Brought to you by nine news in association with colorado politics and broadcast statewide by every corner of colorado presented from the campus of Colorado State university. Race for the senate. Here are the moderators, kyle clark and marsha. Commercial three hour statewide for the u. S. Senate debate. We are following Public Health guidelines as well as the guidance from our hosts here at Colorado State university. So we are holding the debate without an audience with social distancing and health checks. That includes the candidates fr senate. Questions have been selected and politics. Com and the colorado havent been shared in advance with anyone. You as the voters deserve a debate filled with answers to clear questions and for the candidates to have an opportunity to speak without interrupting one another. We will have at least one to pose direct questions to one another. So, lets get started. Colorados covid19 hospitalizations are at the highest point since the initial wave of the
Opportunity and let me thank my colleague and their leader on the democratic side for his passionate personal commitment to this issue involving the dreamers and daca. He has been by my side and i have been inspired by his leadership from the start. Let me thank by colleagues. So many of you cast a vote that was very hard and very difficult because you believe decided that the muck greek the issue of immigration is a civil rights issue of our time. They said im willing to go on record even if its going to be hard to explain back home and i will never forget that. The question now is how we move forward. What i have seen here on the floor of the senate is in the last few days is something we have not seen for years, constructive bipartisan conversations and dialogue on the floor not just about this issue which is obviously front and center but about the future of this institution and what the senate will be from this point forward. That to me has been encouraging and it says to me that
Of the problems we dont have the same thing ten years from now and thats totally proper. So i do believe there is a compromise to be had. I do believe congress, we will work with our members to find it with a compromise is so that we can bring resolution to this very legitimate problem. Thank you. House democrats also held a briefing today. They talked about immigration policy and providing a path to citizenship for people who are undocumented will have temporary protected status. This is about 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. We wanted to be on the steps of the capitol, and we will do this again soon. We will do it constantly until we pass the dream act. Its an honor to be here with the senator vitter, chuck schumer, with a champion on this issue, with the chair of the hispanic caucus in the house, congresswoman Michelle Lujan grisham of new mexico, senator dick durbin who, for at least 15, 16 years is
Director of the Republican Party of texas discusses how texas became a republican stronghold over the past halfcentury next on book tv. Booktv. Its about an hour. Good morning. I am Michelle Easton of the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute and i want to welcome you all to the special lunch featuring Wayne Thorburn and his great new book called red state and inside story of the gop came to dominate texas. You may be wondering why he is the president of the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute introducing . It was almost 42 years ago when i came to washington, d. C. From new york after graduating from college and my first job was a Young Americans for freedom and my first boss was Wayne Thorburn. Rob who asked me to do the introduction, ron and i have been friends with wayne and his wife judith for decades and wane by the way was a very good first boss. He joined Young Americans for freedom as a College Student in 1961 and eventually rose to become executive director when i worked for him. A
[inaudible conversations] welcome everybody. Should i wait for you . Welcome everybody to its really great to have an opportunity to host regular botox by authors that write about topics that concern and culture and politics. Its especially good when the topic is the founder of the magazine and its a pleasure tonight to introduce the biographer of the biography of John Neuhaus Randy boyagoda. Randy is an accomplished novelist and his most recent novel beggars faced which is best described as great gatsby. Its a very good read and i thoroughly enjoyed it. Tonight sam taman house has agreed to interview randy and call out aspects of the biography so its my pleasure to welcome them both. [applause] am i good . I shouts i probably dont need one of those. Randy boyagoda you are novelist writing about john neuhaus. How did you get to this topic . And when did you choose and why . I started working on this book in some ways without even realizing it in 2009 so shortly after i wrote a profile