Boston anchor latoya edwards. Welcome, everyone, to this primary debate. Were at the nbcu Boston Media Center home of nbc 10, telemundo and nbc boston. Well d wed like to thank you for taking part of tonights event. Lets go to ed marky. He served in 2013 in the senate. Before that he served massachusettss seventh district in the house of representatives since 1976. We welcome congressman joe kennedy he served massachusettss Fourth District since 2013. Before that he served as an assistant District Attorney. We are following social distancing guidelines. Everyone is spread out more than six feet apart. And our panelists are not in 2 studio with us. Theyre in different locations. Grace gomez, news anchor for lemundo boston, tim kaputo news anchor for nbcn. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Both candidates will get one minute for questions directed to the both of them and that will be at my discretion. They will get 40 seconds with a 30second rebuttal. At the end of the evening and
Situation that we are in right now . Guest thanks for having me. What we are seeing happen is as a reason region starts to pull down, a new region heats up , and i think we are in this position because we have a lot of advection all around this country. We reopened not just early but aggressively, and that instigated more spread, and now you have a situation where there is just so much infection that to otherng to get parts of the country. The sunbelt is starting signs of improving. Places like texas, florida, southern california. Those states,s in particularly arizona and texas, when you look at the data. It is a little less clear in texas and southern california. At the same time, we see infections pick up in other states, kentucky, indiana, illinois, georgia, ohio, indiana, so the gains that we are making in the states that look like they are starting to peek will now be offset by the other states that look like they are accelerating. Host why are they slowing down and the sunbelt s
We are now in a situation where not only we have an economic crisis but also a Public Health crisis to boot. Tell me a little bit about how you are seeing the current economic crisis. We have got to sustain and keep people from going under forever, businesses are not likely to open a significant number. When they are able to come back, not only to keep folks employed on a payroll but able to cover overhead and additional expenses. The idea of opening without social distancing, masks and all these things cost a lot of money. And they should be able to have that to stay open for the good of the country but the next day, if they keep people afloat then we have to deal with recovery in the recovery is Building Back but not just Building Back, Building Back better. We have to change the way people make a living. We can add a public option out that this guy is in court in the middle of the pandemic trying to take away protection for 100 Million People with preexisting conditions. I dont thin
The Senate Debate between the candidates for the september 1 democratic primary. I am john keller with a special inlo to our viewers online boston and across the country on cspan, and our Radio Audience on the bbc news radio 1030. Wbt newsradio 1030. Ed markey has represented the state since 2013 in the senate, and served in the house for 37 years. Joe kennedy has served in the u. S. House since 2013. Before we get started, a brief word about the format. Now before we get started a brief word before our format. There will be no opening or closing statements. The candidates will each get one minute to respond to the same question. After that there will be open ended periods of rebuttal and discussion. Otherwise known as the fate. During which they are free to question one another and expand their focused others topics. There are just three hard and fast rules. No filibustering. No talking over each other, and always obey your moderator. Thank you gentlemen, we appreciate you being here.
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