i guess this month is amy goodman cohost of democracy now! ms. goodman's five nonfiction books begin from 2004 "the exception to the rulers" exposing politicians will profiteers and the media that love them. in 2006 she came out with static standing up to madness ordinary heroes in extraordinary times came out in 2000 a covert and with her brother david goodman. the sound barrier in 2009 and finally her most recent "the silenced majority" stories of uprisings occupations resistance and hope. he came out last year. if you'd like to participate in our conversation this afternoon 202's is the area code 585-3880 and for those of you in the east and central timezones by the 53881 and if you live in the mountain or pacific timezones you can also make comments on social media. you can go to our face with page facebook.com/booktv. it's posted up there at the top of page and make him a good comment under this section the amy goodman section or send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org and finally you can send in the tweet as well at booktv is our twitter han

i'm amy goodman. egyptian forces have committed a new mass killing of muslim brotherhood demonstrators supporting the ouster president mohammed morsi. dozens of people have been killed in overnight raids on two pro more seeing cap mincing cairo. initial reports said between 42 to 94 bodies were counted at one more, including those of two babies. both sides have offered conflicting accounts, with the muslim brotherhood claiming an even higher toll of hundreds killed in the egyptian government giving a total of 13, including five egyptian state forces. in a statement, the egyptian government praised its forces for the "utmost degree of self restraint" in the face of what it called violence from protesters, the journalists and witnesses on the scene reported what appeared to be widespread and indiscriminate shootings with government snipers firing from rooftops on the crowds. in addition to live fire, egyptian forces used tear gas, helicopters, armored cars, bulldozers to clear the encampments. pro-democ

i'm amy goodman. the sentencing hearing for army whistleblower bradley manning began wednesday with a prosecution witness undermining the state's own claims manning's disclosures to wikileaks harm the united states. on wednesday, retired brigadier general robert carr, who oversaw the pentagon task force assessing the leaks impact, admitted that not a single person lost their lives as a result of the disclosures. press by manning's defense on deaths resulting from the wikileaks cables, he said -- tosuggested the main harm the u.s. was in souring relations with foreign governments and villagers in afghanistan. manning is facing 136 years in prison after being found guilty on 20 counts for leaking hundreds of thousands of government documents to wikileaks. he was acquitted on the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy. the prosecution is expected to call up to 20 sentencing -- witnesses during the sentencing phase. the senate held a long-awaited hearing on government surveillance wednesday jus

i'm amy goodman. in the latest revelations about the national security agency sweeping surveillance, the new york times reports the nsa is searching through the contents of fast troves of e-mail and text communications flowing into and out of the country. an unnamed senior official told the new york times the nsa is not only intercepting the communications of americans who are in touch with foreign targets -- a practice that has been acknowledged publicly -- they are also casting the net far wider to include those who cite information linked to foreign targets. is --mes reports the nsa according to the unnamed official, after the communications are scanned for keywords or other red flags, those that do not raise alarms are deleted. the entire process takes seconds . the practice is touched on in a document leaked by what edward snowden to the guardian about the nsa's powers under the 2008 foreign intelligence surveillance act. the document notes the nsa -- the revelations follow the announcement wedne

i'm amy goodman. the obama administration is reconsidering plans for a summit with russian president vladimir putin next month after russia granted a year of temporary asylum to national security agency whistleblower edward snowden. on thursday, snowden left the moscow airport where he had been sheltering for more than a month while the united states sought his return to face espionage charges for revealing nsa spy programs. in a statement released by wikileaks, edward snowden said -- a russian lawyer for snowden said he is set to begin a new life in russia. we will have more on snowden and the latest nsa leaks after headlines with two members of congress were trying to defined the nsa's all collection of phone and data records -- democrat john conyers of michigan and kentucky republican thomas massie. says iraq hasions closed out its deadliest month in more than five years following a wave of sectarian bombings and shootings. in total, the violence killed 1057 iraqis and injured more than 2300 in jul

