cured just like any other disease well i ask david side claire professor of genetics at harvard medical school. claire welcome to the show it's great to have you with us to talk about so you suggest that aging may be looked at as a disease that can be treated what makes you think that age is a medical condition rather than the natural course of things. well thanks well aging is just like every other condition that causes us to be sick and eventually die we like to think it's natural because it happens to most people but in 100 years ago cancer heart disease frailty these are things that that if you lived long enough you would get it and eventually we learned how to treat those things we understood what the basis was and we're at the same stage with aging we know of for the 1st time a fundamental understanding of what causes aging how to slow down and even potentially how to treat it and reverse the process and my argument about why we should focus on it is that aging is the major cause of all of the diseases that we try to stop and sort of trying to whack them on the head one of the time as th

and we're back with david sinclair professor of genetics at harvard medical school discussing whether external use. pipe dream or in knowledge so distant future so. david reprogramming our cells raising the levels of a and a d. plus molecule that will help reset the aging clock fine allowing a 60 year old to feel like 50 a 40 year old like 30 and cetera but is it possible to actually stop aging completely or only slow down. well if you ask me that just 2 years ago i would have said there's no way we can stop aging and we still don't know how to do that but we do know know how to reprogram cells to be very young again and take the age at least of a mouse was i all the way back from one year of age which is an old i back to being just a couple of months so now when you ask me that i have to say in theory it's possible that we could reset the body multiple times now we've research and i once but we're now testing if we could do it twice 3 times and maybe we can reset 100 times we don't know it just yet but that's a very exciting prospect that we will be able to have multiple resets withi

and the - - foundation reopened the medical school with cuban faculty. there are 1500 cuban doctors and health professionals in haiti. they are unsung heroes. i put them in the book too. so there's lots happening in healthcare. people also need to know. let's all be committed to helping the haitian people and the people they chose to leave them. that's not the point. it's can we help the haitian people and their leaders move forward. i think we can. i am gearing myself up for some optimism. [indiscernible] if those people can have optimism, then we can too. thank you all for having me here. [applause] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. booktv, television for serious readers. recently, former fbi director james comey interviewed a former special assistant, josh campbell. about the importance of the bureau and their working relationship. here's a portion of their talk. >> how did you end up as my special assistant? i'm glad that you did josh. but tell the folks how you ended up as special assistant. >> how did i end up as your special assistant? it all

does now incorporate the data waiver training into the medical school curriculum so that as the students graduate they automatically have the data waiver to gentle lady from florida is recognized various >> think you and i want to thank you as well for calling the hearing thank you for everything you're doing tyou are doing to e families deal with we've lost over 5,000 of our neighbors per year and while i'm proud of the work passing into the comprehensive addiction and recovery act and the support act there is one glaring problem. there's the continuity of care and resources in the minority of states that have not expanded medicaid your written testimony to noted that for every single person that has been brought to the emergency department, nearly half as no health insurance at all for the expanding medicaid and bringing the additional $4 billion into north carolina for healthcare. all of the democratic members of the florida congressional delegation yesterday had a letter back home to the opening day of the florida legislature and our message to the governor and the members b

and massachusetts we were the first state to develop voluntarily at all four of our medical schools. core competencies that were standardized for all medical students. that was quickly taken up by all of our three dental schools as well as our advanced near vance nursing programs. in a standardized way so that it could balance the needs of pain management with the potential for opioid misuse. additionally, our social work schools have taken up their training as well as physical therapists. it is enhancing the capacity for individuals to treat this medical illness. >> i know one of the challenges with mid schools, in the past, they have given very little time to addiction medicine and pain issues. are they starting at the first year now? and you met schools? >> the trick with our core competencies is we allow each individual medical school to create the curriculum the way they needed to based on what the curriculum is. they have been posted in multiple different ways. but that allows, usually curriculum changes takes two to three years, this we did it in a matter of weeks because the c

in massachusetts, we were the first state to develop voluntarily all four medical schools core competency ises that were standardize d for all medical students that was quickly taken up by all of the three dental schools and our nursing programs. training over 8,000 individuals in a standardized way to balance the needs of pain management with the potential for opioid misuse. so it's enhancing the capacity for individuals to treat this medical illness. >> one of the challenges with med schools is in the past they have given little time to addiction medicine and pain issues. are they starting at the first year now in r your med schools? >> the trick with our core competencies is we allowed each medical school to create the curriculum the way they needed to based on what the curriculum is. so they imposed it in multiple ways. but that allowed to do many a matter of weeks because the core competencies were broad enough. we know from graduating medical students that they are seeing the difference and feel more prepared. >> thank you. >> we're very excited. we just did a loan repayment program

