That are being organized on facebook and read it buying the stock, bidding it up, causing those institutions to lose money here. Talking to the tune of billions of dollars over the past week or so for the sec, Securities Exchange commission is watching this and a sec regulator told me you might be hard for them to find a violation. Listen. I think when it comes to regulating the speech or regulating content, thats a huge challenge and certainly from a securities regulation perspective. I dont think the sec can regulate speech which everyone has the right to regulate in the sense charging a crime for doing it. What has lawmakers concerned is that robin hood is billed as a free Trading Platform had actually stopped or halted trades on gamestop and some of these others that were shorted which allowed the institutions to make back some of their money in those shorts yesterday. If robin hood said it needed the pause to collect collateral for its clearing house. They raised A Billion Dollars
Stay right there dont move mr. Chairman, my fellow americans, my fellow democrats i proudly accept the nomination of our party [ cheers and applause ] this moment this moment is one of personal pride and gratification. Yet one cant help, but reflect the deep sadness that we feel over the troubles and the violence which have erupted, regrettably and tragically in the streets of this great city and for the personal injuries which have occurred. [ applause ]. Thats Hubert Humphrey accepting the 1968 nomination for president at chicagos Conrad Hilton hotel where the democrat his gathered for their convention in the midst of the vietnam war while thousands of angry protesters demonstrated outside. Hubert humphrey, longtime, minnesota senator and unsuccessful candidate is the focus of this weeks Contenders Program. We are live from minnesotas history center. Nick collette is the document ari documentarian of Hubert Humphreys life and the tumultuous year of 1968. I want you to set the stage f
Buses aside to make their way in to this area and then they staged a sit in if you will for several hours and then when it became very late at night kind of a couple of 100 several 100 hardcore protesters stayed here overnight then at 4 am thats when the government issued an emergency decree saying that any group over 5 was illegal and thats when we saw that clearing out process that led to this empty street behind me yemens who the rebels have released 2 u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 fighters the swap is the 1st of several prisoner exchanges expected in the coming days between the saudi Live Television and movies. Fighting is escalating between armenia and azerbaijan the azeris say they have destroyed missile launchers that were targeting their cities medium government denies its forces have been firing into. Protests continuing in cyprus against government corruption they follow an aljazeera investigation of senior politicians who are willing to sell passports to convicted crimi
Protests and said that he would only step down after a rerun of the parliamentary election where the state the president approved of support but his Prime Minister cypresses speaker of parliament has resigned in the wake of the cash for passport scheme the controversy was brought to light by an aljazeera investigation of senior politicians who are willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the government is now bullish the program the rebels in yemen have released to us citizens in exchange for 250 of the fighters the free 2 thieves of arrived in yemens capital sanaa off to going through oman more prisoner swaps are expected on thursday the whole data has more on the how the exchange is being carried out. A senior official is saying that the operation is under way and theyre expecting the 1800. 00 prisoners to be released today so what is going to be happening from a logistical perspective is that were going to see plays taken. Prisoners all the way from the word and then
Flown from the saudi city of all the way to words the capital sanaa sources from both the government and the hotels are saying this expecting the operation to and by to morrow kyrgyzstans new Prime Minister says are jumper off as resumes president ial powers after the resignation of the current president and the parliamentary speaker have been weeks of antigovernment protests since the disputed parliamentary election earlier this month protesters accuse the government of rigging the vote in its favor you see thousands of antigovernment protesters are still out on the streets of bangkok their sorrow openly defying a government ban on public gatherings theyre calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and for reforms to the monarchy the government imposed its emergency measures in the Early Morning hours to stop months of demonstrations. The speaker of the cyprus parliaments to meet choose c. Or c. Lura has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal and ill just say their inves