Value of a president ial debate. Here is how you can let us know. You can post on our social media page, our twitter pages http twitter. Com cspanwj. The wall street journal took a. Oll about tonights debate the importance they find and watching the exchange of ideas tonight. They found amongst all voters saidparticipated that 34 the debate was extremely or quite important compared to 65 percent who said this debate was somewhat not important. When they broken down by subcategory, it was a tie of what he 9 among hispanics about the importance of the debate. Among gary johnson voters, 44 said it was extremely important. 42 said iticans, was quite important. 39 to 61 . Rates, 60 said it was somewhat or not important. A goes down from their. That is the idea. The value that you get from watching the debate and if you want to call and tell us if you plan to watch or the value you get from watching this debate, you can do so on the phone lines. If you support Hillary Clinton if you support donald trump for those thirdparty candidates, if you are undecided and want to give us on social, media, you can post on twitter and post on our facebook page. The conversation that continues on through this Program Essay spent. Org facebook. Com cspan. Those in tonights contest saying who do you choose to handle would you trust to handle . Donald trump saying 50 trust him. Terrorism, 45 trust Hillary Clinton. The poll goes down from their. Tonights topic on the place valued on debates. James in spokane, washington, europe first. Hey, i got something heavy for you. Everything comes down to economics. Just looking back at history, every time the government has ,otten involved with anything medicare, medicaid, Social Security, housing, finance, it has turned out to be a disaster. What i want to know from the candidates is what they are going to do about the economy, buti am not antigovernment, just the you can go through the list. It seems to happen 10 to 15 the druger, like with plan. You need someone competent in there and i dont think neither one of these guys is competent. I would really like to see some real economic, you know, i watch q a and id really like to see some really Competent Congress and their. You from a debate, if learned about aspects of the economy, it would be a value for you . There is this social justice thing in it, but how do we get this ship moving . Host richard is up next. He joins us from maryland. A donald trump supporter. We are asking about the value of tonights debate, what do you think . Would theay i value the debate today is i am looking for a couple of things from both candidates. Number one, i am trying to see how well they candidates are going to connect with some of the major problems that we are facing in this country. Being a health care provider, i am looking forward to the candidates addressing the issue and how they are going to be providing, especially i am looking into what they are going to say about obamacare. For healthps plan for most is available people in the most economical way. Highly high deductibles. So i am looking one of the things i am looking forward in this debate is how is he going to address the Health Care Issue in this country . One is what each Hillary Clinton going to carry or thesame obama policy Affordable Care act . Where she is going to make improvements . And what is donald trump going to do . He has some very strong plans that he is put forward and i am looking forward especially tuning in the health care, besides i wish both of them can really bring up some issues on the inequities, the problems they are facing, the poverty and donald trump has some ideas to bring back jobs to this country. Host that is richer in maryland. It will be hour and a half debate divided into six segments was will be showing the pictures inside and out. It will be major topics that will be decided upon by the moderator. The moderator will open each segment with a question. Then after that, the candidate has two minutes to respond. Then the candidates get a chance to respond to each other. Hosting twosity president ial debates in the past. One back in october 2012. The debate between president obama and mitt romney and october 15, 2008 when obama debated john mccain. A thirdparty supporter phil and texas in texas learning the value of a president ial debate. Caller i dont think the debates are worth very much because not all parties have an opinion. Gary johnson and jill stein who are on the ballot in all 50 states, theyre not been asked to participate. People in those states are being asked to make a decision on donald trump, Hillary Clinton, gary johnson or jill stein. These last two are not being involved in the debates. Who is going to know what they think what they parties think about . These debates are not worth very much unless all parties are heard from. I think the only standard is are they on the ballot in all 50 states in if they are, they need to be included. This is a choice that all people in the country has to make. If gary johnson with gary johnson not being on the stationary, will you still watch . Caller yes, absolutely. I want to see with the other two candidates have to say. I still say they should be equal time loss in this country where they have to give all of these candidates equal time. They are not doing it. I think they are breaking the law. Set up the rules for the dispense, one of them about pulling. One of them about polling. Gary johnson not meeting that threshold for this debate which is why he is not on the stage tonight. A profile q a of gary johnson in the pages of usa today this morning talking about various questions and he was asked you will not be in the debate monday night, how does that affect your campaign . Perotd interestingly ross was pulling at a lower level than i was. There is no way im going to be elected without being in the debates. He was asked are you ok with being seeing as a spoiler . And he said good. I have no idea where trump is. It is a