human rights of the palestinian people are respected in the middle east or in another israel dominated rao over free speech and lawsuits being filed against the us state of georgia after a plan to talk at a university was cancelled when journalist abby martin refused to sign a pledge not to boycott israel which is obligatory under state law she claims free speech is being restricted instead of embraced. but you do have a strong case ahead of us i think that it is up to the judges themselves to overturn those laws they've done them in several cases already and that's why i'm confident that we have a very strong clear cut case that a judge will will see that this is a blatant violation 'd of our constitutional rights that it really goes to show you this isn't about free speech at all this is about controlling what kind of speech we're hearing. the most designed to counter palestinian led campaigns against israel 27 other states have what are described by some as pro israel laws similar to do order they forbid state governments from signing contracts with entities which boycott israel by canc

the human rights of the palestinian people respect you didn't at least in another israel dominated rao of a free speech and lawsuits being filed against the us state of georgia after a planned talk at a university was counseled when journalist abby martin refused to sign a pledge not to boycott israel which is obligatory on the state level that she claims free speech is being restricted instead of embraced. i was given this contract i was pretty shocked to get this contract i heard of these laws i knew of cases for hurricane relief workers speech pathologist substitute teachers but i guess i never connected the 2 that simply being a speaker at a college campus supposedly these bastion of free speech nationwide would trigger this clause and force me to sign a contract to say that i would never boycott israel of course this goes against my 1st amendment. rights this is meant to curb the mounting grassroots pressure that originates predominately on college campuses against the state of israel and i couldn't comply with this how could i comply my entire body of work criticizes the israeli

human rights of the palestinian people are respected in the middle east and in another israel dominated rao of a free speech of lawsuits being filed against think us state of georgia after a planned talk at a university was cancelled when journalist abby martin refused to sign a pledge not to boycott israel which is obligatory under state law where the council on american islamic relations are spoken out against the university's move . by canceling a journalist speaking on campus because she refused to support a foreign government georgiou violated the 1st amendment freedom of speech guarantee there is no place where free speech is more important than on campus this is attempt to suppress ebbets views is as brazen as it is illegal the law is designed to counter palestinian led campaigns against israel 27 other states have what i described by some as pro israel laws similar to ga they forbid state governments from signing contracts with entities which boycott israel abby martin claims people are being forced to give up their constitutional rights. i was given this contract i was pretty shock

should be something there is fundamentally applies to people exactly not to another israel dominated rao if a free speech a journalist has filed a lawsuit against the us state of georgia abby martin's planned talk at a local university was cancelled after she refused to sign a pledge not to boycott israel the american islamic relations council has spoken out against the university's move by canceling a journalist speaking on campus because she refused to support a foreign government georgiou violated the 1st amendment freedom of speech guarantee there is no place who are free speech is more important than on campus this is attempt to suppress a bit of use is as brazen as it is illegal 27 other states have pro israel north very similar to georgia's they forbid state governments from signing contracts with those who boycott the jewish state the laws are designed as a counter to palestinian led campaigns against israel while we spoke to abu martin who's the jolliest initiated their lawsuit she thinks that people are being forced to give up that constitutional rights. i was given this contra

does produce much of its own a basic medicine a form of treatment is generally imported but as the rao between washington and tehran deepens vital medicine is getting harder to source in 2018 alone 56000 patients died of cancer in the islamic republic in a just a one year period between 20019 the cost of medical services rose by 19 percent however washington still says that sanctions are not hurting the industry since medicine doesn't fall under them. i want to talk directly to the iranian people to dispel myths about u.s. sanctions that continue to be promoted by the iranian regime myth number one the united states sanctions medical supplies going to the iranian people the truth is that the united states exempt spread assen and medical devices for the iranian people we spoke to professor from tehran university who explained why iran is still experiencing medical shortages despite the sec's of being sent from us penalties. the americans are saying that they have not sanction humanitarian goods which is medicine and food but in reality because iran is not able to do financial transactio

