well the watches are open now i'm having a while are you scared yet are you scared yeah well it's scary out there i have two reasons why i'm thoroughly terrified going to russia. making the rest of my meeting up on the east coast so number one is what we're looking like. is just on the other side of the country it's in the do they know it's not me atlantic and some of. it's absolutely insane i knew it was going there moment sense would say if you're going to fight against russia why don't you do it on the side of that is that you so we have all our ships on the east coast. residents come in and take california right over there to cross right over into alaska pretty quickly and easily and i really want to do it when they receive their mail and sounds from there you know i know right you know it's really incredible like the second fleet

is set to do open for business on july first like i said it'll start with a bottle of officers and four enlisted personnel and then like you know paul these ships over it will eventually grow though the actual organization of running the second play once they grow to about two hundred fifty six personnel eighty five officers hundred sixty four enlisted and seven civilians it's going to be a massive undertaking right of all these ships over chief of naval operations admiral john richards that was great tell you all of this told reporters that any costs associated with setting up the fleet and new command structure would be worth it totally worth it so all the tax money spent to do all this will be totally worth it and unequivocally he made clear that the focus of the second fleet will be on wait for projecting force yes our national defense strategy makes clear that we're back in an era of great power company this. and will be high in blue water warfare

using major elements of maritime power he loves to see references and that's a little unsettling considering just last year we had what four major incidents says that led to the deaths of about seventeen sailors and we were told the reason that happened was because the navy was already stretched too thin so if you've got naval experts and other people telling the media that the constant deployments shrinking number of ships high demand on the cruise is what's free of the u.s. navy how the hack is bringing back of a second fully to keep an eye out for about making a russians out coming to steal our cheese and. apple pie and stuff that really how does your keyboard read him on the zoom zoom or out of his way but how does that not stretch them even more at the end if you're just taking ships one area into the meds so there was no reason for them to be there but it's a perfectly logical question and that's the thing it's i do unless you're adding

them building brand new ships and hiring a lot more people just like moving people around in the chest or that is ridiculous and the thing is too is that there's no. look i would be out as there's no real threat from russia vladimir is not a lot of it was not sitting in russia saying how can i attack and destroy the united states with nuclear weapons most of the world doesn't want to see that at all and what's one of those that's not part of it the fear mongering is still strong as you know as part of this russian fear mongering is that you know is that you're seeing defense one dot com raise the call now for a nato alliance against information. r.t. and others write they wrote what approaches suddenly announced those baltic fleet had dispatched an armada towards britain would constant kremlin influence reports about the incompetence of british institutions make that make them conclude the people. that any resistance was pointless. so i think it

might just be that they're confused this happens a lot of the lot of their russian not borg yes there's a slight difference in the two areas borg so they're all resistance is futile thing we're not required by the borg i mean russian leader. seriously what if our reports yes i have a vat much power and i swear i didn't know i have this much power to make the whole of the united kingdom just sit back and do nothing as they're taken over and. that's why i was or do i was one of us who like the idea that we have that much power is adorable it is here it's just and darn it we're going to do something that is generally we're preaching peace which i know is a dirty word who has airwaves remember russia not bored.

of the state of california is the fifth largest economy in the world there are two major problems they're struggling to solve slowing the effects of climate change on the state's natural resources and a shortage of affordable housing this week new building regulations and incentives are poised to make california the first state in the country to require almost all newly built homes condos and apartment buildings up to three storeys high to be energy efficient enough that its energy use can be offset by a modest array of rooftop solar panels so while some have decried the move over worries that the extra costs about ten thousand dollars per one family home many including the institute for market transformation found that certified energy efficient homes sell for two point one to five point three percent higher than those that the certification and the u.s. department of energy found the designated energy efficient home said to sell eighteen to thirty nine days faster than their competitors however it isn't just the rich and their new homes that benefit from energy efficiency turns out. the

