andrea mitchell, john meacham, thank you for joining us on this coverage.e committee is scheduled to meet at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow and they will be voting on the brett kavanagh nomination according to the chairman. you can watch that live on msnbc and we will be back here tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. with the last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >> the breaking news we're covering tonight after this in credible day after this extraordinary testimony in washington, dr. christine blasey ford fearful of coming forward,n but 100% certain she says it was brett kavanagh who assaulted her, saying she feared rape and feared for her life. then we heard from judge kavanagh speaking through anger and at times in tears, calling the process a national disgrace, a political hit, and declaring himself innocent of this charge. and now tonight the biggest question of them all. were any votes changed after what we witnessed today? "the 11th hour" just getting underway on a thursday night.h

i have john meacham's book, amy tam, a personal font. some of the other authors that i want to make sure i touch on. i have a basket of books that i am reading. >> host: book 2 would be -- booktv will be live at the convention ctr. september 1st all day long, right at the entrance. pick up a booktv bag and say hi and have your picture taken in a booktv frame. carla hayden has her picture taken in that frame as well. thank you for your time. >> guest: thank you for the bags, they are perfect. >> welcome to the washington convention center, the 18th annual national book festival, live coverage on booktv. we have a full day for you that includes author programs with supreme court justice sonja sotomayor and hamilton biographer john chernow and a chance to talk to pulitzer prize-winning historian doris kearns goodwin, fox news host brian killmeed, tara westover and many others. british spy novelist, this is live coverage of the 18th annual national book festival in washington. .. >> good morning everybody. we try to start right on time. i'm

>> you just had john meacham, - - i am not. i never read one of those books and thought i could do it better. i just loved it. so i tried to do something and that is focused on an area that matters. that i believe is not getting enough attention. that highlights people besides the fame of former president and founding fathers. if you pick up this book, you will learn more about andrew jackson. you learn about stephen decatur, william eaton. the secret six and george washington's spy rang. you learn about a farmer, bartender, a grocery store journalist who was a prisoner who was working for us. i believe this country, as much as we love our founding fathers. they are built from the people in this room. average, everyday americans doing extraordinary things who are patriotic at their core. doesn't matter democrat or republican, patriotic. >> the title is the battle that shaped america's history. and the battle of new orleans overshadowed the dark humiliation of the burning of the public buildings in washington. the nation's recol

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please join me to welcome john meacham. [applause] >> thank you. and i was reminded writing about the various dead men i have written about it when i was finishing jefferson bisexual that the time say how is the book about george jefferson going? [laughter] i said sherman helmsley is an important figure blood pressure we need a full biography. and i had the honor speaking at mrs. bush's funeral a few months ago because this is the scene of this is what she had in mind with humility. and she said it's you and that is hard to argue with. and then to use existentialism as a macro. way to go. [laughter] and then i said yes ma'am this is the way the world are supposed to work. they are supposed to admire you. and then to bring back john grisham's latest. [laughter] so i signed it. and that there is a forged copy of the runaway jury but so that was a saturday like today so i left the book festival.on the plane and whitey my biography at the time and flew to maine. and for some reason that was almost unheard of because that view of life was one long reuni

john meacham? was the university is trying to recover from the geist years the chancellor stepped in, said we really feed you. >> they've haved me not to come back to camp. >> look apt this, joe. >> what? >> we have with us from washington. >> oh, it's big. >> former republican governor of mississippi. haley barber joins us from washington, d.c. good to have you on board this morning. >> thank you, mika. >> all right, hayley, it's great talking to you. so we got obviously you and i have grown up in the southeast. we've always heard about the new south the new south. so some interesting things are happening, espey here running in a competitive race. obviously, doug jones won. then the georgia and florida races for governor are races unlike anything that wie have seen. try to put it in perspective for us as that man that knows more about politics than anybody. >> thank you, by the way, i can't see you. i was look a while ago, i do like your wardrobe, you and mika look good if your ole miss outfits. >

