in the afternoon, they will release its beige book and in the afternoon, we will hear from esther george in denver on the economic outlook of the balance sheet. with all the news today, the drama of the from family's relationship with russia will continue in washington. donald trump, jr. went on fox news to explain why his meeting attemptsian lawyers in to get negative information on hillary clinton's campaign was a no big deal. the media has really done themselves a disservice by picking sides so flagrantly. they have driven people to think about it because it is just nothing. david: he did say he probably would have done things differently if he had it all to do over again. chiefg us now is our washington correspondent, kevin cirilli on capitol hill. was it a big deal or not? kevin: lawmakers on capitol hill think it is a big deal and several republicans i spoke with yesterday including house freedom caucus chairman mark meadows suggested that special counsel robert mueller should be looking into these emails as well as other conversations. there also have been increasing calls for don

when war came and her husband joined george washington's forces, esther and her four little childrenhard. she was not wore kbrried about herself shechlt was worried about the troops. she became publicly active in a way that a good citizen should. she organized the ladies association of pennsylvania where she was elected the leader. and then put together teams of women to go door to door around philadelphia and the suburbs, and to collect money for the troops. and the publicity about it spurred women in other states to act as well. as the first lady of pennsylvania, she wrote to all the other first ladies in the states and asked them to start fund-raising drives for the troops as well. in fact, the only extant letter of martha jefferson we have because thomas jefferson burned all her letters, for which i could kill him again. [ laughter ] >> but the only one we have is her letter as the first lady of virginia asking the women of virginia to go to their rural churches and donate money for the troops so that they may have an opportunity of proving that they also participate in this virt