i'm amy goodman. the obama administration has announced it will keep 19 embassies in north africa and the middle east closed from to a week due to fears of a possible military threat. ramped up security measures were in place over the weekend that some of the 22 diplomatic posts shattered by the concerns. saxby chambliss, the top republican on the senate intelligence committee, said intercepted communications were reminiscent of what was heard before the 9/11 attacks. credited the nsa spy programs with detecting the threat. >> these programs are controversial. . we understand that. very important. there are what lead us to have or allow us to have the ability to gather this chatter that i refer to. if we did not have these programs, then we simply would not be able to listen in on the bad guys. the 702ay, it is program that has allowed us to pick up on this chatter. that is the program that allows us to listen overseas, not on domestic soil, but overseas. >> opponents of the nsa sweeping program held

i'm amy goodman. encrypted e-mail service leaved to have been used by national security agency leaker edward snowden shut down abruptly thursday amidst a legal fight that appeared to involve u.s. government attempts to win access to customer information. the owner of love abit wrote -- lavabit wrote a message online saying he said he was barred from discussing the events over the past six weeks that led to his decision. he went on to write -- later on thursday, another security mail provider called silent circle also announced it was shutting down. new information has come to light about a secretive unit inside the drug enforcement the special operations division. earlier this week, reuters reveal the unit finals information from overseas nsa intercepts, domestic wiretaps, and informants to help dea agents launch criminal investigations of americans. instructedare then to re-create the investigative trail in order to conceal the origins of the evidence area reuters is reporting the dea has also provid

i'm amy goodman. egypt's political crisis is growing after the country's deadliest file and sends the egyptian revolution broke out in chocolate thousand 11. at least five people were killed and over 3500 wounded in government rates on protesting catchments. usede and troops bulldozers, tear gas and live ammunition to clear out the sit ins. makeshift clinics were overrun with the dead and wounded area did members of the muslim brotherhood responded by storming and torching police stations. 43 police officers were reportedly killed. four journalists also died. egypt's army installed government has declared a month- long state of emergency and imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the capital of cairo and 10 other provinces. the move came shortly after it installed 25 provincial governors, including 19 military generalists. peaced elbaradei, nobel laureate, resigned hours after wednesday's crackdown began, saying the conflict could've been resolved by peaceful means. the muslim brotherhood has called for new

i'm amy goodman. we begin today with a major development for opponents of new york city police department's controversial stop and frisk row graham. in a settlement announced wednesday, the nypd agreed to stop storing the names of people who were arrested or issued a summons after being stopped and frisked -- and later cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. for years police have used the database to target new yorkers for criminal investigations, even though it includes people who were victims of unjustified police stops. since 2002, the police department has conducted over 5 million stop and frisk. the vast majority of those stopped have been black and latino. according to the police department's own reports, nearly nine out of 10 new yorkers stopped and frisked have been innocent. two of the people at the center of the case spoke about what happened to them in 2010 in this video produced by the new york civil liberties union, which filed the case just settled. first we hear from daryl kahn who was pull

i'm amy goodman. jeff bezos is buying the washington post, one of the leading newspapers in the country. the amazon.com founder and chief executive is one of the wealthiest people in the united states. he will pay $250 million for the post and a number of , less than one percent of his wealth, which is estimated at more than 28 billion dollars. he is a friend of donald graham, chief effective of the washington post company, whose family has owned the newspaper for eight decades. over the past the gate, the companies newspaper division a seen a 44% drop in operating revenue. in addition, he will get another -- a number of other washington post owned businesses. the deal does not include slate.com or foreign-policy magazine, which are own by the parent company that also owns kaplan and will change its name following the sale of the paper. he said management of the washington post newspaper will remain the same, but it is unclear what changes might be coming. last year, he was quoted in an interview with

