. >> iraq war veteran kayla williams is next on booktv. she talks about her and her husband returned from iraq and the major problems they faced we integrating into american society. kayla williams' husband returned home after receiving a serious head injury and both suffered from tts the. this is about 50 minutes. >> for salami to express our most profound regret for being late. i had an interview run late and then had the fund expense of traveling on the beltway which i think maybe sometimes more stressful than driving and the right because you're not allowed to carry a weapon on the beltway. as my introducer mentioned, i am also a veteran and before i get started i want to take a brief moment to thank all of you for coming. i really appreciate you taking the time to get out before we're inundated with snow, have a little bit of fun before we get started. to all the troops and veterans in the room, i want to say welcome home. and to all the military families i want to say thank you for your service as well. eyed and listed in the army in

. >> iraq war veteran kayla williams is next talking about her and her husband's return from iraq. integrating into american society. kayla's husband returned home after a serious head injury and both suffered pete psc. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> allow me to express my profound regret for being late. i had an interview and the fun experience of traveling on the belt way which may be more stressful than driving around because not allowed to carry a weapon on the belt way. as my institutes mention, i am also a veteran and before i get started i want to take a moment to thank all of you for coming. i appreciate you taking the time to get out before we are inundated with snow, have a little fun before we get started. to all the troops and veterans of the room i want to say welcome home. to all the military families i want to say thank you for your service as well. i am listed in the army in 2000 and although i read the fine print, it didn't seem like a big possibility back then and the needs of the army, random chance assigned arabic and studying get at the defense institut

i'm kayla williams, i'm a front door pit bull. >> have you changed anybody since you got your red card? >> i've been smoking since i was 13, constantly, i can smoke snoop dogg under the table. >> i do quality control at medicine man. >> he's hip. he knows the lingo. >> both of my kids live with me and work with me. i'm coo, coordinator of operations. i do the least out of all three of us. i bring lunch. here we go into the warehouse. a site very few people get to see. we've gotten it down to more of a science. in this room we have where we'll make all of our babies from. lockers and uniforms for all of the growers. they change their uniforms twice a day so we don't cross contaminate our rooms. it's real important not to carry molds or bugs from room to room. it's just beautiful. >> i remember sitting around the fireplace making drawings for these different pieces of equipment. and everything is hand watered. they'll take a piece of wire and bend this plant over here so it fills up the spot. we'll have continuous carpet of buds, which is a sea of green. plants need co2 which yields a 20

. >> iraq war veteran kayla williams is next on booktv. she talks about her and her husband's return from iraq and the major problems they faced reintegrating into american society. kayla williams' husband returned home after receiving a serious head injury, and both suffered from ptsd. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> first, allow me to express my most profound regrets for being late. i had an interview run late and then had the fun experience of traveling on the beltway which i think may be sometimes more stressful than driving in iraq because i'm not allowed to carry a weapon on the beltway. [laughter] so as my introducer mentioned, i am also a veteran, and before i get started, i want to take a brief moment to thank all of you for coming. i really appreciate you taking the time to get out before we are inundated with snow, have a little bit of fun before we get started. and to all the troops and veterans in the room, i want to say welcome home. and to all the military families, i want to say thank you for your service as well. s

at 9:25 p.m., kayla williams, "plenty of time when we get home: love and recovery in the aftermath of war." and at 10:20 p.m., bing west, "the wrong war: grit, strategy and the way out of ask." that's all coming up tonight at 8 p.m. eastern time on c-span2. >> today's young adults, the so-called millennial generation, who are having a lot of trouble getting started at life, they are paying money into a system to support a level of benefits for today's retirees that they have no realistic chance of getting when they themselves retire. so there needs to be a rebalancing of the social compact. it's a very important challenge, it's a very difficult challenge for this country politically, because not only is social security and medicare half of our budget or about to become half of our budget, it's by far the biggest thing we do, but it is symbolically the purest statement in public policy that as a country we are a community, all in this together. these are programs that affect everybody, and the old math of these programs doesn't work. >> paul taylor on the looming generational showdown,

. >> author kayla williams is an army veteran. in her book "plenty of time when we get home" she describes her difficulties and readjustment to civilian life and her husband's brain injury caused by an ied. she appeared recently at the politics and prose bookstore in washington. this is one hour. >> first allow me to express my most profound regrets for being late. i had an interview run late and didn't have an expense of traveling on the beltway, which i think maybe more stressful than driving in iraq because you're not allowed to carry a weapon on the beltway. so as my introducer mentioned, i am also a veteran. and before i get started i want to take a brief moment to thank all of you for coming. i really appreciate you taking time to get out before we are inundated with snow, have a look at the fund before we get started. and to all the troops and veterans in the room, i want to say welcome home your end to all the military families, i want to say thank you for your service as well. i enlisted in the army in 2000, and although

[applause] >> kayla williams will be after signing copies of her books. [inaudible conversations] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> booktv spoke with scholars at the hoover institution, a public policy think tank at stanford university to find out what they are reading. senior fellow michael mccaul who stepped down as the u.s. ambassador russia is currently reading -- >> if there's another institution whose reading lists you would like to hear, e-mail us at booktv.org. >> just a few numbers tell the story. chronic diseases got seven out of every 10 deaths in the united states, and 49% of americans have one or more chronic diseases which accounts for three out of every $4 we spend on health care. that's nearly $7900 a year for every american with chronic disease. by 2030, chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes will cost more than three quarters of all deaths in the world. the cost to the world economy over the next two decades is estimated at $47 trillion. injuries