i know one of our most highly expected speakers, oscar martinez, is unable to get out there can fact he was unable to get to us, get a message to us angela stent said he will not be a but will have a substitute for his panel this afternoon. but meanwhile, we are returning to things that are on our minds including white supremacists, neo-nazi marches in cities like charlottesville and boston, north korea menacing this country and others in the pacific. we are worrying about immigrants and their future, giving an ounce of the daca announcement for the white house and we are worrying about other issues in terms of equal justice, peace, safety and our streets and also the rights of all americans, including those transgender individuals who serve our nation in the military. what do all of these events have to do with today's brooklyn book festival? and the answer is, everything. and that is because throughout the history of mankind, knowledge, information, and the free communication among people has always been empowering the democratic use of information and communication has been empowe

and oscar martinez in san salvador is doing an investigative report right now. and as of yesterday could not make it out of the country to be here. we are fortunate though to have a very nuanced and experienced reporter deborah campbell, with her book. and we have lauren wolf. we hope that you will enjoy all the programming on c-span booktv live from brooklyn book festival today. just keep reading. >> here, a few more people. i just want to start off by saying first of all good afternoon. thank you all for coming.i am lauren wolf. i will tell you about myself in a minute.before we begin i want to let you know that books by deborah, you can purchase them from barnes and noble and of course all over the city. also there is a booth that you can purchase it. immediately after this festival deborah will be signing her book at the table h adjacent to this building. before i introduce deborah, i am very excited to be here because refugees reporting is something i do regularly. i feel it is the least understood and well reported area in journalism whenever there is a lo