and by total look, i was doing an event that very day at wellesley college.which was a mere 15 minute drive from the school's school. and so of course, i had to. i pumped in just to say hello to the new ruth nichols. am i really do think about these women. a could bit, actually. and always when i fly. and i think a lot about ruth nichols. you'll see here on her pilots license from 1930, it's signed, of course by orville wright. and this book first came out, i was in new york city for the launch for the first day. i had a busy day. that morning wasn't scheduled. and so i decided to do something that morning that i had never had a chance to do during the actual research for the book. that is i left my hotel in manhattan and i got on a train and i went to the bronx to visit ruth nichols grave. she is buried in a place called wood lawn cemetery which is a massive and important cemetery in new york city. you know, if you are of money or of fame in the 19th or 20th centuries and you lived in new york, chances are, you are buried at wood lawn. and -- i took the trai

fled afghanistan last year after the taliban returned to power, and is now a visiting fellow at wellesleyters for women. welcome back to the newshour. good to see you, and has been 300 days since girls were banned from secondary schools there in afghanistan. what does that mean for all those girls and what has life been like? >> they cannot socialize, they cannot mobilize. they are poor and cannot economically survive. they cannot go outside, the girls are depressed, they are hopeless. no one is even standing up for them. amna: the taliban keeps saying they do intend to reopen those schools and let the girls back into the classrooms. talk about capacity and resources and so on. do you believe them when they say they let -- they will let the girls go back to school? >> afghanistan has always been a poor country and kids have always gone to school. having resources is only limited when it comes to girls education. how come the girls from grade 1-6 are still able to go to the same schools. higher education girls can still go to school. i don't think it is about resources. amna: before you le

basketball player say but shopping hill calvin hill, but she and hillary clinton were roommates said at wellesley is it? well, so yeah. yeah, and so i had been hearing about hillary clinton since she was a in college. and she she really see they graduated right after martin's death 68. and ed brooke was the convention commencement speaker and he gave a speech. supporting the war in vietnam you know. two months after martin luther king's been killed. and hillary got up. and through her paper away and she dressed down. the only black senator in in the congress and she told him to bits. say and their picture was on the cover. i think of look magazine. so i'd been following her since she was 17. and and i had never met obama. and i made the mistake of reading the wrong book first. so if you read his book on his childhood. and you get who he really is dreams of my father said dreams of my foot, but i didn't know that one. the first time i heard of him paid attention to him. i happened to be in hawaii and his book that he wrote just came out. and so i read it on the way back from hawaii and it wasn't a