lewis. >> his name was john lewis. he had just been named head of sncc, the student nonviolent coordinating committee, and he was 23 years old. i will never forget the speech he delivered that day. >> we must get in this revolution, and complete the revolution. for in the delta of mississippi, in southwest georgia, the black belt of alabama, in harlem, in chicago, detroit, philadelphia, and all over this nation, the black masses are on the march for jobs and freedom. >> in the five decades since, john lewis has become an icon of the civil rights movement, a hero who faced down brutal southern police in the name of freedom and was beaten bloody for daring to do so. today, he is a 14-term congressman from georgia. recently, he and i returned to the national mall in washington to remember that day in 1963 and the march that changed america. >> people were all the way down. and you just saw hundreds and thousands of individuals. i'm john lewis, and i was the youngest speaker. ten of us spoke. i spoke number six. dr. king s

their memory serves as a torch of courage and strength that john lewis carried when he marched unarmed, unafraid towards alabama state troopers in my hometown of selma. [applause] our country owes a debt of gratitude to these heroines. i was humbled and privileged to have the honor of having my first piece of successful legislation to honor these four girls, with the highest civilian honor that congress can bestow. in the midst of what has been called a dysfunctional congress, to have bipartisan support for such a bill is an honor. [applause] i was so proud that all of my colleagues from alabama's congressional delegation joined me as original cosponsors of the bill, putting aside partisan politics, we join together in our appreciation of alabama's special role in the civil rights movement. my proudest moment was to control the floor of the united states house of representatives with my friend and colleague congressman spencer bachus as member after member spoke about the four little girls and their special place in history while their families observed from the gallery. thank you, spe

as on this day in birmingham, martin luther king, john lewis chose not to return good with evil. not to return hate with more hatred. in civil rights movement because of theat current of people like john lewis, it will remain a nonviolent movement. what we are seeing in syria, what linda and i saw in belfast when a bomb went off, we are not experiencing that today. commitment to peaceful settling of our grievances. peaceful resistance. standing up and fighting and going to jail, but not resorting to violence. that is a legacy that we ought to thank everyone who produce a paid it in this movement. thank you. [applause] and gentlemen majority leader of the united states house of representatives, eric cantor. [applause] >> it is a great honor to be here today. it was a great honor to accompany my colleagues and friend steny hoyer, the democratic whip, at the snvitation of representative and the alabama delegation to go on that emigrant ship -- pilgrimage to retrace the steps of the euros of the civil rights movement -- of the heroes of the civil rights movement. we commemorate the l

kind of pressured roy wilkins and john lewis to make sure that they accommodated catholics. they didn't want to see this whole big fashion people lead. so he was a liberal by any stretch. but he was also terribly concerned because of a handful of phrases and speeches. organized labor was oftentimes deeply racist. although walter had been talking about this for many years, there was still no significant white membership in the leadership of the uaw at this time. so he had clay feet, but he had not come through on his promise to integrate the labor movement. it was a hard thing. a lot of labor was really concerned if. much of it was racist as well. now, is there anything else? >> you described yourself when all this was happening as the suburban philadelphia -- >> at the time of the march i was a 2-year-old from chattanooga, tennessee. >> that does not matter to me. my question is what made you so interested in the subject? >> you know, i really don't know. but i will tell you that i was already interested in this in this event and incident happened. but when i was young, i wa

and john lewis and working with all of those great figures, but the problem is when it comes time to dole out responsibility or to take the charge and to be able to focus because the thing you mentioned before was it was about legislation, you can go to the march and you can march and march and march. unless you change the laws that govern the existence of black people ain't much happening. >> dr. king, whitney young, john lewis, julian bond were all young men when they were at the forefront of the civil rights movement, and i think we need young people not only during that, but keep being pressured and keep being people grounded and being focused on the future and we do need a new resurgence among young people. >> that creates structures of accountability as well and living in this 24-hour news cycle and the stuff that used to get swept under the rug under previous administrations aren't getting swept under the rug anymore. you have tpn, cnn and other networks and you have to leverage that and then join those young people. that's why i pay so much attention to the hip-hop generation

