senator alexander: i caught up with francis collins, the head of the national institute of health and he laughed. he said the call waiting name said al gore. i mean, i actually have the same telephone number in the same office that howard baker had in 1967. al gore had the same office. fred thompson had the same office. something do not change except the senators. host: there are quite a number of photographs in your office of the area's presidents from lyndon johnson to barack obama. tell us about richard nixon. what do you remember about him? senator alexander: i remember how private, focused intelligent he was. i had just by stroke of providence, i was the aide to bryce harlow, who was his first appointee. so i literally sat in the west wing in the office of the vice president. i absorbed this, all t wisdom from mr.h harlow. i was around president nixon a lot. and i saw mr. harlow. what i remember about them is how far reaching he was at i have on my wall some notes he used in the congressional leadership meeting that he would have on tuesdays. where he described the environmental

francis collins heads up the n.i.h. and i went to him and i said doctor, i'm work on this medical research bill, i don't want to waste a penny. i don't want to duplicate anything you're doing at n.i.h. he said, trust me, we won't. we coordinate everything we do. what they do is complimentary to our work. what we do is complementary to their work. we're not wasting a penny. so those three things are i think the important starting points of this debate. medical research is important to national defense. politicians have no role in choosing who's going to do the medical research. and, third whatever we do is going to be coordinated with medical research at leading agencies like the national institutes of health. now, there are a lot of things on this list of research that i think very few people would ever quarrel with. should we have a joint war fighter medical account in research? should we have an orthotics and prosthetics research -- agency, i should say for those who have lost a limb in military service? how about a m

collins. the story coming up. >>> in three months, pope francis will be giving a sermon in front of tens of thousands of people here at the basilica. how to get ticket and if he'll address political issues. >>> we begin with storm team 4 coverage on this tuesday as we monitor yet another batch of weather heading our way. >> right now a severe thunderstorm watch is in effect. veronica and chuck, yesterday you nailed it. you told us it would be raining on the ride home and sure enough here come the storms. >>> that's right. the scope of this watch covers the area. we've been tracking these storms through the afternoon. chuck, you have more on just the scope of this watch. >> severe thunderstorm watches not just for our area but from pennsylvania to pensacola, florida. literally the entire eastern seaboard is -- the latest on that on storm team 4 radar. >> you can see the warning up here. this is for maryland's east -- around talbot county. the storms moving away. they were in annapolis and in the diehl area. tracking more storms into the area. this one just west of garfield northeast of boone area. as it makes its wa

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