Jimmy carter focused on foreign and military issues. The debate is best remembered for president fords statement that there is no soviet domination of Eastern Europe. Good evening. Im Pauline Frederick of npr, moderator of this 2nd of the historic debates of the 1976 campaign between gerald r. Ford of michigan, republican candidate for president , and jimmy carter of georgia, democratic candidate for president. Thank you, president ford, and thank you, governor carter, for being with us tonight. This debate takes place before an audience in the palace of fine arts theater in san francisco. An estimated 100 million americans are watching on television as well. San francisco was the site of the signing of the United Nations charter, 31 years ago. Thus, it is an appropriate place to hold this debate, the subject of which is foreign and defense issues. The questioners tonight are max frankel, associate editor of the new york times, henry l. Trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent of the baltimo
Oall the urgency to have a safe and effective vaccine available and with those being developed with socalled warp speed interest and understanding the E Development process has never been greater. Weve got the experts both inside and out to help us do that. Let me briefly introduce our speakers today. The 24th commissioner of the food and Drug Administration and clinician having trained in both medical oncology and radiation oncology. Prior to joining he served as the chief medical executive is the university of texas and the anderson cancer center. Before that he chaired the department oncology at the university of Pennsylvania School of medicine. Twentyfirst commissioner of the fda before that founding Vice President and Senior Scientist at the Nuclear Threats initiative, a foundation dedicated to reducing Nuclear Chemical and biological threats. More recently the foreign secretary for the president and board chair of the association for the advancement of science. For the oped at th
This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of the internet are under attack, soon we will hear from the ceos of three of the most prominent internet platforms, facebook, google and twitter, with this is include mr. Jack dorsey of twitter, of alphabet inc. And mr. Marx a burger facebook. On october 1 this committee voted on a bipartisan and unanimous basis to approve the issuance of subpoenas after discussions among representatives of the companies witnesses agreed to attend it voluntarily and remotely the stronger agreement on both sides of the aisle t
Covid19 vaccine available and with those vaccines developed at socalled warp speed interest in understanding the process has never been greater. The fda inside and out, they have to do that. Let me briefly introduce our incredible speakers today. Dr. Stephen hahn is the 20 fourth administer of the fda, having trained in medical oncology and radiation oncology, prior to joining the fda served as chief medical executive at the university of texas cancer center. Before that he chaired the permit of radiation oncology at the university, and the alma mater. And the commission of the fda, before that was founding Vice President and Senior Scientist at the Nuclear Threat initiative, foundation dedicated to biological threats. Recently dr. Margaret hamburg was foreign secretary, at the American Association for advancement of science. She completed her services at the organization. Commissioners dr. Margaret hamburg and dr. Stephen hahn will be talking to clifton leaf who was guest editor of th
Eastern on cspans q a. Ceos of facebook, twitter and google appeared virtually at a Senate Commerce hitting Senate Commerce hearing. Republicans question whether the companies were censoring conservative viewpoints while democrats raised concerns about the spread of misinformation. Throughout the hearing, there were several references to section 230 of the committee occasions decency act, which shields social Media Companies from liability for content posted on their sites. This is three and a half hours. This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of t