to block stephen king on twitter he came right back to the president declared him locked from seen stephen king's next film. stephen is a champion of what pen america stands for. the freedom to write. thank you, stephen for your boundless contribution to writers, readers and all of us who believe that fear can hold you prisoner but hope can set you free. [applause] [applause] we present tonight it is an honor to present this award to my friend, stephen king. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> that is the best damn introduction i've ever had and probably the best one i will ever get. before i go on, i have to tell you story. my wife and i live half of the year of florida. we turned 65, it's the law. [laughter] my wife does the big shopping. she is here tonight, she is my inspiration. [applause] she does the big shopping because she does not trust me to do that, but if we are out of toilet paper something she'll send me to the store. i was in publix one day and i came around the corner of the i/o. there is a women, the other way and she was a florida resident, she had the real dark leather

the 68-year-old got her big break in king's first novel turned film "carrie." >> i owe stephen king aly carrie was the first film of mine that anybody went to see. >> another cast member with a king connection -- bill skarsgard. he played pennywise if last year's remake of the king classic "it." in "castle rock," he's prisoner with a mysterious past. >> how did you get inside this prison, who put you down that hole? >> from "it" to doing this, do you ever want to do happy stuff? >> yea slam is just $5.99! ♪$5.99 are you out of your mind?♪ seriously?! yup! eggs. hash browns. bacon. sausage. denny's new! super slam. only $5.99! >>> the star of eighth grade talked to "e.t." about how she nearly quit ♪ >>> that is andy cohen getting with britney. >> did the end. >> oops, did she it again?eno w morning on his radio show. >> why would britney know my name? i'm a mortal. and britney is britney. >>> if you rally want to talk about not knowing, the next story is amazing. "dancing with the stars'" pro cheryl burke never knew her own sister. cheryl dropped by to share the amazing moment they met

the 68-year-old got her big break in king's first novel turned film "carrie." >> i owe stephen king aly carrie was the first film of mine that anybody went to see. >> another cast member with a king connection -- bill skarsgard. he played pennywise if last year's remake of the king classic "it." in "castle rock," he's prisoner with a mysterious past. >> how did you get inside this prison, who put you down that hole? prison, who put you down that hole? >> from "it" to doing do now a foundation stick with full coverage. new super stay foundation stick from maybelline new york. cover, conceal, touch up. ne's new super, conceal, stay foundation stick. only from maybelline new york. >>> the star of eighth grade talked to "e.t." about how she nearly quit ♪ >>> that is andy cohen getting a little upclose and personal with britney. >> did britney know who she was aem bar raszing because this happened at the end. >> oops, did she it ain but andy took it in stride. listen to what he said this morning on his radio show. >> why would britney know my name? i'm a mortal. and britney is britney. >>>

that kicked me off with ken follett and stephen king. we traded books going from greece to italy. >> host: two things brad thor mentioned as a quick plug for booktv.org we visited shakespeare and company in paris and a profile of that bookstore. if you type in shakespeare and company and paris into our search you will be able to watch that online also. you can watch both of those interviews online. we are talking with best-selling novelist and thriller writer brad thor, phone numbers are on screen, 202-748-8200. in east and central time zones, 202-748-8201. in the mountain and pacific time zones, a reminder for this program, first-time callers to booktv only. we will cycle through our social media, you can ask a question that way as well. i will read facebook comment we got from gregory and only because you have talked about this and the influence in the past, he wants to know how the other's parenting influence, the personality of the character, that you have now. in other words what does brad thor think his parents did right and wrong?

vaughn hilliard is live in bangor, stephen king's hometown but he's not there for stephen king.there for susan collins. what's she telling you? >> reporter: exactly, steve. we caught up with susan collins out here shaking hands. we asked her specifically about this. there is no margin for error for who the president selects to be the next supreme court justice. if john mccain is unable to make it to washington, d.c. to vote there is only 50 republican senators. they need 51. that 51st would be mike pence. susan collins, they cannot afford to lose as well as lisa murkowski. those are the two republican pro choice, pro women's reproductive health rights advocates that are the ones they are targeting. i asked susan collins here because that's the question that will be on hand is roe v. wade. could a 5-4 decision overturn roe v. wade? people are zeroing in on her answer to the question and to what extent she will hold the nominee to account to answer squarely whether they would uphold roe v. wade. when i asked her, this is what she told me today. >> i think i have made it pretty cle

