food trucks that are new to savannah this year. also have our marketing tent set up inside a gorgeous building here. booktv programming will continue all day long today until about 4:00 pm. for a complete schedule you can go to booktv.org. is the exterior of trinity united methodist church where booktv's programming is coming from today. there are also several other locations that are having eventss throughout the day as well. behind the scenes videos and pictures all day long, you can go to instagram booktv on facebook and follow us on twitter@booktv. a little bit of a construction site next doors but otherwise it is beautiful. the academy of arts and sciences, savanna's newly minted food truck. right now on c-span2, john camby is talking about who needs the fed? he is taking your questions. the widow of pat conroy which he is discussing his book a low country heart and terry mcdonnell will be talking. later this afternoon william doherty, gerri willis, dan slater will be talking about their books and entering questions. keep an e

this is booktv's live coverage from savannah. >> good morning. what a wonderful group. or smack we have stragglers in the back. my name is linda huntoon. i am delighted to welcome you to the 10th annual savannah book festival presented by george power and the family foundation. what a terrific day we are blessed to host such celebrated authors in trinity united methodist church today which has been made possible by the generosity of curt anderson, we like to stand special thanks to our literary members and individual owners who have made and continue to make the festival free. before we get started saturdays, i said sundays. to make saturday's free festival events possible. before i get started there are always housekeeping issues. immediately following the presentation,

the united methodist church in downtown savannah built on a square. if you have never been to savannah there are several squares, live oaks and spanish loss and beautiful city, often we go to the book fairs and show the inside of the venue, and the outside of the book fair in itself, the producer down there, kate hughes, we want to show you that so you can see what the outside of the festival is like. >> good morning, facebook followers, and the savanna book festival. this festival takes place in health are square and most of it will be live in the trinity methodist church. john can be is speaking and following the discussion you call into booktv. you will hear from william towery in the shadow of the ayatollah. rich is not a four letter word, dan's waiter, author of boys, those will be available for you to ask your questions and also bringing live video from outside in the square to show you what the festival is like today. for a complete schedule of booktv's programming go to booktv.org. the exterior of trinity united methodist church, we are inside

have a soft spot for savannah. this of course is bittersweet for me to be here talking about pat especially this time of year because it has been almost a year, if you weeks off a year since his death. it has been a very difficult year as i am sure you know. when the book came out last october his publisher, random house, had asked me if -- thank you. if i would go around and speak to various festivals and so forth about the book. and if i would be able to do so. i told him of course that i would. it wouldn't be any problem and so forth. but then i wasn't so sure. once i started to do so. what kept me going is i would tell myself pat would have done it for me. and he did. remember one time in georgia, got a great surprise and great thrill because they are still talking about it because i got the flu. i was supposed to speak. the day of practically, i thought i was going, pat said no. i'm going in your place so that was real. a lot of folks hoped i would get the flu. if you ever heard pat speak, you will know why he

this is booktv's live coverage from savannah. >> good morning. what a wonderful group. or smack we have stragglers in the back. my name is linda huntoon. i am delighted to welcome you to the 10th annual savannah book festival presented by george r

booktv's live coverage from savannah continues. [inaudible conversations] >> put the book, i would put more of in the book is a much more explicit argument about just how bad things can get if we don't have that international order which i believe absolutely requires american military strength. and i think it could get very, very bad. so we may say these are all original conflicts, sort of implying you can pull back from one and it doesn't have a bearing on the other, i don't think that's the case. we do live in a globalized world, these things are all interconnected. and if we were to pull back from that, i think the consequences would be felt not just in the region, but more globally. i don't know if -- >> well, whether you look through the lens that elliott just described that we created after 1945 with the help of other countries and some international institutions or even if you're looking at it from the point of view of america first, more jobs for americans, you know, our prosperity has rested historically on freedom of acce

