Start off on this recent quite a fascinating book of yours, the trump century, ive got to ask you a question. You worked on cnn for some 30 years, you have a variety of shows, you are not in orthodox republican, you are obviously yt a liberal democrat. Could you go back into that environment today or Something Like it or what was the formula that allowed you to exist for three decades, did you have a particular relationship with ted turner or just enlighten us a little bit on the development. Guest it was helpful i joined at the beginning as one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was present at the creation as they say. It was a spectacular place to work as they say because it was unflawed of before ted turner. The global cable newscast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was truly remarkable though it changed over time as these things do and we founded it in 1980 and by 1984, he was on the forbes list, the lobbyist list and had been basically on t
At 9 00 a. M. , headed tonights debate, university of missouris Mitchell Mckinney talks about the history of president ial debates. Host good morning, it is the washington journal for september 29 and your look looking at video at case western reserve theersity, that the site of first president ial debate between President Trump and joe biden. Cspans coverage of that event starts at 8 00. We want to hear from you in this first hour on when it comes to president ial debates, do they matter . Weathering helping you decide or perhaps hearing about candidates positions on policy issues. Heres how to call to let us know. If you support President Trump, 2027488000, if you support joe biden, 2027488001. If you are undecided or support others, it is 2027488002. If you want to text us, do so at 2027488003. cspanwj. Itter pollingeet journal to on president ial debates asking the questions on if they matter. Some of what they found saying more than 70 of americans say the debates wont matter much
Tonight, and we expect a large assume those debates even increase in their viewership where a lot of the political campaigning conventions, other forms of political communication, has waned over the past several years. Not so with debates. We actually set a record four years ago. Brought theey largest crowd, but that first debate was almost 82 Million Viewers. The alltime record. Most of those viewers tuning in, what we have learned, as high as 90 plus percent of those are there to cheer on their candidate and to root for the candidate that they already are committed to. Typically a small slice of viewers and voters who have not been following the race very closely, who are uncommitted, and what we found that small slice, they use the debates to make a candidate choice, a voting commitment. That number, typically in our studies, has been anywhere from 2 to 4 , never more than 5 . And yet, in terms of a race where the dynamic is affected, particularly bad around states, that slice of de
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