Florence Kling Harding once said she had only one real hobby and that was Warren Harding. She was a significant force in her husbands presidency and adept at handling the media. Despite hardships, scandals, her husbands infidelities and his death in office as well as her own poor health, Florence Harding set many precedents that would help define the role of the modern first lady. Good evening. And welcome to cspans series first ladies influence image. Tonight, were going to be telling you the story of Florence Harding, the first lady that one of our guests said has been neglected and derided by throughout history. But in her time, the hardings came in as very popular people. Were going to learn more about the trajectory of her time and her husbands time in office and her interesting story that not many people know today. Let me introduce you to our two guests. Katherine sibley is a history professor at st. Josephs college in philadelphia. Shes a biographer of the first lady. Her book
Captured my attention because something thats important to me as a congressman from texas is to the extent to which cartels have operational control of our border. Ive been to the border numerous times and i would love to get your perspective on that the 2 million in week that did abis making just moving people across in mcallen. You know this well its a real problem there were the ones profiteering on the back of migrants and women and children and can you talk a little bit about that has one of the opening points you make in your book . The work that you are doing is so important to enlighten the American Public about vice grip that the cartels have at the border. The horrifying and appalling impact that has to innocent people on both sides of the border and one of the things that i think that was really important to illuminate on chapter 1 of the book of what i call the Caravan Cartel is that the drug cartels couldnt do it alone. Whats shocking to people is not that you have explici
And skies becoming partly sunny into the afternoon hours. Here is a look at the satellite, you can see this, the overcast out there over northern california. Most of the bay area under mostly cloudy skies from santa rosa to San Francisco, san mateo, Mountain View and san jose. We have walnut creek, San Francisco 60 degrees, san jose 633. Some areas off to a mild start this morning. The live camera looking towards sfo, solid overcast and drizzle for this morning. The plan, cloud cover this morning, skies becoming partly sunny into the afternoon hours and most areas, roughly 3 to 5 degrees warmer than yesterdays highs. We will continue to warm things up in the fiveday forecast. Lets check in with allie rasmus, watching the roadways closely. No major problems to tell you about, especially driving from the south bay, we are going to start this traffic report. That commute, 101, gilroy through morgan hill, everything looks good. The rest of the south bay looks good as well. Northbound 17, s
To adding late activist rose packs name oh the stop for years. Today they will find out what the decision is going the be. Rally starting half an hour ago, protesters showing up armed with dozens of signs, some stating to name the stop china town rose pack station would divide that community. Packs died in 2016 with a legacy in the chinese community. Heavily involved in getting a subway stop added in china town and thats why those in favor say it should bare her name. In june, a vote by the board ended in a tie. We expect the new director to be the deciding vote. Pack was a controversial figure that didnt always act on residents behalf. 16,000 signatures have been collected in support of just naming the stop china town station, something leaders say is better for the community. This issue has caused division in our community. We want to name that would have 100 support from the community, not half. We want 100 support. S fm ta board of directors meeting will take place at city hall at
The most authoritative history that ive personally ever read of the School Choice movement is so thoroughly researched it really it really feels encyclopedic to me. Almost like it is everything you would ever need to know. I wanted to first ask, im obviously familiar with your incredible work as education reporter and. I know a lot of education reporters have these sort of crystallizing moments in reporting where were in classroom or with a family and we have an aha moment. Im curious, know if you had one of those moments that led you to start writing this book. Its a good i think i think you know i started thinking about the School Choice movement when i was reporting about segregation in florida and as part of that reporting, we interviewed our team interviewed just dozens of families that were essentially trying to escape the segregated sort of low schools in this particular county in florida. And i was i was sort of struck by what the options were. You know, there other Public Scho