what's interesting, i do look at stephen kings work with a little bit of awe. i like his writing but also think it must be interesting to build a great the parameters of the world that your fiction existed. your characters exist if you could move the walls come whatever. i can't do that with my books. if i say center has this ability as can be viewed the senator hatch our navy shall does this or somebody at langley doesn't that. i have very specific walls that are around my work or guidepost digital kind of congress and to operate. i don't think you cheat that because of different people if i get it wrong. >> host: scot harvath invokes murphy's law. >> guest: allah. that is something that you will hear from whether it is greenbrae, with its seals, guys at units, if they can go wrong will go wrong. the battle plans communion for best play in the world. it's a vice the first contacted amid the most off-line exchange and mindset of adapt and overcome is big in my novels of success that monitor the seo success is the only option. failure is not an option. you have

he's the stephen king of the horror story we live in. ( cheers and applause ) a lot of different subjects. a lot of different subjects. ( applause ) ( piano riff ) lot of different subjects, but a lot of it was chaff, like this: "wow, highest poll numbers in the history of the republican party. that includes honest abe lincoln and ronald reagan. there must be something wrong, please recheck that poll!" okay, we did! turns out, presidential polling didn't start until 1935. ( laughter ) so, of course, lincoln did badly. who wants to vote for a guy who's been dead for 70 years? me, if he's running against trump in the next election. dead abe 2020: make america grave again. ( cheers and applause ) tweets weren't the only way trump fought back-- he also unleashed trump attorney and man watching them open the ark of the covenant, rudy giuliani. ( laughter ) so it's giuliani versus cohen, and as alisyn camerota pointed out today on cnn's "new day" today, this feud is a recent development. >> you had said not two months ago that michael cohen was an honest and honorable man. now you're saying he'

i want to get back to stephen king when we ca can but you're living in tough times, so i'm sticking withpolitical philosophy and i hope everybody doesn't think i'm too boring but here is a book called the sleeping sovereign, the invention of modern democracy. he makes a fascinating argument ... today we think of sovereignty and the government is basically the same thing. we think that the original modern political philosophers like rousseau and hobbes distinguish sharply between the government and sovereignty and they are the offices of administration that he set up in order to do the people's business. this offering are the people, the beautiful and most important word in the constitution, we the people are slaughtered and then we said that the constitution and it might have limitations and failures and are tolerated and abetted slavery until he got to the civil war and reconstruction amendment excluded women and so on so it's not necessarily the constitution that should always be glorified or idolized, but the idea of the sovereignty and so relating it to today, still i think maybe the

stephen king says you have to be willing to kill your darlings. you can't be so married to something in the book that you refuse to take it out. some people fight and don't take it off. that's why georgia has that experience. >> host: stan are you with us? i hit the wrong line. d in wilmington, north carolina. >> caller: hello. i'm a great reader and have read most of your books. recently -- why are you aging stephen bringing in the other secondary characters. >> guest: why am i aging my main character and bringing in the secondary character? you're reading the books closely if you're noticing that. one of my favorite fiction characters is dirk. five has decided he was going to do james bond underwater. that's way he describes it. hardback reflects a lot of people i know in real life. i have heard about and cannot talk about on c-span i've heard about fascinating operations the u.s. has been involved in. very important operations been involved in teams. some of my books are brought together the secondary characters to reflect that camaraderie and

one of the things i don't know stephen king and i would never consider a. it's interesting i do look at his work with a little bit of all. it's got to be the ability a senatorr has. so, i have very specific goals that are around my work. and i have to operate in. i don't get achieved that stuff. that is something you will hear a. it will go along and. it's big in my success. but it's what's interesting about how they select these guys to be in thee delta force and eventually got out one of the tier one teams like this. but how well you handle the thing thathatthing that went si. >> host: >> guest: there' >> guest: there's been a lot of that stuff in the book. the we've got time to work on this w and. there's a misunderstanding thatt our operatives and military people go from zero to 80 in the blink of an eye. they try to build rapport and they realize a lot more can be done without applying difficult techniques, but the other thing they talked about that was acceptable as yo what you can do under the ticking timebomb scenario. you have to be prepared to get

