at the top of the list in its debut week is the latest book from marc levin, the liberty amendment. he proposes amendments to the u.s. constitution. zealous is second, the book is a biography of jesus of nazareth. the dynasty, reality tv star phil roberts and is there with his autobiography happy happy happy followed by cheryl sandberg's been in. she is the chief operating officer of facebook, offers career advice to women. at number 5, willie and corley robertson look at the reality show the duck dynasty in the duck commander family. chief national correspondent for the new york times magazine mark leibowitz examined the inner workings of washington d.c. in his book this town. the booktv book club will be reading this book for the month of september. the discussion begins sept. third and an online question and answer session will take place later in the month. follow us on twitter at booktv for more details. number 7, scott anderson provides an in-depth look at the arab revolt in his book lorenz in arabia, war of deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern middle east. eliz

she did a story about that and marc levin of the landmark foundation put in a request to the treasurytax administration to audit this and whether they responded to his request or not the oversight committee asked they did do the audit and the audit broke this open and that is the story we're following. charles: listening to the lowest lerner peace itself like there was a mad scramble to -- reaction to the landmark supreme court decision that they thought of the different agencies that probably could handle that and felt like maybe the irs could figure out a way to intervene. >> that is a possible hypothesis but she mischaracterized citizens united. it says corporations have free-speech, did not say they can contribute publicly to political campaigns. john roberts rose the opinion and president obama went up in the state of the union address that year and mischaracterized it the same way and sam all the no sitting in front of him said the words not true. this points possibly to a reason or incentive the irs had to do what it did but the most important thing we found out since congress

january 5, radio talk-show host and judicial activist, marc levin, in death every sunday of the monthn both tv on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back and we are going to open up the phone lines for the next 20 minutes. unfortunately we were having technical issues with the studio in houston, so john hofmeister, former president of john -- of shell oil, who was supposed to be our guest, unfortunately we cannot have him on. we will try to reschedule for that again. for those of you who have been calling in so far, we have talked about egypt and the president temporarily suspending military aid for that country. any public policy issue that you would like to address is on the table. republicans, -- for republicans, 202-585-3881. for democrats, 202-585-3880. for independents, 202-585-3882. you can send us a tweet, twitter.com/c-spanwj, or post your comments on facebook, or e- mail your comments as well. earlier we told you that the senior correspondent for the daily beast broke this story. his source is senator patrick they, who heads up subcommittee that seas -

budget cuts so joining me today to discuss this is the always outspoken person mark levine host of the inside scoop marc thanks for stopping by good to be here is always so let's talk about this i mean the results of a recent gallup poll show that fifty fifty four percent of americans claim they didn't know enough about the sequester and could you say exactly what is going on with that what's up with the sequester deal basically the sequester is doing is it sacrificing our long term needs for short term gains republicans want to say they've cut the deficit so what are they cutting they're cutting fixing bridges they can collapse or cutting building airports or cutting building high speed trains in every. european capital london paris rome you go there you could take a train right from the airport to the heart of the business center not new york not los angeles we have twentieth century technology we need twenty first and that's the stuff that republicans want to cut so how are we going to get there how are we going to get to this twenty first century technology with all these looming budget cuts well we