medical school in singapore. >>> short and to the point, president donald trump's defense team not wasting any time trying to poke holes in the democrat case. coming up, we'll take a look at what is expected as the trial pushes on. >>> also u.s. senator elizabeth warren securing a major endorsement days before the iowa caucuses. where she stands among the crowded field of democratic candidates. we'll have that as well when we come back. >>> welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm michael holmes. and the headlines for you this hour, a ban on the sale of wild animals now in effect across china. a market in wuhan that sold wild animals is the suspected source of the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 50 people. >>> meanwhile, the country's transportation lockdown has been extended to the southern port city of shantou in guangdong province. >>> u.s. president donald trump's defense team wrapped up its first day of argument at his impeachment trial. they tried to make the case that mr. trump did nothing wrong in

if you're a brain surgeon, i think you do need to finish medical school, by the way. as for my politics going from -- wait, quick question. time wise? okay. q&a. well, let me just read this really quickly then the q&a. as for my politics, going from supporting democrats to republicans, i don't want to get too political on you guys. i'm respectful of other people's opinions. i think it's important to hear other views. and i think it's good to have people challenge you. it's okay to be uncomfortable. i love america. i deeply care about our country. i believe that we live in the greatest freest nation in the world. i hope to help and preserve what makes our country great for future generations to come. i stand for the national anthem and our flag. i believe the u.s. constitution is the greatest document ever written. it remains relevant now and in the future. i'm pro second amendment. you value free speech. i'm against the effort to try to fundamentally transform america. i think democratic socialism which is what our favorite congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez promo

really when they when they talked with all these scientists especially in harvard medical school. i understood that if we if to become eternal we have to become partly robots sparkly mutants you know we have to become creatures like in. iraq or you know all those superhero movies then i don't think i want i don't think i want i don't want to be. algorithm or you know i don't want to be funny. so we're talking about the human evolution but literature like anything else like a living organism also evolves and you're saying people are reading less and less you have 3 kids i've heard you say somewhere they don't read they chat with their friends on the internet mostly another lives are ones because it's very young to have to have portable phones and i'm going to fight i'm go i hope i'm going to fight but with my 20 year old daughter i lost the better completely when she was 13 but this it's scary like do you feel like you're part of a dying breed because people aren't going to read anymore no she reads she reads but you know she doesn't read what they tell her to read that and that's

i spoke to wang linfa, the director of the emerging infectious diseases program at duke — nus medical schoolck from wuhan. where every traveller is screened by the detector multiple times. there isa the detector multiple times. there is a mobile medical staff on board. when you're in the city. it i did not have a chance to visit the hospital. to protect myself as well. you see a slight increase of people with masks. the taxi drivers obviously, every taxidriver is talking about the outbreak. there is this fear in the community. you need to try to know more. is it as severe oi’ to try to know more. is it as severe or the sars virus? it is called the coronavirus virus. until sars, sars is severe and they cause multiple deaths. this new coronavirus is much less severe and so far, we had also shows liver cancer and other diseases. you agree with chinese authorities who are saying this new coronavirus virus is preventable and controllable. sars is much more severe. it took them 2— three months to control eventually. now we know exactly which virus caused current pneumonia outbreak. i think we don'

where do the medical schools in this on both -- in vietnam and the united states? are these doctors adjustable -- educable? are there any here? have i offended anyone, i hope? >> let me say first under the agent orange or red just read through the va, there is an identification today of a book 18 different, what they call presumed illnesses, so if you are in vietnam and you had boots on the ground plus a couple of other categories, then it is identified, if you have one of these 18 presumed illnesses that it would be related to your service in vietnam. that is in the va and in fact there are attempts to privatized the va so the doctors that have that, knowledge that is where it is. do other doctors ever receive this education?, and i don't think so unless there are community who come to the particular position. >> thank, you this exactly the point. this is a public health issue, if this is a public health issue, with multiple generations, you can't rely on the va to be a message very, so it seems to me it is the responsibility for the medical schools to train the d

cured just like any other disease well i asked david side claire professor of genetics at harvard medical school. claire welcome to the show it's great to have you with us with lots to talk about so you suggest that aging may be looked at as a disease that can be treated what makes you think that age is a medical condition rather than the natural course of things. will.

