>> finally i want to bring in elena levan, a democrat from new jersey and a senior at the university of maryland thank you, and thank you, speaker pelosi. this impeachment process is historical. how do you want to be remembered as a part of it? >> as part of it? no, i want to be remembered as part of the affordable care act. [ applause ] i have to admit that today was quite historic. it was taking us across a threshold on this that we just had no choice. i do hope that it would be remembered in a way that honors the vision of our founders, what they had in mind for establishing a democracy. first time it ever was established in the history of the world. and when they did, one of the things, i keep quoting some of their sayings but one of the things i think is important to remember in conjunction with today is, on the great seal of the united states, it says, novos ordor seclorum. new order for the ages. they had such confidence in what they were doing, they had such optimism that every citizen would have the responsibility to carry it forward. it was for the ages, this new order, this democracy.

. >> now on booktv's "after words" university of maryland baltimore county president, freeman hrabowski, shers insights on building and naming an inclusive, high achieving and innovative university. he is interviewed by author and robin hood ceo wesmoore. >> host: it is my honor to join a mentor, guide, role model and one of our society's truest leader, -- freeman hrabowski. have to start with this new book entitle he "the empower evidence university." what exactly is the empowered university? >> guest: thanks delight he to be here with you. the notification is this, that our universities should be empowered to look in the mirror and be honest with self, and wite as a way of talking about leadership and talking about our society that institutions that are healthy and that are secure should be willing to recognize whatever is going well, to acknowledge that, of course, but also to be willing to say, but we have a way to go, and so it's empowered to be honest with self, and the subtitle which is shared leadership, culture change and academic success start width the notion it's not but the

this weekend, university of maryland baltimore county president, freeman row bow ski shares this insights on building and sustaining an inclusive, high achieving and innovative university. allen dershowitz offers thoughtses on how sexual misconduct accusations should be handled. glory steinam chronicled or life and career. and amity compares the economic debates to the those happening today. find a full schedule online at booktv.org or by consulting your program. guide. >> good afternoon, we're running also behind today 9 on behalf the american enterprise institute i welcome you to a conversation we'll rafe with pamela paul but here recent book, how to raise a reader. so much of raising children these days seems to be about what we don't want them to do. keeping them away from dangers both real and virtual. no doubt this is

competed at the local level, just 3,000 students advanced to the national contest at the university of marylandu can learn more about national history day at nhd.org. >>> hi, everyone, my name is adam cook and a the 2018 c-span student cam winner. i'm here to enkoushcourage you wrap up this competition as the deadline gets pretty close. don't worry. you still have time. this is about the time i started filming my documentary the first year i entered it. i'm in the d.c. offices right now and i'm just going to tell you that c-span student cam was an incredible opportunity for me to express my thoughts and my views about the political climate in the current day as well as connect with state and local leaders in political office. i'm extremely excited you all are interested in this and pursuing this because it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. i'm so excited you all are taking it. >> there's still time for you to enter the c-span student cam video competition. you have until january 20th to create a five to six-minute documentary that explores an issue you want the presidential candidates to addr

he is educated at cambridge and harvard and beloved professor at the university of maryland. e of the major university system of maryland awards.i think if there is a round of applause as well it's for people educating the next generation of people to have a sense of our history and a sense of what it means as human beings in the world but also particularly americans and someone from elsewhere dedicated to helping us mind history. he is a 2017 public scholar after the national endowment of humanities. he said scholarships from the huntington library in california to cambridge and england and everywhere in between places like yale and the library of congress. this is the mind we want tilling the soil of america's past and helping us come to understand it and he's written a really remarkable book. it's a history about five young men in philadelphia, boys, who were kidnapped and taken back into slavery. it's a beautifully told story and i think that merging of incredibly insightful historical perspective pushing out the sense of who we been merged with real storytelling ability i

