It will be interesting, liz, good to see you by the way. I think we can make it through the next four hours week can make it a few more hours as the anticipation builds. We are just about at walk through time, we dont have confirmation that the candidates are doing walk throughs as they call them. This is the time we expect them to do that, where they are familiar with the environment. That environment, two lecterns, one moderator, simple as that, thats what it will be like tonight and the format,ou have six 15minute segments for the moderator lester holt to work his way through. Americas direction, americas prosperity and securing america. One thing to remember about tonight, liz, thats important is that you have no breaks. Its 90 minutes straight through with no commercials. Just clinton, trump and moderator lester holt. There are questions raised about holt and his role in the proceedings, should he be a fact checker in realtime that has come up in the weeks leading up to the debate
Rove has said that little separates ben carson, donald trump, marco rubio, ted cruz, and jeb bush. He writes the gop race is a most unprecedented in its closeness. He says nomination could still be up for grabs when the gop. Onvention opens on july 18 karl thanks for having me. Charlie do you really think this could go to the convention karl the rules have been changed. As a result we have 28 states that are going to vote between the very first and march 12. All but one will be proportional in nature. Its not until the ides of march that the rules allow states to be winner take all, and were grandfathered in. Trump wins in at iowa, wins in New Hampshire, i had significantly. And he wins in south carolina. Does that put him in a unstoppable position . Karl no. Take a look at iowa, take the latest poll that we have in iowa and divide the delicate up. He has 9, cruz has 7, carson has , bush andave 4 fiorina and 2, and the rest of the cuts have to be of the delegates have to be apportioned
Security team, National Security team the 4 Big National Holiday like the one we are about to experience tomorrow. What is out of the ordinary is to have that meeting after a terrorist attack like the one that was planned and executed in paris. Officials are said to be worried, we will hear more about this, they are said to be worried about copycat attacks, copycats of what happened in paris. Bolognese nothing is flash on your screen, that is white house talk for a plea to minute warning to the president. So we will see if he does that lead to minutes from now. That said the white house has been careful to point out before the meeting took place and the last couple days that they have nothing specific, no credible or specific threats against the United States homeland. In terms of a copycat attacks there were reports the visible and sent to 18,000 Law Enforcement officials warning them about homegrown threats saying these lawenforcement officials should be even more on the lookout than
Aggressively to turn them out to vote. Romney specifically referenced the africanamerican community, hispanics and young voters as beneficiaries of obamas large essaying the Obama Campaign was generous in what they gabe to the groups. According to abc news, romney had this to say about obamas gifts to latino community. What the president did is he gave them two things. One he gave them a big gift on immigration with the dream act and the amnesty program. Romneys targeting of the gift takers, africanamericans, latinos, young voter is noteworthy giving the gops problem with africanamericans, latinos and young voters. Romney said this, quote, with regards to africanAmerican Voters, obama care was a huge plus. And was highly motivation toll africanAmerican Voters. You can imagine for somebody making 25,000, 30,000 a year being told youre going to get Free Health Care particularly if you dont have it, getting Free Health Care worth, what, 10,000 a family in perpetuity, i mean this is huge.
Alfred zacher presents his thoughts on why some president to succeed while others feel during their second terms in office. This is about 45 minutes. The afternoon and appreciate you being here for less event this event that we can credit cspan2 for being here. We are familiar with the faces phase past is prologue which is amazing on the wall of the national archives. We have heard the phrase history does not repeat itself, it rhymes. This afternoon with your assistance, i will attempt to apply the prologue to the history of the second term but i simply do not understand history writing so that one will not be ignored. We are once again facing the challenge selecting our president when the winner is too close to call. We do not expect to witness an election won by a landslide. Some will look lonely on the times when one candidate dominated the political theme. Lyndon johnson nearly beat Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon overwhelming george mcgovern. In each of those elections on of the