the fbi has evolved. to a certain extent but unfortunately one of the things that made me realize that when i was writing this book that i was on the right path was i saw in the new york times where there were 15 or 16 women who had filed a lawsuit. this was in 2019 had filed a lawsuit against the fbi because their firearms instructors at quantico were trying to sabotage their training. 2019 so i thought to myself has it changed really i mean has it. yes, there are more women in leadership positions, but i think that there's in the fbi. it's it's still inherently male-dominated. and you know, i think that unfortunately a lot of the negative media that the fbi is getting is warranted, especially when it comes to those young women those young gymnasts who went to the fbi to talk about their sexual assault and they were ignored. i personally think and this is just my opinion. it's not the opinion of the fbi. they were ignored because they were young women. so what i do now, i have gotten so many emails from

sanborn, i want to turn to the fbi. how many fbi agents or confidential informants activity participated in the events of january 6th? >> sir, i'm sure you can appreciate i can't go into the instances of sources or methods. >> did any fbi agents or confidential informants actively parch in the events of january 6th yes or no. >> sir, i can't answer that. >> did any fbi agents or confidential informants acts of violence. >> i can't answer that. >> it any agents or active informants actively for acts of violence. >> i can't answer that. >> who is ray epps. >> i'm aware of individual, i don't have specific background to him. >> well a lot of people are very concerned about mr. epps. on the night of january 5th, 2021, he wandered around the crowd that gathered and there's video out there of him chanting tomorrow we need to get into the capitol, into the capitol. this was strange behavior, so strange that the crowd began chanting, fed, fed, fed, fed, fed, fed. ms. sanborn, was ray epps a fed? >> sir, i cannot answer that que

sanborn, i want to turn to the fbi. how many fbi agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of january 6? ms. sanborn: i'm sure you can appreciate i can't go into the specifics -- sen. cruz: did any fbi agents or confidential informants actively participate, yes or no? ms. sanborn: i cannot answer that. sen. cruz: did any fbi agent or confidential informants commit crimes of violence? ms. sanborn: i can't answer that. sen. cruz: did any fbi agent or informants encourage or incite crimes of violence on january 6? ms. sanborn: i can't answer that. sen. cruz: who is -- ms. sanborn: i am aware of the individual. i don't have these specific background on him. sen. cruz: a lot of people are very concerned about him. on the night of january 6, he wandered around a crowd that had gathered and there is video of him chanting, tomorrow we need to get into the capitol. this was strange behavior, so strange that the crowd began chanting fed, fed, fed. was he a fed? ms. sanborn: sir, i cannot answer that qu

and so too there was another book written on the history of catholics in the fbi. the other case that's left out is the is that book leads out to christian front? and so and so yes, unfortunately, this is the sad case but also it's a warning. i mean, i think i've written this book as a warning about how deeply grotesque the these principles can become if they're not if they're not viewed in a in a way that will lead to change. thank you. so ed ask was there any relationship between the christian front and the american first lindenberg movement? lindenberg. yeah, it's it's an obvious connection to make the answer to that is no, no captive tissue between the america first organization and no connective tissue between the ira either. that's a common question people have the reason for that is because father quaglin is a megalomaniac and his movement is all about himself and he is going to be the inspirational kind of headmaster of this of this organization. and so he doesn't allow any interlopers to to move in on his turf this christian front situation is is his own o

fbi. >> thank you, mr. chairman. look, there are issues with ina as there are with any organization, i just want to say i spent a lot of time with the folks over the last few weeks and tremendously impressed as i said in the remarks with the quality and dedication. they're good people, and that's the key. when you have good people on the team, the team can succeed. it's had headwinds for a number of reasons, largely acting leadership which is a problem, you know, that's not anybody's fault that's just happened. and then variety of things have happened that have made it, you know, made things difficult. but the makings of a strong team and strong operation are there and they're doing great things now. in terms of specifically the work with the fbi think i think that's an important issue, and when you look at the intelligence enterprise in our government, the lines, very intentionally, are not clearly delineated, there's overlap, should always be some overlap between the agencies but you don't want it to mean

