so there s no later on where all of a sudden it s being sold to third parties. thank you for joining me. i ve been speaking with the anonymous whistle-blower who came forward about google s nightingale project with ascension health. up next, anti-government demonstrators in hong kong took a violent turn over night with protestors barricade on a university campus fighting police with homemade bows and arrows, mazel tov cocktails, and catapults. secretary state mike pompeo breaks from decades old legal opinion and declares his israeli settlements in the occupied territories of the west bank are not against international law. reversing a decision that s been in place since the 1970s. we ll explain. you re watching msnbc. we ll explain. you re watching msnbc.
quite a bit of activity taking place right there in the streets on this monday morning. matt. reporter: yeah, the latest that we re hearing here, police have threatened to start using live ammunition against the protestors if they continue to persist in using their own lethal weapons. and you mentioned we re still seeing that use of molotov cocktails, catapults, bows and arrows. one police officer god t an arr that almost went entirely through his calf. and that is very threatening to these officers and they are willing to use any force necessary. the protestors themselves have been buckling down. they say that they are taking this from what it was nearly six months ago foe which is basically a weekly massive protest that was gridlocking the streets of hong kong, they now
people, they re really gerding for a very long battle. you mentioned those weapons they re using. we saw lines of molotov cocktails that had been prepared, catapults that had been homemade and set up so protesters could mount those molotov cocktails in the catapults and launch them at police. there s a column of smoke rising from across the harbor. that is hong kong polytech knick university on fire right now. richard? i had been there before. it was not looking like that. 15 seconds here, beijing, what are they doing in terms of influencing hong kong s government on this? reporter: we just heard from xi jinping, the head of the president of china. he said in brazil a couple of days ago that this was undermining the one country, two systems rule that has defined hong kong for nearly the past 30
the protesters occupied this university for the past several days. right here in this intersection, they ve been running street battles. there s police officers. that white truck has basically water in it. water cannons on top. the water is sort of spicy. it has a blue dye in it. they ll be able to identify protesters who have been dyed with it. i was inside this university. they re fully stocked. they re prepared for a long wait and siege. not only do they have food and equipment, they stockpiled weapons. you ve seen the footage involving a lot of catapults they ve been using to sling molotov cocktails. we ve seen glass all over there. they re using rocks they have pulled from the university grounds and scooped them up. there are also bows and arrows. one went almost entirely through the calf of a police officer earlier today. and that officer was hospitalized and he s doing
costs, overstates its savings, inflates the revenue, and pretends that an employee payroll tax increase is something else. warren s new pledge to not raise taxes on the middle class a contrast from bernie sanders, the author of medicare for all. but i do think it is appropriate to acknowledge that taxes will go up. reporter: warren also saying she ll soon release another plan, detailing the transition to medicare for all, leaving open the possibility of more divergence from sanders bill. asked today whether she s discussed her new plan with sanders i ve called him, but he hasn t returned my call yet. reporter: with a little more than three months left before the iowa caucuses, a new poll shows a close fight for the top spot in the crucial first state between four democrats warren, sanders, mayor pete buttigieg, and biden. all four candidates gathering in the same place tonight at the liberty and justice dinner in des moines, one of the last major catapults before caucus d