You arrive in the United States at 817 never having been here, born in india, educated in indonesia. Granddaughter of a indian British Police officer. Remarkable mother and father, so motivated. Tell us a little bit about comeo well talk about immigration because immigration in the policy issue that has suffused your Public Service. Lets start with all the bit of what that was like. You say in the book you landed with two suitcases and that was it. Guest thats right. Taking so much for taking time to do this and to write commit such a pleasure to be able to have an indepth conversation with a colleague something we just dont get to do. So, yes, i landed here two months before 2027370003. I came by myself. My dad had about 5000 bucks in his bank account and use all of it to see me here because he really believed this is a thise as going to get the best education and have most opportunities. I show up at jfk airport with my two suitcases because thats all you are allowed to bring without
Hospital the other day, i have the mask right here, i carry it. I will use i had gladly, no problem with it. I said. That i say if you can use the mask, when you can, use the mask reporter and President Donald Trump sending treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and his chief of staff to the hill today, with a starting point for cares four of one trillion dollars. The hour long meeting with republicans those there say the administration now may be open to giving 25 billion for states for testing. Republicans also want payroll tax relief. 105 billion to reopen schools safely, business Liability Protections and incentives for going back to work. The american job market needs another shot of adrenaline. Senate republicans are laser focused on getting American Workers their jobs back. Reporter mnuchin also met with Senate Majority leader, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer as well as nancy pelosi while he was up on capitol hill. Both of them criticized the administration that they came to them
But as you know, im a big fan of yours. Is a huge fan of your first book on google. An audi come back at this particular moment talk about facebook on the inside story couldnt be more timely. And just going to start off. We have lots of places to go with his been going to start off with something timely. Literally this morning as we came to the show you heard about the hacking of twitter. The fact that truth is now going to facebook to get his message out. And facebook is a lot of criticism for a lot of things for the years. I actually wrote a column recently really questioning why Mark Zuckerberg is not fact checked the president s. Tilt your take on this. What is this relationship between facebook and the white house. Free speech and im just going to throw you a question there to start you off. Thank you for doing this is good to connect with you again in a virtual city. So like a lot of things, you cant just tease out one problem the facebook. From his dna and its origins. In the ca
Is what im really interested here, is why the United States of socialism right a jew write this book . Guest i noticed that there has been a flurry of books on socialism that is no surprise. Because socialism has come into the american mainstream for the first time in our countrys history. There have been socialist candidates in the past, norman thomas, they were never in the mainstream. But now, in fact it is time and many of us had thought socialism collapsed at the end of the 20th century, suddenly in the 21st centuries back and back with a vengeance. So im not surprised there are a lot of books that are trying to take stock of this. The unifying theme throughout these books, and by and large it is in the field of history. Its the idea that socialism has never worked before. Certainly not for lack of being tried. It was tried really the majority of the world. The largest countries in the world, russia, china, india, all swung in the socialist directio direction. So the issue is that
Betty ford spoke her mind. Prochoice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment, she and president gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer. For much of her familys public life, she struggled with drug and alcohol dependency, and confronting it defined her postwhite house years. Good evening and welcome to cspans series first ladies influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of gerald ford. Here for the next 90 minutes to tell her story is Richard Norton smith, president ial historian. If youve been watching our series, you know him. Hes one of the academic advisers for the project. Hes launched a number of president ial libraries, among them the gerald r. Ford library in michigan. You developed a relationship with the fords. So, you bring that to the table as well. Sure, in interest of full disclosure, i try to be as objective as possible. But i was very fortunate to become friends with both of the fords. But we want to st