lowest twenty percent of income earners pay almost ten percent of their income on electricity while the highest twenty percent of earners spend under one and a half percent which is what makes the california move so interesting it isn't just about forcing solar panels on roofs it's about lowering the cost of those panels creating jobs for their installation and making new homes more affordable in the long run for families in any economic situation so the question is will the sun shine on california's new building codes or will it cloud the issue of the state's costly housing you about that's a great an awesome question of the it's an interesting kind of issue that's going on it kills workers like you said with the largest economy in the world the decision whether they want to or not are we want to believe it or not whatever decisions made in california do actually affect the rest of the world when you're done talking about you know if you're going to be that big here and one of the big questions is why now why has this become an issue well in two thousand and seven

the energy commission california public utilities commission basically sudden binding goal of having all new residential construction by two thousand and twenty be zero net energy which is incredible and i'm all for this this is change for the better into the future i'm sorry we don't need the fossil fuel thing anymore i'll got to die now but what's interesting is that the trumpet ministration us has been very vocal about limiting the ability of states to set their own environmental protection provisions i guess like states rights what doesn't count when it comes to protecting the environment that is no longer states' rights yeah states records of only a matter and you know slavery and civil war. fag but the poverty thing that brought it down that it means and this is where i state this is where unfortunately i think the federal government does overstepped its bounds it's not just the trumpet ministration it's the federal government and it should not be off telling states that they can't do this because this is a major area of income inequality that states can find a way to do. and that's what i think california is doing in

a way so michelle moore who's a c.e.o. of a company called ground swell they did a study on this about poverty and energy and what they said is the connection between electric costs of poverty but it was that energy is not a luxury good we can't afford these social cost of living economically challenged communities behind the people who can least afford the cost are paying the biggest electric bills and that's i'm saying is that not only is that a percentage of cost as i talked about the beginning of this piece it isn't just the actual like these percentage of their income the bottom ten percent are actually paying more per square foot for electricity than people on the top ten twenty percent so you're one person or is in your top twenty percent pay less per square foot than the rest of us peasants in the it doesn't surprise me why that is because when you think about it those with the most money have the most influence right so they're the ones that energy companies who not only probably own the

energy companies anyway but you know they're also the ones that the energy companies in this world don't want to mess with right so we're going to we're going to readjust and squeeze as much as we can out of the poor but hey you know the rich get a break because they got a lot more square footage than the poor you know because those are exactly the homes they could have are going to be. right but it's also interesting too because this brings up another issue that's specific to california but other places around the world as well they have a building related pollution not even know about this but building related pollution is responsible for twenty five percent of california's stance carbon emissions that's almost on par with like california's industrial sectors that's incredible if you're playing like sim city and cityscapes that's like the old boards just you know usually the part of the factories is all covered in clouds and the nice residential areas are nice in california be the same the air resources board that shows the direct from fossil fuel use these buildings largely from what natural gas burning purposes and water heaters are equal to emissions from california for his fleet of natural gas. our plan is ok so there's

a great reason why we need clean energy all right and we're conference interesting is that like i said the solar panels will cost about ten thousand dollars for out of pocket out of cars. and they say it's about twenty to twenty five per house but that has to do with instant different changes in insulation windows things like that but you're going to save i mean basically just on that power alone just by changing it into these these things will save sixteen thousand dollars at least over a thirty year time of having a house but the really important thing that i want to point out here is this idea that when pushing toward natural gas of course a lot of companies and appliance manufacturers push for gas and electric appliances are actually cheaper now so you're convections and that kind of south and they're cheaper to run the gas models in three out of four categories and they're less costly to run on the daily basis source who doesn't hold cement lng who anyone who's ever dealt with one of these like super conglomerate energy companies paying your electric bill or pay me a bill what we all love to see it will fail of all at some point so hey let's go

solar let that happen all right as we go to break our bloggers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered up facebook and twitter so your poll shows that our d. dot com coming up political satirist right before they go joins us to discuss the shocking fall of new york attorney general eric schneiderman and randy's one building venture and so i view white house correspondents dinner they took to the.

