ld of the rick atkinson and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collecting evidence. liveational book festival, saturday, august 31 at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years c-span has number of writing unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events from washington dc and around the country. created by cable in 1979, c-span is brought to you by your local or cable satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. peter: this week on "the communicators," we want to introduce you to daniel castro. mr. castro, what is that group and what do you do? daniel: well, i'm with a think tank. we focus on innovation, generally. we're interested in seeing innovation move forward. peter: can you give an example of that what you are in favor of? daniel: 10 years ago, we weren't talking about artificial intelligence. there's this new wave of automation. but we were thinking about the policies we would need to get there. we try to help policymak

that's a fairly early example of many of the benefits of artificial intelligence. >> next call for thomas malone comes from kathy in new york. hi, kathy. >> caller: hi, how are you? i watch your show all the time. >> thanks for watching. we appreciate it. what's your question? >> i wanted to ask dr. malone if hyperconnectivity could be related to emergent behavior in groups of lower order life forms. in other words, like how colonies, like birds and ants and schools of fish, would he consider that a form of hyperconductivity? >> thank you, ma'am. so i think the example you bring up is a very interesting one. i would absolutely consider collections of animals as in many cases examples of collective intelligence or i'd call them superminds, birds flocking together, ant colonies, beehiv beehives, etc., those are all examples of what i think are interesting cases of collective intelligence. i wouldn't p usually -- in most cases i would not consider them examples of hyperconnectivity, because they still communicate with each other only at a fairly local level. so one ant can communicate with another

robinson and her book child of the dream, rick atkinson, author of the british are coming, and thomas maloneunder of m.i.t. center for collective intelligence .iscusses his book, super minds august 31 at 10:00 eastern on "book tv" on c-span 2. south bend indiana mayor and 2020 candidate pete buttigieg was in new hampshire for a town hall where he took questions and met one-on-one with voters. this is about an hour. ♪ mayor pete: thank you. thank you. wow. what a fantastic group. thank you so much for coming out. thank you again, mckenzie, for

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words," david treuer" child of the dream and rick atkinson, author of "the british are coming" and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence discusses his book super finds. the national book festival live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >>> in the wake of the recent shootings in el paso, texas, and dayton, ohio, the house judiciary committee will return from recess to, ma up the gun violence prevention bills which will ban high-capacity ammunition magazines and restricting firearms from those deemed by a court to be a to themselves and convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes from purchasing a gun. live coverage begins wednesday september 4th at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org and if you're on the go, listen to our live coverage using the free c-span radio app. >> the eagle has landed. >> i'll step off the land now.

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and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence, discusses his book, super minds. live, saturday, august 31 at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. announcer: every year, c-span awards federal ships -- fellowships to several middleton high school teachers who have demonstrated innovative methods of incorporating see sprint -- c-span programs in the routine. they join c-span for four weeks in july to develop new teaching materials. they lead the c-span summer educators conference. one of our three teacher fellows is eleanor greene of california. has taughtor greene at bert corona high school per tell us about your students. corona high school. tell us about your student. eleanor: most of my students are emergent bilinguals coming into their english language skills. i get to work with students who want to learn. immigrants, children love learning. their parents are super invested in them. i get to be the guide to teach them about those connections to american history and world history and to th

henson, author of the british arecoming and thomas malone , founding director of the mit answer for collective intelligence discusses his book supervised. the national book festival, live saturday, august 31 at 10 am eastern on book tv on cspan2. >> next, andy parker, father of slain roanoke virginia tv reporter allison parker on his concerns over immunity protections or internet service providers. after his daughter's death was posted and reposted online, mister parker has spoken publicly about gun violence and work on lesl

at of wounded rick atkinson, author of "the coming," and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence discussing his book. the national book festival live saturday, august 31 at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. forvery year, c-span awards fellowships to several middle and high school teachers who have demonstrated innovative methods of incorporating c-span programs in their teaching. they joined c-span's education relations team in washington, d.c. for four weeks in july to develop new teaching materials. they also help the lead c-span's summer educators conference. one of our three 2019 teacher fellows is high school teacher eleanor green of pacoima, california. eleanor green has taught at bert corona high school. tell us a little bit more about your school and your students. eleanor: i am really fortunate to be able to teach a population that is almost entirely first-generation american. most of my students are emergent bilinguals coming into their english language skills. i get to work with students who want to learn. immigrant children

