day. the district police chief made the decision to hold officers back from the robb elementary classroom. the shooter locked himself inside. now we know those officers waited for nearly 80 minutes. it was a terrifying nearly hour and a half for the entire school. here is what one teacher told her students to do when she heard the gunfire. she spoke with our ore morgan chesky. i just kept hearing boom, boom, boom. it kept going off for what felt like an eternity. reporter: as the gunman walked towards her school, nicole shouted for her kids to hit the floor seconds before glass shattered her classroom. i had one student laying on top of me, and i had a bunch of other students right over here by me. i just remember praying, please, god, please, god, keep us safe. reporter: she and her students managed to get to safety. when she learned as many as 19 officers waited 47 minutes before engaging the gunman, she said this where do you believe blame should lie? on the pe
ccarthy and all standing by and ready too go. we are ready just in case. president biden is in italy while former president trump s is on capitol hill, for a serie from both the house and the senate in to address some of america s most powerful busines leaders making his case for a more prosperous economy if voters decide to send him back to the white house for a second term. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom i am dana perino. bill: wouldn t it be if he got immunity today. a couple hundred yards away fro where the justice department. you couldn t write it any better. good morning at home while we await from president biden in that joint news conference with the ukraine president where he will answer reporters questions the first time since his son hunter s conviction on federal gun charges. former president trump as we mentioned is meeting the top republican lawmakers at the house side and submit site they re going to talk about national policy in try to map
if judge kavanaugh is confirmed or not, the republicans believe this is a weapon for them. democrats believe it is as well. the president doesn t have any publicity events and his silence is interesting. he is a bystander in this process. if the judge is confirmed and becomes justice kavanaugh, this will be a monumental development in the trump presidency. having two key appointments to the supreme court. as of now, dana, it s out of his control and he cannot call senators and sway them. he is watching like everyone else what is going to happen on capitol hill. major legacy moment that he has no control over. so well put. here with me to share their reporting and insights, karen is the washington post reporter and gloria borger and mary catherine with the federalist.
particularly with my first book, at the publicity events around that, and, you know, i never really hid my light under a bushel and i played down my accomplishments. i played down my vision for my life because i didn t want to come across as too boastful or self-promotional. is it because it s often perceived that women who are too powerful lose their femininism, i mean, lose their femininity? i definitely think people have a strong reaction to women who kind of aggressively seek power and money. and i just think that it s something that men get away with a little bit more. and women are attracted to men like that. women are attracted to men like that. it s not necessarily true in the reverse. and so, you know, but more women have been out there and really claiming their ambition. i do think public perception of that is changing. because it seems like we re really starting to embrace that attitude from women. okay, you pointed out this