isakson and audience if you would like to have a book autoimraffed, you may do so on the other side of the elevators. right on the floor thank you so much once more. >> thank you very much. booktv live coverage the miami book fair continues -- you've been listening to walter talk about his most recent best selling biography on leonardo da vinci coming up we've got -- chris matthews taking calls on the bio, katy tur, gold star father will also be speaking, and it's a beautiful day down here in south florida. and question we have a booktv se middle of the festival, and as we do a couple of 250eu78 p time when is we've been down here we invite mitch kaplan to speak withdo us cofounder of the miami book fair. and hemi owns the books and chan down here inn south florida. mitch kaplan have you already read it? >> i haven't actually but selling it by the bushel i can't keep it in stock so grab one for myself. every time i take one home i have to bring it back for another customer. it is -- it is a phenomenon. you know as walter does he's struck a cord you know again -- and what he's done with

isakson, no. mr. portman, no. mr. toomey, no. mr. heller, no. r. scott, no by proxy. mr. cassidy, no by proxy. mr. wyden, aye. ms. stabenow, aye. ms. cantwell, aye. mr. nelson, aye. mr. menendez, aye by proxy. mr. carper, aye. mr. cardin, aye. mr. brown, aye. mr. bennett, aye. mr. casey, aye. mr. warner, aye. ms. mccaskill, aye. mr. chairman. the chairman votes no. mr. hatch: the clerk will report. the clerk: the final tally is 12 ayes, 14 nays. mr. hatch: the amendment is defeated. ok. now i think senator stabenow -- ms. stabenow: yes. i would appreciate -- again, this basically brings accountability by indicating that as we allow companies to use the smaller rate on repatriation, that every year we would take a look and see whether or not they really are creating more jobs and higher wages. and if so, that cut would continue and if not, it would not. >> mr. chairman. mr. portman: maybe we should go ahead and vote but i'm confused by the amendment because it says on the sheet i have, talking about dean repatriation. is that accurate? ms. stabenow: is it number one? are y

isakson: mr. president, i want to thank senator blunt, the distinguished senator from missouri, for his eloquent remarks on our veterans. for his support of all things that you, mr. president, and i have tried to do in the veterans' committee and for pointing out the many reasons why we in america are so proud of the veterans who serve us and allow you and i object to here today. if it were not for our veterans, rest assure, this republic would not exist. i did an interview this morning, with an reporter who wanted to ask me a number of questions about the current administration and what we were doing for veterans. it turned out to be a 35-40 minute interview. he said, i have a got one more question about you. this was on our phones. he said, i've got one more question for you. he said, don't you think we could save a lot of money if we didn't fight anymore wars? and i thought for a minute. i said, we probably characters but there wouldn't be any reason for you and i to exist because america is th

isakson, no. mr. portman, no. mr. toomey, no. mr. heller, no. mr. scott, no. mr. cassidy, no by proxy. mr. wyden, aye. ms. stabenow, aye by proxy. ms. cantwell, aye. mr. nelson, aye by proxy. mr. nelson, aye by proxy. mr. carper, aye. mr. cardin, aye. mr. brown, aye. mr. bennett, aye. mr. casey, aye. mr. warner, aye by proxy. -- ms. g cass kill, aye mccaskill, aye. the chairman votes no. ms. stabenow, aye. mr. chairman, the final tally is 12 ayes, 14 anyways. mr. hatch: the amendment is defeet. -- defeated. ok. who's next? >> mr. chairman. >> casey. mr. hatch: who? >> casey. mr. hatch: senator casey. mr. casey: i'm grateful i have the chance to talk about casey amendment number seven. this amendment directs the treasury secretary to deposit $500 in a college savings account annually for every child, every child living whose parent or parents are earning under $100,000 a year. the amendment is paid for by the following. retaining current law for the alternative minimum tax, which was established as a guardrail to ensure everyone pays their fair share. parents all a

