laughter ] >> jimmy: this next song is from a singer called paul schlosser he's a busker in madison, wisconsine: oh >> jimmy: and according to his wikipedia, he's put out over 30 albums. [ light laughter ] to put that in perspective, the beatles only put out 13. >> steve: yeah that's 30. that's 3 times as many >> jimmy: 30 albums. let's take a listen to "have a a peanut butter sandwich." >> steve: oh ♪ have a peanut butte sandwich have a peanut butter sandwich ♪ ♪ have a peanut butte sandwich have a peanut butter sandwich ♪ ♪ are you depressed have a peanut butter sandwich ♪ >> steve: wow. [ laughter ] ♪ have a peanut butte sandwich ♪ >> steve: no, now i'm depressed. ♪ >> jimmy: how did you detune

according to the bookstore in madison wisconsin.topping the list is the schizophrenia's and essays on mental illness. then american singer-songwriter recounts her life and career in horror story. followed by netflix clear i cast member over the top. in the book of gutsy women hillary and chelsea clinton sure thoughts on the women who inspired them. in one of the best selling nonfiction books according to madison wisconsin in the bookstore care westover the count of growing up in idaho mounds in the introduction to formal education at the age of 17 in her book educated. it's been on the bestseller list for nearly two years. some appeared on the tv and you can watch them online booktv.org. spew get unturned. >> beginning life is megan who discusses growing up as a westborough baptist church in her decision to leave. you are watching book to be live coverage of the wisconsin book festival. >> hello my name is connor i'm the director of the wisconsin book festival. they can wall so much for being here tonight. i believe this is seven of

now live to madison wisconsin talking about their relations with their mothers. [inaudible conversations] . . . . [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

and wrapping up our look at some of the best-selling nonfiction books according to madison wisconsin was tara westover's account of growing up in the idaho mountains. in her introduction to formal education at the age of 17. in her book educated. it's been on the bestseller list for nearly two years. some of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them online. kevin williamson of the national review ear your latest book is called the smallest minority. in this book you write that i come not to praise democracy but to bury it, what do you think. i dislike that something becomes better or more important or more respectable because more people adhere to it. often it's weird being a writer right now because they are treated as politicians. you represent. i say nobody. i'm not running for office. we live in a time a politics as team sports. in the team's poor aspect of politics has really displaced almost everything else in the intellectual content. and now just tribe on tribe action. i don't think having a bigger gang is necessarily something that tells you anything abou

michelle reached out to me when i publish this and i was living in madison wisconsin in graduate school when my mom died. and i was walking on the highway when i got the phone call that she died. and right then as a writer whenever something horrified happens i turned to writing to think of how i feel. my mother and i always had a complicated tumultuous relationship to my family is on a family that talks or expresses themselves. so there is a cone of silence both up around a relationship from the very beginning. when i sent out to to write my way through this confusion i found i do not have a language and did not even know how to begin to put on the page i wrote the beginning of an essay and published it. but it felt like only a part of the story and it was not until years later that i developed my craft as a writer and really sat down to try to tell a more complete story, not the story of a son who had been wronged or all the mean things that my mom did, but a conscious person who is capable of inhabiting the experiences of others and i sat down to write a more complete version of the

[inaudible conversations] >> hello, >> we're back live to madison public library with the wisconsin booklarry from author marie arana or her history of latin america. >> good afternoon. i'm barbara alvarado some i'm a bilingual educator, interpreter, organizer and work with the madison public library and community engagement with the design and implementation of spanish bilingual story times. aim honored to introduce a conversation between david maraniss, great writer and historian, who works with the "washington post" and maria acran newscast. both david and marie are colleagues at the "washington post." very humbled to introduce marie aanna, author, editor, journalist, literary critic and member of the scholars council at the library of congress. marie is peruvian american and a work embodies who she is as an historian, novelist, essayist, and a human being in this modern world. her books include american chica, cellophane, the writing life, bolivar, american liberator, and silver, sword and stolen three crucibles. silver, sword and stone is an a history of latin america for over a tho

