. guest onhe was a c-span's q&a. this is one hour. brian: dr. charles krauthammer, what is a medical doctor doing writing a column and appearing on television? charles: i've been wondering about that. i've a very checkered, irregular career. i was once asked by an intern at the new republic magazine where i used to work, how do i get to be a nationally syndicated columnist and i said, well, first you go to medical school. it was pretty unplanned, i had intended to be a psychiatrist. i practiced for three years. and then i just had a tug, a feeling that there was a wider world out there i wanted to get involved in. and i studied political theory as a graduate student and i went back. i came to washington and one accident led to another and ended up doing what i'm doing. brian: if we had to find about three big thinkers, books on your shelf, who would they be? charles: i think the single most influential thinker when i grew up, which was late '60s, early '70s, the time of the student revolution, was a very short book by a political philosopher called isaiah berlin, an oxford philosophe

& stay"ntary " about protesters of the vietnam war. brian: what would you tell somebody who has never heard about the kingsville -- the catonsville 9? is one of say that it the most effective axis civil disobedience in american history. skizz: i would have to aee. brian: this is the 50th anniversary of it. what was the original reason for the documentary? joe: i was a history student working on my masters degree. i needed a topic to write a paper. i had heard of the catonsville 9 , but i decided to find out more of what it was all about. from that one class, first, it turned into a feature story that i wrote for the baltimore city paper. then it blossomed into a documentary film. brian: how did you divide your work on this? handled more the filmmaking and joe handled more the contact end. i came on as a favor when he was doing the interviews for the paper. i suggested don't just take an audio recorder. take a video camera. that video footage would be valuable to a documentary filmmaker down the road. after a few years, i was getting more work done on his film than mine. so i partnered

who watched this thing because it's the hour of the church in america again. brian: seventy-eight years old, still active, does television every day like this. what do you make of him? kate: i haven't seen that clip, but it doesn't entirely surprise me that so much of his ideas of more than enoughness was always rooted in patriotism. and there's a slice of the prosperity gospel in which republicanism and a sense that the prosperity gospel of both the individual and the nation are connected that come together in someone like jim bakker. but he and tammy were the king and queen of 1980s televangelism. they had the most-watched christian program. their theme park which they called heritage usa that was built right around the border of north carolina and south carolina was meant to be this expression of their jubilant more than enoughness, so you could come and like slide down the waterslide and then watch a live taping of jim and tammy in their living room, come on down. and they called everyone family and they really reached into people's living rooms and asked people to celebrate a

intersection of black and white america." brian: zachary wood, before we talk about your book, "uncensored," tell us where you are at in your life. zachary: i just graduated in early june and i have it on a book tour and i have done a few cities. i am based in new york city but soon i will be moving back to washington, d.c. and will be assistant editor at the atlantic. brian: how old are you? zachary: 22. brian: what was your major at williams? zachary: political science. brian: in your book, you talk about various places. talk about stanford. zachary: i was basically taking for college courses. i was always driven and very ambitious. i did not want to spend my summer reading in my room. i thought it would be great, especially because i was going to be on the east coast, to experience a different university setting, and stanford has a very strong political science department. brian: yale. zachary: that was a writer's conference the summer after my freshman year. i attended a number of work ships and it helped me improve. brian: columbia. zachary: that was my junior year, it was a study awa

: surviving jonestown, summoning courage, and fighting back." brian: jackie speier, your book, undaunted, your first three words are, i was dying. why did you start the book that way? rep. speier: because i was. it was one of those moments in my life that were defining for me. not many people have that experience where they are dying and survive. i had a lot to talk about. brian: why were you dying? rep. speier: i was on an airstrip in the remote jungles of guyana having just concluded a congressional delegation tour with then congressman leo ryan, and we were ambushed on that airstrip and shot. members of the press died. one defector of the people's temple died. i was shot five times on the right side of my body. a bone jutting out of my arm, a wound in my leg the size of a football. it was, oh my god, i am 28 years old, this is it. i'm not going to live to be in my mid-80's. i am not going to get married and have kids. i'm not going to have any of those dreams fulfilled. brian: november, 1978. why were you there? rep. speier: i was the legislative counsel to congressman leo ryan. he ha