i understand the pace of the fbi's investigation now. i don't have too many concerns about how they are doing that. that's what the fbi does better than any organization on earth. these massively complicated abroad scoped investigations, but my concerns are more what has the fbi done to look back and uncover exactly how it was caught short last year. i know from my own experience and having done that everything after the fort hood shooting to the boston marathon attack, that is an essential piece of maintaining your ability to protect the country. go back and uncover what you might have missed and how you change the work going forward. for me the biggest question right now is why we haven't heard more about that from the fbi. so i think it's a great time to think about these things and talk about them with a group like this. you have been digging into the numbers behind us. i honored to be part of the panel and i've respected all the other panelists. it's a big honor for me personally. we are facing the most strenuous test of our democra

, can you ortalk about how you can work wh the fbi and also the conflict with the fbi? >> thank you, there are issues as with any organization, i've spent a lot of time over the last few weeks, i've been tremendously impressed with their quality and dedication, they are good people and that is the key. when you have good people one te team about the team can succeed. it's had headwinds for number of reasons, they've largely had acting leadership which is a problem, not anybody's fault, it just happened in a variety of things happened that made things difficult but the makings of a strong team and operation are there and they are doing great things now. in terms of the work with the fbi, it's an important issue and whenever, when you look at the intelligence enterprise in our government, they are intentionally not clearly -- there should always be overlap between agencies but you have to keep a focus, because you don't want overlap to been duplication or even worse, confusion because the agencies are working in the same space with a different analysis, it confuses the cu

collections, can you talk about how you can work with the fbi that the conflict with the fbi? >> there are issues with ina is with any organization. i spent a lot of time with the folks at ina over the last 2 weeks and been tremendously impressed as i said in my remarks with their quality and dedication, they are good people and that is the key. when you have good people on the team the team can succeed. it has had some head winds. they've largely acting leadership which is a problem. that has just happened and variety of things that have happened made things difficult. the makings of a strong team and strong operation are there and doing great things. in terms of the work of the fbi that is an important issue and when you look at the intelligence enterprise in our government, the lines are intentionally not clearly delineated. there is overlap. there should always be overlap between different agencies but you have to keep focused on that. you don't want overlap to mean duplication or worse, confusion because two intelligence agencies work the same space and come up with diffe

we have fbi, hundreds of people arrested and hopefully they will go to jail for a long time. what is congress doing trying to investigate when congress should be trying to legislate. they are trying to find -- all i hear from them and from you always insurrection, insurrection, insurrection. let's get trump trump is gone, he is not coming back. he may have his dead enders that he is not coming back. get over it. host: that's tony in florida pride -- in florida. guest: i think all of us have reasons to be skeptical of congress at various times. the fact-finding and investigative process we are seeing their has been some of the most useful information and excavation we've seen so far. what the senate did to understand this security breakdown was quite useful. i think what will end up coming out of the house select committee will probably be quite illuminating simply because they have subpoena power and a broader mandate than the fbi does. the fbi is going in a very close and confidential way to find criminal wrongdoing and that's not necessarily the mandate of the select commit

marine during vietnam and somebody who had led the fbi during a difficult time. and really served with distinction during his lifetime. and he showed up, what was your impression of him ? >> one thing i talk about in the book was we've prepared for that hearing. some of the people think congress just runs off this but we knew this was going to be a big hearing. so we had talked about it, practiced it out and we had one of our staffers play robert mueller. for those of us who had been in rooms with robert mueller before , he was a very good law enforcement witness as an attorney. he would quickly answer your questions. he had command of the facts. and then i make mention of this, it only happened to one of our members who got what we determined was the mueller stair. if robert mueller ever got to a point and i've been in hearings two or three earlier's years earlier, if he thought the member was being too cutehe would answer the question and say i'm not seeing anymore and stare at the member . and but when he walked in the room and he lays open the statement, nadl

