at 2:00, thomas mallon has a story to tell in watergate a novel. this weekend on afterwards, madeleine albright on growing up in nazi occupied czechoslovakia. book tv this weekend on c-span2. >>> this is c-span3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. and you can join many the conversation on social media sites. >>> we take you to boston now for the 2012 cable show. the annual gathering of the cable and television association kicked off with a keynote by michael powell. the former fcc chairman talked about the state of the cable industry and new advances. this is just over ten minutes. >> welcome to the great city of boston. and the 20 12 cable show. it's great to have governor patrick welcome us to this wonderful city. you know, when i joined ncta a year ago, i set out to bring more creativity and energy into this industry. our efforts are bearing fruit. and you will se

and at 2:00, thomas mallon has a story to tell in water gate, a novel. also this weekend on afterwards, madeline albright on growing up in nazi occupikaccupiedoccupied. >>> michelle obama gave commencement speeches at three college in may. one was at north carolina agricultural and technical state university in greensboro. her comments are 25 minutes. >>> good morning, everyone. y'all rest yourselves. first of all, let me thank chancellor martin for that very kind introduction. i also want to thank davonte and everyone from the board of governors, the board of trustees, the faculty and all of the staff here who have worked so hard on this event and making you the men and women that you are. i also have to thank the university choir. you all are amazing. as the chancellor said, you all are becoming regulars at the white house, and that's a good thing. singing at our black history month events for the last two years, it's just amazing to hear those voices pouring through the white house. very powerful and it is obviously such a pleasure to hear your beauti

sunday at noon, gail collins on texas' role in american politics, lindsey hilsum at one, and thomas mallon has a story to tell. also this weekend on afterwards, madeline albright on growing up in czechslovakia. this weekend on c-span 2. >>> attorney general eric holder was asked today about wiretap about my occasions related to the government's fast and furious operation aimed at arresting members of mexican drug cartels. he testified at the house judiciary committee. we're going to show you part of this hearing. you can watch it in its entirety at c-span.org and later tonight on c-span 2. we pick it up with committee chairman lamar smith questioning the attorney general. >> the foreign intelligence surveillance act amendments which help protect our country from terrorists expire at the end of this year. do you support the extension of those amendments? >> we do support them. it is the most important legislative concern of the intelligence community, and we hope that congress will pass that reauthorization before the expiration at the end of the year. >> okay. let me go to operation fast a

thomas mallon is a renowned historical novelist.he's written about a number of incidents in american history. but my first question is, given that, what we draw you to what is probably been the most investigated, reported on, and i sorely covered incident in american presidential history? >> well, i think probably two things. i live in washington, and -- >> excuse me. >> i live right across the street from the watergate, so look out on a day after day after day. i see a right to my study window, so it always crosses my mind. but more than anything else, it has to have been nixon. in that there was nobody hulu and larger over my whole growing up and young adulthood than richard nixon. he was a famous man. by the time i was born. by the time, i was in diapers during the 52 campaign. my first passionate experience, i love politics as a kid. i went to fourth grade every day wearing a nixon lodge experience counts button. [laughter] my father would passionately, pro-nixon and i. i remember crying on election night 1960. having spent week

at 2:00, thomas mallon has a story to tell in "watergate -- a novel." madeleine albright growing up in czechoslovakia. "book tv" this weekend on c-span2. >> now the house ways and means committee discusses how to evaluate tax provisions set to expire this year, also known as tax extendsers. you'll hear from the tax issues director of the accountability office, jim white. this is an hour and 20 minutes. s >> thank you for joining us today on what are commonly known as tax extenders. as most of you know in april we had the opportunity to hear from a number of our colleagues about the merits of extending or, in some cases, not extending many of these tax policies. by all accounts it was a productive exercise and i commend chairman dave camp for his leadership in providing the opportunity then and now and in the future to examine these tax provisions. list leadership in setting fort a transparent process for reviewing the tax extenders is what the american people expect from their congressional representatives. i think it's likely accurate to say that the d

and at 2:00, thomas mallon has a story to tell in "watergate, a novel." also, madeleine albright on growing up in sauce czechoslovakia. -- czechoslovakia. >> after having more than one year, i cannot think of a better name. it is really the heartbeat of the people. >> general counsel of the congressional black caucus on the role of today's caucus. >> we ensure that members of congress can come together on issues that affect the community at large, issues that may be played in your district. we come together to discuss solutions, legislative proposals to end the causes of problems and make sure people have a voice. >> more sunday at 8:00 pacific on c-span. -- 8:00 eastern pacific. >> a witness from bloomberg news put -- threaten to go to court to change the way that labor statistics are released. he said negotiations over that plan are moving forward. they also looked at green jobs. committee chair darrell issa accused the labor department of inflating numbers. this is three hours. >> good morning. the oversight committee will come to order. we at the over