we need people to help us to grow. then that is the purpose of all our visits. yeah . there's a lot of growth right now in africa. it's a big focus for our european investors, americans and russians as well. is this a positive thing? do you see a serious benefit from outward investments in to come through and what are the areas that people are looking at? investing into the income only have the like the vision people that you have to know that anyway, the need invest or in many countries because our country is uh, how can i tell it? does it have anything to develop a country? women like me, need a support, then you can have, you can cut house as the person you'd be good of. you can literally is course in russian society. women are at the top of many areas in banking, for example, in russia, in our own, come out our own, the t. v station. our boss is

a woman. do more women and african needs to take roles like yours and get out into the world and advertise, well, africa has to offer. yes, yes, yes, yes, we can. yes. and tell us m. other many other african countries here have you met people from other countries with other parts of the african clumped interior design? yes. you meant that people from kenya, this depot. so it to me, i think i yes. returning back here to moscow where it's not so much i do as they do, as hundreds of couples are expected to get hitched over the coming days as part of a wedding festival here on the russian capital over now to autism or, and the cause of rafa grabbing a 150 and getting in on the action the

. this is a very old original way to get married, which is exactly what these couples are doing. well, actually walking down the aisle and water in the aisle, it is. they are surrounded by strangers, who also decided to choose the historic and beautiful part to have their wedding ceremony. let's check it out. the around $400.00 couples are expected to tied in knots by the end of the festival, which also offers lectures nicer classes, concerts, the actual performances as showcase of different why didn't victuals and why didn't dishes, you name it all calm and aiding in the wedding flash small it's really cool here. i didn't even expect them to dump like this to take place here with this such a huge box. i'm so happy. so all the couples are where and traditional garments from their region, because this is after all,

a wedding festival parts of the russia regions exhibition, which celebrates the diversity of the biggest country in the world. and now we're approaching the big moments to say, i do the things that we get out here at the russia exhibition. we have a big family celebration in the center of moscow. 151 couples, semo cheney as we have registered the marriage. that means $151.00 new families have a pay it. we have an open to those who registered that the brochure expos will never get divorced. so we wish she'd be happy family holiday to ask for you. what is the

perfect addition to the russian regions exhibition which has been so popular among locals and tourists. visitors can now get acquainted with not only the various exotic landscapes from different parts of the country, but also get to see what the brides and grooms look like. what they wear and what they eat, as well as the how they celebrate. so all that's left to do is say good, good. which means better and russian and problems couples to kits and other wedding tradition here. which song find strange spots. it's suppose to make the 1st drink sweeter. marina costs for of a r t must go and wish you the best of luck to these have a newly weds here from all of us at us. meet international video program. returning in about half an hour. the

hello again everybody. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact. and i want you to look at something you guys seem to be sort of saying that boots on appear connected to the ground connected to service members shooting in the gaza. doesn't count as boots on the ground, it does not have. i think you're gonna find the of the american people have a different perspective on that. and if we're gonna have people shoot in the gaza, we probably should have a vote on that. is 100 percent correct, but we shouldn't have a vote on that. but then again, what was the last time us citizens were asked for their take on any military adventures or actions, or even congress. for that matter, even though the constitution says they're suppose to prove these types of things, you're going to hear a lot more of this really test. the exchange between congress been met gauge and

the secretary of defense. i'm rick sanchez. let's get to it the . all right, so here's what i want you to do. i want you to hear this full exchange now between congressman gates and the fed secretary austin. i want you to pay particular attention to how casual lloyd austin is about more planning and troop movements and without any apparent consideration of the consequences. and why is that this conversation? right? but you're about to hear. it could be about ukraine. it could be of itself trying to say, often is iran, but as well really just about any place. but in this particular occasion, it happens to be about the decision that president biden has made to send troops on to some floating peer off the coast of gaza. here it is from the beginning miss

