. >> sunday, december 5 on "in depth" story and conservative commentator victor davis hanson joins usto talk about war, politics and citizenship in the united states. his book titles include the father of us all, the case are trump and his latest the dying citizens in which he says the idea of american citizenship and the ideals associate with it are disappearing. join in a conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets for victor davis hanson sunday, december 5 at noon eastern on "in depth" on booktv. before the program visit c-span c-spanshop.org to get your copies of his books. >> american history tv saturdays on c-span2 exploring the people and events that tells the american story. at 11 a.m. eastern on lectures in history explores how the pilgrims became part of the united states founding story in 19th century history textbooks. at 1 p.m. president nixon senior domestic policy advisor gives a behind the scenes of view of the 37th president domestic agenda which included guaranteed family income, additional health insurance programs and support for childre

. >> sunday on "in depth" historian and conservative commentator victor davis hanson joins us live to talk about war, politics and citizenship in the united states. his book titles include the father of us all, the case for trump and his latest the dying citizen in which he says the idea of american citizenship and the ideals associated with it are disappearing. joint and a conversation with your phone calls, facebook comets, text in tweets for victor davis hanson sunday at noon eastern on "in depth" on booktv. before the program visit c-spanshop.org to get your copies of his books. >> next, wisconsin republican senator ron johnson talks about his own investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol in in a podcast hosty the center for security policy. senator johnson sits on homeland security committee which he previously shared in the 116th congress. this is an hour. >> welcome to the center for security policy podcast on national security. we are here today with senator rankingson who's a republican on the senate subcommittee on investigations who has been the lead ind

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. ♪♪ >> sunday december 5 on in-depth, historian and conservative commentator victor davis hanson joinsore politics and citizenship in the united states. book titles include the father of us all, the case for trump at his latest, the dying citizens. the idea of american citizenship, ideals associated with it are disappearing join in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets for victor davis hanson. noon eastern on in-depth on book tv sunday. visit c-spanshop.org great your copy of his book. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> abraham lincoln and his wife mary were the parents of four boys. only one, robert, lived beyond his 18th birthday. author jason emerson spent nearly a decade traveling across the united states visiting and researching in numerous archives, museums and historic places. he was starting 82 plus years in the life of robert lincoln. he focused on the president oldest son is a union soldier, minister to great britain, u.s. secretary of war the president of the chicago-based company. jason is an independent historian who's been writing about the lincoln family for

sunday, december 5, historian and conservative commentator victor davis hanson joins us to talk about war, politics, and citizenship in the united states. his book titles include the father of us all, the case for drum, and his latest, the dying citizens, in which he says the ideals associated with citizenship are disappearing. join in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets at noon eastern on in-depth on book tv and before the program, visit c-span.org to get your copies of his books. >> jim is with us and he covers the white house right now for the new york times, focusing on economic policy and the economic porcelain -- correspondent. welcome to washington journal. thank you for having me. host: a big win on friday for the president, for democrats, wit the passageh in the house of the $2 trillion social spending measure. it is in limbo now because the house and senate will be off for the thanksgiving break, but what is ahead? what is the challenge for the administration and for congressional democrats in the senate? guest: well, i will start by

starting now on booktv, victor davis hanson argues the idea that the ideals are in danger of disappearing. .. i'm hoping to do anything elaborate. i'm going to take a page from that priest who instructed those who came to you for confession to be brief, be blunt, and be gone. so just three things, three things. first, welcome, welcome to you our friends, friends of "the new criterion." we would not f be having events like this were it not for your support so thank you for coming, and welcome, welcome. and the reason for this event of course is beside "the new criterion" 40 anniversary, and please feel free to take a magazine, is the launch of victor davis hanson new important new book "the dying citizen." his publisher which to my great sorrow is notot encounter books but another lesser publisher, so they lucked out with this one. this might be victors most important books and you know he's written a string of important books. as you when you think of the citizen as being something that's been around forever. it's not true. victor has written what i think is going t to be one of the boos

criterion's 40th anniversary and please ache, feel free to take a magazine, is the launch of victor davis hanson's important new book, "the dying citizen." his publisher, which to my great sorrow isci not encounter books, but another, lesser publisher. so they lucked out with this one. this might be victor's most important book, and you know that he's written a string of important books. it's the about -- everyone his of the citizen as something that's been around forever. well, it's not true, and victor has written what i think is going to be one of the books of the year if not one of books of this new decade. so please feel free to take a copy. remember its title, remember the publisher so that you can stock up for real for your holiday shopping purchases. i also want to do some thank yous. there are several people in this room whose support the new criterion would not exist. i won't embarrass you by naming you, but i want to single out the hoover institution and the robert augusta nelly family foundation who made the evening itself, helped make this evening possible. i'm delighted that -- i thi

