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
Happening tonio and this is america as well where your businesses were quick to line up to get their hands on the Small Business loans from the federal government but the data released last week shows that the entire fund just came a free money for corrupt organizations and for the Friends Family and politicians. Will tell you about the businesses the took advantage of the p. P. The funds and also the City Council Members and other officials across the country have been found guilty of accepting bribes to pad their own pockets later in the show the house and Senate Unanimously approved a bill that eliminates the statute of limitations for child Sexual Assault giving survivors or seeking justice dont go anywhere americas war starts right now. Many businesses connected to lawmakers to queued sums of money from the p. P. P. Fund set up by congress and so did the Catholic Church and theres plenty of corruption to go around and were going to talk about of get fair and cousins from the trial
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Fund set up by congress and so did the Catholic Church and theres plenty of corruption to go around and were going to talk about of get fair and cousins from the trial lawyer magazine fare and i suppose the most agonizing thing about this to me with the Catholic Church taking in more than 3000000000. 00 ok more than 3000000000. 00 is because they brought it on themselves with that if they if theres another abuse scandal you know its never surprise you hear about it every day and i think theyve paid someone godley im almost 600 i mean the numbers are stuck 600000000. 00 and just in payoffs to people who have been victims of abuse and the others and what we want people running thats thats hundreds of 1000000. 00 so far just this year yes didnt want to yes and so then you know once the pandemic hit churches had to close down and so the Catholic Church sent its lobbyists to washington d. C. Something that. I didnt even know they had or that they needed but the Catholic Church puts their ar
These incidents to terrorism dont go anywhere americans were starts right now. Floodwaters in michigan last week and ended up maine galing with toxic chemicals from a dow Chemical Plant i have fair and cousins from drill our magazine to talk about it this is pretty disturbing article i mean if youre a resident or a farmer around that plant youre in big trouble right now but ill tell you the take on it was it was so odd to me the take on it was well the federal governments responsible no the federal governments not responsible for what happened here theyve allowed the infrastructure to fall apart and theyve allowed alchemical to do everything they wanted to do with their toxins in that Middle America that nobody to blame but them i really dont see anybody to blame but no right and this is a you know were suddenly dealing with this issue but these were failures that were set up for decades. As you mentioned the infrastructure the superfund site the dow chemical was running or or you know