the united methodist church in downtown savannah built on a square. if you have never been to savannah there are several squares, live oaks and spanish loss and beautiful city, often we go to the book fairs and show the inside of the venue, and the outside of the book fair in itself, the producer down there, kate hughes, we want to show you that so you can see what the outside of the festival is like. >> good morning, facebook followers, and the savanna book festival. this festival takes place in health are square and most of it will be live in the trinity methodist church. john can be is speaking and following the discussion you call into booktv. you will hear from william towery in the shadow of the ayatollah. rich is not a four letter word, dan's waiter, author of boys, those will be available for you to ask your questions and also bringing live video from outside in the square to show you what the festival is like today. for a complete schedule of booktv's programming go to booktv.org. the exterior of trinity united methodist church, we are inside

venue, our wonderful volunteers enthusiastically accept your donations to the savannah book festival because of your generosity, you are able to keep saturday free. thank you for coming. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> you are watching live coverage of booktv coverage of the savanna book festival. you have been listening to dan slater talk about his book "wolf boys: 2 american teenagers and mexico's most dangerous drug cartel". now it is your turn to ask questions. 202 is the area code, 748-1800 in east and central toronto, 748-8201 in the mountain and pacific time zones. dan slater, remind us why you named the book "wolf boys: 2 american teenagers and mexico's most dangerous drug cartel". >> guest: the book is called "wolf boys: 2 american teenagers and mexico's most dangerous drug cartel" for a couple different reasons. the mexican drug cartel these boys joined, they would refer to their foot soldiers, their assassins as wolves. there was one other reason, i was working on the book, i just happened randomly to pull the novel lord of the flies off my shelf, a

and eventually savannah. he came on the fall line and coastal plain, and there were places where he could have chosen to go a little bit different here and there. but he really wanted to pick an expeditious route to charleston, because that was really key to get to charleston. but otherwise, he wanted a representative visit over land to these other places. one thing i like to point out is that of the early presidents, george washington was the only one to really make an effort to tour the states, and most especially to go south. thomas jefferson never put a foot in north carolina. i'm personally affront by that. ] laughter ] john adams never came south. he barely got in virginia, i believe. james monroe visited the south, but mostly along the coast. made some coastal incursions. andrew jackson became president in 1839, ta person who had a fel for prominent places. when washington got to charleston, it was down to savannah, and up to augusta, georgia, and back through piedmont of the south. as you see, mount v

we mean welcome back to savannah have maternity leave.ike. >> what did you think when you got to work this morning? >> i was so excited. so happy. happy to be here. i got a little weepy because it's a transition. end of an era. for those of you wondering what i've been doing all these long 12 weeks, here's a look -- >> who is counting? >> here's my maternity leave. one, two, three, smile. >> i could be. cheese. >> cheese. say cheese, charlie. >> round of applause for charles maxwe maxwell. >> this big, bouncing boy came to us two weeks before christmas. and immediately took up residence in our hearts. hi. what's your name? you new here? see mommy. and watching vale meet her baby brother for the first time was one of the most magical moments of our lives. little baby charlie brought vale a lollipop. one thing i learned about having a second child, is having a second is just as much about the first. do you know baby brother's name? >> charlie. >> where is your brother? yeah. is he holding your hand? >> yeah. >> reporter: mike is double the

methodist church is on the square ine downtown savannah. it's one of the larger venues and we have a full day of coverage ahead. cassondra king will be coming up. she's up. she's the widow of pat conroy and a novelist in her own right. her book is a nonfiction book, a low country heart. after thatt terry mcdonnell would be talking about the accidental life and what it's like to be a writer. we will give you a chance to talk with william doherty who will be speaking this afternooni the shadow of the ayatollah. inn the former agent who is at iran in 1979. in nine. in the foxbusiness news will be talking about -- is not a fourur letter word. and finally dan slater, author of will boys. he's a professor at the university of chicago. an hour with john of, who needsa the fed. he's the political economynk," editor forbes and of real clear markets.com and is associated with the foundation. michael in texas, go ahead and repeat your question. >> caller: you said that the free markets will effectively illuminate the federal reserve. how would that wi

