the chiefjustice john roberts years. the chiefjusticejohn roberts tried to keep things focused on the mississippi law, but other conservative justices indicated that they thought the issue really was roe v wade, although it's not clear at this point whether there would be in a majority to overturn it. for months, china has been probing taiwan's airspace — leading to speculation, it could be preparing to attack, or even invade the island. all of this raising concerns amongst asian and american officials alike of increased instability in the region. the commander of the us seventh fleet has been talking to our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes during navy exercises with allies, on board the uss carl vinson. a pair of us stealth jets streaks past the aircraft carrier carl vinson in a mock attack formation. this is a show for tv cameras. it's also a message for america's adversaries. so, by my estimation, we're now somewhere about 500km off the coast ofjapan, somewhere near the island of iwojima, which of course was t

went to stanwell where borisjohnson first spoke to dominic robert this morning the role attacked a prime minister was not on the table and that has since come about. deputy prime minister is not about. deputy prime minister is not a role with any formal, defined responsibilities, it's usually the prime minister wants and what the rematch will be, were yet to see what exactly dominic raab's remix will be as deputy prime minister, but it is a world title and he has been the de facto deputy prime minister so far been the de facto deputy prime ministerso far in been the de facto deputy prime minister so far in any case, the interest the pandemic, when boris johnson was hospitalised with covid, it was dominic raab who stepped up behind him. but without that title of deputy prime minister. bud behind him. but without that title of deputy prime minister.- behind him. but without that title of deputy prime minister. and he is re-ilacin of deputy prime minister. and he is replacing liz — of deputy prime minister. and he is replacing liz truss? _ of deputy prime minister. and he is replacing liz

then philippe cozette, a minerfrom calais, was shaking hands and exchanging flags with robert fagg, his opposite numberfrom dover. welcome back to bbc news. the latest headlines: the women's tennis association has suspended all tournaments in china, saying it has serious doubts that chinese tennis star peng shuai is "free, safe and not subject to intimidation". covid cases in south africa have doubled since monday, as the first case of omicron is reported in the us. the us supreme court has begun hearing arguments in the most important case on abortion rights for half a century. the court is considering a law in the state of mississippi which bans terminations after 15 weeks. a ruling isn't expected until next summer. the court is dominated byjustices with a conservative mindset. and if they find in mississippi's favour, dozens of other states could ban or restrict abortions. our correspondent sophie long sent this report. singing this is a regular scene outside the last remaining abortion clinic in the entire state of mississippi. it's murder, murdering children is wrong according to t

the very well—known republican writer and thinker robert kagan has quit the party because of his disgust at donald trump, and he says that, "we are right now in the midst of a massive american constitutional crisis." he says if donald trump runs again and if donald trump wins in 2024, "we could be looking at the destruction of american democracy." what's your view? i don't think we're looking at the destruction of american democracy. i think one of the issues that we have is that the left in this country have adopted socialist policies... ijust quoted to you a well—known republican thinker, not a leftist. can i finish my answer? sure. 0k. i think that the left has adopted socialist policies, they have adopted policies that are opposed to our veterans, opposed to our police, and most of america is upset about that. we saw a recent election in virginia where the republican candidate beat a former governor for the governor position. we see the shift in public opinion in this case in this country to the right, and we see it because of people rejecting the policies of the left. i don't thin

then philippe cozette, a minerfrom calais, was shaking hands and exchanging flags with robert fagg, his opposite numberfrom dover. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: covid cases in south africa have doubled since monday, as the first case of omicron is reported in the us. the women's tennis association has suspended all tournaments in china saying it has serious doubts that chinese tennis star, peng shuai, is "free, safe and not subject to intimidation". the us actor alec baldwin has given his first interview since a gun he was holding on set went off, killing cinematographer halyna hutchins, back in october. in the interview, with abc news, he was emotional as he recalled the 42—year—old as someone who was �*loved by everyone'. he also said this: the trigger wasn't pulled, i didn't pull the trigger. so, you never pulled the trigger? no, no, no. i would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, never. what did you think happened? how did a real bullet get on that set? i have no idea. someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be