president andrew johnson and the fight for lincoln's legacy." brian: david stewart, what was andrew johnson, our 17th president like? david: he was a hard man. he was intelligent. he pulled himself up from nothing. he never attended school even for a day. totally self-made man. line, that isat good to know otherwise the almighty would have a lot to answer for. he had a rather bad disposition. he was an angry man and he was rigid. those were qualities that served him terribly as president. he was smart, although self educated, he knew the constitution. he understood laws. he had a lot of political experience. he had held most positions you could hold in this country and been elected to most of them. there is a good deal to admire him. unfortunately, as president, his qualities probably would have been unfortunate anytime, but at that moment in history, they were a terrible mismatch. brian: where did it start politically for him? david: in tennessee. in greenville, eastern tennessee. he had opened a tailor shop and made a success of it. ran for local office. moved upate senator, the l

one of them was brian this is his story. before i make fun. of. my mum brio has lost her son brian nineteen years old executed while having lunch. it's been two days and then still feels like a terrible nightmare. for my. but. this is where brian was sleeping just a few days ago the police suspected him of being a criminal a thief but my mum says he was innocent. peter. you know seat. for you. brian had aspired to become a reggae artist. it's day four after brian's death brio has to go to the city mortuary for his autopsy filming is officially forbidden the smell. this pungent twenty to fifty corpses arrive here every day almost killed by police. it's still all surreal. joyce was brian's friend and neighbor. here in her community is where he was killed joyce says he was executed in broad daylight along with his three friends. and. here. we were inside. had they came to. the policeman on the one who. went into. the community is still shocked about what they say was a brutal execution by a police killer squat and. three of the men died in here. to have the money. so the rooms can be

it has effects on people. it cannot be taken too casually. brian: where did you get this idea and when? mona: i have been thinking about the issues in this book probably for my entire adult life. as a woman who came of age when feminism was really at its peak in the 1970's and early 1980's, i was very of course influenced. i went to a woman's college where the feminist message was prominent. and i was always a little skeptical of it. not entirely. and we can get into how you define feminism, but i have decades, my so many judgment feminism, while of , course we are all equity feminists. we all believe in equal rights for women and equal human dignity, the tendency in our society, propelled in part by the feminist movement, has been toward androgyny instead of toward a rich appreciation of our differences and an embrace of the complementarity of the sexes. brian: why do we learn in your book that you used to be called timmy? mona: oh yes. so in the section where i talk about gender identity, very sensitive subject, and i try to treat it as carefully as i could. i think people who h

twins and their rendezvous with american history." ♪ brian: yunte huang, author of "inseparable: the original siamese twins and their rendezvous with american history," who were chang and eng? yunte: they were the original siamese twins. they were actually chinese. when they were born together, in a little fishing village. when they were born they were banded together by a 4-inch bit of flesh. the neighbors were freaking out. the parents were scared. the mother, because they were her kids. they grew up together learning to walk and also learning to swim. that was a milestone, as you can imagine. anyway, they were known as chinese twins to the neighbors when they were growing up in siam. only after they were brought to the united states were they branded as siamese twins. brian: the picture on the screen, what age are they? yunte: probably middle age. you can see the hair is a little gray. i believe that would be when they went back on the road after the civil war. brian: where are they joined? yunte: they were joined at the bases of their chests. you can see the exhibition of th

his memoir "the line becomes a river: dispatches from the border." brian: francisco cantu, author of "the line becomes a river," when did you first think about becoming a writer? mr. cantu: i first thought about writing about my experiences as -- patrol agent six months or year after leaving. i think i was really trying to grapple with that experience and come to terms with what i participated in. so that's when i really first started thinking, ok i have to write to make sense of this. it seems like the only option. to kind of get everything down on paper, put all of those experiences in one place. i didn't know it would be a book at the time. but i think that's how all tell-all books sort of's start. brian: when were you in the border patrol and where did you live? mr. cantu: 2008-2012, i spent the first two years of my career in a field station in arizona. and i spent another year at intelligence sector headquarters in tucson. and then i spent about a half a year in el paso. brian: let me go to the basics. where were you born? mr. cantu: i was born in santa rosa, california, left s

