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here is martha. >> martha: good evening, everybody. good evening at home. i am martha maccallum in new york, and this is "the story." so now we see it, but has been brought in part by the death of george floyd and perhaps some of the impacts of the defund movements on police what looks like the beginning of a very long hot summer of 2020. shootings and killings devastating seattle, minneapolis, new york, chicago all over the father's day weekend. this is the chicago police superintendent david brown. >> bullets don't just tear apart the things they strike. bullets also tear apart families. bullets destroy neighborhoods. and they ruin any sense of safety in a community. >> martha: so let's take you through just some of what we saw this weekend. carnage and heartbreaking mobs over just a few days in chicago, some of the shooting victims we have been able to get pictures of our african-americans, but you did not hear their names and you probably did not hear about them, but we will show you them now. on the left side there were a two teenage boys, 15 and 16 ye

martha? >> martha: thank you very much.next guest led the police response efforts in ferguson missouri in 2014 when protests erupted over the death of michael brown, an unarmed black teenager who was shot and killed in a struggle with police officers. ron johnson is a retired missouri highway patrol captain and author of 13 days in ferguson, he's also the founder and ceo of a solutions group, great to see you tonight. when you listen to the report of all of these officers who have been injured and also of incidents happening between officers and these protesters that put them in danger, what's going through your mind tonight? >> well, it's hurtful. it hurts, having warned that uniform and to see the officers out there trying to protect the freedom and the rights of the peaceful protesters, it hurts and it's troublesome and it's something we've got to addressed and those officers that on the frontline and those protesters, we have to address that issue and make sure that the officers are safe as well as the peaceful proteste

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martha. >> martha: wow. a lot of stuff going on.enson, host of the guy benson show, and townhall.com, marie harf, former state department post person. both are fox news contributor's. good to have you here. i want to come across something that i saw today when i was working on the statement. this is hattie mcdaniel accepting her oscar for best supporting actress in 1939. >> for your kindness, it has made me feel very, very humble. and i shall always hold that as a beacon for anything that i may be able to do in the future. i sincerely hope that i shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry. my heart is too full to tell you just how i feel. and may i say thank you. >> martha: i just thought it was so moved by that acceptance speech, and obviously she is an actress that was so proud of the work that she did in that film. she is an actress, obviously her character is completely different then the woman that you see standing on that stage. but she is a gifted fine actress and received accommodation for it. so

here's martha. >> martha: good evening, everybody, good to have you with us tonight. i martha maccallum from new york city and tonight this is "the story," we bring you brand-new it develop its and two big breaking story, the accusations from john bolton and what this has provoked all around, the doj may try to block the book, trey gowdy joins us tonight, he will be here in a bit but first 11 criminal charges for the officer who shot rayshard brooks in atlanta five days ago after a struggle ensued over handcuffs and a police taser. reaction tonight was swift, the mayor of atlanta who is said to be a possible running mate for joe biden, she has called the incident a murder, she said so right away. but attorney ted williams spoke out forcefully when this news broke today, saying that he believes it's a rush to judgment and he fears that it is an overcharging in this case given the struggle that we saw on video. here he is. >> we are not watching justice take place. these are human beings. i can tell you, this case is going to have a far reaching effect on the morale of

"the story" posted by martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: i love that couple, they are so cute. good to see everybody tonight. so america is under pressure as violence tears apart cities and covid-19 rolls across the country. we take on both of these big stories tonight in a way that you will not see anywhere else. with doctors on the ground in texas who are going to tell us why the patients who are coming through hospital doors now are in need of care, what is different than what it was in the early stages of the virus? and as we are all too aware, afraid broad emotions playing throughout the country. what is and what is not racist. and panic of cities spiraling out of control in the fraught summer of 2020. >> no history whatsoever. learn your history, if you lose your history, you would not be around. >> you are calling me a liar, and you do not have -- >> yes, i want to see the tick ticket. [screaming] >> martha: that is unbelievable. and look at this team, one of the most alarming visuals of the day from st. louis, a couple pulled their guns out on a group of protesters who

