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>> you will notice the tilt in the air. we are a little below freezing for the most part. let's check on the weatherbug network. 25 in leesburg, frostburg, 28. 30 in la plata, 28 in stafford. 31 in rockville. reagan national, 35. mid 40's this afternoon. temperatures will not rise a lot. we will be near average later on. 44, mostly cloudy, with a few sprinkles. a brief hit of rain around a metro and farther south this midday. very nice right now of the beltway. interstate looks good. no problems in the district. if we will take you to a couple pictures. quiet for now, but things ch...

their work visit invisiblehistory.com. >> we ask what are you reading this summer? here's what you had to say. send us a tweet at booktv using the tag summer reading to let us know what you plan on reading this summer. e-mail us at booktv/c-span.org. up next author and professor eric posner. the university of chicago's kirkland and ellis professor of law will speak on international law and the difficulty of a climate change treaty and the balance between security and liberty. mr. posner is the author of "law and social norms" and "the perils of global legalism". he is the co-author o...

is books he read monthly off their call-in program every feature one author with his or her body of work. we're pleased to be sure eric posner year at "chicago tribune" printer's row with press and also joined by a studio audience as well who will havene h questions for the professor. c start by giving as a snapshot of what you'd do and what you write about. >> i am a professor of law at the university of chicago and have been there 15 years i read about a number of different topics and constitutional law in and particular the powers of the presidency with international law and. >> d...

had it not been for my mother, my father would have killed me as well. .. for my mother, my father would have killed me. >> because your mother intervened. >> you should get out of the way. >> now, what's interesting here, you just described yourself azteccally having been in jail for 20 years, '66 to '85. >> uh-huh. >> but the violence and the whole world of hatred that you describe, you say that's really been a jail for 40-plus years. >> oh, yes. >> let me read again from your book. this is an interesting moment because you say you're going to be 74 years old. you've been in jail a...

into a national symbol. it's about 55 minutes. [applause] >> good afternoon and thanks to all of you for coming. we at the washington papers are in the business of preserving and transcribing and publishing all of washington's letters, so you can imagine our surprise a number of years ago when we received a letter from george washington. [laughter] written to us. and he was alive and well and living, where else, but in cincinnati. [laughter] actually, it was a gentleman who claimed to be the reincarnation of george washington who -- [laughter] was eager and willing to offer us his he...