inside you know it is a medical school a school i think you want to be having a bit of the israeli has successfully use american military sure good good good even in iraq but again the situation in iraq isn't very rarely really expose them. what to what usa has done they have killed the top commander of the and then more importantly the broad militias commanders has also been assessing entered that is that is an indicator that the ball the relationship of the american of the u.s. government with a docking government that is going to foot the jeopardized because 1st the pretty 5 members of we're at it in militias in the south in c.d.'s be able to also. there's a brownout a medical strike about to strike did. and rather is that there will be more fighting against ice the lid generally has been killed how did the elite iranian extraterritorial forces involved in the fight so how will his death affect security in the region to you think. i think it is going to certainly affect the security in the region. that is still there in the middle east and particularly in iraq and more importantly i

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i could not afford medical school. and i was afraid i was getting be drafted can be drafted into the army. i joined the peace corps. joseph conrad once said before i was a mere animal before i went to africa. i could see the same thing. also if i named ryan o'neal and jesse jackson is there any link there that you see. were all the same age. imagine dick cheney in a car if you can't driving up and down mexico. you can't do it. i am the same age as bob dylan. we would love to send you business class but you'll had to go coach. imagine i am dick cheney. or bob dylan. that is a fact. i collect people who are born in our graduated from high school. mike bloomberg was at my haskell. i knew him. and dylan and 61 or 62 i think i saw him in harvard square. that's the kind of name i would collect. look at cheney. he is kind of a monstrosity he's a zombie. and dylan is all right. ryan o'neal is he still alive. and then in mexico and met a guy. he was my age. we live through the same time. same disruption. when i meet someone my

make you or just like any other disease well david side claire professor of genetics at harvard medical school.

cured just like any other disease well i asked david side claire professor of genetics at harvard medical school. denison claire welcome to the show it's great to have you with us with lots to talk about so you.

. >> significant and more free time to consecrate concentrate on what we all went to medical school for which is to provide treatment >> hoping they become ubiquitous. >> is by the positive results the resources has also find instances in which doctors were able to identify the cancer while gloves algorithm did not. stomach all right i hope you have had yourself a lovely day today. it has been a nice day out there. a lot of sunshine. we had a few clouds. we thought a bit cooler air mass come in behind that friends. we are going to see some successive friends over the next couple of days and continue to give these temperatures eventually back to seasonable t here lately. 50 degrees in san francisco. we are already in the 40s here in oakland, about 47 degrees. 43 in santa rosa. we are going to see some 30s tonight. 43 and follow alto. 50 in san jose. getting a little chilly down there tonight, too. westerly flow coming in at about 60 miles per hour, other than that as we take a look around the bay, everybody else is relatively comparable some lands popping up in novato. these clouds have

i spoke to wang linfa, the director of the emerging infectious diseases program at duke — nus medical school yes, so in wuhan, the city is pretty calm at the airport is different now so every calm at the airport is different now so every traveller getting out of the city is screened by the thermal detector multiple times and there is a mobile kind of medical stop on board in the airport. but on the street to see a slight increase in people wearing masks in the taxi drivers obviously, every taxidriver is talking about the out leg. initially the government says there is no evidence of significant human to human transmission. this is very important. the first a0 or 50 cases they believe all had a direct link to that market. they call seafood market but they also have live animals traded there so now it‘s pretty obvious that there are people that got sick including the one that travelled to japan and taiwan who had never been to the market so that‘s a worry. it means there is a human to human transmission. china is banning plastic bags in its main cities by the end of the year as well as single—

political agenda because he had won the last elections on the promise that he's going to bring back medical school just from the middle east end of august on a no then there is going to be another election he cannot stop a new war but going by his the rhetorics i think he's a sort of a kind of person who's a known to be unpredictable bend on doesn't want him to go fight a few people who attacks on on audience while doc is the most unlikely snotty in the situation but we should not forget another player that it is likely is that a launch of war is a lot worse the us it worked up to it that ianto me any update on that i think that is the most dangerous in audio that will develop in india's to come out in months to come because israel is not very happy even the medical say they don't want wanted war since it on has been threatening. iran has been using proxies a so this war is i mean we're certainly like a lot he's a kind of complete with all a guy wants war sometimes even killing these palestinians and so therefore i think about things that need to be cautious and it has been a lot of pressure on pr