the cold war." ♪ brian: grace kennan warneke, did they call you years ago, "miss x"? grace: because my father sent back the longest telegram ever sent to the state department in 1947. this telegram became an article which he was not allowed to sign which first appeared in foreign affairs and it was called the "x article" because it was anonymous. they did not know who signed it. it was then reprinted in "life" magazine. but, because of the mystery about it, it was called "x" and i was called "miss x" by people who thought they were very smart. this was in the 1950's. i was in college. brian: the telegram is 5500 words. what was it about? grace: i have seen the whole telegram laid out on tables. it is amazing. the telegram was about the fact that we had just finished the war. we were allies with the soviet union. my father felt that people were being taken in by the russians, they were giving them too favorable a picture. stalin was being called uncle joe, and there was this element that we were buddies. he still knew it was a pretty he felt hestem and had to write this telegram to k

adams from san diego county in california, el cajon. the east part of the county. brian: and what do you teach? >> english and history, but it has been mostly history, and social science for the last few years. i have done world history, primarily ap u.s. government, politics, as well as honors economics. brian: how interested are your students in current affairs and politics? >> very. there are very motivated when they can see that something we are learning in the classroom has application to the real world. and they are interested to know that there is a way they can have a voice in it. they are not quite convinced, especially when i start with them, that they can interact with the world in a meaningful way, that they can influence current events, but they would like to. brian: sir? >> good morning. my name is timothy romberg from san francisco, california, and i teach at skyline middle college in san bruno, a publicly funded dual enrollment program for motivated high school juniors and seniors to begin taking their community college courses early, while still completing their h

35, discusses her memoir, "everything happens for a reason and other lies i have loved." brian: kate bowler, where did you get the title "everything happens for a reason and other lies i have loved"? kate: i think it came to me because it is one of the boomerang theologies people give you when you're sick. everything will work out, or god is making away. i wrote the book to explore, maybe this was a lie a have loved all of along. the book was kind of a theological project where i dig into my you own secret, terrible beliefs. brian: how sick are you? kate: stage four cancer is not decorative. it is hard but i am doing better than a lot of people. i moved from the kind of crisis management to the more chronic part of this, i in which i live scam to scam. thankfully, so far drugs and doctors and all kinds of things are making a way. brian: when did you find out you had cancer? kate: two years ago. there is no cancer and my family, so i did not imagine it was possible. one day i got a phone call that explained my mysterious stomach pain. brian: what kind of cancer? kate: colon cancer. as

of interest to me. brian lamb: how do you describe the difference between el paso and warez --juarez? ginger thompson: el paso is one of the safest in america and the other is one of the most dangerous cities in mexico. it is a booming industrial own. el paso is dependent on military. it is a military base, and ilitary hub. they are divided by this border and they earn their money in different ways. the families in those communities are very interconnected. kids go to school on both sides of the border. people go to the hospital on both sides of the border. families on one side have relatives on the other side. they shopped together, they go to restaurants together. it is a very interconnected community. the idea of a wall dividing them is a loose concept when you were on the border people --. people do not feel divided as much as they feel connected. brian lamb: if you grew up there and know that so well, what was your reaction when it became such an issue in the 2016 election? ginger thompson: for a long time, people in washington have a different understanding of the border than p

survive. i had a lot to talk about. brian: why were you dying? rep. speier: i was on an airstrip in the remote jungles na having just concluded a congressional delegation tuner -- delegation tour and we were ambushed on that airstrip and shot. members of the press died. one defector of the people's temple died. i was shot five times on the right side of my body. out of my arm, a wound in my like the size of a football. -- leg the size of a football. it was, oh my god, i am 28 years old, this is it. i'm not going to live to be in my mid-80's. i am not going to get married and have kids. i'm not going to have any of those dreams fulfilled. brian: november, 1978. why were you there? rep. speier: i was the legislative counsel to congressman leo ryan. he had decided he wanted to take , code l down to jonestown guyana. there were many constituents of adultat had young children who had gotten involved in this church in san francisco called the people's temple. they had left san francisco and taken 900 of their congregation to this remote country in south america where in a jungle, they had car