i'm amy goodman. brotherhoode muslim has called on supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi to join the nationwide day of rage today to protest the killings of hundreds of people in a crackdown that began with raids on two cairo sit ins. according to the health ministry, the death toll from wednesday's violence has risen to 638 with thousands more wounded. on thursday, the government authorized security forces to use live ammunition to defend themselves and public buildings. president obama responded to the situation in egypt from martha's vineyard where he is on vacation . he condemned the violence, but stopped short of calling it a coup or announcing cuts to the $1.5 billion in aid to egypt's military. >> while we want to sustain our relationship with egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back. as a result, this morning we notified the egyptian government that we are canceling our biannual joint mili

i'm amy goodman. the guardian newspaper has revealed that national security agency has a backdoor into its databases to search for e-mails and phone calls of american citizens without a warrant. according to documents leaked by edward snowden, operatives can search for individual communications using their name or other identifying information. the article was published on friday, hours before president obama held a news conference about the nsa. he repeatedly defended the surveillance operations and outlined four proposals for reforming the programs. >> i will work with congress to pursue a program of reforms to section 215 of the patriot act, the program that collects telephone records. this program is an important tool in our effort to disrupt terrorist plots and does not allow the government to listen in to any phone calls without a warrant. given the scale of the program, i understand the concerns of those who were read it could be subject to abuse. after having a dialogue with members of congres

i'm amy goodman. federalstoric move, a judge has ruled the stop and frisk rules used by new york city are unconstitutional. shira scheindlin wrote that police have a policy of racial profiling, leading them to stop blacks and latinos who would not have been otherwise stop if they were white. attorney general eric holder has officially unveiled a major policy shift to help certain low-level drug offenders avoid harsh mandatory minimum prison sentences. in an address to the american bar association, he address the issue of mass incarceration, noting that it houses a quarter of the world's prisoners. among other changes, he touted an expansion of the compassionate release program for some elderly prisoners and announced a review of racial sentencing disparities, citing a recent study that cited black men received senses 20% longer than white men convicted of the same crimes. >> vicious cycle of poverty, criminality, and incarceration weakens to many communities. many aspects of our criminal justice syste

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. continue to look at the track record of amazon.com, whose owner jeff bezos, purchased the washington post. president obama delivered a major speech on jobs at an amazon warehouse in chattanooga, tennessee. obama offered to cut corporate taxes in exchange for creating new jobs. >> here is the bottom line. if the folks in washington really want a grand bargain, how about a grand bargain for middle-class jobs? how about a grand bargain for middle-class jobs? i am willing to work with republicans on reforming our corporate tax code as long as we use the money from transitioning to a simpler tax system for a significant investment in creating a middle class jobs. president >> obama's comments were part of an effort to take on widening u.s. inequality, but critics say creating more jobs like those at the amazon warehouse where he spoke would do little to achieve the goal. >> for more, we are joined by reporter mac mcclelland, who went undercover and was hired by amazon. her article was titl

i'm amy goodman. this week marks the one-year anniversary of the attack on a sikh temple in oak creek, wisconsin the of six people dead and five when did. people of all faiths join the community for vigils to remember those who died on august 5, 2012 when a neo-nazi gunman wade michael page opened fire on worshipers in the temple. the oak creek tragedy brought national attention to the threat of hate and discrimination that has become routine for millions , muslim, hindu, and arab-americans in the last decade. according to reports, hate crimes against these communities are now at their highest since 2001, and a number of hate groups has more than doubled since 2000. last friday, ahead of the anniversary, attorney general eric holder announced the justice department will begin collecting data on hate crimes committed against sikhs along with other religious groups. this is jasit singh. >> in the year after oak creek, we have made some progress with the government and in one year, to get the fbi to agre

but on some very fantastic tv led democracy now that amy goodman hosts. and you heard him say that his son could easily have been captured. there were never any charges against him. he was just considered a killer. even more tragic is the fact that senior old american and his son was killed in a separate drone strike with a bunch of teenagers from yemen. all we did is say that there is a bunch of militants there was a 21-year-old militant so i think it is important to look at u.s. citizens we do not have something which most of us thought that we did have. and this includes the right to a trial. but to have eric holder, and the attorney general to tell a group of northwestern students here in illinois that should've been something that just kind of woke up the entire legal community. and the rest of us who would would really like to make sure that we do have the right to a fair trial. so i do think that while we are at a point right now where there is a lot more scrutiny of the policies of the obama administration in terms of surveillance of the american

