and the question is how he's going to use them. >> peter baker, please come back if you learn anything in the next 39 minutes. thank you so much for spending some time with us. jonathan, pick up right where peter left off. he does like to personalize the world's problems and lay them at the feet. the iraq war wasn't just about bad intelligence, about wmd as soour san correctly points out, it was a lie perpetrated by george w. bush. those were the words of donald trump at a republican primary debate in south carolina. the world's problems weren't ever the fault of, you know, evil, malevolent leaders who wish us harm. they were somehow because of obama's -- i mean, he never sees anything beyond the personal sort of desire to elevate himself above his predecessors. >> nothing of his mind appears to be complex. it's as simple as well my predecessor didn't do enough. didn't do the right things. didn't do the sorts of things that i think a president should do. and now he's president of the united states. and, i mean, you would hope he would discover that the world is complex. and that north

the threat ofsays tepid, his too comments yesterday, reporting of peter baker. here is part of what new york saying.stem president trump's rhetoric on north korea reached level that has alarmed ally necessary asia many at home. investors were unnerve the on hursday by increasing tension, democrats complained that the president was inflaming the onfrontation and called for diplomacy, instead. more than 60 house democrats sending a letter to secretary of state rex tillerson asking him to restrain the president, administrationhe over north korea. again, spilled over into public iew on thursday, speaking with reporters en route to seattle, mattis said the president could use whatever language he thought appropriate. was not elected, the american people elected the president. about his less colorful statement on north secretary mattis said the rhetoric is up to the president, this is my rhetoric. "new york ory at times," front page this morning com.y times dot riley, your top news story of the week? caller: hi. bring to ke to attention, i don't know whether theot thi

. >> joining us now, peter baker. also, eli stoeg els. and paul butler. peter, do you first. you've been to the interviews, rambling incoherent interviews conducted with the president. what is it like in that room when he begins a sentence, cuts himself off, changes the subject, adds a new subject that isn't clear at all. wanders off. then maybe never answers where the whole question began? >> well, he does free throat in these interviews. he wanders from subject to subject a little bit. it is very much through consciousness. it is very different than other presidents. no question. other presidents tend to stick to talking points. tend to stick to previously scripted answers they've given again and again and again and the struggle for an interviewer is to try to get them off that kind of game with president trump the other way around. he tends to go where his mind takes them and where he is thinking about. and what you want to do is sort of really force him to focus on one topic for a little bit and try to get a precise answer, get a sustained answer. but the trick is, often

in the eyes of the beholder but not something that's very comforting for america's diplomats. >> peter baker and josh letterman, thank you for your generosity and spending time with us in an hour that's tough on everyone on deadline. peter, you earned your paycheck today. thank you so much, you guys. >> maybe true. >> come back if you learn anything new in the next 51 minutes. medal of honorary rei want issant, jack jacobs and a chief political strategist and partner with ddc and a former senior adviser to jeb bush, matt dowd, former chief strategist, no a columnist and -- now a columnist and author. with us from d.c., "washington post" columnist david ignatius. i should say in full disclosure little minireunion here. three of us hailing from the party once known as the republicans. so let me start with you, because we started the morning together. tell me what someone like secretary of defense mattis thinks when a statement like fire and fury is being threatened and he hasn't been alerted to those exact words before him. >> well, he thinks that the president doesn't know his hamlet very wel

>> not really but i have to really underscore what peter baker is saying. these two -- reminds me in jerry maguire, you complete me. steve bannon was donald trump's soul mate in terms of embracing and advocating and advancing the nativism, isolationism, without steve bannon -- racism. without steve bannon, donald trump isn't any less ismy. this came down to one of the oldest stories in white house history, an internal civil war that was under the surface for a long time, remains under the surface. bannon would still have his job and still be advocating all sort of the ugliest instincts on the president's behalf. his era was what sort of brings down a lot of men if you will, sorry present company xlutded i'm sure. he took the fight against mcmaster into public and fight against his colleagues to the air waves and print press. that he became so emboldened by what he view as the soulmate agreement with donald trump on the instincts for all of these efforts to blow up everything the republican party has ever stood for, including its history as the party of linc

a new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker details the obama presidency. that all happens this weekend on booktv. for a complete television schedule go to booktv.org now we kick off the weekend with james zirin the former assistant us attorney argues that the supreme court has become highly partisan in the course decisions often made on a political basis that has little to do with the law or constitution. >> good evening everybody. that's nice.

