i worked for a long time with the "washington post" for 25 years. when i was a kid i don't know if this is typical of everyone, but for me i used to take these train rides around the uk and it would go through suburbs, past towns and villages, and often the houses were very close to the railway. i used to look inside the people's houses that the train went past, and i was so curious about what was going on inside these houses, what with the conversations around the dinner table, the lunch table, workpeople arguing with each other, what with the family dynamics inside these anonymous houses? so perhaps it's not surprising that i became a reporter as a profession because it's a profession that allows you to exercise your insatiable curiosity and to pry into other people's lives. i started covering big political events. i was sent by the "washington post" as a foreign correspondent first to poland in the middle of the whole collapse of communism actually, and then later on i went to russia and when i arrived in russia the whole system was in the proces

i was told "the washington post" didn't hire black reporters at the time. so this image is a nod to her national accomplishments. but it's also an example of more steps she had to climb. it's an example that more work was needed to be done. so that's what i kept coming back to. so then i looked at her posture and her stance in that image. her stance is strong and direct. her expression is calm, but it's also very confident. you have to remember, she was a self-made, self-liberated woman. she should have looked calm and confident. i wanted to capture that in the sculpture. in the photo, however, she's looking down the steps. because the photographer is actually on a few steps below her taking the shot. without the photographer, she was actually just looking down at the floor. that was never going to do, because we wanted her to be looking up and out to show that she was a visionary. so that's something that i chose to change to address a little bit and bring her stance up. then i started with clothing. this might seem like a simple part of the sculpture, but

this week's public affair virtual event would bring a conversation with the "washington post" nationalmness karen tumulty who's joining us in conversation for brenda book the triumph of nancy reagan in addition to permit the post", karen tumulty's work at time magazine and the los angeles times as a recipie o

those four years of pent-up anxiety about what was transpiring in front of our eyes. >> with the "washington post national columnist who's joining us in conversation for her brand-new book the triumph of nancy reagan in addition to working at the post, she's worked at "time" magazine and the los angeles times with many awards including the prize for excellence and political reporting. four years ago by simon & schuster to write this biography the book is finally being published tomorrow on apr

finally, i received a call back from someone at the "washington post." and she said, to her knowledge, that the license i needed had never been granted to anyone. this was not something that the "washington post" did. however, i did not give up. i started searching for the director and the manager of communications. and as soon as i found out who that was, i began making calls again. and leaving messages. and nicely reminding them that i was going to keep calling until someone else called me back. and she did. shawnee george, the manager of communications, finally left a message on my phone, weeks later. i asked her to give me two minutes. ten minutes later, she said she would have her team on it. she would research this image, the year in which it was made, the headlines from that year that we thought were appropriate. and her team sent me multiple headlines, multiple front pages of the "washington post" from 1947. i chose the one that is part of the statue, the above the fold set of headlines "because of its relationship to alice dunnigan's work in civ

he was also a journalist formerly with the washington post and has taught at the university of michigan, princeton and georgetown. he is going to speak to us this evening for a little bit about his book and we will answer questions later in the program. i do want to alert you that this coming thursday we have another author and he's written a book called when truth matters about the may 4th incident at kenneth state. and monday, june 7, we have [inaudible] and then the author of the book in the small hours. his conversations with frank sinatra. but i want to return to tonight's program and author michael dobbs who is going to talk about his book "king richard." michael, what can you tell us about king richard? >> thank you very much. for those of you that haven't seen it, this is a copy of my book which came out last week. it's king richard nixon and watergate in american tragedy. and it has, as you can see, a rather dark picture of richard nixon on the front cover. i will explain in a little bit the structure of the book and why we chose to call it king richard. i will tell you a littl

