david: you went to the university of texas. how did you do? darren: i was ok. vid: were you elected president of the student government or something? darren: i was the head of a number of organizations and i was very lucky because i lived at a time in this country when i knew, in spite of the challenges i faced as a boy, as a young man, that my country was cheering me on. i never for a moment felt that my dreams and aspirations could not be achieved and i never felt america didn't want anything for me but success. and so, yes, i had a great run in college and law school that brought me to new york. but the tailwinds were with me. david: but you must have suffered some discrimination in texas or louisiana as an african-american. was it difficult or was it not? darren: of course. there were many occasions, countless occasions, when i faced discrimination. i mean, i faced people saying things to me that were heartless and harmful and difficult to hear. i mean, i recall in high school when i won an election for student council and the person -- or a friend of the pe

our next interlocutor e on direct communication e mark by mark is a senior researcher at the university of texashello, good evening, how likely is it that the russian federation will be recognized as a country sponsor of terrorism, and what are the consequences? usually it will only be against a strange terrorist, so i don't know if it was officially approved or not , but in principle, america acts in relation to russia like any country that it is a sponsor of of terrorism so that it already really exists in the administration, i have to talk about this topic, well, the recognition of russia as a sponsor of terrorism, and all these consequences, that is, they are kept in reserve, since the other trump cards have not yet been used in the white house, and i do not know how much it's hard for me to judge, i just don't know the details of the administration, that's why i just know that a. baidu himself called putin a murderer, that he often speaks out and his administration suggests that there is no such thing, i think it's distributed. i didn't hear it . let's say i didn't hear it. someone spoke. e

a terrorist state and now they are joining us mark died this is a senior researcher at the university of texas mark e-e hello, good night, the president greets you mark a-a please appoint russia as a state sponsor of terrorism what are the consequences for Российской Федерация - this is a pavlych'et and when i don't know when it will be reported, it will definitely have serious consequences in the sense of and possibilities are broken trade ties and investments and as if they just changed different things there eh sports eh all kinds of games and then, that is, relations will be completely different. how was it in general, let's say from time to time, we need to return to stalin's time, when there were no, so to speak, formal ties between the united states and the soviet union at the level of culture, education and trade, etc. what will it mean in practice? yes, that is, we understand that it will not only concern the russian federation, but also the countries, the satellites of the countries that go to the front of the politicians of russia, and those countries that will be in some way will h

. >> reporter: chris runs the lab at the university of texas san antonio home to a new state-of-the-artach 7 wind tunnel, a new tool in developing weapons that travel more than five times the speed of sound. hypersonic missiles and aircraft could be the future of warfare because their speeds and maneuverability make them extremely difficult to defend against. >> we're one of only about five in u.s. academia. >> reporter: and only a handful of government-run industrial grade hypersonic wind tunnels in the u.s. during a meeting with the defense secretary in february, two people in the room told cnn that kooceos describe it as a ce point in testing. >> for the big wind tunnel facilities, it can be one year wait time i'd say, six months would be pretty fast. >> reporter: a critical delay as the u.s. is still in the early stages of its hypersonics program with the air force successfully testing lockheed martin's missile last week after three failures. but russia isn't just testing these weapons. it just became the first country to ever actually use hypersonic weapons in war. using them at le

yes blanton senior chair in history at the university of texas at austin for three decades. he has been writing histories and biographies. two of his books the first american and traitor to his class were finalists for the pulitzer prize. his latest work our first civil war was published in 2021. gail jessup white is the public relations and community. engagement officer at monticello thomas jefferson's extraordinary estate in albemarle county, virginia a former award-winning television reporter and anchor she began her career at the new york times. her latest work is titled reclamation and it too was published last year. and finally to your far right is david zakino. david is a contributing writer for the new york times. he's covered wars and civil conflicts in over two dozen countries awarded a pulitzer prize for his dispatches from south africa. he's a four-time pulitzer prize finalist for his reporting from iraq lebanon south africa and philadelphia. his latest book now available in paperback is wilmington's lie. i've had the privilege of reading these three books and i e

