Echo or School Related sanctions. Peaceful negotiations can succeed and they will succeed in bringing relief to the yemeni people. Yemens warring factions agree to what the u. N. Is calling the biggest Prisoner Exchange deal since the conflict began. Also ahead the french president emanuel my home gets out of lebanon as leaders after they fail to form a non partisan government im sort of tiresome happen late to sports news Valtteri Bottas wins the russian one play after the fading teammate and reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton was hit with a 10 2nd penalty. Your top story in 18 hours g. M. T. Theres been a major escalation in the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed. Region of nagornokarabakh now the violence began early on sunday morning both sides have declared martial law and they are blaming each other russia france and iran are all calling for calm turkey is backing azerbaijan and is called on the International Community to stand by it if charlotte dallas
Group everybody together as the same and what america forgets about is at the rugged individualism, its very difficult for us to look at the case, lets just say in minneapolis were george floyd died and Law Enforcement, the first thing we think about we think about, he was a black guy, it was a white Law Enforcement officer. That tells me everything i need to know about why this took place. What happens is when you try to make it an issue that an individual died was black and the person whos responsible for it was white, you eliminate other human beings who should also have the same moral outrage, too much of our time today is spent on this herd mentality. Everybody is an individual first and that individual is solely responsible for that action. We should not be outraged because the race of the person thats the fact that this individual died in a very gruesome and brutal way for no reason at all because what happens is that individual dies it takes away some of our humanity and who we
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And the aflcios Richard Trumka talks about Union Members and campaign 2020. Then priorities usa chairman guy cecil talks about his super pacs role in the election. Washington journal is next. Ccept yours i a nomination for Vice President of the United States of america. That was californias democratic senator, kamala this is the washington journal for august 20. Joe biden will accept his nomination. You can see that starting at 9 00 this evening. For the next hour your comments on the event of the Democratic Convention including senator harriss acceptance speech. Yo if you support joe biden, 202 7488000. If you support President Trump, 202 7488001. If you are undecided, 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003. Cspanwj, and you can post on our facebook page. Our coverage starts at 9 00 tonight for the final night of the Democratic National convention which you will hear from joe biden and senator cory booker and the former mayor of south bend indiana, former president ial candidate,
To being the leader of the world again. James and spring valley, new york. Mechanicsburg, pennsylvania. A supporter of President Trump. This is greg. Ceo of theident and center for american progress. Want to welcome you to this conversation. For we get started, i want to do a quick piece of housekeeping. Ate captioning is available. Merican progress. Org we have a tremendous conversation. Governor gavin newsom. I will get into introductions ater but i want to provides context. On the Democratic National convention, it is only fitting that we take time to discuss how we can correct course. The Trump Administrations response to the pandemic, to black lives matter, and their dangerous and reckless suppression of our democratic framework has made it abundantly clear that right now under this administration, we are on the wrong path. We are not just on the wrong path, we are heading backward. Dangerously backward. That is why this conversation is so important. We want to make sure that we a