he is also a journalist formerly with "the washington post," and he has taught at the university ofofhigan, princeton and georgetown. he is goingng to speak to us ths evening for a little bit about his book, and we will answer questions later in the book -- excuse me, later in the program. i do want to alert you to the fact that this coming thursday we have another author, robert giles, and he has written a book called "truth matters" about the may 4th incident at kent state. and on monday, june 7th, we have -- . [inaudible] and on june 10th we have the author of the book "in the wee, small hours," his conversations with frank sinatra. but i want to return to tonight's program andur to authr michael dodd -- dobbs. um, michael. who's going to talk to us about "king richard." so, michael, what can you tell us about "king richard"? y of my book which came out last week. it's king richard nixon and watergate in american tragedy. and it has, as you can see, a rather dark picture of richard nixon on the front cover. i will explain in a little bit the structure of the book and why we chose t

i'm the senior writer here at "the washington post." we're going to be the talking about the troubling rise in cases from the delta variant and also vaccination challenges with dr. rachel levine. she's the assistant secretary for health at the department of health and human services. and, dr. levine, a very warm welcome to washington post live. >> well, thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here. >> it's wonderful to have you at a time when we need to understand so much more. there was a change in guidance this week from the cdc resulting from new science about the delta virus including new mask advice even for people who are vaccinated in certain settings. what is the plan behind that change? >> well, so so we know and have been discussing the last number of months that the delta variant is different. the delta variant has been shown to be more transmissable. it is at least twice as contain juice as previous forms -- on the -- contagious, and it was 1-2% of the percentage of covid-19 cases we were seeing in the united states, now

. >> here is a look at some the best-selling nonfiction books according to the "washington post". topic this is ireland can fix the "washington post" karol lennox and looked at the final year of the trump administration. followed by charlie's illustrated fables a boy, the mole, the fox and the horse. after that his examination of the psychoactive properties of certain plants and this is your mind on plants. next wrapping up our look at some of the "washington post" best-selling nonfiction books is a travel guide by the late author and travel host. some of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch the programs anytime @booktv.org. >> weekends on cspan2 are an intellectual feat. every saturday american history in tv documents america's story and on sunday @booktv brings you the limited nonfiction books and authors. funding for cspan2 comes in these television companies and more. >> the greatest town on earth is a place you call home. spark light is our home too. now were facing our greatest challenge that is why spark light is working around the clock to keep you conn

seriouo "washington post" live. i'm jonathan carl with abc news and today i have the honor and privilege of interviewing my friend, my colleague and fellow officers of the books about donald trump. carol leonning and phil rucker, the author just today out, "i alone can fix it" donald j trump's catastrophic final year just out hours ago but already a runaway bestseller following up on the first best seller, a very stable genius. welcome to you both. it's great. i've been wanting to do this for a while. the book is filled with extraordinary revelations about things we thought we knew about already. i wanted to start with you, carol. the two of you reported on this administration and you wrote a very stable genius, a fantastic book about the first three years of the trump presidency. did you learn anything new about donald trump given how much time you had already spent and how much effort you put into the reporting on him and his white house? >> you know, jonathan, you are the perfect person to ask that question and i

ainsley: "the washington post" actually "the washington post" is criticizing the biden administrationnot seek entry into the united states while at the same time relaxing or scrapping any array of measures that would actually dissuade them and providing rethree of migrants on both sides of the border has been a failure. that failure is measurable and it is politically toxic. are you surprised "the washington post" would do this or is this because they know midterms are around the corner and they need to -- yeah, go ahead. >> that's exactly it, ainsley. what an absolute joke. you and steve both said it this morning. this has nothing to do with real interest in the problem. this is everything to do with politics. "the washington post" editorial board is as liberal as they come. probably the most liberal paper in the nation competing with the "new york times." they know that this is a politically toxic issue. they know that the tail wind behind president donald trump winning in 2016 was immigration. we saw it in polls when i was at the rnc. this is a huge issue and now covid is being imp

