Otherwise known as a National Security adviser. I want to welcome all of you here who are able to join us and the audience watching on livestream from the hudson web site but also a special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today and we are to have you here if only virtually and delighted to have everyone who could participatete in this discussio. As i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that we have done here at hudson particularly given the fact that we are less thanan a week away from the election. So many of these issues we are going to be talking about today the question of what americas going to do and where americas going to go from here those issues are going to be decided very soon and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand the guide to what takes place regardless of who it is who will be sitting oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our
Up next here on American History tv, their second debate which focused on Foreign Policy. Good evening from the Municipal Auditorium in kansas city. I am dorothy ridings, the president of the league of women voters, the sponsor of this final president ial debate of the 1984 campaign between republican Ronald Reagan and democrat walter mondale. Our panelists for tonights debate on defense and Foreign Policy issues are georgie anne geyer, syndicated columnist for universal press syndicate; marvin kalb, chief Diplomatic Correspondent for nbc news; morton kondracke, executive editor of the new republic magazine; and henry trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent for the baltimore sun. Edwin newman, formerly of nbc news and now a syndicated columnist for king features, is our moderator. Ed. Dorothy ridings, thank you. A brief word about our procedure tonight. The first question will go to mr. Mondale. Hell have 21 2 minutes to reply. Then the panel member who put the question will ask a followup.
But also a very special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today, and were delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been ablo participate in this discussion. This i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that were going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where americas going to go from here, those issues are going to be decided very, very soon. And so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand as a guide to what takes place, regardless of who it is who will be sitting in the oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our distinguished guest. Robert obrien was born in los angeles and graduated from the university of california berkeley with a law
Next, President Trumps populism and its potential lasting impact. The America Enterprise Institute talks with the university of chicago mulligan about the policies on trade, immigration, debt and deficit spendi spending. Hi, im jim of the american Enterprise Institute and welcome to our event. Ras trumpism pollism succeeded. The president has combined republican tax cuts and deregulation with more restrictions policies on trade and immigration. While the president s rhetoric has often been antielite, norm violating and sometimes inflammatory, hes won the support of the Mainstream Republican Party and lawmakers alike. What are we to make of his presidency . Have President Trumps economics been successful. Going forward what lessons should policy makers learn from the recent rise of populism on the left and right . Today ill discuss these issues with two great guests. Casey mulligan, professor of economics at university of chicago and chief of economists, of the counsel of economic advis
Walter mondale. Our panelists for tonights debate on defense and Foreign Policy issues are georgie anne geyer, syndicated columnist for universal press syndicate, marvin kalb, chief Diplomatic Correspondent for nbc news, morton kondracke, executive editor of the new republic magazine, and henry trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent for the baltimore sun. Edwin newman, formerly of nbc news and now a syndicated columnist for king features, is our moderator. Ed . Edwin dorothy ridings, thank you. A brief word about our procedure tonight. The first question will go to mr. Mondale. Hell have two and a half minutes to reply. Then the panel member who put the question will ask a followup. The answer to that will be limited to one minute. After that, the same question will be put to president reagan. Again, there will be a followup. And then each man will have one minute for rebuttal. The second question will go to president reagan first. After that, the alternating will continue. At the end ther