the new book is "the guns at last light," and rick atkinson joins me now. rick, great to have you here. >> thanks. >> congratulations on completing this. >> thank you. >> i want to ask you you about your approach to this, the idea of a trilogy about something that's been so chronicled. but you are not only drawn to an event, but undoubtedly to the characters involved. >> yeah. well, the characters drive it, don't they? the characters all have enormous feet of clay, but they're so compelling in part because they have feet of clay. yeah, i started this about 14 years ago thinking it would be a somewhat shorter project, but i've found it completely engrossing, mainly because i've been living with not only the people you know, like eisenhower and patten and omar bradley and bernard montgomery, but the people you don't know who have been lost to history or have slipped into obscurity, and i think part of the narrative historians' task is to bring back the dead and to find those people that you don't know or who have been lost to history. and to me, they're utter

pulitzer prize winning historian rick atkinson has written a new book called "the guns at last light,valiant men and women who fought in that decisive campaign for the liberation of europe. he sat down with nbc's tom brokaw at the national world war ii museum in new orleans. >> it is one of the greatest stories in the history of humanity. and it is a story ultimately about humanity. the individuals are invariably men with feet of clay, which makes them more interesting. >> here at the world war ii museum i met a member of the 82nd airborne, he said for four days he said we felt alone. >> things didn't go according to plan. they rarely do in airborne operations. it took them a better part of the week to either get captured, get killed or make their way into some sort of cohesive unit. >> very quickly just off the beach it becomes really primal warfare. >> there's a lot of atrocity in normandy and something we don't like to think about because we don't like to think of our soldiers committing atrocities but the germans were brutal from the beginning and it created a cycle of atrocity an

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historian rick atkinson joins us to talk about his long awaited conclusion to the extraordinary world the final installment is the guns that last flight. best-selling author and fox news contributor joins me with his latest novel. i recommend their books to you. of course you don't want to miss our talks with these great authors starting tomorrow. up next, the gang of immigration plan scuttled. perhaps by -- any one of these three men. in that "chalk talk" we will show you how. for seeing your business in a whole new way. for seeing what cash is coming in and going out... so you can understand every angle of your cash flow- last week, this month, and even next year. for seeing your business's cash flow like never before, introducing cash flow insight powered by pnc cfo. a suite of online tools that lets you turn insight into action. lou: we've been talking a lot about foreign policy but this is a big week for immigration reform. they will begin amendment to "gang of 8" immigration bill thursday, it will be dramatic, marco rubio, he is the face of the "gang of 8", really quite remarkab

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. >> sunday, june 2nd, two-time pulitzer prize-winning author and journalist rick atkinson will take your calls, e-mails and tweets on "in depth" live at noon eastern on c-span2. >> a mars exploration summit focusing on the challenges facing a manned mission to mars. but first, a discussion on how government surveillance is affecting online privacy. >> i am extremely pleased to have a very distinguished group of panelists who, actually, many of them have flown in from different parts of the country. it's a particularly interesting group today because we have technologists, we've got researchers, we've got an activist, and we have a lawyer. so we have what i think of as the perfect spectrum of digital rights defenders sitting in one room today willing to talk to you very frankly about their thoughts on government surveillance, what the problems are, and what you and i should be trying to do about it and whether or not there's even anything we can do about it. i'm hoping to sort of move back and forth free flow style between government surveillance issues and privacy issues as far as c

also, a note -- you can watch this week's press pass conversation with author and historian rick atkinsonr blog meet the press on nbc.com. that's all for today. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." >>> good sunday afternoon. i'm craig melvin. you're watching msnbc, the place for politics. >> there is no question that republicans are trying to make political hay here. >> obama communications adviser dan pfeiffer insisting its gop overreach. looking at what's in store in the days ahead for the administration as they try to clean up a week rot with scandal. >> some of you are graduating summa cum laude. some of you are grade waiuating magnum cum laude. i know some of

two-time pulitzer- winning author and journalist rick atkinson will take your calls and tweets.ktv noon eastern on on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: in our last hours on wednesdays on "washington journal," our spotlight on magazine series. this week, the cover story in " mother jones." the author of that, mac mcclelland, is joining us from san francisco this morning. that's begin with something you wrote inside the article. in the 1950s, war than half a million people lived in u.s. mental institutions. that is one in 300 americans. "the motives behind this trend were varied, to say the least yurik." what was happening in the 1950s? guest: there was a lot happening. when you talk about the motives, you have the fact that there were a lot of people in these hospitals, and a lot of people had noticed that the commissions were less than desirable, or deplorable and some cases. you had the patient's rights movement where people wanted to get people out of these institutions and not lock them in there forever. at the same time, is this expensive to have people in ho

sunday, rick atkinson will take your calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets. in depth, three hours live, sunday, at noon eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> up next, the book, foreign policy begins at home. the case for putting america's house in order by richard haas. in haas is the president of the council on foreign relations and served as a special advisor to secretary of state colin powell. this is from earlier this month. >> very honored to be here with my friend, richard haas, and i'm here because richmond and i go really far back. i don't want to tell you how far back but we met when we were 21 years old and you can do the math, and so i've been richard's friend and have followed his thinking, agreeing with some, disagreeing with some over the years but always been my friend. but i'm here because i was very excited about this book, foreign policy begins at home, from the very moment i heard the title and then from the first conversation i had with richard about it. richard and i were colleagues together at the brookings institution and the first question

