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here's another really important things about james patterson. the successful and prolific as he is as an author he is equally so as a philanthropist. as a defender of core american values, as a fierce and unwavering champion of reading and writing, civic engagement discourse. he has established generous funds and grants that support students, teachers, public libraries, colleges and libraries, independent bookstores and booksellers and has contributed millions of free books to children across the country and to u.s. men and women overseas. i hope you join me in thanking james patterson for those contributions. [applause] >> moderating tonight's conversation is a friend and colleague of president clintons, paul he was one of the brilliant strategist leading successful presidential campaign and 92. he worked after that various capacities including at the white house and teaches public policy at georgetown and is a political commentator and cnn. for those of us who know him, he's one of the smartest, nicest guys in the world. were delighted to have

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we hope this remains fictional and combining with the author james patterson. [applause] it would take all night to enumerate his contributions but to summarize briefly he has written more new york times bestsellers that than anyone in history and has 350 million copies sold worldwide is books of the major television shows and movies is most famous characters are household names and mr. patterson has an entire category on jeopardy and his publishing success is a case study at the harvard business school here is one more important thing that as successful and prolific he is equally as a philanthropist and defender of poor american values and unwavering champion of reading and writing and civic engagement and discourse james patterson has establishments and grant to support students and teachers in public libraries and colleges and universities independent bookstores and sellers with millions of free books as u.s. men and women are deployed overseas i hope you join me to think him for those contributions. [applause] moderating tonight will be an old friend and co

here is one really other important thing about james patterson as successful as he is as an author he is equally so as a philanthropist. as a defender of core american values without wavering championon of civic engagement and discourse he has established generous funds in grant support students in reading initiative colleges and universities and independent bookstores and sellers and has contributed millions of free books to children across the country and to servicemen and women deployed overseas for all of that please join me to thank him for that 17 moderating tonight is a rant and colleague of president clinton one of the brilliant strategists in the presidential campaign in 1982 he worked with president after that the white house and now teaches public policy at georgetown university as a political commentator on cnn and by the way he is just one the smartest and nicest guys in the world we are delighted to have him here as well so now the 42nd president of the united states and james patterson. [applause] anthony ray hinton. [applause] [applause] >> let's get it on. what you ha

james patterson is one of my favorite authors and then i finished bill clinton's book the day it came out. so i read everything even including light romance. teddy? >> so in the >> this practice is called changing cartoon policy about the ways not just like filing lawsuits are pushing for policy reform is a hard edge advocacy techniques that how do you change minds? it takes just as much strategy and thought to change social norms as it does the other things and to give a flavor i will share some social media tactics how they think of changing hearts and minds and i can think of no one better because with tobacco control they are up against a powerful industry also against a powerful social norm so they had have equally powerful messages so we will view the slide from the truman initiative which is the anti- smoking initiative. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you. what do you notice about that ad? it's funny. what else? it doesn't tell you not to smoke nobody is telling you smoking is bad for you when i first saw this ad i came across it not because of any serious research but driving with my ki

i read james patterson, one of my favorite authors, stuartwood, bill clinton's book the day came out. i finish the other book , so i'll read everythingincluding a light romance to escape the world . >> he wants to know what you're reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter tv or instagram bookótv or posted to our facebook page, facebook.com/book tv. book tv on c-span2: television for serious readers. >> i want to start by explaining the class of drugs you got into. >> know you don't. i've been interested in other kinds of drugs. my food work is what most people know but going back, there's a chapter in there about cannabis and my largest interests are, the food work is now a larger interest in relationships to other species and how they change us and how we change them and how certain classes of plants evolved to gratify our desires. you can understand something about us by lookingat those plants . and we know, we use plants obviously feed ourselves, for beauty, for, to clothe ourselves. we have always uses that are pretty obvious. then there's this interesting weird one w

i read james patterson is one of my favorite authors. i finished bill clinton's book today. i finish the book the day that i came out. i read everything. including the little white romance to escape the world. >> book to be once to know what you're reading. send us your list on book to be on twitter, instagram, or facebook. book tv, television for serious readers. . . >> we would not be here if not for all of you in the support you give us when you come to events like this. on behalf of myself and

james patterson is one of my favorite authors. i also read bill clinton's book the day it came out. i read everything. including a light romance to escape the world. book tv wants to know what you're reading. or on facebook. book tv television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] thank you for coming to the white house luncheon. it is a real treat for us and have not one but two social secretaries with us today. and i am sure they are very grateful that they did not had to plan and execute this white house luncheon. one of our guest today is a democrat won a republican. they aren't afraid to be friends they support one another. and the even show up in public together. originally from a small town in ohio lee berman served as white house social secretary from 20142007 under president and mr. george w. bush. prior to that. to the second lady lynn, cheney. and served as social secretary is president cheney. they landed those jobs she was in the right place at the right time. and having known of her for many years as she tells it she has been an event planner entire adult life