. >>> sunday on in depth, victor davis hanson joins us live to talk about war, politics and citizenship in the united states. he says the idea of american citizenship and the ideals associated with it are disappearing. join in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets for victor davis hanson sunday at noon eastern on book tv. before the program, visit c-spanshop.org to get your copies of his books. >>> up next, the dc circuit court of appeals hears the case trump v. thompson stemming from the house january 6 committee request to get former president trump's call logs and other records surrounding the capitol attack. live coverage here on c-span3.

victor davis hanson, hoover institution senior fellow, author of "the dying citizen."esh, this cover-up unreal. >> absolutely. you mentioned the different elements of the narrative. each one of them is a kind of spear into the narrative of the left. this was why they tried to make it seem like the car dated. there wasn't a perpetrator. he wasn't a black perpetrator. as a film guy i often look at motive, motive is critical to understanding why something happened. let's remember that in other cases, the kyle rittenhouse case, even the derek chauvin case, the left was very quick to jump to a motive. these are white supremacists, motive was based on race and yet no racial motive turned up. in fact racial motives weren't really even introduced in the shogun trial. here where there is a racial motive, where it seems obvious that this was a guy who was not fleeing from one scene and happen to run into a parade but rob guy who intentionally swerved from left to right to kill as many people as possible driven by a parent racial animus. evident in his own social media, the media

there is a lot going on here and it takes a brain the size of victor davis hanson to figure it out. as we wait, you can head over to tuckercarlson.com for our investigation january 6 called "patriot purge" resides. worth watching. ♪ ♪ >> patriot purge, all this week exclusively on fox nation. >> tucker: here's a lesson from the results of the elections last night. turns out it is pretty hard to win just from getting endorsements from interest groups and washed up intellectuals in washington that nobody actually agrees with. if you want to win, maybe you should try to improve people's lives pair that is what glenn youngkin did. if you have kids in school, they are your kids so you should have a role in what they learn. >> we are going to embrace our parents, not ignore them. we are going to press forward with a curriculum that includes listening to parents' input. a curriculum that allows our children to run as fast as they can, teaching them how to think, enabling their dreams to soar. friends, we are going to reestablish excellence in our schools. [cheers and applause] >> tucker: w

joining me knows victor davis hanson, and dinesh d'souza, conservative commentator, host of the dinesh podcast. your reaction to obama reappearing on the global stage? >> unbelievable. here's a guy, who, as you say, has been investing in beachfront property while at the same time moaning about the rising oceans, but it's not just obama. he knows that oceanfront properties are doing very well around the world. buyers know that nothing's happening, sellers know it, real estate agents know it, so clearly this climate change thing is a political phenomenon divorced from the actual behavior of people who are buying and selling property on the coast. with obama there's always a kind of hidden agenda here and when he puts himself forward and said something like well, you know, i can easily pay more, he doesn't actually mean that he's going to pay more because he could pay more right now, but he's not showing any signs of paying more himself. what he really means is the united states should pay more, so here's the anticolonialism of obama playing it's hand, the idea here is that we shouldn't a

also here tonight, victor davis hanson senior fellow at the hoover institution. so, really, it was mob justice, what's that the left wanted bdh, they didn't get it they wanted kyle to take a beating. he didn't take a beating so they had to make an example out of him. they weren't able to do that because they couldn't interfere with the court system. they couldn't interfere with the judge. they couldn't control the jury. and now they are panicked because they didn't get the result they wanted. what does this mean? >> yeah, it's very strange. i mean, he should have never -- you went over the lies the last month, jesse. and they should never have been arrested. and he should never have been indicted. he should never have been put on trial and the trial should not have continued given the abuses. so that demands this question. what was the prosecution doing? i mean, it was the most inept farcical prosecution anybody has ever seen. pointing a gun at the jury? claiming that a defendant who is being chased by a mob should take a beating? having two sets of videos? i cou

