We welcome those watching nationwide on cspan tonight. The next hour, the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists. The rules are fairly simple. Each candidate will have three minutes to respond to the question with 30second rebuttals if needed. We will begin with questions on domestic policy and then we will transition to Foreign Policy. Before the debate, we held simple coin tosses with the campaigns to determine the order of different parts of the debate. As a result, the first candidate to present an opening candidate is mr. Janicek. Mr. Janicek ready to go. I will start off with a personal story. It is very personal to me, and that is the reason i am in this race. My father died of a heart attack when he was 54 years old. His father, my grandfather, died of a heart attack when he was 58 years old. My greatgrandfather dropped dead at age 60. When i turned 50, guess what . I had a massive heart attack. I had been to the doctor just a week before because i was afraid
Come and hear what i have to say. I thought i would begin with the 2012 election and im sure you are aware come after that election, many people proclaimed the death of modern american conservatism. One commentator said the titanic is sinking, referring to american conservatism. Another observe the conservative arguments we heard in this election are going to be relics in museums very shortly. Lots of people said conservatism really its message and its methods if it was ever going to win an election again. Its still being debated today. I noticed in this mornings wall street journal scott walker has a piece about what he needs to do to be relevant. His thought is they dont need to give up their principles, they need to be stronger on their principles and people are looking for that kind of leadership. In this book, we talk about this in the public in the final chapter of this book. My coauthor and i talked about the future of conservatism in the last chapter. But we begin elsewhere and
Thank you for taking a break to be here today. You are brave to come and listen to me in particular. In an earlier career i was an attorney which is a group known not only for its brevity of speech and now for a long time ive been an academic which is a group not known for its clarity of speech so as i said you are brave to come on a friday to hear what i have to say. I thought i would begin with the 2012 election and as im sure you are aware after that election many people proclaimed the death of modern american absolutism. One commentator said the titanic is sinking referring to american conservatism. Another one observes that the conservative arguments we have heard in this election are going to be relics in a museum very shortly. Lots of people said conservatism really needed to change both its message and its methods if it so ever going to win an election again. It still being debated today. I noticed in this mornings wall street journal Governor Scott walker from wisconsin talkin
Right out and we really are encouraging urging everyone in the neighborhood who wants to be tested to come out be tested. Lets talk about our forecast now as we take a live look outside partly cloudy mostly sunny San Francisco along the embarcadero. Scattered showers kind of hung around this weekend. But as more rain on the way lets find out now from Lawrence Karnow working from home in lawrence. Justino certainly an interesting storm, a course over the weekend most that coming overnight and again overnight last night to have the showers popping up around the bay area and certainly a kind of an active afternoon around at least part of the state right now outside you see the clouds billowing through some of those need looking puffy cumulus clouds continuing to roll on by but some scattered showers certainly falling in spots and even some very strong thunderstorms up there right now you can see the clouds out there around the bay area and there you go an active afternoon you see that low
Heavens that bring blessings to our earthly pilgrimage. Today, guide our lawmakers with your glorious wisdom. In the greatness of your majesty, fulfill your purposes for their lives as you order their steps. Show them such unfailing love that they will walk before you in wholehearted devotion. Lord, place your Healing Hands upon our nation and world, delivering us from this Global Health crisis. We pray in your powerful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley permission to speak in morning business for 90 seconds. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley my iowa offices are located in cedar rapids, council bluffs, davenport, doims, sioux city and waterloo. My state