My name is Katie Willard and im part of the event staff here at politics and prose. Before we begin, i would like to go over a few quick announcements. First, please silence your cellphones and other noise making devices. Not only is it courteous to the author, but we are also on cspan tonight. So you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. Secondly, during our question and answer portion, in the interest of our video and audio recording, if you could come up to the microphone right here by the white pillar. That wave, we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. And lastly, once everything is done, if you could please pull up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight, i am pleased to introduce jared cohen to politics and prose. Cohen is the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet ink as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. He has written sever
Were going to start today by talking about candidate debates, and that is like my favorite thing about a campaign, whether i was on a Campaign Staff or a candidate. So im really excited to talk about this today. Im going to give you a little bit of history here, so president ial and Vice President ial, general election debates have become really the highlight of the Campaign Season and something we just expect to happen. That has not always been the case. Its also common in other races, particularly highprofile races, so when was the first president ial debate . Heres a trivia question, historical trivia. Anyone know . Give you a hint . No one recognizes those people . This is a false hint. Thats lincoln and douglas. A lot of time people think, you hear the famous Lincoln Douglas debates and they ran against each other for president in 1860. Actually, their debates is when they were both running for the u. S. Senate in illinois in 1858 and had numerous debates around the state of illin
Brokered bomber an illum us. And the shuttle for the 2022 world cup in qatar is out of the 1st time before matches a day in the group stages. Welcome to the Program Egypt is seeking urgent clarification from ethiopia about whether it started to fill the reservoir of africas largest dam on the blue nile ethiopians state television reported on wednesday that the filling of the ground renees on stand had begun the 5000000000. 00 project is the centerpiece of ethiopias bid to become africas biggest power exporter but egypt and sudan fear reduced Water Supplies downstream and didnt want the river dammed until theyve reached an agreement with ethiopia last month egypt told the un it faces the next the stench will spread from the down fall stratford reports now on the complex regional politics surrounding the project. Its taken 10 years to build and cost close to 5000000000. 00 u g o p s flagship Infrastructure Project is a great source of national pride. But the grand ethiopian renaissance d
By a sophisticated cyber attack but stopped short of saying whos behind it. Former child soldiers in the Central African republic are helping combat the coronavirus pandemic. Welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump has lashed out of the Supreme Court ruled against him for the 2nd time this week the judges blocked trying to end a program that stops hundreds of thousands of immigrants from being deported on monday they rejected the trumpet ministrations argument that gay and transgender workers shouldnt be protected under federal law mike hanna reports from washington d. C. Crowds gathered outside the u. S. Supreme court many here are socalled dreamers the children of undocumented immigrants. Assured of the right to residence for the foreseeable future between 7 and 800000 people are affected by the Supreme Court decision and dark eyes since i was 15 and 16 years old and its allowed me to go to college and see i mean to get a full time job and that could have all been strippe
This morning kron fours gayle ong is in marine county with more on our top story. Members of the marine county search and rescue and canine teams have found the couple were told who are in great spirits. Carol cup are skinny and urban are alive and well the Marin County Sheriffs Office tweeted this photo of the palo alto couple in the hospital more than 70 people and rescue dogs set out to search for them in finding their way through dense vegetation and rough terrain so were searching up the drainage from shower beach. Is very tough going very tough drainage not halfway up we hear voices, first 2019 but then they started yelling help, they loved each other and light, thats them on saturday morning day 6 of the search the couple was found. Both carol and ian were airlifted and taken to the hospital suffering from hypothermia. Were told theyre experienced hiker is visiting the town of inverness in western marine county for those who live in the rural area where many come to enjoy the na