here's martha. >> martha: thank you, bret. the killing of george floyd has sparked nationwide reflection and protest that we have seen throughout the recent days. and today when al sharpton spoke at floyd's funeral, he called out forcefully for change. watch this. >> what happened to floyd happens every day in this country! and education and help services, and in every area of american life, it is time for us to stand up in george's name and say get your knee off my neck! >> martha: as a result of what happened to george floyd, congresswoman rashida tlaib and a growing number of other people and some of the protesters when you see the signs are calling to defund the police in the united states completely. something that the anarchist groups have also championed, but the mother of another young man who was killed by police two years ago says that when she watches what has happened in the process of minneapolis, she is heartened by the quicker justice that she believes is coming in the case. saying this. >> i have never heard of

martha. >> martha: absolutely. angela underwood jacobs, former city councilwoman from lancaster city, california, and the sister of officer patrick underwood. thank you so much. we all watched your testimony of the other day. and we were so moved by it. i want to give you an opportunity to just give us a quick sense of what your brother was like and what you want people to know about his life. >> you know, my brother was a very funny guy. he was a great guy who had a little bit of a corny sense of humor like me. he was very warm person, and in fact, you would hardly ever see somebody, if anyone that would not like patrick. he was just -- had that sunny bright personality, and he was a no-nonsense kind of guy at the same time. and he really loved what he did for a living. he took pride in being a federal officer. and as i was listening to the story just a second ago, my heart is still broken. and as i think about my brother, he was -- he loved every piece of his heart, and today, my heart and my family's heart is br

is to "the story" posted by martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: always and encouraging thought, thank you! have a great weekend. so good evening, everybody. i am martha maccallum, and this is "the story" tonight, as we watch the tense situation unfolding in seattle as groups are vying for power inside this newly designated autonomous city, we are also watching tonight, the city of nashville where protesters say that they intend to reclaim a piece of land outside the tennessee state capitol later tonight, governor bill lee has spoken out already and he says that that will not be tolerated. that is a far cry from restlessness in seattle where nobody seems to be in charge, here is police chief carmen bass talking about her anger and frustration, then you will hear from the mayor jenny jerkins who basically is saying move along, there is nothing to see here. >> i am very angry about the situation that we have, while i really support, this is not that. >> they are in the streets fighting the system of domination. we have block parties and the like in this part of seattle, it is know

good to see you. >> thank you, martha, i appreciate it. >> martha: . >> martha: cuevas et cetera surprise what are you looking at underneath these numbers? >> well, you know i think people underestimate the positive impact of openings of small businesses, which began in earnest, i don't know, late april come early may. i think the bottom of pandemic is mid-april. so you have small businesses opening come about half of them. we will get the other happened the next jobs report from about 80% now. and secondly, i think they misunderstood how powerful the paycheck protection program is come about $500 billion in loans, probably saved 50 million jobs. so what is going on is people who were temporarily laid off or furloughed have gone back to work. about 3 million of them, actually, which is close to the number. private payrolls were up $3 million domain 3 million and household survey where unemployment comes from is 3.8 million. so again, open the economy. take advantage of these government programs, and let people go back to work. and i think that is what they are doing. >> martha: it seems l

hi, mike. >> hi, martha.derek chauvin, we can show you the mug shots of the other three officers connected to the death of george floyd. their names as follows all booked in the hennepin county with aiding and if any second-degree murder. the bond is $1 million. the people out here at the scene say that they are pleased with the development, but it is not enough to satisfy them, it is not enough to make them leave the street. >> it ain't enough until they are behind bars for the rest of their life. >> i can't say when the right time to leave the streets he is. people have to have their fill and this is a situation where they are expressing their selves. they are feeling united with the community. you can put a time limit on it. >> not sure how many things need to be done and how many officers need to be arrested, but i know that today right now we are celebrating, but this still is not enough for us. >> in the demonstrations continue. we should be able to show you live pictures of the demonstrations in downto

here's martha. and martha, have a good weekend. >> martha: one week closer. thank you, bret. you too. ♪ >> martha: good evening, everybody. i martha maccallum and this is "the story." something has shifted in america. as peggy noonan writes today, months of fear, sickness and economic earthquakes simply don't leave things where they started. candidates running for office in this environment must meet the people where they are and give them hope for a brighter tomorrow. they must acknowledge the shift and lead the way forward from that spot. it is a deep calling and it is one that the country is waiting for. right now, according to the polls, joe biden is already anywhere from 6 to 11 points ahead in key battleground states, which is come all the while he's running essentially an almost invisible campaign at this point. while once a candidate trump and our president trump has found himself in tough spots, he has always bounced back from them. today "the wall street journal" sends up a very sharp warning signal with this prescription, the one issue in which voters give him an e