slowly, like the senate moves. brian: when did all this start? mark: 2016. brian: so we're talking three years ago? mark: about three years ago. middle 2016 when we got the proposal. we started shooting at the end of 2016. brian: the purpose of this hour is to talk about the documentary. not to show it, but to talk around it. i'll ask you how it came together. first of all, if you're going to watch it for the first time, what is the time and date? mark: it is wednesday, january 2, 8:00 p.m., the night before the senate comes back to session. brian: if people are watching after that, they can find it on our archive. e or thespan.org/senat archive. brian: here's the opening. >> i've been asked several times today, will i agreed to this version or that version of the amendment? no! >> the framers believed-- >> let's follow the constitution. >> sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. the action is going on elsewhere. >> senators offices. in the offices of the senate leaders. but that's all preliminary. sooner or later, everything has to come here. here is where the

. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i am brian filling in for tucker unless i misread the schedule. antifa demonstrators got violent over the weekend. we have the video. first. it's not just antifa losing its mi mind. liberal officeholders are moving fast to the left. one announced support for a "new york times" supporter in an anti-racist tweet and wants to it imagine a world where anybody can enter freely from mexico. >> take a second and just imagine no wall. no wall in southern arizona. >> brian: can you imagine that night. in new york cynthia nixon said it's time for the democratic party to push socialism and others on the left seem on board. >> the establishment is terrified of that word. socialism. but if we learned one thing from the obama years, it's that republicans will call us socialists no matter what we do. >> [cheers and applause]. >> so we might as well as give them the real thing. >> brian: this is going to be a big debate in 2020, isn't it? >> i don't think it will be a debate point. embrace the label and own it or be a player. or you can be like cuomo and be on t

♪ david: what propelled you to want to join this company? brian: i just always wanted to work for my dad. david: did he say you could start at the bottom and work your way up, or did he say you could start at number two? brian: that is what i wanted to happen. david: did anybody say is he ready to be president? brian: everybody, including myself. david: do have you ever had problems with your cable? brian: sure. david: is it intimidating for the cable repairman to come to your house? >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist, and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? ♪ david: when you graduated from college in 1981, you went to the university of pennsylvania. you then joined the company your father had started, comcast. at that time, it was a rela

extraordinary president. brian: major garrett, your book "mr. trump's wild ride." you say this, this book is not primarily about trump's lies, rancor, lies or flamboyance. why? mr. garrett: because that is a fairly well covered aspect of the trump presidency. brian, i learned during the campaign that one of the biggest challenges come i mention this in the book about donald trump, as a political force, as a reality, american politics, is every day there are 10 to 12 or more really interesting things. but there are also three or four really important things. as i worked every day covering this white house, and as i work for 60 months covering the campaign, the biggest challenge, what is it? focusing on the important and not relentlessly being distracted by the interesting. and donald trump generates tremendous amount of interesting things, intentionally sometimes, unintentionally other times. so the book is about what happened in the first year and a half on the trump presidency, that we are going to as a country be living with and looking back on, 10, possibly 20 years from now as if not tur

of the vietnam war. ♪ brian: joe tropea and skizz cyzyk, what would you tell people who'd never heard about the catonsville 9 about it? joe: i would say that it is one of the most effective axis civil disobedience in american history. skizz: i would have to agree. you may not have heard of it, but we've all known of it. brian: you made a documentary in 2015. this is the 50th anniversary. what was the original reason for e documentary? joe: i was a history student working on my masters degree. i needed a topic to write a paper. i had heard of the catonsville 9, but i decided to find out more of what it was all about. from that one class, first, it turned into a feature story that i wrote for the baltimore city paper. then it blossomed into a documentary film. brian: how did you divide your work on this? skizz: i handled more the filmmaking and joe handled more the content end. i came on as a favor when he was doing the interviews for the paper. i suggested don't just take an audio recorder. take a video camera. that video footage would be valuable to a documentary filmmaker down

