perversely incentivize police departments to do a policing that is undignified and puts them in very compromise positions. you have also seen by the video that bob shows, the complicity of other officers in very violent activity against civilians. i encourage you to join us tonight at the national press club or watch us on life. i want to conclude with the urging of cami ella williams. i think she provides a profound voice for these issues particularly from a millennial perspective. one week for now will be our national election. a time when a time when we will be electing a president for our country and a time where local officials will be elected. i urge you to hold them accountable. with your vote. i thank you for joining us today. [applause] [inaudible] tonight on c-span two, look at teaching western civilization and higher education. from chicago ideas week, the future policing in america. later a congressional briefing on the legal and social effects of gun violence.
those are important questions for us.speaki .. state police and or retired detective, 14 years undercover in a kardex the narcotics started in 1970 so i saw the war on drugs grow from nothing to this horrible monstrosity it is today. so when you ask how do we get here, how do we get to this point with all of these pictures we just saw that was the war on drugs. the war on drugs was created completely needlessly. in 1970 when i started undercover that was the beginning and the likelihood of anybody in this country dine as a result of the drug war was less than the likelihood of them die from falling down the steps in their own home. lise likely that dine from choking to death on their own food at dinner when we started a war on drugs. so you have to ask why. the answer to that why is actually told by richard nixon domestic policy advisor john ehrlichman. it was richard nixon who initiated the war on drugs. john ehrlichman said in an interview in 1994 and i quote, you want to k
surveillance. this is francine lacqua in london. tom keene is in new york. tom, i think we have to look at a lot of macro data. the economy in europe is quite slow and that puts extra on the currency. tom: questions on banking in germany. francine: let s get first to the bloomberg first word news. taylor: hillary clinton said she is ready to lead and warns that donald trump cannot be trusted in the oval office. clinton accepted the party nomination to be the presidential candidate. she belittled trumps claim that the country solve problems. it is wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and give out pink slips with the other. i believe wall street can never, ever be allowed to recommend wreck mainn/ street again. in japan, the central bank has buying in a bond limited way. but it is not increasing the pace of government bond purchases. it will assess the effectiveness of its policy in december. economy failed to expand in the second quarter. the data may have been fueled by
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