Amy pressure is growing on britain and the United States to pay reparations and apologize for expelling residents of the Chagos Archipelago in the indian ocean more than a halfcentury ago so the United States could build a Major Military base on the island of diego garcia. We will speak to a leading chagossian activist. Then we go to new mexico where a trump supporter wearing a maga hat opened fire on an indigenousled protest last week against the reinstallation of a statue honoring a 16th century spanish conquistador. One indigenous climate activist was shot and needed to be airlifted for emergency surgery. We will get the latest. And a shocking new report estimates psalm 35,000 people in the United States have been killed at the hands of u. S. Law enforcement since the year 2000. We will speak to two researchers which had revealed a number of brown and black People Killed by police may be more than double the amount that has been widely reported. The Database Project goal is to provi
Amy pressure is growing on britain and the United States to pay reparations and apologize for expelling residents of the Chagos Archipelago in the indian ocean more than a halfcentury ago so the United States could build a Major Military base on the island of diego garcia. We will speak to a leading chagossian activist. Then we go to new mexico where a trump supporter wearing a maga hat opened fire on an indigenousled protest last week against the reinstallation of a statue honoring a 16th century spanish conquistador. One indigenous climate activist was shot and needed to be airlifted for emergency surgery. We will get the latest. And a shocking new report estimates psalm 35,000 people in the United States have been killed at the hands of u. S. Law enforcement since the year 2000. We will speak to two researchers which had revealed a number of brown and black People Killed by police may be more than double the amount that has been widely reported. The Database Project goal is to provi
Good afternoon everybody. If i could ask everybody who is filing in to just be seated. Thank you so much. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the American Enterprise institute. I am the Senior Vice President for foreign and defense policy studies here. And i am genuinely delighted that we have senator marco rubio here with us today to help us role out this new report. I have my props here. I feel like vanna white. It is the product of the aei working group on transnational organized crime in americas. I dont think that marco rubio needs a lot of introduction to this audience, but i am going to give you a word or two nonetheless and then hand things over and do a little bit of housekeeping. The United States senator from florida. He is a member of the committee on appropriations and the committee on Foreign Relations and he has a resume much longer that i am not going to keep reading. But to us a leader on international affairs. Somebody who our country turns to to hear where we sho
Chilly start this morning. By the afternoon, mid 80s around the east bay. Upper oughtitys in San Francisco. Mid 80s around south bay. Busy commute, crashes effecting two bridges. Bridges are critical at this point of the commute as traffic starts to shift over from the east bay to the peninsula. Overall the traffic patterns look standard. Concern over here, the hayward side of the san mateo bridge, northbound 880 theres a crash at 92. A big rig involved over on the should were the chp flashing lights and activity. Distracting the southbound side. Slowing for a time being. Well see if theres recovery. Southbound lanes are clear. Eastbound typically counter commute. Crash on the Richmond San Rafael bridge. One lane is blocked. A sig alert is issued, meaning chp thinks its going to be half hour in they clear that. Westbound, your commute is all right. Back to you. Breaking news this morning. European commission is ruling ireland gave illegal tax breaks to cupertino based apple. Apple is n
Economy. In china maybe 80 , 100 the size of the american economy, the question is whether they are going to grow 9 , 5 . That is a much bigger question with more consequence to growth in the world, incremental gdp in the world. To make this clear, any time somebody is growing in the world, its good for everybody in the world. Obviously, its great in the country which growth is occurring. That incremental growth results in incremental demand which will draw support exports by other players, as well. Companies are sitting on a lot of cash. What are they doing . They are pursuing buybacks. How are we supposed to think about buybacks . Are they a good thing or bad thing . Or propping up the stock market . People are making decisions incrementally whether its better to invest in returns are better to augment your business. Sometimes its sensible. To take the predicate of your question, i dont think thats all companies are doing. By the way, efficiency sometimes can be the enemy of maximizi