Democratic National Convention. Electing americas first black president s friend. Trevor the final night of the Democratic National convention gave air time to rising democratic politicians who hadnt made appearances yet, from pete buttigieg, to tammy duckworth, to keisha lance bottoms. Everyone got a chance to speak. They also made space for michael bloomberg, democratic sugar daddy and bruce wayne who never became batman. Bloomberg used his speech to continue his yearslong beef with donald trump, and then apparently, started a new beef with a fly. And some people wondered why bloomberg didnt swat the fly away, but in his defense, bloomberg has probably never even seen a fly. He only knows about richpeople insects, like junebugs and goldplated beetles. But you see, my friends, this is what happens when you remove steve bannon from the ecosphere. He stops eating flies, and they immediately get out of control. And if youre a fan of those quarantine reunion specials, where the stars of o
The belarus president is saying he ordered half of his army to be ready for combat as the eu draws up sanctions against belarusian officicials. Playoffs will resume on saturday. The players agreed to end a boycott aimed at highlighting issues of social injustice in the United States. Anchor welcome to the program. Tens of thousands of people have filled washington, d. C. s National Mall to rally for racial equality and criminal justice reform. The march on washington commemorates the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther king juniors i have a dream speech. The demonstration was dubbed the get your knee off of our next march. The u. S. Has been gripped by racial protests since his death. The outrage flared this week after another unarmed black man was shot in the back seven times by a Police Officer, leaving him paralyzed. Blake toldof jacob americans to stand against oppression without chaos and violence. Reality is notr real. Delusions is no longer an option. We will not pretend, we will
And the fresh prince of belair is getting a dramatic makeover. Youre going to belair to live with your uncle. And your yawntie. According to the Hollywood Reporter will smith is teaming up with Morgan Cooper to create a new show base and coopers viral youtube trailer that he made last year reimagining the beloved 19 90s comedy as a modern day drama. Smith is onboard to produce and cooper will cowrite and redirect the reboot. Trevor i want to be honest. I dont know how to feel about this, because yes, the trailer looks amazing but that is just the trailer. Im worried there are other moments from the original show that might not work in a drama. I dont care what you say, there is no way to make carltons dancing dramatic. And i know this because we tried. You see . Plus i would argue that the original fresh prince already had a lot of drama. I mean carlton had a pregnancy scare, jeffrey almost got deported and overnight they switch dark swin aunt for light skin, that shit is dramatic as h
Harris on the democratic ticket. Then, Purdue University associate professor nadia brown joins us for more on the Vice President of canada and the role of black women in american politics. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is thursday, august 13. Joe biden and Kamala Harris made their debut as democratic running mates. With of the ticket now set, harris biggest moments in the spotlight are set to come next week at the Democratic Convention and debate with mike pence. We are asking you how much you Pay Attention to the bottom half of a party ticket. Do you think running mates matter . Phone lines for you to call in, republicans, democrats, independents. You can also send us a text. Do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter and facebook. A very good thursday morning to you. You can go ahead and start calling in as we begin with this headline from yesterday from political. Mates dont usually matter, they write
Steve engle at Standard Chartered with a blistering note about the fed minutes being reinterpreted. Weve got some breaking news. I dont know if you see it there i home in london, but this is critical. Alone,leaves the rate and we get turkish weakness of that headline. Mr. Erdogan simply doesnt want to raise rates, does he . Anna absolutely. They are leaving their oneweek repo rate. The big picture here is that many economists saw this coming, but also thought the Turkish Central Bank should hike rates because the Interest Rate in turkey is well below inflation, and that kind of makes turkey stand out on a number of measures. They are also spending fx reserves to try and prop up that lira. We were talking about a turkish crisis back in 2018. The lira is weaker now than it was then. We will talk more about emerging markets later in the program. Lira has been stronger the last one he for hours. It weakens demonstrably off of this leaving of rates. Right now, i can do the data check right