white house. it's not quite as horrible a situation but betty ford became first lady really overnight almost, and they hired me as their white house photographer when i was 27 years old, and i was a little bit older. now, these are the kinds of pictures that i'm sure the -- the -- most first ladies don't want to be photographed like that nor does anybody, but mrs. ford and president ford had such an incredible sense of humor and a lack of vanity about themselves. this was, by the way, taken in the -- in the kitchen of their home in alexandria, virginia, which is a very modest two split-level place, and they lived there for almost two weeks after they became -- after he became president, and this is lady bird johnson and mrs. ford and the two johnson girls. they are being shown the white house living room -- white house bedroom, and when i did an edit for this book i did on the ford presidency, i looked back, and i wonder, i forgot that suitcases in the picture, this is right before mrs. ford went out to bethesda naval hospital where she ultimately had a mastectomy, and she never told mrs. johnson

ford and the two johnson girls. they are being shown the white house living room -- white housa bedroom, and when i did an edit for this book i did on the ford presidency, i looked back, and i wonder, i forgot that suitcasesu in the picture, this is right before mrs. ford went out to bethesda naval hospital where tr she ultimately had a mastectomy, and she never told mrs. johnson that she was going there that day, and this is in the hospital with bob hope.t. bob hope's name comes up quite h bit. in fact, he was the one who sai president ford made golf a contact sport, and -- and mrs. ford recovered nicely from this operation.ation. probably i know she's best known for the betty ford center, people with alcohol and drug ndy dependency, but i -- i can't , v imagine how many women's lives . she saved. happy rockefeller was one of them who got a test because of her. g she brought that whole problem out into the open. this is -- we had a very close relationship. is in t this is in the white house solarium. mrs. ford is trying to strangle me yet again for -- she had to put up with a lot from me, and c the queen of england, t

ford was always a big proponent of having me work in the white house. the night president ford was sworn in, he had been president for about eight hours. my background is, i'm from a little town in oregon, no background in journalism or anything else. my dad was a traveling salesman. how i got to that night sitting with president ford, the only person in the room, and he wanted to talk to me about the job, but he hadn't offered it to me. he said, how do you see the white house photographer's job? i thought, shouldn't he be talking to kissinger? yoichi okamoto, lbj's photographer, was an absolutely role model, total access to the president and all that and ollie atkins, the second civilian white house photographer, really didn't have much access at all. it's not what nixon wanted. it's all about your relationship with the president. i thought about that. i thought what am i going to say if he asks me. two things i want, one is total access and to work for you directly. not for the white house chief of staff or the press secretary. he was puffing on his pi

white house d ya several years later. did you have to approach the jog differently upon landing in the white house? >> i had -- i got to know the fords before the day -- the dayr i photographed soon-to-be president ford, the day spero agnew resigned. i can say that in this room and most of you know who i'm talking about. i give a lot of lectures at schools and it's a little dicy. i even have to explain who president ford is sometimes. but i had an ongoing relationship with him starting -- the first "time" cover i ever had was of him when he was designated by nixon to be the io replacement for agnew and then "time" had me covering them. i got to know the family really well.cover i i went skiing with them, taking pictures. that was back in the day when , the magazine would pay for my skiing lessons, the good old days as we would call them.ame s but i got to know them really well. by the time he became president i had really got along well with everybody, including the kids. mrs. ford was always a big proponent of having me work in the white house.e nigh the night president ford was or sworn in, he had been president for about eight hou

used to be on the inside knocking on the door of people like ronald reagan, gerald ford who invited us to the white house didn't run anything. now people with our views are either running the party or people like mitt romney are running so scared. the people at the top like karl rove done believe these issues at all. they get them to vote against their own economic interests. >> so they can achieve power. >> to give you an example dr liberty university is where he will speak at the graduation next week which banned the democratic club on campus for supporting same-sex marriage and lgbt rights. withdraw from cpac the question to have a gay rights group. >> he is going to have to be in very deep water here. the fact of the matter is the majority of the american people believe in gay rights. the majority of the gay people are not trying to take contraceptives away from women like roman catholics in their institutions, and going even further and lying about the first -- the president of the united states and saying he is anti-religious because he won't let them deprive women who work for these million billio

