College professor bradley bircher, former Washington Post reporter Molly Mccartney examines the u. S. Military industrial complex, jack cashin takes a critical look at the crash of flight 800, and booktv visits peoria, illinois. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, its for serious readers. And now were kicking off this weekend with John Strausbaugh, author of city of sedition. Its about new york city during the civil war. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose for yet another one of our enlightened and lively author talks. You cant hear me . Okay. Well be quiet. [laughter] and at that cue, please let me please silence all your cell phones at this point, and also let me just go through a few other housekeeping details. So the author will speak for about 20 minutes, 20, 25 minutes, and w
This, this is wrong. I think that puts you in a very powerful place. And also, the other secretaries when they want to do something it makes you a much stronger position to have that relationship, to be so candid you can say that is wrong. You cannot do that. I totally reject that. I think having that relationship made me a more effective general even though my critics used it as an excuse to be critical of my service. Host im curious its clear from the book you had a close relationship with the president. What is your relationship with him today, do you still talk to him . You say at the end of the book the president kept up with your move the things youve done since government service, so what is your relationship with him today . Guest when he comes to nashville we see each other and if im in dallas i see him. Obviously we dont talk and see each other like we used to when he was in office or in dc. I have a great deal of affection and respect for george w. Bush the man. He gave me s
Democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Host gelled in florida. Caller good morning. I have a question for professor kennedy. Some of us look towards affirmative action us to blacks entering university circuit. I happened to be one who graduated from a Major University, white Major University in the state of ohio. This was before affirmative action. Far too many times there is nothing said about those of us who were participants in the collegiate atmosphere, collegiate i guess academia, that existed before affirmative action. What is hi
For our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf irans Foreign Policy magazine will be talking about u. S. Foreign policy. Full schedule of todays live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv. Org. All they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. Org twitter handle. You can also join us at facebook. Com booktv. If youre in the area, come on down. Cspan bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. Would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. The su
The distributing threat information should not be punished but encouraged which is why we need to create legal safe harbors for companies to be able to exchange threat information without fear of being sued. Moreover better information sharing improves industrys ability to safeguard the personal data by allowing entities to keep the prying eyes of hackers outside our Health Records and bank accounts. I am pleased to announce we are aiming to resolve this dilemma and strengthen our Cyber Security foundations further. This week i am releasing the draft of a new bill that will further enhance the role as the primary federal civilian interface for the sharing of cyber threat information to enable timely , actionable, and operational efforts between the federal government and the private sector. This draft bill gives protections for exchange of cyber threat information including government to private and private to private sharing. For instance, is a major bank fell victim to cyber intrusio