New york 1. Good evening, welcome to new yorks 111th Congressional District. Were less than three weeks from election day, the start of early voting starts on october 24th and many voters received their absentee ballots. With Big Decisions on the minds of many voters, we bring you a seat held by both democrats and republicans over the past decade. Its consistently been the most competitive Congressional District in the city. The 11th district encompasses all Staten Island and bay ridge and the heights. The seat is currently held by max rose, a Democrat First elected to office in 2018. Hes being challenged by Nicole Malliotakis who currently serves in the state senate. Both are appearing via skype, were holding this remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic. The rules agreed to, generally the candidates will have one minute to answer questions and well of course allow for exchanges. Well have a cross examination round and a lightning round. The candidates will be by themselves for the du
Officers who were pepper sprayed, one of them had to be taken to the hospital, all are expected to be okay. Police say they were forced to declare the protest a Public Safety hazard after demonstrators started using pepper spray and throwing bottles. Despite the violence, no one was arrested, the event was organized by a group called team save america, as Elissa Harrington reports, the leader of that group ended up in hospital. This is what they did to me, i am at the hospital. Reporter reida, the organizer of saturdays ali, posted a video of himself in a hospital bed, missing his front tooth shortly after he left the event, it was knocked out during a fight with counter protesters. He is with team save america, a conservative group. They held a rally at San Franciscos United Nations plaza to protest censorship. The conservative activists were outnumbered by hundreds of counter protesters, many wore all black, held antifascist signs and some carried pictures of black men and women kill
I wondered, could have made the choices they had to make to protect ones family, to protect myself. Could i have found the perseverance, the fortitude, the courage, to get to. Its where i am now where i wrote my book, if you hear noises in the background, those are not horns those are frogs croaking away in my pond at college hilltop in connecticut. Hopefully there wont be a thunderstorm and it will stay nice and you callawhen i was up your writing i would spend a good deal of my time wishing i could understand what was like to live in world war ii. Wishing i could find the apathy, the understanding, to convey on the page what its like to live with a constant sense of uncertainty. What its like to live not knowing whats going to happen next. What its like to live through a great unknown. Now its a previously unimagined year later and all i can say is, be careful what you wish for. I am not saying that our battle against the pandemic is the same as fighting world war ii. There is not an
Thank you christina. I was in the enemys house and also the night of the assassins and remember last year it seems like in a year ago before the sequestering part of a previous lifetime, last year when i was working on the assassins, i spent a lot of time reading about world war ii, i tried to put myself in the shoes of the people i was reading about, and to protect one family and protect myself. And they found the perseverance, the fortitude to get through events is who i am now, where i wrote my book and if you hear noises in the background, those are not horns, is a college hilltop in connecticut and hopefully that will not be a thunderstorm. But through the writing i would spend a good view of my time wishing that i could understand what it was like to live in world war ii. In the empathy and what its like to live with the constant sense of uncertainty. What its like to live not knowing whats going to happen next and what its like to live through great unknown. Now its previously u
And we are thrilled to have one of our local authors here tonight. Bill yenne is the author of more than three dozen nonfiction books as well as novels. He has written numerous books on military history and recently released a book called, hit the target, which we have over here. That book is related to the eighth air force. Tonight, we are honored to have bill to discuss his latest book with us, operation long jump. Bill yenne. [applause] bill thanks to paula, who is not here, and john, who is. Thanks to all of you for coming out. Sitting down and listening to my story. Conspiracy stories are almost as fun to write about as they are to read. That is not true. They are more fun to write about. [laughter] bill an assassination conspiracy story, seem to have a special residence and people get excited and interested in that stuff. I am here to talk about what i am maintaining is the largest assassination conspiracy in history. Churchill, roosevelt, stalin, in one room, with three bullets,