coming up in about 15 to 20 minutes another call an opportunity with was a prize-winning historian john meacham. his most recent book is "his truth is marching on" about the late john lewis we will show you that program from the national book festival and after that your calls for john meacham. >> i and john meacham and what is essential to american life the republic of letters broadly is the use of reason and in many ways the american revolution however incomplete or unfinished is about putting reason at the center of our national experience if you think of the unfolding in the 400 years and it was a story of reorienting the world to be seen as radical the sweeter by accident of birth and those who are becoming more horizontal. with that protestant reformation and sacred scripture into the vernacular not complete at the beginning of the shift when jefferson sat down in 1776 to write the declaration of independence he was seeking to create the biggest manifestation of the cultural shift it is unfinished but in the history of fallen people and a step forward not as far forward as we would like t

coming up in about 15 to 20 minutes another call an opportunity with was a prize-winning historian john meachammost recent book is "his truth is marching on" about the late john lewis we will show you that program from the national book festival and after that your calls for john meacham. >> i and john meacham and what is essential to american life the republic of letters broadly is the use of reason and in many ways the american revolution however incomplete or unfinished is about putting reason at the center of our national experience if you think of the unfolding in the

best-selling nonfiction books according to the washington post is "his truth is marching on" historian john meacham's biography of the late congressman and civil rights leader john lewis. some of these authors have appeared on booktv and you can watch them online at booktv.org. >> good morning, thank you for joining us here at post live, i am karen told the i'm a columnist here at the post i read about poetics and it is my great pleasure this morning to be interviewing a couple of my colleagues and friends, kevin sullivan and mary jordan about their brand-new book "trump on trial: the investigation, impeachment, acquittal and aftermath". that we have all lived through in this past year. kevin, that's one of the things that as i was reading this book, which it's gripping, i had to keep reminding myself that it has happened just in the last year i think for a lot of us 2020 feels like it's been a decade-long and so this fall, two months from now we are going to be facing an election which will be the first time ever that an impeached president appears on the ballot. could you talk a little bit about th

john meacham for some reflections on the day. to ali's point there, the atlantic is the anniversary of 9/11, a rolling day after day assault on our country that sa far has killed more than 60 times as many americans as the attacks of 9/11. so the atlantic writes, why does the grief of 2020 feel so different? why does our country so united after 9/11 feel so splintered now? can you reflect on that for us this morning? >> yeah, you know, remembrance lies at the heart of great religious traditions. moses said remember the days of old, remember the years of many generations. the christian tradition is based on do this in remembrance of me. remembrance gives us a moment to take stock of where we were, where we are, and ultimately, of course, where we go. and what began on september 11th, 2001, on that brilliantly beautiful day that became so bloody, what president bush would call a day of fire, was a new and even more challenging century in many ways than the 20th century had been. great wars, the possibility of nuclear armageddon, tr

. >> taking your phone calls, at 8:00 pm historian john meacham with his book the truth is marching on. >> a man born in 1940 repeatedly in the american south, 50-60 years ago acted in the tradition of essentially an early christian saints. >> followed by live call in segment where we take your questions, at 7:00 pm eastern. cosmos. >> the first cosmos was an effort to give the broadest possible public and global public, it's coordinates in space and inside. >> he will take your live calls and tweets at 7:30 and 8:00 pm rick perlstein discusses his book reagan land. >> i write about, and what we talked about. >> we take live calls 8:40 p.m.. on sunday, the break from the national book festival live at 9:40 p.m. trump supporters diamond and silk will take your phone calls and talk about their book uprising on c-span2. >> the first presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden is tuesday night at cleveland. watch live on c-span. >> biden is recklessly campaigning against this vaccine. all it is is for political reasons, his whole deal is catastrophic shutdown. >> in his own word