. >> amy goodman, in your first book the exception to the rulers, you write and you are quoting the washington post, 80 goodman is the journalist commentamy goodman is the journalist comment as an invited guest. >> we are not supposed the party to any party. this is the only one explicitly protected by the u.s. constitution. we are supposed to be the check and balance on power. >> host: in that book also, war and peace, life and death, that is the role of the media in a democratic society, to provide a forum for this is course, to do anything less is a disservice to the servicemen and servicewomen of this country. >> i had a jet flown in from denver when i was at the national conference on media reform and when we flew into the airport, at denver airport people hold up signs when you come out to pick you up and as we were walking there were some soldiers, they were going to be picking up the general and as we walk by they were waving and i thought maybe the general was behind me. it didn't look that way. i thought i am going to go back and talk to them so i went back and you watch democracy no

amy goodman was there from democracy now and the reporter from "the washington post." but by and large this story was an extraordinary story. it was not covered by "the new york times" at all. zip, nothing. how. how could they not cover it? what kind of journalism is that? >> host: gary post-on our facebook page, in lieu of supporting questionable regimes in africa, chinas and its trade deals with african nations built schools and hospitals and other in the structure needs of the masses instead of massive cash payments to warlords and the like. any chance the u.s. could follow suit? >> guest: well, i am fearful of chinese motives as well. and because i am critical of apologists from our country i have a responsibility to practice that criticism and that is what constructs democracy is all about but i am not happy about china either. china has a horrible human rights policy. china is a one-party dictatorship and its treatment of its own citizens and particularly what it has done in tibet and western china to the weaker people. so i -- i am very wary about chinese motive

amy goodman, host of democracy now. eli lake, senior national security correspondent for "newsweek" and the daily beast. tom, you wrote today that you favor military intervention in is syria and favor it from the perspective john kerry laid out, the perspective i believe samantha power, u.n. ambassador, what is the case there? >> you have 125,000 people dead and also have the use of chemical weapons. one of the great progressive victories of the 20th century was to say though human beings have the capacity to use these particularly toxic and torturous weapons, we're going to set them outside of what the civilized nations can use. there have been exceptions but they've been rare. that red line was not a random line drawn in the sand. it's a line drawn for a reason. we put certain things outside the reach of what is acceptable in the human community. 400 dead children. 1,400 killed by this gas. assad poking to see how much further he can take this. it's an incredible difficult situation. the stakes are high of action and

amy goodman, host of democracy now. eli lake, senior national security correspondent for "newsweek" and the daily beast. tom, you wrote today that you favor military intervention in is seyria and favor it from the perspective john kerry laid out, the perspective i believe samantha power, u.n. ambassador, from a perspective. what is the case there? >> you have 125,000 people dead and also have the use of chemical weapons. one of the great progressive victories of the 20th century was to say though human beings have the capacity to use these particularly toxic and torturous weapons, we're going to set them outside of what the civilized nations can use. there have been exceptions but they've been rare. that red line was not a random line drawn in the sand. it's a line drawn for a reason. we put certain things outside the reach of what is acceptable in the human community. 400 dead children. 1 1,400 killed by this gas. assad poking to see how much further he can take this. it's an incredible difficult situation. the stakes

