in d.c. appointed by former president trump has said a conspiracy case against members of the proud boys can move forward. in a 43-page ruling, the judge said the alleged crimes could not be considered protected first amendment speech. in washington, i m whitney wild. hong kong pro-democracy outlet stand news announced it will shutdown less than 12 hours after a police raid of its offices. hundreds of police officers swarmed the company headquarters collecting boxes of evidence. at least seven staff and associates of the outlet were arrested earlier today suspected of conspiracy to publish seditious material. as a blanket charge being used to restrict media freedoms in that city. one of russia s most respected human rights organizations has been ordered to shutdown. the supreme court ruled memorial international has broken the country s foreign agent law. the group says the real reason is the kremlin doesn t approve of this work which includes documenting the abuses of the
in place they can bring this to an end in a month or so. but that is cold comfort for millions trying to survive now under harsh conditions. most restrictions, those kinds of restrictions for people outside of china can t imagine. steven, appreciate it. hong kong police have arrested six people from stand news outlet. they are suspected in conspiracy to publish sady shouse material. a blanket charge which has been used to cut down press freedoms in the city. police visited the home of a seventh employee who was led away by officers according to the hong kong journalist association, although the stand confirms he was not arrested. police say they have clollected at least 30 boxes of evidence. and now elon musk and spacex satellites catching heat in china. we ll have the details ahead.
everybody here if we could open the doors a little bit for people to come here. well, he certainly is passionate isn t he? chris cuomo joins me live from new york. it s difficult to take this. it s almost as if he has talked to the north korea leader about bae. i don t know. what s your sense? not my sense. there are a lot of allegations circling about why kenneth bae has been incarcerated. there s been no official set of reasons other than hostility to the state as a blanket charge. it s difficult to speculate. certainly the family and officials on this side working the situation make it very clear that kenneth bae is not somebody who s a known felon under their code or any recognizable code. he s a victim and hostage. that s something that matters. obviously carole the theater of rodman is appealing. i don t know what his problem was this morning to be honest.
what does that really mean? a terroristic threat is kind of in texas is kind of the blanket charge for making a threat, a credible threat to somebody but not actually carrying it out. so it s a misdemeanor in most cases. so you know, the million dollar bond on that will more than likely get reduced at some point. but the other $2 million is $1 million each on what we call insufficient bond. those are the appeal bonds that i m talking about. those are not going to get reduced. because that s the judge s full discretion, and the judge made the determination. so you know, in the terroristic threat, evidently the allegation is that he sent threatening e-mails to county officials after the mcclelland shooting and they were able to trace those e-mails back to him. and that s where that charge came about. you were talking about if he gets charged with capital murder. if he gets charged with capital murder this week that s going to be the charge he s going to have to worry about. s
martha: what do you think about the whole sam tkopb donnelson thing. the suggestion that there are some organizations out there that are inappropriate with the president because they don t like him being president, in part because he is african-american. well, i think it s prime a fascia ludicrous. in fact it s shocking to me that someone could make that charge and congressman elijah cummings said that on television the other day and not be laughed off the stage. you don t like the way our reporter addressed the president therefore he s racist? you sort of wonder how long that blanket charge, will be taken serious. again, this is good news for us at the daily caller because it s yet another example of the deep lack of seriousness of a lot of