And china are the two highest carbon emitters. How about we create lower Carbon Economy . I dont know if you can get an agreement with india and china but time will tell. [indiscernible] mr. Perry senator graham what were you doing in charleston . Visiting my family. Senator graham warmer weather, but great day for food. Charleston has got it all. I know, it is so nice. Thank you very much. Senator graham i tell you what probably not a good time to talk about Global Warming this week. Go tigers when did you graduate . 2012. I came from the Downtown Central near walmart, so i didnt have are to walk. Have far to walk. That is where the bus dropped me off. Senator graham so you are in the air force now . Army reserves. Senator graham thank you for your service. What is your career field . Were going to our intel capabilities. But budget cuts might turn that around. Senator graham isil hates us both equally. Thank you. Thank you for your speech. Senator graham this is the coolest idea. Im from virginia and i think i can understand you a little better. Senator graham thank you very much. Senator graham outstanding, we will have somebody come by and visit. Please do. Senator graham we would love to have you at the event in the museum as well. There you go. You can patiently wait. [laughter] no one left behind. Thank you very much. Senator, if i could trouble you for a couple of these . Great talk yesterday, great talk today. Senator graham you been to both . Oh yes. By the way you have become a topic on the local Radio Station around here. On my way in, it were talking about you on meet the press about not having done emails. They wanted to know what are the opinions about you not having done email . Senator graham mr. Perry i get all kinds of input and text messages, but i decide who to call. I think i am in touch in other ways. [laughter] very nice meeting you. Thank you very much. Senator graham so, thank yall. Questions . A news conference, i guess . Whatever you all want to do. Only can say is he wasnt charged officially. They leaked the navy charge, i hate it when that happens to anybody. Id like like bob. Like everybody else, he is innocent until proven guilty. He was a champion on the arabian nuclear issue. Iranian nuclear issue. It may be political senator graham i dont know but leaking a potential indictment leaking at all nobody deserves that. Nobody wants to read in the paper that you may be indicted. I am just disgusted with the whole process. There is a big republican president ial field. You are not shying away from integration with primary voters. Senator graham you get any pollsters around here, when you ask primary voters if you should deport the 11 million and give them a chance were given the chance to pay taxes all of the things in the senate bill about 65 of republicans thinks that is good. I understand border security. We have to get that right. I understand more legal immigration. What im trying to tell my friends in the Republican Party the 11 million need to be dealt with in a fashion to get a bill passed. As to the others, they need to be dealt with in some form other than a deportation. I dont like the idea that you can live your the rest of your life but never have a chance to become an american. They should do it in a fashion that is long and hard. I dont like the european model. All i can say is that we needed to fix immigration, our National Security issues, our coastal issues, and economic issues. I am proud of the work ive done. Jeb bush, i think is talking in the right way. I am not going to give an inch on the idea that trying to solve illegal immigration is a bad thing for republicans to do. Senator, do print like this make you feel more likely to run , less likely to run, or do they make a difference . Senator graham it is a huge difference. It makes me more likely to run between the two events because i think i connect people well here. I think they generally like what i have say, and the process of running has been a ton of fun. Other than getting ghosted a live yesterday, it was a great event. Getting roasticed alive. This is fun. You get to talk about serious topics and laugh. Running for president in New Hampshire, to me would be fun. And i like the idea that you have to show up and stand in front of a crowd. Where do you stand on another round of stage three alignment enclosures . Senator graham if you have to do sequestration you have to close a lot of our bases. I want to tell members of congress if you want to keep your base open, cant have it both ways. Sequestration is fully and committed, youre going to cut the military to the smallest number sent 1940. To me, that is the dumbest thing we can do right now, given the threats. To implement sequestration, you would have a hard time. All right, thank you. Thanks senator. [indiscernible] senator graham we created the sanctions. This is about the sanctions ukraine. Sanctions you created. That is not the way you run a war. Thank you. Senator graham thank you. This weekend, cspans road to the white house coverage continues with speeches for 2016 president ial candidates. Including jeb bush, and texas senator ted cruz. Boston herald. Com is reporting on remarks i a former by eight former New Hampshire gop chair. Ted cruz will not darken our doorstep, he said. He says senator cruise represent everything senator cruz represents everything that is wrong with the ruble can party. He says he doesnt seem to be interested in campaigning to all americans, but only interested in appealing to the fringe. You can read more on bostonhe rald. Com. Our road to the white house coverage takes cspan two dover, New Hampshire to the home of former gop chair with a meet and greet with former governor jed push. Jeb bush. Sunday, remarks by texas senator ted cruz at the Lincoln Reagan dinner. 