at 8:00 john meacham with his book. >> here is a man born in 1940 who repeatedly in the american ago,, 50 and 60 years acted in the tradition of essentially an early christian saint. >> followed by a live call in segment. sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, the book "cosmos." effortsure cosmos was an to get the largest possible global public. coordinates in space and time. >> she will take live calls and tweet starting at 7:30. >> i write about the corporate world savagely organizing against what i talked about. >> we will take your live calls pm.:40 watch this weekend on c-span 2. tojoe biden traveled charlotte north carolina to speak with voters at a black economic summit. on his way the former vice president also stopped to answer questions from reporters. loud here.ful >> have you started preparing? mr. biden: i have started to prepare, but i haven't gotten into it really heavily. i will tomorrow. xi saidrday president it was a zero-sum game in relation to china if you are elected. do you think your relations with china will be a zero-sum game? sen. graham: no. mr. biden: no. i will be f

with me now john meacham presidential historian and msnbc contributor. peak with you about this. i want to know, john, what first comes to your mind when you think of justice ginsburg and her mark on the supreme court? >> she is an iconic american figure devoted to the american experiment of making the promises of the declaration of independence available to all. that we had -- we stated words at the beginning of our national journey that we did not fully live up to and the story of the country at its best ever since has been the inclusion and the recognition of the full implications of a genuine promise of equality. and she was the embodiment of that experiment. she was the embodiment of a kind of collegiality that is vanishingly rare throughout american history but particularly rare now. almost extinct now. and so i think you have these two tributaries, her belief in equality, her insistence on using the law as a force for good. it was not her view that the constitution was somehow written in amber, that it was etched in stone and was only to be interpr

and historian john meacham, truth is marching on. >> repeatedly in the american south, 50, 60 years ago acted in the tradition of an early christian saint. >> followed by a live call in segments where we take your questions at 7:00 pm eastern, cosmos. >> the first cosmos, the second possible public. it is coordinates in space and time. >> she will take live calls and tweets at 7:30, rick perlstein discusses reaganland. >> we will take live calls starting at age:40 p.m.. watch booktv coverage of the national book festival this weekend on sunday during a break from the national book festival live at 9:40 p.m. trump supporters diamond and silk take the viewer phone calls and talk about their book uprising on c-span2. >> we are live online, veteran war correspondent and author scott anderson will discuss his new book "the quiet americans: 4 cia spies at the dawn of the cold war--a tragedy in 3 acts".

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at 8:00 pm, historian john meacham, his truth is marching on. >> a man born in 1940 who repeatedly in the american south, 50, 60 years ago acted in the tradition of essentially an early christian saint. >> followed by a live call in segment where we take your questions, sunday at 7:00 pm eastern and cosmos. >> the first cosmos was an effort to give the broadest possible public, a global public its coordinates in space and in time. >> he will take live called and tweets setting at 7:30 and at 8:00 pm rick perlstein discusses his book reaganland. >> i write about the corporate world savagely organizing against what i talked about. >> and take live call today:40 p.m.. watch coverage of the national book festival this weekend on c-span2. >> donald trump and former vice president joe biden set to debate tuesday september 20 ninth. >> biden supports cutting police funding and pledged to end care, last week sleepy joe endorsements -- the criminal anti-police portland district attorney who has a policy of releasing writers, violent extremists without charge. >> he lied to the american people.

best-selling nonfiction books according to the washington post is "his truth is marching on" historian john meacham'sography of the late congressman and civil rights leader john lewis stop some of these authors have appeared on booktv and you can watch them online at booktv.org. >> on our author interview program "after words", former deputy assistant attorney general in the george w. bush administration john hume weighed in on the presidential powers on u.s. constitution. here are some of the discussion. >> i started out wary of president trump, i wasn't a supporter of his in the 2016 election ad the thing that worried me was that he was a populist and the constitution seems designed to stop populists. it's fairly antidemocratic in nature is in a lot of ways like a senate and judiciary and electoral college. the presence of the state is important part of the constitution so i was worried when trump came in as a populist who wants to achieve and agenda that he feels he received a mandate for that he would strain against or even go beyond the constitutional restraints of power and i was worried at the

