first, we have brian whitmore who joins us all the way from prague. he is a senior russian analyst and also writes the power vertical blog. prior to joining in 2007, he worked eight years for the "boston globe." first and the globe moscow bureau and later as a central and eastern europe correspondent based in prague. following brian, we have delia. and i understand your wife just had a baby, so thank you so very much for being with us here today rather than at home. ' understand what a sacrifice you are making to talk about this important topic. who joins us from the not the russian federation but the free russia foundation, where she is a research expert and an academy associate. in addition, he has free speech llc which runs a project on the export of corrosive practices from post-soviet states to the west. we will then hear from the doctor was a senior fellow at the atlantic council and a professor at georgetown university. a leading specialist on economic policy in russia, ukraine and eastern europe and worked as an economic adviser to the preside

first we have brian, who joins us all the way from prague. he's a senior russia analyst for rferl and also writes the power vertical blog. prior to joining rferl in 2007, he worked for eight years for the boston globe. in the globe as moscow bureau, and later as the central and eastern europe correspondent based in prague. following brian, we have elia. i understand your wife just had a baby. so thank you so very much for beings with us here today. [applause] rather than at home. we understand what a sacrifice you're making to talk about this very important topic. who join us from the russian -- not the russian federation, the free russia foundation. where he is a research expert and he's an academy associate. in addition, he heads free speech ll c., which runs a project on the export of corrosive practices from postsoviet states to the west. -- post-soviet states to the west. we'll then hear from dr. anders who the hell jinx commission knows very, very well. who is a senior fellow at the atlantic council and a professor at georgetown univers

so he's a prague in atist, he's the most successful real estate magnet in new york. he looks at the world as it is. that was the last eight years of disastrous i'd logically-tinged lack of statesmanship out of the white house. we look at russia as a country we don't have perfect relations with, we don't even have better relations with than other nations, but perhaps they could improve. do we wish to escalate matters with russia? i don't think that's a good idea, jake. >> you don't think it's weak at all to let russia go after having interfered in the 2016 election with no punishment at all? >> the last thing you could say about donald j. trump after the last 35 weeks is that he's weak. look at what we've done in afghanistan -- >> so what's the punishment? >> look at the 59 -- >> so what's the punishment for russia? >> look at what we did at g20. let's. >> reporter: i'm asking about russia. >> i will. look at g20. we sat down, the president had a two hour and 15 minutes discussion with vladimir putin. he pressed vladimir putin on multiple occasions with regards to the

steves: prague's old town square, once just another farmers market, is now the heart of the city, butoday, the commerce is clearly tourism. the fanciful gothic tyn church soars over everything as if to remind tourists lots of religious history took place right here. back in the 15th century, when some christians were beginning to struggle against roman catholic dominance, this was prague's leading hussite church. hussites were followers of jan hus, whose statue graces the square. he was a local preacher who got in trouble with the vatican a hundred years before martin luther and the reformation. the chalice is a symbol of hus and his followers, who believed everyone, not just priests, should be able to partake in the eucharist, or holy communion. these days, huge crowds gather at the 15th-century astronomical clock back on the old town square. the dials seem to tell you everything you could possibly want to know. it tells the phases of the moon, sunset, current sign of the zodiac, each day's special saint, and, somehow, it even tells the time. and of course, 500 years ago, everything

. >> reporter: on a family farm in prague, nebraska, about 40 miles north of lincoln, carl soucek is right at home. his family has been farming this land since the late 1940s. they grow mostly corn and soybeans, but the last couple of years haven't been easy. high prices for crops translated to more income for farmers a few years ago, but now, those prices have tumbled, leaving farmers in a financial ditch. >> the best thing that ever happened to the corn industry was $7 corn, and the worst thing to happen was $7 corn, because it threw everything out of balance. i think we'll see the cycle come back. i don't know when it's going to come back. >> reporter: while he waits, soucek is doing what he can to cut costs on the farm. instead of taking his equipment to the local implement dealer for repairs, he has parts delivered to the farm and does those repairs himself. how much does that save you? doing your own repairs? if you had to take your trailer in yourself, how much would that cost you, compared to doing this yourself? >> shop rates can run anywhere from $75 to $150 an hour. and se