broken compass as far as im concerned. Being this party spoiler, great. Give me the title. Will your next from stan. Donald trump supporter, hi there. Go ahead. Caller i especially like the fact that donald trump has brought a lot of things back on the table for discussion by the people. Such as borders, immigration, health care, military, all of these things that really need to be talked about climate change. I would like to see them talk about in the debates more. He is had to do it quite forcefully because the left has been telling us. These are all settled issues and we do not need to talk about them anymore. If you do, you get called a name. He is risk that and he is been called many names. I would have to see them talk among more in the debates. Host what do you think you will learn more about tonight and debates topics . They are believe that probably not going to go around those issues. I would like them to but i have a feeling they are not. Theyll go around those issues that much until they listing get shop and something controversial around it. Feed, sam our twitter says i want to see if Hillary Clinton can stand for an hour without a break. Anyp will not spread positive ideas of the debate. Betty is from texas. Our line for those who are undecided. Go ahead. Yes, i have try to listen to quite a few of the candidates responses to things and talked about what they are going to do about this or that. I have not heard them speak too much about Social Security. Since 2009, there were three years that there was no raise to Social Security. These people have worked all their lives and some of them have nothing but Social Security. Some of them have some retirement. I would like to see if they could speak about Social Security and see what they are going to do. Of lly have some kind something to do about Social Security for these people have worked all of their lives. Host what you get from watching the debates . Caller i get a lot of backstabbing. They are always against each other. One of the candidates seems to have these outrageous things he is going to do, thanks that dont make any sense. Ms. Clinton, she seems to have this email issue behind her. They bring it up all the time. I would like to see them sit down and talk about what we need about the safety of the United States, about children that need to be fed and about Social Security and try to get this United States back on track. If you support hillary again we are asking about the value of the debates and what you will learn from them, especially if tonights debates our coverage starts at 7 30 this evening. We can get your phone calls lynn hitting up just phone calls in leading up. Go to cspan. Org if you want to watch online. A lot of options for you to watch online including what camera thats what kind of camera angle you choose. You can see questions that are posted and specific responses. A lot more information. At 7 30. Age starting dont forget to take advantage of our radio app. If you look at it on your mobile phone and keep in touch or keep updated on what is going on during tonights exchange. In the preparation for tonights aspect of the debates, both key representatives from the Donald Trump Campaign and Hillary Clinton campaign on talk shows. Kellyanne conway on cnn talking about the debates, what she expects and hurt candidate. Mr. Trump will answer the questions as they are asked by lester holt and he is a right to defend himself against anything that ms. Clinton may say in response. , ire is no plan to do that am not going to reveal what we have been doing in our conversations, but the fact is he has every right to defend himself. He is always constantly attacked. The moment he counter punches, people are just shocked. He will answer the questions as we hope. The questions go to policy. Answer the questions that the American People have. They deserve and expect these candidates to be talking about the issues. Agency Washington Post came out with a pole overnight that shows the issue that motivate americans did they want candidates to talk about the economy, terrorism, health care, immigration, National Security. Mr. Trump is ready to have that conversation. Hear next from a donald trump supporter. Caller thanks for taking my call. Im looking forward to the debate to understand what each of the candidates are going to do about these two issues. Number one, illegal immigration. Isp each of the candidate going to address the huge problem of illegal immigration that the United States faces. The other question i would like the candidates to address any value for looking in this debate is National Security islamic terrorism that the United States faces. These are the two things i am going to look at as far as the debate is concerned. Host have you watched past debates and came looking for have youics that ever learned anything when you go looking for specific thing you are interested in learning more about . Caller i am following the two candidates and how they are addressing the issues. The reason i support trump by the way i am illegal immigrant who is now a proud u. S. Citizen. I have served on jury. The i am finding is somehow propaganda against trump is he is antiimmigrants, not true. He stands against illegal immigration. Hillary clinton seems to attract more illegal votes or whatever. I want to be very clear that trump does not stand for illegal immigration. He does support legal immigrants like myself. If you ask other legal immigrants. Host a donald trump supporter, go ahead. Caller i am looking forward to these debates. I think this could be a game changer. Host how so . Caller i think that the media parties. D both i will deceive them both perform under stress. Hear from their own mouths what they like to say. Host would you say that is the value seeing them in this kind of life format when they have to talk for a certain amount of time for topic . Caller yes. They are not going to be able to appease everybody. Everything that they say is not