more with nicholas schmidle and ralph peters in just a moment. "after words" with nicholas schmidle and ralph peters continues. >> host: ayaan ralph peterson, and we are having a great time today, at least i am, talking with nicholas speed, the author of "to live or to perish forever" a superb and remarkably timely book on his two recent years and pakistan, a country very much in the headlines and is granted dominate headlines for some time to come. nick, one of the striking things about this series of tales is the time spent with taliban of fighting drugs with pakistanis but the other side of the taliban, the enforcers, people bringing sharia law to the northwest frontier and perhaps you could start us off by just telling us how you got there, introduce, something you could read from this book that will explain how you got in there. >> guest: the first thing is we were talking last time about abdul aziz ghazi. after he died he'd been my introduction to all of these and after ghazi died i wrote a piece titled farewell my jihadi friend, which was

he sits down with ralph peters and for the holliday, 3 days of book tv, including historian and author john furling live sunday from george washington's mount vernon estate on in debt. the entire schedule is on line with great new features including streaming videos and easy to search archives. booktv.org. >> what are you reading? >> what are you reading this summer? >> frost/nixon by david frost. what i am reading this summer is mainly on holidays, i go from relaxing reading in terms of this and that sort of thing. i used to be robert low blow, i like holiday reading. the most serious reading i am doing, william safire's book of the great political speeches of all time. that is what i am reading for deal. >> how do you select the books you read? >> in the seconds i have, i race to the area. hopefully come out with the one i am in to. >> thank you. >> to see more summer reading list visit our web site, booktv.org. >> book expo america, we are here with a publisher of basic books. what does a publisher do? >> that is a title i have. i run the imprint of basic books, we have editorial, m

nicholas scmidle sits down with ralph peters. next weekend, three days a book to be starting friday morning at 8:00 p.m. including offered johnny ferling from mount vernon. the entire schedule is online. >> a hearing on health care legislation proposals drafted by several house committees. speakers will include union and business leaders and health care industry experts. this hearing lasts about an hour 35 minutes. >> that afternoon, the committee on education in and labor will come to order for the purpose of conducting a hearing on the try committee discussion draft for health care reform in our country. before we began, i would like to welcome congressman klein to his first hearing as our new incoming ranking member. he is the senior republican on our committee. we welcome him to the committee in that position and we say congratulations to him. we look forward to working with him to continue our efforts to improve the lives of american families. welcome. >> [applause] this hearing marks the next up to guarantee all americans a

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fox news strategic analyst ralph peters. mr. peters is the author of many books. the latest of which is looking for trouble adventures in a broken world. .. >> would be to go to pakistan and live among the people. said decide how she responded you are still married so it worked. but can you tell us more the background of this terrific narrative of what pakistan is really like it? the people, the smells, the field in the air took me back. >> guest: thanks. right at the time i was finishing graduate school in the summer 2005 i received a fellowship from the current world affairs which is a foundation funded by the crane foundation that you see the credo on toilets and they go on and we had major problems getting into iran i said i do not know anything about pakistan but it seems like a fascinating and dynamic country. they sent me their two years the only instructions go there, do not come home will learn and to do and write about what you see. isi can handle that so to make it more complicated i left on valentine's day february 2006 for their all the protests over

nicholas schmidt talks about 2 years in pakistan, sits down with ralph peters. next weekend for the holiday, 3 days of booktv including historian and author john furling live sunday from mount vernon estate on in-depth. the entire schedule this on line with great features including streaming video and easy to search archive. booktv.org. earn..

he sits down with "new york post" columnist ralph peters and next weekend for the holiday three days of booktv starting friday morning at 8:00 including historian and author john ferling lied sunday from george washington mount vernon estate on in depth. the entire schedule is on line with great new features including streaming video and easy to search the archives. booktv.org. >> martin enn ilyse anderson used formerly classified documents to contend that ronald reagan believed the destruction of nuclear weapons was tantamount in achieving his goal to bring an end to the soviet union. the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley california hosted this event. it is 25 minutes. >> hello. i was just thinking it has now been about 34 years since we first met ronald reagan, and we always liked it when we first met him and we still like him. and, as is and said we worked with him for quite a long time. in 1988 i wrote one book explaining what reagan was like and i thought i really knew about him. but when people left come a lot ofeople talk to me about he was kind of silly and di

he sits down with ralph peters. and next weekend for the holiday, three days of book tv starting friday morning at 8:00. including a historian and author. life, sunday from george washington's mount vernon estate. the entire schedule is on line, including streaming video and easy to search archives. >> and now, washington national's president stan kast en at the national press club. he talks about the team which moved to washington in 2005. >> good afternoon. welcome to the national bless club. i am a reporter with u.s.a. today and the president of the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists and are committed to a future of journalism by providing informative programming, journalism education and fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please visit or website. on behalf of our 3,500 members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and our guest in the audience today. i would also like to welcome those of you who are

bring an end to the soviet union and talking about his two years in pakistan, he sits down with ralph peters. that's nicolas smith. the entire book tv schedule is online with great new features including streaming video and easy-to-search archives. book tv.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: ron fairchild is the executive director for the national center for summer learning. tell us how much information do children lose over the summer by not being in school, not going to the library and not keeping up with their studies? >> they lose quite a bit. guest: in fact research shows young people experience serious setbacks in academic performance during the summer when they take a long break. for lo-income kids they lose big in summer reading. they accumulate and contribute significantly to the achievement gap. it's not just an issue for low-income kids in fact for all kids they experience setbacks in skills like math come putation and spelling. so what the research shows very clearly and on this particular issue is that young people face significant setbacks and risks during summer mont

and a talk about pakistan with new york post columnist ralph peters. the entire schedule is on line with great new features, including streaming video and easy to search archives. booktv.org. >> "washington journal" continues. joining us is governor lius fortino, a republican from puerto rico. why are you in town? guest: first of all this health corp. -- health-care concerns. i represent 4 million citizens. secondly, some other issue that we normally have. the meeting today with secretary kathleen sibelius, and also secretary napolitano -- as any other governor i have plenty of things to do. on wednesday morning i was testifying before the natural resources committee. there is a bill providing for a congressional mandate plebiscites on puerto rican status. host: health care, how is puerto rico fairing? guest: we have never feared well, although i represent 4 million citizens and even though per-capita we contribute more men and women to every war except for one state. we still -- four major programs that encompass health care. medicaid, medicare, cobra

i am ralph peters and it is my distinct privilege and a lot of fun to be able to speak today with one of the most talented writers i've ever met in a very brave young man, author nicolas schmidle and his book is "to live or to perish forever" two tumultuous years in pakistan and they were in the tumultuous. welcome, agreed to see you. congratulations on a terrific book. as a fellow writer i can only be anne gurley jobless but i love you any way. this book has a great back story. at the ripe age of 27, newly married, you persuaded your wife a great idea for a honeymoon would be to go to pakistan and lived amongst the people for two years. we will set aside for now how your wife responded. you're still married so obviously it worked. but can you tell the background of this terrific narrative what pakistan is really like? you're nailed it. the people, the smells, the field in the air took me aback. >> guest: thanks, ralph. right at the time i was finishing graduate school in the summer of 2005i received a fellowship from the current world affairs which is a foundation funded by the crane