quayle defeated michael dukakis and lloyd bentsen, winning the popular vote 53% to 46%. this debate is a little over one hour is little over an hour and a half. woodruff: on behalf of the commission on presidential debates, i am pleased to welcome you to this vice presidential debate. i m judy woodruff of pbs macneil-lehrer news hour and frontline. my colleagues on the panel are: john margolis of the chicago tribune; tom brokaw of nbc news; and brit hume of abc news. the importance of tonight s debate is underscored by two facts. both george bush and michael dukakis said their selections of a running mate would reveal a lot about themselves. and based on the history since world war ii, there is almost a 50-50 chance that one of the two men here tonight will become president of the united states. the candidates are senator dan quayle, the republican nominee, and senator lloyd bentsen, the democratic nominee. [applause] woodruff: for the next 90 minutes we will be questionin
our website, c-span/history. the next president making appointments to the supreme court will be president donald trump. with hillary clinton white house, the rest of the world they have forget looked up to the united states of america. c-span continues with the vice presidential debate between governor mike pence and senator , beginning at 7:30 p.m. eastern with a preview of the debate. 8:30, the predebate briefing for the audience. at 9:00, live coverage of the debate followed by your reaction. the 2016 vice presidential debate. watch liveon c-span, and anytime on-demand at c-span.org, and listen live on the free c-span radio app. each week until the 2016 election, road to the white house rewind brings you coverage of past residential races. next, a vice presidential debate from 1980 between dan quayle and lloyd bentsen. questions from panelists. the republican ticket of incumbent vice president bush and dan quayle defeated democrats michael dukakis and lloyd bentsen
an office, we were sitting in the oval office. larry summers said, mr. president, looking at this year s budget you will have $1 trillion deficit. he said i have not done anything yet. we cannot keep looking our children in the i knowing that we are going to give them a diminished future because we are spending their money today. it is a very simple idea. mitt romney and i will bring it to washington. we have got to spend we have got to quit spending money we do not have it. we must cut spending. we must get the debt under control. next thursday night, paul ryan and joe biden will face off in their only debate. you can watch and engage with c- span with our live debate it previous starting at 7:00 followed by the debate at 9:00. your reaction, calls, and tweets. following our coverage at c- span, c-span radio, and c- span.org. sunday, an interview with ross perot by richadr wolf. he talks about the economy, the debt, and how it has changed since his campaign in 1992
it is not based on economic considerations, skills and knowledge. while we need to revitalize education for americans, we need to recognize the extent to which people are coming to america to learn we need to do what we need to do to keep them in america. this is our core problem. there trillions of connections in the brain called neurons. they start down at age 6 when they start public school. kids at a school soared like eagles, got college scholarships, they got wired. when you know this and you do not talk about it and do not do anything about it, this is another recipe for disaster. our public education system is just really got to be strained out. the teachers unions are primarily concerned about how much they make a year, and that is not where the concern has to be. it is making sure that children have the funds in education that are needed for education. we spend double per person to educate k through 12, double other nations. we do the same thing in health care.