. >> john meacham is with us. you just want to introduce him. >> can't get to him. >> hey, meacham, we always ask you historical precedence and actually a few here and obviously yesterday was a historical day. lined up with the woodwood book. the very public unraveling of this administration as told by members of this administration. what are the parallels? what are the historical preceden precedence? >> they're revealing in terms of when they came out. if you look at the pentagon papers and the johnson administration, that came out after the johnson administration. if you look at the remarkable details about richard nixon's last days in the white house where he's talking to the portraits and hoping the portraits don't talk back and he's asking henry kissinger to pray with him on the floor of the lincoln sitting room and having one drink or so and becoming incoherent and telling senators in 25 minutes i could kill 75 million people with a nuclear strike, which led the secretary of defense to say that any military

. >> john meacham, there's a third lane. those of us who watched yesterday, it was highly emotional and charged and you think both about brett kavanaugh's family and how they have been affected and dr. ford. that third lane is to simply say, let's put a pause on this and get the answer to so many questions that are outstanding and while both of them testified yesterday, brett kavanaugh blocked every possible opportunity to find more information. he said he didn't want to do a lie detector test. he didn't ask for a fbi investigation. and he sees no reason for mark judge to be subpoenaed. >> if i were united states senator i would want more information. i think that's fairly self evident and i think if you put truth serum in many of the republican members of the majority they would agree. i think the reason they are not -- two fold reasons. this is all basic common sense. one is they're worried by what they will find which seems to be as jim baker, the legendary secretary of state said if it quacks like a duck and walks like a

it's hard to follow john meacham and judy woodruff, but we have a great team here. one of the great things about this team, e importante has ran institutions. all good research starts with good questions. and, framing museums visitations start with questions. workquestions animate your and what do you think about the hard challenges including voices and who to include and how to , whate them in that mix are the questions that keep you up at night? >> you sound as if you are terribly worried about it. what keeps me up is the excitement of what we do. i will speak with a little prejudice, but this will be the best panel of the entire are allce because we historians and futurists. we are talking about using the path to go forward in the future. what do is to the op-ed was that to think about the term inclusiveness and getting our arms around it is to talk about two kinds of inclusiveness. was beingctly what said, the stories and the the research, and but there is another inclusivity, which is people we are telling it to. who are they and how do we get them to come and

it's hard to follow john meacham and judy woodruff, but we have a great team here. one of the great things about this team, everyone on this panel has been a scholar and everyone also has run important historic institutions. and i want to get at that in the conversation, so i'm going to start -- all good research starts with questions. but also framing. museums, framing presentations also starts with questions. so, i'm curious what questions animates your work and how do you think about the hard challenges of including voices, who to include, how do include them, in that mix, what are the questions that keep you up at night? >> that makes it sound like we're terribly worried about it. what keeps me up at night is really the excitement of what we do. and i think i'm going to speak with a little prejudice, but this is going to be the best panel of the entire conference because though we are all historians, we are all futurists. we are talking about using the past to move forward into the future. when you sort of threw that out there and i was thinking about it, i thou

this is authors include supreme court justice sotomayor, we have goodwin and john meacham and fox news host brian kill made. follow along with all of our social media sites @booktv. tomorrow young adult author, jacqueline woodson joins us for our special edition. including the award winner brown girl dreaming. this is her most recent. she will answer questions. booktv continues on labor day with encore broadcast of the national book festival and jacqueline woodson. a profile of the publisher and a discussion between the librarian of congress and the national archivist on collections in the digital age. that is all this weekend three days of booktv.

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our coverage includes the washington convention center with to prize-winning buyer for john meacham andis book, the storm of america, the battle for our better angels. doris kearns goodwin with leadership in the turbulent times. roger mouth with his book, grant. brian tell meet with his book andrew jackson, and a miracle of new orleans. the battle that shaped america's destiny. watch the 18th annual library of congress national book festival, live on c-span two book tv. saturday at 10 am eastern. >>> up next on american artifacts,

and historian, author of "soul of america" and professor at inventory der built university john meacham >> john, let meg begin with you. i hate to sound like a broken record but as i went from one channel to another. i saw one person not alive in 1968 or not old enough to remember 1968 who another person not alive during the tumult of the '60s and early '70s and also people just to be really blunt that can tell you what happened yesterday on the campaign trail but have no idea about american history. saying that this is the worst it's ever been. america will not survive this. we'll never get past this. i heard it during impeachment, i heard it during the 2000 recount, i heard it after september 11th. i heard it after iraq area. i heard down in september 2008, the meltdown. this is the worst it's ever been. but the good news is next week we're not even going to be talk about this, we'll be talking about rod rosenstein and then everybody else will say, this is the worst it's ever been. it's never been worst than this. we'll never recover from this. this is a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

