Look at the protests taking place in hong kong. The unrest began as a movement against a law allowing hong kongers to be deported to china. Since june millions of protesters have marched through the streets demanding greater democracy. Set to start in just a moment here. Live coverage on cspan 3. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to todays hearing on hong kongs summer of discontent and u. S. Policy responses. This is the second China Commission hearing this year on the situation in hong kong. During our may hearing, the commission heard compelling testimony from Hong Kong Pro Democracy advocates, including martin lee and nathan law who expressed concerns about the extradition bill that was quickly moving towards becoming law at that time. That legislation would have put anyone in hong kong, including u. S. Citizens, at risk of extradition to Mainland China. A lack of due process and custodial abuse have been welldocumented. Over the last 16 weeks, millions of people from all walk
Captioning performed by vitac as a service to the washington community. Details on how to donate and details on future programming are on the back of the flier that was available outside. Let me also thank a couple of individuals who behind the scenes kind of put this event together, jeff reeger, assistant director of the National History center. Over there. Pete all the way in the back on my team and our two interns, kyle nichols and su yan kim who you will be meeting during the q a, they will be running the mics for which we ask you to please wait and then once you are called on, please at the same time state your name and affiliation. Let me welcome Professor William roger lewis from texas who is joining us here today and remind all of you finally to turn off your mobile devices or silence them so you dont interrupt the intense discussion that we will be asking here this afternoon. With that i will turn it over to eric to introduce our featured speaker today. Thank you, christian. W
The host of the secrets of wealthy women podcast. And the editor in chief. Christopher bedford. I cannot wait to talk to you about the gym coming report. The former federal prosecutor indra mccarthy on the gym. I think his first reaction safe to say was in dismay. At what they said on twitter. Jody arrington is here on the china trade talks. In the Fox News Contributor. Adult in 101. Teaching adults to be adults. Lets check the futures this morning. To wrap up this month and this week. 175point point gain on the dow futures. This is ahead of sundays deadline on heightened tariffs. They weighed in on the china trade. They been taking a lot of money out of our country. Its hard for them to get used to the fact that it cant be that way. This is having a tremendous impact on china. The primary thing is tariffs. Its having a devastating effect. The president also mentioned trade discussions that took place yesterday. Ahead of sundays deadline. What you make of where we are right now and how
Mueller will testify under oatht for at lea five hours day. President trump repeatedly called the Mueller Investigation a witch hunt. Today Robert Mueller, the lifelong republican and now a private citizen wil have his say and the consequences could be enormous. Well be followinghis all throughout the day and standing by to help us is our team correspondents and analysts. I am going to start out with kasie hunt on the hill for us. A hisric day, t years in the making savannah. Well see Robert Mueller in a few short mutes here sit down with the House Judiciary Committee thats going to begin at 8 30. Thats the larger of the two committees. There are 41 members on theig intellce committee. Each one is going to get about five minutes to speak. This is going to focus on alged obstruction, volume two of the Mueller Report. You will see all of those instances laid out and the report during the course of the hearing then well have a little bit of a break and the intelligence will take over. The
Values. At this time let me introduce the participants of the asked discussion today entitled theed battlegrounds of perception, courtneying threats to free and open societies. Ion heresy ali is a refrp fellow at the Hoover Institution. Served as a had minister of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006. While in parliament she focused on furthering the integration of nonwestern immigrants into Dutch Society and on defending the rights of muslim women. Larry diamond sat senior fellow at the hoover stumts and the institute for international studies. For more than six years he directed fsi center on Democracy Development and the rule of law. Where he now leads the program on arab reform and dpkz and the Global Digital policy incubator. H. R. Mckaufrt is a senior flow at the hoover stiegs 26th assistant to the president for the National Security affairs and served as a commissioned officer in the United States army for 34 years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in june of 2018. The m