. >> the topper on all of this is that both women were at the university of texas brain institute. lori is fully recovered now. >>> let's check in with rob. a very pleasant day but not every day this week will be that way for some people, right? >>> this weekend and next weekend probably will be more pleasant to be outside. between now and then, a warm-up is around the corner right now 72 in san jose and yes, san jose by tuesday should be closer to 90 degrees for the daytime high and out toward dublin 75 and you can see the wind direction is west at 15. that will change. you will see a little bit of the north wind tomorrow and in the tri-valley tomorrow with the upper 80s to 90. we should eventually see mid-to upper 90s by tuesday and wednesday and here is a view of san francisco at 59 degrees. no heat obviously but a strong seabreeze but even san francisco we can see temperatures climbing into the upper 70s toward the middle part of the week. thing to watch for the inland valley and santa clara valley, moderate air-quality tomorrow. the wind will be gusty on the hilltops but not q

karen received her bachelor of journalism from the university of texas at austin and an mba from the harvard business school. a little known fact particularly to karen as i would like to go into business with or selling this book. in her research for the book she uncovers stories event we at the reagan library did not know about. to say that she is thorough is an understatement. within the walls of this beautiful library we are surrounded by important historical artifacts represented in the life's work of both president and mrs. reagan. but karen is a storyteller and the story shows so expertly written expertly to this body of knowledge for this work helps us know nancy reagan by painting a verbal portrait of the woman we are here to honor today. it's my pleasure to introduce you karen, author of the triumph of nancy reagan. [applause] >> thank you so much, jon. i will just be a few moments here. nancy reagan would say over, and over, and over again, my life began when i met ronnie. i will just briefly like to take you back to an earlier day. a day 100 years before this day when a ba

senior legal analyst laura coates, cnn contributor steve vladik, a professor at the joours university of texas school of law. abby, president biden says codifying the protections into federal law, good idea, not prepared to support a filibuster, so what are the plausible options for democrats if they want to protect these rights should that decision come down as it's written in the draft? >> yeah, i mean, i think on capitol hill, the options are fairly limited because while there are -- there's some bipartisan support in favor of abortion rights, i don't think that there is enough bipartisan support to either pass a codification of roe outright, which would take 60 votes, or to eliminate the filibuster in order to do that. murkowski, collins, unlikely to do that, and certainly senator manchin has already said that he does not believe that this, along with many other issues, would justify eliminating the filibuster. but i think you're going to see activists on the democratic side looking to the administration to use executive action and the president, in his statement, alluded to that as well.

of that began in texas. in 1966. when charles whitman, a name that became one of the most famous names of the 1960s, went to the top of a texas tower, the university of texas in austin tower. and with his rifle, he aimed down at people walking across the campus and he shot and killed 16 of them before he was shot and killed by police. that's before going to the tower. like many of the mass murderers who followed his footsteps, charles whitman shot and killed his wife, shot and killed his mother. the mass murderer in sandy hook, in connecticut, shot and killed his mother before going to the elementary school they are to murder 20 kindergarten and first grade students. and six adults working at the school. the latest reports indicate that as many as 18 children and three adults were shot and killed today at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, the town of 15,000 people about 60 miles from the mexican border. some reports are indicating that the children murdered were mostly in grades three and four. the mass murder of children in sandy hook changed connecticut senator chris murphy's focus in the senate, where he has become the leading expert on

i want to bring in cnn contributor, steve vladack, professor of law at the university of texas school of law, and cnn legal analyst, jennifer rogers, a former assistant for the southern district of new york. i'm so glad both of you could join us. thank you very much on our breaking news here. steve, i want to start with you, what is the legal argument justice alito is making to overturn roe v. wade. . >> don, it's an argument i think a lot of us having expecting, the conservatives have been previewing for a few years now, and the argument is basically that the constitution does not protect a right to abortion, that the supreme court errored in 1973 when it recognized under the due process cause of the 14th amendment a right for pregnant individuals, pregnant women to obtain previability abortions and the court is righting the wrong, that its predecessors made 49 years ago. don, i think one of the many, many, many layers here is not just what this opinion, if it becomes the law of the land means for abortion in america, but what it means for other rights that the supreme court has tied