another example the global forest change database at the university of maryland uses a map to show the state of the world's forests since 2013 users have been able to call up info based on satellite images they can see the effects of forest fires illegal logging and reforestation over long periods the platform is also dedicated to protecting forests and their inhabitants it combines satellite technology with open data and crowdsourcing. data platforms make the problems more visible and with an app everyone can do their bit to help tackle them the c o 2 tracking every forest i'm focuses on individual consumption and it gives you the chance to create and manage your own forest. eco app is similar enter your daily habits with a few clicks and the app will calculate your carbon footprint and show you how to shrink it it also invites you to be a climate hero by supporting carbon offset projects that help people and the planet . or the digital activists in berlin mobilizing people is an important factor in tackling the global problem the climate for dickson has made. unclear on what they nee

and around the world she is a sociology professor at the university of maryland and she joins us tonight from our bureau in washington d.c. for a fessor of fisher it's good to have you on the day i know you've studied gratitude barragan her influence let me ask you was. was was granted the obvious choice for person of the year in your opinion i think that it makes a lot of sense for credit to be selected as person a error because she has not just she's not just one person she represents the youth around the world who have been standing up and taking action and letting their voices be heard in ways we really haven't heard young people speak in quite some time and she is definitely seen as the face of the movement to the face of a new generation of me she speaks with a language that is mature and beyond her years you could say i want you to take a listen to part of what she had to say today take a listen. i've given many speeches and learned that when you talk in public is dodge was something personal or emotional to get everyone's attention. say things like our house is on a fire i wanted

he is also a assistant clinical professor at the university of maryland university of maryland's graduate program. spencer is a robinson professor of history at george mason university. his research interests and publications focus on african-american migration, slavery and the underground railroad. he has been a leader in public history for several decades. serving formally mr. president of the national underground railroad freedom center in cincinnati, ohio, and later working at the national museum of american history smithsonian institution for 20 years. he brought their the integrative exhibits and the creative exhibits, which have been important and memorable. the one that people probably remember best from field to factory, african-american migration 1915 to 1940. he also co-curated the exhibit. the american presidency, which is one of the smithsonian's most popular exhibitions. it is also published books with the same titles and many more publications. he is working on a biography of thurgood marshall. gloria is a professor of constitutional law at john jay college of criminal just

eastern on afterwards, university of maryland baltimore county president freeman roe boughsky on his book. he's interviewed by author and antipoverty firm ceo wes moore. >> we are through our work in the humanities to the sciences looking at ways of helping students to learn to ask the hard questions, to read critically, but to appreciate the value of evidence in a society that is bombarding us with information and different points of view, with things being confused about what is truth and what is not. educated people should have the skills to ask the questions that will lead to the evidence that can therefore determine what is truth. >> watch book tv this weekend. and every weekend on c-span 2. >>> join us monday for more from campaign 2020 with democratic presidential candidate tom steyer. he's scheduled to

university of maryland baltimore county president on his book, the empowered university. by an authorewed and ceo. >> through our work in the humanities, we are looking at ways to help students to ask the hard questions, to read critically and appreciate the value of evidence in a society that is bombarding us with information and different points of view with things being confused about what is truth and what is not. educated people should have the skills to ask the questions that would lead to the evidence that can determine what is truth. >> watch book tv this weekend and every weekend on c-span2. ayes ares vote, the 230 and the nos are 187, present is one. article one is adopted. are 229,ote the ayes r 198, present is one, article two is adopted. pelosie speaker nancy announcing the votes about articles of impeachment against president trump. we willnext few hours, show you some of the

doctor miller received a phd from the university of maryland. we say lafayette. where he - don is the john harry mccracken in lafayette college. it broke the confederacy. i would like to start out by asking each of you to give a brief overview of your book and if you would, how and why you chose this subject to write on. we start with you. >> i had written a biography of stonewall jackson. we started to do further reading, and it is a different place. and a vengeful, however it is a hard war. they use the term band box, these were young men, and dreams of glory. it is about the early war and i thought not only was the latter war more extreme place and influenced the war. when i looked at doing that, i knew bruce won a pulitzer in 1953 with a wonderful book about appomattox. the army of the potomac, they are not covered by that. they have done that 75 times are now. nobody has done it and there have been grant/lee books and there was appomattox, to me the last year seems like a valid lens or aperture through which to look at the war. it starts with grant's arrival