"the story" posted by martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: good evening everybody. i am martha maccallum, and this is from new york city, and this is "the story" tonight. police under pressure as we watch what is playing out in atlanta. those wishing to defund police may be getting what they want one way or another they are. which was a significant number of officers have walked out of the atlanta police department last night. and only one person showed up for work at the precinct. now the atb denies this, but they are seeing a higher number than usual of callouts. in an office or brawl after the death of brooks. brooks who was on probation after serving a year in prison on arrest for false imprisonment and credit card charges tried to break free when they attempted to handcuff him after he was found to be intoxicated. here once again you can see for yourself is the difficult video of what happened. >> [bleep]. >> 63. -- >> stop. [gunshots] >> martha: both of the officers turned themselves in today as they were expected to do for processing. officer devon brosnan sa

martha with "the story" starts now, love wins. >> martha: not a dry eye in the house after that. good evening, everybody on martha maccallum and tonight this is "the story" live from new york city. as americans get back to work and business reopen around the country, president trump intends to get back to the business of campaigning and for him come of course that means large rallies. the first one will be scheduled for this saturday in tulsa, oklahoma. despite the fact there are cases rising in 21 states in the country. the trump team says it demands that it is high. tweeting today over 1 million ticket request for the rally and tolls on saturday before the speech, before entering, each guest will get hand to hannah hannah sizer, temperature check, and a mask and bottled water as well. but the president is getting a serious blow back to this idea. an editorial blasting him saying we don't know why he chose this. we cannot see that this visit will be good for the city. and the city county health department director has noted "coda to my covid is here in tulsa and i wish we could

good to have you, sir. >> thank you, martha. >> martha: all right.hen we come back, breaking news tonight from the world health organization. now something that was one of the big assumptions of the whole covid virus about the transmission from asymptomatic people may not be happening the way that we were first led to believe. it could have major implications for policy as we go forward from quarantines to social distanci distancing. the doctor weighs in on that and a lot more when we come back [cymbals clanging] [knocking] room for seven. and much, much more. the first-ever glb. get 0% apr financing up to 36 months on most models, and 90-day first-payment deferral on any model. ♪ >> martha: a lot of confusing messages on the virus. after a thousand health officials band together and said racism is more dangerous than the virus. in other words, you should go out and protest. in new york mayor de blasio sent out different message before and after the death of george floyd. then the governor of new jersey who encourage people to social distance then jo

we are one day closer, "the story" hosted by martha now. >> martha: thank you, bret my martha maccallum and this is "the story." criticism he had not been vocal enough and the riots we have seen in the streets following george floyd's death. the president went to the rose garden and made a speech. he had some strong thing to say about what we can expect tonight if there is more rioting. he addressed the nation and really the deepest turmoil that we have seen in this country in decades. >> and america is founded upon the rule of law. it is the foundation of our prosperity, our freedom and our very way of life. but where there is no law, there is no opportunity. where there is no justice, there is no liberty. wherever there is no safety, there is no future. ♪ >> martha: the president addressing a country torn up by pandemic and by joblessness, by rage over the senseless death of george floyd. today his brother tried to talk sense to the rioters and the looters, and he called for an end to the property destruction. >> blowing up stuff, if i'm not over here messing up my community. what are

here's martha. a >> martha: good evening, everyone. i am martha maccallum. tonight to this is the story. there is now a growing push in america to declare racism not just a societal ill, but a public health crisis impacting the lives of african-americans in tangible ways across the country. more than 1200 health professionals declare this by encouraging protests across the united states in the midst of the covid-19 virus. they say that the protests were vital to the health of black people in the united states and the covid-19 is yet another lethal manifestation of white supremacy. according to those 1200 medical professionals. so over the past few months at least 14 cities and counties in the united states have declared that racism is a public health crisis. and several others employed to do the same. if the states of michigan and ohio have now introduced legislation as well. is this accurate, and where would this lead policy in these places. we are joined by will geronimo of the county of maryland that declared that racism is a public health crisis. and we

