A popular shopping district in the city now the National Security law in question would ban succession and subversive activity as well as taking on foreign interference and terrorism in the special Administrative Region on monday the chairman of the Standing Committee of Chinas National Peoples Congress said the legislator is committed to passing the law. Remain committed to upholding the law based governance in hong kong and the. Constitution in order to special Administrative Region stipulated. 3 find the system for interpreting the basic laws by the. End establish a. National level National Security as you do 2 regions. And the prospect of mass protests similar to what we witnessed in 2018 set hong kongs hang seng index into turmoil on friday alone the index lost 5. 6 percent its worst performance since july of 2015 meanwhile officials in the United States have taken issue with the proposed law secretary of state mike mike pompei o said last week quote called the proposal disastrous
Notion that it couldnt happen, that they could not elect a catholic president of the United States. If you know our political history for the decades preceding that with al smith and others there was evidence that , you cannot elect a catholic, and that was all transcended and exploded one night in november 1960. And so the world we were looking at in 1968 when i could really finally Pay Attention was a world coming apart in the United States. The vietnam war is raging, we had an incumbent president Lyndon Johnson who had been elected four years ago in a landslide who was on the way to an easy reelection again. He was very likely to be facing some of very good at losing president ial elections. Richard nixon, who had the distinction in history at the beginning of 1968, of being the very first Vice President in history to lose a president ial campaign. He then made Hubert Humphrey the second 1968. As the year began, it was back in that ancient america where if someone said, i democrat o
Tonight should be a humdinger. Im looking forward to it. To moderate, we have nothing less than a judge, seated in the center. Many of you know him. To the ninthted circuit november 2, 1985, and served as chief judge from 2007 to 2014, graduating from ucla ,nd from Ucla Law School receiving a jv in 1975 and prior to his appointment to the appellate bench, judge kaczynski served as chief judge of the United States claims court from 1982 to 1985 and special counsel to the merit Systems Protection Board and he retired from the bench in 2017 after 35 years of judicial service. [applause] judge kaczynski is married to Marcy Tiffany and has children and three grandchildren. We thank you for being here, judge kaczynski. Now, we mentioned ucla, so we must give usc equal time. [applause] we are really honored to have robert shrum, the chair in practical politics. [applause] and director of the usc door and site center for the political future. Professor shrum is director of the center and hes a
Appear to be lockdowns in a number of italian cities, thats reason enough for not only in this country but certainly in europe for hotels, airline stocks, casinos, and cruise lines to be taking it on the chin here. What is interesting, before i get the read here in the United States, is what has happened to European Airlines like easyjet. That is the discount budget carrier. That is down an excess of 13 . Ryanair, 13 . Deutch lufthansa close to 10 . Air franceklm, about 9 . I could go on but just to i illustrate what is impact here on percentage term is bigger impact there the selloff is revisiting session lows. Right out of the gate we were down close to 1000 points. Right now, the dow underwater for the year with 922 point hit. Deirdre bolton at New York Stock Exchange. Reporter neil, were negative on the dow and awfulally close on s p 500. We need to hit 107 lower to completely wipe out the gains from 2020. Let me tell you some groups. You covered some weighing on these markets. If
Im looking forward to tonight. You have nothing last a judge. Many of you may know him. He was appointed to the United States Circuit Court november 7, 1985. Served as chief just judge from 2007 2014. Graduated from ucla and from Ucla Law School in 1975. Prior to the appellate bench, he served as chief judge of the United States claims court from 82 85 and special counsel to the protection board and he retired in 2017 after 35 years additional service. [applause] hes married to marcy and has three children. He and three grandchildren. We thank you for being here. [applause] now we mentioned ucla but we must give you this. [applause] we are really honored to have ronald trump, practical politics. [applause] director of the usc center for the political future. [applause] professor sean as director of the center and a former strategist and consultant who was described as the most sought after consultant in the Democratic Party by the atlantic monthly, he observed speechwriter and new york