Lori robinson was a Lieutenant Colonel when she first came to brookings in 2001 and we had the great pleasure spending a year with her in her new career military education which is like more of an education asset brookings to the military fellows than for them but created a friendship and sort of a fan club. Brookings that continued over the years as she rose through the ranks. A lot of you know her story and well talk about her story this morning before we also get into some of her observations on Strategic Issues before the country and then have time for your thoughts and questions as well. And also im very happy that this is happening during Christmas Season because in Holiday Season more john i feel like ive got my Christmas Wish in getting the chance to welcome Lori Robinson back. Her story since were like enough to cspan coverage today, for those of you who want to watch its a wonderful life and may not want the Jimmy Stewart version, you get just as good a version with general r
for you, including president biden s nod to a popular meme. also ahead, donald trump praises the january 6th rioter who has said members of congress who certified the 2020 election should be executed. plus, an international trip for ron desantis just didn t generate the headlines he was hoping for. in fact, most of the headlines, well, especially out of britain, were terrible. we ll have new reporting on that. and we re going to dig into the breaking financial news this morning. the third failure of an american bank since march, and who is coming in to save the day? good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, may the 1st. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. oh, jonathan, we have much to talk to you about in the boston sports world. also, special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes. and columnist and associate editor for t
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Women accepted for emergency volunteers or waev. She was one of the first women to join. She had a degree in business and was one of the first women to take courses at harvard. As the war moved out, women took on greater and greater roles. They went from administrators to intelligence specialists to parachute riggers and to gunnery technicians. Maybe women were not allowed to serve overseas. Until 1944. We decided that hawaii was once again safe enough, it was a base of Planning Operations and we we would send waev to help continue fight the war. Lieutenant winnifred quick was selected with two of her friends to go and set the stage to bring in over 5000 wavsevs to support the war effort. She was pretty excited. She told me this remarkable thing happened. I was astounded at the story because im from colorado and nothing like this has ever happened to me. A denver millionaire offered the use of his oahu mansion while they were stationed on the island. A large living room and he left it