up next, on afterwards, rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse officers his thoughts on how the governments 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.

. >> but i do think he would, and sheldon whitehouse would and a lot of democrats on house.s a token toward global warming, i don't know whether there global warming or not, that is not my field, but i know a carbon tax does a lot less damage than income tax. >> some people think it would hit poor at gas pump. >> lack of jobs hits the poor, that is what we need with corporate tax cut. liz: we have a local professor, richard wolf, he calls himself the country favorite marxist, he said we need to get to eisenhower level high tax rates, he didn't get it, i think -- were there not recessions then. >> yes everyone knows that highest marginal income tax rate is a killer for economic growth and a huge killer for tax revenues, any time we do that revenue from top 1% of incomers go up, as a share of gdp, we get economic growth and their tax revenues go up faster, it has been true since 1914. no 1913, it is true. we raised tax rates on rich from 0 to 7%, revenues went up, but other than that, they have never done that. liz: and all right, you know, final point, according to cbo, 60% o

senator sheldon whitehouse discusses his book, capture.about the political influence of corporations. then, senator ben sasse's book, but the vanishing american adult, about how to raise children to be independent. senator mike lee was about lesser-known funding father's in his book "written out of history". and it "the least among us" the work in defending antipoverty programs. book tv in prime time, here in c-span2. >> sending on q&a. >> the social and legal response to the issues that black men have is to lock us up, to poke at us in cages, to stop and frisk us, to treat us as citizens whose rates other people don't respect. we are not full citizens of the united states. >> paul butler takes a critical look at the criminal justice system and its impact on african-american men in his book "chokehold". >> there's never been a time for community relations has been anywhere near good. so, for a long time if you're a black person and you call the police to report a crime, if you're the victim, the place to not pay that much attention to it.

so i have a bill that literally has sheldon whitehouse in sport and mitch mcconnell. >> clean coal billll that would provide tax credits for carbon capture out tillization and see questions station. we know we can't reach climate goals. co 2 emission control goals without carbon capture sequestration and outlization. and we know in the cool industry, to survive into the future, we have to be technologically able to do this. so, coming together with different motivations, but all towards the same goal, we've been able to put together a bill. we've almost had that bill pass three times. and i'm looking forward to getting it done this congress. >> what about health care? >> we got off on the wrong foot on headache because the process that was selected was too limiting in terms of what you could do. and we didn't start at the basic question. this is what drives me crazy here. i always say what's the problem we're trying to fix. we obviously know that the insurance markets have trouble and that we have a skewed system where younger people, healthier people pay a great deal for health insuran

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. the real problem isn't the government but the corporate forces. if we can get them where the founding fathers thought, which is out of elections and politics >> you want to go way took to your beginnings. your dad went to jail. he was a diplomat in laos and thailand. tell me about your upbringing and the process of living through the experiences you lived through you developed these ideas. >> growing up in foreign service i saw two things, we were always in dangerous places. growing up, you cannot go to the hospital if you are sick, or go to the movies, if somebody got bit by a dog you had to go through the rabies series because it was probably rabid. people did

as senator sheldon whitehouse explained. >> if there's been a legal violation here, and this is verytions that there has, then you're dealing with things like indictments and the house potentially beginning impeachment proceedings, and -- people having to start talking under oath instead of just, you know, talking out into the airwaves, where they lie as easily as they breathe. >> seth: i don't think trump lies as easily as he breathes, i think lying is his breathing. inhale oxygen. exhale "1.5 million people came to my inauguration." [ laughter ] trump lies like a whale coming up for air. >> i'm like a smart person. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: so now -- so now with the stakes getting higher, the attempted explanations coming from trump's team, for don jr.'s meeting with the russians are once again changing and getting increasingly ridiculous. remember, trump and his team argued for months that there was absolutely no contact, let alone collusion with russian agents. but now that the don jr. email is out, they've shifted to a new story, that if there was collusion, it was tota

senator sheldon whitehouse discusses his book captured about the political influence of corporations.ben - the vanishing american adults about how to raise children to be independent. senator mike lee writes about lesser-known founding fathers in his book, written out of history. and in her book the least among us, congresswoman rosa delauro writes about her work in defending antipoverty programs. booktv 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 emot