new phenomenon in texas, when you and i certainly know that the very first such event of the television age occurred in texas in 1966, and the texas tower, in austin, at the university of texas, with a former marine getting up into that tower, with a rifle, and shooting down people, i believe he killed about 16 people that day on the campus. our understanding of these kinds of events began in texas, over 50 years ago. >> and it's gotten worse. you've seen in less than two years, we've had a mass school shooting in santa fe high school in galveston county, the sotherland church incident, where church-goers were killed and what happened at the walmart in el paso, where around 27 people were killed by a mass shooter. all of them using ar-15s. we have asked in the united states, 27 school shootings in since the first of the year, one every week since then, this is a phenomena that has become out of control in this state and in this country. look, the governor called three successive special sessions to pass a voter suppression law, because he said it was a high priority for the people of the state of texas. a law that everybody knew was not needed because their own secr

. >> the university of texas released a poll yesterday and shows that just 20% of texans and these areand democrats and independents, people across the state of texas support what greg abbott wants to do by outlawing abortion from conception with no exception for r rape or incest. the vast majority want to protect a woman's right to choose. that's going to have extraordinary implications at the ballot box in november. it's also going to allow us in addition to protecting a woman's right focus on the big things that most people in texas want us to work on. great public schools by getting the backs of our pun lick school educators. the kind of jobs we want to create. doing common sense bipartisan things like expanding medicaid. all of this is on the ballot now. what has happened this week has galvanized the electorate in texas. we're getting together, rallying r , organizing and will commit ourselves to the fight. you'll see a will the of people from texas come together. what governor abbot is doing right now is not a reflection of our values, our interests or priorities. when we win thi

of that began in texas. in 1966, when charles whitman, a name that became one of the most famous names of the 1960s, went to the top of a texas tower, the university of texas in austin. and with his rifle, he aimed down at people walking across the campus and he shot and killed 16 of them. before he was shot and killed by police. that's before going to the tower -- like many of the mass murderers who followed his footsteps, charles whitman shot and killed his wife, shot and killed his mother. the mass murderer in sandy hook, in connecticut, shot and killed his mother before going to the elementary school they are to murder 20 kindergarten and first grade students. and six adults working at the school. the latest adults reports indicate that as many as 18 children and three adults were shot and killed today. at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. the town of 15,000 people, about 60 miles from the mexican border, with some reports indicating that the children were murdered, and were mostly in grades three and four. the mass murder of children in sandy hook changed connecticut senator chris murphy's focus in the senate, where he has become the s

of that began in texas. in 1966, when charles whitman, a name that became one of the most famous names of the 1960s, went to the top of a texas tower, the universityhis rifle, he aimed down at people walking across the campus and he shot and killed 16 of them. before he was shot and killed by police. that's before going to the

kristen fisher, cnn, at the university of texas, san antonio. >>> "outfront" next, major concession from as public hearings are about to begin. why are they backing down now? >>> january 6th committee backing down just days before its big public hearing, this fight fight over access to the rnc's marketing data, but the committee revealing in a new court filing it wants to delay legal arguments until later this summer, ryan nobles "outfront," ryan, why, what do we know about why the committee is backing down on this request at least for now? >> they just do not have enough time to continue this legal battle and then, if they were to win this legal battle, get all that information and then process it in a timely manner which would allow them to use them in their upcoming hearings which are going to take place in the month of june. it's just an issue of resource and see dividing and conquering with the investigative staff they have. they just don't have time to deal with this now so would rather wait until after their hearings and later in the summer. you know, this is a tactic by many repu

