Welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate of president , and Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate governor george w. Bush of texas, and lets welcome the candidates now. Hello. Hello, jim. Good to see you. Governor. Good to see you both. Nice to see you again. How are you all . Before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri along with his son and former chief of staff died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today, each of them wrote a question on a small card like this. Those cards were collected and then given to m
Slog, which we are in right now. Slog, that is a pretty good way stalling economic recovery. Pandemic fatigue setting in. It is hard to swallow. The worlds better with covid, such a long way to go. Today we saw the pressure put on as investors left without a new stimulus deal and see a spike in cases of covid. Joe, were going to be digging into this slog. Joe it sort of feels like today is the day that its really daunting on people. This is really real. There really is a surge here. If you want to call it a different way. Kind of besides the point whether it is in europe where we are seeing hospitalizations, deaths, and of course cases on the rise. Hospitals in the u. S. Starting to see strains again i capacity. Of course, this is a major theme of the spring surge. Utah hospital starting to prepare to ration care. Reports out of texas, wisconsin, elsewhere. It seems like today was a day a lot of this set in. A lot of opening trade having a bad day. Romaine it is interesting to bring up
Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
U. S. District 21. Good evening cared welcome to this your voice, your vote congressional debate. I am randy beamer with news 4 san antonio. We are doing this in partnership with San Antonio Chamber of commerce. Flock san Antonio Ryan Wolf is also here. Ryan we are live here and also live fuming the debate on our website. Randy we will be broadcasting for half an hour on tv. We will extend that on the web. Right now, we want to introduce you to the candidates. First in the studio, joining us live, is the incumbent for district 21, republican congressman chip roy. Ryan and we want to introduce, from austin tonight, democrat wendy davis. She is a former state senator who ran for governor. Both candidates were given the chance for an in studio appearance. Thetor davis opted to do debate remotely due to the pandemic. The district includes much of the hill country and part of san antonio stretching east up to parts of austin as well. Randy before we get to their questions, here is a quick w
You to the candidates. First in the studio, joining us live, is the incumbent for district 21, republican congressman chip roy. Ryan and we want to introduce, from austin tonight, democrat wendy davis. She is a former state senator who ran for governor. Both candidates were given the chance for an in studio appearance. Senator davis opted to do the debate remotely due to the pandemic. The district includes much of the hill country and part of san antonio stretching east up to parts of austin as well. Randy before we get to their questions, here is a quick word from our sponsors. Randy we want to share the rules for tonights debate that each of the candidates agreed to. Each of them get two minutes for opening remarks and two minutes for Closing Remarks. Ryan each candidate will have one minute to answer a question, then each get 30 seconds for the rebuttal. We have a timekeeper in studio, who will ring a bell when the time has expired. Randy and there was a coin toss earlier this week