on 41st street and lexington avenue, the heart of midtown manhattan, 21-year-old gregory mccullough,lege student and part-time tow truck driver, and his passenger, judith bailey, are stopped at a traffic light. they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> we were just having a casual conversation about, you know, life and things, our aspirations. the next thing you know, i hear boom. >> a surveillance camera shows what happened. at the top of the screen, out of nowhere, the street explodes as if a giant bomb goes off. >> you could see absolutely a terrorized expression on all these people's faces because they didn't know what it was. they probably thought it was a bomb in the subway system. >> with september 11th never far from new yorkers' minds, many think the explosion is another terrorist attack. >> yeah, you think it's terrorism. that's the first thought that goes through anybody's mind. >> people run for cover as the dirt, rock and asphalt blasts into the sky and rains down. and after the explosion, a nonstop gigantic geyser of steam shoots up nearly 80 stories, an incredi

but that is not the case because we have the great historian, one of my favorites, david mccullough,ill be joining us with "the wright brothers"! so, yes! (cheers and applause) what could be a better gift kicking off my final late shows, nothing better than talking to an historian non-fibbing writer. a great way to start the final run. but first, hard to do, but as a hard-hitting news program we turn to i.s.i.s. who has their own i.s.i.l or the worst people you've ever seen on youtube. >> i.s.i.s. is the biggest threat. >> i.s.i.s. is not your parents al quaida. >> jon: are you accusing my parents of being al quaida in that would not have gone over well at their temple. so what makes the f.b.i. think i.s.i.s. isn't lame like al quaida and doesn't drive an oldsmobile? >> the reason i.s.i.s. surpassed al quaida as a danger to the u.s. is because it has mastered twitter and other social media. >> the i.s.i.l tweeters in syria have 21,000 english language followers. >> ooh! 21,000! guess what? pink berry has 49,000. my guess, out of the 21,000 most is followback monday from deejays. >> i

maria: all right, a down year according to keith mccullough.&p 500 is negative. >> we should not be talking about this. maria: why are we hiding this? not a secret. >> rogers and goldman came long and they're doubling down. on the bounce we're nowhere near where we started yesterday. 2367 on the s&p. i would need to see 50 handles in the s&p 500 to get back above what i call trend resistance which is 2096. i don't think there is hope in hell by end of the week. maria: there is the chart and evidence there. busy times for the music industry this summer. taylor swift went head-to-head with apple over pay policy for streaming service. "forbes" magazine named katy perry number three on top celebrities list. the guardian reporting that facebook may be in early talks to start its own streaming service. the man who discovered katy perry and titan in his industry. jason flom. >> can i add that to my title, titan. maria: put that in the resume'. >> never mind presidency. i like titan. maria: what do you think about the whole issue taylor swift really br

>>host: recent edition of by the book david mccullough is in their. how do you choose questions? >> originally i that i would be very strict to ask the same but then realized that was an idiotic idea very quickly with the help of my former boss because if you have the first person who did that you will not ask them what is the funniest book you ever ratter the greatest comic writers you have to tailor to the author so that is the column i personally at it and write the questions myself. >>host: one of the questions was it who are his favorite presidential biographers strikeout could you not ask him of that? the you would not ask that of other. >> he puts a book out every couple years is that an automatic review? >> there are some that our pretty automatic maybe we don't think the latest thriller is with us but we know that their readers want to know that surges worthy of review not necessarily because of the quality i'm not saving david mccullough but we know will be of interest so the review may not be positive but it is worthy of attention. >>host: f you ever had a rare all rev

