C-SPAN 2 TV Schedule
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Navy Incidents at Sea
2 hours, 18 minutesNavy Secretary Richard Spencer and Admiral John Richardson testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the recent ship incidents at sea. In August 2017, the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker of the coast of Singapore, killing 10 sailors. In addition, seven sailors died in June when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a cargo ship in the Sea of Japan. Admiral Richardson, chief of naval operations, said the Navy had taken steps to evaluate safety standards, ship certifications, and force readiness. Committee ChairJohn McCain (R-AZ) called the incidents unacceptable and alarming and urged the Navy to take immediate actions.
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Hurricane Preparation and the Elderly
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Mary Ellen McIntire on the Affordable Care Act
25 minutesMary Ellen McIntire talked about renewed efforts in the Senate to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Texas Lawmakers on Hurricane Harvey Response
51 minutesRepresentatives Gene Green (D-TX), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), and Al Green (D-TX) attended Hurricane Harvey relief and recovery events in their respective congressional districts.
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Immigration and Refugee Policy
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Immigration and Refugee Policy
54 minutesA panel of state and local officials testify at a Center for American Progress forum on measures they are taking to include and protect immigrants and refugees in their communities
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Elections and Cyber Threats
Harvard University’s Kennedy School hosts a panel on the digital threat to democracy. Participants include Hillary Clinton’s and Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign managers, cybersecurity experts and Google’s information security manager.
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U.S. Senate
5 minutesThe Senate will reconvene for a pro forma session only with no business conducted. The Senate is currently in a state work period until Monday.
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Tough Sell
56 minutesTom Basile, Forbes opinion writer and former senior press advisor to the CPA in Baghdad, talks about his efforts to communicate the Bush administration’s strategy to the American public during the Iraq War.
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The American Spirit
55 minutesPulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough discusses his book, The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For, at the 17th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Open Phones with David McCullough
22 minutesPulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough takes viewer phone calls and tweets from the 17th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Be Free or Die
1 hour, 6 minutesCate Lineberry, former staff writer and editor for National Geographic magazine, recalls the life of Robert Smalls, a former slave who became the first African American captain of an Army ship.
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Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
1 hour, 29 minutesPublic interest lawyer Steven Druker discusses the science and regulations behind genetically engineered food in his book, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth.
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Warriors Don't Cry
57 minutesMelba Pattillo Beals discusses her book, Warriors Don’t Cry, which details her experiences as part of the first integrated class of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Patrick Henry
1 hour, 15 minutesJon Kukla recounts the life of Patrick Henry, Virginia’s first postcolonial governor and a critic of central government over states' rights.
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How Trump Won
43 minutesBook TV sat down with Joel Pollak, senior editor-at-large at Breitbart, to talk about his book, How Trump Won.
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New York Review of Books Contributors on Immigration
49 minutesFrom the 2017 Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City, contributors to the New York Review of Books talk about immigration.
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Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse
1 hour, 2 minutesThe Nation national affairs writer John Nichols discusses his book, Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America, which looks at the people who make up President Trump’s inner circle.
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Not a Day Care
52 minutesOklahoma Wesleyan University President Everett Piper argues in his book, Not a Day Care, that college campuses should be places pursuing freedom of speech, liberty, and truth, not places of “speech codes” and “safe spaces.”
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What Happened
1 hour, 26 minutesHillary Clinton gives her personal account of the 2016 presidential campaign and election in her memoir, What Happened. She talks to Lissa Muscatine, co-owner of Politics and Prose Bookstore.
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The Cold War
1 hour, 28 minutesBancroft Prize-winning historian Odd Arne Westad looks at the global ramifications of the Cold War.
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After Words with Suzy Hansen
56 minutesNew York Times Magazine contributor Suzy Hansen reports on the world’s view of America’s power and influence and her own view of the U.S. in her book, Notes on a Foreign Country. She’s interviewed by Elmira Bayrasli of the New America Foundation.
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From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez
1 hour, 27 minutesPaul Hollander, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, talks about Western intellectuals who have supported political dictators over the past century.
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Crash Override
49 minutesVideo game developer, online bullying victim, and CEO of the Crash Override Network, Zoe Quinn, discussed her book, Crash Override.
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Thank You For Being Late
1 hour, 3 minutesPulitzer Prize-winning columnist Thomas Friedman discusses his book, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, at the 17th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Open Phones with Thomas Friedman
22 minutesPulitzer Prize-winning columnist Thomas Friedman takes viewer phone calls and tweets from the 17th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Remember the Ladies
59 minutesAngela Dodson, former senior editor of the New York Times, recounts the national suffrage movement and profiles many of the key participants.
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Angry White Male
16 minutesWayne Allyn Root, host of the Wayne Allyn Root Show (Newsmax TV), talks about his most recent book, Angry White Male: How the Donald Trump Phenomenon is Changing America-and What We Can All Do to Save the Middle Class.
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Science in the Soul
1 hour, 2 minutesBestselling author Richard Dawkins makes an argument for “the scientific way of thinking” over relying on prejudice or feelings.
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The Ends of the World
44 minutesScience journalist Peter Brannen discusses the sixth extinction by examining previous extinctions on earth through fossils and geological records in The Ends of the World.
