Elizabeth warren held a town hall. Afterwards, Senate Leaders discuss the articles of impeachment against President Trump and the pending senate trial. Daniel weiss, your new book in that time opens with a poem that was composed in 1970. Id like you to frame our conversation by reading it. Id be happy to. Its letters from plaku. If you are able save for them a place inside of you. And save up with backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you love them though you may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you while youre dying and keep them in their own. And in that time when men decide to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. Michael odonnell, january 1st, 1970. Who was Michael Odonnell . He was a young man who found himself in vietnam in 1970. He was a songwritered a a poet and a helicopter pilot and a hero and ultimately a casualty of the vietnam war. Ho
In congress and at the white house on the issue of vaping and underage use of ecigarettes. We are joined by andrew, who covers health care for cq roll call. Tell us why underage vaping became a bigger issue in 2019. Andrew i think it was a combination of factors that really drove this to the front of the policy debate this year. One was just a year over year increases in the number of teens who are reporting ecigarette use. Thats been increasing for several years, but 2019, we saw another significant increase over last year. Another was interrelated, but sort of distinct issue that we saw, starting over the summer with vaping related illnesses that were beginning to emerge, that weve now seen thousands injured and dozens dead from this. Thats related to illicit thc vaping, which is distinct from the problem of ecigarette use. But the urgency of those illnesses i think really prompted policymakers to want to respond more broadly to the vaping issues were dealing with in the u. S. Host a
That it is that we are pushing back against. We are confident the iraq he people want the United States to continue to be there to fight the counterterror campaign. We will continue to do all the things we need to do to keep america safe. Hasnt been a change in u. S. Response where we will longer go after the enemy in the field . We wont go after irans control. There is a strategy that has been several years in the making now. We have been working on it. It has been a diplomatic strategy and economic strategy. With respect to targets, President Trump talked about 52 targets tonight. That is not new. To the peoplelear running around today and running it into the ground, we made clear to them that we would not respond just against these proxy forces they run in yemen, syria, iraq and lebanon. We make clear it cost would be brought home to the leadership regime in iraq. We would not just attacked their efforts, we would respond and away for the decisionmakers that put american lives at st
Headline, for the president of risky gamble to deter iran. He says the calculus was straightforward, washington had to show the iranian leadership that missiles firing ships in the persian gulf and at Oil Facilities in saudi arabia along with attacks inside iran the cost the life of American Contractor would not go without response. While Senior America officials have no doubt the iranians will respond, they do not know how quickly or how furiously. Guest there has been a feeling in the white house, the president s decisions not to pull the trigger in the past over the last year, had given the wrong impression, that they could get away with a lot of things about the president responding as the president has promised not to engage us in endless wars in the middle east. The argument in the white house was lets not give them the wrong message. This is a way of giving them reestablishing deterrence. Had, theer he president authorized airstrikes against iran in response to one of the provoc
Really important medicines. This has been going on 20 years. Andave had hundreds hundreds. One of the medicines and shortage right now is a really important blood thinner that hospitals use every single day. There was an article in a local newspaper about a boston physician saying i do not know if we can do cardiac surgery two weeks from now if we do not have this product. We are walking on a very thin line. We have had shortages of chemotherapy to treat cancer in children and adults. We have had shortages and right now, there is a shortage of a really important antibiotic to treat a lifethreatening infection. These are life and death medicine. Sometimes, we cannot get them, and we are rationing. In therationing medicine United States of america. Really remarkable. Host is this hyperbole or is is a real, existing problem . In washington, we hear a lot of talk from a lot of Different Industries saying that scott is falling here, the sky is falling their there. Is is a real problem where