If confirmed, she would be the first woman to hold the position. Promising stynes leader to have u. S. Coronavirus Vaccine Program says astrazenecas shot could halt severe covid. Welcome to the program. Futures in europe pointing higher. Futures in the u. S. Pointing higher and a number of uncertainties removed from the markets thinking over the last 24 hours or so. One of them is who is going to be treasury secretary. Somebody the that market knows ery well in the shape of janet yellen, somebody that has considerable monetary experience and fiscal experience. The other uncertainty is the transition at the white house. That seeps to be looking a little smoother given the headlines we have seen over recent hours. The asian picture benefiting from all of that removal of uncertainty i described. Something more complicated happening to the japanese market which had been doing well prior to being closed. It seems the Trump Administration in its last days still has some tough time to be toug
Thai im Judy Woodruff im thrilled to be joining these three amazing others today. You see them on the screen. They are George Packer whose latest book our man Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American Century and Susan Glasser and peter baker his book is out this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of james a. Baker to third. Two brilliant books about too complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart baker in houston in 1930 and holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer holbrooke a democrat a Foreign Service officer a student of foreign policy. Their lives took very different trajectories but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Picking up on that this is a man with great vision and it was there before he came to washington. It was. He was a family feud aristocracy. He was expected to great things. He had a very dominating father who imparted on him the legacy of his family or the bakers
[ applause ] good evening, mr. President , senator kerry. As determined by a coin toss, the first question goes to you, senator kerry. You have two minutes. Do you believe that you could do a better job than president bush in preventing another 9 11type terrorist attack on the United States . Yes, i do. But before i answer further, let me thank you for moderating. I want to thank the university of miami for hosting us, and i know the president will join me in welcoming all of florida to this debate. Youve been through the roughest weeks anybody could imagine. Our hearts go out to you, and we admire your pluck and perseve perseveran perseverance. I can make america safer than president bush has made us. And i believe president bush and i both love our country equally, but we just have a different set of convictions about how you make america safe. I believe america is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances. Ill never give a veto to any cou
Republican lawless trinity, now a cnn commentator. I would like to recognize one of our special guests today, ambassadors of singapore and sweden and chile and the european union. I would like to recognize our sponsors, our title sponsors, bank of america. Thank you. Our emerging leaders sponsors. Recognizeuld like to see miss usa and the ceo. Siemens usa, thank you for your emerging Leadership Events a few upcoming that some of you probably know about already. Let me remind you, on november 18, at 10 00 a. M. , we will have an event with determent and ceo of johnson and johnson, as you all probably know, johnson and one of the companies is working on a vaccine. I think that he will have interesting things to say about that. He is a very impressive person. I believe that people will really enjoy that carbonation. I will also have a conversation with another impressive person on december 9 at 12 00 p. M. I will speak with a member of the Economic Club board for some time. We are very mu
Now, tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself, if i think there needs to be continuity and balance, and sometimes i might ask the candidates to respond to what another candidate may have said. Now, the format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that is restricted anything goes, we can ask anything. After the debate, the candidates will have an opportunity to make a closing statement. So, president bush, i think you said it earlier, lets get it on. Pres. Bush lets go. Ms. Simpson and i think the first question is over here. Yes, id like