jackson native. you can watch that live at mississippi book festival on my netbook tv. more from book tvs visit from jackson last year. >> don't shop for anything i capitol street, let's let the merchants down on capitol street build economic, let me say this to you i have one merchant who called me and he said i want you to know that i talked to my national office today and they want me to tell you that we don't need mega business. these are stories that help support the white citizens council. the council that is dedicated to keeping you and i second-class citizens. finally ladies and gentlemen, we'll be demonstrating here until freedom comes to negroes here in jackson mississippi. [applause]. >> 15 minutes past midnight got out of his call in a negro residential area, but a 40 hour delay a sniper fired a single shot from a high-powered rifle the olin hit him in the back and crash there his body through window through the house. he died within an hour at a jackson hospital. city detectives believe the fatal shot they found a rifle in the bushes which they think is the

jackson, mississippi for example has been 95-plus degrees for 29 days. they should break a record tomorrow. a quick look at the red flag warnings anywhere from northern california to montana. >> ginger zee with us tonight, women's see you in the morning on "gma." >>> to the west tonight, new wildfires raging in northern california where those warnings continue. the jerusalem fire erupting a few miles from the rocky fire. 5,000 acres burned, at least 150 people evacuated. over the weekend a u.s. firefighter michael hall ek beblg killed on the job, the second firefighter killed in the line of duty in just over a week. we have one more image on the weather. typhoon soudelor, dash cam video showing its force. a white minivan no match for the winds. at least 21 people have been killed. >>> back here at home tonight, a state of emergency declared in

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[inaudible] interview was taped about a year ago in jackson mississippi one book to be visited. in about 45 minutes will be back with more live coverage of the mississippi book festival. if you want to see the schedule of events go to book tv.org or you can visit the mississippi book festival website at ms book festival.com. first here's more book tvs visit to jackson last year. >> when i was a writer i think i said in the south that i take for what i know for granted and i feel like i am judged because my eyes have been cleaned by experience so i know where a.m. i have a base to see people moving in that clear lights were in jackson mississippi it is a national historical landmark and wealthy was a writer she was born in 1909 and died in 2001. she was a writer who won just about every literary prize there was. she studied throughout the world really published in many languages, she wrote wrote short short stories. >> that was the form she most value. she had four collections of short stories in total in just over 50 stories of that collection. >> there is oneñr writers beginning

>> jackson state is in jackson mississippi. that is one case of a season of violence inflicted on black students by law enforcement often called in to quell the student protest and sadly that led to a serious loss of life the most americans don't know about most people know about those killed at kent state a few people about jackson's state but a least eight black students killed many more wounded or injured on various campuses. at jackson state were police would open fire into windows of the women's dormitory. can you imagine? they did that at jackson state to killed two young black man and they fired into a crowd

to the south, the midwest, the east coast, 94 in washington only matched by little rock and jackson, mississippi. this cloud and showers and thunderstorms to the south, if we go back to the high temperatures, down to the south they were under where we were today, only the upper 80's. that looks to be a great indication, tracking though showers and cloud cover tuesday and thursday -- tuesday through thursday. that is the latest update. the next two days, the heat and humidity is here, but the adjustment tuesday. the rain is coming closer to the area, edging in with the cloud cover. let's break this heat wave early, i thick i heard a lot of the yeses to that. it's restart the forecast coming closer view, same outlook, mid to upper 60's tomorrow. it will be one of those warm and humid starts, higher humidity. may have are a widely isolated shower or thunderstorm. one nearn, we even got south riding sunday, a shower that is. your is a 20% chance. low to mid 90's, factor in the heat and humidity, the heat index, it will feel like 100. let's go with scattered showers possible thunderstorms bringing te

saturday, august 22, we are live from jackson, mississippi, for the inaugural mississippi book festival beginning at 11:30 and yet easter, with conversations on harper lee, civil rights, and the civil war. then, we are live from the nation's capital for the book festival, followed on sunday with our live, in-depth program with a senior fellow from the american enterprise institute. book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. announcer: congress is on recess, and all this week, we will bring you primetime programming looking at key issues. tonight, a panel from the aston security forum, starting with a discussion on national security threats, and then a look at the special ops and the intelligence community.