9 30 p. M. Also here on cspan. Former Texas Governor rick perry spoke at the politics and eg gs breakfast at Saint Anselm College on wednesday. He discussed Foreign Policy issues and the u. S. Economy. It is cohosted by the New Hampshire institute of politics. This is 45 minutes. Governor from the institute welcome back. Mr. Perry good to be here, and even remember it. My son sat next to you at the pizza place the last time you came through. Mr. Perry oh, the last time we were here. He spoke to you about biomedical engineering. Congratulations. Mr. Perry what is he doing now . He is in pharmaceuticals and is now going for his masters in process engineering. Senator graham mr. Perry in what engineering . Process engineering, it is biomedical tech. He tried to get into texas. Mr. Perry there is some fascinating stuff going on in texas we became, in this last year actually in january 2014, texas became the number one hightechs exporting state. I know, that is going on. Mr. Perry people always say texas is an oil and gas state it is gas centric. We are proud of our oral and gas industry, and it plays an Important Role. It is i will not say stagnant, it makes up around 14 of our gross product. The rest of the state is incredibly diversified in biotech, hightech. Texas Medical Center has more doctors and nurses than individuals coming in every day. I just wanted to say congratulations for coming through again. I look forward to seeing more. Mr. Perry tell your sonnet to keep us in mind as he grows. Your son to keep us in mind. I was here as well. Mr. Perry get our picture here, margaret. What do you do caitlin . I do communications. Mr. Perry ok, you have an Important Role to play here. Very good. Ive learned titus laryngitis. Better mr. Perry better you than me. You have an excuse to keep it sharp. Thank you for doing that. What have you been doing . Im down there three days a week. Mr. Perry you keep a home here and then keep an apartment there . We have an office. Just bringing people together. Mr. Perry i may talk about that a little today. I find that dysfunction one of our real challenges in this country. Governors dont have that luxury. We have to get things done. And we have never done anything big hi, how are you . The governor of massachusetts. Watched them to weeks ago [indiscernible] mr. Perry not one big issue did i pass in texas without democrat help. It is what this country has to have. We have to get past this talking past each other. It is one of the things im critical of the president on. He has really divided this country. He has divided us by gender, by race, by economic strata. We have to get over that. I grew up on a very rural cottage farm. We went for we werent poor. I didnt grow up that had Running Water until i met 78 years old. I didnt meet a republican or one that would even admit to be one. I was elected three times as a democrat. Reagan made it ok to be a republican in texas. Hey, come here jim. Jennifer, thanks for being here. Locally being a running mate. Mr. Perry mr. President , it is an honor to be here in this university, and to all of you, good morning. I found that on my numerous visits back to New Hampshire over the course of the years that you all appreciate plain talk about as well as any place in this country. And you want to hear some very plain talk about the challenges that we have in this country. And that is the spirit of which i come today, to share with you this vision of mine, and on three points i want to be very very clear. First, our country has entered and i think a time of testing, a time our Political Leadership is feeling that test. Is failing that test. The American People see a president who is in denial about the threats we face, making grave miscalculations that make the world less safe. Isis filled the void of failed policy in iraq and syria. In american tanks, with american weapons, isis began taking cities that just a few years ago had been freed by the blood of american soldiers. In these highly orchestrated videos, we are seeing broadcast to the world, beheadings. We are seeing a young jordanian pilot burned alive. These people have filled mass graves with muslims and christians alike. They have terrorized women. They have declared a caliphate over an area as large as the United Kingdom in that part of the world. And lets be clear about who isis is, what they represent. They are a religious movement that seeks to take the world back to the seventh century. Their aims are apocalyptic, to cleanse the world, not just of christians and jews, but of muslims who do not agree with their extreme ideology. And it is their stated vow to kill as Many Americans as they can. Heard the truth. The president declared in his state of the Union Address that the advance of isis had been israel should have the right to exist as a jewish state. Put all of that into context. Watching all of this unfold in front of us is the president of russia. He has been watching as our president drew a redline in syria that was crossed without consequence. And when he canceled plans to deploy the Missile System in poland and the Czech RepublicVladimir Putin was watching. And it was against this backdrop of weakness and empty words that putin then annexed crimea, he invaded ukraine, and it was in those conditions that allowed him to negotiate a onesided ceasefire at minsk with no real consequences. It from my perspective, it was a sorry sight to see western leaders rush to minsk to sign a second ceasefire that russia would invalidate just as quickly as they did the first. Here is the civil truth about this. The simple truth about this our allies doubt us and our enemies, our adversaries are all too willing to test