Good afternoon. Komu, welcome to the Missouri Press association governors forum. This is an event of the press Association Sponsors every four years, and we are pleased the university of missouri has partnered with us to broadcast this year event from the historic missouri theater. Like everything in 2020, things are little different, beginning with the fact that the theater is not open to the public. Our stage does allow everyone to stay physically separated, so that is why i am not wearing a mask. A few Campaign Staffers and members of the media are joining us in the auditorium, but i still need to remind everyone to avoid applause or other reactions during todays forum. Stage, our candidates on the executive editor of the colombian missourian ruby bailey, gary castor, managing editor of the Jefferson City news tribune, tricia miller, editor and publisher of the washington missourian, along with myself representing komu. I am pleased to announce our moderator from the Associated Pres
Lindsey graham. I want to focus on the United States. Challenger Jamie Harrison. In. Graham ms. Harrison will fight as hard as i can. Tonight live discussion on , a the issues important to you. The pandemic, the economy, education from your local election headquarters. The South Carolina chamber of commerce and next our media nextstar media, the u. S. Senate race, South Carolina. A live candidate conversation. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. We are coming to you live from our studios in South Carolina. Im amy wood. Will bes conversation livestreamed and broadcast across the carolinas, as well as on our partner station, in columbia. Many of you tuned in this evening to watch the candidates for u. S. Senate in their second debate. Both campaigns agree to the four net of that debate. But this week, Campaign Staffer Jamie Harrison asked that the incumbent senator be tested for covid. The senator was tested last friday. In a Statement Released yesterday afternoon, the Harrison Campa
Answering phone calls and should say it was not done according to what i would have recommended. Doct us virus expert and a member of the Coronavirus Task force today saying that President Trump has not handled his Covid Recovery the way that fauci would have recommended that includes driving around Walter Reed Medical Center to wave to supporters and leaving the Medical Center after just 3 days tonight, trump remains under quarantine isolated in the white house residence and he remains under treatment. This morning, the president posted on social media downplaying the virus said hes currently battling. He said covid is far less lethal than the flu. Which is not true. According to the data that we have on both facebook removed the post twitter flagged it as misinformation accompanied by Public Interest notice. The president s downplay of the virus as many survivors and people who have lost loved ones to the pandemic quite frankly angry tonight as you can imagine and well President Trum
President also tweeted the house and senate should immediately approved 25 billion dollars for Airline Payroll support and 135 billion dollars for Paycheck Protection Program for small business. Both of these will be fully paid for with unused funds from the cares act have this money i will sign now president is now appearing walk back. Comments that he made earlier when. President trump tweeted that House Speaker nancy pelosi is not negotiating in good faith adding that the speaker is asking for 2. 4 trillion dollars to bail out what he calls poorly run high crime democratic states he then asked that Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, direct all his before the election into confirming his u. S. Supreme court nominee, amy coney barrett. And tonight, another persons surrounding the president has tested positive for covid19 Stephen Miller, trump Senior Adviser and speechwriter is the latest to be added to that list in a statement miller said over the last 5 days that he had been wor
World and its not necessarily a disaster or risk for the market, that is collective and i thought i would pass it along. We will be looking at the mail about it under ballot situation, and new theory being pushed that sends more democrats seem to be voting by mail, you could have a situation where on election day itself since republicans tend to favor voting in person the early results on election day could favor donald trump and then the mail and results which take a little bit more time to tabulate in places like pennsylvania delayed up to six days, you dont have a clear winner because neither side is budging, its kind of an interesting conundrum, particular in the bottle around states, we will be monitoring that we also have the ceo with us, that is a very, very popular means by which i would just say everybodys taken advantage with airports in a beach traffic and all of that. , blake is doing okay through all of that, we will follow that as well. In the meantime the dow is about 32