peter baker, i wanted to hear the policy.ecause we were hearing speeches. >> and tim, do you think that if, perhaps, general kelly was explaining the policy yesterday, perhaps more people would have listened to him because of his maturity and service and sacrifice. because of the respect people have for him? that is something no one has for miller outside the white house. >> miller was put out there so he could pick a fight and he didn't have to pick it. it came to him. two, he does know immigration policy very well. i'd love to debate the specifics. some of his specifics, the general idea of shifting from a lottery and the very vague idea of family reunification which you can go out infinitely, shifting from that to skills base is good. the second half, reducing the number, one editorial says we should be skills based and not reduce the numbers. getting democrats on board with an argument, but instead it gets lumped into a policy -- >> i agree. having an immigration policy that focuses on skills -- that's just an 80/20. but

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host: that reporter was peter baker. let's go to susan, calling from chicago. she is a republican. good morning. caller: good morning. host: what's on your mind? caller: hello? host: you are on the air. what's on your mind? caller: what's on my mind is you aboutsegment earlier public housing. i lived in a very fancy neighborhood. less than a mile from all the public housing that the democrats put up. and they put all of these poor people in high-rises all along division street. and guess what happened. -- they stole toilets and ovens and ranges. the gangs took over. and it was all drugs. now, the democrats put all this stuff up because they wanted to control all the people in chicago. poor,at happened is the black people were ruined. tore downd down -- all those high-rises that were put up in the 1960's. it was an effort for the democrats to control the poor people in chicago. and it was a tragedy. a service club of chicago and i spend a lot of money for poor black kids and minority children and white children who are going to -- i spend $4000 a year or more helping these kids that

thank you for being here and his stomach pleasure to introduce our speaker, peter baker. i'm assuming his boss must give combat pay. i hope he does. peter's atrophic journalist having served for 20 years of the washington post. he's also served in russia, afghanistan, iraq and 2008 he began his work with the "new york times" serving as white house correspondent covering president obama. as the obama administration ended they-- the times appointed peter-- in addition to all of that because peter doesn't have enough to do he has authored a wonderful book, so he wrote a great book about the impeachment of charles president clinton. kremlin rising about vladimir putin's russia. and as you can see he does not shy away from difficult important topics i got to know peter during my service at the george w. bush library where we were fans of his book "days of fire". i'm proud to call peter a friend and colleague and now, peter wrote the call of history. i can't tell you how much we appreciate peter taking time from his busy life to join us tonight. please welcome my friend, peter b

again, thank you for being here and it's my pleasure to introduce our speaker, peter baker asserts that the new york times chief white house correspondent and in that capacity his boss must give him combat pay. i hope he does. peter is a terrific journalist having served previously for 20 years of the washington post where he covered the clinton and george w. bush presidency. he also served in afghanistan and iraq. he began his work your time serving as white house correspondent for covering obama and as the administration ended his bureau chief in jerusalem and was the victory of donald trump they called him back to the chief white house correspondent. in addition to all of that because obviously peter doesn't have enough to do he's also authored a lot of books as well. he wrote the about the impeachment trial of president clinton. criminal in rising all about vladimir putin's russia in days of fire, bush and cheney. he does not shy away from important topics. i thought it was well researched and very evenhanded in its analysis and well-written. i'm proud to call peter a friend and col

peter baker is the chief white house correspondent for the times, and nbc news political analyst. he joins us from new jersey near the president's home. and michael submit is a washington correspondent for "the new york times" and an m msnbc national security contributor. so peter, you were writing up the vice president's response to this story over the weekend. the times reporting that he's positioning himself for 2020. they're vehemently pushing back on this. >> well, they are. look, the vice president isn't doing anything that doesn't make sense politically. he's not going to run against president trump. that's not what he's talking about. he's talking about what if the president doesn't run for re-election, i would like to be that person. that's in effect the message they're sending. is it looks bad to an audience of one. that would be the guy at the top who thinks he is going to run again in 2020. and any sign anybody else is seen as something else of a betrail. not because he cares too much about what "the new york times" thinks or any of the res of us to think but because h

