peter: reginald dwayne betts, you have written an afterword to martin luther king jr.'s letter from birmingham jail. who asked you to do that? reginald: it is one of those things. my life has been humbling. it goes back to brother yao. they -- harpercollins published the i have a dream speech and they wanted that imprisons because they understood people need that message and they needed to know this was a contemporary message. so when they were wondering who could help that happen they thought about me. and i'm on a call with them and i'm thinking to myself, what did dr. martin luther king write about prison? i was thinking what did he write about mass incarceration, but it was not an idea in the 1960's, so when they told me letter from a birmingham jail, it was like cold water had got thrown on my face, because i remembered the story we started this conversation with. as i told him the story, i am weeping because i had not thought about it in a while. i was humbled by the fact that i was talking to them about this and i'm like you have to let me write this. and they li

next on c-span's q&a, reginald dwayne betts talks about the impact that dr. king's letter from birmingham jail had on him when he read it in prison and the life he has led since getting out, including founding freedom, roads and organization that builds libraries, prisons, then prime minister keir starmer addresses energy security, children's mental health and suicide prevention during his weekly question time before the house of commons and later president, trump welcomes israeli prime minister netanyahu to the white

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sunday night on c-span's "q&a," ex-convict, award-winning poet and yale law school graduate reginald dwayne betts is our guess. he wrote the afterword for a new edition of dr. king's "letter from birmingham jail" and talks about the book and president trump: they were under no illusion sending me to prison would help. but i can get something out of it if i tried. and this is a testament that i got something out of it and came home to a world where it might feel overwhelming and it is absolutely hard to make a way when you have hurt somebody in the past. but i came to a world that is radically changed and shifted and created more and more opportunities for people to reflect on the ways in which they changed and to be welcomed back. sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on sunday. listen to c-span now app. >> house minority leader hakeem jeffries discussed tax policy during his wkl

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. >> reginald dwayne betts tonight on c-span's "q&a." can listen to all of our podcasts on the free c-span now app. >> this week on the c-span networks, the house and senate are in session. the house will consider legislation establishing new penalties for evading u.s. border patrol agent in car chases. the senate continues voting on president trump's cabinet nominees, including tulsi gabbard as director of national intelligence and robert f. kennedy, jr. as health and human services secretary. the chair of the federal reserve, jerome powell, will give the semiannual monetary policy report for two committees, first on tuesday before the senate banking committee and then on wednesday before the house financial services committee. also, c-span continues our comprehensive coverage of confirmation hearings were for president elect trump's cabinet nominees. lori travis-deremer, and nomine for secretary of labor, and linda mcmahon, who is the nominee for secretary of education. also the senate judiciary committee will vote on the nomination of

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