colorado in 1999, the 2018 stoneman douglas high school shooting in parkland, florida, and the university of texas tower shooting back in 1966. now makes this the deadliest school shooting in texas history. >> kron four's taylor safc is following the latest details out of texas. she's live for us in the newsroom. taylor, what are we learning right now? >> well, just in the details continue to get grimmer. tonight, the death toll has increased again, as we mentioned, you know, 19 schoolchildren were killed. investigators are still working to give us answers to the major questions we have tonight, of course, who the victims are, what the gunman's motivation was and why he chose that school. rob elementary. this is video from that gruesome scene that unfolded earlier today. what we do know is the shooter was 18 year-old salvatore rome, u.s. officials say he acted alone and he was killed by law enforcement. we also learned that the gunman who lived in you've all day was wearing body armor when he crashed his car outside of the school before going inside with a handgun and possibly a rifle as well. he

staring at you these dolls have been washing ashore for years, they tell us workers at the university of texas marine science institute say they find a couple of them every month. the weirdest ones, their hair has fallen out >> it looks like stitching some people have marked up some of the faces some of the eyes look really realistic. which makes them even creepier and give you nightmares. >> the dolls have found a following on the institute's facebook and twitter pages no clue where they came from >>> 60 seconds left on a race to the finish the house speaker nancy pelosi admits democrats do not have enough votes in the senate for congress to make the roe v. wade ruling a law >>> russian troops have breached the last ukrainian stronghold in mariupol ukrainian fighters inside the steel plant say heavy bloody fighting is under way. >>> and johnny depp's ex-wife amber heard taking the stand to defend herself against a $50 million defamation suit that she's launched against johnny depp the actress telling her side of the toxic relationship and standing by her abuse accusations. and now you know th

finishing his freshman year at san antonio college with a 4.0 gpa and is hoping to attend the university of texasuates. >> i have been saving up a little bit with the alamo promise program. it is manageable right now. i might not make it with no debt, but it will be minimal at least. >> graduating high school seniors within san antonio in our county are interested are going to college and they need the community to come forward and say we believe in you. >> mike for his is the chancellor of the five community colleges, the alamo colleges district. >> 92% of the promise colors are latino, hispanic, or african-american students coming from some of the highest poverty rates within our community and within the united states. our students do not look at can i afford to go would -- to one of the collegeswhether they can afford to work, so promise helps to alleviate most of that consideration. >> this is our first time doing tiktok advertising. >> they are trying new ways to reach students and families to let them know about the program. >> i am an alamo promise color. >> they say outreach -- promise st

texas directive is now on hold. a major new report published last week by the yale law school, the yale school of medicine and the universitythwestern, notes that -- "texas and alabama officials have falsely claimed that doctors are routinely sterilizing children and teenagers with surgical procedures." it also says both states "consistently ignore the mainstream scientific evidence that documents the substantial benefits of gender-affirming care greatly exaggerate the risks of gender-affirming drug therapy and rely on poor-quality evidence." one of the co-authors of the report, meredithe mcnamara of the yale school of medicine and child study center, said -- "we need to call for fact-based checks on legal opinions and legislation. scientists need to have a seat at the table. and perhaps most importantly, there must be a penalty for writing fake science into law. trans and nonbinary youth are facing the fight of their lives to simply exist and we can't let them stand alone. this is a matter of life and death." chase, your response? talk about the significance of this yale medical school report. >> this is so important have

of texas. we talked about it a minute ago. university of texas poll showed 18% of texans, including a lot of republicans, are against universal back ground checks and yet they can't get there. there is a moment last night prior to tipoff in miami where the heat held a moment of silence for the victims of the matt shooting at robb elementary school. it concluded with a call to action. >> the heat urges you to contact your state senators by calling 202-224-3121 to leave a message demanding their support for common sense gun laws. you could also make change at the ballot box. visit heat.com/vote to register and let your voice be heard this fall. >> you heard cheers from the floridians there in the arena. but marco rubio was critical tweeting this. the nba doesn't like to talk about the billions they make from china that enslaves uyghur muslims but they have no problem politicizing a horrific tragedy in america. >> and that is believe it or not, the senator who represents parkland, florida. who has done absolutely nothing since parkland to s