us. And too often today we negotiate treaties and ceasefire agreements from a position of weakness rather than of strength. My point is this as a former captain in the United States air force, as a pilot who has flown into many of those regions in the middle east, including saudi arabia, i am not eager to pursue a military solution, the military action in that part of the world. For 15 years, we have tried a steady diet of military solutions to resolve ancient religious differences in the middle east. And i have seen the impact. I have seen the impact of these policies on our warriors, on their families. For a good seven years of my period of time as governor, from 2003 until 2010, there was hardly a week that went by that i did not write a letter, that i didnt visit a family, that i do not go to a hospital expressing my appreciation, my regrets for the loss of a life the sacrifices our heroes had made and their loved ones had to deal with. Wars must always be the last resort after all other options are exhausted. But we need to understand the essential lesson of history here. It is the strength and resolve in the face of threats that we face that guarantees peace for our children and for future generations. Its weakness and vacillation and Wishful Thinking regarding these dictators and totalitarians that endanger the peace of the world and drive global chaos. For the world to be safer, i believe with all my heart america must be strong. Must be stronger. And along that same thought process, if you will, along that same line, for america to be stronger, our border must be secure. Drug cartels and transnational gangs are smuggling drugs and weapons and people across a porous border today. They are a clear and present danger to the health and safety of america. Any conversation that we have about comprehensive Immigration Reform must begin with comprehensive border security. And that is exactly why last summer, when i met with president obama, and we discussed this issue of border security, i told him if he would not secure the border with mexico, texas would, and we did. Now, heres the second point that im going to be clear about today. The American People know that the United States economy can be vibrant again. Ronald reagan knew that weakness at home led to weakness abroad. We have to revitalize the American Economy if we are going to reassert americas strength abroad. Now, we are told we are in a recovery. Yet Labor Force Participation is at its lowest level since 1978. One in 10 American Workers are unemployed, underemployed, or have just given up hope of trying to find a job at all. One of five children live in families that are on food stamps. We need to look them in the face and ask them, is that the best that america can do . The president may be satisfied with 2 Economic Growth. I am not. The first time in american history, a generation of leaders are on the verge of breaking the social compact, if you will, with the next generation. That is, that we leave a better country for them than what we found for ourselves. Fewer of us believe in the American Dream now than in the last 20 years for middleclass americans. Opportunity and security have been replaced by worry and anxiety. Outofpocket health costs housing, college tuition, all of them have gone up faster than wages have. Student debt is at an alltime high, and this has to change. It is time to restore hope and opportunity to middleclass america. Start with our tax code. We had the highest Corporate Tax rate in the western world. That doesnt hurt companies, it also hurts the american worker. Economist will till you that if you cut the Corporate Tax rate i 10 , it will lift wages for the middle class worker by between 5 and 10 . That is what we need to be focused on, helping raise those workers wages. We need more than just Corporate Tax reform to help the workers. We also needed to simple fight the tax code simplified the tax code so that you reduce the tax burden on all individuals. We also need to tackle the inequities that are caused by this. Frank regulation dodd frank regulation. It did not eliminate too big to fail. In fact, it codified it. It funds wall street while it restricts access to funds for main street. Because of Legal Compliance is no overwhelming our community banks. Those of you that come from small communities in no those banks may be the only institution in our rural areas to Fund Economic development there. They happen to provide half of all the Small Business loans in this country. This contributes that perception and i would argue the reality that the big institutions of Big Government can take care of their own while main street gets the crumbs. We need to stop the excessive regulation that kills jobs. They harm Small Businesses, cost every American Family these regulations come almost 15,000 every year. That is the cost of this overregulation. We needed to repeal every perverse incentive that prevents people from looking to work. One of the many flaws of obamacare is that it causes employers to move people from fulltime work two parttime work just to avoid this massive new insurance cost and that needs to be repealed. The next resident should look at all of the regulations that harm fulltime jobs, harm fulltime work, and in them and end them, period. That needs to be the straight up work of the next president of the United States. We havent 18 trillion debt. Have a 18 trillion debt. Every department, every agency needs to be required to look at every dime they spent and justify that. Liberals in washington have spent 30 years criticizing reaganomics while delivering trickledown liberalism. Their view is clear you give more power and money to the government, let the liberal elites take care of their causes