locke and just said they'll be about a 1000 us service members operating appear system off of gaza. how many of them will have guns, mister secretary of typically all of the deployed service member carry servers, members carry guns, and they have the ability to protect themselves as to the challenge. so if someone from land and gaza shoots at our service members who are on the $320000000.00 peer that we're building, you're telling me our service members can shoot back, that they have the they have the right to to return for are to protect themselves now, what do we do? that's why i so now want to move to the likelihood that we, you think someone from land and gaza might shoot at our service members on this peer, do you think that that's a likely scenario? that's possible. yes, this is a very telling moment mr secretary, because you've said something that's quite possible that could happen right. shots from gaza on our service members. and then the response arm service members

shooting live fire into guys. that is a possible outcome here so that we can become the port authority and run this peer right. that, that's correct, and i expect that we will always want to give the account to the person that's on the ground. president biden told the country that we weren't going to have boots on the ground in gaza and we won't. okay, but you guys of course, the distinction between like when americans think boots on the ground, they think americans in harm's way or engaged actively in a conflict. you guys seem to be sort of saying that boots on appear connected to the ground connected to service members shooting in the gaza doesn't count as boots on the ground. it does not. i think you're gonna find if the american people have a different perspective on that. and if we're gonna have people shoot in the gaza, we probably should have a vote on that. we should have a vote on that and think about what he's saying about the people who may be shooting a u. s. troops aren't going to shoot because they're not actually on the territory

. they're on a piece of wood that just as connected to the territory. that seems ludicrous. and by the way, here's another part of the debate that i want to share with you. this is important . this one's about the f 35. it's a little bit about the f 35, it's one of the most expensive cell farmers that's ever been built, which up until recently hasn't even been able to fly because apparently it's too dangerous. so it, is it a, according to what we read it, a tracks lightning. so if it's ever going through any kind of storms while it's flying, like dogs is going to be storms everywhere, right. it could blow up in mid air cuz it attracts slightly right. really consider this is plain cost, a $135000000.00 to build and there are about $450.00 out of them out there right now already i did the math on that just on my, you know, on my iphone. that means that we have spent $61000000000.00 on these things. here's a strange how many $100000000.00 paper weights do we own?

i would not categorize the f. 35 is a paper weight. well, if it's not mission capable, it's what, what do we just stare at? and in myers we, we continue to work to make sure that we, we get our aircraft to operational and continue to uh, and committed. oh, don't you think it a 100000000 eclip more than 29 percent you'd be fully operational and if the fact that we can't get them operational, you know, you know what secretary kendall said when he was sitting next year. he said the core root of the problem is that we had let lockheed martin build this thing. and then we gave lockheed martin the full system performance contract. and they keep building us according to the ga o, and we sit around staring at a $100000000.00 the airplane, the kept fully performed the mission. and you're sitting here telling me it's a, it's not a failure. just own up to it. mr. secretary just say this airframe has not delivered

. it's too costly. it's not, it's not being utilized as we should. and we should never again make the mistake of doing a full system performance contract with the very person who built the aircraft. can we agree to that? i agree in the future, we should take a we should have a different approach. but this is exactly what we were just talking about the other day with boeing. they do it over and over again, even if they say they're not going to do it, they will. in fact, let's talk here just a little bit about what mr. congressman gates was saying, right. but they like lockheed martin, come in and build this f $35.00 without oversight. that means that lockheed martin gets to build it, they get to do their own review. and then they turn around and tell the government, oh it's great, don't worry about it. it's in perfect condition, we did a great job. well, however, gonna say that, but it wasn't in great shape. so why would the pentagon, why would congress approve of something like this? you know, why? let me tell you why, you know why? because it's not fair money, it's not fair money. it's your tax money,

my tax money. and when it comes to anything having to do with the military, they think all they have to do is say, rob, rob, oh, god bless america, we love our troops. you know, fly a couple of planes before the football games and then we tax prayers. we'll just go along with anything. no questions asked, how much do you want a $100000000000.00? you got it. what planes bombs another war somewhere in a place that we couldn't even find on a map? why not? i'll tell you congressman gates. he may be one of the few, but he's telling the truth in this case manila, what do you think of these exchanges? yeah, rick, i mean, where do we begin? i mean, what kind of world are we in that, mat gates and, and even someone like marjorie taylor green are the ones that we should be listening to. right. let's start with this f 35. i'm going to call it the fair weather jet. so the g a o actually says that the d o d a currently has about 630 f 30 fives, and they plan to buy about 1800 more and they intend to use them until 2088. rec,

