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What was your first journalistic experience . Susan i remember being 10 years old and handing out copies of the newspaper that my parents founded, the legal times, at the Aba Convention in washington. And probably ever since then. Brian how long did they own legal times . Susan they started in 1977 and their Company Owned it until 1986. Brian who is the first person who tie you would journalism is all about . Funny. You know, it was there was a famous teacher at the high school i went to. Tom lyons was the supervisor of the newspaper at andover. He was also george w. Bushs favorite teacher in high school. Many years later he was still around, a very, very older statesmen at the school, and not only was he a great leader in journalism but also in the role of a free press. He taught constitutional law as well. My junior year in high school. It was incredible experience. Brian your husband is with us today. Peter baker. Before i go to peter baker, what were the circumstances where you met
Morning at 7 a. M. Eastern, 4 00 a. M. Pacific. Have a great monday. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] break house has been on so members can return to their districts. Agenda includes a three extension for faa funding. Week the house is expected to consider a resolution by speaker paul ryan, opposing the action on immigration. The senate is back today at three eastern. He has been serving as acting secretary for over a year and a confirmation vote is set for 5 30 eastern today. Also coming up, can burns will gates toenry louis talk about race in america. This coming april he will premiere his documentary, jackie robinson. Live at 1 p. M. Eastern today here on cspan. Also republican president ial candidate Governor John Kasich is in his home state of ohio. Mitt romney has not yet endorsed any candidate, but has criticized front
For the national staff. I started in january 1998 one week before the monica story broke. Peter was a White House Reporter covering president clinton. That is how we met. Brian we have some video from 1998. Actually, right after you started. February 6. This is your husband, peter baker, when he worked at the post. The president gets home from his deposition on january 17, having just spent six hours with lawyers from paula jones and going through all this reported sexual encounters with lawyers repeating questions. The one that stuck in his mind was monica lewinsky. He gets home at night and because of betty currie and asks her to come into the office the next day. So they can talk about it. That sunday in the privacy of the white house and they went through his testimony and he tried to see if his memory matched her memory. Prosecutors are very interested in that because her version was somewhat different in that he says i was never out of earshot. He and lewinsky were never essentia
Lucy put the football up and Charlie Brown is ready to kick it again he thinks. I thought thats what you meant by here we go again. The fact that every time we come on air it feels like the market has been losing altitude. Today does that become the theme or will we be able to retest these highs, maybe break out above it as art cashin put it earlier, well need a close above that high for the bulls here. You know eventually traders will become impatient enough they will just throw in the towel. Well see what happens here. And well also get a read of the market, economy, and Banking Industry with two heavy hitters on deck. Gord nixon will join us exclusively along with investing legend john calamos. See where he finds investment opportunities. These shocking photographs from one of the richest towns in california, weve obviously blurred a few things. Athert atherton, residents have included meg whit man, eric schmidt. They have been vandalized with antiwealth graffiti on various homes an