the british socialite ghislaine maxwell, daughter of the late and disgraced media mogul robert maxwell, has been found guilty of having helped her lover, the financierjeffrey epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. the 60—year—old was found guilty on five of the six counts she faced — including the most serious charge, of sex trafficking a minor. it means maxwell could spend the rest of her life behind bars. her legal team say they are working on an appeal. 0ur north america correspondent aleem maqbool reports. court sketches show the moment ghislaine maxwell's victims have waited decades for. after five days of deliberation, jurors decided she was guilty on five counts linked to the sexual abuse of teenagers. and it was four of her victims who helped put her behind bars. the court heard how ghislaine maxwell gained their trust. during their emotional testimony, they told the jury how she instructed them to give the late jeffrey epstein massages that turned sexual. all but one testified anonymously, using a pseudonym or just their first name. jane said maxwell participated in her e

robert hannigan and sirjohn sawers also argue it would be a mistake for britain to try to use its strong position in intelligence as a bargaining chip in the exit negotiations. with 14 months to go until brexit, throughout the day on bbc news we're focussing on the potential impact on security. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. at heathrow, like all uk airports, british and european travellers with their burgundy eu passports go through the same channel. but for security and immigration reasons, might this be different once the uk leaves the eu? post—brexit, we could see changes when we come through places like this. the government has not yet shared its position on what would happen at ports and airports. but when it comes to keeping the country safe, it has set out its views on big issues like security, law enforcement and criminaljustice. these uk raids were part of a typical european operation targeting a suspected people smuggling gang. there were also arrests in belgium and bulgaria. the uk is a leading member of europol, europe's law enforcement agency. when bri

roberts. first of all, i think i need to tell you and your viewers that the judge basically put a gag order on us today and basically i'm limited in my advocacy of my client tonight and what i can discuss with you are the procedural issues and the motions that have been filed and what will be filed from now on, so i'm limited as to the facts of the case itself. sfoo sure, but he has actually been on the record talking about this before, so we're talking about something that's already out there in the public domain. >> what i can actually tell you is that today was arraignment. that's a procedural issue, and we did deny all the allegations. the judge accepted those denials on the record. my client was present over the phone, and so that was what basically happened today. he denied all the allegations. >> so he is saying what she says is not true. she also said in a rather lengthy interview with a florida television station that she fears being killed if she returns back home. i want to play jus

this gave us the opportunity we were denied when his brothers, john and robert, were taken from us. the blessing of time to say thank you and good-bye. >> he changed the circumstances of tens of millions of americans, in a literal sense. literally. literally. changed the circumstances. he changed, also, another aspect, that i have observed about him. he challenged not only the physical circumstance, he changed how they looked at themselves. and how they looked at one another. >> larry: there was another big loss today. good friend, dominick dunne died of bladder cancer at his home in manhatt manhattan, a home i recently visited. he was 83. he was an author, commentator, special correspondent for "vanity fair." he wrote about the rich and the famous and is well known for chronicling big cases. he became a vocal victims rights advocate after the murder of his daughter and he was a great friend to this show. there was no one like dominick dunne and his late friend, gregory dunne. he had a style unlike any other. the words flowed. a grand man. we'll miss him. ( siren blaring ) special i

. >>> well, cancer claimed the life of conservative columnist and former cnn "crossfire" co-host robert novak, he was a cnn political commentator as well as a chicago sun times columnist, broke countless stories including the cia leak case when he identified covert agent valerie plame in a column six years ago. doctors diagnosed a malignant brain tumor last year. he was 78. >>> let's talk some football. never say never with nfl legend brett favre. the 39-year-old quarterback unretired again, he's going to play for the vikings three weeks ago he told them he didn't have it, he didn't trust his body. now he's back, wearing the number four and that purple helmet, going to make between $10 million and $12 million this year. i'm a big packer fan, pains me to see this. >> a lot of people really bummed out. >> i know it and mark the calendars, it's going to be high drama when favre goes back to green bay november 1st in the dreaded viking purple. that's going to be interesting. >> all right. mike galanos tonight, we will be watching, mike. >> thanks. >>> tonight's news maker, deepak chopra say

. >> julia roberts, meryl streep, you know, angel cal houston. >> what a moment, an as your name is read out, that's a moment every actor must dream of, best actress, boom. what are you feeling inning that second? >> i think i closed my eyes and thought, here we go. and i said to my husband at the time that night, he said do you think i'm going to win and he said no, no, i think he was trying to protect me from being terribly disappointed. and i said i think i'm going to win. so in that moment, i just knew when daniel day-lewis came on stage that my name was in that envelope. i know i forgot to thank my husband that night. >> did you really. >> i did. i walked off stage. i said, i forgot to thank my husband. >> no wonder you're not together anymore. >> exactly. >> i need to have a break because that's such a shocking thing to have confessed. when we come back, i want to talk to you about president obama. like i said, you have got strong views. i just don't know what they are. so i'm fascinated. >> okay. [ beep ] [ mom ] scooter? the progresso chicken noodle you made is so good. it's got

