Ifill im gwen eiffel. Woodruff welcome to this pbs newshour special coverage of the Vice President ial debate between republican mike pence and democrat tim kaine. The stage is said at longwood, university in farmville, virginia, with the level of anticipation pales in comparison to last weeks showdown between Hillary Clinton and donald trump there is still a lot on the line. Ifill there s. Its a chance for to introduce themselves to the nation but more important, to bolster the top of the respective ticket. Elaine quijano of cbs news will moderate. Joining us are regular contributors, syndicated columnist mark shields, from the Cook Political Report amy walter and Washington Post columnist mike it gerson. Welcome all. Here is the question of the night. Why does the Vice President ial debate matter . Michael gerson . Well, i think republicans need some good news after historic trouncing. Theres morale issue here. And they need a good night. Woodruff amy walter 124. I agree. They have t
Ifill im gwen eiffel. Woodruff welcome to this pbs newshour special coverage of the Vice President ial debate between republican mike pence and democrat tim kaine. The stage is said at longwood, university in farmville, virginia, with the level of anticipation pales in comparison to last weeks showdown between Hillary Clinton and donald trump there is still a lot on the line. Ifill there s. Its a chance for to introduce themselves to the nation but more important, to bolster the top of the respective ticket. Elaine quijano of cbs news will moderate. Joining us are regular contributors, syndicated columnist mark shields, from the Cook Political Report amy walter and Washington Post columnist mike it gerson. Welcome all. Here is the question of the night. Why does the Vice President ial debate matter . Michael gerson . Well, i think republicans need some good news after historic trouncing. Theres morale issue here. And they need a good night. Woodruff amy walter 124. I agree. They have t
Ifill im gwen eiffel. Woodruff welcome to this pbs newshour special coverage of the Vice President ial debate between republican mike pence and democrat tim kaine. The stage is said at longwood, university in farmville, virginia, with the level of anticipation pales in comparison to last weeks showdown between Hillary Clinton and donald trump there is still a lot on the line. Ifill there s. Its a chance for to introduce themselves to the nation but more important, to bolster the top of the respective ticket. Elaine quijano of cbs news will moderate. Joining us are regular contributors, syndicated columnist mark shields, from the Cook Political Report amy walter and Washington Post columnist mike it gerson. Welcome all. Here is the question of the night. Why does the Vice President ial debate matter . Michael gerson . Well, i think republicans need some good news after historic trouncing. Theres morale issue here. And they need a good night. Woodruff amy walter 124. I agree. They have t
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Ramadi the capital of iraqs Anbar Province. And lets go to cnns Senior International correspondent arwa damon in baghdad. Is isis being pushed back . Is isis losing ground . Those are two assertions that the white house was making last week to sort of cool down all of the secondguessing thats been taking place here in washington. What can you tell us from the ground there . Reporter first of all, one has to continuously keep in mind the battle lines here are constantly shifting and small chunks of territory do regularly go back and forth. Following the fall of ramadi a week ago, isis did push into other smaller towns located to the east of ramadi. Now, the Iraqi Government has managed to recapture some of them but not only on its own. You had a unit that was comprised of the iraqi army, plus, and was arguably the deciding factor in this, the Popular Mobilization units and that is this Iranianbacked Shia paramilitary force. And it was largely due to them that they were able to accomplis