as we get there, come here saying these as well. so nothing happened. it's interesting what you said there about the i o. c, claiming to be all inclusive because it was urge to to disqualify is really athletes deciding the ongoing war and does a. but it refused to do so, but meanwhile, russian athletes had been denied access because of ukraine. why do you think i would see it doesn't have a consistent policy. it never has never had it. cuz this policy, that's the simple answer for it. they, they don't, they go from games to games to go home via just spear date on the response stable have for example, issues preventing books. i don't think they could have stopped down on this by monday, usually for the dates. it didn't seem because there was no portion of it made no sense about or so because of the paid didn't have to find as you the country who was going to battle because of course, most of we know quite something to better state. so they couldn't do that, we've even regarding who are trying to get the most information. he has now said

that 80 percent piece or something at the top level, the top 10 team feels for well, that attracted to the settings. now, of course countries being present plans, well they should all be significant. they're all, it's up to, they know it goes on. they have basically, they're, they're terrified to just turn on able to employee to law consistency and even be simply because they're fearful they don't want to upset. but i'm st. logistics because well, you know, to be low because to get to also because america's wants to buy simple 1000. all right, we're gonna leave with our sports columnist alan more. thank you for your thoughts . thanks for. all right, stay with our to international. have next done direct impact. rick sanchez, looks at the unexpected political maneuvers in the us, the aftermath of venezuela's election, the global reaction to the impacts opening ceremony and much more by the

power button. rick sanchez. this is direct impact and this is what we're going to be talking about. i am nicholas my daughter, re elected president of the boulevard republic pub in his waiver there. yeah, habit madero declares of victory, but the us state department says damn him. that's not what we wanted, we spend all that money to get them out and he still won what's going on here? this is direct impact. i'm rick sanchez. let's do this. the . so let's start with this. it's been roughly a week now more or less right about a week since couple of years. auto officially took the reins of the democratic party as their candidate,

instead of president joe. but obviously who said he's not gonna run after mr. obama told him he had to get the hell out. that means that pamela harris will now be facing off with ex president donald trump. and now we can finally see how this race is shaping up. remember, i told you we had to wait at least a week for some of the polls to come in? well, some of the polls are coming in here of the polls that we are going to be looking at for the next several months. they're all aggregate polls by the way, they mean that means they combine a bunch of different pulse, real clear politics, that's a good one. that's one you should look at from time to time. it shows trump with a $1.00 percentage lead. 47.9 to 46.2, as you can see. now, let's look at the, let's look at the new york times, you know, times another very good report. and i think the do a really good job and they're pulling. they don't use one poll, they use a combination about 5 or 6 polls also has trump a head by 2 percentage points. that's a 48 the 46. let's look at one more. what do you say?

alright, victor. but that one up to there. it is. finally, there's the hill, the hill does a good job with their aggregation of polls shows trump 48 percent harris at $45.00 . so in this one he's winning by more than 2 percentage points. so here's why this is important and here's what we are. basically after watching truck go way ahead after his assassination attempt. and then watching harris catch up to him after biting step down. now it's all kind of shaking up, you know, you know, the expression we use in mathematics regressing, to the mean, regressing to the mean means it goes back to where essentially it's kind of supposed to be. that's kind of the way life is due in many ways. so essentially we're back where we were before with trump still winning to be fair. harris is doing a little better than joe biden, but not that much. she's not doing a lot better than joe. by what she's doing, obviously better than job i move, you know, god bless you. god bless them as you know himself. not doing all that well so,

so that's kind of where we are right now. manila, you got anything on this? you wanna, you wanna try man on this? absolutely. rec. so 1st we got to say like you said, it's only been one week, right? it's fair to say that we are still in the honeymoon phase of the new cala harris campaign for po to so people are energized at the moment until we start getting into the nitty gritty about her history, her time as vp her accomplishments. what have they been? was she the borders are, wasn't she the borders are? what were her male years her wins? and once people start digging into that, i think the emotions are going to kind of well, because according to 538, which we know is a great prognosticator about different horse races across the united states, right? even internationally as well. but specifically here in the us. yeah. and i, i barely good job and they're looking at the battle ground. by the way, i was,