joining me on the line right now is lieutenant robert keene with the portland police department. sir, i know it's been a busy night and this night continues for you all. we got word from the "oregonian" saying police told protesters to leave the road or face arrest. >> that's the position we're in now. earlier tonight one of our officers was injured. he was struck in the leg by some object. he's been transported to an area hospital. thankfully with non-life threatening injuries. but after following that incident, a large group of people, hundreds, maybe thousands of people, have made their way into the street and so we've taken a sort of position and established a line and there are just a large number of people that are now in the street kind of blocking the intersection. so we've been asking them to move out of the street so we can re-open the street and get the city going. but this has been going on now for hours. and we're in a position where obviously we're likely to have to act. >> lieutenant, you gave people -- at least the occupy demonstrators who were in the encampment -

robert says he'll give the money back. wall street wants to own its own name. and then so does an investment group in california. >> i bet that investment group in california won't give the money back. >> this will take two to three months to see if the trademark goes to anyone or if it's deemed public domain. meanwhile, you can get your t-shirts on ebay, amazon, all over the place. >> it's just a matter of time. thanks, poppy. >> sure. >>> herman cain is denying a report that two women filed sexual harassment claims against him in the 1990s. politico says they came during his tenure as head of the national restaurant association and both women were paid large cash settlements for their silence and left their jobs. >>> 4 million people waking up without power after a nasty surprise nor'easter. authorities say some people could be in the dark for days after heavy snow snapped tree limbs and took down power lines up and down the east coast. >>> a state of emergency declared in the state of massachusetts. 540,000 people are waking up without power. and joining us

i think about robert kennedy and dr. king and so many others really. >> let me ask you about "we're okay, we still have struggles." we had a "usa today"/gallup poll. question was, do you think that relations between blacks and whites will always be a problem for the u.s. or that a solution will eventually be worked out? 46% said race relations will always be a problem. how would you have answered that question? >> i don't share that. i believe that the day will come in america, i truly believe down in my soul, that the day will come where we will lay down the burden of race. and we will move toward the creation of a truly -- a true democratic society. that day will come in america. it's in keeping with the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence to be hopeful, to be optimistic about the future. >> i want to play you something that the president said that i think you probably heard. he was at the congressional black caucus in september. this is what he had to say to you all. >> take off your bedroom slippers, put on your

john roberts is in the uk tonight taking a close look at the e-mails. john, you know, you read these e-mails and there's a lot of them. but many of them, they don't look good. >> yeah, and even the man who wrote them admitted it doesn't look good at first reading, 1999, phil jones write, aye just completed mike's nature trick of adding in the real temps to hide the decline. if you're skeptical, you say wait a minute, they're trying to manipulate the data, they're trying to hide things and use a trick to do it. he said no, no, no what indeed phil jones was trying to do, he had two different data streams and one ended at a certain point and the other one began and he was trying to put the two of them together. oh, that's a clever method of being able to do this. but perhaps the one most problem plattic is the series of e-mails trying to resist freedom of information act requests. he actively says if somebody tries to get their hands on this data and gets it through the freedom of information act, he will delete the file before he releases it to them. i pu

robert maresca was a former ironworker. he didn't know anything about trademarking. he was making the shirts, he thought he better trademark it. he didn't want it to get into someone else's hands,s someone who could profit from it. the question is, if he wins this trademark, it will be months before we know, how is he going to get the money back to the movement? that is a big question. as you heard, he doesn't have a plan for that yet but he does want to support the movement. something interesting we found out, though, is that just last week the movement, occupy wall street, applied for their own trademark on the same day that a california-based investment group also applied for that trademark. so this is going to be a big question, who is going to get that trademark, in general, or is it just going to be deemed public domain and therefore no one can own the trademark to occupyfascinating, this was bound to happen. right? growing popularity, someone's going to want to own the name. it is not just that. it is also trademark applications for "i am the 99%," "we are the