so the projected cost to sustain these. and flyable jets is going to cost well over a trillion dollars up into $11.00 and a half truly. and that was the j o's review in 2023. so what's the way, way more way, cost overrun after cost overrun, and their performance has been down over the last 5 years. so what mat gates is saying here that it's, you know, a multi 1000000000 dollar paper weight is absolutely right. but the bigger question is, as you pointed out and you will looted to why is matt gates the only ones that think about this or even marjorie taylor grade? why are those to the ones talking about, well, well i'm, i'm going to, i'm glad you said, i'm glad you said that, because here's another one. congressman margery taylor. great. right? you're right. sometimes she's been as crazy as a loon on some of the things she said in the past, but she's been making a lot of sense slightly, much like congressman gauge. she's also asking

a lot of important questions. she's asking why we don't better handle our borders. yeah, as you questions why we spend hundreds of billions of dollars so contractors can get rich, she criticizes, or congressional colleagues to write to their face for taking money from lobby is as you call the speaker of a house, a sellout. so this past week when she rose to ask for his removal for breaking his promise on, on spending. to watch this watch watch manila, how she was treated the resolution is as follows. declaring the office of speaker of the house of representatives to be vacant the this is for you and a party for the american people watching to suspend the order.

isn't she right? i mean, they like to pretend to argue about when do shoes right? all the time and congress, you know, that really have, has no effect on my life for your life, for most citizens life. but on the big stuff, the important stuff moore's spending and the money they take from, from donors to, to do their bidding. she's why they are a new owner party manila, i mean she's, she's saying it and they're bowing or but she's telling them the truth. they don't want to hear a yep. that's precisely why they're bullying her. rick, i mean, let's face it. we know that the 2 big parties, the democrats and the republicans, they are 2 wings on the same bird. i mean, the semantics might be different here and there, the details might be different. but the big issues, yes, whether it's supporting war, whether it's supporting censorship or, or anything else like that, they're all the same. and then it just becomes the little details of here. and

there are what differentiates between the 2 parties. but at the end of the day, war being the big money maker for every body on capitol hill, they always agree. everything is always there, increase the budgets, the bloated road and budget. the d o d gets what they want all the time for stuff that doesn't work. they'll go for 3 weeks talking about something someone said on tv or some kids who dressed up as a woman to play basketball in missouri or, or something that yeah, it's important, but it's not as important as a $150000000000.00 on a useless lawyer but that's what they'll spend a long time picking their little wedge issues. left, right, left, right. well we sit here often times as citizens going. oh yeah, that's really important. well, it's my not as important by the way. i got something else for you and told her, remember, i called her and she's back in the news. for those of you who don't know, she's a woman who got famous and made a lot of money saying controversial if not bigoted things about hispanics and

blacks, and muslims, and arabs and whatever. so he's one of the most famous by the way, one of the most famous indeed americans i should say is a got in the background. the swami who recently ran for president, well, here is a ann coulter telling him, she could never vote for him to his face because he's indian and we are so bright and articulate. and i guess i can call you articulate since you're not an american black. oh, and i agree with many, many things you said during, in fact probably more than than most other candidates when you're running for president, but i still would not have voted for you because you're in indiana. let me tell you something about it and cold or i know and cold and we, we talk on the phone. i've been here many, many times when i was it cnn and nbc that she said crazy and bigoted things to sell books. yes. but she also believe it, i think yes,

both can be true because i think it is you can say something long enough after a while, you start buying what you preach. so i say yes on both counts, but i'm, i'm dying to hear what you have to say about this manila. do you, do you think she's just doing it to sell books and to be famous? and i guess to get more followers or, or so she pick it you know what i mean both can be true, right? like you said she might have, i mean, we can't get into her heart, correct. and for most we figured that out there. well no we, we can never know what's really in somebody's heart, and i've said this over and over that you, you know, you can never legislate out that type of hatred if she does indeed have it. but let's point out a couple of other things, even though she said that she would never vote for vivek, rama swami. because he's quote, an indian, even though he was born in ohio and he was born and raised here in the us. right. point. she also, she also dated to nash to sue's uh, you know,

