Moderated byill be four broadcast political reporters. Good evening from that tbw studios in olympia. To all of you watching across the state, from spokane to ocean isla, to walla walla, lets bring in our two candidates, and come at it governor jay inslee and police chief lauren culp. Tonight, i need an affirmative you can hear us from the studio . Yes. Yes. Wonderful and we want to let viewers know at home the candidates are alone in those rooms and upstairs from us here in the studios. There are no Campaign Staffers allowed in there, no members of production crew are in the rooms with them they also were not allowed to bring in notes or cell phones or computers. It is just them in their and the candidates to have screens where they can see each other. They can see us, the moderators. And they can see that digital time cues. Im going to go over the format for tonights debate, different from last weeks president ial debate. We begin with Opening Statements. Questions will be asked abou
Seek our states highest officers. Thank you to the Washington State Debate Coalition lead sponsor aarp washington. To preserve social distancing the moderators are seated at the main studio while the candidates are at home in separate rooms elsewhere in the building. This debate with a moderated by broadcast political reporters, essex porter, brandy cruise, Chris Daniels and melissa santos. Good evening from the tbw studios in olympia and to all of you watching across the state from spokane, ocean shores and from walla walla. Lets bring in our candidates for governor, the incumbent Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Republic Police chief loren culp. First of all i need an affirmative that you can hear us from the studio. Yes. Yes. We get what to let viewers know at home at the candidates are alone in those rooms you see them in. They are upstairs from us here in the studio. There are no Campaign Staffers allowed in there, no members of the production crew are in the room with them and
Partners. Seattle city club enhances voter access. Thank you to the Washington State coalition, aarp washington. To preserve social distancing, moderators are seated in the main studio, the candidates are elsewhere in the building. This debate will be moderated by political reporters. Good evening from the tvw studios in olympia and all of you watching. Candidates in our for governor, income and, jay inslee, and the Republican Police chief. Affirmative you can hear us from the city of . Yes. , we want to let viewers know they are upstairs from us in the studio. There are no Campaign Staffers allowed. No members of the production crew are in the room. They were not allowed to bring in notes, cell phones or computers. It is just them. The candidates have screens where they can see each other. They can see the moderators. I will go over the format. It is somewhat different from last weeks president ial debate. We will be with Opening Statements, questions will be asked of both candidates,
And i ended up writing a column about it. It began a conversation with chris that was part of his effort to develop this book and the arguments in it. Want to ask chris to take us all on a journey he has been on. He has shared some with me over the years. The book starts with a really chilling account of what would happen in the first hours and days of a war with china. Maybe that is a good place to people whyaining to we have a problem when it comes to technology. Chris thank you, david. I appreciate your friendship and guidance throughout this whole process. It has been invaluable. With the timens is spent on the Senate Armed Services committee, the better part of a decade supporting the committee and senator mccain, looking closely at the u. S. Military, how we were investing money and werent investing money and ultimately, how we match up against emerging great power competitors, first and foremost china. The reason i wrote the book was a concern i had then add have now that we are
We start in washington where in the next few hours President Trump is due to meet chinas chief negotiator vice premier liu he to try and negotiate an end to the trade war that has rattled the global economy. Or at least, to stop it escalating any further. The us and china have threatened to hit yet more of each others goods with import taxes or tariffs starting next week. Without a deal by mid december almost all chinese goods imported into the us, well over half a trillion dollars worth a year will have been hit by punitive taxes. That would mean much higher prices for the thousands of consumer goods made in china even us brands like iphones in the run up to the key christmas period. It would also mean big taxes on the vast majority of us goods imported into china some 110 billion worth, to give you an idea of how this impacts businesses. Two years ago the average tax on chinese goods going into the us was 3 . By mid december it would be this, 24 foreign goods going into china are tax