rothenburg's heyday -- that was about 1200 to 1400 -- it was the intersection of two great trading routes -- prague to paris and hamburg to venice. but today, the great trade is tourism. rothenburg is a huge hit with shoppers. true, this is a great place to buy cuckoo clocks, steins, and dirndls, but see the town first. most of the buildings were built by 1400. like many medieval towns, the finest and biggest houses were built along herrengasse, named for the herren, or the wealthy class. the commoners built higgledy-piggledy farther from the center, near the walls. hanging shop signs advertise what they sold -- knives, armor, bread, whatever. rothenburg's wall, with its beefy fortifications and intimidating gates, is about a mile around and provides great views and a good orientation. rodertor is the only tower you can actually climb. it's worth the hike for the commanding city view and the fascinating display on the bombing of rothenburg in the last weeks of world war ii, when much of the city was destroyed. but rothenburg's most devastating days were 400 years ago, during the thirty years' war.

like he did two summers ago during an emotional shoot in prague. >> you had that beautiful image of theno. and that white rhino you said died just days after you shot it. >> yeah. the northern white rhino. her name was nabire and she lived in the verekulave zoo in the czech republic. she was one of five left on earth at the time we photographed her, and she was very old. and she died about eight days later. >> reporter: today there are just three left in the world. >> it's the best rhino shoot i've ever had and the worst rhino shoot i've ever had. >> we have one. >> we got one? >> yes. >> reporter: in "rare" sartore also seeks to show some of the world's smaller threatened species like the lower keys marsh rabbit which is almost gone. he also goes on a taxing hike in cameroon looking for the rare cross-river gorilla, but instead he finds beetles in a pile of dung. >> this pile of poop make the whole hike worthwhile. people also say what's your favorite animal? and i say, well, the next one. it's the next one. no matter what. >> reporter: sartore says his project will take 25 years to co

first things first though they play the czech republic on the first of september in prague because they still have to qualify that top of their group in the european qualification song as for cheating i do feel for them but more like the much vaunted english golden generation in general of law paul to john terry didn't win anything a belgian golden generation plays the edge in how salt players like me see them better i players like matonga and. by haven't yet achieved anything and likewise with chile to south american championships but nothing unfortunately it won't level yet it was a very impressive performance from chile but the end of the day they can but the ball in the not matter how much they have done puff also draw no doubt in the funds are not escape politics is that she watched the game with fans and volunteers. for the rushes they confederation has given me their raging successes we know they haven't been any reports of a few races of all who think it is a high buffet be rude the other things people were talking about with the tour events but also be ready chilly here to say

percent this year unemployment rates are among the lowest in europe and wages are going up houses in prague are flying off the market in a matter of weeks often times with multiple bidders which means housing prices are also rising check national bank is pointing to the third quarter of this year is being a prime time to hike rates but not everyone is convinced it would be the first rate hike in europe in about five years and some investors are worried about the timing and what it will do to the global markets if the u.s. and check raise rates around the same time. well. speaking of raising rates the federal reserve just announced it will not raise rates right now in a statement wednesday we learned the fed is leaving its benchmark interest rate between one and one point two five percent the announcement does not come as a surprise inflation has been weaker than originally expected though the fed believes it will rebound in the near future what investors were looking for in this statement was a more precise timeline on when the fed wants to start downsizing its bond portfolio which will app

happens on the first of december the crumbly the grumbles of the kremlin so germany for example go to prague supply the czech republic on september first the european domestic season will have started by then and chile still of work to do as well the top three automatically from south america brazil have qualified already absolutely on fire at the moment the brazilian national team but still some work to do for chile by fice paraguayan and even move work to do for all give you the world's best player lino messi vale fifth in the south american group and could face apply off potentially against the best team which is new zealand so that's up to date on the qualification but expects all of the big names the next year the cream always rises to the top yeah it's going to be a tough task for one antonio pitt sees chile to pick themselves up after that disappointing long. brings to an end sixty matches in sixteen days belonged not for as we would have several weeks now as we visited all the host cities such as. here in st petersburg we have visited the stadium is right around a formula one track f

david davis in prague.apital to now consider the prospect of water rationing. sarah corker reports. holiday snaps of the famous fountains in vatican city will look a little different this summer. the 17th—century masterpieces in st peter's square are among 100 fountains being switched off. large swathes of italy are suffering from a prolonged drought. as far as we know, at least in our memory, this is the first time we have had to shut the fountains down. as you know, in rome, rome has been blessed with lots of water, and so this is an exception. as far as we know, this is the first time in the vatican this has happened. the move comes after authorities ordered a halt on pumping water from this lake near rome, a decision that could force officials to impose water rationing in the italian capital. some areas have seen rainfall levels 80% below normal. the island of sardinia is among the worst—affected regions. 4000 farms depend on this now near—empty dam for water. translation: water only one day a week. we

