please welcome pete souza.evor: it's a beautiful book, i guess that happens whenever a president sowt of office, people put the pictures together. but you have a special relationship with many people, specifically on twitter. >> people know you not just as pete souza the man who took pictures of o bma but pete souza the professional troll of donald trump. is this-- is this a badge you wear with pride? >> oh yeah, absolutely. and it's on instagram more than it is on twitter. >> trevor: right, you are the person, for those that don't know every single time donald trump says something about obama that is nine times out of ten a lie, it would be like obama never visited the troops and you have a picture of obama hanging out with the troops. do you have a picture for every single thing donald trump has lied about with barack obama. >> pretty much. >> trevor: how much joy do you get when do you it. >> i get a lot of joy, actually. >> like do you gigel, i picture you sitting at home gik elling working on your last cup

hi, amanda, this is pete souza. of course, i would love to apply for the job and then, you know, surprisingly i got to spend the next four years photographing president obama as well as mrs. obama. i spent most of my time photographing mrs. obama. but i got to travel to countries and got to see cities that i dreamed to visit. that's probably the most popular question i get. let me adjust this a little bit. the other question i get is, what's your favorite photo and i only have one child but it's sort of like asking what's your favorite child to a mother. [laughter] >> it depends on the day and how i feel. [laughter] >> and there's probably a favorite but i'm not going to tell you. so -- so instead of telling you my favorite photos, i will tell you about the kinds of photos that i like to make. i like to make pictures that, you know, it would be easy for me to focus on the first lady. i'm just going take this off here, if i can. maybe not. is the mic okay? yeah. oh it would be easy for me to focus on the first lady b

i know one of those event its met pete souza. so, pete souza was the chief white house photographer for president barack obama, and so i met him once, at this event, and then two year later he asks me if i wanted to apply nor job, so-so my phone rang, this is pete souza, and said you realize this is amanda lucidon. there was only one answer to that question and that was, of course, i'd love to apply for the job. and surprisingly i got to spend the next four years photographing president obama as well as mrs. obama itch spent most of the time photographing-miles-an-hour obama but got travel to 20 countries and i got to see so many cities in the country i also dreams to visit. so, that's probably the most popular question i get. the other question i get is, what is your favorite photo? and i only have one child but it's sort of like asking what is your favorite child to a mother. it depends on the day. and how i feel. and there's probably a favorite but i'm not going to tell you. so, instead of telling you my fav -- favorite photos

which he recalls how he balanced his professional duties while attending to his ailing son and pete souza behind the scenes look on barack obama's presidency. next is oprah winfrey's insights from most meaningful conversations, for cis come of sundays and rapping up the look at best-selling books according to washington post is capital gains, a memoir from hgtv chip gyan -- gaines. some of the authors will be on book tv. >> c-span, television for serious readers. here is our prime time line-up. 7:30 eastern, the connection between the brain and the world and argues that virtual reality enhances lives, then on book tv's afterwords, 9:00 p.m., astronaut scott kelly recalls record-setting time in space. he's interviewed by form other nasa administrator charles bolden. administrative director of the manhattan project and then later of harvard university and we wrap up our prime time programming at 11:00, christopher scalia, son of the late supreme court justice antonin scalia, share selected speeches of his father on law, faith and virtue. that all happens tonight on c-span2 book tv. .. .. ll

and the man responsible for those images, pete souza, joins us now from our london newsroom.ruly documenting the presidency for history i needed to have that unfettered access. so, essentially i did. i think you didn't take a day off in all of those, in the years you were working for him. the pictures are beautiful and what i love about it, you caught so much about the man himself that we don't see. you're in some ways behind the camera and he seems very some ways behind the camera and he seems very charismatic and personable. give us an idea of what you were trying to capture? personable. give us an idea of what you were trying to capture ?|j personable. give us an idea of what you were trying to capture? i was trying to capture the authentic person, not just trying to capture the authentic person, notjust him as president, but him as a person and a human being and! but him as a person and a human being and i think because i had the trust, he gave me access to essentially everything he did. in my job i looked at trying to capture the authentic moments as they happened. one o

other holiday best sellers included former white house photographer pete souza's book "obama intimate portrait." and the 23 and me dna test. >>> america doubled down on its maximum test on north korea. the new sanctions from the u.s. next. >>> it is all over california scrambling ahead of the legalization of recreational pot. while san francisco won't be meeting that january 1 deadline. >> we would have preferred to have it by january 1, but i think january 5 or 6 is still on target. >>> a look at the evening commute on this tuesday evening. a little slow going on 80. the commute direction or taillights heading towards the university avenue exit. not as bad as it is sometime at this time of night. >> got to agree it doesn't look as bad as normal, but those headlights are going east tonight. >>> in less than a week, people who are 21 and older will legally be able to buy marijuana for recreational use, but the scramble to get rules in place hasn't been easy. >> the sale of weed won't be quite ready at the start of the new year. terry moriarty tells us why the city is failing to meet th

topping the list is walter isaacson's recount of the life of leonardo da vinci followed by pete souza'slook at barack obama's presidency. next is ron chernow. for this joe biden's promise me which she recalls how he balance professional duties well working with his ailing son. i look at the best-selling nonfiction books continues with a biography of bobby kennedy. after that is astrophysics by people in a hurry. followed by the trumpet trump. next is bill o'reilly and wrapping up our look is new yorker staff writer national book award finalist, david graham, the killers of the follow moon. it targeted members of the osage indian nation. some of the authors have or will be appearing on book tv.