Countrys great leaders. Nbc news projects James Earl Carter of the state of georgia elected the next president of the United States. Looking as carefully as humanly and scientifically possible, we have put the state of mississippi into the carter column and that is that. The electoral vote by our calculation, 272 electoral votes to 153 so far for gerald ford, the opponent. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] election 1976, day of decision. This is Richard Scanlon of washington. With me here today in our studios is Howard Penniman of georgetown university, stephen hess of the brookings institution. Today, we are going to try to discuss tuesdays bicentennial election here in the United States. Not every last vote has even been counted now, though the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and popular votes
Lehrer good evening from the university of miami Convocation Center in coral gables, florida. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to the first of the 2004 president ial debates between president george w. Bush, the republican nominee, and senator john kerry, the democratic nominee. These debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. Tonights will last 90 minutes, following detailed rules of engagement worked out by representatives of the candidates. I have agreed to enforce their rules on them. The umbrella topic is Foreign Policy and Homeland Security, but the specific subjects were chosen by me, the questions were composed by me, the candidates have not been told what they are, nor has anyone else. For each question there can only be a twominute response, a 90 second rebuttal and, at my discretion, a discussion extension of one minute. A green light will come on when 30 seconds remain in any given answer, yellow at 15, red at five seconds, and
Johnson, taylor mcneil, catherine mosel, thompson diaz, United States court of federal claims. Policycontent modernization act. All those will be held over. Mr. Chairman . Under the rules of this committee can i proceed with the business of the Committee Even with a quorum present, there unless there are two members of the minority present as well. I and the only member of the minority that is here. We cannot conduct business until the second member of the minority arrives. Yes, sir. Thank you for the way you have conducted yourself yesterday. It is clear from reading in the paper what is going to happen is we will be denied the ability to operate as normal. That senator schumer said everything is on the table. We have given this nominee a chance to be questioned. Fairly, firmly. I want to congratulate my democratic colleagues for setting a disposition i think will help us all. I know what awaits us. I will now make a motion to report the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. A motion to vo
You would be horrified not only was president not worrying a mask thats not unexpected but the crowds that gathered in front of them and there were a few 1000 were packed together many of them following the example of their president and the thing that really caught my eye was as ron the scientists the Florida Governor came into the crowd he was high 5 ing people in the crowd as he walked along and then you could clearly see him put his hand to his face so all this flies in the face of any medical guidelines as to how to behave a pandemic the u. S. Senate has begun confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee amy county barret democrats didnt want the debate to begin until after next months president ial election confirmation would expand the courts conservative majority. The. Medium force is being further tested with both sides accusing each other in and around. The Foreign Ministers of armenia and russia meeting in moscow to try and resolve the conflict a Pharmaceutical Company in
Good evening mister president saturday carry. First president goes to senator kennedy. You have two minutes. Do you believe you can do a better job than president bush and preventing another 9 11 terrorist attack on the United States . Yes i do. But before i answer further let me thank you for moderating, i want to thank the university of miami for hosting us and i know the president will join me in welcoming all of florida for all of this debate. Youve been through the roughest weeks it anyone can imagine, our hearts go out to you and we admire your pluck and perseverance. I can make american safer than president bushes made say made us, and i believe president bush and i both love our country equally, but we just have a different set of evictions convictions on how you make america safe. I believe america is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and leading strong alliances. Ill never give a veto to any country over our security but i also know how to lead those alliance