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This is just over 90 minutes. Moderator good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] moderator before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private pla...

This awarded the state electoral votes and presidency to governor bush. This is just over 90 minutes. Jim lehrer good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] jim lehrer before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, ...

[applause] before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of the governor of missouri along with his son and former chief of staff who died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder as we continue now that these debates sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and role worked up by the commissions and campaign. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today, each of them read the question on a small card like this. The cards a...

Lehr. Thank you and good night. [ applause ] coming up this weekend on American History tv on cspan 3. The Abraham Lincoln president ial Library Foundation published a book of musics by public figures and ordinary americans celebrating or responding to lincolns gettysburg address. Editor of gettysburg replies, the world responds to Abraham Lincolns gettysburg address reads passages from the book saturday night at 8 50 p. M. Eastern. His presents still resonates from the words he has written and the artifacts and documents that he has left behind for our prosperity. He was a complex man who loo...

[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] here is a look at what is ahead today. Live in about 30 minutes, we will bring you a discussion on u. S. Russia relations and the 2016 campaign hosted by this center for global interest live at 10 30 eastern. Today forouse returns a busy fourday workweek appeared on the agenda, legislation to expand the ability for the Veterans Affairs employees based on performance and misconduct and also a measure pr...