it's amazing. >> host: joe klein talked about his interviews or talks withthd the clintons.you've worked with several presidents and covered president trump seems to get acces give ao the press every day to. and that's something you want, correct? >> yes. there is value for sure, having access to the principle, he's the principal, he's the top. being able to ask questions of him, policy or practice or the news of the day on a regular basis isom certainly something that we value. i mean perhaps this is a different discussion. i don't think that it's a reason to do away with the daily .riefing which this white house has done but yes, we value that absolutely. >> host: it seems to be more access than previous presidents. is that a fair assessment of? isn't eligible access of a certain sort, you know the daily helicopter moment that is a certain kind of access but i remember in the white house is that i covered for both bush, clinton and obama, there were other sorts of access that were far more important. he would have a group of us who specialized in foreign policy at that poi

anonymous clinton campaign book primary colors and he believes snodgrass is anonymous, also gets joe klein, author of primary colors so this time the game appears to go on. late today snodgrass finally issued a firm denial tweeting not me. looks like he is one for 2 on anonymous authors and while the unknown author stirs up the chatter the book itself is not exactly burning up the bestsellers. >> trace gallagher, thank you. new tonight a victory at least temporarily for donald trump in the battle over access to his tax and financial records. the supreme court has temporarily blocked the enforcement of the congressional subpoena. the democratic madhouse committee is seeking eight years of records from the president and his businesses. justices have directed the president to file a formal appeal on merits by noon december 5th. if they like not to take the case that will expire in the records must be turned over but if the high court decides to hear the case this day will remain in effect until the justices issue a decision on the merits which would likely be the mid-2020s. ruth bader ginsbur

primary colors and it was about the bill clinton election of 1992 and the author turned out to be joe klein, a longtime columnist. any feelings about this new anonymous book and visit was made with what happened to you in 1996? >> caller: i've not read this book and second of all let me say that comparing what i did to this author has done is like comparing apples and freight trains. i wrote in entertainment, satire. i was inspired by a certain sense of victorian. it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. this is allegedly a nonfiction account about an actual person. as the other panelists have pointed out and i point out in a "washington post" op-ed a few weeks ago there or people - are- i'm the proud father of a u.s. for an officer and there are people who were my son's colleagues who over the last few years have risked their careers by stepping forward and telling the truth. do you think a lot of actual details of truth were withheld in this book in order to protect the author's anonymity? what we know more in greater detail about what's going wrong in the white house if this person had jus

in addition you will hear from joe klein with a long time anonymous longtime anonymous author of the clinton era novel. check your program guide or book tv for schedule information. we have the creation of the national museum of african-american history and culture. and then we visit charleston west virginia to explore that area of literary culture. and scientist weighs in on the state of artificial intelligence. check your program guide for more information. .. .. welcome to "a fool's errand: creating the national museum of african american history and culture during the age of bush, obama, and trump" book tour, a conversation with secretary lonnie bunch and scott pelley. welcome interim director of the national museum of african-american history and culture, doctor spencer crew.

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in addition you will hear from joe klein who is a longtime anonymous author of the clinton era novel primary colors. check your program guide for schedule information. >> recently on the author interview program. in this portion of the program mister rowe authors his thoughts on nationalism. there's patriotism and then nationalism. there aren't too many danish nationals because they say not only do i love my country but it is superior i happen to believe our country is superior. superior in the scent that it embodies the philosophy that is right and is not suitable for all people at all times but everyone ought to aspire to it. >> i don't want to take that at the vantage point. i want to make it available to people. we have a lot of experience with the civil society of a democratic society i'm a mild nationalist. to watch the rest of the interview visit our website and click on the afterwards tab. but tv has live weekend coverage of that miami book fair starting on saturday and sunday featuring author discussions and interactive call and said segments. republican senator tom cotton t

joe klein who is a longtime anonymous author of the clinton novel primary colors.eck your program guide for schedule information. >> there should be consequences that are known by everyone and they are not always applied fairly and even the. i think the disregard and the distrust of the legal factor is to take into account just like your mother is very well regarded they are expressing a belief to actually live up to those rules if we don't have people trusting the legal system it cannot operate they don't get the help from the community for who was to blame. so this call for forgiveness on my part is a way to say that is one way we trust with one another. ♪ >> i'm the provost at the university of tennessee at martnd

joe klein and jerry side gentlemen thank you.articipatin. >> there is absolutely no subculture other than who the enemy is in the nature of the enemy those are a complete anarchist and to do a citizen of the world that i don't own allegiance and those that will get the country back. other than who you are against because the press would be painted the same but when you sit down sometimes they are actually favor so it is hilarious. of how many different factions there are. or the hillary types are the bernie sanders types that genuinely loathe each other. genuinely loathe each other. . . . . we are

this author that had correctly identified that joe klein had written the and he looked into analysisnd set the writing from the newly released anonymous book had amazing similarity. host: the arguments for why alliances strengthen national security. in particular both books stressed that when briefed about international alliances the president derails discussions by griping about how allies are stiffing the u.s. and a sensibly one-sided trade policies. guest: he identified that i use the term lodestar and a lot of my writing. host: do you know who wrote the anonymous book? >> i don't. they had about three or four people they thought it might be. everyone has their guests of who it's going to be. for me i thought it was very important to write about the material to make it available for the american public and to put my name to it so the readers could assess themselves. we have a bias, do i have an agenda. am i an expert in this field. i think that's important for accountability. host: you are no associated with the book a warning. guest: no. host: talk about secretary mattis's style.

