or years so they want to wrap this up as soon as they possibly can and then maybe discuss it with the united states after and donald trump i think understands that that for him there's a lot of wiggle room here bilateral multinational anyway that he wants to make deals and he will play on his way i mean he's been a wild card in this is the way the style is done with nafta with the e.u. with everybody he screams out this you know you know bloody murder. you know fire and brimstone type of thing but the whole fact of the matter is the bottom line is the band is a deal maker and this just happens to be a style and i think everybody understands that from europe to nafta and to the t p p alex your ear interim toe but you are a global trade expert thank you for your time and time now for a quick break but stick around because when we return natasha sweet reports on the border wall and those dark and dreamers and here are the numbers at the closing bell.

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it's been two years since it was announced that some of saudi arabia's state owned oil company saudi aramco would be sold as part of an initial public offering today however it's not clear if the aramco i.p.o. will be listed on the new york stock exchange on the saudi stock market or someplace else in november president trump tweeted his support for the i.p.o. being at the new york stock exchange the sale of aramco valued at more than one point three trillion dollars is seen as one of the highest priorities of the saudi government and crown prince mohammed bill bin solomon and b.s. the end action has made some observers question if the i.p.o. will even be completed this year as was previously planned meanwhile in related news the large anti-corruption campaign in saudi which sought dozens of high ranking officials and business men arrested and imprisoned at the ritz carlton hotel has seen several of the business men including prince al waleed released it's

unclear what sort of settlement was released was reached although the saudi government says there are forty remaining individuals who may go to trial. the u.s. commodity futures trading commission the c f t c which i know well appears ready to fine european lenders u.b.s. h.s.b.c. and deutsche bank millions of dollars each for so-called spoofing and manipulation in the u.s. futures market spoofing which became illegal as a result of the wall street reform and consumer protection act otherwise known as dodd frank became law back in two thousand and ten that's when if a trader makes a bid or an offer to sell a futures contract with the intent to cancel that better offer before another trader except bad actor traders do this to try and push or pull. prices in one direction or another the fines for u.b.s. and deutsche bank are expected to be upward of ten million dollars each while the

fine for h.s.b.c. is expected to be somewhat less in august a u.s. appeals court upheld a three year conviction of former cheetah traitor michael kozak who was the first individual to be criminally prosecuted under the spoofing law. while the three day government shutdown ended last week in an exchange for a commitment to consider immigration related issues in the coming weeks the issues of funding president trump border wall and the docket dreamer's remains unresolved artie's natascha suite has more. many wonder if congress will sign off on funding for the wall that the president has been pushing for republicans say they're willing to work with democrats in fixing the legal status of some eight hundred thousand operative b.s. if funding for the border is agreed upon the question is will

a deal be made breaking here when i was through with my parents carlos and it is a doctor recipients coming from mexico city to the u.s. that only three years of age when enda says he's had all of his schooling from elementary to college here in the states who were somewhat. melendez graduated from county at long beach last year and has been directing short films took a scene on the immigration issues plaguing the country i think our lives are more at risk now than ever and i think if you're going to create more hate by building a wall you need to find a solution a permanent solution for our live in million and. in that the b.s. community and all of our dreamers speaker of the house paul ryan says he also wants a permanent fix a we want to fix doc we do want to fix doc b. we want to fix it while addressing the root cause problem so that we don't have a doctor problem again i mean that's kind of common sense president trump famously ran a campaign highlighting the significance of building a wall while some question of his idea of

a war has evolved he's confirmed the building of it in certain areas will take place we need a physical border war we're going to have a war remember that we're going to have all. to keep out deadly drug dealers dangerous traffickers and violent criminal cartels mexico is having a tremendous problem with crime and we want to keep it out of our country well when end it sees the wall as a symbol of hate esther valdez an immigration attorney who has represented more than three hundred talking recipients sees it differently the walls are not necessarily going to be a division between mexico and the united states there's going to be surveillance there's going to be drones it's going to be electronic that there's going to be cameras manpower tunnels because we're stopping a drug trade and we're stopping what now is even more lucrative than the drug trade it's the human trade well valdez supports the wall she sees the path to citizenship for the eight hundred thousand doc recipients as a crucial step forward what do we do with approximately eight hundred thousand

