Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. We are following two major stories tonight. We are getting our first look at the latest Fox News Polling on the president ial Race Vice President Kamala Harris up 2 points over former President Donald Trump. No news may be good news for the former president. Bad news for the Vice President. The Teamsters Union is refusing to endorse either one of the candidates tonight. Normally thats a given for the democratic nominee. But first up those polls we mentioned. Harris as 50 to 489 advantage among registered and likely voters. That is the same 2point Lead Hillary Clinton enjoyed at thiS Point in the 2016 campaign. The top issue for voters . The u. S. Economy by more than a 2 to 1 margin. Immigration comes in second. Abortion third. Former President Trump has a 10 Point Trust Advantage on immigration. He is up 5 now on the economy. Vice president leads by 16 on the issue of abortion. We have Fox Team Conch tonight. Peter doocy is at t
Actually, ive written a lot about race and media and also have, i interviewed taraji p. Henson for the smithsonian, so weve got a little bit many common here. [applause] so our esteemed guest, the daughter of a nasa scientist and english professor . Yes. Virginia native. You worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job. Wow. Out of high school. And also had a magazine for expats in mexico. Inside mexico . Yeah. Started working on Hidden Figures in 2010. Wow. And became a New York Times number one best seller, spawned a movie that was oscarnominated. Margot lee shetterly, everyone. [cheers and applause] so i heard that you gave an amazing speech last night where you talked a little bit about charlottesville and race. Could you give us just a little taste of what you talked about there and how it compares to what you talk about in the book. Yeah. You know, the thing that we talked a little bit about what i started out doing, which was working in Investment Banking out of school.
Project that youre work on. This is something you have continued past the life of the book. Could you talk a little bit about what youre doing there and how its succeeded since the book and the movie have come out . So. Yeah so, yeah, the human computer project. Essentially, what i was so surprised to discover doing the research for Hidden Figures is how many women were involved in computing, as i talked about before. Not just at nasa, but at all of these other organizations. And so this is really a way to try and catalog all of the women who were involved in doing this work in the early days of computing and really understand, you know, what kind of work they were doing and also to get a snapshot of women in these fields and see if theres something that we might learn from those early pioneers that we can apply to women working in these fields today. So if people want to participate, they can find it onlinesome. Yep. The humancomputerproject. Com, or you can reach out to me at margo l
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] me i have your attention. Please take your seats. The presentation is about to begin. There will be a question and answer time at the end of the presentation. You can go to one of the two microphones and line up for a question for you to begin i like to, tv critic for npr. [applause]. How you doing . Thanks so much for joining us here. As was said im a tv critic for National Public radio, so i should be talking to an author. Actually, i have written a lot about races and media and interviewed for the smithsonian so we have a bit in common here. Our esteemed guest, the daughter of a nasa scientist and english professor . Yes. Virginian native. You worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job out of school. And had a magazine inside mexico and started working on Hidden Figures in 2010 and became a New York Times number one bestseller, spawned a movie that was oscarnominated, Margot Lee Shetterly. [cheers and applause] so, i hear
[applause] hello everybody and welcome to the panel. Allow me to introduce the panel. I will start at the end. Congressman henry, a democrat from laredo, texas was elected in 2005 to represent district 28. He served on the House Appropriations committee and on the subcommittees of Homeland Security and transportation housing and urban development. Previously served on secretary state of texas before she was housetrained in the house of representatives. Miller, republican from texas served as the Agriculture Convention since 2015 also housebroken he served six terms in the texas house. [inaudible] is an eighth generation farmer and rancher and served on the state agriculture Agriculture Policy board and was appointed on the energy council. Sitting next to sid miller is currently serving her second term as El Paso County judge. She previously served as county commissioner for precinct two. As a member of numerous boards and commissions were she was born. Shes focused on border policy, ed