harriet washington? >> guest: couldn't hear you for a moment. >> host: everything we talk about leads me to think about the henrietta lacks story. >> guest: henrietta lacks first of all i am so happy that henrietta lacks is now a household name. it is a very important story and i am glad that so many americans know what happened to her. in 1994 i spoke with her husband who was still alive and her family about her. i was deeply concerned that this woman, 1951, had been suffering ovarian cancer, had been cultured, kept alive without her permission. her husband was very vehement, told me in no uncertain terms he had refused permission for her cells to be taken and the hospital did it anyway. this has been something that has befallen people of color since they came to the american shores. it happens all the time. in her case her cells were very unusual and turned out to be biologically very valuable in terms of providing a good medium for culturing disease, testing medication, including the polio vaccine. ye

host: harriet washington?guest: ronda, you may be right about the latter point and that's where her family was concerned about when i talk to them in 1994 and as i began telling things i knew about and there was much more, of course, that's what they said. said she was a benefactor to the entire world. why don't they admit this and talk about this that's a good question, it's a question i have asked repeatedly about many people including medical researchers who tended not to get their due of their african americans, their work tends to be ignored, but in terms of the blood test i'm really concerned, what blood test is this? i have to say it's been news to me. and you know there are tests administered on a racial basis still. can you tell me a bit more about it? host: at ron is gone. i apologize. guest: i wish i knew what tests he was talking about. maybe he will call back or text and let us know because it something i don't know anything about. is a lot of people know, early in the design of blood to storage,

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the experts. >> host: she is the author of its books, the most recent being "carte blanche", harriet washingtonthank you so much for the time today. >> guest: oh, thank you so much. i'm very grateful to be here. >> be sure to visit c-span.org to get your copy of. washington's new book, "carte blanche." >> supporting c-span2 is a public service provided by public funding. >> on our author interview program "afterwords", the deputy chief of staff talked about modernizing the u.s. senate that would include changes to the filibuster. >> i think that you have to make it equate for bills that are urgently needed to pass again. there are many different ways to do this, but you have to get to a place where it only takes the majority to pass the bill. and providing use of talking filibusters. and that includes having senators go to the floor and explain their filibuster bill, that is the other thing about the filibuster is that whether or not it meets the phone call, they never have to explain themselves if they don't want to, so i think that the fundamental thing is that we must focus in what is the pu

. >> sunday on end up with, a live conversation with harriet washington.bout our health. their behavior has already shown us that they don't care about our health, that our government, the the we pay and should care about our health and should defend us, so our government should be raining in these companies, forcing them to develop things that fit the public needs, and it is not. >> join in the conversation for harriet washington, sunday at noon eastern on book tv's end up with on c-span2. and visit c-span shop announcer:n two as top nonfiction book that authors every weekend, sunday at noon eastern, a two hour conversation with a science writer whose books include carte blanche, medical apartheid and debbie monopolies. join in with your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets. a 9:00 p.m., dana perino talks about her book everything will be ok, life lessons for young women from a former young women. she is interviewed by victoria clark. watch book tv, this weekend on c-span2. >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3

our guest this month is medical ethicist and scientist harriet washington. the author of several books beginning in 2000 when living healthy withat hepatitis c. medical medical experimentation on black blackamericans from colonial tio the present deadly monopolies which we haven't talked about, corporate takeover of life itself and the consequences for your help and medical future came out in 2011. infectious madness, the surprising science of how we catch mental illness 2015. a terrible thing to waste, environmental racism and its assault on the american mind and tthe most recent book carte blanche the erosion of medical consent you can call in with a question or comment for the author. tubman 8200 in the east and central time zones, 748-8401 in the mountain and pacific time zones. if you want to send a text of this is only for text messages you can send to (202)748-8903. if you do send a message include your first name and your city. you can also participate on social media just remember@booktv for facebook, instagram, twitter. twitter. and/or e-mail bookt

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>> sunday on "in depth" a live conversation with harriet washington. her most recent book is carte blanche. her others interviewed medical apartheid and deadly monopolies. >> when companies use profit to measure their success in the medical arena the problem is we can't expect companies to care about us, we can't expect companies to sublimate, make less money because they care about our health. they don't care about our health. our government, the people that we pay and should expect to care about our health and defend us, our government should be raining in these companies come our government should be forcing them to develop things that will fit public needs and it is not. >> join in the conversation with phone calls, texts and tweets for harriet washington sunday at noon eastern on booktv's "in depth" on c-span2. before the program visit c-spanshop.org to get your copies of harriet washington's book. >> i have the great pleasure of introducing kathryn stoner, deputy director at the institute for international studies at stanford university and senio

