Pickard. In san francisco, cory johnson. He has been digging deep into the filing. Also, gordon chang. Before we get started, i want to take a closer look at alibabas is this by the numbers. Business by the numbers. Leslie pickard is here with the details on my po. You have gone through the whole filing. What is different about this . Is a massive company. They talk about their ecosystem, maintaining their culture. Carehave taken a lot of and time to put this perspective together. They are trying to exemplify what this company is for american investors who do not use ali baba. They have taken a lot of care to lay out what their business is, how they monetize, and how they make money. Much are not sure how theyre going to raise. They have a billiondollar placeholder for now. Correct. The placeholders dont necessarily mean anything. Theyre just used for placeholder purposes. Market value right now, my estimate, it is at 168 billion. We are told by sources it should come out around that r
Who are losing their jobs and hours. Now, as lawmakers keep squabbling about the economic response, the World Health Organization says the pandemic is accelerating and the certainly had this stark warning during an appearance on the today show this morning. I want america to understand, this week, its going to get bad. And we really need to come together as a nation and every single day counts. Every single second counts. And right now, there are not enough people out there who are taking this seriously. And you just see it looking in california, people on the beaches. You see it in washington, d. C. , the people out looking at the cherry blossoms. We need to take this seriously. The number of reported cases in the United States has now passed the 40,000 mark. And there have been more than 440 deaths. In michigan and indiana and delaware, they have joined the growing list of states that are implementing stayathome orders in an effort to stop the virus from spreading. These orders now a
20th, 1973, when the attorney general and the Deputy Attorney general of the United States under Richard Nixon resigned in protest rather than comply with nixons order to fire the special prosecutor looking into the watergate breakin. Those resignations in protest and nixon abolishing the special Prosecutors Office afterward were ducked the saturday night massacre. Well, on saturday, the Trump Administration orchestrated its second purge of federal Civil Servants having previously dismissed more than two dozen career and mitt calpolitical appointe appointees. The dismissals came after two days of trump loyalists going on cable tv calling for a purge of anyone in government who isnt absolutely, unquestionably loyal to donald trump. For weeks weve been warning you about the deep state obama holdover government bureaucrats who are hellbent on destroying this president , President Trump. Tonight its time for the Trump Administration to begin to purge these saboteurs before its too late. An
All angles. I want to start on the ground in hong kong. Joining me now, nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley. Tell us what has happened today and the context. Reporter this airport was filled with protesters for the better part of the last 48 hours. This afternoon the whole checkin area was clotted with protesters trying deliberately to prevent any passengers from coming in and registering for flights. It doesnt look like much now. This got really hot and then really cold all within a matter of about two hours. The whole thing was sparked when protesters thought they found a man who was a spy or a Police Officer from mainland china. They grabbed him, restrained him, and took some of his possessions. Some of the protesters are still now combing through some of his belongings trying to determine his identity. This has been going on for hours. They beat him, they strapped him to one of these luggage carousels, and then they paraded him around the airport in a savage act of cruelty
Federal custody todays hearing is a chance for lawyers on both sides and epsteins accusers to address the court. Epstein was arrested on july 6th and pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking underage girls. Heres some of what we heard from his accusers over the past year. Just to hear they are standing up for the victims, you know what i mean, is just so overwhelmingly its past due. I was 14 years old. What the hell do you know when youre that young . Did you ever tell him your age . I told the recruiter. Ive mentioned it in front of him, yes. Youre 14 years old. He knew very well my age. You know exactly who he was hanging out with. You know . I dont think he cared. I was telling him to stop, please stop, you know. Did he . No, he did not stop. That 16yearold girl just let it happen. That was how i got into the abuse with jeffrey. Your a he screaming on the inside and you dont know how to let it come out and you become this numb figure who refuses to feel and refuses to speak