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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
Comments. Great to get to know you. I have been reading you over the years. It has been a delight to have spent the evening with you. I am very pleased to be able to speak to you at this Hillsdale College celebration of our magnificent constitution. Ofm a great admirer hillsdale. As i was telling larry, i dont get to make very many speeches like this. I am usually talking about crime rates and that kind of thing. I wanted to speak at hillsdale because it is one of the few maybe a handful of institutions of Higher Learning where it is actually worth spending the money to get an education here. I mean that sincerely. Sadly, many colleges these days dont even teach the constitution, much less celebrate it. One out of every four americans dont know who we fought the revolution against. That is pretty with attic. That number is increasing educationalour institutions fail us, but at hillsdale, you recognize that the principles of the founding are as relevant today and as important today as e
Lady have contracted covid19. This is a serious moment in which our shared American Values of empathy and charity must be on full display. Its also a moment where the resiliency of our institutions will be tested, as one that highlights the critical importance of medical sciencebased guidance and research. 7. 3 million infected americans and those who have lost their lives, i spent some time every morning in contemplation and prayer for all of them. I turned to the entire first family. They are in my thoughts and prayers this morning and i hope you will join me in wishing them a quick and full recovery in the midst of these challenging moments. And now today gathering, as part of our brookings series, this conference is part of a greater effort to empower voters with factbased, datadriven nonpartisan information to better understand the policy matters discussed by candidates running for office in 2020. The importance cannot be overstated, especially considering the theme of todays even
As a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. It is also a place for we encourage participatory democracy. In fact, we just started a nonpartisan effort called just a vote. Just vote. Most important, i encourage you on november 3 yto just vote. It is the most important thing we can do as citizens. Where we want to invigorate civil discourse and inspire the next generation of leaders. Programn think of no and no speaker who meets every one of the goals that my husband had for this place more than todays special guest, Justice Stephen breyer. Breyer is a man for our time and demand for all time. Here in boston, we are proud to claim him as one of our a graduate of stanford, oxford, and harvard law, he went on to workforce for Supreme Court Justice Arthur goldberg. He served for many years as a professor at Harvard Law School and taught at the Kennedy School of government. He was a lawyer in the antitrust division of the Justice Department and was an assistant special coun