[laughter] >> lee edwards. i'm sure you remember that moment. >> i don't know whether or not he ever regretted saying that or not. certainly, we held him to account as conservatives. and when he raised taxes, we were furious. hell happened fury like a conservative scorned. we were devastatingly scorned as a result of that. and frankly, we made him pay for it. because in 92 when he ran for reelection, a lot of conservatives back to ross perot. again, the populist. that populist strain that started way back in the 50s or 60s, continuing through the 1990s. there it was. embodied in ross perot. as we know, bush lost. as he should have i think. given that he lost his - - a great deal and wasn't sure what he was and how he should present himself to the american people. which is why ross perot got 19 million votes. >> who did you vote for in 92? >> i don't know that i want to go into that. [laughter] i usually vote republican but not always. >> if someone were to pick up one of your books, which one would you recommen

next call for lee edwards comes from going in frilly michigan. hi glenn, how are you doing? fine. thank you all very much for taking the call. two things, if i may, historically, mr. edwards, how would you say the impact of phyllis shaklee was on the conservative movement and bringing it up to today, i recently saw a prominent conservative mark levine on booktv promoting his latest book on freedom of the press. he was talking about how of mass Ãa because legal and illegal has changed so gemuch. to quote him "ronald reagan will be able to get elected dog catcher today" it's a one priority state very far left democrats. that plus what the culture war political correctness. >> glenn, we will leave it at those three issues. phyllis flatley, ronald reagan in california and overall the culture wars. a >> phyllis was an extraordinary woman. she was the first lady of the conservative movement, no question about that. she really was the first person to create a profamily movement from the conservative point of view. and she would with what's called the eagles where she trained women

next we will hear from conservative author and historian lee edwards. at 10:00 p.m.ut consumerism, free-market capitalism and climate change. and after that professor of history and american studies at yale university joanne freeman. >> author lee edwards, who is russell kirk and why is he such a hero to conservatives? >> russell kirk was an unknown obscure assistant professor of history and michigan and michigan state with amoco college. one day he woke up and said i want to write the book about all the conservatives that have lived and worked and made a difference in our history. no one had ever done that before. as a matter fact, lionel chilling the preeminent electoral of the day said conservatives don't really have any ideas and when they do express them to express them in irritable mental gestures. so that was the distain the contempt if you will, the liberals had for conservatives. russell kirk came along and said i don't think that's ri

buckley, russell kirk and of course lee edwards. what do we seek to do in this book? it is about restoring america's founding principles. that is where we begin. it's about resorting to religious liberty and the right to conscience, restoring medical, restoring a culture of life. i'm going to be very clear we are in this book to say 60 million abortions since 1973 is 63 million abortions too ma many. we can and i believe that we will do better. every once in a while providence does clear and i believe it will as we say in our book when rove v. wade is a memory. chapter five if i may say it's perhaps the spine of this book, and it's very simpatico with my own role that focuses on the family, nearly eight years at the white house and a little over ten years in the united states senate. restoring marriage, family, parenting and social capital. and i want to be very clear in this regard if i may. these are the innumerable institutions, marriage, family, parenting is the first pillar of our civilization. there is nothing now or ever can or ever will replace the family. res

tonight we show you some of our in depth guests including lee edwards and joanne freeman. watch those beginning at 8:00 eastern on cspan 2. president trump holds another campaign rally tonight, this time in lake charles, louisiana. live at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cspan online at cspan.org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. >>> campaign 2020. watch our live coverage of the presidential candidates of the campaign trail and make up your own mind. cspan's campaign 2020. your unfiltered view of politics. >>> now the irish ambassador to the u.s. talks about the implications of brexit on u.s./uk relations and the irish border dispute at an event hosted by johns hopkins school of advanced international studies in washington, d.c. following his remarks he discusses the impact of brexit on the region's security and defense policy. this is just over 90 minutes. >> so good afternoon, everyone. thank you for coming. it's a great audience.

showcasing what's available every weekend on c-span2, tonight we show you some of our in-depth guests, lee edwards viewer questions and talked about his books including the conservative revolution, gold water and jeff's right, life in pursuit of liberty, next journalist naomi klein talks about consumer, free capitalism and climate change and takes questions on her books no logo, the shop doctrine and on fire, the burning case for a green new deal. then joanne freeman, author of the field of blood, affairs of honor and essential hamilton, watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> cybersecurity is a big issue and job number one when we got there, we have built remarkably talented team both in the data technology front and in the cybersecurity front but make no mistake about it, the russians are at it and other foreign actors and they can do it with impunity, you have a president right now who is sending attorney general around the world to try to debunk what the senate intelligence committee on a bipartisan just said that the russians tried to influence the elections, that's indisp

lee edwards took questions and talked about his books including the conservative revolution. a life in pursuit of liberty. journalist naomi klein talks about consumerism and climate change. takes questions on her books no logo. the shock doctrine and on fire the burning case for it green deal. joann freeman author of the field of blood, affairs of honor and essential hamilton. watch tonight tonight on c-span two. >> tough love. national security advisor and un ambassador susan rice talks about her life and career. she is interviewed by robin wright. author and columnist for the new yorker. >> what are you worried about in the 2020 election? >> it has not stopped. this has been constant. they were very actively involved in 2016, as you saw. hacking and stealing e-mails from the dnc. they tried to infiltrate our electorate system. they put out false information. they were very active on social media trying to pit americans against each other. whether it is racer immigration. our guns and what have you. our whole thing is to discredit our democracy.

