u.s. the taliban has fought for insurers and the u.s. backed government forces since some analysts saying the taliban controls as much as forty percent of the afghan territory the u.s. military estimates there almost forty thousand active taliban fighters today mushtaq regime in kabul michael said just a moment ago that the taliban are happy to be talking to the u.s. to right now but i m curious how does the afghan government feel about that as a government in kabul comfortable with the current level of u.s. involvement in this process there are reports that they have been concerned about perhaps being sidelined the afghan government has not been happy as far as the taliban stance is concerned that they re not prepared to talk to the oven government but let me remind you something that there has been fluctuation in the circumstances and context here in afghanistan over the past three months and. that has been pretty clear in his latest reserve to kabul that he will only. dial
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in the treasury department during the clinton administration. mr. brooks: thank you for ms. sandberg: thank you for inviting me here today. mr. brooks: we have been the keyboard to this conversation for a long time. in 2006 and we were both interested in philanthropy. i had written a controversial book about who gives more to charity, conservatives or liberals? she came to a talk that i gave and she said, that is one of the most interesting people i have ever met and it is great that we are going to meet again for this particular conversation. i have got a lot of questions and so does our audience. i want to get right to it. you are kind of in the deli of the political beast. you are kind of in the belly of the political beast. one month ago, facebook was in the middle of something that had flared up in which people had asserted that the trending topics at facebook had been either manipulated or had done something to suppress conservative views. i do not want to get into
needed human editors. so for example without that, , every day at noon, lunch would be trending. we needed human touch to get it right. and dinner around 5:00 or 6:00. mr. brooks: every day, that s weird. [laughter] ms. sandberg: breakfast, lunch, dinner. we had an ex-contractor on the team you accuse us of having a liberal bias. that is a pretty important accusation and when we take seriously. it is also one that rang true to some people. because there is concern that silicon valley has a liberal bias. we did not find a liberal bias but we still took steps to be more rigorous in our approach to running the editorial team, putting a stronger guidelines. there was a list we used to validate sites. we got rid of that. there is no list we are relying on. we also had a meeting where we had a full range of conservative voices. and as you remember, we did not just talk about this topic, we talked about how they were using facebook to get their voice out. this really matters to us.
in the beginning of september, we are live from the nation s capital for the national book festival celebrating its 15th year. this is on book tv. announcer: tonight on c-span, q&a with michael witmore regarding the folger shakespeare library. then, progressives and campaign 2016 and a look at republican presidential primary tactics. announcer: this week on q&a, our guest is michael witmore director of the witmore of the folger shakespeare library. brian lamb: michael witmore director of the folger shakespeare library. when did you first notice in your life all editions using shakespeare s quotes life politicians using shakespeare s quotes? director witmore: it was hard to escape shakespeare, because politicians, whether they know it or not, are using shakespeare s words. it is something that allows politicians to connect with audiences, and when they quote shakespeare, it gives the politician a certain kind of weight and half and heft. brian lamb: you said that