i'm your host today, bob deans, and our guest is michael duffy, co-author of the new book "the preacher and the presidents." it's a book about billy graham and his unique relationship with 11 presidents. billy graham has spoken face to face to more people than anyone in history, more than 200 million, but 11 are or very special because he developed an intimate relationship with every president many modern time going back to harry truman. and with us today to talk about this book is michael duffy who is a veteran reporter with "time" magazine. he is known in this town as the ultimate insider. he is the reporter who knows the back story on the big story. he is a man who is very well sourced and has a reputation in "time" for being self-effacing, very witty and a man who would sit with his co-author, nancy gibbs, in the bureau and come up with these astounding cover stories, more than 100 of them to their credit, in a mysterious process that no one else quite understands. [laughter] so i want to get to that in a minute, but first, welcome to the show. welcome to "after words," michael, and

michael duffy. >> and msnbc contributor, kasie hunt. >> it's also -- kasie -- what are republicans thinking on capitol hill when they did pretty well in the last government shutdown. shifted the blame to democrats. it was the schumer shutdown. democrats panicked, pulled back. now we're moving towards a new shutdown and the president of the united states is saying i would love a government shutdown. republicans, what say they? >> they say they're not interested in a government shutdown. and for who wants it? actually feels like capitol hill is getting somewhere. i mean chuck schumer, mitch mcconnell seemed to be relatively on the same page. they're talking about this big major budget deal, they've been governing from crisis to crisis, for so long this would clear the detection for two years. let them actually set those levels. it had been all tied up with immigration. democrats after the shutdown said okay, fine, we're going to try and strike this deal. this could likely keep the government open this

i'm your host today, bob deans, and our guest is michael duffy, co-author of the new book "the preacher and the presidents." it's a book about billy graham and his unique relationship with 11 presidents. billy graham has spoken face to face to more people than anyone

also nancy gibbs and michael duffy discussing their book the presidents club, and francis collins talking genome project and how it is important to medical research. you can find these interviews online at www.c-span.org. >> monday on c-span's landmark cases, they look at the supreme court case mcculloch versus maryland, which solidified the federal government's ability to take actions not specifically mentioned in the constitution. we explore this with university associate law professor farah peterson and another guest. live monday at 9:00 eastern on c-span, www.c-span.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app. for background on each case, order a copy of the landmark cases companion book for 895 plus shipping and handling at www.c-span.org. there's a link on our website to the national constitution center's interactive constitution. >> at the british house of commons this last week, prime minister theresa may was asked to comment on the humanitarian crisis in syria and also took questions about the anti-sexual-harassment policy, marijuana legalization, and funding for police. this i

political reporter heidi prisbella and joining the conversation coauthor of "the president's club" michael duffyaffairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. >> something fascinating is happening. the new york post obviously a murdoch-owned newspaper and a paper that obviously donald trump, it's the first one that he reads every morning, the murdoch paper has been pushing a more rational approach to background checks and trying to put pressure on the president or encourage the president to move forward. and i want to show the inside here because it is fascinating because donald trump is moving on the possibility of background checks, doing something on background checks. but you look across the top, and the headline across the post, how many times, how many times. andrea, there is no one in the media that donald trump respects, reveres more than rupert murdoch. and it appears rupert murdoch is a very important voice here and appears to be having an impact on the president. >> they did a big editor equal, as well. he has a vehicle. the cornin intil a bill with bipart

michael hom, i want to clarify under pinning and shoring. we will not be doing under pinning. we will be doing shoring. so like joe duffy mentioned that we're doing alternating sections, having each section shored up with a planter box method approach. that is what we will be doing. drawings for shoring have been developed. it was shared with both the engineer as well as architect and a feedback from both the architect and engineer for the neighbors were good. it's fine. but the difference is actually going underneath the neighbor's building and providing a new foundation support below the neighbor's building. shoring would be doing it in sections with the planter box method alternating probably a, b, c. so that is what we are doing, shoring. thank you. that's to clarify. >> just to clarify -- >> are you finished with your presentation? >> yeah. >> okay. good. >> i forgot my question. i'm just kidding. so at any point, is your foundation lower than theirs where you're doing it? how is the topography of it. >> so existing -- both of our foundations along john and carol's building, we're at about 7 feet to 7.5 feet ceilin