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First Lady in Moscow
Aired September 30, 2003 - 09:52 ET
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We've established contact with Moscow. My partner Soledad O'Brien traveling with the first lady, now joins us live, the second day of that European tour.
Soledad, how goes it? Good afternoon there.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Bill. Thank you very much.
And it goes pretty well so far, at 6:00 p.m. here in Moscow. And the first lady's contingent arrived several hours ago. They were taken directly into the Kremlin for a meeting with the first lady of Russia.
And I've got to tell you, it's the way you make your way into the Kremlin and really into Moscow is going in a motorcade against traffic. You just slide down the highway. So that was a little bit hairy as went in. But they ushered into the Kremlin and met for a roundtable. The first lady of Russia bringing several academics and also directors of libraries with her, in order to discuss what's on the table tomorrow at this book festival that she is hosting and that really based a lot of what she is doing on what Mrs. Bush had done and what she got to attend back in the U.S.
Mrs. Bush presented to the group after several discussions were going on some books that she brought that she said she thought represented well American values, including "Hup on Pup." Anybody with a little kid knows Dr. Seuss' famous book. Also she brought "Little House in the Big Woods." She bought Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women." She brought "The Frog and Toad Together," and everyone had a little chuckle over that, because the interpreters had a hard time translating that for the group. And she brought a book called "Amazing Grace" by a British author, but again, she said that she thought it was a book that represented well American values and -- of family and friendship, things like that. So really, this was, as Rudmilia Putina (ph) put it, a way to have an informal discussion before the big festival gets under way tomorrow. There is a reception tonight, and then of course the big day is tomorrow -- Bill.
HEMMER: Good deal. Soledad, thanks. Travel safe. We'll talk again tomorrow from Moscow as the tour continues. Soledad O'Brien, there live in Moscow, we'll pick things up tomorrow as the first lady continues her travels.
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Aired September 30, 2003 - 09:52 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We've established contact with Moscow. My partner Soledad O'Brien traveling with the first lady, now joins us live, the second day of that European tour.
Soledad, how goes it? Good afternoon there.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Bill. Thank you very much.
And it goes pretty well so far, at 6:00 p.m. here in Moscow. And the first lady's contingent arrived several hours ago. They were taken directly into the Kremlin for a meeting with the first lady of Russia.
And I've got to tell you, it's the way you make your way into the Kremlin and really into Moscow is going in a motorcade against traffic. You just slide down the highway. So that was a little bit hairy as went in. But they ushered into the Kremlin and met for a roundtable. The first lady of Russia bringing several academics and also directors of libraries with her, in order to discuss what's on the table tomorrow at this book festival that she is hosting and that really based a lot of what she is doing on what Mrs. Bush had done and what she got to attend back in the U.S.
Mrs. Bush presented to the group after several discussions were going on some books that she brought that she said she thought represented well American values, including "Hup on Pup." Anybody with a little kid knows Dr. Seuss' famous book. Also she brought "Little House in the Big Woods." She bought Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women." She brought "The Frog and Toad Together," and everyone had a little chuckle over that, because the interpreters had a hard time translating that for the group. And she brought a book called "Amazing Grace" by a British author, but again, she said that she thought it was a book that represented well American values and -- of family and friendship, things like that. So really, this was, as Rudmilia Putina (ph) put it, a way to have an informal discussion before the big festival gets under way tomorrow. There is a reception tonight, and then of course the big day is tomorrow -- Bill.
HEMMER: Good deal. Soledad, thanks. Travel safe. We'll talk again tomorrow from Moscow as the tour continues. Soledad O'Brien, there live in Moscow, we'll pick things up tomorrow as the first lady continues her travels.
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