university of massachusetts professor, holly jackson, profiles leaders of america's social and political movements of the 19 until century. strickler cofounder of kick starter provides a blueprint for creating a better world. university of maryland baltimore county president, shares hi insights on building an inclusive high achieving and ininnovative university. and allen dershowitz offers thoughts on how sexual misconduct accusations should be handled. that all starts tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern on booktv. you can find more information on your program guide, or by visiting booktv.org. >> booktv asked representative tom coal what are you reading. >> reading a become buy an english author called "apiecement. chim berlin, hit

recently, university of maryland baltimore county president shared his insights on building a high achieving and innovating university. coming up, labor reporter steven greenhouse will examine the challenges the american workers face today. this weekend on after words, new york magazine looks at race and identity. >> my father did his best to get me to resume and to -- to really understand a lot of traditions, but he also somewhat in the way that you write about it, always believed that my identity didn't begin or end with the social realty of my blackness. so he kind of had his life saved by being a fatherless black boy in texas without anyone in his family having a education, but he stumbled upon plato's dialogs at some point in his childhood and picked it up and tried to make sense to read it. but something out there linked him with a towering greek mind and that if he could access it, he could potentially access the wider world and he would read books by himself in his closet with a flashlight and his family would say what are you doing? you're going to get yourself in trouble, don't rea

he vastly strength to accuse school and pitched in policy states in the university of maryland college following the flash i will begin our panel discussion and knowledge it is our panelists at that time. unfortunately professor of the political section of the u.s. embassies unable to join us tonight. now please join me in welcoming --. i appreciate the chance to be here and hello to chicago. it's my first time here. thanks for being welcome thanks. my name is emir i'm going to you a survey there has been a joint between at the council on affairs. iranian public opinion for decades after the hostage crisis. -- the year mean in the company focusing on here anyone pulling. the confidence of people here. based in toronto and that's one of our call centers in toronto. boeing scientific opinion from iran have been hoping to be reliable, scientific and as an example in their last presidential election in iran in 2017, when president was selected, he was able to predict a lot of the election to, descendants the economist, they published it one day before the election and it whatever you to se

. >> mark: jason nichols is a professor of african-american studies at the university of maryland. oins us. professor, the last time we spoke, you were all excited about the minority candidates, the women, the candidates for whom the healthy glow of late middle age had not yet fled their cheeks. how did it come down that your party is reduced, almost a product choice of three geezers? you can get it in any color as long it is white, to modify henry ford. >> again, here's the thing. i'm more concerned about who is going to better the lives of the majority of americans, and that would include people of color. and also, we have to think about the fact that the democratic party, if you listen to the clip that you played with simone sanders, she was talking about leadership within the party. tom perez is a dominican american from maryland. we've got other leaders and people who have run for office, more women and people of color in congress than ever before. and none of them are republican, or very few. i think that a party is diverseg to people of color and two women, and that is the st

international trade commission and university of maryland professor pete morici.bers, thanksgiving and black friday sales are up over a -- around a billion dollars each, little bit less for thanksgiving sales, so what does it say about the economy and why are people spending so much now? >> they have confidence in the trump economy and it's that simple, the consumer confidence numbers, they don't just say are they confident, what's the job's outlook, how do you feel about inflation, how do you feel about the future, very important indicater and they are indicating positively, investors, the stock market has changed, more and more investors and a lot of us ordinary folks are investors moving to what are called cyclal stocks and outlook is 10% gain and finally, there's been a shift in the polls, mr. trump was lagging behind the principal democratic candidates until about a month ago. rob: yeah. >> now he's running about even, depends on which one you pick, one ahead by a point and the other behind by a point, he wins the electorate college big, the shift in voting b

