janesville, an american story. and i thank amy for coming here today to talk about the lives of the hard-working people of janesville, you so beautifully document in your book. the book festival comes to life every year thanks to hard work and dedication of our friends at the madison public library and the madison public library foundation. this event could not be possible without the sponsorship of so many of our friends, so i would encourage everyone of you to go to the festival web site and find out more about our sponsors tonight. the wisconsin humanities council is proud to sponsor amy this evening. it's a wonderful opportunity for us to continue to what our organization has done statewide for 45 years, which is to support and promote programs that use history, culture and discussion to strengthen community life in wisconsin for everyone. tonight's presentation would not only delight you but help us move forward in this direction. for those who might not know, the wisconsin humanities council -- the wisconsin

what was i doing in janesville that day? for a couple years i have been thinking about writing a long close-up of what happens when good work goes away. at the time, i was covering a broad social policy be for the washington post. the great recession began at the end of 2007 and kept going until 2009. i did some stories as part of my beat that i later learned where the effects what difference did it make that the u.s. economy was in the worship it had been in since the 1930s. i did a story for the post on the southwest florida people falling out of the middle class. and seeing how traumatized and shellshocked they were. i did a story out of south carolina what had the second highest unemployment rate about the strains on the private social sector like nonprofit food pantries that were slammed with more clients than they ever have the people did not have enough money to be donating. from having done this work and maybe start to pay more attention to what other journalists were or were not writing about this bad economic time.

the other o thing he said was the promise of janesville is a promise of america. many of these authorses have appeared on booktv. you can watch them online on our website, booktv.org. there was a correspondents dinner or several years ago in which -- obama pretty much cruse ififthe president like a human roast did you see that? >> yes i remember that. as you write for that you think that contributed? >> so that was in 2011 i had just started at the white house so john one the former white house speech writers also u now on pot save america he was our sorts of he was managing joke writing process from in house that year and he wrote those jokes about trump. my experience with it was kind of fitting in cheap seats in the back of the room and watching trump sort of the back of his head but you can see how red he was turn prg behind. and then you know -- we've all i think at this point seen him on the video of it and it is -- he goes inside himself in a strange and dark place and one with thing i will say is well that's the moment he decided to run but it's not like p

the author of "janesville" talks about the closure of a general motors plant in janesville, wisconsin. >> the core of my story is that who wereut the workers displaced. we call those people dislocated workers. and i decided what it wanted to illustrate was, i came to think of it, what choices people make when there are no good choices left. 7:30, a scientist discusses his book "dawn of the new everything." sebastian gorka, a former advisor in the trump white house, talks about the threat of isis and how the president's counterterrorism strategy differs from that of his predecessor. he also talks about russia, the iran nuclear deal, brexit. this is just under one hour. [applause] host: >> welcome everybody to the heritage foundation. i'm delighted to introduce sebastian gardner. this is on the topic of defeating terrorism in the age of trauma. gorka is a national security strategist and a nonresident scholar. he recently served in the white house as deputy assistant and strategist to president donald trump. also as vice president for national security support and professor of strategy

winning reporter amy goldstein discussing her book about the closing of the gm assembly plant in janesville, wisconsin. tv in prime time tonight in a week here on c-span2. >> c-span student him, the tweet say at all. video editing for constitutional documentaries. this group showed us how it is done. two stellar interviews in one day and the students asked some hard-hitting questions about immigration reform. we are asking students to choose a provision of the u.s. constitution and create and video of why it is important. our competition is open to all middle school and high school students grades six through 12. $100,000 prizes and cash will be awarded. the grand prize of $5000 will go to the student or team the best overall entry. the deadline sure is january 18. get details on her website at student cam .org. >> tonight on c-span new york city mayor bill diblasio recently spoke had holiday dinner party at the group of progress iowa. here's a preview. >> there's a phrase that should define all of us have democrats do in 2018 is a powerful and simple idea. fortune favors the bold. we have

