martha? >> martha: well, that's what happens when people make noise and speak out.on. thanks, gillian turner. great to hear from the students. now kerry lucas, a virginia mom of five and her 13-year-old daughter. a virginia public school eighth grader. thanks for being here. kerry, you heard virginia's report. and the department of education is trying to reframe this. they're saying that they are not eliminating accelerated advanced courses. they're still very much a part of the plan to succeed in the 21st century economy. so what is going on with this? were we misled in the first place or what is your take? >> you know, i think virginia must be hearing from a lot of parents. it's no surprise. parents have been frustrated the last year by the loss of learning as so many virginia schools have remained closed. it's frustrating reducing the rigor and math of all things. i just want to point out, that this may have been done in the name of equity or floated in the name of equity. we've seen hundreds of virginia families pulling their kids from the public schools because

i am >> martha: thanks. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york. this is "the story." watch this. >> quit your job! >> that was last night in new york city. people yelled at the police asking them to quit their jobs in the wake of the chauvin verdict. we know that other officers with chauvin that day are going to go to trial. those trials are still ahead this summer. a short time ago, merrick garland says the department of justice is going to investigate all of the minneapolis police department practices. >> yesterday's verdict in the state criminal trial does not address the potentially systemic policing issues in minneapolis. the challenges we face are deeply woven into our history. they did not arise today or last year. >> martha: the president of the united states also signalling that he believes it's not time to move on. >> vice president just referred to systemic racism is a stain on our nation's soul. such a verdict is much too rare. so we can't leave this moment or look away thinking our work is done. >> martha: we'll talk about that. minneapolis was quiet last

"the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum live in new york. here's the story. the firestorm in georgia that has the whole country watching is heating up this afternoon. texas governor greg abbott says, you know what? i'm not going to throw out that first pitch tonight at the mlb game that gets started. texas rangers game at their home opener. so in moments, we'll talk to the man at the center of what's going on in georgia. that's brian kemp. he's standing by. we'll be with him in just a minute. his state stands to lose $100 million now that the mlb yanked the all-star game out of atlanta. rand paul joins us as well. he wants to know how coke and delta and microsoft can get around uighur concentration camps in china. they do big business there every year but want to cancel a voter law in passed in georgia by the house and the senate but duly elected representatives in the state of georgia. later today, an arizona school is proposing an equity plan as an essential part of the elementary school curriculum fo

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martha? >> martha: thanks, trey. now, general jack keane, fox news contributor and analyst. good to have you with us. what is your reaction to what is going on? >> well, i think it's probably good they're talking but here's the problem i have with it. the only thing that is really on the table for negotiations is the old deal. in other words a 2015 deal that with all of its flaws and the new biden administration, when they came in, in their public discourse and statements said that their goal was to lengthen and strengthen the old deal. in other words, put together a much improved, better deal. the aspirations of that. no talk of that now. iran will not give up the sanctions until they know that the -- iran clearly is going to put on the table their desire to have all the sanctions removed. all of them removed at once in return for the united states who wants some kind of a deal put together here. if we walk out of there, martha, all we have in our hand is the same lousy deal that gave iran a pathway to a nuclear wea

martha? >> martha: thanks, lucas. joining me now ambassador robert o'brien, former national security adviser for president trump. great to see you again. thanks very much for being here. i do want to obviously talk to you about japan and about china. good to have you, sir. i want to first just go back to this issue that lucas was just reporting on. we remember clearly in the heat of the campaign and the summer of 2020 the story that hit "the new york times." it was huge. it was all about how russia was paying the taliban to hit american soldiers. there was all of this shock on the part of the american media that the president wasn't doing more to push back on putin about it. take a look at this montage. >> paying rewards for americans death. the president knows it, he's been told. >> what a terrible position this puts a man who is beholden to vladimir putin in. we were talking about right after it broke, oh, my god. he's going to deny it. he's going to lie about it. but then he's going to refuse to do what any other p

