including by a public broadcasting system that has sold its soul for corporate money that we might as well be mice squeaking against an apple and a squeak we must. lose tonight hurricane earl by head straight for miami as thousands flee north by head of the potential devastation and the president opens the door on negotiation with kim jong un as north korean delegates meet in blood of awestruck russia and the country discusses the arrest of michael bennett ahead of tonight's n.f.l. opener former wide receiver dante stallworth joins us tonight for a conversation i mitchell's reporting tonight from washington d.c. you're watching r t america.

good evening friends we start tonight with what officials are now calling a dangerous major hurricane bearing down on south florida erma is expected to make landfall near miami on sunday morning over to rick scott is urging residents to evacuate the state gas shortages have hit florida creating massive lines and delaying the evacuation process for more details on this we go live tonight to miami to our t. correspondent marina marina. and more than six hundred fifty thousand residents in miami dade county have been instructed to flee their homes in advance of hurricane irma's arrival that's nearly twenty five percent of the county's population now mayor carlos gomez expanded miami's evacuation order this afternoon to include all evacuation zones a and b. as well as part of zone see this includes all of miami beach flown flood prone

areas in the mainland like downtown and brickell where i am currently reporting from the mayor says he expanded the orders after studying storm storm surge maps provided thursday morning by the national hurricane center according to governor rick scott the storm surge could be higher than ten feet and unlike anything florida has ever seen. look at the size of this storm it's huge is wider than our entire state and could cause major and life certainly impacts on both coasts coast to coast. regardless of which coast you live on be prepared to evacuate. the rains on the west coast cannot be complacent just because malls show going along the east coast the west coast will still have hurricane conditions and the storms can change . remember hurricane andrew is one the worst storms in the history of florida this is much worse and more devastating on its current path. governor scott says

authorities are escorting fuel tankers through traffic and to gas stations to deal with the state's growing fuel shortages this has been happening all day long he urged gas stations in evacuation zones to stay open as long as possible seven thousand national guard soldiers will be activated by friday to help with the storm the latest track released by the national hurricane center has making a direct hit on south florida sunday with category four or five winds and potentially life threatening storm surges of course there's a lot of people in this state. outside the state that are hoping and wishing that irma changes her path in the next forty eight hours. marina i'm curious how do you think the people are responding to the gas shortage is their frustration are they maintaining. there's been a lot of frustration i know of someone who was in line for quite a while at a gas station and as he was pulling up another car pulled then cut in front of them

there's been arguments there's been very very long lines there's you know there's a lot of fear there's a lot of you know tense energy in the air because this is an unprecedented storm that everyone is being warned about people are asked to be patient and to be considerate of one another you know and are trying to do their best to prepare to either leave get ahead of the storm or bunker down and ride it out miami very much looks like a ghost town through brickell i saw maybe two people walking to work miami beach looks like it's been abandoned so either people have left the majority of people left or people are inside preparing themselves for this unprecedented massive category four or five storm. with us tonight live from miami thanks marina hurricane or could be one of those powerful storms ever seen in the atlantic experts have compared to ninety ninety two is devastating hurricane andrew we spoke

earlier today with hurricane expert allows accu weather about the current trajectory of hurricane path of the hurricane is going to go generally across just to the north of cuba and then gradually turn northward and it's going to make landfall somewhere close to southern florida of the some the computer models do have it going either left or to the right of miami and the latest computer models the consensus would suggest it's going to move pretty much through the state of florida it may go off the coast briefly then move make a second landfall somewhere up along the georgia coast in south carolina coast during monday night but we're going to see landfall somewhere over southern florida near southern florida sunday morning is actually somewhat comparable to hurricane andrew in. in fact that sets a large hurricane but in this case this one has been a category five hurricane for over almost over two days tao and so as a result it's got