asian organized crime case for the fbi in history, probably history of the world. we're all charm smoking dragon the definitely targeted chinese or organized crime and partnership with the chinese government the government north korea and you know, i came to develop a deep respect for the for the investigative capabilities that fbi and despite the fact that they've been much maligned here in washington for probably possibly and properly investigating president trump by some people standards, but the reality is when they do an investigation, they collect evidence. they don't just collect intelligence and evidence is a lot more powerful than intelligence. i've been involved in the intelligence business too as you know, and the same standard of evidence that has to be presented in a criminal court, which is with the fbi is held to and any investigation even one involving intelligence is extraordinarily higher than the other agencies in the entire intelligence community. so for them to have moderate confidence seems to be pretty significant. what do you think just befo

we have the primary interest in terms of investigating those cases so working with fbi is good but we may take a case the fbi says doesn't rise to the level of something we would investigate whereas we would take it to investigate. the other thing is since i have been here i have reached out to local law enforcement in home districts, members of congress and i have had 100% cooperation. i may get to a point that i don't get achieve or share for doesn't want to cooperate but so far i have had 100% cooperation from state and local authorities in terms of getting the assistance we requested with regard to a member's home or family, safety and security issues. we will continue to be that advocate for members if they are having difficulty getting the assistance they need in local jurisdictions. if they come to us we will be an advocate for them to get what they need in terms of making sure families are safe and secure as well. >> there's obviously a lot of chatter on the internet, a lot of stuff that is kind of public. after the sixth a lot of these groups are trying to figure out how to b

in addition we appointed four executive branch managers to bring the information in, the fbi, the deputy director -- secretary of defense and deputy secretary of homeland -- of homeland security. in addition we had six outline -- outside experts, the ceo of companies or government officials, think tank leaders. they were supported by the staff that i led that studied the cybersecurity problem and mccain said you have one year to come back with real solutions which is a fast turnaround rate. in nine months be produced a report that we issued in march, 2020. we put out additional papers looking at additional issues. we spent the last 18 months, fiscal year 2021 and 2022 trying to turn the recommendations of that commission into law and we have been highly successful. we had 82 original recommendations, 50 were legislative and we have accomplished between 60 and 80% of those recommendations. they are either in law or being carried out by the executive branch which is a high strike rate. the commission itself stood down over the weekend, it reached its natural length by congress, and we are

there are still over abilities the same kind of fbi and essay department of homeland security report that came outabout water, warning caused us to write the op-ed . at similar warnings in the energy sector as well so they are under assault . both from criminal actors particularly to try to pick up grants were but also from nationstates that implants malware into our electrical power grid. we have reports on that so we still need to worry about energy and energy assigned water . water fails energy isn't all. energy has concerns. as far as legislative action also do the legislature has done more, the u.s. congress has done more in the last two yearsand is done in the previous 20 years on cyber security legislation . nzi would consider the last three years of cyber security at bonanza . there have been 40 loss in three years ago, 62 years ago again last year. mostly in the national defense authorization act and also in independent bills. cyber security legislation passed in the bipartisan infrastructure plan for examples though they're doing something but you're correct in saying that

attorney's office of the district columbia and the fbi washington field office d.o.j. personnel across the department and nearly all 56 of field officers and alt 94 united states attorney's offices. andd in many main justice components have worked countless hours to investigate the attack. approximately 70 prosecutors and the district of columbia and another at 78 from u.s. attorney officers and d.o.j. divisions, have participated in this investigation. so far, we have issued over 5000 subpoenas and search warrants, seized approximately 2000 devices, poured through over 20000 hours of video footage, and search through an estimated 15 terabytes of data. we have received over 300,000 tips from ordinary citizens who have been are indispensable partners in this effort. the fbi's a website continues to post photos of persons in connection with the events of january 6 and we continue to seek the public's assistance in identifying thoses individuals. as of today we have arrested and charged more than 720 defendants and nearly all 50 states and the district of columbia for the