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selling nonfiction books according to the washington post as "his truth is marching on" historian john meacham's biography of the late congressman and sold rights leader john lewis. some of these authors have appeared on booktv and you can watch them online at booktv.org. ...... >> you will talk about carter can we start with you giving a little brief background of your education, where you went to school, and just very briefly your job experience and career. >> yes, thank you for doing this today and great to be with you. grew up in duchess county new york and received a nomination to the u.s. naval academy, which i started a week after graduating high school in 1989, and i -- so i completed annapolis and was then commissioned in the u.s. navy and served five years in the u.s. navy, first as an arms control action officer doing international arms control negotiations in the pentagon and then i moved into -- i served on a couple of surface warfare ships, couple of navy ships in atlantic the middle east. >> don't you have a couple of degrees? >> yeah, yeah. i have been sort of a life long student

and at 7:45 she joins us for a live discussion taking your phone calls and historian john meacham with his book "the truth is marching on." >> so here's a man born in 1940 who repeatedly in the american south 50 and 60 years ago acted in the tradition of essentially an early christian saint. >> followed by a live call-in segment at 8:30 p.m. where he'll take your questions. on sunday at 7:30 p.m. eastern anne with her book "cosmos." >> the first cosmose was an effort to give the broadest possible public coordinates in space and in time. >> she'll take your live calls and tweets starting at 7:30. and at 8:00 p.m. rick carlstein discusses his book "reagan world." and we'll take your live calls starting at 8:40 p.m. watch book tv's coverage of the 20th annual national book festival this weekend on c-span 2. >>> next south carolina senator lindsey graham talks about the confirmation process for president trump's supreme court nominee. this conversation is from the annual values voters summit. >> in the drama over the supreme court my next guest will have a starring role. to

then at 8:00 p.m., historian john meacham with his book, his truth is marching on. >> so here's born in 1940. who repeatedly in the american south, 50 and 60 years ago, acted in the tradition of essentially an early christian saint. summa followed by a live collins segment at 8:30 p.m. we will take your questions. on sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, and with her book cosmos. >> cosmos. i think it was an effort to get the broadest possible public, a global public. it's coordinates in space and in time. >> should take your life because it leads starting at 730. an entity p.m., he discusses his book reagan planned. >> arrived about the corporate world. organizing against the part that we talk about. >> and reticular calls starting at 8:40 p.m. and watch book tv's coverage of the 20th annual national put into it book festival this weekend on sunday. during a break from the national book festival, by the 91:40 p.m. eastern, trump supporters, will take your phone calls and talk with the book, apprising. on "c-span2". tv continues now on "c-span2". television for serious readers. >> thank you s

tomorrow night, isabel wilkerson will be talking about her new book with john meacham.t should be a fantastic conversation. a number of talks are scheduled for september. it is evolving all the time. you can go to atlantahistory center.com. again, thank you so much for joining us for the atlanta history center's virtual author talks. good night. >> this is american history tv, featuring events, interviews, archival films and visits to college classrooms, museums and historic

best-selling nonfiction books according to the washington post is truth is marching on, historian john meacham'sbiography of a congressman and civil rights leader john lewis. some authors have appeared on tv and you can watch them online at booktv.org. next, heritage foundation director mike gonzalez argues on identity politics is dividing america and an activist and real justice pack cofounder sean king reflects on his work in social justice movements and later breitbart news senior editor joel pollock offers his thoughts on the 20/20 presidential election. find more schedule information on your program guide or online at booktv.org. now here's mike gonzalez on the impact ofidentity politics . >> thank you to everyone for joining us, i am greg scott rector of media at the heritage foundation and i'm honored to work welcome you to the plot to change america , "the plot to change america: how identity politics is dividing the land of the free" that is why the new book "the plot to change america: how identity politics is dividing the land of the free" is so important and