isakson: mr. president, i want to thank senator blunt, the distinguished senator from missouri, for his eloquent remarks on our veterans. for his support of all things that you, mr. president, and i have tried to do in the veterans' committee and for pointing out the many reasons why we in america are so proud of the veterans who serve us and allow you and i object to here today. if it were not for our veterans, rest assure, this republic would not exist. i did an interview this morning, with an reporter who wanted to ask me a number of questions about the current administration and what we were doing for veterans. it turned out to be a 35-40 minute interview. he said, i have a got one more question about you. this was on our phones. he said, i've got one more question for you. he said, don't you think we could save a lot of money if we didn't fight anymore wars? and i thought for a minute. i said, we probably characters but there wouldn't be any reason for you and i to exist because america is th

isakson. no. mr. toomey. no. mr. heller, no. mr. scott. no by proxy. mr. cassidy. no. mr. wyden. aye. ms. stabenow. aye. ms. cantwell. aye. mr. menendez. aye by proxy. mr. carper. aye. mr. cardin. aye. mr. brown. aye. mr. bennett. aye. mr. casey. aye. mr. warner. aye. ms. mccaskill. abstain. mr. chairman. the chairman votes no. >> clerk will report. caller: the final tally is 11 -- the clerk: the final hallly is 11 aye, 14 nays. >> amendment is defeated. warner number three. >> i've got a special deal for you. i would love to speak, i've got two amendments in a row i'd love to speak to number 328 first and not ask for a vote, i just want to inform members and then i want to speak to warner amendment number 1 which i would ask for a vote on. >> ok. >> on warner amendment number 328, warner number 3, one of the things that i did agree with what you did in this legislation is you put back in section 127 that allows mployers to spend up to $5,250 a year to continue employees' education using pretax dollars. i think that's important for our work force to have the training they need. m

senator isakson. sen. isakson: thank you. i'm glad we didn't have our meeting before this. i'm going to ask a question i might have been talked out of asking you. having heard ms. warren, having been part of the debate, being a senior that buys a lot of pharmaceuticals myself, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the gaming of the system, is a huge issue. at the risk of being presumptuous, i would give you a homework assignment that i hope the chairman and senator will back me up on. will you come back to us with your recommendations on what to do to help end the gaming of the system? mr. azar: absolutely. sen. isakson: you are uniquely qualified, having been a ceo, knowing what you know, taking on the responsibility you are about to take on, to say these are the things that are being abused by the pharmaceutical companies or whoever it is. i'm not interested in blame. i'm interested in solutions. oftentimes these debates and responses end at obfuscating solutions that otherwise might be talked about. mr. azar: i would look forward to the opportunity. sen. isakson: secondly, i live

i think senator isakson wants to speak to this. if you could turn on your >> i was proud to be one of the 14 people along with senator carper honored in -- on it last week. mr. chairman of the veterans committee, we have passed seven of the eight bills to bring in health care, and the choice bill come to full fruition. will beining bill marked up on the 29th of november, when we fully fund this -- eligibility through. this is part of our delivery system to veterans. i appreciate the critter -- , but the the veterans veterans committee is doing the insurance to see to it that every veteran gets benefits they were offered for health care. everybody in this room has been a part of that effort, so i want the veterans committee to continue to do what it has done; take care of our veterans, and have expansion to our programs, make sure theirs access to affordable, accessible health care. i would object to the amendment on those grounds. >> know for the republican comment they will call the role -- >> could i have 30 seconds to respond to

isakson, no. mr. portman, no. mr. scot, no. mr. wyden, aye. ms. stabenow? aye. ms. cantwell, aye. mr. nelson? aye by proxy. mr. menendez, aye proxy. mr. brown, aye. mr. bennett, aye. mr. warner, aye. ms. mccaskill, aye. mr. chairman, no. ayes, 14 nays. >> thank you mr. chairman. i called my amendment number three cosponsored by senator brown and senator casey. i thank them for their help with this. the amendment would improve the credit that is available for retirement savings. let me explain the reason for this. this would make the credit refundable, and index it, and make it available to all. the challenge for individuals being able to contribute to the retirement, particularly lower income, is that the tax incentive, the pretax aspects of it, for some is just not enough. what is happening with this itl, with reducing rates, even makes the tax advantages of contributions a little bit less inviting for those to put in money for retirement. if your employer puts money on the table, that could be very helpful. the number of participants is pretty high. an if you do not have employe

