so numerous questions that have remained on onset so many years. watch on ok. see everybody want to let you know this is a daily show, very different because we hold no punches here. so look for truth fund number one, congress gives the people who give them money. every thing they paid for truth problem number 2, c, i a math predicts russians economy will surpass all of europe as well as that of canada and the united states. truth bomb number 3. israel fires back out of ron and what is appearing like a computerized robotic drone war is the future here. and how scary is this? i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact. the

i think you tell me if i'm right or wrong, but i, you know, what the us congress did this weekend will as one very respect and you as president, once i live in the, in for me 10 another way. they took the money and they ran not once, not twice, not 3 times. he did it for 4 times. call them 1234. let me take you through it in case you missed it. i doubt you did, but let me just take you through. because you're not going to hear this take on cnn, or fox or any place like that. uh, it appears that no country in the world gives more to our politicians, to compel their support. then israel, we know, right? we've done that story. you know, that story. so what are the us congress do this weekend? they voted design $28000000000.00 of your taxes, the taxes you pay to israel,

so they continue the war that can continue the war with the palestinians. number 2, us tech companies do not like tick tock and they wouldn't like to have picked up eliminated. so they lobby, that means they pay congress to go after tick tock. and what and congress doing this weekend, a pass to measure the bad tick tock, teaching. so much for the free market principles of a healthy competition. right? okay, now let's go to the numbers 3 and 4 as i promised you, the arms industry in the united states bank rolls influential, think tags were members of congress, get jobs, and get their support and information. they also hire thousands of lobbyist so many in fact that there are now more of them, more lobbyist representing military contractors in washington. then there are elected officials in washington. but that put that in your function right now.

and they make donations as well. legal bribes, do these contractors and the 10s of millions of dollars to members of congress. so wouldn't they get this weekend for all of that? well, perpetual wars conflicts, so they could make more tags and more planes, more bullets, and make more money off of those complex with countries like china and russia and congress this weekend. yes, they passed the measure to sudden close to $70000000000.00 in taxes collected from americans. do you crate and taiwan, in other words, to feed conflicts with china and russia. look, i mean, i've just taken you through all 4 things this saturday. they had 4 people who are paying them, and 4 people got what they want it or 4 entities, i should say. i guess when it comes to us politicians, we really do get what they pay for. but in a strange way, congress has aggressive stance toward russia and quoting,

it's all out assault on the russian economy. it may have actually backfired. we're learning. how do we know that? well, we know that because cnbc, one of the most followed business networks in the united states has come out and said so, confirming with russian president vladimir putin predicted last december. interestingly enough, putting those comments back then were ignored by most western media sources like cnbc you actually had to go to different you had to go somewhere else in the world . if you wanted to hear what uh, president potent had said, for example, you had to go to india to here mr. pollutants production. for the new open, a new to the most important indicator of economic growth is a growth of gross domestic product. if the, by the end of the yard is expected to be cheap, 15 percent a good idea. that's a good indicator of the good means we have bounce back from last is declined to the

product center. wow. that was back in december. could put and have been right after all, most americans were under the impression that the time that he said that, that the russian or comedy was the, the russian academy was in the dumps close to collapse because of the war with ukraine and the ship and the sanctions imposed on them by the united states and other nato countries. we were hitting them really hard to make sure they stayed down and we were told, yep, they're down. they're never going to be able to get up again. oops. a potent comes out in projects. this isn't going to happen, we're going to be fine. we're going to rebuild our economy. many went even further . you went and did you remember he did the interview with tucker costs, and we showed you some of that. and while he's talking to, to talk across a, he's boasting that russia's economy will, and has surpassed most of the economies of all the countries in europe. still a rush. it was the 1st academy in europe last year, despite all the sanctions and restrictions. is it normal from your point of view,

sanctions restrictions, g, impossibility of payments and dollars being cut off from swift services such as the sanctions against our ships carrying oil company, bitterest sanctions against airplane, single somebody, sanctions in everything. everywhere that we make sure that goes to something unique . that sort of thing is that the largest number are sanctions in the world which are applied are applied against russia. and we have become europe's 1st economy during this time. i mean, i doubted that what he was saying was true at the time because i didn't know right . of course, the tucker carlson interview was dismissed by most of my colleagues completely. they never even played it. they never even mentioned that. those who work here in the united states and in western media. until now, here's the article i'm talking about. this is the one that just appeared on cnbc this morning with a headline, which pretty much repeats the russian president's statement. here's the quote.

