dough miss particular violence. domestic violence. gillian turner has more from washington. reporter: mark esper is slated to become acting secretary of defense starting monday. but last night the white house announced president trump hopes to ultimately make the secretary gig permanent. esper served at the army secretary for a year and-a-half now and the a announcement of his appointment comes on the heels of patrick shanahan s withdrawal of consideration from the secretary of defense post this past tuesday. mark esper, who is a highly respected gentleman with a great career, a tremendous talent, was just named acting secretary of defense. i think he ll do very well. reporter: the white house has been touting his resume, saying he s a former vice president of government relations and a defense contractor. he s worked under senate committees. he has a doctorate in public policy and is a recipient of a dod medal. news that the president hopes to make esper permanent went over
to be drawn to a life of crime and gang violence? is the focus of a new book entitled why young men, the dangerous allure of violent movements and what we can do about it. your enemy the author, here to talk about his community activism working with disenfranchised and at risk youth. welcome to fox. thank you for having me. arthel: absolute. what is the allure to violence or the violent movement? i think sometimes we think of it as an economic motivation. if you re poor, you re looking for money and it is a way to make money and it is crime. the violent movement is a lot more than that. it s a feeling of belonging, purpose and brotherhood.that these groups are able to offer in in communities where there is not existing strong social bonds. i think it is the appeal of a lot of these movements. it makes people feel like your
greg? reporter: it is just before dawn on sunday in hong kong. people are still taking in the event that occurred just a short distance from where we are right now. a short while ago. thousands of pro-democracy activists besieged the police headquarters as well as several other government buildings friday into friday night. b& till about 15 hours and it i being described now as an aggressive new phase of this unrest. folks for the new extradition law could send their residence to some pretty shady courts and jails in china. protesters threw oil and eggs, they school graffiti on the walls of headquarters, taunted police trapped inside. the police held back in maybe it is what we avoided more violence but they still branded the action as illegal. we also watched firsthand answer activists participating in what is now described as a new mobile strategy, a