president. good evening, and welcome to c-span series first ladies: influence and image. tonight is the story of barbara pierce bush, the wife of our 41st president, george herbert walker bush. and here for the next 90 minutes to tell us more about her life and her influence are two guests. myra gutin is the barbara bush biographer, part of that first lady series we ve turned to so often during this series this year. she s a first ladies scholar, and she teaches at rider university in lawrenceville, new jersey. thanks very much for being here with us. ms. gutin: my pleasure. ms. swain: jeffrey engel is the founding director of the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. he s the author of one book on george bush s foreign policy and at work on another one. thank you for being here tonight. mr. engel: good to be here. ms. swain: now, we heard barbara bush at the outset talk about the fact that, when she became first lady, her words had much more w
killed a top money man of isis. this was the one who creates the revenue so they could conduct these operations. how big a blow is this to isis? and amtrak still not running five days after that deadly derailment. engineers spending the weekend installing new speed controls as investigators try to figure out whether the train was hit by an unknown object. plus more than two dozen twisters hit the heartland. it s not looking too good out here right now. and more severe weather could hit today. plus goodbye to a late night icon. no no no no! no! you re not going anywhere david letterman. what are you going to do? newsroom starts now. hello again, everyone and thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. the u.s. military has identified the six marines killed when their helicopter went down during a mission relief trip tuesday. captain dustin lukasavoch a pilot based pilot was from nebraska. sergeant ward johnson was a helicopter crew chie
president obama and hillary clinton for dragging their feet against radical islamic terrorists. isis is honoring president obama. he s the founder of isis. he s the founder of isis. and i would say the co-founder would be crooked hillary clinton. i call president obama and hillary clinton the founders of isis. they re the founders. in fact, i think we ll give hillary clinton the most valuable player, you ve got the mvp award. isis will hand her the most valuable player award. so how have the white house s policies impacted the growth of isis. general jack keen explains. it is a fact that the separation s policies did contribute to the fact that we have isis as a reality. walking away from iraq certainly in 2011, and creating helping to create the stalemate in syria, opposed to throwing our weight behind the syrian moderates. that gave isis the opportunity to form this safe haven in syria, which has been so destructive, because it s from that save haven that isis comes
department. he is facing fierce opposition from lawmakers who are threatening to vote against his nomination. his nomination is not a sure thing but the situation has now become more tense because the president seemed to confirm that pop offo met with north korean leader kimt last month without notifying the senate foreign relations committee, which has to approve him. following the president in west palm beach is white house correspondent geoff bennett. the president has just begun this meeting with the japanese prime minister. ed a katy and i were talking about they are at odds on a couple of things, at odds on how to deal with north korea and at odds on how to deal with trade. that s right. of course the backdrop to all of this is this stunning meeting that we learn about last night between mike pompeo and kim jong-un himself. geoff, hang on a second. the president has started talking about mike pompeo. let s listen. i have a feeling it s going to work out very wel
not just the intelligence community but the u.s. law enforcement community, including his own justice department and his fbi. standing right next to the russian leader vladimir putin at a joint news conference here in helsinki, the president simply refused to side with his own u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the russia investigation. the president described vladimir putin s denial, on the other hand, that russia interfered in the 2016 u.s. presidential election as in, president trump s words, extremely strong and powerful. here s how the president responded to reporters questions. just now president putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did. what who my first question for you, sir, is who do you believe? my second question is, would you now with the whole world watching tell president putin, would you denounce what happened in 2016 and would you warn him to n