russia is expected to grow faster than all advanced economies this year. in fact, according to the international monetary fund, the i a math, and the cnbc report, russia is g d p growth will hit 3.2 percent. how good is that? let's compare. i've got this chart i want to show you, and then this chart, you see how it stacks up. uh, how russia compares with the g d p wise, by the way, to the g 7 nations. look at rush, those numbers. look who's below the us under russia, somewhere around 2 percent, g, d, p growth, japan, somewhere around one percent. canada. well, what? we're all 1.5, france around one italy, u. k. just above half a percent. at the bottom of the list, germany, i barely half a percentage point. and you know, what's most ironic about this chart is that all of those countries make up the g 7

. right? it used to be called the g 8. that's why it's not called the g 8 anymore, because they all got together and decided that russia didn't belong with the big boys. want to look at it now. it appears that russia's economic growth will surpass . all of there's joining us now to discuss this is the executive director of the ron paul institute, daniel mcadams. dad, i mean, i don't know, be careful what your wish for how here here we have all these countries heating. russia really hard and promising us here in america. don't worry. we're going to bury these guys. it it, i mean i didn't even believe it is when i heard some people reported i was doubting pollutants, a politician whether he was being real honest with those figures wants to only because i'm a journalist that i want to double check. here we have the, i am,

i've come out this weekend as well as the nbc and say, yeah, rogers, economy is superseding all the economies in europe, including ours and kind of you say what a well the wrong conclusion to draw is that sanctions are good because they health benefit a country that's kind of a protectionist mentality. the sanctions didn't help russia. but what they did, ironically, is a enabled rush of the so the products that they would normally sell to places like europe and a much higher price. they would export petroleum and oil to india, india with we're flying it and sell it back to germany at 2 or 3 times the rate. so everyone profits, except for germany as use we've seen from your chart, which has gone down the tubes, even ukraine by diesel, from russia at a huge markup. so it's not to say that protectionism and sanctions are good is to say that if you have the ability, if you have the industrial base, you can get around. if you have the resources you can get around and if you're forced into a corner, you're going to find alternatives to swift in other economic tools and use them for

your own benefit, which is what russia has done. well, i'm glad you made that point and here's why. there are other countries who have been the victims of sanctions from western countries including the united states. well, one of them is a country that i was born in cuba. i mean, cuba has been under the some of the united states with some horrible sanctions now for the past 506070 years. and in that case, they have not been able to get themselves out of it because nobody can do business with them as long as united states as know, venezuela is, i mean, literally in a bit of a economic depth now has been so for quite some time now, and it's because of the sanctions and the castigation is that have been put upon it by the united states. so i don't know what, what, what we can take from this other than perhaps a large country like russia is able to combat these kinds of sanctions. smaller countries, maybe not so much i and, you know, talk about unintended consequences. in russia's case, they are actually richer,

but in cuba is case the unintended consequences. and i was there, i talked to officials when i took a congressional trip to cuba, every short company they have in their society is blamed on the sanctions. or we don't have a tv the, what's the sanctions? things aren't working well. it's the section. so it actually helps keep the regime and power strength and the, the, the regimes in place. do you see any place where and i know you've had lots of discussions with ron paul about this, where it may be appropriate to deploy sanctions against the country. when do you do that? if i have a most anxious or an active or so if you're a or of the country, you should forbid a training with that country that just kind of make sense. but you know, there's dismiss this miss a perception that sanctions are one step before more. but when you enter in, when you interfere with the trade and economic activity of a country is by definition war. so the, the left leg section is a lot because they feel like they're going to punish someone without actually going toward the left. it is anti war. and that's not the case because they are an act of

war. well, in the case of ukraine, for example, we know that the united states in 2000 to 2014, was very much involved in ukrainian politics. most people would argue that they interfered. some people would go as far as to say that they actually tried to start to cool because they didn't like the guy who was in power there. so or the guy was a leader of ukraine at the time, and they wanted to change them. and that sort of famous victoria newland tapes that we've all either heard or heard of. now we come back after doing something like that with the sanctions to make sure we can, you know, bury rushes, actions against ukraine, even more. what. how do you describe that scenario as well? it's, it's a situation where the so called experts in the belt way in dc, they're all in a circle and they all listen to each other talk and they don't listen to anyone else. they don't call me up, they will call rick sanchez and say, hey, is this true that russia is taking chips out of washing machines because they don't

have anything to make weapons with. i mean, is it true that the rubel is rubble because that's what everyone is telling me that i know well, maybe you just know the wrong people that you should branch out a little bit more and think a little bit more for yourself. and it's funny on one hand and done the other hand, there are real consequences, real life consequences to this kind of circular mentality in washington dc. and that's, i think, what is leading us toward war? well, it's interesting that you say that because as i was, i think you heard my intro, and i mentioned that one other thing that the military contractors do is they own all the think tanks, they own all the think tanks and put their people on those think tanks, those are the people in the think things right. who then talk to congress and give them their advice. but they're actually working for, you know, general dynamics or something. and they also send those people to see and them, and fox news to be the so called experts to tell us what's really going on in the world. so they're controlling the message on top of giving money to the politicians