. >> when we met gerald mccullough at the river bend national security institution in nashville, tennessee was halfway through a 12-year sentence on a sexual offense charge. >> there's no way out. there's just nothing to do. this is just a total waste of someone's life. >> despite his pessimism, mccullagh had found a productive outlet to express his pain. ♪ they say it's raining in denver ♪ ♪ that it's really kind of cold ♪ ♪ but i'm just pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ how am i supposed to know >> shooting in a prison in nashville, the home of country music, we decided it would be great if we could find a country singer, and so we kind of made the call out to the other inmates and correctional officers, and they came up with mccullagh, and he turned out to be pretty good. ♪ said she never talked about me ♪ ♪ how it never did seem right ♪ i've been pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ weaving days and wasting nights ♪ >> writing music in prison is just my life. i don't sit down to write a song. something hits me, and my best songs come with about two minutes, in about two or three minutes i have an

virginia pilot reports the head of the virginia national guard advised mccullough of other soldiers. >>> temperatures in the 60s and 70s this morning. but will you need the air on for your drive to work? tom is back with the forecast. >>> look at this video. a dramatic rollover crash caught on camera this morning. we're learning what may have played a huge role in had that accident. >>> you probably know how your kids feel about >>> welcome back. dramatic surveillance video this morning showing a truck hitting a telephone pole, flipping over and smashing into a car dealership. this happened saturday night in salisbury massachusetts. police say the driver was going 80 90 miles an hour at the time. that driver faces several charges now including driving while drunk and destruction of property. >>> students are relieved they'll no longer be required to take midterm exams. and many said it uses less of their class time spent on test prep. other teachers worry students will miss out on learning. teachers can still choose to get comprehensive tests. the tests will be one of many measures c

but, you know, david mccullough is a fantastic author. he does a great job of bringing history alive. so whether it's that book or john adams or some of the others that he's written i look forward to spending some great time this summer doing that. additionally cheryl atkinson her book "stone walled" is fascinating when it comes to really holding our government accountable. serving on the oversight committee, it provides a new light as we start to see some of the things that are done or not done as it relates to holding our government accountable and transparent. so it looks like it's going to be a fun summer as we look to round it up, and so i would encourage all of you to get out and read a good book. my particular emphasis is looking at historical books of great leaders of the past. >> booktv wants to know what you're reading this summer. tweet us your answer @booktv or you can post it on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> and now on booktv, "in depth" with author peter schweizer. the author of several books including his newest

keith mccullough is with us, former chrysler at home depot p.o.ob barr delhi on why china matters as investors. this story is moving seriously, back in a minute. maria: china's stock market taking the nosedive dropping 6% and what does that mean for investors at home? and keith mccullough and chrysler, author gordon chang, the coming collapse of china and with us on the phone. welcome to the conversation. thanks for joining us. your takeaway on the joy and a sell-off? >> these guys are slowing at an accelerating rate on an economic basis, without new news but in the market. with the chinese tried to do which they should do is try to liquify or get their markets into a place americans have really taught them to but now we have a problem that the markets go down so the market is down 6% overnight but it is down 32% in the last month and this is a big problem and relative to greece china is a huge economic engine. maria: more and dreamed trillion dollars in market value loss. certainly lose greece down. a couple billion dollars of debt, greece has to

without argument he is you can argue david mccullough if you want to as the best narrative nonfiction writer alive. [applause] he is also a terrific human being and you are unfortunately have to listen. the first time we have ever had a conversation that did not involve cocktails. >> that is true. >> so we may not be as normally fun as we normally are but we hope to be. right now does lusitania you describe as a floating villages and steel i will not concentrate much as you'll have 50 minutes to ask questions we have specific questions but to talk more of the process. you are now in what you call the dark country of the new ideas. >> that is not a term that i came up with but my good friend came up with that to describe the period with i am looking for my next book idea because i'd like other writers, when i finished a book i have nothing else on my plate so i start from scratch and that could be a long process typically it could be one year before start the next project that i am to see and snappish and pissy. [laughter] >> host: you need something to attract your attention? >> mostl

was it -- i want to talk about this, because in recent years there has been my thanks to david mccullough and tom hanks, there has been a revitalization of adams. was fdr, the focus on talk radio, they would say it was bolshevik, but was there to the jefferson rule, was there another kind of rule that could be legitimately couched in historical times? david sehat: i don't think so. hamilton and jefferson are often the two founding fathers that are contrasted and in the popular imagination, jefferson is a small government republican and hamilton is the big government, democrat. this was in the 1790's or whatever. but the problem there is that that imperfectly works, because it is a vastly different era and if you go back to what hamilton was talking about, in many ways, it was supporting capitalism. he was at the beginning of this capitalist revolution and the industrial revolution and so in a sense he looks like a republican, and another sense he is not. if you look at jefferson, in many ways he is an agrarian, sometimes very anti-capitalist. i get concerned when people want to bring thes

