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Today on inside politics, republican candidates get busy bruising each other in a debate marked by insults, prepared oneliners and plenty of pettiness. Plus the speck call starts. Today is day one of the Impeachment Inquiry into joe biden. Republicans promise a show and tell. The democrats retort, wheres the evidence. And danger knocks, President Biden is in arizona to warn the country and rerevive a 2020 and 2022 Campaign Theme that democrats believe worked. That maga extremists are a singular threat to american democracy. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and ininside politics. Up first, A Chaotic Cross Talk filled debate that gave us more questions and more insults, but little clarity about who, if any, of these candidates can truly challenge donald trump. The front runner was not there again, but you could sense the desperation among those on stage to find a breakthrough moment. You could see and hear that more and more Donald Trumps republican rivals realize they wont win
Every stillness every day will make movement more tolerable. For more information on bob tvs recent visit to Santa Barbara and the many other destinations on tower cities tour go to cspan. Org citiestour. Now a panel on the life and career of recent lid retired librarian of congress, james billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. Humbled to be next to any understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harmon, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center and i cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] we have no Cannon Institute no wilson quarterly, two projects at the heart of what we do. 0 who knows how many friends and how much wisdom would we would have missed out on. Jim played a special role in my own education, my russian education. We crossed paths while i was in moscow on a congressional delegat
Eyewitness News Reporter justin finch joins us from city hall where two events collided, justin. Reporter good morning. Yes, that is right, families gathered here last night to sipping carols and watch the the tree light up, instead they were met by protesters chanting things like no just advertise, no peace. Lets take you right to the video though from last night, all that is happening in the city hall courtyard where those protesters gathered together. Families there of course for a good time. Protesters there to make a pint about the grand jury decision that is came down in the mike brown and eric garner cases. On wednesday, we heard the new york city grand jury came down with the call not to bring charges against the officers involved in the death of eric garner and last month a similar story from a similar grand jury chose not to bring charges against officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed teen, mike brown, again, both men in both cases were unarmed. In tribute pro
Us President Donald Trump has insisted the country will be ready to rollout a covid 19 vaccine in matter of weeks but it completely contradicts the views of his own Health Officials. Centers for Disease Control prevention director, dr Robert Redfield, saying he doesnt believe a vaccine will be generally available to the American Public before mid 2021. I think there will be a vaccine that will be initially available sometime between november and december but very limited supply, and will have to be prioritised. If youre asking me when its going to be generally available to the American Public so we can begin to take advantage of a vaccine to get back to our regular life, i think we are probably looking at late second quarter, Third Quarter of 2021. All these uncertainty at a time when confidence is down. Concern is going on how much trust people will have and that will affect up take if one is approved. This isjust going to add to the confusion. If you wa nted add to the confusion. If