and leave an ever shrinking pie for middleclass americans. Their answer to jobs is spend close to 1 trillion in stimulus , wash the money through this huge bureaucracy, and and hope a few jobs get created. No wonder that washington is now the richest metropolitan area in america. Not because they create wealth but because they redistribute it. Redistribution is not a strategy for wealth creation. Only Economic Growth is, and that only happens in the private sector. But me tell you where the economic revival is occurring or one of the places it is occurring in an extraordinary way, and that is in my home state. Instead of expanding the welfare state, we have built the freedom state. Our formula was simple control taxes and spending, provide smart regulation and develop an educated workforce and stop Lawsuit Abuse at the courthouse. That is it. Those four principles they will work anywhere. In my 14 years as governor, we helped create nearly one third of all the new private sector jobs created in United States. In the last seven years, from 2007 to 2014, that number would we created 1. 4 million jobs in that state. Minus those jobs from the total jobs created in america, that number would be 250,000 jobs in the red. Under my leadership, we had 14 years of balanced budgets, never skipped a debt payment, never raised taxes and i signed the largest tax cut in texas history. For more than a decade, we have led the nation in international exports. Just last january of 2014, texas became a number one hightech exporting state in the nation bypassing california. In 2013, we had the secondhighest High School Graduation rates in america. We had a 118 increase in hispanic participation in our higher education, mr. President. I might add on that secondhighest High School Graduation rate, that is in a state with a very Large Population of english as a second language, a really Challenging Group of people to teach, but theyre getting the job done. I happen to think it is time to bring that type of economic revival to every state with policies that limit government instead of expanding it. Here is the third point. I have never been more certain than i am today that the best years are ahead of us in this country. Im optimistic about the future because i know that the weakness and incompetence of our government should not the confused with the strength and ingenuity of the American People. Our experiment in this republican form of government is too durable to be sidetracked by a confused administration. We survived worse. We survived a civil war, two world wars, Great Depression we even survived jimmy carter. [laughter] and we wont survive the obama years as well. We will survive the obama years as well. Theres nothing wrong with america that cannot be fixed with a change of leadership. I see in america, wages are on the way up, freedom is on the march, where opportunity is the birthright of all and not just dispensed by a few out of washington to a select few. An america that the world again that stands with our allies, where citizens can dream again and an america where the of our Founding Fathers ideals and our childrens dreams. Thank you and god bless you. [applause] the governor has agreed to answer couple of questions. Governor perry what he said was i have agreed to do a couple of questions. Please introduce yourselves. [laughter] im sorry. I paid for this mic governor. [laughter] questions for the governor. Maybe i can ask the first question. The young lady here. Thank you for allowing me to ask my question. I am from New Hampshire. I teach in a committee college. What will you do to change how campaigns are financed and please address how money corrupts and controls our political system, what you can do to change that. Governor perry i come from a state that has no limits on Campaign Contributions and we are all about disclosure. I am a big fan of disclosure. I think that you disclose where you get the dollars coming you do it almost immediately. In the world we live and with technology available, you can require that where those dollars come from, who those individuals are, and i think the American People are smart enough to know whether or not they think that is too much or whether that would corrupt the process. I happen to think the limiting of dollars is not the issue, i think the transparency of the where the dollars come from is the real issue and we need to be substantially involved with making it be a more transparent process. Thank you so much for being with us. Appreciate it. Great presentation. I thank you for your time. I am bob, a volunteer with aarp New Hampshire. My question is domestic and it is about medicare. We recently took a survey at aarp and it was of those residents of New Hampshire 50 years of age and older. A big point they made was they are concerned about health care and the insurance they hope saves them from heavy bills but they are particular about medicare. Will it either for them as it is the next generations . Governor perry that is my medicare registration. I spent an inordinate amount of time on the telephone and got a really nice and capable lady helping me as i worked my way through this. Obviously, the challenge that we have as a country is that these entitlement programs in the out years are not sustainable. That we all need to be honest about that, and not honest about it for me or you, but honest about the next generation that is paying into these programs and expect them to be there and to have that safety net as they mature and become senior citizens. We need to be honest about how we are going to deal with that , and come up with solutions whether it is adding years to when you get that. I think most thoughtful people would say that is one of the alternatives