mr. newman: mr. mondale, your rebuttal. mr. mondale: what is a president charged with doing when he takes his oath of office? he raises his right hand and takes an oath of office to take care to faithfully execute the laws of the land. a president can't know everything, but a president has to know those things that are essential to his leadership and the enforcement of our laws. this manual -- several thousands of which were produced -- was distributed, ordering political assassinations, hiring of criminals, and other forms of terrorism. some of it was excised, but the part dealing with political terrorism was continued. how can this happen? how can something this serious occur in an administration and have a president of the united states in a situation like this say he didn't know? a president must know these things. i don't know which is worse, not knowing or knowing and not stopping it. and what about the mining of the harbors in nicaragua which violated international law? this has hurt this country, and a president's suppo

mr. newman: --- with the league, as you know, sir. mr. reagan: i know, yes. mr. newman: thank you, mr. president. thank you, mr. mondale. our thanks also to the panel, finally, to our audience. we thank you, and the league of women voters asks me to say to you, don't forget to vote on november 6th. [applause] coveragec-span's live of the third debate between hillary clinton and donald trump. they live coverage from las vegas starts at 7:30 p.m. eastern the 90 minute debate starts at 9:00 p.m. eastern. stay with us following the debate for reaction. and watch the debate live or on-demand using your phone or desktop or tablet. listen to live coverage with the free c-span radio app. download it from the app store or google play. visiting illinois to learn about history. the next stop is the riverfront museum. we toured the exhibit on the ever-changing illinois river. we are in thil

mr. newman: mr. mondale, your rebuttal. mr. mondale: what is a president charged with doing when he takes his oath of office? he raises his right hand and takes an oath of office to take care to faithfully execute the laws of the land. a president can't know everything, but a president has to know those things that are essential to his leadership and the enforcement of our laws. this manual -- several thousands of which were produced -- was distributed, ordering political assassinations, hiring of criminals, and other forms of terrorism. some of it was excised, but the part dealing with political terrorism was continued. how can this happen? how can something this serious occur in an administration and have a president of the united states in a situation like this say he didn't know? a president must know these things. i don't know which is worse, not knowing or knowing and not stopping it. and what about the mining of the harbors in nicaragua which violated international law? this has hurt this country, and a president's suppo

mr. newman: mr. mondale, your rebuttal. mr.dale: what is a president charged with doing when he takes his oath of office? he raises his right hand and takes an oath of office to take care to faithfully execute the laws of the land. a president can't know everything, but a president has to know those things that are essential to his leadership and the enforcement of our laws. this manual -- several thousands of which were produced -- was distributed, ordering political assassinations, hiring of criminals, and other forms of terrorism. some of it was excised, but the part dealing with political terrorism was continued. how can this happen? how can something this serious occur in an administration and have a president of the united states in a situation like this say he didn't know? a president must know these things. i don't know which is worse, not knowing or knowing and not stopping it. and what about the mining of the harbors in nicaragua which violated international law? this has hurt this country, and a president's supposed

mr. newman: your time is up, mr. mondale. mr. mondale: -- and the people of the soviet union want it to stop. mr. newman: president reagan, your rebuttal? pres. reagan: yes, my rebuttal, once again, is that this invention that has just been created here of how i would go about rolling over for the soviet union -- no, mr. mondale, my idea would be with that defensive weapon that we would sit down with them and then say, "now, are you willing to join us? here's what we" -- give them a demonstration and then say "here's what we can do. now, if you're willing to join us in getting rid of all the nuclear weapons in the world, then we'll give you this one, so that we would both know that no one can cheat, that we're both got something that if anyone tries to cheat." but when you keep star-warring it -- i never suggested where the weapons should be or what kind -- i'm not a scientist. i said, and the joint chiefs of staff agreed with me, that it was time for us to turn our research ability to seeing if we could not find this kind of def

