we're live today and author thomas ricks is next. his book is "churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom." >> hello, everybody, walk to the 33rd annual "chicago tribune" print effort row lit fest. answer to thank our sponsors. today's program well be broadcast like on c-span2's booktv. if there's time at the end of the q & a session we ask that you use the microphone provided to that the viewers at home can hear you. before we begin today's program, please silence your phones. welcome our interviewer, kolen mcmahan. >> good afternoon. thank you for coming. thank you for coming to prisones row lit fest and i'm thrilled to be here today with tom ricks who as written several books. his brief books, the generals, and fiasco, which is a "new york times" number one best seller. this one is also on the best-seller list, charting near i think last week for the first time. congratulations on that. first question is bat previous book, actually. fiasco. given the state of affair today, international, national affairs, do you wish that maybe y

at 4:00 author thomas ricks with church hill and/orwell, the fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the 33rd annual chicago tribune printer row lit fest saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on book tv. >>> sunday night on after words new america president and ceo ann marie slaughter examines in her book the chess board and the web strategies in a networked world. she is interviewed by former white house chief of staff in the obama administration from 2013 to 2016. >> what would strike me was that we knew there was a world of states and state threats. today if you think about north korea or iran or some times china and russia that world of state to state relations is still very very important and i think of it as the chess board world. it's the world of how do we essentially beat our adversaries and we think about a move and we try to anticipate what move they are going to make. that world is there and it's very important, but equally important is what i call the world of the web. that world of criminal networks including terrorists but also arms traffickers and drug

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joining me now is the man behind that op-ed, thomas ricks, the pulitzer prize winning former reporterournal" and "the washington post," and we should note the author of the book "churchill & orwell: the fight for freedom." great to have you here this evening. >> thank you. >> you wrote this op-ed. it is somewhat unusual in its advice on substance and certainly in its style. what are you trying to get across? >> well, i agree with everything you said in your introduction except for one word, forced. and that's key. general mcmaster was not forced to stand up and do these things. it is not his job as national security adviser to be the advocate for the president, the spokesman for the president. his job is not to protect donald trump. it's to protect the country. remember, this is a guy who is still on active duty, in uniform. he is subject to the uniform code of military justice. and he is not behaving as the very good national security advisers of the past have. for example, brent scowcroft. you didn't see him go out and speak on behalf of the presidents he worked for. he did his job

4:00, author thomas ricks with his book church will and or will, the fight for freedom. starting coverage saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span two cost book tv. >> are just -- our guest today is congressman steve drivers -- steve strivers. , let met started here tell you about our guest. and had a career in financial services and also the ohio legislature. general in the national guard which he has been into that -- since 2000 -- since 1986. generalthank you for being our. >> it is great to be on. >> let me introduce our bothters asking questions, with the name scott. return visits to newsmakers. .> thing for being here a former director comey who is testifying as we speak has said donald trump told him in the oval office that the rustin investigation has been a cloud over his administration. the believe that the russian andstigation with the fbi the ones going on on capitol hill are distracting from the theagenda and how you see investigations impacting house races across the country? glad to see former a specialueller as investigator to look into this. i will suppo

we're live today and author thomas ricks is next. his book is "churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom." >> hello, everybody, walk to the 33rd annual "chicago tribune" print effort row lit fest. answer to thank our sponsors. today's program well be broadcast like on c-span2's booktv. if there's time at the end of the q & a session sk

and at 4:00, author thomas ricks with his book "churchill and orwell." watch our coverage of the 33rd annual chicago tribune printers row lit fest starting saturday 11:00 a.m. eastern on book tv. >>> this sunday, hyde park, new york, at the roosevelt presidential library and museum where we go inside for a rare look at fdr's personal office and collection of artifacts with paul spi ro, the museum's director. >> this library opened in june of 1941. he was still president of the united states and the northern oval office. fdr has an incredibly inquisitive mind. there are 22,000 books, 914 books in this room alone. every book in here was selected by fdr to be in this room. this room is almost identical to the way it was on the day that fdr died. nothing has changed. >> watch q&a from the presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >>> the carnegie endowment for international peace hosted a discussion on government corruption around the world. panelists talk about how corruption in honduras impacts developi

at 4:00, author thomas ricks, with his book, the fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the 33rd stnual printers row lit fe saturday on c-span2's book tv. journal"'s "washington live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, we will preview the upcoming testimony i former fbi director james comey to the senate intelligence committee. our guests include my clique, david hawking's, and michigan democratic congresswoman brenda lawrence. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> the director of national intelligence, the nsa director, and the acting fbi director testified at a senate hearing on the foreign intelligence surveillance act. that law is set to expire in december. in addition to answering

and thomas ricks with his book, churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the 33rd annual chicago tribune lit fest at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. dl was a discussion hosted on north korea's future, political, and economic prospect following a series of global shifts including donald trump winning the presidency and the 2017 election of