>> my pick is senator isakson, chairman of the senate ethics committee which might get pretty busy pretty quickly. they are reexamining the events around bob menendez's indictment. they have confirmed that. we have the franken issue with mitch mcconnell calling for an ethics investigation. nothing confirmed as of yet. mitch mcconnell said if roy moore is elected december 12th, he would immediately face ethics proceedings. >> those are closed hearings, right? >> very secretive panel. six members equally divided. a sleepy committee but about to get pretty busy. >> the most important person not named donald. >> it was a tossout between xi jinping and ivanka trump. i think she is very important because he is spending a special envoy to north korea. very is huge story. however, i'm going with ivanka trump because she has been making quite a splash on the global stage recently. she was in japan before her father got there. she didn't stay for the rest of the trip. she was the welcome wagon of a hearing with shinzo abe. now she is going to india. i will be there. >> am i right that ivanka trump

this is u our pleasure to have someone like walter isakson here. it is a -- pleasure to have someone of his magnitude and of his knowledge and wealth of the experience to have someone h like you here. my notes are blanking out. walter is the university professor of history at two lane, a former ceo of the aspen institute, chairman of cnn, and managerring editor of "time" magazine. he's the author of the innovators how a group of hack ers created a digital resolution a buying if i, jobs and ion seen and had his university benjamin franklin and walter brings to life leonardo da vinci for us without further adieu walter. [applause] thank you eduardo thank you all from the mike book fair i've been here for every bock and it is always a great pleasure to be in this city. one reason it is great to be in miami is like other city of this world it is now become a mix of very creative people with a tolerance for all sorts of people and that was what made leonardo da vinci so creative. i've written about a lot of smart people and at a certain point it occurs

walter isakson, caser khan, chris matthews and nbc news' katie tour, her book is called unbelievable.

selling nonfiction books according to "the wall street journal" continues with biographer walter isakson's leonardo da vinci followed by bobby kennedy by chris matthews. after that is capital gains, a memoir from renovation expert and hgtv host chip gaines. then pulitzer prize-winning biographer ron chernow explores the life of ewe lizzies s -- ulysses s. grant. and wrapping up with brian kilmeade's history of the war of 1812's battle of new orleans if "andrew jackson and the moore cl of new orleans. -- miracle of new orleans." you can watch some of these authors on booktv.org. >> good evening. good evening to each one of you. [inaudible] i want to welcome you to the -- [inaudible] i am holmes adams, chairman of the board of the foundation and also the national advisory board. our mission is to preserve the literary legacy of -- [inaudible] and to encourage writers and readers of literature. the eudora welty lecture is a collaborative enterprise whose mission is to promote the

in about 15 minutes, walter isakson will be speaking about his new book on leonardo da vinci. joining us now on the booktv set in the center of the festival is journalist and author helen thorpe. her newest book just out is called "the newcomers: finding refuge, friendship and hope in an american class room." now, ms. thorpe, before we get into that book, is there a relationship between your three books or a thread that connects them? >> guest: yeah, absolutely. my first book was about undocumented students growing up here, families that had immigrated from mexico and what happened when people didn't have legal status. my second book was about women veterans serving in iraq and afghanistan and then trying to come back home. and that's a little bit like immigration because you're returning to your home country, but it's hard to come back. so it's a big transition as well. and in this case i'm looking at, you know, refugees, teenagers coming to this country and trying to learn english in an english-language acquisition classroom and struggling to figure out high school in americ

miami book fair on november 18 and 19th featuring senator al franken, best-selling biographer walter isakson, nbc news katy tur and meet other authors. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and watch previous festival coverage, click on the book fairs tab on our website booktv.org. .. national book award kevin young and many others. now, first up it's a look at some of the lesser known stories of world war ii. live coverage of the texas book festival on book tv. [inaudible conversations]

senator isakson. >> thank you, chairman alexander. oakham. glad to have you. i look forward to our meeting to order i'm glad we did have a meeting before this. havingng listened to your testament, having heard ms. ward over the years, , having been pt of the reimportation debate over the years, being a senior adviser a lot of pharmaceuticals myself, the cost tobu pharmaceuticals, pricing for pharmaceuticals, a gaming of the system is referred to is a a he issue. so i'd like to s give you at the risk of being presumptuous, give young a homework assignment that help chairman alexander and senator murray will back me up on. will you come back to us in six months with the recommendation of what you're going to do to help and the gaming of the system in terms of the pharmaceutical? >> absolutely. >> i think you are uniquely qualified having been a ceo of a major pharmaceutical company, knowing what you know and taken the responsibility about to take on. too forthright account us and and say these are the things that are being abused by either the pharmaceutical com