certainly think that it is worth looking at now all of this comes in the background of the ongoing rao over and secure last who is the wife of a u.s. intelligence agent who has been accused of killing a 19 year old man harry done in a hit and run driving accident she was said to be driving on the wrong side of the road when the incident took place a report since coming out that she herself is also the cia agent as well now she used diplomatic community especially that of a husband to flee the country and hasn't returned since and police have charged her with death by dangerous driving however as far as the u.s. state department are concerned they have no intention of sending her back here to face those accusations it is the position of the united states government that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an abuse the use of an extradition treaty to. attempt to return the spouse of a former diplomats by force would establish an extraordinarily troubling precedent so with president trump seemingly angry at johnson to the point that he's slamming the ph

stepping aside following an internal rao over the far right. the she will stay on as head of the cd you until her replacement is elected. the u.s. department of justice is charged for chinese military hackers with suspicion of hacking a credit reporting agency in 2017 it resulted in adults a breach which affected their $150000000.00 people on of the most severe ever reported the hikers spent weeks in the equifax system breaking into computer networks and stealing company secrets and personal data this kind of attack on american industry is of a piece with other chinese illegal acquisitions of sensitive personal data for years we have witnessed china's for racist appetite for the personal data of americans including the fast of personnel records from the office of personnel management the intrusion into marriott hotels and and some health insurance companies and now the wholesale fest of credit and other information from ethical facts. has more from washington d.c. . well listen those move by attorney general william barr is more a public shamin

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they also criticized limbaugh's history of derogatory comments about women, like this remark on his raoin 2012. >> what does that make her? ita makes heut, right? it makes her a prostitute. yamiche: in true trump style the speech was part campaign rally and part reality tv. >> janiyah, i have some good news for you. an opportunity scholarship has become available. it's going to you. yamiche: there w the bid to drum up support for school choice efforts. to do so, the -- >> your husband is back from deployment. he is here with us tonight. and we couldn't keep dem waiting any longer. yamiche: the pre also reunited, on live tv, a military wife and family with their father, sergeantirst class townsend william he came home after his fourth deployment to afghantan. but president trump's speech was also filled with false or misleading statements. >> we will always prect your pre-existing conditions. miche: he again claimed that republicans are protecting health care coverage foris pre-ng conditions. but his administration is currently urging federal courts to dismantle the affordable care act,

was different but he said that people should follow the health ministry advice and not panic but that rao the extraordinary beef between that member of parliament for. the and the health ministry continues now that parliamentarian the yesterday said that the death toll was 50 he criticised the government to make the scathing attack on the government saying that the performance had been 0 that nurses don't have the right uniforms and the fearful of treating the pay are fearful of treating patients you call in the health minister to put the city of the epicenter of the virus virus spread under quarantine and today he said how does a health ministry deny the people that are being buried in the cemeteries of course and he went on to claim that doctors income are documenting the deaths as dying from tree problems when the health ministry full well knows that these individuals are coming out of the chroma virus quarantine wards of the hospital that's what's he said here in the her interesting more people wearing masks more people wearing because of schools in universities remain closed football

neil: rao shaud, you said something about african-american vote, everything you say is interesting, i didn't mean to spite those remarks, some polls indicate african-american support for the former vice president is cratering i don't know how reliable that is, having said that, where will the vote migrate, what do you think? >> a according to the a lot of data many african-american supporters who believe the number one reason to support a candidate right now is their ilecability to defeat trump, they're actually looking at bloomberg who is not even on the ballot yet. as you know a recent poll came out, neil, shows bloomberg now based on polling data has more african-american support than bernie sanders. he is not even on the ballot as of yet. so a lot of people are saying, even on my radio program, hey, if biden isn't the guy, we're looking at bloomberg. even with bloomberg's history of race discrimination, comments he made on the record and his stance on the exonerated central park five. seems if the sentiment to defeat trump is stronger than the emotional connection to some of these

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