now, afterwards with kimberley strassel. she talks about the intimidation games, how the leftist silencing free speech. she argues that the left is trying to usurp the political process. she is interviewed by ginny thomas. >> host: can really, thanks for doing this. this is your first book, it must be pretty exciting to have your first book out but it is a bit of a candle and darkening times. you have lit for us. when you read it it is compelling. what are the takeaways that you want readers to see? >> guest: the point of this book is to say that we have got this new era and politics. it is a very scary one. it is one that we're the you cannot always do this in politics, you can trace it to a date. how to a date. make that date january 20 2010. that is when the supreme court issued its citizens united really. if you listen to people, specially democrats they'll people, especially democrats they'll say that was a terrible day because it let all kinds of special money and influence back into elections. i would argue it was ver

at 855 p.m., kimberley strassel and the intimidation game, how the left to silencing free speech. after that, mary frances berry, speech. after that, mary frances berry, $5 and a pork chop sandwich. coming up at 1050 p.m., its author eric fehr and his book, consequence, a memoir. weeknights in august at 8:00 p.m. eastern on book tv. >> this week on q&a, aarp ceo, jo ann jenkins, she talks about her organization at her new book, disrupt aging, bold new new path to living your best life at every age. >> joanne jenkins, you are the ceo of aarp, what did you take that job? >> it was unexpected i had spent i had spent over 25 years in public service and i have the opportunity to come over and be the head of aarp foundation. i spent two years there really trying to reinstitute, reconstitute aarp foundation to have it fully focused on serving the needs of the low income, 50 plus across the organization. as a result of the success we had in the foundation, then ceo asked me if i would come over to the aarp side of the house to help develop the strategy for 2020. to make sure that aarp was

saturday at 10:00 pm eastern on "after words," kimberley strassel and her book "the intimidation game: how the left is silencing free speech." she's joined in conversation by jenny thomas, contributor to the daily news foundation. >> government abuse is rarely one-sided. there's a couple of reasons for that. when i started this, i care about free speech and the first amendment. i'm a libertarian when it comes to this i have no allegiance to one party or another. i went into this. i've written a lot about the abuses on the left from my column in the wall street journal but i assumed going in i was going to find a whole bunch of stuff on the right, toochlt i didn't. >> on sunday, "in depth," jeffrey toobin will take your calls, texts and e-mail questions from noon until 3:00 pm eastern. he will be discussing his new book "american heiress: kidnapping, trials and tribulations of patty hurst." he will also be talking about "nine" "too close to call: the 36-day battle to decide the 2000 election." "vast conspiracy: the sex scandal that nearly brought down a president." "the run of his life

now, afterwards with kimberley strassel. she talks about the intimidation games, how the leftist silencing free speech. she argues that the left is trying to usurp the political process. she is interviewed by ginny thomas. >> host: can really, thanks for doing this.