. >> stephen u, sbin is the or author of bureau of spies. thanks so much. >> thank you very much. >> keep an eye out for more interviews from the national press club's book fair to air in the near future. you can watch them and any of our programs in their entirety at booktv.org. type the author's name in the surgery bar at the top of the page. .. an obsessive tale of termites in technology. in the course of researching her comprehensive history she learned of a theory that would turn into gasoline. that led to not that by a field. but the decade-long obsession with termites. she follows researchers as a study of termite behavior and investigate how the creatures who do nearly 20 billion plus dollars of damage a year in the u.s. can be almost as the fuel. with the public square. the climate change and cognition. [applause]. thank you so much for coming. and thank you to a politics and prose for having me. termites can eat books. is kind of a leap of faith. i got interested in termites in the summer of 2008 and i am not totally sure i deftly

u signation leer, to fill in hlf. has be put in there as-- >> as acting. and it's an interesting space, because he's not senate- confirmed to anything. >> stephen: right. no. he is like a placeholder, placeholder, placeholder. >> stephen: it's like a rally to put him in there. >> so this is a vacancy act legal question. the senate hasn't confirmed him. how can he run a cabinet agency when-- >> stephen: especially one that is investigating the president of the united states? >> right. but any cabinet agency, but especially that one. when loretta lynch stepped down, who was the acting attorney general? the deputy attorney general, sally yates. >> stephen: and it's also not rod rosenstein. >> no, because he doesn't want to have him in that position. so, this is not just what he is he going to do, but can he actually do this? >> stephen: what is it like to be in the room for one of these press conferences, especially today, which may not be the most bombastic, or the most--. >> it's the most bombastic of my >>ph: ohal toy, even bsely. ah. we had three or four throw-downs in the first two or three rows. >> stephen: peter alexander stood up for jim acosta. i

stephen: i never sold out carnegie hall. >> i sold it out five times. anyway, so then i decided to promote my own shows and i wired money to radio city, and just like as an f-uand i learned that part of the business, which i really love doing. and i wanted to make a special because i've done 23. but this one has a little more meat on the bone. and at the moment, no tv or streaming services are interested. but i am now thinking what if it's a concert film, and i'm trying to get into film festivals, and maybe do a panel with, like the a.c.l.u., or first amendment attorney. i don't want this to happen to any of you guys. none of you should have to go through this and hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal bills or god forbid one of your picturekids put that picture on. >> stephen: there are limits to what you can say about the president of the united states, having specifically to do about harm against the president of the united states. >> which i did not do. >> stephen: well, you were holding up a severed head. >> no, it was a mask. it was a halloween mask with ketchup. >> stephen: i know it wasn't the president's head-- >> where would i get a severed head

u t aulae mass immigration has badly hurt this country's natural landscape. thanks to illegal immigration, huge swaths of the region are covered with garbage and waste that degrade the soil and kill wildlife. >> stephend point. because americans never do that. i don't hear tucker calling to deport a bunch of forever-21-wearing white girls named "blake." itcritics, tucker is staying focused. yesterday, while every news outlet was covering some trivial story about the president's former national security advisor getting a federal prison sentence, tucker was hitting the hard news. >> the war on christmas is a global struggle. in the parliament of scotland-- they have a national parliament-- the coffee shop has stopped selling gingerbread men. why? gender specific. they're now called gingerbread people. >> stephen: yeah, yeah. and if we accept gingerbread people, what's next? lady fingers become people fingers? instead of lorna doones, i got to eat larry doones? look, i'm flattered, larry. i'm just not into that scene! you know who won't stand for this? the scottish. they are a stubborn people. >> they may take our lives, but they'll never take our gingerbread men! that of course-- of corse- ( cheers and

g u e5 how families and friends and colleagues have been absolutely drawn apart by this and they can't even have conversations, some people. go back to what democracy is about, the reason why stephend values which bring us together, that i5a values which bring us together, that is a political party. elections, you measure that and then you go into parliament and it is theirjob then across this device. and that's why i think we all have such a re5pon5ibility think we all have such a responsibility at the moment of saying, there's inequality, people being left behind and angry, and we need to show them that there's a way out. i think there's two things we have to do, one is to get a brexit that can hold the country together, that can hold the country together, thatis that can hold the country together, that is the tactical move, and then there is the strategic move which is to address the causes of the fact that we live in a deeply divided country, where london and the south—east have become untethered from the rest of the country near the investment and development in that part of the country isjust completely different, communities left behind for generations. but we can't start t

. >> stephen u, sbin is the or author of bureau of spies.thanks so much. >> thank you very much. >> keep an eye out for more interviews from the national press club's book fair to air in the near future. you can watch them and any of our programs in their entirety at booktv.org. type the author's name in the surgery bar at the top of the page. .. an obsessive tale of termites in technology. in the course of researching her comprehensive history she learned of a theory that would turn