in the coming weeks, former senators tom dashal and trent long offer their solutions to resolve the current state of partisanship in washington. jeffrey callen explores theodore roosevelt's unsuccessful campaign. and an argument that america continues to suffer from racial in inequality. and mei fong talks about the effects of china's recently discontinued one-child policy. >> the problem is there is no input from economist or psychologist. so issues on how human behavior can shape a plan. it is not rocket science to think a nation so in love with son is restricted to one child and they will have more sons and at one point you will have more men than women. >> "after words" airs every sunday at 9 and 10 p.m. eastern. you can watch previous programs online at booktv.org. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> and this is the senior republican on the federal communication commission and he is our guest this week on the "the communicators." commissioner, welcome back. it is an election ye

in the coming weeks, former senators tom dashal and trent long offer their solutions to resolve the current state of partisanship in washington. jeffrey callen explores theodore roosevelt's unsuccessful campaign. and an argument that america continues to suffer from racial in inequality. and mon

senator lott joined us alongside tom dashall.come our broken politics." we started with a question about the current partisan divide. >> people are spending even less time in washington today than they did 10, 15 years ago. money as you've said many times on this show is much more of an issue. people spend 30, 40 hours a week raising money. the media has changed. social media has dramatically changed the political landscape. >> let's talk about senator lott, i remember we did a speech in pennsylvania and ed rendell came there. ed rendell said he didn't seem like anything was going to pass. he said, back in our day we could have agreed on something. >> cut a deal. >> today he said if you walked into my office, it would be on 12 news websites before then and you would be crucified. >> actually, the '90s and turn of the century was pretty good legislatively. we had republican control of congress. bill clinton was president. that was step one. he talked to us a lot. we did find a way to do a whole lot. >> can i stop you there? >> yea