. >> book tv continues with a book by katie pavlich "assault and flattery: the truth about the left and their war on women"". [applause] the afternoon. 84ery >> all right. good afternoon. thank you for being here. i talked to you this morning. i thank you for being here. thanks for being here for the roundtable we appreciate as a a longtime supporter of the of america foundation and also to mr. rodriguez mr. rodriguez, although lot of people wear those t-shirts where was in college my mother sent me my a anti-che t-shirt that i regulate more to my a latin studies course. [laughter] [applause] you can imagine how well that went over specifically what they would start boosting him when i knew that was in the lesson plan. that was great to. also thanks to the young american foundation on days that was inspired to do what i was doing as a result of attending a conference here in 2008 it is true. it really does change was the students especially when they are constantly in a hostile environment on college campuses is what young american foundation and provides and for tools and mr. shipp is

i know youkatie have which --katie pavlich.now you have done some research here on the background, they were trained in yemen. >>he brothers was linked to yemen by intelligence officials and the bigger context long-term moving forward was what we are talking about in the united states whether we are vulnerable here. you can discount the president's that al qaeda is on the run and are no longer a threat. we are seeing that they are. one of the brothers did train in the ems at least training camps with al qaeda. in september the president said to fight isis the united states is going to take the successs in yemen and some of the and apply that to fighting isis, and the fbi director a couple months ago admitting we have at least 100 people who leave in united states passports who have gone to iraq and syria, trained and possibly came back. these are issues moving forward and you have to ask the question, and the leadership with the administration, look at what happened at, look what is happening in syria and protecting people. stu

katy pavlich in awe of my power. you don't have to thank me now it is just what i do.urging president to do what i said. >> i am looking forward to when neil cavuto super power financial comic book comes out that would be a collector's item. neil: in time, in time, this is not about he, but me, it is about the influence i have on the president. >> he claims that only benefited rich. but it actually benefits middle class, looking at way that middle class saves for college they don't have a lot of options, they don't qualify for government programs, because their income is too high, they don't have as much money as super rich. so it really, you know democrats, conservative, republicans all were against this plan it impacted the middle class despite the president saying it would only impact the super rich. neil: even liberals, chuck schumer saying, you know president, truth be told that crowd, they get the breaks they don't have to rely on the government for loan support you spite them by taking that away. make then essentially, you know prisoners of the government, someo

katie pavlich news editor of townhall.com and fox news contributor. she joins us with more insight.hanks for joining us. happy new year. >> good morning. happy new year, heather. heather: the new year is not happy for some folks because when it comes to obamacare many important things are happening many calling them the most important yet. three major things i specifically want to talk about. employer mandate as we mentioned kicks in. fines for lack of health car coverage for individuals. that goes into effect. and supreme court will rule on whether subsidies can be implemented the way the feds are doing it right now of the let's begin with the employer mandate and what effect that will have on communities across this country. >> well the employer mandate goes into effect for companies with 100 more or employees. the people with less than 100 or less employees they will not have their mandate kick in until 2016. in 2015 the bigger companies will deal with the issue. we've seen with the consequence of this, companies preparing for this either dumping people into the obamacare exchang

katie pavlich is the news editor for townhall come and a fox news -- townhall.com and a fox news distributera piece. but what's your reaction, first of all, to this publication, katie? >> i think it's a strong stance for what the editors who were killed last week really believed in. you know, they weren't going to cower in fear despite being under attack since 2011 for simply drawing and publishing cartoons that a lot of radical islamists thought were offensive. and i think that the fact their going to publish three million copies shows not only are they getting support in france but really globally people are standing up to this and finally saying enough is enough. martha: yeah. you go through so many other examples including jim foley and stephen so sotloff and many others that we need to start to think of perhaps, as a larger piece of the threat that exists to freedom around the world. >> well, you know, martha, as horrific as the attacks were last week in paris, they, unfortunately, weren't an isolated incident. when you go back to 2014 and look at everything that happened that year, the

katie pavlich is news editor for townhall.com, fox news contributor.etary of state john kerry. that was odd answer and talked about middle class. president himself said his policies were on the ballot. i would assume that means wait the handled the economy and other things. it appears the american people didn't like the way he was doing things. >> well, that was the 2014 election. we're on to 2016. and 2016 election is much tougher for republicans. they're desperate to win the white house. they have to defend 24 senate seats. as karl rove said in interview the turnout will be much much higher. unless they compromise on issues taxes and inequality, they will lose all of them. mcconnell knows it. boehner knows it. one or two republicans running for president and president obama knows it most of all. martha: denis mcdonough said it is about middle class. i think marianne is right. that is where the conversation already moved but unbelievable and true. where is your side, katy going to compromise on taxes and economic inequality? >> i think that republican

here to weigh in is katie pavlich.s because they can never get anything done under the names that they have had before. they are pushing out this campaign to educate people like jeff foxworthy and alan jackson about the horrors of the national rifle association. to quote our friend larry the cable guy who is good friends with jeff foxworthy, i don't care how are that's pretty funny right there. sharon watson and her people at bloomberg forget that the nra is made up of millions of people and those millions of people are also fans of people like jeff foxworthy and allen jackson. >> how did gun control work for people in last elections. i don't remember any gun control winning. >> there were victories in washington state with what they call universal background checks and things like that. but when it comes to the way that moms demand and shannon ross who runs moms demand operate is they can't win on the issues and can't win over hearts and minds they instead attack celebrities with public pressure. they did this with ja

then katie pavlich. later, deborah road. that is tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> the c-span cities to her takes book tv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. we partnered with time warner cable for a visit to austin texas. >> we are in a private sutiuite of lyndon johnson. these were the private quarters -- they were not part of a tour. this has never been open to the public. you are seeing it because of c-span's special access. the mps come into this space as they did in lyndon johnson's day. the remarkable thing about this space is that it is really a living, breathing artifact. it hasn't changed at all since president johnson died in january, 1973. there is a document in the corner of this room, it tells my predecessors and my successors that nothing in this room can change. >> we are here at the 100 block of 1 hundred ave. just down the block, the colorado river. this is an important historic site -- this is where water lose private --