Odonnell good evening, odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with breaking news and another sign of how dramatically and quickly a new wave of Coronavirus Infections is sweeping across the country. Tonight, the nations Largest School system, new york city, says its closing all of its schools, sending more than a quarter of a Million Students who had been in classrooms back home for Virtual Learning tomorrow morning and creating chaos for working parents. That abrupt decision comes as the infection rate in new york again. Nce the epicenter of the and while clo pandemic, is rising once again. And while closing schools might be one of the largest indications of just how dire the crisis is becoming, it is far from the most devastating. As we come on the air, coronavirus has now killed more than 250,000 americans. Tonight, a recordshattering 76,000 more americans are hospitalized because of it. And one out of every five hospitals now says there just aren
Barrett to the Supreme Court, with National Turn it National Journal Senate Reporter. Maryellen klaas, and then Michael Binder. Journal is next. With eight days to go until election day 2020, congas begins with a stalemate over Economic Relief and a response to the coronavirus pandemic and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the support. The senate has a rare weekend session to move forward on the nomination and democrats are holding the senate in session through tonight, into this morning. You can see live pictures of the senate floor right now. Heres how we are dividing the lines. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can join the conversation by texting with your first name, city and state, at 202 7488003, or go to twitter, or facebook. Com cspan. Has covid19 impacted your vote . If it hasnt, we want to hear from you as well. What is impacting your vote and if the pandemic impacts your vote, we want to know why. Why has it motivated you to
Expensive political race in montana history. The general election coming up november third. If youre keeping track at home, thats 24 days away. The ballots were mailed out friday this week so voters, be looking for your ballots to arrive soon in a mailbox near you. The ballots need to be returned to your local Election Office by 8 00 p. M. On election day. At stake in this race is one of montanas to u. S. Senate seat. Salary of u. S. Senator currently at 174 thousand dollars a year. Now its time to meet the candidate. Steve bullock was one in mazzola, earned his law degree from Columbia University in new york city. Earlier in his career, he worked in private practice and an assistant attorney general for the state of montana. He won election as montanas attorney general in 2000 and then as governor in 2012 and 2016. Both, a democrat says as governor, hes worked with both democrats and republicans to expand affordable healthcare, strengthen and invester in schools. He and his wife, lisa
Republican representative Greg Gianforte and democratic Lieutenant Governor mike cooney are looking to replace governor Steve Bullock who is running for the u. S. Senate. This is live coverage on cspan. Welcome. And montanas Lieutenant Governor, democrat mike cooney. Welcome as well. We appreciate having everyone here in person. We are safely distanced and ready for a debate. We have a slightly different format tonight. Each candidate will have an initial 90 seconds to answer the question. Afterwards, there will be an open discussion period with a chance of rebuttals and direct exchanges. We will then finish the debate with a 90 second closing statement from each candidate. The pandemic. Montana is seeing a recent spike in covid19 cases. Just today, the states i record 504 new cases. According to covid act now, a group that tracks Coronavirus Infections across the u. S. , we are currently fourth in the nation for infection rate. If elected governor, with there be ould there be you take
Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all get cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch a very important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say word about that but first i want to recognize some very distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of our Organization Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice who was here with us. [applause] and youll be hearing from secretary rice in about half an hour. She will be one of our conversationalists. Our other cochair, harvard ever does professor, could not be here with his buddies very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill cohen and mrs. Janet cohen. Welcome secretary. Janet, welcome. [applause] i want to pay tribute to one of i think one of the people who for me a bodies bipartisanship whos involved in every effort to