host: annette gordan-reed, retired couple in san antonio. and then texas tries to keep the truth with competing with met this is crazy and related to censorship. we touched on the alamo but i want to acknowledge her e-mail. >> i have heard about e that. and those that actually read about it. host: will you be on the book festival circuit this fall quick. >> i think so. i am supposed to be. i'm hoping i can be there in person to actually meet people. go ahead neville. >>caller: my question is related to sally hemmings. so as a visual and an image is the some time to time descriptions. that she wasd. white and long straight hair down her back. i don't see many sketches or images or pictures which depict sally hemmings. >> weve don't have any depictions of her. people have imagined ideas of what she looks like. they do know reproductions of her we don't have any images of jefferson's wife maybe a couple of silhouettes so strangely enough and her father's home was destroyed by fire but it's interesting and completely different and we don't have

when they left the little town to go somewhere, they went to houston or they went to dallas or san antonio. they didn't come to new york. they didn't go to l.a. so the roots go deep, and most of my family is still there. >> host: well, back to your book "on juneteenth," page 101, quote: in 1967 there was a re-release of the 1960 film "the alamo." i was taken to see it with my best friend. can you tell us that story? >> guest: yeah. it was an exciting thing. it was a big deal to go to the movies in those days. and going to houston to see a movie. i was in a little town outside of houston, and there was essentially a pine forest between the two places. now, of course, houston has reached out and encroached upon all of that area. but it was an exciting thing, a treat to go see this movie about people that we already knew about, jim bowie, travis, dave i have correct. these were name -- davy crockett. and my friend who was a boy, my best friend, you know, really was into those characters. i mean, i knew who they were, and i thought jim bowie was almost this myth ific sort of -- mythic sort of

i contain things in texas, houston particular but san antonio and other parts of the district, then i represent affordable housing has been a major concern and this is just getting worse as a major problem. and as yesterday, the labor department never shows that the housing costs which the cost of rent, and the homeownership are continuing to grow. we approved significant assistance in the american rescue plan for those who are struggling to make the most of the rent payments and unfortunately, in texas say republicans have bundled getting the relief to those who needed the most they seem to do better it really barriers whether it is putting a barrier to rent assistance or building a barrier to funding or building a barrier along the rio grande river. the homeownership which is a source of financial security for so many americans is increasingly underage as our witnesses today have told us. and let me ask you about the rescue plan at the congress has an you've indicated while many people in your state of new jersey, and places like texas we have the state government, that there is sti

a native of san antonio who grew up in a mexican-american family, mr. santos in his 40-year career has become one of the top statisticians for the country -- in the country. if confirmed, santos would be the first hispanic and in fact the first person of color to become a permanent director of the census bureau. he's exactly the kind of person our country needs overseeing our census -- impartial, highly experienced, someone from outside politics. we must and need to protect our census from the pressures of partisan politics, and santos is the perfect fit. president trump, true to form, spent years trying to politicize and weaponize our country's census, going as far as maliciously trying to include citizenship questions and have counts of undocumented immigrants. mr. santos will restore trust and integrity to one of the most important agencies in government. and on mr. syed. of course there are too many other qualified and uncontroversial nominees that are still awaiting their confirmation because of shameful republican delay. mr. mohsin syed is a parti

finally, as far away as san antonio, republicans have flipped a democratic bastion in a clear sign that republican inroads with hispanic voters last year were not a fluke. so what's responsible for this astounding red wave, unlike anything we have seen in years? well, if you listened to some in the immediate why this morning, the answer is the -- in the media this morning, the answer is the same as always. glenn youngkin is apparently a smiling fleece jacket-wearing reincarnation of democratic demagogues. if you look at the actual results, this laughable attack is exposed for what it is -- dishonest propaganda. as part of this supposedly racist or white supremacist backlash election, more than half of hispanic voters appear to have pulled the lever for youngkin. not one but two plurality house districts flipped to the g.o.p. best of all for this supposedly racist election, virginia voters just elected the state's first black female lieutenant governor. that woman is winsome seers, a gun-toting immigrant marine veteran and a proud conservative republican. so much for the media spin. now

howard and i crossed paths as young lawyers in san antonio, texas, where we used to play a little pickup basketball together. he graduated from st. mary's school of law a few years before i did and much to the benefit of families across our state, he quickly found his calling working on child support and family issues. howard spent time as a private lawyer, as a state-appointed judge, and as a regional director for child support enforcement. he bounced back-and-forth between the texas attorney general's office and the texas department of protective and regulatory services, and his colleagues would joke, howard, how can we miss you if you won't stay gone? but a man as talented and devoted and as effective as howard is always in high demand. when i was elected as attorney general of texas in 1998, he was one of the first people i called. at the time the child support division of the attorney general's office was a disaster. staff were completely overwhelmed by the sky-high number of cases. the office ran a computer system that was so dysfunctional, it actually managed to decrease productiv

in the relief from cities like san antonio and austin, paid leave policies only to have them different state and republican leadership. thank you for your leadership working with the defense department to make our military and childcare so standard. bipartisan cooperation on this, i think we share concerns, the only problem is we get a disagreement when it comes time to pay for those concerns and see we reach the children we need to reach. you mentioned a number of actions to take the stabilized childcare system, would you allow the on investing more in the child studies to support stable access to high-quality for low income families, how can we assure the money we invest expand availability, quality and financial stability for childcare businesses and offer of 40 the care. >> thank you for that question. i think the military has a good model how we can do this. one lesson we learn from doing the military is that we need to put money into the supply side of the equation as well as the care. what i think this is to childcare entitlement, that's money more into the supply side of the eq