Yes. I did notice the difference between being the Vice President s wife and the president s wife is huge because the Vice President s wife can say anything and nobody cares. The minute you say one thing as the president s wife, you have made the news. Barbara bush used the office of first lady to promote literacy and to raise awareness about aids and homelessness. She earned her way into the history books. She and Abigail Adams are the only women to be both a wife and mother of a president. Welcome to first ladies influence and image. Tonight is the story of barbara bush. For the next 90 minutes, to tell us more about her life and influence are two guests. The barbara bush biographer, part of the series we have turned to so often. She is a first ladies scholar. Jeffrey engel is the founding director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. He is the author of one book on george bushs foreignpolicy. We heard barbara bush talk about the fact that when sh
The evidence is less available, the evidence is given in the wee hours of the morning and may never be produced at all. It is a cover up. It is a National Disgrace. So schumer will offer amendments today demanding witnesses and documents and we will speak to him live in just minutes. Take a look at this new cnn national poll, it shows a majority of americans including a plurality of republicans want to hear from new witnesses in the senate trial. But thats not stopping the president s lawyers and allies in the senate from trying to stop former National Security adviser john bolton from testifying in public. Joining us now cnn political analyst maggie haberman, a White House Correspondent for the New York Times and cnn political commentator who worked for president clinton and had a front row seat to impeachment. Maggie, i want to start with what we will see today, a fight over the process which we just learned from Mitch Mcconnell last night, a process which accelerates fast tracks thi
They hold themselves in such high esteem. You barely have to ask and theyll blurt out theyre the greatest deliberative body in the world. Just dont ask them to sit and listen. If they did, they might learn something. Louisiana republican senator john kennedy said, i think most, if not all senators, are hearing the case by the prosecution and the case by the defense for the first time. If you polled the United States senate, 9 out of 10 senators will tell you that they have not read a transcript of the proceeding in the house and the tenth senator who says he has is lying. All right. Joining us now, we have cnn senior political commentator David Axelrod and cnn contributor john dean, former Nixon White House counsel. Okay, david, give us your 30,000foot view of yesterday. What struck you . Well, what struck me was that the that schiff and the house managers presented a very tight, compelling case that is familiar to those of white house have been paying attention. Maybe not familiar to
Just last night. Was very opposed to the authoritarian nature of cuba, but you know, its unfair to simply say everything is bad, you know . When fidel castro came into office, you know what he did . He had a massive Literacy Program. Is that a bad thing, even though fidel castro did it . There were a lot of dissidents imprisoned. Youre right, and we condemn that. Teaching people to read and write is a good thing. The truth is the truth, and thats what happened in the first years of the castro regime. Senator sanders comments are drawing fierce backlash from democrats and republicans who say that that Literacy Program was more about indoctrination than education, and some democrats say the remarks highlights the risk sanders poses not just for the white house. Just context for you. This all comes during the key stretch in the campaign when it began with a set of cnn town halls. It ends with super tuesday, and you can see here on your screen just whats at stake in these key contests. You
Members, shall we say were not fond of israelis. Consequently was constrained and the need to keep the war going on long enough the israelis would want to to retaliate for being had by Saddam Hussein. At the same time, the desire among many within the middle east for an arab solution must turn if he went further towards baghdad and took over back dad by forests, that this would create greater amity among arab members to be that in some ways as the reestablishment of western colonialism. But theres a very important distinction, a revelation she was in the archives and theres always the questions when the decision comes out about whether or not American Forces should continue on to baghdad in 1991. This was not a discussion within the white house for a very important reason. The ultimate goal beyond the liberation of kuwait was removal of Saddam Hussein from power. There was a 100 certainty on highlevel officials that this would happen anyway. Saddam hussein had embarrassed. His own army