[standing by for debate to begin] good evening and welcome to our incision maine 2020 u. S. Senate candidates debate. I am News Center Maines pat callahan, in the unique partnership we are working together with the Portland Press the Bangor Daily News to get you the answers you need to catch a ballot. This date falls on the 19th anniversary of the 9 11 terror attacks and we remember that heroes and honor the lives lost. It is also a day when americans feel more patriotic than they usually do. Part of our civic duty is to make informed choices on election day. For the next hour we are going to ask questions of the four candidates for mains u. S. Senate seat. The incumbent is republican Susan Collins seeking election to a fifth term. That challenger democrat from linnouse sara gideon max an independent and lisa savage also independent. Our goal is to shed light on important issues. The first round of questions will be addressed to each candidate and they will have one minute. Subsequent
And a sudden turn of events. A freshman republican with a documented history of publicly supporting dangerous and violent Conspiracy Theories refusing to back down when faced with her own words and also a Republican House conference that despite a dramatic meeting last night, that went late into last night, they have decided to do nothing to rebuke her and what she stands for. So today there will be a full house vote on a measure that will strip Marjorie Taylor greene of her committee assignments. A vote that will also force republicans to go on the record on where they stand when it comes to the Conspiracy Theories that led to the January 6th Insurrection on capitol and are being embraced by some of their own members, some of the new members. And as you could see in Marjorie Taylor greene. Well hear this house from the white house. Theyve taken a Firm Position they are not going to discuss Marjorie Taylor greene from the Briefing Room. But will the president s Press Secretary have a r
The u. K. Or ireland though its splitting stay with us. Im ashleigh returns and youre watching another lockdown edition of going underground a very special edition were joined by one of the great philosophers of our time professor cornell west he joins me now from princeton in new jersey cornell thanks so much for coming on last time i spoke to earlier in the week there was a hurricane shades of Climate Change then we had the catastrophe in beirut i mean what what 1st of all you. Know 1st i just was. There. Always thoughts when you heard about what happened in the middle east in beirut where normally. Youve often spoken about war crimes this its open to question what happened but what if what if you thought about the terrible images well a meaningless leak once again you trigger but just suffering place in the middle east people not really wanting to tell the truth about the reasons of power and empire in the middle east and were going to find out i hope you know whos responsible but i
Office get more moneys votes more money to make sure peoples votes get to location on time. What do you think . Do you support more money for the post office for mailin voting . We will open up special lines this morning. If you support calls to get the post office more money for mailin voting, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. More money for the u. S. Post office for mailin voting, your number is going to be guest . And is going to be 202 7488001. And we are opening up special line, u. S. Postal workers, if you work at a post office or for the Postal Service, we want to hear from you and what is going on in your location. Your number is going to be 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always text us at 202 7488003. You can always reach us on social media at twitter at cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Of the post office has been on the mind of americans for the past week or so. I will bring to you a story from the wall street journal, talking about these concerns. H
Meant in my life, and i mean an awareness of the importance of the occasion, and at the same time, a great prayer in my mind that i could meet the responsibilities. They said that your great strength was you had an agenda of the things you wanted to change. What were your goals . The country was in the economic doldrums. Doubledigit inflation, great unemployment. The economy stagnating. People in the country seemed to have lost belief in themselves and in the country. There was the matter of National Security, of on any given day, half of our military planes could not take off for lack of spare parts. Half of our naval vessels could not leave port for that or lack of crew. I determined we had to restore the economy and i had been asked many times campaigning if i went into the deficit problem, because we had been running we had been deficit spending for almost half a century with only a few years scattered here and there where there was not an annual deficit. I would be asked questions