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and thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for intelligence discusses his book super minds. the national book festival live, saturday, august 31 at 10 am eastern on book tv. on cspan3 . >>> next, author diana remi barry talks about her book, the price for the pound of flesh. the value of the enslaved from wounded to grave and the building of a nation. this interview was recorded at the organization of american historians annual meeting, and philadelphia. >>this marks the anniversary of the first slavery sold where they come from? >> they came from different parts of west africa but they were actually taken on a ship and captured. and then captured again off of a different ship. when you look at the journey, there were two different points while they were taken on two different ships. >> we know about them? >> from ship record, and records from virginia. and we know very little information about them. we know bits and pieces. >> what we know? >> we know that they arrived, they were not listed as enslaved they were listed as servants. we know they came in there pretty sick wh

and thomas malone discuss his book superminds. the national book festival, live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on cspan2. >>> in the wake of the recent shootings in el paso, texas, and dayton, ohio, the house judiciary committee will return early from the summer recess to markup three gun violence prevention bills which include banning high capacity ammunition magazines, restricting firearms from those deemed by a court to be a risk to themselves. and preventing individuals convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes from purchasing a gun. live coverage begins wednesday september 4th at 10:00 a.m. eastern on cspan and cspan.org and if you are on the go listen to live coverage using the free cspan radio app. >>> apollo 11 astronaut michael collins returned to the launch pad at nasa's john f. kennedy space center in florida to talk with the space center director about his experience on the first mission to land men on the moon. nasa tv hosted this event exactly 50 years after apollo 11 launched on july 16th, 1969. >> good mornin

rick at continue son, author of "the british are coming" and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence discusses his book "superminds." the national book festival live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> in the wake of the recent shootings in el paso, texas, and dayton, ohio, the house judiciary committee will return early from the summer recess to mark up three gun violence prevention bills, which include banning high-capacity magazines, restricting firearms by those deemed by the court to be a risk and preventing individuals of md hate crimes from purchasing a gun. live coverage begins wednesday september 4th at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org. and if you're on the go, listen to live coverage using free c-span radio app. >> "apollo 11" astronaut michael collins return to the launch pad at nasa's john f. kennedy space center in florida to talk with the space center director on his experience on the first mission experience to the first men landing on the moon. nasa hosted this event exactly 50 years after apoll

and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence discusses his book, super minds. the national book festival, live saturday, at 10:00 a.m. eastern. on book tv. on c-span2. now a discussion on the social impact of technology and innovation with mark dean who worked at ibm for more than 30 years, and helped create the album personal computer. at the american museum of science and energy in oak ridge, tennessee. this is one hour and 10 minutes. science at the university of >> good afternoon everyone.

david treuer, sharon robinson, rick atkinson, and thomas malone, founding director discussing his book, "super minds." live saturday 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on cspan2. >>> labor day weekend on american history tv, saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history a discussion of abraham lincoln and native americans. sunday at 4:00 p.m. on reel america, the 1950 film invasion of southern france. monday, labor day, 8:00 p.m. eastern, commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the first general assembly hemmed ld at jamestown. explore our past on american history tv every weekend on cspan3. >>> sunday night on q and a. university of pennsylvania professor amy wax on free expression on college campuses and conflict surrounding an opinion piece she co-authored in the philadelphia inquire remember. we were trying to tout this code of behavior as one that was suited to our current technological democratic capitalist society and comparing to other cultures which aren't as functional. we gave some examples, and that immediately caused a fire storm. >> sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cspa

rick atkinson, the author of the british are coming in thomas malone, family directors of counterintelligence super minds, the national book festival is live at 10 am eastern on book tv on cspan-2 . >> soldiers, soldiers and airmen of the allergen airy force. you are about to embark upon the great crusade which he striven many months. spent the hopes and prayers of people everywhere march with you . in company with brave allies and brothers in arms you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine, the illumination over the oppressed people of europe and security in a free world. this is not an easy one , the enemy is well trained , equip and battle hardened and will fight savagely. >> in bedford to virginia owned by alex kershaw, the author of nine books including the d-day warriors who led the way to victory in world war ii, alex kershaw, thank you for joining us this morning. what's the significance of you being there in bedford and the memorial you are sitting here >> this is the one place in america gave more than 3000 in 1944 died in the first wave on the beach. so virginia

