News anchor your moderator for tonight and welcome to the 2020 North Carolina Gubernatorial Debate produced in association with the North Carolina association of broadcasters Educational Foundation and umc tv. We introduce the candidates tonight, the governor of North Carolina democrat roy cooper. And the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina republican dan forrest. And we should note the debate is happening of course during a critical time for the state, the covid pandemic. Many north carolinians have died of the virus. You will probably notice several precautions tonight inside of the studio to help ensure safety against covid19 including the fact theres no Live Audience tonight only the two candidates, the moderator and some studio technicians. In the last 12 hours, everybody in the building and in the studio tonight has tested negative. We quickly you want to review the rules of the debate and it will last for one hour. Then i will submit candidates and the radio Digital News Assoc
North carolina Gubernatorial Debate produced in association with the North Carolina association of broadcasters Educational Foundation and umc tv. We introduce the candidates tonight, the governor of North Carolina democrat roy cooper. And the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina republican dan we should note that this debate tonight is happening of course during a critical time for our state, the covid pandemic. Many North Carolina people have died of the virus. Many are ill. Our prayers go out to the families involved. In fact, you will probably notice several physical precautions tonight inside the studio to help ensure safety against covid19 spread, including the fact theres no Live Audience in the studio tonight. Only the two candidates, the moderator, and some studio technicians. And in fact, in just the last 12 hours, everybody in the building and in the studio tonight has tested negative for covid19. We quickly want to review the rules of the debate tonight. It will last one h
Party. Johnny is my given name. Thats a rhyme children used to scribble in their schoolbooks a long time ago, a time when the school was built, a time when we were proud of being educated. Through the years, weve lost some of that pride, taken our education for granted, and even grown the neglectful. All around us, things have been changing. We have gone from the one horse shade to the space satellite, and now schools have a lot to do with National Security and our survival. Now theres trouble. And we realize the trouble is with brains and training and technology. So, in 1957, a lot of americans began to take their schooling a little more seriously. This is a report on American Schools in 1957, what they did, what they didnt do. My name is alan edwards. Heres the man who is making this report, the United States commissioner of education, lawrence g. You know, americans are used to doing things in a big way. We have some pretty Huge Enterprises in this country. And one of the biggest of
The candidates need no introduction the republican candidate richard nixon, and the democratic candidate the candidate center john of kennedy. According to the rules set aside by the candidates himself. Each candidate will. In this the first discussion of a series of four join appearances, the subject matter has been agreed and is being restricted to internal or domestic american matters and now for the first open statement by john f. Kennedy in this election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln said the question was could this nation exist. In the election of 1916 with the world around us the question is whether world will exist whether it will move in the direction of freedom, and the direction of the road that we are taken or whether well move in the direction of slavery i think it will depend on what we do and here in the United States and the kind of strength that we maintain we still discuss tonight domestic issues. We want any implication to be given that this did not. Mr. Khrushchev is in
That mantle of governorship into his role as president. I also had the blessing to be the head of the Transition Team on the way out in 1992, and the Transition Team on the way in in 2000 before and after president clinton, also a former governor served and help the Transition Team for president bush in 2000. And again another governor. It was great to see these three education governors really make a difference in their National Leadership as president of the united states. And so really in that vein its an honor to be here today with Governor Hogan and to help facilitate the first conversation with the state of the state with some of our most innovative and prestigious governors, and governor, just an absolute honor to be with you today and to help walk through a conversation on your priorities and the things that are mattering most to you and to marylanders, and just to the benefit of living across the river from you so im able to watch from a close distance of your great work. I ju