you mentioned betty white. i think joe biden would say to you, governor, thank you for being a friend. it's a "golden girls" reference, margaret, because you're in ohio and you were a longtime conservative, centrist, depending who you ask. and here you are making those arguments for joe biden. it's interesting, margaret, that joe biden does have friends like john kasich. because in ohio and in the midwest and even parts of michigan, georgia, that's where the conversation is. it's not far right or far left. it's, sort of, more middle. your thoughts on all the above, margaret? >> yeah. it's very ohio. it's very harrisburg, pennsylvania, which is where i'm from. and ari, the news tonight is that you watch "the golden girls,"? really? you know the theme song. >> "three's company," too. yeah. >> wow. okay. so, if biden could pick state of the union biden and mix it with scranton biden, he'd be about in the right space for the debate. it's so hard to be yourself in a debate after you've been grilled for a week and yo

now betty white. from george washington to betty white.mer house speaker kevin mccarthy joins now. are we going to see a little golden girls thursday? >> i don't want to lower expectations because that's what everybody is doing and all that does is help biden. if you watched biden throughout his career the 1 think he has done well is in debates." back vice president debate against paul ryan. go back to the presidential debates. he always surpassed expectations because we continue to lower then for him. this is the highest office in the land and a matter what biden turns out he has 2 people in his corner. jake tapper and danna basch. those to macro protection may be entrapped and he starts messing up his words. maybe they'll interject. jake tapper remember where this guy started. prior to working for cnn he was a spokesperson for hooters. this guy would go to any level and he's going to protect him every chance he has. he was a flak for hooters? >> he worked for a pr company and he was the spokesperson for hooters. >> he was putting out pre

now, betty white, from t george washington to betty white. >> former house speaker kevin mccarthy joins me now. >> are we going to see a little golden girls thursday ? well, i don't want to lower't expectations because that's what everybody's want to doing.t ifd all that does is help biden. and if you watch yatched b biden throughout his career, the one thing that he has done well is in debates. go back to the vice president debate against paul ryan. go back to the presidential debates. he always surpassed expectations back to presidentie continue to lower them for him. remember, this is the highest office in the land. and no matter what biden turns a oundt, he's got two people in hs corner. jake tapper and dana bash, those two will protect him. maybe they'll interrupacrot whew he starts messing up his words. maybe they'll interject to helop and remember jake tapper. remember where this guy startedh prior to working for cnn? he was a spokesperson for s. this guy will go to any levelo and he's going to protect thems. every chance he has. >> he was a flack for . he worked for a pr company

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betty ford as first lady. now when you were chosen for the white house position and then the first lady's staff, what qualified you for that? did they choose you and? what was your role? that's probably the best you could possibly ask. i came home from from school, high school my senior year and my grandmother was recovering from surgery. i went to sit down with her just to spend a few moments and she had on the television a talk show. i'm going to be aging myself, but it was something called the mike douglas show and his featured guest that early spring, 1971 was a woman by the name of an armstrong. she came on the screen and the television wasn't big enough for that personality. she was full of vitality energy just. substance. the substance of her remarks was fascinating. but again, it seemed as though the television just wasn't big enough to contain her. i wrote a letter that night and she had just been she had named co-chair of the republican national committee. bob dole was the chair and armstrong and bill evans of delaware was one of the co-chairs. and i wrote her a letter, told her i had seen her that a

advisor and assistant to the president and director of the white house office of intergovernmental affairs. please welcome the honorable thomas bettisomas: buenos tardes. s great to be here. arturo does anyone a baseball fan? we've got two sports in dr. i'm from the dr. baseball and politics. arturo vargas is the cal ripken of non-profit leadership leading us everything i year. i'm so grateful for our friendship. i am so grateful to be back. i learned a little something when i was a trial lawyer at the justice department. the most important lesso the mind can only absorb as much as the seat-of-ll been here for a while. so i want to cut to the chase.folks, in my current capacity working with president biden as a senior advisor, i have spent a significant amount of my time working. on theborder issues .not only along the border, but working with cities like new york, chicago, denver, other cities that have been impacted. i have learned a lot. you a few insights. i also want to talk just briefland build on some of the conversation that congressman because point number one to remember, folks, is that our nation since our founding has ha