. >> that a scotsman john lewis, the only surviving speaker from the the 1963 march on washington, the one speaker on that day the white house was most worried about. >> most worried about, because john lewis, as he candidly said in an interview on "the news hour" had a line in there about how if the civil rights act did not pass and things did not change, the civil rights movement would be like sherman marching through the south, through atlanta, which sent a including the white house and the archbishop of washington, boyle, who was going to give the invocation, walter reuther, and they intervened. john has certainly been a national icon and more than that. >> i read this column every saturday morning by a fellow named colby king, and i love the date you, butt to he entered high school in the year of 1954, the year of round versus the board of education. you go to dunbar high school. as you enter high school, white students are staging protest because black kids are going to go to school with them in washington, d.c., the nation's capital. >> a lot happened during that time prior to t

lynn, you said that john lewis' speech was railroad important to you. >> it was. he was not much older than i and just hearing him speak out in the spirit that that i believed in of really stepping forward and agitated and making sure that what was needed would happen. he -- i think he spoke to the young people that day. >> we have some hour questions let's go to her mel a for those. >> anna this question is directed specifically to you. do you feel different about yourself as an american for having. participated in the march and what still needs to change in the united states? >> i do feel different . i had a serves optimism. the news clips and headlines those days were horrendous when i went to the march then and today the takeaway is we have made progress but not close to being where they wei need to be. half a dozen people said to me over and over, we are still fighting the voting rights act battle. how can that be? so i think we have to work harder at it. i think we have made progress but we are not home. >> i want to leave you with one last picture. there is

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king or john lewis, not only the well known heroes of the civil rights movement but all the ordinary americans that made it possible for us to stand here today. \[applause] and as i look out in the crowd, it was impossible not to appreciate just how much progress we have made. it was impossible not to think of all the hearts that have been opened, all the lawsthat have been changed. all the quiet heroes that refused to give up or give n. as -- give in and asi said on that day to dismiss toe magnitude of that progress suggest that little has changed, diminishes the price to margin those years. [applause] what i also said andi think there wasn't a speaker there that day or on saturday in the other commemoration of the march who didn't make this point, we would also the dishonor those heroes to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete. and that is something that the c.b.c. has always understood. it wasn't until 1969, six years buter the march on washington african americans congress formed a caucus. by then, thecivil rights acts have been passed but the men and women who

right now this is john lewis speaking. we are joined tonight also by karen finney who is the host of "disrupt" here on nbc. karen, thank you for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> spirit of 1963 is the theme. martin luther king's "i have a dream" speech. what do you think the could would like to hear from the president tonight? >> you know, so much of the focus of the conference has been not looking back but looking forward. i think they're going to want to hear the president tell wrus we're going go. we're still fighting for things like jobs, access to affordable health care, gun violence and crimes in the inner cities. so there are a number of issues they were talking about 50 years ago that twhanlt to see what this president is going to be doing in the next two, three years of his presidency to move the ball forward. >> also joining us from washington is rebecca from politico. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> the president has had some tense times also he tries to convince some of his

lynn, you said that john lewis' speech was railroad important to you. >> it was. he was not much older than i and just hearing him speak out in the spirit tha that i believed f really stepping forward and agitated and making sure that what was needed would happen. he -- i think he spoke to the young people that day. >> we have some hour questions let's go to her mel a for those. >> anna this question is directed specifically to you. do you feel different about yourself as an american for having. participated in the march and what still needs to change in the united states? >> i do feel different. i had a serves optimism. the news clips and headlines those days were horrendous when i went to the march then and today the takeaway is we have made progress but not close to being where they wei need to be. half a dozen people said to me over and over, we are still fighting the voting rights act battle. how can that be? so i think we have to work harder at it. i think we have made progress but we are not home. >> i want to leave you with one last picture. there is a big

kind of pressured roy wilkins and john lewis to make sure that they accommodated catholics. they didn't want to see this whole big fashion people lead. so he was a liberal by any stretch. but he was also terribly concerned because of a handful of phrases and speeches. organized labor was oftentimes deeply racist. although walter had been talking about this for many years, there was still no significant white membership in the leadership of the uaw at this time. so he had clay feet, but he had not come through on his promise to integrate the labor movement. it was a hard thing. a lot of labor was really concerned if. much of it was racist as well. now, is there anything else? >> you described yourself when all this was happening as the suburban philadelphia -- >> at the time of the march i was a 2-year-old from chattanooga, tennessee. >> that does not matter to me. my question is what made you so interested in the subject? >> you know, i really don't know. but i will tell you that i was already interested in this in this event and incident happened. but when i was young, i wa

