every the world experience. and you'll get it on the old world. according to jess. welcome. come along for the ride. on the news tonight president trump addresses the united nations general assembly in condemns north korea and the iranian nuclear deal into harsh terms and a seven point one magnitude earthquake strikes mexico city toppling buildings to the ground and killing at least seventy two people and senate republicans pushed hard in their last desperate attempt to repeal and replace obamacare despite resistance from both ends of the political spectrum. reporting tonight from washington d.c. you're watching the news on our team america. good

evening friends we start tonight at the united nations general assembly in new york city where president trump delivered his first formal address the president spoke in very direct terms and it's in an explicit manner calling out the faults of the united nations in directly addressing america's enemies the top of the list was north korea and their leader kim jong un the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket men is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. the united states is ready willing and able but hopefully this will not be necessary that's what the united

nations is all about. that's what the united nations is for let's see how they do iran was not far behind on the president's list of enemy nations president trump kept to his usual rhetoric criticizing the iran nuclear deal and iran's oppressive government the iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy it has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence bloodshed and chaos the longest suffering victims of iran's leaders are in fact its own people meanwhile defense secretary james mattis has been in conversations with south korean president moon jay in the two are considering reintroducing tactical nuclear weapons to the

country despite protests from china and russia for more on all of this tonight let's go to jack rice former cia agent and also michael maloof with us tonight former pentagon official gentlemen great to have you with us tonight i want to talk about this iranian nuclear deal first michael you first the in the most recent interview secretary tillerson has given the saving he says that the sunset clause must change it's almost like that's the line in the sand and if it doesn't change there's going to be some problems is that a real possibility with the iranians i don't think so i think that again this speech was a lot of bluster and vintage trump i think in reality if the united states were to pull out it would you could actually create a system within the national security or within the u.n. security council because all of them voted for it and jack earlier today iranian officials were really chipping away at the credibility of the united states if they

walk from this deal the walk from other deals would this be a big mistake it seems like trump was just so anxious to renegotiate everything. yeah he really is and unfortunately we have to realize that it's the p five plus one everybody agreed not just the brits and the french the russians the chinese the americans if we pull out of this it's the entire world will be looking at the united states i agree that there are limitations and problems in fact you could expand upon this and it needs to be but to walk away from this deal in itself would be a a huge error at this point and jack what does it i mean do you think that the united nations got the message today about north korea i mean it was almost like street talk you know saying he's rocket man saying is on a suicide mission i mean i took it as if the president was saying our outlook folks this is what we're dealing with now what are you going to do about it how did you take it. well i think what's unfortunate is when i look at this i feel like there would have been some benefit to really

a more statesman like approach than what we're seeing from the president at this point because we have seen that the secretary of defense has been very clear about this even the president has earlier i think to to go into the street with it really may not actually give us the benefit that we want i agree some really straight talk some very clear points but we've made this point very very clear and again the sec def was really clear about this issue in the past and i think what we see around the world and specifically in asia right now with the japanese the south koreans even the chinese they know that this is ramping up and there's going to have to be some not just unilateral but multilateral moves michael maloof totally destroy north korea in my lifetime i've never heard a united states president talk like that i mean there is no choice in other words if there is a nuclear exchange we would have to he's insinuating that we would have to hit them with such unbelievable force that they would not be able to respond that's the only way to take care of this problem he's almost talking like kim jong un what do you

make of it well i make of it is that he should have used that form to offer a means of diplomacy rather than destruction has been going before a u.n. body whose mission is to try to resolve. issues peacefully and here he's calling for the destruction of an entire country not just the toppling of a regime but again he was looking at this at the entire that entire speech was one of looking at it through the prism of ideology rather than reality jack what did you make of the reaction that there wasn't a lot of reaction or press releases put out by u.n. diplomats today it was almost like they were taken aback i mean does this win friends and influence people how do you think in the long haul say let's take a look at the next twenty four forty eight hours what do you think the response is going to be. yeah i think it was a disaster when you look on the world stage i understand this plays with his base but we have to look at what it is that we're doing here this cannot be done unilaterally again he talked about doing this sitting down with the north koreans

that doesn't work there has to be a much broader effort and if you think you're going to walk into a room with a lighted on fire and then convince everybody to run inside with you it doesn't play that way and i think this president needs to understand that issue and simply shift i'm hoping he will do that he does have some smart people around them so i'm hoping that he realizes that issue because this simply is not working the way that it's working right now and michael what do you what do you think general mattis is talking about when he says that there are other military options even use the word secret what about that well i think he's definitely trying to put forth the the military option but we have not contrary to what nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has to say we have not exhausted all diplomatic approaches and that is something they should have used the u.n. forum to do today is is offer something positive that would be useful and rather than militarily. aggressive and insightful jack rice is there

a chance as we've heard both china and russia talk about the need for a diplomatic solution if the united states were to take a military response or interaction with north korea who's to say that russia and china wouldn't think that is clearly the wrong thing to do and who knows where this is going you figure that in any way at any level. you know and i'm petrified petrified of what this might mean we're looking at more than twenty five million people in seoul and the surrounding region we're looking at. twenty five or thirty million people in north korea and let's think about what the president says we could utterly destroy so we're talking what we're going to kill five or ten million people that's that's an american approach and the problem is what happens if that were to happen i mean obviously what it does not just with the north koreans and south koreans let's add the japanese let's add the chinese let's add the russians into this issue and you realize that this is something that's so much bigger than

this one little country and when the americans start talking like that there is a cost which we haven't even contemplated yet all right jack rice michael maloof gentlemen thanks for your time tonight the pentagon and russia once again are taking steps to coordinate on the battlefield in syria according to u.s. military officials d. conflict zone communication broke down when u.s. backed fighters were hit by a syrian air strike the hotline will now be staffed by generals from both russia and american military forces meanwhile the russian defense ministry has accused the united states backed coalition forces of resisting the syrian army during its operation to liberate their is or from isis despite resistance the syrian army continues to liberate the euphrates river valley from terrorists control. a massive earthquake struck central mexico early this afternoon the seven point one

magnitude quake struck shortly after one pm local time toppling at least twenty buildings and trapping dozens inside as of now over one hundred people are reportedly dead and the number is continually rising the disaster comes less than two weeks after an eight point one magnitude earthquake killed at least ninety people clean up and rescue efforts will continue in the days and weeks to follow. puerto rico is bracing for its second major hurricane in less than two weeks hurricane maria is expected to make landfall in puerto rico tomorrow the storm slammed into dominica overnight tearing roofs of homes officials said that the storm killed one person on the french territory of guadalupe for more we go live tonight to miami or to correspond to marina port for the latest marina. puerto rico's governor ricardo over a sello says hurricane maria may be the biggest and potentially most catastrophic

storm to hit the u.s. territory in a century this comes as the island is still recovering from irma and a reported seventy thousand remain without power earlier today residents could be seen stocking up on gas water fuel and water boards to protect their homes would boards rather to protect their homes food is being rationed and people have lined up outside of evacuation centers forecasters have dubbed maria a monster storm currently packing one hundred sixty five mile per hour winds puerto rico's governor says this hurricane will be violent a lot of infrastructure will be lost and communications will likely be affected the three and a half million residents on the island have been advised to prepare to hunker down for up to ninety hours those living in flood and mudslide prone areas have been urged to evacuate to a shelter meanwhile many people displaced by irma are still sleeping in shelters the san juan airport is closing this evening and once winds reach fifty miles per

hour first responders won't be able to help some puerto rico residents seem to be on edge monday as maria moved closer to get into that on a we already filled up the six hundred gallon tank of gas we've had this incident thank god we never used it we're looking for panels to cover up the last stores that remain and protect the much chemical but what worries me most is having already gone through one another comes just after. president trump declared a state of emergency for puerto rico which authorizes the department of homeland security and fema to coordinate all disaster relief efforts now maria would be the first category four or five hurricane to make landfall in puerto rico in eighty five years meanwhile she's also the first category five to ever make landfall on the dominica maria hit the island overnight ripping roofs off buildings and homes including the official residence of dominica as prime minister roosevelt skerritt

in a series of dire facebook posts mr the prime minister called areas wins and merciless noting widespread devastation on the island he has pleaded for helicopter support from other countries to help rescue those buried under the rubble seventy three thousand people live in the former french and british colony as of this morning phone and internet signals appear to be down leaving dominica virtually isolated without communication this is as the island's airports and seaports remain in operable dominica as economy is heavily dependent on tourism and agriculture two industries reportedly left in ruins by maria obviously a lot of anxious moments ahead marina portnoy thank you so much reporting tonight from miami turning to politics on capitol hill republicans are making a last ditch effort to save their political face and repeal and replace obamacare the sell job is intense and senators graham and cassidy are convinced sending more power to the states will begin to solve the health care problems in america both

