Lesnar. Welcome. Thank you so much for having me. Tonights questions will come from our panel of journalists at the Health Reporter policy reporter and the morning news anchor. Before we begin lets review tonights rules. Each candidate has one minute for Opening Statements and two minutes for closing statements. Each question warrants a 92nd answer of 62nd rebuttal from of the other two candidates and a 32nd response from the original candidate as needed we drew the order for Opening Statements before tonights broadcast the lt. Col. Bangs, the first Opening Statement goes to you. Hello friends, first i want to think south dakota public broadcasting for organizing this event. I am a retired Lieutenant Colonel a 26 year veteran of the u. S. Navy and air force. Im a husband, father, teacher with experience at the air force academy, the nato school in germany and where i live. Im running for the u. S. Senate because i am fed up with the hyper partisanship and the crippling dysfunction of o
And you see damage, but it does not do justice until you are on the ground and you see utility pole sawed in half, massive power lines everywhere, massive amounts of debris. It is a significant effort, but our view is we must do it as soon as possible. Charlotte estimates School Restoration very soon. We have been looking at 375 internet devices that elon musk provided. They reposition satellites, and we now have internet at all the pods and eocs in key places. Also throughout the community. Our department of transportation has cleared 5000 miles of roadway. When it was severed from the mainland, we went out and met with those folks on friday of last week, and what they said was we need to get back and forth from the island. Is there anything we can do with Ferry Service or bridge. Talk with the department of transportation, we said we could restore and provided temporary bridge. We did that, and it opened today. Pine island is now restored to the mainland. There was some talk that the
It is funny. You have a crazy group. Tell me the people who are on your show. Were drunk, just like you guys. I dont remember their names. I love this group of people. You guys have figured it out. You are genius we have a lot of beautiful women. Selena gomez comes in every day. You get some good guests who comes in to see you . Theres michael buble. Weve had you on, hoda. Yes, you have. There i am. Look at me. Im so saucy. Nicki minaj. Youre very fancy. You came on a Television Show today to be with me and youre not wearing the typical outfits that we like seeing you in with the hawaiian shirts and crazy shorts. What happened . I dont want to be the typical radio guy that wears hawaiian shirts and bowling shirts. Getting here is a mess. It is so hot. New york city is sweltering. What happened here . Underboob sweat. Can you talk about that . No i think im dry. Its see hot, half the country is under a severe, severe heat wave right now. Under boob sweat is our number one enemy. Here we
Want to open up Public Sector procurement to private organizations, there are going to be occasions of confidentiality. I am not sure about extending f. O. I. Further. Id rather i mean, i think transparency on the way in is better than endless information requests on the way out. But ill have a look at those. Before you commit yourself to doing less than you do now, it is quite common now for purchases making contracts to ensure that they can gain access to the information they are required under the freedom of information requests because their contract with the supplier allows them to do so. Right. We are beginning to find issues like the services, g. P. Services in cornwell, it was a whistleblower, it was found there were 250 occasions where the contractor lied about what he was providing. The issue around the work program that we spent some time on where there was it was very difficult to say what was what level fraud or inaccuracy meant that the provider was not fit for purpose. I
You got that. Anything. So rachel, joe biden because hes not a president ial candidate today, he was not at that forum that joy reid comoderated with the president ial candidates, and that means he was not one of the men who was asked why women of color should vote for him. Joy reid will join us later in this hour with a lot of highlights from her forum today, which was really fascinating watch. It was stunning. An interesting turning of the tables in so many ways. Its a fascinating thing for Democratic Politics and democrats coming to terms with their electorate and the needs of their electorate and who they are and who had he need to stand for. As a political event, it was astonishing and the tape was amazing. I hope theres a lot more of them coming. We have so much news to cover tonight and we are lucky tonight to have pro iffer Laurence Tribe with us, Harvard Law Schools constitutional law professor on a night when the president invoked the Supreme Court. The president s belief tha