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>> martha: yes. he was mentally standing. i appreciate where you are coming from and i appreciate you coming on tonight. i know that you are very passionate and you want what's best. so everyone has different ways to get there. >> i just want black liberation and black sovereignty by any means necessary. >> martha: also joining up me tonight as senator marco rubio of florida. what is your reaction, black lives matter has a lot of different factions, a lot of different philosophies. it's not a group that is unified across the country and some people marched with lack lives matter posters and t-shirts and they think something very different than those who are the founders of the group. but what do you think about what mr. newsom had to say? >> i think those are fringe views that don't necessarily -- in fact i know they don't represent the vast majority of african-americans, minority communities or overall in terms of what we're facing. in my view it's a pretty straightforward. we have a long and lingering racial inequities that

"the story" hosted by martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: i don't know, you usually cheer me up. i am crying about though dogs. all right, thank you. have a good night. hello, everybody. breaking at this moment, this is the scene in washington, d.c., police and national guard guarding a statue of abraham lincoln. the emancipation memorial, by thousands of people visited all the time covered in fences and barricades print hoping to save it from a mob of protesters who have vowed that they will tear down this very night. in fact, they say that they will do that at 7:00, pretty quiet. the statue was resurrected in 1876 to celebrate the liberation of. but they called the image of a freed slave at his feet a monument to white supremacy. and they said they were going to tear it down, but they might be put off by the barricades and the presence of protecting it, which we will see how that goes. and with that, good evening, everybody. i am martha maccallum, and this is "the story." keeping an eye on that situation, we will bring you it if something happens, we hope that it doesn't. b

martha? >> martha: indeed it is. a trace, thank you very much. that coming as calls to defund across the country and some leaders in minneapolis taking things further. they want to completely dismantle the police department in favor of a new transformative force that would protect people apparently after the death of george floyd. the city council holding an emergency meeting and they reached an agreement with the state to ban police from using choke holds along reforms. one of the things that i find disturbing in this david dorn story, we all are sympathetic to george floyd, horrified by what we saw on the video, the evil in the offices fac officers face. but my question is where is a protest across the country? why do we not see a similar outcry for this man who was 38 years on the police force and as trace pointed out, father of five and grandfather to ten people? where is the outcry? >> i think these criminals should be prosecuted with the full force of the law. i don't think you will see any hesitation about that coming not only from the st.

ah, but business wasn't ready for aunt martha. fact the store happened to be on a quiet side street hadn't occurred to her, and neither did the fact that she didn't know how to plan meals economically. all in all, poor aunt martha wasn't making a go of it. and the worst of it was, she didn't even know why. the fact was, aunt martha was no manager, even if she was the best cook in town. and the sad truth is that her experience is typical of 50% of the people who start their own restaurants. think of it, that so many failures should occur all because too many aunt marthas rush in with no real preparation for the job. successful management takes a lot more than just knowing how to cook. it takes the knowledge and forethought of a businessman , coupled with the thorough understanding of each of the many phases that go to make up the operation of the restaurant business. this all takes training, lots of training, training that cannot be acquired by the hit and miss process of unguided experience. but where can one get the necessary hel

martha decided to go into the restaurant business. rented a vacant store, the first one she found, she spent many -- plenty of money decorating the place and soon aunt martha was ready for business, business was not ready for aunt martha. the fact that the store happened to be on a quiet side street did didoccur to her and neither the fact that she did not know how to plan her meals economically. poor aunt martha was not making a go of it and she did not know why. she is no manager even if she is not -- is the best cook and that town. her experience is typical of 50% of the people who start restaurants. to think that so many failures occur because of so many aunt marthas rush in without any preparation for the job. it takes the knowledge and forethought of a businessman coupled with a thorough understanding of each of the many phases going to make up the operations of a restaurant business. this all takes lots of training, training that cannot be acquired by the hit and miss process of unguided experience. where can one get the necess

martha? >> martha: i agree.well put, they talk about the reopening of america beginning with the destruction of it. in santa monica, rioters looted street wear and sandwiches, in washington d.c. they lit church is on fire and strangely enough the same cops who threw mothers in jail for reopening their workplaces to feed their children stood down, letting the mob desecrate america. i think i could say it any better than that, harris. >> harris: where do you think we go from here on this issue of reopening? yesterday in minnesota, governor tim walz said he was going to, because it was the beginning of june, that's when it was supposed to happen, they were going to have outdoor seating. you want to reopen your economy but no one can then feign ignorance when that same governor says, i'm going to have to massively test everybody for covid. >> martha: it's a real fear with so many people sort of being in each other's faces throughout the course of all of this. nonetheless, you have done a test, you have to keep on to

