Phone lines split up as usual this morning. Democrats, 202 7488000 is the number to call in. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text. That number, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. You can catch up with us on social media, twitter and facebook. A very good monday morning to you. You can start calling in now. Theheadlines on this topic, first use of the vaccine maybe december 13. 40 million doses said to be available by the end of the month. That from the front page of usa today. Frontline gets the first vaccine doses, but then who . Thats the question we are asking this morning, asking you to be in the position of setting the priority, how would you do it . Turning to the cdc webpage there, i q a on how the cdc is making its covid19 vaccine recommendations. Making those disease vaccine recommendations based on the input from the Advisory Committee on immunization practices. Its a federal Advisory Committee
wall street journal poll shows republicans gaining support among latino voters and women as president biden s economy deals democrats a decisive blow putting the gop two points ahead of the left on congressional ballot. carley: brooke singman is breaking down the critical races we re following across the country, brooke. brooke: new polling data from the nation s crucial races showing razor-thin margins with just a week until election day. in pennsylvania, new poll shows democrat john fetterman leading dr. oz by single percentage point. fetterman publishing op ed that reads, whether rise in crime or cost, we need leaders who understand problems we re going through in pennsylvania and have the experience and ideas to do something about it. dr. oz pointing out john fetterman s true position on crime to tucker carlsson last night. watch this. taken a strong chance to protect criminals over the innocent and want to release one-third of all prisoners. if he could wave a ma
this is a tough night. we mark one year of our nightmare collectively, right? here at cnn and our family, it s not just tough because what we ve all lived through with covid. the president was right. we need to be the answer for one another, and that is brought home in such painful variety today. yeah, it s a year for all of us. but there s something else today should have been. today would also have been the first birthday for a very special little girl to us, francesca, known forever as beans. that s what they called her. the daughter of our dear friend and colleague, the brain behind the k-file, investigative genius. his wife, rachel, beans smiled bravely in the face of another health monster, a rare form of brain cancer. she fought. they fought. they moved. they did everything. they believed. they loved. inspired all of us. with what they were clear eyed and committed to. she didn t make it. she fought. she died on christmas eve. i remember it. i remember hearing about it
Said you are not going to meet the taliban. I didnt answer. Dexter went. I learned not to answer. Dexter went to pakistan and spent months trying to line up access and the thing about south asia and had to and culture it is tribal culture, when they invite you to meet then they will protect you with your life. So we knew if dexter was able to line this up and they invited us and we would be relatively safe. The one thing we had to worry about was in order to reach the commander he was negotiating with we had to cross through two other commanderss territory. We got the permission and the night before we were supposed to leave we got a phone call from the commanders guys and they said you are welcome to come tomorrow but the one thing you cannot do is bring a woman. Dexter and i looked at each other and said we are not separating theres no way so our translator who had close ties to the taliban said what are we going to do . They said dont bring a woman and we said you have to figure it
The city of washington. Net emissarys name was Frances Blair and he has an extraordinary offer, he said will you lead and the union army to crush secession . Remember the story, blair tried in every way to convince robert e. Lee to say yes. He said the country looks to you, quote, as a representative of the washington family to save the Union George Washington forged and that is not an exaggeration because the son of George Washington son in lot of George Washingtons adopted child. So now only one word separated robert e. Lee from the pinnacle of his profession, from command of what would be the largest American Army ever raised, from glory perhaps that no american since George Washington had known. What did robert e. Lee say . He said he opposed secession and he did oppose secession, he thought secession was illegal. Equally significantly he thought George Washington was opposed to secession and that was no given at the time. People on both sides of the conflict claimed George Washing