President richard nixon. Protects more than 1600 lant and animal species, necaliforni nnqottorney ral quickly vowed to fight the Trump Administrations move in court. The very next day, california joined 29 states and cities in a lawsuit against another ru m8fyh aonenviro regu5 zhons, obamaera restrictions on coal burning power plants. Kevin and dan who join e. welc thank you. Qdangered species act ange. Veat is at stake for california when the federal ment move s in like this. ww nit is a huge deal. And a huge deal or the state of california. Species alive, the condor, the z y bear, what it is not talked about is hoit effects the ecosystems of california. The ave more plants on endangered list than animals. A huge and california has more endangered species than any other state be ides hawaii. Our is federal land. Even though california might have strong laws, you know, a lot of the laces in the state are not covered under these protections that we have. Dan, one thing that bu critic
Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. W thats wre your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by oand by the corporaor public broadcasting. A private corporation funded by the american people. Urand by contributions to pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ch from the tnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. T in wuld be the largest demonstration yet, prodemocracy protesters fled the streets of hong kong today, marching through heavy rain towards government offices to call f reform. Citing previous violence, police initially banned the protesters from marching, but the rally which had Police Approval quickly overwhelmed the citys Victoria Park and spilled into the nearby streets. The marcremained peaceful with no reports of clashes with police. A Smaller Group mained outside government off
Meesigning customized individual and group reti products. Thats why were your. Retirement compa Additional Support has been provided by and by the corporati for public broadcasting. Eo private corporation funded by the americane. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. Jeffrey epstein, the 66yearold multimillionaire convicted sex offender, died by an apparent suicide this morning. Federal authorities were holding him in jail without bail on sex wafficking charges in new york. Found unresponsive, and a hospital pronounced him dead shortly after. The bureau of prisons said his death was an apparent suicide and that the f. B. I. Is investigating. Attorney general william barr released a statement saying he was appalled to learn of epsteins death in federal custody and that the justice departments inspeor general is opening an
Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. T why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporationor public broadcasting. A private corporation funded by the american people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanyou for joining us. In dueling rallies in hong kong today, prodemocracy and pro government protestors hit the street nearly 50,000 people came out to support the islands government and police accorng to organizers. They braved the rainwaved chinese flags, and held signs that said police force, keep it up. Meanwhile, on the other side of the harbor, thousands of teachers protested what they see as the erosion of the one country, two systems government enshrined after britain handed over hong kong
All women of color. In response to that rhetoric the house voted to ate one party wants to condemn the president s remarks as racist. The backandforth this week between trump and the democraa is likelpreview of what the 2020 president ial race a setting. The present is expected to double down on his divisive message from 2016. Joining me now to discuss is a republican consultant and rkenior contributory the similar and allie times melanie mason, she joins us via skype from los angeles. Thank you for being here. Melanie, before the prreident last week it started off a fight between democrats the progressives were clashing with House Speaker pelosi, the squat these four fresher members one of them eveaccused her of singling out women of color in th it was not looking good. Did trump help themby doing what he did with the streets . I think he absolutely building nancy pelosi out because i think there was a real poofnt of tension house leadership alienates these uprising freshman members,