. >> reporter: up next booktv haps monthly "in depth" program with medical ethicist harriet washington, the monopolies: the shocking corporate takeover of life itself--and the consequences for your health and our medical future" and recently published carte blanche about nonconsensual medical testing on member to be with missouri, african americans and prisoners. >> host: harriet washington, you write that at age 10 hours schweitzer, out of your life, out of my life, change your life. how did that happen?

host: harriet washington you write to that at age ten albert schweitzer, out of your life come out of my life changed your life. how did that happen? >> i discovered that particular book and quickly began reading others. i was struck by his spirit

. : >> sunday on "in depth" a live conversation with harriet washington.er most recent book is carte blanche. her others interviewed medical apartheid and deadly monopolies. >> when companies use profit to measure their success in the medical arena the problem is we can't expect companies to care about us, we can't expect companies to sublimate, make less money because they care about our health. they don't care about our health. our government, the people that we pay and should expect to care about our health and defend us, our government should be raining in these companies come our government should be forcing them to develop things that will fit public needs and it is not. >> join in the conversation with phone calls, texts and tweets for harriet washington sunday at noon eastern on

. >> join in the conversation with your facebook comments texts and sweets for harriet washington noon eastern on in-depth on c-span2 and visit c-span shop.org to get your copies of harrietwashington's book . >> joining us today is the author of the acclaimed 2019 work of nonfiction "the enchanted hour: the miraculous power of reading aloud in the age of distraction" . he's also a columnist for the wall street journal where she's a children's book reviewer and host of the podcast which is the greatest thing for a podcast. she's previously worked as a foreign correspondent and is a graduate of bowdoin college joining us from bethesda maryland please welcome meghan cox gurdon. >> hi, i'm sorry we're not among the cactuses together. i had looked forward to that but this is second-best and sometimes that's what we can take. >> we will send some sunshine and warm your way to the east coast but it's such an honor tospend time with you today . >> i'm delighted to be with you veronica, let's get into it. >> before we dive into the book can you give a little bit about your career? going from a

and also harriet washington talking about the history and the misuse of medicine in the united states. visit booktv.org for more work and saw your program guide. semantic you for joining us for this event. i amft the director for american studies at the heritage foundation and it is my pleasure to be here for conservatism and america's future and i am also delighted to welcome everybody here as part of this lecture series. including what they call the permanent things, the moral and spiritual truthshe that make democratic self-government possible. doctor kirk viewed as conservative movement as a crucial factor in the task of recovering and defending those permanent thing. and there is no more ans. important scholar in america today than our speaker. he has been studying this conservative movement for decades and we have made a full biography available today with a couple of highlights. a three volume biography in this groundbreaking book and a more recent book of reappraising the rights of conservatism just to name a few. just to pick up one of his books or read one of his many essays

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then tomorrow at noon eastern, we are live with science writer and medical ethics professor harriet washington. her most recent book looks at nonconsensual medical testing on african americans members of the military and prisoners. she will discuss the use and misuse of science medicine in the united states and answer your questions. find full schedule information online a booktv.org consult your program guide. here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to him you bad, first in the list is the code breaker, i asked the aspen institute and best-selling - dna editing and next's pulitzer prize winning author isabel's look at what she calls ahead and it cast in the united states printed after that it's dusk night don and the guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives. and then in the sum of us, former president heather mcgee examines the cost of racism for all americans and wrapping up our look at some of the best-selling books, according how to avoid a climate disaster microsoft cofounder bill gates cotton climate change in his approach to possible solutions. some of t

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announcer: today, a live conversation with science writer and author harriet washington.er most recent book is cart blanche. >> when companies use profits to measure the success of the medical arena, the problem is that we can't expect the companies to care about us. we can't expect the companies to sublimate and make less money because they care about our health. they've already shown us they don't care about our health. but our government, the people that we pay, and that we should expect to care about our health, our government should be raining in these companies. our government should be forcing them to fit the public needs and it is not. >> join in the conversations with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. and before the program, be sure to visit c-span.org to get your copy of harriet washington's books. tonight at 9:00 eastern, former white house press secretary and fox news host dana perino talks about her book everything will be ok, life lessons for young women from a former young woman. she is interviewed by victoria clark for public affairs a

