three point three zero. zero or the. guy that i thought oh my. god. after the surprise announcement of face to face talks between donald trump and

north korea's kim jong un mixed messages are now coming out of washington this meeting won't take place without concrete actions that match the promises that have been made by north korea we're ready to have the first baiting without precondition let's just make unless we talk about the weather if you will the first time washington's being inconsistent in its policy on north korea with potential progress being made in this taking a look at who should get the credit. they both love political drama big weapons and nuclear buttons but now it appears that little rocket man kim is ready to meet with donald the duo target their words not mine and surprisingly trump has agreed and the administration is all too clear about who they consider to be the winner of this battle of the bruisers what we know is that the mashed maximum pressure campaign has clearly been effective for the first time in a long time the united states is actually having conversations from

a position of strength not a position of weakness like the one that north korea finds itself in due to the maximum pressure campaign now the white house has every reason to think so after all they just slapped a new sanctions on north korea they pressured the world to halt all trade with pyongyang and they fired almost every weapon in the english language arsenal all aimed at stopping kim with donald trump's so-called hard power we can have med men rocket men sick puppy shooting rockets all over the place we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea but is trump the real winner here after every tongue lashing he received from the oval office kim fired back with his own retorts furthermore kaman gauged in diplomacy master class with south korea engaging in negotiations and even securing the unified team korea at the recent winter olympics is now all set to sit down with donald trump it will be unprecedented the first

time in history now at this point it's quite an achievement for kim jong un let's ask new yorkers what they think who's the real winner of this upcoming meeting i think it's a win for north korea korea because they definitely approached about the issue and our president trump was being very i say amateur about the situation so i think since the north korean president took the first step then i think it makes everything better he was trying to make that step for peace you know the good. i'm scared because he's the first president i believe to meet with the north korean leader is better probably know it's korea than it is for the usa it's absolutely a victory for kim jong un this is an individual who has been the leader of his country for now i guess seven years but has been completely isolated he's never much another. world leader it leads to a whole host of unanswered questions and risks that the american president is offering what kim jong un wants most on the front end of

a process where we haven't yet achieved what we want most which is north korea's denuclearization so while everyone is going nuclear over a meeting that could potentially turn the tide of this crisis it's starting to look like kim might be the winner of this round table mop and artsy new york still to come the u.s. media makes new claims about just how russia may have meddled in the twenty sixth presidential election we'll bring you the full story after the break. the problems that were baked into the cake of the american experience where there was this race is never one away it's hard coded in the american d.n.a. violence ultraviolence it's part of the american d.n.a. these are severe problems in the marriage soul.

the legacy of the communist era has left i'm assuming a lot of of the legacy waste as well i'm assuming again. my understanding of the soviet era that there was much more of a culture of reuse and not throwing things away that i think the society that emerged out of that tends to reject so it's a matter of moving back to the. back the army has been deployed to the streets of souls bringing in the u.k.

to remove contaminated vehicles the spoiler's the nerve agent poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter both of whom remain in a critical condition. the focus of the investigation and paste have shifted to the cemetery in seoul's bury where there are the remains of a script files wife and son both of whom died in recent years and the police have denied that either of their bodies or their remains have been exist however. police tell it has gone up in that cemetery and police officers have been seen removing objects from the scene the other major development in the story is the fact that the military has now been deployed to help with the investigation into the attack among those military experts to been deployed there are contamination experts and also specialists who are helping to remove vehicles and objects from the scene

including ambulances that may have been contaminated while they were treating the victims the home secretary visited soulsby which is of course the scene of the attack but also the hometown of script i understand people's curiosity about all those questions and wanting to have and there will be a toy to have those on but the best way to get to them is to make sure that we give the police the space that they need to really go through the area carefully to do their investigation and to make sure they have all the support that they need in order to get that on the road also visited the hospital where. his daughter and the police officer that first came to their assistance are all being treated and speaking of hospitals in terms of medical issues the police and will have said that as many as twenty one people have been treated in connection to potentially coming into contact with that hill that was used on the former spy and his daughter so