and thomas malone founder for the mit center or collective intelligence. superminds. the national book festival, live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on cspan2. >>> labor day weekend on american history tv, saturday, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on lectures in history, a discussion about abraham lincoln and native americans. sunday, at 4:00 p.m. on real america, the 1950 army film invasion of southern france. and monday, labor day, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of virginia's first general assembly held at jamestown. explore our nation's past on american history tv. every weekend on cspan3. >>> sunday night on q & a, university of pennsylvania law school professor amy wax on free expression on college campuses and the conflict surrounding an opinion piece she co-authored in the philadelphia enquirer. >> i think this is what roughled a lot of people, that not all cultures are alike. we were trying to tout this code of behavior as one that was particularly functional and suited to our current technological democratic capitalist socie

includes interviews with ruth bader ginsburg, david treuer, sharon robinson, rick atkinson, and thomas malone. >> the national book festival live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> in the wake of the recent shootings in el paso, texas and dayton, ohio, the house judiciary committee will return early from the summer process to mark up three gun violence prevention bills which include banning high capacity ammunition magazines, restricting firearms from those deemed to be a risk to themselves from a court. and convicted those convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes from purchasing a gun. li if you're on the go, listen to our live coverage using the free c-span radio app. >>> gene kranz is a retired nasa flight director and manager. he directed the mission control efforts to save the crew of apollo 13. in this entrier he talked about the apollo missions. >> apollo 11. you were what, the lunar landing flight director, weren't you? >> yeah. >> you were in charge of that c but you also took in the whole thing? >> yes. >> let's go back over apollo 11. that's a big project. >> there's many th

robinson talks about her book child of the dream rick atkinson author of the british are coming, and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence discusses his book, super minds. the national book festival, live on saturday, august 31, at 10:00 a.m. eastern, on book

rick atkinson author of the british are coming in thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book super mice. the national book festival, life today at tenney and eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> david rubenstein, how did you get involved in the national book festival? >> it came about through serendipity. i had been involved in the madison council which is the support arm of the labor of congress a number of years ago led by jim billington. i said for 28 years for the library congress and retired a couple years ago. he told me that the national book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked jim billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001 whether not there was a national book festival comparable to the one she started in the texas, the texas book festival he said there is not yet but there will be. he came up with the idea of how to put together national book festival, the idea was to do it in the mall in a series of tents that were set up

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rick atkinson, author of the british are coming and thomas malone, founding director of the mit centerollective intelligence, discusses his book super minds. live on saturday, august 31. >>> next on american history tv, virginia high school teachers, becky morrison and irene winchester talk about world war ii enclosed rationing. they explore government restrictions on style and color and impact on inhibitions such as cork wedge heels,

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and thomas malone, sounding director of the mit center for collective intelligence. discusses his book super mines. the national book festival. life saturday august 31st at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span two. recently on book tvs author interview program afterwards, cnn's interviewed former trump organization executive vice president george soja on his time working for donald trump. there's this misconception out there that president trump is a guy that doesn't listen to people. he's a guy that steamrolled over other people's opinions and he doesn't really want. there's a guy that worked very closely with him on a number of projects for many years i think he truth is actually the opposite. i am kind of taken back to an experience i had very early on in my career with him. we just finished up a difficulty on a construction site, their whole number of issues that we are dealing with. some things were going our way, some things we were happy about but it was a long tough day. we were just walking across the site just me and him and he said to me you know george

and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence discusses his book. festival, liveok saturday, august 31 at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> house democrats, including therity leader briefed majority on hr eight, a gun background check bill. the measure passed the house and is waiting action in the senate. this runs about 45 minutes. >> good morning. my name is steny hoyer. i'm the majority leader of the house of representatives. we have been out for just a few days on summer recess. during that time it, we have confronted great tragedy. sadly, continuing tragedy. how may americans will lose their lives or their loved ones to ramp it gun violence before the united states senate takes action? so far this year, more than 9000 americans that's in seven months have been killed by gun violence. that includes those killed and more than 250 mass shootings. -- mass shootings this year in america. the attacks in el paso and dayton and gilroy, california and the violence all within about seven d

and thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his booksuper minds. the national festival, live saturday at 10 am eastern on book tv. >>> in the wake of the risen shootings, the house judiciary committee will return early from the summer recess to markup three gun violence prevention bills which include banning high-capacity ammunition magazines restricting firearms by those deemed to be a risk, and preventing those convicted of hate crimes from purchasing again. if you are on the go, listen to our live coverage using the free c-span radio app. >>> american history tv lectures in history series continues with a look at early english missions in colonial america. you will hear about efforts of protestant preachers like john elliott to convert native americans. disputes between colonists and native leaders over religion, land and sovereignty led to king philip's war in the 1670s. this is an hour. >>> all right, welcome back.

rick atkinson author of the british are coming in thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book super mice. the national book festival, life today at tenney and eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> david rubenstein, how did you get involved in the national book festival? >> it came about through serendipity. i had been involved in the madison council which is the support arm of the labor of congress a number ofea

rick atkinson, author of the british are coming, and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence, discusses his book of a super minds. the national book festival, live on saturday, at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. state attorneys general announced agreement with 12 of the nation's largest telephone companies designed to combat illegal robo calls. it includes inputting call blocking technology, offering free anti-robo call tools to consumers and deploying technology that authenticates phone numbers. this is one half-hour. >> good afternoon. i'm attorney general josh stein of north carolina. i want to thank you as we are here to make this major announcement. i'm pleased to be here with my colleagues attorney general gordon macdonald and attorney general leslie, and patrick halley, of u.s. telecom and representatives a major telephone company spirit 12 companies have joined us today and they are at&t, bandwidth, comcast,nk, charter, consolidated, frontier, sprint, t-mobile, u.s. cellular, verizon, and windstream. today we are announcing

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rick atkinson, author of the british are coming and thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence, discusses his book super minds. live on saturday, august 31. >>> next on american history tv, virginia high school teachers, becky morrison and irene winchester talk about world war ii enclosed rationing. they explore government restrictions on style and color and impact on inhibitions such as cork wedge heels, shorter hemlines and glow-in-the-dark buttons. this is one half hour. >>> i'm excited to invite jackie morris and irene winchester to tell about passion innovation. becky is one of the community service superstars. we are stoked that she brought another teacher from her school. this is a model. tell your friends to come. please join me in welcoming up for the presentation. that is why i brought irene this year. this is my third year. i just want you guys to go back to your school and encourage all of your teacher friends to come because this is such a valuable conference. thank you friends of the world war ii memorial for inviting me back again. for

rick atkinson, author of the british are coming and thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book superminds. the national book festival live saturday, august 31st at 10:00 eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> sunday night on q&a, theoretical physicist michio a kaku, author of the future of humanity, talks about our destiny beyond her that achieving digital immortality. >> digital mortality takes everything known about you on the internet, your footprint, your credit card records, what movies you see, what wines you like to buy, what countries you visit, videos pick, pictures, audiotapes and create a profile which will last forever so you when you go to the library of the future you will not pick out a book about winston churchill, you will talk to winston churchill. >> reporter: sunday night 8:00 pm eastern on a plan q&a. >> campaign 2020, coverage of the presidential candidates and make up your own mind. campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. >> starting now, booktv on c-span2. every weekend 48 hours of nonfiction authors and

and thomas malone founding director of mit discusses his book "super minds." live saturday august 31st at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span 2. >>> next journalist marc johnson on the career of senator burton wheeler, a democrat from montana. senator wheeler was known for being the prosecutor in the 1920s teapot dome oil scandal, and initially supporting the new deal policies, then opposing president radios vet agencies attempt to add more justices to the supreme court. from the montana historic

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robinson talks about her book child of the dream, rick atkinson author of the british are coming and thomas malonefounding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book super mines. the national book festival live, saturday august 31 at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> book tv continues now on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> up next michael kranish rights about a biography the world's best man. and later a look at jonathan hanson's book about the early life of fidel castro. [aus

