and mrs. bush who loves the outdoors and loves flowers and plants and natural landscapes and the national parks always looked to mrs. johnson as an example of, you know, someone who so appreciated our natural beauty. and mrs. bush would say, you know, people would look at mrs. johnson and say oh she loved flowers. but really what she was our nation's first conservationist first lady. so i think that her preference -- and once of the personal recollections of i have mrs. johnson is seared in my memory for the rest of my life, is mr. johnson, rob, who we heard from last night on the descendants panel, but linda had called me when i was chief of staff to mrs. bush, and had said i'm bringing my mother back to washington for what i know will be her last time to see some of her friends. of course, we know she had a stroke. she wasn't speaking. she was in a wheelchair, but she was still very vibrant. and she said, do you think we can come to the white house? well, i knew instinctually mrs. bush's reaction

and so mrs. bush had made sure that any of the resident's staff that were still working in the white house that had been there in the johnson time were there to greet mrs. johnson at the diplomatic reception room door when she stepped in. and in addition, one of the butlers that had worked for the johnsons, mr. german, was now a part-time elevator operator, operated the president's elevator in the white house, just a few days a week, mrs. bush made sure that he was there and that he was the one that greeted mrs. johnson when the door was opened of the car for her to get out. and the way that mrs. johnson reached up in recognition to embrace mr. german and how he embraced her, is really would just make you weep. but would also, the two last things that i'll just say about mrs. johnson's visit, her last visit to the white house, is, mrs. bush wheeled her into the vermeil room on the ground floor, which had just been repainted under one of the restoration projects that mrs. bush did, thanks to the white

for the benefit of the committee, i think mr. bush, over the weekend, circulated an e-mail relating to a topic, and i had requested that the members not respond to mr. bush's e-mail because we had been told by the city attorney's office that an e-mail being circulated to all members may be deemed to be a public meeting of sorts. so can i please request the city attorney's office to comment on that and to train us as to what we should or should not be doing if one member is circulating an entire e-mail soliciting discussion on a topic to all members. >> this is mark blake, deputy city attorney. i think that the issue really is just kind of more of a process of it. it's okay for members to circulate commentary as long as it goes through your work or your secretary, and that that document be made available at your next meeting and it's a source of discussion at the meeting, but there should not be back and forth between the committee members about that item prior to the meeting. i think a direct communication in some ways promotes kind o

and i had the honor speaking at mrs. bush's funeral a few months ago because this is the scene of this is what she had in mind with humility. and she said it's you and that is hard to argue with. and then to use existentialism as a macro. way to go. [laughter] and then i said yes ma'am this is the way the world are supposed to work. they are supposed to admire you. and then to bring back john grisham's latest. [laughter] so i signed it. and that there is a forged copy of the runaway jury but so that was a saturday like today so i left the book festival.on the plane and whitey my biography at the time and flew to maine. and for some reason that was almost unheard of because that view of life was one long reunion mixer. when he would be more interested in the oak ridge boys other than the pope. mrs. bush looked across the table i am expecting motherly reassurance. she said how do you think poor john grisham would feel? he is a very handsome man. [laughter] it was not a good weekend for me. but i am thrilled to be here which i am

i'm so glad you mentioned mrs. bush. librarians have strong affinity, the first first lady to be a librarian and she started a book festival in texas when she was first lady of texas and when she became the first lady of the nation, she started the national book festival, we hope she will be able, when we have an anniversary coming up. >> are you looking at the 20s? >> guest: we are looking at the 20th. in washington dc, the state book festivals are being replicated. the mississippi book festival was modeled after texas, different state are having. we have a lot to be grateful for. >> host: booktv covers several of those book fairs live throughout the year. doctor carla hayden, what is on your reading list currently? >> guest: i had the papers of different authors that are coming. i have john meacham's book, amy tam, a personal font. some of the other authors that i want to make sure i touch on. i have a basket of books that i am reading. >> host: book 2 would be -- booktv will be live at the convention ctr. september 1s

