. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ schematic "washington journal", live every day with newson policy issues that on saturday morning, league of conservation voters will be on to talk about the november election. then, clipper young president of affairs will discuss the latest on brett kavanaugh nomination. dean cain will join us to tell us what it's like to be a trump supporter in hollywood. watch "washington journal" live at seven eastern on saturday morning. the discussion. >> the first debate in the illinois governor race was held last night in chicago, that's next. then, barbara debates jennifer laxton in virginia's tenth district. president trump attends a rally in springfield, missouri. >> illinois governor and democratic challenger debated thursday in chicago. they were joined by kaz jackson and conservative candidate, sam mccann. topics included term limits, unions, colin kaepernick, immigration, gun violence and immigration. this is courtesy of nbc five, chicago. >> decision 2018, the race for

he believes the former president should just disappear for a while and p allow the newson to come in and speak uninterrupted. but he said today he was eaking at a citizen and not a former president and it is what he calls the most important election he can remember. what was very notable about today's speech, guys is thater foresident obama shied away from something he did in the past, which is going after his successor by name. not only did hesiay pnt trump's name several times in the speech, but almost ticked down a laundry list of the current president's actions, talking about his meeting with vladimir putin to the border wall tohe response to the hurricane disaster and saying he was not pleased, t put it lightly, with the way president trump handled it. you can imagine president trump had some snide words for obama. he gave a speech shortly after saying, yeah, i was giving a speech. i was falling asleep during r. it's good sleep. back and forth. much more coming from them later. ot of democrats are probably saying, it's about time. th have been asking for mr. hiama to get more an

. >> gavin newson opened up his door into what i call the political metrics. in other words we always talk about judging homeless programs by counties on how much they spend versus what kind of results they get. so it seems like when i hear candidates say we need to spend more, that seems to be the cry. but i never hear about what we've got this money. >> will one of the things he said is you can keep housing people and when he was mayor they housed thousands of people but more people keep coming. if you try to make a metric based on the number of people you help than there is an endless number of people who need help and you so -- always end up in the same position. and as mayor people expect you to have the answers and you don't. >> it is clear. we don't have land in this town. it seems to me if we would take our resources for housing for homeless people and go to where the land is, we could buy a far greater number of shelters at that location then we can at hours. >>> sure, out there at contra costa they are just going to say come on over and bring them. >

democrat gavin newson was on the campaign trail in lafayette yesterday.spoke on behalf of buffy wicks who is a candidate for the 15th assembly district . the the lieutenant governor and former san francisco mayor joined other democratic leaders in reminding voters that this could be one of the most important midterm elections in recent memory. he is urging everyone to stop complaining about the current state of american politics and get out and vote. >> we can talk about the good old days with housing and urban devolvement. we can talk about the institutionalization for those that were getting support. where we can actually do something. we can lament about the 44 and mention all the facilities shut down says 1995. or we can do something about it. >> newsom also spoke on behalf of of status simply candidate rebecca bauer k hand during an event earlier in the afternoon also in lafayette. the latest poll in the california governor's race was released last week and has newsom leading republican john cox 44 - 39%. cox is well outperforming his gop base which

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democratic candidate newson was speaking on behalf of two candidates, and voters are reminded that thism elections in recent memory. >>> former secretary of state condoleezza rice is throwing her support behind republican candidate for governor john cox. rice is currently a professor at stanford and she says cox as the vision to tackle california's problems. cox is running as a political outsider and says he will use his financial skills that make him a multimillionaire to put california on the right economic path. john cox and gavin newsom has only agreed to one debate, tentatively scheduled to happen on october 8 in san francisco. >>> amazon founder jeff mazo's is establishing a $2 billion charitable fund with focus on helping homeless families and opening preschools in low income communities. he is calling at the basals day one fun, -- day one fund. it will offer money to organizations trying to help homeless families. it will also offers -- ps -- of scholarships. >>> and a man came up with a clever way to cheat into the carpool lane. there was a dummy in a car wearing a marvel venom