and this could be a plot from a james patterson novel. president trump calling an urgent meeting with his national security advisers. what's being discussed behind closed doors right now. yeah, right now. they're meeting right now and what they plan to do about the russian cyber threat. we'll take you live to d.c. plus, the winklevoss twins' cryptodreams crushed again by the fcc. and chipotle spiking up profits. we're less than an hour to the closing bell on this very busy friday. let's start the "countdown." ♪ ♪ liz: we've got breaking news. time not greece, but the united states. you're looking at pictures of a deadly wildfire raging in northern california. north of red bluff, east of eureka, northern california. the blaze has killed two so far, a firefighter and a bulldoze operator who was battling the flames. these fires have wiped out 44,000 acres. we're told that firefighters reporting gusty winds are spawning what are called fire tornadoes. so we'll keep an eye on this developing situation. in the meantime, a sea of red across

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james patterson is one of my favorite authors. i finished bill clinton's book today it came out. i finished another book the data came out. i read everything, including light romance to escape the world. >> send us your summer reading ktv, or at instagram, or pasted to ouour facebook page. tv" on c-span2 -- television for serious readers. announcer: this week on q&a, syndicated columnist mona charen. she talked about her book sex matters, how modern feminism lost touch with science, love, and common sense. ♪ brian: mona charen, your new book, "sex matters," define what that word means for your book. mona: the phrase "sex matters"? i wish i could say i came up with the title myself. it is actually my friend and colleague who had this flash of inspiration. it is a double entendre. it means that sex in the sense of gender matters, that we are different, men and women, and it is ok to acknowledge that. the other aspect is sexual behavior matters. and 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 ab

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james patterson, stuart wood, bill clinton's become. i finished the other book, jake tapper's book if read everything, including to a little lying romance to escape the world. >> send us your summer reading book. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> in zero day, once again, we return to the theme of the economically stressed house. drake, virginia, coal-mining town. sounds like your family roots. that's the story of drake, virginia? >> well, it is a town that's that has seen better days. >> a coal town. >> guest: right on the bored are of west virginia. so if you were southwest virginia or west virginia, these coal towns on the spine. >> host: did it exist. >> guest: i made it up. write but places -- i make up places. it was a place i had a military footprint, and there's a object there, this aenormous dome that is there, that john puller has investigated a murder and comes across this enormous dome that was left over by the military from 040 years ago and nobody knows what is inside the dome. it's all covered, the for

i will start to with raymond james, justin patterson. he says subscribers internationally strong. international more important than the united states. he expects five million add this is quarter and next quarter. credit suisse expects six million for each and he puts outperform rating of 465. a price hike coming internationally next quarter or two. that will allay the cash burns concerns. buckingham says the good news is all priced in. that is why he had underperform rating. scott who was with us, $380 support levels. cautious tone is good. if they surprise stock will pop. he will play it after hours. if it pops, tomorrow all the "fang" stocks jump up along with netflix. liz: buckingham memo. if i had a nickel every time everybody said good news is all baked into netflix we would be a lot richer. >> 445% later in one year. over 300 in two years. unbelievable performance. thank you very much. nick and i have boys. they like stranger things. between amazon prime day, retail sales report is little like christmas in july. look at amazon for a moment. look at drop-up. the whole site cr

>> i read patterson, i am blanking -- >> we will go with james patterson. that is good. thanks. your position as a fellow american i absolutely respect how you feel and thank you for saying it so nicely and if you don't want to read my books because my position i absolutely understand that. i believe in civility and we can agree to disagree so that is no problem so thank you for coming in. >> in short form, what were your comments about george zimmerman? >> guest: after george zimmerman was acquitted, found not guilty by a jury of his peers, the department of justice decided they would launch their own investigation and during that time they were not going to give him his gun back so george them and was being further prosecuted after being acquitted, the government was keeping -- he needed to be able to protect himself more than other because of so many death threats and tweeted an offer that if the department of justice was going to do this and not return his weapon i would buy him a gun so he could protect himself and people didn't like that and that is okay. i believe we need

