the press will that affect the elections it very well could look at what happened with bernie sanders and hillary clinton and we're still working to bridge that divide to be perfectly honest i'm still the political director here in the city of atlanta for the democratic party and we're still trying to heal some of those wounds so you know we've got some soul searching to do the where the party really needs to concentrate is on a coherent message larry in my opinion we've spent so much time with the resistance but with not offered enough about what the democratic party can actually do and that's that's not going to resonate with the voters going into the midterms we have to have a more solid plan and a better alternative to them than resistance that's not going to ring at the polls jan and then interviewed tuesday nancy pelosi said the democrats will win the midterms and that she will run for the speaker the conservatives love to hate nancy pelosi and hillary clinton hillary has been out of will hasn't held an office for

a long time that they still hate her every day are you worried about the from your standpoint is this a good idea jen for the republicans to have nancy say this. well i think this is the best thing to happen to republicans all week larry nancy pelosi has been acting like the marie antoinette of american politics saying that this massive tax cut that went to american families is like crumbs nancy pelosi could not be more out of touch as she and her husband run their businesses in northern california benefiting off of those american tax cuts by the way and she by the way got more than just ask her husband who runs that business but look this is comes down to the midterms comes down really to the three m's money message and motivation as robin just said this is why i like robin he's one of the more reasonable democrats he's honest he'll tell you the democrats really don't have the message down they haven't been

able to develop a message since they lost the two thousand and sixteen elections and as you see hillary out there still talking about why she lost they really need to turn the page and move on the second in larry money the democrats just last month had to actually borrow a couple of million dollars to keep their operation afloat meanwhile the r. and c. is trancing them in fundraising so that does not work in their favor the third am i've actually been very concerned about for republicans and that is motivation there was a poll out recently that said eighty percent of americans had participated in some sort of protest arguably against trump for the first time in their lives in the past two years and i think democrats here have one thing going for them in the midterms and that is motivation you look at the women's markets you look at the florida parkland march but the answer pelosi throwing her hat into the ring gives republicans now a bit of motivation as does the impeachment proceedings potentially. right after the break.

price perceives news and so if you have fake prices you end up with a fake name it's selling here when you have manipulation of markets and there if you have if you have interest rates at zero and you can borrow money at zero percent you have an unlimited credit line and you can muscle prices around it well that creates fake prices and then if you have robots reporting on fake prices on the financial media as forbes does then the robots are going to report on the fake crisis driven by the fake news created by robots and you have a virtual or a not so virtual cycle of fake news and fake prices and then that people interpret that as reality. in. palm oil is one of the most controversial products of votes on the it's a solid vegetable found the it's very cheap. twenty seventeen production grew to

sixty three million tons that rapid growth in international demand for cheap oil has led to the massive expansion of plantations which in turn means the destruction of the rainforest. get into the zero a lot more than ten million had to as of unique rain forest has been destroyed it's a process that just keeps going. back to politicking let's continue with the political panel robin as a dead rat race to the house do you want palosi to come back as the leader. you know i've got really mixed feelings on that and i'm not going to give you

a direct answer because i'm still kind of soul searching to be honest look nancy pelosi is name is a nothing to so many people and her name is used a time and time again to divide the party right here in the georgia six. who never even shared a room at any point with nancy pelosi they gave her at the net they talked on the phone but they never even met but he was labeled as a palosi democrat and he lost that election and the g.o.p. has been using that time and time again and the special elections to come for our candidates to pin them as pelosi democrats so i do think it might be time for a change although i will say she is a master legislator that is there is no doubt about that but i'm concerned about her staying on board just because it's such good political warfare to link our candidates to her because her name is so unpopular with so many people. basically centrist people moderate republicans maybe even that might vote for

a democrat but once they hear liberal palosi democrat would absolutely refuse to do so larry jen as palosi might be a problem on their say what might be a problem on yours is west virginia where an ex convict executive named don blankenship was in a heated battle so the g.o.p. nomination many are calling him the next roy moore if he were to come out as the republican candidate in west virginia if donald trump would go to wheeling to support him. i would not be a foreigner in the side of the republicans. well look i believe that americans and voters in particular are very forgiving he addressed this last night at their big debate in west virginia so you know i'll leave that to the voters of west virginia my parents happen to be from west virginia born and raised my brother was also born there so it's a state i know fairly well look i think like i said people are forgiving and