in our world of twenty four hour news coverage in the instant feedback loop of twitter and smartphones what a difference a day can make nobody would even venture a guess at the start of this week that new york's vaunted attorney general eric schneiderman was anything but president donald trump's legal arch nemesis on par with robert muller and james comey a celebrated cheerleader of the women's march and the fight against sexual assault and the long rumored future candidate for governor of governor of new york allows that was all not meant to be following a detailed report by the new yorker's own ronan farrow that repeals the progressive champions behind closed doors a record of brutal violence against his romantic partners along with

a substance abuse problem that leaves one wondering how schneiderman was ever able to hold down his job let alone entertaining ambitions of an even higher office to break down just how this story managed to stay hidden from the public eye for so long we're joined today by randy credico an activist and comedian from new york and former acquaintance of mr schneiderman so you doing today randi hey it's great to be on the show particular talking about california where i grew up and and that's the worst smaug ever back in the sixty's and seventy's so this still not good so i really appreciate i'm going there tomorrow i'm doing very well thank you for having me back on i love this show tabitha anti-roll thank you so much already i want to start you know we know her eliot spitzer david paterson anthony wiener i'm sure the list goes on of what seems like how are the states going to. resign in disgrace over the last decade. you bet in new york a long time been put on time what is it with new york politicians and scandal

committee not avoided i don't know first of all they don't make a lot of money so i guess they do a lot of other things to make money and they cross lines at least in the assembly and in the state senate you get like sixty five thousand dollars a year and they come in from all over the state well below the national average i believe so. there's a lot of see the people up there i went up there i wish i had sent you a picture back in two thousand and nine dressed up as to greek philosopher diog in each the senate and i dress i had the toga and i had the the hair i had i had the lantern and i went inside a senate ethics hearing and looking for an honest man which is what biologists did looking for an honest politician up there it was huge on the greek t.v. picked up on a spanish t.v. picked up on it because there are no honest people up in albany you know you take that job you're there forever i mean there's a few i mean there are

a few people up there but once again you never go out you just you're just there forever and they do it does attract a very seedy element you know so much like the intelligence and history and i'm up there on birds of a feather. well the one thing i'm wondering about is now snyderman was one of the highest profile advocates of the meeting the men and that's really what we really are. infuriated me if they aware that i was they on television that you know he was one of the bigger sort of overall resistance to try and like i said let's talk about being a governor how did this not come out sooner because this man now has the fingerprints on some of the most important legislation to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace and sexual assault against harvey weinstein so how did this not come out sooner well listen i've known him for twenty years he was when i

first met him he was a state senator i helped the when a very tough race back in two thousand and two which he was supposed to lose because he had a lot of latinos in this district and the republicans through in a democratic primary candidate who. who was let tino a dominican get a moat lead us and he almost got beat but i got into that race a crevasse me for winning helping him win that race so i know my guys party inhabits. back in two thousand and five he and i were at some place together we were doing some bad things substance wise and i didn't really want to bring that out but it's already out there i said to somebody in passing they wrote a big story on it so plus they introduced him to a couple of women that i know and when i spoke to them later they were not too happy that i introduced them to him now on the other side the guy was a champion back in the one nine hundred ninety eight all the way to two thousand and five two thousand and six with my group the way most concerts one for racial

justice and trying to change the yorks races and draconian rockefeller drug laws he was my key guy in the senate and so he was out there he really built his career in the senate be in the point person there and then he would when he ran for attorney general in two thousand and two thousand and ten. you know anyone he actually switched he was using that office to go after. these like forty five forty six people on drug charges and these poor black communities rounding them up by the state police and he was prosecuting them and i really got upset about that that's the reason why i think that i told somebody about the hypocrisy he was like the main guy the main guy in the senate then he totally flipped so i'm sorry this happened to him i saw him last year he asked me to stop picking on him because i was picking on him he was going after little welfare welfare fraud cases putting