then at eight, new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker examines the obama presidency in his book, "obama: the call of history." at 9 p.m., former marine corps officer tracy crow and former naval officer gerri bell provide a history of women's military efforts from the american revolution to today. on booktv's "after words" at 10 p.m., arizona senator jeff flake calls for a return to core principles of conservativism. he's interviewed by s.e.cupp, new york daily news columnist and host of hln's cupp unfiltered. and at 11, robert o'neill -- the former u.s. navy seal created with the killing of osama bin laden -- talks about his military career and some of the 400 missions he participated in including the rescue of captain richard phillips and the attempted rescue of marcus la trel. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> what i'm roadwaying this summer, and -- reading this summer -- and it might take me all summer -- is this commentary on the book of romans. the

new york times chief weiss health correspondent peter baker examines the obama presidency in his book obama: the call of history. at 9:00 p.m. former marine corps officer tracy crowe and former naval officer jerry bell provide a history of women's military efforts from the american revolution to today. on book tvs afterwords at 10:00 p.m. arizona senator jeff blake calls for a return to court principles of conservativism. he's interviewed by se cobb, new york daily news columnist and host of hln's cup unfiltered. at 11:00 p.m. robert o'neill the former us navy seal credited with the killing of osama bin laden talks about his military career and some of the 400 missions he participated in including the rescue of captain richard phillips in the attempted rescue of marcus the trial. that all happens tonight at c-span twos book tv. first up, here is peter brennan discussing his new book the ends of the world. >> hello there. welcome to foursquare books. thank you for supporting local independent bookstores. we have events here all the time and they are usually not on the nbc nightly news

obama's initial reluctance to address race, and he references a biography that peter baker wrote, left an interpretive void that was gleefully filled by his successor who is all too eager to apply his poisonous perspective. obama picked up the race talk in the second term, but it may have been far too little far too late. obama, as he did in force policy -- foreign policy, led from behind. with you think about that? guest: race is emphasized at the expense of the kind of things bernie and i are talking about. right now we are the most polarized nation. obama was supposed to bring us together. we are more polarized now than we have ever been. the assumption is the problems facing black america somehow tied to what america has or has not done in the past and present, and therefore we have all these grievances. the civil rights movement has declined into a race grievance industry. there is a great inspiration and then they dissolve to a business and into a racket. i think continuing to emphasize race is done at the expense of other things. bernie talked about solutions. we spend too much

we saw the president give a statement to peter baker that he does have confidence in mcmaster and trustsher side of the coin with all the factionalism. who is speaking for the administration for the president? we've seen this with rex tillerson as well. >> speaking of rex tillerson, moving from north korea to russia, he is in manila and met with sergey lavrov, who asked tillerson about the measures we talked about earlier, the u.s. sanctions. this is obviously real, playing out on the world stage. while that is happening, the russia investigation is really full steam ahead. cnn reported that mueller expanded the investigation. he has these big foreign and domestic issues. >> right. the probe is expanding further than people thought it would. you can't address the issue without looking into some of the potential financial connections. that's already been alleged. the open question is how ably is the white house able to function? how are they able to impress the will of the united states around the world while this is all happening? north korea is an interesting test. your report something

a new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker details the obama presidency. that all happens this weekend on booktv. for a complete television schedule go to booktv.org now we kick off the weekend with james zirin the former assistant us attorney argues that the supreme court has become highly partisan in the course decisions often made on a political basis that has little to do with the law or constitution. >> good evening everybody. that's nice. you usually do not speak back! thank you for coming. another of our speaker series. if i could ask you to silence your cell phone, turn off the cell phones, it is the politest thing to do. all the way off. anyway, as a reminder we have dinner upstairs after for those that wish to stay. one of our prefix dinners. thank you again. tonight we are proud to have james zirin to speak with us. he is the author of two books. mother court, gels -- an "supremely partisan: how raw politics tips the scales in the united states supreme court". as many of you know he is post of a television show in the metropolitan area and we us

. >> charlie: there was an interview with peter baker where he said you're either if you're chief of staff all the good ones have been stabbed rather than cheap and it has to do with their relationship to the staff that makes the difference in the white house. >> and look, scaramucci was brought in for a very specific purpose. jared and ivanka and this is not wishful retrospectful reporting around he was brought in to destroy reince priebus. i don't imagine it was as controversial and a lot of people on the press team couldn't stand him and didn't want to work under him and the a lot of other people after the interview came out one senior official said if this kind of behavior is condoned it makes me question whether this is the kind of place i want to work. getting rid of him was a very important cultural signal to the west wing. >> charlie: reince priebus had joined the white house staff for a while had he not? >> no, that's true. >> charlie: the other question that looms over general kelly arriving is can he say no to donald trump? is the at longlastne peron that can say no to do

