A spot big vaccine as infections in the country still. Good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r. T. With less than a week to go till the u. S. President ial election racial tensions of boiled over again West Philadelphia sort of 2nd night of unrest after the Fatal Police Shooting of a black man on monday are protesters marched the streets shops were targeted by looters. Aerial shots showing Stores Across the city being. Some showed up with cars to drive away with their looted goods on top of the looting theres been brought in arson attacks including a reported wave of a. T. M. Bombings you know guard has now been deployed. Clashes left dozens of Law Enforcement officers injured several arrests were made r. T. America correspondent from reports from the scene. You. Know. The old you tube rubio you know weve seen across the city looting has happened as far as a mile and a half all the way to 5 miles away from the city. I have heard i talked to Business Owners earlier today who
And now the contenders. Our series on key political figures who ran for president and lost, but who nevertheless changed political history. Tonight we feature former House Speaker henry clay of kentucky, known as the great compromiser. The program was recorded at clays ashland estate in lexington, kentucky, its about 90 minutes. This is an encore presentation of cspans original 14week series which first aired in 2011. This is a portrait of kentuckys henry clay, known to us in our history books as the great compromiser. During his 49year political career clay served as secretary of state, speaker of the house and as a u. S. Senator and he was a contender, making five president ial bids, including the election of 1824, 1832 against Andrew Jackson, and 1844 when he ran against james k. Polk. Tonight we are on location at ashland, henry clays home in lexington, kentucky and for the next 90 minutes we will explore the life and legacy of this man. Unsuccessful in his long quest for the white
Ashland. Henry clays home in lexington, kentucky, and for the next 90 minutes we will explore the life and legacy of this man, unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. And we are in henry clays parlor r parlor right now. Let me introduce you to jim plotter, historian. Thank you for being with us. Good to be here. Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . On a couple of accounts, his famous quote, i would rather be right than be president. Its a call to people whatever were doing, which is to do the right thing. In a sense, politicians need to remember the country and sacrifice for the country and i think that is still something that we need to remember, as well and the man known as the great compromiser, and a man that forges these compromises that not only kept the nation together, but were constructive and those are the kinds of things we need to remember about henry clay as well as the things that he did in
Hello and welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im pujol about how is the issue of china playing out in the American Election cycle and by the trade themselves as being tough on beijing maybe they are at least rhetorically but reality tells a very different story and it is bipartisan the commanding heights of the industry and finance have courted china for decades and have the riches to show for it is this china. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest sarah issue in knoxville she is a visiting scholar at Fudan University and in beijing we crossed the jungle he is a professor at the university of International Business and economics are across up rules in effect that means you can jump and become you want and i was ok lets go to sarah and knoxville. What role is china playing in the American Election because i said in my introduction both biden and trump want they like to show these apps ok that ad versus advair and i china obviously but i dont see it really makin
So excited to be here today with two of my personal heroes. You know i always think about as a mother of five young children, three boys that someone mustve really thunk these words when these boys were young men that freedom is not free because they have taken at the heart. Two of the true heroes on the topic of battling the marxism that has been dated our society today, sadly, i just could not be in the presence of two greater warriors on the topic. And they are not johnnycomelatelys on this topic. These gentlemen have been battling this topic their entire careers. Really their entire lives. Both sacrificed greatly, as i like to quote with their lives in military service and then decided that wasnt quite enough to give up for a country that they wanted to then go even further and to give the gift of their time and their talents and their sacrifice and our congress fighting on the issue of fighting communism, hiding the ccp. Im going to tell you is the wife of a former senator from mi