Ahead on washington journal, your thoughts and reaction to the events of the last few days as President Trump continues his treatment for covid19. We are dividing our phone lines regionally. 202 7488000 if you live in the eastern or central time zones. Those of you out west, 202 7488001. Send us a text message at 202 7488003. You can join us on social media, on twitter, and on facebook. Good sunday morning. Thanks for being with us. A lot to get to in the next couple of hours, including this headline from the New York Times, confusion and concern as the president ails. This headline, trump saying he is doing much better. He is not out of danger. That is from white house chief of staff mark meadows, contrasting a rosy picture painted by the president s dr. On television. Saturday evening, the president said he was starting to feel good. The video meant to reassure the nation posted on his website at realdonaldtrump. Com. [video clip] i want to begin by thanking all the incredible medica
If you have a question for speakers, thick on the q a button at the bottom of the screen and will get to as many as time allows. In the chat ill be posting a link to donate and support of the sensors and destroy. Your purchases make events like to let possible help ensure the future of a language independent bookstore. Thank you so much for showing up in june in in support of our authors and the triple step of booksellers at Harvard Bookstore. We appreciate your support now and always. Finally as you may have experienced in virtual gatherings, we will do our best to resolve technical issues and we appreciate your understanding. Im so pleased that it is tonight speakers, Nicholson Baker is the bestselling author of ten novels and numerous works of nonfiction including anthologies, the mezzanine, substitute, owing to score with 1 million kids and New York Times bestselling award. He is one the National Critics circle award, the hermit has price and an award for American Academy of arts a
The screen and we will try to address everybodys questions near the end of the program but if we dont get your exact question, we apologize. I have a feeling there would be lots of questions today. It is my pleasure to introduce todays speakers. First Maya Rockeymoore cummings is a a former chair of the Maryland Democratic party and wife of the late congressman Elijah Cummings. In were better than this congressman cummings details the moment of which is life the prepared in two oh President Trump accountable for his actions while in office. His final words are a called action for us all to remain rooted in the politics of optimism and enact change in any way we can. Moderate to nice conversation is april ryan, cnn political analyst, bureau chief for american urban rear network and author most recently of under fire. Reporting from the frontlines of the trump white house. Please welcome my in april to p p life. Hi, ladies. Thank you. How are you doing . Everyone, thank you for joining.
Id like to thank you very, very much. And is the source family here . Anyone from the as they say in part of my city, your family done good. Long, long time, isnt it. God love you. Well thank you for taking the time to be here. I really do appreciate it. Today unfortunately america is going to have to speak to this quickly, going to reach a tragic milestone. 200,000 deaths recorded as of today because of the coronavirus. 200,000 deaths. All across this nation. And it means there are empty chairs in dining room and kitchen tables. But weeks and months ago were filled with a love one, a mom, a dad, a brother, a sister. In many cases, the pain was made a lot worse because, and ive had people tell me this and close family, Close Friends of the family tell me, because they were unable to visit thur elderly parent or grandparent in a nursing home just before they passed away. Dont know how many stories ive heard about a from nurses saying they held up a cell phone to the patient on a ventila
We are here to talk about his book, one of the most stories about our time and hasnt been well told until now. We will talk about that today. I got to know carter page professionally and i was blown away by the facts as the case when you cover stories where powerful interests are trying to shape them and youre not getting the true picture. He will talk about all of that today, carter, ask we start with you giving a brief background of your education, where you went to school and very briefly your job experience in career . Yes, sheryl, thank you so much for doing this today, great to be with you. I grew up in duchess county, new york and i received a nomination to the u. S. Naval academy which i started a week after graduating high school in 1989, and i so i completed anapolis and then commissioned in the u. S. Navy and served with the u. S. Navy, first as arms control action officer doing International Arms control negotiations in the pentagon and then i moved into i served on a coupl