Now, president bush. About 30 seconds we will be going on the air. In about 30 seconds we will be going on the air. Good evening, welcome to the first of three debates among the major candidates for president of the United States, sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The candidates are independent candidate ross perot, governor bill clinton, the democratic nominee, and president george bush, republican nominee. I am jim lehrer and i will be the moderator for this 98 minute event, taking place before an audience here in the Athletic Complex on the campus of Washington University in st. Louis, missouri. Three journalists will be asking questions tonight. They are john mack she of the boston globe, and compton, and sandra van ocher. A format agreed to by representatives of the clinton and bush campaigns. That agreement contains no restrictions on the content or subject matter of the questions. Each candidate will have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The order o
Demonstrators the city is now on 24 hour lockdown while millions of people are under curfew across the country the u. S. Justice department has filed a competition lawsuit against google saying it may need to be broken up the claim alleges the tech company uses its market power to preserve a monopoly over Search Engines and advertising the company says the suit is deeply flawed the fiance of murder journalist jim outhustled jay is suing the Saudi Crown Prince the civil lawsuit was filed in the u. S. It accuses mohammed bin sound man of ordering close reduced killing he was murdered inside the saudi consulate in the stumble in 2018. I ask the United States government. And the nation that has to for justice accountability and human rights. I asked that you see me and all those who love him out and say we will support your affords to fully and cowher the truth and ensure that those responsible are fond liable in a court of law or Hong Kong Airline cafe pacific is cutting their quarter of
Hello. Im a columnist. The Washington Post and i write about politics and i want to thank you for joining us for our conversation with senator Amy Klobuchar. A member of the Senate Commerce committee and specifically the subcommittee that deals with manufacturing we are testing our technical capabilities here because she is joining us from a car in wisconsin where she is traveling with herin fellow senator and plenty of swing states this year. Yes, i am in the car and im parked so there wont be like a moving background behind me but yes we are doing an event for Vice President joe biden but im excited to be here today because there can be nothing more important besides moving the country forward and focusing on jobs in the economy and in a big way that includes manufacturing. We are here to talk about manufacturing but it also feels like weve had ten years worth of news in the last ten days so ive got to ask you how do you see the state of the president ial race right now and what are
3 years ago this week you and i met tom hartman pass me the baton and i became your big picture host and on that very 1st show we asked are we really that angry our guests were Steve Malzberg now your outspoken in the press host here on r t america and Michael Harrison publisher of talkers magazine the trade publication of talk radio and podcasters and bloggers and michael himself is a talker he hosts the Michael Harrison rap f. M. In washington d. C. And other stations across the usa and as we conduct. This conversation i want to define terms in this context when we say talk radio were talking about the format caricature were not talking about public radio were not talking about sports talk were not talking about our pal dave grave line who comes on once in a while who talks tech on radio the ask the expert show were talking about political talk radio and michael that said is talk radio 1st and foremost entertainment. What a question it depends on the mood of the host and it depends o
Before the curfew in lagos we also heard from the military saying that they are going to conduct a military exercise although they insisted it has nothing to do with the ongoing protests the military has issued a statement that its forces one of the involved in yesterdays operations but protest it said that they were Security Forces involved police and military or Paramilitary Organization at least 12 women have been killed in afghanistan in a stampede they gathered with thousands of other people in a stadium in jalalabad to apply for visas to pakistan the pakistani consulate started to reissue visas that can last week after a 7 month pause because of the coronavirus. United nations sponsored peace talks for libya a progressing in geneva acting u. N. Libya envoy Stephanie Williams says that shes confident theyll get a lasting cease fire. Once we have a unified executive where you have you know one ministry of defense one ministry of interior it will be important to continue to sustain