i'm martha maccallum. right now on "the story," caitlyn jenner is running for governor of the state of california with this message. "i'm in." california is worth fighting for. she calls herself a passionate disrupter. she says i'm a proven winner and the only outsider that can put an end to gavin newsome's run as governor. can the former gold medallist have a vision to the governor's mansion in sacramento? does she present a real threat to newsome's political future? leo terrell lives in california a long time. a civil right's attorney who has been approached himself to run in that race. joe concha for the hill, fox news contributors. very interesting candidate to put in this race. reminds me of ronald reagan and arnold schwarzenegger. people that came from entertainment and sports and put the name recognition to the governor's house in california. leo, you said you were approached by the recall team to run. why did you turn it down? >> i'll tell you very clearly why. yes, i was approached by the organize

martha? >> martha: matt finn, thanks.tor, mark eiglarsh here with us. good to have you with us this afternoon. that is what this -- first of all, i whatn't to ask you about chauvin deciding not to testify. did that surprise you at all? i spoke to some attorneys that said they should put him on. >> the lawyers would not be anybody i'd consult. i would not put him on. there's value to him testifying. let's grant that. it would have humanized him. maybe somehow he does a great performance and they feel for him. the other side of the scale is the blistering cross examination that would have come his way he wouldn't survive when the prosecutor takes it frame by frame and asks him what the heck were you doing? there's no answer that he could give to justify his actions. >> martha: it's so true. when you look hat that question that matt finn was talking about, it's the moment by moment. it's in the opening argument as well. every minute that he stayed on his neck is a decision, right? that he still needs to be there. because is

"the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks very much, john and sandra. here's "the story" folks. an all-out push by democrats to lock up power in a number of different ways on capitol hill. one of them is by adding two senators from a brand new state. it's the place that is now known as washington d.c. it would be called, if they had their way, the state of washington, douglas commonwealth. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york. the measure has officially passed in the house. it got no republican support at all. democrats say it's all about giving 700,000 people that live in d.c. the representation that they should have in the halls of congress. here's their argument. >> d.c. residents have been petitioning for voting representation in congress and local autonomy for 220 years. the house will finally address this injust, unequal and undemocratic situation. >> i have had enough of my colleagues racist insinuations that somehow the people of washington d.c. are incapable or even unworthy. >> for my friends across the aisle saying this would lead

martha? >> martha: as promised, mitch mcconnell of kentucky. good to have you with us today, senator. thanks for being here. what does your side do to push back on these plans that they hope will appeal to a lot of blue collar workers that were trump republican voters. >> first, the government is not the people. the president got it exactly wrong. this is a massive engagement or recommendation that we engage in higher taxes, more spending and dramatically more debt. senator romney had it exactly right. this is the wrong prescription for america. we're coming out of this pandemic, growth is picking up dramatically. vaccines are getting in arms. these proposals are wildly out of proportion to what to country needs at this particular juncture. >> martha: it remains to be seen politically if trying to push this through. some turned it trying to get a rhinoceros through a garden hose, this is senator manchin there west virginia talking about the spending plans. watch this. >> are you concerned about this push for a more expensive government? >> cert

he can plead the fifth, martha. >> martha: very interesting. thanks.torney john fillmore. thanks for being here today. what do you make of this potential testimony from this individual that may have given george floyd the drugs that were in his system? how does this add up to you? >> well, you know, this is a little bit of a head scratcher for me, martha. this witness, maurice hall is a risky witness for either side. for starters, he's testifying from inside a jail cell, which means he has a criminal history. that is never a good look. more importantly, maurice hall could be and probably should be charged with the murder of george floyd. because the theory of the case and a previous witness kind of sort of implicated him that this was george floyd's drug dealer. not only is it his drug dealer, he supplied the drugs that george floyd ingested the day he died. >> martha: we don't know that for sure, donna. we did hear the testimony of the girlfriend that said she did not like it when george hung around with maurice hall because she said that she and geor