a lot of wind and rain with it more so than even andrew had so it's a much longer lasting hurricanes or one or the other this way it takes much longer for them to weaken so no doubt that even if this were to weaken a little bit it's still going to be a very powerful hurricane and so it'll still be a very powerful major hurricane what it does come into southern florida on sunday this is going to be different than what harvey has a lot of people look at harvey and saying oh my gosh we're going to get fifty inches of rain you're not going to get fifty inches of rain but some places are going to get on average about forty eight inches or could be some places picking up maybe as much as twelve inches which is not too bad for florida however it's going to come very very quickly the biggest problem with this is probably going to be initially the wind is going to be very windy it's going to produce as it's doing right now producing phenomenal winds right now in the turks and caicos also just north of the coastal sections of the republican haiti right now we've seen winds

gust to go well over one hundred twenty miles an hour at the surface and so a category four hurricane can certainly produce wind gusts of one hundred twenty maybe to as high as maybe one hundred fifty miles an hour so any weak structure is going to succumb to the wind and trees are going to come down power lines are going to come down and the heavy rain is going to be one of the thing another thing that's going to be also very very damaging will be a storm surge over the keys and perhaps over to the southeast and eastern coast of florida. f.b.i. director chris ray says he has not detected any interference from the white house and the russian investigation ray spoke in public for the first time today in washington at the intelligence and national security summit the f.b.i. chief said that there was no will of interference. it's while expressing full confidence in robert muller to lead the investigation current monitoring agency data of one of the current monitoring agency equal facts says

a hack has exposed the data of one hundred forty three million americans the data includes names social security numbers birth dates addresses and driver's licenses credit card numbers from about two hundred and nine thousand americans were also stolen the senate moved on the president's deal with democratic congressional leaders today the bill in the senate passed eighty to seventeen and allows for fifteen and a quarter billion dollars in relief and recovery efforts for hurricanes harvey and irma the deal was tied to extending the debt ceiling for the government until december speaker of the house paul ryan seemed to backtrack on his previous statement saying the deal was ridiculous and unworkable that's what i think that's what i believe it's motivation was that's what he wanted to achieve he made it very clear he just wanted this to be a bipartisan moment for the country. for more on this tonight we're joined by the

c.e.o. of american majority that ryan ned nice to have you with us tonight thanks that you have worked inside the white house and there's i understand quite a debate that took place in the trump administration to do this is there a deal in the future that could be even better than the one we've seen so far i mean is this an opportunity for the dems and trump to do more things is this a new a new move coming well we'll see what happens after this i think what you really saw take place with this deal is first of all trump has given mccall and ryan eight nine months to actually do something legislatively they have failed spectacularly if they have demonstrated the only thing that they've achieved in the first eight or nine months is to remove all doubt about their legislative competence. and so trouble really asserted himself and said i'm going to make something happen and i think what i really like about what he did with the dems yesterday even though some conservatives are concerned about it i like what he did because he moved the debate

ceiling debate back to december said we're removing that off the table and you guys are going to focus on tax reform which is a winning issue sixty sixty four sixty five percent of all voters want that but more importantly if you look at some of these key twenty eight hundred states and twenty twenty states you're looking at more out of seven out of ten voters want tax reform and so what trump really did with his deal yesterday is he realigned the legislative agenda through the rest of the end of the year you know there's a lot of corporations that are quiet about tax reform a lot of them like it the way it is because they pay no tax which of course bernie sanders talked a lot about on the campaign trail and i understand that there's quite a lobbying effort here in washington to hey let's slow down a little bit on this tax reform because then major corporations would end up paying tax what do you hear about that. you know it's one thing that we know we can bank on is that tax reform at any level regardless of how comprehensive it's going to be is no easy lift and so there's

