NBC Joe Biden Town HaIl
Broadcast time: 20:00:00 ET // 00:00:00 ZULU
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00:00->01:35 Intro/Biden clip montage / ..."your host Lester Holt."

01:35->01:49 "Good evening, everyone. Welcome to tonight's
. .....................Town HaIl were we are surrounded by dozens of
. .....................undecided voters and where Democratic candidate
. .....................Joe Biden will make his case tonight."
01:49->02:39 "Just under an hour ago we saw the President
. .....................return to the White House by helicopter after spending nearly
. .....................three days at nearby Walter Reed Military Hospital
. .....................where he was tested for his Corona Virus infection.
. .....................Upon his return the President removed his mask and
. .....................posed for cameras on the White House balcony. We
. ....................are in the midst of an extraordinary time with the
. .....................election now just four weeks away and miIlions of
. .....................Americans already voting. In just the past six days
. .....................we've seen a contentious first Presidential Debate,
. .....................foIlowed by the stunning news that the President
. .....................himself had fallen iIl after testing positive for the virus.
. .....................Tonight we wiIl talk to his opponent Joe Biden about
. .....................all this and much more in our exclusive Town HaIl.
. .....................We've got a lot to get to tonight, so let's start with a
. .....................quick update from our Chief White House
. .....................correspondent HaIlie Jackson. HaIlie..."
02:39->04:07 The President's return to the White House was a moment
. .....................that sent a message, but it is not clear its the message
. .....................the President had hoped to send. The news that he is
. ....................now out of the hospital, overshadowed by landing on
. .....................the South Lawn of the White House, walking up to
. .....................the Blue Room balcony, and removing his mask.
. .....................You can see there... he puts it in his pocket. It doesn't
. .....................look like there was anyone around the President in his
. .....................immediate vicinity, but already you are hearing concerns
. .....................about the signal this sends to Americans from the President
. .....................of the United States, who is actively infected with the
. .....................Corona Virus after seven months in a pandemic in which
. .....................we were aIl told that wearing masks is a critical part of
. .....................lowering risks. AIl of this, Lester, foIlowing the President's
. .....................walk out of Walter Reed. He stepped out of that main
. .....................entrance after about a 72 hour stay at the medical center,
. .....................came down the stairs and flashed a thumbs up. Through
. .....................his hospitalization his White House has been focused on
. .....................photo opportunities like these, trying to show America
. .....................that the President is stiIl in control, the President is stiIl
. .....................in charge. His physician, Dr. Sean Conley, says that
. .....................he is confident in the President's progress, but
. .....................acknowledges that President Trump is not entirely out
. .....................of the woods yet. And while Dr. Conley says that the
. .....................President has no more fever, no more cough, we don't
. .....................have an answer on, for example, what the President's
. .....................lung scans show, there are some concerns the President
. .....................may have had pneumonia, no one knows when the last
. .....................negative test was either. That's actually a reaIly important
. .....................point for figuring out who else may have been exposed
. .....................and at risk. Lester.

The broadcast switches back to Lester Holt in Miami for the Joe Biden Town Hall. Clip below covers the four minutes and eight seconds that Joe Biden lost to news coverage of President Trump leaving the hospital and returning to White House.

Below are the NBC and the CNBC youtube live streams of the broadcast. Watch the first four minutes and eight seconds from the beginning of the each broadcast to when Jackson tosses back to Holt. (Don't watch the Town Hall unless you are masochistic, or sadistic if you are not alone.)

The CNBC live stream audio started on time (of course there may be a one or two second lag from the network stream) but there was no visual, no picture. No picture / no audio for the first 21 seconds of live stream

https://youtu.be/5xTNKVqsLKo?t=235 (timestamp / synced to audio start CNBC clip)

No picture for first 2 min and 44 sec, plays then drops for 20 sec / /audio starts on time
https://youtu.be/A5pPSv_Htgw?t=2 (NBC live stream)

Now ordinarily... what's the big deal?

Now watch this from the NBC live stream, timestamped below, for 8 seconds: https://youtu.be/5xTNKVqsLKo?t=465 (timestamp / watch for 8 seconds)

Did you see it? The digital distortion and audio glitch in the snarky reporters segment?

Consider, both streams had audio and or visual problems in the beginning portions of their streams... the CNBC visual was established... and then dropped out when the visual and audio distortions would have been shown (as compared with the NBC stream) and the NBC stream stayed up but had that momentary distortion.

Change my mind. We are in the middle of this:
https://youtu.be/7qjXDD02IPw (57 seconds)

Now, if all of the above has got your interest, watch this:

https://youtu.be/XbiNpt9VT6I (2 min / 48 sec)

and then watch the entire town hall (NBC live stream below best)

https://youtu.be/5xTNKVqsLKo?t=238 ( 1 hour )

and change my mind.

"Never play a dominated strategy game."

Game Theory (ECON 159) Yale University https://youtu.be/nM3rTU927io (1 hr / 8 min)

[HaIlie Jackson]

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