takes us back to the early 1960's. 1962, there was a man who tossed ceramic at the university of wisconsin madison who really wanted to experiment with glass. he was a director at the toledo museum. he worked to initiate a series of workshops. the first one happened in march of 1962. and inviteda letter them to participate in a glassblowing workshop. they came here and set up a furnace. they did not know how to melt glass. scientistto a local who worked at a company called john's man. they began to experiment. there was a retired glassblower became in and helped them get the hang of what one does with a blowpipe. theselew things like three objects you see laying on the deck. they might look limited, but the idea was these people were experimenting with glassmaking. develop ald go on to sophisticated body of work. other artists were also making and 1970's. 1960's when harvey had these workshops, he had this successful moment experimenting with glass. he returned to his campus in wisconsin and set up the first university program in the company test country for teaching glassblowing. others would fol

if it happened in 1970 you could move to madison, wisconsin and start your life over. because no one would look up records. but we use this availability of information a little bit as a scapegoat. bass as i said any job you are applying for that has any kind of insurance issue, regulatory issue, framework issue is going to find it anyway. so we need to address the fact like with companies, with insurance companies, listen, we support this from a congressional level and broad bipartisan support. but we also have to change insurance culture and hiring culture and allowing those things to happen. and the fact that it's not a google search doesn't mean it's not going to agree. >> i agree. >> i think we are mixing a few things here. one thing is gdpr. one thing is right to be forgotten. >> the first step is for you to understand what you interpret as privacy. there is a boundary between your private self and outside world. what do you think you want to share with your family, community, friends or not even with them. when it comes to digital space, this idea that there is n

laughter ] >> jimmy: this next song is from a singer called paul schlosser he's a busker in madison, wisconsin[ light laughter ] to put that in perspective, the beatles only put out 13. >> steve: yeah that's 30. that's 3 times as many >> jimmy: 30 albums. let's take a listen to "have a a peanut butter sandwich." >> steve: oh ♪ have a peanut butte sandwich have a peanut butter sandwich ♪ ♪ have a peanut butte sandwich have a peanut butter sandwich ♪ ♪ are you depressed have a peanut butter sandwich ♪ >> steve: wow. [ laughter ] ♪ have a peanut butte sandwich ♪ >> steve: no, now i'm depressed. ♪ >> jimmy: how did you detune your drums to be that noise? >> questi li this joint. >> jimmy: oh, my god oh my. no i think he's got the voice of an angel [ laughter ] next is an artist from new york city. >> steve: oh >> jimmy: she's a rhythm vocalist called loire cotler let's take a listen to a track called "solo." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> steve: wow. [ laughter and applause come on. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ coming up to school ♪ ♪ we got the beat we got the bea we got the ♪ ♪ ♪ >> steve: rocking the kalimba with that one. >> jimmy:

in 1962, there was a man who tossed ceramic at the university of wisconsin madison, who really wanted to experiment with glass. and he worked with the director then at the toledo museum. he worked to initiate a series of workshops. the first one happened in march of 1962. and harvey sent out a letter to a group of other ceramics professors across the country and invited them to come to toledo and participate in a glassblowing workshop where they would experiment. they came here and set up a furnace. they built a furnace. they did not know how to melt glass. and so they went to a local scientist who worked at a company that made fiberglass. and they began to experiment. there was a retired glassblower named harvey leaf green who came in and helped them get the hang of what one does with a blowpipe. and they blew things like these three objects that you see laying on the deck here. they are rather primitive, but the idea was these people were experimenting with glassmaking. harvey would go on to develop a very sophisticated body of work. and other artists that you see represented in the

life over because no one from madison, wisconsin, was going to drive to the stark county courthouse and look up records. we use this availability of information as a scapegoat because any job you're applying for that has any insurance issue, regulatory framework is going to find it anyway. we need to address the fact with insurance companies and say, listen, we support this from a congressional -- we have to change it from a hiring culture and allowing those things to happen. the fact it's not -- it doesn't hit on a google search doesn't mean it's not going to exist. >> i agree. >> just -- i think we are mixing a few things here. one thing is gdpr, one thing is right to be forgotten. the first step is for you to understand what you interpret as privacy. these are boundary between your private self and the outside world. what do you think you want to share only with your family, with your community, with your friends or not even with them? when it comes to digital space, this idea there is no choice. we have borrowed from other industries is not out there any longer. these boundaries

welcome back to madison and live coverage of the wisconsin book festival. tarting now look at conservative politics and the history of the council for national policy with journalist ann nelson. >> i'm president of the madison institute. i would like to welcome you to this event featuring ann nelson and her new book "shadow network". ann nelson is a native of oklahoma, an award-winning journalist and the author of multiple books, this being the most recent. for two decades in the school of journalism, more recently in the school of international and public affairs. before we begin, let me thank the madison public library, madison public library foundation. all the sponsors who contributed to making this a successful event and the director of the book festival who organized this celebration of books and authors over the four day weekend. on behalf of the madison institute i want to thank the w foundation, charitable arm of the capital times and many individual donors of madison institute who help our efforts to support and illuminate issues of public policy.

