Silence. Why should my husbands job or yours prevent us from doing this and being first lady should prevent us from expecting our ideas. She and president gerald ford it discussed her experience with Breast Cancer, and so much of a public life struggled with jargon alcohol dependency and confronting it defined her First White House years. Good evening and working to cspan series, first ladies, influence an image. Well tell you about elizabeth of our president gerald floored, and here is Richard Norton smith. President ial historian and we have one of the academic advisers. We have talked about a number of president ial libraries. Among them the Gerald Ford Library in michigan. You developed a relationship with the fourth, so you bring that to the table. In folders closure, i try to be objective as possible, but i was very fortunate to become friends with the ford. I want to start the story where we left off, which is that night in august where they learned we will be in the white house
Today. More than 600 inmates are infected. Here are the latest numbers. 560 inmates have been infected in the last 14 days. State prison officials floated the idea of transferring dozens of inmates from san quentin outside of bakersfield. According to the chronicle, the plan is on hold. Inmates spoke out during a virtual town hall today. I really honestly feel like the way out of this is to reduce the population drastically. It also means stopping transfers too. We should not be spreading the infection around the state. Concerned families of loved ones have delivered a letter to the warden demanding action. Covid19 cases half past the 2. 5 million mark. Florida reported 10,000 new cases, another single day record. The mayor of miamidade is shutting all county beaches there until the fourth of july weekend and maybe longer. In texas, Small Business owners face new concerns after the governor ordered bars shot and restrict restaurant capacity. We were hoping it would turn around by may,
That we keep thinking we hit rock bottom. I suspect we thought that two years ago, and we are bottoming out again. So, governor, congratulations on the book and thank you for making time to talk about it. Thank you, dahlia, great to be here today. Host i wonder if we could start with the question that hovers a little bit over your first couple of chapters in book and then hovers over so much of the debate were having right now in america and its this question of place. I think its not an accident that you start the book saying that when you wanted to run for novembers virginia, people said to you, youre from new york, youre from florida, youre not from here. I lived in charlottesville for 17 years and heard, youre not from here asian lot, but i think it has a funny echo in the things say when people protest immigrants. Youre not from here. And you clearly anxious about establishing that, look, im from here, lift here most of my life. I live and work here. Why are we having this convers
Latest also coming up a brewing conflict in the middle east saudi arabias newly powerful crown prince is on a mission to boost the oil kingdoms prominence but could help setting the delicate balance of power push the entire region into conflict. And a vehicle attack outside a school in the french city of toulouse a man deliberately rammed his car into a group of students and during three of them. Im sara harmon welcome to the show its good to have you with us. The European Union is stepping up pressure on britain over brocks it the news chief parks and negotiator Michel Barnier has given london a two week also made up to make clear how much it pant excuse me plans to pay when it leaves the bloc he says that these to be agreed upon before any trade talks can start differences also remain on issues with the irish border as well as a use Citizens Rights. To date news of progress and consensus from the projected brechts of negotiations has been thin on the ground all the more surprising th
How does your family feel about that . Um, they they are proud. And it is theyre confused by twitter. They dont really know whats happening. They certainly can see theres a lot of interest in it. My dad is a part of a text chain with his Elementary School friend. And somebody texted him saturday night and said hey is this your son on twitter . And he was so proud. To get into share that experience with everybody. Thats been really special. By the way your tweet was your first tweet was more popular than the president s tweet. Which was interesting. Im sure you should be proud of that. I have to ask you though, as a child of immigrants who worked in the white house, what do you say to people who over the past not just past couple days especially over with the discourse happening, demonized immigrants. Certain immigrants and certain ways. What do you say to folks . What do you say to the president in. Well, i can only speak to my experience. And i know that the twitter thread has sort of