columbine high school shooting in 1999, the 2018 high school shooting in parkland, florida, and the university of texas tower shooting in 1966, the virginia tech school shooting tops the list of deadly school shootings followed by sandy hook and now this in texas, our kron 4 said taylor's hack is following the latest details out of texas tonight. taylor, what are we learning? >> vicki grand, you know, we're still waiting on more details about each of those victims. and meantime, you know, investigators are working to find answers to some of those major questions that we still have tonight. of course, you know, a lot of us are still asking what the gunman's motivation was, why he chose that school. rob elementary and then opened fire, killing 19 children into adults. this is video from that tragic scene earlier today. we do know the shooter was 18 year-old salvatore wellness. officials say he acted alone and he was killed by law enforcement. we also learned that the gunman who lived in you've all day was wearing body armor when he crashed his car outside of the school before going inside. investigators

and the 2018 high school shooting in parkland, florida, as well as the university of texas tower shooting in 1966. and as of tonight, the rob elementary school shooting has become the deadliest school shooting in texas history. kron 4 staters zach is following the latest details out of texas and what are w% learning? new tonight? well, we're still waiting on more details about each of those victims. meantime, investigators are working to find answers to some of the major questions we have tonight. >> many of us are still asking, you know what the gunman's motivation was here, why he chose that school, rob elementary and then opened fire, killing 19 children and 2 adults. we do know that the shooter was 18 year-old salvatore around. that's this is a new photo of him right here. officials say he acted alone and he was killed by law enforcement. we also learned that the gunman who lived in you've all day was wearing body armor when he crashed his car outside of the school before going inside. now, investigators say he killed his grandmother before heading over to the school with to a militar

i was visiting university of texas, where i went. ere, etched in step, ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. well, apparently, the truth will scare the daylights out of you. why are they so afraid about simply telling the truth about what happened on january 6th? i think we have a right to that. we pay their salary. we, citizens. so i am really -- it's very curious a dog will bark. terrible worries over on the republican side. >> as a southerner, the phrase is a hit dog will holla. got it? >> i got to bring you in. can we talk about the former-vice president mike pence? i mean, he is going to campaign for top-trump target, georgia governor brian kemp, while trump is endorsing his opponent, david perdue. is he trying to make a clear break a year after the maga mob sicked on him? >> mike pence is going down there to endorse the likely winner of the primary, and donald trump has already endorsed the likely loser of the primary. so this may make pence look much stronger than trump in this case, and look, pence really h

a new poll from the university of texas tells us an overwhelming majority of people there believe abortion should be allowed in some form. just 15% of those polls said the procedure should be outlawed. that's where we begin. we have garrett haake and leann caldwell on capitol hill. since you're in d.c., tell us about this decision to take a procedural vote. we know the votes aren't there to codify this. how does this fit into the democrats' strategic plan? >> that's right. the votes are not there. for this procedural vote, democrats will need the support of 60 senators in order to get on to this bill. and they're not going to get that. they might not even get the support of all 50 senators. first they want to show their voters that they are committed to trying to do something and so they have an obligation, they feel, to even though it's going to pass, to show that they are fighting. the second reason is because they want to put republicans on the record of opposing this. and that is going to be really critical for democrats as well. they have said over and over again that this is going to

victims at the hospital tuesday, he's a trauma surgeon and share of the department of surgery university of texastonio. sadly responded to the shooting -- five years ago. doctor, thank you so much for being with me, what do want me, our viewers to understand about what that experience was like on tuesday, and what it has been like in the days since? >> well, i guess, i would say from the level one channel summer standpoint when this happened, as you mentioned, we've drills, we've drilled, we've practiced and we had previous experiences -- the things that we had -- in southern springs, to improving our trauma system, we have a great history of cooperation, communication across our region that counts is 27 square miles, but we set goals to get stuff in education training for everyone, we have a program to give patients whole blood right away, we committed ourselves to developing a regional pool blood program, we can get blood to the scene. those two things were really well, we were successful despite -- we were successful with our whole blood program, we got hole blood to the seed, to the hospital