parties battled on the hill today in front of the cameras making their case to voters you can go to your governor who will listen to you because they care about your vote if nothing else. i'm trying to take the money and power and washington and send it back closer to the patient if you believe government closer to the people is the best government why not health care and finally we know how this movie ends if we don't change we're going to have a single payer health care system in this country that's going bust the budget and we're going to start rationing care like you've never seen the democrats claim the republicans are hiding the truth the insurance industry would be given the power to implement lifetime caps which would result in americans being dropped from their coverage. tens of millions of people could well lose coverage people who desperately need essential services would lose it our republican colleagues don't

seem to care about how this affects the average american that's why trump care the previous trump care bills were so unpopular that's why this bill is so unpopular and that's why despite all their efforts they're struggling because their own senators know. that the public dislikes this bill the politics of all of this is still pretty dicey for the republicans the big question tonight can they get the fifty votes for more on this let's go to our panel the same thing mitch caesar former florida state damned chair and also sean steele with us tonight former g.o.p. party chair from california gentlemen great to have you with us tonight sean let me start with you is this is this a political death run for the republicans if they are strike out over three how important are these days. actually i think this is the undead bill that was supposed to have been buried weeks ago it's coming back to my surprise

a lot of pundits surprise i think to all of our surprises and here's the genius behind it it looks like john mccain may be on board because lindsey graham is the one that's promoting it they're best friends so that trick alone if that gets the extra vote this can completely change the direction of obamacare and let's be clear about one thing most americans aren't affected by obamacare in the sense that there's only twenty million americans involved ten of them are mostly young people and most of them haven't even bought into obamacare it's a catastrophic failure in terms of a federal program but the idea of giving money directly to the states as a republican i'm not real thrilled about it but i'd much rather have fifty experiments than one bad experiment what do you think of the states a chance to do it mitch what do you think rand paul says ninety percent of this is still obamacare he says conservatives should be going for this and there are some holdouts what do you think. well i actually agree

a little bit with rand paul in the fact that he's a no vote i think is as been said but i'll restate it the majority the american people do favor obamacare they like preexisting condition coverage protection i think that it's going to be very close vote on a purely political sense i agree with the previous speaker you may have mccain now because his buddies from south carolina lindsey's doing the bill but i think you'll still have you could have a one vote shift either way you may have a tie breaker by the vice president it could come down to that will be very close i think that the bipartisan effort has been stepped on by the white house and paul ryan because the president really wants to be able to go back to his supporters and say look what i did i think that bill still may emerge i don't buy into the nonsense that this is there any response to bernie sanders and gentlemen the big debate in all of this surrounds medicaid the fear for millions of americans is this legislation will eventually destroy

a program americans have depended on since one nine hundred sixty five's will want to bring in brandon williams tonight he's the c.e.o. of the new hampshire health care association and former state insurance commissioner of the state of washington brenda nice to have you with us tonight you have written extensively about how this is the beginning of the end of medicaid explained that well this bill does much more than simply repeal replace the affordable care act it's an attack upon the medicaid program that dates back to nine hundred sixty five it would cap traditional medicaid where states have received federal matching funds for their own contributions towards long term care and so this would have a dire effect upon millions of seniors and long term care settings throughout the united states that's why at least five republican governors are already onboard against this bill. sean what about the preexisting condition this is a big deal for americans in it also if this bill goes through it will give the

insurance industry the power to drop people with lifetime caps i mean how are the republicans going to sell that i get i disagree with both first of all i agree with you that preexisting care something that can't be trifled with most americans including people that are close to me think that it's a very big deal but you have fifty governors and then you have fifty legislatures that are get me back into decision of how to handle that and again if somebody in d.c. you don't like you don't have a choice but if you got fifty governors a lot of folks are going to be a lot closer to a governor than a president brand in the point of my good friends i have a decentralized brand in the point i'm making here is that if you get too sick in america you're going to get dropped in under obamacare that couldn't happen what about that how they're going to sell that. i think that's absolutely true and it also attacks the most frail and sick americans that there are and that is those in nursing homes in a long term care settings new hampshire has the nation's second oldest population

and we would see a loss of over four hundred million dollars in federal funding over the next ten years a lot of that money is going to go to lindsey graham south carolina his state gets over eight hundred million dollars additionally over the next ten years so any number of states get shafted including your north dakota ad i think it loses over two hundred million dollars over the next decade while certain states prosper. graham cassady bill so cesar how is this going to work this is given to local control and i think there's a parallel here without federal oversight we saw what local control did during a hurricane where there are no standards of care for the elderly last week and eight people died i mean these kinds of things have just can't be thrown off to the local folks and say here you go deal with this money how is this going to play. and i totally agree with you the problem is when you're going state to state i disagree

with the previous speaker having fifty decision makers is crazy in a national policy issue like health care what you're going to happen is remember every state can make their own decision what happens for example in new york versus new jersey a republican governor jersey democrat governor new york and new jersey decides we have reason we don't care about preexisting conditions people move to new york this is where the a.m.a. which is not a liberal group has come out against this bill is a describes the market and also says that it doesn't give the protection to the patient you can't have people in effect state forum shopping and also it's a cop out to go to the states that's nonsense that way everybody can blame everybody else that's not how you put together health care for a country or a branded william smith caesar shown steel joe. thanks for the conversation tonight we'll do it again thank you lots to talk about the senate has passed the defense bill above and beyond what the trump administration requested the senate's version

of the two thousand and eighteen national defense authorization act totals about seven hundred billion dollars or do you see modo rosario has been following the bill and has the details tonight this is all a money and as like you said it's seven hundred billion dollars defense policy bill it's far beyond what the trump administration had requested and it really sets the tone for america's military might they expect to see in the next fiscal year ed now this twelve one hundred page bill sets aside about six hundred forty billion dollars for basic pentagon operations thirty seven billion more than trump requested it also adds another sixty billion for a special war account for overseas operations in places like iraq syria and afghanistan now the mammoth spending bill got mammoth bipartisan support in the senate eighty nine senators voted yea only eight voted nay now we needed just a simple majority to pass ok getting into the nitty gritty of the proposed national defense authorization act one hundred forty one billion dollars is set aside for

military personnel costs that includes a two point one percent true pay raise eight a half billion is for the u.s. missile defense agency to defend against north korea while seven hundred five billion is for the israeli cooperative missile defense programs well more than what the trump administration requested there and another five hundred million will provide security assistance including weapons to ukraine and one hundred million to help balkan nations to quote deter russian aggression now in addition to spending allocations senators proposed hundreds of amendments they hoped would be passed and attached and da now most of them were left off but new hampshire democrat jeanne shaheen the amendment to ban the use of russian based because first the lab software across the federal government was attached and passed this comes a week after the trumpet men. directed federal agencies to remove the software saying the risk is too great to ignore that the russian government could use the private company software as a backdoor into the u.s.

government now more controversial amendments were left off the end to promote its passing but this will not be the final version it must be reconciled with the house version before heading to the president's desk the house passed its own plan in july on the to do have differences but while congress seems to agree on very little these days the national defense authorization act is seen as a must pass legislation and has been passed for fifty five straight years where it's going to run into trouble is with finances the house and senate versions both defy seaquest ration caps set in two thousand and eleven now democrats are against blowing the cap they just want to see caps on non-defense spending as well and they have pledged to block major increases in military spending without similar boost to domestic programs and the sticking point here though is that trump has made clear he aims to support the increase in military spending by slashing non-defense spending so we're going to see the house and the senate hammer this out over the next several months i don't think they'll be a lot of fights this is america's number one jobs program you know big numbers

thanks jim appreciate it. the french capital is boosting security with a bulletproof glass wall around the eiffel tower or tuesday we are reports tonight this is the world's most famous landmark the eiffel tower with a symbol of paris and also a symbol of freedom and. but staunching this week these metal barriers will be replaced with a bulletproof glass. to the children of more than twenty million euros this new glass will rise some three nieces in it as the government's latest attempt to try and address the ongoing terror place that is france giving in to the threat of terror is the french government amid an ongoing states. igniting. among christians the government is responding to try to make it seem more safe.

but i also feel like the government at the same time is using. our privacy and our personal security. make it seem like it's more secure it's one hundred percent that the government doesn't like people doing security measures that are over overbearing. mother was going to just carry i think that's just a way to keep pressure on people in easing bars makes me more afraid than anything . the way this is structure right now makes me feel almost calm because of the barrier. to me it's more inviting to me it shows hey we're looking out for your protection but also we don't want you to feel like this is an enclosed environment we're getting a little bit paranoid about all the. things that are going on i feel like if it starts with a wall here. people are afraid to leave their houses. and that's not

something. i feel like it would be a little paranoid. in a smooth calm soft a string of terror attacks that have the cost to have missed more than two hundred people. the terrorists in the city remains high and this means law school complement and permanent police policing that you want to see on t.v. . and i were pleased to tell all of you that are to america can now be seemed on direct t.v. channel three two one that's direct t.v. channel three twenty one thanks for watching i'm reporting tonight from washington . where guys and i made a burger. the show is powerpoint to show you how r.t. america fits into the greater media landscape our team is not all laughter all right but we are a solid alternative to the bullshit that we don't skew liberal or conservative and

as you can see his bar graph we don't skew the facts either the talking head lefties talking head righties oh there you go above it all so look out we're all artsy americans in the spotlight now every lead might have no idea how to classify as an actually took me way more time and i cared women. to get. closer to the street it looks like the field of interest would be analyzed to keep the bottom. line with like i got. the free. clinic song or.