. >> for more, peter baker, "washington post" columnist ruth marcus, peter let me start with you. when the president made the fire and fury comment a few days ago, the word we were getting from the white house was it was his word, his own expression. but he was expressing something that a, a tone that they were ready for. that the folks in the administration were ready for. is that the same thing today? was the administration ready for him to come out and talk like this? or the president just decided, this is what i'm going to say. >> i think the staff knows what he thinks and knows he'll express it no matter what they think. that you had secretary tillerson trying to calm the waters yesterday. saying i think americans should sleep well at night. the president shuffled that off. he's saying, i'm very serious about this. i'm not backing down whatsoever. the problem is nobody knows where the red line. here's the red line, whether north korea actually fires something at guam, whether they get further progress on their nuclear weapons. we don't know where the line is and the president

and according to glen thrush and peter baker in the "new york times," it was entirely improvised.he president was in a bellicose mood, they write, according to a person who spoke with him before he made the statement. the times reports, he had not run the specific language by advisers before delivering the remarks. the president's spokesperson said today, general kelly and others on the nsc team were well aware of the tone of the statement of the president prior to delivery. the words were his own. the president is showing no regrets. this morning he retweeted a fox and friends post on his fire and fury language. in contrast, his secretary of state rex tillerson gave a more diplomatic message today. >> i think the president, what the president is doing is sending a strong message to north korea in language that kim jong-un will understand. he doesn't seem to understand diplomatic language. >> do you have any advice for americans? >> i think americans should sleep well at night. i have no concerns about this particular rhetoric over the last few days. >> the spokesperson for the st

host: let's read from the new york times and the piece by peter baker and glenn thrush on the words.hey write this morning, the president's language, which aids say he used in private, escalated the dispute to a new level and left members of the trump administration scrambling on wednesday to explain what he meant. the process or lack of one that led to the ad lived comments and bodied his approach to foreign policy and improvise asian -- that leads his national security team in the dark about what you will say or do, according to several people who have the -- you have direct knowledge. the president was in a conversational mood tuesday afternoon after the washington post reported pyongyang had developed nuclear warheads small enough to be placed on missiles. his team assumed they would be asked about north korea tied to a meeting that the president was planning to hold at his golf course in new jersey about the opioid epidemic. during a conference call beforehand, the focused on north korea, donald trump did not offer a preview of what he plans to say. and even on a tinderbox issue

peter biker -- peter baker writes "the vice president declared his loyalty to the president and announcedhe new york times piece suggesting he was positioning himself to run for president in 2020 if president trump does not seek a second term." "disgraceful to me my family and the entire team. the allegations are categorically false and represent the latest attempt by the media to divide the administration." they write the article reported a number of republicans appear positioning themselves to run in 2020 mr. president indoors low poll numbers and investigations. the vice president added "whatever fake news may come your way, my entire team will continue to focus our efforts to advance the president's agenda and see him reelected in 2020. any suggestion to the otherwise is laughable and absurd." peter is calling from north carolina. peter is earning less than $30,000 a year. what do you do for a living? caller: i am retired. host: what -- tell us what your message would be to washington on tax reform? onlyr: the whole thing -- a human being -- the lives of human beings can pay taxes. wh

please welcome my friend, peter baker. [applause] >> this is a fabulous crowd i cannot thank you enough, my friend people you already he has done a fabulous job setting up the library if you've been interested i call my wife like a fan and was just excited. people were at the house when barack obama first announced presidency. okay. this is a crowd. this is something. [applause] so i should be asking you questions. i don't give an audience like this very often. i can't imagine a place better to talk about barack obama kicking off a book about the presidency than here in the land of lincoln. as you know when he kicked off his presidency, he did is emulating the 16th president. he lost the white house campaign of course in the state house where lincoln began his career and he arrived in washington on inauguration day on the same route linking to and he took the oath on lincoln's bible and made a cabinet everyone talked about being a team of rivals much like lincoln's. so there was this very heady moment of course as you reme

as peter baker points out, neither cain or abel made it. reince priebus resigned and now scaramucci resigned the same day the president's new chief of staff john kelly was sworn in. but the president says none of that was chaotic. in 11 days, spicer, priebus and scaramucci are out. if you're inclined to ignore the facts and take the president's word that the chaos isn't chaos, you have to take his twitter word on everything. in february of 2016, "ted cruz does not have the right temperament to be president. look how he panicked and fired his director of communications. bad." >> old trump tweets are like greeting cards. there's one for every occasion. let's get more now from jim acosta with new details on the end of the era of anthony scaramucci. jim, i'm not sure you can say 11 days is an era. but the idea that there's no white house chaos, that's what the president tweeted. but the events of the last couple of weeks tell a different story. what is the mood in the white house? >> reporter: as it turns out, the mooch might have been a bit to

