Now also the mayor of harrisburg. [applause] it is a pleasure to welcome everyone here tonight for bestselling author dan pfeiffer but before we begin we have some guidelines to make us go as smooth as possible. Please take out your phone and join me as a power off our cell phones we want to welcome cspan tonight they will be filming with a want to add any interruptions. So thank you. At this time i went to introduce our speakers but i want to quickly plug one upcoming event. There is a lot of great talks coming up friday march 6 you may be interested driving while black a true story of the green book and its effects. That is at 7 00 oclock. The number one New York Times bestselling author. [cheers and applause] and author of god save america. [cheers and applause] one of Barack Obamas longest running advisers under president obama 2009 through 2014 Senior Advisor to the president and lives in the bay area with his wife and their daughter. Interviewing him this evening. [cheers and app
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Democrat representative rob rob menendez faces primary challenger, they offer their positions on the economy, foreign aid and us relations with cuba. Voters will decide in early june which candidate moves to the general election. This is courtesy of the new jersey globe. It is about an hour. Welcome to new jersey debate night. Im lara jones and this is the first debate between the Democratic Candidates for the us house of representatives from new jerseys eighth Congressional District between the incumbent, congressman rob menendez and robbie boa. This is presented by the new jersey globe and riders university. A panelist, david wildesteiner the new jersey globe, michael raz mucin at Rider University and joey fox, Congressional Correspondent for the new jersey globe. We conducted a virtual coin toss before the start of the debate. Robbie boa will have the first statement. Mayor, over to you. Mayor, can you hear us . Okay. We are going to work on that audio issue and we will let the Open