i was working at the quarterpounder grill at mcdonald's at the section of highway 440 and 90 in janesville, wisconsin. >>reporter: it's not a clean sweep for republican support for the bill. members from high-tax states like new york, new jersey and california say the cap on state and local income tax deductions hurts them from your constituents? >> nothing good, especially for the republicans who voted for trump. very disappointed. >>reporter: congress has passed bigger tax cuts before, but that didn't stop president trump from celebrating on twitter, saying this is the biggest tax cuts and reform ever passed. enjoy and create many beautiful jobs. weijia jiang, cbs news, capitol hill. >> on that boast, the tax policy center reports the largest tax cut in history designation would go to either president ronald reagan's 1981 tax cut or president barack obama's 20-20-20-12 extension of most of the george w. bush- era tax cuts, depending on how the size of the tax cut is measured. >>> the white house is blaming north korea for a worldwide cyber attack that caused billions of dollars. the trum

janesville, wisconsin. >> the core of my story is that who wereut the workers displaced. we call those people dislocated workers. and i decided what it wanted to illustrate was, i came to think of it, what choices people make when there are no good choices left. 7:30, a scientist discusses his book "dawn of the new everything." sebastian gorka, a former advisor in the trump white house, talks about the threat of isis and how the president's counterterrorism strategy differs from that of his predecessor. he also talks about russia, the iran nuclear deal, brexit. this is just under one hour. [applause] host: >> welcome everybody to the heritage foundation. i'm delighted to introduce sebastian gardner. this is on the topic of defeating terrorism in the age of trauma. gorka is a national security strategist and a nonresident scholar. he recently served in the white house as deputy assistant and strategist to president donald trump. also as vice president for national security support and professor of strategy under regular warfare. he has also served as the chairman of

make closing of a gm assembly plant in janesville, wisconsin, during the great recession.

amy goldstein talks about the closing of a general motors assembly plant in janesville, wisconsin, during the great recession. >> the core of my stories but dislocated workers themselves. dislocated as a given term that means you've lost your job and there's not much likelihood it will come back. that's what as a country and a set of social policies we call these people, dislocated workers. i decided what i wanted to illustrate was as a came to think of it what choices people make when there are no good choices left. >> and a 7:30 scientists on the connection between the brain in the world. >> for more of this weekends schedule go to booktv.org. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 8 p.m. eastern on lectures in history american university professor aaron bell talks about privacy laws and federal surveillance of civil rights leaders. >> the head of the operations william sullivan, shortly after the march on washington in the famous i have a dream speech we must mark king now if we're not before as the most dangerous negro in the future of this nation from the stan

i live in janesville wisconsin. i spend time with my family when i am not here. he is an avid hunter, he likes to be out in the woods. >> melissa: it struck me. he was talking about sleeping in his office. that is what we do. >> jason: hey, i have done that. hey, i do that. there are a lot of people who do that. >> melissa: it sounds really tough, and i have a lot of admiration for people who are willing to serve and do what they can. especially, if they get tax reform done, but i can't imagine keeping that schedule up. >> katie: let's not forget that he was dragged into this position. republicans didn't have anybody who wanted to take the job appeared paul ryan didn't wanted. he gave him an ultimatum. he said i will do the job, but i'm not going to take time away from my families on the weekend to fund raise. i don't want to have the same obligations that he did when he was in this position, so he took the job is because people were asking him to. he graciously stepped into the position of leadership, and i'm not surprised that he is saying i have done enough, t

it is simply a factor of convenience and that to me makes a lot of sense because i live in janesville, wisconsin. i don't live here in washington, d.c. if i'm not here voting and working i'm at home with my family and constituents. so this is simple lay convenience factor and i don't see how it is connected to anything else. let me go to kristin. >> [inaudible question] >> i would like to see that happen. i don't know the answer to that question. when the democrats pulled out of these talks, that cost us weeks. so we'll see where we can land but it would be my preference to get an agreement sooner rather than later. andy. >> [inaudible question] >> and florida and louisiana and other places. say that again? i do, our members very much want to see an agreement on disaster supplemental before we leave. that's something we're working toward. warren. >> [inaudible question] >> i don't know the answer to that question. there is discussion about this. it is all about timing and managing absences in the senate. so we are basically being flexible for the majority leader. i talked to mitch a c

