. >> up next on booktv on c-span2 investigative journalist seymour hersh talks about his newest book called "the killing of osama bin laden"challenging the facts made by the obama administration and others about bin laden's capture and death. >> host: let's start by talking aboutin

in the coming weeks on afterwards seymour hersh will discuss the events that surrounded the killing of osama bin laden. along with other covert operations that have taken place during the obama administration. in culture will make her case for supporting donald trump for president. also coming up face the nation moderator john dickinson will remember some of the most important moments in american presidential campaigns. this weekend dana lasch contends that the united states is divided itself dividing itself into two countries coastal america and fly over america. >> is the area between new york and la that's 30,000 feet below your plane window. it is the huge expanse of patchwork. whenever you look down. you've no idea what's going on down there. it's small town america. it is the people with middle-class america. i have an uncle who owns the quarry. it's people just everyday people who aren't on the coast. they value family. it's all of those people that don't get the attention that the coast gets. >> this airs on book tv every saturday at 10:00 p.m. you can watch all previous progra

eastern, seymour hersh describes the killing of osama bin laden. at 10 p.m., judith schwartz reports on water shortage in climate change and we wind up at 11 p.m. with a look at the life of robert f. kennedy. that all happened tonight on c-span2 book tv. joining us on booktv is mandy at university press. what are some of the books you have coming out? >> i would say the top two are trapped and broadened and hopeless but optimistic. the first is iranian born but currently lives in ireland, and her story is a memoir about her desperate journey to freedom. she was married in ireland and she had a daughter and got divorced and met a man that she had known as a teenager. she started to date him and ended up being a little bit crazy. she got pregnant and then moved back to ireland because she wanted her daughter to be born an irish citizen. what happened from there when her daughter was about 15 months old she thought she wanted to introduce her to her father. she heard that he had been married and he was no longer obsessed with her. what happened is whe

. >> up next on booktv on c-span2 investigative journalist seymour hersh talks about his newest book called "the killing of osama bin laden"challenging the facts made by the obama administration and others about bin laden's capture and death. >> host: let's start by talking about bin laden who plays a main role in your book. you challenge every detail, the official narrative and media reports. can you start by summarizing briefly what you found in this piece? >> the one reality is the president did authorize the execution, if you will will, of bin laden and the seal carried it out. it was done in a resort town about 50-60 miles uphill from the capitol. it is a place that in the summer, if you have been in the summer, it gets to 120. so it is called the martha's vineyard of pakistan. where the rich and the generals and senior officials go. after that, what i describe as the lewis carol story because the white house said this was all done. he had gone there last time we heard about him we were looking in the torah bora area. the hindu kush mountains. we are still in the war, 15 years l

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in the coming weeks on "after words", seymour hersh will discuss the events that surrounded the killingof osama bin laden. along with other covert operations that have taken place during the obama administration. coulter will make her case for supporting donald trump for president. also coming up, face the nation moderator john dickerson will remember some of the most important moments in american presidential campaigns. this weekend syndicated radio host dana loesch contends that the united states is dividing itself into two countries, coastal america and fly over america. >> flyover nation is the area between new york and la, that 30,000 feet below your plane window when you're going from new york to l.a. or l.a. to new york or d.c. to l.a. or wherever. it's that huge area of patchwork. it looks like a quilt when you look down. you have no idea what's going on down there. it's small town america. it's mom-and-pop shop. it's the people who have middle-class america and people who are farmers and union workers. i haven't uncle who owns it for a peer at its people who work in the quarry.

pulitzer prize winning author seymour hersh will discuss the events surrounding the killings of osama bin laden along with other covert operations taken place during the obama administration. coming up and coulter will support her cases with supporting donald trump for president. and then they argue that the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech. >> what you have are bureaucracies that are preprogrammed just like money in politics to dislike -- sometimes or come in on the same universities with same viewpoint topics. so when they hear the dog whistle, when they when they hear the president of the united states and these nonprofits are scary things were when they're in wisconsin and they see a prosecutor working on a case against campaign-finance, they are primed to act. . .

on "after words," seymour hersh describes the killing of osama bin laden. and we wrap up booktv in prime time at 11 p.m.. donald mcneil jr. of of "the new york times" reports on the origin toes and spread of the zika virus. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> the new boston post recently put together a list of the top ten conservative books to put on a summer reading list. the list starts off with pulitzer prize-winning columnist george will's "the pursuit of happiness and oh sobering thoughts," which is a collection of essays written in 1978. william f. buckley jr. is next on the list with an exploration of his roman catholic faith in "nearer my god." the downing street years by margaret that much every is third on the list and discusses her time as the prime minister of the united kingdom. in the way of the wasp, richard brookhiser examines the personality and values of george h.w. bush and his views on public service and tradition. the autobiography the undocking united mark steyn is fifth on the new boston post list of suggested summer read

and seymour hersh on the killing of omomama bin laden. >> there was tension inside. a republican doing things and gates was against things happening in the operation. he thought we should bomb the place and not jeopardize the seals because if something went wrong and they were captured they had no protection. they were committing a war crime. he was a prisoner of war and they executed a prisoner of war and went into a country without notice to authorities. >> after wards airs on booktv every saturday at 10 p.m. and sunday at 9 p.m. eastern. you can watch previous episodes on our website. >> senator lamar alexander, if somebody asked you for a recommendation about tennessee or tennessee history what would you recommend? >> i would recommend alex stewart by john rise erwin. stewart was a clipper who is a barrel maker and lived in hancock county, a remote county. john rice erwin is the creator of the museum of appalachian. he could make anything. he could pull teeth, catch a squirrel and skin it, fry it and eat it. he was so interesting he was invited to washington to b

on after wards, seymour hersh describes the killing of osama bin laden and then we talk about a report on the spread of the zika virus. first up, here is robert jones talking about t"the end of whit christian america". [inaudible conversation] ...

pulitzer or prize-winning journalist seymour hersh discussed the killing of osama bin laden. syndicated radio host dana loesch contended that the united states is dividing itself into two countries; coastal america and flyover america. and "wall street journal" columnist kimberly strassel argued that the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech. in the coming weeks on "after words," georgetown university law professor rosa brooks will look at the expanded role of the u.s. military around the world. former attorney general alberto gonzalez will recall his time serving in the justice department and as white house counsel in the bush administration. also coming up, new york times' publisher mark thompson will describe the way political speech has changed over time. and this weekend ann coulter makes her case for supporting donald trump for president. >> the things i trust him on are his basic philosophy of putting america first. >> yes. >> on trade, on immigration, on wars. he has made so many mistakes. i mean, little mistakes, and he backtracks, and

investigative journalist seymour hersh talks about his book, the killing of osama bin laden, which challenges the facts that were challenge. his interview by the contributing editor of the nation. >> the president also said i want to thank the pakistani counter intelligent forces. they had to get rid of that. within days they were saying the president misspoke or the next week he went on television -- within a week -- i knew the day after the right there was trouble. >> go to book tv.org for schedule. a sunday night on q and louisiana state university history professor and historian randy eisenberg discusses her book white trash, the 400 year untold history of class in america. >> there were no poor white ghettos in places like indianapolis, chicago, and they were described in many of the same derogatory ways of poor blacks living in the city. that is part of our history that we don't talk about. we don't want to face up to the fact of how important it is. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's key monday. -- q&a. we have alicia caldwell the homeland and security reporter. about here to