chris: we are at the windtunnel of the university of maryland. 49 they've tested everything from plane models to cars, to grouping of form and high winds. and that will tell you how efficient or inefficient it is. >> and where the weather is in the hurricane. chris: each of us inside the wind tunnel starting with a giant fan. >> we can generate wind up to 230 miles an hour. chris: we wanted to get a feel for a win test and student isaac roberts agreed to participate. >> alright andrew give us 50 miles an hour, topical storm conditions. chris: and he can handle that pretty easy? but it got tougher 80 miles per hour. a category one hurricane. >> now 80 miles per hour, nobody can stand straight up like this. they can't without the tethers. okay let's go a hundred guys, this'll be a category two hurricane. chris: wow then they cramped up the fan even higher. >> this'll be 150 miles per hour a level three. chris: but hurricanes are just part of what they simulate at the wind tunnel. they test car models to make them more aerodynamic and less valid or f

there was a study of all fatal police shootings from 2015 done by michigan state university and university of maryland and 99% of the time the person that was shot was armed with a weapon and there was actually no racial bias involved. it's completely ridiculous that he would say something like this. >> the tough thing in all of this, i know that you have legislation we want to get to, but the tough thing is that there has been incidents in recent history, and i know you and i talked earlier on the phone about ferguson missouri. i want to get my take on where we are, but it takes everything. >> what we are seeing instead is that they're having politicians, instead of actually isolating a few incidents paid choose to denounce it as a whole and rather than recognizing these are men and women in the community.hing and that serve ad protect their community. >> we have a lot of rank-and-file on the police, or rather police in the audience. ralph, i know you're right there. you have some strong feelings from the videos that went viral. >> they make me sick when we watch them. i feel it's because of the agen

this weekend university of maryland president treatment rogowski shares his insights on building and sustaining an inclusive, high achieving university. alan dershowitz offers his thoughts on how sexual misconduct accusation should be handled. gloria steinem chronicles her life and career through a collection of her essays and notable quotes and amity compares the economic debates of the 1960s to those happening today. find a complete schedule at booktv.org or by put consulting your program guide . >> thank you joel. thank you for coming, it's wonderful to see so many of you here. i'd like to welcome our friend from books incorporated to our left and after the q and a they will be selling andy's new book

recently university of maryland baltimore county president chaired his insights on building a high achieving and innovative university. coming up labor reporter stephen greenhouse will examine challenges american workers face today. this weekend on afterwords new york magazine contributor thomas chatterton williams looks at race and identity. >> my father did his best to get involved, martin luther king, to really understand a lot of the traditions but also summit in the way you write about always believes my identity didn't begin or end with the social reality of my blackness. he had his life saved by being a fatherless black boy in texas without his family having education but he stumbled upon plato's dialogues at some point, picked up and tried his best to read it and it didn't make sense to him at first but he was very early on aware there was something that linked him with a towering greek mind and if he could access it he could potentially access the wider world and he would read books by himself with his flashlight and his family would say you are going to get yourself in trouble, don

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coming up, university of maryland baltimore county president, freeman robowski will share his thoughts but building a high achieving and innovative university. and this weekend, joe rickets offering his insights to becoming an troy entrepreneur and founding tv ameritrade. >> i had to say, be ready to fail. be ready to lose all of your dreams and start over. and in fact i've get a website, entrepreneur's great jobs.com and one of the entrepreneurs in that website that i interview says, entrepreneurs are different. we fail and when we do we get back on the horse. so, as an entrepreneur you have to understand that eight out of ten new businesses fail. and that your risk is really quite high. if that happens and you're really an entrepreneur you get back up and you try again. >> "after words" airs saturdays at 10:00 p.m. and sundays at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. on booktv on c-span 2. all previous "after words" are availabled a podcasts podcasts o watch online at