so 100% of people aren't racist. >> university of wisconsin madison professor john diamond, an experth the term implicit bias until about four years ago. because something happened to me that was later described as implicit bias. i was calling it racism. >> yeah, so tony greenwald established project implicit about 20 years ago. what they were trying to figure out, what's going on in people's minds before they're able to think about what's the socially responsible answer? so the way to think about implicit bias is you don't have to necessarily dislike people of other races to be affected by it, right? it's in everything that you do. somebody walks through a door and it's a man, you have some assumptions about what that means. we've also been conditioned to not talk about it, right? >> researchers from harvard and the university of virginia have created a test that can measure a person's implicit bias. the idea being, if we can measure it, maybe we can dismantle it what they find is people have a hard time associating good characteristics with blackfaces. >> is that everybody? >> it's

if it happened in 1970 you could move to madison, wisconsin and start your life over. because no one would look up records. but we use this availability of information a little bit as a scapegoat. bass as i said any job you are applying for that has any kind of insurance issue, regulatory issue, framework issue is going to find it anyway. so we need to address the fact like with companies, with insurance companies, listen, we support this from a congressional level and broad bipartisan support. but we also have to change insurance culture and hiring culture and allowing those things to happen. and the fact that it's not a google search doesn't mean it's not going to agree. >> i agree. >> i think we are mixing a few things here. one thing is gdpr. one thing is right to be forgotten. >> the first step is for you to understand what you interpret as privacy. there is a boundary between your private self and outside world. what do you think you want to share with your family, community, friends or not even with them. when it comes to digital space, this idea that there is n

. ♪ >>> a high school security guard is back on the job in madison, wisconsin, after he was fired forwas responding to an incident this month at west high school "n word.tudent called him the anderson says he repeated the slur trying to teach the student who was also black not to use that word. the school district says he was fired because it forbids employees from using racial slurs, regardless of the context. so huns o students and teachers as you see walked out on friday calling for anderson to be reinstated. superstar entertainer cher even offering to pay anderson's legal fees. yesterday, guess what? he got his job back. >> i'm so happy for the kids because they got out. they wepnt and they fought for this and they won. i -- i'm excited to walk back into the school because that's going to let them know that their voice is powerful. >> anderson posted on facebook, i'm back, and god isgood. i love this story. context is everything. i love thetudents spoke up. i love that school realized, you know, maybe we handled this badly and we made a mistake. >> the policy made sen. you underst

try that out in outside of madison in wisconsin, in the wild counties. try it in the alabama between pittsburgh and philadelphia in pennsylvania. like, she doesn't sell anyway. she sells to a very eclectic liberal base. that's why you see her, she's a most clear andsi consistent and doesn't look like a freak show like bernie does. so she is like a newer version she's 70. she's a newer version of bernie, and bernie got 50% of the vote in the democratic primary last time. we should've thought about this, the most liberal acceptable candidate will be a very strong contender in the primary and have no chance in the general. >> hillary 140 states. >> who did she pick? >> she has to pick buttigieg, now if he wasn't gay we wouldn't be talking about them. identity politics. you put elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg, blowout. >> you think so? >> blowout. >> are you guys nearly that bearish on worn? >> no. i mean look, i think that, i think they run a smart campaign. i think she is an awkward, i agree without all the name-calling and scriptures that jeff has don

cspan2 book tv has live coverage of the wisconsin festival from madison, starting saturday at 1130 eastern. featuring former diplomatic offering her thoughts on combating terrorism. democratic political strategist donna brazil, reflect on her career. author and national book festival literary director maria rhonda, vice history of latin america. in macon, recounts going up is a member of the westborough baptist church. watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival. saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern. and be sure to catch the texas book festival in october. in miami book fair in november. i book tv, on c-span. >> earlier today, house natural resources code subcommittee held a hearing on legislation to create the smithsonian national american latino nizam. this is an average 20 minutes.