young people that the american citizenry has already educated they've gone to our public schools their skilled workers why send them back to a country that they know nothing about to establish foreign countries economies and their educational systems valdes points out many undocumented immigrants are ready to come out of the shadows and earn a livable wage but it will cost employers who have been increasing their profit margins through cheap labor and the rest of america it seems is waking up to it wow there's eleven million people who have been picking my produce so that i can have corn for three for a dollar well it has come at a price a price that employers haven't wanted to pay another twist in the fight for immigration reform being brought to the table is a new report released by the department of justice and homeland security report indicated seventy three percent of individuals convicted of terrorism related charges from two thousand and one to two thousand and sixteen were foreign born i was reading there and i think it's time to unfortunate because i think you can make statistics say anything and any wall criminal and immigration attorney says he

doesn't agree with the numbers let's remember that there's some statistics you can show that three or four americans create the same i'll do the same amount of activity and tell. says if the legal status of doc recipients aren't fixed it will be a huge blow to the economy a lot of doctor workers are are here they're doing their every day job there's a lot of who are in college they're paying tuition and then does says because of the economic impacts the parents of dr recipients shouldn't be penalized definitely shouldn't be criminalizing their parents because of them you know the country hasn't engineers dreamers teachers. actors artists who can contribute to society and that's something that needs to be recognized the valdez says the way things are going and talking recipients are able to stay and fix their legal status the economy will continue to soar when president trump last year announced that he was going to phase out the doctor program he asked congress for a legislative replacement one that would allow doctor recipients the right to work

with protection from deportation so maybe that will placements or a pathway to citizenship is one step closer and over time a stay at the border and hospice waits are to. we think natasha for that good report unfortunately it's an issue that will continue to be talked about over the coming weeks and when we get back to poverty inequality and that wealth gap that we spoke about earlier in the program with ashley banks and now we're joined by dr david henderson a professor and research fellow at the hoover institution professor thanks for joining us as an economist do you think that ups and report that actually was speaking about it you may have heard earlier but i know you're familiar with it are there from an economic perspective is that sound and accurate findings. some of them are accurate but the reasoning is not sound let me explain through the actual report which is over ninety pages long says that world poverty has fallen by half the number in extreme poverty between one nine hundred ninety and two thousand

and ten through their credit they say that's a good thing at the same time as they point out wealth inequality has increased elsewhere in the report they say we can't reduce extreme poverty without reducing extreme wealth inequality guess what their own report says we can't we have wealth inequality has gone up and poverty extreme poverty has fallen moreover they say they their way to handle extreme wealth inequality is to take from the wealthiest and in fact that will reduce the incentive to produce wealth and in fact the report is titled rip rip reward work not wealth well guess what wealth dollars reward innovation moreover there's one other distinction they don't make they do talking points about crony capitalism they do talk about carlos slim in mexico who got his wealth he's one of the wealthiest men in the world he got his wealth from cronyism by having

a monopoly on telecom but take jeff bezos who was mentioned earlier he got his wealth by innovating like crazy i bet you you bart get things from amazon regularly i know my household does and that's great and we save money and he makes money and his employer employees do well or they wouldn't be working there so i think it just leaves out the whole idea about gains from trade and how both sides can be better off right i got you on that let me ask ask you i mean is this something how would you deal with it i mean i was in davos last week and the whole deal was trying to create a consensus in a fragmented world and it seems that with this wealth gap it's even more fragmented so you know how should elected officials or others economists maybe professor suggest we deal with this. i would deal with that by letting more and immigrants in i mean you think about the wealth gap what's the biggest gap it's between us and

united states and say people in the poorest parts of asia in africa let them in and in the ninety plus page report where they actually even highlight the the dilemma of this when young woman working in a sweat in sweat shop conditions they never even mention the idea of letting more people in there's an economist named michael clemons who wrote a book wrote an article titled trillion dollar bills on the sidewalk in which he lays out the fact that if we had open immigration in europe and canada and united states and japan in a couple of the rich countries and say a billion people moved the world economy would actually increase by about thirty to fifty percent and we would be better off and they would be better off those are the games from trade we've got we have a relatively free trade world the big gains left are from people immigrating yeah but let me ask you do you do you think that it doesn't look like really

