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super tuesday and through march 15, some states are voting, the states you see in orange are the super tuesday states. including texas and georgia, minnesota and it runs down through march 15, the darkest purple states are the march 15 states. polls on this map in the wall street journal, michigan, donald trump leading. in ohio, donald trump leading. governor kasich by five points. georgia, mr. trump has a big lead as well as in florida. in texas, takers is currently ahead 34% to 26%. if you are interested in seeing, this is the front page of the wall street journal. from cnn, marco marco rubio prepares for a contested republican convention as one option to take the nomination away from donald trump and ted cruz, his campaign manager told top donors at a closed-door meeting in manhattan on wednesday, as he scrambles for support ahead of super tuesday, his top advisor used a powerpoint presentation and took questions from attendees to lay the two courses that rubio s ....
so as we unfold here today and evolve through this process let me say on the outside that usually when i am on some show, i am sitting in your chair. today i m asking the question so bear with me as we unravel this or peel this onion. as i went through the book i saw so many interesting things about how we get to a better chemistry. how we get get to a better civility. how do we get things done in washington. so let me ask you on the outset, why write the book? that s a great question. i think we write the book in part because we love the institution and we want to see it continue to thrive and progress and be what it can be and what our founding fathers envisioned for it. but that takes work and leadership, takes adjustment. i worry today that because of the dysfunction, we are at a crisis point. we are going to have to take some corrective action to bring it back. this institution is only as good as the people who sir. i think sometimes we take it for granted. we ha ....
by the way. [laughter] that was when we talked last july. you can add a new other agencies to the list now. va and dhs. you want me to do it? go for it. so va problem statement in a nutshell, we are creating disabled veterans at pace that we can t absorb in the rest of the system. we have been doing that for 10-12 years or so. you can probably guess what they are. and it s been overwhelming the rest of the system since then and backlog of disability claims at one point was 600,000 or so, that was that high-watermark was hit around march 2014, if i remember correctly. just a few months before we came on the scene. the delayed disability claims in the case of the va very often mean a lapse in treatment which could be physical therapy for a new amputee. hearing losses is incredibly common and mental health issues are incredibly common. untreated posttraumatic stress and depression is not only a life-threatening situation for the veteran but around the veteran as well ....
we re in a really bad cyclee right now thanks to orange hitler. and so they come and go. so, i mean, i feel, yes, there s more diversity. we re brown people are creeping into more establishment places like in hollywood, but and politics but it s really, really slow. i m just happy i made it this long to see at least one of the good cycles come up. but i think it s got to improve down the road because, yeah, people got to deal. i remember this marine recruit that got let go from the marines when he was spotted on the at a trump rally, screaming, and almost hitting a young black moster, black protester, and i m not a militaristic guy, and i thought good job marines. that was good, sane work decision right there. that guy, that kid was not fit to protect his what would be his diverse fellow soldiers. if we can find another young man better qualified, i m sure it would be kind of easy, but someone that is not ready toy play with the rest of us. so, that s the real ....
television, on c-span, are real people. when we saw president obama, perhaps the thing that most stood out to me is he had bags under his eyes. he s a real person dealing with real things. sunday night on q&a type high school students from around the country talk with us about their experiences in the week long government and leadership program, plus their plans for the future. the students met with members of the executive, judicial, and legislative branchs of the government, plus military and media representatives. washington post journalist mr. jonathan capehart came to talk to us, and i really loved the insight he gave us of kind of being the outside source reporting back to us and the electorate about what s going on in our government. ruth bader ginsburg is the most inspirational people we have met this week. i want to be in the legal profession or possible a senator. i understand the need for bipartisanship at times, but i think it is important that pol ....