percent this year unemployment rates are among the lowest in europe and wages are going up houses in prague are flying off the market in a matter of weeks often times with multiple bidders which means housing prices are also rising check national bank is pointing to the third quarter of this year is being a prime time to hike rates but not everyone is convinced it would be the first rate hike in europe in about five years and some investors are worried about the timing and what it will do to the global markets if the u.s. and check raise rates around the same time. well. speaking of raising rates the federal reserve just announced it will not raise rates right now in a statement wednesday we learned the fed is leaving its benchmark interest rate between one and one point two five percent the announcement does not come as a surprise inflation has been weaker than originally expected though the fed believes it will rebound in the near future. what investors were looking for in this statement was a more precise timeline on when the fed wants to start downsizing its folio which will apparently

read boss speed he's an academic because everybody had economic you know and some think tank and prague which says that russia is a threat what he read on boss feared that russia was going to attack the u.k. using the russian community in london to destabilize the country before they attack so you can imagine all these are all grosh and billionaires suddenly had taken wide cause something so they would just drop the case this is getting out of hand and that's why we can only get one of these and they say gets out of hand we had mushy guess and say it was getting a little out of hand with these people that really the origins of it you know picture it seems to me that. the situation in western countries when it comes to news and media is that the news is about the media and i think this is this is a danger here because we're not talking. about fox i mean if you look at c n n in b.c. i mean they have they haven't talked about news for a long long time and it's really surprising when you see it now but it is kind of reached some kind of chris and what do you think of what is happening now w

petersburg, russia's former capital and current weirder prague to talk to ordinary russians. jim?king of american elections. secret backchannels. pee pee tapes. there are a lot of allegations swirling around the russian people right now. so i flew to st. petersburg, russia on the summer solstice for the white nights festival to see how the people felt about those accusations and to find some common ground. high five! high five! high five! high five! high five! sup? i'm stephen. >> misha, nice to meet you. >> stephen: may i stroke your beard? >> do whatever, up to you. thank you. >> stephen: i feel like we've gotten close pretty fast. okay, are you a hacker? >> no, i'm afraid not. >> stephen: you're not a hacker. if you were a hacker, would you admit that you're a hacker? >> well, i wouldn't admit it. >> stephen: you wouldn't admit it if you were? that's what you're saying. that's as good as admitting it right now. i'm here with maria and vitaly, and they just got married. congratulations. i'm going to give each of you a potato. i'm going to make a statement and, if you agree, hold

all of these suspicious meetings that they picked up by metadata, whether in prague, the netherlands and on and on, i mean, we are beyond the just smoke phase. it's starting to look like the fire. and no one has come forward, the trump administration, and explained this, or explained payments going to man jaesafort millions and millions of dollars. we haven't even gotten to the deutsche bank money going into the trump business empire, and on and on and on. it just gets worse and worse. we call it a drip drip drip. the question is, when are we going to declare it. the sooner the better. otherwise this president simply can't represent this country until it's cleared up. >> a spokesperson for trump's legal team says that they believe it could have been an effort to create an appearance of inappropriate connections between the trump and his family members and russia. the quote i have to read you is, we have learned from both our own investigation and public reports that the participants in the meeting misrepresented who they were, and who they worked for. again, this is the spokesman for

good message to the terrorists, you attack someone in a check, in prague, someone makes you back. >>your own hit or miss, be sure to tweets us. thanks to my panel. thanks to all of you for watching. i'm paul and it's nice to see you right here next week >>> tonight on "war stories." he was a texas school teach chore became a washington power house. >> johnson is a mixture of huge achievements and tragic failures. >> envisioning what he called the great society. but war in vietnam turned his dream into a never-ending nightmare. >> i think he taped over that war. >> i shall not seek another term as your president. >> the life and times of lyndon baines johnson. next on "war stories." ♪ this was the home of one

