Hi, there, im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining these three amazing authors today. You see them on the screen, they are George Packer whose latest book our man, richard holebooke and the end of the century, and peter baker, this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of James A Baker iii, two good books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930, holebooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer. Holebooke, a democrat, Foreign Service officer. Student of Foreign Policy. Their lives took very different trajectories, but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that, this was 0 m a man with great ambiti and that was even before he came to washington. It was. He was part of a houston aristocracy. His family basically built modern houston. He was expected of great things. He had a father who impressed on him the legacy. One thing they were n
The 2020 election. And everybodys mind, i am looking at you on the screen. Will the election be over at 12 00 so i can go to sleep at 12 00 knowing who the next president is . You are on news. I apologize. The potential for long delays you can be assured sometime on election night, that certainty will grow, it goes on for months and months, the oval office, beginning late january this coming year, dont think that is going to be the case. You disagree with that. I dont disagree. I dont think you will get your midnight wish because of the volume of absentee ballots and the fact that we need a few states in the mountain and pacific time zones, but i do think there will be a clear idea of a winner by friday morning. Last time in the year 2000, the famous bush versus gore decision and case. It had usually been the case state courts were the ones that result election issues. In that situation federal courts got involved. Would you expect if there were any disputes the bush versus gore preced
Independent president ial candidate ross perot. Ing good evening from atlanta and welcome to the Vice President ial debates sponsored by the nonpartisan commission on president ial debates. Its being held here in the theater for the arts on the campus of georgia tech. Im hal bruno from abc news and id moderate tonights keebt. The participants are republican Vice President dan quayle. [ applause ] democratic senator al gore. [ applause ] and retired vise admiral james stockdale, the Vice President ial nominee for independent candidate ross perot. Now, the ground rules for tonights debate. Each candidate will have two minutes for an opening statement. I will then present the issues to be discussed for each topic the candidates will have 1 15 to respond. This will be followed by a 5 00 discussion period in which they can ask questions of each other if they so choose. The order of response has been determined by a drawing and well rotate with each topic. End. Debate each candidate will hav
Mexicos former defense minister has been arrested in the u. S. Now new details about the charges against him will be live in mexico city. Lets start in thailand where police and antigovernment protesters a force in the center of the capital water cannon was used to break through a barricade set up by demonstrators in bangkok for a 3rd day in a row thousands of people defied the government ban on gatherings calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy scott hide the reports. Face to face in bangkok antigovernment protestors and thai police got into a violent confrontation 3 months in the making. The mostly Peaceful Demonstrations started in july but for the 2nd day thousands ignored the risk of arrest under emergency decree issued the day before. As promised in an announcement just after the violence began taia 30 began using everything at their disposal to stop the protests including water cannon with burning agent laced with water the protesters are demandin
Landed in the port of sylar with all the dignitaries syria has 3 or facials there greeting them this is quite a symbolic moment for the who thiis there the minister of information has just said that the government is continuing its fight to release all the prisoners and that it has all the means to put more pressure on the International Community of the government the internationally recognized government and the saudis to ensure the release of the remaining president s were talking about 7000 people who are still detained by both parties and this is why are we having a problem that has been no major consensus between all the parties about how to move forward and who should be released 1st the government is saying that most of the people detained by the who thiis are were kidnapped and therefore should not be part of any deal that should be immediately released by the who these 2 for us to move forward to her these are saying no this has to be part of a package would like to see all ou