we're seeing this extensive investigation unfolding and at the same time extensive media. speculation that just won't stop in case you haven't heard about who might be behind this attack well take a look at what's being said bad things have been known to happen to russians who cross of lot of your putin the fact that a nerve agent was use strengthens the likelihood that this was a state sponsor of some sort and russia is the chief suspect of course western intelligence services consider russia a leading suspect based on previous attacks and the sophistication of the nerve agent used speculation isn't limited to just the media the politicians here quite a lot of backbench m.p.'s are also indulging in quite a bit of it many of them pointing the finger of blame squarely at moscow before the evidence has been carted out some backbench m.p.'s going as far as accusing the

rusher of instigating an act of war if this ends up leading to the kremlin others have in the light of this been calling for increased spending on defense here in the u.k. moscow isn't impressed and appears to be quite frustrated with how this story is unfolding we've had the first official response from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and those of you to look at the moves we're being accused not only of this our western partners accuses of basically everything that's going wrong on this planet it's not serious it's just blatant propaganda and hysteria and the russian foreign minister also added that in case anyone is interested russia is happy to help out with the investigation. of the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election ruggles on the us media keeps digging around trying to

unearth the tools that delivered donald trump into the white house with more his ears than of. many tried many failed but the folks at c.n.n. have finally done it undeniable proof of how the russians convince some sixty million people to vote trump and twenty sixteen and drum roll please. it's. c.n.n. has learned russian for created in released this anti hillary clinton video game you heard me right it's a video game they actually named it it's called hill tendo according to c.n.n. the game featured three levels first you had to help hillary clinton delete as many emails as you can a nod to the scandal over her handling of classified information which had been meiring her companion for months then you were supposed to assist the presidential nominee to collect money from some arab states evading the bombs at the same time

and the final challenge to throw the u.s. constitution as far as possible a silly game could be written by a programming suffer more during their bathroom breaks doesn't take much to sway an average american voter or at least that's what c.n.n. appears to believe and you know what it shows just how far russians are willing to go to meddle in our domestic affairs but for the sake of argument let's break down the numbers this game was reportedly played some nineteen thousand times even in the best case scenario if every game counts for a new person who was illegible to vote and actually showed up at the polls this not even two hundred ths of a percent is the share of voters the game no one's ever heard of until a few days ago may have swayed but direct influence was only part of the ploy claim to c.n.n. apparently developers could track gamers behavior and then target them with specific ads on social media something that according to those networks themselves

was almost. nonexistent comments on facebook faceplant at the investigation. the funny thing is the game touched on the points about everything she has done wrong and c.n.n. is reporting like it's a bad thing some amazing reporting in a c.n.n. you found a video game about a presidential candidate a game designed to reflect the way she lives and it took you years after the election to get your reporter out pulitzer material lol yeah that's what did at c.n.n. this game that nobody ever heard of totally swayed voters in wisconsin but you know after theories of pokémon meddling and dumpster diving for evidence so we thought we'd come take a look at it this report somehow begins to sound plausible diane of r.t. . finally getting a warm welcome isn't always

a pleasant experience especially if it's in the form of an unwanted hug as one california senator has learned the hard way. you know no notice that your behavior has been on a while come there also kmita also instructs you not to initiate hugs. all my life a hug has been my way of greeting friends and colleagues a gesture of one thing kindness and a reflection of my children. thanks so much i know that those things you could be doing the saving appreciate you are

tuning in to us all but with the latest news headlines and updates on the top of the hour. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education is being supplanted by the right to access education loans higher education is becoming just another product that can be born and sold so there's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you're good models at bruges look good is also the kind of fellow we couldn't. want is the place of students in this business model before college i was born now and i'm extremely more higher education for the new global economic war. with no make this manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes project

themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million more in. the world. hey everybody i'm stephen bob taft hollywood guy you know suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v.'s to suggest this is my buddy max famous financial guru well he's a little bit different i'm not a lincoln and i know no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road have some fun meet every day americans come home and cook for the star to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which.