. >> booktv have live coverage of the wisconsin book festival from madison. starting saturday 11:30 eastern featuring former diplomat offering her thoughts on combating terrorism. democratic political strategist donna brazil reflects on her career. literary director maria provides a history of latin america and megan phelps roper recounts growing up with the westboro baptist church. watch live coverage of the wisconsin book festival saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern and be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and miami book fair in november, on booktv on c-span2. >> now portions of yesterday's democratic national committee women's leadership forum, nancy

i just did town halls in every county in my district and i have rural counties, i have madison, wisconsinand not complying. we could do criminal contempt to go to the u.s. attorney and they go to bill barr and that will not happen and we could go through civil contempt and that is a long court process and many of the things that we have to compel are not easy to do if the president and the white house don't want to agree to work with us. this is something we can do. we did it in 2016. the republicans did it against a hud official and the gao came in and went after their salaries so let's start fighting back. i think that is what people want us to do. they're tired of a president who thinks he is above the law and they know he put his own personal interests above our national security and they're upset. and i think this is just trying to react to the people in my district saying do whatever you can. we have to start playing a little tougher. >> so wisconsin is obviously going to be a key state in 2020. a key state. in your town hall meetings with constituents, especially the rural more con

and public hearings and the president in columbus, ohio, in madison, wisconsin, perhaps, atlanta, georgiacould go to the heart of the country and take his message to the american people. that is something this country has never seen, a split screen such as that. >> in the prior impeachment efforts it was in the second term of a united states president. this is going to be quite the scene as you point out, bill, as we watch an election unfold with this in the background. maybe sometimes in the foreground of this. one thing i would say about the narrative that the white house seems to be sort of moving to and the president tweeted about this yesterday is that he was encouraging republicans to stick to the substance of the issue at hand rather than the process that they've focused on so much. they don't like the closed-door process. substance goes to what i discussed with the secretary of state last night mike pompeo who is now talking about the fact he wants everyone to understand the united states under the trump administration has given far more in lethal aid to ukraine. when the obama ad

n assistant professor in the nelson institute for environmental studies at the university of wisconsin-madisond in phoenix, we're joined by mary kathryn nagle, a citizen of cherokee nation and a partner at pipestem law, p.c., a law firm dedicated to the restoration of tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction. she cucurrently represents kaysera's family. startathryn nagle, let's with you. explain what you understand happened in august. havingk you so much for us on the show. let me be clear, the family is certainly the expert on the facts surrounding her disappearance and her death and what they know, but speaking as a lawyer and looking at the legal framework, , it is s clear what happened in august was a complete disregard for not only the rights of kaysera, but the rights of all native women, would local law enforcement failed to investigate her death and to take all steps necessary to look for her for finding her on august 29. of course, her family was not notified until september. at the first 24, 48 hours that a native woman goes missing are the most critical in terms of finding her and locati

. >> booktv has live coverage of the wisconsin book festival from madison starting saturday at 11:30 a.m. eastern. >> up next, citigroup ceo michael corbett joined the detroit economic club for discussion on the banking industry and global economy. he discusses some of the challenges facing businesses as well as his views on the global economic outlook. this is 45 minutes. >> thank thank you very much, s, good afternoon to all the members and yesterday. it's my privilege to be a presiding officer today and introduce today's participants. michael corbat, , mike, the ceof citigroup and the steam engine, the world

man who there was a taught ceramics at the university of wisconsin madison, who wanted to experiment with glass. he worked as a director then at initiate a series of workshops. the first one was in march 1962. he sent a letter to a group of other ceramics professors around the country, and invited them to come to toledo and participate in a glassblowing workshop where they would experiment. so they came here, and set up a furnace, built a furnace. they did not know how to melt glass, so they went to a local scientist who worked at a company that made fiberglass, and they began to experiment. there was a retired glass blower who worked at libbey. he came in and helped them to get the hang of what one does with a blow pipe. things like these three objects that you see on the deck here. they might look rather primitive, but the idea is that these people were experimenting. harvey would go on to develop a very sophisticated body of work, and other artists you see represented were also making glass in the 1960's and 1970's. when harvey had these workshops, he had a successful moment in ex