university of massachusetts professor holly jackson profiles leaders of america's social and political movements of the 19th century. cofounder of kick starter provides this for creating a better world. university of maryland president, raymond shares his insights on building an inclusive, high achieving and innovative university. allen offers his thoughts on how sexual misconduct accusations should be handled. that all starts tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2s book tv. you can find more information on your program guide or by visiting booktv.org. >> recently on book tv, fox news contributor andrew our third offered his thoughts on the inclusion in the 2016 residential election. his a portion of that program. >> you have an american citizen who is operating as an agent of russia. the only due process that american is ever going to get is that justice department and fbi play is straight with the court and the court forces them to comply with their own regulati regulation, which includes making sure you bring the verified information only to the court. if they don't follow their own rule and if the judge doesn't make them follow their own rules, thank you basically have drug meant. you have the surveil

highs, dow up 121, officials meeting this hour what progress can we expect joining me now university of marylandconomist peter, great to see you let's get straight to the china conversation not imposing tariffs on sunday on 156 billion dollars of largely consumer goods then potentially cutting the tariffs that are already in place, is definitely gets the market expedited but with valid reason right because it will trickle to consumer. >> the tariffs that wouldn't go in place ones that would with bite hardest near team are we saw more than 80% categories from china tariffs have not moved consumer prices very much because they have lots of he alternatives already in place for those products, with with 155 billion for sunday we don't. >> we have seen before this is why i started to show by saying here we go again, because -- you know the market gets excited, the president starts tweeting, maybe part of his strategy maybe it is not part of his strategy. but there have been times the market has been fooled before. >> absolutely, if you look at essentials of this deal, agriculture, the snapback on tar

bring in university of maryland economist peter morici to break down last 10 years.hat will happen the perhaps the next 10. peter, i thought was interesting, one at a time with you, but lower interest rates had the fed backed into a corner. many people are saying that the central banks around the world have left us in a pretear -- precarious situation in general. >> i don't think so. they may be thinking that way but they don't have to. if we go to electronic money, digital dollars, the fed can bypass the banks to stimulate the economy. there is big potential that way. sweden is looking at it. china is looking at it. the fed is moving slowly. that is unfortunate but they do have options. charles: you're not worried about negative interest rates, asset bubbles, not worried about things historically associated with missteps with central banks. >> that is different than tools. in the short term it gives you a sugar hike, gives you help. long term rots your teeth. my feeling interest rates should be in positive zone. you don't need to lower interest rates to get stimulus

in this story, produced in collaboration with the university of maryland's howard center for investigativea correspondent john yang reports on the uncertain fate of prisoners who are still serving life sentences for crimes they committed as minors. john: in the 1990s, fear and anger over violent crime led to a sharp increase in incarceration. that included sentencing large numbers of juveniles to life in adult prisons without role. in 2012, the supreme court usdeclared that cruel and l punishment, but in maryland, so-called juvenile liferow in their 50s and 60s, still wait for parole.rl oung had been sentenced tofe t age 17. >> the system is broke. the system needs fixing. d one individual, mr. parris glendening, was the head of this situation. john: parris glendening was maryland's liberal docratic governor. during his first campaign in 1994, he sought to counter attacks that he was soft on crime. >> we must stop the slaughter that is ing on in our communities. i support putting violent offenders in prison angiving what i call truth in sentencing. if you are sentenced to life ins , it oug

policy studiesin from university of maryland, college talk. following the flash talk, i will introduce our panelists. at themer deputy chief embassy in iran is unable to join us tonight. m join me in welcoming the doctor. >> i appreciate the chance to be here. hello, chicago. it is my first time here. [applause] >> thank you. my name is amir farmanesh. you,presenting a poll to the title being "iranian public opinion after the hostage crisis ." companyn independent from toronto, canada. we are based in toronto. scientific polling from iran has been proven to be reliable, , and as an example, in the last presidential election in iran in 2017, paul was able to but it the results of the election. we sent them to "the economist." they published it one day before the election. our prediction was accurate within two percentage points of the official results. it is something that could be with any other polling. the polling i am presenting today has a 1000 sample size. inwas conducted by telephone october of 2019. it is very fresh. iranians say the ec