for sherman, advancing north from savannah, had it squarely in his sights. as sherman headed north, the confederate congress in richmond, the members of which were as disgusted with davis as johnston was, virtually rebelled against the administration bypassing a law that appointed robert e. lee by name as commander-in-chief of all confederate armies. never mind the fact that the confederate constitution gave that title to the president. moreover, that same act called upon the president to appoint joseph e. johnston again by name to command what was left of the army of tennessee. it was a deliberate slap in the face to jefferson davis, and while davis happily appointed lee to the top command he refused to appoint joe johnston to anything. instead writing that johnston was in his words deficient in enterprise, tardy in movement, defective in preparation, and singularly neglectful of the duty of preserving our means of supply and transportation. then he did it anyway. it was lee who convinced him that if nothing else the popular johnston who was very much loved

welcome back savannah. we missed you so much. hollywood's big night filled with amazing moments and diverse winners leading up to the best picture announcement and in an instant pure chaos erupted on stage. it was an ended no one saw coming after 200 million people waited for nearly four hours to hear the winner for best picture, a major mix up at the awards. >> "la la land." >> reporter: the happened. the wrong winner was announced. >> there's a mistake. "moonlight," you guys won best picture. this is not a joke. i'm afraid they read the wrong thing. this is not a joke. "moonlight" has won best picture. "moonlight," best picture. >> reporter: a shocked audience watched as the "moonlight" team gave a stunned acceptance speech in i'm n . >> i'm not sure this is real. >> reporter: it was a show that got off to a rousing start with justin timberlake and jimmy kimmel tweeting at the president, asking trump you up? and bringing in unsuspecting tourists to meet the stars. >> i now pronounce you husband and wife. >> it's denzel so it's

the war is hardly over at this particular point when sherman gets to savannah. grant now want sherman to come to virginia. sends him a letter. there is a letter waiting for sherman. come to virginia and help me finish off robert e lee. well, sherman fought against that idea because he didn't want to critique it -- to participate in such killing again. thisad, and they worked out, he headed north into the carolinas and another example of destructive, psychological this time, he particularly punished south carolina because he and his soldiers blame south rwanda for starting the war. laying -- but interestingly, he was less harsh on north carolina, which, as you know, was very slow in seceding and had been much less enthusiastic about secession. -- about secession and battle and war. so sherman and his troops are now marching through the johnston and what joe says is one of the most impressive military feats since julius caesar. in fact, what happens is a figure from sherman's past reappears. guess who that is? but interestingly, he was less harsh on -- guess who t

we say that because savannah is back from maternity leave.>> so happy to be here. i'm a little rusty. i was sitting there chatting. you know we're on right now. >> that's why we brought a president in for you. >> exactly. we have a special hour ahead. former president george w. bush. there he is on our plaza, greeting some of our fans. we'll get his take on all things washington, of course. but he's here to talk about a passion project. "portraits of courage," it honors this nation's veterans in a special way. >> he is enthusiastic about the project and wants to talk about it. we'll meet some of the veterans in a little while. >>> first, a lot to get to on a monday morning. here's your news at 8:00. >> we begin with major drama at the oscars. i'm natalie morales in los angeles. it started out as a relatively normal night, with lots of big winners. and the academy awards saved the best for last, with a plot twist that the best writer in hollywood couldn't have written. >> this is not a joke, "moonlight" won best picture. >> reporter: the oscar

wonderful volunteers will enthusiastically accept your donations to the savannah book festival. it's because of your generosity that we're able to keep the festival saturday free. thank you for coming. >> . >> guest: and you've been listening to fox business news anchor gerri willis talking about her new book "rich is not a four letter word", she'll be joining us for a call-in program. 202-748-8200. if you live in eastern time zone. 8201. for the central and mountain time zones. gerri, you spent time talking about your health. how are you doing. >> i'm doing well, i finished my treatments on january 4th and building back my energy and you know, i'll be test today make sure i'm clean and there's no more cancer and i'll be taking some kind of drugs well, for the next ten years, but everything looks very, very good at this point and i just feel grateful to be out and about, and to be enjoying life. >> do you tire easily? >> yeah, yeah, i mean, i can get tired easily, i have to kind of manage my energy and make sure that i don't do too much, but let me tell you, it's small beans com

