Audience and we have taken extra precautions during the pandemic. Everyone in the audience is required to wear a face mask and the candidates will be 12 feet apart. The audience is enthusiastic about their candidates, but they have agreed to express enthusiasm only twice, at the end of the debate and now when i introduced the candidates. Please welcome Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence. [applause] senator harris and Vice President pence, thank you for being here. We are meeting as the president and first lady undergo treatment in washington after testing positive for covid19. We send our thoughts to them for the rapid and complete recovery, and for the recovery of everyone afflicted by the virus. Commissionpaigns and have agreed to the ground rules for tonight. I am here to enforce them on behalf of the millions of americans who are watching. No one in either campaign or at the commission or anywhere else has been told in advance of the topics or the questions i will ask. Thi
Lets go straight to capitol hill, our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles is watching all this unfold. We have heard a lot of powerful debate going back and forth on representative greene. So explain to our viewers where things stand right now, ryan. At this moment, wolf, were just awaiting the vote on the house floor that will determine the fate of Marjorie Taylor greene. This is a vote of the entire house. A simple majority will be enough to remove her from both the education and Labor Committee as well as the budget committee. And this vote comes after a lengthy amount of debate from both republicans and democrats, making their case as to why she should stay on those committees and why from the democrats perspective, Sheh Hshould Beple off those committees. The most dramatic moment happened just a few moments ago where the House Majority leader steny hoyer came to the house floor with a big picture of a tweet that was once set out by Marjorie Taylor greene. Listen to what he ha
Break. We will see you at 12 45. Senator holly will be next. [inaudible conversations] thank you. Appreciate the break. Mr. Comey, are you with us . Yes sir. Thank you very much. Was that a sufficient rate for you, are you okay . Yes, thank you. Senator holly. Thank you mr. Chairman. Weve heard a number of things this morning and we heard you say a number of times that the oig found problems in the fisa applications across the board, but of course it was only this fisa application, these involving carter page that you signed off on that drew an unprecedented review from the pfizer court, which im sure you remember. Let me quote from that fisa court order the frequency and seriousness of these errors in the case that in a sensitive nature had an unusually high level of review in both the doj and the federal bureau of investigation have called into question the reliability of the information proffered in other fbi applications. Do you remember that order from the court . It came after i
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carried around the fafsa as a prop to make the case for simplifying it, but its no joke, especially this year. Many students are questioning their investment in a College Education at a time when many classes are only offering online courses, many of low income students who would benefit most economically from college long term are putting it off altogether. There was an 8 drop in the number of black undergraduate students enrolled in summer sessions compared with last summers enrollment according t
Good evening, and welcome to tonights montana u. S. Senate debate. Im john twiggs. And im anna rau. We would like to welcome visitors across the state on radio and the Northern News Network as well as viewers joining us on cspan. We have both candidates on the ballot in our studio tonight. Theyre incumbent senator republican steve daines. Welcome. And montana governor democrat Steve Bullock. Welcome, governor bullock. We appreciate having everyone here in person, not a simple process these days, but were safely distanced and ready for a spirited debate. We have a slightly different format tonight. Each candidate will have an initial 90 seconds to answer the question, then there will be an open discussion period for that topic with a chance for rebuttals, followup questions and direct exchanges. Well finish the debate with a 90second closing statement from each of the candidates. Lets get started with one of the topics dominating the headline headlines, the Supreme Court justice confirm