eastern on "afterwards" university of maryland baltimore county president freeman rabowski on his book "the empowered university." he's interviewed by robinhood ceowes moore. >> we're looking at ways to help students to learn to ask the hard questions to read critically but to appreciate the value of evidence in a society that is bombarding us with information and different points of view with things being confused about what is truth and what is not. educated people should have the skills to ask the questions that will lead to the evidence that will, therefore, determine what is truth. >> watch "booktv" this weekend and every weekend on c-span2. >>> "washington post" columnist david ignatius hosted a conversation with two experts on iran. they discussed iran's political future and impact on the greater middle east. this is an hour and a half. >> ladies and gentlemen, while my fellow panelists are getting wired up, let me begin our discussion of iran upheaval and repression. i'm david ignatius. i'm a columnist for the "washington post." have visited iran several times as a journalist a

university of maryland batmer county president shares his insight on building an inclusive high achieving and innovative university. pamela paul, editor of "the new york times" book review, offer he thoughts on how to get children interested in reading books, and a recountation of the effort of the u.s. ambassador to japan to seek a peace accord prior to the attack on pearl harbor. for more information, visit book tv tv.org or check your program guide. >> itself soots packed in here tonight a couple of reasons to. that one a lot of interest in this book, but secondly, we have already started to set up for the holidays with additional tables and so on and in fact we weren't really going to have any insure store events this week and then heard that ruth's book wag come south and decided we have to have it. [applause] >> so thank you

eastern on afterwards, university of maryland baltimore county president freeman leb owski on his book, he is interviewed by wes moore. >> we through our work in the humanities to the sciences looking at ways of helping students to learn to ask the hard questions, to read critically, but to appreciate the value of evidence in a society that is bombarding us with information and different points of view, with things being confused about what is truth and what is not. educated people should have the stil skills to ask the questions that will lead to the evidence that can therefore determine what is true. >> watch book tv this weekend and every weekend on c-span2. >>> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events from washington, d.c. and around the country so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979, c-span brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >>> join us monday for more from campaign

holds degrees from syracuse university's maxwell school and a phd in policy studies from the university of maryland college park. following the flash talk, we'll begin our panel discussion, and i'll introduce our panelists at that time. unfortunately, professor john st stimple, the former chief of the tehran embassy section, is unable to join us tonight. please join me in welcoming the doctor. [ applause ] >> hello, hello. i appreciate the chance to be here. hello to chicago. it's my first time here. thanks for the welcome. [ applause ] >> oh, thank you. i am presenting to you a survey that has been jointly done between iran poll and chicago council on global affairs. iranian public opinion four decades after the hostage crisis. yeah, so iran poll. independent company focusing on opinion polling, only on iran but from toronto, canada. hello to canadian consulate people here. we're based in toronto. that is one of our call centers in toronto. scientific polling from iran has been proven to be reliable, scientific. as an example, in the last presidential election in iran in 2017, when president rouha

eastern, on afterwords, university of maryland baltimore county president on his book "the empowered university". he's interviewed by author and antipoverty firm robin hood ceo wes moore. >> we are through our work in the humanities to the sciences, looking at ways of helping students to learn to ask the hard questions to read critically, but to appreciate the value of evidence in a society that is bombarding us with information and different points of view with things being confused about what is truth and what is not. educated people should have the skills to ask the questions that will lead to the evidence that can therefore determine what is truth. >> watch book tv this weekend and every weekend on c-span 2. ::

