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up next offering supreme court expert joan biskupic. the legal affairs editor talks about the politics of court nominations and positions and justices whose lives she explored. the correspondent for congressional becoming usa today and the "washington post" has written three biographies including sandra day o'connor and her 2014 release on justice sotomayor, "braking -- breaking in. .. what's that from? >> guest: that was my earlier subject, antonin scalia who said it kiddingly after justice on the sotomayor shook up a party by getting all the justices to dance the salsa with her. i use it to set the scene of a contrast it's been between the woman who i is a genuine, somersaults come into this institution that's a wonderfully traditional, used to certain rhythms. the rhythms frankly our salsa. she and she did this wonderful displays that show everybody up, the end of term party, and justice belly at usually shakes people up, he says she can be trouble. it was a perfect line for a little bit of what greeted her there. >> host: did you go
up next offering supreme court expert joan biskupic. the legal affairs editor talks about the politics of court nominations and positions and justices whose lives she explored. the correspondent for congressional becoming usa today and the "washington post" has written three biographies including sandra day o'connor and her 2014 release on justice sotomayor, "braking -- breaking in. .. what's that from? >> guest: that was my earlier subject, antonin scalia who said it...
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joan biskupic. citizenned united. >> guest: yes. the caller's referring to a case that's not as controversial as roe v. wade, but a good runner-up definitely. issued in january of 2010 by a 5-4 vote -- referring to your other caller there -- the justices said that the congress was wrong to set limits on certain spending by corporations and labor unions. and it allowed much more corporate money into campaigns. it's been seen as giving a boost to super pacs, it's been seen to just letting much more money in to the democratic process and favoring corporations over individuals' speech rights. and it's 5-4. there is a chance it could be reversed down the road, but that would take a change in the makeup of the supreme court. right now those five conservatives who ruled that way -- chief justice john roberts, anthony kennedy, antonin scalia, clarence thomas and samuel alito -- are all there, all fairly healthy, none of them giving signals about retirement. and as i'm sure your caller knows because she was so concerned about this ruling, th
joan biskupic. citizenned united. >> guest: yes. the caller's referring to a case that's not as controversial as roe v. wade, but a good runner-up definitely. issued in january of 2010 by a 5-4 vote -- referring to your other caller there -- the justices said that the congress was wrong to set limits on certain spending by corporations and labor unions. and it allowed much more corporate money into campaigns. it's been seen as giving a boost to super pacs, it's been seen to just letting...
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joan biskupic. she's written three biographies of the supreme court justices. she is a long-time supreme court reporter currently with reuters and formerly usa today of the "washington post." if you would like to to dial in to talk about some of her books into some of the justices, some of the court cases, we are going to spend the next three hours talking to the visiting club. (202)585-3880 for those in the east and central time zone 585-3881 if you live out in the west or in the mountain time zone and you can also communicate via social media. facebook.com is our -- you can go to facebook.com/book tv ad booktv at booktv is our third handle. she developed an incremental approach taking her cues from the country and pushing ever so slightly. try to improve the integrity of the local judicial election she's still very active person x. program trying to help young people understand the three branches of government into what goes on in the supreme court. she's still doing okay. she's 84 now and i hope
joan biskupic. she's written three biographies of the supreme court justices. she is a long-time supreme court reporter currently with reuters and formerly usa today of the "washington post." if you would like to to dial in to talk about some of her books into some of the justices, some of the court cases, we are going to spend the next three hours talking to the visiting club. (202)585-3880 for those in the east and central time zone 585-3881 if you live out in the west or in the...
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joan biskupic.nk you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: online, find out "eight things you didn't know" about the supreme court justice. >> woodruff: this week saw the government's response to the threat of ebola, more campaigning in the final stretch before election day and drama in a key governor's race, over a fan. to talk about it all, syndicated columnist mark shields and washington post columnist michael gerson. david brooks is away tonight. gentlemen, wel welcome. let's talk about ebola first. we heard the doctors and head of the nurses association say at the top of the program, people shouldn't be alarmed about ebola, but is the fear getting out of control in this country? >> the fear is real. the "washington post" poll said two out of three americans fear there could be an ebola epidemic in the country. four out of ten are very worried someone, either themselves or someone close to them, will contract the disease. so there's a real concern. it brings out the best and the worst in people.
joan biskupic.nk you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: online, find out "eight things you didn't know" about the supreme court justice. >> woodruff: this week saw the government's response to the threat of ebola, more campaigning in the final stretch before election day and drama in a key governor's race, over a fan. to talk about it all, syndicated columnist mark shields and washington post columnist michael gerson. david brooks is away tonight. gentlemen, wel...
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[applause] >> author and speaker expert joan biskupic talks with the politics of court nominations and decisions and the justices whose lives she's explored. the former correspondent for congressional early, usa today and the "washington post" has written three biographies including saturday but o'connor and the 2014 release on justice so to -- sotomayor, "breaking into the >> host: joan biskupic in the recent book the rise of sonja sotomayor in politics of justice you will did someone is did someone is saying i knew she would be trouble. >> that would be my earlier subject. antonin scalia who said it kiddingly after justice soma
[applause] >> author and speaker expert joan biskupic talks with the politics of court nominations and decisions and the justices whose lives she's explored. the former correspondent for congressional early, usa today and the "washington post" has written three biographies including saturday but o'connor and the 2014 release on justice so to -- sotomayor, "breaking into the >> host: joan biskupic in the recent book the rise of sonja sotomayor in politics of justice...
