Well, thank you for the remarks this afternoon, and thank everyone here today. It was just slightly over seven years ago that washington converted food court of the Pentagon City mall the night after, you know, petraeus confirmation hearing before going off to baghdad that then colonel on the phone to someone motioned me to walk over to him because he was want you to come over to iraq, and four sol it years working for and with general petraeus. There are some themes to that, that you talked about today, some themes you cover that id like to teds out more fully. Maybe open a little more grounds for discussion. Reading startses with military eyes. First, as someone who was there, a smaller machine, it was a reminder of just how much activity the lfl and various complex activity was going on in the headquarters in iraq at the different levels, at the force level and core level and liaison to the u. S. Embassy and Iraqi Government and United Nations and so on. Its an amazingingly complex
As a child to find out the truth and we wrap up tonights prime time programming at 11 p. M. Eastern. Iraq war veteran phil clay discusses his collection of short stories about soldiers experiences at war and back home. That all happens next on cspan2s booktv. Booktv continues with eric schmidt and jared cohen. The two talk about the updated edition of their book, the new digital age, in which they discuss nsa spying and current state of internet security. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [applause] thank you. Well, it is really exciting to be back at the Computer History Museum with my good friend, mentor, colleague, eric. Schmidt and my friend, jared. Last time we were here we were talking about lean in, and today we are talking about the new digital age and future of the world. I mean youve really done this job on google now because i keep running into lean in. Its like you still work there. [laughter] were excited. But its a real treat for me. Eric, i owe my career to eric. Er
I keep running into lean in, lean in, lean in within google. I should work better. Its a real treat for me. I owe my career to eric. He was the first person who hired me when many people wouldnt. Its worked out so well. Youve done so much better since he left google. Cannot we talk about the slot. Everyone needs one mentors and im so grateful. When i first came to facebook and he is friends with our head of product, chris cox. He said versus what to and he totally gets it. He runs around the world tried to get other people to get it. Hes been avoid super important to her industry and technology. Excited to be here at both of you. What started the beginning. Youre both fairly busy dudes. I mean, jobs, jobs. Its not even that obvious you would know each other that well. Lets tell the story. How did you meet in what would possess you to sit down and write this . My friend dawn wanted to visit a son who is fighting in iraq so i went along. I figured thanksgiving in iraq with the troops wou
Book tv has put together a program on consumer is some featuring the clips of four officers speaking about their books on the topic. Over the next hour to will hear from empowerment ceo anderson the church of stop shopping reverend billy, eduardo of the New York Times and critic and leonard pitt and you can watch all the programs featured in the entirety on our web site, booktv. Org she appeared on book tv after words in 2012. Here is a portion of that interview. Early on i guess it would have been clear that they would have consequences for you and your family. What were the things that you were most concerned about moving . The biggest concern and i hate to admit as much as we want to take a stand on our we did believe in some of the stereotypes about poor service, poor quality, high prices, all that kind of stuff that impact the small and local businesses so that was the biggest concern is are we really going to live like this and expect these services to take a stand . So that was
World and the ryan republican faction. These days the front page of bannons old stomping ground, breitbart, suggests that Trumps White House is in a fullon civil war with the battle for trumps righthand man reaching game of thrones level proportions. The altright blog has led the charge in blaming paul ryan for the health bills failure. Its also starting chatter as replacing ryan as speaker of the house pinning the Stunning Health care loss on ryan. After trump set a tweet about janines fox show another right wing outlet got involved. Now, i certainly have not spoken with the president about any of this, but i can only imagine that he and his aides took on health care because they believed you had his back and you didnt. Paul ryan needs to step down as speaker of the house. As these internal republican factions solidify and we learn just how much control trump has over them, perhaps the Lesson Learned is when your party plays the game of thrones, you win, or your bill and your clout di