brown, please don't drop out of medical school. i am almost prepared, i will contribute to a gofundme page, i'm almost ready to volunteer one of our colleagues in a couple of them from colorado to try to figure out how to help. it's called the lutherans, call the catholics, colleges, call all of them. the naacp, everybody defined people to help you do it. your mom would not be pleased if you dropped out of medical school. i'm sure, as a grandmother and great-grandmother that i'm speaking for her. i want to thank all of you professionals for being here today, and i guess i really think you have all pointed out that there is no way that the government of the people can afford long-term care. at this. and the uptake of long-term care insurance that's not been something the majority of the population is taken on to the extent that it's going to get rid of the social problem it creates. i hail from wisconsin, and for long periods of time wisconsin had the largest number of people who were institutionalized and not being able to stay at

director at the duke national university of singapore medical school.g, we will bring you special coverage of the iowa caucus, starting on monday at 10:00 p.m. in new york , 11:00 a.m. in hong kong, and tuesday will carry president trump state of the union address followed by the democratic response. that kicks off at 9:00 p.m. in new york, 10:00 a.m. in hong kong. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: this is "bloomberg markets: asia." i am shery ahn in new york. the ceo of wonder technology says that less than 10% of mental disorders in china are properly diagnosed. when they told us what kind of companies she is working with. with all theking high-pressure factory companies like tencent, chamois, the biggest online learning platform in china. because wel love it are helping them to solve a solvem that they cannot in classrooms. this is something superlight. we divided into the mental health issue, it is three stages. you cannot focus. if you continue that state for a long time, you might start to lose sleep. you cannot sleep well. people are losing their hair.

the chief executive officer is a medical doctor who graduated from harvard medical school.novartis' response to the h1n1 virus when he was in the states. he was under immense pressure to get a vaccine out for the swine. we are going to have to see any insights he can give on the technology and the response of the pharma industry. manus: we look forward to the interview. good luck again. 7:30 a.m. u.k. time ♪ nejra: good morning from bloomberg's european headquarters in the city of london. i'm a rich a hitch. manus: i'm manus cranny in dubai. these are your top headlines on daybreak europe. death tollirus climbs to 132. uae reports first cases. johnson & johnson says it will work on a preventative vaccine today. we speak to the european pharma giant novartis. the hang seng slumps as it comes back online. u.s. futures are positive. washington stops short of canceling flights to china. the european commission is set to unveil its guidelines over 5g after while way was granted partial access to build the u.k.'s network. we speak to the group's u.k. executive this hour. ♪ manus:

they not only -- not only is your eight years of college free, they pay you to go to medical school. any doctor being $300,000 in debt, i want them to have no stress, i want them to be focusing on me, i don't want them to worry how they are going to pay the mortgage tomorrow when they are supposed to be worried about me, right? don't we all want that? to you want your doctor thinking about, i'm $300,000 in debt! i need the pharmaceuticals. no, this is wrong. we don't live in a free country when it's like this. we don't live in a free country one you get sick, you have to worry about losing your home. we don't live in a free country where the people that could not come here tonight because they can't afford childcare so they could not participate in the democratic political process simply because they have children and they are punished? that is not called freedom. that is not democracy. this, and change bernie sanders is the only one of these candidates was going to change that. he is the only one. [cheers and applause] how are we doing over there? huh? here. oh, good. ok great. i lo

opioid prescribing by 25%, developed prescribing guidelines, incorporated addiction content into medical school curriculum's, and established over 18 prescription drug take back boxes over the state. we established a naloxone standing order and distributed over 55,000 free kids, developed a warm handoff model that has been used over 6400 times, expanded treatment capacities through 45 centers of excellence and eight programs. it increased our, offered a loan repayment, awarded 3.5 million to expand support for pregnant women and women with children, and expanded him 80 into our state correctional institutions, in terms of recovery support we awarded 2.1 million to expand community recovery services, developed a website to share recovery stories, and spread hope, and awarded grant funds to build recovery housing support. in coming months the pennsylvania will integrate quality into our four major goals of reducing stigma, intensifying primary prevention, strengthening the treatments system and empowering state recovery. without sustainable federal funding, the collaboration necessary to accompli

single paired government run health care system, then we are going to be telling people to go to medical schooloctors just how much money they're about to make every year. and that's a slippery slope. and when is our government ever proven to us there fiscally competent? mark: i've a question for you. bernie sanders talks about government. elizabeth warren talks about government. all these people talk about government. can they give us some names. look exactly who is going to run the healthcare system? and exactly word of these experts come from? they are not experts they are people in the bureaucracy, they are civil servants and in the union some have seniority. too that of expert test? so basically what these leftists are telling us is the people in the bureaucracy are smarter, more experienced, more noble than everybody else. how is that the case? >> they have been making it clear to us as conservatives that we are deplorable. you are just stupid rednecks and we know better than you so just shut up and let us do what we want to do. with no background of success in doing anything. that's why