also john meacham, pulitzer prizewinning historian and msnbc contributor. he's the author of "his truth is marching on john lewis and his power of hope." john, let me start with you because you and i have talked about as a historian you're writing and watching history as its unfolding and now we're asking you to look at history 40 days from now and beyond because we're starting to see the outlines, the rough sketch of something that most americans cannot believe that they might have to contend with. >> yeah, samuel taylor colrich had one of the great definitions of history. he talked about how it was like a lantern on the stern and we could see what course we had come, but that lantern can cast light forward as well. we've talked about this a lot. the lantern on the stern of colridge's boat tonight tells us that we have 3 1/2 years of to put it kindly wildly unconventional and often unconstitutional action on the part of a president and a base of support that are both more interested in the acquisition of power than they are in the ordinary conventions of go

week ending august 29, adult nonfiction sales continue their recent gains up four percent led by john meacham'ste congressman john lewis titled "his truth is marching on" the estate of t.s. eliot has donated 20,000 pounds to help keep the brontc personage museum childhood home of 19th century novelist emily charlotte and brontc open, the museum has forecast a loss of 500,000 pounds due to the coronavirus pandemic. booktv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news, you can also watch all of our archived programs anytime at booktv.org. >> during a virtual event hosted by the commonwealth club of california former defense secretary robert gates took a critical look at the use of u.s. power around the world since the end of world war ii, here's a portion. >> how the united states gone from a position of supreme power, probably unrivaled since the roman empire in every dimension of power in 1993 to a country today beset by challenges everywhere. i thought about how did that happen? how did we get here? i began looking at all of the major foreign policy challenges he'd had since 1993

. >> john meacham, historian, and author and distinguished professor at vanderbilt university. john, i'm not even going to ask you to compare this to any other time in political history, because there isn't a comparison. after watching last night, what does it tell you about where the country is right now and what is this election going to say about the american people? >> depends on both the outcome of the election and then the outcome of the transfer of power, which the president misstated as a transition last night. at this point, i don't think joe biden is on the ballot. i think we are as a nation. st. augusta once defined a nation as multitude of beings who are unit by the common objects of their love. we have a very clear choice in five weeks to decide what we love in common. do we love decency, do we love democracy, do we love the rule of law? and if we don't, then we have to confront that and head off that cliff totally. but i think that -- i had a visceral reaction to the way the president behaved last night. ind, having written a lot of headlines in my life, that you c

is going be a long ride through november and december anything. >> jon meacham, most recent book is "his truth is marching on: johne power of hope". mr. meacham has appeared on booktv several times, if you go to our website booktv.org and type his name in the search function you'll be able to watch all his past times there and the subject of his most recent book has also been on booktv several times. john lewis in fact spent three hours with us on our in-depth program. mr. meacham, thank you for joining us this saturday evening. >> jon meacham: my pleasure, wonderful questions, always glad to do it. >> host: for the last 20 years booktv has partnered with the library of congress and the national book festival to bring you coverage of the national book festival. this year is no different except that it is virtual but we have several more hours coming up this evening and starting now is author melinda gates. her book is called "the moment of lift". here it is. [instrumental music]

at 8:00 pm historian john meacham with his book his truth is marching on. >> man born in 1940 who repeatedly in the american south 50 and 60 years ago acted in the tradition of an early christian saint. >> followed by a live call in the segment that takes your questions. sunday at 7:00 pm eastern, cosmos. >> the first cosmos was an effort to give the broadest possible public, a global public goods coordinates in space and in time. >> reporter: he will take live calls and tweets darting at 7:30 and at 8:00 pm rick pearlstein discusses his book reagan land. >> i write about the corporate world savagely, against what i talked about. >> reporter: we take live call starting at 8:40 p.m.. watch booktv coverage of the twentieth annual national book festival this weekend on c-span2. >> next, lincoln project cofounder steve schmidt and rick wilson discussed the group's mission in the upcoming 2020 election. from the national press club this is an hour. >> welcome to the national press club, the place where news happens. i am lisa matthews, vice president of the national press club and thank you for j

