We wrap up tonights primetime programming and other 00 eastern with peter lance who talks about the relationship between the fbi and gangster gregory scarpa. Join us for more for the booktv television schedule. Up next author and surgeon Benjamin Carson. The president ial medal of freedom recipient would talks about his life from poverty to the top of the medical field, the current Political Landscape in the u. S. And the Affordable Care act. The former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins he is the author of five books including gifted hands the ben carson story, the big picture and his 2012 release america the beautiful rediscovering what made this nation great. Dr. Benjamin carson, who is the bender twins. Guest conjoined twins joined the the back of the head from west germany that we separated at Johns Hopkins in 1987. They were the first twins of that tight, very complex, to be separated and survive. Host and today . As far as they know they are still surviving but
Set the mother remarried a few years later the new husband was not interested so we became wards of the state. Host how did you become involved . Guest i was interested in conjoined twins had the blue reading a lot about them and 1987 in modern times now we think it is ancient but, as i read i if i may conclude it was bleeding to death was the problem and i was talking to a friend who was the chief of pediatric surgery and he had a lot of experience with hypothermic arrested had done a lot of research in which basically you cool the body temperature and pump the blood out in the heart stops and you can operate on a child up to an hour before you have to warm up the blood and i was thinking during the critical time during separation of you to go into hyperthermia arresting get the vessels reconstructed maybe there would not bleed to death. Then i said wait a minute. I will never see that but two months later here came the german doctors presenting the case to know if anybody had a solut
Conjoined twins out of the blue, and i started reading a lot about them and i was trying to figure out why were the results so dismal . This is 1987. Modern time now we think of it as ancient but those times and as i read and read, finally concluded it was bleeding to death, which seemed to be the big problem. And i was talking to a friend who was the chief of surgery at the time and he had a lot of experience with hype othermic arrest, and he had done research and practiced a technique in which basically you cool the body temperature, pump all the blood out, the heart stops, and you can operate on a child for up to an hour before you have to warm the blood up and infuse it back in. And i was thinking, wow, joint the critical time during the separation, if you could go on hypothermic rest, reconstruct it and then start things up, macthe wouldnt bleed to death. Then i was saying, why am i thinking about this . Im never going to see a set of those twins. Lo and bee hold, two months later
Joy. Travel back with me to just under a year ago. When the word that was on everyone republican oos mind and every block of tv and fox news was unmasking. It all started in late march when nunez, the california congressman leading the russia investigation orchestrated a media spectacle with a press conference on the white house lawn. It was around the same time that donald trump had concocted a bogus story about president obama wiretapping him at trump tower. And that day he provided crucial backup to trumps false claim with the announcement that he had just come from briefing the president on intelligence reports. Revealing that members of his campaign and Transition Team had been incidentally surveilled by u. S. Intelligence as they surveilled foreign entities. Those Trump Associates had been victims of unmask iing. You could be forgiven for not realizing there was nothing remarkable or scandalous about any of this. Its all pretty routine for spy agencies for when they wiretap a for
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