agents, red cross, firefighters, the mortuary group that came in as well as to fbi chaplains of the pittsburgh division who were there in 2001 and were still on the job. and a few family members. we brought together as a cop have to have a name for every operation with thank you 94. it was a beautiful, beautiful event on friday afternoon and culminated with the family members inviting all 130 of those individuals to the crash site to the rock itself to the boulder and lead in prayer and moments of silence it again was for all 2977 lives are lost that day. very, very powerful, powerful afternoon and thanks to our group that culminated at the local american legion where individuals were able to lead the memorial and go have a beer and a cheeseburger and roast beef sandwich. has not been back and had not seen so many colleagues that meant so much of them. so i just wanted to share that again my connection to law enforcement is profound and again honoring these men and women in law enforcement, we do it every day. we invite game commission troopers, law enforcement, dea to train here ki

either a pre-existing flaw or delivery of spear fishing and that hasn't been revealed yet by the fbi and was able to manipulate the system and what this person target was a little unusual in the sense that they took complete control and locked up their parties and they instead decided to change the chemical -- so the amount of why that controls the acidity of water. low levels makes the water more -- to drink at high levels can make the water a danger to help and to attempt to increase the level of lie in the water. the malicious actor was doing this atg the same time around e system at the same time an operator was sitting in the console so the operator was able to see this an appropriate activity going on. in the rate he saw it twice. the first thing he didn'tt do anything about an hour later he reported it to his bosses and they were able to stop this potentially harmful change in the chemistry but it really was a random act of love that we are both a stop as. it points to the fact that her systems are incredibly vulnerable to malicious acts by either criminal actors are nationsta

fbi operators, agents, negotiators and logistical support teams train rigorously. fbi and justice department jusupervisors repeatedly run crisis scenarios and joint terrorism task force run countless exercises to develop and foster cooperation among federal, state and local law enforcement. i cannot say enough about how important the last point is. as anyone watching events as they unfolded could see the many hours that the fbi and the local police department to spend planning together for these kinds of crisis are critical to saving lives when the unthinkable occurs. i want to recognize the incredible bravery of the rabbi and hisbi congregants who use te skills i learned an active in activeshooter trainings to ro this terrible event. i want to recognize the incredible courage of local law enforcement officers and federal agents on the ground in texas including members of the hostage rescue team who went into a building knowing that inside was a man with a gun who said he had two bombs and was expecting to die. and i want to assure you that even in this case, our w

fbi and justice department supervisors repeatedly run crisis scenarios. a joint terrorism task force run countless exercises to develop and foster cooperation among federal, state and local law enforcement. i cannot say enough about how important that last point is. as anyone watching events as they unfolded could see, though many hours the fbi and local police departments spend planning together for these kinds of crisis are critical to saving lives when the unthinkableoccurs . i want to recognize the incredible bravery of rabbi walker and his congregants who used the skills they have learned in active shooter trainings to respond to this terrible event. i want to recognize the incredible courage of local law enforcement officers and federal agents on the ground in texas, including members of the hostage rescue team who went into a building knowing that inside was a man with a gun who said he had two bombs and was expecting to die. i want to assure you that even inthis case our work is not done . the fbi is now working full-time to determine whether this

fbi officers, nobody can deny the fact that they should be paid well, that they should have benefits, they should be 30 year career agents. they have to be the best at what they are doing, yet you have tsa employees at the airport, where many are part-time and they are struggling to get help, get health benefits with the tsa. turn over is unbelievable, yet most of those folks are watching the monitor, looking at people and trying to figure out if there is something there that can get into an airplane that we do with major harm. how can we help you, not by yourself, but how can we the legislature help you make the argument that we need to bring these people up to speed, we need to make them professionals, we need to pay them well and make sure that their attitude, you know, that they know that their mission -- that we pay them accordingly, please? ms. bailey: thank you for the question. with tsa, you raise an important point and when we have put attention and effort into. i know that there's support for the efforts that we make sure we raise the pay of our employees, because in some lo