best-selling nonfiction books according to the washington post is "his truth is marching on" historian john meacham'sf the late congressman and civil rights leader john lewis. some of these authors have appeared on booktv and you can watch them online at booktv.org. >> good morning, thank you for joining us here at post live, i am karen told the i'm a columnist here at the post i read about poetics and it is my great pleasure this morning to be interviewing a couple of my colleagues and friends, kevin sullivan and mary jordan about their brand-new book "trump on trial: the investigation, impeachment, acquittal and aftermath". that we have all lived through in this past year. kevin, that's one of the things that as i was reading this book, which it's gripping, i had to keep reminding myself that it has

outrages one, the people, to love, a friend told jackson, who would run again in win.and historian john meacham wrote in about f this year president lincoln in 1864, the ountry mired in a civil war, running against george mcclellan on the democratic side. and lincoln had wrote privately. ready to accept defeat. the election did not look like it was going to go his way, and war, there would be a peaceful transfer of power. this resolution states clearly on our american, not watch. not on our watch are we going to banish ican greatness rise. authoritative state the reason we are the beacon to the world is that here, with our elections, the people decide. not our leaders. let the people decide. we shouldn't only be horrified president's remarks about possibly not having a peaceful power, we should also be concerned by who he to.s up unfortunately, america is ruled by someone who admires dictators. much recently to bob woodward in a recording stating, meaner they are, the better i get along with them. eferring to dictators like utin, aired juan, and -- erdowan, and kim. and what do dictators do? th

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then historian john meacham with his book "his truth is marching on."nn: here is a man born 1940, who repeatedly in the american south, 50 and 60 years ago, acted in the tradition of essentially an early christian saint. announcer: followed by a live coal in -- live call-in session where he will take your questions. i think cosmos was an effort to give the broadest possible , itsc a global public coordinates in space and in time. announcer: she will take your life calls and tweet starting at 7:30. land."8:30, "reagan about the corporate world savagely organizing the unsung cordiality that i talked about. announcer: watch book tv's epic coverage of the national book festival this weekend on c-span 2. announcer: "washingon journal" continues. host: this week, "washingon journal" focusing on key battleground states, with reporters on the ground, what has changed, what policy issues are motivating this year. and clues about how people might vote in each state in november. today we turn our attention to the keystone state of pennsylvania, and franklin & mars

john meacham's book about winston and roosevelt. those are all very good books or interesting to george w. or there's just a lot of great books and have come out about statesman lately. not just john adams but there's just a lot of them and george reads those. that's nice. you know, in answer is that everybody said you're not going to live in texas are you and we support we are, that's our home. wechose texas , and we love texas. so that's very nice and we love midland very much when we lived there too. very much. for midland. [inaudible] i'm 78, almost 79. and their dependent on what age i guess. you know, when you have four boys and a husband who is running for office, and i'm just not as a memory as i should be on that area i spent most of my life, i think they read truthfully sports illustrated. books about athletes. and god willing we finally got a girl. yes sir. . then you next, you area. >> my favorite book i wrote? i only had four choices. of course my favorite book is reflections. . thank you for asking. i think millie's boo

and then at 8:00 p.m., historian john meacham with his book, his truth is marching on. >> here's a man born in 1940. who repeatedly in the american south 50 and 60 years ago, acted in the tradition of essentially an early christian saint. >> followed by life segment is 8:30 p.m. or we'll take your questions. on sunday, at 7:00 p.m. eastern . cosmo. >> cosmo was an effort to give the broadest possible public a global public. coordinates in space and in time. it. >> she will take your life calls and tweets at 730 in the entity p.m., he discusses his book regulated . >> i live right about the corporate world. and organizing against. it. >> like all starting at 8:40 p.m. watch book tvs coverage of the 20th annual book stable. this weekend on "c-span2". >> next, a house subcommittee examines the coronavirus impact on the restaurant business. witnesses includes restaurant owners officials and worker advocates. they discuss extending the payment protection programs. and crating of focus package for worker protections and restaurants . >> thank you everyone for joining us today. while this hea