you and peter baker are reporting today that the back story on how improvised that fire and fury statementtell us what you know. >> well, it is funny, andrea, for those of us who kind of watch this thing, watch the statement yesterday as if it were this zapruder film frame by frame, you could see him peer down at a document that was on the desk, he was attending an opioid conference. >> i thought he was reading something. >> it was the fact sheet for the opioid event. the fire and fury comment, it was something they were batting around owl dall day. there were a number of meetings specific to korea, plus the presidential daily briefing, but i was told he was informed of the washington post story, which disclosed that the north koreans had achieved miniaturization of nuclear warheads, he had gotten really riled up. they told him to expect to talk about it. but that was the extent of the briefing, and interestingly enough, his new chief of staff, john kelly, knew that he was broadly going to speak about this, knew he would speak with some force, but was in the words of one close aide surpris

. >> today's monday and as peter baker of "the new york times" turns out neither cane nor abal made it. sally yates fired, flynn forced to fired, sean spicer resigned in opposition to scaramucci's appointment. scaramucci resigned the same day john kelley was sworn in. the president says none of that is chaotic. had 11 days, spicer is, priebus and scaramucci are out. that's quicker than "the apprentice." if you're inclined to take the president's word on twitter the chaos isn't twitter, you have to take his twitter word on everything. in february, 2016, ted cruz doesn't have the right temperament. i think at the meant tempment. look at the way he totally panicked in firing his director of come, communications. bad. from january of 2012, three chiefs of zaf in less than three years of being president. old trump tweets are like greeting cards, there's one for every occasion. another word for which is chaos. let's get more from jim acosta with new details on the end of the era of anthony scaramucci. jim, i'm not sure you can say 11 days is an era, but the idea there's no white house chaos,

we will live by one of the best lines in any newspaper today written by peter baker in "the "new yorke is no vacation from grievance and frustration." we'll find out about those numbers a little later this morning, no doubt, from the summer white house. trust in the white house is declining. president trump fell even further in those polls during his second 100 days in office. a new poll from cnn shows 38% approve of trump's job performance at the 200 day mark. that's down six points from where he was around 100 days into his presidency. the poll finds that only 24% strongly approve the of the job the president is doing, while nearly half, 47%, strongly disapprove. that is down 14 points since february. when asked if president trump is someone they are proud to have as president, 34% say they are. 63% say no. on whether they trust most of what they hear in official communications from the white house, just 24% of americans say yes, while 73% say no. however, a majority of the country remains optimistic. 53% saying things are going well in america today. 45% say badly. my trust numbers

. >> as glen and peter baker reported, the president had talked to his aides.nerals had not signed off on the fire and fury language. kelly, we're told, knew the tone and the strength of his remarks but not the words, and the words matter. and as we were talking to former national security officials both republican and democratic white houses, words about north korea for decades have been carefully calibrated. it's the most dangerous place in the world and you're dealing with an unpredictable leader. the least predictable in his family. you work through china and in the words that a president speaks, you are careful about it. this is the first time if you look back at what william perry, the former and highly well-regarded defense secretary said, you don't talk about a nuclear first strike. that's clearly what he was talking about when he says the likes of which the world has never seen. that is what was so jarring, and then to have tillerson who is completely unprepared for this. he was wraps up a diplomatic mission traveling through asia. so he was delegated

>> well, our assessment that david seng, peter baker, all the people covering this, that is their assessments is aimed at beijing. as we know the president's been very disappointed, very angry with china for not stepping up and pressuring north korea, and the language was so calculated yesterday, he stuck very closely to what seemed to be a script, and it was aimed at frightening beijing, we feel, and getting them to finally step up. as you know, without china, north korea wouldn't exist. huge amounts of trade with north korea, and don't forget also that the president of china xi jinping was at trump's side when the united states lobbed missiles in syria, and so that impressed him, and that was -- we believe that was what trump was trying to do here. nonetheless, it certainly scared a lot of the country, a lot of americans, and certainly the north koreans did take notice right away. >> and willie, the inconsistency in this approach that donald trump has had towards china has to be maddening to most foreign policy experts. you had donald trump during the campaign bashing china, using it as a