august 22, we are alive from jackson mississippi for the inaugural mississippi book festival with discussions on harper lee, civil rights, and the civil war. september 5, we are alive from the nation's capital. followed on sunday with an in-depth program with senior fellow lynne cheney. c-span2 -- television for serious readers. >> republican presidential candidate ben carson was one of the speakers today at the iowa state fair soapbox. it is a long-standing tradition that gives presidential hopefuls up to 20 minutes to speak on any issue of virtuous. -- their choice. [applause] >> as you can see, dr. ben carson is our next speaker at the soapbox. dr. carson is a pediatric neurosurgeon. he was a longtime director of the johns hopkins children's center and is internationally renowned for his pioneering work in separation of conjoined twins. very pleased to welcome dr. carson to the soapbox. [applause] dr. carson: thank you so much. i am delighted to be here. a lot of state fairs, but this is a state fair. this is amazing. absolutely amazing. wonderful people, wonderful food. i want to thank th

this is live coverage of the inaugural mississippi book festival in jackson, mississippi. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. we welcome you to the mississippi book festival, to our harper lee panel. the rules the we have up in here, there will be no beverages allowed in here. if you have beverages we ask you to go to a garbage can and placed in the garbage can. second thing, please silence yourself phones. we need everyone to please silence yourself funds. again we would like to thank you and i would like to introduce the moderator, amanda nelson, editor of the largest book site in north america. he is also a judge of the 2016 best translated book award and is an expert on the topic she is about to lead on the discussion. welcome to the harper lee panel. [applause] >> thank you. i like being called an expert on something. i am on that debt nelson, i would like to reiterate the welcome to our panel and i would like to introduce my panelist and we will jump right in and the last ten minutes will be reserved for audience questions. this is my pane

jackson, mississippi. we'll be covering panels such as panels on civil war, history, civil rights and two other panels that we are covering on book tv include eudora wealthy and harper lee, two well known, one mississippi, one alabama author. that's all live tomorrow on book tv on c-span2. jerry nash, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you, peter. we look forward to hosting you. 202 is the area code for public policy stories you want to talk about. what seen in the news this week. you can see the numbers on the screen. area code is 202. let's begin with a call from mississippi. this is john in lucedale. where is that? >> caller: down in the southeast corner. >> what do you want to talk about? >> caller: thanks for c-span by the way. yesterday was a politician on that was talking about the automobiles and manufacturing in this country. i had bought one and i've had an enormous amount of problems with it. my fault, i guess. but it would be nice on these vehicles if we had some sort of information

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>> guest: jackson state is in jackson mississippi and that is one case of a season of violence inflicted on black students by law enforcement state, local, national law law enforcement that it was often called then to quell student protest and that sadly led to a serious loss of life that most americans don't know about. many people know about the poor white students killed at kent state. few people know about the students killed at jackson state but there were at least eight black students killed, many many more wounded and injured on various college campuses during these years. at jackson state police open fire into the windows of a women's dormitory. can you imagine that, at openly firing into women's dormitory. they killed two young black man at southern university in baton rouge in 1972. they just fired into a crowd. they killed these two students in the back that were fleeing. the same thing happened at orangeburg south carolina in 1968. law enforcement shot and killed three students in the back as they were running away. so this is an example of the kind of heavy-handed lethal in

saturday, we are alive from jackson, mississippi, for the mississippi book festival. discussions on harper lee, civil rights, and the civil war. on saturday, september 5, we are alive from the nation's capital for the national book festival. followed on sunday with our live in depth program. tv on c-span 2, television for serious readers. >> bernie sanders spoke to supporters at a rally in columbia, south carolina, following his remarks, he also took some questions from viewers. this is just under two hours. how are you doing? all right. this is the last stop of the evening. we are excited to be in columbia, south carolina. i have the privilege of serving as the national press secretary for bernie 2016. i will be your mc for this evening. before i bring out the man of the hour, i want to chat with you all. did you know, america celebrated the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act? the voting rights act was a civil rights moment, landmark legislation. and we acknowledge how far we have come. but the supreme court 2013 decision getting the voting rights act was a sh

saturday, august 22nd living from jackson mississippi with discussions on harper lee, civil rights and the civil war. on saturday september 5th, live from the nation's capital for the 15th annual book festival and followed by former second lady and senior nelly lynn cheney. book tv on c-span2; television for serious readers. >> we talk about the struggle for voting rights on the next washington journal and then kristen powers talks about her new book and how the left is killing free speech and examines what she is calling liberal attempts to shutdown debate on a variety of issues. plus your phone calls and tweets. >> next, glenn beck on his book "it is about islam" and he spoke at the freedomfest last month. his book comes out next week. >> host: glenn beck, "it is about islam," why do you open with thomas jefferson in the library of congress? >> jefferson changed my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew peter car and peter was 13 or 15, i don't know remember, somewhere in that area. his mother had died and his father was about to die. his father went to thomas and said thomas will you

