i want to bring back evan and richard. evan, how threatened are democrats threaten id about carly fiorina. >> i think they're very threatened. trish: why. >> this is outsider very popular, been able to stand up to donald trump in the debates and gained found as a result of it which few candidates able to do. they're seizing on one thing which media's obsession has been proven false. this video exists period, just like the earth is round. it is a fact. and, the democratic media just seizing on it trying to give hillary a break. trish: they're going after her so hard in part, you know, look, rich, she's woman and you know, you put a woman up on stage, suddenly it starts to turn that sort of appearance of republican party is the old boys network, turn it on its head. >> right. so evan referred to her as outsider. she is outsider because she ran for the u.s. senate and got her clocked clean in the single best year the republicans will have in our lifetime. that is why she is not politician. ran against a woman there, barbara boxer

. >> when we met richard evans and richard boshears, the high-spirited duo had recently reunited as cell mates after boshears had recently been reelise from a 14 month stay in the hole. >> who are you tattooing on again? >> actually, got caught tattooing on this one right here. this is the one we got caught doing right here. we got ran up on while doing this one. gun in hand. >> really, for real? >> oh, man. >> thank you, gentleman, thank you. >> next thing i know, i do 14 months in the hole. >> he hangs out here. coming to the window. "when are you coming out, bro?" i'll be right out. i'll be right out. lies, man. >> we've developed a really nice relationship. >> i'd do anything for this guy. anything. >> same. >> he's my twin sister. older sister. >> i'm glad you came back. >> but this bond also has a dark side. the cell mates share a strong appetite for methamphetamine. >> what am i in for? cooking meth. back in 2002 i get pulled over. i have a whole lab in the car, microwave, everything. and they pulled me over for a traffic stop and say, oh, look what we've got here. cooking meth. w

the death of evan murray is putting a spotlight on internal organ injuries. it's something few parents know about. dr. richard besser has the story. >> reporter: a rare risk on the football fields? a hard hit, not just stopping the play but stopping a life because of an injury to an internal organ. star quarterback evan murray took two hard body blows in a football game this weekend but walked off, even gave a thumbs up but an autopsy report shows he died of an abdominal hemorrhage caused by a lacerated spleen under the rib abdomen. the spleen helps filter blood rib cage. if it is enlarged, usually by an infection, it can drop below the bone making it more vulnerable to impact. >> the internal organs, lungs, heart, spleen, abdominal contents, everything is potentially exposed when you are participating in a sport. >> a severe blow can start internal bleeding. by the time duke tors realize it's ruptured it can be too late. it was for evan. there was no way to know he was playing with an enlarged spleen and no way to eliminate risk in contact sports. >> you can't imagine or project every single scenario. but it

and then evan thomas on "being nixon," about the life and career of richard nixon. jost jose effs eave ee -- josep about his took "the quartet." he talked to stacy shift. >> we are pleased to welcome joseph ellis, acclaimed author and historian who recently retired from the ford foundation professor of history at mount holy oak college where he taught courses in america history since 1972. joseph ellis has published over ten books including a book that won a national book award as well as his book founding brer brothers that won a pulitzer prize. he wrote "the quartet" recently which you will hear about tonight. our moderator for the evening is stacy shift. in 2000, she received a pulitzer prize for her book and won several other literary awards including george washington book pride and the book award for franklin, france and the birth of america. her most recent book, cleopatra, was one of "the new york times" ten best books of 2012 as well as number one national best seller. she is working on a new book, the witches, regarding 1692 saal salem and looking for her

. >> but as you know, richard, for every bill dudley there is a charles evans the most dovish memberfed who said he wouldn't support a rate increase until the middle of next year at the earliest. you and i haven't spoken since the last fed meeting. are you surprised they didn't raise? >> yes. >> re they using china and the weak tlns as an excuse not to raise rates right now? >> i think there is some remorse that they didn't move. i noted carefully how stan fisher expressed himself at jackson hole, then they had the meeting and now i have great admiration for charlie evans, we are golf partners and dinner buddies and drinking buddies but i would put more weight on what dudley a saying and also chairman yellen's speech here, i'm in massachusetts, you can see behind me i'm here in boston her speech at u mass up in a.m. hearst was pretty indicative that the door is open. unless they see something that changes that direction then as dudley said today they're likely to move either in october or december. i was interested this they left the october door much more open than i expected. decem

evan thomas. [applause] >> is politics and prose the greatest bookstore ever? [applause] the first time richardxon ever kissed a girl was on the stage. he was a senior in high school playing the role in the latin club play a. his boots were too small for his feet. it grew so loud that they had to stop the show. it was an unbelievably horrendous experience, he later recalled. the role was played by a girl and i just about died, she remembered, and the diary that she wrote how i hate richard nixon. [laughter] from wanting to ever be on stage again. nixon went on to be a successful actor. he was giving a famous checkers speech. they changed the mind of nixon. so clever, so strong an authoritative, she did and there was no hanky-panky but she thought he was quite handsome. there was a lot of a lot of that surprised me as i wrote this book. we have a dark view of nixon and there was a dark side i will get to that. but as i said i wanted to get past the cartoon version. we think that we know nixon but what was it like to be nixon. that's what i set out to try to find out. how could someone that is so

richard engel, thank you for that report. now we the urn from the complicated choices of u.s. involvement and turn to evana senior partner of flash point partners and michael doyle a professor and director of the columbia global policy project. good day, gentlemen. >> good day. >> good day. >> long titles because you have long records of service. let me start, basically, with the question, evan , of the security risk. you said that to some extent isis has better avenues than this to move people. >> they have tons of money and looking at the terrorist incidents of europe, they're tied to individuals coming back from syria and managed to get back into the home countries because they had western passports. i think if you look at the source of this report, it was a lebanese education minister who said he had no information to indicate that isis was doing this but that it was his gut feeling and i'm afraid that this gut feeling is more about lebanon getting more money to take care of the refugees within its own borders than the real terrorist threat. >> you think it's overstated at this point? >> yes. may be a

and evan thomas on richard nixon. buzz aldrin, have chance to talk with all of those authors throughout the day. stick with us, fall schedule available at booktv.org. and the face book page, facebook.com/booktv. and professor and historian joseph ellis. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. i am the director of development at the library of congress. it is my distinct honor this morning to introduce the gentleman most responsible for making this national book festival possible. our lead benefactor, the co-founder and co-ceo of the carlyle group, co-chairman of the national book festival, david rubenstein. [applause] >> we are very honored and privileged to have one of the leading authors and scholars of the revolutionary war period, joseph ellis, a person who grew up in washington, went to william and mary, went to william and mary and got his ph.d. at pal and spends much of his academic career teaching at mount holyoke college where he was dean of the faculty at one point and dow prof.

the lobby of the convention center by evan thomas' most recent book is the author of many books, but most recent is called being in nixon, a man divided. itwas richard nixon always fascinating to the news media? >> yes, he was. even as a green congressman the exposed alger hiss does a communist by and it made his career. and all of a sudden he was thrust into the spotlight on american history really and never left. he liked it there. extremely shy, awkward, shy, awkward, lonely figure the liked being at the scene -- middle of events. >> why would a shy, awkward, lonely figure begin politics. >> you have to be a little crazy to be in politics anyway. he needed something. he wanted something, and politics gave him what he wanted. >> hope and fear raised a constant battle. >> the sad. >> the sad part, and neglect next and accomplished a great deal and opening up china and politically but at the end his obsession with his enemies got to him. he just could not leave alone his enemies and made powerful enemies and they got him. >> we are going to put the phone numbers up. we have a short time with our guest. 748-8201 if you live out in the mountain and pa