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President of the United States. [applause] election 1976, the Democratic National convention. Your host is political analyst Richard Scammon. Richard this is Richard Scammon in washington. With me are professor howard honeyman of Howard University Howard Penniman of Yorktown University and mr. Stephen hess of the brookings institution. We want to discuss the Democratic Convention. We will do the Republican Convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. But perhaps before we do either of the detailed discussions on these conventions, we want to spend at least a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of an American National president ial nominating convention. One observer has said these conventions are real ideological struggles told as circuses. We know the main purpose is to nominate a candidate for president. But Howard Penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the process of an American Convention . Howard the National Convention is the time of the nom
A dirty fight for the u. S. Presidency that is our title and. Welcome to to the point it is a pleasure to introduce our guests sudha david is Deputy Director of the Berlin Office of the transatlantic think tank the German Marshall Fund and she says American Elections are always full of dirty Campaign Tricks but this year the rhetoric will be harsher than ever. And its a pleasure to welcome ralph frind he is a political lobbyist with republicans over seas and his opinion the track record of both counter dates doesnt wash and in the long run quality always succeeds therefore trump will prevail. And great to have with us once again Soraya Sarhaddi nelson she is. Program director of the English Speaking Radio Station k c r w berlin and she says the Republican National convention this week shows how damaged the Trump Presidency is many prominent republicans didnt even take part. So let me ask you suter you say American Election campaigns are always dirty so was there anything about these 2
About the campaign and the federal judiciary. And tony perkins looks at evangelical voters in the november election. We will also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. 550 for president donald j. Trump. President trump and Vice President mike pence were officially renominated for the gop ticket this november. We will get your thoughts on the first day of the Republican Convention, from rollcall call to the speeches last night, and a preview of tonights lineup. Here are your lines. If you are supporting the president this november, dial in 202 7488000. If you are supporting joe biden, your line is 202 7488001. If you are undecided, please call us at 202 7488002. Your first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Or facebook tor join the conversation. We will begin with one of the keynote speakers, the president s son, donald trump, jr. [video clip] after eight years of slow growth, trumps policies have been rocket fuel to th
Quite unusual isnt it thats correct and another freedom which merkel spoke about was press freedom asked by a colleague attending the press Conference Call indicated that germany pushes for press freedom in the world also in belarus and that what has happened recently in belarus where journalists have been detained is that contrary to press freedom also speaking on belarus are going to clearly indicate a warned against foreign intervention and mentioning the possibility of Russian Troops she said she hoped such a force would not be deployed deployed and that there should be a respect for the countrys sovereignty indeed a very strong words by the chancellor on the situation in belarus and cant be easy for her to use those words because russias involvement of a ruse already seem to impact the already tense time is between the e. U. And moscow between germany and moscow narco also had a few words to say about russias general behavior in the region lets have another listen. Bill you know i