And ill know that you dont hear me. Im happyto have come here. I spent a lot of years in washington and was here as a matter of fact when some of these events described in the book remember took place. I was here as an undergraduate and later as a teacher, instructor at howard university. Every nation of course has noble times. Times that it wants to remember. Times that they want its population to remember. As a kind of ideal of itself. Pulled the microphone down. It doesnt stay down,jack. Thats a little better. These times, these noble times that most nations identify are usually wars. Conquests. For land, conquests for resources. They may be wars for the deposing of a king or a bizarre or dictator. They may be wars defending oneself against an oppressor or an invader. But they are generally honorable and bloodied. The best ones are honorable. The worst ones are like the honorable ones only in the fact that they usually swim in blood. But here in this nation, 50 years ago there was a
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To talk about the primary. Good morning to you. Patrick good morning. Host breaks down expectations for turnout and where the momentum is as far as the candidates are concerned. Is ack right now there decent amount of uncertainty given the early Voting Period in texas which is february 18 through this past friday. It came before joe bidens big victory in south carolina. I think a lot of people in texas will watch for what the early , did aresults look like lot of Texas Democrats wait to vote on election day to see who would be still viable at that point . This applies to people like Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg who dropped out in the past 24 or 48 hours. There is a significant chunk of the total vote that is the early vote in texas, it is not a perfect comparison but in 2016 when it was Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton i believe 42 of the total vote was the early vote. It will be interesting to see what the early vote looks like this time of around and how much this late biden se