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next month will be author historian victor davis hanson whose latest book the dying citizen offers his thoughts on immigration. here's some other new politics in the current affairs titles. woke racism columbia university linguistics professor weizen on race in america. legal journalist at linda greenhouse examines how the supreme court has changed in the past two years. she covered it for "the new york times" the most recent is called justice on the brink. and molly hemingway argues that the media and the democratic party use covid-19 to seize power and former nfl quarterback and activist has a new book as well. he offers a collection of essays on policing and the judicial system in abolition for the people. andrew yang argues america's current economic and political systems are outdated and offers recommendations to address both. andrew recently spoke about his book on the author interview program "after words." >> millions of americans stand up and say wait a minute this duopoly is tearing the country apart if enough of us stood up and say we have to make this a democracy for the di

conservative commentator victor davis hanson joins us to talk about war, politics, and citizenship in the united states. his book titles include the case for trump and his latest, the dying citizens which he says the idea of american citizenship and the ideals associated with it are disappearing. join in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. on in-depth on the tv. for the program, visit c-spanshop.org to get your copies of his books. civil rights advocates and finance experts testify on barriers facing lgbtq individuals in the financial services industry. this is about one hour and 15 minutes. good >> good afternoon. i am pleased to convene the subcommittee for the hearing entitled. there is no pride in prejudice. other mandating barriers to full economic inclusion for the lgbtq plus community. in 27 states, there are no explicit statewide laws protecting people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in employment, housing, and public accommodation. at the federal level there is no fair housing or credit protec

joining the conversation over phone calls, facebook contents, for victor davis hanson sunday december 5 at noon eastern on in-depth on the tv. before the program visit c-span shop.work to get your copies of his books. >> a new mobile video app from c-span, download today. >> it is nice to see everybody today thank you for joining us and thank you for joining us at the heritage foundation. my name is jessica anderson i'm the executive director which is the nation's most effective and largest grassroots organization in the country. we represent over 2 million activists and 20000 fat nulls who are fighting every single day for freedom at the local state and national level. this is why we were so interested in our guests new book that outlines all americans currently face an opposing the biden regime. the book highlights the bold grassroots agenda for defending america, securing our freedom and ensuring policy leaders put america first. sean is the man you probably don't need anu introduction to you are here and you know him but we got to know sean for the first time as the first press se

after that, victor davis hanson in his book, the dying citizen.or ben shapiro on his bestseller, the authoritarian movement start 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. you can access our programs online that booktv.org or follow along on c-span now. our new video app. ♪♪ >> book tv every sunday on macv features leading authors discussing the latest nonfiction books. 2:00 p.m. eastern, coverage of the brooklyn festival, conversation with heather mckee, author racism cost everyone and how we can prosper together. george packer, ways to overcome inequalities and division within the country. between the lines, a collection of interviews with over 170 people she met on the new york city subway in a conversation between paul oster and joyce on the writing plan. later, a discussion on the late nonfiction work about the last living survivor of their that it slave trade published in 2018. the oldest imprint by major publishing house devoted to the african-american. 10:00 p.m. eastern on "afterwards", doctor pol off at, head of the children's hospital of philadelphi

course is beside the 40th anniversary and please feel free to take a magazine, is the launch of victor davis hanson's important new book the dying citizen. the publisher which to my great sorrow but is another lesser publisher, so they lucked out with this one. this might be the most important books and you know he's written a strange. victor has written what i think is going to be one of the good books of the year if not one of the books of this new decade, so please feel free i also want to do some thank youse. there are several people in this room who support the new criterion wouldn't exist but i want to single out to help make the evening possible i'm delighted i think we are going to be joined at any moment by megyn kelly who will do the interview. she certainly will introduce an element of candor that is foreign to the halls of any institution whose activities take place under the name but we are delighted that she could do this. the copy that isn't signed the second thing is i expect this interview to be an entirely illuminating but it's conceivable that it will be so illuminating that there

joining the conversation over phone calls, facebook contents, for victor davis hanson sunday december 5 at noon eastern on in-depth on the tv. before the program visit c-span shop.work to get your copies of his books. >> a new mobile video app from c-span, download today. >> it is nice to see everybody today thank you for joining us and thank you for joining us at the heritage foundation. my name is jessica anderson i'm the executive director which is the nation's most effective and largest grassroots organization in the country. we represent over 2 million activists and 20000 fat nulls who are fighting every single day for freedom at the local state andio

