. >> here is a look at two books vermont senator patrick leahy is reading this summer. "all the light we cannot see" selling the story of two children struggling to survive in france during world war ii. and minnesota senator al franken "giant of the senate" recalling his path from -- to becoming a politician. booktv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> next on booktv, roxane gay discusses her body and its impact on her life in her memoir, "hunger." this program contains language some may find

." >> here's a look at two books from vermont senator pat trick bash patrick leahy is reading. a story of two children struggling to survive in frat. and al franken's giant of the senate recalling his path from sat tiist to politician. booktv wants to know what you're reading. send us your summer reading list via at this timer, or instagram. or post it to our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> we're so glad 'er here today, we love people are coming to our programs. we are happy to hear larry goldstone. he is currently -- the third -- i don't know if there's another in your series on industrial innovators -- i remember the drive did quite well out of here, the one on ford. another one on the wright brothers as well. going deeps what we talk about tonight, on the development of the military submarine, john phillip holland. can't speak to submarines up out

. >> here is a look at two books vermont senator patrick leahy is reading this summer. "all the light we cannot see" selling the story of two children struggling to survive in france during world war ii. and minnesota senator al franken "giant of the senate" recalling his path from -- to becoming a politician. booktv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> next on booktv, roxane gay discusses her body and its impact on her life in her memoir, "hunger." this program contains language some may find ms. -- offensive. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> good evening. new york times best selling author of "bad feminist," "difficult women," she is a contributing opinion writer to "the new york times" and has also written for time, mcsweenys, the nation, salon and more. her fiction has been selected for the best american short stories of 201 and the best american mystery stories of 2014 among other anthologies. in her new book, "hunger," she delivers a seringly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

patrick leahy/ d-vt18:28:08 "if you're using your iphone, if you're traveling somewhere using your gpssured of your privacy. you shouldn't have the government or anybody else snoop on what you're doing." 12 secsfor years senator leahy and republican senator mike lee have been working on the legislation. it's called the electronic communication modernization protection act. it forces law enforcement to obtain warrants supported by probable cause evidence, before collecting something like content or location data. right now he says current laws don't have strong enough privacy protections.ááásotáááleahy 28:36 "some in law enforcement would love to just come in and go snooping everywhere. that's wrong." 6 secs a similar bill has already passed in the house. in washington, i'm ( grant ) facebook says it is upping its effort to fight fake news. the company is turning to an automated system to flag stories that could be suspicious.... and then send those suspect stories to fact checkers. currently it's up to users to flag content that could be a hoax so it can be reviewed. facebook has taken

the trump base will be ecstatic over the pardon of joseph arpaio in part because people like patrick leahyand other figures on the other side of the aisle are expressing absolute outrage over all this. >> errol lewis, still so much to talk about. hopefully talk to you a little bit later. thank you. >> okay, thanks. >>> so another major story we have to talk about, north korea. and this new show of force. the regime fired off three short-range ballistic missiles hours ago. traveled about 350 mile. no threat to the u.s. mainland or guam. this comes just day ks after rex tillerson praised the country for showing restraint. >> the launches cap a week of threats from north korea. it also comes, we should point out, amid the annual u.s. and south korea military exercises, something that north korea sees as provocation and as hostile. >> still to come, there were babies who were in intensive care, and they had to be evacuated from hurricane harvey's path to north texas. our next guest was part of that transport team. and she's with us. stay close. electric light orchestra ] ♪ sailin' away on the

. >> senator patrick leahy is the senior democrat in the senate -- i'm going to show you a clip now fromenator leahy on the impact of map on searches today. >> we have a blanket sweep of all of this, in the long run, that's going to hurt us. that's not going to make us safer. again, we have to go back to the rules, the example i used is this. if you had papers in your desk at home, you fully expect that the police want to come into your home and look at those papers. they're going to have to get a warrant, and to come in and look at them. if you're holding those same files in the cloud, you've got it somewhere on the internet or you're communicating like that, shouldn't they have to follow the same rules? it is your privacy we're talking about. if you collect anything, in many ways you have nothing. you learn to do better, better analysis of it, we had at that time of 9/11, we had very few people looking at this material who could speak the languages of those who were in the wiretaps. we have learned from that. but it doesn't make us less safe to have to follow the rules of law. >> so se

but let's listen to senator patrick leahy of vermont who is the senior democrat on the senate judiciarymittee talking about the 14th amendment and why that was such an important thing for the united states of america. let's listen. >> the 14th amendment, 150 years now since it had the second founding, prior to the second founding. >> why do you call it that? >> well, because i think we had the founding, the original -- government, those series of amendments came through. it is like the united states became more aware of what they are and more aware of the fact of slavery and so on, that we had to treat all, all people the same. now, you know and i know, having considered that time, it took a long, long time, and in someplaceness this countsome places in the country it is still going on. but with the second coming of the united states. >> senator leahy talking about why the three amendments are the real second founding of our country. let's look at the text of section one of the 14th amendment just so you understand the legal framework for our discussion tonight. it says, "all persons bo

this is patrick leahy, democratic senator of vermont and at the time miranda came around, he was in vermonts home state, in the state's attorney's office. he talks about the effect on the state. let's listen. >> at that time, it was very controversial. what do you mean we have to read this guilty accused we have here as somebody once said -- a normer attorney general once used that expression. are what do you mean we have to tell them their rights. of course you do. what if you were arrested for something and you may think, they got the wrong guy, wouldn't you want to know what your rights are? that sunk in pretty heavily. >> he went on to tell us he had his own cards printed up with the miranda rights and passed them out to police officers around the state to educate them. every lawyer knows police found a myriad of tactics for avoiding miranda. what's your reaction? >> i've done a lot of research on the effects of miranda. and what you see is there's been a staggering effect on law enforcement in this country. before miranda, if you go back to the start of the 1960s, you're looking about

this is patrick leahy, democrat of vermont senator, who has headed the judiciary committee, now seniorocrat on the committee. at the time miranda came around, he was in vermont, his home state, in the state's attorneys' office. he tells a story about the miranda decision and its effect on the state. let's listen. >> at that time, it was very controversial. what do you mean we have to read this guilty accused we have here, as somebody once said, a former attorney general once used that expression, "the guilty accused." but what do you mean we have to tell them their rights? i said, of course you do. because think of it this way. what if you were arrested for something and you think, they got the wrong guy. wouldn't you want to know what your rights are? that sunk in pretty heavily. >> he also went on to tell us in that interview that he had his own at his own expense had cards printed with the miranda rights and passed them out to police officers as he was educating them on what the supreme court decision was all about. i've got comments from people about the effects of all this. let me