originally the writer john lewis said a push just an idea you know we work at it and you know we gave him a couple of notes he took those notes turned the script around it you know about two and a half hours at a production just order pretty much for illustrating the production and organizing our crew and everything like that you get your shot produced so. it's actually. i really really enjoyed it you know it's still a tense topic of conversation amidst the serious debate going on in the world right now have you received any backlash from obama supporters from putting out the sketch. that people don't understand it's actually a piece of satire when some of the the most frustrated or vocally angry. and on either side of the coin i mean there is the funniest one that i think i saw was are that it's ten to see. are people that are. as a company and as a comedy brand for wanting to start will who are three. we actually want to stir all we're three. and really completely missed the point of the video if we was to or anything like that and i. just had to tune out completely some of the trol

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. >> john lewis is our in depth guest next sunday. heel take calls and comments live for three hours starting at noon eastern. in the months ahead, look for kitty kelly on november 3. and radio talk show host, january 5. currently if the bill is not agreed upon on both chambers of commerce, it would be shut down for funding. the news conference is a little over 30 minutes. it begins with remarks from conference chair kathy mcmorris rogers. good sunday afternoon. i'm kathy mcmorris rogers. i have the privilege of serving as the chair of the house republicans of congress. we were here late last night, almost midnight, taking action, tests after midnight. we were here after midnight taking action where the house would stay open the senate doors are locked. harry reid are locked. they're shut down. if the senate doesn't act, it may be inevitable. the senate needs to act. why aren't they waiting? why aren't the doors open. i would like to have my colleagues share some of their perspective starting with tim griffin. >> tim griffin, second d

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originally the writer john lewis said it was just an idea you know we took we took one look at it and you know we gave him a couple of notes he took those notes turned the script around it you know about two and a half hours at a production just order pretty much for illustrating the production and organizing our crew and everything like that you get your shot and produce. well it's actually . i really really enjoyed it you know it's still a tense topic of conversation amidst the serious debate going on in the world right now have you received any backlash from obama supporters from putting out the sketch. that people don't understand that it's actually a piece of satire when some of the the most frustrated or vocally angry. and on either side of the coin i mean there is the funniest one that i think i saw was are that it's ten to see. are people that are. as a company and as a comedy brand for why mr all we're three. we actually want to stir all we're three . and really completely missed the point of the video if that we would start or anything like that. if you had just had to tune

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i was doing an internet essentials event in atlanta with xhoong john lewis and congressman lewis, your viewers may know, is now the last living speaker in the martin luther king march on washington for jobs and education. >> just saw him at the 50th anniversary. >> and he made a speech and everyone in atlanta knows who john lewis is and knows about that story. he talked about how he marched in washington and selma to promote civil rights in the '60s, equal right to sit at a bar stool at a kitchen counter, the right to sit anywhere on the bus and not just the back of the bus. we have an access issue and a justice issue that is just as important to the future of our society as the civil rights issues of the '60s and that's access to internet, access to broad band. just as he was fighting for swrus and for the opportunity for people to have a job and educational environment, regardless of the color of their skin, we're fighting today for people to have equal access of the internet for purposes of doing homework, equal access to health care, news, information and services and equal access

i would not have stepped down if i wasn't confident that the leadership of john lewis and nancy pelosi and eric cantor is all going to add up to us getting the re-authorization of section -- excuse me, the restoration of section iv. i also wouldn't be leaving if the naacp across the country wasn't rising to the challenges of this day so effectively. just last year, five miles from here up in maryland, in one year we played a critical role abolishing the death penalty, passing sensible gun safety reforms, passing the dream act, expanding voting rights and passing marriage equality. our folks are doing great work like that across the country. the national law office now, we doubled the revenues in five years from about $23 million in 2007 to $46 million in 2012. we have expanded our grassroots donor base about eight times up here from 60,000 to 132,000. it just seemed like the right time. >> there is taped programming after this. there is no more show. i have to run. what are you going to do next if you can do it very quickly for me? >> sure. i plan on teaching and really investing my ti

