it s holding all the weight is what that means. obviously it was designed to odo do so. let s keep going. the 2018 report gave no indication the building was at risk of collapse, which means that language that would scare you or me didn t scare the people who were doing the appraising. and we know that town officials reviewed the report and told the board, quote, it appears the building is in very good shape. so, two possibilities. one, they don t know what the hell they re talking about and didn t read the report, or two, they do. and this doesn t mean what is as incendiary as how it s feeling. so, you have to think about that. there are a lot of people digging up information, including this 2015 lawsuit filed by a resident of the building. the suit was about an exterior wall. we see echos of the 2018 report. balconies in need of repair. is that unusual? listen to this engineer.
i think that remains to be seen to be quite honest. this was a retaliatory strike to try to deter iran from conducting any future rocket attacks on american coalition forces in iraq and syria. and so they are appraising for whatever iran might do. i don t know that i would say this is a hugely significant escalation in terms of the conflict inside iraq and syria which is based on going after isis, but certainly going to further strain u.s. and iraq relations from a diplomatic perspective. and we saw defense secretary mark esper arriving in florida, and he did brief president trump saturday before carrying out the strikes with the president s approval. and as i mentioned, this is two days after the attack on a base in iraq that killed an american contractor but not the first act of aggression. there were attacks this summer on oil tanks.
earlier today more than 100 flights were canceled, grounding thousands of passengers. check this video, even putting those passengers in harm s way as the angry crowd continue to grow. hong kong police officers shot rubber bullets to quell those demonstrators but it worked in only a few incidents. the angry group attacked the man thought to be a double agent working for the chinese government in beijing. speaking of beijing, the capital city, many said they want hong kong to work out its own problems but the rhetoric is changing, what is official arguing the protesters are, quote, beginning to show the sprouts of terrorism. the entire appraising began a few months ago when a group began protesting over an extradition bill that would essentially allow beijing to come into hong kong, transport accused criminals to mainland china, the protesters want carrie lamb who back the extradition bill gone from office.
adrian elrod, former senior advisor to hillary clinton s campaign. democratic strategic don callaway and former nevada state gop chairwoman air tarkanian. amy, begin the cost we heard director morell outline there, do you think the president gave up too much by this photo op because there is no guarantee this is going to lead to any different results than the two previous summits they have held. right. that s very true. there is no guarantee. north korea has never given us a guarantee historically. so i think the fact that the president has made history by being the first sitting president to cross the dmz line i think it is a great start. you even have the pope appraising his encounter. if you go back to 2008 president obama himself said how important it was to have open communication with our adversaries. so i think this is a good thing. okay. what about you, don? i mean, the president calls this progress. are you going to give him any credit for being the first sitting u.s. pres
their comics of the people there so i think right now people are happy also because the mexican president shows that he can handle his not like some people said at the beginning of the spirit that he could be like some kind of model he s open to protect the economy he s open to negotiation and he s not thinking with the stomach like some other presidents are wrong. what is the reaction in mexico been though he s open to negotiate but has he possibly made too many concessions there well i think some of the some part of the society is not happy because well they like things to very intellectual where it s at so they they say the world we need to start. the 3 months of appraising that s mix things up because well they were speaking about the economy so some months ago. nafta was