then historian john meacham with his book. >> here is a man, born in 1940, who were repeatedly, in the american south, 50 and 60 years ago, acted in the tradition of essentially an early christian saint. >> followed by a live call in segment where we take your questions. on sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, the book. the first cosmos was an effort to bring the broadest possible public a global public. its coordinates in space and in time. calls will take your live and tweets starting at 7:30. at 8:00 p.m., a discussion of "reagan land." >> i talk about the corporate world savagely. and we will take your live calls starting at 8:40 p.m. watch book tv's coverage of the 20th annual national book festival this weekend on c-span two. the first presidential debate between president donald trump and former vice president joe biden is tuesday night at mina :00 eastern from cleveland. watch live on c-span. president trump: biden is recklessly campaigning against the vaccine. it's really reckless. is for political reasons. political reasons. biden, his whole deal is catastrophic shutdown. joe biden:

he is into more things that his father is now into, let's see, john meacham's book about winston and roosevelt and those are all very good books and or interesting to george w. there are just a lot of great books that have come out about statesmen lately, not just john adams but there are a lot of them and george reads those. [inaudible question] [applause] >> in answer to that people always said you are not going to live in texas, are you? and i said of course we are paid that's our home. we chose texas and we love texas. that is very nice. we loved midland very much when we lived there too. very much. [applause] [inaudible question] >> you know, i am 78, almost 79 and it depends on what age i guess. when you have four boys and a husband running for office and i'm just not as good in memory on that as i should be. i spent most my life -- i think truthfully, i think sports illustrated, books about athletes and then god willing we finally got a girl. [laughter] yes, sir. right here. and then you next. >> in your opinion what is your favorite book you have read? >> my favorite book i w

historian and author of the new biography of john lewis, "his truth is marching on," jon meacham joinspondent for nbc news and msnbc, steve kornacki is with us. the latest fox news national poll shows joe biden with a five-point lead over donald trump, 51% to 46%. and new battleground state polling is out this morning showing joe biden and president trump statistically died in several states. first to arizona for the latest hpi poll of likely voters finds biden ahead by ten, 52% to 42%. meanwhile the latest cbs news news/yougov poll has biden leading 47% to 44%, a statistical tie there. in minnesota where early in-person voting begins in just four days, the cbs news/yougov poll gives biden a nine-point lead, 50 m% to 41%. and the latest "new york times"/sienna college poll joe biden ahead by nine points. in wisconsin biden holds a five-point lead, 48% to 43%. in nevada biden leads by four points, 46% to 42%, a statistical tie. in new hampshire biden leads by three, 45% to 42%, another statistical tie. >> steve kornacki. a lot of close races. everyone said it would closen up as we got t

meacham is here. he's the host of the new podcast "it was said". john, i really appreciate you joining us. glad that you're on to discuss this. so in a speech at hillsdale college tonight, the attorney general said this about the national lockdown to stop the coronavirus pandemic. here it is. >> other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in american history. >> i don't know what to say, honestly, jon. what do you say to that? >> well, it's incendiary hyperbole designed to feed a sense of paranoia and fear on behalf of an administration that is relying not on a message or an agenda of hope grounded in traditional american understandings of liberty and is instead betting on finding just the right number of americans ain the right number of states who will say, yeah, we're scared, we're mad, we want a tough guy. and, you know, if you think that this is akin to slavery, you obviously never suffered under the burden of slavery in real time or in its longtime -- the longtime system of segregation and the denial of the suffrage a