investment. brian: hi. brian. nice to meet you. lemonis: brian, nice to meet you. what do you do here, brian? brian: mainly marketing and sales. lemonis: okay. jennifer: i call him the technology guy. he built the website. he's kind of my main, like, go-to, where we sit and talk about big picture. lemonis: how long have you been here? jennifer: since the beginning. i mean, we were dating when i started it. lemonis: and are you still dating? both: no. lemonis: okay. brian: nope. jennifer: a year and a half. should i answer the phone? lemonis: i mean, if it's somebody that wants to buy something, yes. jennifer: hangout lighting. this is jen. how can i help you? lemonis: you kind of got saved by the bell on the whole dating thing. dustin: i'm dustin. lemonis: dustin, i'm marcus. dustin: nice to meet you, man. lemonis: nice to meet you. dustin: how's it going? lemonis: what do you do here? dustin: right now, just production. i was running the social media for a while, too. no one's officially been given a title. lemonis: so, every single person here reports to jen. dustin: yep. lemon

turning point for the antiwar movement. brian: another 30-second clip. this is the catonsville draft for clerk. you can explain after we watch it. [video clip] >> i was sitting at my desk and these two ladies were with me and these gentlemen came in the hall. i said, can i help you? with that, the rest of them came in quickly. all of a sudden. one man was a trash burner. he ran to my files and started dumping files into this trash burner. [end video clip] brian: how many of these kinds of events happened across the country? joe: it is difficult to say. the ones connected to the catholic left, as we call them, or the action community, i charted 40 to 50 actions. the numbers get interesting. one draft board, one selective service office could have any number of actual draft board files contained in it. 40 to 50 actions that hit well over 200 different draft boards. brian: how did these nine people come together in the first place? skizz: there was a community, the catholic left. these were people that knew each other either from the seminary, they were connected. three of the members o

, author michael gerhardt on the presidency of jimmy carter. brian: michael, when did you first start thinking about the book you wrote in 2013 on the forgotten presidents? mr. gerhardt: i've been thinking about it a lot. for other projects, i kept running into presidents who had done things that were interesting, and i thought about the forgotten presidents before i began the book. it occurred to me they might have something in problem. best comment. -- common. that they were forgotten but also significant in some way. so i began thinking about it years prior to 2013 but i assembled different chapters about different presidents. i thought about who was forgotten for the purposes of the book. so i had to do surveys and talk with people to make the determination. once i settled on a group of people to talk about, i thought about what they might have in common and what we could learn from them. brian: what kind of reaction did you get from somebody out there who is a big fan of one of the presidents and they did not think they belonged in the book? mr. gerhardt: the reactions i got were

rocket man." brian: robert kurson, author of "rocket man," when did you know you had a good story? robert: i was walking through the museum of science and industry in chicago, showing some friends the u-boat on display. they have the u 505, a perfect match for the u-boat i wrote about in my first book, which was found in jersey waters by two recreational scuba divers. i had no expectation to do anything but show off this submarine. as i was leaving i wandered through the space center and stumbled across a spacecraft that looked at once to have come from the past and the future. it was scarred and browned and battered. i looked on the placard and explained this was the command module of apollo 8. i loved astronauts as a kid. i thought i knew a lot about space but really what i knew was apollo 11, which was man's first landing on the moon, and apollo 13, which almost resulted in a great tragedy before the astronauts made it back safely. i knew almost nothing about apollo 8. i went home and started researching. within about 15 or 20 minutes, i realized i stumbled across the greatest space st

could support himself and his family. brian: where did he meet your mother? ms. thompson: they met in pennsylvania. he was in a military base outside of harrisburg, where she is from. brian: how many different places have you lived? ms. thompson: i have not lived in that many places. we lived in alaska and kentucky, fort campbell. we lived on fort bliss. we went back and forth between el paso and alaska. it was mostly alaska. and texas, where i grew up. brian: what year did you go to work for "the new york times" and what was your assignment? ms. thompson: i went to "the new york times" -- i always have to count back. i was at "the baltimore sun" in 1992 to 1995, so i went to "the new york times" and it went to in latin america for "the new york times" in 2000. brian: how long were you there? ms. thompson: six years. i had been there for "the baltimore sun." altogether in latin america, i have spent 12 or 13 years. brian: where did you live? ms. thompson: mexico city. i lived in a neighborhood which is a west village of mexico city. it has become very hip. it has some of the cooles