then, a conversation with science author harriet washington. join it conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, text or tweets. then, for a white house press secretary -- the former white house press secretary talks about her book. she was interviewed by victoria clark in the george w. bush administration. watch book tv this weekend on c-span two. >> next, we hear from the chair of the financial stability board on financial issues. this event was hosted by the peterson institute for international economics. >> good morning, everyone. welcome back to the peterson institute for international economics. i am the institute president and it is our pleasure today to host a virtual

sunday at noon eastern on in-depth, a conversation with harriet washington.n in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, text, and tweets. 9:00 p.m. eastern, dana perino talks about her book, everything will be ok, life lessons from a young woman. she is interviewed by the former defense secretary for public affairs in the george w. bush administration. watch book tv this weekend on c-span two. >> next, a hearing on the future of the media industry and the

and science writer harriet washington talks about the history of the use and his use of of science andicine in the united states. that all starts now. for more schedule information, visit booktv.org or consult your program guide. and now here's john archibald on southern preachers in the civil rights era. >> john archibald is a pulitzer prize-winning journalist and columnist for the birmingham news. his column focuses on alabama and birmingham politics. he's written for the free register, among others. when he received the prettier prize for commentary in 2018, his work was

and writer harriet washington whose books include medical apartheid and deadly monopoly. join in the conversation with your phone call, facebook comments, texts and tweets and at 9:00 p.m. eastern on after words former white house press secretary and fox news host dana perrino talks about her book, everything will be okay. life lesson for young women from a former young woman interviewed by jessica clark in the george w. bush administration. watch book tv on c-span2. ♪ ♪ ♪ .. .. i am just so excited to be connecting with you guys in person again. i know you're all feeling the exact same way. most of your hybrids from school and sing some nods on very sorry. turning point hq making this event possible, think youtube mckenzie, to amy and of course to my office production team for making this space look so awesome but let's get everyone on our staff a round of applause for that. [applause] as you guys all know, we are here to celebrate the launch of my book which has been such an incredible few weeks and many years in the making brightness about going to the publication proc

today at noon eastern on "in depth" a two-hour conversation with science writer and author harriet washington whose books include carte blanche, medical apartheid and deadly monopolies. join in a conversation with your phone calls facebook comments text and tweets. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. ♪ >> hello. this is a commonwealth club of california. i and elizabeth carney, chair of the business and leadership forum. today's talk is entitled michael j. fox, an optimist considers mortality. thank you to the foundation for supporting the good literature program. and now it is my pleasure to introduce michael j. fox. we are delighted to have you here, michael. thanks to come to the commonwealth club business and leadership forum. michael has written a new memoir, and that is that his

and science writer harriet washington talks about the history of the use and his use of of science and medicine in the united states. that all starts now. for more schedule information, visit booktv.org or consult your program guide. and now here's john archibald on southern preachers in the civil rights era. >> john archibald is a pulitzer prize-winning journalist and columnist for the birmingham news. his column focuses on alabama and birmingham politics. he's written for the free register, among others. when he received the prettier prize for commentary in 2018, his work was described as creative commentary that is rooted in alabama but has a national resonance. he'll be in conversation tonight with comedian roy wood jr. who is a correspondent on the daily show with trevor noah and he is originally from alabama. tonight the two will be discussing john's debut book, "shaking the gates of hell," which reckons with his family history as the son of a methodist preacher in alabama during the heart of the civil rights movement. the book was featured yesterday on "the new york times" new a

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. >> sunday on "in depth" of my conversation with science writer and author harriet washington. her most recent book is carte blanche. >> when companies use profits to measure their success in the medical arena, the problem is that we can't expect the companies to care about as. we can expect the companies to make less money because they care about our health. their behavior has shown us they don't care about our health but our people that we pay and that we should expect to hear about our health and should defend his counsel our government should be raining in these companies. our government should be forcing them to develop things that will fit the public needs and it is not. >> joint in a conversation with your phone calls, facebook comment, text and tweets for harriet washington sunday at noon eastern on both tvs in-depth on c-span2. before the program visit c-spanshop.org to get your copies of her books. >> c-span2 issue unfiltered view of government. created by america's cable-television companies. today we are brought to you by these television companies who provide c-spa