this is a boom bust where things are fully discussed broadcasting around the world i'm bart chilton and coming up on tap today we sit down with bryan caplan who wrote the book the case against education why the education system is a waste of time and money this is going to be interesting if not scary or maybe both but first back by popular demand we have our second and final installment of the crypto queen a reef a con all of that in our near term futures but first let's hit some headlines. we

have covered what is called day zero in south africa before that's the day when they run out of water yeah they run out of water cape town the thriving metropolis in south africa has more than four million residents is that about to be turned into a giant refugee camp we may know one day zero which is july ninth unless there is a whole heck of a lot of rain between now and then without the rain everyone will be waiting in line for their ration of six point six gallons of imported water each day the dire circumstances are due in large part experts say to climate change. later climate change news hurricane harvey which hit texas and louisiana late last summer and cause damages in excess of one hundred twenty five billion dollars dumped more rain than any other store in ever ever check this data point which seems unreal for

every person in texas a million gallons of rain fell turning roads into rivers and large parking lots into lakes. and remember those california fires from late last year. well we see those almost each and every year but no they don't go out in fact some of the fires from november are still burning in southern california and clients the climate scientists say they could continue year round if nothing is done to prevent future global warming. and just as promised we have a special guest back by popular demand a while back we sat down with a refund con the crypto queen for a look at crypto around the world she's all blowing up and i first asked her if companies around the globe you would want as

a hurdle in today's financial world here's what she had to say if they look at blog as a dating a ledger and even if they have dated the ledger it's not going to unleash the benefits of production and if they want to be at least the benefits of production there would be no place for them so i say there is a conflict of interest for the existing incumbents to really see the potential of the channel so. for example let's say hong kong stock exchange so actually exchanges for the fust institutions to wake up to the potential of the. nasdaq invested about five to ten million dollars of a bag even before them came apart this was in two thousand and fourteen they invested in a startup called chain. seven where they this is the same story so they knew they understood the potential abduction they invested in startups which were working on locked in solutions but equally for the exchanges but what they missed was. even

after discovering these startups even as the investing in these innovate does what they ended up it is semi kind of exchanges which is a chinese exchange let's say there's a hong kong stock exchange has a patent they created a giant stock exchange which would target companies which would otherwise fail to qualify for the patent exchange so they would target monetize companies which are in the p i p l stage and they would head those companies go public in that child exchange so you're telling me where is the option here where does the business model innovation you know what is being done differently other than just expanding the what is known for the clients that recent you have mentioned i.p.o. cynical initial public offerings a couple times are you really talking about i.p.o.'s you're talking about i see those the initial coins are freaks so i see

a lot of well known phenomenon do you understand it so you know that more than five billion dollars have been raised just in the past year alone two thousand and seventeen or what eight hundred i suppose now all of these i suppose have been created are launched by companies that have something to do with last year they either have a blocked and innovation the plea cation or they created a token which somehow related some to the motor later to block jim. but i would say this method of fundraising which is completely disrupted venture capital at least in the small subset segment that we're looking at is maybe i'd like to do a lot of industries do a lot of companies in the real economy who are no watching this i feel creative and looking at it and saying hey you know this is a wonderful idea to bypass the venture capitalist if we could just access the investors out on the was in a global borderless platform no how would you do that they cannot come up with

a dokken and they can. come up with a block to an application so all of you're doing is giving them the black form issue that traditional securities whether to stock the bonds on the block and platform so it is similar to i.c. owes as a mechanism of fund raising but what is being issued is not the doldrums and goings that you have heard and read about their real securities so in the eyes you as a company or an issue an issue and that could still keep wish that prisons are talking here then issuing a clip docky does represent a security and it is up to the issuer define what that security means where they did the share which is one by ten thousand plus and of the companies that was over there to the barn which represent one by hundred of. the a listed property for example as an investment banker in your previous life you've worked with the financial conduct authority the f.c.a. in the u.k.

and other regulators around the world how are they dealing with block chain is it more than a block chain of course it's probably a digital currency's but what are your thoughts on that general area requirement the book at and says they have completely evaporated everybody from economists to garments and so on and you're seeing that the actions and some of them like for example ready of how to date the people like jamie dimon who issued statements have had to that drive the statements so required as you know to stay and cryptocurrency that he had to stay and that is because we quite as a lead off group look at n c's has lent the rest of the back of cryptocurrency a lot of legend to mostly because it has some advice over at it big of skepticism and assault you have to remember that the big going to invest as a different creed then they're very different from the traditional investor us they're not looking soley at the dawn on investment they're not looking at st but i mean does are bad and i am off assessing invest. and in the traditional way they