saturday, august 22, jackson, mississippi for the mississippi book festival with discussions rights, ande, civil the civil war. saturday, september 5, live from the nation's capital for the 15th annual national book festival. ourow the on sunday with live in-depth program with former second lady and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute, lynne cheney. book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. the bipartisan policy center hosted a discussion on immigration policy in the 2016 presidential race. border security, immigration, enforcement, and president obama's executive actions were included. from the bipartisan policy center, this is one hour and 20 minutes. >> i will begin by introducing a wonderful set of panelists. they are nationally known and highly respected in their field. laurasc she helps city residents with their immigration applications, not an easy task. congressional hispanic caucus institute fellow. mexican an expert on migration to be united states and the role of nonprofits and advocating for -- in advocating for latino immigrants. holds a ba in po

we are live in jackson, mississippi, for the inaugural mississippi book festival. discussions on harper lee, civil rights, and the civil war. on saturday, september 5, we are live from the nation's capital former first lady lynne cheney. c-span 2. >> now republican presidential candidate carly fiorina speaking at the iowa state fair. topics included energy security, the iran nuclear agreement, the economy, and defunding planned parenthood. following her remarks, she spoke to the public. [applause] ms. fiorina: thank you. i am so thrilled to be engaged in this great ritual of presidential politics. yes, i have had a life that is only possible here in the united states of america. a young woman who started as a secretary could go on to run for the president of the united states. [applause] i have had my share of hardship as well. i battled cancer. i learned the power of faith. we lost our younger daughter to the demons of addiction. each one of us sometimes needs a helping hand. i will not give you a speech today because i want to answer as many questions as i can. t

saturday we're live from jackson, mississippi for the inaugural mississippi book festival beginning atstern with discussions on harper lee, civil rights and the civil war. on saturday, september 5th, we're live from our nation's capitol for the 15th annual national book festival followed on sunday with the live in-depth program with tlynn chaney. book tv on c-span 2, television for serious readers. >>> each week american history tv brings you archival films to tell the story. up next, a police training film that shows how to recognize and deal with the mentally ill. the film was shot in new orleans using actual police and nonproffesional actor to portray a variety of situations. >> 3137 in the street, a white female screaming. >> help! no! >> a great many people with whom the average policeman must cope are mentally disturbed. a few of these become violent. it's fortunate when the police can call on skilled psychiatric attendants for help. however most of the time the police must deal with the mentally disturbed on their own. the vast majority of mentally disturbed people are not viole

david's up next in jackson, mississippi. david, good morning. you're on our line for independents. >> caller: yeah, i think there are two joe bidens. the real joe biden and then this joe biden's big mouth over which he has no control. i mean, he's gotten away with it. he's embarrassed obama several times. as vice president, he's gotten away with it. i don't think we should have -- ever have a president who lets his mouth run away from him. besides, you know, he's been in the establishment for his entire career. i think as the caller suggested, he should just retire and enjoy his grandchildren. >> david, what's an example of an incident where he's embarrassed the obama administration? what do you think comes up from what you're talking about here, if he does run for the presidency? >> caller: well, he endorsed gay marriage well ahead of obama, and obama was forced to jump in to watch up. that's just one example. i mean, there are many. >> do you think that hurts him in a democratic primary? >> caller: oh, i don't think it would hurt him in a demo

today we're live from jackson, mississippi, for the inaugural mississippi book festival beginning atil war. on saturday, september 5th, we're live from our nation's capital for the 15th annual national book festival, followed on sunday with our live in depth program with former second lady and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute, lynne cheney. "book tv" on c-span2, television for serious readers. >>> coming up next, several law professors explore the origins of the magna carta and the influence of the british document on the creation of the american bill of rights. the professor spoke at the library of congress where a 12:15 copy of the magna carta is temporarily on display. king john originally signed the document under pressure from his barons at runny meade, england. american revolutionaries looks to thehts guaranteed by the magna carta as they rebelled against the english crown. this is 90 minutes. >> good morning. i propose to cover three things in my brief opening remarks this morning. why me? why now? why are you here? magna carta's relevance today. from an earl

