Most people say they have already made up their mind and even big events like the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg have not led many to say whether they should change their votes so far. A couple of Opinion Pieces leading up to tonights event, on from the university of californias Mitchell Mckinney will join us later on this morning in the program. He says this, theres argument that the debates are not substantiated and present no new information area if thats the case it makes a compelling case for eliminating them but these accusations are not based on what debate viewers believe but on what political pundits think. Viewers want debatesand the numbers prove it. In 2016 two of the three planes and trump matchups set a viewership record with the first drawn about 84 Million Viewers and the largest viewing audience in the history of the televised debates that began with john f. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. Theres another viewpoint on the New York Times. Im not lo
Interference, but her confidence and defensive strategies in the 2020 election and beyond. Im carrie cordero, the center for a new american security. We have two sessions this morning. This session will run until 10 45 a. M. Eastern, and then i hope youll join us again at 11 30 a. M. Eastern for a session i will be moderating on foreign influence and voter attitudes. Todays conversations are part of a broader collaboration between the center for a new americanee security, the center for ethics and the rule of law, which is a part of pam law, at the end for public center, also of the university of pennsylvania. Before handed over to the moderator, this discussion is being live streamed and you can post your comments and questions on twitter using the hashtag protect democracy 2020. Our team will be monitoring the hashtag and will show your questions with our moderator. Foreign influence in our civic life was top of mine for the countries founders. America may have been caught offguard i
Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the National Constitution center on Constitution Day the most exciting day of the year. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis and this really is a remarkable day because we have first evolved a tremendous honor of a visit by Supreme Court Justice Stephen breyer. [applause] Justice Breyer among as many distinctions and many books that he has written including when we are going to talk about today is a member of the National Constitution center scholarly advisory board. He he stenciled the crease to this Beautiful National treasure which was founded during the bicentennial to bring together people of different perspectives to learn about the constitution and to celebrate it and thanks to his inspiration and the guidance of others today we are thrilled to announce the launch of a new interactive constitution that you see behind
I want to talk a little bit about the division of iraq or keeping iraq whole. On the one hand, quh you look at some of these borders in the middle east, they were all done by the colonialists and i have often felt why should we be obligated to maintain those borders . Iraq is not a real state. It was slapped together. Youve got the kurds, you have the shia and the sunni, who really dont want to be part of each other, and so particularly the kurds, who have autonomy now, practically have their own nation, and probably will proclaim it very shortly, so my sympathies would be to say to the kurds, well, why should we suck you back into iraq . You have the right to your own nation. Frankly, nobody has ever explained to me why the palestinians are entitled to selfdetermination but somehow the kurds are not. I dont know i dont think thats fair, quite frankly. On the other hand, we are told that if the kurds break off, theres practically no way that you could stop the radicals from dominating
Foundational civics. Can you name three branches of government in the freedoms injected in the First Amendment kristine noted overtake takes overrated the dough and the prerogatives of the various branches. When theres a a constitutional matter who gets to decide . These are things that are presupposition all all. He did understand the basic things happening in the news and some of those capacities ass citizens are not going to be top of mind to you in terms of a female and have been there so you might want to know for example theres a conflict between the president and the Supreme Court or congressman and the president. By the way there are three branches and we have checks and balances among them. Huskily put the numbers of this year surveying for that our viewers. Here are one of theof questions, asking those who responded to the survey if they could name all three branches of government in just 47 have responded and said they could do that. 18 could name two branches of government