peter? >> you know, jim baker, one of my former bosses once said you really shouldn't use, you know, these vegetable metaphors. i don't like them, even though i use them. look, the problem for us is very clear. we can't bomb or preempt because it's simply too risky. and the administration is prepared to negotiate, but prepared to negotiate only a complete roll back and denuclearization of the weapons system. that's not going to happen. by 2020 the north koreans have going to half the nukes that the brits have right now. the only way i think is to test the proposition, test it, that a discreet back channel between the united states and north korea could at least determine whether or not there is a way to slow down the program, constrain it. if not freeze it. that's about the best you're going to do, ana. >> president trump of course sold himself as the master negotiator on the campaign trail. he wrote a book on deal making. do you see a deal maker? >> it's interesting. you know, making real estate deals in new york is complicated. i don't want to take that away from anybody who works in that business

it involves colorado baker, who refused to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple. >>> silicon billionaire peter teal is backing the controversial testing of an experimental herpes vaccine. he invested $7 million in the trial being held on a caribbean island. the creators flew 20 americans with herpes to the island several times where they received a vaccine. critics say the testing defies u.s. safety protections for human trials. >>> 49ers sather rick reed is picking up where colin kaepernick left off last year. he'll again take a knee during the national anthem during 49ers games this season. the fifth-year player did before last night's game against the minnesota vikings. a practice he started last year alongside colin kaepernick. reed decided to resume his protest after conversations with kaepernick and seeing what he called unamerican protests in charlottesville. >>> coming up next on abc 7 news at 4:00, a lot more on hurricane harvey, including the nationwide effort to help the victims. >>> i'm meteorologist drew tuma. continuing to track harvey. we'll have the latest path and future track

baker and these were considered the of moderates. has a conservative now the of moderates they are now in charge. to say i want good writers will peter robinson's great line was the state department tries to take the data in his speech but i don't know of a new the extent to which he fought so in many ways as the conservatives come to reagan so now that stops him from being himself and he is not pushing harder on some of those issues. buckley says i will make a deal. bilocation leeway yen or talk to the president. and for whatever it takes. into all cleanup the white house. so behind the scenes is fascinating. he was not a government official, never took a job in the accounts as a subordinate. what are you doing for years the? in the buckleys the of the reagans went on vacation together the father was a great extrovert but he got together with his hollywood buddies liken the old days. he said deal the one got buckley to let his hair down to talk about raising children or personal things or how to handle difficult people. did you conceive that in the letter. you cannot fire a son-in-law or best friend. so there are these breakups so b

francine: think you so much to stephanie baker for updating us on this tax reform speech and peter schaffrikcoming up, we interview warren buffett at 11:00 a.m. in new york and 4:00 p.m. in london. this is bloomberg. ♪ reporter: this is "bloomberg surveillance" and i'm taylor riggs. it is now official. ceo tos named expedia's be the new chief executive, concluding the month-long search to replace travis. khosrowshahi called his job the opportunity of a lifetime. this is for more than $20 billion. according to "the wall street journal" a deal could come by the weekend. makes aechnologies variety of airplane parts, including engines. tom: so, the ones paying attention to uts rockwell is airbus. this is a huge deal for airbus. honeywell went after it a while ago, and they got thrown aside. ats is nine times bigger than rockwell. atx is a true conglomerate, think otis elevators and pratt & whitney aircraft engines. for airbus, this is not a small deal. francine: if you think about this consolidation, it would give the aerospace manufacturer is greater heft at a time when boeing and airbus -- it

new york times chief weiss health correspondent peter baker examines the obama presidency in his book obama: the call of history. at 9:00 p.m. former marine corps officer tracy crowe and former naval officer jerry bell provide a history of women's military efforts from the american revolution to today. on book tvs afterwords at 10:00 p.m. arizona senator jeff blake calls for a return to court principles of conservativism. he's interviewed by se cobb, new york daily news columnist and host of hln's cup unfiltered. at 11:00 p.m. robert o'neill the former us navy seal credited with the killing of osama bin laden talks about his military career and some of the 400 missions he participated in including the rescue of captain richard phillips in the attempted rescue of marcus the trial. that all happens tonight at c-span twos book tv. first up, here is peter brennan discussing his new book the ends of the world. >> hello there. welcome to foursquare books. thank you for supporting local independent bookstores. we have events here all the time and they are usually not on the nbc nightly news