our special guest this evening, valerie biden owens reflects on what it was like to grow up biden in her new book. >>> california public schools continue to struggle under the pandemic's as enrollment drops again. >>> alyssa mackin makes history as the first women coach on the field. >>> we get a blast from our computer history past. in this week's look at something beautiful. >>> coming to you from seven cisco this friday, april 15th, 2022. >>> welcome to the show. this is kqed newsroom and i am priya david clements. for close to a decade california public school enrollment has been on a slow decline. this week we learned enrollment has dropped below 6 million students for the first time since 2000. while some families have relocated, some have chosen a home school and others have enrolled in private schools. education aspects say that is not account for the significant dr in numbers. they are perplexed as to where the students are gone. you're now to discuss the changes in enrollment and to talk about the weeks of the top stories in the golden state is brian what and san francisco

my sister managed it for real. >> o'donnell: would will be a president biden without valerie biden owensentsed the biden legend was hisar accident that killed his wife and 13 month old daughter n naomi. and hunter was badly injured. >> we did the improbable, winning this senate race by 3,163 votes. and we had this young, promising democratic star, who was now a young widower with his heart ripped out. he said, the boys cannot get another father; the state of delaware can get another senator. that's when my belief in joe was so powerful, that he could do both. i said, joe, you've got to do it. because my brother is about purpose. and he needs a purpose. >> o'donnell: the crisis gave new purpose to valerie, too. you quit your job, you moved in, and you became like a parent. >> in spite of the tragedy, it was really a magnificent time. beau and hunter were two and three yearsld. saying, i promise i'll love them like my own. >> o'donnell: she eventually married jack owens, and has three kids of her own, as well as an advocate for women. today at age 76, she chairs the biden institute at the

norah o'donnell sat down with the first sister, valerie biden owens, to talk about her family's storyagedy, resilience, and purpose. >> o'donnell: you're one of the few people that is not afraid tell your brother when he's made a mistake. >> yes. ( laughs ) >> o'donnell: have you had to tell him anything lately where he's wrong? >> uh, no. >> o'donnell: none of us are perfect! none of us are perfect. >> sometimes it's the-- it's the tone, or the flippance of a remark. and i say, "that was a little harsh." what happens to joe-- and joe goes on for a lengthy explanation, and you can see the other people, like, i want to kick him, "joe, stop talking," but he is so focused on answering the question, that he sometimes other people don't get a chance to jump in or to end a speech. because he's got one more thing to say, and has one more fact. and people are interested, but sometimes it's just time to stop. >> o'donnell: so you tell him to be less loquacious. >> on occasion, yes. ( laughs ) that has happened on occasions. >> o'donnell: his off-script remark that vladimir putin "cannot remain

brother sister act in the history of american politics, the book is growing up biden, a memoir by valerie biden owensderstand the biden family, there will be no better place to start the intimate warm a beautifully written portrait. and john meacham says, this is a book about love, laughter and life itself. and joining us now is the campaign managers turned author, valerie biden. thank you very much for joining us for this discussion. i really appreciate it. and i go into this book thinking, well, i know the both i know joe biden i know valerie biden. i didn't know the half of it, i didn't know the 10% of it. this is such a revelation and such a full story. especially a view jumping into things. that you apparently do not know how to do and then do very well. what's the trick of that? >> it is the naivete of youth when i started the campaign with joe. first of all, thank you, lawrence, that was a beautiful introduction and i hope it's tape so i consented to my brother. i think that will be important. the reason that we managed is that we didn't know any better. and when i was a young girl, my brother

biden who have contracted the coronavirus in recent days, including his sister, valerie biden owens;na raimondo, all of whom attended the same washington dinner on saturday night. vice president harris' communications director also tested positive after going, adding to a mounting list of west wing staffers. president biden received his second booster shot last week, and last night tested negative for covid. the highly contagious ba.2 subvariant is sweeping the nation's capital. cases in d.c. spiked by 56% in this past week. hospitalizations by 31%. experts say the good news is, many people are protected. >> we can expect more cases out there, but the vaccines are designed to keep us out of the hospital, and they're working. >> reporter: tomorrow, a large crowd is expected to attend an outdoor celebration for judge ketanji brown jackson here at the white house. despite the spike in cases around the president, there are no plans to beef up mitigation measures, so those who will be close to him will be tested beforehand, but there is no mask mandate. norah. >> all right. weijia jiang a

