[inaudible conversations] welcome to arlington vermont on booktv. Located on Lake Champlain about 45 minutes south of the Canadian Border. Its home to the university of vermont and its the states most populous city with about 42,000 residents. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners over the next hour we will feature the Literary Committee including author Willard Sterne Randall on the war of 1812. A lot of people have misconceptions about the war of 1812. They think it was all about the star spangled banner and the british attack on washington and it was not very important like a hiccup in history. It had been a long struggle with the british over trade and writes and basically to take us back so its much more important than the way its taught in school. We begin our special feature in burlington with bill mahers and Jeff Danziger on their book the full monty, vermont in the age of trump. About a month before trump was elected i had openheart surgery and so i was not in great shap
Because of press secretary can do everything him or herself. The best press operation i think again that has been pretty even, but even but when barack obama became president they kind of reorganized it ill walk in from the press. Into the lower press office. Almost twice as many people with a single best. People who specializes in each issue. Instantaneous and getting answers back. Cspan which was the hardest to get information from . Guest each administration had times. Toward the end of the Carter Administration we did not have email, we did not have everything is handed out in paper or announced over the loudspeaker, but the administration was so on the ropes and offensive that it got harder and harder to get through the top officials, harder and harder to get routine things from the. I think the best time for any of the administration was certainly true of george w. Bush when they 1st walk in the door then not only had an agenda but president ial transitions are now so orchestrate
It . [inaudible] spink is produced strengthen which incidentally youll actually be able to buy their afterwards. Which is a fascinating assault off a whole series of the current cyber debate. And the current temptation to fight cyber on the front of every single other now you can think of and present it in apocalyptic terms. So well be talking for half an hour and halfhour for questions answered. We can keep it lean and pointed. So let me start with one of my basic questions. Why did you feel this book needs to be written . Why did you feel the need to take on the whole Cyber Industry . When i was hired in the department of four studies, my head the department used to introduce me as [inaudible] he used to introduce me as mr. Thomas rid, he as our cyberwar expert. I always cringed when he did this, because remember the colleagues literally nextdoor in the office would be working on say, the First World War ever really serious on questions like the seven days for. Theres never been anyb
Every weekend since 1998, cspan2s booktv is shown over 40 those hours of programming with top nonfiction authors, including dede myers. I thought thats the answer, if there were more women in politics, the more women in power around the world things would change. I called my editor and she basically said okay. All of us in the working class are subjected to punitive taxes, being ignored by the elite media, not getting any kind of special interest help in washington like the fat cats get. Were all in the same boat no matter what color we are and thats the real problem. Where the only National Television network devoted to nonfiction books are out the fall are marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Next, jill lepore recalls the life of Benjamin Franklins youngest sister, jane franklin. Jane, the mother of 12 children, maintained a longstanding correspondence with benjamin, who wrote to his sibling more than any other person in his life. This is about an hour. Good evening. Thank you so mu
Defeated president incapable of accepting the fact of his loss. With the gop paving the way for trumps lies, standing up for the truth falls on Public Servants like chris krebs. He was fired for doing his job and refusing to participate in the president s big lie that the election was hacked. There is no foreign power that is flipping votes. Theres no domestic actor flipping votes. I did it right. We did it right. This was a secure election. Krebs appeared on 60 minutes last night and inspired another round of rage viewing from donald trump, who is holed up in the white house ranting and fuming about his loss. The Washington Post in a stunning piece of reporting from the weekend, writing that his isolation at this point resembles that of a mad king. Quote, the facts were indisputable, President Trump had lost, but trump refused to see it that way. Sequestered in the white house and brooding out of public view after his election defeat, rageful and at times delegal yus in a torrent of p