Good evening from the Municipal Auditorium in kansas city. Im dorothy rattings, the president of the league of women voters, the sponsor of this final president ial debate of the 1984 campaign between republican Ronald Reagan and democrat walter mondale. Our panelists for tonights debate on defense and Foreign Policy issues are georgie anne geyer, norman kalb, Morton Kondracke of new republic magazine, and henry trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent of the baltimore sun. And ed newman is our moderator. Ed . Thank you. A brief word about our procedure tonight. The first question will go to mr. Mondale. Hell have two and a half minutes to reply. Then the panel who asked the question will have a followup. They will be limited to one minute. After that the same question will be put to president reagan, there will be a followup and each man will have one minute for rebuttal. The second question will go to president reagan first. After that the alternating will continue. At the end there will b
Along with the forbes media chairman. Its great to see everybody this morning. We have the Federal Reserve. With the pmi coming out. Thats where we first saw the weakness in the economy. The thing to watch for is hong kong. If you get a bad situation in hong kong its can affect the trade negotiations and a lot of other things as well. He was so adamant in terms of this extradition. The demonstrators also realize that beijing has been engaged in stepbystep. This is it for them. Thats where the protesters are. They see the future threatened by all of this. And they dont have a place to go. This is it for them. A does he really feel threatened by this affront to beijings power. The trade talks where theyre going to be be somewhat influenced by that. He thinks it is completely unlike 2015 this is a really serious Pressure Point for beijing administration i think thats pretty serious. To your point its a different crowd coming out. He feels it feels very different in terms of the crowd and