out there. To really think about this 18 trillion debt we have doesnt take into account these numbers. For us, for the next president and congress not to legitimately touch that and find the solution for that is unacceptable. We have to get commitments from all of the candidates all of the individuals wanting to be candidates, and our members of congress to Work Together to find solutions to these programs. Thank you. Dont raise your hands all at once. Mr. Perry that wasnt a set up wasnt . I just happen to have this my pocket. What he gave me was in was an aarp membership registration. [laughter] could you talk about the next resident next president on entitlement reform. How realistic would it be that if you were elected president he could work with a divided congress . Governor perry i think americans are so sick of the gridlock in washington dc. People walking past each other not getting anything done. Walking on the floor of the house and walking away and taking your toys and leaving and that is not acceptable. One of the reasons i do think that our nominee i am obviously biased about this but i think the executive experience of having to get things done governors dont have the luxury of just having a conversation , giving a speech, and walking away. There was not one big thing that occurred in texas, not tort reform, not education reform not those major budget issues we have to deal with, that was done with just republicans. There were democrat chairs democrat leaders we had to work with. I think the next president of the United States and im critical of the president and the divisiveness we have seen, pitting individual against individual, gender against gender, picking economic troops against economic groups. We need to be working to bring this country together, to reach across the aisle, find those places. We have passed some of the most sweeping prison reform, judicial reform in america in texas. It was a democrats idea. We created drug courts in 2001. Texas is not known for being soft on crime. We were putting kids in jail for long periods of time because of drugrelated events. They broke the law, they did something bad, what dont ruin their lives forever. Dont throw them in prison where they learn to become first rate criminals. Give them some options. Get those judges at some options. That is what we did. In the early part of the 21st century, we put those into place. Giving those judges the flexibility to get shock probation, to give treatment rather than send them to prison. Do you know what the result was . The result is we shut down three prisons in texas, saved 2 billion. That is real conservatism in my book. That is what we needed to be looking at in washington dc. Maybe it is medicare reform, maybe it is our other entitlement reforms where we sit down and find likeminded democrats that know we have to deal with this. We used to do that. We saw tip oneill working with Ronald Reagan. Im looking for the next Ronald Reagan and tip oneill to come forward and find a solution to challenge us in this country. And they are out there, you just have to have the will. I am abundantly optimistic. I shared with you that the best days of this country are in front of us. Economically, Foreign Policywise, and it will require men and women to put aside their differences and find things that they can Work Together on. Two last questions. Bob from massachusetts. I appreciate what you are saying relative to bipartisanship and working. Over the weekend, a letter was sent by republican colleagues that was highly criticized by secretary kerry when he testified yesterday. My question is hypothetically, relative to the spirit of doing business in d. C. These days, if you were a u. S. Senator, would you have signed on to that letter, and if not in the spirit of timonium and Ronald Reagan what would a better , approach have been to try to get the republican senators message across to the president . Mr. Perry i am not a United States senator, but i signed that letter. Because i happen to believe that there are some things that are too important not to find compromise on. Allowing iran to get its hands on a Nuclear Weapon is nonnegotiable in my opinion. I think the president is making an error. I think that is a really bad example of finding a place we can Work Together because there are places out there and things as so important that we cannot compromise our principles. Allowing this country that still is the greatest supporter of terrorism in the world when you see iran funding hamas, both sunnis and shiites theyre kind of equal opportunity funders. They both want to wipe israel off the face of the earth. I cannot accept that as a place where i will compromise. You work with fqhcs. I know we are shifting gears but the point is, that is where we can find places to Work Together. We have expanded the Health Care Delivery system and other private sectors ways deliver health care. Giving that type of compromise that type of negotiation, i sit at the table and work with people from now on because those are places where democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives can indeed agree. I think it makes sense. I think it makes sense to quit building prisons. I think that is where liberals and conservatives can agree that those are some good things to Work Together on. We can find those and ways to prioritize our spending. But to use what is going on in iran i happen to think those senators and senator cotton in particular could have clipped out of the United States constitution and send it to a iran. He said there is a number of ways we negotiate, we do treaties which require the United States senate to sign that we do an agreement. That is what this is with the president. This is an agreement