At 9 00 a. M. , headed tonights debate, university of missouris Mitchell Mckinney talks about the history of president ial debates. Host good morning, it is the washington journal for september 29 and your look looking at video at case western reserve theersity, that the site of first president ial debate between President Trump and joe biden. Cspans coverage of that event starts at 8 00. We want to hear from you in this first hour on when it comes to president ial debates, do they matter . Weathering helping you decide or perhaps hearing about candidates positions on policy issues. Heres how to call to let us know. If you support President Trump, 2027488000, if you support joe biden, 2027488001. If you are undecided or support others, it is 2027488002. If you want to text us, do so at 2027488003. cspanwj. Itter pollingeet journal to on president ial debates asking the questions on if they matter. Some of what they found saying more than 70 of americans say the debates wont matter much
Most people say they have already made up their mind and even big events like the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg have not led many to say whether they should change their votes so far. A couple of Opinion Pieces leading up to tonights event, on from the university of californias Mitchell Mckinney will join us later on this morning in the program. He says this, theres argument that the debates are not substantiated and present no new information area if thats the case it makes a compelling case for eliminating them but these accusations are not based on what debate viewers believe but on what political pundits think. Viewers want debatesand the numbers prove it. In 2016 two of the three planes and trump matchups set a viewership record with the first drawn about 84 Million Viewers and the largest viewing audience in the history of the televised debates that began with john f. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. Theres another viewpoint on the New York Times. Im not lo
Morning on the program. Argument thate the debates present no information, if that is true it makes a compelling case for eliminating that. These are not based on what debate viewers believe, but what political pundits think. Viewers want debate and the numbers prove it. Two of the three clinton trump matchups set alltime debate viewership records with the first drawing about 84 million viewers. The largest viewing audience in the history of the televised debates that began with jfk and Richard Nixon in 1960. Here is another viewpoint from the New York Times. Charles saying im not looking forward to the president making forward im not looking to the hype. We may learn things. And those things are worth learning. When it need a debate comes to policy and character. What will it tell us that we dont already know . The debate will show us how the candidates converse and clash and how they attack or recover. But none of this at this late stage should be a determinant. You can add your voic
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Welcome to another one of our exclusive event tonight featuring a Jeffrey Toobin bestselling author of true crimes and misdemeanors the investigation of donald trump. He will be discussing his book tonight with former u. S. Attorney Kent Alexander. Buster he joined Jeffrey Toobinn and the rank of offers of combustible readers with his book the suspect in olympic park bombing, the fbi, the media and richard tool the man caught in the middle. You are invited to be part of the conversation as well. Please type in your question at the bottom right of your screen and keyboard answer questions after hes finished with his. Before i turn it over i want to remind you about a couple of other events that we are involved in later this week. Wednesday 8 p. M. Hour Community Center of atlanta are presenting an event with kevin kwan with his latest novel and this friday at 7 p. M. , Pulitzer Prize winner will discuss her bestseller with another Pulitzer Prize winner jon meacham presented by the atlan