. >> martha: thanks. i'm martha maccallum in new york. here's the story right now. the biden white house is running into head winds. intensifying scrutiny from some, you might say unlikely places including "washington post." this headline in the hill today. "white house moves to reshape role of u.s. capitalism." a percentage of gdp, the biden plan is bigger as a percentage of gdp than the new deal was. that was the effort that transformed the federal government's role and expanded it in the lives of americans down the road with the great society that laid the ground work for the u.s. entitlement system. so the biden plan shrinks capitalism by saddling american companies with the highest tax rate in the world. according to the tax foundation. therefore, the least competitive. it expand government involvement dramatically in commerce and in people's lives. a move that may endear progressives to the plan. a.o.c. says it's not enough money. transportation secretary pete buttigieg who has a big role in this, he's happy to hear that. >> we need to go way higher. we're tal

. >> martha: with that, good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york. here's "the story" as we await the release now of a new video, this time it's from elizabeth city, north carolina. the city there is on edge. they've been waiting for this since 11:00 a.m. we'll take you there as soon as this video is released. that as the president gets ready for a very big address to congress. his first. he will speak to the nation as well on wednesday night this week. here's a big question. how much attention will he give to this issue of the scrutiny of police and how, if at all, will he address another huge story across this country, which is the frightening rise in crime that we're seeing in our cities. many police officers take an early exit from the beat. a new york city officer dragged by the car of a gas member that was out on bail during what was an attempted traffic stop. watch this. terrifying he made it out of that with a back injury thankfully, this weekend, the city saw two dozen shootings. the streets are less safe for many reasons including the disba

martha? >> martha: thanks, blake. secretary and co-anchor of "america's news rooms", karl rove, fox news contributor and john baker. we want to start by showing you a comparison. we've been tallying up the numbers compared to f.d.r.'s new deal. the last time we did these numbers, they looked very different. take a look at them now. we know president biden fancies himself a new f.d.r. to transform a lot of things about the u.s. economy. so the spending bill percentage of the g.d.p., the first new deal was 5.9% of the gdp. look at this bill, it's 27.9% of our gross domestic product. that is a huge number. it is really making folks like a.o.c. very happy. here's what she had to say about it. >> president biden has definitely exceeded expectations that progressives had. i'll be frank. a lot of us expected a more conservative administration. >> martha: karl rove, you start. >> let's put it in full context. you're right. we have $6.3 trillion proposed by the administration in the first 100 days. on top of that, remember, we

"the story" with martha maccallum starts now. >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york. this is the story breaking right now in minneapolis. three are now fired or have resigned related to the shooting of duante wright. first, the city manager that you may remember calling forcefully for due process in this case. remember this? >> and in response to the question about termination, all employees working for the city of brooklyn center are entitled to due process with respect to discipline. this employee will receive due process. that is really all that i can say today. >> martha: that man is no longer in his position. the officer involved, kim potter, has also resigned. so has the police chief now ang the police chief. he immediately released the video that you see in the center as soon as it was available to him. here he was yesterday talking about how much he loved his job and his work. >> this is what i'm here for. okay? i'm the leader of this department. they expect me to lead, create a safety. that's what i'm trying to do. that's it.

"the story" with martha maccallum stars right now. >> martha: i'm martha maccallum in new york. this is a story breaking right now. an armed suspect is on the run in the new york city area. this man on the right-hand side of your screen is gabriel wilson. he's been identified by the police in west hempstead about 30 miles east of new york city. he's a person of interest in this shooting that has left at least one person dead. two wounded inside a stop and shop grocery store. officials say that he was and still may be an employee at that store. the man that he fatally shot worked at the store as well. this one describing how she felt herself shopping one minute and looking for a place to hide from gun fire the next. >> we just sort of banded together. we were trying to figure out in the produce department, there's places to hide under the counter. so we were trying to figure out if the shooter came along that we had a place to go. >> martha: this is the the world we live in right now. nancy grace is standing by with details and her analysis in a moment. we begin on the ground in

martha? >> martha: thanks, chad.ning me now one of the signers of that letter, mike braun of indiana. he has a lot of background in these issues. good to see you. why did you sign this letter? >> this is an easy one. when you have "the new york times" drumming up a 1619 project and critical race theory that is being spewed across the country and president biden going along with the left side of his party to actually try to push this in to grants, in to our school system. let me tell you, i came from a local school board. back in my office in my hometown today. i see in my own work force diversity. we need employees. that is so off the mark. to be based upon credential historians are saying has errors embedded in it. it's not going to resonate on main street. i think it's going along with the risk that he's taking with a border policy down there about three weeks ago. that is going to add up in to issues in 2022. i think if you're risking that much politically, pushing in so many directions that don't go along with ma