of victory when we win in november. >> and what about public opinion in texas? how does align with this, and why are you trying to push, specifically? >> university of texas released a poll this week that shows that only 20% of texans agree with the governor on a total abortion ban. the vast majority of both democrats, republicans, and independents included wants to protect a woman's right to choose. so, the public opinion is with the people of texas. it's certainly not with our current governor. that's going to be brought to bear in this election, and that's why we're so fired up right now. we're not complaining, we're not fragile, we are channeling our anger and frustration into action. we'll get on the, door zone with the voters, will bring them into this election, and we're going to survive the outcome of this thing. it's going to be a great day in texas. >> thank you so much for your time, beto. [applause] it's certainly going to be a heated midterm election, all. expect >> thanks for that, appreciate, it's beto or a case we'll from texas. from there, we want to go for the chicago. protests are underway, here's jesse curses following the pro

this comes from a conversation i had with sandy levinson, a delegate a law professor at the university of texas. he argues, he is just fed up with the senate, right? i used -- he is a participant. he did not suggest that we get rid of the senate. when i said eliminating the senate that is a very radical idea that ultimately i do not enter the book. i cannot imagine that that is going to happen, right? what's is interesting is some of the other options which i do talk about in the book that are more likely to happen. two in particular. i asked them as a question, can you imagine the santa power being reduced, significantly, because -- this is a sandy proposes, because of the undemocratic nature of the senate. the senate is responsible for things like confirming nominees, so on. but not lawmaking. you strength in the house of representatives as the real democratic institution to make lawmaking. and you have, this is that sandy proposes in my book, you have a national assembly. an additional third branch of the legislature that looks with -- larry saboto said you ought to have these super senators

in 1966 the first known school shooting/modern day mass shooting took place in texas the at university of texas. that shooting that took place in the tower, so why do you suppose the government -- why the governor is continuing to use that talking point which is disproved by texas history? >> listen, this governor lives in some alternative world and that's the reality. the fact is we no longer use .22 rifles. you know, you don't need -- people are out there. they hunt with squirrel guns. that's not what we ear talking about. we ear talking about ar-15s. we're talking about highly militarized weaponry and we need to have a change there. how in the world are we going to let -- how can we live in a place where an 18-year-old can go boy thousands of rounds of ammunition, two ar-15s within two days and no one says anything n.2019 i filed a red flag bill that went nowhere because the republicans didn't even let it out of committee. if we can't even have a discussion on the issues that are important, i don't know what there is left to do. people elect me to fixance pro. they elect greg abbott to fix p

just pursuit, a black prosecutor's fight for fairness and cnn contributor and professor at the university of texas law school. steve, i want to start with you, this is a draft as jessica just pointed out, this was -- this was distributed, circulated february 10th, not a final opinion. however, while it could change, is there any reason, steve, to believe that much of this would change? >> yeah, erica, it is the right question. the best answer is we don't know. the politico story that came with the draft opinion last night suggested that there are, you know, circulated opinions in the court right now, that there are five votes, at least tentatively in support of this opinion. we have historical examples of the court changing its views of majority opinion becoming a dissent, of votes shifting at the last minute, season the abortion context. casey, the 1992 decision, that's part of what the court would be overruling on this draft opinion. it was one of those cases. so i think it is really important to put this in context. this is an enormous deal, but it is not a final deal. and we really have to sor

chance year 14 to las and so now gillian frank is a visiting scholar in american studies at university of texas at austin and has written extensively about the history of reproductive politics. joins me now from richmond. virginia via skype. if i can stop by asking your initial reaction, that this document was leach and the 1st place, obviously there is an investigation underway. but will you quite shocked all or surprised that this and that this draft ruling was made public? it. thank you for having me. i was surprised to get the news about it last night. i had expected that the decision would be coming any week now, but this was a very unexpected way to learn about how the decision would go down. do you think it's likely to be added to, to reflect a final ruling by the court given that the majority of the justices are conservative? is this going to be codified and enacted into law? i think that the opinion itself is very much in a state of play, but i think we are getting the broad strokes of what to expect. it's hard to know what a final version will look like. there is going to be revisions

