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have a short lifespan he can store them in a small workshop anyway usually either gives them away or perhaps to scrap them. From the Drawing Board to completion it took you from a round of three weeks to make his writing robot and this time hes printing a very special message on the beach in san sebastian. Just for our right moving on now to a brief look at other stories making headlines on the cultural scene starting with a look back at berlin in the ninetys that and more coming up in todays express. A new exhibit opened in berlin on this day that takes visitors back to the Nine Hundred Ninety s. Begins that followed the fold of the building will i consider it she checked in the postwar history of the german capital. They was it that they said
a Sense Of Freedom and creativity back that. The song tricked out so one of the soundtrack of those years was techno music stood for progre
Trade negotiators in the u. S. And china have been working for months on a deal that would satisfy both nations and and an extruding tug of war between the worlds two biggest economies but now new threats by u. S. President trump up the pressure on each side trump said on sunday tariffs on Two Hundred Billion Dollars worth of chinese goods would increase to twenty five from ten percent that would reverse the decision he made in february to keep them at ten percent but that was when the two sides were making Good Progress on trade talks says in asia where he asked after the news european stocks also down and wall street is expected to open lower to. The u. S. China relationship is love hate at The Best Of Times but everything seemed to be going so well late last week a bullish donald trump hailed a progress in talks to avert a full blown trade war which he jim pings china. But the deal itself is going along pretty well i would even say very well well see what happens over the next coupl
that s going to do it for us tonight. i told you it was going to be a show and a half. now, it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. that evening, rachel. i listened to episode one of the new podcast today, and i ve got to ask you a favor. could you stop doing this thing where you reveal really dramatic, interesting stories about united states senators i ve never heard of? because, one of the angles of me getting a paycheck out of this place is i pretend that i m like the senate expert around here because i worked there for a while and this is not helpful, rachel. i spend the day listening to you tell me about a senator i ve never heard of and by the way, the single most dramatic thing that has ever occurred in the russell senate office building where i used to work and i did not know what happened until today listening to you, and it s not supposed to be like that. i m very sorry. i will start doing podcasts that are about like state legislatures and states