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rick atkinson author of the british are coming and thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence, discusses his book super minds. the national book festival live saturday at 10 am eastern on book tv on c-span two. >>> in the wake of the recent shootings in el paso, texas and dayton ohio, the house judiciary committee will return early from the summer recess to markup three gun violence prevention beers. high-capacity ammunition magazines, restricting firearms for those deemed by the court to be a risk to themselves and preventing individuals convicted of hate crimes from purchasing a gun. live coverage begins wednesday, september 4 at 10 am eastern on c-span and www.c- span.org. and if you are on the go, listen to our live coverage using the free c-span radio app. american history tv is lectures in history series continues now with a class looking at the american revolution and the continental army. we hear about how the american army differed from the british military and demographics, organization and officer selection process. this is about an hour.

and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center ,or collective intelligence discusses his book "super minds." easternurday at 10:00 on book tv on c-span2. continue our discussion on immigration this morning we come back to our desk executive director of the american immigration lawyers association. remind viewers what the and what you do. >> the association is 15,000 over theon lawyers all country who do immigration of stripes. and they represent people in every conceivable kind of case in the system.tion everything from asylum to nobel prize winners. really it's a lot of people all over the country doing a lot different but important work. the casesed about all surrounding the trump administration's policies. do you get

and thomas malone. found over the mit center for collective intelligence discusss his book. super minds. the national book festival. live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on cspan 2. . >>> in the wake of the recent shootings in el paso, texas, and dayton, ohio, the house judiciary committee will return early from a summer recess to mark up three gun violence prevention bills. which include banning high capacity ammunition magazines, restricting firearms from those deemed by a court to be a risk to themselves. and preventing individuals convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes from purchasing a gun. live coverage begins wednesday september 4th at 10:00 a.m. eastern plain on cspan. and cspan.org. and if you're on the go, listen to live coverage using the free cspan radio app. for the national history day contest. two students presented a short performance about catherine johnson who received the presidential medal of freedom and featured in the 2016 film, "hidden figures." >> national history day is a program that culminates in a student competition. students are are enco

and thomas malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book super minds. the national book festival, live saturday, august 31st, at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> american history tv continues now with a look at the first u.s. congress which was seeded in 1790 in new york city. right after that, george washington was inaugurated as america's first president. they now exactly the early years of the federal government and politics of the 1790s. from purdue university this is an hour and a half. >> all right. i think we'll get started. welcome everybody. thanks for coming out early at the beginning of the conference. my name is seth i teach history at the university. and i'm here to proceed over this panel. talking about the 1790s then and now thinking about the relationship between the particularly fragile moment in american political history which was the 1790s. and how we might think about what we can learn from that moment and how it connects or maybe it doesn't connect to what's happening in american political history at this m

rick atkinson author of the british are coming and thomas malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book, super mines. the national book festival live saturday august 31 at 10:00 a.m. eastern on the tv on c-span2. >> in a short time ago president trump sent out several tweets about china, the chinese ebony announced in response to u.s. tariff hikes on chinese goods. china will impose additional tariffs on u.s. goods worth about $75 billion starting september 1. resident trump tweening -- our country has lost stupidly trillions of dollars for china over many years. they have stolen our intellectual property and rate of hundreds of billions of dollars a year and want to continue. i won't let that happen. we don't need china and frankly would be far better off without them. vast amounts of money made and stolen by china from the united states year after year for decades will and must stop. our great and american companies are hereby ordered to him really start looking for an alternative to china, including bringing your company's home and makin

rick atkinson author of the british are coming and thomas malone founding director of the mit centerfor collective intelligence discusses his book super mines. the national book festival live saturday at 10 am eastern on book tv. on c-span 2. >>> labor day weekend on american history tv saturday at 8 pm eastern on lectures in history, a discussion about abraham lincoln and native americans. sunday at 4 pm on real america the 1950 army film invasion of southern france. and monday, labor day, at 8 pm eastern, the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of virginia's first gen. assembly held at jamestown. explore our nation's past on american history tv. every weekend on c-span3. >>> university of california irvine english professor book thomas delivered a talk titled the politics of popular portrayals of andrew johnson's impeachment. prof. thomas discussed three examples, thomas dixon junior's 1905 novel the klansman, the 1942 hollywood film tennessee johnson, and the impeachment story as told by sen. john f. kennedy in his 1957 blitzer prize-winning book profiles in courage. this event