getting more immigrants with this president any time soon but absent that do you think some folks out there are just saying you know this is ok to have this this is acceptable outcome is just the result of a functioning market is that how you see it that's how i see it but also it's going well it's not just that we're there sitting there in poverty way fewer of them are sitting there in poverty and the ones out of poverty are doing better so for example let's say you have someone there making ten thousand years a household income and their income goes up five percent that's five hundred dollars household income average household income is fifty thousand their income goes up two percent that's a thousand dollars so the gap can be increasing even though income is growing way more at the bottom end which is exactly what has happened. professor i want to thank you we run out of time but i hope you'll come back we really appreciate it professor david henderson a research fellow at the hoover institution thanks for joining us thanks mark. and

before we go curry green mountain has announced its intent to buy dr pepper snapple in a deal that would stablished an eleven billion dollar beverage behold with the deal is the most recent part of an effort by j. a d. holding company that's the austrian entity which acquired pure green mountain in two thousand and sixteen and also owns pinera caribou coffee and other related breakfast and lunch and it is to become a major distributor of distributor of beverages in the united states dr pepper has a particularly prominent place in the minds of many americans and was the first carbonated soft drink ever it was invented by a waco texas pharmacist who received a at eight hundred eighty five the name dr may have been used to indicate there were health benefits to drinking it you know the deal was still has to be approved by dr pepper and snapple shareholders but i hope they keep those funny commercials with little sweet the miniature prince looking dude for a diet dr pepper it's

a sweet one those are hilarious that wraps it up for now be sure to catch boom bust on youtube youtube dot com slash boom bust r.d. next time. i seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun bad guy tried to get to my to my family member as he would have better a lot better and i think it's fair and hearty when i apply my baby and says my book was published in the year two thousand more than home for a million americans have been killed by phones in the us how does the team yes we did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got here. i decided to return to

the subject to track down each gun owner who i. met a new photo of those years of god i don't know this but we are not for all. we've seen that market failure many times we saw in two thousand and eight we saw it in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven we saw it in one nine hundred eighty seven and we're going to see it again probably in the very near future because the underlying design of this capitalist system has not been modified to account for changes in technology over the past fifty sixty seventy year and we keep having these catastrophic failures. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies who've made to me to people this is the simple song alone even some company guess what else well they can find private companies to take over the utilities anybody tell us the robo. laxness you guys you got to be right on the

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in an unprecedented move the pentagon has banned the us watchdog which oversees the situation in afghanistan from publishing information on who controls what on the ground that of a string of deadly terror attacks in the country. the message that u.s. officials were given by angry palestinian protesters stormed their meeting as tensions over troops jerusalem recognition showed no sign of calming. new sanctions against russia on the table after the u.s. released the sweeping list of russian politicians and business figures on a so-called kremlin list mira's rich the list of russians and it matches exactly the kremlin zone list of officials on its website.

thanks for joining us this evening my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international. in an unprecedented move the pentagon has a parrot lee instructed the inspector general for afghanistan a watchdog which oversees the situation in the country to keep quiet over how much afghan territory is controlled by the government and how much by the taliban and other insurgent groups that's according to the watchdogs latest report. this development is troubling for a number of reasons most least of which is that this is the first time since he's been specifically instructed not to release information marked unclassified to the american taxpayer the instructions are coming from the pentagon and they are given to the special inspector for general afghan reconstruction and from what we

understand they've instructed him not to give out certain pertinent information especially about casualties among afghan forces but one of the key things that they've told him to leave out of his reports is the balance of power on the ground he's essentially not being permitted to reveal what territory is controlled by the taliban and what territory is controlled by the afghan government what territory is controlled by the i still forces and that's key information if you want to understand what progress is being made and how the war is really going now at this point the usa has been in afghanistan for almost two decades it's had its forces on the ground there have been air strikes and such and we actually have a kind of an admission from secretary of defense james mattis that not a lot has been achieved during that time this is what he said during understand the urgency to understand it's my responsibility we are not winning in afghanistan right now and we will correct this now at this point there has been