>> hi, martha. >> martha: tell me about your discussion with the president. obviously there is a lot to talk about. >> absolutely. look, central to just about anything we are talking about today has to do with what is going on in the streets of america right now. the peaceful protesters have not left many of the venues where they want their voices to be heard. so the president and i got into it about that. he does not like the way it is turned out. he is angry with the mayor of seattle and says that she does not push the rioters and the looters back, he is going to do it for her. >> if there were more toughness, we would not have the kind of devastation that you had in minneapolis and in seattle. i will tell you, if they don't straighten that situation out, we are going to straighten it out. >> what do you mean by that? i don't know if you caught it, but governor cuomo was so upset with bill de blasio coming his head i'm going to displease him, i don't know how that will work, is that we mean? >> we are not going to let seattle be occupied by anarchists. and

>> well, what i say is this, martha. what americans saw was federal police forces tear gassing peaceful americans, and how they responded made clear to the president that americans would exercise their first amendment rights and they would do it peacefully, and what he actually did as you saw for the remaining days was turn out more people, and more people were there for peaceful protest. >> you've also responded to president trump. in part, you mentioned this by honoring the black lives matter movement with this pavement mural and a street sign along the blocks leading up to the white house. the black lives matter d.c. tio performative gesture, and now they've added the words, defund the police which they say they fear you will now remove. is that right? >> we certainly are very proud of the d.c. mural that we commissioned in our department of public works and local artists installed. it is an affirmative piece of art, a centering piece of art where people from around the globe have called us and thanked us for acknowle

martha did it. but abigail had the liberty to choose to go home and she did for the next six years. >> we learned the city of philadelphia was decimated at the start of the second washington term by yellow fever. did she have any illness related to that? >> no. >> what was her illness? >> it's very hard to tell all these years later. she describes symptoms, but it's hard to put a name on the symptoms. >> rum tism. >> she did have rum tism. beyond that the symptoms are hard to diagnose. >> there was no role model for being the second lady at the time, but jean spear asked, did the newspapers of that time mention abigail? >> i'm not sure about that. they certainly mentioned john from time to time, although -- >> was she a national figure at that point? >> no. not at all. she was known because she had been the wife of the minister to great britain one of the problems that they had was that people thought that they were monarchial. they had been tainted by the time in europe. i think this is one of the

>> martha, thank you. and that takes us straight to the white house tonight and their effort to halt the release of this book. let's get right to our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl, who has been reporting on this. how concerned is the white house about bolton's book? >> reporter: well, david, of course, they have known this is coming for a long time, and they are waging an all-out counterattack, accusing bolton of cashing in and saying he is simultaneously making things up and revealing classified information. as you know, the white house administration has sued to try to prevent publication of this book, saying it is, quote, rife with classified information, but bolton points out that the book was initially cleared for publication back in april after the national security council did a review and concluded it theolto successor as natioother that has the allegation come out that he's got lots of classified information in this book. >> all right, jon karl and martha raddatz, thank you both to

. >> martha: yeah, i know, you provide a great service. i'm almost out of time but i quickly want to get your reaction to this because i think it is the big deal. the lancet and medical journal. and they both actually don't leave the study that shows hydroxychloroquine was not effective or even dangerous anymore because of the set up of the study that was in effect. this is the quote from the op-ed on this, hdl should rise or fall as a treatment on the medical merits, not whether people think it vindicates or repudiates donald j. trump and keeps the politics out of medicine, which sounds like, you know, a pretty good idea. >> that is absolutely true. so i stayed out for this very reason. i don't practice medicine. and a very hard job. what i tried to do both before i publish this and, look at the data that we get from hospitals. look at the data that we are getting from you know, states reporting deaths, try to put that together and see what the media is telling us. i want to say one thing, i really am grateful to fox. tucker and others ha

