Democrats and republicans are vying to replace him. Tv nine and the gazette, this is the iu second Congressional District debate, your voice, your vote. Welcome to the second congressional debate here in cedar rapids. This is the first of a twopart debate. We are also partnering with the gazette and quad city times. Is october 15. We will focus on different topics. We have plenty to work our way through the next hour. Lynch,ined by james longtime political reporter with the gazette. We are moderators tonight. Because of the pandemic, we are without an audience. We are trying to keep socially distance with the candidates. Now its time to meet our candidates. Rita hart is a former teacher and served as an iowa state senator for six years, covering clinton and scott counties. On the right, republican marion , current state senator. Thank you both for joining us tonight. We appreciate it. You get to lead us off. For 60 seconds, talk about why you are the best choice for this seat in congre
Of their choice, including abortion, Voting Rights, the Affordable Care act, and religious liberty. [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. Cleanup well. You look good. The game plan for today is to do our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge barrett and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. We will not get it done today, but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had
Usually what happens james they get here they talked to the detectives get briefed and then come over to our location and then talk to us as soon as that person does will try to carry that live for you as it happens. But it was locked down for quite some time. But traffic is being allowed now this is on 7th and i can see cars moving in my direction and we can actually move the camera over here. This was not allowed james earlier in the morning. But now you can see traffic at least moving on 7th street back to you. All right so things are changing will. Thank you very much for the update. At 9 oh one lets get an update on the weather weve got john trouble in the Weather Center with a closer look at that jump. Air quality today pretty much the same as it was over the weekend with moderate conditions for portions of the north bay east bay in San Francisco. Good for the south bay, though if you head inland, do expect poor air quality out towards the Sierra Nevada as for temperatures today
Uncertainty about where fiscal stimulus is going to go in the future. The major stock averages are all coming off their 3rd consecutive losing week the u k apparently reported considering another National Lockdown to try to stop an increase in coronavirus cases there so that could rattle the Global Markets annalee here weve got negotiations for a second stimulus bill kind of complicated now with the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. So thats also sending shock waves through wall street tech shares which had been riding high are all getting hit hard today, Apple Microsoft amazon all off by at least one percent and then if youve been following the latest with shares of an electric car and Truck Company is thought to be a major competitor to tesla well we have news this morning that trevor milton, its founder is voluntarily stepping down now as executive chairman and its board member as we have the department of justice and the sec. Apparently questioning some of the c
Has, like many women and men of color, done very well in america through a mixture of talent, hard work and an iron determination to seize opportunity when it comes knocking. Instead of spending time obsessing about races and identity, what we should be doing is examining senator harris for what she is. Someone who could very well be the next president of the united states. In very short order. Finish and what her selection might mean for a possible biden administration. Well, the media, of course, have have already decided, surprisingly enough, that senator harris is some kind of save your come down among us. Savior. Political warrior, screamed one of the headlines on on the front page of the New York Times. Safe but energizing was another. The leaders all said that she is a, quoteunquote, pragmatic e moderate, she will reassure voters that the Democratic Party is not hostage to all those radical extremists who are supposedly peacefully protesting. But a closer look at the senators re