they're going to vote for the person that can best help president trump with his agenda to make america great again and that's bringing back manufacturing it's upholding the right to bear arms which is very popular in west virginia i just asked joe manchin how much that issue has come up for him recently but look i think president trump has also been courting joe mansion quite a bit who knows what donald trump will do in this race he might support the republican he might stay out of it completely he and joe mansion of building quite the relationship over the last year or so to be interesting to see what happens in that state rather than concerning this president will you think it's all going to go nothing is predictable. no it's. it's anyone's guess right now larry i can't exactly put my finger on it i think at the end of the day donald trump mike mike again i go back to my gut instincts my gut instincts tell me that he himself may not have been directly involved in the collision i don't think

that he was but look at all of the people around him that have been indicted who are being called to testify who some who have already pled guilty i think think some of those people are going to to take the fall as they should if they were involved in anything untoward and but i think that donald trump himself i think personally democrats need to work more toward the strategy of what we can do coming toward twenty twenty rather than sticking on this so much sticking on the impeachment we need to be developing our message right now because we have a serious problem with messaging i'm concerned about it and we've got to start laying the groundwork now to tell the voters what we can do and what we can bring to the table to help shore up some of the deficiencies right now this administration thank you both genders you're ever in back home again in california come visit us in studio and robin if you come was do the same. i will well and you

thank you so much more now on the legal problems both criminal and civil that the president finds himself in those close to him and rolled in for that we turn to trent copeland criminal defense attorney and legal analyst he joins us here on set as always great having him with us what's your takeaway from the leaked list of questions well first of all that they were leaked right larry the fact that these presumably came from the special counsel the truth is they didn't and i think anyone who presupposes that these were questions that came directly from the special counsel that they're not being honest with themselves these were the summaries of questions that i'm certain that muller's team gave verbal lead trumps team and trumps team decided to leak these questions for a couple reasons one they can label. the special counsel is being leakers that's important to them they could essentially get the public sentiment for those people who are behind trump to say hey look there's over broad questions these questions

deal with issues that don't relate to anything that the special counsel should have been investigating there's no collusion so all of those things were the reasons why these questions were leaked and i think the most important takeaway from it is that these questions zero in on trumps state of mind these questions they don't hang around the bush what they do is these zero in on trump state of mind they want to know what he knew about russia in collusion they want to know what he knew about paul manna for reaching out to russia they want to know why he fired james comey these are questions that directly go to his state of mind and i think trump feels the heat as a result of these questions so the nature of them is so in summary it's a summary i think look lawyers don't ask questions like this lawyer larry and you know this is a bit of it is anyone lawyers on ask these open in the questions and the truth is everyone knows that if you're going to get an audience with the president of muller's going to get an audience of the president and have him sit down for an interview they're going to be strict time constraints he's not going to ask an opening the question that's going to allow trump to just you know filibuster his

way through an hour or two he's going to aspecific questions narrowly tailored specifically zero in on specific issues so there's no way that these questions were the actual ones big questions like did should why not why. mulla team that made no sense why can mulla make a statement that we didn't send those questions over i think he could but i think the general said i didn't know and never speak. muller's team learned that's a very good questions most team has really been hermetically sealed right they don't leak they don't speak they're not seeking public support and sentiment for what they're doing they just go about their business head down doing their work and i think that's where he wants to be remembered muller has been involved in government for many many years headed up the f.b.i. and it is not unless he knows you well the fact of the matter is this is someone larry who's going to keep his head down he's going to continue this investigation and he's not going to play the game the trump plays and that is that he's going to

tweet that he's going to somehow issue public statements denying he's simply going to continue to do his work do you think trump would have a fire him and rosenstein sure i do i don't know that he will but i think he's certainly anticipated firing them particularly earlier on in the investigation i think he had to be talked down from that from his lawyer john dowd but would he consider fire them absolutely he would but i think at this point there's been such critical mass there's been such momentum moving towards whether or not he's going to sit down with miller i think would be really politically difficult for him to fire he was going to as soon as the audit was over he was going to release his tax returns he has previously said he can't wait to sit down with him oh is that baloney look larry look i think you know the truth is in the putting right says is going to release his tax returns we're now three years past him releasing the last three years of tax returns he hasn't says he's looking forward to sitting down with

muller because doing everything in his power to avoid doing that you can't believe him so the truth is his supporters and anyone who's behind trump believes trump at the moment he says what he's saying at that moment. do you think you might subpoena mo mo might subpoena truth i think he will almost certainly subpoena trump if trump does not voluntarily to sit down to him look there's been a lot of discussion larry about you know there are only two options is he going to sit down voluntarily with mahler or is he going to be subpoenaed in which case he'll be forced to i think there's a third door that people are talking about the third or is that he simply says listen i'm going to assert executive privilege i'm going to say listen you don't muck muller have the authority to force me to sit down for an interview because you're going to ask me questions that relate to my specific duties as a president under article two and on article two under the executive branch of which i am the head i don't have to answer these questions and that could create a constitutional crisis where that issue goes up to the supreme court and he

