. >> national constitution center president jeffrey rosen sat down with ruth bader ginsburg to discuss the conversations they have had over the years. here's a portion of the program. >> the advice your mother gives you in this letter is advice you often repeat, you told it to me for our conversations and i asked you how you were able to follow that, the advice that says, and it is so important to get the exact words, first she says prepare for difficulty and stand on your own two feet like eleanor roosevelt. what was the context for when she gave you that? >> my mother's advice was don't lose time on useless emotions like anger. remorse. nv. they won't get you anyplace. so when i was angry was practicing the piano. i wasn't very good at it but it did distract me. whatever useless emotion i was feeling at the moment. to be absorbed in the music and the useless emotion goes away. >> i have to tell you that when we talk about that advice i since this is the advice of the great wisdom tradition but hard to achieve in practice. how did you do it? if i don't do it i will lose precious time

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. >> to watch the rest of this conversation visit our website, booktv.org and search for jeffrey rosen or ruth bader ginsburg to find this program and all of their other c-span appearances. .. [inaudible conversations] please welcome tara westover. [applause]. >> hello there. guess who i am. this is tara westover and if i have to give you an introduction about tara westover you need to get out of the hole that you had been living in for a while. her book has just celebrated the hundredth week on the new york times bestseller list. it is at number one. ahead of michelle malcolm. that's very cool. i am assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative and that is why you are so interested. i would still go through some of her story because it's so gripping. and it starts in idaho and actually to me it is such a beautiful setting there must be a lot of beautiful memories that you still have of that. >> it was a beautiful mountain that i grew up on. i still have a really strong memories of being on the mountain. i think it is an incredible the kids get to play in the playground

we will turn to the voice of jeffrey rosen.e is president of the constitution center, but he wrote a biography of william howard taft. he tells us about the big debate in the republican party during the 1910s-1920 era. let's watch. [video clip] jeffrey: tariffs are bubbling as a political issue and it splits the republican party. the party was traditionally devoted to protected tariffs for income but not protection. in other words, moderate tariffs in order to fund the government but not protect certain industries over the others. but tariffs naturally favored some people over others. eastern manufacturers, glove manufacturers. it raised the raw material of goods. within the republican party there are three camps. the stand pack republican who were led by joe cannon who want to keep it where it is and pander to their constituencies. the insurgents, progressive republicans who wanted to lower the tariffs, though not eliminated like the free-trade democrats. middle.he [end of video clip] susan: ultimately we get to the point of t

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joining me now is jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the national constitution center and a professorlaw at the george washington university law school and joyce vance, a former u.s. attorney, professor at the university of alabama law school and an msnbc contributor. welcome to both of you. jeff, let me start with you because you have written so many books about courts and legal issues in america. i think what america has had as a lesson in the last few weeks is that impeachment doesn't work like a trial. i think we saw that on display in the last few days. >> we did. and if you look at history, you're right, ali, that impeachment has become so much more polarized than it used to be. in the johnson impeachment, seven republican senators joined democrats in voting to acquit because they thought that the evidence hadn't been fairly presented. in the clinton impeachment, five republicans joined the 45 democrats to acquit on one charge and 10 on the other because they thought the case hadn't been proved. here we're likely to see a party line vote, maybe one or two defections, and that ju