Yesterday do you think the Attorney Sidney Powell did to make needed to do her case before that panel of judges yesterday . Look. It is a difficult case if your focus is simply on the politics of the matter. But if you are looking at the law on the facts in the case, i think she has the stronger side of the facts given that the executive branch is the one that should be determining whether a case goes forward or not. Systemic headline from the Washington Post this morning judges skeptical of shutting down a review of the flynn case. I wonder your reading of the judges reaction and their interaction with the lawyers yesterday . Anytime you are in front of one judge it is difficult as an attorney. But to beip in front of multiple judges at the Appellate Court level that is certainly a challenge. I have been there. You dont know which question is coming, sometimes ive had judges thatns i thought were absently against my position that gave me the hardest time in thehe courtroom. And i left
Thank you very much. Appreciate you being here. And good evening as we continue to confront the china virus rebuilding americas economy like nobody thought possible actually. We are doing incredibly well must stop market is up almost 20 points again today but while our economy is performing significantly better than europe which people have to understand very strongly is performing better than any market anywhere in the world actually. The same time europe has experienced a 40 higher excess mortality than the United States and i will say that is a significant number. We are working with europe on the difficulties and we are going to help them all the way. Doing very well as you know if the vaccines in the therapeutics but we have the strongest economy in the world. We are up i think its 9 trillion since march, 9 trillion valley 9 trillion in value. Thats a number that no one is ever heard of before and we are getting close to 50 number since march which is incredible so 9 trillion almo
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Pursuit of meaningful change both in the wake of george floyd step and in the midst of a larger legacy of Racial Injustice in this country. I want to thank you all for joining and i want to thank jean henning for her organizing the series. Let me introduce the moderator of todays roundtable repressor Christy Lopez. Professor lopez joined our faculty in january 2017 right after completing a federal investigation of the Chicago Police department will goodwill serving of the Department Just a Civil Rights Division she led that investigation and many others to examine patterns and practices of unconstitutional policing across the country including in new orleans, los angeles and ferguson. Since joining our faculty professor lopez has cofounded our Innovative Policing Program which is now launching a Prevention Program called abler active bystander ship for recently professor lopez has written up that somehow the Police Culture could have saved George Floyds life and what the funding of pol
And also, bill hampton freds brother and freds sister. And [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce berkshires. She is here tonight also. [applause] i want to thank northwestern and bernadine for bringing together such a prestigious and accomplished panel. I feel like now, i can sit down and hear what they have to say. I am and all of the people who are here tonight and their accomplishments. Bernadine fork putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for wired with this book. It was bernadine mentioned that fred hampton spoke at Northwestern University law School Almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. The person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of [indiscernible] who is sitting in the front row. Butrently, i wasnt there he stammered through an introduction of fred. Fred. Red got when fred got up he chided him and said you better get it together. He also knew that he had helped him get out on appeal bond. As you kno