♪ >> brian: hope you had a sensational day, this is "tucker carlson tonight." i am filling in for tucker throughout the show unless something goes wrong. president trump's visit to the u.k., meeting with the prime minister and the queen amid controversy, and big protests here at home. this was taking place but don't act surprisingly 12 russian intel officers were indicted. there is no evidence of collusion. here's deputy ag rod rosenstein today. >> they corresponded with several americans through the course of the conspiracy through the internet. no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian intelligence officers. there is no allegation in this indictment that any american citizen committed a crime. there is no allegation that the conspiracy changed a vote count or affected any election result results. >> brian: fox news contributor, we didn't know this was happening. we get this come out. i've never seen a probe to gradually let out information. have you ever seen an approach like this? >> i think it does a lot to undermine people's

field of blood: violence in congress and the road to civil war." ♪ brian: joanne freeman, what is your book, "the field of blood" about? joanne: physical violence in the u.s. congress between 1830 and the civil war. brian: how many instances of violence do you have in your book? joanne: i found about 70, which is not the total, but at some point i had to stop researching and sit down and write good in the book, there are roughly 70 violent incidents, and that means something physical. punching, shoving, hitting, caning, enormous melees with congressman rolling around in the aisles. once or twice, a gun went off in the house. physical altercations and dual challenges. brian: you have got to tell the story about john boehner and don young. [laughter] brian: don young, 85 years old. joanne: i discover that late in the process. i can't remember what year the interview was, it wasn't that long ago, there was that intimate john boehner interviewer he went on at length and went on at length about things. in he talks about how young pulled a knife on him in the house, before he was speaker, bu

: doctor, thank you terry, kat thanks for watching. brian: welcome to "watters world." i'm brian kilmeade filling in for jesse. jewel rudy giuliani said mueller's probe is a trap. it comes after questions mueller wants to ask trump. they were leaked to the "new york times" this week. we still don't know why. here is the president yesterday. president trump: nobody wants to me to speak to him. i would love to speak. because we have done nothing wrong. there was no collusion with the russians. there was no obstruction. i have find that we'll be treated fairly. everybody sees it now and it's a pure witch hunt. brian: stunning comments from a federal judge. this happened friday. he questioned the muler probe. he said they are not interested in manafort's potential bank fraud but are interested in ousting president trump. andrew mccarthy, welcome back. what is your reaction to that judge's comments friday? >> i'm relieved that finally someone is able who has the authority and status to push back at the special counsel investigation, someone is finally pushing back at what has been the

. the book was kind of a where i digproject into my own beliefs. brian: how sick are you? kate: stage four cancer is not decorative. it is hard but i am doing better than a lot of people. i moved from the kind of crisis management to the more chronic part of this, i in which i live skin to skin. thankfully, so far drugs and doctors and all kinds of things are making up way. brian: when did you find out you had cancer? kate: two years ago. there is no cancer and my family, so i did not imagine it was possible. one day i got a phone call that explained my mysterious stomach pain. brian: what kind of cancer? kate: colon cancer. as it turns out, it is increasingly common that young people are getting what was traditionally thought as an older person's illness. brian: in your book you say it is in the liver? kate: yes, it spread to my liver. i guess it does that happen and it did to mine. brian: -- give you a series of horrible options when you have stage for cancer. it could do this, and we could do this. there are other worse, horrible things. there is something that is called a mismatch

