Information about the events coming to you shortly. In the interim i am so pleased to welcome Douglas Murray to the event this afternoon. Also in author most recently the 2019 books demint mess of crowds and he was with us in person at the Manhattan Institute i think in early 2018 and that was just after the publication of this book the strange death of europe. Douglas is a Formidable Political critic and im not sure that he knew the subjects of both his most recent book and this one would come into play during this particular moment in time and for that reason and many others it is my pleasure to welcome you to the event this afternoon. Guest thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be with you and all of your members. Host we will talk for the next 20 minutes or so at which point we will turn over the qanda to the audience. If you look at the righthand side of the screen, there is a little triangle with the word question. You can type question anytime you like. And when we turn over to
By qe treaties, but that they are giving three months to the ecb to fix it. So after an initial wobble in markets, they seem to have been taking this in their stride, possibly even a little bit of good news. , 1. 0846. Ar less go to viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with the white house backing away from a projection, it shows the coronavirus getting much worse in the u. S. The report says by june there could be 200 thousand new cases and 2500 deaths per day. The white house says that is a cdc document and it has not been presented yet to the president s task force. Neither allies nor opponents are happy with Boris Johnsons plans. Lawmakers from his conservative already want him to ease the nationwide lockdown. Politicians and demand proper protection for employees. 3 trillionhe wanted to do easing program, from the top court in germany to the European Central bank. Judges ruling some parts of the program are not asked by aropean Union Treaties u lawsuit claims the bank overstepped its
Correspondent daniel new howser and congressional reporter pitterson, later anthony from the center for strategic and International Talk about the Foreign Policy challenges that are facing in 2018. Social media. But voters, wed, should make it a priority that basic knowledge pertaining to our government. Amy says it helps. I have learned so much from the social media. I can adjust my opinion to include new facts. Ive change my mind is some because of conversations with people online. One more from saul. A lot of people do not care about the research, it hurts, they end up spreading false information. That is a sampling of the discussion on our facebook page. Here is a poll. Different wording, but same idea, this is from surveymonkey from october, asked whether social media does more to help, promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt it. 51 surveyed in the late october poll said it did more to her democracy, 45 said it did more to help. Large majorities among hispanics and
Time . A little strange, three days earlier, i have a website and i know i am still a dinosaur. Before twitter and facebook and instagram but i still have a website and the person that runs it for me send me a lot of emails he thinks i will be interested in and a friend of mine from high school i was talking about, he said playfully beat me up, much bigger than me. One of the seniors i knew very well, lost touch with him, wrote into the website, it has been 20 years but i want to let you know, some wrestlers are catching up and got to talking about you, hope everything is going well hummed hopefully run when to you again. Nice message. Three days later, someone with shaved head kind of muscular, just like my friend from high school, comes running towards me. I am thinking, if you watch the video which you dont need to watch, it doesnt get any better. I am actually smiling because i think what are the odds this guy found me . I dont have time for it to sink in before i am on the ground.
James, tell me to kick start it, what happens when youre standing outside the grand hyatt many front of the public in front of the public, and a Police Officer comes up to you out of the clear blue, slams you to the ground, handcuffs you and, luckily, it was recorded by a camera . What happened and what are you thinking at the time . Yeah. At the time its a little strange how life works. But about three days earlier, i have a web site, and i know im still a dinosaur, so its before twitter and facebook and instagram, but i still have a web site. And the person that runs it for me sends me a lot of the fan mail or emails that he thinks i would be entered in. A friend of mine from high school who i was just talking about, a wrestler freshman year in high school, and the seniors used to playfully beat me up. One of the guys that was a senior that i knew pretty well had written in. I hasnt i had lost touch with him. Wrote in to the web site, i know its been 20 years, but we were catching up