a little bit of a change in strategy in afghanistan the usa is escalating its airstrikes and bombing of afghanistan at this point four thousand three hundred bombs were actually dropped in the year of twenty seventeen that's more bombs that were dropped in two thousand and fifteen and twenty sixteen combined however it hasn't really had the effect of changing things on the ground in fact the i still forces and the taliban forces have actually increased the number of attacks that they've carried out let's take a look. now

at this point the usa is sending mixed messages about the possibility of negotiations with the taliban we heard in october rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state say that the usa was not willing to negotiate with the taliban entirely but that it was willing to negotiate with what he called moderate voices among the taliban now we've heard from donald trump that there will be no negotiations with the taliban no talking to the taliban whatsoever there's no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban and we're going to finish what we have to finish what nobody else has been able to finish we're going to be able to do it now we've heard a response from the taliban essentially mocking the united states and saying that if the usa wants to find them it knows where their office is located in the city of doha at this point we are not hearing moves from either side the taliban or the

united states about resuming negotiations so at the moment it appears that the violence and chaos in afghanistan is going to continue no. expert on middle east affairs ali risk believes that the latest move by the pentagon is effectively tantamount to an admission of failure in afghanistan. seen some horrific attacks launched by the tyler taliban and by isis which up there are begun to target kabul the afghani capital previously we saw that they know there were attacks by these extremist groups but they won't focus serve much from kabul kabul was considered to be relatively secure what we've seen now is that even the capital is no longer secure so in light of these failures in this who are u.s. war i think that the pentagon bear basically or the american mistreated as a whole or had no choice but to take this step to try and the higher the reality

which is going on on the ground because i think that if the american people are exposed to the real situation of there will be a huge immense popular pressure for the u.s. to you know just cut and withdraw from that country. u.s. officials had to flee an event in the west bank city of bethlehem after angry protesters stormed the building they were in. i don't know much about the. other been the business meeting at the berkeley chamber of commerce and industry protesters arrived with a banner condemning gun trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital among the clashes the meeting was cut short before leaving the building the americans were given a clear message. that you should be shot. down the story didn't and

palestinian protesters run out of the building and threw tomatoes at the diplomatic cars as they were trying to flee the scene. wasn't easy either as you saw the palestinians trying to gain entry to those vehicles has more of what sparked the commotion. but this is just the latest incident in a string of protests that has been taking place on the palestinian street ever since the american president donald trump made an announcement back in the beginning of december saying that he recognized as israel's capital also on tuesday there were protests in front of the palestinian prime minister's office in the west bank city of ramallah now where they were protesting against the reduction of services being offered by where the united nations relief and works agency for

palestinian refugees the agency was forced to downgrade the services off to the americans announced that they were cutting millions of dollars of aid this the americans say is until to quote there is a fundamental reexamination of how the agency operates the protests anger on the palestinian street have gone as far as to into the israeli parliament or the israeli knesset where just last week the american. vice president mike pence was visiting as he stood up to speak a group of arab lawmakers who constitute the third largest faction in the israeli parliament started shouting and holding up banners with anti american messages citizens of israel.

now mike pence during his speech at the israeli parliament only further infuriated the anger that is already here on the street by announcing that by the end of next year the americans would be moving their embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem since president trump made that announcement on jerusalem back to the beginning of december they have been more than twelve palestinians who have been killed more than a thousand have been injured and hundreds have been arrested so this is a situation that just won't go away and witnessing tensions continue to climb. the u.s. is preparing new sanctions against russia or after the release of the so-called kremlin list which includes the names of some two hundred top officials and business leaders that's according to the u.s. treasury secretary steven nugent who was pressed on the issue in congress now we will take the basis of that report and look at kind of as we do in the normal course where it's appropriate to put sanctions so there's no way be interpreted as

we're not putting sanctions on any of the people in that report new sanctions were expected to be announced along with that list although officials stress that no new restrictions were coming in right now is a lot easier to trying to with a reaction from russia. for now the russian government won't do anything about what was called the u.s. kremlin list that's how the russian president for now made up his mind embellished the u.s. treasury the document it had to be published before the monday night deadline under the so called countering america's adversaries through sanctions act and so it was ten minutes before the deadline america's saying that being put on that list which includes one hundred fourteen top russian government officials as well as nearly one hundred richest businessmen doesn't mean receiving some kind of.