a lot of different competing interests whether it is the corporations whether it's people that want their special carve outs and their special deductions you know my hope with this all is that we keep it fairly simple i've been mining people the kiss principle keep it simple stupid let's not go for broke but i would like to actually see the corporate tax i would like to see this realigned some of that instead of them putting this revenue and trump estimated yesterday could be four trillion in revenue sitting overseas let's figure out how we have a much more equitable regulatory burden but also a corporate tax burden i want fifteen percent also if it's morning but let's end the tax cuts of the middle class and small business small business are the ones that provide most of the jobs in the u.s. and then repatriate that money and put it right back into american jobs in american workers repatriating that money is also a hard thing for the corporations because they like having get off shore. if they don't they're not taxed on it now i'm going to come i'm going to come to you from a middle of the country mentality here we are raising the debt ceiling here we are scrambling for money to take care of disasters these hurricanes and yet we're

talking about tax cuts is that really what the american people want or is this just a republican thing for years to always reduce government reduce taxes i don't know if you look at these recent state level polls and if you're looking at missouri if you look at north dakota if you look at again a lot of these states where quite frankly tend the ten democrats that are up in these very deep red trump states and twenty eight thousand you look at the polls in those states and you're looking at sixty eight to seventy seven percent of all voters across the state want tax reform again you know as we kind of clarify what that's going to look like we'll see how those poll numbers look but know this tax reform is a winning issue across the aisle and again i think it's something that has to address the middle class because again i think the middle class the working class that really did have that trump appeal to was able to peel off the working class and the democrats they have been use they have been abused by those in d.c. by bearing

a lot of the tax burden and so i think what's wrong with trump can really help focus those tax cuts on the middle class the working class he's going to solidify his support among them going at one point ned ryan good to have you with us tonight appreciate your time thanks so much president trump said today military action against north korea is a real possibility and said if it did happen it would be a sad day for north korea after previously stating he would not allow north korea to have nuclear capability the president took a different path today when asked about accepting north korea with a new capability although being contained the president seemed to leave the door open to negotiation. follow up is it is it acceptable for you as a president for north korea to be nuclearized but contained and deter is that a strategy we're going to do what it is i don't like share with her now i'm not negotiating with you maybe we'll have a chance to negotiate with somebody else but i don't put my negotiations on the table unlike past administrations i don't talk about them but i can tell you that

north korea is behaving badly and it's got to stop. and of course the difference is in the past it was not a negotiable issue meanwhile on the other end of the globe a north korean delegation spoke to east asian leaders at an economic forum in vladivostok russia ortiz daniel hawkins was there and has the report tonight korean delegation the riving giving a speech just in the central hall to my left was very much something people waiting for it was a big media scramble to hear what they had to say quote particularly taking a strong uncompromising position saying their development of the nuclear program was something that was not up for discussion in the meantime in the hall just next door to the leaders of russia south korea japan and. were discussing also what to do about this crisis the world has been watching for some time and although there are differences in how to resolve the crisis they also do have it seems some things

in common take a listen tonight you can probably google the final goal of these measures and steps is a peaceful and diplomatic resolution to the crisis and i'd like to emphasize that there will be no war on the korean peninsula i'm certain of that. those are good. just like my south korean colleagues i'm sure that a large scale conflict in the most especially one with weapons of mass destruction will not happen must all of the opposing sides have the same sense of understanding of commitment to their people who live in the region with you and we will solve this problem by diplomatic means all sides involved in the talks here that they are directly affected japan south korea russia they all share all maritime borders with north korea and as we heard there would really suffer in the event of a military escalation of this crisis so they do share those calls to dawdle to negotiation just perhaps have slightly ways of getting there japan and korea agree

that sanctions are needed a harshness of sanctions by the u.n. targeting in particular the. a north korean oil industry but they also say that these need to be done in conjunction with discussions with russia as well take a listen. i referred to the need for tighter sanctions and belief in the china and russia are speaking to the same position but what concrete measures need to be taken is something we must discuss together now this is in stark contrast to the position of the united states that's been very one sided these last few days and weeks we can all remember nikki haley donald trump saying that time is running out patience is running out and of course trumps the now infamous fire and fuel requirements all really serving to ramp up the rhetoric and increase economic or military pressure on north korea to isolate the country even more something that a approach that perhaps isn't so favored to hear in rather hostile for more on this tonight we're joined by saurabh goop her who is

