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Arthel: soldiers from mainland china taking to the streets in hong kong for the first time since pro-democracy protests began five months ago. the soldiers have been sent to help clear roadblocks set up by demonstrator, many of whom barricaded themselves inside a major university. but their presence is raising questions about how long they will stay. lets bring in retired army major general benny bowles who served as assistant deputy chief of staff for the army. always good to have you. i want t...

Coming from here were not be required to go for it hes born here so big concessions are calling me and huge concessions year i think he really wants it to be a success. in karachi and as well in delhi thank you both. this saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall when democracy prevailed over authoritarianism but $989.00 was a historic year for beijings crackdown of student protesters on t.m. and square as well a moment when the opposite happened when authoritarianism tr...

Coming from here were not be required to your boss sports for anyone here so big concessions are calling me huge concessions here i think you really want it to be a success. in karachi and as well in delhi thank you both. this saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall when democracy prevailed over authoritarianism but $989.00 was a historic year for beijings crackdown of student protesters on t.m. and square as well a moment when the opposite happened when authoritariani...

He basically is saying we wont pass something until we see what the president will pass. mitch mcconnell is very consistent. i want to talk to you about this. you took a trip to hong kong. you were there with the protesters. i wanted to hear from you what that was like and how exciting it was to be around people who really believe in the ideals of democracy. >> yeah, thats right, dana. thanks for asking. we had our third annual japan cpac in tokyo. we invited one of these student protesters in h...

He left alaska, came to washington, d.c., because president richard nixon named wally hickel to become part of his cabinet. to become the new secretary of the interior. it seems pretty clear nixon at the time expected wally hickel to be a down the line, pro-business, pro development, pro drilling kind of guy. and to a certain extent he was. but wally hickel did his own thinking and ended up being sort of way too much of a mixed bag for nixon even right from the start. by the time wally was into ...

Israel receives from the united states. but there are also vivid memories of what happened in the 2006 war. i was here in 2006 during the war, and many of the villages and towns in southern lebanon were utterly destroyed. more than 1,000 civilians killed. so people as much as they may take pride in what hezbollah is doing to not want to see a repeat of what happened in 2006. george? >> it is important to, you know, remind people of that. ben wedeman live for us. and oren liebermann as well. gent...

One and that that wasnt supportive of the protest and the hong kong government and one that turned tense. lets talk --dash makes start -- start with the one downtown. this movement has been led by the student protesters in according to rally organizers more than 20,000 showed up. over the government buildings. they are joining those that came out in support of the hong kong government and by extension china. and one over and calhoun. it was meant to be a pro-democracy but soon dissolved into a f...

Extradited to mainland china. one thing we learned over the last week is that people in hong kong really didnt like this bill. on wednesday, in the lead-up to this, we saw huge clashes between student protesters and the police. at one point, the protesters blocking the doors to the parliament in hong kong, simply because they didnt want their politician toss be debating the bill. on sunday, six days back when this kicked off, we saw 1 million people on the streets of hong kong. keep in mind, hon...

War into cambodia, but that was nixon making this primetime public address, basically retroactively asking for a public blessing of that expansion of the war. he did not get that public blessing. within a week of that speech, national guard troops were shooting live ammunition at a student anti-war protest in ohio. four students shot dead in kent state less than a week after that speech. 11 days after kent state, two more student protesters shot dead at jackson state in mississippi. another 12 s...

Shooting live ammunition at a student anti-war protest in ohio. four students shot dead in kent state less than a week after that speech. 11 days after kent state, two more student protesters shot dead at jackson state in mississippi. another 12 students were wounded by gunfire there. that was may 1970. by june 1970, the nixon administration had started casting about for some sort of public gambit to try to reclaim the narrative, to try to change the story. and in june 1970, they hit upon an ide...