are the person responsible for betty's that sending her into ordered the pants as books at this particular time was tantamount to dressing her in a crew. klux klan white kate and sending her off to talk to you and this isn't, this isn't so, i mean that just to slander this letter by a bigger guy, you know, who actually was involved with the panthers before i was, it never said anything to the left will defend the cause and we'll sacrifice any individual in this case. it was me if david, do you think this, this tragic? i mean you, you're involved in a, in a mother, i mean, american or that was around you. this is something of great personal importance to me in most of affected your, your outlook on the well. but i do think that you, it is open your eyes to the reality or rather it how it yourself i, i was very aware of that. so danny was killed in our body was discovered in february 1975. um hi we, i didn't do anything politically. after that for the next 9 years, i voted for reagan in 1984 and that's when i emerged as a conservative. of course i came under tremendous attack from the left, but i hadn't said anything. and i was gonna say, hadn't said an

white house. house. but no one knew about most of ■1what until she died. and i want to recognize our former first lady of bettyand and talking about partnerships, rosalynn carter and betty ford became very good friends, though one husband had beaten the other one and tested fired on the health care proposal of hillary clinton. hillary clinton. and they wanted mental health in any kind of health care. so, you know, those have been incredible legacies. you know, you can talk about the laura barbara bush and literacy. in, barbara bush is she launched within just two months of becoming wow, first lady was bur family literacy really was tackling adult illiteracy in this country still is an enor problem and so that foundation in 1989 is still in existence it's just 33rd or 34th year it's raised 200 and millions of programs that are in all 50 states. and and its taking a personal interest and and passion and turning it into mething that really can help the country. i know going to talk about mrs. clinton butof a long lasting, yu know,■ legacy and something that is still helping women around around the world. so are w

white house. but no one knew about most of what until she died. and i want to recognize our former first lady of arkansas, betty bumpers. yes. who worked closely with mrs. carter. yeah, absolutely and and talking about partnerships, rosalynn carter and betty ford became very good friends, though one husband had beaten the other one and they up to the hill and jointly tested fired on the health care proposal of hillary clinton. hillary clinton. and they wanted mental health in any kind of health care. so, you know, those have been incredible legacies. you know, you can talk about the laura barbara bush and literacy. i mean, barbara bush is initially that she launched within just two months of becoming wow, first lady was the barbara bush foundation for family literacy really was tackling adult illiteracy in this country still is an enormous problem and so that foundation established in 1989 is still in existence it's just celebrated its 33rd or 34th year it's raised 200 and millions of dollars programs that are in all 50 states. and and it really again, it's taking a personal interest and and passion and turning

betty yu, thank you for that time now. 733 on to politics. president biden, former president trump are now making their final preparations for the first debate of the 2024 race for the whitecandidates will square off in atlanta thursday night for the earliest presidential debate in us history. vice president kamala harris says the 90 minute debate could also prove to be the most consequential event ever in american politics. >> i think that the debate is going to make clear the contrast between our president, the current president, who works on behalf of the american people, fights for the american people, and the former president, who pretty much spends full time fighting for himself. >> former president trump held a weekend rally in philadelphia as he gets ready for the debate on thursday night. trump reminding his republican supporters that pennsylvania is one of the swing states that will determine who will win it all. come november. >> that's why this november, the people of pennsylvania are going to tell crooked joe biden, you're fired. get out, get out. you're fired. >> trump has repeatedly attacked president biden as old and frail and not fit to be the commander i

white finery. and they say, does anyone know of any lawful impediment? she had a little boy in an orphanage, just 50 miles away. but by giving me up, it meant bettyer fell for this . apparently i was for this. apparently i was a tongue tied, awkward, stubborn child . child. >> not you. >> not you. >> some would say i'm still awkward and stubborn, but i don't think anybody would say i'm tongue tied. i've certainly made up for lost time. i was very shy as well, apparently because most of the children in the orphanage were babies, because people wanted babies. they didn't want awkward toddlers because they've already got their own characteristics. and well, you know , you're mum. >> i know you are. yeah. it just wasn't really cute. yeah. >> so and so they and my so my parents visited me regularly at weekends . it was a two hour bus weekends. it was a two hour bus ride for them and two hours back. but they set their heart on this little fella and, and then they'd been visiting me for about 5 or 6 months, and i'd gone to stay with them in their house in swindon, and there was an outbreak of something like german measles in the orphanage. so i never we