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here is the quick look at our coverage today. michael weiss his new book called isis inside the army of terror followed by authors and books growing up in an upper class black neighborhood in chicago, of voting rights, artificial intelligence, looking at past and future technology and a new book out on president and mrs. johnson. coming up today on our live coverage to a number to of the texas book festival. for the full schedule go to booktv.org to get behind the scene of dates if you follow was on twitter or follow-ups are run facebook follow us on facebook this is texas book festival and here is michael weiss talking about isis . [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i am here to introduce michael weiss author of isis inside the army of terror your times best-seller. to introduce him and moderate a discussion with question and answer sessions with you as all our other author was supposed to be here he sent his regret ....
michael weiss author of isis inside the army of terror your times best-seller. to introduce him and moderate a discussion with question and answer sessions with you as all our other author was supposed to be here he sent his regrets the author of black flag which is another book on the basis in he was not able to come because of the death in the family. it is good to see such a large crack a and we have a lot of time alloted on the back end of the discussion for questions and answers. first of all, i will tell you about michael weiss who has reported recovered russia and the middle east extensively as a senior editor at the daily beast and his book came out last february iran and it was a national best seller are in crisis. on isis. we can go into my set of questions first to get started. tell us of little how you came to write the books and why. guest: i was covering the serious crisis more or less since its inception 2011 and long before there is any isis pr ....
tom keene in new york. equities are focusing on m&a. tom: yesterday, markets were subdued. a continued slowdown off of thursday or friday. maybe off the reality of how entrenched europe will be. the photo at the beginning of the show of the two chambers of the french government meeting with mr. hollande was quite something. francine: it was. now the shift we see towards russia may happen in the next couple weeks if not earlier. at least they have a common fight. investorhe german zew expectations, and little less than we were hoping. let s get news. a second day, french planes attacked islamic state targets in syria. the french say they destroyed a command center and training site, part of france s response to friday s attack. francois hollande is calling for a u.s.-russian alliance to defeat islamic state. them and alliances needed to destroy the terrorists. president obama has rolled out the possibility of sending ground troops to syria and iraq, calling it a serious ....
french experts are not only of the unique insight into what is going on but the implications for what is going on for french society, french politics, french foreign-policy and how that fits into broader european and international efforts to address the challenges on this agenda. we have never quite done a program that featured only french experts. it is not the mark of prescient but a year of france at the washington institute in that while we match an outstanding expert in paris i will introduce in just a moment we have the great benefit of having to french experts here on our staff this year. one diplomat in residence through partnership with the french foreign ministry and the second, and outstanding french scholar of syria that we have been endeavoring to bring to washington for some time, a scholar on the alawites and we are delighted that we have such a scholar with us right now. let me introduce our panel is very briefly. from paris, speaking with us is one of e ....
deployed in this fight? the best dancer we re trying to move destroy isis under very three specific objectives to prevent attacks against united states and our direct interest abroad, to control populated areas to recruit foreign fighters and to protect the sovereignty of u.s. partners against tyson is. the third question is the most complicated. how to read defeat isis? how to read degrade this threat enough of what i just enumerated? it will necessarily entail coercive and on course of tools. the use of military power is just one tool to be integrated with the status of others of multilateral and bilateral diplomacy. perhaps the degree of success is the administration s ability to mobilize a is a ticket coalition. there are participating in the air strikes a and responding to the humanitarian catastrophe. the use of military force is necessary but not sufficient the draft language in my view was carefully tailored strategy. and also the evidence of what is looking so ....