Host congratulations. Your book is a major comp which meant. It is a significant scholarly work. I think it is fair to say you moved the seal. Guest thats a tremendous thing to hear coming from you david. Thank you so much. Host how does it feel . Guest like a big relief. Its been 10 years in the works to make this book and so its a relief than just a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and other interesting people. Host three Major Writers spent their careers studying writing about tobacco and cigarettes Richard Kluger who won a Pulitzer Prize for ashes to ashes. Guest amazing. It was really a pageturner. Host allen grant the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette industry and the deception of the industry and in trepidation. When you started here had giant oaks out there and you took a risk. Guest yes but you know i really feel those three books ashes to ashes cigarette century and robber proctors whole corpus of work the biggest of which is called golden holoc
One of the earlier versions and for a three tank this one is armed with the 75 millilitre gun it also has the caliber. 50 machine gun and two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here. Gunner. If you look here, he can show you how the ball term iturret works. He has his ammunition in the back and to the back to catch the bag to catch the shell casings. Right here, its a prismatic periscope that sticks up through that space. Inside the periscope is a lense that has a rhetical. He uses that this is another one on this side. This is not the main gun. This one is controlled by the gunner. There is a switch to fire the machine gun. The gunners periscope comes up to the inside his gunners periscope comes up for the inside. Their field of vision is fairly limited. The critical thing for the commander was, he would have to lay the main gun on the taget side so the gunner can see it. Typically, the tank commander will announce the enga
Veterans of those wars. And at 9 00 a. M. , National Museum of American History director on womens suffrage and the 19th amendments centennial. Host morning. Its wednesday, february 19, 2020. The democratic primary candidates will debate in las vegas and they will be joined for the first time on stage by former new york mayor Michael Bloomberg. President trump is offering alternative viewing in the form of a Keep America Great Campaign rally in arizona. Campaign 2020a question to begin the washington journal today. With the nevada caucuses this weekend and the South Carolina primary 10 days away, we want to know what you think the role of voters of colors will be this election cycle. Phone lines, black voters 202 7488000. Hispanic voters 202 7488001. All others 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on wj. Al media at cspan you can also send us a text message this morning. Include your name and where youre from. As can start calling in now we take you to this story from the Washing
Ill admit, im just the same as i was. Now, dont you understand. That im never changing who i am. Cheryl we are here, welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning everyone. Im cheryl. Lauren good morning. Welcome. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl all right. Lets take a look at how your money is doing this morning. Lets take another look at futures. Its been a week, right. Another loss for the dow and s p yesterday, both down five days in a row. Right now, we do have more red arrows. The dow was down 400 overnight. This is an improvement. The dow is down 133, s p down 16, nasdaq is down 42. By the way, a lot of retailers reporting before the bell. We have best buy, jc penney to mix it up today. Lauren its a coronavirus driven market. The price of oil is at 47, 93. Down almost 2 right now. Gold of course flight to safety, at 1648 an ounce, a gain of 5. Goldman sachs sees gold topping 1800 in the next three months. Cheryl we have seen a flight to safety into treasuries. Right now the yield is actually dow
Potential changes to the u. S. Political system which he writes about in his book. [video clip] for this for ready anything whether it is going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we are at that very low level and we want to keep it that way. Yesterdayident trump flanked by white house officials reassuring americans about the response to the coronavirus. We want to get your thoughts on that. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Ndependents, 2027488002 text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488001 or you can go to twitter at cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. Before we get to your calls, lets begin with more of that News Conference from yesterday. The president rom talking about the state of the coronavirus. [video clip] earlyhave through decisions, closed our borders to flights coming in from certain byas, areas that were hit the coronavirus and hit hard. We did it early. A lot of people thought we should not do it early and it turned out to