oh. please. time lindsey francis is broadcast around the world from washington d.c. tonight the united nations general assembly is underway we take you there with

reaction to the ceiling words from president donald trump aimed right at north korea and french president emanuel is in hot water as he pushes forward massive reform to france's labor laws to the protests also my guest former u.s. trade commissioner bart chilton breaks down what we might expect from the federal reserve's open market committee meeting and what it's pronouncements mean for you and from the standby starts right now. the united states is running the highest trade deficit in more than eight years according to the commerce department it's up eight point five percent jumping to one hundred twenty three point one billion dollars that's up from

a first quarter results of one hundred thirteen and a half billion it was the biggest deficit since the fourth quarter of two thousand and eight this is the broadest measure of u.s. trade and reflects in part a drop in fines and penalties paid by foreign companies included in this metric is goods and services investment flows and other payments between the united states and the world though exports are getting a lift from a pick up in global growth and a drop in the value of the u.s. dollar against other currencies weaker dollar makes american products more competitive on foreign markets. and over to new york now where press. and trump made the debut on the united stations world stage during his speech he blasted the north korea government and called out other countries by name artists trinity chavez breaks down some of the biggest moments of the speech. today was a very big moment at the u.n. general assembly especially for president donald trump he took his turn on the

world stage for the very first time he spoke a little over forty minutes and while the theme of the speech was patriotism and national sovereignty he used this opportunity to send a very powerful message to north korea and its leader kim jong own who he calls rocket man the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself words. we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket. is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime the united states is ready willing and able but hopefully this will not be notices that's what the united nations is all about. that's what the united nations is for let's see how they do trump who has previously warned of quote fire and fury if

young and does not back down claim that quote no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well being of their own people and the depression for team in north korea he said it is time for north korea to realize that the denuclearization is the only acceptable future he also saying china and russia for joining the bow to impose new sanctions on north korea another big moment was when trump said the iranian government is that quote economically depleted rogue state whose chief export is violence the arena government masks and corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy it has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted ropes whose chief exports are violence bloodshed and chaos the longest suffering victims of iran's leaders are in fact its own people trump said the world

can't allow the quote murderous regime to continue its destabilizing activities and that its government must quote stop supporting terrorists begin serving its own people and respect the sovereign rights of its neighbors at one point he also knocked the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran by calling it an embarrassment meanwhile trump also used this time to call out other countries including venezuela the venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing their democratic institutions are being destroyed this situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch as a responsible neighbor and friend we. have a go. that goal is to help them regain their freedom recover their country. or their democracy the president added that the u.s.

is prepared to take further action at the dentist wailing government first this reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . trinity chavez joins us now live from new york trying to be on top of these threats trump has also talked about adding muscle to the military tell us more about that. that's right lindsey the u.s. senate passed its version of a seven hundred billion dollar defense policy bill on monday backing the president's call for a bigger stronger military and said today at the u.n. that soon our military will be the strongest it's ever been the twelve hundred page bill also includes a wide range of provisions that include a two percent military pay raise and an eight point five billion dollars to strengthen the missile defense as north korea conducts nuclear ballistic missile tests lindsay thank you very much trying to charge us for us up there new york thank you. well the federal reserve's open markets committee is meeting today and

tomorrow so what should we expect when they make policy pronouncements moral let's bring in former u.s. treasury questioner part shelton barr to help us break it down for us look at the future what do we think what do we think of these analysts they suggest there will not be any interest rate hike increase tomorrow but might they take some sort of action we can expect. so you know i think what they're probably going to do is announce some sort of getting rid of their big portfolio of four point five trillion dollars in u.s. securities these are securities that they bought in the wake of two thousand and eight after they had reduced interest rates in order to provide liquidity and some stimulus trying to fuel inject the economy which it did the recession could have even been worse but now they've got to get rid of those so they have to be careful in how they do it but we could probably expect them to at least lay out how they're

going to go about that and hopefully it will take place without any big impact the market moves all right let's talk about those market moves given things like the record stock in recent days and other positive metrics we've seen which key data points well they these members actually be looking at. now and in the future to make their policy determinations. well you're right they will be looking at markets and as you've covered me we keep seeing record highs today we saw the dow jones industrial average hit the forty first record high of the year and markets are up twelve plus percentage point on the year we also saw high close the s. and p. five hundred today a high close for nasdaq so markets are looking pretty powerful but i think they'll also look at g.d.p. growth you know it was slacking in the first quarter at one point two percent the second quarter up positive at three percent but whether or not that will continue

as the president and his economic advisers say will remains to be seen particularly in light of the hurricanes some smaller things that i think they'll look at lindsay have a look at housing and new housing numbers just came out today second month in a row where housing starts are down but optimistically housing permits are up particularly for multifamily housing up nineteen point six percent also look at autos which have taken a beating in the last eight months those are down we saw that that comes off of a high by the way up to the last eight months of this high before that so it's not all that bad although the automakers by and large are taking a hit particularly feel chrysler who was down nine percent in august and then they just had an announcement today a recall of a bunch of ram trucks because they might catch on fire good thing to get those

vehicles back in and i think those are the sort of key things they'll be looking at and but by and large the economy as you report all the time lindsay pretty positive and things are going well i don't see any major melt. downs occurring and i don't think the monetary policy the fed embarks upon whatever they announce tomorrow should impact the economy ok let's turn to geopolitics now in a seemingly more and more uncertain world we've seen president at the u.n. this week amid increased tensions with north korea increased military budget and he is using to back up those threats how are those things considered by the f a o i'm say. well they do look at them but you know like a lot of these things lindsey that. tweet to the president tree tweets it's tough to get a handle on really where he is i mean is he you know teleprompter trump or is he

unbridled off the cuff the guy with is a thumbs on the tweeting buttons so it remains to be seen how they'll look at it but by and large i think they take what he says including the comments that you were just covering about rocket man on a suicide mission and totally destroyed north korea i think they look at those things or take those things with not just a grain but perhaps a shovel full of salt all right let's talk about domestic policy is now trump has joined with democrats i know you called for this by the way to have our government shutdown pass an extension of the debt ceiling provide the hurricane disaster assistance everyone was waiting for now there's another potential table democrats undock of the children who have arrived in the u.s. with their parents is this also possibly increased cooperation on capitol hill part of the f.o. emcees calculus. i think so lindsey they will look at that and particularly with regard to whether or not the debt ceiling needs political attention which it will

sometime at the beginning of the year you know they passed an essentially an open ended checkbook on the debt ceiling and whatever the debt ceiling is whatever that level is nineteen point whatever trillion it will be on december eighth which is when the bill runs out they'll have that. but then the treasury will have a couple of months to figure out how they're going to pay for it before they come to congress on the other hand the continuing resolution that's the funding the government that remains to be seen whether or not there is going to be some shenanigans at the end of the road when whether or not the government will actually shut down again after december eight right waiting for december eighth so with all of this what should we expect tomorrow and going forward. so on the on the fed i think we're going to go ahead and see no rate increases maybe in december unless they shut the december let's say shut the government down in december eighth the meeting is on the i think twelfth and thirteenth the fed meeting and i do think

there'll be some tapering getting rid of this portfolio all these trillions of dollars in government bonds etc. and former u.s. trading commissioner thank you so much for joining us on this. thanks lindsay. time now for a quick break stick around though because when we get back opioid crisis this financial panic in small town america the race is on to get it in front of the addiction epidemic and save lives on tight budgets also economist steve keen gives us a look at what french president emanuel necron faces as he pushes for labor law changes as we go to break here are the numbers because.

most people think. is this you need to be the first woman on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest. truth to stand losing you just the right questions and the right answers. the mission. is to go to the people tell their side of the story our stories are well sourced we don't hide anything from the public and i don't think the mainstream media in this country can say you might be average viewer knows r.t. america has a different perspective so that we're not hearing one echo chamber that mainstream

media is constantly spewing. we're not beholden to any corporate sponsor and no one tells us what the cover how long or how to say that's the beauty of our to you america. we hear both we hear from them. and we question more. generally. not letting anything get in your way to bring it home to the american people. it's a clampdown by state and federal authorities after credit monitoring giant equifax suffered a cyber attack compromising about one hundred forty three million americans and

around four hundred thousand u.k. residents it has since traced the security breach joy software flaw that could have been fixed well before the burglary occurred and letters to executives at fellow credit monitoring companies experian and trans union new york attorney general eric schneiderman expressed both his disdain and asked the companies to explain what cybersecurity they have been placed in whether fees will be waived on possible consumer credit freeze this because of this book. each equifax has announced that it is bulking up call centers and waiving fees for credit freezes its chief information officer and chief security officer are out of the company equifax faces lawsuits filed by state attorneys general and a multitude of class action suits which are sure to pile up in short order.

