please welcome megan phelps-roper.was thinking about you when we first learned we were booking you i remember being your reporter in chicago and covering your family's church outside of a church that had come up in support of same-sex marriage. i'd never seen such hateful signs and rhetoric it reminded me of what it was a kid seeing the lynching to pictures of african-americans in the south. just the things that children were curing. there were one of kids. >> yes. when i was five years old my family started protesting gaze at a local park but almost immediately it grew from there. we started protesting anybody who came out in support of any same-sex relationship. people who sit and think against our message we believed that it was the word of god, the unquestionable infallible word of god and it was our duty to be out there preaching these things. i was taught that this is what it meant to love our neighbor my family was quong bible verses in support of all of this from the bible we would men rise these verses. >> tam

megan phelps-roper, everyone. [applause] >> good evening, everyone and thank you so much of a new tonight. my name is megan phelps-roper, and i grew up in a very tightknit family in topeka, kansas. i am the third of 11 children, three girls and eight boys, i would live on a street with dozens of relatives in surrounding houses. just across our backyard was a church we tended every sunday when my grandfather had been the only pastor since its inception in the the 1950s. my mom stamina was vocally talented and the hymns that rang out often gave me chills, or passionate praises to god for his mercy and grace echoing off of the low ceilings and into my welcoming ears. i grew up out of my family. my grandfather had been a well-known civil rights activist, a lawyer from the 1960s-1980s and it won awards from civil rights groups like the naacp in my family had suffered for that work not just the constant vandalism but the physical attacks on my grandfathers elementary school aged children but that never stopped him from t

and i'm here to welcome her, megan phelps-roper or. [applause] >> good evening, everyone, and thank you as much for being here tonight. my name is megan phelps roper, and i grew up in a very tight-knit family in topeka, kansas. i am the third of 11 children, 3 girls and 8 boys, and we lived on a tree-lined street with dozens of other relatives. my grandfather had been the only pastor since the church's inception in the 1950s. my mom's family was vocally talented, and the hymns often gave me chills. their passionate praises to god for his mercy and grace into my welcoming ears. i grew up proud of my family. my grandfather had been a well known civil rights activist, a lawyer from the 19690s to the 1980s and had won awards from civil rights groups like the naacp. my family had suffered for that work. not just the constant vandalism, but the physical attacks on my grandfather's elementary school-aged children, but that never swayed them from the commitment to racial justice. when i was 5 years old, a new era of my family's legacy began, an

and donna brazile and literary director marie arana and megan-phelps-roper. watch her live coverage on saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern. be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and miami book fair in november on book booktv c-span 2. the poll shows that just over a third of americans believe in person voter fraud is a problem and just as many disagreed. republicans at 44% are more likely to believe it is an issue. than our democrats and independence. it does not reach a majority among any of those groups. almost half of americans believe that voter discrimination is still a problem in the united states while a quarter disagreed. there is nearly a 50-point

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

we want to thank megan phelps-roper for sharing her incredible journey.also want to, i have to say this, thank you to the men and women who serve our country whose families had to sit there and watch their loved ones funerals be protested. we are here with you as well. thank you megan. "unfollow: a memoir of loving and leaving the westboro baptist church" is available and members of our audience, you are all going home with a copy of the book. [applause] up next we are going to meet one of america's youngest legend players come is he a part of the future? the future including living in his mom's basement while running for office. that's when you have to see it when we right back. we are talking with truck superstar alec del mike ellis and felix. she says she's being punished for being pregnant. now she's working to change the double standard for women in sports and beyond on the next "tamron hall" " >> tamron: every day someone is saying where's the government going, what is happening around here. apparently it's going to the kids if we are lucky. our nex

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 states house of representatives. >> nancy pelosi is the most powerful woman in american political history. >> that characterize the strength -- >> he has been speaker of the house not once but twice. and chief critic of donald trump. >> that is the way you clap when your hus

. >>> in a brand-new memoire "unfollow," megan phelps-roper describes how she decided to leave the churchtboro church in 2012 with her sister. a small congregation made up of 80 people, nearly all family members and even though her family disowned her when she left the church, she still loves them and hopes they'll leave westboro as well. >> i thought we were just telling the truth of god and, you know, doing our duty to love our neighbor and these people hated us for it. >> reporter: megan phelps-roper grew up on the picket lines of one of the most infamous and influential churches in america, westboro baptist church. since she was a little girl she listened to the rhetoric that the church claimed as the word of god and others dubbed hate speech. >> louder, ladies. >> reporter: they protested homosexuality, other religions and famously were present at the funerals of military soldiers. >> it was just this very simple understanding of, well, this is -- this dead soldier is a curse from god because of this nation's sins. >> stand there with your [ bleep ] sign. >> reporter: counterproteste

