Illness. That attack is just the latest in a string of violent antisemitic incidents across the area. Moments ago, i spoke to the rabbi from the pittsburgh synagogue where a gunman killed 11 jews last year. This was his sobering assessment. It made me sort of wonder, i dont recall them selling licensings to have open hunting season on jews but it can make jews feel that way. Do you feel that way now . Thats quite a statement. It sure makes you pause and wonder whats going on in our society that people feel that they have a godgiven right to attack any human being for whatever reason they choose to. It makes you pause and wonder whats going on, indeed. It does. Moments ago i spoke with joseph, an orthodox jew who survived a stabbing attack at the rabbis home and he spoke about how he fought back to stop the attacker. I was sitting in the rabbis dining room when the rabbi finished the candle Lighting Ceremony and when the attacker came in. He first stood in the entry room, started hittin
interesting period right now. so what do you make of the current state of america? well, i put an album out about i think this was in 2005, and the title of the album was liars. and i have this tendency sometimes to be a little bit prophetic in the music that i make. and at the time, it wasn t necessarily about politics. it was just about the human tendency to be dishonest in great and small ways. in other words, if someone says, how do you like my new hairdo, and you don t like it, but you say, it looks great on way. you re trying to find ways not to lie and sometimes there s no way you can t. so i made a record about all the ways that people are dishonest with each other. i never thought that a political party would make that a canon, you know, that essentially the reason why liz cheney isn t in the republican party was because she refused to lie. in other words, to be a republican means that you have to first and foremost be able to lie. and lie until you get cornere
Coming up later on the program, how would brexit be different if the u. K. s labour party won this election . We speak to the shadow home secretary, diane abbott, at 9 30 london time. Lets check on your markets. I want to start with crude. A slump weighing on Energy Shares as Global Equity markets seem to the heading for a lower finish. Crude below 50. It is a little bit higher than it was a couple minutes ago. However, theres a lot of speculation on whether opec stuck to the most predictable outcome in its plans, and what that means for the future. The onshore yuan heading for its strongest weekly gain against the dollar in four months and pound falling as polls show theresa may may be losing ground. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra lets start with the u. S. The Justice Department has vowed to challenge a freeze of a travel ban against six muslim majority nations. The judge says the directive trips with intolerance and discrimination. Attorn
Tomorrow we are scheduled to release the transcripts of ambassador volker and ambassador sondland, and we will continue to release the transcripts in an orderly way. Democrats say this orderly release of calls and transcripts and everything they have that is supporting the evidence will ultimately deal with the republicans bluff and what they say are basically bad faith complaints about this probe and process thus far. Democrats say that everyone will then see the same interviews, the same allegations, the same rob ration of a trump giuliani plot that so concerned career diplomats, Army Officers and other nonpartisan veterans. Im going go through a few of the highlights. Todays release provides 473 pages of new testimony and paints a rebut toll the emerging argument that ukraines mistake or plot was some sort of simple phone call or an uncompleted request. Thats part of the defense that trump allies have lined up. But here you have impeachment witnesses like a former ambassador saying