And philadelphia. Good morning everyone. Welcome to this mornings discussion, from the moscow with. To nancy pelosi. Around the table on women, wielding the political power. Im Greta Brawner from cspan, American History tv, on cspan three every weekend. Its happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion, and of course it could not come at a better moment in history, with the 19th minute granting the women the right to vote. Passed by that u. S. House in the un that senate in 19, and ratified in 1920. If we are 100 years later, the 116th congress has the highest percentage of women ever making up ever, making up a quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speaker for the second time. We have four women still for running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women, and the key turning points for women in the wake of politics. Others you do see to our panelists, i will come back through and have each of them tal
Cspan why wouldnt the government at that time have protections for him . Guest why wouldnt the government have a pension. There were for pensions for nobody else and not a penchant for the present in effect he had very little money. He had to borrow money quite secretly which dean acheson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown and it doesnt mean he didnt have any money. He did have money but he needed cash to cover all the expenses coming out of the white house. When he got home in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done except for herbert hoover. Hoovers time in office was much briefer than was trumans presidency and covered far more tumultuous history so to undertake the 2volume memoir was a very major ambitious task and then he build his library. There had been a previous president ial library, Franklin Roosevelt library at hyde park established after roosevelt had d
Minister ariel henry announcing a short while ago that he will resign once a transitional president ial council has been created. It follows worldwide calls for his resignation. As violence plagues the caribbean nation. Us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken spent monday in jamaica, where he met with caribbean leaders for urgent talks about the nations violent gang violence. Henry has been unable to return to haiti because the violence closed its Main International airports. On monday, blinken announced an additional 100 million to finance the deployment of a Multinational Force to haiti, as well as 33 million in humanitarian aid. Its still not clear who will lead haiti out of the crisis, which has seen heavily armed gangs Burning Police stations attacking the main airport and rated two of the countrys biggest prisons. Scores of people have been killed. More than 15,000 others are homeless after fleeing neighborhoods overtaken by the gangs. Im jackie ibanez. Now back to regular programin
outbreak a global pandemic. our senior medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins us to explain why. what makes it a pandemic? there are criteria that are somewhat defined to call something a pandemic. let me preface by saying this terminology that we re going to start using now isn t so much to cause panic but rather to really cause a focus on preparedness. sanjay will join us in a moment. more than 525,000 americans have died since sanjay made those remarks. but this morning there are so many positive signs. 2.2 million people a day are getting vaccinated. the cdc has new guidelines for 30 million people who are fully vaccinated. if you are one of them, the cdc says it is safe to gather with other vaccinated people indoors without masks. and vaccinated grandparents can safely visit unvaccinated grandchildren. but the experts say we re not out of the wood yet. coronavirus variants could still trigger another deadly surge, especially as states relax their guidelines.
Containment no did go up and thats always good news. Last night, we really reporting about the bear fire which was 5 contained, this morning it is 10 contained. The change in the weather is what we are looking for. We might have some rain, about a 10th of an inch in the santa cruz mountains. Its been a long dry stretch. 245245,000 acres in the last week and a half, so the weather is much needed, or much welcomed i should say. Lets talk about the bear fire specifically. Some 270 acres burned unfortunately today, and we also learned about another firefighter has been injured. That now brings the total number of firefighters hurt in the bear fire alone 26. We have learned that these firefighter that firefighter was injured. That firefighter has been treated at an area hospital. This area is largely clear right now, and earlier there were more than 100 firefighters here. Those firefighters are now out working on those fire lines and we have some video of what that fire actually looks like