The three of us are on stage, the two candidates and myself, and people from southwest texas junior college. We are thrilled to wring this to from the heart of district 23. We have a timekeeper to my right who is going to keep time and she is from this area so, sandra, im glad we could cut down on your commute. Let me the candidates. Two people who want to take over the Office Currently have i urd, who chosell h not to run for reelection. Jones, amongtiz her endorsements, joe biden. Her opponent, republican Tony Gonzales back by our current president , donald trump. Tonight, these two square off face to face. I want to welcome Gina Ortiz Jones and Tony Gonzales. Thank you both for being here tonight. Thank you. Thank you. The debate is simple. I have got over the rules with the campaigns. I will be giving the campaigns but we have questions submitted online from viewers. For most questions the respondents will have one minute to answer. Then i as moderator have the option to expand on
Want to interfere. Should she will come to washington, see that is not going to be given much opportunity. Because we do have standards and once you stalling the children who live you will a mass shoolting, thats where you draw the line. Lets start there. Amanda carpenter, thank you so much. Thanks, don. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for joining us. The scene at the capitol tonight, beautiful, stately, mournful. Honoring a fallen herery, officer Ryan Sicknick who lost his life defending our democracy on january 6th. Just think about the desecration there a month ago when a mob of insurrectionists tried to take down our government nasm as the second Impeachment Trial for the president is looming. Officer sicknick, he lies in state in the capitol dome. House democrats laying out their case in an 80page brief saying, quote, If Provoking An Insurrectionary rite after losing an election is not an impeachable offense, its hard to imagine what would be. And they laid ou
And what is driving this figure . Well, these models are theres lots of models out there. This is one thats certainly the white house and lots of people have paid attention to. I can tell you, jim, that i follow this model very closely and in some ways, it is underprojected, which i know no one wants to hear. You may remember, jim, we were talking back in march, they were projecting 60,000 people would die of this by august 4th, at that point. And we basically close to doubled that at that point. So it is one of these models that takes into all sorts of different considerations. Its trying to rely on mobility data. Its projecting how much more mobile people will become, how likely people are to adhere to these basic Public Health guidelines, taking in the context that schools are reopening, colleges are reopening, all the things that weve been talking about and basically arrives at this number. So its pretty dire. And as you point out, you know, there is a range here. Even if we start
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In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the great American migration,
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