no way. a lot of money. no way. thank you, president. is this your mug shot? this is what we re reduced to, which could be the slogan for donald trump s campaign as his republican sycophants continue to kneel to the first ever felon to be a major party presidential nominee. first up tonight bump stocks turn guns into rapid fire killing machines. nonetheless the six leonard leo conservatives on the supreme court say they cannot be banned, leading to a scathing dissent fromjustice sonia sotomayor. but we begin tonight by wishing everyone a happy flag day, which commemorates the day in 1777 when the continental congress approved the stars and stripes as the symbol for an emerging if imperfect nation. and as there has been some confusion recently the american legion wanted to clarify that the flag should never be displayed with the union down except as a symbol of dire distress in instance of extreme danger to life or property. in other words, never upside down. if someon
county official with a post erased in which he shared a t-shirt blaming china for the coronavirus saying the suspects in the shooting just had a bad day. he does claim it was not racially motivated. i spoke with investigators that, yes, he understood the gravity of it and was pretty much fed up, at the end of his rope and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. this was a really bad day for the victims too. today, celebrities are speaking out. testifying on capitol hill after speaking to nbc. this man targeted places where asian-americans were working. you don t have to peal the layers back far. i ll speak to activist coming up and with president biden and vice president harris. the president has addressed the shootings on wednesday. i know americans are very concerned. as you know, i ve been speaking about brutality against asian-americans for months and i thinks it very, very trouble some. joining me now from atlanta, nbc news correspon
Audience so you can all engage us, but we can talk a lot about this, as we do not often get to be in a room with one another to discuss this. I will get to the panelists in the order that they are here. First up will be jennifer, the predoctoral fellow in history at the university of illinois at chicago. She earned her ba from North Carolina university. She earned an ma in history from the university of North Carolina at greensboro. She is a former faculty member at city college and has taught history at several institutions. Her dissertation traces the history of gender and sexuality. Through the 1950s through the early 2000s. At the heart is the resistance and activism of young women and lgbt students. They are examined as forces that challenge administrative policies, academic offerings and cultural institutions at historically black colleges. Through organizing this with activism on several grounds beginning with the modern Civil Rights Movement and ending with campaigns around ant
Your other title is dr. Ben carson. Why did you decide to pursue a career in medicine . Hud sec. Carson as a youngster i used to hear the stories in church about missionary doctors. They seem to me like the most noble people on the face of the earth, going to all kinds of places at great personal risk, to bring mental, physical and spiritual healing to people. I said that is what i want to do. When i was eight years old i decided that was the path i was going to take. Obviously, it changed. I went from there to wanting to be a psychiatrist. When i got into medical school, i said, what are you really, really good at . I started examining my life and i realized they had hand i coordination and the ability to think in three dimensions. , never knocked things over which is good if you want to be a brain surgeon. That was the thing that led me in that direction. Neurosurgeon, but i quickly migrated towards the kent. I had this great affinity towards young people. Host clicking tell us about
To knowledge but real deep understanding takes longer to acquire and to share. My guest today is one of the worlds most acclaimed novelists, nobel prize winner, orham pamuk. Hes lived almost all of his life in istanbul, writing stories about turkey which have, over decades, painted a vivid picture of a country and society pulled between east and west, past and future. What is the key to understanding orham pamuks turkey . Orham pamuk, welcome to hardtalk. Very pleased to be here. I want to start with the book, the novel that has just been published in english, the red haired woman, your latest. It is built around relationships between fathers and sons. And ijust wonder why you were so drawn to that theme . In 1988, i was finishing one of my novels, during summer, and in the land next to me, an oldish man and his disciple started digging a well, and i was writing my novel and paying attention to them. After a while, they asked, sir, can we have some water . Can we have some electricity