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"the washington post" did a deep dive, found dr. of function supervirus research since 2012. dr. fauci denying that. this is supervirus research. it is about genetically engineering viruses to create you novak scenes and treatments but it is at the center of what could have caused the pandemic. the post is also saying that the nih director and dr. fauci weakened oversight of a committee a board that was going to do controls of this research. they avoided accountability by making up their own definition what is is and what is not gain of function research. they basically undercut the overnight committee to fast track the research by giving themselves veto power over it. senator rand paul said that was going on but dr. fauci denied it. now "the washington post" is saying effectively that yes, senator paul was saying was correct. what do you think? >> i new senator paul was correct to begin with. dr. fauci is consistently inconsistent. he lied to the congress and lied to the american people. he taken up every leftist position trying to

amy: craig whitlock, thank you for being with us, investigative reporter for "the washington post" andof the new book "the afghanistan papers: a secret history of the war." it is out at the end of the month. that does it for our show. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! q/ ♪ ♪

frances: good morning, i am frances sellers, a senior writer at the washington post today. we will talk about the troubling rise in cases from the delta variant and vaccination challenges with dr. rachel levine, assistant secretary for health at the department of health and human services. dr. levine, a warm welcome to washington post live. asst. sec. levine: thank you, pleasure to be here. frances: wonderful to have you here when we need to understand so much more. there was a change in guidance this week from cdc resulting from new science about the delta virus including masking for people who are vaccinated. what is the science behind that change? asst. sec. levine: we know and have been discussing for months that the delta variant is different. the delta variant has been shown to be more transmissible. it is at least twice as contagious as previous forms of covid-19 we have seen. approximately two months ago, the delta variant was 1% or 2% of the percentage of covid-19 cases we were seeing in the united states. now it is more than 80% of the cases we are seeing. so, bec

a "washington post" headline reading "today's taliban uses sophisticated social media practices thately violate the rules." and then there's this msnbc op-ed. "afghan women's rights are threatened with the g.o.p. isn't their champion. the taliban aren't the only ones trying to impose their will on women's bodies and choices." msnbc host joy reid with this take on the crisis in kabul. this is the real-life handmaid's tale, a true cautionary tale for the u.s. which has our own far religious right dreaming of a theocracy that would impose a particular brand of christianity, drive women from the workforce. in control all politics. >> kayleigh: "the washington post" tagline is "democracy dies in darkness." there's no better example of that been "the washington post" himself suggesting the taliban communicate in a sophisticated way. what a joke. this from a mainstream newspaper, the same one that called al-baghdadi, called him and his dear religious scholar. this paper is not worth the paper it is written on. democracy dies in darkness because of you, "washington post." >> harris: what's h

white house bureau chief ashley parker interviewed fellow washington post journalist damian pallottadepth look at the trump administrations handling of the covid-19 pandemic. >> in february 2020 there was focus on that diamond princess cruise ship off the coast of japan and there were 500 or 600 passengers on the ship. a lot of americans on the ship. elderly americans and what to do and how to get them home. there was at the time 360,000 people on cruise ships around the world so there's a lot of people on cruise ships, the virus moves very quickly and it was constantly in the headlines. the white house tuition room and were talking about this and the president is giving notice about the idea of sending these people back to the united states if theywere infected . at one point he was in a meeting in the situation room and said where not bringing them back, i don't want them back and he was focused on the number at the bottom of the screen that said the stock market and the number of people who were sick is 14 or 20 orsomething and he did not want that number going up . so he wanted t

it's hosted by the washington post. ♪ >> hello and welcome to "the washington post" live. am tom jackson with the washington post. it's my pleasure to welcome michael harrison in our continuing conversation about the national rise in violent crimes. in the role of policing. thank you for joining us, commissioner. commissioner harrison: thank you for having me. >> violent crime is up across america we had decades of , declining crime. it seems like the days of the 1980's were gone and here we are in the second straight year of homicides on a steady rise. what changed? commissioner harrison: i don't think baltimore is any different from the rest of the country. what other people tell me they are seeing is we certainly are affected by covid. people tell me they are seeing is we certainly are affected by covid. no indictments, no prosecution. those things are beginning to happen now, but were not existed for a while. even before that, a lot of what we used to enforce, we have had to make management decisions so that we can have more equitable and fair treatment. that we can ha

philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning senior washington correspondent at the washington post. how often with carolyn-ing of the new york times bestseller. i alone can fix it. >> rick's angle, former secretary of state for foreign diplomacy and affairs in the boma administration. former editor for time magazine. -- the professor of medicine and infectious diseases that and why you school of medicine in bellevue hospital. she's part of a panel that advised the biden transition team on the subject of covid-19 >> good evening, welcome to you all and doctor given, the gravity of today's news on the airline berry good i'd like to become -- begin talking about this comment from dr. fauci earlier from tonight. >> there is a survey, it says 30% of people who are saying they wanted to wait for the stamp of approval for the approval before they get vaccinated. i hope they come through on want their word and's stages are. i believe we have should have more mandates. if people want to participate in things that have the safety of other people at stake. they need to get vaccinated. >> dr.,

frankly i was disappointed a few days ago when i read in the washington post that when the washington post offers a book on the election talk to him and pointed out all the divergences from the truth he had said during the campaign they said how do you justify not telling the truth and he said well, there's a beautiful or not there is all this information. this information is inevitable in the political campaign but you can't govern that way and i think president trump didn't do enough and he did too much campaigning while he was in office. >> one of the issues that came up at the end of his presidency was one you addressed in your upcoming book our, "our broken elections: how the left changed the way youvote" . you open the book right in the opening pages of the book you write that contrary to the claims of many on the left, election fraud is a very real problem. >> we've seen just recently there are many figures on the left from stacy abrams to governor wolf of pennsylvania who just a few weeks ago were saying for example that voter id laws were voter suppression, they were a form o

on your left of the "washington post," in the center, margaret mcgill of axial sand on the far right, john of politico. we will start in reversing i want to start with president trump suit, the suit that he filed against facebook, twitter, some of the other companies. john, what is your thoughts on this and is it going to go anywhere? >> guest: hello, peter. great to be here. good question. i think right now most people are looking at the suit and not necessarily think it has many legs in court but i think the important thing about it is what it might be two or four years from now and setting up of some of the rhetoric will be around midterms. it's going to be coming to these notes around a big tech it's going to be dominating a lot of that debate and for him it's a useful issue to come back to. use all repeatedly invoking the concerns around the section 230 protections the tech companies had and in a way that was interesting because it seemed to be something he every few weeks would be bringing into a debate whether it was the defense bill or other issues. i don't think many legal sc

this is reflected in the washington post.nti-taliban commanders said they killed 30 fighters as they took control of the district from 100 miles north of kabul. that is the times of london reporting. that press conference in which the president underwent yesterday, you can see it on our website at c-span.org. he talked about the evacuation efforts and elaborated on what was going on. here's a portion of that from yesterday. [video clip] >> since i spoke to you on monday we have made significant progress. we secure the airport, enabling flights to resume. not just military flights but civilian charters from other countries and the ngos taking out civilians and vulnerable afghans. now we have almost 6000 troops on the ground, including the 82nd airborne providing security, the army 10th mountain division standing guard around the airport, and the marine expeditionary unit. this is one of the largest, most difficult airlifts in history and the only country in the world capable of projecting this much power with this degree of pr

that is from the washington post. a cnbc poll at the end of july on the issue of mandates. 49% of the folks they surveyed favored vaccine mandates and 46 opposed those mandates. 63% of facts and american support vaccine mandates and 54% of those supported mask mandates on airplanes. 46% for concerts and large events and 40% mask mandates in the workplace. that's our opening question on what you would support, what level of support you have for mask mandates. if you support a vaccine mandate (202) 748-8001. if you support a mask mandate (202) 748-8000. if you support both yocan use (202748-8001 if you support neier (202) 748-02. the issue vaccine sterday's white house briefing. should they to follow your lead or does he feel it's more a prate-sector sector matter where businesses should be able to take a look at this? >> both. there are steps that will be taken by localities and there will be steps taken by businesses. the president supports local efforts to keep the community safe. they will be different from communit

