Were live. Sorry for the delay there my name is david, a report at the Chicago Tribune and i cover all sorts of thingsful i cover crime and government and part of the tribunes Investigative Team now so i do a lot of longer term investigative work. So im very happy to be rear hive andy parker, who is written a new book about his experiences and found himself with a career that he didnt plan on having and as an activist. On gun issues and violence issues because of what happened to his daughter, alison so thank you for coming and choosing to sit with us today and listen to us, and this is a hard thing to talk about and i just wanted to start with acknowledging that we are going to talk frankly about your experience of having a child murdered, and thats a horrible thing that most of us never experience. Want to start with most of us have heard in passing in some way or know somewhat familiar what if happened to your daughter but sadly its kind of become part of an issue and its because th
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Most of us went through school and learned about the revolution. This is quite problematic. If you look at the advantages of they had every advantage. They had a modern professional army that had been bottle battle tested. Had a smalls Continental Army that could not really be counted on. The british of the greatest navy in the world. The americans did not have a navy to speak of. We have privateers. Pirates, essentially, we gave the ability to steal and pillage for their pay. Most americans did not support independence. Less than half of continental support independence. Thousands fought for the british. Others wanted to be left alone. Thats not to mention the british soldiers in the native americans. The british have be worlds greatest economy. We had no central bank. We had a very hard time raising money. So, how did we win . Its not that after he got his masters, he served in the United States marine corps and then joined the cia. Today hes a cia Operations Officer. From 1969 to 20
A boat that capsized and that happened in may it made headlines around the world at the time and he survived he actually wants to stay inside his ear but most of the other people on that boat actually died at sea and he wants to stay because hes here for Economic Opportunities he wants to work hes a barber he told me not everyone feels the same i spoke to a few people earlier they said that they feel like theyre stuck in limbo here the country doesnt have an asylum system the n. H. They are says that theyre trying to help to get some of those sent other countries including europe to safer countries now a few of them said that they work youll notice that theres quite a few empty beds they work illegally they do the odd job here or there to earn a little bit of money and that money helps them buy food and very basic stuff that is not provided here at this camp when i spoke to the red cross and they said that theres a lack of funding but also the government at the moment is in political t
Largest eco are now scheduled to meet next week at the g20 summit in jand it was all investors needed to hear and stocks took off today. The dow industrial average rose 353 points to 26,465. The nasdaq added 108, the s p wa 2 up but it wasnt just trade that drove todays big rally. Bob pasane is at the new york stock exchange. Stocks were in full mode fuelled by high hopes of trade talks and easy money across the globe. Thats what moves things these days. Ar futures first high around 4 00 a. M. Eastern time. European Central Bank President mario drahgi said there was a case to be made for more economic stimulus in europe if the economy did not improve. That sent a signalo the markets more easing could be ahead. Itent the euro down against the dollar. Then President Donald Trump tweetedut he had a very good phone conversation with chinese president xi jinping, and the two plan to meet at next g2week summit in japan. That one tweet sent the dow up 150 points in less than ten inutes with t