[instrumental music] hi everyone and welcome to the National Books festival. My name is anna lehman and im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Im here today with megan twohey and gail collins. Both incredible authors and writers and journalists and i cannot wait for you to hear what they have to say. I mentioned that im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission, the commission is a very proud sponsor of the National Books festival this year, we are the sponsor of the fearless women trail, which is featuring authors who are fearless just like gail and megan also books and stories about women throughout American History. Its just really a privilege to be here in this place today with these two women. Id like to start us off with some brief introductions for gail and megan and then we will kick it off. Megan is joining us, she is the author of she said breaking the Sexual Harassment story that helped ignite a movement. She is a Pu
Felt good to come over here and return the favor. And oscar outrage. The new fight over hollywood diversity after the academy nominates only one actor of color and rejects upandcoming female directors. Its tuesday, january 14th, 2020. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. A critical night for democratic president ial contenders hoping to unseat President Trump in november. Reporter a final debate before the iowa caucus. Sanders will likely have to answer to reports of likely telling Elizabeth Warren a woman cant win in 2020. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi could send the articles of impeachment to the senate as soon as tomorrow. Speaker pelosi signaled she may finally wind down her onewoman blockade. Reporter more than 20 military cadets from saudi arabia will have to leave after investigators uncovered disturbing material. 17 had social media containing antiamerican content. Reporter Major League Baseball just ruled that the Houston Astros illegally stole signs from t
You know usually talks to reporters on the way out. Well keep an eye on that. Im Melissa Francis in new york. This is after the bell. Hey, connell. Connell hey there, melissa. Im connell mcshane. We welcome you to the state of wisconsin. Back in 2016 we didnt realize how important this traditionally blue state in president ial politics. One year out from the next president ial election there is far more attention on wisconsin. So, if you look at it, even as job growth is being celebrated around the country, this state is one of the few where jobs have been lost this year. The nonfarm employment in wisconsin down 2800 in 2019. That is in thanks to decline of 6500 manufacturing jobs. We come to you from Racine County. Not far from milwaukee. This area is heavy on manufacturing. It is a type of area president Trumps Campaign desperately want to keep red. Doing so might be challenging well get into as well. Our location . Were live from racine brewing company. It is Small Business started
To start the work week. Lawmakers are expected to continue working on allowing kelly kraft to upset the United States in the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in new york. They moved to advance her nomination is set for 5 30 p. M. Eastern today. Now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on the. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, sovereign of our nation and lord of our lives, thank you for infusing us with the confidence that you order our steps each day. Give our lawmakers courage and a strong resolve to glorify your name as they trust the unfolding of your providence. As they remember what you have already done to bless this nation, inspire them to march confidently toward tomorrows difficulties with a total dependence on your power. May they recommit themselves each day to faithfully fulfilling the awesome responsibility you have entrusted to them. L
Incredible courage of the people who were in dayton and in el paso and in ow odessamidland. The mom who literally shielded her baby from death as she perished herself to gunshot wounds but she kept that baby alive. Or how about the grandpa who died shielding his wife and granddaughter or the offduty soldier who carried children away to safety. All that happened in that store. As we approach the anniversary of 9 11, i think also about the First Responders and all of these Mass Shootings. The ones in dayton, ohio, who got there in one minute, one minute but still we lost nine people in 30 seconds. But they were there in one minute and saved so many lives. That is courage. That is the courage of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. And i believe in this place of extraordinary power that their courage must be matched. The courage must be matched to that mom, to that grandpa, to that soldier, to those First Responders. These are ordinary citizens that stepped up and saved lives. It i