Born in 1818 in lexington, kentucky, mary todd grew up in a slaveholding family yet lived to her see her husband Abraham Lincoln issue the emancipation proclamation. A mother of four sons he witnessed the death of three of the four as well as her own husbands assassination. Though her life was filled with tranlgly, as lincolns political partner, she also rely i should in their success. As we focus on the civil war years, one of the defining moments in our countrys history, a look at the life and times of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the most complex first ladies ever to live in the white house. Thanks for being with us for cspan continuing series on first ladies influence and image. Tonight as we look at Mary Todd Lincoln, we invite two of our academic advisers for the whole series to be our guests for this program. Let me introduce you to rosalynn toreberg penn. And Richard Norton smith, our guest and at our table is the director of five president ial libraries including the Abraham Linc
Of covid19 deaths in britain. And prosecutors say a man who tied two decades ago killed swedish Prime Minister roloff palalme in 1986. Welcome. We begin in the u. S. , where George Floyds brother urged politicians to, quote, stop the pain and pass reforms to end police brutality. Loneous floyd was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee and told members not to make his brother buster best death in vain. The death sparked weeks of protests in the u. S. And around the world. Heidi joe castro reports from washington. Floyd traveled from houston to the u. S. Capital. Waseorge call for help and ignored. Please listen to the call i am making to you now, the calls from our family and the calls ringing out from streets across the world. People of all backgrounds, genders and races have come together to demand change. House Democrats have passed sweeping legislation including increased accountability for mixed conduct misconduct for and Banning Police chokeholds. Im tired. Im tired of p
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Up, plus, the reopening begins. Businesses like these rolling out the welcome matt as more states begin to reopen this week , Florida Governor rick did joining me as he prepares to fire up much of florida with phase i tomorrow. And also ahead the director of National Economic Council Larry Kudlow on what it will take for the rest of the country to get back to work and in the middle of all of this a dump of documents revealing exculpatory evidence in the Michael Flynn case, congressman jim jordan and trey gowdy are turning their attention now to fbi director Christopher Wray, and what hes done about it in the last two years all that and a lot more right here right now, on sunday morning futures. And tomorrow morning, much of florida will enter phase i of a threephase opening with the exception of three counties with the most covid19 cases. Thats miamidade, broward and palm beach. The executive order allowing some businesses, Retail Stores and state parks to reopen tomorrow morning, but
Asked Professor John nicholls clinical professor of psychology at the university of hong kong and has been studying carnivorous it for 25 years and east a leading expert in the field. John nicholls clinical professor anthology at the university of hong kong its really great to have you with us so much to talk about now hong kong who was one of the at the centers of sars epidemic back in 2003 and you were right in the middle of it being the key members of the team which actually isolated the virus why do you think the world hasnt learned the lessons of it and we are where we are right now ok well we did learn the lessons in 2003 and we learnt the hard way because we. In terms of we werent prepared i think none of what was prepared in 2003 dealing with such a severe disease. And so so the society has learned about things like social distancing about the use of face masks and also for the preparation within hospitals having special wards which could cope with these emerging diseases which