Good morning. Good morning and welcome to nashville and the southern festival of the books. Behind the curtain, money, politics and imperiled republic. We are fortunate today to have two authors who are really addressing some issues we deal with today. Weed to live in many ways in imperiled times and dealing with the concentration of economic power and political power, so again we are fortunate to have two very renowned speakers today after the session is over we will have a signing session that will take place on the war memorial section between the capital and library. We will go there and also have questions and answers, a q a session after the presentation this morning to your right there is a set of microphones and if you would like to ask questions of the authors to your right there is a set of microphones. Each speaker will speak about 15 or so minutes dealing with their books and then we will open it up to questions. If you could, you may want to take a moment to silence your c
Joining me a director for the defense studies and ned ryun the american majority ceo. It feels like eventually the war of words becomes a war. And we are moving at such an exponentially rapid pace it feels like it could be imminent. I never thought i would hear the day when the North Koreans would be offering up they would be test an atmosphere for iek weapon in the pacific. The fallout and radioactive dust could be catastrophic. The North Koreans could be bluffing like they did alleging they were going to fire a missile near guam. They could test an icbm and drop it off the coast of northern california. Charles rebecca last week you were on this show and there was a communal kay out of north korea and there was a communique and you interprtd it as them blinking. Certainly they are not doing that anymore. They sound belligerent but they will have to find a way out at some point. What rocketman understands if he does Hydrogen Bomb launch, a Missile Launch or threatens us oral allies wel
Julian malvo, steve forbes and nobel prizewinning economist joseph stiglitz. Of this is a topic that interests you go to our website at booktv. Org and in the search bar type economics book and you will find a large archive of authors and materials would all of these are available to watch online. Host welcome to nashville and the southern festival of books. He will hear from many offers throughout the weekend including National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott and nancy maclean, talk radio host eric erickson, basilica other liza monday and many others. For complete schedule visit booktv. Org or follow along on social media sites on facebook, twitter and instagram at booktv. We are kicking off todays coverage with biographer jonathan i on the life and politics of mohammed ali. This is live coverage on cspan2. [silence bracket good morning, everyone, thank you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce jon
Thank you kindly. What an honor to be here today. My second ever visit to the values voter summit. Where do i begin . [laughter] first things first, would you all just please relax . Count to 10. And take a deep breath. I know a lot of you were very, very word when somebody i worked for, called steve, white house. I know that even more of you, a week later, when i resigned, were troubled. But there is no need. There is absolutely no need. The success of the values you believe in, the success of the mission that we all took upon ourselves last november 8 is not a function of where i sit or where steve has his office. It is much larger than the white house. This is a National Movement to retake our country. [applause] i know the left, i know the progressives, were celebrating, opening their bottles of champagne, when steve left and when i left. But they have no idea. It is like that penultimate scene in star wars. I am a kid of the 1970s, so i like all that stuff. When darth vader and be
Ingraham. Thank you kindly. What an honor to be here today. My second ever visit to the values voter summit. Where do i begin . [laughter] first things first, would you all just please relax . Count to 10. And take a deep breath. I know a lot of you were very, very worried when somebody i left ther cold steve white house. I know that even more of you, a week later, when i resigned, were troubled. But there is no need. There is absolutely no need. The success of the values you believe in, the success of the mission that we all took upon ourselves last november 8 is not a function of where i sit or where steve has his office. It is much larger than the white house. This is a National Movement to retake our country. [applause] i know the left, i know the progresses progressives were celebrating, opening their bottles of champagne, when steve left and when i left. But they have no idea. It is like that penultimate scene in star wars. I am a kid of the 1970s, so i like all that stuff. When