in alien examiners tim carney offers thoughts on why some communities in america succeed and some don't. a professor describes his journey to becoming a award-winning mathematician in "the shape of a life." jack riley recalls catching the drug lord el chapo. the signs of addiction is looked at in "never enough."

it is tim carney. welcome back. >> thank you for having. kennedy: thank you aoc.et's talk about the green new deal.this is the thing that, it is ridiculous, support is eroding for the measure because it allows senators know that they cannot vote for it and go back to the moderate districts and defend the multitrillion dollar pie in the sky plan. but you say aoc and crew were complaining about cronyism with the amazon deal with the green new deals even part of it implemented. what will that do? >> a total recipe for cronies. we know this because all the guys that were endorsing in the newspaper article, henry waxman former democratic congressman. now a lobbyist. his climate bill from 2000 i might remember got the sign-on of every big business, general electric, siemens, all big utilities. the real greenies were opposing it because it had a bunch of to big business in it. and this is just what happens. kennedy: so does elizabeth warren when it comes to medical device companies. they all do! >> but she really wants to rush this through. it's a world war ii thing. the

in alien examiners tim carney offers thoughts on why some communities in america succeed and some don't. a professor describes his journey to becoming a award-winning mathematician in "the shape of a life." jack riley recalls catching the drug lord el chapo. the signs of addiction is looked at in "never enough." and in "in putin's foot steps" jeffrey tailor explore russia's domestic and international identity. look for these titles in book stores this coming week and watch for mainly of the authors in the near future on book tv, on c-span 2. >> ladies and gentlemen please welcome anne sebba. >> anne: thank you so much for inviting me here i'm thrilled to be table to tell you these extraordinary stories in rancho mirage writer's festival so i'm glad that we've started with this picture. not because it's an unashamed plug for my book but because it does tell -- it incapitalilates the whole story. i love the body language of the german soldier. we know he's a non-commissioned officer, and you can't see his face but don't you know he's handsome, and arrogant, and confident. and you can see

tim carney joins us live right now. tim, good morning to you. >> good morning. thank you.american dream still alive in america. >> i did go to lots of places where the american dream is still alive. one the he a lets really do have strong communities. i talk about chevy chase, maryland, other places where people have lots of college education but most importantly there are really strong religious communities in middle america that have such good outcomes. so much of rural america you see opioid overdoses and other problems. those don't exist in places like salt lake city or visited wisconsin a really strong church at the center. so in america today, because we're so secularized the church communities are really the ones that are standing out there as extra strong and support. steve: here's the problem lot as many people going to church. >> that's a big problem. a lot of reasons. one is modern technology. changes the way we interact and provides distractions. sit at home on sunday morning. another is that the left is chasing the church out of the public square. people like

this issue is being explored in tim carney's new book "alienated america." oins us now. tim, great book here. >> thank you. griff: you traveled all across america. what did you find? >> the main thing was that the places that were struggling it wasn't just an economic problem. it was that people were falling away from institutions that connect people to one another. what we always used to count on for just getting to know people for a small personal safety net if something goes wrong for a good role models. all of that comes from belonging to things. and for most of the middle class, middle america, working class, the main thing people have always belonged to throughout america's history has been church. >> why was president trump able to connect so well to what you saw? >> well, he said, trump said the american dream is dead. and the elites didn't buy it because, in their circles, it looked alive. there was still strong, you know, little leagues, public schools. country clubs in the elite circles. the suffering really was real. and this wasn't seen in the el

founding president of voto latino and contributor maria teresa kumar and commentator for the examiner, tim carney. >> i thought he did a good job of laying out fairly conservative things and highlighting things in which the democrats can be radical whether it be on abortion or the increasing rise of socialism. i don't expect a lot from the state of the union addresses. i don't expect a lot from trump. but he did good job on those scores. >> a couple here have suggested the same. peggy noonan said themecally. she has been a trump critic but she said as far as rolling out conservative things, he did a very good job last night. >> i thought again, he tried to talk about immigration in a way that isn't his normal old way of they're all rapists coming across but saying look, there are walls and the border patrol think these sections need more wall. we're going to put in more there to stop illegal immigration and want legal immigration. he ad libbed we want even more legal immigration than we've had. >> steven miller passed out at the white house. >> i thought that was a good way to talk about immigrat

jeanne zaino political science professor and applied and tim carney "the washington examiner" and authorwe got through that. welcome to you, jeanne, nice to have you here. start us off here. is the president winning on this issue? >> he may win in the courts. the courts tend to defer to the president when it comes to executive power. he may win. my big problem with all of this is the dysfunction it shows about washington, d.c. and our federal government as a whole. why are we in this position that the president has to declare an emergency about an issue that we've known about for 20 years that congress has not addressed sf so my frustration as a political scientist and consultant is with congress and the fact they haven't acted on immigration and whether you like donald trump or not, he is in the same position barack obama was. elected to do something, they cannot do it. congress doesn't address it. >> sandra: president trump by passing congress and here is how people responded. 38% favor that move. 56% oppose it, brad. >> lonely at the top. few times in american history do we appreciate