. >> my observation, mr. bushhat while -- while the points you make are worthy to be explored. i also heard mr. carlson's comments reminding this committee our very specific function as related to what, you know -- relating to our responsibility. so i -- my comment and my take is that while these may be varied issues, and the timing, mr. bush, you mentioned, i think this may be a time for the city -- some aspects of city government to be looking at this, but i don't really think goboc is the best vehicle to explore these because our mandate is very specific. so i think if you have a wish to explore these changes to c.s.a.'s function, this -- this is not the right venue to do so. i think you go to the board of supervisors to change these -- these responsibilities or to increase these additional aspects of audit and performance done by the controller's office. >> i don't see anything in the charter that precludes us from taking these steps. i think that you're taking a very limited view of what the language -- i don

an attorney for mr. bush revealed the decision in this letter to the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. senate minority leader chuck schumer reacted swiftly, declaring, we're witnessing a friday night document massacre. adding, it has all the makings of a cover up. but majority leader mitch mcconnell said the outrage is unfounded. >> so far i believe the only senators who have met with this nominee and didn't have negative things to say about him were democrats who had already announced beforehand they were going to oppose him. >> reporter: the chairman of the judiciary committee, senator chuck grassley released a statement supporting the decision to hold some recor d pvided numbers of how many kavanagh-related documents have been turned over. more than 400,000, the most of recent supreme couar lines. >> senor g very fair, more documents given than any person in the supreme court. >> it is not normal because we are not able to see 100,000 documents that the archivist because the administration said w

the same as it was the bush in you they say mr bush was. a what does that say. it was just a list of the slopes listed when using your phrase in the water when you sit in your cell as opposed to pollution is a. good. a waste in human you to do little good reason you know it in the wilderness they and me and as many of you know dumbass i will. post the system i think. this is and i'm yours and president that i bushel thing is going to eventually you will still at the appraisal out of a socialist slush a chicago the people's growing discontent made ukraine more vulnerable to outside forces and a new kind of warfare was launched one not known before the color revolutions. illustrators clashed with police hundreds of thousands protesting the results of the election and calling for a new vote. ukraine has had to color revolutions in its twenty four years of independence in two thousand and four crowds of people descended upon kiev marking the start of the orange revolution. at that time ukraine became once again a battlefield of two forces the russian and western gov

remember watching the alito hearings in my office and seeing seeing martha alito crying and then mrs. bush calling her and saying, it is going to be ok. this is politics. this is what people who go into public service unfortunately have to put themselves through. i hope that it doesn't keep people from being willing to serve their government. when you hit a crisis in a nomination, of course it is important for all hands to be on deck. everybody needs to be in the room together. it is a war room situation. but, the one thing that has been absolutely consistent, both from the white house and that dr. ford should be heard. the other point is that brett kavanaugh has said i want to uphold my integrity. host: again, twitter available to you if you want to ask our guest questions. you can do that by reaching out on our twitter feed @cspanwj. if you want to call (202) , 748-8000 if you support judge kavanaugh, (202) 748-8001 if you support professor ford, and if you're not sure, (202) 748-8002. again, our guest is anita mcbride and she served with judge kavanaugh on the bush administration and is

i had a chance to talk to him and tell him how much i love him and loved mrs. bush.t is a generation that will be missed. they were people who understood kindness and humility and gentility. they made their mistakes most certainly, but when you think about that family and what george h.w. bush did as a public servant, it makes you think of a wonderful time for our country. david: bill clinton defeated your boss. were you shocked by the outcome? condoleezza: i had already gone back to stanford and became provost. i was surprised. he had done what he needed to do. i don't think there will ever be a full accounting of how much it was the way that he did the diplomacy at the end of the cold war with respect for gorbachev, never humiliating the soviet union, not dancing on the wall. one of the last things gorbachev did before he went out to sign the paper that would collapse the soviet union and allow borris yeltsin to become president of the russian federation, he called george h.w. bush and said, we did good things, didn't we? history will judge us well. i said to presi

one man in shoes thousands took to the streets to protest but i think that the biggest problem but mr bush is his great conflict of interest he owns big businesses he owns media must media from your posts start out as you did we fear there could be a dictatorship or that in a thorough tarion regime we'll take our joint to put it that's not had that you're already into it with no bill. rather presents a legal documents which he says acknowledges that a group for its acquisition of his land and stalls wasn't legal but it also says rather launched his claim too late so nothing's changed. about appeal the decision of course and the vicious cycle continues but i won't give up our keep fighting. the farmer still on some land stalls and trucks which he's painted this one says in large letters that publishes a liar. now what was your first car if you ask people living in the croatian town of. you would probably. get the same answer our mercedes when croatia workers streamed into germany during the economic boom years half a century ago they fell in love with the bride and the mosque is a living te