. >> booktv have live coverage of the wisconsin book festival from madison. starting saturday 11:30 eastern featuring former diplomat offering her thoughts on combating terrorism. democratic political strategist donna brazil reflects on her career. literary director maria provides a history of latin america and megan phelps roper recounts growing up with the westboro baptist church. watch live coverage of the wisconsin book festival saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern and be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and miami book fair in november, on booktv on c-span2. >> now portions of yesterday's democratic national committee women's leadership forum, nancy pelosi on the upcoming elections, the impeachment inquiry and the passing of elijah cummings and remarks and democratic presidential candidate joe biden. he focuses on the violence against women act in the trump administration and offered that he would be able to beat donald trump in the 2020 election. ♪ >> house democrats are down with nancy pelosi, the once and future speaker of the united

book festival will welcome over 300 speakers, and we'll be live that saturday from the wisconsin book festival in madison which anticipates over 15,000 people in attendance. and later in the month look for us in austin during our live coverage of the texas book festival. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch our previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv.org. >> tonight on booktv in prime time, tune in for the 84th annual wolf book awards presented for important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. also on our author interview program "after words," washington times national security columnist bill gertz reports on china's efforts to become a global, military and economic superpower, and you'll also see a re-air of "in depth" with naomi klein. that all starts tonight at 6:50 p.m. eastern. check your program guide for more information. ♪ ♪ >> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house,

received a degree in history from stanford university and his doctorate from the university of wisconsin at madison before settling in san francisco. phil wore many hats over the three decades he served the city and county of san francisco. debt administrator, abilitying director of the san francisco zoo, assistant general manager of the parks and rec department and c.f.o. of the human services agency. he served as treasurer and chair of the board of directors and commissioner for the housing authority and member of the parks alliance board of directors. throughout his career, phil maintained a steadfast commitment to preserving open spaces. to quote him, improving things people can't see, so what they do see works. whether he was putting together bonds to repair the san francisco zoo to prevent similar damage. creating and operating reserve for the bay area ridge trail council. or acquiring hilltop throughout the city to preserve views from public access -- for public access, phil was steadfast and meticulous in doing what he believed was right. his legacy lies in the intersection of financial pla

>> booktv is live coverage of the wisconsin book festival from madison. starting saturday at 11:30 11:. eastern. featuring former diplomat offered her thoughts on combating terrorism. >> washingt. host: we want to welcome back to >> host: we want to look back to the "washington journal" ralph norman, republican south carolina who served on the oversight reform committee. you served with the late congressman elijah cummings. your thoughts on his passing. >> guest:: greta, two things come to mind about chairman cummings. one, he had a goodness about him. he was just goodness. people will tell you that have known for a long time, he may not vote the way he does, you may not agree with everything but there was a goodness. and secondly he really tried to be fair. he ended a lot of come when it got pretty heated he would say we are better than this. that's just saying i will always take with me because it's true, particularly now in politics. he will be missed. he had a presence about him when he would walk in the room, and he will be missed. >> host: yesterday

booktv has live coverage of the wisconsin book festival from madison. saturday 11:30 eastern featuring former diplomat offering her thoughts on combating terrorism. democratic political strategist donna brazil reflect on her career. author and national book festival literary director maria ronald provides a history of latin america.

the boston book festival will welcome over 300 speakers and we will be live from the wisconsin book festival in madisonhich anticipates over 15000 people in attendance. and later in the month look for us in austi often at the festivl there. for more information and to watch our previous festival click the book fair tab festival tab booktv.org. >> book tv is television for serious readers. all weekend, every weekend. join us again next saturday beginning at 8:00 a.m. eastern for the best of nonfiction books. . . .

. >> booktv has live coverage of the wisconsin book festival from madison. starting today at 33 1:30 -- 11:30 eastern featuring a former diplomat offering her thoughts on combating terrorism. democratic political strategist donna sa brill. author and -- donna brazile. and megan phelps roper recounts growing up as a member of the westboro baptist church. watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival today starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern. and be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and the miami book fair in november on booktv on c-span2. .. coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the city's history and learn how it came to be known as a glass capital of the world. later the toledo van band crash of 1931. we begin our special feature with the city's mayor. >> i think places like toledo are often taken for granted there is a such wonderful history here. they had built things. the first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston. drawn by rich reservoir natur

