frist. dr. bill frist. and he came in later, of course, the majority leader of the senate. and some people have jokingly said: "yeah, petraeus was dying to meet bill frist." [all laugh] [chuckles] and he-- so he-- he did thoracic surgery, and i was out of the hospital-- wow. --in about five or six days. and to get out of the hospital-- they didn't want you to leave that soon. so you showed them you could do pushups. you did 50 pushups to make sure that they knew you were okay. is that right? it's the only time i've ever stopped at 50, david. no. no, i mean-- heh. [all laughing] okay. i've never gotten to 50. i-- uh... so yeah. no, look, i wanted to get out of there. and i was-- you know, i-- things were fine. no reason to keep hanging around. i was doing laps around the hospital. i'd put all my tubes in a wheelchair and push it around. i think it was driving them crazy, so... so the other incident was you were skydiving-- yup. --and your parachute didn't quite work, i guess, and you broke your pelvis. what is that like? is that life-defining as well? it was horrific. that was actual

i'm in bill frist was dismissive to do it loving you like you know. this isn't my cup of tea is going out to study hall meetings or you know chalk it up because there's a ship the only palestinians you get the most help from is jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision not only could give us. and the earth is all of us not just the heart of this lady in the muscle that you had i not going to compete in the gaza machine to do more commitments last time piss off. the bat. all the fun that we all have in the draw for the two thousand and eight saying well cup finals paint smike alongside me the results are in place and they tell me if we give russia go russia's got style your you get your looks of analysis coming up joins in a few moments. in other news a bomb scare triggers a mass evacuation near a christmas market in the german city of pop star. also this hour a national security advisor michael flynn pleads guilty to making a false statement the f.b.i. is part of a probe into russia links. in the world cup has been completed

bill frist in atlanta robin birol robin is a democratic strategist and former obama campaign regional field director or an a.b. let's start with your reaction to the senate race in alabama i will say something very interesting who would have ever predicted that a democrat winning election in alabama to the senate on his election night victory speech would quote martin luther king jr. well that is wonderful to quote martin luther king jr it shows how much progress we we've made but who would ever guess that doug jones would when lots of republicans that they saw more as a deeply flawed feely flawed candidate you saw republican leadership come out against him senate senate majority leader mitch mcconnell he if mr moore had been elected was planning an ethics can. city investigation my short hot take on this is that republicans dodged a bullet that they didn't have roy moore coming to the senate to dog them between now twenty eight thousand and twenty twenty not only with these allegations of you know cruising shopping malls and sexually assaulting teenage underage girls but also that we

in the world of zoos i'm in bill frist of to commission to do it loving you i committed these years and my compass is going out to saudi all mediated. no child no doubt just as they should the only palestinians is who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision to not only go through this. and know it is all of your knowledge gather this lady in the muscle that you had an identical tedium of doesn't seem to do more almost lost don't piss off. no russian flag will fly at the twenty eighteen winter olympics but there will be russian athletes. no russian national anthem will play out during official ceremonies but families will probably chant and acappella rendition you can take the athletes out of the country but can you take the country out of the athletes. like when you all know it's coming through on sports property if somebody would invent for me to come down to spend my life for a pint of it was a lot of disco of course i would have sold it was clear. every now i am always attacked by the arabs we wi

put senator bill frist out of business. doctor collins, you've made other predictions because he was a heart transplant surgeon. doctor collins, you made other predictions. the developmentof an artificial pancreas . the z vaccine, universal flu vaccine. and hiv-aids vaccine, all available within a decade. new pain medicines to help patients as we continue to battle the opioid crisis that kills 91 americans every day. you said this week and another hearing that might happen as soon as five years. the 21st century cures law put in place policies that will fund biomedical research and apply limitless opportunity to help doctor collins predictions the unreality. today we want to find out doctor collins and doctor gottlieb, those leading the charge how implementation of the law is going. for example, cures included a surge of one-time funding, 4.8 billion for the nih including money for the position initiative and green initiative. i know from talking with vanderbilt university that the precision medicine initiative, the plan to map the genomes of 1 billion volunteers to help researchers

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