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And humanely solve the hong kong problem, can he do it. joining us now president of the council on foreign relations. richard haase also with us. and in london international editor don stewart. this times cover overseas is the battle with hong kong. chinas collision course with democracy. richard, let me start with you and the president trump angle on all this. he has been hesitant to say anything, he calls it the hong kong thing. he said well see what happens. he said i hope it works out for ev...

Death occurs in benghazi. all of that was blamed on hillary clinton by house republicans. heres william barr at the top of his department. but this letter tonight co-signed by the leading republican on the house judiciary committee is asking all the right questions. >> yes. does the word hypocrisy mean anything? thats not a new thing for this republican party in this age of donald trump to cast aside all prior alleged convictions or commitments to how responsibility works, where the buck stops i...

Thats not a new thing for this republican party in this age of donald trump to cast aside all prior alleged convictions or commitments to how responsibility works, where the buck stops in situations like this. i think its, you know -- youve seen the cognitive dissonance as you watched before the epstein event, you know, on friday you had the names of some prominent people who were implicated in the epstein thing. you saw bill richldsons name. you saw george mitchells name come out. you saw donal...

Escaped inmate, the c.o.s of san quentin have snapped into action. >> take your ass upstairs. >> inside the prison, all inmates have been locked up and the officers have done a prison-wide recount. prison officials have also been dispatched to canvass the area around san quentin. >> its possible that the citizen saw what they saw, could have maybe been two teenagers or something that live on grounds, prison grounds that were hopping the fence and a citizen passing by thought it was worth calling...

Criminal misconduct, we are comr you regardless of your race, etl origin. >> shannon: this investigation was a long time in the making. should we expect more? >> we have stood up an initiative called the federal initiative for the tenderloin, or fit, that will persist for a minimum of one year. i have pledged to dedicate the work of 15 assistant u.s. attorneys, 15 prosecutors, federal prosecutors to this effort. ive been joined by more than 15 federal law enforcement agencies who have made simil...

Playing golf with who knows who is putting stuff in his head. >> part of the republican members is theyve walked the plank for trump before and theyve been cut off when he walks back from commitments hes made. >> name me one example of a time where the president has pushed republicans to do something they didnt want to do and follow through on it. hes said i will stand up to whoever and make it okay for you and then it just fades away. >> these two are really plugged in, also good friends of min...

Law enforcement officials are getting a pat on the back, local business owners are praising the kickoff of a trump administration initiative to crack down hard on crime. 32 people were arrested in the tenderloin district yesterday, residents of long complained little was being done. >> pretty bad, shooting up right in front of you. >> first time in 40 years, this is the first time any high law enforcement official made these kind of commitments to the neighborhood. >> joining me is david anderso...

Commitments. and theyre not backing down. and i wonder if you think there is the potential for kind of a tiananmen redux. another really deadly and awful crash -- clash in hong kong. >> the short answer, gene, is yes. the hong kong protesters arent backing down. if anything theyre expanding beyond extradition. they want to make sure that the original handover principle of one country, two systems is honored. and on the main land, xi jinping is not going to honor it. he -- this is a guy who aboli...

Tonight. what is your take on the stage that we are at now on the actions that each side has take taken? >> martha i think its important for everyone to remember that this trade war is not new. china has been waging a trade war against the united states for 30 years. they have not lived up to their commitments for their commitments to the united states. for instance, in 2015 he promised barack obama that china would stop stealing our intellectual property and hacking into our computer systems. t...

But what is the prospect for change with half the country either reading, as george will said, the heller decision on guns or staying silent in the face of white extremism, domestic terror. how far can we get with half the country walking around like zombies? >> its a difficult question to answer. i think what we have to do is to get about the business of building a better world. not so much focusing our energy and attention in trying to convince people to hold different sorts of commitments, bu...