Life. The image of Donald Trumps america today. In joe bidens america, you and your family will never be face. America has always been full of hope and resolve. Go and vote good morning, im Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer for the Washington Post. Welcome to first look, president ial 2020 debate, Washington Post live, one stop shop for news and and analysis from last nights president ial debate and what a debate it was. This morning, to kick things off, im joined by chief National Correspondent and veteran political reporter and editor, dan, thank you so much for being here. Im going to dispense with the opening questions that i had and im going to read the opening paragraph of your fantastic column in which you write no one alive has ever seen a president ial debate like the unseemly shout fest between President Trump and joe biden. It was an insult to the public as well and a sad example of the state of of american democracy five weeks before the election. Go on. [laughter] well, i
Washington post lives onestop shop for news and analysis from last nights president ial debate and what a debate it was. This morning to kick things off, im joined by veteran political report reporter dan bulls. Im going to read the opening paragraph in todays paper where you no one alive has seen a president ial debate like tuesdays night shout fest between President Trump and former Vice President biden. 90 minutes of interruptions and insults. It was an insult to the public as well and a sad example of the state of american democracy five weeks before the election. Go on. Well, i think we know what happened last night. The president of the United States decided to come here and try to destroy the format of the debate that he agreed to the terms of and he set the tone for this debate. It was not that surprising other than the fact it was farther over the top than one might have expected. Vice President Biden came to expect a traditional debate. I think he knew he was in for a night i
Correspondent. Thank you so much for being here. I am going i am going to read the opening paragraph of your fantastic column in todays paper who said no one alive has ever seen a president ial debate like tuesday night between President Trump and former Vice President biden. 90 minutes of invective it was an insult to the public and a set example of the state of american democracy five weeks before the election. Go on. We know what happened last night. The president of the United States decided to come in and destroy the format of the debate he had agreed to the terms of. Debate the tone for this he set the tone for this debate. It was not that surprising even though it was farther over the top one might have expected. Vice President Biden came to expect a somewhat more traditional debate. I think he knew he was in for a night in which the president would be hectoring, but probably not to the extent that he did, and he was grappling with it. He was more focused on the president then t
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The extent of the crisis cannot be overstated. Six months, over 3m people in the United States have been diagnosed with covid19 and more than 140,000 americans have died. Sadly these numbers will only continue to increase as new covid19 cases are searching all across the nation. I is possible. They also appreciate the chance to bring some ten i ten unseat e Trump Administrations work speed effort. This transparency will be crucial to secure the american Peoples Trust that the vaccine will be made available only once it is proven to be safe and effective. Congress has already taken actions to support these efforts. This spring, congress provided the Vaccine Development and manufacturing of birds and other medical countermeasures. Then two months ago the house passed the heroes act, the comprehensive legislation to strengthen the nations ability to fight the pandemic like altering the Strategic National stockpile and increase funding for Research Development and manufacturing vaccines an