Skills and education. And the race to be the democratic challenger in 2020 has been thrown wide open, with a new poll putting Pete Buttigieg in first place in iowa with a 9 point lead over his nearest rival. Hello and welcome. Im Michelle Fleury in new york and Christian Fraser is in london. The duke of york is said to be standing by his decision to take part in an interview about his links to convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. Sources close to Prince Andrew said he wanted to address the issues head on, and did so with honesty and humility. It comes after the princes extraordinary interview with the bbc over the weekend. There are now growing calls for the prince to cooperate with us investigators about his links to jeffrey epstein. In his interview, Prince Andrew denied having any sexual contact with the American Woman Virginia Roberts who says she was forced to have sex with him at the age of 17. Epstein took his own life, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. With m
Anniversary of the report issued by the president ial commission on the status of women and its an honor to be here not at the Kennedy Library but with the Kennedy Library and with its wonderful volunteers today. Beyond that, for me, its an honor to have a conversation with professor black who really knows so much about my great grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt and can tell us more of the official side of her work for women. For me, i know a little bit more of the personal side. One story id like to share with you just as an anecdote before we get into the conversation is something my aunt told me that as a young girl growing up, grandmare which is what we affectionately call eleanor in our family, took her aside and said to her, its really important that you are involved in public life. Its really important that you run for Political Office and that you always work to make peoples lives better. And she thought that this was something that she must be saying to all of the cousins. And onl
willing to take a side for the little guy or little woman even though they know it s not easy politically. i wrote the book for the same reason i wear this lapel pin. the mine workers took the canary down in the mines. and the book i wrote for the same reason, to show the power of government can be used to help people, and that s what each of these eight progressive senators did from hugo black to herbert leeman to al gore and kennedy. and you think about the 30s social security was the greatest anti-poverty program in history. and republicans called it socialism. think about the importance of medicare in 65. they called it socialism. it s popular as hell. and all of those things, progressives passed all these. they were short-term victories. they had big victories.