and in unfollow, megan phelps roper chronicles growing up as a member of the westboro baptist church. richard dawkins challenges the world's religions in outgrowing god. fox news' gregg jarrett in witch hunt. astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson provides answers to the questions on the cosmos that he's received from people around the world in letters from an astrophysicist. and in antisocial, andrew morans argued that the alt-right has exploited the internet to promote extremist views. look for these titles in bookstores and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and author it is every weekend. booktv, television for series readers. >> here are some programs to watch out for this weekend. our "after words" guest is washington times national security column bill gertz. of he'll discuss china's efforts to become an economic superpower. on sunday we'll be live of with journalist and best selling author naomi kline for our monthly call-in program "in depth." she'll answer your questions. also on s

megan-phelps-roper. watch her live coverage on saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern. be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and miami book fair in november on book booktv c-span 2. the poll shows that just over a third of americans believe in person voter fraud is a problem and just as many disagreed. republicans at 44% are more likely to believe it is an issue. than our democrats and independence. it does not reach a majority among any of those groups. almost half of americans believe that voter discrimination is still a problem in the united states while a quarter disagreed. there is nearly a 50-point gap between republicans and da democrats on that question. 24% of republicans and democrats agree voter discrimination is still an issue. you can read the full results on cspan.org. >> mick mulvaney announced the next g-7 summit will be held at one of president trump's golf resorts. mulvaney was asked of the decision to withhold military aide from ukraine. >> hey guys. first thing's first. i want to comment on mr. cummin cummings' passing. i was in congres

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 natural gas. brought his glass company to toledo and opened a plant on ash street in north toledo. it's on the same site today. the glass industry was big and important into in toledo once did that. as the economy changed and things evolved we started building other things also. about

[applause] i couldn't be more pleased toeie introducing megan phelps-roper for book "unfollow." we were talking in the back, her discussion of life in the religious community, doubt, i decide to leave or stay at how you defend yourself in this context is oneen of those conversations that we need to be having so much me

director provides a history of latin america and megan phelps roper recounts growing up as a member oftboro 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 day and the thing that stands out so much about him is he was a man of god. people talk about the fact that both of his parents for sharecroppers and they came to baltimore, he was born and raised there, but what is more important to know

and in unfollow, megan phelps roper chronicles growing up as a member of the westboro baptist church. also being published this week, richard dawkins explains why he became an atheist in "outgoing god." fox news' gregg jarrett argues the i mueller investigation was weaponized to hurt president trump in witch hunt. neil degrasse tyson provides answers to questions on the cosmos that he was received in "letters from an astrofizz vis." 9 and andrew me rants argues about the alt-right. watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> booktv recently went up to capitol hill to ask members of congress about their reading lists. >> congressman congressman gerry from virginia's 11th congressional district, what are you reading? >> well, i've read a lot of really wonderful books. the one i'm reading right now is max hastings new book on the history of the vietnam war from 1945-1975. this is terrific. i'm not yet finished with it, but i'm getting close, and it, i mean, it's just gripping x. a lot of it is also told from the vietnamese point of view, both the viet cong a

megan phelps roper recounts growing up as a member of the westboro baptist church. live coverage of the wisconsin book festival saturday at 11:30 a.m. eastern. be sure to catch the texas book festival in october. on book tv on c-span two. washington journal mugs are available at c-span's new online store. go to c-span store.org. check out the washington journal mugs and see all of the c-span products. >> washington journal continues. votedyesterday, the house 354-60, with 129 republicans joining democrats to oppose the presidents withdrawal from syria. we want you to let us know what you think about this debate. here is eliot engel. during the debate, he drafted this bipartisan proposal with mike mccall, who is the wrecking republican on the homeland security committee. [video clip] >> what kind of message does this send to the world? how can america be trusted to keep its word and we disc -- when you betray one of our close partners, loyal and faithful partners? just throw them out like an old shoe. how can america be trusted to keep its word when we make impulsive

megan phelps roper recounts growing up as a member of the westborough baptist church.valnsin book saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern, and be sure to catch the texas book festival in november on book tv on c-span two. "washington journal" continues." host: jennifer cafarella is here to talk about the u.s. withdrawal from syria. let's begin with the key players in the region. who are they and what has been happening before the president made this decision? guest: the key players include turkey, which has invaded northeastern syria, as well as the turkish military. we have a large body of turkish proxy forces which are the main forces conducting the offensive on the ground. this includes members of the syrian opposition, members of the free syrian army, some of which who have had a historic relationship with the united states. host: they are against bashar al-assad. guest: which makes this a complicated operation because turkey is building a counter assad force, but using that to fight the american local partner in the east. iskey's reason for fighting its leadership is kurdi

provides a history of latin america and megan phelps roper has a member of the westboro baptist church. today starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern. and be sure to catch of the texas the texas book festival in october. here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books. according to a room of one's own bookstore. topping the list is the collected schizophrenia. the essays on mental illness. and then american singer songwriter recounts her life and career in horror stories. after that in the book of gutsy women hillary and chelsea clinton share their thoughts on the women who have inspired them. 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 th