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political unrest. that we pulled together a conference, and more people than just me are doing research and papers that come from a number of different perspectives. it kind of goes back and forth. a lot of it works like scholarship would work in a university. a lot of it works a little more likean in-house, something the congressional record service, where your donor institution calls up and said, we really need to know about this from the time. can you tell us more? reporter: thanks for speaking with us. barbara: next for having me. announcer: you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. join the conversation, like us on facebook. sunday night on afterwards, physician and journalist elisabeth rosenthal examines the business side of health care in her book an american sickness, how health-care became big business, and how you can take it back. dr. rosenthal is interviewed by dr. david blumenthal of the commonwealth fund. reporter: ....
politics, something many americans are now talking about. let s talk about your organization. what is it? fly was informed, and what is your mission? why was it formed, and what is your mission? caller: we were formed announcer: guest: we were formed about 20 years ago in response to the radical right in the religious community who wanted to impose their agenda and continue to do so in our country. host: is the first amendment under assault? guest: the first amendment is always under assault. people love the protections of the first amendment, but sometimes in protecting those, they try to restrict them for others. host: this is from cbs news. the president s approval rating is at 46%. 36% disapprove. the congressional approval rating, 29%. of this story from cbs is guest: i think civil sit something modeled by people in public life. people have always had nasty arguments with each people who practice public discourse on issues. that simply is not happening these ....
in terms of written memoir, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and it knew it from the beginning. brian: what did you put in this book that you never talked about before? mr. buchanan: the origins of the agnew speech, the memos on that. there were a number of notes in my files of that i dug out. there is a description of how i almost defected on the china trip, i was so unhappy with it. there is also the end of it, where you put in that quote by john osborne, he said he had seen shelley and me on inauguration day in 19 69 and then he saw how it all ended, he was an old liberal curmudgeon and it breaks your heart. all of this is fresh and new. most of the memorandum had never been published. what that is about is, what it was like as a young conservative in the next and white house trying to do battle for your police and the opposition battle for your police and battle for your beliefs and the opposition you faced. brian: you mentioned agnew. we ....
mr. buchanan: i m sure it there are some, like a joint chief and others, who have not written memoirs yet, but i m not sure they are going to. in terms of written memoir, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and it knew it from the beginning. brian: what did you put in this book that you never talked about before? mr. buchanan: the origins of the agnew speech, the memos on that. there were a number of notes in my files of that i dug out. there is a description of how i almost defected on the china trip, i was so unhappy with it. there is also the end of it, where you put in that quote by john osborne, he said he had seen shelley and me on inauguration day in 1969 and then he saw how it all ended, he was an old liberal curmudgeon and it breaks your heart. all of this is fresh and new. most of the memorandum had never been published. what that is about is, what it was like as a young conservative in the nixon white house, trying to do battle for your b ....
talks about the latest on the investigations involving the trump administration and russia. from this morning s washington journal this is 30 unts. back to our table whereby jonathan turlay, constitutional professor to talk about the latest on the investigations. the washington post front page this morning is that the president crafted donald trump jr. s statement on his russian contact on the sidelines of the g-20 summit and there was a strategy that was agreed upon, according to the reporting from the washington post reporters that they would get ahead of the story and tell the truth. that strategy changed by the president and that he within hours the president changed the plan flying home from germany on july 8th on board air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. said he and the russian lawyer primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. those in the inner circle fear now that the president has put hims ....