President george bush, arkansas governor bill clinton and independent candidate ross perot. Here now is mr. Ross perot. Ladies and gentlemen. [applause] good to see you thank you. Now, governor clinton. [applause] and now, president bush. [applause] about 30 seconds, we will be going on the air. Good evening and welcome to the first of three debates among the major candidates for president of the United States, sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The candidates are, independent candidate ross perot, governor bill clinton, the democratic nominee, and president george bush, the republican nominee. I am jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs and i will be the moderator for this 90 minute event, which is taking place before an audience here in the Athletic Complex on the campus of Washington University in st. Louis, missouri. Three journalists will be asking questions tonight. They are john mashek of the boston globe, ann compton of abc news and sander vanocur, a freelance jo
Representative rick marsh, a democrat from washington joined book tv to discuss the books hes reading. Congressman rick larson of washington, whats on your reading list right now . My Summer Reading list hasnt been long but its coming into the middle of summer now. Im working on wrecked, its the third icu novel by joe day, hes a mission writer and iq is his character and rex is the third book in the series. Hes kind of a detective novel. Hes a private investigator and a lot of action, a lot of great relationships in that book so im working on that. Im also working on frederick douglass, a biography published recently. Working on that, its a fairly long book so im popping in and out of that. In and out of that book. Taking that in chunks. So the policy wonk in me, david dollar has at one of the think tanks in washington dc is the editor of a book called china 2049 where hes put together some reform minded chinese colleagues to look at what the chinese economy might look like, what its c
Republican nominee, president george bush. The independent, ross perot. And governor bill clinton, the democratic nominee. My name is Carol Simpson and i will be the moderator for tonights 90minute debate which is coming to you from the campus of the university of richmond in richmond, virginia. Now tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history. Were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing, anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself if i think there needs to be continuity and balance and sometimes i might ask the president to respond to what another candidate may have said. The format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that i
More than 90 have topped their earnings and sales expectations which are ridiculous numbers. Shows how hard it is to try to predict these accurately. But the bar is also high for companies. They really have to beat by a lot. Investors are expecting it, and so if they dont, you can see pullbacks. Overall, earnings season is a great time for the market. Its averaged about a 4 gain over the last four quarters. During the five weeks when its really at its peak. I think its pretty important for us. Jack thank you, ben. One area where were seeing very little good news, jack, we heard Regal Cinemas were shutting more than 500 theaters, and worst of all, wonder woman put off, james bond, batman. Whats happening in the movie business . Well, if you take wonder woman as an example, we were supposed to get that in june, then pushed back to october. The latest i heard is december, but as you say, jack, if you see a wide theater release of that movie this year, i will dress as wonder woman on the l
More than 90 have topped their earnings and sales expectations which are ridiculous numbers. Shows how hard it is to try to predict these accurately. But the bar is also high for companies. They really have to beat by a lot. Investors are expecting it, and so if they dont, you can see pullbacks. Overall, earnings season is a great time for the market. Its averaged about a 4 gain over the last four quarters. During the five weeks when its really at its peak. I think its pretty important for us. Jack thank you, ben. One area where were seeing very little good news, jack, we heard Regal Cinemas were shutting more than 500 theaters, and worst of all, wonder woman put off, james bond, batman. Whats happening in the movie business . Well, if you take wonder woman as an example, we were supposed to get that in june, then pushed back to october. The latest i heard is december, but as you say, jack, if you see a wide theater release of that movie this year, i will dress as wonder woman on the l