we came across the stanford medical schools tobacco prevention skoal school kit with a disclaimer that we immediately realized was referenced juul taking information. it shouldn't have been taking it. and at this is surprising. as i said juul, is self by design. juul says it no longer news restocks result orders that the flavors that have been proven to target kids yet just the other day, and one block radius in two different stores, i was able to buy these mental i'm sorry, these mango pods, the juul says are no longer on the market. but they are still online. and that is the problem. if juul really wants to slow the epidemic and keep your kids i'm starting they will immediately remove your son philip just stated he was addicted to juul. how does his addiction impact the family. >> is difficult at first he didn't understand what was going on a sneak young 14 -year-old, even in semi- different things from cooking to his little sister. and i started to find these flash drives and these green plastic caps in his pockets. i didn't really know what it was a first. he kept staying that they

social ca re recommendations on health and social care and the mental health action plan and the medical school at magee. the first action we believe of the incoming executive must be to deliver pay parity to health workers. there are also a range of proposals to support our teachers and improved education provision, welfare and mitigation to be extended beyond march 2020, proposals on workers' rights and climate change, investment in steadier including casement park and ending regional imbalance. there is also progress on other issues including reproductive rights for women and marriage equality. as a result of mass mobilisation on our streets. it was a key demand that citizens living in this part of ireland enjoy the same rights as citizens elsewhere across this island and across these islands. i wa nt island and across these islands. i want to reject in the strongest possible terms the british government commitment to the dup on flags and other issues. these are not part of this agreement. indeed, in our review they fly in the face of the good friday agreement and they represent bad faith an

was honorable of the last 11 from the assume we dearly helena to cut there without damage our medical school limb to cut the amount of the living hell that the lot whenever you take women act as quo that really meant no coffee if you start work at the level we're going to have it handy was only the robberies that are in the. but love a simple dollar. it was $974.00 and president al hunt his victory celebrations were short lived his 1st priority was to build confidence with neighboring saudi arabia a country that was bigger more powerful and far wealthier than impoverished north yemen hyundai's 1st official visit was to the saudi capital riyadh aiming to maintain good relations yet reduce dependence on saudi arabia who wield it considerable influence over yemen's powerful tribes. as the incoming president our humvee was walking a tightrope his instinct as a modernizer was to bring the reins of power into the capital but that meant wrestling control from the tribes who had traditionally run yemen. one of. those to create modern armed force that would not be organized tribal but would be compos

>> with the dean dean of the medical school. it's all against the mount sinai health system. we have a website it was equity now at mount sinai.com. if you do tell others tell anybody you know at mount sinai they are not on mount sinai. thank you so much for coming tonight. i'm really honored to be here with you. my question is about working women. my daughter and stepdaughters. i'm wondering what kind of infrastructure you suggest to this decade. whether it's 4-year-old kindergarten or some kind of communal schooling for preschool kids. what you suggest in a way of liberating women so that they can have careers like men. we are the only advanced democracy on earth without national systems. with much more liberal parental leave. and i don't know if they have partners or partners who are women. it's so still very far from equal. it is still very difficult there are group things we need to fight for. and there are individual actions that we need to take most of all we need to understand it's not our fault. they are neighbors who don't have children. they are kind of making a li

we came across the stanford medical school's tobacco prevention toolkit with a disclaimer that we immediately realized was a reference to juul taking information it shouldn't have. none of this is surprising. as i said, juul is stealth by design. juul says it no longer restocks resale orders of flavors that research has proven are harming the kids. yet just the other day, in a one block radius in two different stores, i was able to buy these mango pods that juul says are no longer on the market, but they are still online. and that's the problem. if juul really wants to slow the youth epidemic and keep young kids from starting, they will remove all flavors from the market, including menthol and mint, the most popular kids flavors, and stop spending millions on lobbyists to oppose sensible legislation that pave parents and our coalition partners are fighting for all over this country, to restrict youth access to juul and other products. we hope today's hearing motivates members of congress on both sides. we all care about kids to hold juul accountable, not only for the epidemic, for its predato

