Laura bush i am here to voice my strong support for the courageous people of afghanistan women and men who have suffered for years under the taliban regime. Each and every one of us has the responsibility to stop the suffering caused by malaria, because every life in every land matters and all of us can do something to help. After studying first ladies and knowing some of them very well like my own motherinlaw or one that i admired very much, a fellow texan Lady Bird Johnson, is that we benefit our country benefits by whatever our first ladiesinterests are. She is the wife of one president and the daughterinlaw of another. Laura welch bush became first lady after a controversial election brought her husband george w. Bush to the white house. Less than nine months later came the 9 11 attacks and laura bush helped comfort the nation while continuing to pursue interests long important to her, including education, literacy and womens health. Good evening and welcome to cspan series, first
We have a gorgeous morning, folks. Hope you get outside and enjoy this day. It is 46 to start. A little cooler than where we were yesterday. We have clear skies and a calm wind. So, like, 41 bridge port. 40 around white plains. Well see temperatures jumping up to 53 by 7 00. 73 by noon. 77 this afternoon and we like 7s. It is weather and traffic together every seven minutes. She has been negotiating the alleged transit strike all morning long. Well talk about Long Island Railroad and new Jersey Transit running on or close to traffic and we have track work at 47th street street express and we have this situation on new you have an accident in the process of being cleared. George Washington Bridge. Construction at the lincoln and holland and alternate side of the street rules in effect. Over to you. Thank you. 4 32. Developing this morning, the search for a suspect continues after an nypd suspect was shot while trying to make an arrest during the drug deal. The detective is recovering at
Preeminent historians and biographers. In the recently released, informative book, these experts paint intimate portraits of all 45 first ladies, their lives ambitions and unique partnerships with their president ial spouses. This series and the book provides an up close historical look at these fascinating women who survive the scrutiny of the white house sometimes at great personal cost while supporting their families and famous husbands and sometimes changing history. Our program tonight will feature a live discussion with some of these contributing historians who we will hear about shortly. To moderate the program we are pleased to welcome susan swain the moderator of cspans first ladys influence and image. Susan swain is president and cozy e o of cspan sharing responsibilities for all operations of the Public Affairs cable network. She oversees programming and marketing for cspans three Television Channels and cspan radio and she helped launch the washington journal booktv and Ame
Americans convicted there of crimes. He had been awaiting charges for leaving a bible in a nightclub. The timing here is curious. And were going to talk about that. But first, here is confirmation of the release from the white house. To confirm jeffrey foul is on his way home to rejoin his family. We certainly welcome the decision from the dprk to release him. While this is a positive decision, we remain focused on the continued detention of kenneth bay and Matthew Miller and again calling to immediately release them. A whole lot of ground here to cover, including what this signal from the super Secretive Nuclear armed north korean government could possibly mean. Let me bring in north korea expert gordon chang to walk me through some of this. To some, you know, here we are in the dark of night as we mentioned the release. Seemed to have happened totally out of the blue. But you say you expected it. Why . Well, the North Koreans did not want any of these to die in their custody. And cle