post." i have a subscription to "the washington times." the new york times and washington post have a particular agenda. for the veteran that spoke before, hats off to him, brother. i have never been in the military, but i can see what is going on with joe biden. what he is doing to the military. that is another issue right there. just tell the truth. you are going to blame this on what happened 20 years ago? and sure, there have been mistakes, but the truth is with joe biden -- and you edited a lot of mistakes that joe biden makes. he mumbles through conversations and he does not do a very good job. it shows his weak is on the world stage. we are not just concerned about what is going on in afghanistan. so, 28 days, unfortunately it will be the anniversary of 9/11. that is where some of the islamic terrorists started this nonsense. what is going to happen is not only what has happened in afghanistan. now the taliban, al qaeda, and some of the fundamentalist islamists that want to support terrorists around the world, what is going to happe

i will reference my wife here, the wonderful bureau chief for the washington post.sically drives me -- she drives me to the white house while i'm writing down questions and texting with my team and getting more input on questions and i show up and meet with the press secondrary and communication's director. you have 45 minutes or an hour here, whatever you want is to ask is fair game. they had -- i asked if there was going to be news or something i can get notes ready for or should be thinking about. no he just wanted to do an interview and you were on the tip of his tongue. the john bolton book had been leaked that morning and spent a few minutes responding to that. but i don't think i don't get the sense to call me in, the mood struck him and spent an hour going back and forth and that was the big news from the interview where he claimed that juneteenth -- he made juneteenth famous. >> yes, i remember. in tulsa rally. that may have played a part, trying to get ready for first rally in months, maybe trying to -- wide range of interview with different topics and, yo

. ♪ >> education secretary mcgill cargo not educational equity issues with the washington post.e also talked about broadband access, pre-k education for all and reopening schools in the fall with cases of the covid-19 delta variance on the rise. this is 30 minutes. >> welcome to washington post live, and another installment opportunity and crisis series this time investing in educational equity. president biden has made equity a central role of the administration and a central figure in that effort is our guest today. he is the secretary of education, mr. cardona, welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> great to see you. since being confirmed, i understand you traveled to 16 states plus puerto rico in a territory that doesn't come to visiting schools and students. what have you learned during those trips? >> i learned number one the students are resilient and educators are rock stars and that we want to come back to school safely but we missed the peer to peer interaction. we miss engaging with teachers and we want to come back to a system that is better than the one that we lef

we will go live to the washington post for a discussion with ranking member mike mccall. -- mike mccaul. >> i am the congressional reporter at the post-covid the taliban has quickly taken over afghanistan, just as u.s. troops were being withdrawn from the country after a 20 year war there. the harrowing images we have been seeing in these last couple of days have created a number of national security as well as foreign policy ramifications that will likely influence a number of decisions by the united states and other countries in the weeks and potentially years to come. here joining me today to talk about all of that is congressman michael mccaul. a republican from texas, who currently serves as the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you so much for joining us today. >> thanks for having me today. >> it's definitely a busy time. i know that you are trying to get as much information as possible. there's just been minute by minute developments come as each day has got on -- has gone on. i want to let our viewers know, what is the latest that you know from the ad

she is an opinion columnist with "the hindustan times" and "the washington post." her latest piece for "the post" is headlined "as an indian, i am enraged by america's refusal to set vaccine mandates." her father died of covid in april. first of all, our condolences on the death of your father. can you talk about what happened to your father -in fact, he had gotten one jab, or shot, of the two shots? and how you feel about the level of resistance in hesitancy around vaccines in the united states, how you connect the two? >> thank you, amy. my father had one jab and he was scduled to have the second vacce the week he tested potive and eventually had to be hpitalized. i think like many daughters in india today, i am haunted by the "what if?" the truth is he got vaccine he got a vacce as soon as he could. i was also somewhat enraged with my own government [inaudible] not having moved quickly enough in order to cure and manufacture more vaccines. that said, when we watch what is happening in the u.s., is astounding that people who have access to vaccines are choosing no

