[inaudible background conversations] tonight i want to welcome all the people abeveryone who may be watching on my extreme and the people watching on cspan booktv. Despite covid regulations in boston, since we are now in lockdown all the time. We are getting together for this wonderful event. Myrna talk about a very important book in our lives more than 50 of it deals with immigration both legal and illegal. I would like everyone to welcome mr. Harlan hill and mr. Ryan girdusky. [applause] [applause] apparently am going to be doing marco rubio imitation all night. Its very hot here in boston. Lets get right to it. Harlan is a political consultant, advisor for the trump reelection campaign, youve seen him on cnn, msnbc, foxbusiness and fox news. Ryan is also a political consultant, war writer for the Washington Examiner, the american conservative a [inaudible] this is their first book and for a first book you get another round of applause. [applause] were getting it just right to the bo
From the heart which the news york times called a deeply felt kingly observed account and mrs. Bush conjures a hometown with enormous detail later system and feeling. Tonight mrs. Bush will be interviewed by Cokie Roberts and we are all delighted to look on her back to the Smithsonian Associates event. Copies of mrs. Bushs book which she has already signed are available in the lobby. Because of her schedule there will not be any personalization of the books after the program. Before we begin i would like to remind all of you to have your cell phones or Electronic Devices silenced and im going to do that with mine too. [laughter] additionally no photos are allowed during the program from cell phone cameras or any other cameras. We appreciate your cooperation on both of these items. As ive mentioned we are pleased to have Cokie Roberts. Conversation with mrs. Bush are cookies a senior news analyst for npr news where she was a Congressional Correspondent for more than 10 years. Additional
University in washington dc. Good evening. This thing has got to come down lower for me. How are all of you . Happy new year, thank you for being here. I am one of the coowners of politics and prose bookstore, lissa muscatine. Thank you. Along with my coowner and husband brad grant who is somewhere in the front and our fabulous wonderful staff, welcome all of you to tonights event in our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mention our location because think about it, we are at an Institution Name for our nations first president and only blocks from the Nerve Centers of american government, the white house and congress so what better venue for a conversation with tonights guest speaker, senator Kamala Harris spends her days on capitol hill and you are not alone if you think in a couple years she might be taking up residence at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. Since her election to the United States senate in 2016 senator harris has emerged as one of
We feel incredibly lucky were able to offer virtual events, and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up. So thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our zoom policies for tonights event. We do ask that you keep your video feed disabled for the duration of the event. If you do enable it, well kindly disable it for you. If you enable it a second time, we will regretfully have to disconnect. We appreciate your cooperation. Were going to have a reading by both miles and donovan to start us off. After miles reads from the king of confidence which was actually published this past tuesday and donovan reads from the inner coast which was published early last month, in june, were going to hear an extended conversation between the two of them for about 3035 minutes, and were also going to have a few slides here and there if needed to add some supplemental images, and once were done with that, were going to wrap
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. He idea that you cant get outside this bubble, shes found ways to do that. Including famously from time to time visiting places like target in the washington, d. C. , suburbs. Is she alone in first ladies to do things like that . Are they able to visit incognito . Probably visiting a target. Sometimes for her in terms of being alone with her family and free it also means leaving washington. It means going to camp david or going some place where she can sort of walk around and not be the target of peoples attention. Modern first ladies have done similar things. Laura bush went antiquing in georgetown to check out the shops there and that kind of thing, and so the idea that you have to, you know, find some way to, you know, maintain a life outside of the structures of the white house. And bill clinton also famously would go running. Not so much Hillary Clinton, but i feel like the clintons had a presence in washington, as well, actually. So the m