next on after words, connecticut representative rosa delauro talks about her coss

she's interviewed by mathers, american enterprise institute studies resident scholar. >> rosa delauro this is such an honor to be sitting here and congratulating you on your new book the least among us. i read it from beginning to end. i had all these different sections of the book especially and that tells me a lot about the passion in politics, in getting policy work done despite all the stress you had to go through in congress so thank you for writing this book and speaking up inbehalf of your book the least among us . >> i'm very delighted to be here with you, to have the opportunity to speak about the book and i want to thank you . reading the book cover to cover, it really is very gratifying . >> i was struck by the way you titled the chapters. you say in defense of and then we hear about the sick, the hungry, women, unemployed. why do you feel the need to write this book at this time? is it your experience and policymaking that made you write this? do you feel there's a need today to highlight these issues? >> it really is in defense of women and children and families essential

they are where 4-h kids show their exhibits and it was the best connection we've ever made with rosa delaurohow can you not appeal to somebody who particularly was interested the kids? it's her passion in the congress using 4-h kids to show their exhibits. it doesn't happen often enough by the stuff that members of commerce don't talk. it is that we got to get out of the mindset. i do know in this audience had this would break down but for much of the time that president obama was president half of the people who call our office in washington, d.c., which help whoever answered our phone you tell jerry moran not to budge one it in anything. the other half would call and say why can't jerry work with his colleagues and get something done? so my only point and i would never be critical of my constituents but my only point is this divide is not just members of congress. it's our constituents, to, who don't want you to budge one engine can't we got have nothing gets done. so we all need to decide. there's a bit of this going on today in which people used to call me and say, i was elected to the s

connecticut representative rosa delauro discussed her work on social programs.weeks on afterwards wall street journal writer and editor george malone will offer his thoughts on his publication's influence. mark levin warned against federal government expansion. this weekend on afterwards former breitbart editor milo your novelist explores limits on freedom of speech. >> i met journalist and practiced journalism and five countries and american journalists are by clear margin the dumbest people in the world. people with yous of 95 interviewing those of us with interviews -- just not capable of understanding subtlety or nuance. where they detect it they use it to quote racism. anything ambiguous. for me, trolling is about sweeping away all concerns about what people might say about your think about you safe in the knowledge that if you tell the truth and do it in an entertaining way that you will win more fans than the media has made enemies for you. i am proof of that, donald trump is proof of that, there are plenty of other people in the new right movement on the

. >> care of the senate appropriations committee thad cochran and rosa delauro questioned these reductions. >> i am concerned about our challenge that we have to deal with. the reality of the budget process th the budget resolution in terms of authorization to appropriate funds, we have children ready to be educad throughout our state and everyby's state, and we need to train teachers and support the training of teachers. so, there are federal programs that are legitimate. they need to be on the front burner for the support and strengthening of our federal programs that help is teaching our children. i guess i commit this from a biased point of view and i plead guilty. i had a grandmother who was a wonderful elementary school teacher. my father was the county superintendent of the largest public school district in the state of mississippi. my mother was a mess teacher in timbuktu. -- my mother was a math teacher in timbuktu. my brother tagalong with my father for graduate work for my parents. we would get into classrooms and act like we were students, thinking we were just as smart as some

and connecticut representative rosa delauro talks about her congressional work on social programs. topic she writes about in the least among us. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top non-fiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. up next, on afterwards, rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse officers his thoughts on how the government is impacted by corporate money and special interest groups in his book "captured". senator whitehouse is interviewed by new york times investigative reporter ache lipton. >> i want to start off by asking why did you write this book. simple question. >> i was getting disturbed at the frustration about the republican government.

and in her book the least among us, congresswoman rosa delauro writes about her work in defending antipovertyktv and prime time at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> live coverage of the 2017 conference friday and saturday on c-span. at 1:00 p.m. eastern, a discussion on standing up for working families. and embracing progressive values.at 2:30 pm look at how to win back progressive power through organizing.then at 4:00 p.m., developing vision statements for the type of society progressives want to see. saturday at 10:30 a.m. eastern, senator elizabeth warren and naacp -- speak at the conference. at 4:30 p.m. former vice president al gore and pamela - join us for live coverage of the 2017 conference on c-span. >> next on booktv, neuroscientist lisa feldman barret, author of the book "how emotions are made: the secret life of the brain".she recently spoke at a bookstore and newton massachusetts. this is just over one hour. >> lisa feldman barret is here tonight in celebration of her book "how emotions are made: the secret life of the brain". doctor barrett is a university distinguished prof

connecticut representative rosa delauro discussed her work on social programs. and journalist cheryl atkinson reported on how smear tactics are used to influence public opinion. in the coming weeks on afterwards former "breibart news" editor milo will explore limits on freedom of speech. "wall street journal" writer and editor george malone will offer his thoughts on his publications influence. and this weekend on afterwards, arizona senator jeff flake calls for a return to the core principles of conservativism. >> i remember sitting on the floor at one point with mike pence and he said sometimes after we have presented with the president still no child left behind, which for conservatives a think tank conservative that was federal intrusion into local education and that was not good for conservatives on. mics that i feel sometimes like we are minute men called up to the battlefront only to be told the revolution is older. [laughter] >> so there we were and we had to vote on prescription drug benefits, which added about $7 trillion in unfunded liability and didn