A sovereign country established under control of the turkish republic and had years of preoccupied stumbling is a turkish territory thats like the turkish government the turkish nation has the will and the right to alki its schools and status as they want. Chinas Foreign Ministry has ordered the closure of the u. S. Consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu as a response to washingtons order to shut the chinese consulate in houston earlier this week katrina you has more on chinas reaction from one. When bin who is a Foreign Ministry spokesperson in beijing he fronted the press he basically reiterated the the message that was released by the former Foreign Ministry earlier today on friday but he also then said that some officials working in the time do consulate had been engaging in activities which do not accord with their identities and that china has raised this several times with the u. S. And the u. S. Is aware of this when he was pushed further on exactly what he meant he didn
A major role on sesame street and the mr rogers neighborhood it doesnt appear to exist at all here in washington d. C. Because fresh off the news of one of the worst contractions of the economy in u. S. History with millions upon millions upon millions of folks facing joblessness the victims and potential sickness or even death thanks to a Global Pandemic the United States congress the senate in particular has decided to take a 3 day weekend no im not making it up yes Chucky Schumer Mitch Mcconnell an arrest and decided to take friday the 31st of july off despite the fact that the covert 19 emergency 600. 00 weekly federal Unemployment Benefits expires and you guessed it friday the 31st of july all but guaranteeing that tens of millions of americans will see their incomes drop. By 50 to 75 percent with another rent payment due in just 24 hours so while Mitch Mcconnell is resting his corporate job on a mint julep in his old kentucky home reveling in the true art of irresponsibility the
The house Newt Gingrich offers his thoughts on why donald trump should be reelected with his book trump and the american future, solving the great problems of our time. Watch booktv on cspan2 this weekend. Welcome to the Manhattan Institute webcast on race, riots and the police. Thank you for joining us for this important and timely conversation. Im jason riley, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Throughout the program please enter your question on any of the platforms you are watching us on and we will either wrap them into the discussion or save them for the q and a at the end of this event. I want to let you know that before we get started but more important for timely conversation, since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last month we see nationwide unrest, protests not only here in america but internationally in a certain narrative take hold that starts with the assumption the only way to view George Floyds death is through a racial lens lose all the accounts be
Discussion or save them for the q a at the end of the event, so i just want everyone to know that before we get started. So as i said, this, of course, could not be a more important or more timely conversation that we are going to have today since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last night. We have seen nationwide unrests, we have seen protests not only here in america but internationally. Weve also seen a certain narrative take hold. It start with the assumption that the only way to properly view George Floyds death is through racial lens. In fact, all of encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly view this way. Its a narrative of Derek Chauvin and that george floyd is every black man in america. That blacks essentially leave the house each day worried about having a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which faces very little pushback, very little skepticism and it leaves with us with the impression that the biggest probl
Course this could not be a more important or timely conversation that we are going to have today since the death of george floyd m Police Custody last month we have seen National Wide unrest weve seen protests on only here in america but internationally. We have also seen a certain narrative take hold. It starts with the assumption that the only way to properly view george floyd is through a racial lens. In fact all encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly viewed this way. It is a narrative that assumes the behavior thats typical Police Behavior towards black suspects and it assumes george floyd is a sort of black every man in america. That would happen to him happens to black people all the time that black essentially leave the house each day worrying that theyre going to have a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which faces very little pushback very little skepticism. It leaves us that the biggest problem facing black America Tod