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biden who have contracted the coronavirus in recent days, including his sister, valerie biden owens, attorney general merrick garland; and commerce secretary gina raimondo, all of whom attended the same washington dinner on saturday night. vice president harris' communications director also tested positive after going, adding to a mounting list of west wing staffers. president biden received his second booster shot last week, and last night tested negative for covid. the highly contagious ba.2 subvariant is sweeping the nation's capital. cases in d.c. spiked by 56% in the past week, hospitalizations by 31%. experts say the good news is many people are protected. >> we can expect more cases out there, but the vaccines are designed to keep us out of the hospital, and they're working. >> reporter: tomorrow, a large crowd is expected to attend an outdoor celebration for judge ketanji brown jackson here at the white house. despite the spike in cases around the president, there are no plans to beef up mitigation measures. so those who will be close to him will be tested beforehand, but the

>> laura, think about this and what valerie biden owens tries to tie this to donald trump. t to raise issues about concerns about hunter biden, joe biden, influence peddling and corruption was barack obama. ambassador yovanovitch testified during the impeachment trial, out of 1,000 ukrainian companies, the only one that the obama white house briefed her on was paris smell and hunter biden. remember, her testimony under oath was that you get question about hunter biden remember this is back in 2015, long before donald trump was president. you should refer to the question of the office of vice president joe biden which is ironic given that now president joe biden and says why would he answer any questions about hunter biden he doesn't even know about. it's hypocrisy at its worst and as i said, you've got the media and democrats like adam schiff continuing to cover. >> laura: we are continuing to engage with china and traded and china is feeling russia's war in ukraine by engaging with them on trade. the whole thing on top of that is just insane. john, thank you. now come on on

president biden sister, valery biden owens is causing a stir. growing up biden conflicts with white house ethics policy that family members can't cash on on those related to the president. the book hits shelves one week after the one-year biden team said she could not use to boost her brand. back to you carly and ashley. >> ashley: thank you liberal medium is trying to cover what some are calling the laptop from now that papers like "the new york times" come from the story but a writer from the atlantic is defending the publication decision to ignore it. >> do you think the media acted inappropriate when hunter biden's laptop as russian mr. information. >> my problem is it is totally there totally irrelevant and not whether this information. i didn't think the hunter biden business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the united states. so i don't find it to be interesting. >> university of chicago will present that question this morning. we will ask him what he thought about the answer. now, being evacuated as the co

valerie biden owens will be releasing her memoir titled growing up biden, a memoir that comes out nextsday. brian kilmeade co-host of "fox & friends" and host of one nation with brian kilmeade. i will start with your initial response to some of the details that are breaking now. another family member. >> cashing in. no doubt about it. you have a book deal coming in with joe biden's sister. hunter biden, who had the audacity to release his book after his dad gets elected knowing how many questions would come up from just normal everyday living. by the way, was that your laptop? when did you learn to paint using a straw? and how much crack did you actually do and were those naked pictures of you real or strippers? all this stuff was out there. he releases a book. the sister releases a book. of course, joe biden's brother, jim, is partners with hunter biden on various international deals that joe biden evidently knew nothing about. harris, i don't know about you but it is a lot not to talk about on easter, thanksgiving, christmas, maybe naomi's wedding who is the daughter of hunter biden.

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i mean it's interesting to me the only brothers i just read valerie owens book valerie biden owens president's sister. it's very good. it's interesting val really strong woman. she came she only had brother she had four brothers. i think i think there's four of them three brothers frankie frankie joey and jimmy. thank you, joey jimmy and and then hillary was the only girl as well. i think that when you're the only girl you like are a little tougher. maybe you like them. so, you know you absorb different lessons. and then she went to an all women's college. my daughter's both was stepdaughter both went to all women's college too and found. it interestingly. i was concerned that it would make not give them confidence in you know when you're in the world with men and women both but it does seem to instill um, just sort of a foundation of confidence. i've been struck by how many women leaders went to all women colleges of which they're not that many left. yeah. yeah, it just it does seem to instill some kind of foundation of confidence. um, i have so the we have three minutes left three minutes le

you got the president's sister, valerie biden owens, doing a book tour, profiting from telling her storyg about hunter biden, whenever something goes wrong they want to blame president trump. they want to blame him for this. i mean it is wild. listen to the sound. >> hunter walked through hell. he didn't wake up and say, aunt, i am going to be an addict. trump and his right-wing followers have continued to do whatever they can to discredit the family and therefore bring joe down. jackie: okay. so she is actually telling people they should take out their little violins and play them for hunter biden and his addiction problems and she is also saying, that when it comes to president trump and his followers, again, they're attacking him. none of this is true, deneen. >> it is amazing how somehow hunter ask the victim here. again she is trying to sell a book. i wonder what aunt at this valerie knows about all of this coming out in the news about hunter and his foreign business deals? has she benefited financially as well? i hope all of this information comes out. jackie: so finally question,

