Everybody and very importantly we are at the white house and the still place like the white house. And for those of you that this is the first time, i know exactly what you were thinking, because i was here first time and it was still something i will never forget. Its great to have you and a first lady and i are pleased to welcome everybody to this wonderful place to discuss the vital importance of safety in reopening americas schools. We want to reopen the schools. Everybody wants it. The moms want it. The dads want it. The kids wanted. Its time to do it if you know, our mortality rate is right now at a level that people dont talk about but its down tenfold, tenfold. So you look at deaths are way down from this horrible coronavirus and its a disgrace that happen, shouldnt have happened but it did, and the economy is coming back. It is coming back strongly. Jobs are setting records for, two months ago they set the record and then give almost 5 million new jobs last month which is a re
Will give us the overview of the book, jack will give us some comments on the book and we will take it from there and tried to yield as many of your questions as possible and you can submit those questions through the event page or over twitter, facebook or youtube using the cato events. First our first guest is her author Saikrishna Prakash, the distinguished professor of law at the university of virginia as well as a senior fellow at uba center for the study of the presidency and is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the henry l professor of law at harvard, someone who youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile extremely tense ten year in the Bush Administration office of legal capital during a key early. In the work. Jack is one of ou
Had receptions, and i would have been criticized as much as i was criticized outside of for what i did, but and i got a lot of criticism. But you learn to live with it, as i said earlier. I mean, just live with it. You expect it, and you live with it and never let it influence me. Rosalynn carter, in a recent interview conducted for this series in atlanta. She was her husbands political partner from their first campaign. As first lady, she attended president jimmy carters cabinet meetings and championed womens rights and Mental Health issues, even testifying before congress. Their partnership on issues has continued in their long postwhite house years. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, we turn the page. Were going to begin this part of this yearlong series, biography series, by looking at the lives of the living first ladies, and Eleanor Rosalynn smith carter is our first of these, the wife of our 39th president. Let me introduce to y
Biography is alienating those the way the visual presentation there, the way they are written so i wanted the reader to feel like they had never read the president ial biography that they had everything they needed at the beginning of the book at the beginning of each section to equip them to feel as though they were the experts so that was part of it, i did think a lot about my reader and the other part, washington has been called by an adams family series editor, president ial editor. They edit the papers. Called him that to my face. [laughter] adams which you cant compare, there too much fun. The thing is, you can break him out of this mode, he can be fun and interesting but you have to have fun with them, its a whole different thing but a lot of the things you see are the way i organized it in my head when i was trying to make sure that things across and i decided to be vulnerable and share with everyone. I do think there are certain things that help you understand, i can tell you
Right now on necn this morning, the u. S. Marketing another sobering milestone in the covid19 pandemic. More than 3 million americans have now been infected. This all comes as the World Health Organization gives yet another dire warning. It says the spike in the number of people who are going to die from the disease could be around the corner. One new england state reporting no new deaths for the first time in months. Are you feeling lucky this morning . No. Well tell you about the first casino in massachusetts that is reopening, but, of course, with some restrictions. Can i just be honest in a moment . There hasnt been a moment in 2020 where i felt, boy, i feel lucky. Today could be the day. Im susan tran. Im melody mendez. So glad youre the positive one of the two of us. Its wednesday morning, july 8th. Lets get to tim kelley, first alert weather, not feeling so lucky either. Feeling pretty busy in the weather department. We had one day off,. It was more effective. At camp david, the