our coverage includes the washington convention center with to prize-winning buyer for john meacham and his book, the storm of america, the battle for our better angels. doris kearns goodwin with leadership in the turbulent times. roger mouth with his book, grant. brian tell meet with his book andrew jackson, and a miracle of new orleans. the battle that shaped america's destiny. watch the 18th annual library of congress national book festival, live on c-span two book tv. saturday at 10 am eastern. >>> up next on american artifacts, we travel to northeastern france to trace these steps american soldiers during the spring and early summer of 1918. first, a portion of the 1960 u.s. army film describing the military situation at the time. >>> the germans rolled across the aim river stretching from -- in a driving relentless force that struck panic into the french nation. in three days, the german tied had crossed the river and was less than 40 miles from paris. purging moved to second and third u.s. division into the area around jacko sherry to stem the flow. division responded with spec c

please join me to welcome john meacham. [applause] >> thank you.and i was reminded writing about the various dead men i have written about it when i was finishing jefferson bisexual that the time say how is the book about george jefferson going? [laughter] i said sherman helmsley is an important figure blood pressure we need a full biography. and i had the honor speaking at mrs. bush's funeral a few months ago because this is the scene of this is what she had in mind with humility. and she said it's you and that is hard to argue with. and then to use existentialism as a macro. way to go. [laughter] and then i said yes ma'am this is the way the world are supposed to work. they are supposed to admire you. and then to bring back john grisham's latest. [laughter] so i signed it. and that there is a forged copy of the runaway jury but so that was a saturday like today so i left the book festival.on the plane and whitey my biography at the time and flew to maine. and for some reason that was almost unheard of because that view of life was one long reunio

i have john meacham's book. eadoris kearns goodwin, amy can and some of the other authors that i really want to make sure that i at least touched on so i have a basket of books that i'm reading. >>. >> and that full interview with carla hayden is available on our website at booktv.org. educated and one more is the name of the book, the author is tara westover and she joins us live now. before we start talking about your book whichcame out in february and has been on the bestseller list since , does this situation here with this crowd watching you and all these people around, does this make you uncomfortable? >> it doesn't make me uncomfortable but it's still very surreal. it doesn't feel completely real. >> i wrote the book and as a writer, you sit in a room and it's a dark room and you're alone . and there's never a moment where you realize other people have read it. i don't see people reading it and yet they have and it's always a surprise to me. i haven't quite wrap my head around it. >> you have a situation

i made sure that john meacham and - - look at it and read it.if you're not comfortable, let me know. they said to me, it works. it checks out. and they said i'll go on the back of the book so that's why felt good about doing it. i'm still in awe of everyone speaking. i'm just trying to tell a story that will give people an understanding of america . [applause] >> thank you very much.

think just like the era we are going through now in the era of donald trump you have people like john meacham was trying to tell us, you know, don't lose your cool. we've been through this before. we've been through really bad times before. we come out usually in a better place. i just chose tobacco but hopeful tone in my conclusion of your book, which are kind enough to mention. i can't prove that it's going to be true, but i do think the more we study the past of a conflict of the past, the more we can appreciate and put into context or conflicts today. these conflicts were big. big, big, big. the maccabees been the hottest many an era, that was huge. you actually can go to israel today and hear them refer contemptuously to realized jews acid minis. so i think understanding our past makes us better prepared to cope with the president. >> this is exactly what i want to say. this is exactly what i want to say. [inaudible] to actually civil war. for example, if not true because they occupy other places. it was easier to fight. [inaudible] was not a holiday in all of these became a holiday. thi