available on c-span 2 this weekend, tonight, we will show you in depth guests including authors lee edwards and naomi kline and so watch those tonight on c-span 2. >>> president trump will hold another campaign rally tonight, and this time in lake charles, louisiana, live at 8:00 p.m. eastern and live on c-span, cspan.org or listen free on the radio app. >>> campaign 2020. watch the live coverage of the candidates on the campaign trail and make up your own mind. c-span's campaign 2020, the unfiltered view of politics. >>> four policy experts discuss china, russia, iran and syria, and this is part of a broader program of middle east strategy at the atlantic council in washington earlier in the week. this portion is just over 90 minutes.

lee edwards took viewers questions and talks about his book including the conservative revolution, goldwater and just right, a life in pursuit of liberty. journalist naomi klein talks about consumerism, free-market capitalism and climate change and takes questions on her book no logo, the shock doctrine and on fire, the burning case for green new deal and joann freeman, author of the field of blood, affairs of honor the essential benefits. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 pm eastern on c-span2 and enjoy booktv this weekend every weekend on c-span2. retired general joseph votel is retired commander of central command and was part of the discussion focusing on the influence of russia and china in the region, turkey's military strikes in northern syria and us military leadership in conflict zones. this is an hour and 45 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome to our newly renovated headquarters. i am gerald feierstein, senior vice president at the middle east institute. welcome to today's important and timely panel, examining centcom's approach to the middle east. this gives us an opportunity to

. >> we also show our viewers but lee edwards is currently readi reading. the last homily and george wilson conservative sensibility. that's his latest book. george's sentiment of a great christmas and the poking her and walter the divine plan. on a depth. the edwards is in our guest this month on in-depth and we appreciate your time. >> thanks much peter, great to be here. >> the new cspan2 online store now has book tv products. go to cspan2 start on hard to check them out. see the snow, for book tv and all of the cspan2 products. next, is book tv monthly in-depth program with this telling author naomi klein. her books on economics and public policy include the shock doctrine, and the recently on fire. the burning case for green new deal. >> thank you for joining us and in the studios in new york. but tv we are in manhattan. we are running in marketing this business. let me begin with your book no logo, when did you learn about nike. microsoft and starbucks and branding. >> it is great to be with you and to have this time. so when i was writing the logo, b

lee edwards has been our guest this month on ". >> naomi, thank you for joining us here on c-span2 book tv in midtown manhattan where branding and marketing is big business. let me begin with your first book, "no logo". what did you learn about nike, microsoft and starbucks in branding? guest: it's great to be with you and to have this time. when i was writing the "no logo" it came out at the very beginning of 2000, so it's almost exactly 20 years old. the period when i was researching which was the four years before that it was a period where lot was changing in the corporate world and you have the first kind of full-blown lifestyle brand, which is an idea we take for granted now, but these were companies that for the first time were declaring that their business model was not sell products, but ideas, a lifestyle, a sense of belonging that they could then extend into kind of self enclosed branded cocoons and sort of sell everything along as it was branded with this logo. nike was really the first one to do this. they didn't ever owned their factories and this -- the main thing i learn

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lee and his officers. here is the map of the battle of the grove. drawn by edward alexander. here they followed a shortcut. it had been shown to them by roger prior. they injected themselves between wilson. about a hundred men dismounted and launched an attack. all of this terrain still exists. you can be right there in this deep cut where this happened. the confederates attacked several times, reaching the railroad. the federals seized the initiative and moved forward, threatening to capture the artillery. they frantically shouted, save the guns. they drove back to union cavalry. although the battle would wax and wane for another several hours, major fighting ended. the casualties were rather modest. the appearance of the suddenly were onve confederates the south side of the railroad here. they spent the day ripping up the tracks. they had no interference from the confederates. by days end, every foot of the road was destroyed. in addition to savaging the railroad, they plundered the countryside. anything capable of being turned into good food was appropriated. as the federa

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evidence of lee's claim being afraid that she was afraid of losing custody of her two daughters so she and her boyfriend plotted to kill green. and just about one hour from right now edwarddoing san francisco federal court and for the first time he is accused of spying for china, edward pong is accused of delivering classified security information to chinese intelligence officers leaving information and bay area hotels are keeping cash payments and hotel rooms and if convicted of all charges he could get 10 years in federal prison have to pay a quarter million dollar fine but >>> this morning at a news conference house speaker nancy pelosi said democrats had no choice but to go ahead with impeachment proceedings cause of the actions of president trump during his phone call with the ukrainian president . also this morning secretary of state mike pompeo confirmed he was listening in on the phone call pompeo also said that he objects to conditions set by democrats for five state department employees to testify as part of the investigation, he said the state department would not tolerate bullying and intimidation that is a brief look at some of the top stories we're wobritt