day news analyst mr bush let's focus on some new sounds polls most so-called change hands down the british confidence boost cited by the force of law. move. people put big dreams on the big screen. movie magazine on the dummy in. an unusual friendship. is the story of paul and iacob. is a student from cameroon the other a filmmaker from germany has read the likely never be able to say whether he chose me or i chose him whatever the case this is the story of how i met. a mission on europe's most dangerous. what began as a documentary. to the projects my parents sacrificed everything for and i can't go back and. became a story about those seeking him. and those to help. when paul came over the sea from cameroon to berlin starts oct fourth on t w. this is due to the news coming to you live from berlin. was an unexpected blow to. the german chancellor puts on a brave face as apology on one of a key allies critics say this could be the beginning of the end of the magic era also coming up. the donor tom calls iran a brutal and corrupt dictatorship and says its leaders are spreading made across t

mccain, to cindy and the mccain children, president and mrs. bushmrs. biden, vice president and mrs. cheney, vice president gore, and as john would say, my friends, we come to celebrate an extraordinary man. a warrior, a statesman, a patriot. embodied so much that is best in america. president bush and i are among the fortunate few who competed against john at the highest levels of politics. he made us better presidents. just as he made the senate better. just as he made this country better. so, for someone like john to ask you, while he's still alive, to stand and speak of him when he's gone, is a precious and singular honor. now, when john called me with that request earlier this year, i'll admit, sadness and also a certain surprise. but after our conversation ended, i realized how well it captured some of john's essential qualities. to start with, john liked being unpredictable. even a little contrarian. he had no interest in conforming to some prepackaged version of what a senator should be, and he didn't want a memorial that was going to be pre

to cindy and the mccain children, president and mrs. bushe president and mrs. biden, vice president and mrs. cheney, vice president gore and has john would say, my friends. we come to celebrate an extraordinary man. a warrior, a statesman, a pat w embodied so much that isn among the fortunate few who competed against john at the highest levels of politics. he made us better presidents just as he made the senate better. just as he made this country better, so for someone like john to ask you while he's still alive to stand and speak of him when he's gone is a precious and singular honor. now, when john called me with that request earlier this year, i'll admit sadness, and also a certain surprise, but after our conversation ended, i realized how well it captured some of john's essential qualities. so to the start with, john likes being unpredictable. even a little contrarian. he had no interest in conforming to some prepack kjed version of what a senator should be and he didn't want a memorial that was going to be prepackaged either. it also s

i had a chance to talk to him and tell him how much i love him and loved mrs. bush. a generation that will be missed. they were people who understood kindness and humility and gentility. they made their mistakes most certainly, but when you think about that family and what george h.w. bush did as a public servant, it makes you think of a wonderful time for our country. ,avid: bill clinton came along and in the 1992 election, he defeated your boss. were you shocked by the outcome? condoleezza: i had already gone back to stanford and became provost. i was surprised. but he had done what he needed to do. i don't think there will ever be a full accounting of how much it was the way that he did the diplomacy at the end of the cold war with respect for gorbachev, never humiliating the soviet union, not dancing on the wall. one of the last things gorbachev did before he went out to sign the paper that would collapse the soviet union and allow borris yeltsin to become president of the russian federation, he called george h.w. bush and said, we did good things, didn't we? his

mr bush's lawyers have been going through hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, looking at whatnvolved then, comments made, and they are part of 27,000 pages of those documents to be restricted, and not be released under the argument of constitutional privilege. beyond that there is about 100,000 other pages of documents that are not being released for other reasons. that has got democrats angry, they are accusing the white house of trying to prevent this information being released and they say, given that brett kava naugh was released and they say, given that brett kavanaugh was a public servant, how can they restrict information about his time in public servants? they say this level of restriction is unprecedented. is this the first time that constitutional privilege has been cited? no, it is the extent at which it is being used in this particular instance. as a result, democrats are pushing hard on this issue. the at argument from republican says that when you look at this there are still more than 400,000 pages of documents relating to brett kavanaugh‘s time in the white hou

and it's mr bush's lawyers that have been going through these documents, and they say that they wantctively not given to the senate committee, because they believe there are constitutional reasons and constitutional privilege for not doing so. beyond that, as well, there's about 100,000 documents that the white house says should not be released on the basis of other reasons. now, that has angered democrats in particular. they say it is unprecedented that so much should be concealed about a public servant's time in public service, and they are pushing for more to be revealed. republicans, on the other hand, say that actually they've got access to 415,000 pages of documents, and that should give them a real sense of brett kavanaugh the man. there are also political issues at work here though, too, because democrats are concerned that a conservative like brett kavanaugh could really push the supreme court further to the right, and that's worrying them on the basis of a number of things. first of all, there's the suggestion that he's indicated in the past that perhaps a sitting president