also in the news the fbi arrested a 29 year old man accused of operating a fishing scam that secured unpublished manuscripts by best-selling and first-time authors phillip o bernardini who was employed by simon and schuster uk allegedly impersonated publishing executives and used fraudulent email addresses to obtain the documents. the case is puzzled the publishing world because none of the stolen manuscripts ever resurfaced and no ransoms were demanded simon and schuster is not named in the indictment and has placed mr. bernardini under suspension pending further information. in other news a recent gallup poll found that 27% of americans read more than 10 books last year an 8% drop from 2016 the 17% that did not read any books is on par with surveys from prior years. and according to npd book scan print book sales were up close to 9% in 2021 over the previous year with 825 million books sold adult nonfiction sales rose 4% this was a second consecutive year of sales growth following an 8% jump in 2020 book tv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news and you can als

. >> next officials from the justice department and fbi testified the threat of domestic terrorism.

at and asked do you believe 2020 [inaudible] like attorney general william barr said it was and the fbi, many u.s. republican attorneys thought it was. you need to listen to their answers and make sure we are electing great people to protect democracy. statewide races and all the way up. >> fantastic. thank you. >> i will be brief we had a thing, just permanent principles. the executive committee we worked on that for seven years and following that, i helped for the freedom to marry because we recognize we could only win in the bipartisan coalition. that is what it's all about, organize. we have to organize the broad possible coalition to fight for the democracy, to protect our democracy with all of you listening today. thank you. >> that is such an important point, and it is already at the end of the hour. what a wonderful panel, full of incredible elected officials doing incredible things. but also because everyone else here watching the panel, because you are all the ones who can take what was discussed on the panel and apply that locally and make your own elections more secure so th

these figures from the fbi are indisputable. never again can we put criminals ahead of victims, or social engineering ahead of public safety. [applause] when we express appreciation for law enforcement, we usually just think about our state troopers or local police forces. too often, we forget about our men and women serving in the department of corrections. it's a difficult, typically thankless job, but no less critical to public safety. one of our most senior corrections officers is staff sergeant of operations ken noland. sergeant noland, an alaskan since age 8 and a graduate of bartlett high school in anchorage, started his career with the department in 1994 at spring creek in seward. he's been at the anchorage correctional complex since april 1998, and he was promoted to sergeant in june of 2005. sergeant noland is a diligent and generous officer who has mentored and trained his peers in those values for more than 25 years. according to those peers, his positive attitude and exceptional work ethic help create an environment

led the fbi to target her as a dangerous subversive as you can see on the slide one of the most dangerous as you can see here to further her activism pauli murray. wanted to get a law degree but faced many obstacles as a black woman in the 1930s. she attempted to enroll at the university of north carolina. we're one for white ancestors james strudwig smith had once been on the board of trust. smith was the grandfather of pauly's grandmother cornelia smith. but north carolina would not budge. she is. grandmother, cornelia's birth to one of smith's enslaved women harriet who had been raped by his son sydney smith was an outcome. recently remarked upon by caroline randall and her brilliant article. my body is a confederate monument that we read in class where she wrote i am the descendant of black women who were domestic servants and white men who raped their help unquote. she continues quote. what is a monument but is standing memory an artifact made tangible my body and blood are a tangible truth of the south and its past. i don't just come from the south i come from confederates. with the

there were no white if there were no white fbi agents in, mississippi. in 1964, but the movie made you think that there were it did not focus on the brave the very brave. a black souls in mississippi who had been weak who had been beaten murder and who had been marching for years and so the lens the lens in the soul of the filmmaker matters you had ava duvernay who made selma which was a titanic movie to me, and she should have been nominated for an oscar and she wasn't in that's a shame, but you know. she is a great filmmaker and she's going to she's going to do a lot of great things during her career. and i tell that story of selma in her role and how the movie got made and her backstory. i tell that story about. david duvernay in this book, so um, it is a wide sweeping story with a y angled lens. thank you so much. i think that's a good point to end on as any we're right at eight o'clock. this has been really just wonderful. thank you both for being here. it's it's it's just a really. important interesting thing to spend time thinking about and talkin

