it's really my pleasure to introduce tim hernandez, he is a an author done a lot of different things from performance art to scholarly work to nonfiction historical fiction, writing and he's especially known for his poetry. as was said earlier, he didn't cross genres, they crossed him. i don't own that line. [laughter] he's really written a remarkable book about an event that has been lost to the memory of a lot of people in his efforts to bring that story back to us is a tour de force. he is research into it and i want to talk with him about the fascinating how he got inside the story and got the back story to the civil aspects of it. when i read it is bio that he was departed for the scholarly research and reading the book was really clear. the detail with which he reconstructs things. so, without more ado, i want to introduce tim and will you start us off by reading a segment from your book. to. >> thank you. thank you for allowing me to take your time and share this compelling piece of history. i'm sure you'll find residents with it in our atmosphere today. i'll read a small exce

tim hernandez, author of all they will call you and at 4:30 p.m., the book there goes the neighborhood, how communities overcome prejudice and meet the challenge of american immigration. at 5:15 p.m. eastern, author of 26 seconds, a personal history of the zippered or film. then seven skeletons, the epilation of the human fossils. >> now, a look at how gender and race affect the presidential election. the trump cabinet choices and the 115th congress. the university of minnesota humphrey school of public affairs hosted this discussion shortly after the inauguration. speakers include authors and academics from case western reserve university and the university of minnesota. this is about an hour and a half. >> has all of us know who are here in the united states, or even from abroad, during the fall of 2016, we had campaign that was permeated by issues of gender and race and class.

tim hernandez, starting on the end, a true a true renaissance man from fresno and teaching in texas. splitting his time back and forth. tim is a poet, novelist, mural painter and an author of the most recently terrific book called, all they will call you which he calls documentary fiction. we'll talk about what that means and we can also talk about. [inaudible] tim has great experience. kimball taylor is the author of three books. most recently, the the coyotes bicycle. he's a san diego resident and has done a lot of stories about surfing and working for server magazine. migrated into oceanography into a remarkable story about an impoverished teenager who built an empire smuggling migrants across the border on bicycles. christine pelisek is a crime reporter with a canadian transplant from los angeles and is covered now working for people magazine. did some really remarkable work connecting the past crimes of the serial murderer who became known as she and his editors coin frame, the grim sleeper because of the big gap between his two murder sprees. gabriel thompson is a writer, journa

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at 3:45, tim hernandez, author of "all they will call you" and at 4:30 p.m. eastern, the author of the book "there goes the neighborhood: how communities overcome prejudice and meet the challenge of american immigration." at 5:15 p.m. eastern, author of "twenty-six seconds: a personal history." and at 6:00 p.m., lydia pine with her book "seven skeletons: the evolution of the world's most famous human fossils." watch the 5th annual san antonio bookti

at 3:45, tim hernandez, author of "all they will call you" and at 4:30 p.m. eastern, the author of the book "there goes the neighborhood: how communities overcome prejudice and meet the challenge of american immigration." at 5:15 p.m. eastern, author of "twenty-six seconds: a personal history." and at 6:00 p.m., lydia pine with her book "seven skeletons: the evolution of the world's most famous human fossils." watch the 5th annual san antonio book festival saturday 1:30 p.m. eastern on c-span2's "book tv." >>> next, the army, navy, air force, and marine corps chiefs testify before the house armed services committee about their budgets. they also discuss the impact of repeated continuing resolutions instead of long-term appropriations for the military branches. >> committee will come to order. after having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterday's hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and i'm grateful to each of the distinguished service chiefs for being with us today. there's widespread agreement that fundin

tim tebow. by april, still long before the gators' season opener, there's trouble off the field. the rookie teen loses his cool at this popular off campus restaurant. there's an argument between aaron hernandez the manager over a bill. tim tebow tries to calm things down and settle the check, but according to this police report it all ends with aaron hernandez sucker punching the manager on the left side of his head bursting an ear drum. the manager later tells police university of florida coaches and lawyers have contacted him, and they're working on an agreement. a university spokesman says they are not aware of any settlement. was hernandez on a slippery slope? he was tearing up the field as a gator, but some who knew him were worried, especially when he was unsupervised away from the game. if you could keep him on one side, he'd be fine, one source put it. the problem was he couldn't stay away from the other side, adding, it was a recipe for disaster. and it was a recipe that included marijuana. hernandez was suspended for using the drug. his past becomes an issue when he enters the nfl draft in 2010 during his junior year at florida. >> teams spent a lot of time on background checks. >>