an attorney for mr. bush revealed the decision in this chtter to the chairman of the humete judiciary committee. senate minority leader chuck nghumer reacted swiftly, declaring, "we're witnessing a friday night document massacre." adding, "it has all the makings of a cover-up." utt, majority leader mitch mcconnell has said the outrage is unfounded. hi so far, i believe the only dinators who have met with this nominee and did have negative things to say about him were democrats who had already announced beforehand they were going to oppose him. >> reporter: the chairman of the ent ciary committee, senator chuck grassley, released a statement supporting the decision to hold some records, and provided numbers of how many kavanaugh-related documents have been turned over-- more than 400,000, the most of recent supreme court nominees. on capitol hill, committee members are divided along party lines. >> senator grassley has been very fair. more documents given than any person nominated in the supreme court. >> it's

a news analyst mr bush. told the so-called. i cannot put it on your side but. people have put big dreams on the big screen. movie magazines on t w. i. n ten sixteen and i'm crying and around the world. young people held against their parents' generation. if it wasn't honestly just full of stupidity inclusion screw shoes they demanded. that i home to society. like maelstrom of conflict real life plans with the vietnam war playing in. my generation watch the vietnam war every day. our documentary takes a look at times lose more than a minute or don't remember for the first time i had a feeling of being part of something. new claims of those events today. who sued spoke civil rights to the peace movement the women's movement planned during this period. in sixty eight a little. bit about that. the outer edges of hurricane florence have begun battering the united states southeast coast floodwaters are rising as the category two storm approaches it's expected to make landfall in the early hours of friday one point seven million people have been told to evacuate their

and i had the honor speaking at mrs. bush'sfuneral a few months ago because this is the scene of this is what she had in mind with humility. and she said it's you and that is hard to argue with. and then to use existentialism as a macro. way to go. [laughter] and then i said yes ma'am this is the way the world are supposed to work. they are supposed to admire you. and then to bring back john grisham's latest. [laughter] so i signed it. and that there is a forged copy of the runaway jury but so that was a saturday like today so i left the book festival.on the plane and whitey my biography at the time and flew to maine. and for some reason that was almost unheard of because that view of life was one long reunion mixer. when he would be more interested in the oak ridge boys other than the pope. mrs. bush looked across the table i am expecting motherly reassurance. she said how do you think poor john grisham would feel? he is a very handsome man. [laughter] it was not a good weekend for me. but i am thrilled to be here which i am o

and attorney for mr. bushe decision in this letter to the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. senate minority leader chuck schumer reacted swiftly declaring, we are witnessing a friday night document massacre. adding, it has all the makings of a cover-up. majority leader mitch mcconnell has said the outreach is unfounded. >> so far, i believe the only senators who have met with the nominee and did not have negative things to say about him were democrats who already announce beforehand they were going to oppose him. >> reporter: the chairman of the judiciary committee released a statement supporting the decision to hold some records and provided numbers of how many cavanaugh -- brett kavanaugh related documents have been handed over. or than any of the recent supreme court nominees. committee members are divided along party lines. 2 they have given more documents than any ever nominated. >> it is not normal because we are not able to see 100,000 documents that the archivist, because the administration h

mr. bush members of the subcommittee, inc. he for the opportunity to testify before you on the state efforts to coordinate a multiagency response to the unexplained health attacks that have affected some members of the diplomatic community. i would like to speak to challenges. the challenges of responding to these attacks on her personnel, so many significant unknowns, and there is a challenge of providing the best long-term impact on personnel. my experience over the pack -- -- there arenths activities eating the health incident response task orders. this has given me an in-depth look into help department has responded to these attacks on the diplomatic community. individuals associated with the embassy in havana have medically confirmed unexplained symptoms and top effects, since the department first became aware of these attacks on december 30, 2016. reports in the symptoms have included busy next -- dizziness, headaches, your complaints, hearing loss, and difficulty sleeping. many of the affected personnel later developed

burke for the mr. bush library to review the documents to see if there was a basis for claim or privilege. don't think you and i disagree on that. what i would point out is that in light of the knowledge of the committee that elena kagan, during her time as solicitor general would in all likelihood have legitimate claim to privilege by the clinton white house, they were not requested. they were not even requested. here we have a broad request for anything and everything including privileged documents. that is the reason we find ourselves in a different posture. sen. grassley: i have two people that want to make motions. >> thank you mr. chairman. i would like to say with regard to the committee's confidential documents, it is not that such documents exist, it is how we get to the point where these documents are designated as to midi confidential. is the the issue, that question, that is the disagreement that we have. that with thegree committee confidential when it was done with the process that was not agr