joining me is valerie biden owens. she's the author of a new books. hi.e about lindsey graham, who you write is now unrecognizable to the lindsey graham that your brother knew for decades. joe manchin today blaming the biden administration for failing to act fast enough on inflation. how does that criticism land on the president? >> okay, just failing to act fast enough, because it's breaking up -- on what? >> against inflation. >> oh, well, you must say my brother is a very powerful leader, but there are certain thing. he can't droll everything. he's working hard with the congress to bring inflation down, all of the machinations of government that i don't understand or appreciate them automatic, but i know he's trying to -- we have been slammed with inflation because of covid, because of the supply chain, because of putin, and he's -- he's trying to bring us all together instead of blaming the other team for what they haven't done or -- i'm surprised that that kind of discussion is going on when we're all in this together, and we have to -- this is about

you know valerie biden owens tries to tie this to donald trump, the first president to be clear, the rst president to raise issues about concerns about hunter biden, joe biden, influence peddling and corruption was barack obama as ambassador jovanovich testify during the impeachment trial out of a thousand ukrainian companies, the only one the obama white house briefed her on was boris a and hunter bidennd. y and remember what her testimony under oath was. if you get a question about hunter biden and briskman, remember this was back in 2015 long before donald trump was president. you should referyo that questior to the office of vice president joe biden, which isbi ironic given that now presidenthy joe biden says why would he have why would he answer any questions a about hunter biden? he doesn't know anything about this . it's it's youitoc know, it's hypocrisy at its at its worst. and as i said, you have the media and democrats like adam schiff continuing to cover this and and we're continuing to againinare engage with china and trade and all the things we're doing to china as china

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. >> well, there's a few new developments actually, valley biden owens who is -- valerie biden owensre, there. no there, there. so the white house is still absolutely stonewalling the whole thing so that's important and we know -- we're getting reports out of the grand jury investigation in delaware that they're asking more and more questions. we have a report that they have asked at least one witness who the big guy was and that was hunter biden's way of talking about his father, joe biden. and lastly, we know they're looking at all the complex transactions in which hunter biden got money from foreign sources and whether he fully paid his taxes on it. for example, he had a business associate in kazhakstan and they know that the business associate in kazhakstan using a company in singapore wired $142,300 to a company in delaware which the very next day wired the same amount, $142,300, to a car dealership in new jersey. the purpose of which was to buy a high end sports car for hunter biden. so the question is, were all the taxes paid on that money? and so you look at examples like tha

congressman adam schiff and joaquin castro, senators collins and war and the president's sister, valerie biden owensormal after a two year absence. very few people wore masks. they mingled very freely. they did not have to show a negative test to get in and the virus spread. it is mild but it spread. so now what? new covid cases up to. 6%, speaker pelosi has tested positive and there is a big flap because she kissed the president on the cheek we going to go back to masking, testing and vaccination mandates? i hope not. this time around, let us choose our own level of risk. wear a mask if you want to, choose to get a booster shot every year if you want to, go to weddings, dinners, restaurants, sporting events if you accept the risk but do not force or threaten or bully, please don't do that. i would feel differently if we were dealing with the bubonic plague where if you get it you probably die, but we are dealing with the be a 2 variant, reportedly the mildest form of covid yet. we want the freedom to make our own covid decisions. please, second hour of varney just getting started. stuart: as usual

valerie biden owens, who we have in common the fact we bring up our big brothers and still do it.having us. >> thanks, value. "morning joe" is back in a moment. >>> we are rolling right into the fourth hour of "morning joe," right now, top of the hour, 9:00 on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. this morning, powerful explosions were once again heard in the ukrainian capital of kyiv as russia claims it hit a missile plant on the outskirts of the city. after a period of relative calm, russia is promising to ramp up missile attacks in the capital in response to what it claims are ukrainian attacks on b russian territory. lol

. >> steve: usa today got an exclusive interview with a joe biden sister, valerie biden owens. as this unofficial political advisor. apparently they talk every night about 10:00. not about vladimir putin about the family. the family is, you know there's a lot of news about hunter biden and about grand jury and delaware. he will get indicted for tax evasion or worse. she was talking to "usa today" a little bit about their travel that when joe biden decided to run for president, that would bring a lot of scrutiny on the family. she was absolutely right. here's the president sister. >> he said he could not look at himself in the mirror. and walk away from what was happening in this country, because he was afraid that somebody would be mean or come after him or come after his family. the campaign met and exceeded my expectations of being ugly and degrading. disrespectful, a disservice to the country. sean penn has right-wing followers have continued to do whatever they can do discredit the family and therefore, bring joe down. >> the easiest campaign ever. never had to leave his ba