Uninformative and unethical. Basically, its treating people Like Laboratory animals. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. A new day, it is, indeed. Top of the hour now, looking across the hudson river. Thank you for being with us. And this morning, the Postal Service is caupausing one of several controversial changes that critics say endanger mail delivery across the country. The post office said its stopping the removal of mailboxes in several western states but this is only after removing the collection boxes in several other states and cutting the hours of retail operations. In washington, President Trump is refusing to distance himself from the republican candidate in congress. Shes from georgia who has pushed baseless conspiracy theories. The government is facing pushback on a vaccine challenge trial. A former Harvard School professor calls it unnecessary, uninformative and unethical. And the economic crisis is hurting families across the country. A lot
Were so grateful for your company. Its saturday, august 15th, im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Youre in the cnn newsroom. This morning, theres major uncertainty about the president ial election. The Postal Service says in almost all of the 50 states and d. C. Mailin ballots may not make it in time to be counted. I want to get you back to some of the pictures were seeing. Protesters outside the postmaster generals home in d. C. Right now. Theyre accusing lewis d. Joy of limiting mailin voting after he made changes to the Postal Service including eliminating overtime, slowing mail delivery. A Postal Service Inspector General is now reviewing its controversial policy changes and potential ethics conflict. Last night the u. S. P. S. Did agree it would stop removing boxes in 16 western states and parts of two others until after the election. President trump has repeatedly claimed that mailin ballots cause voter fraud and favor his democratic component joe biden. According to several st
Election. The winner of this election will represent idaho in the United States senate for six years as one of two u. S. Senators for the state. I want to welcome the candidates, incumbent senator mike crapo, and challengers david roth and Scott Cleveland. Scott cleveland owns an investment and Brokerage Firm in eagle. Prior to that, he was the managing partner of the boise office of new york rise. Mike crapo is seeking his fifth term in the u. S. Senate. He previously served as representative for idahos can Congressional District for three terms and in the Idaho State Senate for four terms. David roth was the executive director of the bonneville Youth Executive Council and is on the board for habitat for humanity in idaho falls and idaho falls soup kitchen. I want to introduce our panel of reporters who will ask the candidates questions today. Betsy russell of the idaho press, Margaret Carmel i am melissa devlin. I am moderating todays debate, helping us keep time is bridget gibson, v
Mike crapo is seeking his fifth term in the u. S. Senate. He previously served as representative for idahos can Congressional District for three terms and in the Idaho State Senate for four terms. David roth was the executive director of the bonneville Youth Executive Council and is on the board for habitat for humanity in idaho falls and idaho falls soup kitchen. I want to introduce our panel of reporters who will ask the candidates questions today. Betsy russell of the idaho press, Margaret Carmel i am melissa devlin. I am moderating todays debate, helping us keep time is bridget gibson, volunteer time keeper from the league of women voters education fund. Each candidate will be given 90 seconds for opening comments and 60 seconds for close. Candidates have 90 seconds to answer questions and 60 seconds for rebuttal. I will allow backandforth if i think the conversation is productive and educational for voters, while trying to make sure each candidate gets equal time. We drew numbers
Same policies that Blake Masters is now promoting. These were quality generals and they had reasons to walk away from the exact same policies. Host ok. We are running short on time, but we have got to talk about water. I wish we had more time to talk about this, but senator kelly, starting with you. 45 seconds, lets start there and see how far we can go. We are facing shortterm and longterm cuts to the Colorado River water. How do we address this issue and it is a major issue . Mr. Kelly this is the worst drought that is part of the planet has seen in 1000 years. Its been going on 22 years. Lake powell and mead are at crisis levels. And we have got to take some immediate steps. I got money from washington to help farmers keep water up in lake mead. That is just a stopgap measure. We cannot do this all on our own. We are one of three lower basin states with nevada and california. I was on the phone recently with the california governor because they are not stepping up to help. My oppone