[inaudible conversations] >> in the mississippi state capitol in jackson is home to the first ever mississippi book festival. more from this event in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> sunday, september 6th, booktv is live with lynn cheney, the former second lady and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute on "in depth." mrs. cheny authored a wide variety of books including biographies, novels and books for children. he most recent book is an account of the life of the fourth president, james madison. other tiedles include, "blue skies no fences" where she recalls her childhood in wyoming, and a book about american history. her other books range from profiles of leaders of the house of representatives to the failure of moral relativism and a condensed history of the u.s. for children. lynn cheney, live on booktv, sunday, september 6th on "in depth." you can join us by sending questions or comments to lynn cheney at facebook.com/booktv, on twitter@booktv, or call in live. >> here's a look at some of the current best-selling nonfiction books. [i

now, on your screen, is a live picture of the old supreme court chamber in the mississippi state capitol. booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and we'll be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] >> one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here? how is this actuaos [inaudible conversations] one day i asked myself how did they get here in the first place? how is this possible? to investigate and found the most astonishing thing. to be traced back to three people. one was brandenburg who had spent his life investigating the properties of the human ear steadying frequencies that were inaudible. and he came up with the md three encoder to shrink the compact disc by 90 percent. but he could not monetize the invention and was locked out and in desperation 1995 he posted it as a free public down the road to a his website within a couple of years the pirates got a hold of it he made hundreds of millions of dollars from intellectual property but the of mis

this is live coverage of the inaugural mississippi book festival in jackson, mississippi. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. we welcome you to the mississippi book festival, to our harper lee panel. the rules the we have up in esre, there will be no if you actually made it in youe. with beverages and would like ty ask you to go to a garbage can and places in the garbage can. the next thing, please everyone silence your cell phones.hones. we need everyone at this particular moment to please silence your cell phones. i would like to introduce the moderator amanda nelson. she is the managing editor of a riot the largest book site ink north america. she's also a judge of theal 2016th translated book award and is an expert on the topic she is about to lead on thehe discussion discussion. ladies and gentlemen welcome to the harper lee panel.ea [applause] >> thank you. i'd like being called expert on something. that's pretty nice.ll i'm amended they'll send thet editor of book riot and i would like to reiterate i'm going to quickly introduce my paneli

atlanta and jackson, mississippi were both earned by sherman. i have to go and stand out in front of audiences in that town and tell them about this book. the reception there might not be as kind as the reception i'm getting from you. but history is what it is. my job is to tell the truth. here is what happened. yes, he burnt pieces of atlanta. it's a mess. i start this book, in my mind, was that scene in gone with the wind when scarlet o'hara is going through all the wounded, the conflagration of atlanta. those special effects they did, in 1939, it's pretty amazing. that's what i imagine a sherman is seeing as he is leaving atlanta. i did not steal margaret mitchell's idea but it is the history. it is what it is. that is where this story begins. with all due respects to the people of atlanta who have been sending me all this stuff about the battle of peach tree creek, that is not what this book is about. that is another book. i could not convince random house to do a five book trilogy. it was just too much. [laughter] i agonize in every book i

book festival. -- down in jackson, mississippi. airman of the board of directors of that book festival -- how did this come about? for having meou here we look forward to having c-span be a part of our festival tomorrow. mississippi is home to an enormous number of authors and a group of us a couple years ago acided that the state needed festival to celebrate our literary heritage and that's what we are going to do tomorrow. host: who are some of the authors that will be at the festival? how long in planning was it? guest: we have 165 authors coming -- 103 of them will appear on a range of 22 panels. john grisham will pick up the festivities tomorrow morning. we will end with a panel we call the last chapter that bill ferris will moderate along with allie gilchrest and steve yarbrough. ,n between those two bookends we will have a huge number of authors talking about a whole variety of subjects and books. host: is it mississippi centric? guest: we have tried to promote mississippi authors and we have tried to promote topics about mis

