challenger robert kennedy jr. is already pulling and 19 and 20% and 2 separate polls in just a moment by the way he would join us live right here on this program we will ask him about joe biden why he won t debate him we will also ask him about this take a look. do you believe that they murdered or involved in the murder of your uncle? what if you come to personally? yes, they were deftly involved in the murder. robert kennedy jr. will be ahead joe biden s bad week is not because of bad polling or a strong chance of rk jr. it also has doesn t have anything to do with the insanity at the southern border, now said to expire this thursday the situation as we all know is completely out of control. we have waves of illegal immigrants now lined up as far as the eye can see. just waiting to cross over the weekend border patrol they process a whopping 26,000 apprehensions documented 7,400 got a ways arrested a wanted felon, three sex offenders and a gang member and also confisc
contends that executive power has gone beyond its constitutional limits under president obama. i think the story of the obama administration has been the expansion of the administrative state, of the agencies, the federal government as a whole. when we look at the media sometimes we see corruptions, tiny signs here and there, lots of cases are collected in the book but the real story is how large the government has grown over the last seven years, you might see it in cases like the obama care statue. or the bailouts here and there, it s a story that is in almost every subject area where the federal government asked today. afterwords on book tv. you can watch all previous afterwards program on our website, booktv.org. my name is sarah and it is my pleasure to welcome you and to welcome randy for his book, blood brothers. he is a distinguished professor and has written biographies of iconic athletes and has been published in u.s. history, u.s. sports history and popular c
j edgar hoover. two images come to mind. the first is the long serving fbi director with his vaunted files. targeting communists and leftists. using his files to get his way with politicians. image is of a secretive man wearing a black cocktail dress and a feather boa and high heels with his secret lover, clyde tolson. one of those is verifiable. the other is not. an irrepressible cultural meme with innuendos and suppositions. they capture the two major hoover of sessions of communism and gays. the fbi s preoccupation with gays, has not been very well documented and examined only in limited ways. public discourse over the fbi and gays often center on the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through some kind of overcompensation. the fact of the matter is we don t know. we cannot know what his sexuality was. unless we re willing to use stereotyping somehow as evidence. not knowing and having no convincing evidence means hoovers sexuality is a causal factor in why the fbi t
tectonic plates of politics undergird us. theant to look at event that is the most traumatic event of the last half-century of american life, the .ssassination of jfk and at almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode? surprisingly there is. jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nation s grief and outrage and led to the d formation of our political consensus. it was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960 s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of america s law liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. we have david brown and the author of a biography of richard hofstadter. hofstadter is important because he is one of the leading mid-century.he conse
republicans, (202) 585-3881. independents, (202) 585-3882. tweet, @cspanwj is our handle. you can also e-mail us journal@c-span.org. post story this morning, congress to pass $1.1 trillion spending bill. the first votes on the plan are expected today. 48 hours after negotiators introduced the 1582 page spending agreement. the house is scheduled to vote on the measure today. the senate plans to vote on it around noon today. live coverage on c-span of that vote for the house and tune into c-span 2 for the vote in the senate. here is what john boehner had to say about moving quickly to vote on the legislation. the bill was posted last night. to thehlights went out members offices last night. frankly, if we had time, i would ve i would like to have more time. we are in a situation where the government is going to run out of money. we are going to have to move a short-term cr. i think, under the circumstances, what we re doing is appropriate. host: john boehner addressing conc