just last month president trump called america's opioid crisis and national emergency however he has yet to officially declare it as one technically which would give states more funding to deal with it based on the latest figures a former a formal emergency declaration might eventually be necessary though for more on this we're joined now by. one how much has the opioid crisis actually cost this country well at the national level it's expected to be about eighty billion dollars but when you break it down region by region it gets a little more complicated than that the tolls of overdose and death resulting from the opioid crisis have soared over the past two decades on top of that being one of the worst health crises of our time it's also turning into a massive financial burden that many american communities are grappling with an analysis by reuters takes a look at ross county ohio which saw steady increase in opiate addiction since two thousand and nine on top of the costs associated with that rate hike the county's

budget is being pressured by other resulting circumstances nearly seventy five percent of the two hundred kids that were placed into state care or had parents suffering from addiction that means specialist counseling longer stays in state care and therapy as a result the county's child services budget jumped from one point three million to two point four million dollars for a region that has a total budget of twenty three million dollars that kind of increase leads lawmakers to wonder what they can cut to make it work. and that's just one example there are plenty of other small towns across the us that are struggling with the exact same problem between having enough medical personnel on call to prosecuting opioid related crimes it's become nearly impossible to cover in mercer county west virginia an area with a twelve million dollars budget opioid related jail expenses jumped by one hundred thousand dollars since two thousand and fifteen in indiana county pennsylvania autopsy and toxicology costs jumped one hundred sixty five thousand dollars in two

thousand and sixteen nearly double the rate in two thousand and ten and in montgomery county ohio the coroner's office had to look to funeral homes to rent space for bodies so it's not a problem unique to one region of the us but if the rate of addiction continues to rise it will be the small towns with small budgets that have the hardest time affording to fight it. i'm without that emergency declaration how do they get that federal funding a lot of blame hasn't placed on doctors and on pharmaceutical companies but insurance companies are in the spotlight to what can you tell us about that right so when the opiate crisis really started increasing wildly and taking off it was local and state governments that started filing lawsuits against pharma companies for their perceived role in the crisis we also saw blame on doctors for overprescribing first insurance companies are really only getting flak for not providing enough coverage for rehab or maybe the outpatient rehab that you might

want to participate in after you're inpatient or something like that but in new york the attorney general is investigating why some insurance companies are covering opioids but they're not covering safer alternatives that are less addictive and that's because they're more expensive so since the new york attorney general is now looking into this we could see other state attorney generals or even just regular state lawmakers also launch their own investigations similar to the one in new york like we saw with the lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies at the state and local level they all kind of happened one after the other and encourage them to all start investigating ok quickly before we go the impact of the crisis on the u.s. economy as a whole so about eighty billion dollars seventy eight point five to be exact but it's a pretty conservative estimate because of the way it disregards a lot of. things that contribute to the spence is exactly it doesn't really look at how it affects family finances which then has a very direct impact on the u.s. economy so it's expected to be eighty billion dollars but it's most likely way more

than that especially you talk about grandparents the bills their footing just to raise things their grandchildren it's been talked about a lot thank you so much for. the words heard across france and around the world spoken by. french president emmanuel micron i am fully determined and i won't see any ground not to slackers nor cynics nor hardliners in early september the french government announced changes to its labor code it essentially switches bargaining protections and pale power workers to employers it kicked off protests and more are expected joining us now for more please welcome from london professor steve keen economist and author of can we avoid another financial crisis. look i don't claim it as high growth as

low you call macron a classic liberal politician charismatic campaigner a pedestrian and often as you say economic plan is to basically turn france into an economics textbook one o one but it's not the real world of governance explain that. no this is this is what's so frustrating seeing people like mcallen who was so convinced that they are correct because the model of the economy that they have in their heads which they learned at university. tells them the unemployment that causes wages is too high and the reason that frontal influence on france is because the rigidity of the labor system so if your liberal laws are inverted commas you end up with the low wages and therefore high employment and everything is ok it is total nonsense it's applying a marker economic perspectives to a macro economic to share and if you cut wages for everybody there expenditure

folds and if the expenditure pulls g.d.p. fals piper saucily is much so it's a recipe for disaster and it's identifying the wrong factor as the cause of the process in france and you have talked about the france personal debt crisis and the usa in two thousand and seven a jump in both countries you can address this effectively one percent up to nearly ten percent we're saying in that country. yeah no income because here is the europe the only way you that this can be addressed is by national government deciding to use the central central banks capability to create money to put that money into people's personal and what have you managed to do it corporate bank accounts and use that's reduced profit dead the basically an accounting operation. converting what is currently credit bias money into see it bag by its money but of course concede that france does not have a central bank but be done so he's on

a hiding to nothing to make the french economy was. and then to weigh the consequences ok will the e.u. and the euro. feeding feeding into france and france feeding into that it's the third largest economy there are people in the e.u. who seem happy about a possible invigoration by these words how strong is the sway there. because he i mean he is the shining hope of the european union unity ticket and of course if you look at what's being done by follows charismatic characters like junk i pod mispronounces and i'm probably. the somebody who. wants to bring about a you know a united states of europe with a central treasury in brussels run by the european union bureaucrats and you know he said no matter what that's what he wants to achieve similar surely surely he

wants to discipline all the other members as if that literally he's on wood and you're fond in yanis varoufakis is in the room just the other countries in the same way that germany is disciplined by the school rigidity. that's nobody is happy about that and that mcallen comes along as a charismatic young man saw it's a whole new political party wins in a landslide and he's now the guys actually got power to do something about that the need to join can all. have and they hope that he can lead they can lead him to the promised land of a not a slice of europe it's not going to happen well let's talk about the youth which has plenty of charisma what do you think about john luke mellish on head of the left wing france the party as of late april running for president he was showing ninety percent of the vote in the french presidential election campaign he's calling for a september twenty third march because my crohn's changes social coup d'etat parties members number in over half

a million mostly young kid he effectively mobilized this and possibly cause a change. i mean i don't know enough about him but comparisons i could draw comparisons to grill are in italy and rely on has managed to. build a popular movement but also get three of the four opposition parties they do agree with the concept of bringing in a parallel currency if they become the government now i don't know how much of this is gone was about the economics and with the result of those sorts of andi's. certainly he was going to be the main beneficiary of the anger that people are feeling towards mccraw which is only going to ross. well let's talk about the employers' unions they're pushing for this they pushed for this for quite some time for years in fact. maybe some surprise on their part and the strongest unions are pushing hard for this how strong is their voice in france right now.

the employers always push for this sort of thing this is what's being done in the west. meaning by the west the anglo-saxon countries they've basically crushed the unions there is no union consulted no no no union power to the man for wise roces all workers rights in any of the major you and countries and in that situation the work that you have the employers have won so to speak but what they've done is they've managed to reduce the power the amount of money and power they give to the workers and it's being match more than match mine increase in the power of the bankers over them and of course now they're trying to cause inflation in those countries and the inflation because of this workers are getting wage rises that exceed by reproductivity and now they disappearing. draws employment in america so i climb. frenzel end up in the same trap and it's ending up in the same trap without its own currency which is even worse professor steve keen economist

and author of can we avoid another financial crisis thank you for your time. usually when we say flush with cash we mean someone has a lot of extra money while in geneva it's taken on a whole new meaning it started a few months ago when the european central bank announced plans to stop printing five hundred euro notes shortly there after massive amounts of five hundred euro notes were found stuffed in toilets days later more a five hundred euro bank notes were found softer more toilets ironically costing thousands of swiss francs to fix so what prompted this sudden desire to literally pour money down the drain well no one really knows for sure however it's important to note that the e.c.b. is reason to quit printing five hundred was a combat crime thanks for watching. i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta emails and gave them to

wiki leaks but i do know rock obama's director of national intelligence has not provided read of it to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing when months before the revelations provided by edwards he denied the n.s.a. was carrying now hold still surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the big of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable.

all the world. and all the news companies merely players but what kind of part is r t america play party america offers more artsy american personal. many ways a news landscape just like the real news big names good actors bad actors and in the end you could never your all in. so much park and all the world all the world's a stage all the world's a stage we are definitely a player. he was an easy. one of the things he said to stand in his own time but it was a can all that i think and it's a must for. some of them but he's a hapless little his acknowledged it's he didn't stop until guilt says that be it

in a sort of sickly sweet see einstein found prevail tell him not to get any money but he pushes mind. on you of cynical. with. new developments in the ongoing russia probe us donald trump takes the world stage in new york at the u.n. general assembly what it all means so on this edition of politic. welcome to politicking i'm larry king donald trump trying to new york this week for his u.n. debut as america's commander in chief. this as there are new developments in the ongoing probe into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and allegations about from campaign collusion for the latest on what it all means i'm joined by david jolly former u.s.