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Striking Power
59 minutesJohn Yoo and Jeremy Rabkin talk about how military technology is changing the way we fight wars and defend ourselves against old and new threats.
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Panel Discussion on the Supreme Court
47 minutesFrom the 2017 Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City, panelists talk about the Supreme Court.
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Bones
59 minutesJournalist Joe Tone reports on the lives of the Trevino brothers along the U.S. Mexico border and their rise and fall in the Zeta drug cartel and money laundering through quarter horse racing.
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Job Creation
30 minutesAndy Puzder, former CEO of CKE Restaurants and President Trump’s first nominee for Labor Secretary, talks about his book, Job Creation: How It Really Works and Why Government Doesn’t Understand It.
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What Happened
1 hour, 26 minutesHillary Clinton gives her personal account of the 2016 presidential campaign and election in her memoir, What Happened. She talks to Lissa Muscatine, co-owner of Politics and Prose Bookstore.
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Robot Proof
53 minutesNortheastern University president, Joseph Aoun, argues for the need for better and continuous education to keep up with changing technology.
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After Words with David Osborne
58 minutesProgressive Policy Institute senior fellow David Osborne examines the charter school movement and offers his outlook on the future of public education in his book, Reinventing America’s Schools. He is interviewed by Chester Finn.
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Cornerstone of Liberty
16 minutesChristina Sandefur, executive vice president of the Goldwater Institute, talks about her book, Cornerstone of Liberty: Private Property Rights in 21st Century America.
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Stamped from the Beginning
1 hour, 34 minutesIn light of Charlottesville and other recent protests around the country, historian and American University professor Ibram Kendi discusses his book, Stamped from the Beginning, which examines the history of racist ideas in America.
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Panel Discussion on Southern History
1 hour, 1 minuteFrom the 2017 Mississippi Book Festival, an author panel discussion about the events that have shaped the South.
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Charlton Heston
20 minutesBiographer Marc Eliot joined us on the set at FreedomFest to discuss his book, Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon
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Madame President
47 minutesHelene Cooper explores the life of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement and the first democratically elected female president in African history, at the 17th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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What Is Slavery?
34 minutesBrenda Stevenson talks about her book, What is Slavery?.
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Machine, Platform, Crowd
1 hour, 4 minutesIn their most recent book, Machine, Platform, Crowd, MIT’s Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson explore how machines can be beneficial to America’s workforce and how policymakers can protect workers in the future.
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Open Phones with Leland Melvin
19 minutesAstronaut and former professional football player Leland Melvin takes viewer phone calls and tweets from the 17th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez
1 hour, 27 minutesPaul Hollander, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, talks about Western intellectuals who have supported political dictators over the past century.
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After Words with Suzy Hansen
56 minutesNew York Times Magazine contributor Suzy Hansen reports on the world’s view of America’s power and influence and her own view of the U.S. in her book, Notes on a Foreign Country. She’s interviewed by Elmira Bayrasli of the New America Foundation.
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What Happened
1 hour, 26 minutesHillary Clinton gives her personal account of the 2016 presidential campaign and election in her memoir, What Happened. She talks to Lissa Muscatine, co-owner of Politics and Prose Bookstore.
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Charlton Heston
20 minutesBiographer Marc Eliot joined us on the set at FreedomFest to discuss his book, Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon
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After Words with Suzy Hansen
56 minutesNew York Times Magazine contributor Suzy Hansen reports on the world’s view of America’s power and influence and her own view of the U.S. in her book, Notes on a Foreign Country. She’s interviewed by Elmira Bayrasli of the New America Foundation.
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Hillbilly Elegy
57 minutesJ.D. Vance recalls his childhood in a Rust Belt town in Ohio at the 17th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Supremely Partisan
58 minutesJames Zirin argues that the Supreme Court has become highly partisan and the Court’s decisions are often made on a political basis that has little to do with the law or the Constitution.
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After Words with Suzy Hansen
56 minutesNew York Times Magazine contributor Suzy Hansen reports on the world’s view of America’s power and influence and her own view of the U.S. in her book, Notes on a Foreign Country. She’s interviewed by Elmira Bayrasli of the New America Foundation.
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America in the Age of Trump
1 hour, 1 minuteFox News contributor and pollster Doug Schoen gives his assessment of the Trump presidency.
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Crash Override
49 minutesVideo game developer, online bullying victim, and CEO of the Crash Override Network, Zoe Quinn, discussed her book, Crash Override.
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Panel Discussion on Mississippi History
1 hour, 3 minutesFrom the 2017 Mississippi Book Festival, a panel discussion on the history of Mississippi.
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Cornerstone of Liberty
16 minutesChristina Sandefur, executive vice president of the Goldwater Institute, talks about her book, Cornerstone of Liberty: Private Property Rights in 21st Century America.
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False Black Power?
35 minutesWall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley argues that political capital for blacks has been a disadvantage for the race in terms of economic upward mobility.
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U.S. Senate
4 hours, 0 minuteThe Senate will resume debate on the nomination of William Emanuel to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, the Senate invoked cloture on his nomination 49-44. At 5:30pm ET, the Senate will vote on confirmation.