Hong kong throughout the day they started gathering even before kerry lamb made that announcement and they went into the financial district and then it kind of shrank a little bit but then they were blocking major intersections right in the center of monklands financial district and then they marched over here to causeway bay and there are thousands here now and theyre really just kind of coring in now how are they reacting to this announcement they say its kind of business as usual theyre continuing on theyre not going to go up by this band theyre not worried about this facemask ban as you can see a lot of people here have a face mask they are just going to continue with their protesting they say it was interesting one protester even said that this is an issue thats bigger than just bank on this is something that china is doing that is dangerous for the world so the prostatitis here for the most part is saying were going to stay steady on and continue what theyve been doing for the la
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Military aid about 4 100000000. 00 to ukraine and apparently that caused some confusion among u. S. Diplomats ambassador bill taylor who was of the embassador to ukraine said are we now saying that sect that Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigation he wrote that in a text the answer came from ambassador to the e. U. Gordon sunderland who is a trump supporter and was a donor prior to his appointment he said call me bill taylor pressed forward a few days later saying i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a Political Campaign then suddenly and immediately responded bill i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions the president has been Crystal Clear no quid pro quo of any kind so as you see that last statement is what trump has been pointing to in these Text Messages changes as. His own defense but its notable kemal that when ambassador sunland sent that and sent that text it was just as whistleblower report w
Battlefield trusts. Without any further introduction, i now present to you my friend, gary adelman. Leave your book here . Gary yeah, sure, i might need it. Hello, everybody. This isnt easy doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if it takes 56 minutes or whatever. I am committed to get this done. Im already wasting time for good luck for those of you who like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and then you have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have southerners look to the north and although they speak the same language, worship the same god, everything like that but you see increasingly southerners looking north and seeing greedy. People that care about money and business and dont care about family. The northerners are looking south and seeing people who are cruel and lazy slave holders and whatnot. Really this is a war of perception as much as anything else. They did not trust each other and
Hours. This hearing of the judiciary subcommittee on technology, privacy in law who will come to order. Thank you everyone for attending. My thanks to Ranking Member hawley and particularly to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee dick durbin for giving us this opportunity. He is interested in this topic im going to call on him after senator hawley for his remarks. We are gathered today to hear testimony from a whistleblower, an engineer widely respected and admired in the industry. And not just any expert at an engineer hired specifically by facebook to help protect against harms to children. And make recommendation for making facebook safer we have known for more than a decade that suffering from suicide, hospitalizations or selfharm and depression have skyrocketed as he knows these numbers are more than statistics they are real people and his daughter is one of them. Arturo behar is the former director of engineering for protect and care at facebook. And he will tell us about the