representative republican of florida he's in tampa and constitutional scholar and harvard law professor emeritus alan dershowitz he joins me via skype alan's also a bestselling author and his newest book is trumped up how criminalization of political differences endangers democracy to start with you david the new york times reports that key white house lawyers who are at odds over cooperating with robert mohler what do you make of all of that. there's a lot of heat in the kitchen larry and listen as we have political debates as we continue to follow the developments of the current administration the reality is robert mueller and his team continue to do their work just in the last week we saw a grand jury testimony from paul mann a four spokes person and listen a prosecutor does not and panel a grand jury if they're not serious about what they're investigating this is not a political question that robert mueller is looking at that's left to congress

that's left to elected officials this is a legal question a potentially a criminal question robert mueller is very good at his job and so that's why you're seeing the white house counsel and the president's private counsel at odds because they are under a lot of scrutiny right now now on what do you make about those to our lawyers can differ when you make the differences between the personal lawyer to the president and the white house lawyers well they have two very different interests the personal lawyer to the president wants to get all the evidence out there he's been assured by his client that no criminal acts of occurred and if that's the case of course you want everything to be turned over and complete cooperation assured in the investigation come to an end soon as possible the white house counsel who doesn't represent mr donald trump who represents presidency of the united states doesn't want to establish a negative precedent for disclosure of material that might be covered by some kind of executive privilege and so it's an important that the president have his own

lawyer and that the united states government has its own lawyer because inevitably we're going to see some conflicts occur they occurred during the clinton white house they've occurred during other ministrations and so no surprise that occurs here which side is right. well they're both right in the say it's in the interest of donald trump if he did nothing wrong to get all the information out there and the white house counsel may be right by saying it's in the best interests of the white house in general to reserve issues of privilege i think on balance it's better to provide the information if the personal counsel wants to provide it and if i were president trump's lawyer i would want to provide as much information and try to get this investigation behind us soon as possible at least get the president out of the gross errors of muller's investigation david dianne feinstein the senator from california says this investigation could go on for a movie year and a half to send someone to go to you it certainly could look at how the clint

investigation started with the land deal in arkansas long evolved to the travel office at the white house and ultimately to whether or not the president committed perjury president clinton you know larry one of the things and i'd be interested allan agrees with this that the president should be worried about don again as a white house counsel but also his personal counsel need to be worried about is all of the recent staff departures at the white house from rights previous to sean spicer frankly to steve bannon and others those loyalty oaths have somewhat evaporated and now they are looking out for their own interests not the president centrists and senator feinstein in the congressional investigations will be speaking to those recently departed staff members as well robert mueller very likely to find out what they know go back to the dismissal if you will of komi and that that oval office meeting where trump apparently said everybody get out and then had this conversation those are the moments that will be retold to senator feinstein as well as to muller's team you grew i grew i grew that i think i've told

my clients over and over again the one thing you don't do is fire people very close to you because if you're in a criminal investigation you know the first rule of committing crime in america is always commit crime with people more important than you are so you can turn them into. they can turn you in and inevitably feel right to get it out of court yet out of jail courts free by turning on their bourses the problem is sometimes these cooperating witnesses not only saying they compose they make up stories that are helpful to the prosecution in an effort to get immunity they oversell their story one of the reasons i was opposed to the appointment of special counsel and still am opposed to it is the american public has the right to know what russia did in this election the worst way of getting is through a special counsel behind the closed door as a grand jury there should have been a bipartisan or nonpartisan nine eleven commission established to have open investigation about what the russians didn't didn't do and how to prevent them from

doing it in the future it should be nonpartisan because the issue of russian collusion is nonpartisan but i don't think we're going to learn anything certainly not for a year or two and by that time who knows what the water will be under the bridge so i wish we had an open investigation maybe congress could do some of that but i think a nonpartisan commission would have more credibility with the people at night it's that day than the former white house strategist steve benen said the firing of james komi was the biggest mistake in modern political history when you go off far . why i think it led to the appointment of robert muller and alan's point you know there are really two questions here what was the extent to which russia meddled in our election and congress should have a role in that i think i agree they should appoint an independent commission that takes the politics out of it but then there is a question of was there criminal activity was there collusion though that night might not be the perfect legal term was there coordination of some sort and that is what is currently being investigated i think bannon was right listen trump made

a lot of moves that only raise suspicion as opposed to knocking it down the big question where since tax returns doesn't that is one of the biggest questions right now that the president could settle whether or not he had dealings with russia or not whether any of his corporate entities had dealings with russia or not the president and a few little cooperate has led to the appointment i know where his tax returns are his tax returns are right now in the desk drawer robert muller robin wright that's right investigators will think he is the first he's going to do is go to the i.r.s. and subpoena the tax returns you can get those by subpoena and i suspect somebody is going through those tax returns very very carefully the problem of course is that the tax returns probably show conductivity before he was president not while you was president and maybe even years before he became president and so that might not be as useful to lower if he's trying to really invest into russia connection

but you might find for example. that he has loans from russian oligarchs whose who are in. all of these are significant developments. are you a boat i had the president good had the president publicly had he publicly released those tax returns had he not fired me those are the moves that might have prevented a molar appointment in my opinion they would trump announced that he would be ending the docket. immigration policy and now after meeting with top democrats he seems to support it what do you think when from philosophy is told those eight hundred thousand people look i think it's clear in the day sensi has said he supports doc and this shows the division between the president and congressional republicans the president should have had a press conference with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell same we're going to end this through executive action and instead we're going to do it through a legislative process and look at when i served in congress i oppose what president obama did there were four executive orders on immigration that i thought he

overreached the constitution says the president's job is to ensure that the law is faithfully executed in the law is one that says if you're here without proper legal status you are eligible for deportation president obama used executive action to delay that i think it's the right policy to delay that and to create a pathway for those who have come here those dreamers if you will it does it within congress's purview the president just acted to brash rationally on this he should have done in coordination with the hill to have a long term solution for the dreamers alan brill with rod news says that trump is being rolled by chuck schumer and nancy pelosi you believe that well i can gradually all three of them were sitting down together and trying to work at a reasonable compromise good piece i think it was in the hill saying president trump says he has a big heart and if he has a big heart he should announce that if congress doesn't work out something for the

dreamers that you will make sure that they're not deported and i don't know whether you read my piece or not but shortly after that he made a similar announcement set down our grass i'm very pleased whenever i see republicans you know they were great and congress to go used to do that a lot and the best congress the best senators and the best presidents do that a lot so i want to encourage a republican president sit down with democratic leaders it's a good thing good thing remember you agree david. yet so larry this is kind of the tragedy of donald trump if you will if you set aside all the rhetoric everything we've seen in the past eighteen months a lot of mainstream republicans who are looking for a candidate to bring the party back from the tea party of two thousand and ten frankly that could have been donald trump on paper this is a person without real conservative convictions he should have had nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to the white house on the night of his inauguration and said let's get deals done and steady created this division for the past six months of his administration so it's hard to believe who he is right now and it does look like he got rolled by democrat al he's all wrongs we're going to have oh he's an equal

opportunity divider by. the bug republican among people in this white house staff. you know i think this is a this is been a hard steep curve learning process i don't think any president has ever lost so many important staff members in so short a period of time you know as a as a loyal american a patriotic american i want to see our government always succeed and i'm hoping this is a learning process and we'll see better a better president and a more efficient president if he can work together with democrats and bring some positive resolution to tax reform to medical care for americans i'm hopeful. david you know one of those he knows the republicans on the other side and those who support him and you would probably know a lot of those who would've supported

a movie shot someone on fifth avenue few think they will draw away from him if he gets close to schumer and palosi. you know i think you're seeing some of that already these shots of people burning their their red hats at the end of the day though where do those people go and i don't think they go anywhere except back to donald trump if bill clinton felt your pain donald trump felt your anger his base of thirty percent or so is still angry and donald trump as their vessel the question is those mainstream republicans that held their nose and still supported a republican nominee do they begin to reconsider some of their reservations and say wait a minute this is a guy who despite what he does on twitter is now getting deals done in the fashion of say a john boehner used to try to do and so that will be interesting to see able to bring some of those people more on board that have had reservations in the past and i think we're. getting out there are people on the democrat side who are furious it below sea and schumer for doing this you know the radical wing of the democratic

party doesn't want to see any any relationship they just want to see you know the trump presidency demolished and destroyed and i think both parties have an interest in moving toward the center the democrats made a terrible mistake by giving in too much to their radical wing the republicans did the same thing early on with the tea party and i think it's in the interest of all americans to see both of our major parties move to of the center work with each other and marginalize the extremes on both parties times when jolly alan dershowitz thank you both very much for your time great to be with you larry after the break why want to exploit our north korea says he's starting to believe war with the road nation may be inevitable. joins me to talk about his stay right there. about your sudden passing i finally just learned you were yourself in taking your

last to bang turn. your act caught up to us we all knew it but i tell you i'm sorry . so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest. things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each. but then my feelings starting to change you talked about more like it was a cane still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it's sad one does not need a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with this one to. speak to us every now and they're takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker. here's what people have been saying about redacted a night the second is full on awesome for all the only show i go out of my way to