. >> i was thinking about jon meacham who said john lewis' last words to him were keep the faith.the country. what was elijah's message to you and the country in the final moments. how did he feel about where we were as a country and where we could go? >> it's this book. and that's why i encourage everyone to pick it up. it's on how we've been better in the past. how we've risen to -- as a nation. how we've unified to overcome all kinds of obstacles, and that we can do it again. we can overcome this administration. its mendacity and its corruption. and so with that, this message, this book is elijah's final message to me and the american people about where we need to go. and i certainly want to emphasize that it's up to the american people. he wanted the american people to be the heros in the story because they have the power through the power of the ballot to change this narrative and preserve our democracy and our republic for future generations. >> maya, thank you so much for bringing this to us and for being on today. congressman elijah cummings posthumous memoir is titled "we

we're joined by pulitzer prize winning presidential historian jon meacham who has a new book coming out, "his truth is marching on, johnnd the power of hope" saying it was sad chronicling some of the most impactful speeches of our time. great to have you on this morning. >> thank you so much. >> you note former vice president well. i want to ask you as you see campaign ads like that but even the broader framing of the election at this point, do you worry at all that this election is being framed too much around trump, an up and down vote on him as opposed to how and what joe biden's view of the country is independent of trump? >> that's a great question. i think that that ad that you just showed which i hadn't seen before is exactly the right thing to do you is can't reach the very few few folks who voted for trump who are actually thinking about relitigating their choice without admitting that you get it. 2016 was a complicated election. there were people who were voting -- people who had voted for obama and then voted for trump and i used to joke i wanted to meet those people but there are a lot of them because they

back with us again tonight is our friend jon meacham, presidential historian, pulitzer prize-winning biographer. his latest, "his truth is marching on: john i can tell you it's an extraordinary work. it's a revealing portrait of the late congressman. he's also the host of an excellent new podcast series, as excellent as his last podcast series. this one's called "it was said." it's focused on some of the most impactful and still relevant speeches in our history. jon, what a week it's been. the jeffrey goldberg work in "the atlantic," a guy whose integrity i will never doubt. the toe-curling comments attributed to the president on the military. and then we have bob woodward's book. tonight carl bernstein repeated something he said last night. he said that this is the most explosive thing ever recorded by a president, that it pales in comparison what was recorded by nixon in watergate. my words, not his, makes it look almost quaint and of its time. given that we're talking about 193,000 souls lost, do you concur? >> yeah. it's -- it's two vital pieces of information that are -- would in any ordinary time be dispositive in a presidential ele

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meacham in his own words. >> in the twilight, images of the movement would come to john lewis in his sleep. dream about those days, lewis said shortly before he succumbed to cancer. i dream of the sounds of our feet on the pavement one after another. i don't have nierghtmares, at least not that i remember. i'm not sure why. might be in my mind the good forces are always at work. the lewis, the greatest nonviolent protest was the vote. it was what he nearly died for in selma and what so many fought for. and now that right is under renewed assault. the incumbent president is trying to make it more difficult for mail-in ballots to count, and the john r. lewis voting acts right of 2020 languaishes n congress. the provisions of the 1965 voting rights act require states and localities wito seek clearae before election laws and policies. the house has passed the bill, but the senate has refused to act. add in russian disinformation designed to destabilize our democracy, and we're facing an autumn of diskette. focusing on voting and voting early may then be the most patriotic thing we can do. think

