host: we roben farzad want to welcome back roben farzad -- we want to welcome back roben farzad. we want to talk about this new book by michael lewis that has been getting a lot of attention. this is what he said on a book tv yesterday. explain what this phenomenon is. exploiting millions of trades, hundreds of thousands of trades in milliseconds to exploit minute movements. if you throw enough money and volume at it, you can make it money in-- a ton of theory. mark woods -- markets a become so big and liquid. -- markets have become a so big and liquid. hedge funds and traders make money. michael lewis is saying it destabilizes the market. it is a rigged system. it lets a wealthy select few benefit at the expense of the majority of the investing public. host: here's what michael lewis said yesterday on c-span's book tv. >> great question. one of the questions i asked as i was writing this story was what you always ask. ?hy is this available why should there be more outrage about the subject? it wasn't that nobody had noticed that something weird was happening in the stock market.

host: we roben farzad want to welcome back roben farzad -- we want to welcome back roben farzad. we want to talk about this new book by michael lewis that has been getting a lot of attention. this is what he said on a book tv yesterday. explain what this phenomenon is. guest: it is exploiting millions of trades, hundreds of thousands of trades in milliseconds to exploit minute movements. if you throw enough money and volume at it, you can make it sunny of -- a ton of money in theory. mark woods -- markets a become so big and liquid. -- markets have become a so big and liquid. hedge funds and traders make money. michael lewis is saying it destabilizes the market. it is a rigged system. it lets a wealthy select few benefit at the expense of the majority of the investing public. host: here's what michael lewis said yesterday on c-span's book tv. >> great question. one of the questions i asked as i was writing this story was what you always ask. why is this available? why should there be more outrage about the subject? it wasn't that nobody had noticed that something weird was happen

then you will hear roben farzad, an author who looks at wall street issues.ill talk about high-frequency trading. you can learn more at 8:00. then we will be joined by michael from the brookings institution. he will talk about the current afghan elections. those subjects and your calls, as we come your way tomorrow at 7:00. see you then. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> coming up, a preview of today's presidential elections in afghanistan followed by a marine corps future with general james amos. testifying on the budget for the u.s. and foreign operations. let's take a case which got a $1.9 billion settlement levied at them.