well, secretary lahood, we appreciate your time. >> guest: thank you. always good. >> host: that conversation continues on highway funding, obviously, in washington. >> you're watching booktv. it's for serious readers -- television for serious readers. watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. >> being pressed to go on the road, because once panic sets in, it's unstoppable. and hannah is panicked. he's now, by late july and early august beginning to believe, by god, we've got a race on our hands, and he keeps pressuring mckinley, you've got to go on the road. mckinley says to him, look, i can't cothat. if i go on the road -- he's going to get on a trapeze, and, you know, i'm going to have to mimic him. i've been on the road before, i know what it's like. hanna sends charles g. dawes to go talk to him, sends a friend, myron t. herric, to talk to him, and finally mckinley says i've got to think before i speak. so what happens is people are already showing up in groups, so somebody -- and i think that somebody is mckinley -- says let's make that

when president obama nominated me for secretary of transportation, which has always been, very bipartisan agency. and so i don't think people really look at ray lahood with a jaundiced eye or with suspect. i think they look at me as more someone who has worked on both sides of the aisle. but i have been a republican all my life and i will continue to be a republican. i couldn't have gotten the job with president obama had i not been a republican because he was looking for a republican. and our friendship, obviously, in doing since we left -- endured since we left the job. host: my worst day on the job. guest: that was the day of the air crash -- host: in buffalo. guest: in buffalo, new york 149 people boarded the plane with the idea that they would arrive in buffalo safely. andbecause of pilot error very bad conditions -- icing on those 49 people pierced as a result -- perished. as a result, we implemented new rules. both of these pilots had flown from the west coast to the east coast before they started flying the plane. so innate our flight. then they are expected to get in the plane and fly it. and they were poorly trained. they did the wrong thi

secretary is next on book tv. he recenly appeared on c-span's a morning program, the "washington journal" to address partisan politics in washington. >> we are back with ray lahoode served from 2009 until 2013, he 2013, he served seven turn in the u.s. house. let's talk about this highway debate between the senate and the house. do you like what the senate is doing? they have a six-year bill, they are not going to fund it by raising the gas tax but do you like with her head. >> guest: i like the fact that there is real bipartisanship between senator in half, who is, who is now the chair and senator boxer. this is the same thing that happened a few years ago when senator boxer was chair of the committee. they work together and they put a two-year bill together, map 21 which is now expired but extended in the house. the bipartisan part of it i think is a good signal. transportation has always been bipartisan. there there are no republican or democratic bridges or roads. this is about what we can do for our friends and neighbors around the country in terms of putting them to work in filling potholes. i prefer six-year fully funded bill, i prefer raising the gas tax