from a conversation i have with sandy levinson who is a delegate is a law professor at the university of texas. he argues. he's just fed up with the senate right so i may i use he is a participant he does not suggest that we get rid of the senate. so when i said eliminating the senate, that's a very radical idea that ultimately i do not add to the book. i cannot imagine that that's gonna happen. right? what is interesting is some of the other options which i do talk about in the book that are more likely to happen. so two in particular, can you and i ask them as a question right? can you imagine the senate power being reduced significantly because this is what sandy sandy proposes because of the undemocratic nature of the senate so that the senate is responsible for things like confirming nominees and so on but not lawmaking you strengthen the house of representatives as the real democratic institution to make lawmaking and you have this is what sandy proposed in my book. you have a national assembly an additional third branch of the of the legislature that looks you know, larry sabado said th

texas. graduate of the university of texas. now he's on the front line in the war in ukraine. >> never before have i seen such a clear-cut case of like good versus evil. >> he served two tours of duty in iraq with the 101st airborne division. >> training sets him out from his russian foes. >> i learned the difference between spotting who is a warrior and combatant and a civilian. >> gray was living in the ukraine when the invasion began. he and other americans and foreigners signed up. >> moral obligation and duty to stand up and help repel the invasion. >> grateful for military aid the u.s. has supplied, including the anti-tank javelin. >> we just shot a tank, confirmed kill. >> russian artillery blast left an american friend severely hurt and gray recovering from leg injuries. and reflects on thousands who have lost their lives. >> it's inhumane what they do, artillery tactics. >> one strange thing, a hot war against the russian, others like his father only thought about during decades of cold war. >> something that they were

it occurred in august 1966 when a fellow named charles whitman climbed up to the texas tower on the campus of the universityive shootings back-to-back, one in buffalo, one in uvalde, texas, and that's not even mentioning the daily mass shootings that occur in this country that the president doesn't go to, doesn't go to help people mourn at those shootings. so the weight of the presidency, what does it do, do you think, to a human being? there is that famous picture of lyndon johnson with his head in his hands during the course of the vietnam war at his desk in the oval office. talk about the true weight of the presidency. minute by minute, hour by hour, every day, it never ceases. >> oh, mike, you're so right. i mean, even we look at the pictures of presidents from the time they enter office and the time they leave. abraham lincoln looked like an entirely different person in 1965 from '61. president obama got gray hair. the weight particularly today, i think it is true. in the old days, presidents weren't expected to be consolers in chief. lyndon johnson was the first president who went to a scene of a natu

but one study from the university of texas that stood out to us. se they were distracted by the presence. >> or looking over, did i get a notification >> i think the wait until eighth or the idea of there's strength in numbers casually the moms -- we have a second grader and a preschooler but the second grade moms were like if we get together, these kids are going to be in school together all these years there's not as much being ostracized. >> you need a coalition in your neighborhood the parents say what's the going rate for baby sitting but we stick to it so it's fair in the community. >> what about the classrooms where you need to have a phone >> some classrooms it depends where you live. where i live outside new york my kids are asked to take out your phone and answer questions on your phone during the class. if you're a person that wants to hold off on the smart phone, talk to the teachers, the administration, you don't have to have a phone to do the work in the classroom >> a lot of parents are like my kids we live in the city i want them to

anna landed a job as a data analyst at the university of texas, dallas, where she met jayshree bihari. >> she came in and met with me and we clicked instantly. >> what made you guys click like that? >> i was a new, so she came over and told me about. tell me who they were in the office. took me around. we met people. we went out for lunch. so, it was really nice of her to make me feel very comfortable. >> anna clicked with a lot of people. like john wiorkowski a, professor at the university who worked just upstairs from anna. >> she wanted to learn about quantitative methods. that's my specialty. so we were good buddies. >> anna was big on self improvement. she was taking a course in public speaking when she met jerry caspell. and he joined her crowd of admirers. >> we used to tease each other. i said, used to be my enemy. you're from a communist country. as she thought that was pretty funny. >> donna ross, anna found a kindred spirit. once a professional badly dancer, donna now teaches dance in frisco. >> she was very passionate about some of the same things i was passionate about. w

yes blanton senior chair in history at the university of texas at austin for three decades. he has been writing histories and biographies. two of his books the first american and