. >> on sunday, writ rick atkinson will take your calls and e-mails and tweets at any turn on the tv. >> coming up on c-span2 come a conversation on the political outlook toward egypt and libya and tunisia. and they look at u.s. foreign policy with journalist david rhodes. he discusses his book, the onboard. later in the book, foreign-policy begins at home, richard haas argues that u.s. security comes not from abroad but from within. >> on the next "washington journal", we will discuss foreign policy with a panel from the brookings institute area then we will have a panel from the lexington institute about the packing by the chinese. we will be joined by matt mcclelland who wrote a book about mental illness in his family. "washington journal" is live c-span everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> next to my conversation on some of the and political changes in egypt, libya, and nietzsche. it can a look at some of transitions following the arab spring, the direction of recent or measures, and the future of the three. the carnegie endowment for international peace host of this 90 minute event.

. >> on tuesday, rick atkinson will take your calls, e-mail's, facebook comments and tweets. that's three hours of live on "book tv" on c-span2. >> now, a live discussion on u.s. relations with russia. we're expecting to hear from john brown at cnn foreign affairs correspondent, jill dougherty. the associated press rights with the u.s. decision to arm and three rebels and russia's decision to supply the assad regime with missiles, possible that it has overshadowed attempts to bring representatives of the regime and the opposition to peace talks at an international conference in geneva possibly happening next month. we are expecting this discussion to get started momentarily. bu [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> we are expecting this discussion to get started in a moment or two. guests are preparing and getting their microphones on. the associated press writes that a spacecraft carrying an american, russian and italian left earth today heading for the international space station, where they will

quacks to time pulled sir prize- rick atkinson will take your facebook comments and tweets.are back for the last 30 minutes. i want to get your take on where the economy looks like where you live. the headlines we have been saying today save the economy is turning brighter. we want to hear from you what it is like outside of washington, dc. timing on taxes passed the deficit. washington did not take much time to celebrate the dramatic reduction in federal deficits -- then this breaking on the wire and little bit ago. case shiller says u.s. home prices rise again in march from twoar earlier according i standard importers. what is the housing market like in your area? what is the economy looking like? connie in maryland, democratic collar. the employment is pretty good. if you want a job you can find it. you can find a job. we are lucky. between a choice maryland, virginia and dc. and when thet last gentleman was talking about obama being aloof. found him very down to earth to talk to. host: how did that come about? guest: he had a town hall conference. somehow my name came up

. >> sunday, pulitzer prize-winning author rick atkinson will take your calls and e-mails and tweets. in-depth for three hours live on sunday at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> next, the author joan johnson freese. she spoke in march in cambridge massachusetts. this is an hour. >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here on harvard spring break on this rainy night. i am passionate and i appreciate being able to talk about this book. i am passionate about professional military education, which is why rove is. it is quite far out of my field. my usual arc of research is in globalization. so this is a bit of deviation, but one that i felt was very important to write about. i would like to begin by telling you a little bit about what the book is about amaya wrote it. paul: is the system within which most military officers receive their education after enlistment. it is congressionally mandated that this is not a choice or an option. all are required to attend to receive what is called joint professional military education credits. specifically in the book, i am talking about a senior

>> two-time pulitzer winning rick atkinson live on sunday at noon on c-span 2. >> from "washington journal" this is 40 minutes. host: we welcome back to the table the vice president of the lexington institute. dan goure. the washington post had this yesterday on its front page -- what happened? guest: this is a report of a study done by the defense science board late last year. the classified report says china in particular has hacked into databases and provided them with key information on a host of major u.s. weapons systems, missile defense systems, ships, planes, and others. host: how? guest: we are not clear. the report is available on the defense web site. it says the chinese are engaged in a cyber blitzkrieg in which they are using a whole variety of means, getting it through e- mail, e-mail phishing, sending phony e-mails and using that to get into people's e-mail. using agents in place. using students or people they have been able to subvert. or just going through various sites of sub suppliers. everybody communicates on e-mail and supply chain stuff electronically. they go in thr

. >> sunday, two-time pulitzer prize winning author and journalist rick atkinson will take your calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets, in depth, three hours live sunday at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> earlier today, u.s. army chief of staff general ray odierno spoke atlantic council here in washington. about the long-term strategic challenges facing the united states army. >> so one of the comments i made based on exactly the scenario that you outlined is that it's impossible for us to be revolution. we need to be evolutionary because it's going to continue to change. so one of the pass i go down is let us evolve. .. one is mobility, one is our strategic mobility which is our ability -- to maintain those capabilities. we have to build packages that allow us to deliver people quickly. and in small increments based on the situation that we might see. the second is our ability to do command control and intelligence. we do it better than anybody else so we have to explain our ability to develop command and control and intelligence capabilities that we then push forward as