At the Manhattan Institute where he is also director of legal policy and you have read his work all over national media, youve seen him on television youve heard on radio and, by the way, he holds the jd and mba from yale where he was an owen fellow in law and economics, also a ba in economics from none other than unc chapel hill where he was a morehead scholar. Jim, so glad to have you with us here for our shaft spirit society. Thank you for joining us thank you for having me, donna, always a pleasure to speak to the good folks at the John Locke Foundation. Ive said it before, as someone who has worked many years at a National Think tank, so much policy happens on the state level and John Locke Foundation is really a Gold Standard think tank that has helped to reshape North Carolina and such a positive direction and lot of the strength and resilience right now and sound fiscal ain the midst of a pandemic is really due to the great work of the John Locke Foundation has done. Thank you
To generate electricity. Im told me a lot of well thanks for joining us. Germany has started a week of celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the but when wall which happened on the 9th of november 1989 a few days earlier hundreds of thousands of east germans had gathered at butlins famous alexanderplatz for an unprecedented demonstration calling for freedom of expression and democracy has more. History flashing before their eyes as dowsers returned to berlin psychotic alex sun the plot to mark the moment that would help change the city and the country forever nov 4th 1989 more than half a 1000000 protesters descended on the square and what would become the largest demonstration in the history of east germany led by some of its most prominent intellectuals they rose up to demand more freedoms from the oppressive regime. Its as if someone has pushed open the window. Of 2 years of intellectual economic and political stagnation shelf they can believe the year is reeking
Protesters to rival rallies on the streets of the lebanese capital beirut antigovernment demonstrators are calling for radical changes to the countrys political system but not everyone is green. And his children the best to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Bulletin Boards we look at how the Nations Capital has changed in the last 3 decades. Plus for just one year to go before the next president ial election in the u. S. To a town in rural wisconsin considered a bellwether of the political mood in the u. S. So more than predicting. One of a warm welcome to you. The Indian Government is being forced to take radical steps to. Pollution in the capital delhi the move comes as small greeces levas harmful to human Health Schools have been closed in half the citys cars of being banned each day from taking to the roads residents are also being told to stay indoors. Thats not fargo obscuring delis white avenues but a fix soup of pension exhaust industrial emissions and wood smok
A child. Some residents are suspicious of refugees in the neighborhood. Americans curious about the bars regulars to cross the road worlds apart. Starting november 11th on d. W. Cut. This week on world stories. Tourists visit the berlin wall 30 years after its fall south africans make jen with the aroma of elephant dung but we begin in russia political activists remember a time here when stalin murdered hundreds of thousands of people and had them dumped in shallow graves in the russian city of blood have a chance a man stumbled across one of these mass graves. But what ifs look at this hole here says we tally kasha and shows us the grisly find on his property. The one i wanted to extend my house here while i was digging the hole for the foundations i found 1st one skull then a 2nd a 3rd and so on. In the meantime fatality has more than 10 sacks of human bones in his garden. A Government Commission says they come from a mass grave dating back to the 1930 s. With. Italy lives with his f
Hi, everyone, its 4 00 in new york. The expresident today on the verge of snatching jail time from the jaws of civil liability. Donald trump taking The Stand Today in His Civil Fraud Trial in new york after being ordered by the judge to testify about comments he made regarding a court clerk. Now, you all know this. We dont normally air his remarks for fear of amplifying them, particularly when they are so clearly tied to threats of violence and intimidation. Were going to play them for you right now, because they led to near immediate liability for the expresident. This judge well, because this judge is a very partisan judge with a person whos sitting very partisan, sitting alongside of him, perhaps even more partisan than he is. On the stand for just one minute after saying that, trump claimed that he wasnt talking about the person sitting next to the judge. He was actually talking about Michael Cohen. Who at the time was in the middle of his second day of testimony. The judge was not