. >> sunday, december 5, on in-depth, historian and conservative commentator victor davis hanson joinss to talk about war, politics, and citizenship in the united states. his book titles include the case for trump and his latest, the dying citizens which he says the idea of american citizenship and the ideals associated with it are disappearing. join in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. on in-depth on the tv. for the program, visit c-spanshop.org to get your copies of his books. civil rights advocates and finance experts testify on barriers facing lgbtq individuals in the financial services industry. this is about one hour and 15 minutes.

. >> sunday, december 5, historian and conservative commentator victor davis hanson joins us to talkbout war, politics, and citizenship in the united states. his book titles include the father of us all, the case for drum, and his latest, the dying citizens, in which he says the ideals associated with citizenship are disappearing. join in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets at noon eastern on in-depth on book tv and before the program, visit c-span.org to get your copies of his books. >> jim is with us and he covers the white house right now for the new york times, focusing on economic policy and the economic porcelain -- correspondent. welcome to washington journal. thank you for having me. host: a big win on friday for the president, for democrats,

now victor davis hanson.ubernatorial candidate beto o'rourke revealed what the left is using the entire rittenhouse case for. >> this entire tragedy makes the case that we should not allow our fellow americans to own and use weapons that were originally designed for battleground use. the ar-15 and ak-47 has one purpose. killing people as efficiently and in great in number in as little time as possible. we saw that in kenosha. >> laura: victor, they don't want citizens to protection themselvesine when the police and local officials will not. >> yes, that's what the rittenhouse trial is all about. it was one of the most important trials in our lifetime. this old academic idea that crime was a social construct and laws were created by the elite to protect people of color filtered into the police. the police won't enforce the law. or the prosecutors won't prosecute crimes and you end up with kenosha. what does a citizen have recourse to do? they have second amendment rights. you go after that and you say, well yo

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joining me is victor davis hanson, senior fellow, i to play a moment of honest reflection from m s nbcgoing on outside the kenosha courthouse today. watch. >> people who were protesting against what rittenhouse did, they think you will be convicted from talking to you? part of this is pushing that. they want to push, pressure the jury will court to hold kyle rittenhouse accountable, in their words. laura: their role is to scare the jury. the jury knows they are out there. they will torch kenosha if they don't get their way. how did we get here? what set this all in motion? >> it has something to do with kyle rittenhouse had nothing to do with him. the case was clear. he was an armed 17-year-old pursued by two convicted felons who wanted to hurt him and another person, intoxicated with a firearm. that was the case but in the other sense it was just an occasion, saying hands up don't shoot in ferguson or the covington kids bullying of vietnam combat veteran or tray von martin was an innocent victim, george the mom and's pathological impulses, these are occasions, they pop up in the news.

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joining me now is victor davis hanson, institution senior fellow.ant to play a moment of honest reflection from msnbc about what was going on outside the kenosha courthouse today. watch. >> the people who were protesting against what rittenhouse stated, do they think that he will be convicted just when they were talking to you? >> frankly, they don't and part of this is pushing that. they want to push and pressure of the jury or pressure of the court to hold title rittenhouse accountable in their words. >> laura: so victor, their role there is to try to scare the jury. the jury knows they are out there, they're going to torch kenosha if they don't get their way. again, how did we get here, what set this all in motion? >> it had something to do with kyle rittenhouse and has nothing to do with him. the case was pretty clear. he was an armed 17-year-old who is being pursued by two convicted felons who wanted to hurt him and another person who had an arrest for illegal use of firearms but in the other sense, it was like saying hands up, don't shoot in f

joining me now is victor davis hanson, senior fellow.failed gubernatorial candidate beta or reveals what the left is using the entire rittenhouse case for. watch. >> this entire tragedy makes the case that we should not allow our fellow americans to own and use weapons that were originally designed for battlefield use, that ar 15, ak-47 has one single solitary purpose and that is killing people as effectively, as efficiently and as great a number in his little time as possible. we saw that in kenosha. >> they don't want citizenry to protect themselves even in the police or local officials will not. >> that's what the rittenhouse trial is all about. one of the most important trials in our lifetime because this all academic idea the crime was just a social construct to create, laws created by the elite to the press people of color has filtered into the police and district attorney so police can't or don't have the ability you won't enforce the law, or the prosecuting attorneys will not indict or prosecute crimes and you end up with kenosha