between the president of the United States and the ayatollah. I support the United States as a body. And certainly the next dozens of the United States will not be held accountable by this president in signing an agreement that i dont think its in the u. S. Is test interest and certainly not in isaraels best interest. [inaudible] how would you see education could to beating to the future contributing to the each of our nation . Mr. Perry im Pretty Simple about k12 as a potential candidate for the United States. I think that needs to be left to the states. I think your governor, your legislature working with your school administrators, teachers, parents, a substantially better place for a curriculum to be developed than a onesizefitsall out of washington. The department of Education Needs to be a repository of good practices. That might be a good final state for it. I dont think that washington needs to be this onesizefitsall this place where health care, education reform, transportation and infrastructure these to come from. Louis brandeis, not a wellknown conservative, former member of the Supreme Court said that the states were laboratories of democracy. States need to experiment and try different ideas. From time to time, they will mess up. From my perspective, colorado is making an error in legalizing marijuana. It is exactly what Louis Brandeis said. I dont agree with, it but i respect their right to find out they are making a mistake. [laughter] the same is true about education policy. People closer to the schools closer to your state, closer to understanding what the people of New Hampshire are all about, you come up with the best curriculum. You find the ways to educate your children substantially better than this onesizefitsall that too often comes out of washington dc. We hope you all will come back. Mr. Perry i will be back. [applause] i will be back. Take care of yourself. Have some water there. Steve, thank you sir. Great to have you be here. We look for to seeing again. Mr. Perry ill be back. Your personality will play extremely well in this state. It really will. Mr. Perry thank you. I want to come back and spend some time with the kids. From my perspective, let me find a is that lindsay . I will get over here by lindsay, she is my body. Im a big Lindsey Graham a fan. I think he is one of the most knowledgeable people we have on Foreign Policy and we need to listen to him. He is a very bright united state senator. He has carved out his niche and it is Foreign Policy. We did a poll with bloomberg on foreignpolicy issues and mccain came up to me and said Lindsey Graham is on every single one of these issues. Mr. Perry i agree. I talked to him tonight before last. Picking his brain about what is going on in ukraine particular. This whole putin is a dangerous guy. This strategy of patience with him i dont think it is wise because the theory is with oil prices being in the tank and he has all of these economic problems and we will just outlast him and he will collapse you have to remember the 90s and how bad it got in russia. It is not anywhere near as bad as that now. He has 386 billion of reserves. All of this oil and gas money, he put aside. People think about what was going on in the 90s and it is a lot better now. Trying to wait him out is not a good strategy. I think you have to fund the lethal weapons to the ukrainian military. You take the swift banking ability away from him. There is a law where you can really go after the oligarchs and the thousand or so people that actually run russia and really squeeze them. We could flood europe with liquefied natural gas and that would really bring him to his knees. When i was in wisconsin, i worked with a congressman on my board and we were looking at income contingent student loan payments. It is very simple. The u. K. Is doing it, australia is doing it, and setting paying back Student Loans on a fixed time and they say, if you are an investment banker and a teacher, you pay back in a different timeframe with a fix on the amount of interest you will pay. Mr. Perry i wonder if we can get the federal government out of the student loan business. That is the ultimate objective. Mr. Perry give it back to the private sector. Thank you, sir. Ok. Great. Mr. Perry let me take off my cspan microphone and note to who to give it to. Thanks sir. Governor, it is good to see you again. Mr. Perry akalan, thank you. On fridays cspan road to the white house conference, kentucky senator rand paul and former Florida Governor jeb bush. At 1 p. M. Eastern, paul speaks to students at the university at maryland about overhauling the criminal justice system. The 20 16th president ial candidate is a risk answer of the redeem act, keeping nonviolent offenders out of prison. You can watch his remarks on cspan. Wrote to the white house will be in dover, New Hampshire at the have at the home of Fergus Collins at the home of jeb bush. Also here on cspan at 7 45 p. M. Eastern. Here are some of our featured programs this weekend on the cspan network. Saturday at 1 p. M. Eastern cspan 2s book tv is like at the university of arizona for the festival of books. Featuring race, politics, the civil war, and sunday at 1 00, we continue live coverage with panels on the Obama Administration and the issue of concussions in football. And we are live from Longwood University in virginia for the civil war seminar, with historians and authors talking about the closing weeks of the war. Sunday morning at 9 00, we continue live coverage with remarks on the surrender of the confederacy and the immigration of confederates to brazil. Find the complete schedule at cspan. Org. Email us. Send us a tweet. Join the conversation. Like us on facebook. The top u. S. General in south america briefed