Is maintained by the state department there was a certainly a choreographed move to to have this done 1st of all sudan paid 300 35000000. 00 to the United States that money is no being held in the account that will go to pay money to those who were victims in the east embassy east African Embassy bombings in the 19 190. 00 s. And also the killing of a u. S. Aid worker in sudan as well as the attack on the u. S. S. Cole once that money was in the current donald trump then sent a letter to congress to say he was minded to remove the designation of state sponsors of terrorism on sudan and then israel was in a position where it could normalize relations because as long as sudan is on that list then it faces a great deal of u. S. Sanctions and no other country can do business with that country or else face sanctions themselves you know the one fly in this theres a 45 day consultation period so this recommendation from the president goes to congress and then a joint resolution could be put f
You look to the end of our weekend. In the meantime we are dealing with extreme heat as well as dangerous fire conditions. In the mountain peaks, winds gusting 30 to 50 Miles Per Hour, a big concern with the critical fire weather conditions. Thats the reason why we have a red flag warning still in effect until 11 00 a. M. Due to the extreme fire danger. Also the heat. The heat advisory is still in effect for the bay area. We are going to see temperatures soar hotter than yesterday, mid to upper 90s to triple digit heat inland today, around the bay, low 90s, low to mid 80s for the coast. San jose is opening cooling centers at Camden Community center, vietnamese american cultural center, Joyce Ellington library today. Well talk more about the weekend forecast. Lets check with gianna and that bay bridge commute. The bridge commute is doing okay. We are not seeing brake lights. I am tracking slow and go conditions on the upper deck of the bay bridge. It looks like there could be some const
Most urgent issue we face and theres a lot of competition. Weve been witnessing a relentless and unprecedented seriesta of attacks on the twin foundations of our democratic system, free and Fair Elections and the rule of law. They are not unrelated to the president has made repeated threat to separate the election, some with support from the attorney general, suggesting he will military to the polls which is illegal, Voter Suppression of perhaps most chillingly refusing to commit to abide by theab election results. Some are worried that the rule of law has been so eroded in this country that it may be possible to literally steal the election, and we think there are strong legal and institutional safeguards against that, but the dramatic erosion of the rule of law in recent years is unmistakable. We you see Law Enforcement weaponized arew partisan and political gain come from threats of politically motivated prosecutions against political adversaries to the actual interference in prosec
So speaking of funding gaps. The Brennan Center for justice hosting a discussion on how the government should respond to protests. Whetherthe response should be different for Peaceful Protesters and anarchists and what the response could be. Democracy and equal protection under the law. We are a nonpartisan 501 c 3 . We do not participate in elections or endorse or oppose candidates in any way and we are very grateful to be producing todays event with the nyu John Brenneman center which advocates for civil debate on politics and Public Policy and nyu votes which works to give every nyu student the information they need to vote. I am especially grateful to be introducing an event with some of the countries most important thinkers on what i think is one of themost urgent issues we face and theres a lot of competition. Weve been witnessing a relentless andunprecedented series of attacks on the twin foundations of our democratic system. Elections and the rule of law. They are not unrelated
About the far right, white supremacist, from the streets to the white house, we will spread out globally we will be looking at it historically, well probably deal with terms like fascism and populism and nationalism. Before we do that, i want to spend just a moment talking about what we are going to do with the technology. Number one, we are asking all the videos stay off. So we dont get video bombed and that we use all of our bandwidth for the conversation as opposed to video. Number two, to ask questions rather than doing it orally, what we are going to ask you to do is to type your questions into the chat box, to do that if youre familiar with resume if you run your cursor across the screen you will see at the bottom of a box that says chat, click on chat and you will see off to the right hand side of your screen a line at the bottom where you can type it in your questions and comments. As we go through this discussion with Larry Rosenthal if youd be good enough to type in your ques