. >> what i am reading this summer number one is of great war correspondent named michael hulu takes on a wild and hellish firsthand tour of the neighborhoods where has blood wells in and around lebanon with confront neighbors coming in the middle of the 2006 war against the group. it is the thrill ride i cannot put it down doing impeccable work and is a brave on the of ground a journalist. another book i have been dying to get to that will take out my the time is the legacy of islamic anti-semitism by a of a friend of mine a preeminent expert on islam. last, power and face and fantasy by israel ambassador and he wrote to before he was ambassador but a history of american involvement in the middle east and very timely. >> it. >> i see a few new faces will come to the veterans who are joining us again to the last session of our conversation this year. two briefly go over the way we will do things, another reminder what c-span will do too that. this is supposed to be a conversation i will do everything in my power to guarantee it is so. the format is we begin with a conversation betwee