We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
For senator rubio its a turf war hoping for a home state advantage despite the polls showing trump ahead of him at this point. In michigan were told its primary on tuesday, Governor John Kasich is promising he will win that states delegates despite concerns his campaign is waging an uphill fight. Republicans are holding caucuses and primaries in kansas, kentucky, maine and louisiana. While the democrats head to the polls and caucuses in nebraska, kansas, and louisiana. Theyll also be holding caucuses tomorrow in maine. John roberts is in palm beach florida but first new orleans where doug is keeping a laser focus on the vote there. Doug. Hi, uma. Polling has been sparse in louisiana so its a little bit of a wildcard as to who will claim the proportionally awarded delegat delegates. Hillary clinton could run away with the state of louisiana. She has done very well in the other Southern States especially among African American voters and here in louisiana African Americans make up over 3
Then suddenly matter now. Suddenly dont matter now. The confusion is rampant. Brett bauer, author of three days in january and that tossing of a baton and so many other ways of one administration and another. And brett, what do you make of what the president is saying about this . Its done, but how do you think he characterized it, she suffered enough . Its interesting to hear the president defend that considering his own defense secretary and leaders in the u. S. Army were pushing against this decision, this commutation saying it sent a signal around the world about this kind of leak of classified materials. They were not alone. I interviewed Vice President elect mike pence on the mall overlooking the u. S. Capitol where he will overtake the office of Vice President friday. Heres what he said about it. To commute private mannings sentence was a mistake. Private manning is a traitor. Should not have been turned into a martyr as senator cotton said. Private mannings actions compromised
On friday, at the moment that the Senate Judiciary committee was expected to vote quickly along party lines to advance kavanaughs nomination, the process was suddenly thrown into disarray when republican senator jeff flake made an unexpected lastminute deal with the Committee Democrats to secure a oneweek delay in the full senate vote during which the fbi would look into dr. Fords allegations and possibly into other allegations too. It was not really clear at the time. Later that day, we learned that the white house had indeed ordered the fbi to reopen kavanaughs background investigation. But on saturday, nbc news was first to report that the white house had sharply limited the scope of the fbis investigation, telling the fbi it could investigate Christine Blasey fords claims and those of Deborah Ramirez, who has publicly accused Brett Kavanaugh of shoving his genitalia in her face at a party when they were both College Students at yale, but not the claims from Julie Swetnick, who has
About who is being interviewed, who is in the, and so on. We know this renewed fbi Background Investigation is underway and we understand that at the very top of the list is dr. Christine blasey ford. We reached out to her attorneys yesterday and we were told that she has not yet been contacted by the fbi. Doesnt mean she wont be. Its just she hasnt been yet. Also mark judge, the man who dr. Ford puts in the room. He is a witness but possibly an accomplice. There is leland keyser, fords long time friend who said she had no recollection of being at a party. Then there is also p. J. Smyth. He is kavanaughs friend. Then theres deborah ramirez. She is the classmate at yale who alleges that kavanaugh exposed himself to her. I am told that investigators spoke to her yesterday. And then add to all of that chad ludington. He is a yale classmate of kavanaughs who said he often drank with him. He issued a statement yesterday saying that kavanaugh was not truthful about his drinking in his testim