Michael dukakis. Candidates took questions on taxes, the budget deficit, defense spending, and each candidates choice of running mate. Good evening, on behalf of the commission on president ial debates, i am pleased to welcome you to the second president ial debate. Im bernard shaw of cnn, cable news network. My colleagues on the panel are and cotton of abc news. Margaret warner of newsweek magazine. And Andrea Mitchell of nbc news. The candidates are Vice President george bush, the republican nominee, and governor michael dukakis. [applause] for the next 90 minutes will be questioning the candidates in a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i can ask this evening. And the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to governor dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and
The first has to do with the factors that are considered when we look at president ial effectiveness. The second part id like to look at, a few of the more recent president ial elections. So, were going to start with this. Im calling on the work of Professor Robert dallek, wellknown president ial historian. Dallek writes, th 20th century saw an impressive expansion of president ial powers, due to the leadership skills of nine men who served in the office theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, frank lynn delano roosevelt, harry s truman, dwight d eisenhower, john f. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines johnson, richard nixon, and ronald reagan. Now, professor dalles now professor deluxe analysis only looks at the 20th century. Im going to throw in some of the president s from the 21st century as we go along. So, if we can go to the first slide, professor dallek talks about these six points. The first one, he says, is vision. The second is charisma. The third is pragmatism. Welll move onto the next slide
Most recently published the spymasters which is a book about how the cia directors shape history. Its a really pathbreaking work at her book. Its the first book that looks at the modern directors of Central Intelligence and evaluates [inaudible] and how they have interpreted their jobs. Well have time later in the program to talk about all of those issues. There is a link available to brookings in order to purchase a copy of the book at a think youll find [inaudible] its really something quite [inaudible] were going to focus today at least initially on the pandemic. The Intelligence Community appears actually did a fairly good job warning and anticipating that the pandemic was coming. And ask you to give us some of the data that point in the direction . Yeah, bruce, first of all before i do can i just say that thank you for the kind words for the spymasters. I was lucky enough in doing this book to talk to almost every living cia director and i was even luckier to be able to talk to yo
Thats absolutely nature oh. And the problem with the conspiracy Conspiracy Theory is spread by the Mainstream Media is that theyre not based in reality at all theyre based on ideology for example. Saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction he was a maniac who wanted to destroy the world that was a huge Conspiracy Theory but no one shoves down New York Times twitter accounts no one says you i to us how many times did New York Times report that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and so for hours and sometimes tens of thousands of women they got those say its not a Conspiracy Theory and mr trump is a liar and you should be labeled and then you advance would continue business as usual right i go only to find peace leg up youll surprises and the promotions and they were just kicked up the ladder 1st spreading there by. Narratives here you know this is the limit george i mean. In this is all the medias fault i mean lets just look at coded i mean you can look at a one hour one
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