tom: henrietta treyz of veda partners joins us on the debate of the moment.were speaking with nancy pelosi, who is steeped in her father's politics in both tomorrow. has nancy pelosi ever seen the negotiations of the moment? henrietta: i think speaker pelosi has seen more than enough fights, but this is a different type of ballgame. the progressive caucus is 96 members strong, and they are not interested in the status quo, and their behavior is not historically be trained for the democratic party. obviously it is a big tent, but with three votes to spare, you don't have a majority that is able to just muscle through bills. it will take time, and speaker pelosi has been working diligently, as is her whole leadership team. you might very well see failed votes or delays. this funding is for 300 projects nationwide. it becomes a real problem for progressives, and in turn for president biden, so i think speaker pelosi is facing a different category of player here. tom: how do the liberals give way and save face? henrietta: i think that you have to acknowledge that

henrietta: absolutely.t is where you see these states where you have huge medicare and medicaid recipients, numbers of unemployed, where the numbers are very high with covid and still need relief. i think it is a disconnect between the physical location of where the recipients are and who votes for it. obviously there are a lot of tremendous populations on the coast, and that is why they focus not just on the test cuts for families but also like the salt deduction and preserving some of the tax cuts that are trying to enact. lisa: you said this is still a big mat, however spread out over how many years and offset by tax increase, from an economic perspective, with offset taxes, what is the economic boost to the u.s. gdp? henrietta: i think the baseline assumption is that it will be paid for in part by itself, so just immediately the feedback that they will incorporate would be somewhere in the range of $600 billion. when we look at other studies that of been generated, it is definitely in the 1.5 chilean do

and henrietta fore iexecutive director of unicef, the u.n.'dren's agency thank you both so much for joining us today. mr. grandi, you've said that the crisis may be over at the kabul airport and you're thankful for everybody who was able to get out. but yosaid the humanitarian crisis is just beginning for those afghans who are left in the country. what did you mean by that? >> i mean, that 39 million afghans are left in afghanistan and we estimate that at least half of them are in need of humanitarian assistance, more than four million are displaced by recent and less recent conflict and the already started collapse of services and the economy is exposing many more to terrible hdship. so that's the humanitarian crisis that is beginning just now. >> woodruff: and henrietta fore, your focus that unicef is on children, it's on women specifically. at do you see that they have lying ahead for them in afghanistan? >> well, judy, there's an enormous amount of concern, a worry anxiety, because they really don't know what lies ahead. but women are comi

henrietta: it is very uneven and it is an area of great concern.ut our people are working hard on the ground. unicef has been in these districts for 65 years. and each district and each village and each area has their own leadership. and we are working with them to try and encourage that all girls and boys to school. right now some of the schools are open and in some of the areas, girls and boys are heading to primary school. we are very much talking about secondary school and ability for girls to return to secondary school. we are concerned about it. we are talking to everyone locally as well nationally. without teachers the schools really cannot operate. your earlier point about women going back to work they are important in the schools and hospitals. women are a real back bone of the services for communities within afghanistan. judy: it not just the taliban of course, it is these terrorist groups, isis, al qaeda, and so many others we are told that are still active across the country. how safety your people feel and the people you are trying to

host: that is henrietta in texas. texans, you can call and give your reactions to the governor this week. the rest of you can call on these lines and give your comments. this is cameron in seattle, washington saying, washington state has had vote by mail for years with no issues. the motor -- voter education process is based on the honor system. it raises questions." " how does preventing clerks from mailing emigrant applet since -- from mailing applications prevent fraud?" el nino saying, "stand up and take a bow, governor." still in arizona, "134 people for one dropbox. that seems restrictive for me." if you want to text us, (202) 748-8003. texas voting law is what we are talking about. you can tell us about the level of restrictions exists in the law. it would ban drive-through voting. it would also change voting hours or early voting hours. it would offer new mail-in voting requirements for partisan poll watchers. no unsolicited ballot applications. opportunities to create mail ballots. also monthly checks for non

i think about henrietta lacks and the story that she personally became involved with and it's also a story about people. and in some ways, mary rauch because she emerged. it's generally not a family connection but putting herself in the story and you get to read about how the scientists do their work. when you were thinking about writing this, now it just looks like a beautifully done thing, but was there a time when you thought what is this even going to mean and how am i going to work out telling the story? >> it's interesting you mentioned those books in particular because i studied them very carefully. because initially, i wasn't going to include any memoir. i thought it would maybe be on the split side of the book where i would write more intimately. i give full credit to my editor who was like what about memoir, what about the story with your aunt. she is the one that really teased that out and in that process of writing that, i realized that intimate voice is what needs to be the backbone here, whether i'm talking about my kind of complicated mother-daughter relationship with

henrietta brinson in 1953 she sat in front of a white couple on a bus. she was targeted by the bus driver. but she avoided jail in that sense because the white couple agreed to move. so, what you need to understand about segregated buses, generally speaking there are ten seats in the front, ten in the back. or 16 and 16. i'm sorry. whites, blacks, and this no-man's land. but depending on who was on the bus, the seats went to the white patrons and the african-americans had to move whenever instructed to. what's important here is understanding that bus drivers had police powers. they had police powers. so, that makes resisting doubly risky. right? they could do what a police officer could do in those circumstances, including violence. two other examples, rosa parks, as i said, she resisted a decade before she resisted. right? and one of the worst cases is viola white who in 1943 refused to give up her seat, she was the driver tried to remove her, she resisted, she was beaten, she was arrested and she was jailed. she was found guilty, appealed the case, and

host: that is henrietta in texas.exans, you can call and give your reactions to the governor this week. the rest of you can call on these lines and give your comments. this is cameron in seattle, washington saying, washington state has had vote by mail for years with no issues. the motor -- voter education process is based on the honor system. it raises questions." " how does preventing clerks from mailing emigrant applet since -- from mailing applications prevent fraud?" el nino saying, "stand up and take a bow, governor." still in arizona, "134 people for one dropbox. that seems restrictive for me." if you want to text us, (202) 748-8003. texas voting law is what we are talking about. you can tell us about the level of restrictions exists in the law. it would ban drive-through voting. it would also change voting hours or early voting hours. it would offer new mail-in voting requirements for partisan poll watchers. no unsolicited ballot applications. opportunities to create mail ballots. also monthly checks for nonci