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[instrumental music] hi everyone and welcome to the National Books festival. My name is anna lehman and im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Im here today with megan twohey and gail collins. Both incredible authors and writers and journalists and i cannot wait for you to hear what they have to say. I mentioned that im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission, the commission is a very proud sponsor of the National Books festival this year, we are the sponsor of the fearless women trail, which is featuring authors who are fearless just like gail and megan also books and stories about women throughout American History. Its just really a privilege to be here in this place today with these two women. Id like to start us off with some brief introductions for gail and megan and then we will kick it off. Megan is joining us, she is the author of she said breaking the Sexual Harassment story that helped ignite a movement. She is a Pu
Some small plane had lost its way and hit one of the World Trade Center towers. Obviously, within a short time after that, we understood that it was a big plane and it was a deliberate attack. I never made it to new york that day. Dayd to defer my trip one while we dealt with the chaos that was created by the attack. David talk about that chaos for a moment. Obviously we lost power throughout southern manhattan. A lot of markets went down there was concern about the payment system, for example. Harvey the problem was the damage that was done was quite extensive. Was figuring out how extensive the damage was, and what the protocol should be forgetting the markets back to a normal state. We immediately decided to shut down the security market. With thet in tandem then chairman of the new york Stock Exchange, and who became my constant telephone buddy throughout the week we had to deal with the wreckage that was caused by the attack. David how could you get information those first hours .
Can help you make the most of today. Mutual of america financial group, retirement servicesnd investments. Additional support has been provided by consumer cellular. And by the corporation for and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation nded by the erican people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan good evening, and thank you for joining us. Unemployment benefit that has helped support tens of millions of jobless americans during the coronavirus pandemic officially expired at midnight. Today, white house oicials and Democratic Leaders met for more than three hours. Both sides said they had made some progress on negiaotng a new relief package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority leadchuck schumer said it was the best discussion the two sides have had so far. There are many issues that are still very much outstanding, where we are apart. But we had a serious discussion and we went down piece by piece,
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest the media bob in moscow he is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander materials he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the direct com are telling us up close in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate it ok lets 1st go to alexander mackerras in london i suppose its been a long coming the murmurings have been out there but it has taken this pandemic for an all out at least media arms on china. And of course its also played into the election cycle in the United States and i mean literally looking at the latest the media and their view of all of this on one hand im not completely surprised because while somebody said blame for this pandemic which of course is the subject for many other programs however in looking at the criticism and people there with low octane banking in my unit. First and foremost. Mike ok your secretary of