beautiful state of wisconsin. madison is beautiful. it was surreal. i do remember that. good food. thank you, governor. >>> meantime, hong kong protests are turning very violent. one protester earlier shot in the chest. an 18-year-old. we understand he's doing okay. hard to say because not a lot is shared with the general media after such events. let's get the read from former cypress semiconductor ceo t.j. rogers. a lot of people looking at this as sort of the wild card in global events. it could disrupt a trade deal at the very least on the 70th anniversary of communist china. it could disrupt lots of things. what do you think? >> first i would like to comment. i just listened to governor scott walker. i'm talking to you from nutcake lane in california. so nice to hear a politician that just is logical and straight. to your question, i think the president is betting his presidency on the trade deal. his thesis is they play unfair and we're going to force them to play fairly. if he wins that one, then the economy recovers. i do believe we have trade issues in the economy. if he do

[inaudible conversation] >>> book tv has live coverage of the wisconsin book festival from madison, starting saturday at 11:30 eastern. featuring former diplomat, offering her thoughts on combatting terrorism. democratic political strategist donna brazil reflects on her career. author and national book festival literary director provides a history of latin america. and megan talks about growing up as a member of the baptist church. watch live saturday. be sure to catch the texas festival in october and the miami book fair in november on book tv, on c-span 2. >>> this saturday on american history tv, we are featuring political cartoons, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the influence of american cartoons in world war ii. >> batman and robin, both have their fingers up for the v in victory sign and saying keep the american eagle flying. buy war bonds and stamps. >> at 10:00, on real america, on the 75th anniversary of the 1944 presidential campaign, the animated short bent for election. >> joe? >> yes, sam. >> take a look at the timetable. only one of these can get through to washington. 44 is a single tr

, boston book festival will welcome 300 speakers and be live that saturday from the wisconsin book festival in madison which anticipates 15,000 people in attendance. later in the month look for us in austin during the texas book festival. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and watch the previous festival coverage book the book fairs on our website, booktv.org. >> saturday night on booktv at 11:00 pm eastern. >> if we don't tell our own stories, others will tell them for us. they won't have the same care and concern that we do. this is an important thing for all of us. i am a privacy advocate and it was very hard, actually harder to tell the story, to tell my story than it was to come forward and risk my freedom, potentially my life to tell the world about everything that was going on. >> former contractor edward snowden talks about exposing the mass surveillance program of the us government and going into exile in his book permanent record. sunday, live at noon eastern, "in depth" with journalist naomi klein. >> this is the hottest summer on record. we have never had so littl

next saturday will be live from the wisconsin book festival in madison which anticipates over 15000 peopleattendance. also next week and look for is that the boston book festival that is posting over 300 speakers. later in the month tune into the live coverage of the texas book festival in austin. and it will take place from the cities in our harbor, for information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch click the book fairs tab on our website, but to be battle. >> and now, but tvs afterwards, washington times national security columnist, bill gertz discusses china's efforts to become a global military and economic superpower. he's interviewed by paula, former under secretary of state for global affairs of the george w. bush administration. afterwards is a weekly interview program with relevant guesthouse interviewing top nonfiction authors about bill, congratulations and thanks so much for joining us today.

hello my name is tom jones, university of wisconsin at madison. i want to thank the academy and the panel for an exciting session. since we have a lot of engineers in the room, i want to ask a question about the future commercialization of space. and striking right balance between speed and safety. ,e have seen during the session and the incredible advances that are being made, driven by competition, in terms of advances very rapidly. in terms of the technology, argued lee not fast enough. that on the last -- argued lee not fast enough -- arguably not fast enough. but in the last year we can see that speed can lead to screw ups in aerospace engineering in terms of redundancy. so finding the right balance between those two is a challenge i'm curious what the panelists might comment on about what is going on and what the future thes, the role of nasa on one head of advocacy and on the other hand involved in dare i use the term regulation or providing that safeguard against a kind of disaster that would be iflow for the whole industry apposite, a mom

wisconsin's situation and i couldn't help when i lived there notice the rural communities of wisconsin viewed the w madison with suspicion thinking we wanted to take our kids away and you will not send them back home to the farm with eric on their gone. so come i tended to think part of it is we are going to have to broaden sort of our different theories of action here, the part of it is attending to a complicated set of clinical and economic dynamics. >> you are right there are complicated political economic dynamics but it also comes down to complications around a family dining room table and then the complicated emotions of fathers and mothers and daughters and a son's and uncles and grandparents and that's like hard to think about terms of the public policy like is the right policy to give more high achieving students out of those communities or not and i feel like that's where i think we have trouble, i mean, you are right there are great scholarships in that area, but i think we have trouble thinking about coming it's such a dynamic of so much of our politics today what's going on in these communitie