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sunday on in-depth, a two hour conversation with science writer harriet washington.in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. at 9:00 eastern, on afterwards, dana perino talks about her book everything will be ok, life lessons for young women. she is interviewed by victoria clark. watchful tv this weekend on c-span2. -- watchful tv -- watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. a compact spiral-bound book with contact information for every member of congress, including bios and committee assignments. order your copy at c-span shop.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back. we want to talk to you this morning about the current child support and what your job situation is right now. we had the new jobs report come out friday. "u.s. hiring surged in march. the start of what economists say could be a sustained run of job growth. u.s. employers added a seasonally adjusted 916,000 jobs in march, the best gain since august. the unemployment rate, determined by a separate survey, fell to 6%, a pandemic low. as of march, there

sunday at noon eastern on in-depth, a conversation with harriet washington.oin in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, text, and tweets. 9:00 p.m. eastern, dana perino talks about her book, everything will be ok, life lessons from a young woman. she is interviewed by the former defense secretary for public affairs in the george w. bush administration. watch book tv this weekend on c-span two. >> next, a hearing on the future of the media industry and the influence of facebook and google. brad smith was among those who testified on the issue before a house judiciary subcommittee. >> subcommittee will come to order. declare a recess of the committee at any time. good morning and welcome to today's hearing. the second in a series to develop legislation to promote competition online and modernize the anti-trust laws. before we begin, i would like to remind members that we have an e-mail address and distribution list demonstrating to circling exhibits, motions and other written materials that they might want to offer as part of the hearing to

. >> sunday on "in-depth," a conversation with harriet washington.k is "carte blanche." >> when companies use profits to measure their success in the medical arena, the problem is that we can't expect the companies to care about us. we cannot expect the companies to sublimate and make less money because they care about our health. their behavior has already shown this. they do not care. in our government, our people that we pay and should expect to care about our health and should defend us. our government should be raining in these companies. our government should be forcing them to do things that will fit the public needs. >> join the conversation. sunday at noon eastern on c-span2. before the program be sure to visit c-spanshop.org. ♪ >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are turning our attention to immigration in our last half-hour. in your opinion about the president's stance on immigration at the southern border, with a surge of migrants there. we want to know if you approve or disapprove of what the president is doing. according to an n

after buchanan's administration harriet lane became a well-known philanthropist in washington dc and she also traveled europe dedicating time and energy to an art collection upon her death in 1903 harriet lane willed her entire collection of art toward the creation of a national gallery of art. now at the time no institution existed, so it fell under the control of the smithsonian institution. lanes collection of paintings sculptures and buchanan artifacts from her time in the white house became the foundation and the impetus for the creation of the smithsonian american art museum located in washington dc today next slide. now the smithsonian lovingly refers to harriet lane as the first lady of the national collection of fine arts and some of her art is pictured here. next slide the next first lady i'll discuss is caroline harrison the wife of president benjamin harrison. now mrs. harrison was incredibly artistic. she studied art and music in school and she later took lessons in indianapolis, indiana at home. she gave her own lessons and established a studio and she also displayed her

when she was in washington, always saying to think about the party and she was safe till about the party? harriet tubman was a much more obvious agitator but francis had a lot further to go given her background. integrating the neighborhoods in new york, this is integration and 30s to 50s. >> writing about abraham lincoln and john brown you would think would be all exhausted but you gave us more work. what i love about other history we have, there was an underground railroad in texas, south texas helping escape slave freedom in mexico and mexican americans and indigenous people build the slaves to get the. as a story being told, do people even though these things? >> i do think people know. one thing, i teach history to freshman and sophomores and you take your spot and try. >> the pages about the attack on secretary by the assassination, the grand conspiracy and that led to the death of francis and trauma. 1865 when her particularly, can you talk about that? >> here's the story which is what i piece together what you can from original sources, 21 within the war ended. , that night abraham lincol

to secede >> the white house that the first lady inherited had been the domain of harriet lane, much beloved in washington really admired for her social skills even as the country was fracturing. what was the city's view of the new first lady, mary lincoln, as she came to the white house? >> historian catherine clinton, whatever biographers, says in reality that she broke the elite, virginia scheme of things. and that many of the congressional wives, some of those important during the virginia times, were resentful. and they lampooned them. they lampooned lincoln. and they lampooned her. and the sad thing is that she was a very intelligent, very highly educated woman. from a good family in terms of what you consider wealthy, good families. but they treated her very badly and i think the other thing that might have heard her, i don't know if anybody talked about it, is washington was a swamp. disease ridden. >> in many ways. >> when i came to washington it was mosquito ridden. that was not 150 years ago. so i'm sure she had a difficult time dealing with that plus she complained about how drab, dirty, not d