stone by people like david mccullough. robert carroll they are reaching out. they are reaching out to a broad public audience in a way that i think has made history more and more relevant and more more importance to a broader audience. but i regret to say it's not my academic colleagues who are doing this. peter: i'm going to disagree with you little. i think a lot of things that come out. a good academic run as a thousand copies. but, i think there's a real synergy between academic historians in public historians. i think there's a place for that focused narrow work, i think of some of these other scholars are building upon what scholars are doing down in the trenches. i agree with your point, much of what we see especially in scholarly journals unfortunately does not resonate or connect with the public. i'll even take a step further, you are good example of this. i will know when you brought your first fencing class to gettysburg i think that it had a profound impact on your thinking about the common soldier, it also led to activism and no reservation. you a

keith mccullough, chris christie officially in a race back in the u.s. does he have a realistic shot at the white house, that is next, back in a moment. maria: welcome back, very busy morning this wednesday. we continue to watch markets on news out of greece which is changing news out of greece where the government is reportedly ready to settle on lenders terms in the debt crisis. we are looking at a rally across the world and expecting a one 50 point rally in the u.s.. new jersey governor chris christie made his run for the white house official yesterday. the outspoken chris christie promising not to change his brash political style as he seeks country's highest office. >> i am not looking to be the most popular guy who looks in your eyes everyday and tries to figure out what you want to hear, say it and turn around and do something else. when i stand on a stage like this in front of all of you, there's one thing you will note for sure, i mean what i say and i said what i mean and that is what america needs right now. maria: jerry baker, what is your ta

the great historian david mccullough and many others have written about it. combating malaria and how much machinery was needed to accomplish that. all in the name of america and monroe doctrine, supremacy in the hemisphere, and our big navy, and be able to protect our borders. theodore roosevelt was a great leader as president because he knew how to manipulate the press. and he would tell every reporter he saw, your article was the best thing i've ever read! because he knew how the egos of writers and all they wanted to do -- you can't hate a president, just write your stuff and lined it. and also he was a genius with cartoonists. he would bring cartoonists with him everywhere. and in fact, one of the bits of bravery in leadership of t.r. was right when he came into the white house, he invited booker t. washington to dinner. and this was scandalous. the south was up in arms and an african-american not only was sitting in the white house dining with the president, but had his legs next to a white woman, edith, the first lady's legs. and scathing, racist, bigo

charles mccullough said in a letter to congress that some of clinton's emails should have been handledsified and sent on a secure network. today clinton addressed the "we all have a responsibility to get this right. i have released 55k pages of emails. i have said repeatedly that i will answer to get the facts right" two inspectors general have department to open a criminal sensitive government information with clinton's account. who conduct audits, investigations and inspections in the agencies for which they're responsible. president obama arrived in nairobi, kenya today after a 17- hour flight. it's his first visit as a little girl in a white dress then he attended a big family reunion and dinner. the president is expected to attend a global summit and then head to ethiopia. the federal government has opened an investigation into whether four airlines drove up prices after the deadly amtrak train derailment in philadelphia in may. "begin the process of uncovering whether in fact the airlines response to this incident and created a challenge for consumers." reports of airline fee hik

and there's a good deal of, i think, jealousy in the academic world of people like david mccullough, who have a large readership. and it's our own fault. we're writing for one another, and we've become very narrow and very specific. there's a place for that, too, but at the same time, i think we have an obligation to reach a large readership, as well. c-span: go back to your comment about your peers not liking the fact that newt gingrich was heralding your book. there are conservatives watching this program that are saying "yeah, that's what's wrong with academia. they're not the slightest bit interested in the other side." >> guest: well, there is, of course, and has been over the last, well, maybe 30 years, a good deal of criticism of ourselves. it's self-criticism. i don't think that's wrong. i think any democracy, any healthy democracy has to have a certain amount of self-criticism, and that often takes the form, for historians of writing critically about the past. i think there can be excesses in that, and i think people who say that the american revolution was a failure are mak