the fbi has arrested your roads, leader and founder of the far right both keepers militia and charged 10 others with seditious conspiracy over what prosecutors said was there a wide-ranging plot to storm the capital on january 6 and disrupt the certification of vitamins victory. it was a major development in the sprawling investigation of the capital attack. he and the other both keepers are charged with sedition among the more than 700 people accused of taking part in the assault. npr noted this morning that seditious conspiracy carries a sentence of 20 years. danin michigan, independent, good morning . >> this is dave, good morning greta. on the voting system that we have today. i believe everybody's with our society today, when it comes to voting whether the right or left side we get so many at the last minute decisions that we've got to choose over each one. well, a third-party system would work well. i think if we had if you only vote for one, a third-party system and i would trade the electoral college as it goes like this. you have a ri boat and a di vote. you can only vote onc

also in the news the fbi arrested the 29 your man accused of operating a phishing scam that secured unpublished manuscripts by first-time authors employed by simon & schuster uk allegedly impersonated publishing executives and then obtained documents. none of the stolen manuscripts have resurfaced and no ransom is demanded. simon & schuster is not named in the indictment and he is placed under suspension pending further investigation. recent poll found 27 percent of americans read more than ten books last year and 8 percent drop from 2016. the 17 percent that did not read any books as part of the survey from prior years. book sales were up close to 9 percent in 2021 over the previous year when he hundred 25 million books sold. adult nonfiction sales rose from the second consecutive year following an 8 percent jump 2020. booktv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news and you can also watch all programs any time that booktv.org. >> hi everyone i am from the new yorker thank you for coming to today's talk called the matter of black lives. ads which collects almost a century of

keith urban one of the high-profile authors that you did represent after he was fired from the fbi was james comey. what was that process like well, james, comey is one of the the first major authors in in sort of the political sphere who was not coming out of republican or conservative circles. so he was in many ways of a formative client for us. we pitched him out of a blue and my partner really deserves the credit for that and you know after a couple email exchanges where he insisted that he wouldn't wasn't interested in writing a book. we were able to get it in person meeting and you know, i think we're able to convince him that getting his side of the story out. there would be a real service of the country and a real service to history and a higher loyalty ended up being a number one new york times bestseller for for weeks on end and one of the best-selling political books of the last decade and you know it was it was a privilege to work with him. he's he's a great man. how much editorial input did you have into his book? like like a lot of authors, we work pretty hands-on with hi

sentenced more than seven years imprisonment was pardoned by president trump in 2020 also in the news the fbi arrested a 29 -year-old man accused of operating a phishing scam that secured unpublished manuscripts by best-selling and first-time authors. he was employed by simon and schuster uk allegedly impersonated publishing executives and fraudulent e-mail addresses are used to obtain the documents it has publish the publishing world because no ransoms were demanded and known track on —- manuscripts have resurfaced. he is under suspension pending further information a recent gallup poll 27 percent read more than ten books last year. and that 17 percent is on par with surveys from prior years. with 825 million pixel. nonfiction rose 4 percent the second consecutive year of sales growth following any percent jump in 2020. and you can also watch all past programs any time at booktv.org. spelled welcome to the 36th annual printers role it

with the overall crime rate over 10 percent in 2019 and another 18.5 percent in 2020 according to the fbi reported property crimes at the lowest level since 1974 the murder rate has declined since 2019 and we all remember the huge spike of car thefts after sr 19 was signed into law and following that repeal vehicle thefts were down 64 percent in 2020 compared to 2017. robberies dropped by almost 15 percent in the same time these figures never again do we put criminals ahead for social engineering ahead of public safety. [applause] when we express a true appreciation for law enforcement for the local police forces too often we forget men and women serving in the department of corrections typically thankless jobs but no less critical for public safety one of the most senior correction officers and staff sergeant and alaskan and a graduate of bartlett high school started his career from 1994 at the anchorage correctional conference in april 1990 and promoted to sergeant june 2005. with a generous officer and according to those and at work ethic helps to create an environment that recognizes