miami book fair on november 18 and 19th featuring senator al franken, best-selling biographer walter isakson, nbc news katy tur and meet other authors. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and watch previous festival coverage, click on the book fairs tab on our website booktv.org. .. national book award kevin young and many others. now, first up it's a look at some of the lesser known stories of world war ii. live coverage of the texas book festival on book tv. [inaudible conversations] >> ready? >> yeah. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. good morning. my name is jim, it's my pleasure to welcome you in 2017 book festival. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. >> thank you, for coming out in support first of our authors, second, wonderful annual event in 22nd year. [cheers and applause] >> and third, of all the books that will be discussed and enjoyed throughout this beautiful texas capital complex here in downtown austin, if i may pause a beat, i would ask you to silence your cell phones, live tv, thank you, c-span. after our session both authors will be relocating

they lent important support along the way, as did chairman johnny isakson and ranking member jon tester, and representative mark decano of california has been an exceptional advocate in the other body. i also would like to give a special thank you to major steve warren, a department of defense fellow in my office at the dawn of the process. he is considered a real rock star in terms of working for veterans. he did so much to bring this injustice to light and then worked diligently toward a solution. and i think it is pretty much the judgment of everybody involved that without steve's inspiration and perspiration, it's hard to see this injustice being fixed and our even being here today as we head to veterans day to talk about it. so i close by way of saying that in this time of partisan rancor and the back and forth that consumes so much of the political debate in washington, i think what we have shown with this piece of legislation and its importance that our veterans continue to be a unifying force. and this goodwill comes from a deep respect for the all-volunteer force and for the sa

after arguing for years ago, senator bennet and i along with senators murr, isakson, senator king and barker introduced our legislation to cut the 108 fafsa questions down to two questions. we have listened to students, financial aid officers and college presidents. we've done this in a bipartisan way for four years. we will hear some of those good ideas today, for example, senator murray has a bill to simplify the fafsa process for homeless students and students without parents. we worked with the obama administration to allow students to fill out the fafsa with their tax information from two years before they enroll in college instead of one so they can file in the fall rather than having to wait until the spring. the result of this is senator bennet and by completing work on a bill that would reduce the fafsa from 108 questions to as few as 15, and no more than 25 questions, depending on how you answer questions about your family. we will do this principally by taking the tax information the americans, that american scale to the federal government and incorporating that tax informa

--now i get to the senate question senator isakson raised earlier, real estate. ofi understand it, the value the mortgage and student -- for those whotion can no longer get a tax reduction because they are using the standard deduction, is not as valuable to that individual as only property is concerned. the state local deductions -- we are not going to be able to deduct property taxes. have you done any analysis as to what impact this has on the value of real estate, which is, i believe, one of the largest assets that americans own, their estate? have you done any analysis as to what impact that could have on the value of real estate? >> in the information we have presented thus far, we have not done a sector by sector analysis of the aggregate investment in real estate, housing. it's one of the outputs we look at. >> i would just point out that if there's a 5% or 10% reduction in the value as a result of the changes in the tax code that would impact, balance sheets of america -- that would impact out sheets of americans. >> 38 seconds. one i like to point out, t

want to thank senator koonce force his leadership and hard work and recognize senators isakson, rubio, young, cane, and merkley for their contributions to this important bipartisan legislation before our committee. this bill would establish a process for conducting objective reviews on how well multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding. the authorities sunset after four review periods and 11 years. through this process we'll be able to evaluate their performance in an objective way. the review will look at performance, management, accountability and transparency. align immigrant with u.s. foreign policy goals and efficiency. the u.s. spent around $11 billion to support the work of these entities and we owe the u.s. taxpayers good value for their money. these reviews will help us make better informed decisions about how to prioritize scarce rescourses and also provide solely ground for advocating for changes and reforms. others such as the united kingdom some australia have done similar reviews of their multilateral and contributions with good results, by the

