New autonomous zones springing up across the country. Dramatic action. Pressing pause. Four States Holding off on their reopening plans. Others thinking about doing the same. More concerned about covid19 in South Carolina than i have ever been before. The grief of one man losing five family members. With new warnings about crowds returning to the streets too soon. Nascars shift. The first race taking place today since banning the Confederate Flag from all events. The driver leading the charge and who will be in the stands. Good morning, america. Lets get right to the breaking news overnight in atlanta. Demonstrators taking to the streets in a show of anger after a man was fatally shot by police and setting fire to the fastfood restaurant where it took place. The mans struggle with police and the shooting caught on camera, you see it right there, an officer involved losing his job and the police chief resigning. This is a fastmoving story. Lets get the latest now from abcs janai norman.
Commemorating the end of slavery directed at the media. And in a place with a tragic you can see right there, those are the gray boards. History, this as the president under that is the bronze statue heads to west point today, of Winston Churchill. Gathering more than 1,000 cadets now, the rightwing groups out in the midst of the coronavirus here have all showed up to counterprotest and to march for crisis for a Graduation Ceremony what they say is to save this statue. Unlike any other. Peaceful or a threat . Protesters in seattle still in hes long been seen as britains control of several city blocks this morning, including a Police Greatest wartime leader, a National Hero, even immortalized precinct. Its sort of like a different on the big screen in the darkest way of thinking. With President Trump hour. Whatever the cost may be threatening to send in u. S. Troops, how will this standoff end . All that, plus happy we should fight on the beaches. Reporter but today a statue birthday, y
Warrick dunn will join us to talk about his years long fight against racial inequality and how the league is addressing it now. Power lunch starts right now stocks have given up their rebound sdwrurjust turning nega from moments ago you can see were just slightly on the negative side. Essentially, the transimportapo still up thats good news banks were much stronger earlier. Flatti istish ow. Energy has gone negative big movers for the reopenings. All now on flat on the day el tell you why today is important. Were conditioned to buy the dip. Buy the dip worked very well in march. Remember, very rare to have the s p down 5 on a day it happened yesterday down 6 . Buy the dip worked well in march and april and may. The question is will it work now. Take a look at some of the stocks the airline, some of them holding up all right united been talking about all week the crazy moves thats ahead but its holding up pretty well these crazy moves here but its still up off of the lows marathon banks
Next, on lectures in history, Clemson University professor Bradley Thompson teaches a class about the preamble of the declaration of independence. Examining it line by line, he talks about the selfevident truths enumerated by the Founding Fathers and explores what they may have intended by their word choices. Good afternoon, everybody. So for the last six weeks in this class, weve been examining the political thought of the imperial crisis. That is, weve been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials and american wig patriots. And that debate has really in many ways come down to one issue which is broadly speaking what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies . And more specifically even the real question is, what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas colonial legislators . And over the course of about 12 years between 1764 an
Vietnam is widely considered Lyndon Johnsons tragedy, failure, betrayal, depending on your position on the political spectrum. There are two books in print, both entitled Lyndon Johnsons war and both advancing compelling, if sometimes contradictory analysis of the reasons why the series of decisions made between 1964 and 1968 that led to the official justification for escalating the vietnam war, of incidents of august 1964, the first landing of u. S. Combat troops to defend the base in march of 1965, the stepped up escalation of American Forces in country over the next few years until the total was greater than half a million men, change from a military strategy of base security to enclave strategy to what was finally and unfortunately if accurately titled, search and destroy. The shock and humiliation of the 1968 tet offensive and johnsons decision to turn down a request by general william moreland, commander in vietnam, for 200,000 more troops and johnsons decision to withdraw from t