going to make everybody happy, but you know, that is the value of the debate. Host melvin is in maryland. He is supporting a thirdparty. Good morning. Caller i just wanted to speak about america in general. We have all of these countries coming over here and these people coming over, they are giving them Small Business and all and the africanamericans have been stepped on, pushed to the side and you wonder why you have so many problems. Give us a chance you got Liquor Stores in our community. We dont have a chance to get a job. Host before you go to for on that, the debates and what you see in the value . Caller i have to vote for but Hillary Clinton, i am a democrat. I hope she speaks of some of those issues about the community we live in. We dont have the opportunity like everybody else. All we want is a job and the opportunity to get on our feet. I have worked since i was 16. I have been hurt on my job. I have lost everything ive had, i am on public housing. Im in a bad neighborhood, i have a son that i sent to school. I am fearful that he gets hurt when he goes to school did i wish they would when i he goes to school. I wish they would address the issue of the economic and community. Where not asking for a handout. Host maxine youre on. Were asking but the value of debates. Caller we learn a lot from the debates. Were able to know about the candidates, to find out what they offer as far as how they can make the country better. When it comes to president obama, what turned me against him was when he went boots on the ground here i like the way donald trump says he is going to bring it to isis. Host when you say about the debates and learning things, what specifically do you look for . Caller to see how they handle the questions. To see how supportive they are as far as the questions they are asked. Watched debates before, do you learn more about where the candidates stand on things . Caller absolutely. Host what have you learned in the past . Caller to see what they have to offer to the country when it comes to the character of the trustworthiness. When it comes to hillary, she is very corrupt. Host what is the value of a president ial debate, that is what we are interested in learning from you. You heard from Kellyanne Conway about donald trump and his preparation or tonights debate. Also on sunday show is robbie was with Clintons Campaign talking about how his candidate has been preparing and plans to perform tonight. Going into this debate, do you think it is more important or Hillary Clinton to sell her own vision . To paint donald trump as a threat which could in doing so feet into her issues with likability and the trustworthiness and honesty . I am glad you asked, because i think this is the heart. Every time that hillary has had an unfiltered opportunity to talk to the American People about not just what is she going to do to make their lives better , but also how her life and this campaign is a part of a mission to help kids and families. She has done better. We are excited to have that opportunity. Im very concerned that donald trump will be graded on a curve. Just because he doesnt fly off the handle in the middle of this debate does not mean he is there to be president he is prepared to be president. He needs to have coherent answers. He needs to demonstrate the command of the issues. He needs to roll out specific plans about he is going to make thats about how he is going to make life better. I was surprised to hear kellyanne say he has a secret plan how he is going to defeat isis, he will not say what it is. He says he knows more about isis and generals. That is not a specific plan. That is not being transparent. We hope that will come out of this debate. We want this to be an opportunity for hillary to deliver her message directly to the people. She is fighting on the side. Half the university is the place where the debate will take place. You are seeing the outside shot. We have shown you there is shots of the interior. The moderators desk and that is where the debate will take place at 9 00 tonight. 15 minute segments on there is topics. An hour and a half discussion. Cspans coverage starting at 7 30. You can tune into that and analysis going into it. A chance for you to give a phone call. Cspan. Org where you can find more information about the debates. As well as the radio app. A lot of avenues for you to tune in to this first president ial debate. The value you get from president ial debates, the information you get from them. Eric is up next. He is undecided. He is from pittsburgh. Go ahead. Caller ignore the big gorilla in the rome, the national debt. Although promise they make, there is no money available. Host with that in mind, what value do you get from the debate . Caller they dont mention the national debt. They ignore it. ,he only promise they make there is no money available. Host from poland took alecto from nantucket. Caller i was going to vote for donald trump until putin and don king and the guy from texas endorsed him. I dont understand how anybody can even think about voting for donald trump. Ex line ty host go ahead, you are still on. Got one guy who was to make decent wages. You got another party who doesnt want to pay anything. What is the matter with these people . . Ost did you learn anything caller he doesnt even like immigrants host joanne, hi. Caller i was shocked yesterday of the amount of people that said they are not going to vote. Important, is very but unfortunately dr. Stein and gary johnson are not able to participate, so i dont there would be only for people on the stage. We need to see what our choices are. We need to know who we can vote for and what they stand for. There are more people who are undeclared or independent leaning then both republican and democrat. If everybody looked at jill steins website and read her platform and go online to see her speeches, because she is not getting the media attention. It is very said. Even thoughid that your candidate was not a