Is reacting and how it would like to respond all right its time to stream music i. China has Just Announced sanctions against the United States which target some of beijings most vocal critics this comes one week after the u. S. Sanctions several chinese officials over reports that they are targeting some ethnic minorities arties racial blevins is joining us now to break down the latest developments here so rachel what explanation did beijing give for the sanctions or a spokesperson for Chinas Foreign Ministry spoke out and she said that these sanctions are specifically in retaliation to distinctions that were imposed by the u. S. Last week and which they accuse several chinese officials of human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities now china has denied these accusations repeat. And it also accused the United States of trying to meddle in its internal affairs take a listen the vicious harassment interrogation and threats by the United States seriously damaged the legit
Friedman this evening. Hes here to discuss new book into the bright sunshine Young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights. Now sams journalism professor at Columbia University and formerly reported and wrote columns for New York Times as a reporter in the 1980s, he worked in the culture of the times. Then in the mid 2000 wrote the papers on education column. And then for ten years he was responsible for. The on religion column. Hes also written nine previous books on a wide range of topics from high school to american jewry to college football, to his mothers own story. In his new book, sam delves into the early life of humphrey, who spent three years in the us senate representing minnesota and four years as Lyndon Johnsons Vice President , but is largely remembered for losing to Richard Nixon the 1968 president ial campaign. Again, to George Mcgovern for the democratic president ial nominee. In 1972, humphrey disparaged for having dutifully supported johnsons conduct of the vi
Welcome to politics and prose. Im brad graham, a coowner of a bookstore along with my wife Lissa Muscatine and were very pleased to be hosting professor, author and journalist Samuel Friedman this evening. Hes here to discuss new book into the bright sunshine Young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights. Now sams journalism professor at Columbia University and formerly reported and wrote columns for New York Times as a reporter in the 1980s, he worked in the culture of the times. Then in the mid 2000 wrote the papers on education column. And then for ten years he was responsible for. The on religion column. Hes also written nine previous books on a wide range of topics from high school to american jewry to college football, to his mothers own story. In his new book, sam delves into the early life of humphrey, who spent three years in the us senate representing minnesota and four years as Lyndon Johnsons Vice President , but is largely remembered for losing to Richard Nixon the
Elton, lovely to see you, lovely to talk to you. Congratulations on the book ive thoroughly enjoyed it. Theres something thats not in it. I came to watford with Leicester City a long time ago around 79 80 and one of our players got a terrible gash in his leg and was carried off and had to have stitches in the Dressing Room and you went down to comfort him. Do you have any memory of that . I dont. That was me. Really, i dont. That was me. It was you . It was me. And you came down in the second half to see if i was all right, and thats something thats always stuck with me. And it was a very special moment, yeah. Youve got the book, watford forever. Why now . Why are you doing that book now . I was approached byjohn preston, who wrote the book, and said, its a really interesting subject and i thought, yeah, it has i havent really talked about it and i wanted to get my side of the story out because i think we werent given enough credit for what we did. And also, i think when you read the b
without being murdered. but also four nypd transit cops caught an alleged killer and a suspected serial slasher in under just 24 hours. [cheers and applause] greg: about time, huh? it wasn t that hard since they were both wearing i heart murder and slashing t-shirts. but, seriously, you won t believe how the police did this. they used this amazing technology, pictures. yep, the cops recognized both the perps from internal department wanted posters. it s may i seeing how the whole thing works. you have a guy s description and then you circulate it. and that helps you catch the guy. it s insane. pretty awesome. except, well, we really don t do that anymore. that s why i bring it up. mug shots, as you know, are now considered racist. just like everything else is racist. now, you ve got to remember, after the george floyd riots, one of the first things to go when we decided policing was evil was the use of mug shots. san francisco police chief william scott announced it early o