they had backed a large organization of students founded and crawled -- in prague.he united states had no nationwide body that could claim to speak on behalf of all american students. regardless of the different political tendencies that were on campus, they all agreed that they should form a national student association. it was liberal. it was the same conundrum the editor of ramparts phase. what did the cia want with a bunch of long-haired hippies? it was always liberal. it was important to distinguish .hat these were liberals who had been 30'smuch affected by the shattering of the coalitions that included communists, when the communist party was perfectly legal. when it turned out party leaders had allegiance to stalin, they had hidden allegiances, and it shattered organizations, shattered the roosevelt voting coalition. the liberals conclude they were partners.le they did not want to replay of the 1930's. that is why there were some many of these other behind the scenes make sure there wasn't a replay of the american student union, that the communists were out f

good message to the terrorists, you attack someone in a check, in prague, someone makes you back. >>ember if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweets us. thanks to my panel. thanks to all of you for watching. i'm paul and it's nice to see you right here next week. this is a fox news alert. i'm kelly in new york and we want to go to a news conference underway in a nightclub shooting that took place in little rock, arkansas last night. paying people injured in that and let's go do that now. reporter: >> it's broken for the victims that were involved in this tragic situation but heartbroken for their families and heartbroken for our city. i speak on behalf of of all of my colleagues the city board of directors that are assembled here with me and telling you that we had delegated and we continue to rededicate ourselves to what we can do to make the city safe.

good message to the terrorists, you attack someone in a check, in prague, someone makes you back. >>r if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweets us. thanks to my panel. thanks to all of you for watching. i'm paul and it's nice to see you right here next week >> lou: good evening, everybody. the national left wing media proving what a sorry lot most of them are. once again attacking president trump after he tweeted a response to mmess nbc left wingers including mi ka. they are hitting back at brenskis and the white house admopished them for ignoring health care and taxes and americans. >> our stock market

. >> outside prague, he taught him how to fish and hunt. >> you can pull the trigger twice, get two shots reporter: during the presidential campaign, donald trump jr. and eric shoefd off their hunting skills to cnn's jake tapper. >> we got into it very young age. a grandfather, blue-collar guy, an electrician from czechoslovakia. >> love of outdoors came from his ma teternal grandfather. from paternal grandfather. he learned about work. >> as a kid spend a weekend with them. what do you want to do? it was, i don't know i well do anything you want. what do you want to do. i guess we'll go collect rent? >> collect rent from tenants who leased fred trump's apartments in brooklyn, queens. >> he dent understand how to relate to a child in a way. he was just a worker. that's what he did. >> reporter: beginning in his early teens it's what don jr. did too. he was the son of a billionaire. he didn't need to work. but his father made him. >> he always wanted to make sure we understood the value of a dollar. first job as dock attendant. >> reporter: at one of his father's properties in atlantic cit

. >> between 20, 30 parent volunteers on hands to make sure the kids are prague guessing. >> the kidslike anything when starting, the simple etiquette , not walking in front of somebody. you know, the safety part of it. >> i can help them with the basics, aiming, how to avoid the water, help them out of the sand. just keep encouraging them to try their best, and they'll get down when they have stroke after stroke after stroke. >> that's what moms are for. got to keep you in line but also encourage. >> we try. >> the kids range from one holes to 18 holes, based on skill level. but they don't care how many holes they play, just having good time. >> yes. >> do you like? >> yes. >> four years, do you feel like you could go on the professional tour? >> maybe. >> not right now? >> not. >> for some it is a family affair. >> who are you here with? >> my brother, my dad. >> okay, so you guys are brother. who is the better golfer here? >> probably me. >> is that right? >> no. >> probably me. >> oh, wow little smack talk early in the morning, i like that. >> they let me get out on the course wit

in november of 2002 and he was with some eastern european parliamentarians at the nato session in praguen i introduced myself, he put his arm around me and said to the eastern european leaders, he was me, he was me. this is a good guy. i think what president bush understood and what i understand was that there was something more than just winning or losing a presidential election. it was making sure that the race itself was fair and free and open for the american people to decide. the irony is that the young woman who sent me those debate tapes and those materials wound up spending a year in jail, and the federal judge who sentenced her said at the time that the reason the sentence was so harsh for a first offense was that she had interfered in an american election and had lied to the members of the judiciary about her role. that's why the sentence was going to be so tough. >> former congressman thomas downey, we are out of time, but it is such a pleasure to talk to you and to hear from someone who clearly did the right thing. thank you. >> thank you. >> what a fascinating story. this is

