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[inaudible] its to protect our National Security. There is not been an attempt at any point to downplay the significance of the operation their undertaking. That is true if youre talking about our military pilots flying combat operations through ten or 11000 airstrikes now been taken against isil targets in iraq and syria. Its true of special operators been informed and station throughout iraq to carry out raids when an opportunity presents itself to try to take out a senior isil figure were to ...

She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and...

The white house and why do you write about it . I have been covering the white house for 18 years. I write about it because it is very important. The leader of the free world, it is especially now with the first black president beyond the fact that he uses you want a picture of him writing some bill or signing actual issues affecting america. What makes up his thought process, sending boots on the ground in syria to fight isis, in his mind what he thinks about womens issues or what he feels is r...

Shakespeares death. At noon today booktv is live from the Folger Shakespeare library in washington d. C. That all begins at noon, and its followed with your opportunity to talk with shakespeare scholar ellen mckay and Folger Library director michael witmore. Also this weekend, sue klebold discusses her son, dylan, the columbine shooter. She traces her journey to understand the junction between violence and mental illness. Some of the other books were featuring this weekend on weeking tv booktv, ...

Joining on the live feed for making it possible for shakespeare fans to enjoy this special day. Shakespeares influence goes beyond the written word, your arrival was accompanied by the folger consort. If you are interested in their music you can find it on itunes and have a look at the wonder of will room that has been created by itunes. We collect shakespeare material for everyone who wants to celebrate. Today we are here to celebrate the legacy of the worlds greatest storyteller. What better w...

Connected vehicles or autonomous selfdriving vehicles. Department of transportation thinks of this as connected automation. Its really both. They both give you sort of added safety. Connected vehicles or basically v to v, vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure, v to x or anything else, basically theyre all going to be able to talk. What we know is studies so far suggest that even two applications of v to v could prevent 600,000 crashes and save 1,000 lives. So it has huge opportunity over...

And today, you are joining us on a very special day. Were broadcasting here from the historic pastor reading room. Where for the past 80 years , scholars from around the globe have come to use the largest shakespeare collection in the world. I would like to extend a warm welcome to you today who joining us on cspan2. And those of you joining us forhe live feed, thanks making it possible for shakespeare fans to enjoy this special day. Shakespeares influence goes beyond the written word, your arri...

I want to begin with the Associated Press and their story on the exit polls from the New York Primary on tuesday. The headline that the heated primaries energized dems and divided gop. Voters saw their party being divided by a contest featuring months of barbs and heated rhetoric among donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich. Exit polls on tuesday showed the vast majority of democrats willing to back either of the candidates in november while significant chunks of gop voters some candidates in th...

Literature, language, politics and history. Book tv will be covering that event. It begins at noon eastern time. Afterwards well have a live nationwide callin with shakespeare scholars so you can join in the conversation as well. Henry folger was the president of the Standard Oil Company and a shakespeare buff so he and his wife spent many years and many dollars collecting shakespeare artifacts, documents, memorabilia. Its the Worlds Largest collection of shacks peerrelated documents. So join us...

But people want to spoken bitsy this isnt a bed. Its a sofa. Thats how you get, you get another 10 pages of regulations on what a bed is, right . Is true, when sabre taxes went up you had a boom in the sale of small cigars. Its a lot like cigarettes. So the question he broached, and it still unanswered, is that we built the fence sufficiently so we can ward off what we know has always come, which is some kind of financial panic. Have weedeater limited the most egregious behavior, things like the...