i was, i was sharing the, generally a, the pay of all americans then with $538.00 when they do a breakdown states. so that's in the end we'll end up. yeah. yeah. work right, beautiful. and what they have to say it, what they have to say is that her disapproval ratings as of this weekend are hovering at about 53 percent disapproval. so even though some of the polls are showing that she's closing that gap, narrowing the gap between the democrats versus republicans. uh, overall it seems like americans are, are the majority of americans are still not pleased with cala harris in general. so i'm going to say, let's give it a little bit more time. absolutely, but we should note, rick, she's hauled in a whole boatload of money in the past week, almost a quarter $1000000000.00, which is now going to turn this 2024 race into the most expensive potentially most expensive political campaign in us history. and it's, it's just amazing to think that we talk about these things. i know you and i had

talked this morning when we were talking about what we were going to have in the show. and i mentioned this, and i think sometimes that we forget, these are multi millionaires and billionaires who are essentially buying politicians because in america, buying a post, a politician is legal. corruption is legal in the united states political system. you have a right to give millions of dollars to somebody because you want them to do something for you. and this is what we're seeing happening, not just with couple of harris to be fair, but with trump as well and. and if it was not combat, harrison probably would be to other people. and they too would be essentially bought by billionaires and millionaires. that's terrible. speaking of elections that's moved to venezuela and as well as election is over. and it appears that the incumbent president in the class madura has one, he is asserting his victory, and his opponents are saying he cheated here. we got the recall for the elections and they were made in an exemplary manner. and i can

say to venezuela, into the world, i am nicholas my daughter, re elected president of the boulevard republic of business with thanks for defending our democracy laws in our people. we want to tell all venezuelans in the whole world. they've been as well as a new elected president. and it is and moved the gonzales that we want. everybody knows it. everybody knows. i want you to know that this has been something so overwhelming, so big that we have one in all sectors of the country. that's weird, i'm looking at my door. oh. and he's dressed like a high school cheerleader. meanwhile, the guy who was supposedly beat them looks like joe by them like he's half asleep. it's bizarre. sitting from the outside,

looking at the selection. but the fact of the matter is, it is surprising that madura could pull out a victory given the sad state of his country's economy. here's renowned economies jeffrey sachs, a guy by the way, that i very much respect because he's willing to tell the truth in the united states of america, a country where the truth is not something you usually get away with saying. he explains why then, as well as economy is in ruins. the us government has been trying to strangle the venezuelan economy. it started with sanctions in 2017. that prevented essentially the country from accessing international capital markets and the oil company from restructuring its loans. that put venezuela into a hyper inflation. that was the other collapse of venezuela's in complete, utter catastrophe. a lot of it brought on by the united states, deliberately creating massive, massive software. we know there's hunger,

we know there's a incredible shortage of the medical supplies. we can only imagine to, cuz we won't know really until the dust settles and careful. studies are done. how much excess mortality there is. but surely in, in a context like this, this is a catastrophe, largely created by the us, a catastrophe created by the us where we, where we were, we seen that before. manila, i did my own research this morning. i checked out this head wound up gonzalez, guy and what i found was that he is deeply, deeply tied to washington. he even went to school, the school of the americas, where the c, i a basically trains latin american leaders to then eventually take over countries . um, i don't know your thoughts on madura beating gonzalez in the reaction so far from the opposition, including maria corrina machado. it will work, i think what we have witnessed over the years is that the united states and the

powers that be here, especially over at the d o. d in the state department, have greatly under estimated the will of the been as well. and people as well as that of nicholas and the girl who, himself, by the way, survived, and assassination attempt when he was speaking on stage a couple of years ago, a small drone allegedly was attacking him when he was giving a speech. so he's not only survived an assassination attempt, he's also survived a, a cool attempt. if you recall, during the trumpet ministration, they appointed the, the us that is appointed and anointed, one guy know to where, you know, a handful of countries, couple dozen countries decided to recognize him as the temporary president or whatever it was. but that guy is nowhere to be found as well. so to see a new class memorial victory, yet again, i think underscores the resistance and the resilience of the event as well. and people. and then when you, when you compare that to the maria machado woman,

