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new york times book review editor pamela paul reflects on the books she's read over the past 28 years. michael whitmore offers his thoughts on shakespeare's legacy and much more. for a full schedule, visit booktv.org. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers.

new york times book review editor pamela paul reflects on the books she's read over the past 28 years. michael whitmore offers his thoughts on shakespeare's legacy and much more. for a full schedule, visit booktv.org. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. and now we kick off weekend with craig shirley recounting president reagan's political life from 1976-1980. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon and welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. i'm a resident of gaithersburg and a member of the democratic central committee representing district 17 which encompasses the beautiful city of gaithers burg, so welcome. gaiters thug proudly supports the airports and humanities. we are pleased to bring you this event thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. so when you see them around and they're walking around here, please, take time to say thanks. appreciate that. like to get right to this event here, but first a few announcements. please, silence all your devices. i'll wait. [laughter] i'll wait, go ahead. silence all devices. thank you. and

sam, toles grinned, lynda huey, emery lapinski, pamela paul n. at the right commit thank you for your time and for making this such a healthy price. i appreciate that. can we acknowledge them for a round of applause. [applause] and then there are judges who have also given great time and dedication to the quality of the winners we see year after year. some of them are with us. if i could ask you to stand. call a comrade, neon, and martha levin. thank you all very much. [applause] cinematically to indict jonathan alter up to say a few words. he is honestly well-known to many fear fearless and award-winning not your and columnist and we know him as the chair of the lukas price board. please, i'm not. [applause] >> thanks, steve. thanks for all you do at columbia. it's so wonderful to see such a national institution that premier general school in our country so well that pa i just want to welcome you all come the thank you all for coming. give another salute to our wonderful judges because this is a real serious commitment of time with great serious

jonathan alter who i will introduce in a moment, shea, linda, pamela, and paul thank you for making this such a healthy prize. [applause] the judges who have also given great time and dedication to the quality of the winners we see year after year. i think some of them are with us. charlie, leon, john duff, martha, and sarah. thank you all very much. [applause] now i would like to invite jonathan alter up to say a few words. he is well known to many of u.s. and award-winning author and political partner and we know him as the chair of the lucas price board. he's been a great part of the school. please come up. [applause] >> thank you stephen thank you for all you do a columbia. it's wonderful to see such a national institution, the premier journalism school in our country so well led. i want to welcome you all and thank you for coming and give another salute to our wonderful judges. this is a real serious commitment of time. they take it with great seriousness. it is really appreciative tour judges, not just the sheer but over the last 19 years. i want to very briefly give you a sense of

paul, the notion that shimon is reporting based on three sources that he and pamela brown have talked to, that this would have been a suicide bomber, that really does change this in terms of the investigation, because it doesn't seem like a suicide bomber would construct the vest or the explosives they were using. >> anderson, we don't know that yet, we know there have been individuals who have taken action and have managed to build their own devices, we saw that in new york city, the chelsea devices back in september of last year. but the concern at this hour, is that there's a terror cell behind it. they'll be worried about follow on attacks, it's not lost on british authorities that with the paris attack in 2013, there was also an attack on a concert hall. that was part of a multiwave coordinated attack on the french capit capitol, that's why you're seeing armed police. if indeed there is a cell involved in this, a very worried night for british authorities, i have been told by officials that that security level is height onned to its heightest point in british history. that's beca

. >> paul cruickshank, at this point, given what we know based on cnn's reporting, based on what we heard from pamela brown and evan perez, where do you see this -- the focus of this investigation? if they have learned the -- if they have identified the attacker, i don't know if that means they have identified the person by name or just found enough to begin to get close to identifying this person by name. where does it go from here? >> well, anderson, as we have been discussing, they will be reviewing all the cctv, trying to figure out this individual's route, where they came from. they will be doing all the forensics, dna analysis, fingerprint analysis to see if they have a match if this individual is on some kind of database, somebody who may have had a criminal record as we have been discussing so many of those that have got involved in isis terrorism in recent years have had criminal records. trying to figure out who this individual is and who they are connected to. at this hour, there's not any claim of responsibility from any terrorist group, al qaeda or isis or any other group. it should be n

paul, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. let me bring in our panel. we'll get reaction to that and all the other developments jo joining us. gloria borger, our chief political analyst, pamelan, david gregory. tom fuentes, cnn former law enforcement analyst, and noah bookbinder, executive director of the citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. pamela, let's talk first of all about the latest developments that only in recent days we're now reporting and you're among our best reporters involved in covering the fbi and the justice department that comey sought additional resources, more money, to accelerate this investigation. what are you hearing? >> that is something that the department of justice is coming out and flatly denying, saying that he did not ask for additional resources, but our sara murray has heard from her sources that that did, in fact happen in a meeting with rod rosenstein, in fact, a deputy attorney general, and the person who recommended to president trump for james comey to be fired. but what we do know, wolf, is that this investigation is full-fledged. it's moving full steam ahead. and just in the last couple of weeks, the eastern district