Lehrer good evening from the university of miami Convocation Center in coral gables, florida. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to the first of the 2004 president ial debates between president george w. Bush, the republican nominee, and senator john kerry, the democratic nominee. These debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. Tonights will last 90 minutes, following detailed rules of engagement worked out by representatives of the candidates. I have agreed to enforce their rules on them. The umbrella topic is Foreign Policy and Homeland Security, but the specific subjects were chosen by me, the questions were composed by me, the candidates have not been told what they are, nor has anyone else. For each question there can only be a twominute response, a 90 second rebuttal and, at my discretion, a discussion extension of one minute. A green light will come on when 30 seconds remain in any given answer, yellow at 15, red at five seconds, and
Votes in the democrat running for a second term against Burgess Owens. Live coverage on cspan2. Tonight we will hear from the incumbent democratic congressman then mcadams and his republik and challenger, mr. Burgess owens. The safety of all involved in the debate process we are hearing the social distancing guidelines and there is no studio audience. The Debate Commission has established a format that allows each candidate one, two minutes for the initial reply to a question. I will then direct followup response to then questions. I will be taking questions from members of the news media, students from salt lake Unity College and from members of the viewing audience participating on social media. Prior to the debate a virtual coin toss determined that Burgess Owens will provide the initial response to the first question. We will alternate who answers first on the remaining questions. Lets get right to it. Mr. Owens, welcome. Good to see you. We wanted to, we wanted to let voters see s
Good evening mister president saturday carry. First president goes to senator kennedy. You have two minutes. Do you believe you can do a better job than president bush and preventing another 9 11 terrorist attack on the United States . Yes i do. But before i answer further let me thank you for moderating, i want to thank the university of miami for hosting us and i know the president will join me in welcoming all of florida for all of this debate. Youve been through the roughest weeks it anyone can imagine, our hearts go out to you and we admire your pluck and perseverance. I can make american safer than president bushes made say made us, and i believe president bush and i both love our country equally, but we just have a different set of evictions convictions on how you make america safe. I believe america is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and leading strong alliances. Ill never give a veto to any country over our security but i also know how to lead those alliance
And been saulengo, coverage begins on cspan2 at 7 00 pm eastern. All 435 house seats are up for election in november. The current the political report only 90 one of those races are competitive. One of them is the utah fourth Congressional District were incumbent presented been mc adams, the only the credit member of congress is seeking reelection. He participated in a debate against his opponent burgess owens. Live from downtown Salt Lake City, the utah the they Commission Welcomes you to the fourth Congressional District candidates debate. Good evening. Im doug wilkes, editor of the deseret news. I moderate tonights debate at the invitation of the Utah Debate Commission, this event held live on october 12th is part of the Utah Debate Commissions work to educate voters and encourage Civil Exchange of ideas. If you are watching or listening live we encourage your reaction and questions on social media using the hashtag use he debate and listen learn vote. Live from Salt Lake City, utah
Crisis and a no longer prohibited from trading in arms e. U. Embargo on iran expires despite major opposition from the us. Thank you for joining us a new cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan is now in place the humanitarian jews came into force several hours ago after an attack on the as eerie city of ganja which killed at least 600 civilians its a 2nd attempt to stop nearly 3 weeks of violence theyve been fighting over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh just a week ago they agreed to a russian mediated ceasefire but it failed to hold aljazeera has been as smith is in armenias capital year of ott. This information about the nature is has come from the armenian side it is the armenians that have been pushing for a cease fire in the last few days is the armenians that have been losing territories of is areas is areas have taken now we understand territory that is essentially in the buffer zone between the go on or care about. This is territory that armenia has controlled since t