Approve. Member rajeo. Yes. And chair williams . Aye. All right, so we are adjourned. It is 4 33 p. M. Thank you, everyone, for sticking with us and well see you tomorrow. Thank you. Bye, everyone. See you tomorrow. The meeting is closed. Just want to notice we didnt have. Can you call the roll . Im going to read my script first. This is held by web x modifying requirements for inperson meetings during the coronavirus disease emergency. This committee will be convening remotely until the committee is authorized to meet in person. Public comments will be available on each item. Each will be allowed three minutes to speak. Comments during the Public Comment period are available by calling 14156550001. Again its 14156550001. Access code is 1469968636. Then pound and then pound again. When connected, youll hear the meeting discussion, but will be muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Speak clearly and slowly and
Good evening from the clerk Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts and boston. Im jim of the news hour of pbs and i welcome you to the first of three 90 minute debates between the democratic candidate for Vice President , president , are gore and the democratic candidate traditionally bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to buy the commission and the campaigns. Tonight well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes, rebuttals are limited to one minute. As moderator i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular given take it another three and a half minutes. But even then those who go answer can exceed to minutes. The candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements and each candidate may have up to timmins for closing statement. The questions and the subjects were ch
Lemonis Something Like this make you want to call it quits . Oliver yes. Lemonis theres massive devastation. This is a street. An entire main street underwater. Oh, my goodness. I met the mayor. We toured the city the only way we could, by boat. Its okay. Roads closed and businesses wiped out. Look at this. Kim oh, my god. Lemonis . A severe burden on the local economy. Peter so im on the city council, and so we are gonna have some serious budget problems like never seen before. Lemonis and with relentless rain, well, its paralyzed this town. Man 2 what i was afraid of. Lemonis as for the people who live here, theyve had enough. How do you recover from a disaster like this and restore enough hope that people who live here dont abandon everything . The reason that i wanted to come to the Mississippi River is, as i think about it, it almost feels like the most important freeway in america, right . It goes from minnesota all the way down to new orleans. Its how Farmers Transport things. I
Tweet from President Trump. Why did that happen . Been a lot ofas friction between secretary esper and the president. There were some concerns from the white house that he was not loyal enough, was not telling the president what he wanted to hear and was not helping him. One of the friction points was the issue of the lafayette square, the Infamous Press appearance where the president walked out of the white house after protesters had been cleared out imposed at the church across the street. There was a lot of conversation about the military taken on a more active role in responding to those Racial Equity protests and finding some way for active duty military to be involved in secretary esper pushed back on that. He says it was not appropriate. Apparently that started to burrow into some problems the president had with his performance and his attitude. I colleague megan meyers and got a chance to sit down with secretary asbury before he left, in his final days when it looked like he wa
Postelection standoff between the Trump Administration and the Biden Campaign. Day and it 8 45, leo shane discusses the fallout from the defense secretarys firing. A week ago this morning, the results of the 2020 election were unknown. By saturday morning, joe biden had garnered enough electoral votes, and was declared the winner. President trump and his republican allies have been contesting that, but states are standing by the results, and legal efforts so far have yielded no change in votes. Good morning. It is veterans day, november 11, 2020. This is washington journal. We will talk about the continuing standoff in this first hour. We want your calls this year. If you are a supporter of joe biden and Kamala Harris, the line is 202 7488000. Supporters of donald trump and mike pence, 202 7488001. All others, or if you did not vote, the line 202 7488002. Also, send us a text if you would like. It is 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. Andwitter cspanwj faceb