amy goodman was on democracy now but that was about it. at that point, air america didn't exist. keith olbermann hadn't started commentary. "huffington post" didn't exist. god, it was just a wall of conservative fear, hatred, et cetera. so any voice that rose up in opposition to that, i found so welcome, including current for however long that it lasted. it made a difference. look at the alumni of air america now. senator al franken, rachel maddow, thom hartmann, myself and the list goes on and on. one day, we'll look back at the alumni of current and go oh, my god, look at that all-star cast. and what an amazing moment they had in history there. and i think we did a great job with it. i don't worry about it at all. >> john: guys, before we go to break, one last question from each of you. al jazeera america is trying to take a straight news approach with no bias. is that the wave of the future or is blue state/red state commentary going to outshout it? bill? >> bill: i think the people are looking for opinion today. educated, informed, entertaining, opinion. i think they're looki

goodman skeels this. window down power want to gin up support for a war you know who to call in the powerful media what would they want to tamp down any public awareness of an issue they know how to make a story and there their colleagues in the media have been utterly complicit in that you know we're a bit more bridge would be an indictment about real housewives glady. been there had to bradley manning and. the media in this country right now and it's just devastating that we don't have a media culture that. trial should have been gavel to gavel coverage let's revisit the details of what the mainstream media has missed over the course of the bradley manning trial they've missed the fact that manning's leaks revealed that u.s. defense contractors were complicit in child trafficking in afghanistan according to the leaked documents dying corporate giant defense contractor firm that makes. almost two billion dollars a year in revenue from taxpayer dollars threw a party for afghan security recruits using boys

goodman skiing this. window down power want to gin up support for war you know who to call in the powerful media what would they want to happen down any public awareness of an issue you know how to make of the. story and there we are the media have been utterly complicit in that you know we did more bridge would be indictment about real housewives glady r. and r. and then there had to bradley manning and. media in the country right now and it is just devastating that we don't have a media culture that. trial should have been gavel to gavel coverage let's revisit the details of what the mainstream media has missed over the course the bradley manning trial they've missed the fact that manning's leaks revealed that u.s. defense contractors were complicit in child trafficking in afghanistan according to the leaked documents done corporate giant defense contractor a firm that makes almost two billion dollars a year in revenue from taxpayer dollars through a party for afghan security recruits using boys purchas

goodman's independent media common dreams dot org independent media truthdig truthout alter net is long as the internet remains free and nondiscriminatory where the comcast and varieties and cannot discriminate by putting shows like yours or web sites like democracy now and common dreams in a slow. and then the the outlets that they make profit off or get a cut from get in a fast lane if we can maintain net neutrality and nondiscriminatory internet independent media will keep growing and it's a big if right both on the left of the right and the reality and in between and we only have about two minutes until the break but we can guess in this conversation this topic will take longer than that but i'm curious your thoughts about how at one time it was a.b.c. c.b.s. n.b.c. the new york times the local paper basically media was fairly small the spectrum of things today it's huge at least it appears that way and particular with regard to cable news cable news has become a very different thing the evening news on network news i'm curious your thoughts about those two well i remember when cabl

goodman's independent media common dreams dot org and depend. media truthdig truthout alter net is long as the internet remains free and nondiscriminatory where the comcast and varieties and cannot discriminate by putting shows like yours or websites like democracy now and common dreams in a slow main and then the the outlets that they make profit off get a cut get in a fast lane if we can maintain net neutrality and nondiscriminatory internet independent media will keep growing and it's a big if right both on the left or the right in reality so and in between and we'll have about two minutes until the break but we can i'm guessing this conversation on this topic will take longer than that but i'm curious your thoughts about how at one time it was a.b.c. c.b.s. n.b.c. the new york times the local paper basically media was fairly small the spectrum of things today it's huge at least it appears that way and particular with regard to cable news cable news has become a very different thing the evening news on network news i'm curious your thoughts a