"the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york. president biden on his way to arlington national cemetery. he will visit section 60 where veterans of afghanistan are buried. he announced a complete withdrawal of the remaining u.s. troops through by this september 11th, which is the 20th anniversary of the attack on america by osama bin laden. and we're waiting for live remarks from senator lindsey graham that will take issue with this action by president biden. while many americans will welcome this withdrawal, it was first declared by president trump. he wanted out by may. graham does not. we'll bring you that live and show you both sides of that story. jack keane is here and also congressman michael waltz, an afghanistan veteran. they're uniquely qualified to weigh-in on what happens september 12, 2021. first to kristin fisher live at the white house where the president just spoke. kristin? >> martha, speaking from the same room where former president bush announced the air strikes in afghanistan

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martha? >> martha: mark meredith, thanks for your reporting this afternoon. only april 2 and already two capitol hill police officers have lost their lives in 2021, which is a horrible assessment of where this stands. it's a beautiful cold day on capitol hill in washington d.c. with that, as we watch the scene on the street here, obviously a lot of stunned officers with what has transpired this afternoon starting at 1:02 this afternoon when that car rammed in to the barriers that you see around the perimeters of washington d.c. these days. i want to bring in former d.c. homicide detective ted williams. thanks so much for joining us today. you spent more than a couple of decades as a homicide detective in washington d.c. so this suspect was killed, died after being at the scene. so now homicide detectives need to begin to piece together a motive. where do they begin in terms of figuring out what happened here? >> well, as you said, martha, a very sad day. good friday. law enforcement officer l

martha? >> mike, they have national guard present and also additional national guard that has been in reserve waiting for the outcome of the chauvin trial in case they're needed. now you have this other situation which is making things worse. mike, thanks very much. mike tobin on the scene. joining me now, leo terrell who is in minneapolis and geraldo rivera, a fox news contributor at large, a veteran covering trials for many years as we watch the chauvin trial get close to the end of the prosecutor's case here. i want to start with what happened with dante wright. we've seen the news conference and watched the video. leo, what is your take? >> you'll have three parallel tracks. the administrative process, martha, where the officer is entitled to due process. a civil lawsuit because there's a wrongful death case. the family will sue the police department. and then a criminal investigation to see if the officer's conduct was reckless and warrant criminal charges. all three processes requires d

martha agreed to join us at the reagan library to discuss her book. of course at the time we booked martha to come almost exactly a year ago, little did we know that just a few days before she was to come, the coronavirus pandemic was going to strike, in the wake of the pandemic, we were forced to close the reagan library and cancel all of our events, including our visit with martha. i'm not exaggerating when i say we had to disappoint over a thousand people who were eager to come to the reagan library to see her. now here we are, a full year later. the bad news is that the virus is still with us. but the good news is that during all this time, the reagan foundation developed the ability to go digital. we moved our speaker series online and began producing quality programming for our social media channels in a new and better format. tens of thousands of our supporters have been tuning in to the virtual events we're bringing you, now sometimes two to three times a week. this week we are just thrilled to host our long awaited event with martha, to discu

martha? >> martha: matt finn, thanks very much. outside the courthouse as we watch this play out live right now, this afternoon. joining me now, marked eiglarsh is a former defense attorney and prosecutor that has been watching this closely. good to have you with us here this afternoon. i want your big picture thoughts as you watched the closing arguments. first, the details, the fact that the judge cut in and jumped off eric nelson. he was going 2 1/2 hours. what is the impact of the closing argument on that? >> i've had that happen to me. it's a good thing. you want to keep going. the judge is looking at the jurors thinking if they had food, they would pay more attention. >> martha: yeah. if everybody got tired and glazing over, this will give nelson a chance to let everybody take a break and he can come back and sum up everything. so after that, the prosecution has one final ability. they will be the last voice, blackwell will be the last voice that this jury hears from, right? >> yeah, it's rough. it's the roughest thing as a d

