Welcome to this evenings here in nashville. I am janet brown, executive director of the commission on president ial debates. Over the next few minutes, you will hear ground rules for the and many expressions of gratitude to the people and organizations who got us here tonight. I would like to start with three of them, who are genuine champions of debate and true cpd, dr. To the robert fisher, the president of beaumont university. It served as a backup site in 2016. To make thised evening happen in spite of a lot of challenges 2020 has brought to this campus and all the others across the country. They dont come any better than bob and his colleagues. The second is nashvilles on martin slutsky. [applause] marty has been the cpds executive producer since 2000. 23rd debate. S we could never do this without marty. He is a treasure. Cochair, is our third scott writings, who is not here with us this evening. She has been in louisville, she isy at home, but here in spirit. She is an asset to t
Who have paychecks. People do not right now, which brings us to the second big issue, which is Unemployment Insurance benefits. A gut instinct is we will see two month extension of the current Unemployment Insurance booster payments such as 600 a week through september 1. The alternative is we cut it to 400 a week, but extended for a longer duration, say through year end. Referenced achin technical correction needing to be made. This is far from a technical correction. This is a deepseated issue of disagreement between democrats and republicans. I would say this is the biggest sticking point. The way it will get resolved it to throw money at the problem. To that end we have shifted up our expectations of the overall scale and scope of the bill. The last time we spoke i was expecting a 1. 5 trillion package. Now our base case is 1. 5 trillion to 2 trillion. The further that rises, the more generous the Unemployment Benefits will be. You can see potential spending directly on certain sec
Protesters turned into a mob. Rioters and arsonists left entire city blocks in ruins in some cases, barbaric in their attacks on people. In cities like rochester, new york, a man in white was savagely beaten for trying to stop a group of looters in a store under their apartment. And a dallas man trying to protect his neighborhood was beaten within an inch of his life by these socalled protesters and demonstrators. The man is stable, but police have made no arrests whatsoever. Nearly all of these ugly scenes of vicious mobs rioting unfolding in the streets and neighborhoods of democratic partyrun cities, democraticrun cities. And local Law Enforcement in nearly every one of those cities was apparently ordered to permit leftwing extremist groups including antifa run rampant to do as much damage as possible to property and injury to citizens and Law Enforcement alike as they chose. Where were those mayors, where are they now . And why arent citizens demanding these mayors, these city coun
Protesters turned into a mob. Rioters and arsonists left entire city blocks in ruins in some cases, barbaric in their attacks on people. In cities like rochester, new york, a man in white was savagely beaten for trying to stop a group of looters in a store under their apartment. And a dallas man trying to protect his neighborhood was beaten within an inch of his life by these socalled protesters and demonstrators. The man is stable, but police have made no arrests whatsoever. Nearly all of these ugly scenes of vicious mobs rioting unfolding in the streets and neighborhoods of democratic partyrun cities, democraticrun cities. And local Law Enforcement in nearly every one of those cities was apparently ordered to permit leftwing extremist groups including antifa run rampant to do as much damage as possible to property and injury to citizens and Law Enforcement alike as they chose. Where were those mayors, where are they now . And why arent citizens demanding these mayors, these city coun
Rioters and arsonists left entire city blocks in ruins in some cases, barbaric in their attacks on people. In cities like rochester, new york, a man in white was savagely beaten for trying to stop a group of looters in a store under their apartment. And a dallas man trying to protect his neighborhood was beaten within an inch of his life by these socalled protesters and demonstrators. The man is stable, but police have made no arrests whatsoever. Nearly all of these ugly scenes of vicious mobs rioting unfolding in the streets and neighborhoods of democratic partyrun cities, democraticrun cities. And local Law Enforcement in nearly every one of those cities was apparently ordered to permit leftwing extremist groups including antifa run rampant to do as much damage as possible to property and injury to citizens and Law Enforcement alike as they chose. Where were those mayors, where are they now . And why arent citizens demanding these mayors, these city council members, these Police Chie