, the man in the middle in the middle of the 20th century. 20th century. brian: hendrik meijer, author of "senator arthur vandenberg, the man in the middle of the 20th century." when was the first time you thought about writing this? hendrik: in 1989, i was contemplating a biography. i had done a biography of my grandfather. i was looking around for another idea. i am a field fiction writer and poet. i could not create, but i could explore and explain. i was talking with a friend of mine who said i keep running across his name. some professor back in 1970 published the first of what was supposed to be a two-volume of arthur vandenberg. the world does not need two biographies of vandenberg. said i've got to fill said i've got d to fill out my agenda. why don't you come and talk about some episode in arthur vandenberg's life. i gave a little lecture on the debate over the repeal of the arms embargo in 1939, before world war ii. eight weeks later, i get a call from the daughter of this professor who is said to be working on the second volume of his biography. turns out he had a difficult

." brian: jeffrey engel, if you had to describe george herbert walker bush to somebody who had never met him, what would you say? dr. engel: he was a gentleman. a person who came up with traditional american values of being part of the elite. when we think about the term -- noblesse oblige, that really describes george bush. and a person who was born well off, had the best education, the best training, and spent his entire life trying to work in public service to give more back. and really was a gentleman you do not see much in american politics. brian: where did it start? dr. engel: with his mother, a person who constantly told him, your responsibility was to give back. she always stressed that the team was more important than the individual, which was very important. he was into athletics throughout his life. no matter how many times he would say, mom, here is how i did, she would say, but how did team do? i think that imbues a sense of the broader success being more important than the individual. brian: his dad was born in columbus ohio. how did he get to the northeast? >> he was

seeing snow ♪ i've waited all year, baby brian: i cannot believe i'm listening to a christmas song for the first time. i have never heard that song before by kelly clarkson. griff: she is great. lisa: can't miss it, right? griff: i even brought a santa hat. this plays a part in the day, i think. brian: hold it or not wear it or are you going to wear it. lisa: you did just have your hair done. griff: our makeup artist is going to be mad. merry christmas. you have got to get in the spirit. this is it. his got to fluff it up it's to the side. brian: you brought your whole family here. griff: i brought two teenage daughters up. lisa: bless your heart, griff. brian: recheck the griff debt ceiling. lisa: you will need a lot in new york. brian: there was a time in holiday season you went to best of tapes and went out to the airport. everyone was running to get home. then there was trump and major news in the middle of the shut down. we are finding out the shut down is in day three as a portion of the government is not founded mostly homeland security really downsd to border security. righ

the state of georgia and across america! i am here for one reason. georgia and america need brian kemp to be the next governor. [cheers and applause] tomorrow is actually brian kemp's birthday. it is. i asked him what he wanted. he said he wanted four more years of strong republican leadership at the statehouse! [cheers and applause] speaking of strong republican leadership, let me bring greetings from a friend of mine. let me bring greetings from the man people in georgia voted overwhelmingly to make the 45th president of the united states of america -- president donald trump! [cheers and applause] it is the greatest honor of my life to serve alongside the president, to fight for the promises he made to the people of georgia and the people of america. president donald trump delivers! when brian kemp becomes your next governor, he is going to deliver for georgia, just the same way! think about what we've done in the last few months. new jobs report just came out. 4.2 million new jobs created, and unemployment is at a 50 year low. [cheers and applause] we set a new record. the lowe

in the 1999, the former president talked with c-span's brian lamb about his personal life and his time as cia director, vice president and president, as well as his relationship with ronald reagan. this is one hour. brian: mr. president, can you remember the first time you ever thought about being president of the united states? pres. bush: brian, i can't think i honestly can't. -- can. i remember when i started thinking seriously about it. i left the center of intelligence. jimmy carter was elected president. i went back to texas. somewhere in there after that i began to be serious about it. i didn't, i didn't make any permanent business connection or permanent university connection. i did a little teaching, a couple of boards of directors of business, but it was in there i got to thinking about it seriously. but whether it even crossed my mind earlier on, i don't know. probably. everybody who is elected to congress thanks, hey, maybe someday i will be president. brian: in your book, you write that memo on aging and memory. what was the point of that in your new book? pres. bush:

. he talks about c-span's new documentary, "the senate: conflict and compromise." brian: mark farkas, c-span producer for 34 years. new documentary on the united states senate. why? mark: the genesis of it was actually mitch mcconnell had done a tour of his office for american history television, went so well, he got in touch with us. he's interested in history and brought to c-span a documentary on the senate. we looked at it and we said it might be a good idea. met with his folks, hammered some details out, and then we started moving forward slowly, like the senate moves. brian: when did all this start? mark: 2016. brian: so we're talking three years ago? mark: about three years ago. middle 2016 when we got the proposal. we started shooting at the end of 2016. brian: the purpose of this hour is to talk about the documentary. not to show it, but to talk around it. i'll ask you how it came together. first of all, if you're going to watch it for the first time, what is the time and date? mark: it is wednesday, january 2, 8:00 p.m., the night before the senate comes back to session. brian

-- brian: why did it take so long? hendrik: people say where did you find the time with your day job? it only took me 26 years. maybe i wasn't an efficient writer. the biographer's weakness for research and spent a lot of time interviewing people working in the vandenberg papers at the university of michigan, anding up with a 1000-page manuscript that would not be publishable, spend years taking it down to 900, 800, taking out a paragraph here and a sentence there, and finally getting some editorial advice saying, no, take out chapter three, combined chapter seven and chapter eight. then i had a publishable manuscript. last ithe next -- the read was 7200 employees in the meijer company. you are ceo briefly. hendrik: yes. meijer name?s the father was a dutch immigrant who opened a grocery store in the great depression. with my dad's leadership, what became a small chain of supermarkets evolved into what became supercenters. self-servicem the center with a hometown touch. it was a supermarket and they discussed apartment sure -- a disco department star. brian: that may put an auditor -

presidential election. brian: new york times photographer, doug mills, back in 2013 you were photographing a lot of barack obama, what has changed since then? doug: what has changed? well, we have a president who is not a politician in the white house. the american people elected somebody who is a businessman and now he is president of united states. things are drastically different for us. it is a lot of work. we worked nonstop, the president drives the new cycle hourly. therefore it affects us every day. the white house is quite an exciting place to work. brian: how is it different? doug: from a photographer standpoint, we get a lot more access to the president. i see him a lot more on a daily basis the young we did with barack obama. sometimes four or five times per day we are able to photograph him in different situations. some meetings, executive orders, signings, things like that. there is a lot of travel involved. mar-a-lago, new jersey, where he likes to spend it the weekend. it is exhausting. it is great. it is very exciting. i look what i'm doing. i have the greates

brian kilmeade tell us what was going through your mind when you did that. brian: it's an instinct when you grow up in the circuit you want -- you see the crowd roaring in the background seemingly easy because these guy are professionals they are watching us, i believe katie can you see them moving with the ropes to try to help us out. i didn't know quite know what to do with my hands i held them here. brian: the fix was in. katie: you had that on me. brian: when it comes to jump roping i like to do it in the unitard. steve: sorry we have standards. katie: world champions double dutch stars for teaching us. steve: thanks to the yonkers police who brought the men and women over. ainsley is on vacation again today. she will be back tomorrow and in her place we have katie pavlich. katie: happy to be here. brian: as a salute we look at her hobbies and try to mirror. here is hoping it was chess. turns out she likes adventure and likes to do stuff. katie: we have a lot of stuff planned today. i will get these guys some outdoor skills in new york city. put you to the test. steve: there wi

science, love, and common sense." brian: your new book, "sex matters." to find what that word means. mona: the phrase? i wish i could say i came up with the title myself. it is actually my friend and colleague who had this inspiration. it means that sex in the sense of gender matters, that we are different. it is ok to acknowledge that. the other aspect is a sexual behavior matters. it has effects on people. it cannot be taken to casually. brian: when did you get this idea? mona: i have been thinking about the issues my entire adult life. as a woman who came of age when feminism was really at its peak in the 1970's and early 1980's, i was influenced. i went to a woman's college where the feminist message was prominent. i was always a little skeptical of it. not entirely. we can get into how you define feminism, but i have lived it now for some many decades. feminism, while of course we all believe in equal rights for women and equal human dignity, the tendency in our society, propelled by the feminist movement, has been toward androgyny instead of toward a rich appreciation of our d