Offer its analysis abouts whats ahead. Then well have conversation with best selling author j. D. Vance, his book hillbilly elegy gave america a candid look at our part of the country that turned the election for President Trump still hopes he delivers its all ahead on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation. John is off today, im Major Garrett. 2018 is already arrived spin parts of the world, here in the u. S. Americans are getting ready to ring in the new year despite extremely cold temperatures in some parts of our country. Security has been increased as you might expect at new years celebrations across the country. But with temperatures expected to be in Single Digits or very low double digits in places like times square, record cold could be more likely than record crowds. Weve got lot to get to today but we want to take note of the situation in iran. Antigovernment protests continue for the third day. These are the largest demonstrations in the country in almost
Ahead. Then well have conversation with best selling author j. D. Vance, his book hillbilly elegy gave america a candid look at our part of the country that turned the election for President Trump still hopes he delivers its all ahead on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation. John is off today, im Major Garrett. 2018 is already arrived spin parts of the world, here in the u. S. Americans are getting ready to ring in the new year despite extremely cold temperatures in some parts of our country. Security has been increased as you might expect at new years celebrations across the country. But with temperatures expected to be in Single Digits or very low double digits in places like times square, record cold could be more likely than record crowds. Weve got lot to get to today but we want to take note of the situation in iran. Antigovernment protests continue for the third day. These are the largest demonstrations in the country in almost ten years. Two protesters were
Staff, his motives. What does this tell us if anything about where the white house actually is on this and never ending question in washington, where is the russia investigation go. For months the president has been hearing from two different camps on bob mueller. Hes been hearing from some of his outside visors, people who have been around him for years say that he needs to be tougher on bob youll mere. Garrett better legal team. Needs to be more aggressive in going lot of what the friends and advisors. Those are the white house lawyers. People like ted cobb, who have been saying to the president that he actually would be in a stronger position if he let this investigation run its course. In that moment, thats where the president seems to be. Seems to be taking the vie of those lawyers, i think heading into 2018 the thing to watch, how trump reacts to the reality that this investigation is not going to be over quickly. Those same lawyers have been telling him that this is winding down
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Rebecca frankel is the author of war dogs. Ms. Frankel, whats on the cover of your book . So this is a handler and his dog, and theyre doing a Training Exercise for a mission that they might have to do in afghanistan or iraq which does include a drop from a helicopter. What sparked you to write about war dogs . My job in foreign policy, weve been writing about the iraq war for as long as its been going on and i really love dogs. So as i was looking at photos coming in off the wire, i saw this one photo that sort of stood out as different in afghanistan, and it was because there were these marines and their bombsniffing dogs, and they were just hanging out, and everyone looked very happy. Theres a very strong contrast to the unfortunate photos that are more gritty and more gory. So tom suggested that we partner in [inaudible] and i did that for about four years an