. >> governor markell and governor mccullough. >> virginia is one of those states where we have not closed the gap. we forfeit about one billion a year. we are working to find a bipartisan way to get it done and i want to thank you and your office. you have been spectacular. to help us come up with creative ideas. we were successful on the state mile for innovation. this is driving innovation in virginia. i am wondering, what is the possibility for continued funding for these types of grants to help us to the reforms at the state level? >> we do not have a plan for round three. we have already done round two. one of the conversations that is happening right now, an important conversation then not much attention is paid to much now, you are all focused on a transportation conversation, which is another important one. but another important one that is important to all states as well as the nation is the actual budget conversation. i think you all know, that right now current law is at a sequestered level. and for those at the hhs, it is some of the lowest funding and over a decade. some of t

david mccullough could not write the books that he writes without having access to historical newspapers even from the colonial period. they're rich. they give you characterization of individuals. it is the stuff of making heroes and villains and even our historical narratives. but the bottom line is that the ease which we can key word search information strips us of the time it takes to search for things the old-fashioned way which produces serendipitously new kinds of information. you always find much more than when you're looking for when you don't key word search. >> who is langston hughes? >> langston hughes is the greatest black poet of all time and one of the world's greatest poets. his work here is read by ozzie davis. langston hughes is also someone who for who years used this library and hadn't mat relationship with the libraries at the time, so much so, 25 years after his passing in 1967 he returned to this library which was started in the 1920s and permanently inturned his ashes are -- entered his ashes are part of the main floor of the lobby that is named for langston hughes

>>james: mccullough called the maps again conceded glance what the general sentiment was in terms of intensity the blue and the very like purple the all advocates like to week shaking event of a majority of the bay area of reports of the in-yes. >>james: it was fairly moderate feeling for at least him and his house right there they felt a lot stronger than they did and he went farther and farther out from the center that is with the usgs reported this morning over 5000 people reported feeling the only it was a minor earthquake because it was solid enough in occurred under a pretty popular in the area a lot of people reported feeling upset. >>james: relatively mild even down their loss and was with had a lot of brand associative former hurricane dolores eliza of walnut creek this is five minutes ago we had some pretty good sunbeams coming down and the many parts of interstate 680, because -- in front of the sun once again also tracking overcast and this sfo the clouds just low enough to conceal just over the control tower. >>james: about 15 minutes delayed because of the low visibilit

with me is sandra smith and keith mccullough.alking about football this morning, roger goodell of holding his four game suspension of superstar quarterback brady saying steroid use appears as the closest parallel to brady's alleged infraction of deflating football's, something the patriot say the nfl has no proof of. keep an eye on twitter, shares are plummeting this morning. the social media giant beat expectations offering a dismal outlook for user growth. >> the product remains too difficult to use. maria: anthony says the conference call he does not expect to see any meaningful growth in the size of twitter's audience for a considerable time. facebook reported earnings after the bell, higher expectations, rave reviews for microsoft's latest versions of windows with additional desktop windows apps as well as new universal apps download in the windows for, critics reporting some bugs within the system but the start menu on the system is hailed as a big win. we talk with vice president of windows and devices in our 8:00 a.m. eas

david mccullough discusses the birth of flight in the right brothers. a look at the best-selling books continues with president jimmy carter's recalling of his life and career in the full life. next they discuss the hidden biases of the criminal justice system. wrapping up the bestseller, the double agent for the united states in how to catch a russian spy. that's a look at some of the best-selling nonfiction. >> book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading the summer. >> i decided to reread a book i read 20 years ago entitled the monk who sold his ferrari. it's written by robin sharma. it's a nice little fable about a lawyer who is a very successful trial lawyer who has him massive heart attack in the middle of a trial and goes to nepal to search for the meaning of life and comes back and teaches everyone that the meaning of life is to help others. i also started reading a book by stephen ambrose. we re- watched saving private ryan and that wanted me to read the book d-day. i heard evan thomas talking about a b