Takes us back when things were really getting rough during the campaign in 92, and she was with her when jennifer flours came out Gennifer Flowers came out on its, and what she wrote about hillary in terms of how she handled that, it was just focus, focus, focus not so much on that problem, but the republicans. So it was a real window how shes very political even as first lady. Host are there parallels to how shes approached this election . Guest i think so. As a communicator, i think you can read parts of that chapter and figure out who she is as a politician. Shes not the politician her husband is in terms of public speaking, but i think the first part of the chapter David Maraniss says this is the most well known woman in the world. And so shes capitalizing on that. Host Melania Trump has been a reluctant candidate. We havent seen her that that often. She did deliver a speech at her husbands nominating convention in cleveland, ohio. If donald trump is elected, are there parallels or
First ladies, life ambitions and unique partnerships with president ial spouse. This series and the book provide an up close historical book at the fascinating women who survived the scrutiny at the white house. Sometimes at great personal cost while supporting family and husbands and sometimes changing history. Our program tonight will feature lively discussion with historians which we will hear more about shortly. To moderate tonights program we are please to welcome susan, moderateor first lady and sharing responsibilities with the cable networks. She oversees programming and marketing for cspan Television Channels and cspan radio. Washington journal, book tv and American History tv. She has also been involved in the creation of numerous cspan history theories such as american president s, the Lincoln Douglas debate and american writer, for over 30 years, one of cspans interviewees. It is the ninth book susan has educated for cspan and public affairs, as you noticed when you come in
The announcement that could come today. Friday, july 11th, 2014. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. What a crowd of tweens we have outside today. Wow. You can just hear them. You can see theyre crying. Ive seen several crying. Theres crying, fainting already out there. People are very excited to hear these five young women sing. I cant wait to see them in just a few minutes coming up on today. Fifth harmony will take our plaza and some fans have been waiting for days out there. First lets get to todays top story and dylan, youve got it. Violent storms in our south. Lots to talk about out west with the wildfires as well. You know, both coasts seeing different sorts of weather. We are looking now at the cleanup of some of the crazy storms we had in Virginia Beach yesterday. It pretty much encompassed a fiveblock radius. We had wind gusts near 70 miles per h
Politics. I spent a semester in washington with my school, colgate university. I saw washington and i thought, a think tank might be an exciting place to be. I know people dont think of think tanks as being exciting. So the center of American Progress was starting up one of my professors gave me a new York Magazine article about it. It was new, aggressive, it was a think tank but sort of wasnt your grandmothers think tank. So i decided to apply for an internship at the center for American Progress. It was great, it was a lot of fun. It was pushing a Progressive Agenda like many think tanks havent been. It was trying to change the message to show that progressives werent all week on national security. Showing religious voters could be progressive. It was trying to change things. Where has this idea come from in your life . My family in part because i grew up in a small village in upstate new york under about 1,000 people. Im adopted. Im from korea. My siblings are also adopted. My one b
The people here really coming together brooke. Our thoughts with the people of van and all these areas hardest hit. Jennifer gray thank you so much. You see these homes, people have lost so much. Then others just happened to be passing through, including the next guest im about to bring in. Amy johnson was driving, happened to be driving from georgia to dallas when this awful weather hit. Amy, youre a recent university of georgia grad. Youre heading to dallas. Then tell me what you saw, what you heard. So we were coming about ten minutes ahead of van. We were driving through. The weather was just getting too bad that we knew we had to pull over. Lightning was striking from what i could tell, just basically on the road. It was too hectic. I was with my boyfriend. We pulled over and took shelter in the first place we could find. That happened to be a hardees. We werent alone. There was about 50 other people sitting in the restaurant. The power had gone out. Our phones were dying. We were