announcer: in an interview conducted by the atomic heritage foundation, lawrence o'rourke recalls hisime as a engineer for the manhattan project. after he was called from the reserves in 1943 he was one of the first to develop the gaseous diffusion. he later worked at the k-25 uranium enrichment plant in tennessee. the voices of the manhattan project was created by the atomic heritage foundation and managed by the national museum of nuclear science and history. lawrence: one day a notice arrived in the mail that i have been called into service and there was a list of names that were included in that call up. interestingly enough they were all classmates of mine. [laughs] there may have been one or two

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announcer: in an interview conducted by the atomic heritage foundation, lawrence o'rourke recalls hisime as a engineer for the manhattan project. after he was called from the reserves in 1943 he was one of the first to develop the gaseous diffusion. he later worked at the k-25 uranium enrichment plant in tennessee. the voices of the manhattan project was created by the atomic heritage foundation and managed by the national museum of nuclear science and history. lawrence: one day a notice arrived in the mail that i have been called into service and there was a list of names that were included in that call up. interestingly enough they were all classmates of mine. [laughs] there may have been one or two exceptions, i don't remember. that seemed kind of opportune to hit our group and we went to camp up in long island and were inducted. at camp upton, we were only there a few days, and berated by some long-term sergeant by the name of benny who did not like college kids very much. [laughs] he wanted to give us latrine service regularly. it was kind of amusing. we were sent by train out to

lawrence. >> as you know, beto o'rourke is one of the texans who did not go to cancun when the crisis hit, andto join us at the end of this hour and tell us

lawrence. >> as you know, beto o'rourke is one of the texans who did not go to cancun when the crisis hit, and he's going to join us at the end of this hour and tell us what he's been doing, including with alexandria ocasio-cortez, who showed what a little new york energy could do for texas over the weekend. katie porter will also join us as the covid relief bill speeds towards passage in the house this week. nine committees, nine committees have almost invisibly, although they did it publicly had markups of this bill and voted on it. but, you know, because there was a senate impeachment trial going on, we didn't really pay much attention to that. and now it's pretty much ready to go through the full house at the end of the week. so that will be where we end up at the end of the week. >> it is on the move, and the biden administration has successfully marketed it to the american people so that there is massive super majority support for it among democrats, independents, and republicans. so all this drama in the sort of beltway press as to what republicans will do in terms of their vote here, t