Including japan, cosponsored the draft. Obama seeks to help bring in the treaty to help bring in a World Without Nuclear Weapons. Our action today can give people everywhere a World Without Nuclear Weapons might actually be possible and that were going do everything responsible in our capacity to be able to make that day a reality. The resolution calls on countries to sign and ratify the ctbt as early as possible and refrain from conducting explosive nuclear tests. A provision to make the resolution legally binding was dropped due to opposition by china and russia, both permanent members of the council. The executive secretary of the comprehensive Test Ban Treaty organization spoke to nhk before the council held a vote. He said the new resolution will help the u. S. And china take concrete steps to ratify the agreement. Theyre talking about refraining from doing any nuclear test explosion or any other explosion. That is very important. I think that aspect could lead into consensus and
John, the stakes are hifor Hillary Clinton and donald trump. The question is what kind of impact this debate may have on those numbers . It can be big. This is the greatest democracy of the world. 90 minutes, unscripted. Not rigged. When the chaur ought president ial debates says our colleagues answers those questions. Thats legit. So what weve seen is a lot of debate in the past over whether or not debates move numbers. Sometimes they move them a while. In 2000, we had one critical example of debates between al gore then the Vice President and Texas Governor george wind chill bush. Al gore was 8 points up. Going into that first debate he was down by four points when they were over. We remember from the primary debates, how much the crowd played into Donald Trumps whole presentation. Who will be in the audience tonight . Well, in terms of the boldfaced names, mark cuban is here, we know that for Hillary Clinton. When it comes to donald trump, bobby knight the famed basketball coach, do
Caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] lester holt good evening from Hofstra University in hempstead, new york. Im lester holt, anchor of nbc nightly news. I want to welcome you to the first president ial debate. The participants tonight are donald trump and hillary clinton. This debate is sponsored by the commission on president ial debates, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. The commission drafted tonights format, and the rules have been agreed to by the campaigns. The 90minute debate is divided into six segments, each 15 minutes long. Well explore three topic areas tonight achieving prosperity, americas direction, and securing america. At the start of each segment, i will ask the same leadoff question to both candidates, and they will each have up to two minutes to respond. From that point until the end of the segment, well have an open discussion. The commission or the campaigns. The questions are mine and have not been shared with the commission or the campaigns. The
Gamesmanship from both campaigns this is it, were literally minutes way from the start of the first and all important president ial debate on a stage behind us. Weve already seen the candidates tonight Hillary Clinton and donald trump arriving here a bit earlier this evening. Theyre waiting backstage. And chuck, weve had a moment tonight. Yeah. President bill clinton is in the house. And met mrs. Melania trump. They just shared that handshake. Weve got the whole families assembled here. We do. And i think one thing we ought to remember as big of personalities that they are, we know this is going to be a clash of big personalities, this is also a clash of two competing visions of america. Hillary clinton embracing the many cultural changes, diversity, acceleration of globalization thats happening. Donald trump embracing a vision that says whoa, lets slow down, lets slow things down, lets look inward a little bit. Lets not let that get lost tonight. Lets bring in our colleague tom brokaw
Race ever. So much on the line these next 90 minutes. So many of our fellow citizens tuning in. 100 million, maybe more. Taking the measure of Hillary Clinton and donald trump. It promises to be the most watched political showdown in american history. As the candidates take that stage tonight, the latest National Polls show them locked in a dead heat. Trump winning big with men and white voters. Clinton strong with women, latino and black voters. Jon karl is in the hall tonight, and jon, political scientists debate how much these debates really matter. This race, so close right now, so unusual, its hard to imagine it wont. George, not since john f. Kennedy and Richard Nixon took the stage in the very first president ial debate has the anticipation been so high or the expected audience so large. These candidates will face off for the first time, the first time they have been face to wedding, more than a decade ago. Hillary clinton has been intensely preparing for weeks. I know that dona