I am bernard shaw of cnn. Cable news network. My colleagues are ann compton, of abc news. Margaret warner of newsweek magazine. And andrew mitchell, of nbc news. The candidates are Vice President george bush, republican nominee and governor michael dukakis. For the next 90 minutes we will be questioning the candidates by representatives of the two campaigns, however there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleague 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 jackies. You have two minutes to respond. Governor if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, which you favored and irrevocably Death Penalty for the killer. No i dont, bernard. And i think you know that i post Death Penalty, all of my life. I dont see any evidence, and i think there are better and more effective ways to deal with crime. We have done so in my own state, and its one of the reasons why we hav
Jimmy carter focused on foreign and military issues. The debate is best remembered for president fords statement that there is no soviet domination of Eastern Europe. Good evening. Im Pauline Frederick of npr, moderator of this 2nd of the historic debates of the 1976 campaign between gerald r. Ford of michigan, republican candidate for president , and jimmy carter of georgia, democratic candidate for president. Thank you, president ford, and thank you, governor carter, for being with us tonight. This debate takes place before an audience in the palace of fine arts theater in san francisco. An estimated 100 million americans are watching on television as well. San francisco was the site of the signing of the United Nations charter, 31 years ago. Thus, it is an appropriate place to hold this debate, the subject of which is foreign and defense issues. The questioners tonight are max frankel, associate editor of the new york times, henry l. Trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent of the baltimo
Swing states. Another seems far crumbles in the battle over nagornokarabakh john accuses our media of killing 21 civilians near the disputed territory. And how we can see to it slams into the u. S. State of louisiana the 5th major storm to hit the region this year. Tough new measures are being imposed across europe and fears hospitals are about to be overwhelmed by a growing number of coronavirus patients germanys imposing restrictions to last a month thats closing restaurants and bars but keeping schools open in italy dining out after 6 pm is now banned and theaters and gyms a shot its a similar situation in spain which is declared an 11 pm curfew and limited gatherings and friends. President emmanuel has announced a 2nd National Lockdown that will last until the 1st of december all nonessential businesses will have to shut but schools and factories will be allowed to remain open but reports from paris. In a soviet t. V. Address french president emanuel said a new lockdown was necessa
Why there is a muslim rhetoric refugee crisis at the airports and the only time the American People cared is when donald trump banned muslims at the airport they never bothered to ask themselves why are there refugee muslim refugees at the airport because Barack Obama Joe biden just bombed them for 8 straight years so the idea that joe biden is the antidote to donald trump when he has a worse record to head out of trouble is a mental gymnastics games that people have to play in their head because they cant stand donald trump being such a jack on television that was when he was varicose mom as Vice President what about come on a harris 1st woman of color to become Vice President so. After a whole summer of protests against Police Brutality the democrats have decided to nominate joe biden who was the author of the 1994 crime bill which exploded the prison population filled with mostly black and brown people in the United States the United States is now the Worlds Largest penal colony we
Louisiana got lasted this past week via hurricane and i pray for everyone in lake charles and that whole area. We were speaking earlier saying they are probably going to have many weeks of not months of no power and trouble with their water system. And even people as far north as shreveport and monroe are still without power. Our thoughts go out to them. So anyway we are here today with jack davis in conversation with the author. Jack is a professor of history specializing in them for mental history and sustainability studies. Also the author of Pulitzer Prizewinning the gulf, the making of an american city. Nil in addition to the Pulitzer Prize the gulf was the news york times noted book of 2017 and made several other bestseller list that year including the Washington Post and pr in jack, welcome. Its great to have you here with us today. See my pleasure being here. Will turn to jack and eric and let them start the conversation. People have questions they can go to the chat room and w