judge really what it is that really packs a punch. yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than booth nothing at this and see if anybody had ever heard of love redacted the night president of the world bank paid until many seriously sent us an e-mail. you're going back to volunteer gig as donald trump meets with counterparts this week in new york at the u.n. one topic sure to come up over and over again or to do about north korea and its leaders ambition for a nuclear arsenal gordon chang is an expert on asia and north korea is a columnist for the daily beast and formers dot com he's the author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world i mean recently said he's starting to

believe that war with that nation may be inevitable gordon joins me from new york what led you to think that way gordon. i was a little bit unnerved by the war talk from senior administration officials this weekend so for instance we had h.r. mcmaster the national security advisor saying that the time for diplomacy was over and those comments were very similar to those from our u.n. ambassador nikki haley you know we've been hearing these comments about diplomacy you know forces on the table all of that and that's a concern but what also is a concern is what's coming out of north korea so for instance kim jong un the north korean leader is talking these days about final victory that's code in north korea for taking over south korea and so obviously that sets up a confrontation with the united states and with others and there's

a possibility and maybe even a probability that north korea will badly miscalculate as it tries to do that so events are not moving in the right direction and drug called can join moon rocket man. yeah and i hope he was not doing that just to get royalties from sir elton john. the other thing about this though is that north korea is allowed to fire rockets it's not allowed to fire missiles so president trump probably should have said missile man but in any event we get the idea of where he's going with these comments but gordon for either side would this is used on a nuclear weapon war is that this is pure insanity. of course it's pure insanity and no one ever wants to start a war especially a nuclear weapons war when you know countries want their adversaries to submit and

now we have a situation where the north koreans want to take over south korea the united states wants to defend it also we want to disarm north korea for various reasons so we have interests which are irreconcilable and to make this even worse of course north korea has two very powerful backers beijing and moscow so there's a confrontation brewing here and i don't know what the solution is and so therefore this is going to be difficult for the you know the international community for the united states to get through but we're not going to go and why about north korea and the you don't think they'd be insane enough to drop a bomb on us or on south korea and that's world war three that is world war three but you know kim jong un when he's confident about his arsenal is going to probably try to blackmail the united states to ending our treaty with south korea getting our twenty eight thousand five hundred troops off the peninsula so that he can then

go to work on saul and during the whole process with these threats you know we have seen what's happened in the past when countries have tried to do these things and so that's why i'm concerned not that you know either cam or trump wants a war i don't think that they do of course but they do want things which are incompatible at least from the other side's point of view and so things could get very difficult we know that the kim family has used violence to upset status quos that it found to be unacceptable the north koreans don't respect the united states so therefore there's a whole lot of room here for miscalculation. what is the actual role of china over north korea. well china high believe has overwhelming leverage over the north koreans despite the obvious friction between chinese leaders and kim jong un and the reason is not only because china as you know accounts for more than ninety percent of north korea's two way trade supplies somewhere between

a third and maybe forty five percent of north korea's food which is especially important because of the drought there now and there are a lot of other reasons but the most important thing is that beijing supplies confidence to the regime that it is safe from the united states and the international community and of beijing wanted to it could signal it no longer supported the weapons programs it could signal it no longer supported kim jong il and and i think that what would happen would be regime elements around kim would then head for the exits because you can see where beijing was going with this candy and night is states pressured china to do more oh absolutely so for instance the largest chinese banks have been laundering money for the north koreans including bank of china which was named in a two thousand and sixteen un report for devising an operating a money laundering scheme for pyongyang that makes these banks extremely vulnerable that's a violation of u.s. law and the treasury secretary could declare them to be primary money laundering

concerns basically that's a death sentence for a bank in today's world also we know that the chinese have been stealing hundreds of billions of dollars each year of u.s. intellectual property the u.s. trade representative has started an investigation that could end up in extraordinary remedies against the chinese and right now we know that the chinese political system is extremely steep phoner will because of the one thousand party congress which starts october eighteenth chinese leaders see jumping has to consolidate his control between now and then and that leaves him open to pressure from president trump what is russia want in this. i think you know russia has always been a spoiler and right now you know it sees an opportunity to bedevil the united states it sees an opportunity to get some more favorable support from from beijing so you know russia is up to no good and i think that essentially you know putting

is much more interested in what he calls his near abroad which is you know crimea eastern ukraine the baltics you know western europe but nonetheless he does see an opportunity for russia to exert more influence on a situation which is obviously grabbing the world's attention and one of our relations with when the united states and south korea. this is one of the bright spots moons are you in who was elected president in that special election in early may here has a very sort of pro north korean view he's a north korea he's a korean nationalist wants to support really wants dialogue but president trump through some pretty clever diplomacy has been able to maneuver moon into a much more traditional south korean position and so therefore there is not as much daylight between the positions of seoul and washington as many people including me feared but that was i think because of an extraordinary amount of effort on the part of the white house garden as always thank you very much thank you so much

larry on monday president trump in israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu met in new york one topic they reportedly discuss is the iran nuclear deal which both leaders have universally criticized and promised to bring down meanwhile several friends reports say that members of former president barack obama's team are working behind the scenes to protect the deal and prevent the drumbeat ministration from dismantling it let's wind a few moments with courtney healy see the cars monitor that t r t world she's covering the u.n. . it was somebody who is weak she joins us from new york what do you make. this move by former members of the obama administration to try to keep the deal in tact . well i think it's interesting because clearly it was they have their fingerprints on it it's their legacy and that it was the one point they said if that at least

they had iran's nukes in check then they could move on towards other kinds of diplomatic solutions i mean i'd say the obama administration and the trend of ministration is very well aware that iran works on two different levels to mastic lee internationally and then also in terms of who they fund and what will that be three what what conflicts are involved in what we heard yesterday was that the trump administration said on the sunday talk shows as the secretary of state rex tillerson said that iran is in technical compliance he said that they have one foot of one yard that's ok and what this really means is what they put in place for the nuclear deal iran's iran's agreement they're not violating that but they have iranian revolutionary forces in syria they fund hezbollah fighters and what president trumpet his administration are saying is that they're not keeping up with the idea of the peace and security part they're not effort ng peaceful resolutions

they are getting involved militarily but critics going to say that the u.s. and other countries are doing the same but what has the u.s. military is involved in syria as well but or cloud could the democratic positions of the obama administration possibly have with this administration it's unclear i mean just shifted alliances last week with this meeting with police and chuck schumer. you know he is now saying that he might actually engage and not disengage from the paris climate accords this backpedaling of rhetoric that we saw on the campaign trail and then what we're seeing. this week at the u.n. g.a. which is president trump on the world stage president trump using the language is very very different than when he was talking to his constituents he's backing off of being intensely critical of the u.n. he was sitting with the u.n. security general saying we want reform they're talking about democracy but he's not

using vulgar and critical words he's starting to try to use words that clearly his administration is trying to get him to use you think obama's part of the verb. obama is sort of having his own peace effort this week and i don't really know if the two sides will ever talk but i can tell you that the democrats in general will try to save any any accords including the iranian nuclear deal that they put in place they believe in it and we are seeing the president is i wouldn't say falling in line but i would say adjusting his policies towards a more moderate view we're not seeing we're seeing bold garrity on his twitter feed but we're not seeing it in what he's saying at the u.n. for instance obama's former u.n. ambassador samantha power tweets it's hard to see how abandoning the iran deal doesn't lead to war is that grim assessment widely shared.

i think that that's an assessment with the policy makers that were involved in the iran nuclear deal but i think what it does is it neglects to say that technically iran is the major player in syria and iraq as well that the u.s. is playing all sorts of sides with with iran right now that they are engaged in isis in northern iraq against isis in northern iraq with a sunni militias that ally with not only the iraqi government but with iran and that you have to get things done and against isis in syria you have to play nice with the russians and the iranians so to stick to just this nuclear deal obviously they don't want to dismantle it and someone like samantha power has skin in the game but i would say that that's slightly hysterical tones when we're actually talking about two horrible conflicts and then the yemen conflict as well that iran has his fingerprints are all over and the u.s. usually is a saudi on so that he's a mean besides the iranian nuclear deal staying in place what secretary of state

rex tillerson said is there's a whole lot to this relationship of the wrong that needs to be fixed on a security level and you'll see them talk about that more core nero's on the mark thanks for your time today thank you and thank you the audience for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things and don't forget to use apology again as tag and that's all for this edition of politicking. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry but only i could so i write these last words and hopes to put to rest just things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned

on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this was quite different i speak to you now because there were no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. the following is a coastal flood warning from the national weather service for the following county east monmouth new jersey location coastal areas of new jersey and delaware coastal

flooding moderate flooding is anticipated with high tide this evening timing high tide on the new jersey and delaware oceanfront between seven thirty and eight thirty pm this evening high tide on the back bays occurs later than the high tide on the ocean front surge one point five to two point five feet above astronomical time waves large breaking waves of eight to eleven feet along the coast through tonight rip currents there is a high risk for the development of rip currents coastal impacts widespread ripley flooding is expected and minor property damage is possible especially around high tide this evening surf and rip current impacts significant beach erosion localized overwash and minor damage to piers have already been reported today dangerous and potentially life threatening conditions will exist for those who decide to enter the service soon outlook the potential for minor coastal flooding your times of high tide and the high risk of rip currents will continue into wednesday and

possibly thursday the high surf advisory means that high surf will affect beaches in the advisory area producing beach erosion and dangerous swimming conditions a coastal flood warning means that flooding is occurring or imminent coastal residents in the warning area should be alert for rising water intake appropriate action to protect life and property do not drive your vehicle through flood waters the water may be deeper than you think it is you will be putting yourself in danger and your vehicle may be damaged leading to costly repairs for a list of the impact of different types in your county please visit w w w weather dot gov slash slash times. i really wonder just just what happened leading up to the donald speech. that kind of blood.

