In Central London in solidarity with americas and to racism crowds. Also china moves towards greater control of hong kong britains Prime Minister talks of offering citizenship to millions im going to go just go with sports as the German Football Federation says it will not punish players who protest racism and the killing of george floyd saying the players have their respect and understanding. Welcome to the news with the fallout over the death of george floyd in the us and the mass protests across the country u. S. Defense secretary mark esper has spoken within the past hour and has a differing view from the president over the use of military to control crowds donald trump has increasingly put pressure on governments to mobilize troops but the pentagon has pushed back and asked for says hes trying to keep his department out of politics. Ive always believed and continue to believe that the National Guard is best suited for performing Domestic Support to civil authorities in these situa
Those demonstrations show no signs of ending a week after a black man died in Police Custody and you autopsy report says it was a homicide. In other news an iranian scientist jailed in the u. S. Since 2017 is now on his way home. Also had the 1st confirmed covert 19 deaths reported at an overcrowded or hinge or refugee camp in bangladesh. And im sorry how much now have all the sporting clothing. The family of george floyd except boxing star Floyd Mayweather jr is also to pay it for his funeral. Its been a week since a black man George Floyds died in Police Custody in minnesota and theres no sign of an end to the process that followed against racism and Police Brutality in the United States the u. S. President on hold trump has threatened to deploy the army if state governors do not end the violence in washington d. C. Police forcibly cleared Peaceful Protesters near the white house so that mr trump could walk to a nearby church mike hanna begins our coverage. Of a peaceful protest outs
Stocks really at their highest level since march. Kevin p, its maizing that this market sometimes you wonder whether the market has a pulse that it has this abilities to overlook all of these pulling at us and what were witnessing in our cities. Were in a very troubled time i get it however, every day the world votes, every day individuals make multimillion dollar and one dollar decisions one cent at a time and where do they vote for optimism in the future america. Thats why the markets are doing what they are doing. Its seeing through this the market knows we will solve this problem as we always have and move forward is that what this is about . An abilities to make a big bet on america and our future regardless of what is right in front of us at this very moment . That is pulling at us emotionally. Were able to look past all of that and thats why money continues to come into the stock market you can have any number of reasons to say this market should not be where it is yet we find o
To watch closely as the succession happens, david . Yeah. Its not unexpected carl it was done in unexpected fashion given so many things that are different right now at t was having its annual meeting and doing it remotely, virtually, and mr. Stephenson announced it during the course of the annual meeting, that as you said, he will be stepping down at the end of june to be replaced by mr. Stankey as ceo mr. Stephenson will remain on as chairman of the company until january of next year stankey will become a member of the board of directors taking the role of ceo. He is president and coo he got that promotion back a number of months but questions in terms of whether he would get the top job and whether the board of directors would support him for that mr. Stephenson made it clear that he was going to leave the company as its leader most likely this year and obviously choosing to move forward with that, despite the Current Crisis his 13 years at the helm of the company, of course, have b
I just connected a dot just by you asking that question and me sitting next to megan. So i did a little bit of work on the 2000 campaign for some of the Foreign Policy advisors. And in exchange the guy said you get one bullet who is an interview with richard hoss. I flubed the interview and he. And it is remarkable how little domestic politics intruded into these clip rations. I have a specific memory, very well, i can remember the president s face exactly in the oval office during this time and i forget what i said exactly, but it was something about the policy in iraq, and then i made a comment about politics and how it would play at home. He was like i dont need your political advice. He said just think in terms of policy. So the domestic piece, i think, was incredible how little it intruded into our deliberations. But it was not a big driver. I didnt feel the burden of putting forward something in a would be domestically palatable. So i had a slightly different role. I had more int