Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers, jim parsons, host of the amber ruffin show, comedian and writer amber ruffin author yaa gyasi featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening, im seth meyers, and this is late night. How is everybody doing tonight great to hear. Lets get to the news. Last night was the first and only Vice President ial debate between Kamala Harris and i think a dead Airline Pilot during last nights debate, Vice President mike pence frequently tried to interrupt senator Kamala Harris. Said the moderator, mr. Vice president , if it helps, just think of it as carrying her sentence to full term. After last nights debate, second lady karen pence did not wear a mask on stage when she greeted Vice President mike pence huh, usually when a karen refuses to wear a mask, its at trader joes President Trump released a video yesterday from outside the white house and started out saying, quote, hi, perhaps you recognize me its your favor
Declining. We saw a constructive things. Waiting for the eighth or ninth year of expansion is not a perfect strategy. There is an issue of wanting to do as much as we can to avoid exacerbating the longstanding inferences and get back to a Strong Economy or we can start making progress again, which is what we were doing in february. Senator smith as the fed chair and at the fed you have the mission of low unemployment and managing inflation. And this need to spur job growth. We said there is not been a big worry about inflation. What if the fed were to lower its target for employment, even under 3 . What impact might that have on addressing longterm needs for addressing inequality. Changeowell we made a in our operating framework which addresses that directly. We will have an estimate of the natural rate of unemployment. We will not act on that, even if unemployment goes below that, unless we see inflation or some other problematic thing that seems to be late to where our rates are. We
The committee on rules and administration will come to order, good morning i want to thank my colleagues for joining us today, i would like to welcome my nominees to todays hearing. Shana broussard, sean cooksey and Alan Dickerson are the president s nominees to be members of the federal elections commission, as our witnesses are joining us remotely, i also understand that their families and friends are watching today and so i welcome them as well. This is a big responsibility, is significant president ial nomination and significant to the work of this committee and i know youre proud, your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity. Let me say a little bit about the nominees and then ill turn to another Committee Member senator cruz to talk about the third nominee, Alan Dickerson is not the nominee to be a member of the federal Election Commission for a term expiring on april the 30th 2025 and he has been practicing law for 20 years primarily in the areas of First Am
In 1620, the mayflower traveled from plymouth england to america. And the pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony on the coast of massachusetts. We talked to robert stone about the virtual mayflower project, which uses Virtual Reality to recreate the ship and harbor from which they set sail using , avatars and 360degree images of the Virtual World, professor stone described what life might have been like for the pilgrims and crew. Some historic features we will port,e the 17thcentury plymouth castle, at a ship that was set to sail with the mayflower to america but was deemed on seaworthy and returned to port. Prof. Stone virtual 1620 has been a labor of love, to use Virtual Reality to bring up part of england, the west of the country, black to life. So people who live there can experience what is like for the pilgrims in their traumatic journey across the atlantic in 1620. What was the last thing they saw before they got on this leaky, creaky ship . And made their way out into the treache
Offensive on will be completed within a week. Plus italy was the 1st country in europe to be hit by the pandemic suffering one of the highest death tolls. Now the country is struggling to cope with the 2nd wave. Hello, im terry martin. Good to have you with us. The United States says its sharply reducing its troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. By mid january, the deployment will be cut to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country. President made a Campaign Promise to end what he called for ever wars, but the move has triggered opposition, both from leading republicans and nato allies. The sun could be setting on the us presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule, but suffering over 2000 deaths over time. Troop numbers have linked. Now outgoing president , donald trump will further reduce the number of soldiers here and in iraq. In light of these tremendous sacrifices and with great humi