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[inaudible conversations] thanks for joining us on book tv this memorial day. Heres a quick look at the primetime lineup this evening beginning at 8 30 we are featuring books on the first ladies. We begin with the new book on michelle obama. After that a book called first ladies. This is put out by cspan based on the series that we did on first ladies last year. And finally hissing cousins about the relationship between the roosevelt. That is a quick look at the lineup this memorial day. Book tv...

The stories theyre covering. That certainly has been judy millers preference as a veteran journalist. But a decade ago judy ended up the subject of not one but two big controversies one involving the question of iraqs alleged possession and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, and the other involving the disclosure of Valerie Plame as a cia a operative. Judy is here this evening to discuss those experiences and much more all chronicled in her new memoir, the story a reporters journey. The boo...

that war, we find ourselves engaged in a national debate about potentially going back. sunni militants on the march in iraq, overtaking the same cities the u.s. military fought to hold years earlier when u.s. troops left the iraqi government it turns out could not continue to hold them. several hundred u.s. service members have been ordered back to iraq, bolstering u.s. embassy security, embedding with iraqi troops. were at a moment in our history that calls for a good and vigorous nat...

0 >> what weighed on many of us is the 9/11 attack revealed major vulnerabilities. iraq had been a big problem even before 9/11 and became even bigger and more urgent in light of 9/11. >> americas greatest national security failure since pearl harbor hurls its leaders into a massive national security response. >> and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. >> osama bin laden and his al qaeda terrorists network are the immediate target. but the day after the attacks ...