ok 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 rob and 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 smart you look at the florida parkland march but that's a policy throwing her hat into the ring gives republicans now a bit of motivation as does the impeachment proceedings potentially. right after the break be right back.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. hummel is one of the most controversial products of odds on that it's a solid vegetable found that'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 the palm oil plantations which and the destruction of the rain forest. get into the zero a lot more than ten million hectares of unique rain forest has been destroyed and

it's a process that just keeps going. back to politics let's continue with the political panel robin isn't it going to 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 it right here in the georgia six john who never even shared a room at any point with nancy pelosi they never even met 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 a 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 policy democrat would absolutely refuse to do so larry jen as palosi might be a problem on their side a word 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. would not be a thorn 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 again i go back to my gut instincts my gut instincts tell me that he himself may not have been directly involved in the clues and 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 genevieve reverend back home again in california come visit us in studio and robin if you come was do the same. i well i 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 take away 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 e trumps team and trumps team decided to leak these questions for a couple reasons one they can label. the special counsel is being leaders 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 trump's 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 inclusion 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 better than 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 if mulder is 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 i 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 is it all 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 nice that 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 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 k. 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 mullah is a 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 them 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 trying i think he will almost certainly subpoena trump if trump does not voluntarily to sit down to him and 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 an 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 tell 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 three 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 and decides to plead the fifth he may use that as political campaign fodder and simply say hey 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 didn't go to the american people say folks. i can't be present with this i hang 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 whitney 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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be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. the czech republic admits it produced a poison like the one used in the salzburg attack on a former russian spy and his daughter despite earlier refuting russian claims that prague could have made similar poisons. also this hour we hear from anti fracking activists who british police view as dangerous extremists alongside the radical islamists and neo nazis the police of being involved in dragging disabled people out of the view is on the public point where you put the salting and. the pentagon says its forces stationed in the horn of africa are coming under attack from chinese laser weapons as the u.s.

issues a warning of extreme caution to its soldiers. and r.t. joins in a military parade rehearsal taking place in moscow as russia prepares for victory day on march than may the night. practice makes perfect sense. to use simple maneuvers like this one still being called the simple one there are dozens of vehicles involved in the all have to be inside. a very good morning to you from all of our team here in moscow you're watching r t international with me becky erin great to have you with us first this hour the czech republic has revealed it made a similar nerve agents to the one used to attack former russian spy surrogates good powell and his daughter the country's president to me last the man cited in an

intelligence report confirming that the poison had been made last year. novacek was produced and tested in the czech republic it was a small quantity though we know when and we know where it was done it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened the president of the czech republic saying that nava child had been produced and stored in the country could of course be seen as quite a considerable development since it reiterates the point that russia has been making throughout the script saga for all of this time saying that it could have been produced in a number of countries including the czech republic and the us now the president of the czech republic did say that this was a small amount and that it had been destroyed however still this is important given that previously we have seen ministers of the country deny this possibility russian claims that the czech republic is one of the four countries most likely to have

manufactured the nerve agent used to poison surrogates kripalani his daughter wholly unsubstantiated and highly speculative. the russians crossed all boundaries when the. agent could have come from the czech republic that is a lie now of course when accusations against russia started if you recall the united kingdom was saying that it could only have been russia to produce the novacek nerve agent that was said to have been used to poison. in his daughter insults vary on march fourth however this came with a combination of arguments made by the west saying that it could only have been russia that russia was the only country they thought would have a motive in a situation like this as well as had a history as they described it of carrying out similar attacks and this is of course that russia had denied throughout the whole scandal however it did unravel and snowball into a major diplomatic route bringing ties between russia and the u.k. to a new low leading to a handful of expulsion of russian diplomats from

a number of countries as well as the boycotting of the world cup about to take place in russia this summer and again despite the fact that russia over and over again said it had nothing to do with the incident had called for joint investigations to be carried out including with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and recently again we heard from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov talk about this case let's take a listen. the governments accused russia and launched a massive and see russia political and information complained without showing any evidence it's even didn't wait for the conclusion of the british investigation they ignored all the other proposals for joint proved our legal demands to produce evidence including samples of the substance which was used and of course taking all of this into consideration it's curious to point out the following sergei script polland his daughter yulia regaining consciousness at the hospital here in the u.k.

the story and the whole scandal has pretty much disappeared from the political and media limelight so it's going to be interesting to see whether or not it could in fact return following these latest statements made by the czech president the czech president said counter intelligence reports identified the agent made in his country as a substance called a two thirty not of a chalk but from the same family we've heard from chemical weapons experts james tore. 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 the czech republic in many other countries could could do this the czech republic is very advanced in their chemical and synthetic chemistry ability if you want to study what a persistent nerve agent can be like something that that is harder to detect then you'd want to be making these in understanding how they work and these persistent nerve agents these class of nerve agents are made to be more stable than than the

formerly used or more abundant. standard nerve agents so these are going to last even longer so yes this could have been made years ago and kept around for many years. us rapper kanye west supported the president and the u.s. has been explained by one south proclaimed strategic intelligence analyst who says he's knowingly doing the bidding of moscow morganti have now looks at an ever growing on me of russian agents remember when being portrayed as a russian spy was funny a bit of a joke. over. what he'd done in the dark when nothing just the late night filings russian spy or something. who isn't funny now could be anyone in the oval office in the pentagon

madison square garden can be as recent coordinations with trump along with his ease of infamous sort of rhetoric and symbols confederate flag reek of a cat's here just join up the dogs kanya indorse trump publicly friends being go. i'm not saying can you were still involved in that from prussia scandal but i am saying he has russian toys and was there right after the to seven sixteen election scott walk in or perhaps work in a contributor for the us news channel m.s.n. b c and also founder of russia gate agrees there are just too many dogs not to connect them kanya west went to russia he went to russia he literally flew to moscow and walked around the juicy what he got up to i sure

didn't get to be doing anything it's now so obvious why didn't we see it before we see it now and there are more of them clint eastwood openly backed trump and the russian connection is blatant clint eastwood speaks russian pretends to. oh and robert de niro he hates trump or so he says but look at the facts he owns a chain of all true a luxurious restaurants in moscow and he's opening a new one soon you know who goes to his restaurants oligarchs we're not blind anymore and there could be russian spies in my audience and i wouldn't know everyone is a suspect. are you

a russian spy now. russian spies ellen de generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who've recently been to russia they held cons and did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere. the president republicans hollywood your neighbor your friends maybe probably even you. a u.k. police monitoring group has forced the british authorities to release its counterterrorism training materials off the years of court battles the document reveals that anti fracking activists are considered extremists much like radical islamists or neo nazis fracking is a method of gas extraction considered by many environmental groups to be dangerous

in the framework of the british counterterrorism program known as prevent anti fracking movements fall under the category of domestic extremists and protesters are being monitored by anti terror agencies and defragging activists josephs core believes the police are unnecessarily resort to violence and environmental demonstrations puts a large question mark of. the integrity of the police and the. investigations into terrorism as a whole i mean are those approach the fighting terrorists or are they spying on every grandmother up and down the country who doesn't want fracking on her doorstep i mean the thing the definition of this domestic it streaming east is define the idea that they are not just.