listen in on the president's conversations with future president gerald ford, ronald reagan and george h.w. bush and with key white house advisers and the directors of the fbi and cia. for schedule information go to cspan.org/schedule and listen online at c-spanradio.org and nationwide on xm 119 and 90.1 fm in the washington, d.c., area. >>> all weekend long, american history tv joins our cox communications cable partners in oklahoma city to showcase its history and literary culture. settled in 1889, oklahoma city is the largest city in oklahoma. >> my name is terry jordan. curator at the archive. previously the tapes were on analog tape. it is in this room. it is chilly. we keep the temperature and humidity down for preservation of the materials. >> how far back does your collection date? back to the 1930s for radio advertisements to the 1950s for television advertisements. some of our earliest material are commercials from the eisenhower campaign. [ no audio ]

listen in on the president's conversations with future president gerald ford, ronald reagan and george h.w. bush and with key white house advisers and the directors of the fbi and cia. for schedule information go to cspan.org/schedule and listen online at c-spanradio.org and nationwide on xm 119 and 90.1 fm in the washington, d.c., area. >>> all weekend long, american history tv joins our cox communications cable partners in oklahoma city to showcase its history and literary culture. settled in 1889, oklahoma city is the largest city in oklahoma. it has a population of about 600,000 people and is the sooner state's capital. you're watching american history tv on c-span3. >>> at high noon, the guns fire and the cannons go off and the flags go down and 50,000 people rush for free land. the land run was a unique way of opening the public lands. since the 1860s congress had a policy on the books called the homestead act, and the homestead act said that anyone who would move to the frontier on the public domain and would stay for five years and make improvements and satisfy all of those conditions, they would receive title t

key white house advisors, intelligence agency heads saturday. hear gerald ford, ronald reagan and george hw bush. 90.1 fm on xm 119, cspanradio.org. >>> more live coverage of the discussion on immigration and border issues coming up in 15 minutes. they're taking a lunch break. back now and listen to some of the opening statements for this forum. >>> good morning. appreciate everyone being here. officially presented by arizona employers for immigration reform, competitive enterprise institute, national immigration forum and texans for sensible immigration policy. we are going to have an immigration summit right here in washington, d.c. where we hope the benefit of which will be to offer some solutions and move some of our members of congress to get on with immigration reform. i'm norman adams, texan, a cofounder of texans for sensible immigration policy. and just as a setting or an opening i like to point out the fact i don't need to tell any of you that immigration debate is an emotional debate but that is nothing new. prior to 1923, if you arrived on the shores

white house. waiting next to bill ford was handing him a young communications executive who would, mulally's medium handler and -- once again the mulally was overcome by its own history and felt a lump in his throat as he surveyed the model t's, muslims and other rich boards. he smiled as he passed a portrait of henry ford. curious employees walk by wondering who this guy was posing with bill ford. when they were done the group heard into the executive elevator and wrote it up to the 12th floor. mulally followed for into his office which occupied the northeast corner. he pointed to mulally's own office just a few steps away. the two suites were separated only by a waiting. i'll be ready when you need me, ford said. the company senior executives were cramped and bill ford's private conference room. the overseas chiefs were listening in on speakerphones. at 3:30 p.m. for an mulally walked in and the room fell silent. ford explained that he was resigning and introduce more out as ford's new chief executive. as he taught, all eyes were on mulally. he did his best to smile back and fight the growing int

ford, i believe. actually set up as a bedroom after truman renovated the white house.he bedroom, the bed, had been in a room that's now the upstairs dining room across the hall from the presidential bedrooms. the room that's now set up is the lincoln bedroom, was lincoln's office before the west wing was built. obviously all the offices down at that end of the residence hall and it was the room that lincoln had signed the emancipation proclamation in. and we owned one of the five original copies of the gettysburg address, written in lincoln's hand and that was in the room and our guests, who would come stay in the lincoln bedroom, would look at that copy of the gettysburg address and read it and weep. it was very moving to see. and so i worked with the white house historical association with the furniture curators and historians that are part of the advisory board, and we had little -- a little remnant of the wall party that had been on the wall of his room. we had photographs of the lincoln bed with the gold corona with purple and gold drapes that hung down from the c