savannah? >> steve patterson, thank you so much. >>> we turn and get a first check of the weather from mr. roker.>> severe stuff to ta over the next two days, including stuff that stretches from the gulf coast all the way up into new england. right now, a line of showers and thunderstorms pushing through. but today, we have an area of risk weather. risk-averse weather. 36 million people. for fast-moving storms, nocturnal tornadoes, overnight tornadoes could be a big problem. and some could be strong. and it's a wide risk. and as we look at tomorrow, 87 million people. this stretches from new york and new england all the way down to the gulf. tornado threat a little weaker, but widespread wind damage. chicago could even be in that enhanced risk by tomorrow. the cold front continues to push to the east. and then as we move into tomorrow, the line of strong storms stretch from new york all the way down into atlanta. airport delays over the next 48 hours are going to be big problems here in the eas

we will be live beginning at 9:00 eastern in savannah, georgia, for the savannah book festival. authors include the author of "who needs the fed," and the other of "the low country heart," and william dougherty talking about his book. the author of "rich is not a four letter word." we will also be taking your calls with the authors throughout the day. be sure to reach of questions to book tv on twitter. join us saturday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on book tv. -- 9:00 a.m. eastern on book tv. >> c-span, or history and full daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by cable companies and is brought to you satelliteour cable or provider. >> is part of the meeting of the g 20 foreign ministers, secretary of state rex tillerson and his russian counterpart held their first face-to-face meeting. at the beginning of the meeting, they spoke to reporters. we will also hear comments following the meeting. [indiscernible] >> thank you for this opportunity. [i

exiting the venue today, our wonderful volunteers will enthusiastically accept your donations to the savannah book test value. it is because of your generosity we're able to keep the festival free on saturdays. thank you. ms.[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> and you're watching booktv on c-span2, live coverage of the savannah book festival. you've been listening to william daugherty. his book is called "in the shadow of the ayatollah." he was a hostage in iran during the embassy takeover, and now it's your turn to take your questions to him directly. the phone numbers will be up on the screen. let's begin with a call from martin in chicago for william daugherty. martin, you're on the air. go ahead. >> caller: hi, dr. dawg cannerty. you said that the iranians blame us for everything, so what are we responsible for? >> guest: well, we're not entirely blameless. we stayed out of iranian affairs for the most part until the nixon administration. the shah and his predecessor during the 20th century kept pressing the united states for particularly milit

about his last book, "a lowcountry heart," and she's now headed out into the square in downtown savannah right outside the church to sign books. several more authors are coming up including terry mcdonnell, his book is called "the accidental life." he's a former editor of rolling stone and esquire, and he talks about how he came into that position, what it's like to work on deadline, those types of things. so he'll be coming up in about 15 minutes or so. in the meantime though, since cassandra can king was speaking about her late husband, pat conroy, who died in march of 2016, we thought we'd show you some booktv archival video of mr. conroy. we covered him a couple of different times. now, he is a novelist, so it's not one that we usually would cover, but here he is from 2015 talking about the writing process, talking about being a southerner, etc. here's a little bit of the late pat conroy. >> i was eating in buford the other day, there was a group of women eating. obviously, they're in the same office. and they're -- and they were laughing their behind off. and when i was near enough,

probably 150 of the 350 steps, savannah.ng down at the rotunda wrr speak where speaker ryan and i were standing. i am going to continue my ascent. at the top of the dome after these local news and messages. a. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. for some, lyrica can significantly relieve fibromyalgia pain and improve function, so i feel better. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, ain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs and feet. don't drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don't drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects