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
On saturday alone. Now measures are being taken to slow the spread, with miami beach enacting a new curfew overnight. We will have the latest in a live report from south florida just ahead. Then in our sunday focus, a conversation about the life of john lewis, with historian john meacham who speak with the congressman in recent weeks while finishing a new book on the civil rights icon. Plus, in our sundays spotlight, with some promising news this week about a potential Coronavirus Vaccine, how soon could it be approved, and how long will it take to produce and distribute across the country . And later, a brand new virtual sunday sitdown with captain america himself, chris evans, on his hit series defending jacob. His new step into politics, and his oneman dance parties during this long lockdown. Im a big proponent of just you know, its sunny outside, i start jammin and looking like a lunatic really. A sunday sitdown with chris evans, plus another life well lived, all a bit later in the
Welcome to the Nixon Library and welcome to this beautiful replica of the east room. I am Christopher Nixon cox a board member here at the Nixon Foundation as well as a grand son of the 37th president richard nixon. My honor and pleasure to have you here at the library today. And im hope im so happy to welcome you to the library. It makes me really excited. I see a lot of young faces in the crowd. Weve a lot of young conservatives. It is really great to see. I really encourage all of you to walk around the library. Its one of the Favorite Places in the world. The birth place is beautiful. We have just redone a lot of the exhibits in the library. Will you please welcome our special guest today charlie kirk. [applause]. Please remain standing for all who can stand for the presentation of colors and the singing of our national anthem. [music] [applause]. Colorguard. Ladies and gentlemen please give another round of applause to that Detroit High School navy junior rotc navy guard. There ar
I have to start. Well break down the Holiday Retail rush as power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Lets take a look at where we stand. Stocks are shrugging off the d. C. Drama as tyler mentioned. As tyler mentioned, its christmas crunch time, six days makes me nervous too lets check out some of the retailers hitting record highs today. Nike, best buy and target, hitting their highest levels ever were going to talk about some of those names as the hour goes on thank you very much wall street focused on washington today at least a little brit as the house begins to debate impeachment. A vote is expected to take place later this evening, and a man javers has more. You. See the action taking place down on capitol hill, on the other end of pennsylvania avenue from here at the white house, where it is all quiet in the west wing. In fact, surprisingly quiet, no indication of any particularly special meetings today no indication that the president is doing much of anything at all
Of over 20 years. Im also a product of the School District. My son was at the incident at balboa high school. One of the things i have been involved in they have all been the same s. R. O. S out of ingleside station at june jordan , at academy soda, i struggled with a young man with a loaded pistol, and then this here at balboa. The other two incidents impacted me, but this issue this year, it was my son. It totally impacted our family. It impacted me, my relationship with the School District, and it impacted the way that a look at things differently. So i ask you to pleas hold people accountable to when things like this happen. We have been fortunate that nobody has been killed. Please be ready for when it does one of the things that i do ask as we do better training for staff, for line staff. I have been in the district 20 years and i have never been trained. The con the people that get trained are the administrators. I administrator trained as last year but now she is leaving. So no