doesn't assert the fifth nor does he agree to voluntarily sit down interesting did nixon or clinton ever do that nixon did assert executive privilege lay but he has sort of executive privilege related to whether or not he was going to produce tapes he was never subpoenaed to testify in front of a grand jury and that's different this would be a case of first impression so we don't know what the supreme court would do in that instance is that any were awarded to trump to sit down you know that's a great question larry and i think scholars will debate that for years is a reward certainly but there's a risk in the risk reward is a if he sits down he could say things that could be directly incriminating the reward is that he says hey look i chose to sit down i told me all along i had nothing to fear i had nothing to hide and i chose to sit down but i think the risk reward is far weighted more heavily in the risk and i don't think that his lawyers

will let him sit down from his lawyer i'm standing in front of the door i'm blocking and i'm saying you're not sitting down with the special prosecutor over my dead body. he could plead the president could plead the fifth to get any sure he could plead the fifth and that certainly would that would really almost because he is not people who apply for i mean historically he the first president who's ever pled the fifth he's also going to hear a running a monologue in the background of him saying who pleads a fifth only mobsters plead the fifth i'm not pleading the fifth now look again he has defied the laws of political gravity larry in more ways and in more instances than one and so if he decides to take an about face in the science of plead the fifth he may use that as political campaign fodder and simply say look i'm pleading the fifth because i'm not going to engage in this process i don't believe in bob mueller and this team i think this is a complete set up so i'm pleading the fifth and i'm not doing so because i think i'm guilty i'm doing it because i simply don't want to be involved the process let

me go to the american people say folks. i can't be present with this or hanging around me i'm trying to do things i'm trying not to korea i'm trying to settle things and this is hampering me and it probably is hampering and where it's a good question in reality this probably is such a distraction for the president that he really can't focus on much else and look there we've heard there are rumors coming out of the white house that he's completely obsessed with it that he's not focused that he's got a big north korean. summit coming up and he can't focus on it and of course he can go to the american people and say listen i'm reaching the conclusion that i've got to in this investigation i've got to cut it off so i can go back to doing the business of the american people so i'm firing both and so on foreign both of that could happen always great my pleasure larry trent copeland one of the best we thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or britney had kings things and don't forget use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking.

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if. the czech republic admits to producing the type of nerve agent used to poison a former spy and his daughter in britain despite earlier refuting the russian claim is that it could have been one of the countries which handled the subjects. german police raid a migrant center where a group of refugees forced officers to release an asylum seeker earlier this week. and russia's foreign minister says that if israel has evidence that iran violated the two thousand and fifteen nuclear agreement it should handed over to the us.

on our broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international on sean thomas glad to have you with us now the czech president has confirmed that his country has been involved in producing the type of guard agent used to poison the former russian spy sergei screwball and his daughter in the u.k. in march bill it's a small amounts of money a chunk were produced in the czech republic we know well and. you know where it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never. check president saying that's not the child had previously been produced and stored in the country could be seen as a very major development to the script whole saga given that this is a point that russia had been making for a very long time saying that this nerve agent that was said to have been behind the pope poisoning of sergei and screwball and his daughter could have been produced in a number of countries including the czech republic and the us now it has to we have to be clear that the czech president did say that. was held in the country in

a small amount and has been destroyed however this is key given that previously czech ministers had denied this possibility russian claims that the czech republic is one of the four countries most likely to manufacture the nerve agent used to poison surrogates propound his daughter a holy unsubstantiated and highly speculative. the russians crossed all boundaries when this novacek agent could have come from the czech republic that is a lie now if you remember the u.k. was saying that it could only have been russia behind the attack or to use to rescind may's term quote highly likely and this was along with the wider picture with british official saying that russia had a history of similar incidents that it had been behind that it could only have been russia to have a motive in this case as well as a handful of other accusations that had led to westminster to point to moscow and of course what unraveled was

a major diplomatic standoff bringing ties between russia and the u.k. to a new low diplomats were expelled from a number of countries there had been boycotts by top officials of attending the world cup to be held in russia in the summer of twenty eighteen so certainly major circle major consequences for this development and of course despite the fact that we have seen a major scientific lab such as porton down being unable to pinpoint the production of the nerve agent used in the attack as having come from russia and the fact that russia all along has been saying it had nothing to do with the incident and denied that it was involved in this cripple case whatsoever it had called for a joint investigation and really saw what happened as anti russia histeria this is what the latest is that we heard from the russian foreign minister on this the government's accused russian launched a massive and see russia political and information complain without showing any

