the communicator is up next and then marcia coyle and her book and then thomas healy and his book on the terror suspects. >> we will focus on the future of television this week. we talked with john skipper and president of the cox communication. that is followed by a research analyst interview. here is john skipper up first. >> what is the biggest competition for espn and in 5-10 years now what do you see as the biggest competition? >> there is a lot of competition and always have been. the leagues have their own networks. a lot of attention is playing because fox sports is going to have a new station and nbc launched one a year and a half ago. there are conference networks. turner, cbs and we have a lot of competition and mostly competition for programming right or talent for advertising dollars and eye balls as well. >> where does it go from here? >> oh, i think it will get more complicated and competitive. everybody understand that sports and live sports is the sweet spot of media and almost the only thing you have to watch live. and it might be social media sites doing tweeting a

thank you thomas healy.the book is "the great dissent" how oliver wendell holmes changed his mind - and changed the history of free speech in america. as robin mentioned thomas will be signing books downstairs in the lobby and i hope you will join him there in getting a copy. >> thanks so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> i've been involved in politics for 40 years in one way or another. i worked on the reagan campaigns and worked in his administration for eight years. the fact of the matter is i've never seen so many people quoting and waving around the declaration of independence and the constitution. many a few 10 years ago, you never gave a second thought. now all that is at the front of your minds. and it is with tens of millions of us. the fact of the matter is, tens of millions of us love this country. we don't want it fundamentally transformed so we have to get to his as many other people as we can, wake them up and educate them. the truth is and i'm not trying to pass myself on the back.

thank you thomas healy.the book is "the great dissent" how oliver wendell holmes changed his mind - and changed the history of free speech in america. as robin mentioned thomas will be signing books downstairs in the lobby and i hope you will join him there in getting a copy. >> thanks so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations]s bravn booktv. he discusses the challenges facing prosecutors as they work to prosecute suspected terrorists in our military courts. this is about an hour and teen minutes. >> so i would like to begin by welcoming everyone to the first constitutional conversation of 2013 put on by the constitutional law center here at stanford and it's my special pleasure to introduce our guests for tonight, jess bravin of "the wall street journal" and author of the recent book, the terror courts on sale i should add that better bookstores everywhere and even the stanford bookstore. so you may want to grab that. this is probably the most serious account of what has actually happened in the court sy

then the thomas healy discusses his book "the great dissent." elliptic guantanamo bay in the book "the terror courts." tv in primetime all week on c-span two. my education expires after five to 10 years. everything is new. of the cloud is new. facebook is new. a lot of these new coating languages -- coding languages. human life, a play phase, a learning phase, a work phase, and a resting phase afterwards, and eventually dying. ,hat i think we should be doing we should have these phases at the same time. we should play, learn, work, all the same time. you get the world moves so fast, you can't have a single time for education any more. we have to stay up-to-date. >> new year's day on c-span, just before 1:00 p.m. eastern and throughout the afternoon, ceo's of twitter and others on the future of higher education, robotics, and data in the new industrial revolution. on book tv, unflinching courage, former texas senator kay bailey hutchison on the women who helped shape texas. and on c-span three, american history tv, daughters of civil rights leade

at 9:30, thomas healy's "the dissent" looks at the first amendment.at 10:30, military prosecutions of terror suspects, "the terror courts." c-span3, american time.y tv is in prime a look at the life of george washington beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. 9:15 with aowed at look at his presidency. washington'sern, defeat in the battle of brandywine, fought during the early stages of the revolutionary war. this morning on c-span, q and a with radio talk show host hugh about his latest book. at 7:00 a.m. eastern, "washington journal" is live. ther, a portion from national consumer league's recent conference on identity theft and data security. ♪ >> this week on q&a, network host hugh hewitt discusses his latest book titled "the happiest life." >> hugh hewitt and your latest book the happeniest life, you said it's the first time you've ever discussed your kids. >> yes. >> why. >> early on we had an untournt experience of a guy who heard me talking about my daughter and he threatened her. i've had that debate with a lot of public figures and have said to youn

