dawn porter is here to discuss her latest film, "the lady bird diaries."ron: 123 hours of her recordings, recording herself. how did you get access to it, and what made you decide to make it into this documentary? >> abc had done this podcast based on the 123 hours. and that was based on a book by julia swag. julia had been doing research in the johnson library and stumbled upon these tape. they'd been in the library for decades. abc came to me and said, "do you think it could be a film?" >> byron: i watched it. it's powerful. it's wonderful. it's relevant to the life we're living in right now, in these times. we share an audience clip. we talks about in her own voice when john f. kennedy was assassinated. >> by that time, mrs. kennedy had arrived, and the coffin. mrs. kennedy bled, blood, her husband's blood. i asked her if i couldn't get somebody to help her change. she said, "oh, no, i want them to see what they have done to jack." >> byron: i didn't realize the johnsons were there. also, one of the wonderful details that you capture is her humility. ev

. >> the documentary produced by abc news studios and directed by dawn porter, features revealing recordingsd johnson made beginning right after the jfk assassin nation and throughout her husband's presidency. you can stream the lady bird diaries now on hulu, disney is the parent company of both hulu and abc seven. all right. >> let's talk about the weather once again, because i know a lot of people, if you're just tuning in, want to know about that rain. yeah. >> and it's going to be a good bit of rain the next few days. spencer kristen sze tracking that for us. you're right. >> next few days, a good bit of rain, periods of rain, heavy at times and sometimes just light showers. let's bring out the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale, the approaching storm is a level one and the activity begins overnight with light rain, then heavier rain developing later in the day tomorrow in the north bay first before it spreads to other parts of the bay area. and of course, we expect roadways to be slick. here's the forecast animation for tonight. starting at midnight, notice how the rain just surges

dawn porter, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> jen, tell us in your remaining time we have what you have planned. >> i just spent the day with governor pritzker yesterday in illinois. and people often think of him as this kind of billionaire, of course, that's what we know him of. he is an unapologetic progressive, i've rarely met a man who's so comfortable talking about abortion rights, so we talked all about that, the convention, and what he thinks joe biden should be doing. so that's going to be part of our sunday show. >> i love it. and katty, where can people go see -- go to youtube, influential katty kay, and next week we're going to resolve the big debate about "love actually". >> we have to hear that. incredible film. this is going to be a battle to the end. that does it for us this morning. hope you have a great weekend. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. >>> right now on "ana cabrera reports," just in, a new resolution just filed to expel george santos from congress. this after that damming report alleging that he spent campaign cash on everything f

joining us now is the film's director, dawn porter.ell us what about you learned as you were listening to these tapes from 50, 60 years ago, what you learned about lady bird johnson that people in, you know, the younger generations might not know and remember about her. >> you know, lady bird johnson is well-known for efforts, people termed it beautification. but actually she was really an environmentalist, and her work led to lbj signing more than 30 300 bills to protect the environment. richard nixon credited her with the research that led to the formation of the epa. so while her work was termed beautification, and that's really kind of what women were allowed to do. they can plant flowers, but really lady bird was one of our first environmentalists. that along with so many other personal, private moments about their marriage, about the presidency, that's what we learned from hearing the tapes. >> so peter talked to some members of the family last night, and one of the stories he heard was how shocked lady bird was when she went sou