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the global refugee crisis and have developed nations should deal with that from the semiannual munk debate in toronto. ahead of our live coverage of the debate, an update on the u.s.-led military campaign against isis, reporters questioned pentagon officials about syrian civilians and the failed efforts to train rebels. we will watch as much of this as we can head of the debate. >> steve, just want to make sure you can hear us and we can hear you. >> i can hear you loud and clear. >> welcome, good morning, and we will turn it over to you. again as always, and good morning to our press corps. it has been a while since i briefed you about targeting isil leadership, but i want you to remain assured we remain active on this front. we have been dismantling their headquarters and disrupting their attacks on the battlefields in iraq and syria or abroad. their leadership is having an increasingly difficult time governing their so-called caliphate, and they are hunkered down with a degraded ability to shoot, moved, or communicate. and last month, three senior isil s were retired from service. they

the countdown clock, we love this at the munk debate. ps us on time, keeps us on schedule, keeps debaters on their toes. when you see the clocks reach their final moments, it should be a countdown to zero, join me in a round of applause, and we will let debaters know their time is up, and -- well, we had henry kissinger. he did not take his time. but i digress. i don't think any of our debaters will make the same mistake. this is the part i enjoy most. we asked all of you, 3000 assembled, to vote on the resolution on your way in. you are asked to support or oppose the motion "give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free." let's see if we have got those results for you to look at. ok, 77% agreed. [applause] 23% -- [laughter] disagreed. to get a sense of how much the debate is in play, depending on what you hear during the debate, are you open to changing your votes? let's see that result. wow, 79%-21%. this debate is very much in play. either side can take it. let's now go to our opening statements. six minutes on

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people who have once again filled roy thompson hall on a friday night to capacity for yet another munk debate. all of us associated with the foundation, we thank you. more and better debate in the public square. bravo for being part of tonight's conversation. now our ability debate in, debate out, year after year, to bring some of the world's sharpest minds and brightest thinkers here to the stage at toronto's roy thompson hall would not be possible without the generosity, the foresight, the creativity of our host tonight. please join me in a warm appreciation of aurea foundation. the moment we've been waiting for. our resolution, taken from the inscription, the statue of liberty, be it resolved, give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. please welcome our first speaker for the resolution. she's a former canadian supreme court justice, brief prosecutor of the international criminal tribunals for yugoslavia and rwanda and the united nations high commissioner for human rights. among many other accomplishments. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome canada's lou

. >>> later today on c-span, the semiannual munk debate from toronto with a look at the global refugee crisis and how developed nations should deal with it. we'll hear from a former u.n. high commissioner of human rights and the leader of the uk independence party. you can watch that debate tonight on c-span at 7:00 p.m. eastern. and tonight here on c-span3, american history tv. it's road to white house rewind with presidential debates from the 1960s and the 1980s. we start at 8:00 p.m. eastern with the 1960 west virginia democratic primary debate between then senators john f. kennedy and hubert humphrey. then a 1980 debate between ronald reagan and george h.w. bush and also a 1984 democratic primary debate. >>> i am a history buff. i do enjoy seeing the fabric of our country and how things -- just how they work and how they're made. >> i love american history tv. presidency. >> american artifacts, they're fantastic shows. >> i had no idea they did history. that's probably something i'd really enjoy. >> with american history tv, it gives you that perspective. >> i'm a c-span fan. >>> f

thank you for joining us at the munk debates. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ >>> american history tv on c-span 3 thiskend. saturday night at 8:00 esche. on lectures in history. >> what we see is new factors making emancipation desirable. old kinds of obstacles falling by the wayside. with the result that by august if not earlier of 1862 lincoln has decided that when the time is right he will announce a new aim for the war effort that would add to union human freedom. >> wheaton college history professor tracy mckenzie on the evolving war goals of the north during the civil war. and then at 10:00 on "real america" -- >> how was it possible for america to achieve such production and at the same time build an army? then the amazing reports came in from my agents in the united states. 20% of industrial american manpower was woman power. legions of american women were massing to stop my advance across the world. forsaking the round of revelry for the grim tasks of war. >> reporter: this 1944 war department film documents how women in world war ii helped the war effort, alluding that the hidden army of ame