Fight terrorism, but how . We sat down with mr. Trumps secretary of Defense James Mattis in his first formal interview since taking the job. We are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot. Dickerson and the secretary thoughts about the threats from north korea. It would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat. Dickerson we will have a report from iraq and we will look at another war with filmmaker ken burns who will preview his upcoming project the war in vietnam. Plus the president returns to new questions about soninlaw Jared Kushners contacts with the russians. And his own effort to influence the investigation. We will have plenty of analysis on all of the news coming up on face the nation. Good morning and welcome to face the nation t i am john dickerson. We begin with an update on the war in terror as iraqi force ms. Continue their final push to get isis out of mosul, our Charlie Dagata is on the front lines and filed this repor
And were back now live from Jones College Prep High School in chicago and the Chicago Tribunes annual lit fest. Starting now mark bowden talks about his recent book, americas involvement in the vietnam war. Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome to the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Id like to give a shout out to our sponsors. This program is being broadcast live on cspan 2s book tv. At this time id like to throw it over to our interview, Chicago Tribune film critic michael phillips. [applaus [applause]. Thank you, thanks for coming out today and its my pleasure to talk with mark bowden about his new book hue 1968. For those of you who dont know his resume, hes a National Correspondent for the atlantic, contributing editor vanity fair, a writer, and author of many books on subjects all over the literally all over the world, from colombia and pablo escobar, an account to dday, to the killing of usama bin laden, many subjects. Probably best known for blackhawk dow
Look for these events to air in the near future on booktv, on cspan2. Margie ross the head of regular nory publishing. We have a busy fall planned. Our first big book of the fall will be a become called the big lie. Now, you know danesh is a multiple time number one New York Times best selling author with regular nary publishing and its about how the left call is accusing conservatives, our major, our reads, or being fascist. The new accusation. Were not racist anymore. Were fascist, and he says if you look at the way the left conducts itself, theyre the fascists. Theyre the people who want to shut down free speech, who want to have a bigger government and want the government to have more control over our lives, and who are bullying and rioting and disrupting when they dont like the results of an election. Just like a fascist would do. Who else . We also have second book by Sebastian Gorka why we fight. Last year we did a great book with Sebastian Gorka called defeating jihad and he is
This program is being broadcast live on cspan 2s book tv. At this time id like to throw it over to our interview, Chicago Tribune film critic michael phillips. [applaus [applause]. Thank you, thanks for coming out today and its my pleasure to talk with mark bowden about his new book hue 1968. For those of you who dont know his resume, hes a National Correspondent for the atlantic, contributing editor vanity fair, a writer, and author of many books on subjects all over the literally all over the world, from colombia and pablo escobar, an account to dday, to the killing of usama bin laden, many subjects. Probably best known for blackhawk down, an account of the 1993 raid in somalia that led to twou. S. Army blackhawk helicopters being down over downtown mogadishu and the grueling 15hour result. And the new book, which is out this week from Atlantic Monthly press is a very different scope, id say, than blackhawk down. Its also being made into a mini series already. The thing hasnt been ou
It is an honor for me to participate in this program at this place. Committed to protecting and sharing the rich legacy of the units its maybe and its a particular pleasure for me to be with you. Last year, my wife susan and i, attended a performance of hamilton in new york. Many lines from the play struck me and stayed with me but one of them kept running through my head. Eliza hamilton, the widow of alexander hamilton, saying with the chorus of the Founding Fathers who lives, guys, tells your story. This is relevant to my remarks and its relevant to my book because in any war, any war and in any armed confrontation, i guess, the first questions are the determinative ones, who lives guys. Stripped of all other explanations about the purposes and to the goals of war, this is the fundamental human question that those who go to war must face. Indeed, its the cool purpose of war. Its best never to forget this, who lives, guys. Thats why i had so much trouble in recent years as politicians