Thank you, good to see you all. It is good to welcome friends from the cspan around the world and we have some stiff competition. But go gnats. It does not start until 8 00 00 pm. Get home and watch the game. Charlie cook made the ultimate sacrifice tonight. He has tickets to the game, gave them to his son so he could join us. [applause] thank you for that. John might have we have a couple exciting programs coming up. Senator Sherrod Brown joins us november 19th and susan rice, former National Security adviser on january 14th. No place for political junkies and the Cook Political Report, the editor, founder, publisher, they have been very good to the hill ctr. Charlie was here a few years ago. Jennifer duffy and david wasserman, have been here with us. In 2020, in the middle of it, a good time to have charlie cook back. My pleasure. What we talked about this evening. Something big has happened since then looming over the political landscape. The impeachment inquiry. What impact will th
Will try to get to everyones questions, but i apologize in advance if we dont have time to address yours. We are delighted to offer closed captioning for this event via zooms auto captioning service. To access captions simply click on the live transcripts option, which is also along the bottom of your screen. And now on to our event the candidate was young 28 years old a child of puerto rico the bronx and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress in bartender. She was completely unknown and taking on a 10term incumbent in a city famous for protecting its political institutions. Women like me arent supposed to run for Office Alexandria ocasiocortez said in a video launching her campaign. The camera following her along as she hastily pulled up her hair into a bun. But she did and perhaps the most stunning upset in recent memory. She won at 29. She was sworn in as the youngest member of the 116th congress and became the youngest woman to serve as representative in the United States
Want to make sure they put behind them and she is letting her campaign fight in her while she focuses on the things they want to communicate today. And i think theyre really trying to change the subject to women voters. They have a new ad up on the air, a minutelong ad, that talks about what donald trump has said over the years about women. Thats going into rotation today. Shell be introduced here by Alicia Machado, former Miss Universe who said donald trump called her miss piggy and miss housekeeping. I want to point out, also new from Campaign Officials talking to reporters on the plane on the way here, her campaign is going up on the air in a series of new states where they havent been up recently or in some cases at all. Virginia and colorado are two swing states that essentially b putting in their column, theyve been confident theyll have no problem winning in colorado and virginia, but theyre going back up on the air in sixfigure ad buys in both states in the final weeks. Theyll
In South Carolina, which is a state thats important for all 2020 Democratic Candidates but particularly for joe biden who will be placing a lot of emphasis in this state where hes been a known political figure for quite some time. In his pitch he reminded voters of the times he served with barack obama in the white house and take a listen as he once again tried to make this a campaign, a fight between himself and President Trump. You all know in your bones that this election is more important than any one youve ever been engaged in. We have a president who encourages white supremacy, encourages dictator and goes around the world weakening our alliances. And our children are watching. Theyre watching. It matters what president s say and do. Barack obama they watched and emulated. They wanted to be like him. [ cheers and applause ] four more years of donald trump will permanently change the character of this country. We cant let that happen. We have to beat donald trump as the overwhelmi
But turnout in the Czech Republic has had to be low voters care more about issues close to home than developments in brussels. And deal with us after a 30 year struggle taiwan becomes the 1st place in asia to legalize same sex marriage. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the Outgoing British Prime Minister theresa may says she will always regret failing to secure a deal for the u. K. To leave the European Union man now that she will resign on june 7th almost 3 years after the british voted to exit from the bloc she was unable to get a deeply divided parliament to back her withdrawal deal. I will shortly leave the job that is being the owner of my life to hold. The 2nd female Prime Minister but certainly not the last. I do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. And emotional and to a turbulent time at the top theresa may came to power promising in braggs a deal and spent over a year negotiating