." >> i love gayle king's new book. >> stephen: you don't have to say it. just act it.a like you're using the puppy for date bait. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: don't look at me. i'm not here. just look at-- >> hold on. >> stephen: blank. you're nothing. you're dead inside. now you're reading the book and it's filling you with light. and you're, like, "i love gayle king's book. if i were oprah, i'd be her friend, too. now i'm sad. i was hurt like that, too. but now a message of hope." ♪ ♪ i know you hate cats. but act like you like cats, all right, closer to the face, todd. all right. all right. be kind. you're frightening the cat. all right. be sexy. show me sexy. ♪ ♪ before i said goodbye, there was one thing left for me to do. thanks, man. thanks. >> nice meeting you. oh, ( bleep ). >> stephen: we'll be right back with janelle monae. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) if your moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough, it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio, the only

. >> stephen: you performed with the dap-kings on saturday night, totally different vibe, fantastic. ight cheers ) >> jon: completely different, but great. >> stephen: boy, you sent a thrill through my hometown, charleston just loved you. >> jon: oh yeah, i loved them. >> stephen: did you enjoy charleston? >> jon: i loved charleston, because everybody was so hospitable. everybody had good food, shrimp and, like, where i'm from in new orleans we eat stuff like that all the time. >> stephen: well, anytime. >> jon: thank you so much for the hospitality. it was great to be there. >> stephen: well, folks, we saw so much happen over the past week, but one thing we did not see was first lady melania trump. ( laughter ) because as of the time we're taping this show right now, the first lady has not been seen in public for 25 days. i'm not surprised, it took that shawshank guy years to tunnel out. ( laughter ) here is-- here is-- ( applause ) here's the deal. last month, as we all know, the first lady underwent what they called "minor surgery." they say she is perfectly fine and i certainly ho

former warriors aaron davis, stephen jackson, al harrington, and former kings meta-world peace, and mike bibby. now, they have some even bigger names on the sidelines coaching. poor hall of famer's, rick perry, gary payton, dr. j, julius irving, and the iceman, george curbing. here is rick perry, moments ago. >> i was a bit skeptical, as most people were. but, pleasantly surprised. it was beyond my expectations. i had a lot of fun last year. to come back and coach against dr. j. i told him before, you know the best thing about this game i don't have to guard you. >> it is nice to be back here. they are familiar surroundings. i have seen the building since they changed it. the guys asked me would you play here? well, it was not like this. there were not always luxury suites. but it is always nice to come back here. >> all right, barry is thrilled about the warriors, adding to marcus cousins to the roster. maybe the most talented center, since his old teammate, nate thurmond. >> i would be remiss if i did not ask you about cousins. >> oh, yeah -- when i tell you -- if you are a warrior per

i mean, stephen miller is very clear about this. steven kingazi propaganda a week ago. these are people that really think that the nature of the country existentially, america won't be america if it changes too much demographically. and they see themselves as guarding against that eventuality, and they're very clear about that. and that's why it's very hard to come to compromise with these people about legislation. so, even when you go and you say, "we're gonna put money into border security," which we've done every year. border security numbers are through the roof. we're going to have more people patrolling the border. which we've done every year. there's more people patrolling the border. they say, "okay. now let's strike a deal." and they, "no, we don't want a deal. because what we want to do is change the demographic tide of this country to preserve the white majority we have now." >> seth: what happens now moving forward in terms of, i mean, first and foremost, these separated families? do you have any optimism that those 2,000 children a

the king's horses and all the king's men can't put humpty dumb-ass back together again. ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) apparently-- ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: oh! >> stephenfers were two records- management analysts who earned around $65,000 a year. $65,000 each? so you're telling me it costs $130,000 to clean up trump's mess? yeah, it checks out. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) we'll be right back with anthony scaramucci and michael avenatti. ( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) to beautiful light. layered scents for your home imagination. we have a fragrance for that. new fine fragrance mist, infused with essential oils, artfully crafted by glade. sc johnson. to most ...most people.like... but on the inside, i feel chronic, widespread pain. fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i'm glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. for some, lyrica delivers effective relief from fibromyalgia pain, and improves function. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these,