first up, here's zachary ross. [silence] >> hello everyone my name is davis, it's an honor to welcome you tonight to this debate with zachary ross for his any book the great suppression, cash and conservative assault on democracy. once again i want to thank you all for coming out and mention that this is a part of a partnership that we have with politic and pros and bunch of poets that we're allowed to host eventsbook events in the spaces as well as selling books and we sell books in three of the location it is now so here at 14 and b and tacoma loik and check out our calendar of events and browse a bookstore and see how this collaboration has been going on. so one of the great aspect of that you can ordered to and drink throughout the event and i encourage you to do so and thank or beloved servers being able to staff this event. before we intros what is going on tonight, [inaudible] both silence your krefns at this moment so we don't have any interruptions. also if you're interested in purchasing the week we have

we kick off the evening at 7:30 portfolio ian with msnbc's zachary ross and his thoughts on vote aring rights and corporate involvement in elections. at 8:45, jack cashell takes a look at the crash of flight twa 800. then at ten on booktv's "after words," temple university professor discusses her book, "paying the price." and we wrap up in prime time at 11 with bradley bear certificate discussing his award-winning biography of russell kirk. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> at that time the british empire was huge, you know? it ruled 450 million people, a quarter of the oplation, and they were spread -- population, and they were spread all over the world. and so they were spread very thin, you know? they were constantly putting down revolts. but to them, you know, these little colonial wars that they would fight, it was all about gallantry, you know, and being dashing. they hated losing their red coats, you know? they thought the khakis made them look hike bus drivers -- like bus drivers -- [laughter] and they were still even, you know, for the boer war when it began, th