Ugandan opposition politician bobby wine has been released on bail after being charged over actions likely to spread coronavirus. Officials accuse the president ial candidate of violating covert 91000. 00 restrictions. Well, campaigning for the president ial election in january at least 28 people are now known to have died in the protests sparked by his of rest on wednesday. U. S. Republican Party Leaders from the state of michigan were greeted by protesters as they arrived in washington for talks with president donald trump. His lawyers say state legislatures should ignore results in swing states like michigan and give their Electoral College votes to trump. No state legislature in our countrys history ever has done what donald trump is apparently agitating for the Michigan State legislature to do which is to ignore the results of the popular vote election and wrest control from the voters or attempt to wrest control from the voters and appoint their own slate of electors to send to w
Ever crash from president ial ticket and the history of the nation 74 very. Well i must admit a surprise mary tonight were seeing all over this nation all cities in all parts of the country indeed across the world an outpouring of joy of her renewed faith in tomorrow bring a better day. And im humbled by the trust and confidence you placed in me. I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. Weve done to seize red states and blue states only shes the United States. By and running mate and Vice President a next couple of house is also making history she is the 1st woman and 1st person of color to hold the job. And what a testament it is to joes character that he had the audacity to break one of the most substantial barriers that exists in our country and select a woman as his Vice President the. I may be the 1st woman in this office i will not be the last of the huge celebrations across major us cities off the bottom was projected as the winner of the president ial elect
Allege irregularities. His supporters are continuing to protest outside Voting Centers as well but elsewhere its a very different mood celebrations already broken out not dissipate the final results. Well joe biden is edging closer that crucial number 270 Electoral College votes thats whats needed to make him the next president of the United States in the past 12 hours the democratic candidate has overtaken donald trump in 2 states pennsylvania and georgia so this is the state of play at the moment just a handful of states still being counted biden is leading in most of them based on projections from the Associated Press he secured 264 votes so far donald trump has just 214 Electoral College votes and needs both georgia and pennsylvania to reach 270 in georgia its still very close most of the remaining votes are from atlanta and its suburbs which leans towards the democrats which have helped joe biden get ahead but it is still by a slim margin well that might secure him georgias covete
National security advisers Henry Kissinger. In some ways, nixon is one of the most brilliant people to occupy the white house. He had incredible political gifts. But on the other hand hes one of the worst people to occupy the white house because he had a broad streak of para nnoia and course in the end ruined himself by bringing about his his own catastrophic downfall in the watergate scandal of 1972 to 1974. Were going to look at the good and bad side of the nixon presidency with National Security adviser kissinger. Im going to share the screen so we can look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is president nixon himself. He had been born back in 1913 in california and grew up in a lower middle class family. Went to the local college there with the college. He graduated and went to Duke University law school and this is in the worst years of great depression. The mid1930s. During the second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo
It was 1945, the war was over. Slowly, painfully, life came back to the ruins of europe. The war was over, but there was no peace. Despair crouched over the continent. Hopelessness circled europe like a bird of prey. Why . What were the forces . What were the issues in a war that turned nations into rubble heaps . And populations into beggars . The people wanted the answers. They wanted to know what happened and why. In the palace of justice in nuremburg, the people of the world came together. For there is at the International Military tribunal to judge the chief nazi war criminals. Justice robert jackson, the chief american prosecutor, makes the Opening Statement for the prosecution. Of opening the first trial in history. [inaudible] the privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the piece of the world, imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cann