so right now i am reading backlist stephen king and it's the do you brenna conner is a book industry analyst with circana. we appreciate your time and i hope you'll come back and update us on the publishing industry later in the year. very good. thank you, peter. and you're watching about books, a program about the publishing industry produced by c-span's booktv. well, each week, dozens of new books are published. here's a few. author kristin martin's debut work explores the history of orphan hood and child welfare from the 1800s to the present. ms. barton, who is a member of the national book critics circle, has titled her book the sun won't come out tomorrow. for history buffs, richard carr woodin is out with a new exploration of the role that religion played in the civil war. it's called righteous strife how warring religious, nationalist forged lincoln's union. and actress naomi watts takes on the issues of aging and menopause in her new book, dare i say it? everything i wish i'd known about menopause. well, this week on book tv's after words program, oregon democratic senator ro

that the consumer then pays through an increase in price. sophomore on this uh, we joined now by stephen king, who is the ceo of a pack advisors. a public affairs consultancy is also a full, the deputy general counsel in the us department of transportation. he joins us from single bull, thanks very much for being with us here. first of all, if we can start with china, that obviously as we heard have denounced this new tariff, the 10 percent. well, obviously leaving the door open to talks with the 2 liters, so to speak, potentially later this week. what is trying his plan here? how do you think it's going to play the days and weeks ahead? well that i think it's in a way of the opposite. we do. the us only put a 10 percent care contract because it needs time to put on more. it didn't want to have a trade war simultaneously. what canada, mexico in china, so it got canada and mexico, which is more theater. profit table president trump promised 60 percent terrace on china or more. and that is going to come, that's not gonna come until april. so we really are only going to see the true impact of wh

kings day, puerto ricans. then my birthday, then my son's birthday. by valentine's day, we are fr fried. >> stephen >> stephen: wait, you had an >> lin-manuel: in your senior, you can get credit for being an intern for younger kids class so studies intern. we didn't know each other in high school. >> stephen: did you always think -- >> lin-manuel: we were like some of the few latinos in our school. it was like, the gorgeous dominican girl over there i very much was aware of. and then it wasn't until i got this -- i hate to plug a website because it's not really the same form it was but thefacebook.com when it still had "the period" >> stephen: you are 45. >> lin-manuel: so 45. cleaning out my college email address, you had your college email address to join. who's on here? i typed in my schools and she popped up. and i went ooh and invited her to the show i was in on 54th street. >> stephen: that was right next to "the colbert report." >> lin-manuel: yeah, she came to see me and the rest is history. >> stephen: congratulations. well played. [applause] we've got to go here but did i find out, you ar

king day. and to his honor, this will be a great honor, but in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality. we will make his dream come true. >> stephenes, we will make his dream come true and that dream was, of course, buying greenland. i don't know why. not sure. maybe that's where the mountain top was. i don't know. he had his own reasons." in his speech, trump made a pledge to the nation. >> we are going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america. and we will restore the name of a great president, william mckinley to mount mckinley. >> stephen: "and the atlantic ocean is now the miami pond. and i'm officially heretofore renaming my penis the baconater. available for a limited time only at a participating wendy's." [applause] don't encourage that sort of joke. trump also laid out his plan for american imperialism. first, he threatened to invade panama and then invade the rest of the universe. >> we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching american astronauts to plant the stars & stripes on the planet mars. >> stephen: that's right. ladies and gentlemen, it's manifest destiny, in spaaaace!

stephen dixon. >> and i'm anne diamond and this is gb news breakfast. now the king. yes.nching a new initiative particularly aimed at young people, but really anybody to try and promote more learning of and the continuation of traditional crafts and skills, the sort of countryside things. >> yes, i think that's a good idea. >> i think it's a great idea because he's worried that they will, in the end, die out. and he's probably right there, don't you think? i just wonder what sort. >> of things are we talking about? >> well, i'm thinking of what i've always wanted to be able to do. nigel. i've got a very small house now without the sort of right garden. but you know, those willow hedges, you see, and there's a craft. i don't know what it's called, where they they take the top of the willow and they they weave it into the next bit and the next bit, and you see these wonderful hedgerows of these woven willows. i think they are. and it's such a skill. and that would be it's a bit like dry stone walling. it would be such a shame if that particular craft or skill died out. >> w