his parents took him out of southampton hospital and to spain and in prague, it reminds me of that casee suspicion that these doctors we re had the suspicion that these doctors were kings in their own domain and wide open to the idea that maybe there was something else somewhere else. they have talked about their baby going in there and effectively being held in prison, is the word i he used. i think the comparison with the a shipping cases a difficult one, because there were very different issues there. he had a condition that was treatable. and theissue condition that was treatable. and the issue there was more around when the issue there was more around when the therapy should be used, how it should be done. i won‘t go into the details .com confidentiality reasons but there were wider issues than those reported. are we in a situation where we have doctors at the centre of excellence who cannot look beyond their blinkered view. actually i don‘t think that‘s right. the world of the specialty of mitochondrial disease is very small. it's mitochondrial disease is very small. it‘s a very r

the guy on the ipad is in prague and he can just go to toronto, log on, and then start to scoot around the office and good to call on people. he can come in here, be in the back of the room in the meet examination could come up to the microphone. a little kinky. but you know what i'm saying. so what we are shipping around the world is -- we want people's ideas for shipping this big bag of proto plasm. we were so surprised when this came out. we didn't get them until 12 weeks ago so we prepared the book, designed the book and had it all ready, digital ready copy, except the numbers and we wanted to work on the numbers until the last second before penguin ripped it out of our clutches because they'll never be right, the numbers. it's endless, and so when we got them we were like oh, my god, so surprised and had to recheck and this and you're sure and, yes, and everything was right. and it's so interesting because i had a friend at that time who i have knopp for -- known for years, she went to paris and said we're work -- she avoid are you and the i said i'm working. i'm going stay here a

his parents wanted him to go to prague for a revolutionary new treatment.said would not work. the boy went, it worked, and he is now cancer free. he is at school. and his parents had in fact been imprisoned for daring go against the establishment. that treatment will now be available to england next year. science moves at different speeds. what you have seen here is a classic case of the british establishment closing ranks and saying, we know what is best. doctors at any level don't always know what is best. america is hardly a third world country, and little charlie should have gone there. the saddest thing of all in this is that chris and connie, to their graves will never know what might've happened, however unrealistic and may be, whatever happened to it charlie gard if he had not gone to dr. hirano seven months ago. my heart weeps for them. >> bill: nigel farage, thank you for your time. i am out of time for now. we'll speak again. speak to u.s. navy ship fires warning shots at an iranian vessel in the persian gulf. what provoked us, happen, we're gett

with the action of congress reform and etcetera, do you feel the same way >> it is frustrating that praguent the day in washington yesterday, i had a one on one personal meetings with ambassadand the ambassador and also had discussions of wilbur ross >> those folks are bright, they understand the issue of a trade and they're working to recommend the president's restrengaints a of the environment of steel staying healthy again. >> they're slowly dissolving for a healthy economy, you need manufacturing and steel production is the basis and the foundation of the manufacturing basis. >> it has a big historic role in this country mr. millet, thank you very much, we'll watch to see what the a administration does. >> have a great day. bye bye. >> it is the worst group of stocks today is the best bet for your money now >> a robot that can make buy piazzas better than you. >> no kidding, that story is ahead. . so i bought ingredients, utensils, even made custom donut cutters. wow! all with points. that's how i created the ripple: the doughnut in a doughnut in a doughnut. suddenly it's everywhere. i

has been one battle through another during his life but this adversary is ruthless, the long-term prague knows i as we've been hearing is not good. >> john mccain is a fighter, former, but news of brain tumor has been difficult to digest. >> tough nice. it is tough. >> mccain spoke on the phone with senator lindsey graham one every his best friends in the senate. after doctors made the diagnosis, discovering the tumor while removing a blood clot above mccain's eye. >> god knows how this ends, not me. but dow know this: this diseases never had a more worthy opponent. >> mccain's colleagues in congress were stunned on a night when republicans were meeting on healthcare reform, counting on mccain's vote bipartisan expressions of support poured in. president trump often at the with mccain said on twitter melania and i sends our thoughts and prayers to senator mccain, send i and their entire family, get billion soon. president obama who defeated mccain back in 2008 wrote john mccain is a american hero and one of the bravest fighters i've ever known. cancer doesn't know what it is up against.

