[pledge of allegiance]. We have had the fortune of having Many Political journalists and the broadcast see here over the years but the one we have with us tonight has covered six us residents beginning with president reagan. And speaking of president reagan, for the first interviews back in 2002 when he and a handful of other experts came out to the Reagan Library share stories about president reagan and our air force one number 27,000, stories we use to make our visitors experience and our air force one civilians that much more rich. Since then hes come 2 other times to discuss and find copies of his book is of the white house in 2013 and ultimate insider, white house photographers and how they shape history 2000 since hes been covering the white house since 1986, im sure he has no lack of material for many more books, especially says today he continues to provide insightinto the white house of donald trump and the world of president ial campaigns. Perhaps if were lucky youll share so
Industry, americas cabletelevision company, as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Reading everybody. Welcome to politics and prose. Im bradley graham, a coowner of the bookstore along with my wife lissa muscatine. While theres certainly been a lot of news this week, much of it of course about the start of Donald Trumps trial in the senate, but some important things have been happening in russia as well, particularly an announcement by Vladimir Putin shifting Greater Authority to parliament which has left many wondering what this means about putins on plans to relinquish the presidency, or not, in a few years. We are especially fortunate to have with us this evening an expert on putins russia, joshua yaffa, who is the moscow correspondent for the new yorker. Yorker. Hes been covering russia for much of the past decade, and his new book between two fires offers a truly fascinating and revealing look at the impact of the putin era has had on, above all,
Would indicate that. Almost 70 of the people in america say that the Healthcare System is broken. Right, i really think that healthcare is going to be the number one to musick policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll just came out from gallup that said the 5 of the American People pulled rate healthcare is extremely important as one of the issues and we seen in the polling 53 of americans support singlepayer and i know private coverage at all but now 65 supporting the public option which would be a Government Insurance plan to compete against private insurers and i call this a steppingstone approach to government run medicare for all. The proof is in the pudding. If you look at what happened the last election cycle two years ago my party, i guess it was one year ago, my party the Republican Party we were ousted as a majority and house of representatives and many people will make the armament that it was because the issue of healthcare and that many of us campaigned
Force will be our guest live, starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, taking your phone calls and questions on the coronavirus pandemic. Standing by now for a go for auto sequence start. T minus 33. Hold at t minus 31 seconds. The ground launch sequencer would not hand off to the orbiters computers to complete the count because the liquid oxygen was showing off when it should be on. T minus 10. Go for main engine start. Were go for main engine start. T minus six, five, four, three, two, one, liftoff of Space Shuttle discovery with the hubble space telescope. Our window on the universe. Dr. Kathryn sullivan, youve written a book about the hubble and were going to talk a lot about it today. Watching that video all these years later what was it like for you, knowing you are on board . It was one of my favorite moments. You just saw the skill, professionalism and calm of that Exceptional Team on full display. We all sat in the cockpit. We had no role in this at all. It was the guys on the screen b
Im honored to be joined by the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, dr. Christina tan. Thank you for being with us. And another guy who doesnt need an introduction, the superintendent of the state police, colonel pat hallahan. I want to thank the director of Homeland Security and preparedness. , asty counsel is with us well as other colleagues. Thank you all for joining with us. Permission, so i flying new Jersey Transit police am colors today. I want to give them a big shout out for all the great work they do. I will find it sooner rather than later. Lets get to the numbers. The statewide total is now over 58,000. 3599 positive tests since yesterday. 58,151. Of according to our online dashboard, as of 10 00 p. M. Last 7618 residents were reported hospitalized. Or in critical or intensive care. 1600 ventilators were in use. Ending atour period 10 00 p. M. Last night, another 682 residents were discharged. As we noted yesterday, the dashboard pulls data as it is repor