His journey as a civilrights activist participating in the 1963 march on washington, a prominent historian and editor of Martin Luther king jr. s papers, part of three days of booktv this weekend, monday, featuring authors and books on the inauguration, president obama and Martin Luther king jr. Last week booktv attended the key west literary seminar in florida. Today from noon to 3 00 eastern we bring several of their talks and panels from the event. Paul hendrickson, robert richardson, jeff gawker, and many more present and discuss their books. Next, cynthia helms, widow of Richard Helms, recounts her life. She drug in england and served in world war ii, calls for introduction to the world of secret intelligence via her husband, the internal politics of the cia and the couples time spent in tehran as Richard Helms served as American Ambassador prior to the iranian revolution. This is about an hour. [applause] [applause] thank you. Very kind of you, nice event you allowed us to have h
Coming up, well talk to two former Reagan White House chiefs of staff, james baker and ken duberstein. And a look backstage at the Reagan White House with former top aide gayle burt. Plus the reagan love story, captured in a letter from the president to mrs. Reagan that she read for an nbc special. Dear first lady, as president of the united states, its my honor and privilege to cite you for service above and beyond the call of duty and that you have made one man, me, the most happy man in the world for 29 years. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Today the nation is remembering nancy reagan. She died in her Los Angeles Home yesterday of congestive heart failure. She was 94 years old. Mrs. Reagan will be buried later this week beside her husband at the Ronald Reagan president ial library in simi valley, california. Shes being remembered today as a loyal adviser, a confidant, a soulmate to president reagan, in a love story that could be a hollywood movie. But nancys a
President jimmy carter. Sara sidner was also at that ceremony and she joins me live from simi valley. Sara, it was a very moving, moving tribute. Reporter absolutely was. You know, for a generation that may not have known a lot about nancy reagan, they werent around when she was in the white house, you learned a lot about her from all of the different people who spoke and eulogized her. Everyone from former nbc news nightly anchor tom brokaw to her daughter, patti davis, who was really eloquent. She also let you into some of the struggles that they had and talked through the fact that they had a strained relationship but they had fixed that. Really what everyone really focused on was the love that she had for her husband. She was a fierce, fierce supporter of his. She watched over him and felt that her duty really was to be his wife and that was her number one priority. That really came through in all of this. We heard from the former Prime Minister of canada as well, brian mullroney w
Thanks for being here, i am ana cabrera. Robert muellers team could be days away. The two sides could meet as early as this week to discuss the ongoing investigations. I want to bring in evan perez who helps break this story on cnn. Evan, what do we expect to be discussed this week. This is a meeting where the president s legal team basically have the special counsel team puts their cards on the table. They want to know where this investigation is going and in particular whether or not or how much longer perhaps this maybe going or whether or not there is any interests in anybody else inside the white house. At this point there is been a lot of speculations about whether or not this investigation is going to ultimately target the president and i think one of the things that they want from this meeting is get a better sense of not only how much longer it is going to go because it is a cloud over the president and the administration for the past year but also, you know, how much longer o
Thankful for you and your families. They have been tremendous. Always underappreciated, the military families. The greatest people on earth. We have five deployed units joining us today. One from each branch of the armed forces. I want to welcome colonel Chuck Lombardo and all of the soldiers of iron brigade. Deployed in kuwait to support the operation spartan shield, an inherent resolve. They are currently serving as an active partner in the kuwaiti, saudi and jordanian armies doing an incredible job. All right, the president using the other part of his morning sending insult via twitter. The latest target is Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe who we learned is planning to retire. His other target is cnn. Retweeting this photo shopped picture at the bottom of the president s shoe, a squashed image with the moniker of cnn. He tweeted since these attacks, but he was just spotted golfing taken a short time ago. A busy morning for the president. Sarah murray is live for us in West Palm Beach n