a policy specialist at the institute for china america studies great to have you with us tonight all right we have seen the president go from fire and furious daniel hawkins pointed out to today leaving the door open to negotiation which of course was not negotiable now off the table months ago what's happening here. i think what's happening out here right now is that they're trying to get a u.n. security council resolution in response to north korea's test diplomacy is working he's trying to be conciliatory so that he can get the main p. five powers on board so he can have a strong resolution i would i would not bet that forced. september eleventh or whenever their resolution does come into being that we might hear donald trump saying the same thing so because he's been talking in so many three different sides of do you think the superpowers have come to the conclusion that kim can't be stopped and will stop i absolutely do not think so in fact the chinese

definitely do not think so and the russians to lean in that direction they do feel that there is the potential that the potential still exists there denuclearization however long it the process might be is is is is is a realistic possibility but that it is not going to be anything anyway easy to get to that point so what does kill me what it's first of all let's let's be very frank and honest none of us can say what exactly he wants but we can have make some assumptions and one of the assumptions would be that he wants is the security of his regime. to be guaranteed the security and sovereignty of his country north korea which as i say not could the korean peninsula because he doesn't get to talk on behalf of the korean peninsula fully but that the serenity and security of north korea be guaranteed and that in some way that north korea be integrated into the international economic and political system he has already been making

important economic reforms at home which have not been talked about in frankly in the five years since he's been in power nobody has talked in terms of famine etc their economic engine is working and that could be a point of leverage and it could be a point of hope down the line how nervous do you think the chinese are that donald trump will take military action that there will be some type of intervention in this regime. i would say there are. it's maybe cautiously optimistic that donald trump understands the full gravity and ramifications of the situation but at the same time he has been so want to toe and u.s. policy frankly in the trumpet ministration on north korea has been so what little that it's hard to say with the rhetoric with all the comments with all the red and all commas but also in making some very conciliatory comments true but which have not been followed through in aid of arming south korea with nuclear weapons is

a possibility the sale of more military hardware apparently is going to go through to south korea and to japan and then of course there is this backdrop of trade and the issue with south korea and the united states especially the steel industry there undercutting the american market i mean there's a lot of dynamics playing out here. how do you see this in conclusion what is the solution here when you have friction on a trade level with south korea and the united states. what i see happening in the us south korea relationship and which i have already seen happen to some extent in the us china relationship in the trump administration is that the trade aspect and the security aspect must be dissin tangled there will be certain linkages at some at some level because trump has made it so but trump is also coming to understand

that these are very serious issues in their own right and need to be dealt with by individual independently by them and so he might be disentangling some of those issues what do you make of president putin's involvement in the us in recent days he's seemed to be somewhat of a broker in all of us i would absolutely welcome president putin's intervention and interjection in in this issue the reason is this president putin has skin in the game but he does not have that much skin in the game and i'm talking the korean peninsula game to be so down that he is stuck in his rigid positions to an extent the chinese americans north koreans and south koreans are but about president putin he's a statesman he's been there for a long time and he is in a position to to to call black and white black and white and try to see if we can bring negotiations good thank you appreciate you being here tonight russia's foreign ministry has slammed the searches of its diplomatic premises in the united states as illegal artie's ilia portrayed go as that story tonight you read through

the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman says latest extensive comments on the issue and you realize that the russian officials are more than disappointed in fact i guess disappointed is not the right word here they are purely outraged by what they call attempts to. raids of russian diplomatic premises in the u.s. just to remind you last week the u.s. state department order to shut down the russian consulate in san francisco and also to mission had access in washington and new york here's more from marie is a harvest plate a statement on that what the u.s. state department calls inspections are in fact the legal seizure of russian diplomatic premises including searches from basement attics would like to emphasize the buildings that are the property of all government were not just sealed but