>> martha, thank you. and a reminder, you can see the exclusive interview with martha and john bolton in an abc news special tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> next tonight, top democrats demanding answers from william barr after he initiated a public showdown with one of the nation's top federal prosecutors. he was leading an office investigating members of the president's inner circle. tonight, that u.s. attorney out of a job. trevor ault with the fallout from new york. >> reporter: tonight, the chair of the house judiciary committee saying attorney general william barr deserves to be impeached after the abrupt firing of the nation's most powerful u.s. attorney. >> we've seen a pattern of the president opposing, of barr corruptly impeding all these investigations. so this is just more of the same. >> reporter: democrats now vowing to investigate whether the decision to remove geoffrey berman was politically motivated. sources tell abc news the president has been pushing to get berman out for months. the a

a reminder, you can see martha raddatz in that exclusive

>> i have done martha o occasion. > your history in -- your interest in the history of the first ladies, this is a life's work. >> yes, i thought them i'm a national guest speaker and i tell them that i didn't know any jackie's when i was a young girl growing up. there was jackie glisten, jackie cooper. they were men in that didn't count. when jacqueline kennedy came to the white house, she was sophisticated, spoke three languages, i wanted to be just like her. i thought she was absolutely charming and beautiful. and of course the assassination of kennedy left the rest of the country, glued to the television. four days, four nights, long before c-span and cnn. before there were 24 hour news. we were riveted by the assassination and that is what got me hooked on it. i have been setting them ever since. >> well back to the john shuns and the impeachment, he still had ten months to go till he f

martha oversaw every. sent she refurbished furniture. she would take up strips of carpet, have it cleaned and if it was a smaller section that was still, good put it in a different area. so she took down the wallpapers and she just had guild decor put up that was simple but very elegant. >> and again, the official washington, maybe even the larger country must have reacted well to this after the lincoln. i think they did. number one, they were very simple people and i think, even washington society appreciated the. they often said that they were dressed simply but elegantly. and i think what martha did, she did a lot with flowers and she made slip covers for the furniture as opposed to real post during. it i think they respected her thriftiness. >> one of the rooms that she particularly refurbished was the ones that are on the state floor and very much referenced all the time with official events, the blue room and also the famous east room. one of the traditions i understand that she created, was by finding portraits of past presidents.

so, that's where she learned it from, martha.aid margaret it was martha. >> those presidential paintings remained there. they become part of the white house and one of the more iconic, you see movies about the white house, you often see the first family walking down with all the presidential portraits it's called the cross hall in the state floor and that began with the johnson administration. well, during this program you're going to see videos from the johnson national park and national historic site in greeneville, tennessee, which is where our guest kendra hinkle has worked for quite a long time. we're going to start with one that shows the white house artifacts from the museum. before we look at it, how many do you have in the collection from the white house? is it a big white house collection? >> i would say a dozen to two dozen things from the white house administration. they were allowed to bring them home in those days. qualify that before we go on. >> so you got them from the family collection. >> uh-huh. three generati

>> martha, thank you. and again, there's a lot more to this interview. martha's full interview with john bolton airs this sunday night, 9:00 p.m. eastern, right here on abc. >>> and one more note from washington. a symbolic moment on capitol y pelo removing the portraits of former speakers who also served in the confederacy. speaker pelosi taking down the portraits in observance of juneteenth, calling them symbols of violent bigotry and grotesque racism. she has also called for the removal of 11 confederate statues on display in the capitol. >>> when we come back here tonight, the major fires burning out of control at this hour. thousands forced to evacuate. >>> also, the bold escape attempt from new york's rikers island. >>> and we remember a famous singer tonight. urprising themses they can du more wiess asth tdu typf moderatevere ahm wiess asth tdu dupixent isn't for sudden breathing problems. it can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as 2 weeks and help prevent severe asthma attacks. it's not a steroid but can help reduce or elim

i only mentioned bushrod washington, but martha had technically given her consent.she agreed to it. but the rotunda wasn't built. it was sort of a pipe dream of sorts. the rotunda would not be finished until the late 18 teams. it was sort of a foregone issue, and when it came up again, things have changed a lot politically in terms of sectionalism. even though they said while martha approved it, different representatives had different perspectives on how the will should be interpreted or how martha's letters should be interpreted. it boiled down to virginians tended to say, washington is in his native state. he was a virginian. so they're really kind of putting their stamp on who washington was. he was a virginian. members of the national government, particularly weak representatives, they like to argue, why don't you think delaware has as much claims as george washington, or new york or pennsylvania? the issue speaks to sort of the fishers that are happening between different political parties at that time. >> how did word spread across the country that the great g