tapes including discussions with future presidents, key white house advisers, saturdays at 6:00 p.m. eastern. hear conversations with gerald ford, ronald reagan, and george h.w. bush. in washington, d.c., listen at 90.1 fm. on xm, channel 119. at cspanradio.org. >>> now a conversation on the abolitionist movement and the underground railroad. republican congressman owen lovejoy used his home in princeton, illinois, as a stop on the underground railroad. and as a house member, he introduced a bill to end slavery in the district of columbia. he served in congress from 1857 until his death in 1864. we'll hear from historian and author owen mulder at this event hosted by the u.s. capitol historical society. >> okay, good morning. first of all, let me do a sound check. can i be heard? very good. well, welcome. good morning. i'm don kennen, a vice president of the united states capitol historical society. and it's my pleasure to welcome you to today's lecture observing african-american history month. we are pleased to be joined by the illinois state society of washington, d.c. and the knox college alumni association of washington, d.

. >> hear more of the nixon tapes including key white house advisers and intelligence agency heads saturdays. this week hear conversations with gerald ford, ronald reagan, and george h.w. bush. washington, d.c., listen at 90.1 f.m. and at c-spanradio.org. >>> next on american history tv, kendall gott talks about the civil war battle of ft. donelson, a key victory for union troops in 1862. mr. gott is the author of "where the south lost the war: an analysis of the ft. donelson campaign." he gave this talk at the ftft. ft. donelson visitor center. it's 50 minutes. >>> the purpose of today is not really to give down and dirty blow by blow of battle. i've been asked to give a few random thoughts about the 150 years that have passed since the battle and the importance of the battle. i'll focus my remarks on that. i would love for you to buy that but there's some others out there, wrote an excellent book on the battle it. and the short film involved here and the interpretation with the rangers, by all means, seek those out for the blow by blow. we'll have more of a macro level for this here. it is exciting to be here for the 150th anniversary.

ford administration. immediately after beating-- i was invited to the white house and met him and his daughter. >> schiefferwell, good reason or not, it was a memorable broadcast. to this day, ali remains one of the very few to appear on this broadcast who admitted up front not to know enough about something to be taken seriously. our "face the nation" flashback. we'll be back. >> schieffer: well that's it for us today. we want to thank you for joining us. be sure to be here next week for "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> next on "this week in defense news," the wattle in congress over the -- battle

white house. >> what? >> so it should be out of bounds. but fordford returned to profitability -- >> because ford had followed billions of dollars before -- >> and they owe us $35 million as a baseline. i could bring back the horse and buggy for $35 million -- >> but the whole point is that -- >> and the 42 -- >> thousands of jobs have been added back and they are more profitable than they have ever been -- >> once again, ford more profitable -- and mitt romney didn't propose shutting down the auto industry he proposes that he take the same course that ford -- >> no, he said kill it bankrupt it -- >> no, no, no that's not true -- >> and then tamp the dirt down on top of it, and put a cross, little thing -- >> should i get real loud at this point -- >> okay, have a drink. >> he said they go through and bank roll the process -- >> he is still going -- >> can i finish my sentence? all right. i can't finish my sentence. all right. what governor romney said having some experience in this realm is that if you allowed the others to go through an orderly b

the white house staff is not necessarily the biggest fans they cannot do anything about it. >> i am sure they did not want him talking to hoover. ford did not want him talking to nixon. let some people were suspicious of him talking to carter. even in the obama white house it was stop and go. >> you do say there is an agreement between the two of them that has never been done before because of hillary clinton. >> when obama was elected and hillary was made secretary of state, bill had to sign an eight or nine point memorandum of agreement between himself that made it harder for him to go to certain places. it made him difficult to raise money. he said he will do whatever it takes. this was a controversial thing. it was seriously negotiated by former clinton people, rahm emanuel. you have this strange a moment where obama aides who used to beat clinton aides put a fence around it. >> you say george washington was the original member of the club. how did you to divide of the president's? >> i took the first set and michael took the second. nixon is such a gigantic character. he appears in 1949. we shared nixon. then michael focused on

ford administration. immediately after beating-- i was invited to the white house and met him and his daughter. >> schiefferwell, good reason or not, it was a memorable broadcast. to this day, ali remains one of the very few to appear on this broadcast who admitted up front not to know enough about something to be taken seriously. our "face the nation" flashback. we'll be back. ,,,,,,,, >> schieffer: well that's it for us today. we want to thank you for joining us. be sure to be here next week for "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios tv, internet and phone for just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years with a two-year agreement. act now and we'll add a special bonus: $250 back. but hurry, this offer ends june 2nd. unlike cable, fios is a 100% fiber-optic network that delivers america's fastest, most consistent, most reliable internet plus the best tv picture quality. why keep paying so much for cable?