actually thinking the pioneers we had planned to blaze us we are the ones who have exposed the most magnificent cause of to look at n.c. bridges image of the moon to the was and they are looking at it as a sponsibility unto themselves to actually do something with it to do better fredrick even more disruption in indy gone to me so they look at finding these guys us and preprogramed in sci fi as not shooting the next wave of innovation and building the next layer of up an occasion so it is like helping towards michel adding this new economy recent we talked about digital currency just a little bit there but i want to ask you to look into your crystal ball go out ten years twenty twenty eight which digital currency is it that sort of the leader or is it still going to be bitcoin is it a theory

a more light coin or or ripple or is it one that perhaps isn't even out there yet maybe they haven't done their i.c.a.o. what you're prognostication i can only say that such and the one thing that it's definitely not doable. and what you say that i'm curious. because if they strike a deal with amex they're going to be all over the world pretty quickly they can be but it has nothing to do with crypto and it does nothing to do a disruption on innovation so i believe the police couldn't see that these banks got together and said hey guys we need to put up a strong defense to this onslaught off the bill coming from the stopped us and then or let's be a smart cookies and we have a lot of money so let's but that's the kind of the off our own so they created this ripple and even people may get got it i've ever had that with the price of ice what a bit but there's no i'm delaying fundamentals boosting this underlying

fundamentals all of a. genius is always imagination is always creation of the future and none of these three a p a in these existing but i'm going to come back at you it doesn't necessarily have to be a great business model to have a high valuation we've seen dog line with up to a two billion dollar valuation now back down to half a billion dollar valuation there's others out there so it doesn't necessarily have to be a good business model right. so you know that is a place for fags in a fast growing industry and in a nascent industry which is a blue ocean right and people are getting rich and people are getting extremely confident so what does a confident confidence mean confidence means we can throw money at whatever with our getting aboard that it does without getting on board the logic what it so look at clipped ok so good folks at these isn't exactly similar pattern i am and i can

see a lot of fresh things coming about and china is a very good example even a lot of the chinese government has banned it i have been there for a few talks and jon cryer and mike how shines on and so on people absolutely fascinated the moment a visionary dunce up and they have a good eye for what is a true disruption wusses not of the middle east the us the moment something truly disruptive comes apart they they really have a keen eye and they want to throw money at it so nothing is stopping them no bank is stopping them well the regulators may be telling them they should be all gung ho about this yet no cautions of legitimacy and. nothing is stopping them i think a lot of folks particularly in the states have sort of a myopic view of india they look at it does those are where the call centers are they get congestion and move by but it's a lot more than that a lot more technology interesting things going on but specifically regard with. the

block chain talks about block chain companies in india so you are right in extending that label of myopia. to even block china and india because we have been studying an observation the indian landscape for a few years i represent i happen to represent it here in india and i have taken vitale butin to india since two thousand and sixteen the first time he came to india the only applications we saw were big going exchanges not even those exchanges did not even deal in other could go in his leg if he did so it started with big garden exchanges and there was hardly anybody creating any applications writing any smart contracts and there were no capabilities right and what india is a huge repertoire of technical talent we have a huge number of engineers graduating from the second largest or the largest school

of graduates maybe after china and india speaking graduates so we have mathematically extremely well trained and that them up was an extremely talented so it doesn't take very much effort or. much time for them to get a flipped with block chip so that is what is happening now so if we compare two thousand and sixteen to seventeen the uni lateral you need dimensional focus on creating and applications to do with big guys has transformed now to building up legations on the tedium people getting trained in solidity we have posted hack a thons there and we were surprised even retallack was very impressed that the use cases on our blog is that of being built what are not just related to the financial services but across the spectrum so there were there were large estates there were supply chain companies there were financial inclusion of legations there was even a technical payment channel. which impressed with alec and with alec ended up

giving the place the block and price for. a price for a block gem excellence. it's fantastic a reef accom crypto champion thank you so much for being with us hope you'll come back again i know our viewers enjoyed this pleasure being with you have to look forward to. in the february jobs report is out and the unemployment rate remains at four point one percent but the number of jobs created beat expectations big time coming in at three hundred thirteen thousand jobs created we'll talk about the numbers in detail on monday's program and time now for a quick quiz as we go to a brief break to match the two thousand and seventeen gross domestic product to the nafta countries the us canada and mexico of course and the race to match our three percent two point five percent and one point five percent of the answers when we return.