Are you right now . Im in california doing just fine. I heard a funny line, not sure if im working at home or living at work. I am finding this a time when ive been pretty productive, able to do everything remotely. Tried to keep up my exercise routine, practicing the panel to i have been director of the Hoover Institution but the time off the road, not on airplanes allowed me to make us move transition. Ali and all, keeping in touch with friends and family by text, really quite okay. 2020, even though you are being modest about it. This is a year like no other, first and foremost the pandemic, and another 700 people lost their lives around the world, the bloated us economy, tens of millions of americans, many going hungry, protests for Racial Justice after the death of george floyd, wildfires right now across the western United States, deadly reminder of Climate Change and as we are here to discuss the interruption in education and questions about this falls election if we didnt need
In the Ronald Reagan Educational Foundation summit. She talked about racial inequality, trust in government and political stability. Elex i am so lucky to be joined by the woman you see in the other panel who needs no introduction. The former secretary of state is now the director of the Hoover Institute of stanford university, doctor condoleezza rice. Im so glad to have this opportunity to talk with you for the next 35, 40 minutes. On behalf of the Reagan Institute. Im really honored to be part of todays conversation and you have this chance to speak with doctor rice. I have to start on a personal note though. We are living in such a stressful time, how are you doing . How are you holding up . Where are you right now . I am in california. And i am doing just fine. Like most workers i am able to work from home. Although i did hear very funny line the other day, im not sure from working at home or living at work. Im finding this time when i am actually pretty productive. I able to do al
Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families
Oh yea, oh yea, oh yea, all persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to give their attention for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court. Chief Justice Roberts we will hear argument first this morning in case 19465, chiafalo and others versus the state of washington. Mr. Lessig may it please this court. The question in these cases is straightforward. Do states have the power to control, through law how an elector may vote . They do not. The expected meaning of the words of the constitution against the background of the framers deliberation make it clear that the states have no such power. But what is also clear is that washington does not like the constitutions design. It declares that the votes cast are not, as the constitution expressly describes them, their votes, meaning the electors votes, but instead of the votes of the state, article 2 effectively gives the states the power to cast v
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