thank you thomas healy. the book is "the great dissent" how oliver wendell holmes changed his mind - and changed the history of free speech in america. as robin mentioned thomas will be signing books downstairs in the lobby and i hope you will join him there in getting a copy. >> thanks so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> tomorrow night and booktv, biographies and books on booktv. first, april that stood up for education were shot by the taliban. then the author of ben franklin's youngest sister and jasmine ward with her book about growing up in poverty in rule mississippi. >> i have been involved in politics for four years in one way or another. i worked in the administration and i have never seen so many people quoting and waving around the declaration of independence and the constitution. many of you never gave it a second thought and i bet not it is at the front of your mind and it is with tens of millions of us. and the fact of the matter is that tens of millions of us love this country and

the communicator is up next and then marcia coyle and her book and then thomas healy and his book on the terror suspects. >> we will focus on the future of television this week. we talked with

his thomas healy discusses book, "the great dissent" about oliver wendell holmes. a look at guantÁnamo bay and the book "the terror courts ." watch book tv all week in prime time on c-span two. rex i think they are moving extremely fast. mine expires after five to 10 years. the cloud is new, facebook is new, twitter is new -- historically what we have done is slice human life into four slices. the play phase and then they learn phase, a work phase and then a resting phase afterwards and maybe eventually dying. what i think we should be doing is interweave these and have them all at the same time. we should play, learn, work and rest at the same time. the world moves so fast. we have to stay up to date. >> new year's day on c-span, just before 1:00 eastern and throughout the afternoon, ceos of several companies on the future of higher education, robotics, and data as the new industrial revolution as book tv -- kay bailey hutchison on the women who helped shape texas at eight: 45. on c-span three, "daughters of civil rights leaders share their memories of the civil r

then thomas healy discusses his book about oliver wendell holmes.hen a look at "the terror courts." watch book tv all week on c-span 2. host: author and presidential historian richard norton smith joins us now discussion on second term presidencies as as president obama is about to turn the page on the first year of his second term. mr. smith, at this point what can we say yet whether or not present obama's going to fall into a certain mold of a second term president? guest: it is amazing how people are in a rush to get beyond the next three years, there's a large part of the media that cannot wait for the next campaign horserace. they forget that that we have a president for the next three years. it is true that he has been experiencing what one might call the second term jinx. it is something that goes back to the very beginning. with rare exceptions. george washington had a very stormy second term. largely over foreign policy. americans were sharply divided over the french revolution and the impact upon this country. thomas jefferson, who in his

at 9:30 it's thomas healy and the great dissent: how oliver wendell holmes changed his mind and changed the history of free speech in america. and at 10:30, jess braven talks about his book, "the terror courts." again, our booktv prime programming gets under way at 8:30 this evening here on c-span2. meanwhile, tonight on c-span3 it's more from american history tv. tonight's topic will be george washington. at 8 p.m., george washington as an intellectual. from our lectures and history series, the speaker is denver brounsman of george washington university who talks about the first president's lifelong interest in learning and commitment to education. at 9:15 p.m., it's washington's presidency. also from lectures in history, george fox university professor carrie irish exam examines the presidency of george washington who was inaugurated in 1789. and at 1025 p.m., washington's defeat in brandywine. author bruce modet talks about a lesser known battle which p ended in a british victory over general george washington at chazz ford, pennsylvania. in what was the largest land battle of the co

. >> you mentioned in the book and you mentioned today in the book that thomas healy served three timescivil war and you mentioned frequently how his experience affected the way he looked at the world and the paragraph that you read to us is a fairly harsh view of the world it's things that we are going to fight a lot but his position is that's part of the democracy. we have to scream at each other and it's better to scream at each other because of better result will come out. >> absolutely. >> that's hard to accept. >> not only is it okay to scream at one another but it's okay to kill one another at the other fellow disagrees. he ultimately realizes if we are going to have any kind of confidence in the decisions we take we have to hear all viewpoints. that's the only way in which we can feel assured going forward in our decisions but yes it starts off with this harsh view of the world that's informed by his experience. fighting his fellow countrymen. what is that the disagreeing and killing the other fellow when he disagrees. >> holmes was about 78 when he wrote that opinion. i wonder