The two candidates, donald trump and former Vice President joe biden. To spread their message and turn the tide to battleground states, this election is rather unusual. They are squelching the campaign trail in rallies. Then there is the Lincoln Project, Political Action committee by influential republicans including attorney george conway, New Hampshire gop chair jennifer horn, republican political strategist retailing, and john weaver and our guest here today, rick wilson and Steve Schmidt. Republican pack founded by a bunch of republicans doesnt sound that unusual but unlike traditional republican packs the Lincoln Project is spending millions to defeat the republican president ial candidate and his supporters in the senate. Wilson and Steve Schmidt will give us an update on the state of the 2020 raising the Lincoln Project, rick got his start as a political strategist in the 1988 president ial campaign of george w. Bush, provided Strategic Counsel to political candidates, National
President of the National Press club. Im the former general manager of cbs radio network, now journalist in residence at university of maryland global campus and executive producer of the cal report public broadcasting series, moderated by journalist, marvin cal. We thank you for joining us today for our virtual headliner event with renowned ethologist and environmentalist, dr. Jane goodall, who will share her thoughts on the state of our world during the covid19 pandemic, the ongoing threats caused by climate change, and other topics that ultimately affect us all. Were honored to welcome dr. Goodall back to the National Press club, as she joins us virtually today from her family home in england. Dr. Goodall, welcome. Dr. Goodall well, thank you so much for inviting me, and hello to anybody whos listening or looking, or whatever. Michael there are a lot of people listening and looking virtually, so thank you. Were pleased to accept questions from our audience, especially from our journ
First time we know who the fathers of the different infants are, because chimps are very promiscuous, and we could only guess before. But now, from fecal samples, we know exactly who was the father of hope. So the dna analysis has been tremendously helpful. I wish i could really answer that with more width, but thats one way we used it to our advantage. Michael ok, thank you. Another question from ken mellgren, for many years, the military, the medical community, and the space kroger mused the Space Program used primates for experiments. Has that ceased, or is there evidence that this is still going on . Dr. Goodall i dont think Space Research using primates is going on. I did learn a lot about what was happening, and it was horrendous and i think some people will remember the first chimp to go up into space was ham and he went up into space about the time i went to gombe, and something went wrong with his capsule and it crashed into the ocean it sank down day. But he was rescued. Emer
Video of the associated press. Thank you for joining us today for our virtual headliners newsmaker with rick wilson Steve Schmidt, cofounders of the lincoln product. We are happy to accept questions from our audience today and i will ask as many questions as time permits. To submit a question, email headliners at press. Org. We are 40 days away from election day. As in president ial campaigns past, the two candidates, President Donald Trump and democratic challenger, former Vice President joe biden are spending millions on advertising to spread their message and turned the tide in battleground states. This election is unusual, certainly the covid19 pandemic squelching the meet and greets. Then theres the Lincoln Project, a Political Action committee founded by several current informal influential republicans including attorney george conway, New Hampshire gop chair, jennifer warner, republican political strategist, mike madrid, ron and john and our guest here today, rick wilson Steve S
Opened at about 8 30 p. M. We will go live at the time. And as always on cspan movable be getting your reaction after the debate and ashes. All earlier today President Trump and first lady departed the white house for marine one including air force base and took air force one to the short flight to clean cleveland. Joe biden flew in from delaware among those traveling with him, the former Obama Administration point person on ebola. And hes been helping with the debate preparation and his sister valerie biden. That joining from the debate hall in cleveland is michael from the wall street journal. How have you been covering the president ial politics and debates. Ive been covering President Trump since hes been a candidate in 2015. In a cover him to the white house and my background uncovered congress a little bit before that and then State Government i was in ohio with state politics there and spent quite a bit of time in florida. Before coming to washington in 2013. Is electionyear hun