. and that's exactly true, and i'm glad you said the media because it's so important. i mean, there was a time in our, in our, in our recent memory rick, that when you were tired as a, as a general officer in the army, or if you retired as a high c, i, y, ranking c i a official, you would quietly enjoy your retirement, you might move to loudon county and have a little farm it and have a nice life. well, it's not that way anymore. your massive pension that you have from your job is just not enough. so you go to fox news and you go to cnn. you go to the other networks and you helped drive the narrative because everything in dc is a narrative based. it's not the reality based community on like how it was claimed when george w bush was present at uh, it's a narrative based community. and in fact, presently the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, i look it up and he has like a $4.00 to $7000000.00 home on the ocean, on some private island in south carolina. since when does a general live on a private island on the ocean?

when he gets us into the right wars that make a lot of profits for his friends, and that's what's driving everything. and you know, you mentioned the money for your credit coming from taxes. it's actually even worse than that because it's not collected out of our pockets directly. it's the most insidious, taxable, which is the inflation tax. this money is conjured out of in there and what it does, obviously, rick, and you know this very well is it makes the dollars that you already have the words that much less. so it hurts the poor and the working out class, much more than the people were talking about in dc. dan mcadams, thanks so much. let's do this. let's take a break. when we come back, we're going to continue the discussion. speaking specifically about some of the strategies that are used by the people who are able to turn the people in congress . oh, and we should also mentioned the 3 other things that congress that besides ukraine and why they did, we'll be right back. the

what is part of the, the employee would posted isn't the defense you of us and bidding the word part? is it something deeper, more complex might be present there? let's stop without cases desktop part of the a new video of alleged abuse by an officer. today, the sheriff's, deputy, and columbia, south carolina, forcibly removed his student from a classroom at spring valley high school. i saw him just talking to her and her and initially, you know, i didn't think is a problem because i knew that she was just as quite a student in the class. someone looked at the police officer and says, here was law enforcement that is worse. clearly attacking,

abusing power and other than others besides, this is what's wrong with the probably be on discipline. black children, he was there enforcing a lot to meet the crime, to quote, disturb schools in any way. that means any disturbance that any kids causes and school is huge and forces never predict but necessary. a tops people were never gonna change them out. and so people who never changed their minds about the video, they think i was wrong. and that's it. the, it's hard to imagine as we return here on direct impact, anything like what happened this weekend? i mean, has there ever been a case i ask,

where congress has more lately set out to give the people who pay them money, bring money. exactly what they want in all cases, think about it. i mean, the bank tech companies wanted for tick tock to be eliminated to be bad because it's competition for them. the big 10 companies, united states and withdrawal social media, they won the amount so they gave me money and info is lot mean congress to have them do. and what did congress do on saturday? they said we're going to band tick tock. i mean, the military contractors has them. i got, i was just explaining, i've been getting a ton of money, a ton of money to congress because they want them to have these continual wars, you know, and what better war a ron is perfect. china off ideal. and russia, yeah, they're the perfect that, i mean make them a foil,

and then they get more money and hopefully they'll blow up more tact so they can make more tax and more. yeah, planes and more bullets, etc. so they gave convers a ton of money in congress said, okay, fine, we're going to give you crane and taiwan, a $70000000000.00. here's another one. i mean, all of this happened on the same day. israel, no country on the history of the planet is ever paid another country, so much money to have them basically do their will. that's what is real best with lobby. we all know that it's no secret. so what did the congress do on saturdays? $28000000000.00 for israel. i mean, man, i gotta tell you, then this is absolutely crazy. i feel like i need to get on a mountain top and scream this to the american people. how does this just good? how does this happen as well? the take talk then by the way, is also related to the is where you live should because jonathan green, black, the head of radio was interest was, was recorded on a phone call saying we've got

a tick tock, problem. the problem with tick tock is a lot of young people are making videos because there's different size, the more more to palestinians. and they're concerned about what's happening in garza, and that's just drawing their narrative is real. i think people, even people who are appropriate for it would say that they've really kind of box to p r after they went in after october 7th and tick tock support the problem. so interestingly enough, there is kind of a dovetail there, but you're right. saturday was a terrible day for america. if you actually love this country, like you, we must do, rick. they gave a ton of money away. but as you know, hardly any of this money is going to ukraine and we all know this. even soleski said this money that america passed, it will stay in america because it's going right across the belt way to the belt way. bad. that's who we're going to manufacture new tanks to get blown up as you very well pointed out. so this is more like corporate welfare with a little bit of sprinkle on top for so let's get to get a couple of new cars in the house. maybe. well, what do you make of this new speaker, this guy a john?

