President ial debates will open the doors and turn on the light and welcome viewers to the debate. A little after 9 00, the debate will begin. It begins a few minutes after 9 00 so the networks can introduce coverage. Cspans up at 10 30 and will get your calls and reaction. That is what is coming up tonight. Joining us is greta. What do you have . Greta lets start with a closer view. This is from the cspan twitter feed from yesterday set up at the university of utah. You can follow our coverage on twitter. Lee from the New York Times reported senator harris was prepping for tonight with hundreds of index cards and a mac a mock debate with pete pence andplaying mike an effort to lower expectations. The wall street journal reports that harris tried to lower expectations coming describing pence as a formidable bader. She says debate her. She says she will make this about leadership during the pandemic. That is what democrats plan to do. They plan to make it about all pandemic, all the tim
Ladies and gentlemen, could i ask you to take your seats please . The 2020 Vice President ial debate here at the university of utah. Im janet brown, executive director of the commission on president ial debates. We are delighted you are here. In the next few minutes, you are going to hear thanks that her own a lot of people for making tonight possible. We will also cover some housekeeping rules for this evenings debate, which start with please make sure your cell phones are turned off on all functions. Cannot make any noise, and please open your programs and take a look at some of the many people that we owe a huge debt of gratitude to for this evening. I would like to start with pentagram, which is of thoughtful which is responsible of the new book of s andommissions name cover. With ankle for the support of our work for years and the state of federal communications, which has just come on board this year. We thank you all. As we speak, there is a washington Filing Center being hosted
Protests spread against indias controversial citizenship law that excludes muslims the un calls it discriminatory. Unlawful killings torture and Sexual Violence police in chile a accused of serious abuses against antigovernment protesters. And on people stamped with all the sports tiger woods and these u. S. Team fights back at golds president s cup but the internationals still hold a healthy lead. Hello there a very warm welcome to the program we begin our coverage in algeria where abdul majid tbone has been declared the winner of the countrys president ial election preliminary results show that he won 68 percent of the vote the less than 40 percent of voters turned out with millions boy causing it and calling it a sham thousands of protesters are out on the streets rejecting those results they say that the election wasnt free or fair because all 5 president ial candidates have links to former president abilities beautifully nicholas cage has the story. It was an election the majority
Session of the texas book festival. It is great to have you here. I am the geneticist and anthropologist and author. For many years at the National Geographicec society that is the effort to use genetics how our species has populated the world i have lived here in austin. And coauthor off the nightclub. [laughter] [applause] i will introduce our authors who is the austinbased science Science Writer contributing to publications such as the New York Times National Geographic and slate from the university of Southern California lives here in austin. [applause] the head of the head of the u. K. With visiting professorships and currently the scripts of oceanography. [applause] just a couple of quick reminders authors are signing books and remember when you buy a book at the festival you support the author and local independent bookstores. To have low income students in texas so that really does make a difference. So we will kick it off. So spineless is about jellyfish which is an interestin
Okay i think were going to have to wrap it up there. Thank you very much. [applause] both of you. So julie and peter will be next door at the book signing thank you very much for coming up