the very conservative filmmaker pond it over geo q loves him. she dated him. so i don't know as a woman, a part of me, a part of me feels like she's kind of doing this. it's a lot of bluster, a lot of hot air. she gets clicks, people by her books. but i don't know, i feel like a lot of this is an image similar to what we saw with alex jones that from, from all accounts, from what i've heard. he's not as nutty as he portrays on his show and maybe an is not as bigoted as she portrays publicly. i think that's fair and i think you've stated it well and thank you for reminding us that he was born in ohio. so yeah, his is of indian set. he's not an indian a great job. thank you so much. we appreciate the information. when we come back, scandal is a lawyer from tennessee. we recently serve as a qualify election monitor and russia during their presidential election that has

given them the kind of insight. most westerners don't have areas right there. you're looking at them. handsome devil, steve is going to join us when we come back right here under at the impact of the, of the joining us now as promised as uh, attorney. uh, steve gill from nashville. steve, thanks so much for joining us, man. thank you. hey, let me test real quickly on the last segment. sure. i hate to disrespect the

secretary defense, but he's an hour boone, a mouse is shooting at the delivery of medicine and food on the ground in gaza. what do we think they're going to do as they're meeting our troops on appear that's connected to the ground? and what happens when the truck moves from the pier in the guys and they're going to take the food medicine just like they've been doing. and the f 35, this is the same place that you had the pilot bailout and kind of blew by itself and they lost in south carolina because of a thunder storm. what are we going to do again, this is the secretary defense. what are we going to do if we're trying to apply one of these bombers into a place where it's nice and sunny, where it's taking off the cloud, where it's going? there may be thunderstorms in the middle. do we call time out? and hope the enemy decides to fight another day that this guy's worse than joe by mid to late, but i would argue with you, it's not him. we keep doing that. that's the problem we have in this country all have a republican on the show, like you. and he'll tell me all this guys bad because there's

a democrat in the white house. then we've got a republican in the white house like trump, and they make the same stupid decisions. and they do the same. well. i like marjorie, they were drinks that. yeah, so unit, part of it is all of these dies leave the department of defense and the department stage and they go right to work for these military contractors getting paid, preserving their security clearance so they can still say, hey, here's what's coming next. we need to do this weapon next. we need do this way and that's they get paid and keep their security clearance app they leave. and after they betray our country, it is, it is bad on both parties and it's, it gets intolerable if there's one thing we've recently learned. and i mentioned this earlier in, during my introduction to one of the segments that i just did with vanilla was the more i look into this boeing fiasco that we're going through. the more i see how the government just basically turned its back on boeing and literally said to them, do whatever you gotta go, inspect your own planes. tell us how the inspections are going. tell us what kind

of equipment you're using, make them wherever that how you want. don't listen to your employees, bottom, everything on your pilots, etc, etc. without. i mean, i'm sorry, but there are some things right that the government does need to provide oversight for. and the safety of my mon, my but my, my wife or my kids or you and your wife for your kids on a plane is one of the same thing with this case would be of $35.00. they just turn it over to them. is that okay? you guys back the tell us what it's good to go and we'll put it up in the air. what? well, the students everywhere she designed to demand the same ability to sell grade. and then we'd have everybody with a 4 point. oh yeah, i got a degree from harvard. where is it? oh, i said i get it so that must be good enough. is there, are you challenged recently and i know you look at this and do you agree with the mat gates of the world in the marjorie taylor greens of the world of the massive from ohio. and uh uh, you know, some of the libertarian thinkers in our government,

