This morning, National Securities corporation chief market strategist, art hogan is hill, liz peek is here and James Freeman. Great to he see everybody. Thank you to all of our veterans this morning and their families. Liz peek, you have people in your family. Our son is a veteran. Maria thank you so much. And thank you everybody. We want to give a big shoutout all day today to our great heroes of this country. Our top story this hour is violence erupting in hong kong over the weekend, the protests now in the sixth month. Police fired gunshots at protesters early this morning sending one man to the hospital and the emergency room for emergency surgery, another man in Critical Condition this morning after being set oven fire for confronting protesters who had been vandalizing a subway station. This story is not going away. I think this is also creating pressure for xijinping in china but when you see things turn this kind of violent you wonder what kind of impact it really will have. It
It understands hearts and minds operations have been recognized the vital necessity of the source of things on the battle runs in iraq and afghanistan. It understands cultural diplomacy and understands it to be a strategic instrument of American Power. A huge part of this is the problem of our international broadcasts. Our international broadcasts, radio, television and obviously internet are the only unfiltered information that we can get into the minds of aliens in l. A. And the people around world. All other information that we transmit is filtered by the governments that control their media as does russia should this extraordinary extent as it has started to do. We have shut down the voice of america and the russian ukrainian broadcasts over a short wave. Weve barely had an imprint on a station for i dont know what the reason was why the pbg was not able to renew even the little am station that we had in moscow, but a subcontractor failed to review the contract and then putin basic