>> martha: i totally agree. to be back at work and have everybody else in work. i like interacting with people. i like the office and i like to have home and office separate. i like to go to work and work and when i go home i like to leave all of that behind. you know, i don't believe we will be 5% more production. i don't think it is true. i will believe it when i see it. >> juan: dagen, is this a news story for small towns and they will see more growth? >> dagen: no, because folks like to get out of the house where i am from. it might be more productive working at your kitchen table but it also makes you fat. so i speak from experience. when people go back to work in their office, their friends will be like you got a little bit chubby. i came to work every day and i'm thinking about buying some pregnancy genes. i'm not pregnant, but i need that elastic waist. >> juan: greg, what do you make of all of this? >> greg: two words to argue from working at home "jeffrey tubing. >> juan: "one more thing" is up next. s

he said, martha, i think about harry every day.was my best friend and he started the cry on the phone. and his wife got upset, you know, in the background. they have a great boston accent. george, don't talk about it anymore. and she said, he has to go and then i felt terrible that maybe we had upset him but we reconnected a couple of days letter. he's one of the wonderful men i had ever met and kindest people i had ever met and just like so many of the men, he said i often thought that harry would have lived a better life than i did and it's just not true. george has lived an amazing life and has a beautiful family that i got to meet through this and when they all watched the clip at the end, you will meet george yourself and you will see he's a special man. >> i'm holding this, martha brought back -- my grandfather on my father's side fought in the pacific as well. you brought sand from hiroshima. i think it only happened once a year or so. tell us a little bit about going there and you were able to bring back a little something

martha? martha: david spunt, thank you very much. on the right-hand side of your screen, you see the long walk which proceeds from windsor castle and, as i said, it's a beautiful, sunny day in the united kingdom. i'm joined now by greg palkot who joins us live from his post today at buckingham palace. good morning, greg. >> reporter: hi, martha. i can confirm that it is a beautiful, glorious, warm, sunny day here in the u.k., and those can be rare. beautiful blue skies, a great day for celebration of a great man. you're right, i'm here at buckingham palace, that's the london residence of the royals about 20 miles away from windsor castle where most of the action will be today the, but even here there are flowers being brought and respect being paid to this great man, prince philip, and his passing. this was in the early planning, martha, for this funeral, this was going to be the start of a 22-mile procession from here to windsor for the funeral. included in that was a special land rover that was designed by the prince, a land rover

where blessed to have her with us today to interview martha. two weeks from now we will turn the table . for that program martha mccallum hosts a conversation with dana perino on dana's new book entitled everything will be okay but today, it's martha stern and we couldn't be more excited. let's join in their conversation. >> welcome to this book interview with author and friend of mine martha mccallum, anchor of the story on fox news and this is her book, unknown valor. it came out in february 2020 and were going to talk about all that. paperback book is available now. this is the subtitle. a story of sacrifice from pearl harbor to iwo jima. i love books, i read every word of this book and i loved it. it's one of the books has stayed with me the most that i've read in recentyears . >> thank you and thank you for talking with me. you and i love to talk about books and you were so helpful to me when i was writing this book. dana was the first person i gave it to and she was so kind. she went right through it right away and came back with notes .

really i think martha is a whiskey girl myself. martha-rita!t >> jimmy: a martha-rita. come on, that's it >> blame it on the medicine i had before the show. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: okay next question is, "if snoop had to choose a different profession, what would he do?" snoop, you write the real answer martha, write what you think if snoop had to choose a different profession, what would he do >> okay. >> jimmy: all right. martha, what did you write basketball star or a coach snoop? a pastor [ laughter ] come on now. absolutely oh come on, absolutely oh, my gosh. >> really, snoop really, really, really i noticed he was changing, jimmy. >> jimmy: yeah, you knew >> i didn't know he was going that far >> jimmy: you know what they say -- glory to god in the highest. >> yes - [ laughter ] mighty clouds of joy [ laughter ] >> jimmy: let's do one more. here we go ready? >> we're doing badly, snoop. >> jimmy: complete this sentence -- "martha has the world's greatest blank." martha has the world's greatest blank. >> oh, boy [ light laughter ] >> jimmy:

