Good evening from the clerk Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts and boston. Im jim of the news hour of pbs and i welcome you to the first of three 90 minute debates between the democratic candidate for Vice President , president , are gore and the democratic candidate traditionally bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to buy the commission and the campaigns. Tonight well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes, rebuttals are limited to one minute. As moderator i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular given take it another three and a half minutes. But even then those who go answer can exceed to minutes. The candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements and each candidate may have up to timmins for closing statement. The questions and the subjects were ch
To discuss these topics and more im joined by my guest george samueli in budapest he is an author and a you tuber abacab goal and here in moscow were joined by Dimitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project hi gentlemen crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it well lets go to george in budapest 1st well george this is the last time well be doing this format before the election here and i think for me since this programming cross talk in general focuses a lot on the media you know irrespective of the outcome on tuesday then the media really acquitted themselves into the deplorable way this election cycle because we have at the very very end and im not saying you know we like this october surprise of the hunter by laptop i mean lets just put that aside here it is a news story and the media for a lot for the most part there are some exceptions but for the most part refused to recognize this
Lets just put that aside here it is a news story and the media for the law for the most part there are some exceptions but for the most part refused to recognize this is a fact that it is important for people to make decisions about their political future they talk a lot about outside meddling its the media is meddling in this election george yes youre absolutely right. That in pot they have been intimidated by the Clinton Campaign and by the democrats since 26 theyve so theyve been accused of having publicized the disclosures the wiki leaks and thus helping. Trump when and at worst helping the kremlin so just to be you know bad to the media i think they theyve been scared of touching this because again they think of trump wins then they will be. Blamed for this picture but that doesnt excuse their refusal to investigate something that is clearly news with because here we have the man who presumably or piece of going to the polls will be the next president of the United States was usin
President of the United States was using his name to enrich his family and he was his family was in business with some very dicey people helping the Chinese Government which after all but its going to be one of the big issues of the coming decades america goes. Rivalry competition whatever with china and here is this man was going to be the president who is really seems to be batting for the other team hes helping the Chinese Government to infiltrate itself within American Life through bidens family that is a very very big deal and for the media just to ignore it is simply a serious dereliction of duty you know game in essential what they have done is they have suspended their professionalism. Little they had of it and they suspended common sense and any sense of ethical behavior in it shows their partisanship i mean theyve shown their colors to everyone here they dont want to look into a real story because the russia gate hoax was a hoax ok this has parenthetic evidence ok so theyre s
Campaign and by the democrats since 2016 so theyve been accused of having publicized the disclosures the wiki leaks and thus helping. Trump win and at worst helping the kremlin so just to be you know fair to the media i think they theyve been scared of touching this because again they think of trump wins then they will be blamed for this victory but that doesnt excuse their refusal to invest in something that is clearly news because here we have the man who presumably or piece of going into the polls will be the next president of the United States was using his name to enrich his family and he was his family was in business with some very dicey people helping the Chinese Government. Which after all but its going to be one of the big issues of the coming decades america. Rivalry competition whatever with china and here is this man was going to be the president who is really seems to be batting for the other team hes helping the Chinese Government to infiltrate itself within American Lif