To help. After studying first ladies and knowing some of them well like my own motherinlaw or one that i admired very much, a fellow texan Lady Bird Johnson, is that we benefit our country benefits by whatever our first ladies interests are. She is the wife of one president and the daughter in law of another. Laura welsh bush became first lady after a controversial election brought her husband george w. Bush to the white house. Laura bush helped comfort the nation pursuing interests including education, literacy and womens health. Good evening and welcome to cspan series first ladies, influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story the wife of our 43rd president. Laura welsh bush and here to do that are two people who know her well through their work. Ann gearhart at the Washington Post is a laura bush biographer and her 2004 book the perfect wife tells the story of laura bush and covered the former first lady since 2001. Welcome to the program. Thank you. Mark updegrove is a pres
Thanks to both of you for being here and taking our calls and questions throughout the evening. Were going to close with some thoughts about the memories of the bush family. The president and their two daughters on their mother, first Lady Laura Bush. Thanks for being with us. I do not want to steal barbaras i feel like i always steal her energy when i go first. You go first this time. Probably her work for women. All over, really. We were so lucky because our parents took us to travel to africa, so we got to see clinics and schools and meeting people whose lives will be forever changed. I would say her work for women. And my dad, too, i am very proud of him for that. I would definitely echo that. After 9 11 i am going to cry. In front of all the people. I think the work that she did after 9 11 and how comforting she was to everyone in the country is an incredible legacy and was really critical to the country healing after 9 11. [applause] if i were doing a series of first ladies, i wo
He is like from a person who was president like he was president who happens to be his son will find it an interesting book. Your dad never wrote a memoir. Was this for that reason . There are a lot of reason i wrote it but, yeah. I mean, i want people first of all, he hasnt gotten a lot of attention. One reason is because he didnt write his own book. Hes a modest, humble man. Hes not a chest thumper. And therefore, a lot of people havent analyzed his presidency but its theyre going to start and i want to be a start of the initial wave. Youre in a special club. John quincy adams never wrote about his dad. Qnw. That was part of your motivation . Her dad always wished he had read a book about john q. About his father and i thought it sounded like a good idea. You talk in the book, two times in himself have both parents been there for their inauguration and one time when they were finished with their term. Yeah, John Kennedys parents were there when he was sworn in. But its a shoutout to
An honor of a lifetime for joe biden. An unbelievable surprise and emotional moment you want to see. A three hanky afternoon at the white house. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is friday, january 13th. Friday the 13th. 5 00 a. M. Ill focus on the friday. No more cabinet confirmation hearings today. The hearings over the past four days of the week had enough unusual moments to last a month. Mainly because again and again, the president elects nominees contradicted the man they hope to be their boss. It was Homeland Security and secretary of state nominees who veered off script. Then james mattis and mike pompeo demonstrated daylight between them and president elect donald trump. Including russia. Reporter ryan browne joins us from washington. Good morning, ryan. Reporter good morning, christine. There were moments where the picks for National Security positions differed from him significantly. When it came to general james mattis, those differences came o
In the United States and all around the world. Im rosemary church. And im George Howell. Newsroom starts right now. It is 2 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. We begin in kyrgyzstan. A jet crashed in a village and killed 37 people. We know children were killed as well. It crashed near the countrys main airport. This video shows the crash site. And you can see some of the debris there, as well as rescuers on the scene. Following this story, cnns ian lee is live in istanbul turkey, gathering details, what more do we know at this point when that plane and what might have caused this crash . Reporter well, george, when you look at the pictures of the wreckage, you can see that there was heavy fog at the time, and that could have played a role in the crash. Something investigators are going to be looking into. This was a boeing 747, operated by act, which is a turkish Cargo Company crashing roughly 2 kilometers away from that Main International airport there, 15 homes were destroyed. And tha