she sounds like hillary clinton circle, 2016, a sore loser, defending her guy, but a sore loser, and using the same playbook and saying, no, we won the election was stolen, even though the math doesn't pan out in her favor, you know, what i think when i was talking to some of our friends here, many of whom in south florida are then as well. and, and i, and i think even they would probably admit that somehow the vin as well. and because my daughter has no se, okay, but the vet as well, and opposition needs to come up with something other than a washington c. i a slide state department hand pick opposition person. cuz i think you lose your credibility that they should have somebody take on the door. oh, they should have somebody try and fix the economy. but if you come in and everything and your background says, see a state department trained in washington, diplomat, it's like, how can i believe you?

i mean, you may be the greatest guy in the world, but everybody else has come with those same credentials. is usually a liar and are you syrup or so i think they need to find that person. i'm, i'm not sure really is was the person or some of the others that we've covered in the past or that person. but the saying, in my opinion, i made any sense on it ain't good zoning gonzales, by the way, he looks like $5.00. he looks like, but i'm sorry, she was talking and he was sleeping behind her. the world is still reacting to the opening ceremony of the olympics. so, so let me change it this way for you. the way maybe the way they did the opening ceremony gives the whole country the chance to kind of show off. it's where it's right. it is sort of speak. those of you watched it in the past. it's usually a beautiful rendition act. it's, it's a chance to put your stamp as the whole country and show the world a little bit of your culture. for example, let me take you back to china. look at that, that. so to chinese,

that was the opening ceremony in 2008 in the summer olympics invasion, $4000.00 drummers, playing full logic music of china. it was meant to illustrate china's devotion to its past an ancient culture that is as complex as it is disciplined. now let me show you an image of the opening ceremony and so she, this was one russia hosted the winter olympics in 2014. they chose to illustrate the country's culture to music and to ballet, which they are famous for, as well as emphasizing the country's history and literature with references to it's great writers like poll story and, and check off. okay. okay. that brings us to this. and this is the image that's being shared around the world, which i guess represents the culture of france and the west. i mean, compare that to what we just saw from the chinese and from the russians. i mean, by the way, and i did this for you above you see the famous davinci painting of, you know, jesus has last supper and below it is the image broadcast to the world from the

opening ceremony in paris. last friday, manila, as we're looking at this, can you explain to me what the hell that is that we're looking at the overweight woman with that thing on her hat and all those people? what is this, what, what do you, what i didn't see it by the way, i wasn't a baseball game. what is this up? i did see it, rick, i, i was a little bit appalled myself, but you know that's, that's me. editorializing. so once i remove my, my editorializing and just trying to be fair and objective about this one, we have to know that the people that organized this, the opening ceremony have now come forward. whether it's genuine or not, they have come forward to apologize that it's depiction of, of the last supper has offended so many millions of people watching the ceremony around the world, especially those of religious devotion. they were very offended by it and,

and france got a lot of blow back for it immediately on social media and as well as through official channels. now, i would say, you know, having been to france multiple times on family in france, and i would say modern 20th and 21st century. we think of france and we think of fashion and food, haute couture. and i think i, if i want to, i don't know if i'm playing devil's advocate here, but at least giving the benefit of the doubt to the organizers is that maybe perhaps they thought they were being bold and avant garde. but we gotta remember, if we put this show on the other foot, or we put it the other way and say they did a rendition of, i don't know, a, a, a, a show of mohammed and did something with, with the most of them seemed they wouldn't be deemed as long a full back, right. and the this would be raise this. so you know, a better just reply, but that's how i think it's going on now. but that's, i mean,

i far as last i recall, i don't think jesus was trans and i don't think the most of the people around them were, were all gay. and i don't remember any of the prophets wearing, you know, having a beard and wearing a bikini. uh, i, i don't understand any of that. and i don't understand what they were trying to say . and i, and i take what it saying is that the western culture on like many cultures in the world, is just kind of gotten out of control. and they don't have any rules or any sense of ethics or morality. i mean, and that's the obvious thing that they seem to be dr. is that kind of that's being r c that i would prefer not to be artsy, so or home to or whatever that word is that you just pronounced a little while ago. hold cut, tour. yeah. what took whatever action world. sorry. come for hold. could tour. tell him. uh tell him i said hi old. how do you uh, this is texas manila. so you don't have were always, by the way, hearing about the, the tunnels in gaza. and it seems that every time the israeli military bombs and destroys a building apartments,