people in jail for that so that me too but he jumped on that because it was a popular issue. but there's a dr jekyll and mr hyde party him i suppose and i'm really sorry for the guy because they actually wanted him to run for governor you know this guy used to talk marxism with this kind of very bright guy and has really good politics but in the end he's a politician and i think a lot of the reasons why he went after some of these cases that normally he wouldn't buy the state police is because they knew i mean there have been rumors about him for a long time and but i really feel bad for him he says that you know he's contesting these charges but you know it's a sad thing because he really inside would have been the most progressive person if he had run for governor but you know there is that side and i was upset to a lot of my friends it's hard to defend him these stories are pretty hard hitting

but it's something you really have to sort of learn over the last year is that you know when you when a movement like this happens when this moment happens which is so important for so many not just you know people like me but people around the world it is when someone who is like that who's used that using that as a way to get you know their career up and running and i think it says it's a rich that he's telling you not to be a man when his letter. they making excuses in the press that it was all just part of the you know role play and everything and i was like i know my difference between roleplay and assault and we all know the difference and someone like that and in fact close the meeting with men should know that i think you're right there's such a have there and hopefully you will realize that oh well you know i just wrote. i emceed his fiftieth birthday party and every politician from jose serrano in the

house was there everybody was there mark green every local politician robert morgenthau the district attorney i am see that and stayed out with him to like five o'clock in the morning. and you know he was with one of those women back then so we the three of us hung out we were the last ones there are a half thousand people there were the last three people there and i really had no idea but like i've said i've heard rumors about other things and fact roger stone called me up in two thousand and ten a week before the election and he said don't say anything to eric schneiderman that i know and i said what and then like a half an hour later eric schneiderman called and he says have you heard from roger stone lately and so you know rock and stone had something on him back then so maybe he's i don't know what happened here but he calls me up it was such a coincidence you know i want to get in and that's where we were at a time i want to get your other happier and more exciting and interesting now

apparently of the year you attended the white house correspondents' dinner and apparently from what i hear randy got your twitter pages but they are for the state are champions of free speech weren't that excited about your free speech no you know what i was there i was invited by yahoo news all because of the publicity you've given me a jimmy doors given me every melbourne all these others michael isikoff and those are the people that invited me is isikoff and yahoo news who forgot the book russian roulette it was so ironic. assim my celebrity this russia gay thing and so i was invited i went to may have these huge parties there and i'm talking to everybody adam schiff talking to adam schiff mansi pelosi i was talking to jeff weaver who is bernie sanders campaign manager bernie sanders campaign manager i did my oppression for him so we had it we had i really was having too much fun there you know i was talking to others i was having too much fun and then i went out after meeting everybody tom styer jimmy hoffa who who i know for ever and i was

actually reporting for jimmy door at the same time i had a camera in my pocket and we were doing a live stream where jimmy door show so now i go into the main room alley vashti he's talking to me everybody's talking to me and like i sit down i have dinner steak in and great they have wine and everything and i felt really bad i went to the c.n.n. table and i talked to that guy mani ra who called pronounce my name like i was a russian agent like they're rascality you know. and then i'm talking to joe johns kate baldwin chrysalis i'm sitting at their table and they're about to get the big award and i just couldn't you know take it anymore you know. julian assange is sitting in a little place he's like it's eighty degrees or no air conditioning he can't communicate only isolated his mother i spoke to the night before and i felt so

guilty i had to take a bath so i stood up in a room that included rod rosenstein and everybody else every politician i stood up and i screamed like howard beale i said julian assad should be getting this award tonight he's the most trusted name in news not c.n.n. he's never had an accurate report so i went to four or five strategic areas there table wise and started bellowing that out because c.n.n. was a hundred and. so i just felt so want comfortable eating the food rubbing elbows with these people and then corrupted said what and i had to do it and read you i love it when you're out there and congratulations for speaking to speak a little truth to them thank you so much for coming on our show today always a pleasure sir thank you very much tabitha anti-roll always a pleasure. last fall over signed a space act agreement with us space agency nasa to co-develop new concepts for