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edith: well, i think in our first segment about martha washington you saw martha as a person who perfected aspect of the role which was the social partner to the president and a hostess for the nation. then, when you get to abigail, she becomes a political partner with her husband and pioneers that role. dolley is the one who brings the two of them together, so that she becomes both the social partner and the political partner for her husband and i think that sets all kinds of precedents for the future first ladies. and she's kind of still i think held up as a standard by which other people measure themselves today. susan: we'll spend the first 45 minutes or so, almost half of our program, on those important white house years. it was such an interesting and tempestuous time for this country and we want to make sure you understand the history of it. later on, we'll go back in time and we'll learn about her biography, how this young quaker woman became this internationally-known first lady and then end up with her legacy. that's what tonight looks like, and we welcome your participation. thr

>> martha: there has been a better war of words between the governor of florida, and now considered the epicenter, florida of the virus at this point. new york and new jersey where the first to go through that. and they go back and forth over who handled the crisis better. i'm joined by the mayor of miami-dade county, dispatching masks and hand sanitizer to residence in the hardest hit neighborhoods offering free hotel rooms to those infected and unable to social distance at home. joining me now. mayor, thank you very much. it's good to have you here tonight. first of all, just on the issue that i mentioned in the introduction, do you think that that is logical, fair to say that if you are from florida, don't show up in new york, your license plate will get you kicked out. or your driver's license if you fly in. >> we have had a 14-day self escalation. macro people in the tri-state area, because it is a hard hit area of the united states. they have had 17,500 deaths in the city itself, so it is much harder hit than we have ever seen in the state of florida and miami-dade county, our cou

martha didn't. but abigail had the liberty to choose to go home, and she did for the next six years. >> of her illness we learned the city of philadelphia was decimated at the start of the second washington term by yellow fever. 20% of the population died. did she have any illness related to that? >> no. it is very hard to tell. she describes symptoms, but it is hard to put a name on the symptoms. >> they say rheumatism. >> she did have rheumatism, but beyond that, the symptoms she describes our very heart to figure out. >> at the time she was the second lady. gene asks by twitter, to the newspapers at the time mention abigail? >> i'm not really sure about that. they mentioned john from time to time, although -- >> we see a national figure at that time? >> no. not at all. she was no because she had been the wife of the minister to great britain. one of the problems that they had lose that people thought that they were monarchy will. that they had been tainted by their time in europe. i think it is o

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churchill and roosevelt's mother and martha. >> that is an interesting room. whenever the mother came she wanted the best bedroom suite that was the rose suite maybe she would come once a month with her maids and servants and then process martha was an interesting character she would come to washington during the war years in exile from norway her father and i was the king of norway and her son-in-law is now currently the king of norway now she was beautiful and i think she had a spirited conversation that she just enjoyed and eleanor understood he needed that companion set one - - companionship so she would visit on the weekends and then this would be her sweet but when churchill came nobody stay there he was an incredible character during this period of time he would say three or four weeks at a time it was so exhausting nobody could sleep he would have soda for lunch and brandy at night smoking cigars until 2:00 a.m. and then finally after being in the suite for three or four weeks the entire white house staff would have to sleep 72 hours just to recuperate

martha mccallum joins us as we wait for that.rewalt and donna brazile also on deck next. 1 in 2 kids is underhydrated. if your child doesn't seem themself at times, they may not be hydrated enough. wabba wabba! all new, plant powered creative roots gives kids the hydration they need, with the fruit flavors they love, and 1 gram of sugar. find new creative roots in the kids' juice aisle. >> jon: fox news alert. take a look at the rose garden. president trump expected to hold a news conference with the president of poland any minute now. it is one of the loveliest places for this kind of ceremony. we will bring it to you live when it begins. meantime we want to bring in martha mccallum, host of "the story." it's been quite a while since the president has been able to host a foreign dignitary. the covid-19 pandemic obviously got in the way. and in the meantime, the country has gone bonkers with, you know, all kinds of protests, tearing down statues and, of course, there is the michael flynn investigation and the revelations from the