schools deals thousands of innocent people including children. it always says, well, we had to do this because there was a hamas poll underneath there. for example, there's not a single operation with hospital less than guys, not a single house, but. ready in gaza, that's crazy. what's this? these other sounds of a final goss from god's is collapsing health care system? a medical sauce and gaza city working on the nit relentless as really bombardment for over a month. and now the scores of fronting voices. seeing him working on the torchlight tells its own gut wrenching story. the codes hospital, the 2nd largest in gaza, has now collapsed hospital collapses. that's crazy if that happen, anywhere else in the world can you imagine. and yet another day and gaza when we come back, i'm going to be talking to a guest who gives us a different perspective on what those tunnels really represents for the people of

gauze. a fascinating conversation i'm going to have with got a francis. she's wonderful. she's an award winning international correspondent. she's been on the ground there in the war and gaza and it is in and of itself an active courage just to be there. obviously, if anybody looks at the pictures that are coming in, she is going to join us in just a minute, stay right there, cuz we're going to be right back. the, the look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings accept we're so shorter is a conflict with the 1st law show alignment of the patient. we should be very careful about our personal intelligence at the point, obviously is to make

a trust rather than to the various jobs. i mean with artificial intelligence we have summoning the theme and the robot most protects this phone existence was alexis the . so welcome back. everybody, i'm rick sanchez and this is direct impact. i'm so glad that you are there. so joining us now is got a francis, she's a host of the west. asia post on world is one do's and she is good enough to join us right now. you know, i'm thinking about starting the conversation with something that for me personally

as a citizen of the united states, made me very angry. i just watched last week as the president of the united states and the vice president of united states. literally turn the government over to this man who came here from israel and was everything if not domineering and explosives, and he told our politicians what the foreign policy of the united states should be . mind you, let me, let me repeat this while the president was sitting at home somewhere and the vice president was being hidden and not even a member of that. it, it just that that just seems so wrong. from an american perspective, 50 to 60 percent of americans don't even like this guy and he's the guy running our government. what do you think of that? well, i came across and mean today i think on, on instagram and because you know, the space has been all silver means making fun of how the congress or it was

standing. i hate it. it's and class thing for the massacre and for the work criminal that is uh, susan by the i c. j. but they still were laughing for him, so everybody's making fun. today there was a mean a saying that they're just clapping to keep their seats, and it's really very accurate. because if you look at the, how much the back end, the, the lobbies and designers and rules and governors in terms of money in the deep states in the united states of america. it's not truly uncommon to see that happen in the american congress. i mean, if it weren't for the united states of america, i don't think benjamin netanyahu would have weapons to keep on slots and kids and to keep on bumping hospitals. the air strikes are coming, they are amazing the united states of america. and if they are not the impunity and the vetoes and the protection a. so actually to me, i don't see it as

a war between us. the indigenous people and the is readings. we don't recognize israel as a state. it's an occupation that has always been health and, and, and, and, and funded, and governor and, and i'm hired strong by the americans and the region. so it's not true the uncommon, it's just very, very rude. then the audacity, the bias, i mean, there's some, there's some crying over what's happening and ukraine, although they are the reason for it. they don't even find themselves to respect the blog of more of tens of thousands of, of people of civilians. it's a, it's very, a rude, you know? yeah, it seemed that way. and, and it is that way, i think to many americans. but unfortunately, it seems like right now, even though we call ourselves a democracy, i'm not sure that our representatives are elected officials represent the will of the american people. so they do whatever the hell they're going to do, which does make it somewhat hypocritical when we go around the world like everybody

else, how they need to be more of a democracy like us, but that doesn't represent, oh yeah, democracy. let me ask you. i've seen a lot of you reporting your fantastic you're, you're just a spitfire. when i watch you reporting and the things that you do and how you get in there and, and you roll up your sleeves and you tell the stories of what's really going on involving real people. i saw some of your reporting on the tunnels in gaza. and we're always told here in the west side, wherever you see a got a tunnel, it represents how i'm us. there are some how my soldiers are terrors down their planning or something. but you explain, and some of you are reporting, but many of those tunnels are simply the infrastructure that's been used by many palestinians for many years because they're kind of a possessed oppressed people. and that's the only way they can do certain things. kind of like the way the underground railroad work for ask in american slaves, african americans, blacks during the civil war prayer prior to the civil war and the united states. can you take us through that explanation a little bit?