uh, like, uh, you know, ron paul and his son. uh who, who have always said, we've got to stop spending so much money because people simply get rich and pay congress to do it. aren't they? right? of what we're certainly saying that in the aftermath of, of the co fed vaccine debacle, where pfizer and my daughter are now admitting they were prescribing a different backs to their employees. they and the members of congress weren't taking the st backs. they were dispensing, were now finding that the 6 foot rule was completely bogus. but you know, steve, as i, as i'm thinking about this and i'm listening to you and i'm having this conversation, you know? sure i, i tend to lean conservative as well. and i, i tend to be somebody who believes that we should not let the government run a mock, but there, there is a place where we can't just let a private company run a mock with whatever the hell it wants to do. i know some people say, well,

once the government gets involved, it's bad. once of government gets involved, it's communism. not always. there's times when you want. i don't want my police officer to be a private dude working for some guy who's my neighbor, who's getting my were decent. like like, you know, doing something with my wife or somebody else's life. i want the government to be involved in law enforcement matters, of security, etc. am i wrong? but we need to have officials who are going to hold the line and hold them accountable. and we're seeing that the law favorite taking place in our courts with the department of justice. again, when we look at these of purchasing decisions by the department of defense. when we look at the promotion of the backs uh and the lives that were told in that. and you know, like you mentioned at the outset, we have to avoid some of these foreign entanglements. as george washington warned us about. we don't have to get involved in every country around the world and george washington, our founders were so why. so i said, don't get involved with these born countries. and we've got kind of an attitude in

america of isolationism. we've got a balance that because the world's the best place we want to sell stuff. we will have peace. yeah. but we don't be very careful, but i'm gonna, i'm gonna, i'm gonna push you a little bit. you change the subject on me. i just ask you a question. there's times when we need government oversight and we need government regulation. would you not agree? i absolutely do. and it's on the big things. and the main thing is to preserve our borders, to secure our country. that's one of the few things the constitution gives to the federal government and abdicating our responsibility. certainly on both accounts right now. let me ask you, because before we run out of time you, you are one of the few americans we recently were able to go to russia and you witnessed the election that was going on there. and of course, we were told that it was all a phony baloney election, etc, etc. even though the numbers don't bear that out, there is also a big conversation going on right now about what's going on and you create, and i don't know been, have you been reading the headlines? but things are not looking good for the ukrainian government, for the landscape,

or for the, the, the, the, the, the country in general. so what, what is your take on that situation as it stands right now, a very briefly is the last day. you will no longer be able to the gentleman, the president in about a week, his term of office, and he has cancel elections. he's canceled independent media, he's cancelled opposition political party. this is the democracy we're supposedly defending. what i saw when i was observing the elections and mosque out of last month, and back in september and in some of the don bass areas. i did not see the cnn invest in b, c, the washington post the new york tops. yup. they're all reporting that these are sham elections. what, what i saw were fair and transparent elections. what i didn't say is any of the media, they are reporting, but by god they'll go right into gaza and the bed and report what, how mazda is, but they won't go tell the truth of what's happening in russia. we've been, this was going in uh in your price. you know, what's interesting, you mentioned something now about them canceling elections in ukraine and i was

just thinking of my own country's history and i happen to know and you can agree with me or correct me if i happen to be wrong. that in this country we don't cancel the elections. we didn't cancel. abraham lincoln had him election in the middle of the civil war. while he was still the president of the united states. we didn't cancel the elections during world war 2 or world war one. and yet we're now giving a $150000000000.00 to a country that says, we're not going to have to have an election while we say we're giving them money because they are democracy somehow that doesn't seem right. it doesn't add up to we don't cancel elections, but we do have a system right now. this tried to cancel the top opponent to the administration and power. that's almost worse. yeah. yeah, i get your point. i disagree with you, but i get your point. thank you so much, dave. i appreciate your time. i so glad you came on. it's always great to have you on. that's our show. now remember, look outside your own box. literally look outside your own box. true. don't live in boxes. that's what we do here. we travel gotta have the boxes are perfect,

sanchez. we'll see you next time. the look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except we're so shorter is that conflict with the 1st law should we live in justification. we should be very careful about our personal intelligence. the point obviously is to trace a truck or rather than fit the area, i mean with the artificial intelligence, we have somebody in the, in the robot must protect this phone existence was alexis the

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