can you imagine during world war ii when we had admiral -- [inaudible] stennis win the battle of midway, he sailed across the international kitline in the pacific -- dateline in the pacific and attacked the japanese. destroyed their fleet. 1942. he went across the international dateline. supposing he'd turned back and said, well, that's the international dateline, and japan has said if we don't cross the international dateline, we'll take this part of the pacific, you take that, and we'll live happily ever after. we get to the mountains in the middle of nowhere, and we allow al-qaeda to escape? makes no sense. our entire country had become more legalistic. of we should have gone and finished it right then. >> this month, booktv's book club selection is bing west's "the wrong war." read the book and join in the discussion at booktv.org. and live, sunday may 4th, look for our next "in depth" guest, luis j. rodriguez, former gang member turned author and poet. his work includes the award-winning "always running" and his 2011 release, "it calls you back." find booktv every weekend on c-span

6:00 with the united states senators this wonderful memoir from john stennis, a powerful democratic united states senator and he said sy hersh would call me at 6:00 in the morning. i would be in my pajamas and we would talk for an hour before would go to work. what was it like? this guy who would start his day at 6:00 in the morning talking to united states senators and 11:00 at night still be in the newsroom on the washington bureau of the washington times surrounded by folders, obscure government documents with the phone still quote in his neck trying to convince people to talk to him? what was it like to live with this obsessive guy? the other thing i would like to ask speaking of threats, this interesting time in new york, he comes to new york for two years, 1978-1979, the tail end of 7 years in the new york times, actually this week to major projects when he comes to the new york times. one is on gulf and western which is the owner of paramount and the new york knicks and new york rangers, does a big investigation and the other investigations is of someone who -- didn't know who he wa

. >> we were just talking about the fact that the interrogation last week of the stennis committee, senator goldwater ask some questions about the use of the carrier aircraft with their markings painted out. we figured that somebody over there has told them about that thing on wednesday morning. going to spring it. they will try to bring it in such a way that it looks like there was a u.s. air carrier and you were wrong and i was wrong in saying there wasn't. >> historic audio from the aftermath of the u.s. attempt to overthrow cuban premier fidel castro saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span radio in washington d.c. at 90. one fm, online at c-span.org, and nationwide on ex-im satellite radio channel 120. >> c-span2 providing live coverage of the u.s. senate floor proceedings and keep public policy evidence and every weekend book tv now for 15 years the only television network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 created by the cable-tv industry and brought to you as a public service by your local cable satellite provider. watch as in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on t

. >> we're just talking about the fact that the intear gays last week of the stennis committee, senatorgoldwater asked about a use of carrier aircraft, the use of aircraft carrier essex with their markings painted out. we figure somebody over there told them about the thing on wednesday morning and dirksen will spring it or goldwater will try to spring it in such a way that looks like there was us air cover and you were wrong and i was wrong saying there wasn't. >>> historic audio from the attempt to overthrow fidel castro. on c-span radio at 90.1 fm and nationwide on xm satellite raised yo channel 120. >>> this morning we're live at the center of strategic and international studies here in washington for a discussion on china's economic growth and what it means for the global economy. china has the world's second largest economy but growth has sewed recently due to drops in real estate values because of overbuildings. analysts include president obama's former asia advisor including several of china's experts. later this morning a conversation with former treasury secretary henry paulso

so stenny, we've got a lot of people around the table. and you're given a minute. i'll give you 45 seconds before the gavel goes down. a lot of questions. chuck? >> hey, congressman. if democrats hold onto the senate, they're going to do it because a bunch of candidates have promised to, quote, unquote, fix health care with legislation. what's one piece of legislation you could support that would fix the president's health care law when you hear alex sink ran on this issue, lot of democrats running on this issue when asked about repeals. so what's a piece of legislation you would support to fix health care? >> well, look. we're working right now on a piece of legislation that hopefully we could get tone which will make sure that we can deal with people overseas and in a rational way who are working here in the united states. but there are a lot of things that we can address, unfortunately, chuck as you well know, for the last three years a large piece of legislation that like medicare and other pieces of large legislation need tweaking, w