The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcecement re should only be last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the insurrection act. Esper m made the remark aftf trump said d he would use troop if needed to maintain security. 1,600 troops have been moved to the capital area and stand ready to be deployed. Protests continued across the United States for the ninth straight day since george floyd, an unarmed black man was killed in police custody. The Associated Press says at least nine people have died and 9,300 others have been arrested since the start of the demonstrations. The movement has spread to europe. Thousands of people joined protests in london and stockholm. But the now fired Police Officer who pressed his knee in floyds neck for over eight minutes was charged on wednesday with Second Degree murder. After repeated calls for the other three officers on the scene to face charges
Trade war. With have gone protests hong kongs legislature over the bill and trump raising rhetoric on tariffs. At least gdp with fewer options if he does not meet with them, perhaps more tariffs according to present trump and if the case as well, he risks losing credibility and china as well. Kongop story today is hong where protesters are gathering this morning. Severalheard of thousands of people out there this morning, thoughts of boycotts and strikes as well. Give us a flavor of what is happening. Pretty charged atmosphere. Or the trees, you can see protesters have flooded out and in the one of the main part of hong kong and police have not enabled to push them occupiedit feels like territory that happened five years ago. People thought the failure of the on brother revolution, but the spirit of opposition has been crushed with at least 240,000 people out on the street. As one milliony here. The beginning of 66 hours, a bill that has concerned so many a firehere, leading to were be
Future, possibly. Right. Okay. Were also going to be talking about this as well. A ulez u turn. Good stuff. Finally, common sense is prevailing now and it looks as though sadiq khan and i dare say now other mayors and other cities and other towns will follow suit. He is extending the scrappage scheme up people who scheme for hard up people who will need to buy a new car to comply with ulez. Frankly, the next thing will just be to scrap ulez wouldnt it . Patrick christys on. Gb news. We also christys on. Gb news. We also talk a lot about raising a generation of snowflakes here, dont we . On this show . And ive got a cracking hit coming your way at the end of the hour as apparently 4000 scouts have had to have been rescued and put up in hotels because their Scout Jamboree was too hot. One little jamboree was too hot. One little weakling called his mum and his mum contacted the Scout Jamboree and theyve shut the whole thing down. I mean, come on, just take him skiing like you usually do.
I just want to build on and i talked to our nevada folks about this the issue that gone epidemic in the most recent tragedy and share a tactic that we are using in wisconsin that im happy to share with you a lot of you may have done this already. We have introduced a lot of Gun Safety Bills including a bump stop band but we formulated a letter circulating to the entire wisconsin legislator directed at our federal upset it is an President Trump calling on them to take action immediately to pass background checks in the bump stop band and to allow the [inaudible] to do the Important Research on the impact of guns and Public Safety and health. Wanted to encourage your delegation to consider doing this. I think it would be powerful every state sent a letter federally to your delegation calling for action and not just pursue these policies in your state to which is another great option but i have a letter that we are currently going to send from our wisconsin delegation if you are intereste
Legislator and good friend, chris taylor, from wisconsin who is a quick announcement in that regard. Hello everybody. I just want to build on and i talked to our nevada folks about this the issue that gone epidemic in the most recent tragedy and share a tactic that we are using in wisconsin that im happy to share with you a lot of you may have done this already. We have introduced a lot of Gun Safety Bills including a bump stop band but we formulated a letter circulating to the entire wisconsin legislator directed at our federal upset it is an President Trump calling on them to take action immediately to pass background checks in the bump stop band and to allow the [inaudible] to do the Important Research on the impact of guns and Public Safety and health. Wanted to encourage your delegation to consider doing this. I think it would be powerful every state sent a letter federally to your delegation calling for action and not just pursue these policies in your state to which is another g