of the janesville gm assembly plant. the tv is in prime time each week on c-span2. >> nobel peace prize winner has written the book, a world of three zeros. his vision of the world with zero poverty, and zero carbon emissions. he sat down for an interview. this took place at the new york public library in september. >> good evening. director of public program here at the new york public library known as five from the new york public library. i'm delighted to welcome you. last week we had the great pleasure to discuss the state state-of-the-art tick and programs including late of the season in december of conversation with naomi klein. that he believed the change in polluter world. they happen to know each other well. i'm thrilled to welcome the 2006 nobel peace prize winner, mohammad yunus and the author of the world of three zeros, the new economics of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero carbon emissions. the book you assign after his conversation with jeffrey sachs. i'm also thrilled to welcome jeffrey back to th

i was a scrawny kid from janesville, wisconsin, growing up thinking i would be a nuclear physicist. i went to the university and signed up for all the science courses, but they made me take a -- well, they didn't make me. it was required to take a political science course. i took my very first political science course. i can recall that it was a turning point because, with my nuclear physics interest and the book that they required us to read, it was kissinger's second , his nuclear weapons and foreign policy book. myead that and i thought, oh gosh, the war is just percolating along. it was not reaching a fever pitch at this point. like most americans, i had a sense of patriotism. i said the pledge of allegiance, saluted the flag, and believed what my leaders were telling me. we were fighting communism. the kissinger book sort of slowed me down and caused me to think about some things in ways that i had taught about them before. -- that i had not thought about them before. my moderate republican upbringing -- my father didn't like joe mccarthy. it started to get me to rethink some o

janesville is about the closing of the janesville gm assembly plant.he tv is in prime time each week on c-span2. >> nobel peace prize winner has written the book, a world of three zeros. his vision of the world with zero poverty, and zero carbon emissions. he sat down for an interview. this took place at the new york public library in september. >> good evening. director of public program here at the new york public

sunday at 4:45 pm, jamie goldstein talks about the closing of a general motors assembly plant in janesville during the great recession. >> the core of my story is about the dislocated workers themselves. dislocated as a government term that means you've lost their job and it's not likely it's going to come back. as a set of social policies we call these people dislocated workers and i decided what i wanted to illustrate was as i came to think of it , what choices people make when there are no good choices left. >> and it 7:30, scientist gerard lanoir on the connection between the brain and the world in his book on a new everything. >> for more of this weekend's schedule, go to booktv.org. >> saturday night on c-span, victims of sexual harassment telling their stories. we will hear from fox news anchor gretchen carlson. me to movement founder toronto park, a group of military cadets. >> take us inside that day. >> so sunday morning. picture it. >> sunday morning i started having notifications on my phone. not a lot. and i checked one and a friend sent me a message that said did something hap

the last time this got done the job i had i was working the quarter pounder grill at mcdonalds in janesville in coming and that's why we're so excited to see this happen because we know this will help people. we know it will grow our economy and most of all help the people struggling in this country and why we're very excited about this historic day. any questions? >> this bill remains deeply unpopular. any concerns it won't translate into a political win for republicans? >> no concerns whatsoever. if people are tv are telling mistruths, that will make it unpopular. steve shows the polling, 18% of americans before the reagan tax cuts thought they would get a tax cut. look, when you have a sling fest, a mud fest on tv, when pundits are slamming each other about this tax bill before it passes, that's what is going to happen. when we get this done and people say their withholding improving and jobs occurring and bigger paychecks, fairer and simpler tax code it will produce the results. results are going to make this popular. >> [inaudible question] >> i've read the books. this evidence-based po