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And cyber conference. Let me close with this. Thank you. In my 35 years or so in serving the air force i am only alive because of great ncos. I cannot begin to express how much i appreciate your leadership. I would also offer for those of you who are considering staying in our military and i hope sharing a message to join the military, the gift of military service is looking across the table knowing i can trust you implicitly, my kids, my family and my car, my dog, everything here to me and my wife. Thank you and please stay in touch. Af former Defense Department and military officials discuss increases in defense spending and building a stronger military in a post event hosted by the hudson institute. Watch live at 10 00 on cspan, our free mobile video app, or online at cspan. Org. Weekends bring your book tv, featuring leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. On indepth, sc win will be our guest to talk abou ....
To hold elected officials more accountable. He is interviewed by amy stoddard. Afterwards is a weekly Interview Program with relevant guest host, interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. With you. And weve known each other for years, and i find you to be a singularly happy, hopeful and patriotic person. And i think anyone who cares about our system of governance and representation will learn a lot from your hard work and your deep research. Despite the subtitle, the swamp creatures, latte liberals and ruling class elites cashinin on america, you do not aim with filthy rich politicians to enrage your fellow citizens. You instead outline rational, doable, commonsense reforms that we can all support and we should. So lets dig right in. Why does it matter that politicians are rich, even if theres a perception that they are allowed to feather their nests . Yeah, well, look, i think that the reason it matters is tha ....
Identify what makes you a good person or what parts of yourself are you proud of. That is how you should live every day of your life, including when we come around these discussions around politics. Maybe then we can see through all the lies to some degree towards this common light that i think we all do have as americans and as people. It is something around kindness and truth. It does exist we will not get there by attacking each other. Host Kimberly Wehle is the university of baltimore law professor, legal contributor to abc news. A guest on this program on occasion. Your that his book is master, slave, has, wife. It tells the story of william and ellen craft. Quick second begin to say what does make it compelling to me. I think what originally drew me to it was the phenomenal adventure story data and the narrative of running 100 miles to freedom. It talks about this incredible escape they make. They are husband and wife, ensla ....
See our complete National Book festival schedule online at booktv. Org. The library of congress National Book festival live saturday, august 12 beginning at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan2. Coming up, Supreme Court associate Justice Elena kagan talks about a senate bill created to establish a code of ethics for the high court. The democratic measure comes response to recent reports of potential ethics violations involving justices and samuel alito and sonia sotomayor. She spoke at a conference in portland, oregon. [applause] thank you, judge simon. Thank you, everyone. Welcome, thank you for being here, Justice Kagan. Its an honor to have you here. Were really excited and we appreciate you taking the time to have this ....
Announcer coming up on washington journal, the state of the progressive legal movement. The cofounder and executive director demand for justice will join us. Also the president of the national right to work Legal Defense foundation, mark mix, on workforce issues and recent labor unrest. Washington journal starts now. This is a very sad day for america and was also very sad driving through washington, d. C. And seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls with the graffiti. This is not the place i left, it is a sad thing to see it. When you look at what is happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is the persecution of the person that is leading by very very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading bided biden by a lot. If you cannot beat him, you persecute him or prosecute him. We cannot let this happen in america. Host good ....