Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
The district 17 congressional debate here in the wpix studio. We all know by now that it is one of the biggest races in the u. S. House this november and we are very excited to be with you tonight for the next 30 minutes. Lets get right to it and meet our candidates. In alphabetical order, the incumbent conor lamb, who has been in Congress Since 2018. And the challenger, republican sean parnell, a retired army ranger running for office for the first time. We posted the rules for the debate online and we flipped a coin in studio to determine who goes first for opening statements. Congressman lamb, you have two minutes. Rep. Lamb thank you and good evening. At townhall meetings and at your front doors, ive had a chance to ask you about what you would like to see in your representative. People are concerned about how divided we are. They are tired of the shutdowns, tired of feeling like nothing gets done. People want members of congress to stop attacking each other and start dealing with
Hosted a conversation on the 2020 election with the cofounders of the Lincoln Project. The Group Opposes President Trumps reelection. Club, the place where news happens. An assignment manager he was video of the associated press. Thank you for joining us today for our virtual headliners newsmaker with rick wilson Steve Schmidt, cofounders of the lincoln product. We are happy to accept questions from our audience today and i will ask as many questions as time permits. To submit a question, email headliners at press. Org. We are 40 days away from election day. As in president ial campaigns past, the two candidates, President Donald Trump and democratic challenger, former Vice President joe biden are spending millions on advertising to spread their message and turned the tide in battleground states. This election is unusual, certainly the covid19 pandemic squelching the meet and greets. Then theres the Lincoln Project, a Political Action committee founded by several current informal influ
We also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning and welcome to washington journal. The New York Times is reporting that President Donald Trump paid 750 dollars in federal income taxes year he won the presidency and another 750 the first year of his presidency. The president is still refusing to make his taxes public, as is tradition for those running for the nations highest office. The president has called the story fake news. We want to know what you think about it. The question of the day is the New York Times story saying 750 int trump paid federal taxes in 2016 and 2017. Democrats 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. 202 7488002. And you can always text us at 202 7488003. And we are always reading on social media on twitter at cspan wj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. The story of the day comes from the New York Times. The story saying that President Trump has paid only 750 dollars in federal i
We are back with rick wilson, the cofounder of the antitrump group the Lincoln Project. He is here to discuss with us why his Group Opposes preston trumps reelection. Pspresident trum reelection. How are you doing . Guest i am good. Host remind us of the purpose of the Lincoln Project and for the viewers who want to know, where do you get your funding . Guest are funding comes from the National Grassroots with over 500,000 donors. We have a few major donors trade almost all of our fundraising as come through small dollar donations and people who want a voice that is able to attack donald trump and able to go after his campaign in a way that many others cannot. We are a group of former republicans and folks who were driven out of the donald trump iteration of the Republican Party for a host of reasons. Primarily because he has conservative principles. He is governing as more of an authoritative statist. We look at this election as a threat to the future of this country great it was our