. >> host: bareback live on booktv for the first-ever mississippi book festival and jackson. the next panel beginning now is looking at the history of civil rights in america. >> welcome everyone to the inaugural mississippi book festival. my name is chris goodwin the mississippi department of archives and history. this is their civil rights history panel sponsored by the mississippi humanities council and the mississippi arts commission. we are being recorded live on c-span's booktv so if you have not already please silence your cell phones. if you have not purchased the books, the panels have written you will have an opportunity to do that after -- outside. the authors will also be signing immediately after this panel in the authors attempt. the moderator for today's panel is robbie luckett. robbie luckett received his ph.d. from the university offr l georgia with a focus on civilve rights history, the native mississippian he returned home to accept the position ofas associate professor ofci histord and director of the margaret wolter center for the study of the african-amer

now, on your screen, is a live picture of the old supreme court chamber in the mississippi state capitol. booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and we'll be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] >> one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here? how is this actually possible? and i began to investigate this. i found the most astonishing thing. almost all the files i had could be traced back to just three people. one of the guys was a guy named karl brannenberg, brillianted german inventor and spent his life investigating the properties of the human ear and how to actually delete frequencies that were inautomobile to it, and in this way he came up withsomething we now call the mp3 encoat cher has the able to put the information on a compact disk and shrink it by 90% with very little loss in audio quality. he was totally unable to monetize this invention help ways lock out of the marketplace, and in desperation, in 1995, he post evidence it for free

made whether to go immediately to the operating room. ,he next center is in houston will be in jackson mississippihe new medical center is positioned to compete with hospitals in the city that he hopes will attract patients across the south. the new university medical center involves 2 million square stark contrast to this, charity hospital. it flooded during hurricane katrina, which closed several days after and it never reopened. a regional not powerhouse. was a public hospital founded in the 18th century. dr. w disagrees with critics who say the medical center is a run as a public drive it partnership and cannot be the same kind of safety net for people who call the city home. >> the hospital never walked away from its mission and that mission is to care for all patients. >> federal funds went a long way toward paying for the facility. the reality, he says, there will be a lot less government money and it needs to do a better job than his predecessor. mark: our colleague joins us live from norlin outside the lowest death lower ninth. is it for important the city of new orleans to have the hospi

. >> the state capital of jackson, mississippi, located along interstate highway 55, just outside what's known as the mississippi delta. it's the kind of place that makes you wonder why did they make it the capital? until you grab hold of what used to be around here. farish street used to be the hub of african-american life in this city, its black commercial, cultural center. when dr. king came to town, he came here. everybody did. medgar evers had an office just upstairs here. musicians like tommy johnson, sonny boy williamson too, and elmore james all played here and the likes of duke ellington, cab callaway, count basie and louie armstrong all took the stage at places like the crystal palace ballroom and the alamo on farish street. what happened? where did it all go? >> what killed it was integration. once we were able to break out of our own indigenous black-run businesses, the black-owned businesses died. great for the black race but terrible for the black business. in fact, the only reason you're coming here right now is you have two churches, two funeral homes and the big apple in

and for the weekends, saturday, we're live from jackson, mississippi, for the inaugural mississippi book festival. beginning at 11:30 a.m. eastern with discussions on harper lee, civil rights and the civil wa, on saturday, september 5th, we're live from our nation's capitol and on sunday, our program with senior fellow, lynn chaney. book tv on cspan 2. television for serious readers. >> in 1968 following the assassination of martin luther king jr. and subsequent riot yots that devastated parts of washington, d.c., the office of economic opportunity which administered many of lyndon johnson's war or poverty programs created a project as a model to help improve poor relations between the police and community. according to the national c archives, they commissioned a series of documentary and training films to record the implementation of the project, hoping they could be shown and used as a model for other cities. despite investing almost 200,000, they were never released, but were september to a warehouse in maryland. up next on reel america, three short pilot district training films that

>> it is in jackson in mississippi and that is one case of a season of violence inflicted on black students by law enforcement state and local and national law enforcement that was called in to quell the student protests that the leading to serious loss of life that most don't know about. most of those known that were killed at testator jackson state but there were at least eight killed and many more wounded and injured on various campuses during these years but at jackson state police opened fire into the windows of a women's dormitory. can you imagine opened fire into the windows of of a women's dormitory they did that at jackson state killing two young black man as southern university in bad ruche '90s 72 just firing into a crowd killing two students in the back that were running. in south carolina in 1968 law enforcement killed those never in the back is they're running away. this is an example of the heavy handed opposition that literally trying to improve colleges to gain access to the middle class students are trying to realize that for themselves and they face mass arrest and violen

struggle over voter registration, the eyes of the nation and the world shifted to oxford and jackson, mississippi where james meredith sought to become the first of his race to enroll in the university of mississippi." meredith sued the state of mississippi forcing the federal government to finally confront an open defiance of the u.s. constitution. in september, 1962, meredith won his battle in the courts but as far as the state of mississippi was concerned, the fight wasn't over. "to the cheers of many mississippi whites, governor ross barnett and the entire government apparatus of mississippi, planted themselves squarely in meredith's path and it will require the full weight of the federal government and the justice department and the courts to force his admission." that weight came down hard on the state of mississippi. governor barnett was found guilty of civil contempt and ordered to pay ten thousand james meredith out of the classrooms of ole miss. "now, the difficulty is, uh, we got two or three problems. in the first place, what can we do to, uh, if we can , if . . .. first place is the

