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Judy woodruff on behalf of the commission on president ial debates, i am pleased to welcome you to this Vice President ial debate. Im Judy Woodruff of pbs macneillehrer news hour and frontline. My colleagues on the panel are John Margolis of the chicago tribune, tom brokaw of nbc news, and brit hume of abc news. The importance of tonights debate is underscored by two facts. Both george bush and Michael Dukakis said their selections of a running mate would reveal a lot about themselves. And based on the history since world war ii, there is almost a 5050 chance that one of the two men here tonight will become president of the United States. The candidates are senator dan quayle, the republican nominee, and senator Lloyd Bentsen, the democratic nominee. [applause] Judy Woodruff for the next 90 minutes, we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagu
First, democratic representative al green of texas, then scott perry of pennsylvania. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is thursday, october 1, 2020. The senate convenes at noon, and the house is in at 9 00 a. M. Eastern, which means we will be with you for two hours. We begin taking stock of tuesdays first president ial debate. With criticism pouring in from both sides of the aisle, the commission on president ial debates announced yesterday it would make changes to the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues. As we wait to see with those changes will be, we are asking you what you would suggest. How would you alter the debate format, if all . Phone lines are split up as usual. If you support the trump pence ticket, 202 7488000 202 7488001. If you support the aydin harris ticket, 202 7488000 biden harris ticket 202 7488000. For independents, 202 7488002. O text us, 202 7488003 twitter,lso find us on cspanwj. You can start calling and now as
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Just that still to come james all right, thank you very much john quick check of the roads for you this morning. So far so good here at the bay bridge toll plaza, nice easy right here on westbound 80 no problems on the span sear oakland to San Francisco commute this morning. Is moving faster than normal because this is a nice friday and the san mateo bridge to your highway 92 ride from hayward out to foster city moving without any problems. The right hand side there those taillights that is your commute direction heading out to the peninsula and so far were doing just fine. Now we are looking here at the richmond sandra fell bridge toll plaza again youve got a little bit of a backup here at the toll plaza itself. No issues really being reported on the span once you lets say just maybe a quarter of a mile off the landing richmond. Youre all green making an easy ride into sandra fell this morning, shes got to get through this bit of having us and then youre good to go. Finally the Golden