and scott walker loss to the governors race in wisconsin not civil because we organize in milwaukee and madison, but because we were organizing cross the state. he lost his edge across the state. he was losing in rural areas because we were able to close the gap there. our investments and organizing, our investments in border protection and in data and technology, 6000 people used our voter file last year. we are building an infrastructure and my job is to hand over an infra-structure to our nominee that is first rate. that is exact what we are doing. while you're right that the rnc out raises the dnc, they are morally bankrupt. and they are spending it to help roy moore. they're spending it to help donald trump and his legal defense fund. there spending it to help joe arpaio out in arizona. be my guest. what we are doing is raising enough money and working with our partners, so we can build that infrastructure that enabled us to win at scale in 2018. we got three governors races in 2019. where i feel very bullish about in kentucky, mississippi and louisiana. and then we are taking that momentu

. >>> book tv has live coverage of the wisconsin book festival from madison starting saturday at 11:30 eastern featuring former diplomat fair ra pandif. democratic political strategist donna brazil reflects on her career, author and national book festival literary director maria ronna provides a history of latin america and megan fephelp roper recounts growing up as a member of the baptist church. watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern, and be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and the miami book fair in november or book tv on c-span2. >>> amy mckinnon at our table this morning. she's with foreign policy magazine here to talk about ukraine and the origins of this impeachment inquiry. let's go back to 2014, 2015, 2016, obama administration. what is u.s. policy toward ukraine at this time? >> u.s. policy towards ukraine since ukraine's independent from the soviet union has been fairly consistent in pushing ukraine on anticorruption reform. that's been one of the corner stones of u.s. messaging in ukraine for decades, a

next saturday live from the wisconsin book festival in madison which anticipates over 15000 people inattendance. also next week and look for us at the boston festival hosting over 300 speakers. later in the month to know for the live coverage of the texas book festival in austin. and in november, the boston festival will take place around the city's inner harbor. for more information about upcoming book first and festivals and to watch the previous festival coverage click the book first tab on our website, booktv.org. here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books. topping the list is late migrations, new york times opinion writer memoir of her life in alabama into tennessee. then in the nickel boys, pulitzer prize winning author provides a fictional history of the jim crow era and the civil rights movement. in alfred lansing recalls the 1914 voyage into america. the three women the female sexuality. in wrapping up our look at some of the best-selling nonfiction books according to nashville's books is slouching towards bethlehem. the essays on america in the 1960s. some of

tv has live coverage of the wisconsin book festival from madison, starting saturday at 11:30 eastern,ng a former diplomat, offering her thoughts on combating terrorism. a democratic political strategist reflects on her career. director provides a history of latin america and megan phelps roper recounts growing up as a member of the westboro baptist church. watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival saturday, starting at 11:30 eastern. catch the texas book festival and the miami book festival on c-span. >> washington journal mugs are available at c-span's new online store. go to c-span.org and check out all of the c-span products. washington journal continues. host: delicate stacey plaskett at our table this morning, we thank you for being here. on the your thoughts passing of congressman elijah cummings and what it was like to serve with him on the oversight committee. thisr: this -- guest: would have been my third term with representative cummings on oversight and he really was a mentor to me in many ways. you have heard so many reflections from individuals in the past da

the boston book festival will welcome over 300 speakers, and we'll be live from the wisconsin book festival inned madison. and later in the month look for us in austin during our live coverage of the texas book festival. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch our previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab at our web site, booktv.org. >> on our monthly author call-in program, "in depth," journalist and historian evan thomas discussed his biography of richard nixon. >> i think it's the 13th nixon biography. there are a lot, so what was i going to say that was new. i was, this is going to sound kind of conceited, but it's -- i represent the east coast, you know, establishment press, you know? i'm not d my own politics are actually moderate. i'm not sure i have any politics, but i'm a type. i went to harvard, you know? i'm a type. and the type that nixon hated. nixon hated people like me. not personally, but he hated people like me. [laughter] and i thought it'd be interesting to try to reverse engineer this. in a sympathetic way, how did he see me, how did he see