so what an interesting bird this due to is 1st he comes out and he says it's about america 1st. it's about controlling the border. it's about securing the border. it's about taking care of some of the needs of americans. now we move forward a couple of months and so the how are the americans the border? i'm going to back me for measures what what, what, how do you do that? what happened in this guy? you have the same guy. the people are wondering if they have something on him at the very least he sees a nutcase. i mean because the other thing we didn't mention is the size of reauthorization and it's 5 the on steroids because it really defines without getting into the woods read of finds how the government can spy on you without a warrant. they can use your plumber and your gardener and other things. they weren't able to do that before. but speaker johnson was quoted, he said, well, you know, when i was on the judiciary committee, i saw thousands of abuses by the f b. i thousands of them. but then i had a briefing from our intelligence community and i realize how important it is,

the tier of is, which just shows he's either incredibly not even gullible or somehow he's in on it . but we know for a fact that the intelligence committees routinely live, a lot of members of congress, they live to their teeth. anyone who's forgotten the rock, livia, etc. all these briefings sort of the reasons why dr. paul never went to his classify briefly because you know what? that's what a packed lies after. oh wow. it just looks like i mean, i mean, i guess this guy johnson, maybe we shouldn't blame him. it's his job. and he's going to do whatever put some . busy money in his pocket, i just looked at open secrets this morning and apparently he's res. $9000000.00 from different donors, etc. so i guess after a while vermont there to basically represent you and meet them. they're just, it's a job. they're no different than being a lawyer or, or a doctor or anything else. it's a job. you know, if i, you make do an operation that pays me more than the other operation, i'll do that operation, or if it's a lawyer, i'll handle this guy's case because he has more money than the poor guy over here.

so i guess this is what we get, right? it's a capital. so as well as other capital systems, the crony capitalist system, that's a big difference. you know? but what speaker johnson did is very, very unusual. and i was, i spent the 11 or so years on the hill, and i had never seen it. the only way he got to ukraine bill passed was he relied on democrats. he actually lost among the people who elected him. speaker i e. republicans. he lost that vote. he reached over he reg, just how the rules committee mixed the rules for those as well. and he over he, i'm going to get too far into it. but he overran the republicans on the rules committee and depends it on democrats, on the rules committee, to pass out a rule to bring it to the floor. that is extremely, extremely rare. so the republicans are furious with him. they want to get rid of a people like thomas massey, who's a patient and a hero, and he wants to see the backside of, of my jobs and as fast as possible. i liked his massey guided by the way, hey, there's something else i want to share with you over the weekend, israel fired back in or on after a rotted fire to time for bombing there,

syria embassy, and assassinating. to iranian leaders. to crazy what's happening, it looks dangerous to me, considering this war going back and forth between is real and iran. by the way. it's not really as real, it's us. but whatever, we'll pretend it's as real. they're, they're, they're having this battle with drones and computers and blasting things out of the year of what appears to me the most evident is that israel is going easy on the wrong to fulfill a promise to the us. so to us will that look the other way when, when they, when they attack rafa, i mean talk about an interesting negotiation where it appears that once again baby nathan, yahoo is going to be able to get what he wants. as i say this, he went to the us and said look, i want to attack rafa. they said no, we don't want you to attack rasa. and finally, so what if i go easy on israel and i just do this little, this thing that i just described. and they said, well, that, okay, you're going to attack or offer, it looks like that's what is going on here. and what's discussing is that the,

the by the administration is not telling israel don't attack ross because you've killed enough innocent women and children. they're saying don't attack or off. it's going to hurt my re election campaign. yeah, no, that's what it's all about. talk about the cynicism of someone like that. who can so cold hearted about the pain and suffering and slaughter that is going on there. they only take of their re election chances. it's disgusting. what the oh yeah, you know, i start looking at this thing this weekend are you is concerned as i am, we're down to about 2 minutes here. but this thing with these drones and these missiles and they're shooting them up expecting that are going to be shut down and it's all done through computers and animation and, and a i what i, how is this taking us man? the scary thing is it normalizes? slaughter in warfare, and we had this a lot when we started using drones from people who operated them in, for example, new mexico. when you went over to iraq and afghanistan and assassinated people without any human contact. i think that's incredibly, incredibly dangerous. and i think we've seen the p t s d and the people who are not in the choices, but they're basically playing

a computer game they're giving as bad as anyone else. so it does something to your soul into your mind when you kill people in the matter. if you do it from a dark room and new mexico or an attraction, you know, in, in dumbass daniel mike adams as usual. mike, thanks to you, sir. for sharing your wisdom with us. well look forward to talking to you once again. thank you, rick. before i go, i want to remind you of our mission here. it's pretty simple. we tried the silo, the girl by telling all the troops, not just the one that i want to be spark on. troops don't live in little boxes. we try to develop stories through and through with different ideas, different perspectives, things you'll never hear anywhere else. this is direct impact, an hi emerett sanchez. the

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