Next, former law clerks of late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg joined biographers and federal judges in remembering her life and career. This discussion comes from Georgetown University law center. It run for an hour and a half. Good evening. I am bill trainer, dean of georgetown law. I would like to thank you all for joining us for tonights tribute to Justice Ginsburg. These past few days have been painful and hard, and i, like you, have been heartbroken. Justice ginsburg was a giant in the law, a champion of justice ad equality, and she was also treasured member of the Georgetown Law Community for many years, beginning with her husband martys joining the faculty. She was remarkably generous with her time. I will never forget walking into on so many occasions. Every year she spoke to our first year class. Walking with her out onto the stage, looking out at hundreds of students, many of them wearing notorious rbg tshirts and seeing their faces light up and uploading ecstatically as , even
These past few days have been painful and hard, and i, like you, have been heartbroken. Justice ginsburg was a giant in the law, a champion of justice ad equality, and she was also treasured member of the Georgetown Law Community for many years, beginning with her husband martys joining the faculty. She was remarkably generous with her time. I will never forget walking into on so many occasions. Every year she spoke to our first year class. Walking with her out onto the stage, looking out at hundreds of students, many of them wearing notorious rbg tshirts and seeing their faces light up and uploading ecstatically as , eventered the room though her Security Team always told us that she would leave right after her talk, she always stayed to talk to students and since friday, i have received so many photos from our students of the selfies they took with her. Notes about what a wonderful memory it was. It has been so lovely to see them. It is so hard to believe that she is gone. Askednight
And were back this week. Bar we continue the washington with journals series on battlegrount states with this election this Election Year with ged political reporters and analysts on the ground. Were examine whats changed since 2016, what issues are motivating voters this year and take a look at recent Political Trends that could give us clues on how the state might vote in. November. We talked about wisconsin. Today florida. At nor and then pennsylvania on wednesday. On thursday, well take a look at north carolina, then friday , michigan and saturday arizona. Today our focus is florida and joining us is rick, director of the Public Policy institute at jacksonville university. Ound lets begin with what makes florida a battleground state. F d it is the big prize, the path of the white house is through the l state of florida. Its 29 electoral votes. If you look at the four biggest in the country, we already know that california with the big prize of 55 is going to go to joe biden, texas
History and biography is sponsored by wells fargo. God day i am a Andrea Mitchell from nsnbc and welcome is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 20th anniversary of a National Book festival present by library of congress. And we are thrilled to have today our office David Rubenstein who has produced author a new book and new book is how to lead. And it is an extraordinary combination of conversations on leadership and the qualities that make people believers especially these very special people. These unique individuals that david has assembled in his book. David rubenstein, welcome youre a lawyer. Youre former white house founder of the World Largest private equity firm youre a history buff restored Washington Monument you saved of the National Zoo Pandas brought magna carta and having saying nothing of a Television Show in bloomberg, and on pbs how do you do it all tell us about your leadership. Well, i didnt feel i was as good a leader as people i interviewed so in the book i tal