good morning. she asked i go ahead and again, she has double duty today. [laughter] there was many years ago, senator, repurchase of illinois was the article. she s not the article but senator dirksen was and he would speak at an event. he would wait in the back of the room until he was introduced. then he would walk very slowly to the front to extend the applause for a long period of time. so she has double duty, she is managing the appropriations bill on the floor and she is here. i want to recognize that and complement her on that piece of legislation. it has a variety of good things in it. again, i believe, it takes an important step in increasing funding significantly for medical research in the nastiest institute of health. i and others supported. within the budget limits and it s good for our country. the senate committee on health education labor and pensions so please come to order, we will have an opening statement. i ll introduce the witnesses and hear from the w
call 1803558999, or visit home serve.com i m eva mckend in washington and this is cnn all right everyone, thanks for joining me. i m omar jimenez in today for fredricka whitfield. we ve got some breaking news to start this hour. the us has begun airdropping desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza it s three cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles today, they included mainly food but no water or medical supplies. cnn s priscilla alvarez this is in washington. paula hancocks is in abu dhabi and the united arab emirates, which has also been airdropping aid into gaza. but priscilla, i want to start with you because we re getting some news around the possibility of a ceasefire ceasefire. what are you hearing? yeah, omar, we re hearing from senior administration officials here in the last hour who said that israel has quote, basically accepted the framework of a hostage deal that would include a six-week ceasefire. this would do two things and would allow more humanitari
district attorney fani willis is fates still up in the air as the judge weighs whether to disqualify her and her entire team of prosecutors from the case against donald trump and other defendants for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. these people, your honor, is a systematic misconduct and they need to go lawyers for trump and others charged in the case are arguing that willis hired nathan wade, a special prosecutor when they were romantically involved, and then she benefited financially from the trips they took and dinners they shared. she put her boyfriend in the spot paid him, and then reap the benefits from it that she created the system and then didn t tell anybody about it. willis testified last month insisting the relationship began after wade was appointed to lead the trump case and arguing she paid him back in cash when i saw how did they did mr. wade april 2020 2022 around the i don t know, growing up, my daddy had three safes and now, th
decision to use the atomic bomb. in 1999, a poll of journalists ranks the bombing is the top new story of the entire 20th century. beating out the landing on the moon, the attack on pearl harbor, and other prominent stories and events that occurred in the last century. the importance of a story of the atomic bombings of japan, has come over the last five decades or so, a enormous and highly acrimonious controversy, both among scholars and among the general public. it is safe to say that the issue of the atomic bombing is arguably and it is a strong argument the issue of the atomic bombings of japan is the most contentious debate in all of american history. i don t think we are going to settle it today. but i hope we will advance our knowledge of the subject and shed some light on some important issues and perhaps lower the volume of ill will at all to often has been a prominent part of this controversy. truman ssy over decision to use the atomic bomb arises from two fierc
senate. would you agree with that opinion and you think his success in the senate did not contradict his election as president but it was part of the pathway going to the final roll? i do think the senate. changed him and in some why developed him. i think he developed expertise in areas that he hadn t had before and he really did a deep dive on some complicated issues. it was almost like it rants graduate school for kennedy. i think he did use the senate years to learn more about issues and i think he also kind of formed a political identity in which he presented himself as both a kind of a modern new politician, you know a young candidate but also someone who is very familiar with american history and understanding traditions and was very steep in american history. so you know i think he put together a very powerful political presence that was a forest but i think it does raise raise one of the ironies of the american political system seems to me that the times that y