President ial debates will open the doors and turn on the light and welcome viewers to the debate. A little after 9 00, the debate will begin. It begins a few minutes after 9 00 so the networks can introduce coverage. Cspans up at 10 30 and will get your calls and reaction. That is what is coming up tonight. Joining us is greta. What do you have . Greta lets start with a closer view. This is from the cspan twitter feed from yesterday set up at the university of utah. You can follow our coverage on twitter. Lee from the New York Times reported senator harris was prepping for tonight with hundreds of index cards and a mac a mock debate with pete pence andplaying mike an effort to lower expectations. The wall street journal reports that harris tried to lower expectations coming describing pence as a formidable bader. She says debate her. She says she will make this about leadership during the pandemic. That is what democrats plan to do. They plan to make it about all pandemic, all the tim
Ladies and gentlemen, could i ask you to take your seats please . The 2020 Vice President ial debate here at the university of utah. Im janet brown, executive director of the commission on president ial debates. We are delighted you are here. In the next few minutes, you are going to hear thanks that her own a lot of people for making tonight possible. We will also cover some housekeeping rules for this evenings debate, which start with please make sure your cell phones are turned off on all functions. Cannot make any noise, and please open your programs and take a look at some of the many people that we owe a huge debt of gratitude to for this evening. I would like to start with pentagram, which is of thoughtful which is responsible of the new book of s andommissions name cover. With ankle for the support of our work for years and the state of federal communications, which has just come on board this year. We thank you all. As we speak, there is a washington Filing Center being hosted
Junior, three writings and kenneth wallick. This marks their first joint on camera appearance ahead of the 20 general election. Studied thens have legendary douglas debates which were not president ial debates, but for eight u. S. Senate seat. The candidates met facetoface seven times that year, and the subsequent election was won by stephen douglas. Stage for set the abraham lincolns campaign for the presidency two years ago in 1860. 102 years after those debates on september 26 1960, at the cbs studios in chicago, senator john f. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon came together in the firstever general election president ial debate. A televised affair that changed the nature of politics. Strick kennedy and mr. Nixon debated four times in 1960 and john f. Kennedy went on to win the presidency by a slim margin. Looking back at the Campaign Years later, mr. Nixon said i should have remembered that a picture is worth a thousand words. Those debates were sponsored by the three Major
Issue. States have recognized the important evidencebased approaches to these assessments in assuring they are not done in isolation. In fact, it is very much with the family. Not just the family, the extended family, community representatives, stakeholders in the success of the changed outcome. As mr. Nyby mentioned, we need to professionally equip our staff with training on what evidencebased Research Assessment tools are. A key component of the efficacy is that the family is involved. In utah, i am happy to say we have taken a National Standard and created a utah family and child Assessment Tool that is insistently revisited as a tool for cases. When a parent says they could really use assessment in mental health, with a Substance Abuse disorder, it is consistently revisited. Perhaps the initial intervention is not successful, but still they seek change as a result. My concern in asking the question about caseworkers assessment and the tearing apart of families is that ultimately, w
Stores. Are we sick . Are all those people using the stores patients . [laughter] you are basically saying any place that produces products that grows marijuana is a store you can walk into and buy it. Thats not the same. The number of stores is far fewer. Problem isa, the they are looking at changing their law because people cannot access it. Colorado has set up the system. What we have seen is a dramatic migration away from the medical system. Medical sales have gone down. People are no longer bothering going through the process of getting a recommendation. Truly has ane significant medical need, they already can get a recommendation from a physician. They dont have to go out of their way. They have a doctor the already see. Ok . Mary were almost out of time. A quick political discussion of how this is playing for politicians in colorado, and more broadly, for 2016. We have to talk about that. Many republican candidates have said, look, im ok with this. It is constitutional. Its what