1996 book it takes a village is a topic of a round table discussion with gill troy of the brookings institution. 1993 and 1994 if you said it takes a no one knew what you were talking about. it s hillary s branding. carlos lozada of the washington post. it was a big moment right then to declare as she did in this book i m a moderate. and amy parnes of the hill. she s pushing equal pay and child care which was a huge issue for her right now. at 8:30 p.m. eastern, gary byrne discusses his book crisis of character. a white house secret service officer discloses his firsthand experience with hillary, bill, and how they operate. on sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, afterwards, author eric fair discusses his book consequence, a memoir and his experiences serving as an interrogator in abu ghraib prison in iraq. he s interviewed by raha wala from human rights first. the image of a number of men chained to their cell doors with their hands between their legs which
welcome. welcome to national right to life s session, the battle before us. it has been an amazing year. full of surprises. and we have learned not to take anything for granted. the presidency, the house, and the senate are all in play, and we need the help of every one of you this year. we have a panel of people who work every day in these areas here. and i will introduce them briefly. i think you probably know them all already. dr. david olstein, our executive director. our president carol tobias, and our political action committee director karen cross. [ applause ] . national right to life makes a recommendation on a candidate. when they do that, they take their time to collect all the facts and make the best possible decision on the life issue. don t let the media tell you how to vote. don t let your favorite commentator tell you how to vote. all of these people have lots of issues, and these issues, a whole range of them, are influencing their opinions. you need to loo
(202) 784-8001 for the mountain and pacific time zone. we are going to take your calls and learn about life in the u.s. for muslim americans. a new estimate of the u.s. , pew researchion center estimates there were about 3.3 million muslims of all in 2015.ng in the u.s. this means that muslims made up about 1% of the entire u.s. population. it is suggested that the muslim population will grow faster than the hindu population and much faster than the jewish population in the coming decade. in 2040, muslims are expected to become the second-largest religious group in the u.s.. by 2050, the american u.s. population muslim u.s. population is estimated to reach 2% of the population. living in a religiously pluralistic society, muslim americans are more likely than muslims in other countries to have many non-muslim friends. muslimsut half of u.s. say all or most of their close friends are also muslims, completed compared to a global median of 95% in 30 countries surveyed. musli
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. i had the honor of serving that as deputy to the library. welcome to the 2016 national book festival. generously sponsored by wells fargo. we at the library of congress are extremely thrilled to be presenting the national book festival where the 16th time. this event would not be possible without the friends that we have supporting us, generously supporting like wells fargo and we are very appreciative of that. more important, we would not be here, but for readers like all of you who support the authors, are interested in them and come out, so we are extremely excited. thank you so much for being here today. [applause]. this year s festival is inspired by journeys. the idea that a book is a voyage unto itself, taking us to places that we might not be able to see in person, but we can visit by reading about it. it to gives us the opportunity to better understand our world and in particular why we are here today celebrating histor
just so dominant. we had a presidential on the republican side and democrat side, 80 percent go to presidential and yet the american people put in all the incumbents again, roughly in congress so there s an amazing power of the perking winning elections and on top of the money part, people are lying themselves up to be chairman of the committee. that s a great idea but if you vote in lockstep with leadership in order to get that slot you can start looking both sides to this. they re not doing what s best for the country all the time afterwards airs on tv every saturday at 10 pm and sunday at 9 pm eastern. watch all previous afterwards programs on our website, booktv.org. today book tv is live from the 16th annual national book festival in washington dc. 2001 by then first lady laura bush, the event is held at the convention center so we got a full lineup for you. here s just a few of the authors you will hear from. santos lamarr, john meacham, doug brinkley and several mo