Freeman talks about her life in writing, she appeared in her monthly call in program in depth in september 2019. Joanne freeman, youre gonna hate this opening question. [laughter] trace the arc of our nations history from 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow. I wont use the word hate. [laughter] thats a little daunting. Trace the arc. Im gonna do historian thing and speak generally. I guess i would say if youre looking at american politics from the beginning straight to we could even go past the civil war you are talking about paradoxes and conflict and improv. The periods i tend to focus on really more the early part of the earth and its the improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else because the nation was founded in a world of monarchy and the United States was a republic beyond that there was a lot of open grounds theres a lot of improv in those early decades about what the onation is, how it functions, the tone of the governme
Campaign was on life support. After losses in iowa, New Hampshire and nevada. Then he won the South Carolina primary on saturday, picked up a number of endorsements. Youve got momentum to propel him to this. States won tonight, seven states, virginia, North Carolina, alabama, oklahoma, arkansas minnesota and tennessee but dont count Bernie Sanders out. He won three states, colorado, utah and his home state of vermont. And as we said, california, the biggest delegate prize of all is leaning his way. There are still a couple states yet to call. You can see texas there as well. You need 1991 to be nominated, win the democratic nomination. At this hour, biden is leading, opening up his first lead of this entire primary campaign with 331 delegates. Bernie sanders at 269. Elizabeth warren who is still in this race trailing Pete Buttigieg who dropped out over the weekend. Where do we stand. We have 77 year old joe biden battling 78 year old Bernie Sanders for the right to challenge 73 year ol
So it is slowing down long the flat section. 84, the dumbarton bridge just fine but getting over there from the bridge toward marsh we see slowing already. The rest of the bay shows a smooth drive. A crash near the dublin interchange. Perhaps near san ramon, well track that down as well. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Well now back to the growing coronavirus outbreak. We have Live Team Coverage for you. In team two minutes well take you live with a Infectious Disease doctor with more on the story. And Sharon Katsuda is tracking what bay area leaders will do this morning to prepare. But first lets check in with tracie potts live in washington this morning with more on actions President Trump is taking. Tracie . Reporter laura and marcus, the president wants to limit who is coming into the country with coronavirus by rescreening people when they hit the ground. But also hes been talking with drugmakers to try to speed up development of a vaccine, Health Experts telling us that typically take
I am one of the coowners of politics and prose. Along with my coowner and husband and our fabulous staff we welcome you to the event at our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mentioned our location because we are an institution named for the first president and assembled on the blocks from the nerve center of the white house and congress. So what better venue for a conversation with tonights guest speaker . Kamala harris spends her days on capitol hill and you are not alone if you think in a couple of years she could be taking up residence at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. [cheers and applause] since her election to the United States senate in 2016 she has emerged as one of the most exciting and refreshing voices of the Democratic Party a california native starting her career. I know im from the bay area as a prosecutor in the bay area and defeated a longtime incumbent to become District Attorney for San Francisco then hardfought race of attorne
Please welcome to the stage Michael Bennett. Hello, iowa. You are a Patient Group of people. I didnt know how patient. And i want to thank you for allowing all of us to impose on you. I want to particularly thank you for the kindness that youve shown me and my family as weve travelled the state of iowa. I want to thank my friend, tom harken, my chairman who is right here, tom, thank you for your leadership. And thank you for your friendship. Ive been in the senate, as tom knows, for ten years. Its hard for me to believe its been a decade. Weve done two committees together. Tonight i want to talk to you not as a senator but as the only superintendent of schools who has ever run for president of the United States. I worked with kids in the Denver Public schools before i went to the senate. Its a School District thats got about a billion dollar budget. For reference, thats about three times the size of a certain municipality in the state of indiana. Im just saying. It has 95,000 children