host: natalie andrews.st: i think they are -- most government agencies if not all have an inspector general. that is an outside watch drug -- watchdog. yes, they are with the agency but these folks are tasked with looking for wrongdoing or test with making sure the laws complied with. they are kind of the inner watchdog of that agency. the most recent one that was lauded by republicans was jeff horwitz at the doj who did an investigation into james comey. horwitz was saved, he gets to keep his job. these are folks, largely unknown. it's not like the folks that lost their job were people who were targeted by the right over the campaign are things like that. but, these are folks, they are tasked with looking for wrongdoing. they come out with reports on the post office or things like that that we, as everyday citizens, aren't paying attention to but really appreciate generally that they are there. host: they have investigative powers but the power of the inspectors general is in the public report that they ca

host: natalie andrews.st: i think they are -- most government agencies if not all have an inspector general. that is an outside watch drug -- watchdog. yes, they are with the agency but these folks are tasked with looking for wrongdoing or test with making sure the laws complied with. they are kind of the inner watchdog of that agency. the most recent one that was lauded by republicans was jeff horwitz at the doj who did an investigation into james comey. horwitz was saved, he gets to keep his job. these are folks, largely unknown. it's not like the folks that lost their job were people who were targeted by the right over the campaign are things like that. but, these are folks, they are tasked with looking for wrongdoing. they come out with reports on the post office or things like that that we, as everyday citizens, aren't paying attention to but really appreciate generally that they are there. host: they have investigative powers but the power of the inspectors general is in the public report that they ca

he was interviewed by wall street journal congressional reporter natalie andrews. here's a preview. i decided when i went into public service and maybe when i'm done, my wife always gets half. what? what's your husband going to do? you know, she says he's going to shoot baskets and drink chocolate milk with his kids. and i always say, maybe i'll think i didn't do it right. but i decided early on that the best approach was to come up with good policy, good ideas and then work like hell to get them done. if you don't get them done, then they still don't happen. but what really breaks down around here is too often people do their politics first. and every week of, oh, boy, what do we do? let's go out and try to think up a good idea. and i decided that i wouldn't do it that way. and that's why, you know, finding good ideas and i start with the proposition that good ideas is are the foundation of principle of bipartisanship. mm hmm. bipartisanship is not about taking each other's crummy ideas and then putting on a blue suit and red tie or whatever it is. and then go run around and say, l

sunday morning wall street journal white house reporter natalie andrews discusses week one of the trump administration and veteran journalist on his new book, c-span's washington journal. join in the conversation live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. >> sunday night on c-span's q&a, part two of our interview with nigel hamilton, he talks about the military face-off during american presidents in the civil war and the impact the emancipation proclamation had on the war's outcome. >> from january 1, 1863, the south withdrew. until then, jefferson davis had been allowed by lincoln to frame the war as a noble, white southern fight for independence. pure &. -- pure and simple. from the moment lincoln said no, you, jefferson davis and your commander-in-chief robert e. lee, have attacked the north, which is what they did in september of 1862. it is the equivalent of pearl harbor for them. once you attack the north, you change the whole game. >> nigel hamilton with his book "lincoln versus davis" sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. list

he is interviewed by natalie andrews. afterwards is a weekly interview program

he is interviewed by natalie andrews. afterwards is a weekly interview program with guest hosts interviewing nonfiction authors about their latest work. for sitting down with me. i enjoyed reading your book. can set the scene for me. what caused you to sit down and? put these 12 rules together? and when did you and what prompted you to take the effort to write the book? been thinking about it for a time, but what i really wanted to do was write a very different political discussion piece and make sure that it wasn't just. it was about chutzpah. this indispensable instrument of improving your world and the broader world in a way that would get a lot people interested and a lot of young people have come up to me, found a galley somewhere, and they said, we never have anybody. a political guy write a book like that because they always thought the books were different. and i would always ask them what you mean. i said, well, you know, there's a lot of bragging talking about. they did this bill and that bill and then they go,