In the texas 32nd congressional district, the incumbent democrat faces this challenger. They rate this race likely democratic. Democratic. Just want to review the rules of it. They are fairly simple. Two minutes for Opening Statements from the candidates. Nd for questions there will be a 92nd response for each candidate and a 45 second rebuttal for each candidate. Any further response or followup will be up to me. There the timekeeping, will be about four boxes on the one of those will have questions for use in this debate. When the candidate gets down to about 15 seconds left in their answer, that box will turn yellow. It will time is up, turn red. We will also have one minute closing statements in reverse order of opening. So, in keeping with the agreement reached between the two candidates, the opening genevievewill go to collins. Ms. Collins good evening. Thank you for hosting us. Thank you to the congressman for joining me and being flexible. Thank you to all of you for tuning in.
Screen, and one of those will have the address where you can send questions for use in this debate. When the candidate gets down to about 15 seconds left in their answer, that box will turn yellow. In their answer, that box will turn yellow. It will time is up, turn red. We will also have one minute closing statements in reverse order of opening. So, in keeping with the agreement reached between the two candidates, the opening genevievewill go to collins. Ms. Collins good evening. Thank you for hosting us. Thank you to the congressman for joining me and being flexible. Thank you to all of you for tuning in. This has been a tough year for all of us and its time we come together. I am born and raised here in dallas. I went to school here. I had a business here. And i worked with every School District in the congressional district. I helped build my Family Business to over 300 employees serving 5 Million Students nationwide. My committee is focused on teaching kids how to read and how to
Serving 5 Million Students nationwide. My committee is focused on teaching kids how to read and how to close the achievement gap in schools. As your congresswoman, i am going to focus on jobs and getting us back to school quickly and safely, focusing on and fully funding and supporting our police. Hear my you will opponent talk about how bipartisan he is. In reality, he votes with nancy pelosi 100 of the time. He is an ineffective partyline politician who has passed zero bills in office. Tonight, you will hear him attempt to take credit for everyone elses work, including a myriad of health care policies. My opponent just two weeks ago, he voted to defund the police by 600 million. And he supports raising taxes on our Small Businesses. These are not texas values. These are d. C. Values. Colin allred believes the federal government knows what to do better for your life than you do. I disagree. Thank you. Opening statement from congressman colin allred. Rep. Allred thank you and thank im
Toluca had reported at least according to her and according to politico was trying to work with the Ukrainian Embassy in d. C. To trade information, to share leads of that sort of thing . I saw the article. I didnt have any further information about that. Did you see the article at the time or did you only come did that only come to your attention subsequently . It has certainly been brought to my attention subsequently. I think i did see something to that effect at the time. You are the ambassador in country at this point. Did you aim to get to the bottom of that . If the reporting is true if what was told, is accurate, that would be concerning, correct . Well, i was ambassador in ukraine starting in august 2016, and what youre describing, if true as you said, what youre describing took place in the United States. So if there were concerns about what he was doing, i think that wouldve been handled here. Do you know her . I doubly so. Have you ever met her . I dont think so. She works
I would say that all ambassadors deal with other countries including aspiring countries. Unusual to name u. S. Ambassador to the eu to be responsible for all aspects of ukraine. I will take your answer. Its still in his portfolio which was my question. A man of great integrity. One of our our most successful ambassadors. You would agree hes a man of great reputation. Right . Yes. Would it surprise you if an 2004 john kerry had a member of his campaign who was a Foreign Policy advisor, traveling to ukraine in july and met with ukrainian officials and the ukraine ambassador, with that surprise you . A member of john kerrys campaign for president of the United States in 2004 travel to ukraine met with the u. S. Ambassador in july. Not necessarily. If a member of the campaign traveled to the ukraine, would you have taken that meeting . I guess it would depend on what the purpose of the meeting was. That meeting actually occurred. It was with john holbrook. A private citizen. Went to went t