And you were thinking about the future of American Cities, you would have seen potentially a very bleak future. That was the time when particularly our urban cores, new york city and los angeles, were in the middle of a bona fide crisis. You had seen years of deindustrialization ravaged the working class of the city and an enormous middleclass flight to other regions entirely. That was very hard on the Fiscal Foundation of the cities and the civic life of those cities. You saw the tremendous renaissance over the subsequent decades. That renaissance was not even. You did not see it in every single American City but you did see it in a handful of cities that had a renaissance in governance. The Manhattan Institute was deeply involved in an urban renaissance but one thing we have been arguing for some years is that, wait a second, everyone. We are in a period of relative health. You see a comeback of many major American Cities but lets not take this for granted. Lets look at some of those
Prime minister is calling for early elections and an overhaul of lebanons political class. And other news 5 months after its 1st fatality the coronavirus death toll in brazil passes 100000. And as you can see thousands of israelis are back outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his residence demanding his exit over corruption allegations and his courage in 1000 responds. Really well into the sports news including the process of European Fund ventas. Sorry has been silent for Champions League just 2 weeks after he won the italian league. Now the deadly port explosion in lebanons capital is now igniting a fresh wave of anger towards the government thousands have been demonstrating in central beirut with. Some protesters storming the Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister how sunday up says people have a right to be angry addressing the nation just a short while ago he has called for early elections now one Police Officer has been killed in clashes with protesters and the Lebanese Red Cro
The Supreme Court ultimately room the statute to be unconstitutional. Watch landmark cases tonight on cspan three and anytime at cspan. Org. The Senate Intelligence committee met to consider the nominations of Christopher Miller to be the director of the National Counterterrorism center and peter to be the general counsel to the office of the director of National Intelligence. The two nominees were asked about Russian Election interference, interrogation tactics, the fisa application process and whistleblower protections. They were also questions related to the recent deployment of federal Law Enforcement agents and u. S. Cities experiencing ongoing protests. This hearing will enable the committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration and qualifications for the position that you have been respected lee nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided wooden responses to questions from the committee, find admits members which you all will have and they will be able to ask any
And irelands Pascal Donahoe is chosen at the next eurogroup president. He says the focus is to bring back jobs. I will play my part in working with all members of the eu eurogroup to make sure this group makes the contributions. The challenges are great but we will prevail and will overcome we kick off the show this morning with a major oil report crossing the latest is that the organization has bumped up its 2020 Oil Demand Forecast today but it has warned that the spread of covid19 has posed a risk to the outlook. Steves been pouring through this document and has all the analysis ill be honest, not every page i think its 81 pages i have from our friends at the iea. Its pretty much what the doctor told us oh, gosh, we interviewed him on stn a few weeks ago. The situation at the moment is its halftime in the year, of course theyre hoping for better out of the second half of the year. The commentary is casting a shadow and quite interesting. Saying, look we think things are going to reb
The moral language to draw attention to their moral superiority to illustrate how selfaggrandizing damages public conversations. We are joined by the books author and specializes in the six watching this event justin and brandon thank you for joining us. To began briefly what is grandstanding . If you want the simple Bumper Sticker description, it is using discussion of Public Discourse and grant standards use morality and justice and family values and tradition to draw attention to themselves. They want others to think of themselves as morally ally and in something more detailed is grandstanding but the first part is the grant standards want a certain audience to come to believe those certain moral qualities. And they Say Something and what they say typing into cable news or some speech or politician. Thats called the grandstanding expression it is motivated in a significant way and a desire for praise on the side of the angels. Turn and in terms of equation with a primary or signific