About now . That is better. Thank you for coming i am told coowner of the city book stop im happy to have everyone here tonight is anybody here for the first time . One person. Welcome. We are very glad youre here normally we have half the crowd but this is very much a hometown crowd this evening. And i just want to say a heartfelt thank you for supporting so a few logistics first of all please silence your cell phone when i forget to say that i always regret it. Books are for sale upstairs if you have it purchased a book if you havent youll have time after the talk we will just do the sighting right here. So moving on to tonights event majority of you here know car also a very short and sweet bio. From the New York Times serving as a washington editor at the time his chief Congressional Correspondent for judicial confirmation and we will have time for audience questions after the talks to take advantage of this opportunity for all the inside information that you would like to get. Ple
[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Can everybody hear me okay . No. Its not on. How about now . Thats better. Okay. Thank you for coming. Im laurie gillman, coowner of east city book shop and im really happy to welcome everybody e everyone here tonight. Anyone the crowd who is here for the first time . One person. Welcome. Were very glad youre here. Normally we have at least half the crowd who is here for the first time but this is very much a hometown crowd this evening so i hope everybody buy behaves for you. Were happy to have repeat customers back and some of you we see in here often and i just want to aheartfelt thank you for toe everybody for supporting the book store. Before we get started a few logistics. First, please silence your cellphones. I forget when i forget to do that eye say that i always regret it so please do that. Ill do that, too. Okay. Books are for sale upstairs for anyone who missed that at the cash registers. He you havent purchased a book yet a
Into our world. Let there are so many families around the country who cant have children. Governor if we can approve the options governor, why cant you trust women to make the choices for themselves . We can encourage people to support life, but why dont you trust women . Why doesnt Donald Trump Trust women to make this choice for themselves . Thats what we ought to be doing in public life, living our lives of enthusiasm and excitement, convincing each other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day. But on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions. Because a society can be juedy how it deals with its most vulnerable. The aged, the infirm, the disabled, and the unborn. I believe it with all my heart. And i couldnt be more proud to be standing with a prolife candidate in donald trump. I do have one final question for you both tonight. Senator kaine, if your ticket wins, what specifically are you going to do to unify the countr
A heartbeat away from the presidency, the other will be the answer to a trivia question. Tonight, their one and only debate. Democrat kaine has the simpler task do no harm. But pence must try to arrest the Trump Campaigns slide after Donald Trumps debate performance and a bad week of selfinflicted wounds. Kaine is 58, in his first term as u. S. Senator from virginia. He ao mayor of richmond. Pence is 57. He is in his first term as governor of indiana. He gave up running for reelection to be trumps running mate. Pence served six terms in the u. S. House of representatives. The debate tonight is being held at Longwood University in farmville, virginia. The moderator is my colleague, Elaine Quijano, of our streaming news service, cbsn. And as soon as its over, were going to get Immediate Reaction cbs news political director and the anchor of face the nation, John Dickerson, is in farmville tonight. John. Scott, in a year where voters say they dont want politics as usual, we have two veter
Clinton with a small advantage over republican nominee donald trump. But the battleground states, including iowa will determine this race. Race. And although clinton currently leads in most battleground states, trump is now well ahead here in iowa. He has pulled ahead with a five point advantage in the hawkeye state. So does the undercard debate tonight have an impact on any of those numbers . Cbs 2 news political reporter and host of iowa in focus kevin barry joins us now in the newsroom with the instant reaction to off, kevin . Tonight mike pence and tim kaine are touching on everything from russia to Donald Trumps taxes to how trustworthy Hillary Clinton really is. Is. While donald trump came into the president ial race with plenty of reality tv fame and Hillary Clinton spent a lot of time talking about controversies with her email and benghzi both vp and mostly respected histories as covernors and in congress from their home states. In the hours before the debate they said they wan