television has grown faster than a teenager, and now it is time to grow up. the tv was the center of the house. i don t remember a time without tv. by 1960, essentially every household in america had a television. it was a new way of bringing the world to you. when something big happened on television, it really did happen to the entire country and impacted the entire country at the same time. keep an awakened eye on the world. suddenly television was the main event. everything else changed, even the way in which you went about the business of getting someone elected president. david, will you hit the one-minute button, please. 30 seconds and the cut, please. in 1960, the nixon/kennedy debate was a first in television. a lot of people were watching that night, and it introduced a lot of people to kennedy. would you let me see the tight shot on camera one, please? can you hear me now speaking? is that about the right tone of voice? good evening. the
When the conservative mayor of the West Midlands accused the government of cancelling the future if the leg between birmingham and manchester isnt built. Speaking outside the conservative Party Conference in manchester, andy street said the government must not give up on h52 and the Prime Minister must rethink radically how the project is delivered. But Downing Street is still insisting that no final decision has been made. With the latest, heres our political editor, chris mason, in manchester. Party conferences are always a cauldron of whispers and gossip. 0k, good evening, everybody. Denials and announcements. At half five tonight, enter the conservative mayor of the West Midlands. Gripping this situation means reexamining it. It does not mean giving up, admitting defeat, you could say, or even, you could say, cancelling the future. Mr street, have you considered resigning over the cancellation of the northern leg of hs2 . Were not talking about that. The issue is were working hard
People would vote for it. They have lost the common touch. And this. President obama said america would accept 1200 refugees. No, prepare to go to war. Is satire now the effective opposition to President Trump . Well ask erstwhile american ruby wax. Hello. Have the baby boomers robbed the millennials of their future . Probably not, but research out this morning did suggest something extraordinary is happening in terms of intergenerational incomes. The Resolution Foundation says that typical Pensioner Incomes after Housing Costs are now higher than those of people of working age. I cant overstate how unusual that is in the old days we tended to think the aged were poor. But a lot has happened in the last few decades. For one, the old have carried on working. A fifth of pensioner households have a wage earner in them. And of course they are enjoying the fruits of the heyday of the old final Salary Pension Schemes add the way the Housing Market has worked in their favour. And politicians
Unsupervised kids tonight, we will continue the debate. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching tonight. As we present a very special Talking Points Edition of the factor. We begin with the american left. And capitalism. With President Obamas job approval numbers falling, and the Democratic Party having trouble in an election year, you would think that committed Liberalns Americans would low key it a bit, you would think. But, no, they are upping the rhetoric, especially the anticapitalism stuff. Hillary clinton is widely seen to be the democratic
nominee in 2016 for president. She portrays herself as a moderate. Thats not good enough for on the far left. Llar does Hillary Clinton sound to you like the right person for this moment . In a time when corporations have hijacked our politics, enabling them to reap all the profit without any compunction to do right by their workers. As someonee who sat on the ant
National Republican Party to be clear, in context, theres a whole bunch of problems that the trump dpan has for the Republican Party. Theres a new poll that puts donald trump nationwide 14 points behind Hillary Clinton. 14 points behind . Now, that is not the only poll in the world, right . Theres another National Poll out also tonight from fox news that says hes only 3 points behind Hillary Clinton. Well be talking later on in the show with an expert about how to read the various polls right now. How to know whats right, especially when youve got results like these that are so disparate. In either case 13 points behind or 3 points behind, he is still behind. The headwinds seem very clear right now. Tonight at fivethirtyeight. Com theyre reading those headwinds for the president ial race and looking at the senate polls. Fivethirtyeight is giving the Republican Party a 68 chance of losing control of the United States senate this year. So that is just one of the problems that it appears