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You are watching booktv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. Up next, bruce riedel. That all happens next on cspan2s of tv. Bruce riedel who retired with 30 years in the cia talks about the cias involvement in afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, the last battle in the cold war between the u the u. S. And the t union. This is about one hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Im Strobe Talbott and its my pleasure to welcome you to a convers...

Evidence, but one of the things that i point to when i talk about this is that the disclosures that have been coming recently are very sophisticated in their content and sophisticated in their timing. Almost too sophisticated for mr. Snowden to be deciding on his own. Seems to me he might be getting some help. Schieffer and what about the coming olympics, are you concerned about the lack of cooperation that the russians seem to be giving us . Long history of cooperation between nations who are h...

The speaker pro tempore on this vote the ayes are 151. The nays are 277. The motion is not adopted. The question is on the passage of the bill. Those in favor will say aye. Those opposed will say no. The ayes have it. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise . Mr. Brady i ask for a recorded vote. The speaker pro tempore a recorded vote is requested. Those favoring a recorded vote will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their...

[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] the committee will come to order. Let me begin by welcoming the new members to the committee. Since the full senate has not passed the Committee Resolution officially, i want to ask unanimous consent to returning members to allow prospective members to protest pay into des hearing. If there is no objection, so ordered. Let me welcome you and thank you to come before the committee. You had an intervening challenge and we are thrilled to see...

Probably a bad idea, that this is not going to work out well for mcinty or for a lot of other people who may be unfairly targeted as being disloyal to the president. And so this has the potential to be a very disruptive across the federal government. Brooke, when you put this aside next to what has been, you know, going on for the last couple of weeks, you know, the president has talked about he wants to unload people who have been disloyal to him, people like Alexander Vindman who was shown the...

About the Financial Stress the state is under. A lot of these things we have never seen before. We have never seen the financial damage done to the state budget the way its happened here. Again, going back to my lifetime, 9 11 was the catastrophic event. This is more devastating to the new york economy and new york budget, which is the function of the new york economy, than 9 11 by far. But, rob, you want to speak to karens question . And good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington as we have wat...

Reasons. Hours later, seven governors from the northeast announced plans to coordinate their reopening efforts. Then came the president s longest and most combative to date Coronavirus Briefing. Where he lashed out to the press and defended his claim to broad executive authored over the states. Watch this. What provision in the constitution gives the power to open or close state economies . Numerous provisions. Well give you a legal brief if you want. Ordered schools closed, its been states that...

Controversy obamagate do we talk about it with Senate Judiciary republican mike lee. After weeks of protest the fight for freedom from lockdown has supported michigan. Attorneys for republicans state lawmakers arguing the democratic governor has exceeded her authority. The governors abroad application, a constitutional crisis. We will debate that invite court. The house passes the most expensive bill in congressional history. The 3 trillion measure contains 1,200 stimulus payments for people in ...

Three officials comes after two people in the white house tested positive for coronavirus including Vice President secretary who has confirmed she tested positive. A personal valet for trump has tested positive. Nearly every state has eased its restrictions with some moving aggressively to blunt the damage to their local economies. This is as the National Unemployment in the u. S. Has reached levels not since the Great Depression and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin says it could get much worse....

Ted williams and Andy Mccarthy stand by with analysis. First, Aishah Hasnie here in new york city where the mayor is vowing to cut funding to the nypd. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thats right. The mayor is facing pressure from many different groups including this one here. This is calling for an elected and independent civilian Complaint Review board to look into police abuses. But weve seen plenty of signs today protesters carrying them, saying fund community, not cops. Resources, not Polic...