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>> host: joan biskupic. joan biskupic.com is the website. biographies on justices scalia, sotomayor and o'connor. . . >> good afternoon. i'm a member of the board -- [inaudible] i'm delighted to be able to introduce jane hampton cook to you. she makes biographies and history relevant to today's news, current events, issues of -- [inaudible] and modern day life. jane is the author of about eight books, including "american phoenix" which we have up for sale here and which she will be happy to sign. it's about john quincy adams and the war of 1812. and she also has a soft cover book here called "the star-spangled story," which is celebrating 200 year t of our national -- years of our national anthem. jane has authored several books from the revolutionary war, the faith of america's first ladies, and she co-authored stories of faith and courage from the wars in iraq and afghanistan. and as an aside, she's also a former white house -- [inaudible] so, jane, we're lucky to have you today. >> thank you. [applause] >> well, thank you so much for comi
>> host: joan biskupic. joan biskupic.com is the website. biographies on justices scalia, sotomayor and o'connor. . . >> good afternoon. i'm a member of the board -- [inaudible] i'm delighted to be able to introduce jane hampton cook to you. she makes biographies and history relevant to today's news, current events, issues of -- [inaudible] and modern day life. jane is the author of about eight books, including "american phoenix" which we have up for sale here and which...
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things up and there is a final pickup of supplies the left and the sauna, just a few weeks later joan biskupic was killed in a drone strike. and then there were reports that a career was very much the same in terms of the description and how young they were and the key person that had led to anwar al-awlaki. so you then all of a sudden thought, my goodness, you're danish handlers kind of agree. and under this extraordinary kind of moment a week after he was killed on the danish riviera, where you confront your cia handler and we are going to play a little bit from the tape if we can. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> the cia had just launched a counter propaganda operation by disabling the power here. and we wouldn't think that they were so efficient. >> i'm going to go to the top and you can call me when you're ready. >> while we wait, has anyone had any questions for morten storm? it's very rare that you hear a cia officer talking in such candid terms and then it becomes public. [inaudible] >> there we are, we're going to get it. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudibl
things up and there is a final pickup of supplies the left and the sauna, just a few weeks later joan biskupic was killed in a drone strike. and then there were reports that a career was very much the same in terms of the description and how young they were and the key person that had led to anwar al-awlaki. so you then all of a sudden thought, my goodness, you're danish handlers kind of agree. and under this extraordinary kind of moment a week after he was killed on the danish riviera, where...
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heather cox0:00, richardson on the history of the republican party. .unday at noon, joan biskupic today at 5 p.m. eastern on onpan3, former fbi agents catching the unit bomber suspect suspect.ber find our television schedule at c-span.org. let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. call us at -- e-mail us at -- or, send us a tweet at -- join the conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. at 6 p.m. eastern on the civil war military history professor christopher gabel discusses the importance of railroads and locomotives to the union and confederate armies. he explains how railroads made the scale of the civil war possible and describes how and why the confederacy's powerful railroad system broke down as the war progressed. that is on the civil war, american history tv's weekly program that delves into the events that shaped the outcome of the war. next, william seale. about the white house as a symbol of the american presidency at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the war of 1812 and the british burning of washington. the white house historic
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on sunday we'll be live with joan biskupic talking about the supreme court and she'll take your questions from noon to three p.m. eastern. on "after words," heather cox richardson looks at the beginnings of the republican party. booktv visits boulder, colorado, to tour its literary sites, and books about the camp david accords, nazi-occupied paris, the war of 1812 and henry kissinger on international affairs. for more information about this weekend's 48-hour television schedule, visit us online at booktv.org. >> coming up next on booktv, sister simone campbell, author of "a talking nun on a bus." she talks about the bus tour she and a group of roman catholic nuns launched to talk about the budget proposal. this is a little under ab hour. an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everybody. i want to go ahead and ask us to find a seat. so we can get started. while the 2014 community action partnership annual convention actually technically starts this afternoon with our general opening plenary session at one, we have, actually, a very special guest and a great opportunity for tho
on sunday we'll be live with joan biskupic talking about the supreme court and she'll take your questions from noon to three p.m. eastern. on "after words," heather cox richardson looks at the beginnings of the republican party. booktv visits boulder, colorado, to tour its literary sites, and books about the camp david accords, nazi-occupied paris, the war of 1812 and henry kissinger on international affairs. for more information about this weekend's 48-hour television schedule, visit...