>> look, stephanie, thomas ricks, in his politico comment and on msnbc friday night talked about how trump is really, really good at borrowing people's credibility. he strip mined the credibility of h.r. mcmaster, which was a great line, and that's what he's doing again, strip mining the credibility of his own justice department by doing this. why in the world -- this cannot possibly help his legal argument and it -- why would you want to work for a guy who does this to you on a regular basis. >> part of the reason why midwin can speak to this better than i can, part of the reason why this challenge hasn't done well in court is because of some of the president's statements. >> previous comments. >> right. >> and statements and it also doesn't go over that well with the judiciary when you attack the judges. he continues to shoot himself in the foot with all of this. but going back to the original point here would the travel ban have anything to do with helping uk and how does it apply there, keep in mind that the reason that this travel ban has failed and been struck down in the court

then at 3:00, former congressman trey radel with his book. 4:00, author thomas ricks with his book churchill and or will, the fight for freedom. starting coverage saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span two cost book tv. >> are just -- our guest today is congressman steve drivers -- steve strivers. , let met started here tell you about our guest. and had a career in financial services and also the ohio legislature. he is also a

and thomas ricks with his book, churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the 33rd annual chicago tribune lit fest at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. dl was a discussion hosted on north korea's future, political, and economic prospect following a series of global shifts including donald trump winning the presidency and the 2017 election of moon j.in as the south korean president. the panelists including korean and american scholars who talked about the challenges north korea posed to the u.s. and asian allies. afterwards they took questions from the audience. this is about 90 minutes. >> okay, thank you very much, everybody, for coming to this event at iiss discussion for north korea, boom or bust. normally we have a 30% drapout rate for those that signal tendance. today we had a 30% increase. that's a tribute to our speakers. but also to the issue at hand which is certainly one of the top security issues facing the united states and the world and particularly the region. so this event is part of the iiss america's dialogue se

and thomas ricks with "churchill and or well". watch our printers row lit fest starting saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> sunday night on after words. korea an marie -- ceo an marie slaughter has her book. she is interviewed by a former white house chief of staff in the obama administration from 2013 to 2016. >> what would strike me was that we knew there was a world of states and state threats. today if you think about north korea or iran or sometimes china and russia, that world of state to state relations is still very, very important. i think of it as the chess board world. because the it's the world of how do we essentially beat our adversaries, and we think about a move, and we try to anticipate what move they're going to make. and that world is there, and it's very important, but equally important is what i call the world of the web. that world of criminal networks including terrorists, but also arms traffickers and drug traffickers. the world of business. which increasingly big network supply chains,

and at 4:00, author thomas ricks with his book, chur hill and orwell, the fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the 33rd annual chicago

thomas ricks with his book churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the 33rd annual such chicago tribune starting saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> sunday night on "after words". new america president and ceo anne-marie slaughter examines the global networking in the digital age in her book, the chessboard and the web: strategies of connection and in network world. mrs. slaughter is interviewed by dennis mcdonald, former white house chief of staff in the obama administration from 313-2016. what would strike me is that we knew there was a world of states and the state wraps. today if you think about north korea or iran or china and russia that world of state to state relations is very important and i think of it as the chessboard world. it's the world of how do we essentially beat our adversaries and we think about a move and we try to anticipate what move they will make. that world is they are and it's very important but equally important is what i call the world of the web, that world of criminal networks

thomas. >> i'm ama daetz. for sandhya and rick and all of us. thanks for joining >>> time for new videos on an al minute."rit rescuers try to reach some sweet kittens stuck -- >> beneath a stairwell in an apartment complex. >> see what it takes to save them all. >>> it's a quiet day on the greens until -- >> watch out! >> why this approach shot has nothing to do with golf. >> what? >>> some kids get creative when mom gets distracted. >> she seeds red. >> how four little ones made one big statement. >> that's a ten-minute job? that is impressive. >>> and a guy trying to date his instagram crush gets a little help from his friends. >> what? >> the story of the social media match makers. >>> there are good people in this world. many of them work for animal rescues. in this case, hope for paws in california had gotten a call there were some kittens stuck in this crawl space beneath a stairwell in an apartment complex. >> it's okay. it's okay. >> one of the guys has to crawl all the way underneath this dirty, yucky face. >> i'm on cat feces, so gross