ill stop- >> i really don't think so, martha.elieve we'll get back with it and it might be some restrictions, not sure what that will be, whether it will be age or sex or whether they'll just come back with a warning of some sort. i don't want to get ahead of them but i believe that we'll be back with some sort of indication, a little different than we were before the pause. >> dr. fauci, as you said, this is a very rare disorder. there have been six known cases of illness and one fatality out of 7 million shots. almost all of those affected were women in the 18 to 49 age group. so why not just pause that age group and women? >> well, the reason, martha, is they want to make sure they're not missing something because oftentimes when you're dealing with adverse events, you get an indication that something is wrong, which is what those six cases were a bit of a red flag, then when you look more deeply into it, you see other things, so if you're going to pause, you might as well just pause, period, and then get back into it as soon

"the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm gillian turner in for martha maccallum. right now on "the story," you're looking live at mission, texas where republican makers are being briefed. they're there to assess deteriorating health conditions in what is called a major humanitarian crisis. we'll bring you live updates. and this caps off a week that saw the most unaccompanied children arriving at the border.among them, this sobbing boy wandering alone and pleading for help. we also got footage of these two little girls dangled and dropped 14 feet over the border wall. we're learning their parents already here in the united states paid smugglers to bring them across the border. a reunion is soon to be in the works. now new disturbing allegations of sexual abuse of migrant children. takes a look at greg abbott on fox news earlier today. >> go to san antonio. there were complaints that were filed with state agencies to health and human services commission and the department of child protective services, and those complaints

and martha, you've been there many times. we were there long before this pandemic, interviewing general scott miller right there, he's now become the longest serving commander in the afghan war. we asked him at the time if the u.s. leaves, do we risk it becoming a safe haven for terrorists again, do we risk those gains for women and girls, can the u.s. trust the taliban to work with the afghan government? and what's striking tonight is that all of those questions, the biden administration is already facing with this new decision. >> reporter: exactly the same questions, david, because the taliban remains a threat to the afghan government, to the rights of women and girls. the biden administration says it will continue humanitarian aid, but afghanistan's future, after all this time, after all this loss, is still a big question. david? >> all right, martha raddatz with us tonight. martha, thank you. >>> and now, to the capitol and to the emotional farewell to capitol police officer billy evans today. lying in honor in the rotun

raddatz, also, watching this along with us in washington and martha, you were out covering the streets shortly after this tragedy unfolded last memorial day and the juxtaposition between the police presence and the families from all different backgrounds and there was -- even though such heartbreak at the time, also hope on some level from everybody that we would be able to move this conversation forward. >> absolutely, david. and, you know, i walked down to black lives matter plaza a few hours before the verdict came in. it's a beautiful day in washington, as you can see from that photograph. you look behind that photograph, that's the white house. and i couldn't help think of those moments last year when they attacked protesters, when police went after those protesters in black lives matter plaza, before it was named that, and the progress that has been made. those police officers told not to respond like that anymore, to be far more careful. there was a helicopter hovering over the protesters that night. those helicopter crews have been disciplined in some way. but i also think abou

martha wright, her close friend around the corner, was a quaker, and martha was a born rebel. she was incredibly outspoken and funny is and was middle class. shed had six children, she was burdenedded down with all of this house work and taking care of the children and her his. but her mother, her father had died young, and her mother, who had grown up on nantucket and where the quakers, there was a very strong quaker community, and where women historically had done exactly the same work that their husbands had, they just believed absolutely in the equality of men and women. her older sister was a great early human rights advocate, basically taught martha everything she came to believe about the evils of slavery and the absurdity of women having to live a life constricted to their houses. so she was, she was, you know, very much ready to embrace both causes. and she and francis quickly became friends once she moved -- once martha moved to auburn with her family. and so the early 1840s in this very conservative town, the two of them would get together and conspire. and they wou

i'm bret baier. >> martha: and i martha maccallum.ent now, president biden will take the podium. he will be announced as is the tradition on the floor. the familiar call of the sergeant-at-arms. >> bret: going a lot quicker because there aren't that many people to call in. they are kind of walking and quickly. and the lawmakers are not posted on the isle is much as they normally would be. peter doocy is on the north lawn with a quick preview of what we would expect to hear tonight. good evening, pete. >> good evening bret and martha. the most pressing issues, to make the government bigger. he will take credit for some of the improvements he has made since inauguration day. now after just 100 days, i can report to the nation america is on the move again turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity, set back into strength. the president is going to try to make multitrillion dollar progressive proposals easy to understand. so, officials here say one thing you won't hear from the president tonight, acronyms. bret. >> bret: pete