white house advisers, and intelligence agency heads. saturdays at 6:00 p.m. eastern. this week, hear conversations with gerald ford, ronald reagan, and george h.w. bush. in washington, d.c., listen at 90.1 f.m. on, x.m. channel 119, and at vspanradio.org. >> i have seemed to have earned a certain place where people will listen to me, and i've always cared about the country. and the greatest generation writing that book gave me a kind of a platform that was completely unanticipated. so i thought i ought not to kwaunder that. so i ought to step up as -- not just a citizen and journalist but as a father and husband and grandfather, and as i see thing i ought to write them and try to start this dialogue, which i'm trying to do with this book, but what i'm about to do next. >> in his latest "the time of our lives," tom brokaw urges americans to redefine the american dream. and sunday live in depth, your questions for the former anchor and managing editor of "nbc nightly news." in his half dozen books, he's written about the greatest generation, the 1960s, and today. "in depth" sunday at noon eastern on c-span2's book t

form governor pennsylvania and former congressman harold ford, and some democrats are not crazy about the strategy from the worse. now, the white house has to make this a choice. they are saying the economy is not where it should be. but, romney would do a worse job. that is their pentagon. and this will be a negative campaign from both sides but democrats are balking at what the white house is doing. >>stuart: a democrat mechanic -- member of the house of representatives is being reprimanded by the white house today. >> something about raping companies and leaving them in debt and setting up swiss bank accounts and corporate businesses in the grand cayman islands. i have a problem. >>stuart: the white house called that inappropriate use of the word "rape." >>guest: he is known for saying what is on his mind going after romney but this is a situation with a surrogate on division in the white house saying that is not quite the way we would have put it but this is a tough day for the white house. they are having to deal with the questions on the attack ad as well as the remarks of the member, and people will go too far during this seas

tapes including discussions with future presidents, a key white house advisers, and intelligence agency heads. hear conversations with gerald fordagan, and george h. w. bush. in d.c., listen at 90.1 and cspanradio.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: this is david lampton. he is there china studies program director. secretary clinton and vice and are holding talks with china. what are they about? -- secretary clinton and secretary geithner are holding talks with china. what are they about? guest: economically, they are about trade relations. the mounting trade deficit the u.s. has. we need china to rebalance its economy as we are restructuring our economy. we will talk about how to proceed on a secured -- we will talk about how to proceed. on the security front, we talk about syria. number 3 always injects itself randomly into this yvette. -- event. host: do these topics stay the same when these talks are hosted? guest: the basket of issues keeps a certain continuity. there is a basket of cultural and human rights. there is the security basket. what is in the best it keeps changing, or somewhat changing. here's the econ

white house website. the footnotes tie this president's accomplishments to the actions of previous presidents. trace gallagher has more live from the breaking news desk. trace. >> reporter: megyn, except for gerald ford these food notes were added to the biographies of every single president since calvin coolidge. these are are the official biographies written in 2009. the bios were not altered in any way and the white house reportedly claims the additions are simply a promotional technique that is widely used on the web where you know you add a link to the bottom of the page it takes to you a different page. critics say the administration has crossed a line when it comes to promoting its policies, and certainly some of these footnotes are on contentious subjects, for example, connecting obama's tax policy to ronald tkpwaeug and's where it says and i'm quoting, reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multimail air did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. today president obama is calling for the same with the buffett rule. he says come faring connecting the president's healthcare to signing of medicare, going on saying, quote, president lyndon swropbs son signed medicare providing mi