mr. newman: -- with the league, as you know, sir. pres. reagan: i know, yes. mr. newman: thank you, mr. president. thank you, mr. mondale. our thanks also to the panel, finally, to our audience. we thank you, and the league of women voters asks me to say to you, don't forget to vote on november 6. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] live coveragen's of the third debate between hillary clinton and donald trump. the live debate starts at 7:30 p.m. eastern. briefing for the debate studio -- at a:is at three: 30 p.m. eastern. watch the debate live or on-demand using your desktop, phone, or tablet at www.c-span.org. this into live coverage of the debate with your phone on the free c-span radio app. there were two presidential debates in 1988 between public and vice president george h.w. bush and massachusetts governor michael dukakis. the second and final debate was held in los angeles. this is an hour and a half. >> good eve

mr. newman was shot in the back as he turned away from the gate some ten feet from the gate? >> yes, that's correct. >> and then he fell to the ground on his back? >> that's correct. >> and then he was shot a second time landing in this death position? and those wounds to the hand >> line up perfectly. >> the big mystery then was why? why would joseph campbell have shot tim neumann in cold blood? well, remember that video of campbell taken by a hunting party in 2008? >> private property, you don't have permission. >> we are? >> prosecutors played it for the jury, to show that campbell wasn't afraid to confront and chase off anybody who dared cross his property, even when he was out numbered. >> you could see on tha hunters and to accept his story that he was terrified of tim neumann, a man, a neighbor of his that he had known seeminged implausible. >> nor was that an isolated incident. >> how would you describe that relationship. >> one word, miserable. >> and he looked up at me and he said, i don't know who you are, mr., but you're trespassing and >> this woman was an army c

mr. newman lying on the ground. >> and in the sometimes tense cross examination, prosecutors point out not so gently that elements of her story changed also from previous interviews. campbell's. >> call joe campbell to the stand. >> so sometimes frightened grandfather of seven or neighborhood bully that brandished his weapon at neighbors and strangers. the defense sat out changing perceptions. the neighbors, the hunters. >> did you threaten them with a shotgun, anything of that nature? >> no. they were trespassing, i asked them to leave. >> the army colonel and her father. >> ever point a shotgun at us? >> no, sir. >> no getting around the fact he told the deputy da he was going to take care of tim newman himself. could be more than one way to perceive that, could there? frustrated. i was really frustrated. >> legal action, he was just a peaceful, frustrated man and was terrified when tim chased them up the hill in a rage that day in october, 2013. man had murder in his eyes, said joe. >> it's hard to stand up here and say in front of everybody, but i was trying to stay alive. that's all i

mr. chairman, members of the committee. baby branew-- debra newman from the budget and analyst office. this would acknowledge the establishment of a new benefit civic non-profit called the yerba buena gardens conservancy and the creation of this non-profit would be specifically to assume the long-term operating and management responsibility for yerba buena gardens under a master lease agreement that would have to come before this body for approval. as you probably know yerba buena gardens was created originally as a redevelopment project area and the office of community investment and infrastructure oc ii currently owns and maintains and manages yerba buena gardens as the agency that is taking over since redevelopment has been stopped under state law. it is anticipated that yerba buena gardens will transfer from ocii to the city some time in 2017. the office of administrative services has agreed to this transfer. this transfer will be done at a cost of zero because of the use of the property for public services or public operations. currently yerba buena gardens is shown in page nine o

mr. chairman, members of the committee. baby branew-- debra newman from the budget and analyst office. this would acknowledge the establishment of a new benefit civic non-profit called the yerba buena gardens conservancy and the creation of this non-profit would be specifically to assume the long-term operating and management responsibility for yerba buena gardens under a master lease agreement that would have to come before this body for approval. as you probably know yerba buena gardens was created originally as a redevelopment project area and the office of community investment and infrastructure oc ii currently owns and maintains and manages yerba buena gardens as the agency that is taking over since redevelopment has been stopped under state law. it is anticipated that yerba buena gardens will transfer from ocii to the city some time in 2017. the office of administrative services has agreed to this transfer. this transfer will be done at a cost of zero because of the use of the property for public services or public operations. currently yerba buena gardens is shown in page nine o

