Today's program is more concentrated on just a few important topics.
First John kicks off an extended boralogue of our current economic and security condition, along with projections of what the new administration and congress can and can't do about it.
Embryonic stem cell research has been a subject of heated controversy because it requires killing human embryos to do the research. However, stem cells taken from adults have greater promise for healing diseases than embryonic cells with far fewer problems. Dr. Robert Schwartz is Director for Bioscience and Technology at Texas A&M Health Science Center and a leading scientist on this growing development in stem cell research.