Now, tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself, if i think there needs to be continuity and balance, and sometimes i might ask the candidates to respond to what another candidate may have said. Now, the format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that is restricted anything goes, we can ask anything. After the debate, the candidates will have an opportunity to make a closing statement. So, president bush, i think you said it earlier, lets get it on. Pres. Bush lets go. Ms. Simpson and i think the first question is over here. Yes, id like
Spence, kellyanne conway, and joni ernst. By keynote address was given mike pence. We will show you his comments now. Please welcome the Vice President of the United States, mike pence, accompanied by the second lady, karen pence. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting, four more years] vice pres. Pence good, america. To youn honor to speak tonight from the hallowed grounds of fort mchenry, the site of the very battle that inspired the words of our national anthem. Those words have inspired this land of heroes in every generation since. 6 yearson this site 20 ago when our young republic heroically withstood a ferocious naval bombardment from the most powerful empire on earth. They came to crush our revolution, to divide our nation , and to end the american experiment. The heroes who held this fort took their stand for life, liberty, freedom, and the american flag. And those ideals have to defined our nation. But they were hardly ever mentioned in last weeks Democratic National conventio
Odonnell tonight, making the case for four more years, the Vice President headlines night three. Good evening from the nations capi capitol. Im Norah Odonnell and welcome to cbs News Coverage of the Republican National convention. Vice president mike pence is the featured speaker. He will appear shortly from fort mchenry in maryland, and we expect the president to join him at some point. We also want to give you an update on some of the other brakes news at this hour. Hurricane laura is a category 4 storm expected to hit the texaslouisiana border with catastrophic force in the next few hours. In fact, the National Weather service is predicting an unsurvivable storm surge of up to 20 feet. Lawo want to update you, Law Enforcement is bracing for a fourth night of protest in kenosha, wisconsin, following the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Two people were shot and killed at a protest there last night. This teenager from out of town is under arrest, facing charges of intentional homicide.
So sure, you have to address it. Frankly, there are probably more people watching the Weather Channel tonight than watching the convention. David dont say that, rick, thats a little cold. The president ordered the National Guard, more National Guard today, and now the nba is suspending games and some major league suspended, too. Absolutely, and im curious to see how the campaign decides to address this tonight. And of course the Vice President is going to be speaking on law and order, and its going to be interesting to see how they thread this needle. Donald trump has been very critical of people kneeling for the pledge of allegiance. Needle,hey thread this and they want to keep the country safe, which is the argument they are going to make, and they want to be sensitive to people who are dealing with the scourge of Police Violence against africanamericans. And i need to correct myself, i said mr. Blake was dead, and hes not dead. He was paralyzed but he is in the hospital. Our best wi
[cheers and applause] [crowd chanting, four more years] good evening america. It is an honor to speak to you tonight from the hallowed grounds of fort mchenry. The site of the very battle that inspired the words of our national anthem. Those words have inspired this land of heroes in every generation since. It was on this site 206 years ago when our young republic heroically withstood a ferocious naval bombardment from the most powerful empire on earth. They came to crush our revolution, to divide our nation, and to end the american experiment. The heroes who held this fort took their stand for life, liberty, freedom, and the american flag. And those ideals have to defined our nation. But they were hardly ever mentioned in last weeks Democratic National convention. Instead, democrats spent four days attacking america. Joe biden said that we were living through a season of darkness, but as President Trump said, where joe biden sees american darkness, we see american greatness. [applause