Ferraro. Our panelists for the debate are john mashek, National Correspondent for u. S. News and world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, norma quarrels, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for night ridder newspapers. Sander van oaker, senior Political Correspondent for abc news is our moderator tonight. Sandy . Thank you, dorothy. A few words about the order of our format tonight. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro won the toss. She elected to speak last. Therefore, Vice President bush will get the first question. The debate will be built upon a series of questions from the four reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate a question, a followup question, and then the same to the other candidate, then each candidate will get to rebut the other. The debate will be divided into two parts. There will be a section, the first one, on Domestic Affairs. The second on Foreign Affai
Pilots are participating from their homes. The Atlanta Press club gives a special thank you to georgia public broadcasting for helping to support and organize the online debate. Lets meet the candidates. They are now funk medical order, the rotarian shane hazel the marine corps veteran and cohost and producer of the rebellion podcast which analyzes politics from a local to global level. Democrat john and served as ceo and inside dwi, Media Production company that investigates corruption, organized crimes and war crimes for International News organization. Republican david purdue has served in the u. S. Senate since 2015 before be an elected to the senate he sat on the board of five major corporations and cofounded. Partners, a Global Trading company. Now lets meet our town hall. In his anger with radio group. Tom baxter is a reporter with reports. In a reporter with w abe news. Now lets get started. Candidates will have 60 seconds to answer their questions and 30 seconds to respond to
Will vote on the measure in the coming hours military has been ordered to deploy troops. Taiwans president says shes willing to hold talks with china if theyre held on an equal basis speaking at National Day Celebrations when says shes open to meaningful dialogue with beijing and hopes regional tensions can be resolved peacefully a speech comes at a time of increased tensions with china which has ramped up force activity near the islands in the past few weeks aging has been angered by growing u. S. Support for the selfgoverned island. Yeah. But as long as the beijing authorities are willing to resolve an attack in isms and improve relations parity and dignity are maintained we are willing to Work Together to facilitate meaningful dialogue we are committed to upholding regional stability but this is not something taiwan can show to alone it is the joint responsibility of both sides. A 2nd u. S. President ial debate between donald trump and democratic rival joe biden has been canceled it
A few days ago brazil the worst a country in the region has over 5000000 people infected with the coronavirus 157000 people there have died. Across the world theres been Something Like 42000000 people infected 10000000 of those are in latin america so its got around about a quarter of all the cases in the world and the number of deaths approaching the 400000 marks a grim picture right across the region very few bright spots to be had anywhere the numbers only seem to be going up every everywhere you look a year or so ago the world bank predicted that the whole region economies in the region would grow by 1. 8 percent theyve now revised that talking about a 7. 2 percent drop across the region and were already seeing the consequences of businesses closing tens of thousands of people losing their jobs and many many people moving having to move out onto the streets. U. S. President donald trump has cast an early ballot near his private resort in florida he went to a polling station in West
Democrats Walter Mondale and congresswoman ferraro in the general election, winning the popular vote 59 41 . Ms. Ferraro was the first woman nominated for the vice presidency by a major party. This debate from philadelphia is just under an hour and a half. [applause] dorothy good evening. Good evening from the civic center in philadelphia, pennsylvania. I am the president of the league of women voters, sponsor of tonights Vice President ial debate between republican george bush and democrat geraldine ferraro. Our panelists for tonights debate are john mashek, National Correspondent for u. S. News world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, norma quarles, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for knightridder newspapers. Sandra van ocher, Political Correspondent for abc news, is our moderator tonight. Sandy. Sandy thank you, dorothy. A few words about the order of the format. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Con