and this person like joe klein who wrote "primary colors" under the name anonymous was unmasked. this is a much less serious thing. the whistle-blower's life is in danger. i mean, that is a serious concern. the anonymous thing just shows how the justice department, instead of doing the work of protecting the country is doing the work of protecting donald trump's political interests. >> lev parnas, one of the shady figures under indictment for trying to influence the u.s. elections with these donations and curiously connected to rudy giuliani, now apparently is willing to talk to impeachment investigators, which is a new development. jeffrey talked to us about the legal implications here suggesting they need to coordinate between the southern district. what kind of danger, if this guy wants to talk, does he pose for giuliani and perhaps the white house and they went to great ends to say he doesn't really know the guy even though he's in pictures with him. >> our understanding is that did bother him and we know that the white house had to sign off on john dowd, parnas' former lawye

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. >> host: joe klein clucks >> guest: i'm just happy that my son is in east asia expert.if i can strike a kind of optimistic, mildly optimistic note i think the performance of these career professionals that we have been watching for the last couple of week's should give all americans, both conservatives and liberals except for the extremes, should give people a lot of faith in the strength of our country and the strength of our state department and also my own experience with the military and intelligence community leads me to have a similar faith in those institutions. we are not going t to lay down e tubes yet, and these people demonstrate that. >> host: with any of the three of you venture to guess who wrote this clucks >> guest: i wouldn't. when the op-ed came out there was a lot of speculation and back and forth about it. this time it is dominated by the impeachment hearings that the book is not generating as much guessing is the initial op-ed. >> host: your 500 miles away. who wrote the book? >> guest: while i know i didn't. there's two things we haven't touched on

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this author that had correctly identified that joe klein had written the and he looked into analysiset the writing from the newly released anonymous book had amazing similarity. host: the arguments for why alliances strengthen national security. in particular both books stressed that when briefed about international alliances the president derails discussions by griping about how allies are stiffing the u.s. and a sensibly one-sided trade policies. guest: he identified that i use the term lodestar and a lot of my writing. host: do you know who wrote the anonymous book? >> i don't. they had about three or four people they thought it might be. everyone has their guests of who it's going to be. for me i thought it was very important to write about the material to make it available for the american public and to put my name to it so the readers could assess themselves. we have a bias, do i have an agenda. am i an expert in this field. i think that's important for accountability. host: you are no associated with the book a warning. guest: no. host: talk about secretary mattis's style. gue

joe on our democrats lie. you are with philip klein. -- on our democrats line.ou are with philip klein. caller: good morning. there is snow on the ground here. i have to ask you a question. i have three millennial children. they are woke. we walked their age, around on a cloud. yourt you to talk around republican god, reagan, who destroyed this nation. republicans did nothing with intra-structure -- with infrastructure but spend all the money on our military. talk about the military budget today. want to talk about the numbers with your false promise? please talk about the military. policeout our woeful budgets. 50% of all our money goes to the police. thank you. guest: well, thank you for the call. i do, in my book, talk about the defense budget. but the thing is, the defense agent as a share of our economy -- the defense budget, as a share of our economy, is substantially less than it was during the 1980's. during the cold war, it was about twice as large as it is now, and it has been shrinking to a historically low post-world war ii rate. however, spending on

chuck schumer led democratic senate with people like joe manchin from west virginia are going to support this plan. warren and sanders -- ezra kleine, they're saying forget this idea of compromise. forget this idea of trying to work with the insurance companies and do things in a sort of collaborative way. they want to bulldoze over the corporations and everyone else and get this through. >> bret: jonah, beto o'rourke steps down. it's hard to believe that andrew yang, john delany are still in the race but beto o'rourke with all his vaunted p.r. at the beginning of the campaign is out. >> it would take a heart of stone not to laugh. the basic problem with beto is that he more than anybody else believed his press coverage whechs running -- when he was running against ted cruz. when the national press wanted cruz to lose. he believed he was this robert f. kennedy messianic figure and every time it was proven that he wasn't he tripled and quadrupled on his rapid onset woke dementia and went even crazier to the left and got no traction because he wasn't a particularly serious candidate. >> bret: president trump obviously weighed in on

joe on our democrats lie. you are with philip klein. -- on our democrats line.ou are with philip klein. caller: good morning. there is snow on the ground here. i have to ask you a question. i have three millennial children. they are woke. we walked their age, around on a cloud. yourt you to talk around republican god, reagan, who destroyed this nation. republicans did nothing with intra-structure -- with infrastructure but spend all the money on our military. talk about the military budget today. want to talk about the numbers with your false promise? please talk about the military. policeout our woeful budgets. 50% of all our money goes to the police. thank you. guest: well, thank you for the call. i do, in my book, talk about the defense budget. but the thing is, the defense agent as a share of our economy -- the defense budget, as a share of our economy, is substantially less than it was during the 1980's. during the cold war, it was about twice as large as it is now, and it has been shrinking to a historically low post-world war ii rate. however, spending on