do. >> sweden has more ice breakers than we do, canada has more ice breakers than we do. >> yes. >> papp is now the u.s. representative to the arctic council. >> so on the scale of urgent, where is it? >> that is one of the most urgent things we need to do for the arctic. you need to have assured access into your maritime boundaries. >> u.s. on the right and russia on the left. >> right. >> passing through the bering strait, a clear reminder of who does have access, the russians. >> vladimir putin has called the bering strait the next suez canal. the russian military has identified the arctic as a probable place for war in the coming century over resources. they had immense war games in may. and when the russians have a war game, who is the opponent? the opponent is nato so the opponent is us. >> reporter: back on the ship. the helicopter we rode in on is grounded. it needs a part that will take two weeks to get here. our only way off, down the ladder and into the rubber boat. navigating the rough and changing waters of the arctic takes on new urgency. president obama recently proposed s

admiral papp, the coast guard commandant 2010-2014. he gave brilliant state of the coast guard addresses. he was very concerned with women casualties the coast guard was suffering in its mission, very concerned with women in the coast guard, and listened to their needs ashore and afloat. he just was a person that could communicate with everybody. he had commanded the u.s. coast guard academy, tall masted eagle -- a reparations prize from the germans in world war ii. it is tall masted. it is a sailing cutter. the people on it have to ascend the rigging, and that is quite dangerous. they train cadets for seat-of-the-pants sailing. we will have more to say about that cutter later. he headed the coast guard district up my neck of the woods. he was tough, and yet gentle. we were concerned with terrorism and we were concerned with lots of things. he cooperated with canadian law enforcement. they went on joint patrols in those borderline areas. he was concerned with terrorism and life-saving and icebreaking. he did a wonderful job at the grea

eastern chris papp's reports on the only state capitol to file for bankruptcy. and at 7:45 p.m. pulitzer prize wenning science and technology reporter john marcotte examines the future of robot technology and at 9:00 p.m. on afterwards minnesota senator discusses her life and political career minute 10 eastern julianna barb also that this is it a press takes cost of rio de janeiro's 2016 olympics and at 11:00 p.m. linda hirschman talks about the first women on the supreme court. that all happens tonight on c-span 2 book tv. even from last weekend national book festival, elizabeth ben discusses her book, "encounters at the heart of the world". >> i am pleased to introduce to you today elizabeth fenn, author of "encounters at the heart of the world", which won the pulitzer prize for history in 2015. as americans living in a very modern era in what is still a young country, we don't often think about the facts that we are resting upon centuries of other human cultures and civilizations. in her history of the man dance people she brings to life the culture and challenges faced by th

>> he's moving the church in a different direction from prior papp pappass. he's not going to change the doctrine but stresses the importance of not obeying rules blindly but showing a merciful attitude in everything concerning the moral duties of people. >> one of the things, when you say a merciful attitude, he has this year of mercy where a couple weeks ago i heard him talking about forgiving women who have committed quote the mortal sin of abortion and scream lining annulment so more catholics who have been divorced can remarry in the catholic church. there are those that criticize the pope and say this is about catholic teaching and cannon law, not about being merciful. >> they should read the fine print. if you look at the exact words of the pope, he's very careful as to the way he phrases his suggestions as how the church should go forward. you have to look at him in the context of where he came from in argentina. don't forget also he's a jesuit. the jesuits are very kani people. he is a super pope, in the sense of he's received great intellectual trai

. >> out with the admiral papp who state department convoy i saw a couple weeks ago and asked him about the conference. the most interesting thing he said is the real goal of the conference as well as the president's visit is to raise awareness of the art taken out for the other nations who will be there who obviously don't need to be told of the importance in the art tick before the american public. there is a broad feeling among people i talked to that the united states doesn't think of it tells us at arctic nation particularly compared to the way russia does as we talked about historically as well as terms of economic security. that may be overblown a little bit. people who are smart understand alaska is in the arctic that there is a feeling politically but as he pushes his climate change proposals that the impact it's having and is going to see these kinds of things and not will focus some attention on the arctic issues in terms that the climate agenda particularly. and the secretary's part, it is always good diplomats will tell you to sit around and talk and secretary kerry didn't