President ial debates will open the doors and turn on the light and welcome viewers to the debate. A little after 9 00, the debate will begin. It begins a few minutes after 9 00 so the networks can introduce coverage. Cspans up at 10 30 and will get your calls and reaction. That is what is coming up tonight. Joining us is greta. What do you have . Greta lets start with a closer view. This is from the cspan twitter feed from yesterday set up at the university of utah. You can follow our coverage on twitter. Lee from the New York Times reported senator harris was prepping for tonight with hundreds of index cards and a mac a mock debate with pete pence andplaying mike an effort to lower expectations. The wall street journal reports that harris tried to lower expectations coming describing pence as a formidable bader. She says debate her. She says she will make this about leadership during the pandemic. That is what democrats plan to do. They plan to make it about all pandemic, all the tim
Ladies and gentlemen, could i ask you to take your seats please . The 2020 Vice President ial debate here at the university of utah. Im janet brown, executive director of the commission on president ial debates. We are delighted you are here. In the next few minutes, you are going to hear thanks that her own a lot of people for making tonight possible. We will also cover some housekeeping rules for this evenings debate, which start with please make sure your cell phones are turned off on all functions. Cannot make any noise, and please open your programs and take a look at some of the many people that we owe a huge debt of gratitude to for this evening. I would like to start with pentagram, which is of thoughtful which is responsible of the new book of s andommissions name cover. With ankle for the support of our work for years and the state of federal communications, which has just come on board this year. We thank you all. As we speak, there is a washington Filing Center being hosted
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Say these things. This say trend unfortunately we see. Nominees start out in support. They change their mind. Which suggests we cant wait out this issue. Its not an age issue. This is a concern about the public and that we keep hearing this concern that the public wont understand what theyre seeing, that they wouldnt understand oral argument is just a part of the process. They wont understand that the justices have to be harsh on both sides. They mied think someone is getting ganged up on. I find this to be concerning because it suggests that more information is actually going to be bad for the public, that the public needs to be shielded from information. It does seem to have an elitism to it that already those of us who do read the transcripts and li listen to the audio or read the reports from the Supreme Court press corps, that were the types that can understand where oral argument falls but tv would reach a different kind of audience who wouldnt understand it. I find this very con