If you say no, the twoparty system is not working, your line is going to be 202 7488001. If you are unsure what you still want to talk about this issue, your number is going to be 202 7488002. You can alwaysd text us your opinion at 202 7488003. Keep in mind, we are always reading on social media, on. Witter, and cspan we are going to have live on the two current thirdParty Candidates running for president. Coming up at 8 00 we are going to hear from Green Party Candidate Howie Hawkins. Coming up at 9 15, the jorgensenn nominee jo will discuss her platform and strategy for this years election. If you want to hear directly from those candidates, keep watching the show. First, we want to hear from you about the twoparty system in the United States. Do you think the political system is working . There is a story from cnn that talked about this earlier this year. Even if they are down on the independent candidates being presented, nearly 40 of americans think a third local party is needed
You are running for president this year. Tell us the history of the green party, how has it changed since 1984, and what does the party look like today . Howie well we got started in 1984 after the german greens elected people to their 35 bundestag, their congress, and around the world people said maybe we should do that. So we met in 1984 in st. Paul, meeting wend said cannot build this out of the president ial run. We have to start in local politics, and we proceeded to do that for the next dozen years. In 1996, ralph nader let us use his name on ballots for president. He did not do an active campaign, but he got on 30 ballots, and then he ran an active ballot in 2000 and we were on over 40 ballots. That put us on the national spotlight. We have been here 35 years and we currently have 129 elected officials in local offices. It is one of the best kept secrets in american politics, that is more than any independent Progressive Party has had since you have to go back to the heyday of t
Tell us the history of the green party, how has it changed since 1984, and what does the party look like today . Guest we got started in 1984 after the german greens elected 19 people to their bundestag, their congress, and people around the world said maybe we in 1984 inhat we met st. Paul, minnesota and said, we cannot build this out of the president ial run. We have to start in local politics, and we proceeded to do that for the next dozen years. In 1996, ralph nader let us use his name on ballots for president. We got on over 30 ballots, and then he ran an active ballot in 2000 and we were on over 40 ballots. That put us on the national spotlight. Andave been here 35 years currently have 100 29 elected officials in local offices. It is one of the best kept secrets in american politics, more than any independent Progressive Party has. You have to go back to the heyday of the socialist party before the 1940s. What has changed as we have a lot of ballot lines running local candidate,
We have what we need. David it is said to be a radical change this week on the ability to test. What are we talking about and how many should we be testing in a given day or week . Max ideally thousands a day or tens of thousands a day. Given the fact that we had as many as six weeks of spread in washington and new states popping up with new cases. It is important to test as broadly as possible to catch and break the chains of transmission instead of letting them go on and on and people sitting waiting for tests. We can wrap up as much as we can, even if it means letting hospitals and labs coming up with their own tests. David . Ets go to Peggy Collins the big issue is the personal effect but also the economy. We had numbers out but a little wouldnd not as what you have thought. Peggy we are seeing manufacturing numbers coming in the most since 2009. That is the biggest things economists are looking out for. We came into 2020 with a global fragile, partly from the trade war. Now the co
David whatso unique about f35 . Marillyn it is the most advanced fhter in the world. David you were recently voted the 22nd most powerful woman in the entire world. Marillyn i get a note from my brother that said, well, why was oprah higher than you . Or sometng like that. David ok. Woman would you fix your tie, please . David well, people wouldnt recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Just leave it this way. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life ve being an interviewerthough i have a day job of running ir a private equity fm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David since youve been the ceo, the stock has gone up roughly 330 , the market capitalization is up ughly 280 . Another company that you compete with, general dynamics, has a female ceo as well, and their stock is up about 250 since she became [applause] the ceo. Thats phebe novakovic. Do you think t women can run