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. >> the next three hours later chance to talk with author and supreme court expert joan biskupic.he reuters legal affairs editor will talk about the politics of sport nominations and decisions. and the justices whose lives she has explored. the former law correspondent for "congressional quarterly," "usa today" and the "washington post" has written three biographies including "sandra day o'connor" under 2014 released on justice sotomayor, "breaking in." >> host: in your most recent book "breaking in: the rise of sonia sotomayor and the politics of justice," you quote somebody saying i knew she would be
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biographies on justices joan biskupic, sotomayor and o'connor. >> c-span created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought as public service by local or cable satellite provider. >> john you, author of point of attack and bruce fein, author of constitutional peril, the the war, foreign policy, use of drones and meaning of the constitution. .. >> host: of the national war college. the last government job you worked for the director of national intelligence. thank you! [applause] >> there wasn't a single founder who doubted that going to war was the most important decision the republic could make. war is the greatest threat to the public. war focuses power on the executive saying since the executive has more incentive to go to war the founders placed the power of going to war the congress not the executive. the founder who understood war better than any president was george washington who gave a long farewell address and spelled out the foreign policy of the foreigners. he said we should stay neutral in war and cut all foreign powers because they will entangle us in their wars. to s
biographies on justices joan biskupic, sotomayor and o'connor. >> c-span created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought as public service by local or cable satellite provider. >> john you, author of point of attack and bruce fein, author of constitutional peril, the the war, foreign policy, use of drones and meaning of the constitution. .. >> host: of the national war college. the last government job you worked for the director of national intelligence. thank...
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and sunday, joan biskupic. historians and, authors talk about world war i 100 years later.aturday, former fbi agents on bomberng the uniform suspect. find your schedule at www.c-span.org. call us and let us know what you think about. you can send us a tweet at #comments. cities tour takes american history tv on the road tv" on the road. >> my book is called "the beast in the garden," because it is a book about a large animal that in ancient times or in american history we could have called it a beast, the mountain lion, which is a party and, of boulder, colorado. boulder is a natural place, but in many places it has been altered by human kind, and we knew get a wild animal coming into this artificial landscape them you can cause changes in the behavior of that animal. a mountain lion favored food is venison. they eat about one deer a week. live in the city, the city attracts the deer, so we had a deer herd living in downtown boulder. when the lines move back in the area, they discovered there were deer in town. so the deer lured the alliance into town. then the lions figure
and sunday, joan biskupic. historians and, authors talk about world war i 100 years later.aturday, former fbi agents on bomberng the uniform suspect. find your schedule at www.c-span.org. call us and let us know what you think about. you can send us a tweet at #comments. cities tour takes american history tv on the road tv" on the road. >> my book is called "the beast in the garden," because it is a book about a large animal that in ancient times or in american history we...
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up next offering supreme court expert joan biskupic. the legal affairs editor talks about the politics of court nominations and positions and justices whose lives she explored. the correspondent for congressional becoming usa today and the "washington post" has written three biographies including sandra day o'connor and her 2014 release on justice sotomayor, "braking -- breaking in. .. what's that from? >> guest: that was my earlier subject, antonin scalia who said it kiddingly after justice on the sotomayor shook up
up next offering supreme court expert joan biskupic. the legal affairs editor talks about the politics of court nominations and positions and justices whose lives she explored. the correspondent for congressional becoming usa today and the "washington post" has written three biographies including sandra day o'connor and her 2014 release on justice sotomayor, "braking -- breaking in. .. what's that from? >> guest: that was my earlier subject, antonin scalia who said it...
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on sunday we will be live with joan biskupic, the reporter and author talks about the supreme court and your russians from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern. on "after words", heather cox richardson looks at the beginnings of the republican party. booktv visits polder, colorado, to interview several of the literary sites. .. in a german sub sank the british passenger ship lusitania killings 400 people including -- including albert vanderbilt. she appeared on booknotes in 2002. c-span: diana preston, why did you write a book called "lusitania"? >> guest: my interest was really caught. i was researching something else in the docks at liverpool, at the merseyside maritime museum, and i saw this great bronze propeller sitting on the quayside, and i went to have a look at the little label underneath it, and it said this was the propeller of the ship lusitania, sunk in 1915 by a german submarine. d
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and supreme court reporter joan biskupic looks at the past of sotomac. and the people that made possible in the innovators. in examining the use of medicine at the end of life care. plus, looking at don't wait for the next war. wesley clark weighs in on international affairs. and pulitzer prize-winning historian james mcpherson recounts the life of the president of the confederacy, jefferson davis. and cornell west analyzes african-american leaders and black prophetic fire. and edward wilson looks at what humans have that sets them apart in the meaning of existence. look for these titles this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> a future where machines are more intelligent than humans in our next book. this hour and 45 minutes program is next on booktv. >> hello, everyone. can you hear me okay two in the back, can you hear me enact excellent. okay, i am the executive director of the intelligence institute and we are a nonprofit research institute just two blocks off the uc berkeley campus and we are ver
and supreme court reporter joan biskupic looks at the past of sotomac. and the people that made possible in the innovators. in examining the use of medicine at the end of life care. plus, looking at don't wait for the next war. wesley clark weighs in on international affairs. and pulitzer prize-winning historian james mcpherson recounts the life of the president of the confederacy, jefferson davis. and cornell west analyzes african-american leaders and black prophetic fire. and edward wilson...