Thats followed by prime ministers questions from the british house of commons. Then, joe biden, winter in South Carolina on saturday, campaigns in norfolk, virginia, ahead of tuesdays primary. Nearly a third of democratic president ial delegates will be chosen this super tuesday. 14 states, democrats abroad and American Samoa will all be voting. Carl cannon, how decisive do you think super tuesday will be . You have one third of the delegates that will be at the Democratic Convention in milwaukee that will be chosen on tuesday. We will not know all of them. California is going to take a while to count. But you start to think about, in a crowded field, if one person can win most of those states, the advantage they have may be insurmountable. Im talking about a specific candidate now. Who are you talking about . Im talking about Bernie Sanders. This could be decisive. Maybe not. You saw on the debate stage every democratic candidate except Bernie Sanders would not commit to the idea that
Carl cannon, how decisive do you think super tuesday will be . You have one third of the delegates that will be at the Democratic Convention in milwaukee that will be chosen on tuesday. We will not know all of them. California is going to take a while to count. But you start to think about, in a crowded field, if one person can win most of those states, the advantage they have may be insurmountable. Im talking about a specific candidate now. Who are you talking about . Im talking about Bernie Sanders. This could be decisive. Maybe not. You saw on the debate stage every democratic candidate except Bernie Sanders would not commit to the idea that the person with the most elegant going into delegates going into milwaukee would be the nominee. I do know if it will be decisive. But it will be quite a story the day after super tuesday, when you have all of these states picking all of these delegates. 1357 pledged delegates are up for grabs on super tuesday. 1991 are needed for nomination on
Our final speaker this morning is brian dirck. Brian is a professor of history at Anderson University in indiana. He is the author of numerous books on Abraham Lincoln including lincoln and davis, imagining america, lincoln the lawyer, lincoln and the constitution, Abraham Lincoln and White America and lincoln and indiana. His subjects probed some of the most interesting and relevant topics in lincolns life and he has won awards for his work including one from the new york civil war roundtable. He recently had the opportunity to travel to seoul, where he addressed the korean Abraham Lincoln society. I know i would like to hear more about that. [laughter] how can i get on the gravy train . [laughter] today, he will talk to us about Abraham Lincoln and death which was published earlier this year. A review at civil war monitor states students of the 16th president will want to add this concise, thoughtprovoking and sensitively written volume to their bookshelves created please join me in
Story. 963, this woman sherry finkbine, a student, not her real name, was featured in a life magazine article. You see her in the article. The story was about a choice her family was facing. She was pregnant. Her husband had recently traveled to europe where he acquired a drug called thalidomide. The drug you see here behind me had not been approved for use yet in the United States of america and was available in many European Countries and used to treat a number of Different Things, anxiety, insomnia and nausea. Nausea here is key. So women began taking it to aleave morning sickness. And sherry finkbines husband had been in europe and acquired these pills and brought them back home for her and shes pregnant and takes 40 of them early on in her pregnancy. She and her husband did not know that thalidomide causes birth defects but then she writes an article about the drug and found out a little bit more and called her doctor and she started to learn more about what thalidomide can do, fo
The world. Are you comfortable with the way the Trump Administration has handled . Has the president done enough to stay ahead of the story . Let me say this. As a member of congress, my focus is to make sure that we appropriate the necessary funds to provide the resources to our hospitals, local communities, states. We need to come together and provide the funds. We can make judgments along the way. The Vice President is the head of the effort to coordinate activities. We will make our judgments as this unfolds. We had a briefing today in the house that we found really informative. I think what we need to be focused on is making sure that we provide the necessary resources to our communities. From that briefing, what is your number one concern . Concerned that we still dont know a lot about the virus. I want to make sure our constituents are protected. They are a first line of defense. The funding level for the National Institute of health is up 40 in five years. Substantial increase