evidence it's even didn't wait for the conclusion of the british investigation to go over those proposals for joint prove our legal demands to produce evidence including samples of the substance which was used. and of course curiously what we have seen is within especially the first month of this major screwball scandal unraveling this was the major biggest story on all sorts of headlines especially of course here in britain as well as throughout the world yet recently especially following sergei scriptural and his daughter hughley is conditions improving this story has kind of disappeared from the political and media limelight so we will have to see whether or not it might resurface given these latest statements from the czech republic the czech president cited a report from the country's military intelligence and said that a small amount of a noble choke nerve agent was previously produced tested and destroyed in the czech republic however the president said that another report by the czech counter intelligence agency identified the agent not as nova choke but as

a similar substance called a two thirty we heard from a chemical weapons expert james to. there's probably at least a dozen countries that have the capability to make these persistent nerve agents and it doesn't surprise me that that the czech republic in many other countries could could do this the czech republic is very advanced in their chemical and synthetic chemistry ability and many countries have made it in the past to smart of study on making nerve agents and many countries have made nerve agents if you want to study what a persistent nerve agent can be like something that is harder to detect something that. lasts much longer than a typical nerve agent like sarin or so monor g.s. then you'd want to be making these in understanding how they work sometimes countries make it just to learn how to defend against it so yes this could have been made years ago and kept around for many years. police in southern germany

have raided a migrant center after scores of asylum seekers forcibly presented prevented rather excuse me the deportation of a total ease man on monday artie's peter all over has more. well if we start on monday with the incident and kick this all off it started when police in the southwestern german town of. garten but important book arrived at this refugee center with the intention of taking away a twenty three year old man from togo who is about to be deported now as they arrive to do that crowds of people start arriving saying he should be set free those crowds got bigger and bigger we're hearing one hundred fifty plus refugees surrounding the police in their car that was there we hear from the police that this was a particularly aggressive crowd that threats were being shouted the police officers eventually for air fearing for their safety or they released the man and then retreated now the police chief's haven't condemned those officers they've said that

they what they described was a really horrific situation a potentially dangerous situation that they were right to pull out there now three days later thursday we saw a major police raid take place now we're hearing as many as two hundred police were involved in this and they detained that twenty three year old along with seventeen other people but speaking to the press senior police saying that they had to move in when they did to stop this situation descending into further chaos you go in kind of it's for you we will not allow the creation of a law we will work against it we have clear indications that most black africans here see the police as the saree and want to fight against them we've never experienced a situation like this before it was big young people well as more information has come out about this throughout thursday we've seen quite angry reaction from politicians particularly at the fact that it this man was essentially on the run in free for three days and we also heard from the interior minister

a horse and who is typically a bully and in what he had to say. what happened there was a blow to the law regarding population we shouldn't let them trample on our hospitality. attacks on police officers are unacceptable in a constitutional state such conduct must have criminal consequences is clear that frustration is no excuse for crime but there are a lot of questions being asked namely well why was this able to happen in the first place how can it be stopped from happening at other refugee centers in the future and ultimately who is to take the blame for allowing this situation to escalate as rapidly as it did the refugee crisis has caused deep disagreements between each member states the dutch migration minister has accused countries in southern europe of failing to secure their borders ninety five percent of irregular migrants and asylum seekers arrive from other schengen stays about two thirds of them managed to

enter travel through other member states undetected and unregistered despite all measures taken to improve registration of the dutch minister also question of a european commission's previous claims that almost all migrants arriving in agrees and italy are being registered and he wants even members who refuse to share the burden of taking in the refugees to be. freeriding should have a price member states refusing to demonstrate solidarity in violation of a e.u. obligations should be penalized through cuts in e.u. subsidies or jamali a member of the series a party in greece believes that blaming southern europe is not fair. the thing is that europe has failed to provide a holistic and inclusive solution to the problem. it's a yearly and it cannot prove or soul it's only diary card there is crisis is not a great korean italian problem and it cannot be managed. or

a greek problem it's a european problem and greece and italy have handled all the burden of this whole situation i think the criticism is a bit unfair greece any are dealing with the refugee in my grand crisis with dignity while there are european member states that have resisted three locations that have resisted to abide by their. turkey agreement that have it is to take on the refugees and migrants or to the european commission for their response to the allegations from the dutch migration minister and we are waiting for them to get back to us. a man whose wedding in yemen was hit by a saudi airstrike last month that has described the horror of what happened here last at least twenty family members and friends and is among the survivors who have

been telling their.