a lot of our good friends, amy goodman, thom hartmann have been on free speech for years. it is an all-time 24/7 progressive tv network. you will love it. they've got a lot of good stuff on there. check them out on freespeech.org. >> they have a great web site there. like you mentioned, progressive issues, progressive documentaries. they have a lot of great stuff up there. >> bill: if you've got satellite dish, we'll be there on tv for you at dish network channel 9415 or directv, channel 348. write it down. we'll remind you about it. if you don't have a satellite dish, you can watch us online at freespeech.org and screen the entire show. we'll be back and talk keystone pipeline but first -- >> this is the "full court press." >> quick check of the headlines making news on this thursday. congressman earl blumen our of oregon had trouble getting intoo the capitol because a new capitol police officer did not recognize the democrat who is a regular guest of ours here but he got in easily because he was walking in with the president of the united states. according to "the hill"

amy goodman asked you, do you think if barack obama had read your work on ella baker and eslanda robeson, would he be making the kinds of decisions that he is making what she said very frankly even if he had that come you don't think, those things have come about during his administration, the increased mass incarceration, the closing of public schools would have still happened? i think we should basic point to even if he knew about that and read your book, could you elaborate on that? >> i think i might be getting books too much credit. i wish my book was that influential, but, yeah, i think that the issue is beyond an individual. we need a systemic analysis and we need solutions that are not just around a single issue or single individual. but the main point, your point is yes we need grassroots organizing. we need multiple strategies and we need a protracted strategy a struggle. i think it's also a matter of what we see as winning. because we can define winning in such a way that okay, we won that struggle. or to diminish what you're attempting to achieve so that you have an artificia

[applause] >> tonight, booktv in primetime features in depth with amy goodman, host of executive producer of the international news program democracy now!. see our three hour discussion with her starting at 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> tonight on c-span3 american history in primetime features president gerald ford. >> see it starting at 8 p.m. eastern on our companion network c-span3. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> right now i'm reading "where did you go, bernadette" by maria semple. it's a novel that is told in the form of largely e-mails as a daughter tries to piece together clues about why her mother disappeared. the mother is quite eccentric, and the story is set in seattle with some really interesting, quirky tetris. it's a lot of fun. i don't know where it's going but i'm really looking forward to finishing it. after that i'm going to be doing something of a book club with my son, miles, who is 16. this is something we did a couple of summers ago. we take a couple of books and we read them, and then we go to our local diner to discuss them and ha

joining me again are journalism professor, miriam elder of buzzfeed, amy goodman of democracy now, and nbr's david fowlkenflik. so what are we to make of the acquisition of "the washington post"? >> this is going to keep happening, first of all. if you watch on a much smaller scale, you have tech money buying "the new republic." and i think what we're going to see is the start of a decade of realignment of media, which is viewed as a muffoney-losing proposition, with the people who have deep pockets. so that's going to be tech money, real estate money, edge fund money, possibly, but i think that basically what we're seeing is a huge fiscal devaluation of media. when "newsweek" was sold, before it was daily beast, it was sold for a dollar in debt. like $40 million in debt to an entrepreneur. so from a fiscal standpoint, this makes sense. from a journalistic standpoint, the question is, who's going to educate people from the tech industry and other industries who have money about what journalism is and what it should be. and finally, what i would say, i wrote an open letter to jeff bezos

shorty tweets and -- why not bill moyers, amy goodman, cindy sheehan, bernie sanders. who says rush limbaugh single-handedly rested the monopoly of the media from the left. what a complete waste of time this topic is great we are living under tyranny. even usingritical the term medal of freedom. some of the award winners from president bill clinton era -- colin powell, thurgood marshall, cesar chavez it is time to hear from william in thomasville, georgia. republican line. caller: good morning. host: who would you nominate? caller: my fellow crew members of the uss scope and andy uss -- and the uss sturgeon. those crewmen did a fabulous job attacking americans freedom they in and day out. host: what are those ships that you just mentioned? caller: those are nuclear powered submarines that patrol the north atlantic. host: are you still assigned to that? caller: no, i have since left the military under honorable terms as did nearly all of my crewmembers. they did a wonderful job, and we loved doing it. host: what is it about that crew that you think would merit a preside