and so robert, herman cain has definitely captured the spotlight. he's risen dramatically in the polls. but there are some folks who are asking, you know, is he running for comedian in chief or commander in chief? do you think his kind of humor is helping or hurting? >> i'm not sure. i think the, really, the jury is still out whether or not people are taking him seriously or not. if we're talking about herman cain's -- his personality, or his sense of humor as opposed to the 14 million people out there that are unemployed, the 17 million people out there that are living paycheck to paycheck, i think something's wrong with that conversation. you know, i think most people out there would say, it's nice he has a sense of humor, but more importantly where is his plan to create more jobs in this economy. that's what most people want to hear. >> let's take a listen to when he first raised eyebrows when he made flippant comments around tackling illegal immigration. >> when i'm in charge of a fence, it will be 20 feet high. it's going to have barbed wire on

bishop robert flynn pled not guilty to a misdemeanor. if found guilty, the bishop could face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 ine. the diocese incredibly was also charged. >>> a federal appeals court temporarily blocks key parts of alabama's tough immigration law at least until they decide whether the law is unconstitutional. most notedably, the move stops public schools from checking the immigration status of students. but police will still be required to check someone's immigration status when they are stopped or arrested. if the officer suspects the person is in the country illegally. >>> and now to a sign of the times. a chicago suburb may put a stop to drivers chowing down in the car. this certainly caught my attention. the village of oak park is considering a proposal that would ban eating while driving. that's right. this has nothing to do with a cell phone. an effort to get distracted drivers to pay more attention to the road, of course. now, if oak park ends up enacting such a law, it would be the first in the nation to do so.

his name is robert fibido. he won an extra $800,000 this week when the convenience store cashier inadvertently gave him the power play option, which he didn't ask for, but because he won, instead of winning 200,000, he won a cool million. >>> top of the hour here on "cnn saturday morning." in just a few hours, something we have not seen in 46 years will happen -- the penn state football team will play a game without joe paterno as head coach. security is stepped up as 100,000 are set to gather for the first game since the sex abuse scandal shocked the campus. also president obama arrived in hawaii just a short time ago. make no mistake, this is not a vacation. this is november 12th on the cnn saturday morning. 6:00 a.m. in fayetteville, arkansas, wherever you may be, we're glad you are here. let's start on the campus of penn state university. students came out, thousands of them last thilight for a candlelight vigil, it's the same place where students rioted in support of the fired football coach, joe paterno,

. >> the robert movie? >> yes. apparently it's going to be really good. >> it's going to be great. >> i signed up and i'm going to a movie star. >> congratulations. >> won't be seeing any of you again, but it's been great. it's actually a true story. i think he's fantastic, denzel washington. >> so do i. >> it's going to be a big hit. it's going to be a great comeback. i think for you guys, you've -- it's a great film. hasn't been a good one like that for a long time. >> it is fun. thank you very much. glad you liked it. >> remains. tragically. i threw my best shots. it didn't work. "tower heist" coming out to a movie theater very soon. thank you, gentlemen. imagine... one scooter or power chair that could improve your mobility and your life. one medicare benefit that, with private insurance, may entitle you to pay little to nothing to own it. one company that can make it all happen ... your power chair will be paid in full. the scooter store. hi i'm doug harrison. we're experts at getting you the power chair or sc

. >> robert kuttner, thanks for joinings. appreciate it. >>> after dropped from monday night football for compares president obama to hitler, hank williams jr. is venting in a new song called "keep the change" just released on the web. listen to the words. ♪ this country sure the hell will go down the drain we know what we need ♪ we know who to blame ♪ ♪ united socialist states of america, how do you like that name ♪ >>> you can keep -- >> i'm keep the usa. you can keep the -- >> who took that out? the best part of the song. >> because we wanted you to sing it. ♪ i'll keep the usa, you can keep the change ♪ >> called espn and fox news in the song accusing them of twisting his words around. >>> first lady michelle obama. knop stranger to working out. hoping to set a guinness record on the south lawn of the white house. most people jumping, doing jumping jacks. that's a hula hoop. >> she's not going to win. i was going to say. if that's what she's doing. >> jumping jacks starts at 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> showing som

doctors say robert mongeno's double hand transplant was a rounding success last week. he lost his limb after an infection a decade ago. he says having hands again is like you can fly. it's like having wings. good for him. >>> in fayette county, west virginia, more than 400 people take a leap, a big one. they kicked off their annual bridge day celebration with a big base jump. it is billed as the largest extreme sports event in the world. scary. >>> and texas rangers fans jubilant. the rangers are world series-bound for their second straight year. they beat the detroit tigers last night 15-5. game five of the american league series. >>> from the cnn center, this is cnn sunday morning. it's october 16, good morning, everybody. so glad you're with us. i'm alino cho. t.j. holmes is on assignment. >>> hurricane irene postponed the martin luther king jr. memorial dedication, but today the dream is realized. the reverend jesse jackson will join me in a few minutes, and designer tommy hilfiger a little later on. why is he involved? we'll tell you. >>> and a month into the prot

