Tonight on The Readout.

And we in this moment in time right now have to pinch ourselves because it was almost

250 years before a woman could stand at this desk not just to give a prayer.

But to get the gavel.

Pennsylvania's new house speaker, Joanna McClinton,

just one of a rapidly growing number of powerful women leaders in this country.

But ironically, women now have less bodily autonomy than we've had in 50 years.

Also tonight, major new developments in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation.

And while the lawyers who did Donald Trump's bidding have reason to be very nervous.

And if he doesn't win a Grammy, it's rigged.

Tonight, you will hear Donald Trump's new song recorded with a choir of prison inmates.

No, I am not joking.

And we begin tonight with the vital role of women in American history,

something especially celebrated during women's history month, which started this week.

It is pretty remarkable when you think about it.

The gains women have made since the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920,

when women, but really white women, secured the right to vote.

Of course, women of color and black women had to fight decades longer to secure that right,

until the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965.

The long fight for political equality surges on, but the gains, even in recent years,

are the stuff of legend.

Former forever stenciled in the history books that we, except in Florida, are allowed to read.

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