amy goodman is here. amy good woman is what i should say. >> i love that. pleasure to be here. >> they want cool stuff but don't break our bank account. >> the latest and greatest. there are a lot of wonderful sales this weekend as well. starting off with the super neat backpacks. this is actually for a younger set, preschoolers or kindergartners. because it has a case inside the backpack which makes the kid a superhero. i call this super fly. my toddler darting out the door in the morning, takes him forever. now he's going to fly. >> that's cool. >> seven different signs. great for boys and girls. >> just under $40. >> where can you get them? >> super me hero.com website. >> you like them? i like them. >> people still use lunchboxes. >> everything vintage is new again. this is from our era. anniversary couple will know who i love lucy is. amazon.com. they're great continue lunchboxes and there's a history lesson in this. if they don't know who i love lucy is, you-tube it. lucy ethel chocolates and your kids will love that. >> do you know who that is? >> it

goodman. amy, i love your dress, you l lk adorable. >> thank you. >> rachael: lovely amy. so now if you have never seen a tip-f before, we go back and forth, back and forth, each trying to outdo the other with brilliantness of the tip. gretta, you are going first. amy, go get your tip ready. let's go, gret. >> rach, you talk about clothes in the back of the closet, how about about this? splattering bleach on your favorite jeans, which i've done. >> rachael: i haven't done this, my husband, when john goes to do the laundry, he really is like one of those commercials where everything comes out pink f. there was something red -- >> i want him in my house, we splatter. we have done that. people get frustrated. of course you get a splatter and can't wear your favorite jeans and can't wear them. not anymore. grab a bleleach pen and create to create a designer pattern. i have jeans just like these, you remember. >> rachael: we talked about this tip before, too, if you rip your favorite pair of jeans, think of the money, you spend a fortune sometimes to go to boutiques and drive j

goodman is the author of "wear this, toss that." let's get started with the east meets west trend. it's a big trend. >> yeah, all over the runways for the fall season, and this includes the southwest, if you will. we have little olivia here, and she is wearing a little blouse -- >> look how cute. >> she has that print jean, and it's about denim this season, where there is patterns. it looks like she could be your which i will. >> can i take you home? >> she could be your fourth little girl, right? >> fifth girl. you have already four at home. >> yeah, adorable. >> andrew has the 2-in-1 shirt. you can take off the arms and it becomes a vest, and the pants which are durable for the playground. >> such a great buy. and those are $9.95, and don't forget that amazing fringe bootees on olivia. >> do they make them in my size? >> they do. i checked them out. >> you knew i was would be asking. >> i think the mom is giving you the look. >> thank you, and good luck back in school, guys. >>> next category. this is the great outdoors, and great

our three-hour program with author and journalist amy goodman and the host and executive producer of the international radio program democracy now. she joined us earlier this year to discuss war politics and grassroots activism. "the new york times" best-selling author has written a will written five books. here is her interview now.

you're on with amy goodman, booktv on c-span2. >> caller: hello. first thing, i want to say thank you, amy. i love democracy now. i think it's an important program. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: i have two quick questions for you. you said -- there's something in the title of your last book about hope. i was wondering would you see sign of hope on the political landscape? and secondly, you mention the earlier you don't think a lack of voting in this country is due to -- what do you think t due to? thank you. >> guest: you know, i had an -- first of all, thank you for the call. thank you for tuning in to democracy now. people can check it out at democracynow.org. i had an interesting experience on election day 2000. we were then a radio show, not yet a tv she. we got an interesting dhal morning. we were about to go on the air. we got a call from -- well, they got on the phone and said hi, it's the white house. i thought they said this is -- this is -- they said this is white house communication. we were about to don't air. the producers were in th