speakers include georgia congressman john lewis, former u.n. ambassador andrew young, and former naacp chairman julian bond. they also talk about the role the media played in its coverage of the event. moderated by former cbs news reporter marvin kelb, this discussion is a little more than an hour and 10 minutes. >> from the national press club in washington d.c., this is the kelb report with marvin kelb. >> hello and welcome to the national press club and to another edition of the kalb report. i'm marvin kalb. and our program tonight is remembering a march, a movement, and a dream, meaning the march on washington for jobs andr freedom. as it was officially called 50 years ago on august 28, 1963. the civil rights movement that once dominated our headlines and began to touch our national conscience. and the "i have a dream" speech by martin luther king, one of the most powerful speeches in american history. many fear the march would turn violent, but it was in fact amazingly peaceful. here in black and white, on television, and in reality, 250,0

. >> that is civil rights leader john lewis from last year's national book festival. he will be our next guest. he will take your calls and comments for three hours. also scheduled for november 3, kitty kelly. feminist critic. j working on radio host. -- january 5, radio host. read the book and leave your comments on our facebook page and on twitter. .> the weekly addresses president obama talks about the debt limit and the bill passed to defund health care. the republican address delivered by nevada governor brian sandoval. he talks about the economy, his efforts to create jobs and federal spending. >> hi, everybody. it was five years ago this week that a financial crisis on wall street spread to main street, and very nearly turned a recession into a depression. in a matter of months, millions of americans were robbed of their jobs, their homes, their savings - after a decade in which they'd already been working harder and harder to just get by. it was a crisis from which we're still trying to recover, but thanks to the grit and determination of the american people,

congressman john lewis, a democrat, someone we've heard a lot from over the past couple of weeks. he was the civil rights leader who we've seen so much attention to over the last couple of weeks over the "i have a dream" sfeech speech and 50th anniversary. congressman lewis said i don't doubt the evidence. i hear this, but i have constituents back home that are war wary, and the president has to make a strong case of why chemical weapons are so bad. he has to spell it out clearly. this is a complicated issue, and congressman lewis said we have to think about what a no vote would do. if the house and nature vote no, what message does that send to the international community? what message does it send to assad anddddddddddddddd literally what they asked for in the sense of being asked to decide this particular issue? >> it certainly is a double-edged sword, because it was easier to criticize the president from afar, and now they weigh in on this discussion as well. i'm still hearing from most members they're glad to have the opportunity to voice their concerns, to ask questions and

grillers, ted and john lewis. -- joan lewis. let's hear it for all those people who made this possible. [applause] and we had some wonderful rain last night and this morning, and now it is nice for all of us here. i want to thank the one responsible for that too. [applause] i want to have a round of applause for scott brennan, who answered the call to be our state democratic chairman. [applause] i last eye contact. where is jim mueller? thank you for leading our pledge, but thank you for your service in a rock -- iraq. [applause] our former state senator staci appel is with us. i have lost eye contact with staci. [applause] to recognize and honor all of our democratic state legislature. mark smith. mark if you're somewhere. [applause] i want to especially thank our senate leader, mike grunts doll lastke for doing the session. where is he? thank you. [applause] those of us who call iowa home, those of us who care about keeping the state on a progressive course, nothing is more important than winning back the iowa house, getting m

lewis on the same side, it's something that they american people all believe in. this would maintenance for us to stand together and ask for this gesture to be made and it's an important one, and especially important to my constituents. >> trace: congressman, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. i appreciate your bringing attention to this and we hope your viewers will join. >> trace: a very good cause. thank you. >>> attorneys for the accused boston marathon bomber, tsarnaev, today in federal court trying to convince the judge to take the death penalty off the table, and they claim prosecutors are withholding evidence. judge napolitano breaks down where things stand next on "studio b." (announcer) scottrade knows our clients trade and invest their own way. with scottrade's smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend more time trading. their quick trade bar lets my account follow me online so i can react in real-time. plus, my local scottrade office is there to help. because they know i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with scottra

