking up. congress needs to move to restrict access by chinese students and researches to premier educational and research institutions and engineering and science labs the idea that we continue to educate scientists and engineers who will then work for companies owned by the chinese communist regime defines common sense these aren't just words american universities are shutting down cooperation programs organized through the confusion institute scientists who could be helpful in fighting against coded 19 have been driven out of the country by allegations of spying now these recent words from tom cotton suggesting that there should be restrictions on what chinese student

h. r. mcmaster conformer trump administration national security adviser. >> the united states and other free and open societies will do everything we can to protect ourselves against the efforts of the chinese communist party to subvert our free market economic systems and our democratic form of governance. >> and at 6:20 p.m., with gilmore, author and city university of new york professor on mass incarceration in the u.s. >> the fact that most people leave prison do a little bit of analysis to see that we could be closing prisons already, and jails already, if we just cut by two weeks and three weeks and four weeks much less years the kind of sentences people are serving. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> hello. i'm can't hate, the library of congress and welcome to our very first virtual national book festival presents. as with all collectively face the challenge of the pandemic, the safety of our staff members, our visitors, our scholars is our first priority at the library of congress. and so we're following this cdc recommendations and guidelines in all of our buildings are cl

h. r. mcmaster conformer trump administration national security adviser. >> the united states and other freeand open societies will do everything we can to protect ourselves against the efforts of the chinese communist party to subvert our free market economic systems and our democratic form of governance. >> and at 6:20 p.m., with gilmore, author and city university of new york professor on mass incarceration in the u.s. >> the fact that most people leave prison do a little bit of analysis to see that we could be closing prisons already, and jails already, if we just cut by two weeks and three weeks and four weeks much less years the kind of sentences people are serving. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2.

h. r. mcmaster, former trump administration national security adviser. >> the united states and other free and open societies will do everything we can to protect ourselves against the efforts of the chinese communist party that subverts our free economic market systems and our democratic form of governance. >> and at 6:20 p.m. ruth gilmore. >> the fact that most people leave prison do a a little bitf analysis to see that we could be closing prisons already and jails already if we just cut by two weeks and three weeks and four weeks much less years the kinds

h. r. mcmaster, former trump administration national security adviser. >> the united states has a and of the free and open societies will do everything we can to protect ourselves against the efforts of the chinese, his party to subvert our free-market economic systems and our democratic form of governance. >> and at 6:20 p.m., ruth gilmore, author and state university of new york professor on mass incarceration in the u.s. >> the fact that most people leave prison do a little bit of analysis to see that we could be closing prisons already and jails already if we just cut by two weeks and three weeks and four weeks, much less years, the kind

h. r. mcmaster, former trump administration national security adviser. >> the united states and other free and open societies will do everything we can to protect ourselves against the efforts of the chinese communist party that subverts our free economic market systems and our democratic form of governance. >> and at 6:20 p.m. ruth gilmore. >> the fact that most people leave prison do a a little bitf analysis to see that we could be closing prisons already and jails already if we just cut by two weeks and three weeks and four weeks much less years the kinds of sentences people are serving. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> so welcome. the scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. look into that subject eventually, but the point of the book, entitled "seven pillars", and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. from yemen to syria to iraq, and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. it's become a land of endless wars. tragically, d

h. r. mcmaster, former trump administration national security adviser. >> the united states has a and of the free and open societies will do everything we can to protect ourselves against the efforts of the chinese, his party to subvert our free-market economic systems and our democratic form of governance. >> and at 6:20 p.m., ruth gilmore, author and state university of new york professor on mass incarceration in the u.s. >> the fact that most people leave prison do a little bit of analysis to see that we could be closing prisons already and jails already if we just cut by two weeks and three weeks and four weeks, much less years, the kinds of sentences people are serving. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> i am very delighted to welcome you to our event today. it's on "the conservative case for class actions" a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanized this debate. we have three outstanding speakers, panelist i should say. our first is the head of the class action practice here at gibson, dunn & crutcher. is litigated and defended countless class actions including ove