and once when he was out at a bar with quarterback tim tebow, he gets into a beef over a bar bill. and police say that hernandez sucker puchged the bar manager causing him to lose his hearing for a time. and then there were just other issues as well. we talked to several people who said he had a hair trigger anger. and my sources said as long as they could keep an eye on him on the field, no problem. the problem was when he was away from the field. and they called it a recipe for disaster. don. >> susan, let's talk about this a little bit more. because the death of his father, does it all come -- send him back to that moment? because a lot of people who have those issues dent end up where hernandez is. >> well, that is what a lot of people believe happened and really played a m about the she and missing his father. and the father tried to get him to talk about that and open up about it. and they were very close, and things did seem to take a dark turn after his father's death. >>> when we come back i want to talk about what could be a bizarre twist in this case. >>> former nfl star aaron hernandez found dead th

once when he was out at a bar with quarterback tim tebow at one point who was his roommates he gets into a beef over a bar bill and police say that hernandez manager causing him to lose his hearing for a time. and then there were just other issues as well. we talked to several people who said he had a hair-trigger anger. my sources at the university of florida said as long as they could keep an eye on him on the field no problem. the problem was when he was away from the field. they called it a recipe for disaster. >> suzanne let's talk about this a little bit more because the death of his father does it all stem back to that moment that he started to change, because a lot of people have issues but don't end up where aaron hernandez is. >> exactly. well that is what a lot of people believe, what people who knew him intimately think what happened and think played a major role. example, hernandez talked a bit with the sheriff when he was arrested and talked about him missing his father and sheriff tried to get him to open up about it. they were very, very close. that's what a lot of people said. and things did seem to take a dark turn after

hernandez. of course, a murderer, convicted, terrible, terrible things. this man was so linked with our culture. he caught passes from timida. he caught passes from tom brady. he was born in connecticut, the home of espn. you can't have a story more american than that and then to have it turn into a tragedy like this and always a loss of a life and of course the murder, it is just one of those things you say what could have been and how terrible the reality of what did happen really is. >> right. and then you get the flip side of it, something else he caught, obviously a life sentence for what was really an execution style first degree murder style against a man by all accounts, his good friend, odin lloyd chltd and that takes you into the question of did aaron hernandez just become a monster some day or is this something that you can trace back to reports about him when he was coming in from florida into the locker room, reports about his temper, reports about his anger, reports about who he was with. is there a knowledge base that was ignored because of his stardom? >> great question. there were concerns about marijuan

hernandez committesud icide. >> sending a message to its allies. >> if china is unable to deal stth north korea, the united watesill. >> north korea will not be in tim war may erupt at any moment. >> i'mth at ine pot where i snapped. >> it was an alert employee at this mcdonald's who helped police track the suspect. >> he thought it was going to be a mijts for his fries, whicht i wasn't. >> nicknames the rock narrowly passing the architect. >> that will be the least >>eative name. serena williams is expecting a little baby, y'all. yes! congratulations. >> can i just -- >> inhe t press room rob gronkowski pops his head in. >> well played, rob. >> sean spicer, a huge patriots fan. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." >> hello you. >> do you two want to be left alone? norah and i are here. >> do you mind giving us a few moments? >> let's see it. steve ballmer. >> according to this copy, we're happy to have anthony mason here. >> i know. it does say that. you can't ad-lib it. >> looking like a sea of kids out here. >> i've got one that goes with my easter outfit. what do you think about that. >> they sound like they're purring. is that purring? >> no. they

the authors you'll hear from and have the chance to talk to include msnbc's chris chris hayes, tim hernandez, annie jacobsen, david horowitz and many more.