consist at a conference with them, incidentally, i am the one, congressman lewis, john lewis as a teenager who wanted to go to school and away school in his hometown, church-state, and i met him at the bus station and introduced him to dr. martin luther king in 1958. that is his introduction to the civil rights movements. you know about those. there are many others. if there had been no claw that and if she had not done what she did on the second of march 1956, mrs. rosa parks may not have done what she did on december december 1st 1956 -- 1955. and if she had not, she would not have been arrested on the first. the hope street baptist church. dr. king would not have been introduced to the community, to the statement to the nation, to the world. in the whole history of the sole rights movement may have been deferred there are many individuals in the civil rights movement these faces never appear on television, his name is never appeared in france, but they are the ones who make it possible to do that. i am happy, and i am delighted that i was able to represent a lot of those people in break

right now this is john lewis speaking. we are joined tonight also by karen finney who is the host of "disrupt" here on nbc. karen, thank you for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> spirit of 1963 is the theme. martin luther king's "i have a dream" speech. what d

lewis will be october's guest. >> now on booktv, lord send a examines the past, current, and future state of the american middle class. the author reports that a strong mile

. >> congressman john lewis will be our next guest on in depth, sunday october 6th, he would take your calls and comments live for three hours. also scheduled for in-depth biographer kitty kelley, december 1st, feminist critic christina hot summers and radio talk-show host marc levin said booktv's book club continues with this town. read the book and read comments on our face book page and on twitter. >> first lady laura a bush, is this day what you expected? >> yes, i am thrilled to be here and i think c-span for covering this national book festival. we have a beautiful sunny day and i hope the camera shows behind me how huge crowds are. i am so excited about that. >> we talked a lot over the last several days. this idea came from the texas book festival but where did the idea for the texas book festival come from? >> from the kentucky book festival. >> and el paso writer came to me after my husband was elected and said he had been to a book festival in kentucky and he knew texans were so proud of our stories that he thought texans could put on a great festival. we've researched a lot

civil rights icon and current congressman john lewis said of her this week, quote, evelyn was a pillar of the community. a champion in the struggle for civil rights. and an admired role model to the young people she mentored. when mer li evers williams asked last month, where are the women, she was referring to those like mrs. lowery. trail blazers who dedicated their lives to fighting for women, children and families. evelyn lowery is a true disrupter. ♪ [ male announcer ] now, taking care of things at home is just a tap away. ♪ introducing at&t digital life... ♪ ...personalized home security and automation... [ lock clicks ] ...that lets you be closer to home. that's so cool. [ male announcer ] get $100 in instant savings when you order digital life smart security. limited availability in select markets. ♪ i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most t

even in those dangerous times he was a shop steward united mine workers told us stories about john lewis the legendary john l. that was and that kind of thing and so that was very important in my mother well he only had a fourth grade education my mother with a little further eleventh grade but one of things i remember my mother saying and she came to stories about the great depression and also hearing about roosevelt and what roosevelt meant to black people and to poor people i mean these are all you know images in my in my mind of my mother telling me that when she was eleven years old i mean when. i left school eleventh grade and she went to work in the federal meant in washington d.c. . and later on i came to understand that she was able to do that because a philip randolph had threatened the first march on washington she was able to go work in the federal mint for the first time because out of that came the first important practice is commission a lot of people know that history they all they know is i have a dream they have the you know they know about one hundred sixty three but i

. >> that's civil rights leader and congressman john lewis from last year's national book festival. he'll be our next guest on in department, sunday, october 6th, and will takure calls and comments, live for three hours. also scheduled for in depth, know 3, biographer kitty kelly. december 1st -- and book tv's book club continue this month with "this town." read the book and leave your comments on our facebook page and on twitter. >> all we ever had to go on, and what's been accepted by everything are is what manson himself wants to tell people. illegitimate son of a teenage prostitute mother, who cared so little about her child that she once tried to sell him for a pitcher of beer. how, as a child, he was abused by the uncles she would have move in to their home, one after another. how when he was nine or ten, she was so tired of having to even try to prefunker toly take care of him, that she threw him into the juvenile justice system where he suffered greatly and from there his life turned bad. he didn't know who his father was. he didn't think his mother knew who his father was.

