From hong kong. The practices of now being cleared off the streets of hong kong where they blocked guys main highways on march 5th in the Central Business district which is where we are now and traffic has returned to normal now these protests were initially just about the anger of the extradition bill but that bill has now been dumped altogether but the anger of the message is now broader these protesters want beijing to withdraw restraint pull back from its tightening grip on hong kong now we have more rallies planned again next weekend i should also say there was a separate incident last night in a place called good long which is in the New Territories where we had a group of people wearing white we targeted those protesters returning from yesterday as much as another the mob wearing white they were holding up big metal devices and they beat those passages i think janice and they beat politicians who tried to escape from the trying to avoid these violent confrontations and now. The
Like Ronald Reagan im strongly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother. You must follow your heart on this issue, but remember you must also win elections to restore our culture. Donald trump with more mixed messages on a statement on abortion yesterday leaving key questions about the issue unanswered. Well have more of his comments and show you how the Biden Campaign is responding. Meanwhile, the president was out on the Campaign Trail Yesterday announcing another major effort to bring Student Debt Relief to millions of americans. And it could be a chaotic week on capitol hill as lawmakers return from a long break with a key vote on ukraine aid in the house, which could threaten Mike Johnsons speakership. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, april 9th. Im jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. Well begin this morning with the race for the white house where donald trump is facing backlash from both sides of the aisle for
Will take we dont know if the president will take questions, but his recent predecessors have usually held a prechristmas News Conference to talk about the years achievements. Marriage garrett is on the south lawn wait Major Garrett is on the south lawn waiting. Reporter welcome to a warm afternoon here in december on the south lawn. You can see republicans behind me republicans in the house and senate, the combined leadership of the two chambers of Congress Awaiting the president s arrival. Here is the president of the United States. [ music ] ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States accompanied by the Vice President , the speaker of the house, and the Senate Majority leader. [ applause ] [ music ] it will be interesting to see what sort of questions the president takes beyond the tax bill, which is the largest tax overhaul since 1986, 1. 5 trillion in total, providing a great deal of tax relief to everyone, including businesses. In the past, president ial predecessors
Grown gdpwise 5 per year since 2000. Violent extremism is amongst the major risks to economies in part of africa. Tunisias gdp gross has been cut from 3 to 1 . Chads gdp contracted 1 in 2015 from a growth of 5 in 2014. And countries like kenya and nigeria saw a reduction of 25 of tourism following terrorist attacks. We in undp estimate that at least 33,000 people have died on african soils since 2011 as victims of violent extremism. And 6 million are currently internally displaced due to radicalization. Mr. Chairman, over the last two years undp has held a number of consultations, conducted a series of studies and commissioned research to better understand the violent extremism scourge in africa. These various studies and research converge in showing three major findings. One, while the drivers of radicalization are multifaceted and defy easy analysis, their major roots are to be found in the combination of poverty and low human development, a sense of economic and political exclusion
Given an opportunity to help try to change the direction of the country. I believe thats not just an opportunity but an obligation and we are focused and committed to focus on the economy as well as getting people back to work to strengthen the middle class. Joining in what my colleagues have said there is a lot of work up there to be done. Im optimistic. We have the rules of the senate that allows us to do it. It gives us follow those rules. Im also lost the sick there are a lot of things beyond the Keystone Pipeline that there is tremendous agreement on if we can just get to that work and i believe the new majority leader is absolutely committed to see that we get this work done. Lots of legislation like senator barrasso just said for more American Energy and things that produce good jobs to take care of families in ways that families would like to be able to take care of themselves and frankly the president is going to engage one way or another. The last four years not much reason f