admirable, i would like to begin with you, along with this quote from the washington post. several people said thursday they had received confusing signals from the united states about how exactly they were supposed to leave, citing emails from the state department urging them to go to the airport only to find that was no one to receive them or to answer their questions on how to board flights. 39-year-old librarian, a dual u.s. afghan citizen who came with his wife and two children after receiving an email invitation from the state department said he was whipped by a taliban fighter. admiral i do want to know much, but i do know we have to do a better job, five would you assess the mission and is there a fix, a way to make this better and smoother at this point starting tomorrow morning? >> unfortunately, there is no silver bullet here, as you well know you've been in many crisis situation over the year. the u.s. military has control of the interior perimeter of kabul, international airport. that is a good thing. we can get flights, in and out of their, we want to get peop

washington post reporter tyler pager. tyler, thank you. >> so this withdrawal has been planned for months president's been talking about it. everybody knew about it. why is it that it has been so botched, so chaotic. why is this unfolding this way. >> yes, all the officials that i've spoken to today and all in over the weekend in the biden administration have made it very clear that they did not expect the taliban to be able to take control of kabul as quickly and easily as they did. you heard the president say that today in his speech that they were just shocked, frankly by how quickly they were able to take control and, you know, as last week we had reporting in washington post american intelligence efforts talk that they would have between 3090 days before couple lives in collier on hand and they were just frankly very wrong. and so has that power on came into control of kabul not force them to expedite this process of evacuating citizens, american soldiers and afghan allies as well. and to that process just how to hap

if you want to read the full story from the washington post. taking your phone calls with wes morgan. ruth is up first out of michigan. good morning. caller: yes, i was saying in 1975 we had a thing called the ugly american. today, the new saying is the arrogant american. now it is the way we left there. people seem to forget that women, there is a little thing we take for granted for freedom, they will be pulled out of their homes, taken in public, either stoned or decapitated. and just because we are there now, where the news media is there now, they are starting to take over all over afghanistan the news media. i am talking about the taliban. and we have sleeper cells all over america. just by detroit, there's an attempted tram it. we are talking full arms companies. these are people that came from over there, infiltrated, and they are armed. host: how do you know about sleeper cells in the united states? caller: because you see them. this is what i'm saying about the arrogance of america. it is like you do not have your eyes open. host: tha

in an op-ed today in "the washington post" two former u.s. attorneys and constitutional lae professor argue it should be. they write this. the time has come for the justice department to begin if it hasn't already a criminal investigation into the former president's dangerous course of conduct. if we're to maintain our democracy and respect for the rule of law, efforts to overturn a fair election simply cannot be tolerated and trump's conduct o, must be investigated. joan joining us now, one of the authors of that piece, barbara mcquade, the former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan, currently a law professor at the university of michigan. torf and devlin barrett is here, "the washington post" security and law enforcement reporter.in thank you for your time tonight. barbara, it's a great piece. for our viewers detail the crimes donald trump could be and should be investigated for? >> well, at this point of course doj should just begin investigating.u rbfo there's enough evidence, i think, in the public domain to suggest any nu

aaron blake of "the washington post" put it this way.onstrated how difficult it will be to combat the conspiracy theories that have infected the republican party's base, particularly if trump, who minds his base relentlessly, responds to the rebuke by backing away from vaccines. still here with us tonight, eugene robinson, a.b. stoddard. eugene, i promised to quote from you. here it is. you are already familiar with it. for our listeners and viewers, if reason, patriotism and clear self-interest won't convince reluctant americans to protect themselves and their communities against covid-19, maybe the threat of not being able to work, go to school, or lead anything like a normal life will do the trick. eugene, first off, that's an optimistic view. second, have the vaccinated americans been tiptoeing to too great an extent around the unvaccinated, is it time to play a little rougher? >> well, look, i know a lot of vaccinated people who have been the tiptoeing at all, who are quite angry that so many people have chosen not to be vaccinated,