seized plainclothes american officials are in the building and armed policemen are guarding the primitives this raises the question does washington consider us to have the same right to inspect the buildings of the u.s. diplomatic and consular missions in russia in the meantime at the eastern economic forum in vladivostok the russian president said there are serious issues with this diplomatic war but he thinks russia and the u.s. can still keep up the trade and economic ties and as an example he gave excellent mobile the all giant which is rex tillerson his previous job but you. despite all our current diplomatic differences we continue to have contacts with american firms including vast energy companies such as exxon mobil's america which rex tillerson used to head up just gave to listen to metal ones when you can but he seems to have ended up in a bad company and is headed in the wrong direction but i hope that the cooperation

and friendship will lead him back on the right policies. so according to a lot of our approach there are still many areas where the two countries have worked together and will work together no matter what like space exploration and he hopes that some people in washington who are watching president couldn't call particularly wise won't spoil things next time. we are ready to cooperate with us on new calls maturity and you know it's from american agencies into the. back to the diplomatic scandal you was state department official household draw was that american officials did not break down doors or conduct searches diplomatic premises of russia and the u.s. but were remember that the russian president vladimir putin has promised to sue washington over this so we are bound to hear more on this story very soon. the n.f.l.

season opener is being marred by controversy as one of its players alleges racial profiling by police michael bennett says los vegas police targeted him indeed named him because he is black military and sat down with former n.f.l. star donte stallworth to discuss the incident minoa yeah that's right at the start of the football season tonight is expected to be protested by some some in solidarity with michael bennett some protesting the n.f.l.'s policies and responses from recent actions by their very own players and the most recent one involving seattle seahawks defensive end michael bennett has the n.f.l. at odds with the las vegas police department bennett alleges that the las vegas p.d. targeted him for detainment following reports of shots fired at a nightclub following the mayweather mcgregor fight because of his race so i asked n.f.l. veteran donte stallworth if he agreed with mr bennett's assessment about racism

people always say that there are good apples and that there are bad apples in. i mean at the end when you look at the whole system the our criminal justice system in general there's an issue there and it's something that we as a country and americans particularly don't like to face when we have issues with you know whatever it is whether it's race relation issues or whether it's economic issues we don't like to face those hard truths and so this has been a systemic problem from hundreds of years ago dating back to slavery and post slavery of reconstruction and then you go into jim crow so there's you know there's a system that's been in place there and it's at the at at the in the day what it's done is it has criminalized young black african-americans and i also asked mr stallworth about the broader subject of activism and the role of athlete in social movements what he had to say was quite enlightening i would say they have an obligation but i think what what they should do is if they care about an issue or

if they know some people that are affected by an issue and it's something that they care about and want to speak about it i think as athletes we number one should educate ourselves to the best of our abilities to put ourselves around people who are in in this to specific fields that we're looking to get into to be able to articulate our message to a mass audience as opposed to just stay in an echo chamber of people who think like us and believe the same they have the same views that we do. so as you can see my conversation with donte stallworth was an interesting change of pace for me we talked politics and about the n.f.l. itself how money plays such a role we talked about calling capper nick and why he suspects capper next activism might be playing a role in why he hasn't been signed and picked up by a new team yet a lot of interesting insight from somebody that was obviously on the inside of the organization for years people be able to watch the whole interview online later tonight and with this story with bennett police claim that there was

a shooting there was no shooting ocean and he was simply targeted because of his color that's his side of the story right now thank you miguel and a final note we are pleased to announce to our two americas now carried on and can be viewed on direct t.v. channel three two one that's direct t.v. channel three two one and starting tomorrow jesse ventura hosts the world according to jesse friday nights at seven thirty eastern right here on our to america thanks for watching i'm reporting tonight from washington open.

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