Good evening from the Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston, im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs and i welcome you to the first of three 90minute debates between the democratic. Candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate governor george w. Bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed toby the commission and the two campaigns. Tonight well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes. Rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator i have the option to followup and extend any particular give and take another three and a half minutes. Even then no single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The questions and the subjects we
Good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston. Im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs and i welcome you to the debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. They will be conducted within for th formats agreed to by the two campaigns. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes, rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator, i have the option to follow up and extend any particular give and take 3 1 2 minutes. No single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates under their may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The questions and the subjects were chosen by me alone. I have told no one from the two campaigns or the commission or anyone else involved what they are. Theres a small audience in the hall tonight. They are not here to part
Organization, what is it and how are you funded and supported . A demanded justice is Progressive Organization that return in 2018 to try to symmetry between those on the left and the right when it comes to tuning into the importance of the federal judiciary. Havelicans for decades successfully messaged to their voters the importance of the judiciary and how it really is the ultimate arbiter of all the issues that we care about. On the left, weve been less successful and that was very pointed in 2016 when Hillary Clinton was campaigning as there was a Supreme Court vacancy hanging in the balance after the death of anson scalia and even the progressive had opportunity by winning the election in the ideological balance of the court, you really didnt see that issue register at a Grassroots Level among democratic voters. 2016,t, at exit polls in you saw that voters said the Supreme Court was a top issue with them by about 15 points supported donald trump. Becoming president , donald trump
Video so heres the video was played today during the White House Press briefing. It shows the speaker in a smock and with wet hair wearing no face mask walking through the east lawn in San Francisco on union street. The speaker says the salon misrepresented local Health Orders and says that she was clearly set up so we have just heard now from the salon owner and she says that the speaker owes her an apology. If anyone said it misses pelosi it could only have been the person she booked the appointment with Jonathan Dinardo obviously this makes no sense. I am confident that jonathan didnt did nothing to said it misses pelosi. In fact, nobody said it misses pelosi. She is attempting to scapegoat her stylist jonathan a big fan of hers and me a Small Business owner who has had no in interactions with about any of this. For the speaker of the house of United States is going to be and possibly claim she was set up and come. Publicly public sees me publicly defame me and sent out here firms t
Lotus just one day after House Speaker nancy pelosi tried to squash the controversy. It is heating back up again tonight, yeah earlier at the white well they blasted as speaker pelosi, them protesters gathered outside her San Francisco home and now were hearing from the owner of the salon where she visited and that was all today will start tonight with kron fours Justine Waldman who joins us live in the newsroom with the salon owners response just an hour or so ago and just seen a time she was cry. Absolutely now the salon owner got very emotional while sharing her side of the story at some point she was crying and having a hard time speaking. She says for nancy pelosi to claim that she is a victim of a setup is totally outrageous so here now is the video that was played during the White House Press briefing today it shows the speaker in a smock with wet hair and no face mask as she walks through the San Francisco salon on union street. The salon owner says nancy pelosi or her people c