Wit, heumann served in bill Clintons Administration shaping disability policy in the department of education and was appointed by barack obama as the special adviser on disability rights for the state department. She is also a former senior fellow at the Ford Foundation and advisor to world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work, and new book, being human, an unprepen tent enemy interior of a disability rights activist. She will in conversation with tam la edwards. The science yours. Thank you very much. Thats wonderful. Andy, in the news age of social distancinged a great to see we can get it done and judy it was an honor truly to read your book, running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made, and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give
united states flew to california to give a speech. it was a speech that he knew he would be giving to some of his most die hard fans. people who would follow him until the end of the earth. and that was crucial at that moment in his political life, because just a few weeks earlier, the wall street journal was first to report that that same vice president, spiro agnew, he was under federal criminal investigation for potential felony corruption charges, bribery, extortion, tax evasion, a bunch of stuff. this was very shocking front page news at the time. it was very damaging news, for obvious reasons, to the vice president, and he was just completely enraged about it. so he flew out to california september 29th, 1973, to give a talk to his most rabid supporters. it was the national conference of republican women. and, um, these women were hard core activists. as a group, generally speaking, they were quite right wing and quite devoted to spiro agnew. agnew was seen as being
election deniers. and the freedom to vote act. on that note i wish you a goliath night, for least a minute is in for stephanie ruhle, you cannot catch me every week on american voices, from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. u for staying up late. we are super happy to have you here. september 29th, 1973. the vice president of the united states, flew to california to give a speech. it was a speech he knew he would be giving to some of his most die hard fans. people who would follow him to the end of the earth. and that was crucial that moment in his life. because just a few weeks earlier, the wall street journal had is under criminal investigation. federal corruption charges, bribery, extortion, passive, asian omega stuff. it is very shocking front page news of the time. it was damaging news, for obvious reasons to the vice president, because he was completely enraged about it. the women are hard-core activists, as a
speech. and it was a speech that he knew he would be giving to some of his most die-hard fans, people who would follow him to the end of the earth, and that was crucial at that moment in his political life because just a few weeks earlier the wall street journal had been first to report that that same vice president he was under federal criminal investigation on potential felony corruption charges, bribery, extortion, tax evasion, a whole bunch of stuff. this was very shocking front page news at the time. it was very damaging news for obvious reasons to the vice president, and he was completely enraged about it. so he flew out to california to give a talk to his most rabid supporters. it was the national conference of republican women. and these women were hard core activists, as a group generally speaking they were quite right-wing, and a group generally speaking they were quote devoted to superhero agnew. this has been forgotten in history but agnew was seen as being much
top of the hour. thank you for joining us in this cnn newsroom. i m erica hill. i m jim chsciutto. the ntsb investigators are headed back to ohio. they have more concerns after a new crash there. and now, there is a police training facility where there was protesters who set a vehicle on fire and there was a clash there. and we will look at the look next of former president trump and governor desantis as they head to ohio this week. and we go to jason carroll who is on the scene there in ohio, and i understand, jason, that the ntsb investigators are going to be headed to the scene today, and we understand that we have new information about the crash and what the train was carrying, and is there a risk to the citizens there? yes, the ntsb say that there is no risk to the residents here, but within a month s time, a second crash here, and you can see that one of the cars here is still on the side here, and the investigators will be coming out to sort out what happened