the chairman of the ethics committee, that would be johnny isakson, won't comment about all of that.e not only for senator franken, but also for senator menendez. because of the mistrial, mitch mcconnell has called for an ethics investigation because of the issues involving senator menendez. the last time they had this type of investigation was back in the '90s, mitch mcconnell was chair of the ethics committee, and that took a couple of years. here's what coloradan way said about how all of this is playing politically, especially with the democrats since sexual impropriety appears to go both ways. >> they've launched investigations yesterday into two democratic senator, bob menendez and al franken, neither of the allegations look very positive for those two and for their party which have been on a high horse of late about sexual assault. >> reporter: now, the senate can with a two-thirds majority vote to expel a member, but that means you need 67 votes. as for anything happening fast, neil, other than the tourists here it is deader than -- [audio difficulty] so don't expect anything

best selling biographer walter isakson nbc news katy and many authors. for or more information about upcome book fair and festivals and to watch previous festival coverage, click on the book fairs tab on our website booktv.org. >> but i was home one day, and my cell phone rang. and i looked and it was like a really weird number. i don't know if it was pun known if it was just like to answer -- i picked up the phone to check the message and the message said you know this is not a -- prank. this is a white house. will you come down to d.c. tomorrow? to meet with the president? i said okay. all right, you know i had this feeling about whether i should do this and not doing this. so i said okay i'll go and i went down and i was reading next time at the time and i had this heavy artistic impulse i kept thinking where don't people write this way why don't people to to write with this beautiful marriage in a journalistic historical all in one so i'm reading that i got that on my mind and went down to the white house, and there's me and a bunch of other journali

i could mention senator burrow, senator isakson, all of which, in a will put those details into the record of where we have worked together. and so, the picture is clear. we all want tax cuts for the middle class. we all want to help small businesses. we all want to make the tax code simpler. fairer, and more competitive. and i'm hopeful that this markup just window dressing. i hope that some of our amendments will be given serious consideration. thank you, mr. chairman, for kindness in recognizing the so i could give these remarks. and i'd like to insert my full statement in the record. chairman: no objection. we are really happy you could make it. we know you have had extra things on your plate. we're with you. as you mentioned, puerto rico and all of these issues that are puerto rico that you have to deal with on a daily basis that the rest of us might not have to deal with, when it comes up to the full senate. i appreciate the work you are doing. let me just say this. i want to thank all my colleagues on this committee. it is a good committee -- we have great people on here, very intel

isakson: it was his vision that the tax issue would emerge as a central issue in the growth and development. of our country. unless we opened up opportunity for our public, expanded opportunities for our businesses, america could succumb to a high tax system without pro pro -- productivity. we're also lucky because the majority leader picked orrin hatch. orrin hatch is -- it was always complex. it is simpler and fairer, pro-family an pro-jobs. let me tell you something, there are a lot of disappointed people overseas right now because those who have been picking our pockets by inverting american corporations to foreign systems because their taxes were lower than ours are out of luck. now those people are going to be incentivized to come to america and make investments in our country and expand their companies in our country. no longer will companies invert to leave america but invest to be more american. this is a pro-jobs tax bill. it will create a lot0 of opportunity. and opportunity is what americans wanted need. the average american family -- let me talk about my family for a second. i

books according to book people bookstore in austin continues with best selling biographer walt per isaksonleonardo da vinci and share experiences growing up in the political spotlight in sisters first. followed by mark mann son advice on leading a happier life. next roger hog deputy editor of the interpret shares his family history of ranching in texas bloods. and wrappingry up our look at te best selling nonfiction books according to beak people bookstore in austin texas. is vacation land. a i memoir from humorist john. some of the these authors have or o will be appearing on beak tv. you can watch them on our website booktv.org. atlanta was a transportation hub for railroad are it is got really crowded in the middle. bit late 1880s they began to build beltline railroads to go outside of that center. and there were four different ones so that ryan idea to connect them was unusual because they never were connected but ownne od by four different railroads. and there were -- industry built up around them and then streetcars came in the late 1800s and this magnificent network of street carsag