more on the nixon tapes, including discussions with key house -- a key white house advisers this saturday, conversations with gerald fordronald reagan, and george hov bush. -- and george h. w. bush. sunday on q&a -- >> i do not regard this as just the biography of lyndon johnson. i'm saying this is a kind of political power. see what a president can do in a time of great crisis. what does he do to get legislation moving? but as a way of examining power in a time of crisis. >> his multivolume biography of the 36 president this sunday at 8:00 p.m. on c-span's q&a. and look for second hour of conversation. >> on this morning's "washington journal" paul light talked about bureaucracy in the federal government after the recent events with the secret service. we will watch this and to live coverage of newt gingrich. audio line: 202-783-0005* host: joining us from new york is paul light, a public service professor at new york university. good morning. how are you? guest: fine, how are you? host: fine. trying to send in your printout? guest: i never title the is op- ed's. i thought it was an appropriate title. it says we're not

white house's auto czar. at the time g.m. was closing dealerships in order to fix the company. it's with corey booker and our old company harold ford, jr., and many defended bain capital's record as very strong, successful and ethical because it had a strong record of creating jobs, that's why the firm is successful.d 100,000 jobs and, ted, we have lost a net of at least 500,000 jobs on president obama's watch. >> woodru: governor strickland what about that and these other democrats he mentioned who have said that the line of attack in these ads is not fair? >> well, quite frankly, the president came to power with horrendous economic set of circumstances. he has s rebuilding this economy. he's doing it the right way by focusing on the middle-class. he's investing in education and our infrastructure and he's trying to put forth programs that will benefit small buness. the fact is that this president has been stopped by the congress every time he's tried to take positive action. but in spite of that, the economy's getting better. the economy in ohio today is much healthier because the president saved the auto industry. because manufa

white house advisers saturdays at 6 p.m. eastern. this week hear conversations with gerald ford, ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. in washington, d.c. listen at 90.1 fm, on xm channel 119 and at c-span radio.org. >>> a british parliamentary committee looking into phone hacking by british newspapers issued a report yesterday finding that rupert murdoch, the head of news corporation international, is, quote, not a fit person to run a major corporation. the culture media and sport committee released the report during an hour, 15-minute news conference. >> i hope that you have by now had a time to read the committee's report. um, i intend just to give a brief summary of the committee's conclusions and then one or two of my colleagues wish to make brief statements before we move to questions. i should first say that the report concentrates, um, not entirely but in large part on the issue of whether this committee was misled in the evidence that it received principally during its 2009 inquiry. although we do go on to draw, obviously, wider conclusions. it is also important to say that the committee has not made any com

discussions with future presidents, key white house advisers and intelligence agency heads saturdays at 6 p.m. eastern. this week hear conversations with gerald fordronald reagan and george h.w. bush. in washington, d.c. listen at 90.1 fm, on xm channel 119, and at c-span radio.org. >>> former congressman ben weber is an economic adviser to presidential candidate mitt romney. he debated economic policy with afl-cio president richard trumka yesterday at a conference hosted by bloomberg news. it also included the president of the richmond federal reserve bank, jeffrey lacker. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> we do want to move on to our next panel as well. we're going to continue our focus on the economy, talk about the economic agenda with a slightly more political spin here with our next panelist. want to call up to the stage paula dwyer, the editor of bloomberg view, and she's going to be moderating our discussion. paula, if you want to head on up with your screw as the chairs get -- your crew as the chairs get set up. joining paula, a lot of us know him as the former chief economist at the international monetary fund, and he is the auth

white house advisers, saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern. this weekend, conversations with gerald ford and george w. bush. >> this week marks the one-year anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden in pakistan by u.s. navy seals. for officials recently assessed the state of outcry that and what the death meant to global security. >> ladies and gentlemen, my name is mike swetman, and i would like to welcome you to the potomac institute for policy studies to date. we have been privileged to be the host for a series of seminars, studies, and publications are a variety of issues surrounding terrorism. the potomac institute is a not- for-profit think tank in washington, d.c., area that the business on issues of science and technology and health science and technology affect our governments and our society, our health, if you will, in the world we live in. we had focused on issues of terrorism in the mid to late 998's because it became apparent this old form of warfare, terrorism, which dates back to sun su, as being reborn in the modern age due to the use of technology. since we began studying terrori