said thatn john lewis we did not get arrested and go to jail, we did not march for young men to continue to kill each other. dr. king did not take a bullet and congressmen will lowest and not a gay beating for this -- congressman lewis did not take a beating for this to become a way of life. i want you to consider this. to 2012, 626,000 people, american citizens, a distortion and numbered, young african-american men, were murdered on the streets of america. that is more americans that were lost during world war i. world war ii. , the persian gulf war, the war in iraq, the war in afghanistan combined. so the struggle goes on, and it is clear that the catastrophic deaths of young black men on the streets of america remained strange route from the same poisonous tree of injustice and .nequality as william faulkner noted for us, the past is never dead. it is not even past. we have come far, but what will it take for our nation to take on these burning issues today? 50 years ago, it was the bombing baptist church in the death of four little innocent girls that galvanized this nation. today, n

it's the good the bad and the very very suspect a bungle lee ugly the good guy has been john lewis the georgia congressman joined in on last thursday's jobs just as march in atlanta and gave a rousing speech supporting the marchers call for a fifteen dollars living wage for all fast food workers to get out. we need more. we have no way we need. and that's what it's all about how people get richer and richer. and better and get a lawyer that's. well said indeed american workers are going through some tough times right now but as long as they have supporters like congressman lewis labor movement will live on the bad. thursday's broadcast of his radio show the conservative shock jock the last of the fast food workers strikes jumpstart of the labor movement this past week it was. this is not a legitimate protest on behalf of workers at mickey d's who feel like they're underpaid this is an organized rent a mob type of thing. this is just classic right wing anti worker propaganda. i mean sure fast food workers got a little help from unions like sci you but the fact the matter is that the rea

lewis saying, no, to any kind of military innin envision at any . people -- intervention and people are going in their districts listening to constituents, saying don't go. don't go. it's a dilemma of being a congressman, you have to think about what your scan stitch went went -- constituents want and what your conscience says, it's weeding out the ones that just say no because it's president obama. newt gingrich just two days ago wag saying that they should tie syria and keystone in an up our down vote. what is unusual is that he did go to congress. what congress does is more interesting now. again, this is unprecedents, david. you have four members of the top administration from the press to the vice president. four former members of congress it has something to do with why they are put it on the other side of the capital. >> great catch by michael shore of al jazeera. thank you michael as always, thanks for coming on. >> you it, david. >> gottyou got it. >> joined by a fellow wolf rear mean, what do you make of the president saying, okay, i could

it's the good the bad in the very very i suspect a bungle lee ugly the good guy has been john lewis the georgia congressman joined in on last thursday's jobs with just as march in atlanta and gave a rousing speech supporting the marchers call for a fifteen dollars living wage for all fast food workers get out. we need move out. we have no way we do it. and that's what it's all about how people get richer and richer. and better and it was a good lawyer. that's right. well said indeed american workers are going through some tough times right now but as long as they have supporters like congressman lewis labor movement will live on the bad. thursdays broadcast of his radio show the conservative shock jock blast of the fast food workers strikes jumpstart of the labor movement this past week it was. this is not a legitimate protest on behalf of workers at mickey d's who feel like they're underpaid this is an organized rent a mob type of thing. this is just classic right wing anti worker propaganda. i mean sure fast food workers got a little help from unions like sci you but the fact the matt

. >> civil rights leader and congressman john lewis will be our in depth guest sunday the sixth and he will take calls and comments for three hours. also schedule, november 3, biographer kitty kelley. december 1, then -- feminism critic christina sommers, and then radio talk show host mark levin. " continues.journal it's good to continue our coverage of the situation in syria we turn to -- host: to continue our coverage of the situation in syria, we have shibley telhami, author of the book "the world through arab eyes." -- to start with your take on the agreement on syria's chemical weapons. you agree the obama administration was successful in what they were trying to do? wast: whether or not this an accidental agreement or intended, it almost doesn't matter. i am prepared to give president obama the credit for it. i think in the end, this is the best he could of gotten. i think war was a risky option, especially without support,onally -- american support. when you strike another country, you open up the possibility of a prolonged war. and here was a case where, since of president made

