nobody welcomed her with open arms. her male co-hosts were no happy she was there and let it be known and she stayed anyway. my gosh, oh, yeah. and that s not an easy road every day to show up and feel that way and her tenacity allowed her to stay and one more thing, connie, i think you can relate to because i think all female journalists in the 70s and 80s felt this way everything she gave up. she had to make so many personal sacrifices. yes, well, we both forgot to have a baby. so she adopted and abee baby a then i adopted a baby. you really do follow in her footsteps. you re not kidding. here is one more, when she was named the first female co-anchor of an evening news broadcast 20 years later, i became the second female to be named to an evening news
i guess it shouldn t be, but to watch it happening. it is astounding. you re absolutely right. one of those co-anchors himself, a prominent journalist, was known to called her hiring a gimmick when she became the first co-anchor of an evening news broadcast. it wasn t a gimmick. you know, she did not get there because of her looks. she got there because she was relentless in the pursuit of her profession. she was excellent. it wasn t just because she was lucky. she survived for so long and had such longevity because of the utter competence and brilliance of what she did on screen. confidence and brilliance. two great words to define. christiane amanpour, thank you very much for taking the time and sharing. appreciate it. thank you, phil. the january 6th committee puts out a new batch of transcripts including testimony from rude rude, ginni thomas and jared kushner. we ll bring you the big
adversarial relationship between the press and the white house that we ve had for 150 years in this country. it doesn t have to go away. but it shouldn t dominate the way it is, and the access around which coverage turns should be changed to democracy and anti-democracy, so our adversarial approach should be directed not just at people in government, but those who would assault our system and undermine our system. and the coverage, honestly, lawrence, has been kind of pathetic. just to take the eastman memo, this was a sketched-out coup attempt. it was a blueprint for a coup, and the networks didn t even cover it on their evening news broadcast. you had people in the states who were basically trying to rig
we need to maintain the adversarial relationship between the press and the white house that we ve had for 150 years in this country. it doesn t have to go away. but it shouldn t dominate the way it is. and the axis around which coverage turns should be changed to democracy and anti-democracy. so our adversarial approach should be directed not just at people in government, but those who would assault our system and undermine our system. and the coverage honestly, lawrence, has been kind of pathetic. so just to take the eastman memo, this was a sketched-out coup attempt. it was a blueprint for a coup, and the networks didn t even cover it on their evening news broadcast. you had people in the states who
he un secretary general is warning russia s war against ukraine could lead to a hurricane of hunger and a shortage of food worldwide. antonio guterres says many countries which rely heavily on russian and ukrainian wheat production now have their food supplies endangered by the conflict. among them are burkina faso and yemen, which are already struggling to feed their populations. and a quick reminder of the latest on ukraine tonight. a woman has run onto the set of russia s channel1 evening news broadcast, protesting against the war in ukraine. she carried this sign which reads stop the war. don t believe propaganda. the protestor is reported to have been a producer at the channel. she s said to have since been arrested. russian artillery fire is blocking a humanitarian convoy that s stuck outside the city of mariupol. earlier today, a convoy of 160 civilians managed to escape the city.