and thomas malone, sounding director of the mit center for collective intelligence. he discusses his book super mines. the national book festival, life saturday. august 31st at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span two. [inaudible conversation] >> iran is an immigrant. 1905, he and her two little sisters witnessed the russians revolution when she was just 12. from the window of her paris apartment. after the revolution, the communist came and took her parents business. all of the money, their home, for many years. she wandered and struggled but she has been inspired by what she saw on here and she was inspired by what she could do with pursuing her dream in america. she came here just six years after the franchise to vote. she did not speak a word of english. she became a writing machine. she wrote screenplays, she wrote books and then she wrote of course the epic novel we know her best buy. the fountainhead. in atlas shah rug. between those two books, she wrote anthem. it was a short sci-fi novel in this the one we seem to have chose to adapt as an graphic novel.

sharonvid troyer, andnson, rick atkinson, thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence discussing his book. the national book festival live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. , a look at the military alliance between the u.s., japan, and south korea. with the defense department secretary for affairs. this is 45 minutes. >> defense cooperation from the united states japan and south korea. our speaker this morning is randall shcriver. he is the assistant secretary of defense for indo pacific since early security affairs. he previously served in various u.s. administrations as the deputy assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs and prior to his civilian service he was an active-duty naval intelligence officer including a deployment in support of operation desert storm and desert shield. he has won numerous military and civilian awards. he is an old friend and one of the best minds that we have today in washington, d.c. and in the country, on indo pacific affairs. without further ado, let me introdu

thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book super mines. the national book festival live in saturday august 31 at 10:00 a.m. eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> up next on book tv, brenda wineapple looks back at the impeachment of president andrew johnson in 1868. in one hour pulitzer prize-winning historian david mccullough tours the story of the early pioneers who talks about those who settled illinois, ohio, and michigan. [inaudible conversations] >> good eveniy

robinson talks about her book child of the dream rick atkinson author of the british are coming, and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence discusses his book, super minds. the national book festival, live on saturday, august 31, at 10:00 a.m. eastern, on book tv, on c-span2. indiana mayor and 2020 presidential candidate pete buttigieg was in new hampshire for a town hall at nashua trinity college where he took questions and met one-on-one with voters. this is about an hour. mayor pete: thank you. thank you, what a fantastic route. thank you so much for coming out. mckenzie, forn that introduction. i want to thank all of you for taking the time and caring enough about our country to get together and talk about what we are going to do to make things better. we are at a difficult moment in the life of this nation. we are at a chaotic and unstable and frightening and divided moment. but, i believe that it is in our hands to change all of that. not just for the moment, but for the era that is ahead of us. i think we are lucky and unlucky enough to be among th

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read atkinson author of the british are coming, and thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence. discusses his book super mines. the national book festival, life saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. i'm book tv on c-span two. >> now activist and former nba player thomas talks about the influence of professional athletes on political and social change.

and thomas malone, founding director of the m.i.t. center for collective intelligence, discusses his book "super minds." the national book festival live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> in the wake of the recent shootings in el paso, texas, and dayton, ohio," the house commissioner committee will return early to markup three gun violence prevention bills which bans high-capacity ammunition magazines and restricting firearms from at-risk individuals, and misdemeanor hate crimes from purchasing a gun. live coverage begins wednesday september 4th at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org and if you're on the go, listen to our live coverage using the free c-span radio app. >> the national history day, two seventh grade students from the school of hawken in cleveland, ohio, presented a short performance about katherine johnson, the nasa mathematician who was featured in the 2016 film hidden figures. >> national history day is a program that culminates in a student competition. students are encouraged to choose

robinson talks about her book child of the dream, rick atkinson author of the british are coming and thomas malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book super mines. the national book festival live, saturday august 31 at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> book tv continues now on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> up next michael kranish rights about a biography the world's best man. and later a look at jonathan hanson's book about the early life of fidel castro. [applause] thank you very much it's great to be here. thank you for having me at the co-op and thanks to the viewers booktv and c-span and all of you for coming out. i want to tell you the story yourself in 1896, a very different world than we know today the world in which there is millions of bicycles, 300 automobilesui, the subways were not in new york city, this is the world where it raised the first personal race. the new york city of the 1890s and the population of the city doubled there were horses and horse and buggies and there were streetcars, railroads that the bicy