ambassador to syria, robert ford. we are told it's in response to a credible threat against him. but we have no word on the nature of that threat. the state department also accusing the syrian regime of incitement against the ambassador. just last month, some vehicles in ambassador ford's motorcade was damaged by supporters of president assad. ford was not hurt. >>> new leaders in libya officially declaring the country's liberation from four decades of rule by moammar gadhafi. an autopsy has revealed that gadhafi died from a gunshot wound to the head. his body is now on public display in a meat locker. >>> in tunisia, right next door where the arab spring started, they are counting votes. more than 90,000 went to the polls in tunisia's first free national election in 200 years. they will elect an assembly which will elect a new government and draft a new constitution. >>> nevada has voted to shift the date of its republican caucus to february 4. this after threats of candidates boycotting the state. nevada initially moved its contest to mid january because it wanted to play a big

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given the recent revelations that at least one prosecutor on robert mueller's team was sending anti-texts to the doj lawyer and another one congratulating sally yates to uphold the president's travel ban, chairman at the hearing this morning said even the in appearance of in propriety would devastate the fbi. so does the white house believe that the mueller probe was bias from the beginning? >> look, we are fully cooperating through this process. we will continue to do so. as i said a few moments ago, we certainly felt like some of the political leadership at the fbi was problematic. we are glad that director ray is there. we feel he's going to clean up some of the messes left behind by his predecessor. and we look forward to this concluding soon and saying what we've said all along nothing to see and certainly no collusion. the president has an event in a couple minutes. just a couple of last minute notes. the president has an event here with members of the pearl harbor survivors and also have a spray at the top of the congressional meeting this afternoon at 3:00. we'll see you shortly.

we send our love to her parents, susan and robert ridge, her sister, kathryn arinc mayor and her grandparents. may they find peace knowing kristen left an indelible mark on our community and she's now enjoying her eternal reward for a life she spent caring for all of god's creatures. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time and the chair will now recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. smucker, for five minutes. mr. smucker: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to congratulate anthony cisneros iv and dakota snyder of elizabethtown high school in lancaster county for their remarkable achievement of winning the high school fishing world championships last month. their partnership led them to victory. over 389 high school teams from around the nation. mr. speaker, these two young gentlemen are no strangers to the water. at their young age they have been tournament fishing for years and practicing all year round. dakota said as long as there's no ice i'm out there fish youing. it's a treat that runs in the family as anthony and d

from constitutional law professor robert e cushman and , irican ideals professors have learned of our nation's enduring values, and how our themess was straying from in the red scare years of the 1950's. but also how lawyers can remind constitutiont our seals the right to think, speak, and write without fear of reprisal from government authorities. at harvard law school, professor benjamin was my first and favorite teacher, he used the socratic method in his civil procedure class to stimulate, never to wound. he was the model i tried to follow in my own law teaching until 1980.963 at columbia law school, the professor of constitutional law, who later served on stanford's faculty for many years, he was determined to place me in a federal courtship -- federal clerk or chip come -- federal court clerkship. on graduation i was the mother of a four-year-old child. after heroic effort he succeeded in his mission. in later years he litigated cases heading to the supreme court. i became an aid in dealing with legal issues. and he never failed to help me find the right path. another often aske

the clerk: senate 252, an act to authorize the hon rarery appointment of robert j. dole to the grade of colonel in the egular army. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from north carolina is correct. the house is not in order. the gentleman from texas is recognized. >> thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that the committee on judiciary be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 962, the born alive abortion survivors protection act, a bill which has the full support of the republican conference and the majority of the american people as it would save the lives of live-born infants that survived late der term abortions and i ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is correct. the house is not in order order. members take their conversations to the cloorm. -- cloakroom. under guidelines consistently issued by successive speakers, as recorded in section

host: earlier this week the director of the centers for disease control, robert redfield, talked in front of congress about the scope of the public health response. here is what dr. redfield had to say. [video clip] >> we are seven months into this pandemic and it is with great humility i share with you this is the most complex public health response this nation has undertaken in more than a century. this virus is indiscriminate regarding whom and when it strikes. we continue to learn the characteristics, behavior, and effect on americans across the spectrum. we are operating in a highly dynamic environment. we are adapting evidence-based strategies and pushing for innovative solutions to confront this unprecedented crisis. while i am optimistic and look forward to discussing the promise of the covid-19 vaccine i want to strongly emphasize that we are not defenseless now. we have powerful tools and if all of us, not just some of us, but all of us embrace these tools we will get a handle on this pandemic. i am appealing to all americans to be part of the public health solution. wearing a s