meacham. his latest book, the soul of america, the battle for our better angels. johnriends and because we're friends we can engage in good-natured ribbing. okay, mr. morning in america, mr. better angels, tell us how we're better off after just what we've covered today and tonight and assure people there's a light at the end of this tunnel. >> we're at least getting closer to the end of the tunnel. there are three tributaries when you think about it. there's the senate, supreme court tributary, where the republican party has to decide whether it values the rule of law and fairness over the most raw kind of grab for power in the form of a supreme court seat. and we're amazingly watching this unfold on twitter tonight where the chairman of the senate judiciary committee is talking to a supreme court nominee on social media, which is not exactly what james madison had in mind, but there we are. so we have that tributary. we have the tributary of the deputy attorney general according to "the new york times" talking about the 25th amendment, which is not as you know the fi

this is authors include supreme court justice sotomayor, we have goodwin and john meacham and fox news host brian kill made. follow along with all of our social media sites @booktv. tomorrow young adult author, jacqueline woodson joins us for our special edition. including the award winner brown girl dreaming. this is her most recent. she will answer questions. booktv continues on labor day with encore broadcast of the national book festival and jacqueline woodson. a profile of the publisher and a discussion between the librarian of congress and the national archivist on collections in the digital age. that is all this weekend three days of booktv. no for a complete schedule, go to booktv.org. we kick off with keith o'brien and his account of a group of female pilots that made aviation history. [inaudible conversations] >> hey, good evening everybody! my name is lydia mcoscar, events director here at brookline brooke smith. i would like to thank all of you lovely folks for coming out this evening. it means so much to us that you are willing to spend your money at community brick-and-mo

. >> all right, well put john meacham, i take back everything i said about you. very much summing up another week as we prove playing out right at the midnight hour here in the middle east. >> a political ad as this president is fond of saying the lights of which we have never seen before when "the 11th hour" continues. dr. scholl's. born to move. you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed?m let's get someone to say it with a really low voice. carl? lowest price guaranteed. what about the world's lowest limbo stick? how low can you go? nice one, carl. hey i've got an idea. just say, badda book. badda boom. badda book. badda boom. nice. always the lowest price, guaranteed. book now at choicehotels.com >>> things got a little heated in dallas, texas tonight. ted cruz, and beto o'rourke met in their first debate, the race to represent 28 millions in the u.s. senate. it is closed and because it is a red state. ted cruz was forced to insist it has not caused him his dignity to support donald trump after all the insults of the campaign including to cruz's

through, and with us tonight to talk about it, the pulitzer prize winning author and historian, john meachamalled "the soul of america, the battle for our better angels." were some of those better angels cleared for takeoff today do you think? >> they made a rare appearance and we're all the better off for it. this week was a stress test for the american order, unquestionab unquestionably. it was a battle between tribalism and the best intentioned search for truth, and it looked as though until about mid-afternoon today that tribalism was going to win as it's won so often in recent decades, as it's won from age to age actually, and there was this moment where, in fact, we decided or one person decided, jeff flake, clearly encouraged by democratic friends, encouraged to actually allow reason a chance to take its stand against passion in the arena, and that's the great american insight. that's the great animating idea in many ways of the american revolution itself was that we were not going to be run by divine rights of kings or automatic ecclesiastical rights, people weren't going to be able

andrea mitchell, john meacham, thank you for joining us on this coverage. the senate committee is scheduled to meet at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow and they will be voting on the brett kavanagh nomination according to the chairman. you can watch that live on msnbc and we will be back here tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. with the last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. /s >> the breaking news we're covering tonight after this in credible day after this extraordinary testimony in washington, dr. christine blasey ford fearful of coming forward, but 100% certain she says it was brett kavanagh who assaulted her, saying she feared rape and feared for her life. then we heard from judge kavanagh speaking through anger and at times in tears, calling the process a national disgrace, a political hit, and declaring himself innocent of this charge. and now tonight the biggest question of them all. were any votes changed after what we witnessed today? "the 11th hour" just getting underway on a thursday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news head

panel, woodruff, the managing editor of the cbs news hour will interview presidential historians john meacham. the presidents relationship between the president and the press is a crucial one for all of us. when you look at all of the events that a president has where he speaks and looking from a presidents reagan through trump, a third of at least a third of the occasions where he speaks are ones where a president is answering questions from reporters. so it is an important relationship for us simply because of what information we get from them. from the sessions that they have. the relationship is naturally a somewhat broad one. a woman who was writing about washington correspondence during the roosevelt administration talked about the nature of the relationship and the way in which it is a contest over information. the newspaper man motivated by the ancient values of journalism is interested in precisely that type of news which the official, the presidents, is least eager to reveal. in the final analysis, press conference -- conferences have reduced itself to a contest between reporters an

