Uptotheminute news on election news every day at 1 00 p. M. Eastern and today i will be joined by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who is a i strong supporter of President Trump and in just one minute i will be joined by former attorney general eric holder who has been working on redistricting for years now with president obama and has been advocating for democratic nominee joe biden. Two great guest today but first i wanted to run through my notebook a little bit of the headline and i am paying attention to in these final days in florida and florida, florida your member in 2000 said that was a focus for that election and seems to be the focus once again for Vice President biden and President Trump in the tampa area today because they know the corridor vote is key and you also see Vice President biden going to Broward County and making sure black voters in voters are coming out strong and we talked to general holder about that and Voter Suppression issues in florida and across the so
I am robert costa of the Washington Post was welcome back to the postelection daily show. We launched this show just yesterday so you could have up to the minute news at 1 00 pm eastern. Im joined by Newt Gingrich who is a strong supporter of donald trump, and attorney general eric holder has been working on redistricting for years now with president obama, and advocating for democratic nominee joe biden. To to my network a bit of the headlines, paying attention to in the final days, and an that is the focus once again. And and going to broward county, i will talk to you about that and Voter Suppression issues, florida is in the 5 days to go, shows you it is in play. A new poll shows Vice President biden is ahead narrowly 51 with likely voters, donald trump is 47 of likely voted. That is in the pauls margin a. Pennsylvania, unrest, Deadly Police shooting of a black man in philadelphia, Vice President biden seized on the news in pennsylvania rising number of coronavirus cases, if you su
Craig smith. [applause] a pleasure to see you. Thank you for being here tonight. Nice to be back in lawrence. You have written for the most powerful people in the world. Tell us about your early life and more about how you get to be a president ial speechwriter. The way i became a president ial speechwriter could only happen in america. I was an undergraduate debater where i got a lot of training, how to sift evidence, how to build arguments. I then went on to Communication Studies where i focused on the ancients, cicero on oratory, then institute of oratory, all those things are incorporated in the speechwriting craft. I then became a professor of Communication Studies focusing on rhetoric and public address, wound out after starting at San Diego State at the university of virginia. I was at the university of virginia in 1976. I was invited to the university of North Carolina of chapel hill to give a guest lecturer at 10 00 in the morning. Turned out gerald ford was lecturing on the c
Your television provider. Announcer next, correct smith, the author of confessions of a president ial speechwriter. He discusses writing for president s ford and george h. W. Bush. He also evaluates the speaking styles of President Trump and the democratic president ial candidate. The robert dold institute of politics hosted this 50 minute event at the university of kansas. Tonights guest was a fulltime speechwriter for president gerald ford and a consulting writer to george h. W. Bush. Tonight he served as founding president of the freedom of Expression Foundation in washington, d. C. He has won numerous awards for his research, including an award for political communication. It is with pleasure that i welcome dr. Craig smith. Would you please welcome dr. Craig smith. [applause] you have written for some of the most powerful people in the world. Can you tell us a little bit about your early life and how you got to be a president ial speechwriter . Dr. Smith the way i became a presiden
Manufacturing data this morning. Weve got full Team Coverage of todays selloff bob pisani is covering the markets reaction to that weak manufacturing data Bertha Coombs is watching the movers at the nasdaq Rick Santelli is looking at todays action in the bond market lets check in, though, where we stand. We are down 281, the low of the session on the dow was down 347. A slight improvement in the last 30 or 40 minutes or so but a significant fall from where we opened up 129 points or so lets check in with steve grasso from Stuart Frankel whos joining for the full hour. Steve, what is this . Recession fears again or is it justified to see this slippage you know, its funny, you know, im tempted to just jump onboard and say its all recession fears. And then you have the first day of the month and then you have impeachment. And then you have trade. But definitely, this is recession fears, but i wouldnt read into it as much as Everyone Wants to you have the first day of the trading month, th