pointe du hoc on d-day as he urges americans here at home to defend democracy, stand up to aggression abroad, and be part of something bigger than ourselves. the biden campaign message of democracy and freedom as the election gets closer, but is it landing? the defense calls its first witness at hunter biden s federal gun trial. key members who could take the stand and the impact they might have on this case. and polling says the rfk jr. could have an impact on the election. will challenges keep him off the ballot in some major states. we ll explain what it could mean and who is behind the effort. begin with president biden s appeal to americans to protect democracy and freedom. the president delivering that message more than 4,000 miles away at pointe du hoc in france. the dramatic backdrop at the stop where 80 years ago u.s. army rangers scaled the cliffs overlooking omaha and utah beaches as allied forces helped turn the tide of world war ii. to believe, to require
Is going to be a long night. Much more for you anytime, of course, on the bbc website. Now on bbc news, the bbc website. Now on bbc news, the latest Business News live from singapore. Chinas first Commercial Aircraft is ready for takeoff, but can it compete with airbus and boeing . And the challenges of Doing Business in myanmar. We speak to a regional boss. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Welcome to another edition of Asia Business report. Glad you could join us. Its a friday. The first Made In China Passengerjet will fly for the first time this morning. It is called the c919, and it is built by komak. It will not be delivered to airlines until at least 2020, but the Industry Buzz around the aeroplane is huge. It has been in the works for nearly a decade as china tries to rely less on European Airlines like boeing. We had a sneak preview. Made in china, those three words now applied to Commercial Aircraft. This is the c919, chinas first home made Commercial Aircraft. Actually, it is
Seen it. He has uncanny ability to connect with their hopes and their desires. And like reagan, he reminds americans that what makes us special is our people. Its our freedom. Its not our government. And as for the socalled smart educated people who are now criticizing trump, i have a few questions. Was it smart to enact policies that ended up enriching the repressive regime in china at the expense of american workers, American Companies and American Security . And was it smart to leave our borders open like swiss cheese allowing illegals to stream into the United States, taking american jobs, Sad Ling Taxpayers with the cost of educating them, housing them, providing them with healthcare . Was it smart to get into some wars that ended up draining our country of trillions of dollars, took the lives of so many of our finest Men And Women . Was it smart to explode our foreign population not through a smart merit based Immigration System but through the ludicrous policy
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People do once they get here and people who are more likely to succeed will get preference and those who are less likely to succeed divulge. Whats wrong with that . Took a very important points. The first is that the United States is not a company, its not a school, its a nation. Second point, we want to make sure that we scrutinize every person coming here into the country, we want to make sure that they dont have any terrorist background, we want to make sure they dont have a violent criminal record. No one disputes that. Lets get to this point, very important, the United Nations ws created mainly in the declaration of independence because the kings restricted immigration, because the king of england said states, colonies, you can no longer bring people from other countries. What happened . American revolution, a beautiful idea of this nation came about. Tucker [laughs] the American Revolution was spurred okay. [laughs]
okay. Lets back up a little bit. You said that the two standards
the fact is it s a duopoly, the democratic and republican party, and in every state there s either a democrat or republican secretary of state, and they make it absolutely as difficult as possible for anybody else to run. and the starting sum to get on the ballot is $50 million. not an insignificant amount of money, even today where money seems to be at least pouring into the democratic and republican candidate, but we have some examples of exactly what both of you are talking about, which is this difficulty in getting on ballots. there are headlines in different states all around the country that are about the fight that he s having right now. there you see a couple of them to get on ballots. he s also been fighting obviously, to get on the debate stage. when you look at his campaign, mark mckinnon, at this point, what s the best case scenario for it? is he really a significant challenger? well, listen, in this environment i think anybody s