Ourselves . I do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. Betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment, she and president gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer, through much oher familys public life, she struggled with drug and alcohol dependency and confronting it defined her postwhite house years. Welcome to first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of our 38th president , president gerald ford, and here for the nebs 90 minutes to tell her story is Richard Norton smith, president ial historian. If you have been watching our series, you know him. Hes an academic adviser for the whole project and hes launched a whole number of libraries, among them the gerald r. Ford. Along the way, you developed a relationship with the fords. In the interest of full disclosure, i try to be as objective as possible, but yeah, i was very fortunate to
You can also send us a text, that number 202 7488003. Please include your name or where you are from. Therwise on social media a very good thursday morning. You can start calling you now. To let you know where we are on capitol hill, the houses and at 9 00 a. M. Eastern, the senate is in at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. President trump headed to wisconsin to participate in a town hall and visit a shipbuilding firm. We do not know when that promised executive order on mound events and statues will on monuments and statues will come but the president had plenty to say at the white house yesterday. [video clip] we will have a strong executive order. We have the monuments act, which means 10 years in jail. We will have a strong executive order, i should have that by the end of the week. We will have a very powerful statement. We have arrested numerous people for what took place outside of washington. In addition, the fbi is investigating hundreds of people throughout the country for what they have
Welcome, secretary. Ms. Albright good morning. Very good to be with you. Absolutely. Chipping in will be others and rasmussen. Maybe if we could kick off a question about the pandemic, it feels like the authoritarians are getting a free pass to implement more of what they would love to impose on the citizens ranging from surveillance to more traditional military tactics and you wrote the world is paying a high price for this. I took that as a reference to china, but feel free to correct me if it was in reference to other countries. We have a situation where many countries believe that china is mishandling has been handling this better than the u. S. What is the outlook . By keepingt clearly china madg information away from people and also arresting those in china that were coming forth with the truth. What is interesting, and this is the real paradox, clearly societies need to have some kind of rules when the virus has taken over and clearly there are rules about social distancing and
You can send us a text at 2027488003 and if you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. A very good sunday morning to you. We take you to the coronavirus dashboard from Johns Hopkins university. The numbers 10 million cases worldwide, the United States counting for a quarter of those and 125,000 deaths. Amid renewed focus on the spread of this virus we are talking about masks this morning asking if you wear them. The topic came up friday at a hearing of the House Oversight committee. This is congressman jamie raskin talking to his fellow republican green. Sman mark [video clip] the mask is not to protect me. It is to protect other people in the event i am infected and the majority of infections are of presymptomatic. We had members of congress who did not know they had it in any of us would do that if that were the rule. Why is this complicated . There is one thing we can do to protect other people. It does not cost us anything.
Losers. As york city has a curfew they are poised to reopen after months of flock down due to the covid19 pandemic. Meantime, the markets ending the day up, somehow disconnected from all of this chaos. I want to bring in our markets reporter, abigail doolittle. On top of this, u. S. China tensions flaring up. Why do investors seem unconcerned . It is puzzling, especially with the degree of unrest in the u. S. It kind of is offensive in a way that you see stocks climbing higher. Today, almost a giddy feeling to the session. That kindhat you have of trading action, it does not seem to make sense but, again, it tells you that investors are looking past these unfortunate, sad, surreal events and making the assessment that it is unlikely to affect the economy on a longerterm basis. We have Something Else going on beyond the weak dollar. We have had a move over the past few weeks into cyclical stocks, recovery stocks out of the stayathome stocks. Up top, the nasdaq 100 and index. Take a look