Democratic u. S. Primary debate. Encampment senator edward faces challenger, congressman joe kennedy the third. This debate is hosted by td in boston. From institutions primary in september 1st. The Senate Debate for mechanics in september 1 primary grade i am john keller , political analysis for wbz. And across the country on cspan. And our Radio Audience on wbz news radio 10 30. Lets meet the candidates. The incumbent, ed markey has represented the u. S. Senate since 2013. Before that he served in the u. S. House for nearly 37 years. The challenger, joe kennedy has served in the u. S. House since 2013. Now before we get started a brief word before our format. There will be no opening or closing statements. The candidates will each get one minute to respond to the same question. After that there will be open ended periods of rebuttal and discussion. Otherwise known as the fate. During which they are free to question one another and expand their focused others topics. There are just th
Hi. Thanks for turning out. Im laura miller and im the books and culture columnist for slate. Com. This is another social social distancing social from future tense in partnership with a partnership of slate, new america foundation, and Arizona State university. Today we talking about the future of books, and im joined by priscilla painton, who is Vice President and executive editor of simon and shuster and brandon tensley, a writer for cnn politics. Hi, i priscilla and brandon. You have to up mute. Nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to sort of moderate this, one of the things it brought up brought to mind are brought up in my memory is how in the early 2000s it seemed like everywhere you went there was like a Panel Discussion of the future of books and peopling making predictions but the future of books and how things had to change and which they needed to go, and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology. Most of the people said at that ti
For god and country, the christian case for trump. Mr. Reed, what is that case and. Guest well, the case in a nutshell is that as christians, were called to not only be citizens of the kingdom of god, which is both here now and yet to come, and were also called to be citizens on earth of whatever policy or society or nation we happen to be part of. And were if you look at the old and the new testament, theres a consistent and clear teaching that we are to exercise that citizenship in a robust and muscular fashion. First of all to defend our rights, within that government, which of course in the United States means rights under the constitution and at the bill of rights, to a freedom of speech to assembly to tree dom of religion. Freedom of religion that are our birthright and then secondly as a witness of our faith. So in the context of the decision by the overwhelming majority of evangelical christians and pro life and pro family and faithful roman catholics to back trump, both in 201
Talking. Forget mueller, what about making moolah . Voter rates on the economy for this president the highest level weve seen since 2001. That is leading to an uptick in president ial approval. A lot of this, the source of this is improving economy but his overall numbers picked up a little bit. They are lower than where a president should be at this point going into reelection. Not all that much lower. Again the catalyst for that seems to be the economy, by extension what is happening in the markets of late. Not necessarily today for the dow. Well get into that in a second. Real clear Politics White House reporter phil wegmann, the connection between the economy and maybe inching up poll numbers. We always draw the comparisons. It is the economy stupid but this president has not, up until now, up until lately benefited from that. Maybe it is just beginning to hit now, what do you think . Because trump is trump there are always voters uncomfortable with him, but if you look at the poll
That state. We get more on all of it tonight from White House Correspondent kristen welker. Reporter today a massive rift within the democratic party, pitting senator bsernie sanders against hillary clinton. The controversy erupted when a sanders staffer took advantage of a dnc computer glitch, exposing clintons secret voter lists. That staffer was fired, a. D the dnc temporarily shut off the Sanders Campaigns access to its own voter files. They leveled a Death Penalty on our campaign. Reporter the Sanders Campaign filed suit against the dnc, demanding it reverse course. Then late last night, they struck a truce. The dnc restoring access today. That did little to quiet the discord. The Sanders Campaign akuszing the party of tipping the scales in favor of clinton. Essentially criminal ped their campaign. They crippled their own campaign. They walked into an unlocked door, ransacked it, rummaged around. Reporter the controversy, will the controversy make it into tonights debate . Well se