the following is a coastal flood warning from the national weather service for the following county can delaware in the following counties in new jersey cumberland southeastern burlington and western monmouth location coastal areas of new jersey and delaware and areas along delaware bay coastal flooding moderate flooding is anticipated with high tide this evening coastal flooding could approach major level on the delaware side along the lower delaware bay timing high tide on the new jersey and delaware oceanfront occurs between seven thirty pm and eight thirty pm this evening high tide on the back bay delaware bay and raritan bay occurs later than the high tide on the ocean front surge one point five to two point five feet above astronomical tide impacts widespread roadway flooding is expected and minor property damage is possible especially around this evening's high tide more extensive property damage

could occur on the delaware side of the lower delaware bay outlook the potential for minor coastal flooding here times of high tide will continue into wednesday and possibly thursday a coastal flood warning means that flooding is occurring or imminent coastal residents in the warning area should be alert for rising water and take appropriate action to protect life and property do not drive your vehicle through flood waters the water may be deeper than you think it is you will be putting yourself in danger and your vehicle may be damaged leading to costly repairs for a list of the impact different types in your county please visit w w w died with their dot gov slash slash times. then seven hundred billion dollars dropping by. and less every single serviceman or woman is getting a raise i think that money is out there not as. i believe there was

a little bit of a raise that they dropped in there but. the national defense authorization argento only democrats eighty nine to eight and will basically sub to us as annual military budget like roughly seven hundred billion trump originally asked for fifty four like a big hit to life and it has led to eighty year. votes against came from bernie sanders christian bill abram leahy jeff merkley and ron wyden those were the democrats that stood against them and there was three republicans who stood against the bill bob corker rand paul and mike lee but what's interesting is the eighty nine votes in four of the yes this same people who say you can't trust anything this president says you can't trust anything that his cabinet members come back with we have to resist the trump war machine and here you are voting for the bell you've got cory booker. kamali harris chuck schumer

elizabeth wore a laser back and dianne feinstein i can't take it anymore with people out of one side of their mouth saying you have to resist and we have to do something different on the other moderate either side of their mouth say well it's just been seven hundred billion dollars i mean despite the do nothing but argue and grandstand us congress the n.d.s. been passed straight fifty five years they just they do it they grandstand they yell about things that help them get elected but when it comes time to put their money where their mouth is they don't do it and this is a goddamn you're because i was wrong as they say i'm saddened of all the bills that they argue about but they never get past you know or the they have to like you know fight over almost shut down the government over and all that but boy when it comes to the military industrial complex is no room stamped please move on to what i want to make sure you know. basically it means that this new if it now it still has to go the house that already kind of passed their version of this so there's still to

kind of like join these two together and them eventually you know iron out some details of the way we go so by the end of the year this will but your sub through seven hundred billion dollars means that we are now if it goes it was as it is means that we the u.s. is exceedingly total spending of its next time rivals combined in military spending three times as much as china ten times as much as you know russia the us already accounts for more than a third of all military spending in the entire world what it was left of what are we afraid of i mean seriously i mean more afraid of people and the fact that they want to have health care that they want of any chance at an education that their communities will fall apart that they're fabulous foxconn jobs are not going to show up i mean but this is going to spend this much money on defense a certain point you have to say maybe you maybe it's overkill but yeah you know i mean the biggest problem for me also is how much money is being spent there is

nothing fiscally. conservatives know i'm a trust me i'm as well as the liberal as they come when it comes to social issues but financially i'm a much more conservative a fiscal conservative there is no fit there are no fiscal conservatives there is nobody and democrats or republicans i don't see a single fiscal conservative it contains two point one percent pay raise for our military which i still don't think is got an office and eight point five billion going to buy more missile defense systems which apparently don't work on anything and so we put it this way with eighty billion dollars a year just eighty billion of that each year you could make public colleges and universities near diversity in the u.s. to ition free. and because bernie sanders proposal is only estimated to cost like forty seven billion or one point three trillion in student loan debt in the us. you could literally cut that in half. which would actually stir the economy a heck of a lot more then raising wages two percent on less than one percent of the populace

. and relieving some of the bring us the way rock groups and boards. for years social media companies like facebook if i contended that it isn't their job or place to censor the internet or to discourage legitimate political or political expression on their platform despite these assertions facebook has pulled themselves into politics with their often the subtle ings standards and standards and practices which is how well the rodin giant often referred to as most persecuted minority in the world has found itself in this crosshairs of facebook's misguided acts of self-censorship there one point one million rosen gyal living in the south east asian country of mayan mar having lived in the majority buddhist country for centuries a muslim roman jiah have been denied citizenship in my m.r. since one thousand nine hundred eighty two and it is not included in my arms list of official ethnic groups they are forced to live in one particular area within my marne are allowed to leave without government permission living. and squalor they

are met with constant violence and persecution was just escalated to the point that the eve rahat of hussein the united nations high commissioner for human rights called recent actions by my and more military as disproportionate to the insurgent actions last month called them brutal and even stated quote these situations seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing more than three hundred ten thousand rohinton i have fled the neighbor and fled to neighboring bangladesh but the daily beast recently discovered a targeted campaign against pro growth and facebook accounts and post even going as far as to ban all my and more muslim from another sect because he posted critically of them i am our actions on his facebook account in canada facebook's excuse well the post which clearly show government forces committing violent acts even burning villages don't follow facebook community standards. aung san suu kyi the country's

defacto leader seems to a forgotten that she was a democracy darling of the left a nobel peace prize winner as she is even accused of burning their own villages there she is tuesday morning defending her military forces the security forces instructed to distribute food on how you can get your. kicks so. she can. see you know. she. didn't point out that she makes these very specific statements so it's while they're doing they use things and later on and she actually talks about you know we want to take you guys to the villages i mean the safe ones to show you what's working the wall thing is just mind blowing that someone who was so ho part of democracy coming to a place is now standing up there saying well we're making sure they're doing their best to keep an innocent civilians but remember the wrong and die are considered

citizens they can have citizenship but they can't leave curious now so it's interesting that she doesn't i don't think she considers them actually part of that sort of excuses that they were going back to facebook it is pretty incredible trying to draw to figure out what facebook considers stamberg what it doesn't it's pretty amazing i mean the even pro publica recently found the base book and able to advertisers were able to target what was labeled as the shoe with leaders through their advertising system even claiming in one instance that facebook's automated system suggested second amendment as gotta grow that would boost our audience size to one hundred thousand people presumably because that system had correlated. with anti semites oh and so that any guess what you hate this group of people here have some gun grabber times some we've found through our wonderful. people who are pro

second amendment also tend to be i'm like first of all that's a whole level of the they put those two in there that and there's always this excuse because then according to facebook they say that they remove hate speech that which includes content that directly attacks people based on their race ethnicity national origin religious affiliation sexual orientation sex or gender yet i will point out once again and till i'm blue in the face rape threats are not a violation of the holocene every standards and practices death threats have to meet certain specific you remember it's like these certain specific criteria to even be considered for removal and yet my god you have to take those videos down of the military they're burning people's villages going to remember that you know rape or violence. you know race or ethnicity or national origin or roads or for sports more of a trip like that if i don't have to do that. you know what's interesting too is

that. facebook actually surprising as it is they are very different books because there's very little access to the internet. as the country is in the process of basically trying to like a modernize its communication infrastructure so citizens better use facebook the way americans use e-mail it's essential to very very given that's how they communicate with each other and the rest of the world it's probably one of the only ways that they're allowed to speak publicly specially the one hundred and the a smaller communities because they don't have representation in the exam room and where they don't have even the muslims are the only where they get the message out that's the really scary part because you know they also they need that it's so important. and i have to wonder about that i mean we spoke to i asked our viewers their thoughts on this on facebook i know hilarious ironic i asked them on facebook about facebook about whether they have a responsibility whether facebook has this responsibility. to censor

a divisive topic since i've spent also a number of there are these russian as it were divisive and so we're talking about divisiveness so much that do they have this a responsibility to censor divisive topics or should they simply protect the right to free speech and allow users to opt out of speech that they don't want to hear right and. from our facebook page actually said this free speech needs to be cherished to be held up and cherished i do not have the right to tell you or anyone else what they can and cannot say and that's the thing at this point i think that the ideas of being politically correct or this idea of identity politics has gone from being a hopeful discussion about how best to articulate issues of oppression to a political talking a point and excuse to shut down for the rest of i'm going all right as we go bird watchers don't forget to let us know what you think about facebook and twitter that are coming off the press for political science international affairs and israel

