A growing public lockdown then over in the u. K. Parliament is closing a week early due to coronavirus fears this while a london court has denied bail for wiki leaks founder Julian Assange were going to discuss all right its time to boost your news i q. Kovac 19 again dominating headlines with now 170 countries and territories territories reporting new cases here are the latest numbers worldwide there are now more than 490000 confirmed cases and more than 22000 deaths and here stateside confirmed cases now topping 69000. 00 and deaths related to the virus over a 1000 and back here in washington d. C. After days of debate republicans and democrats came together. Pass the largest ever stimulus package for americans impacted by the coronavirus shutdown now this bill is heading over to the house and President Trump has already promised his signature arties Rachel Blevins is joining us live with a breakdown of whats exactly in this bill rachel well manella this gun and 11th hour vote is bei
Them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Very high standard. It is not that they were blameless. Its not that they were innocent. But we say we would rather let 100 guilty go free than convict one innocent man. We are loading it to a high standard. The other thing that lawyers argue, which the public sometimes has trouble with, is procedure. If you need to get that evidence if you did not get that evidence into the courtroom properly, then it cant come in. If you did not share information exculpatory information properly with defense, those are which can violations equally invalidate a verdict. And i am happy to argue both. That is kind of what we are going to go through. One word from last week. Last week was the allure of the white house tapes. I went through a bunch of them with you. Perhaps too fast. What i find fascinating about this because i transcribe them. I worked word for word for hours in tracing what they were saying and the points they were trying to make. Trying to underst
Kurds as an ethnic group and then between 2 i. P. G. Or terrorists now we have the Syrian Government forces in position and fighting alongside kodesh forces inside syria and of course there is this concern of a direct clash between turkish troops and also Syrian Government troops whats the prospect for that or how do we even avoid that possibility. Well 1st of all i think would be a mistake for this year even if you come into direct confrontation with turkey secondly i think the russian effect is more significant than the presence of some forces loyal to the assad regime it is going to hes conducting an operation to e. U. And russia are you know having diplomatic channels open and theyre basically. Turkey is looking at what russia will do instead of assad regime. I mean assad regime brought in some force which it was conducting an operation after it and a received the the answer or the response. That took you put forward and you know they were pushed back but they recently i mean did t
National Constitution Centers symposium on 100 years of Supreme Court clerkships. The symposium took place at the George Washington University Law school in washington, d. C. Celebrating the 100thans of the Supreme Court clerkships. Im jeffrey rosen, head of the National Constitution center in philadelphia and a law professor here at g. W. The National Constitution center is so honored to have con veed this Extraordinary Group of former Supreme Court clerks to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the federal statute creating the Supreme Court, clerkships, and we have just heard a wonderful panel about experiences during the clerkship and now we will hear one about life after the clerkship. And moderating this panel is joshua matt. Pub lusher of the take care blog, adjunct professor at georgetown. He is a very distinguished constitutional lawyer and author of important book on impeachment, we he came to the National Constitution center to discuss with riveting detail recently. He clerked
His secretary of state. To riyadh and. Korea you want to learn your realities they say so but i am not really sure whether he knows it. But has happened inside the kingdom also the year of bia or probably. The fallout from the case reverberated around the Saudi Stock Exchange with its index falling 7 percent when trading began on sunday the 14th of october 28th seem. A saudi statement was released freshening to retaliate firmly against any action taken against the country. On that same sunday king so mun broke his silence on the case for the 1st time when the Saudi Press Agency reported that the king had spoken to turkish president over the one on the phone and quote thanked the president for welcoming the kingdoms proposal to form a joint working group to discuss the disappearance of the saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi. The king quote stressed the kingdoms keenness to protect its relations with ankara. The next day the Saudi Press Agency reported that the king of spoken to donald trump