president and mrs. bushs. >> so help me god. >> reporter: in 2006 ashley kavanaugh looked on as her former boss appointed her husband to the d.c. court of appeals. >> i believe that a lot of his success has got to be due to his choice of a wife. she's a good wife. she's a great mother. she has a life of her own. >> reporter: that life includes her position as a town manager in chevy chase, maryland, the affluent d.c. suburb the family calls home. town council chairman greg chernak telling are not cnn he hopes she stays on noting she's "done a fantastic job. she made our small community even better." the kavanaughs have to daughters, liza and margaret, both of whom attended their dad's confirmation hearings earlier this month. ? it's very difficult to have these conversations with your children. and we told them at the very beginning of this process, this will be not fun sometimes. you're going to hear things that people feel strongly, and you need to know that, and just remember, you know your dad. >> report

privilege of going a couple of times and reading the book, reading chapters of the book to him and mrs. bush before she passed. -- a differentt time to president bush himself. it is a remarkable opportunity that few historians ever get, to read their book to their subject. brian: why did you do that? why did he listen? dr. engel: first of all, i thought it would be really cool. but secondly because president bush asked. or his staff asked. withs having difficulty his eyes and could not read as much as he liked to. people were reading to him daily. they thought this would be a bookie would want to hear and ,hat would be a good experience and that it would be a chance to catch up. i do remember saying, most people have audiotapes. it was explained to me when you are the former president, people read to you.. brian: you are critical of him in the book. dr. engel: yes, frequently. brian: did he blanch when he heard that? dr. engel: i did inadvertently read apart i was not intending to, which was the difficulty he had over his budget deal. his no new taxes pledge. i had forgotten that was part of

so we have a lot to be grateful for with mrs. bush. >> host: c-span's book tv covers several of the back fared live throughout the year. what is on your reading list? i'm trying to catch up and had he papers of the different authors coming. have john meachum's book. >> host: soul of american. >> guest: yes. dooris kearns goodwin, amy tan. permanent fun and other authors i want to touch on so i have basket of books that i'm reading. >> host: and that full interview with karla hayden is available on our hundreds web site. i "educated o'the author is tara westover who is live now. before we start talking about your book, miss westover, which came out in february and has been on the bestseller list since, does this situation here with this crowd watching you and all these people around, does this make you uncomfortable or are you used to it now sunny wouldn't say makes me uncomfortable but still very surreal. doesn't feel completely real. it's a surprise to me. i wrote the book -- as a write are you said in a dark room and you're alone an

the issues that he touched during his time in the white house working shoulder to shoulder with mr. bush want to surface during these hearings? >> john, let me ask you this because i'm a little confused. when you laid down why you and the hater table foundation was pushing this choice of brett kavanaugh, you talked about his pedigree and his service. where were all of those standards when president barack obama nominated merrill garland who was actively stalled and actively blocked for over a year? i mean, he certainly had pedigree, he certainly had a long record. so doesn't it seem hypocritical to now have a different standard for this nominee than you used to stall the nomination of merrill garland? let's talk right here. what happened to pedigree and record then? >> fair enough. and i will respond to your question, i just want to respond tie couple things -- >> no, first respond to my question. >> i'll respond to you. you are not going to hear me say anything negative about chief judge merit garland. chief judge merit garland say fine public servant. >> so he should have been seated.

>> well, under the presidential records act, the bush records belong to the people not to mr. bush and certainly not to mr. trump. i'm concerned with the institution of the supreme court and the way it's being so deeply politicized by the majority party here. i think we can think back to the last contentious supreme court hearing in our recent history and that would be clarence thomas. when anita hill accused clarence thomas of sexual harassment there was a unanimous vote in the senate, a bipartisan vote, to stall the proceedings and engage in a hearing on that particular issue. he was ultimately confirmed and there was a -- over him. the highly polarized temperature we're in as a country by virtue of this particular president that brett kavanaugh is now in a similar situation. i do think this information should come out. i think that the republicans in congress in shifting the cloture vote from 60 to 50 with neil gorsuch and punting merrick garland's nomination cynically and unnecessarily so obama didn't get his. we're creating a situation where the legitimacy of the court itself