Having, and i feel like this is one of those so im excited for him to speak about it. Im going to give you a little kind of overview. If a cell phone, please take photos, but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you probably can see. Its a little distracting. We will have the books for sale. We have them for sale currently and if you would like to, i really implore you to look through it and have alan sign it. Hell be signing afterwards as well. We have a wonderful server in the room. She will be here all night. So please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle. Thanks. [ applause ] thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I also want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the two institutions who made this book happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington which is, you know, literally the scene of this crime. The
Look at the protests taking place in hong kong. The unrest began as a movement against a law allowing hong kongers to be deported to china. Since june millions of protesters have marched through the streets demanding greater democracy. Set to start in just a moment here. Live coverage on cspan 3. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to todays hearing on hong kongs summer of discontent and u. S. Policy responses. This is the second China Commission hearing this year on the situation in hong kong. During our may hearing, the commission heard compelling testimony from Hong Kong Pro Democracy advocates, including martin lee and nathan law who expressed concerns about the extradition bill that was quickly moving towards becoming law at that time. That legislation would have put anyone in hong kong, including u. S. Citizens, at risk of extradition to Mainland China. A lack of due process and custodial abuse have been welldocumented. Over the last 16 weeks, millions of people from all walk
Everybody gets a ribbon. A classic board game is getting a socialist makeover. Its friday, august 23rd and fbn a. M. Starts right now. Dont listen to a word i say. The screams all sound the same. The truth may bury this. Ship will carry our body safe to shore. Lauren. Cheryl welcome to fbn good morning. Im cheryl casone. Lauren good morning. Happy friday. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl lets take a look at how your money is moving this morning as investors turn their you attention to fed chairman jay powell. Later this morning, jackson hole, 10 am eastern time. The. Laurenlauren weve seen the y. The 10 year is at 1. 64 right now. Cheryl as tensions in iran continue, but supply a big story here in this country. Its been an interesting week for oil, especially with the dollar so strong. Were actually about flat right now, up two cents. Lauren three months of protests in hong kong, more set for today and this weekend. Is that affecting the asian market . The hang seng gaining half of 1 , the
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This morning, jeff mason of reuters who covers the white of fox wholan nelson was their congressional reporter, thank you for joining us. Lets start with you, the president tweeted toward some democratic powers of congress. Tell us the reaction since those tweets were delivered. Guest there has been outrage over them particular from democrats but others as well. Many people are viewing them as racist. The president suggested that three or four four members of congress who are women of color should go back to where they came from. Three out of the fort of them were born in the United States and the other was an immigrant or is an immigrant. This is sort of part of a pattern that his critics see as engaging and racial baiting and outrage to essentially White America or White Supremacists. The president denies that in the he is notund him say engaging in racism and is just talking about love of country and objecting to some of the things they have said. In terms of the pattern of some of