cuts. senator tom coburn will be here as well and newt gingrich. david hasselhoff will join us and talk about his new reality series. that david hasselhoff. don t hassle the hoff or the off or the hoff. that s right. and donald trump will be here. very exciting because the apprentice is coming to a close this year as people who need a job get a job. indeed. so we have a busy three hours starting right now. let s talk a little bit first you know a couple of days ago, the white house. they had their meeting. they sucked me in. gretchen wouldn t buy any of it. we saw the picture of the president of the united states with his hands on the shoulder of eric cantor and it looked like they were having a good time and republicans and democrats were going to get together. that ground to a halt yesterday. mitch mcconnell and 41 other republicans sent a letter to harry reid saying hey, not so fast until we get action on tax hikes. listen. while ago, i delivered a letter to
why didn t they just figure this out today? all the leaders were one room. what do we pay them for? karl rove joins us. good evening. what do you think of the meeting to plan the meeting to outsource the job? you are right. we ve known it will happen for a decade. president obama had all year and big majority in congress in both houses. democrats in control of the senate and the house. they haven t been able to come up with a consensus inside the democratic party. bill mcgern had a piece in the wall street journal, tuesday columnist and had an interesting point to make. sure they had a kumbaya moment at the white house, hands on shoulders, everybody coming together and earnestly saying we ll work together. but the democrats are in control. they have until the end of the year. if they had an idea what they want to do to pass it, they d pass it. the fact of the matter is the democrat failed to provide the leadership and democrats are badly split. some of them, majority want
meeting. why didn t they just figure this out today? all the leaders were one room. what do we pay them for? karl rove joins us. good evening. what do you think of the meeting to plan the meeting to outsource the job? you are right. we ve known it will happen for a decade. president obama had all year and big majority in congress in both houses. democrats in control of the senate and the house. they haven t been able to come up with a consensus inside the democratic party. bill mcgern had a piece in the wall street journal, tuesday columnist and had an interesting point to make. sure they had a kumbaya moment at the white house, hands on shoulders, everybody coming together and earnestly saying we ll work together. but the democrats are in control. they have until the end of the year. if they had an idea what they want to do to pass it, they d pass it. the fact of the matter is the democrat failed to provide the leadership and democrats are badly split. some of them, majo
live coverage of the 27th annual miami book fair international. more than 350 authors take part in this eight-day festival and booktv will be live all weekend from miami-dade college with over 20 author events and collins. here is our schedule of coverage for today. now in about five minutes we will be bringing you a free year of george w. bush from this past sunday. president bush officially opened this year s miami book fair with a discussion of his new book, decision points. he has spoken in the chapman conference center at miami-dade where we will be bringing youvet live events today and tomorrow.a now in about an hour, you will have the chance to talk to autr author sebastian junger in his latest book war, mr. younger chronicle the experiences of u.s. troops fighting inthe e afghanistan and a half-hour lfter that we will be joined byl attorney kendall coffey.ll cof mr. kendall s clients have book included elian gonzalez. cou he has written a book aboutill trying high fil
we re bringing you live events today and tomorrow. in an hour you ll have the chance to talk to author sebastian jungr, who chronicles the experience of u.s. troops, and after that will we be joined by kendall coffey, and he has written a book about trying high profile cases in the court of public opinion. he will be taking your call. you will be able to see sebastian junger and he will be joined by a veteran and rhodes scholar who will be speaking about this novel which took 30 years to publish. after that, susan hasler wig be here on our book tv set in miami to take your calls. this summer she published a novel about the cia intelligence. after that we re pleased to be joined by one of the cofounders of the miami book fair international, mr. kaplan, thank you for having us down here. when and how did the miami book fair international get started? started a lot of years ago. i want to thank c-span for being here. it s a major part of what we do at this fair. this is ou