Suicide bomber that killed for in istanbul. More violence at a trump rally as the frontrunners Campaign Manager is accused of getting physical with a protestor, and the syrian refugee crisis through the eyes of the family struggling to survive outside of their homeland right now president obama and his family are of cuba, making president obama the first sitting u. S. President to visit the island nation in 90 years. Hell spend three days in cuba touring old havana and taking in a baseball game and helle confront the irish relations between the two countries that lasted for two decades. Mike viqueira joins us from havana. Good evening to you. How has the president spent his first hours on the island . Well good evening to you. The president going to the u. S. Embassy saying its an historic opportunity. The embassy opened in washington and havana respectively, today, truly an historic visit as you point out, the first since the waning days of calvin koolidge administration. The presiden
Chief. Susan swain in 2008 barack obama was elected as our 44th president and he and First Lady Michelle Obama went into the history books as the first African American first couple. Now one year into a second obama , term, the first lady continues her focus on childhood obesity, support for military families and access to education. Good evening and welcome. Well tonight is the final installment in our yearlong series first ladies influence and image, and we finish appropriately with the current Michelle Obama. First lady, for the next 90 minutes, well learn more about her biography and how shes approached the job in her six years in the office so far. Let me introduce you to our two guests wholl be here with us throughout that time and theyre both journalists who have covered the first lady. Liza mundy is a biographer of Michelle Obama; her 2008 book was called, michelle. And Krissah Thompson is a Washington Post journalist who covers the first lady as her beat, thanks for coming bot
They are going as catholics, but they are also going to visit their boss too. A command performance. He will be meeting with the bishops at Saint Matthews, he has been quite stern at times with his priests and bishops. His christmas message, he talked about the different ills that effected the cardinals there, what he called spiritual alzheimers, some are expecting the u. S. Congress message to be the strongest but the message to the bishops may be the most blunt. I want to go quickly to Pierre Thomas in the washington bureau, they are going to meet the pope and extraordinary precautions are taken. Security is play ougt in four days in three cities, 50 different agencies and thousands of police, this popes unpredictability, he is prone to stopping his motorcade and going into the crowds, and it will rival the president of the United States. They call him the pope of surprises. He is not afraid to shake things up and hug a child. He speaks with gestures as well as words. And when his ow
Others like myself, it takes time to work through the process of vetting and interviewing to get to a permanent position. We are far along in the process i can say, from my perspective and we will see what happens in the near future. Host t. J. Kennedy is the acting director of firstnet. Thank you. And you are watching booktv on cspan2 television for serious readers. This memorial day evening here is our prime time lineup. We are featuring books on the first ladys beginning with a look at Michelle Obama. This is a new book out by peter slevin. After that a book featured by cspan based on the Television Series on the first ladies we did last year. And finally kissing cousins, a look at Elenore Roosevelt and relationship. And now on booktvs afterwards peter slevin discusses the life of First Lady Michelle Obama from her childhood to the whitehouse. He is interviewed by Cassandra Clayton at the university of marylands Philip Merrill college of journalism. Host peter slevin thank you for j
We know steve would want you to get back to work. Please join me in thanking our guests. [applause] thank you so much. So, were going to excuse them stage left while you exit that direction and well see you downstairs for the book signing. Thank you. Booktv is on facebook. Like us to get publishing news, scheduling updates author information and talk directly with authors during the live program. Facebook. Com booktv. Now on booktvs after words, peter she vein discusses the childhood of first Lady Michelle obama. Her is interviewed by cassandra clayton, from the university of Maryland College of journalism. Peter she slevin, thank you for joining to us talk about you new book, Michelle Obama a life. Thank you. Great to be here. Host such a simple title for the story of the woman you called the most unlikely first lady in modern American History but its not just a story of her life. Its the story of modern american did you set out to tell the story in that context or did that develop as