saturday, we are live from jackson, mississippi for the mississippi book festival starting at 11 a.m. eastern with discussions on harper lee, civil rights and the civil movement. and then in-depth with former second lady lynn cheney. booktv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> a meeting in phoenix to discuss on how democrats can work to win state houses and localal offices. >>> that was a very fast two minutes. thank you for being here for the panel of people. i am excited to see everyone here and excited to see a full room. i think this is one of the most important topics week be talking about. we are talking about it in a place that needs to be discussed. we have seen over the last five years democrats have lost over 900 seats in the state legislatures across america. we have gone from having democratic trifectas with democratic state legislature, house and governor. i think we only have five now. only five states in the union where we can have hope of driving through anything remotely progressive. washington state, my state, is no longer one. they are blocked paid sick le

jackson. mississippi ranks at the bottom for overall health, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and preventibleospitalizations. more than half of mississippi's three million citizens live in a rural community, and almost a quarter live at or below the federal poverty level. two-thirds of mississippi's hospitals are located in rural areas and lack sufficient resources in specialty care. but despite these facts, telehealth in our state is increasing access to health care and improving outcomes and lowering costs. the ummc center for telehealth began in 2003 with the tele-emergency program connecting critical access emergency to departments to physicians at our trauma center. 12 years later, telehealth allow us to provide over 35 medical specialties to 166 sites around the state, including community hospitals and clinics, mental health facilities, schools and colleges, corporations, prisons, and even in the patients' homes. we connect sites in 52 of the state's 82 counties and serve an average of 8,000 patients a month. since 2003, we have been awarded over $9.7 million in federal grants to purcha

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saturday august 22nd, live from jackson, mississippi, for the mississippi book festival beginning at a.m. eastern with discussions on harper lee, civil rights and the civil war. on saturday, september 5th, we're live from our nation's capital for the 15th annual national book festival followed on sunday with our live in depth program with former second lady and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute, lynne cheney. look tv on c-span 2. television for serious readersøÑ >>> "washington journal" continues. >> next we'll take up our spotlight on magazine series. this week focus og a politico magazine article by contributor mark perry. the pentagon's fight over fighting china about some of the political pentagon infighting over the best way to combat china. mark perry is with us on "washington journal." what prompted you to write the article? >> this is kind of a below the radar in washington terms real fight between the services, army, navy, air force. i began my career as a journalist looking at that fight. my first book is called "four stars" on the joint chiefs of staff and

saturday, august 22 we august 22 we are live from jackson mississippi for the inaugural mississippi book festival beginning at 11:00 a.m. eastern. issues on harper lee, the civil rights. on september 5 we are live from the nations capital for the 15th annual national book festival. book tv on c-span2 : it's a message that 103 letters that i wrote to president bush and president obama from 2,122,015, were very few exceptions were not acknowledged not answered. so i thought i i would embarrass myself by putting them all in a book to raise a bigger issue, which is almost democratic media when a priss makes writes a letter to an official they can't be censored, can be distorted and not to respect it or try to answer even acknowledge it, so people know it's not going to a dark hole is a major issue i think. most young people don't realize that a written letter to a politician has far more impact than anything else. >> they get a lot of letters i think about a half a million a week. certainly don't expect them to answer every letter. >> no. here's how i break it down. a lot of people don't kno

saturday august 22, live in jackson mississippi for the mississippi book festival beginning at 11:30 a.m. eastern with discussions on harper lee, civil rights, and the civil war. on saturday, september 5, live from our nations capital for the 15th annual national book festival followed on sunday with our live in-depth with our life-and-death programming with former second lady and senior fellow lynn cheney. book tv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> hillary clinton's latest book is hard choices, she writes about her tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. at george washington university she talked about the book with her former speechwriter this is just over one hour. >> our guest of honor is known primarily of course for her political roles as first lady, u.s. senator from new york and the 67th secretary of state. she is also just published her fifth book and has several previous bestsellers to her name , so added to the list of credits after hillary rodham clinton should certainly be accomplished author. hard choices, her memoir about her four years as secretary