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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Teams, team conservative, team libertarian, and Team Progressive to draft a constitution. Its an Amazing Group of scholars that will tell us how they think a constitution from scratch should read. I cant wait to share that with you. We have great programs in october on immigration and the new book, the upswing. I hope you will join us for them as well as tuning into our weekly podcast. Now it is a pleasure to introduce the amazing panelists for this program tonight on the First Amendment, journalism, and the protests. We will be taking your questions throughout the program, so put them in the Community Box and i will introduce them. Now it is time to introduce our guests and i will do that in alphabetical order. Congressman steve cohen has served as the representative from tennessees 9th district since 2007. Since 2019, he has been chair of the house judiciary subcommittee on the constitution, civil rights and civil liberties. Rich lowry is the editor of national review, selected to be
We have announced to the Community Just a couple of days ago the passing of the very first director of the jfk library. He was a member of the Kennedy Administration. It is a special pride that he would share it would glow in him, in his advocacy for the importance of the Kennedy Administration and the many treasures we had inside our building. I love this photograph of the building, it is nighttime. For those who have not yet come to see us, i believe the library is inspirational in and of itself and fitting for the life and times and ideas of an inspirational president , the 35th president , president kennedy. If you are able to come to visit us, you will see this building. We are right on Columbia Point facing toward Boston Harbor and it is a sight that will elevate your thoughts, and as you think about what the nation is all about and your role and it and whether you would answer president kennedys call to service which he issued in his inaugural address, up goat asked not what you
, this issdale college a little more than an hour. A. G. Barr thank you very much. Im very honored to speak at this dinner, and i really appreciate your comments, larry. Great to get to know you. Ive been reading you over the years, and it is a real delight to have spent the evening with you. Im very pleased to speak to you at this Hillsdale College celebration of our magnificent constitution. Im a great admirer of hillsdale. I dont get to make many speeches like this. Im usually talking about crime rates and that kind of thing, but 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 worthwhile spending the money to get an education at. [applause] and i mean that sincerely. Sadly, many colleges these days dont teach the constitution, much less celebrate it. One out of every four americans dont know who we fought the revolution against. It is pretty pathetic and that number is increasing steadily as our edu