Democratic congressman collin for a 13th running term against republican Torrey Westrom in minnesotas seventh Congressional District. Recent debate came courtesy from pioneer television. Welcome to the minnesotas seventh Congressional District debate. Will have the incumbent collin peterson, a democrat. And Torrey Westrom, the challenger. To pioneer Public Television, minnesotas seventh Congressional District debate. My name is amy and i will be your moderator this evening. Well start out with opening remarks from both candidates. Onto ll then move something prayer questions. And then we will wrap up with closing remarks. Asking questions this evening are two members of the media. Have reed anthonson. And jp. Welcome, genteleman. Tonights candidates are peterson and Torrey Westrom. Welcome, gentlemen. Were now going to look at a map of this district. The seventh district includes western side n of minnesota, with the exception of the southern counties bordering ila. The largest city in
And football equilibrium. Trying to turn down the heats on his patriots one week from the super bowl. First, we start tonight with president obama. He is expected to land later on this evening in india. That after a stop to refuel on air force one in germany. The white house announcing that he will cut short that trip though, to visit the new king of saudi arabia and to pay his respects to the late King Abdullah. The white house said the new king welcomed the news of the president s visit and that one topic during the visit will likely be security, isis and the fight against terrorism. Saudi arabia just north of yemen, yemen already home to alqaedas most Dangerous Branch and rebels toppled the u. S. Supported president there and pushed the very poor country closer to chaos. Ed henry has more on the president s trip. How much pressure was there for the president to change the plans and actually go to saudi arabia . Reporter good to see you there was a fair amount of pressure because the
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The level of the attention in both houses of congress and id like to see what your responses. Congressman the unit as an air force reserve will be leaving. The intent is to take this c130 j. s and put them in little rock arkansas. General jackson would tell you there is a problem with recruiting in that area in his reserve unit. He would also tell you is this it before every decision we are making right now hurts. They have to did downsize as well. This move would save them 23 million a year. It would save them about 600 oddities because of the wing that leaves. It allows them to save a 10 milliondollar a year air Service Support agreement. The active air force component would leave the air Mobility Operations Group there to run the green ramp to schedule and oversee the airlift that comes in today to help do a lot of the training for the second airborne. A higher percentage of the training is done by aircraft that come in to support the second airborne as opposed to just the airplanes
Mail system ahead of the upcoming election where more voters will mail in their ballots because of the pandemic. Among those voters, the president and the first lady, who both requested mailin ballots in florida. But that didnt stop President Trump who even this morning continues his baseless attacks on mailin voting. Tweeting that the 2020 election will be a fraudulent mess and that we may never know who won. Cnns abby phillip has more. Reporter after months of railing against mailin ballots that he claims without evidence will hurt republicans mailin voting will be the greatest fraud in the history of elections. Reporter President Trump now admitting this week that he wants to hold up funding for the u. S. Postal service to gain a political advantage in november. They want 25 billion, billion for the post office. But if they dont get those two items that means you cant have universal mailin voting because theyre not equipped to have it. Reporter many may, trump installed a Top Republ