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this weekend university of maryland president treatment rogowski shares his insights on building and sustaining an inclusive, high achieving university. alan dershowitz offers his thoughts on how sexual misconduct accusation should be handled. gloria steinem chronicles her life and career through a collection of her essays and notable quotes and amity compares the economic debates of the 1960s to those happening today. find a complete schedule at booktv.org or by put consulting your program guide . >> thank you joel. thank you for coming, it's wonderful to see so many of you here. i'd like to welcome our friend from books incorporated to our left and after the q and a they will be selling andy's new book and then andy will be signing them for you so there's an advance announcement for that. some of you may remember andy was here three years ago and it was august so we are conservative and 30 so i guess we've always had to do that the same way and due to extreme planning on andy and my part, including double lot i am so thrilled to announce that this year tonight is the world premiere

this weekend university of maryland baltimore county president freeman rabaul ski talks about achieving a high achieving and innovative university. alan dershowitz offers thoughts on how sexual misconduct allegations should be mishandled. gloria steinem chronicles her life and career through a collection of her essays and notable quotes. amity chalets compares the economic debate of the 1960s to those that are happening today. go to booktv.org or consult your program guide. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill and asked republican senator john boozman about his reading list. >> i've got several books i'm working on right now. one of them is called are dems 1944. myself and other senators representing the united states at the battle of the bulge, 75th anniversary this year so

so he enrolled in his hometown law school, university of maryland. year he took a constitutional law course. he read different opinions on one side, ginsberg and scalia and thought this could make a very funny opera. [laughter] jus. ginsberg: i will give you a taste of scalia-ginsburg. it opens with scalia's rage aria. it is a very undelegated in style. he says the justices are blind. how can they possibly spout this. the constitution says absolutely nothing about this. and then in my coloratura soprano voice, i answer, dear justice scalia, you are searching for right lines, but problems don't have easy answers, but the great thing about our constitution is like our society, it can evolve. that sets up the difference between us. the plot of scalia-ginsberg is roughly based on the magic flute. [laughter] jus. ginsberg: scalia is locked up in a dark room. he is being punished for accepted dissenting. [laughter] jus. ginsberg: i then emerge from a glass ceiling. [laughter] [applause] jus. ginsberg: to help him pass the test he needs to pass to get out o

a process and now it is the majority consciousness. >> at 9:00 pm eastern on afterwords, university of maryland baltimore county president interviewed by arthur and anti-poverty robin hood ceo was more. >> we are through our work in the humanities and the sciences looking at ways of helping students to learn to ask the hard questions, to read critically, appreciate the value of evidence in a society that is bombarding us with information in different points of view, things being confused about what is truth and what is not. educated people should have the skills to ask questions that lead to evidence that will determine what is truth. >> watch booktv this weekend and every weekend on c-span2. >> the us/mexico/canada trade agreement is awaiting action in the senate after the house passed it with a large bipartisan majority but pennsylvania republican senator passed to me doesn't like the trade deal and explained his opposition at an event hosted by the american enterprise institute. senator to me to questions from the audience. >> thanks for that kind introduction and most of all thanks to you a

eastern on "afterwards" university of maryland baltimore county president freeman rabowski on his book "the empowered university." he's interviewed by robinhood ceowes moore. >> we're looking at ways to help students to learn to ask the hard questions to read critically but to appreciate the value of evidence in a society that is bombarding us with information and different points of view with things being confused about what is truth and what is not. educated people should have the skills to ask the questions that will lead to the evidence that will, therefore, determine what is truth. >> watch "booktv" this weekend and every weekend on c-span2. >>> "washington post" columnist david ignatius hosted a conversation with two experts on iran. they discussed iran's political future and impact on the greater middle east. this is an hour and a half. >> ladies and gentlemen, while my fellow panelists are getting wired up, let me begin our discussion of iran upheaval and repression. i'm david ignatius. i'm a columnist for the "washington post." have visited iran several times as a journalist a