George w. Bush at Southern Methodist university. Commencement addresses begin at noon eastern here on cspan. George bush when i mention the speech through some of my pals they were surprised i was going to give it. I have not given a commencement speech since leaving office. My decision is quite practical. I got a phone call from my landlord. [laughter] gerald turner. Rather than reasoning raising the rent or holding the security deposit, i was surprised to hear him ask if i believe in free speech. [laughter] i said, yes. He said, perfect, this is your chance to get one. I am truly honored to be here. You can see all of george w. Bush plus commencement speech bushs commencement speech tomorrow noon. Sunday night at midnight some provisions of the patriot act require. Mitch mcconnell wants to extend all of the act, but ran call rand paul opposes. To try to come up with a legislative compromise, Mitch Mcconnell has called senate back in one day early on sunday at 4 00 p. M. When the sena
[inaudible conversations] a next on booktv after words with guest host Leslie Sanchez former director of the white house education initiative. This week u. S. Representative Luis Gutierrez and his memoir Still Dreaming my journey from the barrio to capitol hill. The 10 term democratic congressman from chicago discusses his journey from cabdrivers to Community Organizer to legal charge for Immigration Reform at the u. S. House of representatives. The program is about an hour. Host congressman get to see you. Lets have a conversation between two Puerto Ricans a liberal and conservative but we share a love for puerto rico in weird both committed to Immigration Reform. I found the book fascinating. Its great storytelling. You have a great sense of humor. Humor. There are some fantastic and it notes here and i recommend everyone should read this book. And latino or nonlatino its a fabulous book. As i read it to things came to mind identity and empowerment to words that describe Luis Gutierr
You find embrace. It really depends on where you look. The thing about all of this is though most of these people are trying their best to do what they think is right and i think the motive does matter in a lot of the situations. Most people are trying to be loving even if it doesnt feel like love to some of the rest of us. Host can you give an example . Guest so the hardest example for people to accept from Westborough Baptist church in topeka kansas. When i went very very much wanted to dislike the church. They are so angry. It seems like they are so hateful and yet they tried to explain to me that what they are doing is out of love because they believe that they have been instructed to love their neighbor and how can you love your neighbor more than to tell them that they are going to hell but they have a chance to turn around so they believe what they are doing is a loving thing. That is really hard for the west rest of us to accept and i dont expect everybody to accept that withou
Its the only place where republicans can win. Speeding out even though its phenomenal to be in orange Orange County and he loved being here the Nixon Library, a lot of conservatives shy away from president nixon because after all he was impeached for having the nsa spy on our citizenry. [laughter] for sticking the irs on his political opponents and for dan denning diplomats abroad. And for telling ad buy to the American People. If you like your health care insurance, you can keep your insurance. [applause] now, i know, its like the standards of treason. I am a lawyer and so you look at precedence and if you look at what people have been tried for treason for you now tokyo rose, gosh we have a lot of people i think you ma want to try for treason over the past few years but apparently we have just dropped for example jane fonda. Apparently with jane fonda we dropped any prosecutions for treason and the same thing for impeachment. One of the articles of impeachment for nixon who wasnt imp
Classrooms around the country but what has happened in the last 25 years, the 24 7 new cycle that john referred to is it you will then part by the internet when the original book published in 1988 the internet was merely a gleam in the eye but of course, since then it is striving driving the news cycle. We thought it was due for an update we started working on it three years ago and just published in september and we have been delighted by the reception so far. I will share some of the ideas in the book like World News Group does to give you an idea who we are although there was a good job setting be up and also to be clear that my purpose today is not to bash the Mainstream Media. I did not in any way, shape, or form consider the Mainstream Media or what people call the legacy media as the enemy. But i do believe clear in the midst of a pathological media culture. Some of the ideas i share today i hope will allow us to identify some of those and ultimately find a way out of that patho