mrs. cheneyf think tanks and contemporary politics? >> guest: well, they are different. aei is even different since i've been there. i suppose there was more influenced -- more attention paid to the humanities. i think it has evolved so the issues that are front and center are those that are front and center on capitol hill and in the white house. it has become a much more dynamic and energize placed as the evolution has occurred and we have a great leader right now. a fellow named arthur brooks. >> host: this text goes on to say what in your opinion would madison and the other founders think of the think tanks? >> guest: they would probably want to be in one. >> host: 202. a little over an hour left. author and scholar, lynne chaney. (202)748-8201 for the mountain and pacific time zone. several other ways to get ahold of a city can get through phone lines. e-mail otb@c-span.org. or a twitter handle. facebook.com/booktv you can make a comment there. and finally, text a message (202)465-6842. lynn

mrs. cheney, i think the world is here. i wanted to ask you about your personal library, you and your husband's personal library. do you have any idea how many books you on what your favorite types are to read when you are not researching for your own writing. thank you very much. >> host: deborah, great question. wish i'd thought of it. >> guest: i've spent most of our married life building bookshelves are getting them built because we have so many books. i can read them once in a while, the "we the people" doesn't want to get rid of a single one of them. we have a lot in a day most of them are history. there's quite a bit of current contemporary commentary on the political scene, but most are history. if i'm not reading history i like a good thriller. right now another book i'm reading is the english spy, a really good thriller mystery. adult stem all my time reading books. i also like to watch thrillers on my ipod and have become enchanted with a series by having mad cow. these are swedish mysteries. some of them are in

dick cheney endorsed kevin mccarthy for speaker. mr. carthy speaking out that he agrees with the former vp -- kevin mccarthy with that tweet responding to the endorsement from dick cheney. we will hear from eddie next in jasper, florida. a democrat. good morning to you. caller: good morning. we need a moderate. you look at the election today and people that are running -- democrat or republican -- either too far left or too far right. we need somebody that is in the middle that takes care of the people. host: ok. inin mississippi -- jd mississippi. what are your thoughts on this debate? caller: well, i think that the election of representative mccarthy to this bigger ship is going to be a great -- to the speakership is going to be a great boost to the candidacy for -- [indiscernible] host: why do you think it is a boost? thisr: it just continues almost comical congress that is in power now. and it will be good. people are starting to wake up to the fact that they are not representing the interests of the american people. host: all right.

mr. clement was a pdb briefer for vice president cheney and rice. and currently, or excuse me, was chief of the cia's presidential transition team in 2008. >> thank you, david. it's a pleasure to be here. this is my second time and this is an incredibly impressive library, the taf here are terrific and i've had a lot of fun touring the exhibits for the second time. they upgraded them and it's a terrific facility. i'm also honored because i'm actually sitting with people for whom i've worked pretty directly for a good part of my career, including currently, john brennan, and part of the joy of being with the agency for 30 plus years is working with this caliber of true intellect, insight and just a lot of fun to work with. so i want to thank everybody for having me on the panel. i want to talk specifically about my time as a pdb briefer. i feel particularly strongly about the pdb because pretty much most of my long time tenure has been central to my life either as a contributor, a writer, analyst, first and second line editor, reviewer. not the most

cheney, and rumsfeld had to say. i said no. they are not telling the truth. [applause] mr. sanders: and i was right. [applause] mr.ders brothers and : sisters -- [crowd chanting "bernie, bernie"] mr. sanders: it gives me no joy to tell you that much of what i predicted about iraq turned out to be right. it does not give me any joy at all. that was a tough vote. i came to that fork in the road, as i took the right road, even though it was not popular at the time. [applause] mr. sanders: throughout my time in congress i voted time and time again, drain in wall -- time again to rein in wall street. if a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. [applause] mr. sanders: we need to reestablish and bring back glass -- glass-steagall legislation. and we need to break up these huge banks. [applause] mr. sanders: let me conclude, because i see andy doing it she -- getting itchy. let me conclude by saying this -- we face, as a nation, enormously difficult and complex problems, that is the truth. i believe now, and i have always believed from the bottom of my heart, yes, these guys have the money am a they have the pow

mr. clement was a pbd briefer for vice president chairman -- vice president cheney. and he was chief of the cia's presidential transition team in 2008. it's a pleasure to be here. it's ansecond time, incredibly impressive library and the staff are terrific. i had a lot of fun just touring exhibits the second time. they upgraded them, and it's a terrific facility. because i'mored forally sitting with people whom i've worked pretty directly for a good part of my year, including john brennan. part of the joy of being with the agency for 30 plus years is working with this caliber of intellect, insight, and a lot of fun to work with. i want to thank everybody for having me on the panel as well. i want to talk specifically about my time as a pbd briefer. most of my longtime tenure here at the agency, the pdb has been central to my life. as a contributor, as a writer, as an analyst, as an editor, i'm not the most popular job. --a senior reviewer, why was i was a fairly unpopular job as the final reviewer. smart analysts. as the delivery person, i got to deliver the book. to

cheney administration. at one point the secretary, whose private server was running weak and outdated security software joked to an aide in the state department's office of legal council that the chinese were hacking mrsaddress book only has your g mail clinton road the aide in july of 20 11. quote, maybe the chinese hacked it and focused on you, unquote. estimated 268 emails in this latest batch contained information now deemed classified. one of them featured secretary clinton telling her top advisors that her husband, former president bill clinton, quote: knows the crown prince of saudi arabia very well and wants to call and offer support. is that okay, unquote? the state department is processing 55,000 of mrs. clinton's private emails for public release. mrs. clinton has said she deleted 30,000 of them before turning over the rest. the fbi is investigating whether any laws were broken. back to you guys in new york. >> amazing how many schamtion points she used in those emails. that was striking. she also corresponded with a number of celebrities that was kind of striking. >> in fact. in her recent testimony before the house select benghazi committee the secretary of state acknowledged that the lat