lewis the legendary john l. that was and that kind of thing and so that was very important in my mother well he only had a fourth grade education my mother with a little further level great but one of things i remember my mother saying and she came to stories about the great depression and also hearing about roosevelt and what roosevelt meant to black people and to poor people i mean these are all you know images in my in my mind and my mother telling me that when she was eleven years old i mean when. i left school eleventh grade and she went to work in the federal meant in washington d.c. . and later on i came to understand that she was able to do that because a philip randolph had threatened the first march on washington she was able to go work in the federal mint for the first time because out of that came the first very important practice is commission a lot of people know that history they all they know is i have a dream they have the you know they know about one hundred sixty three but it was really a. phi

lewis will be october's guest. >> now on booktv, lord send a examines the past, current, and future state of the american middle class. the author reports that a strong middle-class emerged following world war ii in the 1950s and begin to erode in the succeeding decade. this is a little over one hour. >> i'm going to jump right in. i took a chronological approach to the story as you see. i just went decade by decade. i picked up the story by edward to because i feel like that's when the middle-class as we know it really rose in numbers and power. and then go through the 60 comes to become 80s, 90s and that up o today and then i will wrap up. that's basically the approach i took to the book, it just tracks with the book. why i wrote the book, there's just a lot of chatter these days about middle-class, not surprising. someone talk about the middle-class a lot versus barack obama like most politicians. i counted 20 times he mentioned the middle-class in a speech a couple years ago. and more recently in 2012 and a state of being i think he put it very well. he said at the end of world

. >> civil rights leader and congressman john lewis from last year's national book festival. he will be the next guest on in that october 6th and take calls and comments live for three hours. also scheduled, november 3rd biographer kitty kelly, and january 5th, radio talk-show host mark speed and the book club continues this month with more >>> next on book tv, shibley telhami met here on c-span washington journal to discuss his new book "the world through arab eyes." this is about 40 minutes. ..the situation in syria we turn to -- host: to continue our coverage of the situation in syria, we have shibley telhami, author of the book "the world through arab eyes." -- to start with your take on the agreement on syria's chemical weapons. you agree the

rights leader and congressman john lewis will be our guest on sunday. we will take your calls and comments for three hours. also scheduled for "in depth" -- a feminist critic christina sommers. >> treasury secretary jack lew a pest -- spoke at the economic love on tuesday. club on tuesday. you can see this event in its entirety or any time on c- span.org. right now are there any negotiations going on on the debt limit between the administration and congress on the continuing resolution? anything going on right now? secret negotiations? >> there are not and will not be any over the debt limit. >> no negotiations? >> the president has been very clear. i have been discussing the debt limit with everyone else that i have been talking with congress on a regular basis will stop i am here today. -- regular basis. i knew today. -- i am here today. the president has made clear there are be no negotiating on the threat of the default. there have been all kinds of conversations going on. unfortunately, they tend to not come together in till the last minute. sylvia

we want to pop back into the house of representatives right now because you can see congressman john lewis is standing there making a statement about the short-term spending bill that includes the defunding of obama care. of course, if that measure passes, there's a real possibility the government will shut down. right now, the congressmen and women will continue making statements, then they'll pass a series of bills, then they'll finally get to this resolution, the short-term spending resolution. when they do, we're going -- oh, here's nancy pelosi. let's listen to her. >> as a mother concerned about the children of america, as a grandmother concerned about all of america's children, but as a mother who comes, steps into this chamber to say this place is a mess. let's get our house in order. we are legislators. we have come here to do a job for the american people and that job means we have to make the government run for the good of the people. we are not here to expand government but we're not here to eliminate government. if the idea is to limit government, let's work together to

john lewis, congressman from georgia, says the jobs report this morning is a step in the right direction, but it could be better if congress would work together. kevin mccarthy, the republican whip -- the new un ambassador rice, samantha powers, will speak on syria from the center for american progress. she talks about president obama's plans for chemical strikes in response for chemical attacks on civilians in august, killing more than 14 -- 1400 people. the full senate is expected to debate the resolution on syria next week, and the house is developing its own approach. we talked to a reporter about the diplomatic options available. we will show you as much of this as we can and tell e-house dabbles in for a brief session at noon eastern. >> joining us from new york city yoon.gwon >> it looks like syria was not mentioned in the g-20 communiquÉ. the german counselor says there was no agreement on syria. the prime minister of turkey was saying that leaders agree that some sort of operation is needed to respond to the regime's chemical weapons use, which is what turkey has been claiming.