[inaudible conversations] >> you are watching booktv on hart senate office building 0, television for serious readers. , television for serious readers. >> that all happens tonight on hart senate office building 0's booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction artisan books on booktv. >> book to be really visible capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> courage and consequence. it is written by karl rove. and political strategies that were used to propel george bush into a position where he could run for governor and when in a race that was determined to be not winnable because he proved that wrong and after that the political strategy, moving him from the governor's office in texas to a candidate for president of the united states. it starts out with a description of karl rove's personal life and how he became involved in politics and his ups and downs at the beginning of his career. i find that fascinating. i like to read books that are factual. i'm not a fiction reader. i like to read about history and real people in real events. >> you read a couple books on

you can watch it tonight at 8:00 eastern on hart senate office building 0. and prime time on c-span, anthony kennedy discusses his legacy at the annual ninth circuit judicial conference in anaheim, california his watch that tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> a lot of people feel i don't want my kids read stories that are sad, disturbing, whatever. that is not a totally illegitimate thing to say. i went to choose as a parent when my kid understands stuff that might bring them grief but they are 14 now. when will you to do some to the idea that not everything is perfect? all those factors swirled together to create the perfect dumpster fire of mass censorship. >> science fiction author corey doctorour will be our author on in-depth discussing his book walk away. his of the book will include down and out in the magic kingdom, little brother and 14 other novels. interact with corey doctorow by phone or facebook. the in-depth fiction edition with science fiction author corey doctorow from noon to 3:00 pm eastern on booktv on hart senate office building 0. >> p

. >> watch afterwards sunday night on hart senate office building 9 -- books tv. >> the british house of commons is in recess until september. next a look at the major events that occurred in the british parliament over the last few months. topics include brexit negotiations, donald trump's visit to the uk and the royal wedding of prince harry and megan markel courtesy of bbc parliament. this is half an hour. ♪ >> hello, welcome to a hot and sultry westminster where the temperature has been rising. coming up on this program, government and opposition mps harangue ministers how the government grapples with the uk's exit from the european union. >> a strong independent self-governing britain is open to the world, not miserable, permanent limbo. >> reporter: theresa may insists she has a plan for a principled and practical brexit but drama the government faces a series of votes. >> 301, nos to the left, 307. >> reporter: also on this program ministers promise to end the hostile environment to immigrants in the wake of the wind rush scandal. the government promises more money for england

edition with science fiction author corey doctorow from noon to 3:00 pm eastern on booktv on hart senate office building 0. >> part of alaska weekend, we are talking about hunting regulations across the country. people who feed their families against those who see certain types of hunting as inhumane. that talks about the department of interior proposal to undo obama era rules restricting controversial hunting methods on federal lands in alaska. what is the history of this fight? what happened in 2015 and what is happening now? >> the nbc summary captured the long entangled history. in may the national park administration proposed rescinding obama administration rules that had been imposed that restricted or prohibited certain hunting practices and preserve land managed by the national park service in alaska, practices include using baits to kill black and brown bears, killing black bears indents, using dogs to kill black bears, and a few other provisions. that was banned by the obama administration. in may the trump administer asian proposed reinstating those tactics, open the comment period which will

scores of people led by children held a sit-in protest against family separations in the hart senate office building. the children wore t-shirts emblazoned with the phrase, "i am a child" -- evoking the "i am a man" protests led by dr. martin luther king, jr. 50 years ago. elsewhere on capitol hill, a majority of house democrats joined republicans thursday to vote in favor of a massive, $717 bibillion military spending g b, the national defense authorization act. the 359-54 vote favors a bill that would deliver record military spending, with $70 billion for ongoing u.s. wars, and $22 billion for nuclear weapons programs, including a new submarine-launched "low yield" nuclear missile. the bill now moves to the senate, which could vote on it as early as next week. president trump's former personal attorney and fixer , michael cohen, is prepared to tell special counsel robert mueller that president trump knew in advance about a meeting at trump tower in june of 2016 , where russians were offering "dirt" on hillary clinton. the revelation, first reported by cnn, suggests trump may have lied publicly whe

more than 500 individuals arrested in the hart senate office building protesting this. tammy duckworth was there protesting and talking with jake tapper on cnn this morning. let's listen what she had to say about abolishing i.c.e. >> do it now, you have the same president with the same failed policies. whatever you replace it with will reflect what the president wants to do. >> no. you don't support abolishing i.c.e.? >> i think there's other things to do before getting to that point. >> we were talking last hour about a piece in "the daily beast" indicating the hispanic caucus is not in favor of abolishing i.c.e. about the protests, your takeaway of yesterday and from that protest that i mentioned on capitol hill earlier this week. >> my take is that, i mean, i think there's a same fervor among those activists you saw in donald trump's actual campaign to build the wall and, you know, the problem, of course, is that there's little chance things like this get translated to legislation. i agree with jason. if you can use this for turnout in november, great. but, you know,

she's been cheering on, for example, female immigration protesters who okay identified hart senate office building. she went the first night trump announced cavanagh. she was on the supreme court steps saying we're having the fight of our lives. her approach is to engage the people out there angry and involved in fighting trump. and she keeps telling them, this is you, this is you, you're in this fight. >> what i thought is that enthusiasm piece is clear. she sees it clearly. what matters is enthusiasm. people want to fight and you're stoking them to do that. and one of the things you get from the concern, they don't have a message. and a, that's not true. there's been a lot of messaging. also, it is not quite clear that that is what matters here. the activation seems the me the most important part of this particular political battle. >> i completely agree. this is my political science professor hat now. the message doesn't matter in a mid-term. we don't have a parliament. if the public is unhappy with the sit go party they'll vote for the other option and that generally means democrats. there is

we're over in the hart office building where senator chuck grassley is. you just met with senator grassley and will be meeting with senator ernst later on. we actually met bob back on june 1st. we visited his farm back in iowa, a town of 8,000. you've got 40,000 hogs, 2,600 acres of corn. one of the things we've been hearing today, there's a lot of international headlines at play. but for you, tell me what's going on in your life in iowa right now. >> well, we're about midway through the crop season. we're looking at harvest in about two, two and a half months so we're starting to make plans for next year. that's going to be real difficult with the uncertainty that these trade tariffs, this whole situation is given us. we don't know, there's too much uncertainty. we don't know if we're going to have these markets. we're not sure if they're going to be there. >> you export -- 10% of pork from iowa goes to mexico itself. you're telling me the price has dropped so much there's not even a profit in this case anymore? >> yeah, the prices, like you have mention