News. Views. Hughes - July 15, 2019 (17:00 ET)

Tariffs force US manufacturers from China

China’s economic growth has slowed to its weakest level in 27 years. Chinese telecomm giant intends to lay off hundreds of workers across the US. Meanwhile, Japan seeks to tighten trade controls in its relationship with South Korea, citing concerns that the South was insufficiently careful in its trade with North Korea. RT America’s Sara Montes de Oca reports for News.Views.Hughes.

Mask off Trump’s racism?

Reese Everson, attorney and founder of B.A.B.E.S. in the Workplace and Chris Neiweem, founder of the Neiweem Group, join News.Views.Hughes to discuss President Trump’s controversial tweet wherein he suggest that young “Democrat Congresswomen” of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s progressive milieu should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” despite the fact that three of the four in question were born in the US.

Area 51 ‘joke’ turning dangerous

A Facebook event dedicated to “storming Area 51” on Sept. 20th is gaining momentum. Despite the fact that it was apparently conceived as satire, 1.1 million Facebook users have marked that they’re attending the event and many thousands more have expressed interest on social media. The US Air Force has responded that they will meet any such “storming” with force. Investigative journalist Ben Swann joins Scottie Nell Hughes with the details.