let me go to john meacham.the previous 2 1/2 hours or so as a kind of last testament to the country, that this is who we can be if we heed our better angels, he said in the rotunda last night on the stand on which abraham link lincoln. the hymns were sung at gerald ford's john kennedy's funerals among others. it's a reminder that the past is slipping away, but the hope really, that the past is in fact prol prologe. >> is it maybe the tragedy is that he was a man of world war ii, that we've lost the sensibility -- >> world war ii sensible, the john mccain sensible, the ideas of duty, honor and country are in vanishingly short supply right now. there is a tragic element to that, but john mccain was a romantic as well. he emerged from a generation embodying the virtues, and i think hoped against hope that we would recover them and restore them. >> let's take a listen. let's just watch this departure of the casket being carried away, and the ceremony attached to this. >>> hallie jackson is right near the hearse. te

john meacham, who are you wearing to the oscars. men's warehouse?jay press has a special line. >> that's awesome. >> are they still in business. >> yeah. >> john meacham, star of the front-runner with hugh jackman's name under his. >> let me say to everyone if willie geist is your friends and promises not to break something up, don't believe him. >> my pleasure, john. coming up, the chair of senate judiciary committee gives brett kavanaugh's accuser until tomorrow morning to decide if she will testify on monday. >>> the ranking member of the house intel committee, congressman adam schiff. "morning joe" is coming right back. it was here. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart

rules for life for the journal and an attempt spot on the times list is the soul of america by john meacham that looks at critical moments in american history and how they relate to today. many of these authors have or will be appearing on book tv. watch their programs online on our website, booktv.org. >> i have a theory about why the left is so hostile. and it goes back to election day. think about all of your friends who are liberals, who about 8:00 on election evening were about to pop the champagne . hillary was going to breakthe glass ceiling, they were going to get a left-wing supreme court justice. they were going to have policies on the left, weakness overseas, they were going to raise taxes. life was good .and two hours later, and some of you may have lived through this, seeing it in whatever room you are in, two hours later they are staring at each other, beginning to realize that not only is she not going to be president but that means that donald j trump is going to be president. i believe what happened was a traumatic event comparable to a psychosis. that the intensity and spe

john meacham. i never read one of their books and thought i could do it better. i just loved it. so i tried to produce something and that is focus on what matters that i believe is not getting enough attention. besides the fame of former president and founding fathers. you will learn more about andrew jackson. you will learn about bainbridge. you will learn about william eaton. and george washington's spy ring. you learn about a bomber, bartender, grocery store worker. a british analyst was a printer who was working for us. i believe this country, as much as welove our founding fathers , they were so-called average everyday americans doing extraordinary things who were patriotic at their core. doesn't matter democrat or republican, patriotic. >> from your book, the victory in new orleans overshadowed the dark humiliation - - [indiscernible] >> before the civil war, it was the second biggest holiday outside the fourth of july. the battle of new orleans. how do we beat the british would just defeated the french and took down napoleon. a relatively invincible. this group was going t

meacham is joining us as well. he's a presidential historian and an msnbc contributor who was on with me when this news first broke. and i'm going to just paraphrase, john, for you, jeff, because john was sort of talking at the time about the influence of this decision having been taken. jeff flake having stood up to do something and changing the direction that the country thought this confirmation hearing was going in as possibly for posterity preserving the reputation and institution of the supreme court. what are your thoughts on the developments today? >> i think john was absolutely right in saying that this is what the framers intended. michael beschloss made the same point. madison wanted to slow the system down so that some kind of comity could prevail. i am extremely concerned about the future legitimacy of the judiciary as chief justice john roberts must be. he is the person who will determine whether the court is perceived as partisan by half the country or whether there's some hope of bipartisan legitimacy. the fact the system is slowing down, at least it will appear to be fair raises some hope that we've stepped back from the abyss we were o