Welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate of president , and Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate governor george w. Bush of texas, and lets welcome the candidates now. Hello. Hello, jim. Good to see you. Governor. Good to see you both. Nice to see you again. How are you all . Before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri along with his son and former chief of staff died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today, each of them wrote a question on a small card like this. Those cards were collected and then given to m
with a fox news alert. overnight california s secretary of state keeping former president trump s name on the state primary ballot despite efforts to keep him off. carley: trump is off the state of maine. ruling he violated the second amendment making him the second state to disqualify him from holding office. joey: alexandria hoff joins us live. she has the latest on this. the decision out of maine is the first for elected official taking unilateral action to remove former president trump from the ballot. sheena bellows ruling that the 45th president is ineligible to run. holding government positions if they engaged in insurrection. here she is yesterday. the events of january 6th, 2021, when which were unprecedented, tragic were an insurrection. after the section 3 of the 14th amendment that mr. trump engaged in insurrection and therefore is disqualified. so, like colorado supreme court bellows based her ruling on a section ever the u.s. con steetion make no mista
I am the only person who is ever balanced the government budget. You cannot just get there by balancing the budget, you have to grow the economy by putting people first. Real people like you. I did not want my child to grow as the first generation of americans to do worse than their parents. We can do better than that. I ask for your help in doing that. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the debate. I would like to thank our audience of 209 uncommitted voters who may leave this evening committed. Hopefully they will go to the polls on november 3 and vote. We would like you to join us for the third and final residential debate next monday. I am carol simpson, good night. [applause] watch live on cspan. Listen to live coverage of the debate on your phone with the free cspan radio at available on the app store or google play. This debate in 2000 between Vice President al gore and Texas Governor george w. Bush was in format. Hall the moderate the moderator was jim lehrer. This is one hou
I am the only person who is ever balanced the government budget. You cannot just get there by balancing the budget, you have to grow the economy by putting people first. Real people like you. I did not want my child to grow as the first generation of americans to do worse than their parents. We can do better than that. I ask for your help in doing that. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the debate. I would like to thank our audience of 209 uncommitted voters who may leave this evening committed. Hopefully they will go to the polls on november 3 and vote. We would like you to join us for the third and final residential debate next monday. I am carol simpson, good night. [applause] watch live on cspan. Listen to live coverage of the debate on your phone with the free cspan radio at available on the app store or google play. This debate in 2000 between Vice President al gore and Texas Governor george w. Bush was in format. Hall the moderate the moderator was jim lehrer. This is one hou
This is just over 90 minutes. Moderator good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] moderator before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today each of them wrote a question o