>> all right, martha raddatz, we'll see you here tomorrow night, martha, for our coverage of the president. >>> in the meantime, to india tonight, and the horror unfolding with the virus there. the humanitarian crisis worsening. health officials reporting more than 323,000 new covid cases today alone. the first shipment of medical aid from the uk arriving, president biden today also saying the u.s. will send oxygen, medicine and equipment to make vaccine. >>> when we come back this tuesday night, the arrest in new york city for an unprovoked attack that left an asian man in a coma. >>> and the severe weather alert tonight across several states and reports of a tornado just touching down. go with liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 'cause i do things a little differently. hey, i'll take one, please! wait, this isn't a hot-dog stand? no, can't you see the sign? wet. teddy. bears. get ya' wet teddy bears! one-hundred percent wet, guaranteed! or the next one is on me! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ (grandma) "have

martha maccallum has more.cts. i think back to my mind, there was a lot of polarization that surrounded him to protect him. the social media shot down the story about the laptop. they surrounded that story that it was russian disinformation. he said himself even though the head of our -- the dna john ratcliffe said it was not. it was determined by the intelligence community that it wasn't. i can only hope, john, hope against hope, there's someone in that room that will ask him a little bit about media polarization and how it really rallied to protect him in a big way. >> sandra: i'm wondering if anybody will ask him like the laptop as cbs did. let's watch that. >> was that your laptop? >> for real, i don't know. >> you know -- >> i really don't know the answer. >> you don't know yes or no -- >> i have no idea. no idea. >> so could have been yours? >> certainly. there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. could be i was hacked. could be it was russian intelligence. could be that it was stolen from

seem to kind of get under his skin a little bit there, martha.d the senate does what the senate does and i have nothing to do with it. what did you think about that? >> martha: he definitely got fired up, nobody has done more than i have on gun control, he said. he said every single day there is a mass shooting in america. there will be time to go back and look at those numbers. if you go back and look at what happens in the nation's cities, so he had a very strong emotional response to that. he talked about clips, he talked about everything he has done. there's a counter argument to that, that when you look at some of these individual situations that perhaps none of these things would make a difference but nonetheless, and we heard earlier from jen psaki today, her concerns about these shootings and the fact that she sees excessive force used by police across the country. in the president didn't get into that but again, you've got a very hot button question. i want to say one thing about the chicago tape, one thing that i think, it's very hard t

martha frantically trying to get so much done and not focusing on what was important.we have left, can you unpack that for us in about 45 seconds we have to go? >> absolutely, i think when i see this story i consider myself a recovering perfectionist. when i see martha i totally understand that and i see speaking to her and a saying it doesn't matter what you do for me if your heart is not in the right place and he really sees that in mary and gives us that opportunity to spend time in his presence. i think we gain so much more when we focus on that about what we can do for god. >> kevin: well said, frantically getting about trying to get visitors to the house. complaining about mary sitting over there, soak it up. focus on what's really important as mary obviously did, that's no knock on martha, the story itself has tremendous value as well. in them at any last thoughts before we go? >> thank you so much for having me come up for any viewers out there wanted to learn more, please look at light speaks loudest, we have a special offer for you there, thank you again. >>

martha raddatz standing by with late reporting. >>> in new york city tonight, news on the failed subway bomber, the judge using the words barbaric and heinous. >>> tracking severe storms and damaging winds, large hail, possible tornadoes in several states. and the frigid air in the northeast. the whales, their behavioral patterns, the mother whale teaching her baby how to speak. and you will hear tonight how they communicate. >>> and as we celebrate earth, the news from mars tonight. that massa helicopter, the newer, longer flight tonight. and what they just made out of thin air. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night. news on the virus tonight. could there be changes coming on the mask from the cdc? and could there be a potential warning on the one-shot vaccine here in the u.s.? but we begin tonight with the first juror to speak. one of two alternate jurors in that courtroom for the trial of former police officer derek chauvin, describing what it was like, the evidence, the video and who she says was the pivotal witness. of course, derek chauvin co