studies at northeastern university. to discuss the ever changing relationships and by members of the united states and israel states and. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic hallucinations that. fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most. societies on politics as a species of endless list of the politicians just celebrities are to ruling parties are in reality one party for. those who attempt. this. universal to me to sign to push through that and exploitation to be a little more forced so far to the margins of society. including by a public broadcasting system that has sold its soul from corporate money that we

might as well be mice squeaking against an avalanche but squeak we must. protect the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests that's thrown down a lot of boards that's how we use them in the culture in this country now that's where i come in. i mean it's still on our to you america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get the straight talk and the straight news. what to make. of all foreign policy debates in the u.s. the one over our relations with israel tends to draw the most passion outrage and

polarization every apac a vendor of hundreds of thousands of protesters with palestinian flags and musicians mere belief in the need to boycott israel's government over human rights to calls for censorship but even as the public debate rages on a quiet shift has been taking place inside the jewish american community as northeastern university is middle east center director waxman explains and his book trouble in the tribe the american jewish conflict over israel for more on that growing political divide and its deeper roots professor waxman joined our show earlier. this is a change that's been going along. in decades. all of those generational changes jungle about jeems. all will be good just a little while and spoke little cliques. well it's also a default go between secular law hold to go after the. all all about

religious jewish which is madness but it does somehow or let it divide the above population between what multiple secular liberals religious conservatives so in some ways the change in attitudes toward israel were to me most of the jewish community. boards shifts in a mark an attitude toward israel. now one of one of the big debates in split seems to be the idea of the b.d.s. may have meant they boycott divestment and sanctions in an interview with the foundation for middle east peace last year you addressed how that the liberal jewish community is splitting over these issues and what you had said was quote the problem with the american jewish community today when it comes to p.b.s. is that there isn't enough to bait about in fact in much of the mainstream jewish community the debate isn't even allowed to take place supporters of b.b.'s for the record i'm not one of them are actively excluded from the organized jewish community. how do you see this window of sort of respectable debate being sat.

well there's almost a totally large opposition to e.t.s. with the amount of jewish teaching this generally crosses the traditional left why the divide so the blue cheese on the left who are critical of asian critical of the so israeli government policy i missed and used doesn't support the b.d.s. by and large but the issue is just all e.d.'s or volatile. boycotts is the big an issue actually not all censorship the kind of mccarthyism that exists in some parts the american jewish community which is essentially blacklists vidual a lot of eyes asian they even supported the partial court culture of boycott all the west bank settlements for example. those a clash of common particularly form a small number although the last hour. elements within the jewish community who

clearly are all trying to establish a litmus tests all for local jews whether it be appealable insert the dogs between sort of dogs and any kind of public jewish or being printed in the jewish newspaper or magazine which basically says everything that they were god as destroy all jews are all they have a billion dollar definition of what constitutes support for israel other thing about the will god is disloyal to his are about to keep him and support boycotts against itself is completely unacceptable makes energy advocates more adults in those positions especially in the jewish community i think that's like what we're about to can jobs allowing for open debate on allowing the political clueless of minas to say issue isn't just about being yes the border issue is allowance for a greater degree of political pluralism an openness to that but when it comes to israel with jewish we reach so i must certainly do something about many of them are

going to. work if so many younger american jews are becoming increasingly critical of israeli policy of the government and some even supporting things like b.d.s. and working with palestinians all of that why is the community as a whole not catching up because we've seen this there's ben more of the birthright trip started going up and they made you know where they want to more and more people coming there so if you're gathering people into you know the fold why aren't they listening to what they have to say as as everything sort of evolves well i think part of the disconnect between the organization it's important to trying to let the market or the micro you mold the jewish establishment and the majority of the narcan jeems in the jaw and all the geology of them are all moving in a direction levels increasingly critical of also. link to open the debates discuss

all this is auburn i will challenge them eat all guys the knowledge is teams can do it the traditional institutions that are gone they are american jewish politics tend to be watch of the like they tend to the left a lot of constituents who typically all the lib just so adamant political conservatives. they are in particular out for a little spot a small number sometimes our last dime is the can really say that gender access there's a disconnect and not really democratic in the sense of representing is would a change in attitudes and what do you suppose them up to what are they representing the smaller group who tend to be all that all. when it comes to this are significant and that's part of the point of a mascot of the what's driving young democracies away from joining these old eyes they should be and get like they have a voice now speaking of hawkish. previously talked about how prime minister

netanyahu over time you know kind of clearly aligned with the u.s. republican party whether in supporting mitt romney or siding with congressional republicans over president obama and you know now obviously opening openly embracing donald trump do you think these partisan choices could potentially backfire on israel as a whole considering that the liberal you know it's leaning the liberal bend the most american jewish people are kind of heading towards actually i think they're a little box by that i think it will look at the trends in terms of a melbourne public opinion in general one of the things that's most striking in is that a growing partisan divide over the columns to squirrels on the israeli palestinian conflict in particular. democrats liberals those who started to rise and it was allowed creasing they could support of israel on. i'm lifting some particular up

all growing more sympathetic toward the palestinians rather than israel not many reasons for this but i think undoubtedly prime minister said no i'm kind of a great it's almost alliance that he has forged with the republican party and united states i've been particularly his glary contentious let's say relationship with obama which was very nasty and other personal i think that's one of the fact is the pads that is driving them now open on the mouth and democrats in the united states away from support christgau ultimately supporters are like states had. persisted for southern long in politics because it's rested on a bipartisan foundation that's been supported by democrats and republicans don't want the support for israel in the united states the columns public or something that's associated with those who are conservative i think ultimately in the long run that's going to empower us government support restore because of the will

eventually there's going to be a democratic at the white house and maybe a democratic majority in congress and that's going to challenge us israeli relations but you chad. very personally very very very well now let me ask you because of all that beth all of these research changing times and sort of figuring out how the community and the politics are all going to come together do you think this more politically diverse and outspoken jewish american community and in the same way are bad a very conservative jewish community has sort of lobbied here in some fans can they do the same thing and push israel and a more peaceful direction when it comes to resolving the palestinian conflict so we have a little upon. that was actually part of the question that i had in my mind when i mentioned such i actually write the book and i was wondering whether at a time when the bomb was just coming into office that that kind of immersion liberal majority of them of engines could in fact be

a force for peace between israel and the palestinians are cautiously i think that exaggerates the implants for them all and to several israeli governments. certainly the israel receives a lot of them out of your support and some might think that given the support they would be attentive to the. colonies well you've got them i don't but it's really i pretty much demonstrate it. disregards toward a local jewish views not only concern the economy of the palestinians but that of matches and settle themselves with regards to the state is all streams of judaism in israel so i don't think israeli government certainly not this point by the window is particularly with. all the liberal of love and she's here trying to keep it dismiss is naive and idealistic at best well a multitude may in total be more than to ensure there isn't shifting to use of the

united states in particular by sending the message to politicians in washington that criticism of israel. it's not completely obvious holes. while it can be both close well actually it's a little. more although it didn't. take that position that you couldn't eat close to zero but particularly they shouldn't i think some of them little titian's hardly . of choice us a position but. it's all these presidential campaigns and i think a little toy that can create a space in politics in washington well you like the local politicians who are all coming up. with all goods as well but we believe that is all that a lot of i was doing is not bad for the palestinians are true as well. most of whom i want to thank you for coming on today what's going to be of works when the co-director of northeastern university is middle east institute

a pleasure having you on with us today on people. you may have heard about the great barrier reef and you may have also heard that is in grave danger of destructions and the reasons are plenty commercial fishing fishing is irreversibly altered the ecosystem that builds and support three pollution attacks or even in tons of forms from dirty run up to oil and shipping accidents and of course climate change just exponentially in this entire process but the most dramatic threat to the great barrier reef is a fellow live creature the crown of thorns starfish outbreaks of the invasive sea creature have been wreaking havoc on the coral reefs that they literally consume for years but are now getting worse and more frequent but fear not that because biologists of the australian institute of marine science have been busy devising a new strategy to tackle the giant starfish problem and it involves a giant snail the ocean may be lacking in courageous predators to take on the crown of thorns but the pacific triton is one of the few and by breeding the deadly lovable snail and spreading it across the bay of scientists that aims hope to put

an eco friendly dent in the starfish population and save us trillions natural wonder air absolutely fantastic. that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world with cold. wall i love you tightrope and to keep on watching all those hawks out there ever great day and. what you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those through. your wife. what's your biggest fear. in the bin on the hay right. read a book you say if you ever met the best quarterback. exploring the topic. now i could give you due to question more.

welcomed on contact today we discuss the uses and abuses of american history with historian eric foner if we want to have a public commemoration of history and or to be diverse enough to include the whole history not just the history that those in power want us to remember. history like most scholarly pursuits and academia is dominated by the banal and the trivial the montra of disinterested scholarship and the obsession with data collection add up as the historian howard zinn wrote to the fear that using our intelligence to further our moral ends is somehow.