Up next on booktv brad meltzer weaves together historical accounts of Benedict Arnold and artifacts associated with the revolutionary war general in his new fictional thriller. [applause] here is where we have fun tonight. We have kids in the front row and that means chaos. Lets hear it for cspan. I love cspan. There is no better crowd than the washington metro area. All the viewers of cspan are in this room, and watch on a regular basis so we welcome everyone to cspan but a couple other things we will do, first i will tell you about the difference between history and destiny. We know what history is, it is what happened but destiny is what must happen. This is true. I cant believe this is happening but my father was struck by lightning. His father, my grandfather, i am not joking, was struck by lightning. That means dont stand next to me in a rainstorm. Last week i was telling my son the story. My dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning, hes like oh my gosh, we ar
[inaudible conversations] welcome, everybody, to the International Spy museum. I am mark stout, former historian of the museum, the current historian is out of town on a secret mission which he will hear about in the future, i am always delighted to come back to my old haunt and step in when necessary. I think it will be a Wonderful Program we are putting on in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy because this story we are hearing tonight is about a world war ii famous and dramatic world war ii raid into norway conducted by norwegians. It was obvious to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy so i would like to say by way of introduction to our friends from the Norwegian Embassy, specifically, minister, counselor for communications, Cultural Affairs and education at the royal Norwegian Embassy. He has been serving in washington for 10 months on this particular tour. He served previously a decade or so ago, preceding in oslo at the foreign minister where he has been a number of times bu
He attended. Of course its been turned into a Wonderful Museum and i purchased his book. This man is an incredible human being. He is brilliant, he continues to be a true moral leader and he was a man really ahead of his time. His book, a full life is a wellwritten, very current, and gives a lot of history. It tells you who he is as a man, as a person who is a believer in god and a christian. But how how he applies his christian value in his public life in terms of feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless, and all of the great values that are taught through the bible. Book to be wants to know what you are reading this summer. Tweet us your answer at book tv or you can post it on our facebook page, facebook. Com book tv. Heres a look at some of the current bestselling books according to the conservative book club. Topping the list, former secret Service Officer deary byrne talked about his experiences working in the Clinton White house in crisis of character. Followed by bill orei
Doing something against the law. No reasonable prosecutor would bring second case in 100 years focused on gross negligence. Cheryl well look at political implications in a moment but first the legal ones with prosecuting to attorney brian claypool. Brian, your initial thoughts on testimony today as an attorney . Well, cheryl, i have four questions for fbi director comey. First of all, why did he not consider charging Hillary Clinton with gross negligence . Last time i checked, extremely careless is tantamount to grossly negligent. That is the first crime that wasnt considered. The second crime is perjury. She lied twice. The third crime, is obstruction of justice. And the fourth crime, i just researched is tampering with evidence. 30,000 emails were destroyed. Im a lawyer and i will tell you, cheryl, lawyers make recommendations to clients, but clients make the ultimate decision on making, on whether these emails were to be destroyed or not. Cheryl brian, i want to get your thoughts on
For us to defend . Hi, everyone, im eric boling, welcome to the cashing in. Welcome, everybody. Lisa, is trump right about halting the gravy train when it comes to defending other nations . Eric, well, donald trump is not out alone on a ledge here. Regarding nato, they reiterated after donald trump made the statements saying, look, relationship between u. S. And europe used to be 50 50, and now its 70 30 with the United States taking the lead there financially. Former defense secretary gates made similar statements in the sense theres only a handful of nato members paying the amount they should. However, ill say that with a caveat that sometimes things are in the United States military interest, and theres not gain with troops and larger presence in the philippines due to china aggression in the south china sea. What do you say . Should more pony up more than the minimum they pay and sometimes they are not even paying . I think that lisa is right. Others have said it, but its resinates