unmanned traffic management marial systems and this week at the company's elevated conference it will reveal the concept art for what will become their network of unmanned flying taxis in an effort to cut down on vehicle traffic in dense urban spaces the taxi is which will launch from the roof high rise buildings will seat four with no middle c. the taxi will have eight highly mounted helicopter like rotors to avoid having to duck when you get into the aircraft it will be able to reach speeds of two hundred miles per hour in elevations of between one thousand and two thousand feet and if you're wondering who's helping pay for all this research and development well look no further than the u.s. army's corporate research lab who will be putting in over a half million dollars to get flying taxes of the ground and probably air traffic jams all right that is are sure over there and remember everyone in this world we are not told really loved enough so i tell you all i love you i am a tight rope and i'm talking a lot less people watching those hawks have a great day and that are.

unknown welcome see you all on this very special day in. actually you're watching r t international with me nicky ara now russia is celebrating victory day today marking the defeat of nazi germany this day marks the seventy third anniversary of the end of the great patriotic war which claimed the lives of over twenty six million soviet people as take you live now to central moscow where the parade is about to get underway.

now in central moscow people are observing a minute silence to honor those who lost their lives in the great patriotic war. we have correspondents covering all angles angles of the parade today we can now go to you will receive a who was right on red square for us we've also got a goshdarn off for you has a bird's eye view of the military hardware rolling past also daniel hawkins is right outside the kremlin let's go to rory first and rory was happening where you are right now well and he couldn't you really couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day here on moscow's iconic red square to mark seventy three years as you said since the victory over naziism fascism the successful end of the great patriotic war nine hundred forty one to nine hundred forty five we are writing

ourselves now for the marching regiments who will soon be trotting across red square here in downtown central moscow there will be a lot of new weapons of war on debut today in the skies above us and cruising across the cobblestones all red square new armored personnel carriers new tanks and of course the new guard at hypersonic missile delivery platform that will be on display in the skies over moscow today just to say twenty seven or twenty eight million soviets lost their lives during the great patriotic war so today marking the seventy third anniversary of the end of the war we are paying all respects and to those who lost their lives but also for those who remain with us today and as nicky said our correspondents opposition from all the great viewpoints around where square from the research a for now back to you as our live coverage continues thanks for that story showing you on our screens right now we have president putin greeting and meeting some of the people that on red square today we're going to be

bringing you all of this live coverage throughout the morning so do stay with us let's go to our correspondent igor standoff now is keeping an eye on the military hardware the eagle what can you see from where you are. well they get any minute now. the military vehicles behind me will be starting there and gins will basically once vladimir putin greets and sort of accept the parade they will begin rolling on their way over there towards the red square we can sort of overhear of ward schooling on there there of course talking about the veterans about all those who lost their lives and those who lived through the war to see the parade of today of course they're thanking the veterans and of course it is for the russians it's a day of remembrance in terms of the military vehicles more than one hundred machines in total are pretty are participating today they include both veterans

like the legendary t. thirty four tank which basically all but one the war for the soviets in the one nine hundred forty five but also there will be some newer hardware some of them some of it we've already seen like for example the s four hundred missile defense. missile defense systems or like the tank for example which is just over there behind me but also there will be some newer additions to this parade too with this includes russia's unmanned drones which are being unveiled for the first time really this is the as it were a they can carry volumes while being developed as a reconnaissance we also tank units or tank supports units like for example the one called terminator so yes terminator will be rolling on to the red square but really

now the parade is about to kick off so i'm handing it back to you nikki thanks a go at ten o'clock and moscow time at this past guy clock will strike ten this traditionally kicks off the parade let's go to live pictures now to see what's happening on the. when.