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. >> jon meacham who his latest book is on john lewis, number one "the new york times" best-seller ish us and has a question for us. jon? >> reverend, what's your message to the broadly white evangelical world that professes a belief in the same scriptures, same text that you believe in but apply them so differently. >> my message is that if you read the scriptures, it was always those in charge of the church, the religious hierarchy at the time and god sent profits to prof size to them that they were misinterpreting the scriptures, whether it was the old testament from jeremiah to those that are later the profit micah and others, they prof sized first to those that were the leaders of the temple. jesus came and challenged those in the temple. so i would challenge them to see if you are the ones holding up the religious airs to kra si committed to the church or what the church represents? if you're committed to twhat th church represents, you ought to be feeding the poor, not giving coverage to the rich. you ought to be pconcerned abou preserving the land that god gave us and treating

going p we've got a lot of great people to talk to and jon meacham, he's the author of "his truth is marching on." you've written about the greats. john lewis is the subject of the book you recently published and now we've lost another. the two bookends of that shelby disaster in the supreme court. >> right. >> what now? because this is -- i mean, the whole idea of ruth bader ginsburg is that she did have that ability to get along with people who she disagreed with but to be friends with them and to sort of create, you know, unity just on the intellectual level. that feels like that's gone. i don't know where we go from here, do you? >> yeah. vanishingly rare in the best of times, we're not living in the best of times. the notion that there could be principled conversation and debate and i don't want to say that both sides are responsible. i don't want to do a kind of false ekwquivalent si because b and large the age of trump and the people who have enabled trump bear a much stronger burden. it is also true, this might be worth pointing out historically that in many -- there are people who study these things and think about them that

prize-winning author jon meacham, a guy we often turn to to explain and sum up what it is we're covering in our day jobs and in this case, the loss we have witnessed tonight. john, jon, i'd like to begin with this. she famously said she had three strikes against her when out of law school and looking for work. she was a woman, a working mom, and she was a jew. i want to begin by talking about her jewish faith, which was so important to her. i was reminded tonight that those who die on roshasana are believed to be blessed with an extra type of divine righteousness. it was deeply a part of who she was as a thoroughly modern figure and as a woman like justice o'connor despite having sterling first-callaspo ten chals, a huge intellect, had such a hard time breaking in. >> and isn't it amazing it was all the day before yesterday we're honoring a woman who faced those barriers 20 minutes ago, and like john lewis, like justice o'connor, someone who we were able to watch move from a place of exclusion and of limited opportunity to the pinnacle of power and once at the pinnacle of power, always remembered from whence she came and how she had to open the path for others.

john heilemann. co-founder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei, professor at morgan state university, and msnbc political contributor jason johnson, and historian and rogers professor of the presidency at vanderbilt university, jon meachamjust a moment. wow. >> yeah, it was something. >> what was that? >> well, you know, it was, again, what we've seen for four years. it was a president completely ignorant of our uncarrying about the position that the united states has held the world stage over the past 240 years. and also, willie, ignorant or uncaring about the power of a president to send out a message to america that we are an exceptional country. you think about the fact that during the height of the cold war, actually nearing its end, ronald reagan would talk about freedom in the soviet union and dissidence locked in gulogs thousands of miles away from freedom would find out about the american president's words and they would tap in code what the president said while locked in their jail cells and hope would spread throughout those gulogs. that's what the american's presidents words are supposed to convey, hope. we're supposed to be a city shining brightly on the hill for all the world to see. whether it's from rona

then 8:00 p.m., john meacham with his book, his truth is marching on. >> is a man born in 1940 repeatedlyn the american south 50 and 60 years ago acted in the tradition of essentially an early christian saint. >> followed by a live segment 8:30 p.m. he'll take your questions sunday 7:00 p.m. eastern, her book, cosmos. >> the first was the broadest possible global topic. coordinates in space and in time. >> she will take your live calls and tweet starting at 7:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., the book reagan planned. >> right about the corporate world, organizing against what i talked about. >> live calls starting 8:40 p. p.m., logical tvs coverage of the 20th annual national book festival this weekend on c-span2. ♪ >> mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer both spoke on the senate floor earlier about the current supreme court vacancy. during his remarks, senator schumer relocked to the comments made by president trump yesterday. he talked about the protests and violence in his hometown of louisville, kentucky. >> i spoken repeatedly in recent months about the tragic killing of breonna taylor in my homet