remains in critical but stable condition in a pretoria hospital. president jacob zuma made the comments amid rampant speculation and other conflicting reports about the 94-year-old s condition which has led to confusion. nbc s ron allen is in pretoria, south africa, with the latest. good day to you, ron. here the hospital in pretoria, the crowds continue to arrive at the hospital offering their prayers, singing hymns and paying respects to nelson mandela. the official word from the government is he remains in critical but stable condition, although very little detail has been released about his condition inside the hospital. that s why there s a lot of rumor and speculation. a report making the rounds he is in a persistent vegetative state on life support and his family has been advised to discontinue care. the government flatly denies that and says it s not true. in the past the mandela family has reacted negatively to simpler reports. we heard from mandela s wife graca, who says he
4078. at 37 or 38. curtis has the ability to get the anti-sanford votes, but curtis has his work cut out for him. neither campaign has a tremendously well-organized get out the vote campaign. it s mark s to win. just likes the general election and jamie will cover that in a minute, these low turnout models you have, you can throw a lot of national statistics out the window. only the hard base it going to vote. it s sanford s to anyone a tight race, but curtis could catch him. jamie, how can curtis bostic, how can he not be the guy that embarrassed himself in the state the way mark sanford did? one would think that mark sanford would be politically vulnerable? well, craig, he is, and we ll see that vulnerability when he s the, the republican candidate in a general election. you know, mark sanford has this core of hard-core right-wing
people that s what it all boils down to, because obama s name is attached to this and it was his idea, then they oppose it. when you look at the numbers, it just makes plain sense, as president bill clinton said in the convention, it s about arithmetic. 500,000 people in this state would be covered. $11 billion influx into the south carolina economy and thousands of people employed because of this. just makes sense, and the state of south carolina for its first three years would not pay one brown penny. jamie harrison and mr. president dawson good to see you both. still to come, the good book gets a big boost. we re going it look at how and why on this easter sunday. first, though, the day we learned that the last three-letter president would no longer be seeking a second term. this is msnbc. the place for politics. acceler-rental.
shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination by my party of your term as president. president lyndon baines johnsonen in 1978. he would not seek a second full term. president johnson s withdrawal opened the door for his vice president, hubert humphrey s candidacy. a contentious primary that gave us the candidacies of eugene mccarthy and robert f. kennedy. mum fr humphreys managed to win the nomination but lost to richard nixon. flashback, 2005. the issue of right to die had everyone taking a side. at center of the battle, terri schiavo a woman in a persistent vegetative state since 1990 and
huffington post, including governors who lead some of the poorest states in this country, and unhealthiest states in this country as well. nikki haley one that s opposed to extending medicaid at all. why does the south, including our state, date lynn dawson, remain so vehemently opposed to what amounts to free money? there s never any free money. craig, what i see in this debate is, and one of the things i seldom agree with former president bill clinton, but right after the election cycle this time to the democratic caucus in virginia said one thing that they re going to have to do is correct some of the mistakes in thee fordable care act. it is unaffordable in a lot of places and in the deep south, nikki haley is right. so are some of the other governors. we re trying to figure out exactly how we can afford it. it s only free for a short period of time. we have a constitutional