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
In port orange, florida, just south of daytona beach. Im here to meet a retiree who had a curious relic hidden among the rafters of her home in West Virginia. When her grandson finds it, hes convinced its a valuable piece of history. My name is betty bland. For more than a century, a strange inheritance collected dust in the attic. My husband and i thought it was worthless, until our grandson john surprised us all. Im john buell. I knew my greatgreatgrandfather was a Famous Artist renowned for his epic murals of texas battles. I had no idea id end up solving a mystery surrounding one of them. I meet betty and john at the family home, where they explain that the benefactor in this strange inheritance tale is born in belfast, ireland, in 1836. His name is Harry Mcardle. As a child, harrys a whiz with a paintbrush or sketch pad. Would we describe him as a prodigy . I mean, probably. He was a very prolific painter. As a teenager, he immigrates to america and attends the Maryland Institute
The Republican Party largely stands around idly letting it happen a pandemic is raging, our economy is collapsing and theyre using it as cover to shred our democracy. We cant just settle for fact checks and finger wags we have to do something now. Otherwise, trumps going to wake up the day after the election and tell us hes not leaving because hes not a good loser. Seth see same book. This has been a closer look. Announcer tonight on seth so many new yorkers are turning to city harvest for help late night with seth meyers fielding their families, and sean hayes they need your support now more than ever. Creator and star of schitts theres a website below to donate we will be right back with creek, dan levy sean hayes an allnew closer look. Featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth how is everyone doing tonight . Announcer for more of seths closer looks, be sure to i just googled how long do wasps subscribe to late night on live because i genuinely missed closer l
When emilys list first started there were only two women in the u. S. Senate. Now there are 26 of us. You allowed so many more women to hold elected office and that made our nation better. They have the power to make a difference. I want to say thank you to Ellen Malcolm for getting this Party Started and im so appreciative ofyour vision. Thank you for starting an organization that brings women together and making this a better place. To stephanie, i am so grateful for your amazing leadership. You have the ability to see what is possible. Thank you for your courage. We will make sure more women are at the table then ever before. Especially more women of color arerunning for office than when it. Id like to see women like me become elected officials in the us in every corner of this country you helped elect new democratic prochoice women to the congress of the United States. So much has been accomplished in these 35years and so much more needs to be done. In 35 years i want to see women
Thats right, President Trump suggested postponing novembers president ial election on twitter. All right, well, seeing as the two candidates have a combined age of 151, i wouldnt recommend pushing it too much. President trump wants to postpone the november election apparently, his newest adviser told him if you feel like you are about to get sacked, you got to buy yourself some time. Technically the term for what im doing is scrambling. Were scrambling. After frequently refusing to wear a facemask around the capitol, republican congressman Louie Gohmert has tested positive for coronavirus but dont worry, his neck is fine thats right, republican congressman Louie Gohmert has tested positive for coronavirus. Who could have seen this coming, said gohmert about todays date President Trump yesterday criticized fox news for their coverage of clashes between protesters and federal agents in portland, but said it was quote, too complicated to discuss in a tweet. Also too complicated to discuss