allows clinicians to have significantly more free time to concentrate on what we all went to medical school after analyzing 25,000 mammograms in the u.k. and 3,000 in the u.s., google's ai system helps identify 10% more missed breast cancer cases in the u.s. and reduced false positives by close to 6%. however in the u.k. the results were more negligible, a sign that google's ai system still needs improvement. >> this mammogram shows malignancy outlined in yellow that six radiologist missed but our dog rhythm caught. there are also cases that all six radiologists caught but the algorithm didn't. so hopefully they are making complement her decisions and we are excited by the synergy of putting the two together. >> concerns grow over data privacy. late last night, reports surfaced that google was accessing millions of americans' records without the patient's in the doctor's direct knowledge. code-named project nightingale, it was revealed that google was working to help the second largest health care system. the u.s. government itself also has reservations about google's health care ambitions

not soon enough, gps take at least three years to train, ten years from entering medical school to becomingl be a solution in 2024 but the problem is now. do you think it's possible to get 6000 in place by 2025, let alone deal with the current crisis? there are a number of ways of addressing the workforce problem, partly it's about getting students into posts, partly retaining the current workforce and thatis retaining the current workforce and that is a major issue. a lot of gps when they find a work stressful cannot provide the quality of care patients expat, they are either retiring early or going part—time, it's also about trying to recruit from overseas but that is a problem every country in the world is struggling with. tell me more about the letter you sent to that health secretary and whether there has been any response. because this is such a significant problem the college has been working on this area for some time, we produced a report which lays out the key issues, the scale of the challenge and a series of solutions. we publish that report today and have sent it to the secreta

1970 and later founded the group's massachusetts chapter while he was still a student at harvard medical schoolt successful nonviolent direct action campaigns against segregated public schools and against environmental racism here in new york city. in his later years together with his wife francis, luis garden acosta created an alternative public high school geared toward human rirights activism. to honor his legacy, we're joined now by the renowned poet martin espada, professor of english at the university of massachusetts amherst and the author of numemerous books, including a book of poems. you wrote a poem dedicated to luis garden acosta. i was wondering if you could talk about him and sheer your: with -- share your poem with us. >> of course. was anrden acosta organizational genius, a visionary. he was a also a beloved friend d mentor. i wrote this poem based on an encounter i had with luis at the beginning ofel puente. it is called "to die dreaming." "i saw the empty cross atop the empty church on south 4th ststreet, as if jesus flapped hs arms and flew away, spooked by one ambulance sire

to go to go backde and recharge themselvs if they wanted to become a nurse or wall school or medical school were forever, to help them so we felt pretty good about that and sure enough the 10 million went away in a hurry. how do you decide on your make it or break it choices in other words, how do you think about risks? >> i think about all the time. but? also, without taking risks isn't going to make any progress, so we have many products along the way that we thought were pretty interesting and clients plus eventually when we came out that they were no good or they don't function properly, we trashed them and so we listened all the time to our clients. we were always probably annoying to them, surveying them on this particular thing in that particular service and so we want to listen to what tnd theyy and try to do the things that they suggest. >> but to use a sports analogy, some people the data tells them what to do and other people their gut tells them what to do. over your career can you identify with one or the other as a leader? >> there were many things we have done along the way t

if you're a brain surgeon, i think you do need to finish medical school, by the way. as for my politics going from -- wait, quick question. time wise? okay. q&a. well, let me just read this really quickly then the q&a. as for my politics, going from supporting democrats to republicans, i don't want to get too political on you guys. i'm respectful of other people's opinions. i think it's important to hear other views. and i think it's good to have people challenge you. it's okay to be uncomfortable. i love america. i deeply care about our country. i believe that we live in the greatest freest nation in the world. i hope to help and preserve what makes our country great for future generations to come. i stand for the national anthem and our flag. i believe the u.s. constitution is the greatest document ever written. it remains relevant now and in the future. i'm pro second amendment. i volualue free speech, i'm agat trying to transform america. i think democratic socialism which is what our favorite congresswoman promotes is dangerous and it's misleading. i'm for law an

i forget which medical school it was, but he is paying for people to go through medical school at norge. i think he has done good things, i just don't think he is the person for the position at this time either. host: we will go to mike, niagara falls, new york. democratic caller. caller: hello? host: you are on the air, it is your turn. caller: thank you. i agree with your republican caller that was on the air, with a lot of what she just said. i am a 60-year-old democrat whose father was a local campaign manager for john f. .ennedy i have been a democrat my whole life and i am so embarrassed by liberal democrats, not all democrats, liberal democrats have behaved that it makes me sick. i voted for donald trump the last time he was elected because i could not see us headed towards open borders and many other things the liberals want. i am going to vote for donald trump again because i don't like the way he has been treated by the press or by the liberal democrats. paying people to protest, all kinds of different things that go on. the man is a bad communicator, but his ideals are goo

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