And that we need to take back our government from the big money that controls it and put it back on our side again. Fraverageely, both Political Parties are just beholden to big money. Harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell have given us probably the most dysfunctional got in a generation and they need to step aside. I would like to chalingeng mike tonight to not vote for Mitch Mcconnell if he is elected because i believe they have both failed this country greatly and it is time for us to find some new leadership. The people of south dakota deserve more than bids as usual. Out of time. Im not one of them. Thank you, sir. Mr. Pressler. Its your opportunity for an opening statement. Im senator larry pressler, independent candidate for the United States senate. I run as an independent to end the poisonous dispute between republicans and democrats. South dakota needs a powerful senator. And as an independent i could bring back my seniority to the United States senate. I have served three terms in
Welcome to the candidates. They are senator Mary Landrieu him a congressman bill cassidy, and colonel rob maness. Each candidate has one minute to respond to questions with a oflowup and some discretion the moderator. The order of the questioning was predetermined by random drawing. We will introduce our panel of questioners as we go along beginning with great meriwether. Good evening. Americans are worried about the threat from isis. Would you support american troops on the ground in the middle east . Thank you for that question, and thank you for moderating. Thank you for showing up again. It is good to see you facing the voters finally for this hour. We look forward to talking about your record. I believe that isis is a very serious threat, and i believe that we have to do everything we can to eliminate that threat. Now to workstrikes with our partners to take out that threat. I would be open to other measures if necessary to do that and to make sure that we are as firm as we can be
Exemptions. I see some exemptions that are clearly explained in terms of we understand under the case law. I would disagree with your assessment of the grandfathering exemptions. The regulation itself says it is a right and its a definite. Your case hinges on how we construe the grandfathering . Not necessarily. The other exemptions have about be taken into account as well. Weve gone through them. Have i missed some . No, that is the point. Well, theyre insignificant. Corporations you cant argue that as a basis. That is why were here because we dont qualify for any of the exemptions. Were saying rifra requires we begin an exemption because of those other exemptions. We dont pretend were a religious corporation. We have say the exercise of religion is not necessarily limited to people in the quote, unquote, religion business. Anymore than in the bill lotty case, the Supreme Court rejected this approach that freedom of speech for corporations for corporations in the speech business. I fr
Workplace that faces a key Senate Procedural vote today. We will hear your thoughts on the employment nondiscrimination act and what you think it means when it comes to Public Opinion on gay rights in america today. Give us a call with us ono catch up all your favorite social media pages. You can also email us. Good monday morning to you. I want to take you to the headline in todays wall street journal. Vote to procedural proceed to debate is happening today. Here is the story in todays new york times. We will be looking at more from that story later but heres the front page of todays arizona republic. Over to the concorde monitor, the hometown paper of senator kellyayotte. We are getting your opinion on the employment nondiscrimination act. Also the status of Public Opinion on gay rights in the United States, some comments are already coming in on our facebook agent morning. Our Facebook Page this morning. That is from facebook and we want to hear your comments, our phone lines are op
And then it would be the courts response ability and the courts ability to hold the government to account. To return toke former congresswoman harman and ms. Pell. The challenge of the authorization that authorizes secret activity, it almost seems like a contradiction. How do you address laws that we dont want to talk about in public . Democraticke a fully function and the government will fully comply, but how do you write about things that the government doesnt want to talk about . We can talk about the purpose of the program in the framework for the program. Certainly, i recall very specifically in the debate on the fisa amendments in 2008, that is what we did. Maybe members of congress for not paying much attention, but it was out there on the airwaves what the issues were. Certainly, the telephone metadata had been disclosed by the New York Times and then partially declassified by president bush in late 2005. There was conversation out there. Congress can do that and that should ha