good evening welcome to the barnes & noble event and thank you for coming out on a spring evening. we appreciate you being here. if you could take one moment and look at your cell phone and make sure they are turned off, we would appreciate that. following today s reading and question-and-answer, immediately after you will find me outside of the glass doors. we have plenty of books available to purchase including one even newer than today s. like my teacher always said, great graduation day gift. after words , they will be more than happy to sign them for you up here, i m sure. we are very happy to invite up in the guest category, our guest this evening. when she is not running the first line of defense upstairs at customer service here on the barnes & noble or serving as a bouncer during our broadway events, a a roll of which she is most effective at, this publishing executive is busy writing award-winning books. we are delighted tonight to present one of her latest polit
of georgetown university and author of let s get free. also this week in the presentation of the j anthony lukas prize for nonfiction writing. former army officer and historian looks at us involvement in the middle east. war correspondents christina lamb, janine giovanni and kim barker share their reporting experiences and we talked to local authors and visit literary sites in mississippi. for complete television schedule, booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and office, television for serious readers. we start with erin mchugh who talk about political blunders throughout history. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. welcome, thanks for coming out here on a brisk spring evening. appreciate you being here. if you would take a moment to look at your cell phones and make sure they are turned off. following today s reading and question and answer you will find me outside, we have plenty of books available including one new were than toda
i m going to test them against the national interests, test them against principles and values, and what i and my advisers think is doable here. then how do i address the probably? i think that s the way it would work, so it s going to depend upon each specific issue that comes before the commander in chief. i m going to follow up in a second. i think it s important for those who will be president to communication their vision of the foreign policy they intend to bring, and it s important to do that in some detail. i hope we can have that during the course of this campaign. i think it s important for the next president to communicate that with confidence, because as we both discussed here today, the united states is and has the resources to be the leading nation in the world and should be, and i think it s required to lead leading nation in the world. i think it s important for us to focus on economic growth, and i think there needs to be an important focus on allies. a
outgoing president of the chapter and we re grateful for the gracious support you ve given us throughout the year. you ve meant so much to us. we are endebted to our distinguished panelist who have come together to celebrate the distinguished legacy of justin antonin scalia. today s stewardship spence, mr. kevin walker and mr. david derek. today s event is an existence to the brilliant and storied legacy of justice scalia. he served on the supreme court nor nearly three decades, one of the langest tenures on the institution. marking one of the milestones on the court, chief justice roberts said since scalia came on the supreme court, the place has not been the same. indeed, kagen remarks that justice scalia will go down in history as one of the most transformational supreme court justices of the nation. his views on interpreting texts have changed the way we think and talk about law. all interpretation and sub species originalism and constitutional construction, his principle
you can see that live here on c-span at 7:00 p.m. eastern. then, sunday on c-span, utah congressman rob bishop, the chairman of the natural resources committee, he ll talk about puerto rico s debt crisis, the u.s. territory is $70 billion in debt and has already missed millions of dollars in debt payments. congressman bishop will answer questions about efforts in congress to help puerto rico restructure its debt. newsmakers on 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span unday. book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend and here are some programs to watch for this weekend. on saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards, don watkins, author of equal is unfair. don: the reason i say unequality is not a problem, it s not a concern of how much money do you have but how did you get it? did you get it through something that is fair or through a process that is unfair? and when you try to equalize people that earn honestly, that s what we re challengin