ford jr. who said he would have stood by the comments and won't have walked them back. and steve ratner, his car czar, does the white houset hope folks will stop talking? >> i know this is shocking, people really don't care wha what we say, brad. they care if we are better off today after 26 straight months of economic growth and of job kraoe aeurbgs ar creation, are we moving in the right direction, or do you want to go back to the policies of george w. bush and give him a third term by electing mitt romney. it doesn't matter what corey booker says or steve r atner says. shannon: i have to leave it there. i care what both of you say. >> and we care that you care. shannon: moving on. the plan who planned the bombing of pan am 103 blue people out of a clear blue sky but british and scottish officials saw it fit to let him go spending three years in the company of loved ones. what happened to answers on that decision. "america live" first reported on the case of lis of missing toddler lisa irwin. today her mother, father and their lawyer sat down with an emotional conversation with megyn kelly on a new lead. >> i spoke with

white house is certainly worried. >> i don't think politics has any place in this and i am discouraged and disappointed on memorial day that ford exactly what he should have done, he took prudent risk to get osama bin laden. i believe that the coalition the president has assembled will have success in discouraging iran from pursuing weapons-grade uranium and building a bomb, but, i don't think this president or for that matter, any president, is going to let politics intrude in this kind of a decision. >> i agree it sunday. i am just saying sometimes the calculations may come, maybe you push a little bit harder on sanctions, maybe you ease up. john mccain was on fox news sunday regardless of your political affiliation we recognize he understands this issue and he said president obama has been weak on iran. and we know this could come in the general election calculation depending on what transpired. i agree it should not be part of the equation but it could be. that is the reality. doug: it discouples -- discourage me to hear you say that. president obama is fair game you can criticize the policies but in the wake of such a so-c

. >> harold ford, though, i think the president's health care argument is actually stronger if the supreme court overturns the individual mandate. you think the white house the supreme court than run for their health care bill? >> i vacillate on that issue. i do think the strongest hand for the president is to show people who have been most affected and benefited the most from this bill, and no doubt prior to the health care debate, when you and i were in congress, i can think of the hundreds of letters i received from the district with people complaining about insurance companies denying them benefits or had their premiums go up because they got sick. those are issues he has to continue to hammer away at. and i'm of the opinion now that whatever the court does is not necessarily going to matter. i think the mandate, as much as i'm concerned about that, i'm equally concerned about the discussion whether states are compelled to absorb the 15 million to 17 million people that are eligible for medicare. >> parts of the health care legislation that are taking place right now, i don't think anyone would have an argument about that. >> but to the reverend's po

ford's idea was, pay your workers enough so they can buy your product. everybody wins. >> keep in mind also these are people who look at the history of this country and go well, the white houseler: i will be there. if romney gets his wish to amend the constitution so you have to have three years of business experience, i was sitting here thinking that would have eliminated dwight eisenhower from the presidency. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: when i was a kid -- i'm 52. clam howard taft was -- william howard taft was a career politician. that would have eliminated him from the white house. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: i'm just trying to figure out -- >> someone else said earlier ronald reagan. >> caller: ronald reagan, yes. an actor. >> then a career politician. >> caller: exactly. >> stephanie: we would still have herbert hoover and george w. bush. [ wah wah ] >> stephanie: how much better off would we be? >> this abstract that all business is good business. if you're going to accuse liberals and democrats of being super anti-business, then stop at the same time being pro any business whatsoever. like you know, at a certain point -- >> probath salts. >> if people want to

it involves henry kissinger with who david worked at the ford white house, and i was hosting a lunch for dr. kissinger some time back, and i mentioned david's name. and dr. kissinger said in that sort of inimitable voice, david kennerly is the greatest photojournalist of the 20th century. i said, wow, that's high praise. he said i know this because david kennerly told me that david kennerly is the -- [ laughter ] so in the words of david kennerly and henry kissinger, let me welcome to the podium the greatest photojournalist of the 20th century, david kennerly. >> that's good. i don't know how to top that one. i'm going to show some pictures. i was president ford's photographer. it's great to be here with the bush women, barbara and laura, who i've photographed many times. i have -- i'm not taking away from my colleagues, but i did include one each of you in this presentation. i was -- i actually have a first lady picture i just took on friday, not in this country, and she's not an american, and if i press this, is this going to start? wow, magic. this is sophia bartelli, the first la