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he read bos speed he's an academic because everybody had economic you know at some think tank and prague which says that russia is a threat might here add on boss fear that russia was going to attack the u.k. using the russian community in london to destabilize the country before they attack so you can imagine all these are all grosh and billionaires suddenly had taken wide cause something so they would just drop the case this is getting out of hand and that's why we're going to see only one of these and they say gets out of hand we had mushy guess and say it was getting a little out of hand with these people that really the origins of it you know picture it seems to me that. the situation in western countries when it comes to news and media is that the news is about the media and i think this is this is a danger here because we're not talking about fox i mean. you look at see in the sea i mean they have they haven't talked about news for a long long time and it's really surprising when you see it now but it is kind of reached some kind of crisis and would you think. what is happening no

successful that many insurances including third party commercial insurances are paying for recovery coach prague gram. >> is that a program under rhode island law or something you found to be so cost effective that they are participating? >> it is not a requirement. >> can i ask a follow-up question? recovery coaches have what kind of credentials? >> so we have a certification process for our recovery coaches that are standardized and involves training, a test, voluntary hours for certification in order to respond. they are not degree -- >> okay, not degree. do you have licensed recovery, do you have them in the er as requirement? >> we do not. >> let me ask, does kentucky have them or virginia, maryland? i believe there is a study done in michigan and yale, there is providing treatment, not referral, treatment, increases a person following up by 50%. just by saying here is some place to call. 82%, do you know if they follow through? that's my question. i would love to hear that from each state. but i next have to go to next walters. >> before you do, is ms. casters unanimous consent? >> yes, we

successful that many insurances including third party commercial insurances are paying for recovery coach prague gram. -- recovery coaching program. >> is that a program under rhode island law or something you found to be so cost effective that they are participating? >> it is not a requirement. >> can i ask a follow-up question? recovery coaches have what kind of credentials? >> so we have a certification process for our recovery coaches that are standardized and involves training, a test and voluntary hours for certification in order to respond. they are not degree -- >> ok, not degree. do you have any emergency rooms, people themselves who are , do you havevery them in the er as requirement? >> we do not. >> let me ask, does kentucky have them or virginia, maryland? i believe there is a study done in michigan and yale, there is a licensed counselor providing treatment, not referral, treatment, increases a person following up by 50%. just by saying here is some place to call. 82%, do you know if they follow through? that's my question. i would love to hear that from each state. but i next have

an easier thing is looking forward -- >> they're actually prague we don't get to 3%. >> democrats and can come together on corporate tax reform >> no they can't >> that deal has been on offer for several -- >> you really think democrats, you get a vote on tax reform >> not at a number like 15%. >> no a number like 28%. >> even mid 20s or low 20s i think is possible, and you could pay for it so i think it's a matter of figuring out what is the biggest impact on productivity and what can we get -- >> is there still a climate in washington that would allow a deal like that to happen where the two sides are working together, because it seems like the climate is so poisonous right now, that it's hard for me to imagine any bill that both sides -- >> obviously it is poisonous anybody can look at that and see. having said that, the stakes are so large here. it only takes a few leaders on both sides and they are there, who could come together. but the president would have to lead he would have to put out a plan and have everybody start shooting at it >> and he would have to put out a plan that

that's a -- the prague cemetery because that's interesting in some says. >> you have your own book coming out. >> i've written a couple of books and have two books that were published i'm working on another book right now, writing another book. but i have a book called the doctrine of liberty, published and that's a theological look at the doctrine of liberty, there is a doctrine of liberty within my faith, the church of jesus christ latter-day saintses and i think there is. the second one is do -- probably hear mother more about this bus jim demint, working with a group to get an article 5 convention to rewrite aspects of the united states constitution which i'm adamantly oppose today. used to fight that and debate that and i same i'm tired of debating debating and just write a book. it's called the con of the con-con. so that's the other book, yeah. >> book therefore wants to know what you're reading. send us your summer reading his via twitter, or instagram, or post it to our facebook page, facebook.com/book tv. booktv on c-span 2, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversatio

80 pages to go but taking a few days off for him and going to i might sneak a little early to the prague cemetery because that's a little bit more interesting in some ways. you know. >> you've also got your own book coming out? >> i've written a couple of box and two books that -- were published i'm working on another book right now. writing another book. but i have a book called the doctrine of liberty that was the first one published in that's a theological look at -- at the doctrine of liberty of itself is there a doctrine of jesus christ of lat or day saints so you'll hear more about this because jim demint lost heritage foundation to try to get an article five convention to rewrite aspect which i'm adamantly o o posessed to and fight that all of the time and tired of debating but i'm going to write a book so i wrote a book and it's called the con of the con con. so that's -- that's the other book yeah. booktv wants to know what you're reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter at booktv or o instagram atbook underscore tv or post it to our facebook page facebook.com/bookt