[instrumental music] hi everyone and welcome to the national books festival. my name is anna lehman and i m the executive director of the women s suffrage centennial commission. i m here today with megan twohey and gail collins. both incredible authors and writers and journalists and i cannot wait for you to hear what they have to say. i mentioned that i m the executive director of the women s suffrage centennial commission, the commission is a very proud sponsor of the national books festival this year, we are the sponsor of the fearless women trail, which is featuring authors who are fearless just like gail and megan also books and stories about women throughout american history. it s just really a privilege to be here in this place today with these two women. i d like to start us off with some brief introductions for gail and megan and then we will kick it off. megan is joining us, she is the author of she said: breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a mo
interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. all afterwards programs are also available as podcasts. adam: hi my name is adam. i worked with the hard times times for about four years. i ve covered national security including the fbi in a reported extensively on the fbi s russia investigation. it s known as crossfire hurricane. on a think piece for coming on and having his frank discussion with me. he actually came up with the name crossfire hurricane . so much and how he came to use that code name. but before we get into the details of the book, that you have written about. one is you tell us a little bit about yourself and your counter intelligence back out of the fbi. peter: first thank you to cspan for hosting. i started in the in 1996. i ve been in the army prior to that and then college. when into active-duty and then was with the fbi as an analyst with domestic terrorism back in 96. i saw the organization and the ages in a new but that was absolutely wha
we will get going a couple minutes early. good evening. i am a co-owner of politics and prose and on behalf of the entire staff welcome. thank you so much for coming. we have a great program for you this evening. it features not only steve wiseman who has written the best book to come out and years about the jewish experience in the foundations of judaism but also another veteran journalist. they are going to be in conversation with steve. steve s book the chosen wars tells the story essentially of how judaism and america was transformed from old world religious traditions into the modern-day reform conservative. the history was nothing if not fractious. for those of you still collecting sat words. as early as page two writes about the tendency of the jews. you can all look it up. anyway, what makes that chosen words are at least two things. it s how steve connects the religious transformation. to the history of america itself. as a distinctly american phenomenon the second s
good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a busy weekend, let s get to some of the conversations you may have missed. had i been president biden when the justice department came, i would have been it made me, president biden the be gotten the person i pardoned, the little guy. i can t keep up with this. stephanie is right here. i know she is. that is why i am saying, stephanie, i can t keep up with this guy. they are all saying mitch mcconnell says, oh we can t impeach him here, we ve got to try. and now that romney is saying, we can t try, we ve got to acquit. that is what was so stunning to me. for mitt romney to say, joe biden should have stepped in and pressure prosecutors like, what? doesn t mitt romney support separate, but equal branches of government? i read mitt romney s book where he talks about being afraid for his family when he voted to impeach donald trump. he was afraid of presidential overreach, what trump c
dramatic moment in court where the prosecutor at 1 point pointed right where the first lady was sitting. judge jeanine pirro joins us on all of the scenes playing out right now. stunning new video just released by israeli officials. this video is incredible. the daring rescue of 4 israeli hostages you see on the screen. you will see the operatives as they burst into the room. they find 3 of the hostages huddled together. they were living in a residence surrounded by hamas. they were basically huddled on the floor. watch. unbelievable. absolutely incredible. the soldiers were hurrying to free these hostages to a waiting helicopter. there was lots of drama between that. a vehicle became unusable and they had to switch them to another vehicle. remember this woman, there she is clinging to the helicopter. she became 1 of the most recognized faces of this october 7th attack because she was the woman carried away on the back of a motorcycle and was screaming don t kill me a choose