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still have that accident out there near route 422 westbound the off ramp to him rick lynn field, new back to you, karen and thomas. >> thanks, sue. >>> pressure mounting for british prime minister teresa may to resign they had an election day yesterday and her conservative party lost its majority in the snap election. now leader of the labor party jeremy corbin need to step down. may had hoped continue on crease her majority and strengthening britain's hand with the exit talks with the european union. it clearly backfield. it shows no party reached the 326 seats that are needed for a majority in parliament, negotiation toss leave the european union are due to start june 19th. >>> man quick of killing people during 1994 robbery of the alabama fast food restaurant has been put to death. forty-six year-old robert nelson had no final word. he was executed last night, by lethal injection. execution was the second in the state this year and second in just two weeks. >>> now to the nation's capitol where two people have been arrested after they struck some officers there, with the pickup truck. officers were on their bi

accident at route 422 westbound, the off ramp to him rick, is there an accident out there, as well so be careful out there and enjoy your friday, thomasand karen. >> that is excellent advice, thanks sue. >>> developing right now pressure mounting this morning for british prime minister teresa may to resign. she gambled having an election and it did not go the way she plan. her conservative party lost big time, majority in the snap election they held yesterday. she called for this early election in the hope of increasing her majority and strengthening britain's hand with brexit tall with the european union. no party reached 326 seats necessary for majority of the parliament, negotiations with the european union are due to start june 19th and now they are in disarray about their exit. so we shall see. >>> 4:19. man convicted of killing three people during 94 robbery of the alabama fast food restaurant was put to death last night by lethal injection forty-six year-old robert word before he was executed. the execution was the second in the state this year and second in just two weeks. >>> lets go to the nation's capitol two peoplerashed w

the 5800 block of thomas avenue in the same neighborhood that oh has lived for more than four decades. >> john rawlins is live there tonight. >> reporter: he is home and recuperating rick. he got here before 3:00 if the afternoon. and he says he is doing well. he said he was coming home last night unloading his car of things he brought from the office when he was confronted by a would be robber and in the midst of this incident a white car rolled out and several men got out and they had cell phones and started to video the incident. >> heading home from the hospital. david oh stopped to thank an officer this afternoon posted outside of his home where he was stabbed last night. the man came up and first mumbled and then de >> the keys to your car, the car, the car. and i'm thinking is there an accident and does he need my car and then punched i lower rib and i said dou stab ed to disengage wh the me kept keys car, money. >> he was wild and swinging and lunging and at one time he lunged at my face and hi to put my hand up. >> and then oh says an odd twist a car pulls up and young men come in with smart phones and record the incident. i saw them calling and jeering and th

rick. mistaken sometimes and without that we saw this was a bad thing. it was the catalyst that had been there since the beginning of the country. when thomas jefferson said all men were created equal, he was a slave owner. those hypocrisies are part of what change us. people reflect them, we look in a mirror and that helps us grow and improve as a country. >> woodrow wilson did get the saw this.any of them there was a midterm election that was starting to realize that people would vote for his opponent if you did not give them the vote. he also realized women were full or people than he had realized. he spoke to the u.s. senate -- by the way, a dozen or more other countries had passed the vote for women, including germany, austria, bolshevik russia, great britain. the u.s. was starting to look bad. he said, are we alone to refuse to learn the lesson? we cannot isolate our thought from the rest of the world. we must either conform or resign the leadership of noble minds to others. so we came out on behalf of women's suffrage. the women immediately took this up. wilson said it is time to grant suffrage but it did not happen before that fatef

. >> rick, what's the biggest thing we didn't learn from comey actually saying the words? >> what's the biggest thing we didn't learn? well, i'm not sure, thomas was, as joe pointed out, a very credible witness. we also learned he's a very sophisticated operator. we learned donald trump is not a sophisticated operator. i think the one thing trump is in trouble for, are there perjury traps being laid if he does testify under oath with mueller, that could be a real problem for him because, again, he's not strategic and not a sophisticated operator, and there are people who want to catch the president in his own words. he, as we know, it's documented many, many times, he doesn't always tell the truth. he misstates. he examining rates. he's prone to conspiracy theories. but that could have a real legal consequence. >> zerlina, we lived through clinton and having to learn what is and is. when it comes to donald trump, is the biggest problem is he will spit it out and tell you like it is, but if found accountable, he could swaparoo the story. >> i think that is a problem for donald trump. going back to the clinton era, ken starr was appointed over a

and another thomas rick with his book, churchill and orwell. watch coverage starting saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> sunday night on afterwards, new american president and ceo, anne-marie slaughter examines global networking the digital age in her book, the chessboard in the web, strategies of connection and a network world. she is interviewed by dennis mcdonough former white house chief of staff in the obama administration from 2013 - 2016. >> we knew there is a world of states and today if you think about north korea, iran, or sometimes china and russia, that world of state to state relations is very important. i think of it as the chessboard world. it's the world of how we do research truly beat our adversaries and we think about a move try to anticipate what loop they will make. that world is very important. equally important is what i called the world of the web. the web of criminal networks including terrorist and also drug traffickers. the world of business which is increasingly big network supply chains. global