>> guest: i read patterson, i'm blanking. >> host: okay james patterson, will go with that one. thank you. >> guest: your position as a fellow american i respect how you feel and i want to thank you for saying it so nicely, if you don't want to read my books i understand that. i believe in civility and we can agree to disagree, that's no problem at all. thanks for calling. >> in short form for viewers what were your comments? >> guest: after george zimmerman was acquitted many found not guilty by a jury of his peers, the department of justice decided to launch an investigation. during that time they would not give him his gun back. so he was being further prosecuted after being acquitt acquitted. i use the term of the government keeping the boot on his back. i said he needed to protect himself more than ever because there are so many death threats. i tweeted out that if they would not return his weapon i would buy him a gun. people didn't like that not that's okay. we really need to work to be civil and respect other opinions. >> host: a facebook, from denita, cannot be read as

steve patterson, n ws, redding, california. >>> president trump today lighting a cal firestorm, saying he would be willing to shut the if government dow congress does not fund his controversial border wall and zero tolerance immigration as kelly o'donnell tells us, the threat comes at a moment when republicans and democrats were showing rare bipartisan forts on the federal budget. roc >> reporter: the president with a provocative threat. i would be willing to shut down the government if the democrats don't give us border security. high risk rhetoric he road tested earlier this year. >> let's have a shutdown. we'll do a shutdown. and it's worth it for our uny. i would love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of. >> reporter: but there's a very lonely strategy. today, wisconsin republican senator ron johnson said, no way. >> iertainly don't like playing shutdown politics. pf don't think it would be h so let's try and avoid it. >> reporter: but the president cease immigration as a way this fall.emocrats >> they would to get rid of i.c.e. c.e. is tough and i.c.e. is sma

at raymond james. people were concerned about the numbers. they didn't have the subscriber growth. he said the numbers and results could be lumpy in nature. share price had appropriate correction he says, but the long-term growth story is very much intact for netflix. it is well-positioned for 35% revenue growth in 2018 and 2019. we thank him. he is more cautious on this one and concerned about intense competition abroad. getting to the bank stocks, look at these, netflix appears fully valued on relative to the other bank names. he is not as positive. amazon is down .1% but it did hit all-time high earlier today. prime day was a big hit. they had the most sales ever. it beat out black friday. it beat outside per monday. it beat out last year's prime day. it was 36 hours, they did particularly well with that. google slightly higher despite the e.u. antitrust fine of 5 billion. of course they will appeal that one. facebook up about 41 cents right now. charles. charles: nicole, thank you very much. always

patterson police arrested the kidnappers and rescued the victim. the victim was injured but is expected to be okay. ( james ) happening today... the san francisco board of supervisors will consider whether to change the city's ban on marijuana shops in chinatown. the ban was approved unanimously earlier this month by one of the board's committees. the full board will vote ont eh issue tonight. supporters of the ban say that the booming marijuana industry will drive up commercial rental prices and force many chinese-owned businesses out of business. ( darya ) another big story we are following... police are looking for the person who opened fire on three people outside a restaurant in antioch. we frst brought you this story as breaking news yesterday on the kron 4 morning news. it happened in the parking lot outside applebees at the hillcrest crossroads shopping center. an 18-yer-old man was shot and killed... a 16- year-old boy had to be taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds his condition is unknown this morning. police later discovere

steve patterson, nbc news, redding, california. >>> president trump today lighting a political firestorm saying he would be willing to shut the government down if congress does not fund his controversial border wall and zero tolerance immigration policies. as kelly o'donnell tells us, the threat comes at a moment when pudemocrats were showing me rare bipartisan progress on the federal budget. >> reporter: his new jersey weekend over, back to washington with a provocative threat. i would be willing to shut down government if the democrats don't give us the votes for border security. high-risk rhetoric he had road tested earlier this year. >> let's have a shutdown. we'll do a shutdown. and it's worth it for our country. i would love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of. >> reporter: but that's a very lonely strategy. today, wisconsin republican senator ron johnson said, no way. >> i certainly don't like playing shutdown politics. i don't think it would be helpful so let's try and avoid it. >> reporter: but the president sees immigration as a way to hammer democrats th

patterson police arrested the kidnappers and rescued the victim. the victim was injured but is expected to be okay. ( james ) happening today... the san francisco board of supervisors will consider whether to change the city's ban on marijuana shops in chinatown. the ban was approved unanimously earlier this month by one of the board's committees. the full board will vote on the issue tonight. supporters of the ban say the booming marijuana industry will drive up commercial rental prices and force many chinese-owned businesses out of business. ( james ) still ahead on the kron 4 morning news... the man accused in a dealdy bart attack is now behind bars. but some bart riders say they still don't feel safe. ( james ) plus... california is one of 20 states trying to stop instructions for 3-d printed guns... from being published online. ( james ) and... as wildfires burn through neighborhoods in northern california... a bay area shelter is stepping up to help animals displaced by the carr fire. ( john ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. checkin