i think now it's a, it's very obvious to the world how the is really look at the people in of us. i mean they are denying a the and they they are actually causing a survey, sion and the other speak. now there's a pull your stomach in how does that? so these really do not to give rights to anyone and they don't, they do not regard them as humans the, the time that i entered. because the wreck, it was just that there wasn't more as well. but it was just being an open air prison, this is what's on the scene through national and the united nation called and that's that before that for before october, 7 years and years ago because they have been besieged. and the only way that i, as a journalist could get there was to do a tunnel. and the only way this anybody could get there was through a thought because it just shows up close to the borders. it's not, it's not possible to get inside or outside. so they were about thousands more than $1500.00 tons. as per the reports,

and the investigative reporting that i did at the time. and these were only lifelines for medicine, for food, for humans, for anybody that needed to, to move around. now i don't think there's any human that's a bit scared to live like that. so and it's, it's really very unfair and, and just when you speak about the tunnels a standard isn't or have us without speaking to these humans even before how much was born. they were being persecuted and oppressed and occupied, and killed and slaughtered and draped in jails and prisons, and actually cutoffs or any kind of existence today is the reaction. the action is the occupation of the lamb, the continuation of the people, the slot that of the case. and this has been happening here. this 1948, and before, so this time is just some one more thing and that is a bit. so the action to the oppression enter the imprisonment of civilians and of millions of people in an open air prison. or do you think that that's a yahoo?

we'll continue to expand this more and go beyond guys these think with what we've seen in yemen. and obviously in 11 on that this thing will actually metastasize. actually, i don't think that isn't, you know, really knows what he's doing, but really has the options right now as we speak, they are really, there's a help, okay? so being thrown left, right and centre inside the is really governance of their occupation and their con, calling me here. i mean, today they were kicked out from much the chance administers, but uh, right. ministers today, the police, these really police and the is really soldiers, class and city to non, when they were trying to address them. but i, so a and every day there are protests and there's an instability and there's the hostages families. so in general, let them yeah, who is looking for

a way out and he has in mind his policy, his own, but it's a good cause because there's no way out of here. there's no way for him to get out of it. and on the other hand, there's something great these really, they've always been saying, ever since the dawn of my, many of them, they've been saying they want to eradicate us. they want to annihilate to us. they want to annex our non 11 on dollar sign and syria. so they never want speech the only time when they're not actually bumbling. this is when they can not because the pilot of the of the resistance. now is there any deterring me and the only reason why not sonya would not the son is his inability to do so. there were some jewish americans last week who were protesting that then yeah, whose visit and one young man and we played his uh, his sound bite here on our show said i was a little boy growing up as a june and i was always told the whole of cost never again, we can never let it happen. and then he went on to say,

now i'm seeing it happen again. and it's my people who are acting and doing it. and i thought, wow, never quite heard it put that way. but i thought that was a very powerful and pronounced message. you are a powerful and pronounced messenger daddy, and it's such a pleasure to have you on with us. i can't wait to get you back because i'd like for the conversation to go on further. i have a feeling you have a lot of things that you want to share. thanks again. i think that's our shelf. remember to always look outside your own box truths. don't live in boxes. i'm like sanchez and i'll be looking for you next to the the,

the breaking news on our 10 is really striking. a suburb of the lebanese capital kills at least one person and wounds. another 17. the idea of claims its target was the hezbollah commander who has reportedly survived the assassination of algeria recalls as envoy from paris, condemning the decision to recognize morocco's sovereignty over the contested western sahara. i'm getting an image here of the been in the united socialist body of it is well, a headquarters in color bows out. this is very typical of what they call the color revolutions. the green goes designed. and nicholas with darrow points, the finger at the u. s. for organizing and attempted to.