Hello to the general Election Debate hearing also the vermont additional beer moderator today next week you will hear from kennedy and Lieutenant Governor for the candidates for governor and current incumbent governor having serve to b terms already and also Lieutenant Governor from 2011 to 2013 elected governor. And then pulled the construction from the firm he owed after elected having so to terms hoping to be elevated to the start the teens on the states top position. Prior to becoming Lieutenant Governor serving in the house and senate a combined 14 years. He has a farm and will go to both its a pleasure to have you today thank you for being here. We will have a round of questions that i ask to start off and then you can ask of one another in the last third of the debate will have questions from listeners including local High School Students and i will give you a chance to h offer final thoughts with a very broad concluding question will have one minute tona answer questions if i a
Violence and play a role in calming the nation. Mayor bowser good afternoon, everybody. I am muriel bowser, im mayor of washington, dc. I am joined by members of my administration, the chief of Police Peter Newsham and the city administrator rishaad young. We are here today to provide an update on the districts response to protests in the district overnight and yesterday. He district overnight and yesterday. I want to start by saying we certainly recognize and outragee with the people feel following the killing in minneapolis last week. Thate certainly empathize the killing of george floyd was not the first and people were expressing outrage and demanding action. We also recognize that we are proud of our city and we do not destroyed. Ty to be so, police and firefighters and members of the Public Safety team for washington, d. C. , along with our federal partners have been working to make sure people can exercise their First Amendment rights while not destroying washington, d. C. I wou
Mayor bowser good afternoon, everybody. I am muriel bowser, mayor of washington, d. C. I am joined by members of my administration, the chief of police and the city administrator. We are here today to provide an district response to protests in the district overnight and yesterday. I want to start by saying we certainly recognize and outragee with the people feel following the killing in minneapolis last week. Thate certainly empathize the killing of george floyd was not the first and people were expressing outrage and demanding action. We also recognize that we are proud of our city and we do not destroyed. Ty to be so, police and firefighters and members of the Public Safety team for washington, d. C. , along with our federal partners have been working to make sure people can exercise their First Amendment rights while not destroying washington, d. C. I would just be chief of police mpdsvide an update on actions and then we will take your questions. Thank you, mayor bowser. I have to
Announce that and give you all the details of our new downtown d. C. Testing site. But i want to start first with the significant damage that we saw done in our city last night. I am joined by members of my Public Safety team also Public Health team also to address your questions. I have spent this morning Walking Around the city to assess damage and there is significant damage in the downtown areas especially in the blocks immediately around Lafayette Square. And i want to be very clear something as the Nations Capital we are frequent hosts to First Amendment demonstrations and we applaud the american spirit something a and especially protests to their federal government. However, we do not and we will not allow the continued destruction of our hometown by people who are coming here to protest or by d. C. Residents. And as i said this weekend we certainly empathize with the righteous cause that people are here protesting. Every single american should be outraged by the murder of georg
Anxiety and depression. To nasa astronauts arrive at the International Space station the 1st manned mission by a private company. After a 4th bunch of protests in the u. S. Sometimes peaceful sometimes violent state and local officials speaking out to try to calm residents what started this anger over the death of a black man in Police Custody has widened into a nationwide outrage over systemic racism just over an hour ago the governor of minnesota the state where george floyd died accepted that the system didnt always work for people of color. We dont just right near the top on Educational Attainment we rank near the top on personal incomes on homeownership on life expectancies things that make this and one that came out a while back we we rank 2nd in a survey of the 50 states 2nd in happiness behind hawaii but if you take a deeper look and peel it back which this week has peeled back all of those statistics are true if youre white if youre not we rank near the bottom and what this we