Again, many consider a genocide is happening. i m fascinated to see how it is handled by the business community, by nbc, which is broadcasting the olympic games. i mean, do you think we re going to see the traditional olympic, look at everyone smiling, montages as they open the games every night? well, i m sure that s what the chinese government is going to try to do. they did that in the previous olympics that they hosted. this is another sort of chance for them to put out their, if you want to call it propaganda. i think that s exactly what they re trying to do. if there is anything we can do on this side, whether it is corporations, whether it s the media, it s really speak out and set benchmarks as to what we d like to see happen. that s why i m proud of what the women s tennis association did, john. we haven t heard from them for a while, but they told china, told the world that this is unacceptable. they need proof that peng shuai is okay and they can reach her. the chinese gov
A man accused of storming a home owned by former new york city mayor mike bloomberg and kidnapping his housekeeper at gunpoint is now behind bars. joseph beecher is facing federal kidnapping charges. he targeted the bloombergs colorado ranch and forced the housekeeper to drive to wyoming. police tracked them down at a motel, carried out a hostage rescue and got the victim back uninjured. the winter olympics is kicking off with an opening ceremony in beijing. despite diplomatic boycotts and china s own strict lockdowns. pictures posted online appear to show the russian president sleeping as the ukrainian team was introduced. this as china chooses a uighur athlete to light the olympic flame. many calling it propaganda. ya think? if to display claims of china s
Capitol hill. thank you. so much to unpack. let s bring in cedric leighton. good morning. now vladimir putin says russia does not want war. he says he s moving some troops back to bases with military ministry video going on with it. we don t know what s happening there. is it propaganda? he says he wants to negotiate. can the united states diplomats trust vladimir putin? good morning, christine. no, they can t. it s like what ronald regan said, trust but verify. that gets very important. obviously we want peace. we want to make sure ukraine is not invading and the territorial integrity of ukraine is not further compromised. having said that, we have to be very careful which game vladimir putin is playing. he s looking at this as a way to, you know, not only leverage the ukraine and the zelensky
Contractor jobs building rockets would be good paying union jobs, that hiring would be done based on historical equity, not racist math and that of course will get all the necessary permissions from the united nations, the e.u., and the w.h.o. about the health and environmental ramifications of rocket fumes. and of course the speech would be picked apart as sacrificing science on the altar of cold war political victories. the press would denounce it. why not spend that money on the ground come on people who needed instead of some far-fetched vision of putting a man on the moon? they call it propaganda instead of idealism and it probably be quoting anonymous sources from inside nasa disputing the president s aim as full hardy. from larry and michael allen s patriots history of united states, newly released tapes from the kennedy library of a key 1962 discussion with nasa administrator james webb revealed that he repeatedly resisted kennedy s efforts to turn the u.s. space program into a
Slavery and race at the center of this nation s history and narrative where, frankly, it has always belonged. it s a project that conservatives despise, alling it propaganda because it dares to address slavery and asks you to not look away. and because this red-hot vitriol for her was denied a tenured position at the university of north carolina at chapel hill after the university s board of trustees failed to approve the journalism department s recommendation, offering a five-year teaching contract instead. tenure is a big deal. not only a celebrated accomplishment but a mechanism that protects scholars from being fired without cause. it s intrinsically tide to academic freedom, allowing professors to teach any topic, even controversial ones that fox news might decide to whine about without getting fired. and now it s been rip ad way from one of the most important journalists of our time. and that is why republican legislators who are obsessed with erasing our history and