as mrs. rees is well aware, the national associate of public charter schools has ranked indiana's charter school law as the best in the country for three years in a row. as mr. richmond is well affair, the national associate of charter school authorizers has consistently ranked indiana's charter school policies as among the best in the nation. this is clear from the data. the 2013 national credo study found the students in indiana charter schools gained 36 days of learning and reading per year and 14 days of learning in math, both above the national average. i was proud to be involved in the effort to expand access to charter schools during my time as a state senator by sponsoring the bill that created the indiana charter school board and allowed private universities to authorize new heart schools. i believe the success of indiana charter schools can be attributed to the ability of multiple authorizers to start charter schools that maintain the autonomy to innovate. at the same time, these schools

nina shokrali rees and mr. richmond, why don't we get more charter schools in rural communities and how do we ensure those charter schools are high-performing? >> great question. 11% of charter schools are in rural communities. there are great examples in states like north carolina. there is a great charter school right up the state line. in delaware is a rural charter school called suffix academy. there is a great conversation with the leaders of these schools and those individuals in these rural communities to get them familiar with the concept of chartering. for a very long time most of our concentration has been in inner-city settings with demand this higher density of student population. we haven't been paying as much attention to rural communities and time to change that conversation and start introduce the concept in rural communities. in some instances it could be very conceivably easy for school district that leader to convert its own schools to charter schools. the way we go about doing this in rural

mrs. ford, i understand. [laughter] and when she said, with four kids you can forget about order, you just have to hope you don't crack your ankle stumbling over ree bags of marbles, and a tinker toy. i thought, mrs. ford, i understand. so that is a summary of why i feel kinship with betty ford. i am here to talk to you about my book. it's called first ladies and american women in politics and at home. i will tell you about how i got the idea. i actually went to the university of virginia for graduate school. as mr. jefferson's university, uva is a great place to study the presidents. but when i got there, i kind of looked around and wandered why, not quite as many people were so interested in studying the first ladies. the thing about first ladies if you are a student of government as i am, is that they don't have a constitutional role. sense in some circles, not everyone thinks this, but there is kind of a sense that the first lady is less than a government official. i started writing these journal articles about first ladies and sending them to political science publications. some were warmly received. but i will be honest, i got some rejection

ree months and three days after the president first walked into the briefing room march 8 and said i have an announcement coming up tonight, stay tuned. what's it on, mr. president? i happened to be in the briefing room. he said he was accepting this invitation so that was an invitation south korea brought. so south korea was central to this but they were not at the summit and were surprised and caught off guard by the fact that the joint militaryex cises were called off. i think something wasy extraordinis week. i don't think the white house anticipated, talking to people afterward, that joint headline was going to be that the president travelsre to singa and makes a concession that will anger the pentagon, cause concern among republicans on capitol hill. they did nothing to pave the way for calling off the joint exercis. it seemed to me it was a last-minute thing and using the word "war games," i'm not sure the presidenthe kne was using p'yongyang's language. robert: you said anger the pentagon. secretary mattis at the pentagon has been somewhat quiet t inhis process but secretary of state pompeo has been o front. >> secretary of state pompeo has ta