As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the
Flights these days and where are they all meeting. Dr wang julio welcome to conflict zone thank you europes getting fed up with beijings threatening behavior and telling politicians here where they can go and who they can talk to telling the Nobel Prize Committee who it can award and who it cant what made your government think it could push europe around like this what the 1st time for you to hear that but i dont think that that was the government position or there could be a misunderstanding or. You know theres a maybe theres a lot of communication whatever. I heard from you i dont hear anything from that. Here in china i dont think so well perhaps you dont hear about it in china but just days ago. The german in foreign minister hike a mast told beijing bluntly to stop threatening europe after a senior czech politician has gone to taiwan and addressed its parliament your government had warned hed pay a heavy price for his visit there thats bullying isnt it no i dont think that it was
Strikes. Partly cloudy skies. 74 livermore and san jose in the 24hour temperature change i dont think ive seen that. Everyone is in double digits. Anywhere from 1015 degrees warmer than yesterday in the cloud cover has a lot to do with it along with yesterdays warm to hot temps. They are hotter today and we are way above average on these highs and we will continue to do that into early next week. Over to sal now. 6 01 a. M. Anything new you want to get to . Bridges are somewhere . Right now we are off to a good start, steve. Many people thought on friday even if they have to drive the drive early or something is going on because it is lighter than usual now and some of these commutes. I can show you the bay bridge whole plaza. We usually have some slow traffic and fridays is lighter volume and we see what happens in the next halfhour. 6 01 a. M. And lets go back to the headlines. Thanks, sal. The agency that runs californias power grid expects the demand for power to shoot up. Ktvu all
On cspan. Org. The senate is weighing in on defense policies for 2021. And now to live coverage. Senate here on cspan2. To or. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, thank you for the gift of this day. Open the minds of our lawmakers and give them a vision of the unlimited possibilities available to those who trust you as their guide. May our senators embrace a hugh millty embrace a humility that seeks first to understand rather than to be understood. Inspire them to seek your wisdom as you sustain them with your grace, mercy, and peace. Lord, remind them that you will judge their fruits, productivey and faithfulness. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president.
Now, that fog. Right. Were seeing that as we look now from the cupertino hills in the south bay. Right now not a good view of it, but hopefully tomorrow youll have a better chance. Lets go through our temperature trend. Were going to see our morning start in the 60s, and then as we go throughout today, its going to reach up to about 80 degrees, and this will actually be one of the coolest days of the week as we reach into the mid80s in the south bay and some mid80 force parts of the inland east bay with concord reaching 86. Well talk about hotter weather ahead in the forecast. Mike, how is it looking right now for the morning commute . Kari, the bay area toll plaza just turned on about 10 minutes ago. You see all lanes have filled in, so that was pretty quick. Theyre not stopped up, but theyre close to getting there. Looking at the map, there is no problem on the approach, just the backup on the toll plaza. The rest looks good, so does the rest of the bay. Back to you. Thank you, mike.