Theyd be citizens than they would vote the way all of our freedoms. Moderator thank you, mr. Macko. Youve had an impact on people. You feel immigrations, sir. It is broken as they presently does. The first thing we need to do is secure our border. I would go about that, whether its inject tenet of the states that are on the borders and make sure we had the wherewithal to guard the borders. Moderator like ohio . Joyce we have the coast guard and the ability to do that. Down in arizona, texas in the southern border. That is something we need to have the states employ the National Guard to protect them, then so be it. We need to fund them appropriately. People say secure our border pretty frequently. I dont know what that means exactly. If it awol as david macko suggests, if it drowns . Like what does that look like . That is potentially quite a lot of borders. Joyce absolutely. We have to employ the National Guard. But they play again down there where somebody is and you cant do anything
Election night. This is nbc nightly news with brian williams. And good evening from our election headquarters here in new york. By all indications, we are in for a very long night. Some very tight races that may go well beyond poll closings. We may not know all the results tonight. In fact, the possibility exists that when all the votes are counted, we could be watching a significant power shift in washington. We do know that many voters going to the polls today were motivated by anger. Theyre dissatisfied and in a sour mood over what has become of our congress, our government and washington as a whole. Tonight were about to see what 4 billion will buy. The costliest Midterm Election in our nations history. It will be history just a few hours from now. Either way, it will affect washington where the capitol dome tonight is under repair, just as voters are tinkering with the legislative population inside the capital. Here in our studios we want to begin in the middle of the country, a b
Closings coming up. A tight, tight evening, according to the pollsters. Were back on the air, of course, hourly and with an hourlong special, 10 00, 9 00 central. For now from new yor im brian williams. Decision 2014. Election night. This is nbc nightly news with brian williams. And to those of you joining us for our broadcast tonight, that was for the benefit of the entire Nbc Television network. This is now, indeed, nbc nightly news. On this Election Night and as you heard us say there in that oneminutelong update at the top of the hour, we do indeed have our first results of this early ening so far decision 2014. Starting with the Kentucky Senate race. A lot of attention here because of who Mitch Mcconnell is, leader of the republicans in the senate. That title is not assured when they get together for the next congress, but we do know he is heading back. A closer race perhaps than some had anticipated. Mark warner hoping to return as the incumbent democrat in the commonwealth of vi
Future of her partys leadership. We have a lot of talented younger members. Its not just, by the way, mrs. Pelosi. I think shes been a great leader. And she is really good at raising money. Thats not one of my fortes. I was never good at that. But they have to start training younger people and bring younger people into the caucus, to become hopefully the future leaders. One of the things that i certainly believe with all my heart and soul, you have to know when to leave. And nancy obviously does not feel that this is the time to leave. Many of us thought that she might stay for, you know, maybe this coming year. Hopefully turn the reins over to somebody else. But when i look around, is anybody really ready to replace her. I mean, its a hard job. I give her a lot of credit for what shes been able to do. But i think its time that the leaders stop looking at whos going to fill my spot. Were all replaceable. There might be some bumps in the road. But i do always believe its time for younge
The world. As you may have seen in your own country, or as the slide show indicates, theres a Global Movement toward candidate debates making candidate debates a part of elections in a diverse range of countries. Its at least 65 countries so far. And i suspect the number is higher. Why are more countries organizing debates . I think there are several reasons. Debates provide a unique opportunity to compare candidates. They are generally the only time in a campaign when voters see and hear directly from the candidates, appearing side by side, in the same forum, at the same time. Debates also increase focus on policies in a campaign. In some countries, candidates traditionally campaign on personal attacks or slogans, personality, religion or ethnic loyalties. In contrast to our debate, forces candidates to have more indepth positions on the issues. For example, in jamaica, polling after a 2011 debate showed that 70 of the public was more informed on candidate policy positions because of