i'm grateful to have the opportunity to nil for our chief, john roberts, and grateful to only have a month left. it's my first -- if a got a lot to learn. my question is back to the ucla basketball players. president trump over the weekend call them ungrateful, and i'm just curious, because the players have already apologized. what more would president trump like to see from them? what would satisfy him? >> look, think that the president, like i said, was happy to intervene. think it was less about the players than the father of one of the americans releasing to have a problem with it. frankly-didn't seem like the father wanted the forgot intervene which would have ban sad thing if he hadn't. matthew. >> does he believe that he really should have left the players in jail? >> now. think if that's the case he wouldn't have taken the action he did, and certainly acted in order to help get those individuals released and brought back to the country. matthew. >> so, following up on that, if that not how he feels, why did he say he should have left enemy jail -- >> the president was referri

. >> and robert is calling in from california. good morning, robert. >> good morning, sir. yeah, i just wanted to pass on from my late grandmother who was part of that whole suffrage movement out of minnesota back, back in the day. >> oh. >> to get the vote and then she was an educator as well. and then she started this private organization at that time, a lot of the women, you know, they couldn't own property or cash a check or anything. >> right. >> so they had this private party called the peo, which nobody else knew. the guys didn't know this, but that was called pop's eating out. when they had their meeting. and they would collect money to send girls to school and i just wanted to pass that on. >> that's fascinating. >> that's back in the day. >> thank you for sharing that. yes, one of the great things as i've been touring around the country talking about my book, talking about the suffrage movement. i've been to minnesota and there was very vibrant grass roots activism there and there was a scandanavian women's suffrage association who actually would go to suffrage pa

her co-author, rebecca boggs roberts, has been many things, journalist, producer, tour guide, forensic anthropologist, event planner, political consultant, jazz singer and radio talkshow host. currently the curator of programming to planet world, a new museum in the franklin school in downtown washington. roberts is here in washington dc with her husband, 3 sons and a big fat dog, these two women have been friends since childhood and took the risk to write a book. how the suffrage movement drove institutional change, and what can we learn from that. take it away, rebecca boggs roberts and lucinda robb. >> this year's the one hundredth anniversary of the eighteenth amendment which granted women the vote, removed gender as an obstacle to voting and with all that is going on in 2020 there has never been a better time to look back at the suffrage movement and see what lessons it teaches today. it was a very long movement, over 70 years that went on three generations. they lived a long time. many leaders went into their 80s, sojourner truth, elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony live t

lucinda robb and rebecca boggs roberts have joined together to write a book called "the suffragist playbook". you will learn about this book but more important you will learn about the suffragists, what they did and how they did it, the encouraging things and discouraging things as they were working on it. the idea is that we can learn a lot from suffrage justs, the first to do a parade down pennsylvania avenue, the first to pick at the white house and we see that it is commonplace. let me tell you about these women. lucinda robb was project director for our mothers before us at the center for legislative archives and this project rediscovered thousands of overlooked original documents and helped to organize the national archives celebration of the nineteenth amendment in 1995. she lived with her husband, 3 children, one small dog, and 500 pence dispensers which you will see. her co-author, rebecca boggs roberts, has been many things, journalist, producer, tour guide, forensic anthropologist, event planner, political consultant, jazz singer and radio talkshow host. currently the curator of

roberts lives here in washington, d.c. with her husband, three signs and a big fat dog. these women have been friends since childhood, and took the risk to come together and write a book. and so they're going to talk us through how the suffragists movement drove institutional change and what can we learn from that. so take it away, rebecca and lucinda. >> all right, so thank you so much for having us here today. this year is the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment which of course granted women the vote over the little more technical, removed to gender as an obstacle to voting. and with all that's going on in 2020 there's probably never been a better time to look back at the suffragist movement and see what the lessons that it can teach us today. first of all i want to get out it was a very long movement, over 70 years and it went on for three generations. the first generation of suffragists lived a long time. many of the leaders live well into their 80s. one point i was reading -- susan b. anthony lived to be 86. but still none of them went to see the 19th amendment