To help. After studying first ladies and knowing some of them 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 ladies interests are. She is the wife of one president and the daughter in law of another. Laura welsh bush became first lady after a controversial election brought her husband george w. Bush to the white house. Laura bush helped comfort the nation pursuing interests including education, literacy and womens health. Good evening and welcome to cspan series first ladies, influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story the wife of our 43rd president. Laura welsh bush and here to do that are two people who know her well through their work. Ann gearhart at the Washington Post is a laura bush biographer and her 2004 book the perfect wife tells the story of laura bush and covered the former first lady since 2001. Welcome to the program. Thank you. Mark updegrove is a pres
Broadway. He joins us live to talk about his passion project today, tuesday, october 21st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Im matt lauer, along with hoda kotb, al roker and Natalie Morales. Savannah continues on maternity leave. And sad news about Oscar De La Renta. Yeah. I was at an event last night and there were a lot of people from the fashion world. When they heard the news, it was one of those dead stop moments there. He was an older man, but still surprising. He was a legend with incredible longevity in the fashion world. Well talk much more about him in a little while. Lets start on a Tuesday Morning with this breaking news, the sentence of olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, the judge handing down her decision overnight. National investigative correspondent jeff rossen has cover this had case from the very beginning. Jeff
Or perhaps its time to seize the day. Dont just see opportunity, seize it applause no sleep to brooklyn its true that now that the spotlight is pretty bright here in new york some things have been said. Can you name one decision she made as senator that shows she favored banks because of the money she received . [ applause ] he can not come up with any example because there is no example. I stood up against the behaviors of the banks when i was a senator. I called them out on their mortgage behavior. Secretary clinton called them out. Oh, my goodness. They must have been really crushed by this. And was that before or after you received huge sums of money by giving speaking engagements . Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Thats not accurate. I have stood on the debate stage with senator sanders eight prior times. I have said the exact same thing senator, please. If we can do in the los angeles or new york or seattle, lets do it. I put it out excuse me, i think im responding. Please go ahead.
Hattiesburg. An historic meeting. Raul castro and pope francis have a private conversation at the vatican. Obviously, this comes at a time of dramatically improving relations. What did they discuss . Newsroom starts now. Hello and happy mothers day. Im anna cabrera in for fredricka whitfield. Two oefrs gunned down and killed in a traffic stop in hattiesburg, mississippi. Three suspects in custody after a massive manhunt overnight. They will face a judge tomorrow. Rosa flores is joining us now from new york. Reporter good afternoon. We hear it from Law Enforcement officials all the time. There is no such thing as a routine traffic stop. Thats exactly what we have here. Hattiesburg officials telling cnn they visited the families of these two Police Officers and promised them those suspects would be hunted down and brought to justice. A traffic stop ended in a hail of gun fire saturday night leaving two hattiesburg, mississippi, Police Officers dead and three suspects in custody. Police s
Killed in the line of duty. Men go out every day to make sure we are safe were turned on tonight. A simple traffic stop turns into a deadly encounter and rips a community apart. 30 years ago was the last time this happened in hattiesburg. And an historic meeting. Raul castro and pope francis had a private conversation at the vatican. Obviously this comes at a time of dramatically improving relations. What did they discuss . Newsroom starts now. Good afternoon thanks for joining me im ana cabrera in for fredricka whitfield. Happy mothers day. Cuban president , raul castro is publicly thanking pope francis today in his role in improving u. S. cuban relation. They met privately at the vatican earlier today and this is their first facetoface meeting it comes on the heels of a surprise diplomatic breakthrough between washington and havana, which was, in part facilitated by pope francis. Joining me now is cnn religion commentator, father edward beck. Father thanks for joining us again. Happy