Hornets, an aggressive species thats wiping out honeybees in the Pacific Northwest. Luke burbank will be telling us all about it. Reporter somewhere in these woods lurks a fearsome predator. Its isolated. Its somewhere in this area. And the race is on to find it and destroy before it can threaten americas honeybees. They are just killing machines. They have these giant mandibles that are like shark fangs and one chop it bites the head off. Wow. Later on sunday morning, tracking the asian giant hornet. From there, its on to a look at whats cooking with famed new york restaurateur danny meyer during this time of dining restrictions. With Martha Teichner, well hear him out. Im not gonna be the kind of restaurant that ive heard about that puts shower curtains between the tables. Ive literally heard about that. Covid19 forced danny meyer to close all twenty of his iconic new york restaurants and lay off more than 2000 people, so now what . There is no recovery at all unless this industry re
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Coverage go to the book tab on our website, booktv. Org. Good afternoon and welcome to the session on trailblazing women. This is going to be an exciting channel and im glad youre here. This is the seventh annual book festival, thank you cspan for covering it and thank you to all you all rated the cold rain and whether even though we are in june. Im cheryl kagan andis my honor to be the senator for pittsburgh and ross well in the maryland state senate. On social media today if you are following along at home you can to at our authors and the book festival we are also on histogram and facebook and everything so im delighted to have marlene pressman and john noris here. Our country is at the brink of possibly electing a first woman president and none of that would be possible without some trailblazing women the two who have been profiled in these wonderful books were going to talk about today. I had never heard of Betsy Margolin before reading this book by marlene kessler. Youre going to
Why did you call your new book the girls in the balcony . The balcony is a wise about any of the National Press club. The institution until just 20 years ago. And win in 1955 the men decided that they would let anyone into cover to report on events, they put it in a very narrow, extremely uncomfortable about any at the far end of the ball room. Guest but just 20 years ago i was standing this that balcony. We could not ask questions, we were not allowed. It was, um, it was frustrating. And so one of the three women in the New York Times bureau told Scotty Rustin one day that she would not go there anymore and two other women, myself and Eileen Shanahan who covered finance and high economics, said that we wouldnt cover assignments there. Its very difficult, you know, because the newspaper business used to be kind of like the army. You were given an assignment, and you went on that assignment, and you did not discuss it, and you did not argue against it. And scotty could hardly believe th