Nominee. applause for the next 90 minutes we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i can ask this evening, and the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to gov. Dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable Death Penalty for he killer . No, i dont, bernard. And i think you know that ive opposed the Death Penalty during all of my life. I dont see any evidence that its a deterrent, and i think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. Weve done so in my own state. And its one of the reasons why we have had the biggest drop in crime of any industrial state in america; why we have the lowest murder rate of any industrial state in america. But we have work to
The merchandise. This is chriss book. As soon as were finished go get a copy one way or another. I watched the gestation of this book. I remembersh a powerful lecture that christa gave two years ago in aspen where we are virtually, talking about the need for defense modernization. It was a startling wakeup call. I ate it writing a column about it. It began a conversation with chris that was part of his effort to develop this book and the arguments in it. So i want to ask chris take us all on the journey has been on and yet shared some with over the years. The book starts if you have read it yet with a really chilling account of whatth would happen n the first hours and days of a war with china and our maybe thats a good place to start explaining to people why we have a problem with it comes to defense technology. Thank you, david. I preshould you taking the time to do this and appreciate your friendship, guides throughout the sole process. Its been invaluable to me. The story begins fo
Potential conflicts. This is 50 minutes. I want you to soon as you finish, to get a copy, i watched the gestation of this book, and i remember a powerful lecture that chris game, talking about the need for defense monetization, it was a startling wakeup call, i wrote a column about it. It began a conversation with of hishat was part efforts to develop this book and the arguments in it. I want to ask chris to take us all on the journey he has been on, and he shared some with me over the years. The book starts with a chilling account of what would happen in the first hours and days of a war with china in and maybe that is a good place to start explaining to people why we have a problem when it comes to the current technology. Chris thank you, i appreciate the time to do this and your friendship and guidance, it has been invaluable. The story begins fermi me in the time that i spent on the Armed Service committee for the better part of the decade, supporting this of the committee and sena
The white house is still there. I think about the wonderful times we had. And 40 miles a week which is a lot. Thinking about the good times that we had and how thankful i am now to have the superb bipartisan support existed in the seventies. Is there republican in the congress or senate that you enjoyed working with that you became friends with . Howard baker from tennessee was a minority leader and was a great personal friend of mine i got wonderful cooperation from the republican side and a minority leader the house of representatives also a great supporter of mine so during the last couple of years i was in the white house so they took away a lot of very liberal democrats with a moderate and conservative democrats and republicans. What about sam nunn . That is very important. He was a young senator then and was my floor leader on some of the key issues applied to nuclear power. He was very knowledgeable about it and working his way up to be chairman later on of the Defense Committee
And i ended up writing a column about it. It began a conversation with chris that was part of his effort to develop this book and the arguments in it. Want to ask chris to take us all on a journey he has been on. He has shared some with me over the years. The book starts with a really chilling account of what would happen in the first hours and days of a war with china. Maybe that is a good place to people whyaining to we have a problem when it comes to technology. Chris thank you, david. I appreciate your friendship and guidance throughout this whole process. It has been invaluable. With the timens is spent on the Senate Armed Services committee, the better part of a decade supporting the committee and senator mccain, looking closely at the u. S. Military, how we were investing money and werent investing money and ultimately, how we match up against emerging great power competitors, first and foremost china. The reason i wrote the book was a concern i had then add have now that we are