mr. chairman, members of the committee. baby branew-- debra newman from the budget and analyst office. this would acknowledge the establishment of a new benefit civic non-profit called the yerba buena gardens conservancy and the creation of this non-profit would be specifically to assume the long-term operating and management responsibility for yerba buena gardens under a master lease agreement that would have to come before this body for approval. as you probably know yerba buena gardens was created originally as a redevelopment project area and the office of community investment and infrastructure oc ii currently owns and maintains and manages yerba buena gardens as the agency that is taking over since redevelopment has been stopped under state law. it is anticipated that yerba buena gardens will transfer from ocii to the city some time in 2017. the office of administrative services has agreed to this transfer. this transfer will be done at a cost of zero because of the use of the property for public services or public operations. currently yerba buena gardens is shown in page nine o

mr. chairman, members of the committee. baby branew-- debra newman from the budget and analyst office. this would acknowledge the establishment of a new benefit civic non-profit called the yerba buena gardens conservancy and the creation of this non-profit would be specifically to assume the long-term operating and management responsibility for yerba buena gardens under a master lease agreement that would have to come before this body for approval. as you probably know yerba buena gardens was created originally as a redevelopment project area and the office of community investment and infrastructure oc ii currently owns and maintains and manages yerba buena gardens as the agency that is taking over since redevelopment has been stopped under state law. it is anticipated that yerba buena gardens will transfer from ocii to the city some time in 2017. the office of administrative services has agreed to this transfer. this transfer will be done at a cost of zero because of the use of the property for public services or public operations. currently yerba buena gardens is shown in page nine o

mr. chairman, members of the committee. baby branew-- debra newman from the budget and analyst office. this would acknowledge the establishment of a new benefit civic non-profit called the yerba buena gardens conservancy and the creation of this non-profit would be specifically to assume the long-term operating and management responsibility for yerba buena gardens under a master lease agreement that would have to come before this body for approval. as you probably know yerba buena gardens was created originally as a redevelopment project area and the office of community investment and infrastructure oc ii currently owns and maintains and manages yerba buena gardens as the agency that is taking over since redevelopment has been stopped under state law. it is anticipated that yerba buena gardens will transfer from ocii to the city some time in 2017. the office of administrative services has agreed to this transfer. this transfer will be done at a cost of zero because of the use of the property for public services or public operations. currently yerba buena gardens is shown in page nine o

mr. chairman, members of the committee. baby branew-- debra newman from the budget and analyst office.uld acknowledge the establishment of a new benefit civic non-profit called the yerba buena gardens conservancy and the creation of this non-profit would be specifically to assume the long-term operating and management responsibility for yerba buena gardens under a master lease agreement that would have to come before this body for approval. as you probably know yerba buena gardens was created originally as a redevelopment project area and the office of community investment and infrastructure oc ii currently owns and maintains and manages yerba buena gardens as the agency that is taking over since redevelopment has been stopped under state law. it is anticipated that yerba buena gardens will transfer from ocii to the city some time in 2017. the office of administrative services has agreed to this transfer. this transfer will be done at a cost of zero because of the use of the property for public services or public operations. currently yerba buena gardens is shown in page nine of our re

newman, formerly of nbc news is our moderator. ed? >> moderator: dorothy ridings, thank you. a brief word about our procedure tonight. the first question will go to mrwo and a half minutes to reply, then the panel member who put the question will ask a follow-up. the answer to that will be limited to one minute. after that the same question will be put to president reagan. again, there will be a follow-up, and then each man will have one minute for rebuttal. the second question go to president reagan first. after that the alternating will continue. at the end, there will be four-minute summations with president reagan going last. we have asked the questioners to be brief. let's begin. ms. geyer, your question to mr. mondale. >> mr. mondale, two related questions on the crucial issue of central america. you and the democratic party have said that the only policy toward the horrendous civil wars in central america should be on the economic development and negotiations with perhaps a quarantine of maxist nicaragua -- marxist nicaragua. do you believe these in any way would solve the bitter conflicts there? do you really believe there's no need to ore s