>> well, i think in our first segment about martha washington, you saw martha as a western who perfectedof the role, which was the social partner to the president and the 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 precedence 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. >> well, 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 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 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. we welcome your participation. throughout the program we'll

>> well, martha, i'm the eternal optimist. we've seen so much improvement.ere maybe now that, like, their eyes are open and we can have a better dialogue. >> thanks to martha for that. that is all for us today. thanks for sharing part of your sunday with us. have a happy easter. i'll see you tomorrow on "gma." sunday with us. have a happy easter. i'll see you tomorrow on "gma." >>> if we don't get control over the virus, that to force us to take a hard look at what we need to do. >> as more people receive covid vaccinations, medical experts explain why the requirement for soon. >>> another step forward in returning to normal life. bay area theme park where families are back on thrill rides. >>> we are waking up to a pretty extensive marine layer but starting to see brakes in the overcast. in the low 50s in san francisco. we will talk about 60s, people are always finding ways to save money. i learned to cut hair. fortunately, xfinity makes saving easy. and way less awkward... because when you have xfinity internet and add mobile, you can save up to 300 dollar

as we chatted in the break about mary and martha a lot of people don't know the story of martha tryingone and not focusing on what was important. in a short time we have left can you unpack that for us, the 45 seconds we have? >> when i see this story i consider myself a recovering perfectionist, i totally understand that and jesus speaking to her saying it doesn't matter what you do for me if your heart is not in the right place, he sees that in mary and giving that opportunity to spend time in his presence, we gain so much more when we focus on that versus how or what we can do for god. >> rather than frantically trying to get all the visitors to the house or something to drink and something to eat and complaining mary is sitting over there, so cut up, focus on what is really ant as mary obviously did, no knock on martha who has great value but the story itself has tremendous value as well. any last thoughts before we let you go? >> thank you so much for having me and for any viewers out there wanting to learn more take a look at lifespeaksloudest.com. we have a special offer for you

>> martha raddatz with us again tonight. martha, thank you. >>> and this evening we're learning of a close call for astronauts aboard the spacex crew dragon. apparently space junk coming relatively close to the spacecraft. it happened within hours of the launch this morning. what does this all mean? here's gio benitez tonight from florida. >> and liftoff! >> reporter: tonight, hours after this picture-perfect predawn launch from the kennedy space center lit up the skies up and down the east coast -- >> it's a ufo! >> reporter: a close call for the spacex crew dragon. space junk threatening the ship. the crew scrambling to get back inside their pressurized suits. the space junk traveling at more than 17,000 miles per hour, coming within nearly 28 miles of the crew dragon, but missing it. before the scare, the astronauts giving a live tour. >> and this is what we get to see. >> coming up on madagascar. >> coming up on madagascar. >> reporter: megan mcarthur sitting in that same pilot's seat her astronaut husband bob behnken sa

martha graham why martha graham radio city music hall was really the idea of a very peculiar man named sl roxy rothafel. we all know the word roxy. it actually came from a person. he had done the roxy theater before that and he was brought in by the rockefellers to do radio city music hall, and he insisted this was right across the street across sixth avenue from the roxy. he insisted that this have more seats than the roxy which was the largest theater in the world and that meant it had to have 6,200 seats. how did roethl get 6200 seats? well, they had about 6,130 seats and then he counted the seats in the orchestra pit and in the elevators for the elevator men and the seats in the powder rooms for the women and he got it to 6200. opening night he presented what he thought was the greatest show in the history of the world and this is where martha graham was on a bill that included ray bolger. it included the tuskegee institute choir included the flying wallendas and went on for eight hours and was laughed off the stage by those who were still there at the end of the next morning harol