victor davis hanson joins us now. thank you so much for joining.think about if i thing that's happened in the last ten months, imagine three more years of that. this is not a partisan point, i mean it. what is this country going to look like at this pace? >> you've got to remember, it's not going to self-correct. these are all self-induced. if you would've fallen asleep and done nothing we would be so much better off by continuing the policies he inherited. this was self-inflicted and it's not going to be corrected, because as you say, he insults the people that criticize him or he laughs it off and says inflation is a -- a high-class problem. are you didn't get your treadmill and stuff. the midterm -- we have one coming up in a year. i think most people, i think i'm are sick of it and we are probably going to see a correction like 1938, 1994, 2010. that won't bring things back to normal, but it will stop the damage. i think they will probably win the senate too. then it is going to get interesting because they set the precedent that when the presi

join in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, text and tweets prepared victor davis hansonday december 5 at noon eastern on in-depth on booktv before the program visit c-span shop.org in your copy of his book. >> columbia university visiting scholar recently argued that conservative evangelicals do not uphold christian values. here is a portion of the program. >> i wrote the book out of sadness and outrage at what the even debacle christians are doing to the nation into the way with the namesake too so many to the detriment of so many and society and in fact some of their dialogue and rhetoric particularly at the port of a hateful former president who is caused so much pain and the society. that's why i wrote the book. i'm good to share a little from the log of the book to give you some sense of my outrage. how fiercely so many of america's evangelicals would brace the community affirming commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. so seriously it inspired them to actively organize an economic presentation . . . >> and answers by the very bible that every professional is

new criterion's 40th anniversary, and please feel free to take a magazine, is the launch of victor davis hanson's important new book, "the dying citizen." his publisher, which to my great sorrow is not encounter books but another lesser publisher. [laughter] they looked out with this one. this might be the most important book, and you know he's written a string of important books. it's about to -- everyone thinks of the citizen as being something around forever and it'sot not true. victor has written what i think it is going to be one of the books of the year if not one of the books of this new decade. so please feel free to take a copy. remember its title and the publishers so that you can stock up for real for your holiday shopping purchases. i also want to do some thank youse. there are several people in the room who support without would not exist. i won't embarrass you by naming you, but i want to single out the hoover institution and the robert family foundation who made of the evening itself help make the evening possible. we will be joined at any moment by megyn kelly who will do the inte

tonight at 7:00 we have steve scalise who actually took a bullet from a radical left winger and victor davis hanson emily: all right, guys, the duffys are out with new book called all-american christmas and highlights the stories, traditions and recipes of a ton of fox personalities including myself. it's really amazing and you can buy it at anywhere giflts are sold. it makes a great holiday gift go to foxnews.com/books. >> jesse: you. >> emily: my dad and my mom and her mom at christmas. a few photos in the book. >> jesse: very cute. >> emily: thank you so much. it was so fun to write it i loved connecting with our family traditions and recipes i knew you would love it too. i want to take a moment to congrats with all of my love my five weeks of radiation for breast cancer, five days week for five weeks this was her final time today. this is her ringing the gong. cindy, we love you. we are praying for you. you are so strong and you are now cancer free. >> jesse: all right. tough girl. your turn. >> kennedy: mine sucks compared to that that was beautiful and meaningful. go to mcrib. ever wonder how

victor davis hanson, thank you. so the biden administration is actually telling us that actually inflation is a good thing and because the media will defend literally anything the white house says, their allies at news organizations have been repeating that message. here is part of it. >> you do make a really good point that inflation as a product of demand has an upside, correct? >> right to the extend it's coming from a strong economy, a strong consumer. that's not, you know, that's not a bad thing. >> this is the fastest recovery right now in recent memory. demand is high. wages for the bottom 40% of workers are rising very fast, fast enough to help overcome what is the big central problem that everyone is rightly discussing right now, inflation. >> nobody likes it pay more but on average, we have the machinery to do so. household -- money to do so. household savings are at an economy high. >> unemployment is at its lowest point since the pandemic began so the economy isn't bad, it's just that people are mad beca

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