i urge the attorney general and the fbi to testify before this committee to discuss their strategy for combating the current spike of the violence and crime in this nation and i would like to direct question to ms. kelly as a result of the marches which in many cases led to riots and violence there was an effort by the left including some democrats in congress to defund the police and because most major cities across the country are controlled overwhelmingly by democrats, many police departments were indeed to defund data. for example, portland oregon $16 million cut, baltimore, 23 million, san francisco, 120 million. texas and la, 150 million and new york city cut its police department by a billion dollars, so my question is do you believe that this defunding of police has contributed to the increased crime rate that you are seeing currently? >> this question is to me? i assume so. i'm not an expert specifically on that but i will say that the people that i hear from based on my work, the disparity end of the treatment between capital protesters and those who rioted far more destructi

briefing, launched a web site is, released a fact sheet to educate the public on the ecosystem, the fbi and dhs are coordinating with the intelligence community as well as local partners to insure common understanding related to the situation in ukraine, so that's one part. i'd also say that for the president, this has been a priority for him since he came into office. building up our alliances and partnerships with the global and we have a coordinated and strong, you know, approach to how we're approaching the buildup of troops on the border of ukraine. so there are many lessons, but i would say those are two of the biggest ones. >> right. and i also ask about china -- >> sure. >> does the white house want to see congress finish work on that before build back better? if is there a priority to getting that done? >> the president would like to sign it as soon as possible, but beyond that i'm not going to get into an order of events. go ahead. >> thank you, jen. i have a few questions. the first on the supreme court. >> sure. >> does the president believe that the current makeup of the co

merrick garland instructed the fbi to begin investigating parents who attend school board meetings. am i making that up? in the annals of dangerous ideas that one takes the cake. i quote and you heard him parents have no business telling schools what they should teach end of quote. parents have every right to express their concerns to a teacher, to principle back -- principal members of the school board. in fact, that is their duty. [applause] recently a group of concerned parents contacted my office about an a containing age inappropriate explicit and pornographic images which was available in their school's library for young students. the school personnel had performed a cursory review in this instance i believe the would have revealed that this book contains explicit and pornographic depictions which easily meet the statutory definition of obscenity. explicit materials of the nature of that particular book and there may be others, have been introduced and allowed into south carolina schools without oversight and without review and without parents by and large is highly troubling

also in the news the fbi arrested a 29-year-old man accused of operating a phishing scam that secured unpublished manuscripts by best-selling and first-time authors. he was employed by simon & schuster uk allegedly impersonating publishing executives and used fraudulent email addresses to obtain the documents. the case has puzzled the publishing world because none of the stolen manuscripts have serviced. in other news, a recent gallup poll found 27% of americans read more than ten books last year and 8% 8% drop from 2016. the senate chamber is on par with surveys from prior years. according to npd bookscan, , prt book sales were up close to 90% in 2021 over 21 over the previous year with 825 million books sold your adult nonfiction sales rose 4%, this was the second consecutive year of sales growth following an 8% jump in 2020. booktv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news, and you can also watch all of our past programs anytime at booktv.org.. >> hi, everyone. i'm david remnick, editor of the new yorker. thank you for coming tofo todays talk on a book called "the

to do that, we need greater coordination with the fbi, atf and state law enforcement we said after the 9/11 attack we would never allow information sharing to prevent us from stopping that attack. we see terror every day in the inner cities. the same coordination that stopped planes from flying must be used to stop from the highways of death and our country particularly in black and brown and poor communities. [applause] we also need more funding for violence programs that address the root causes of crime. that means more resources for the skills training, job displacement and youth mentoring. you can't have a country who's predicted that 30% of the men and women in jail are dyslexic and 55% have learning disabilities. if you don't educate, you will incarcerate and we've placed too many people on the pathway of incarceration instead of education. next, we need to dollars for child care. any working class low income parent who cannot work because they cannot find affordable childcare will be trapped in a negative economic cycle forever particularly women. let them have quality childcare