well is doing it can soon fit their phone and t. is they hope the move to prompt the authorities still ignoring the plight of my clients and force them to take action. ski auti paris. made headlines last month after being arrested in the u.s. for being a russian agent she now faces further allegations that she is luring american money to russia ulti american spoke to a lawyer it's coming up later this week and on you tube channel. well i think if you read the indictment of the case is alleged to be an agent over russia who failed to register with the attorney general and so essentially that means is they haven't charged with espionage and if you read the ins ganster know the allegations are parroting spy like about it the sense of the government is conceding that even under their own theory if she had filed a piece of paper with the attorney general's office at the beginning of her trip to america everything she did was legal and so my point is this is more

a registration type crime than a crime and yet the media and the government some extent are treating it like an espionage crime. well i mean i think that that allegation was particularly damaging to maria because it makes it more like a spy novel and frankly easier for the public to digest and so editors and producers like those kind of allegations because it seems like this is more like the red sparrow that was an allegation that was set forth in a proffer by the government meaning they did not produce evidence to back up that allegation at the time we're still waiting to see that and we're not sure it exists or exists in any meaningful form in the interim it's very hard to see your client kind of dragged through the mud like this which is why i've been trying to push back on that. south african comedian presenter of the daily show and the no show at the top of american t.v. personalities killed his needs based on popularity on social media platforms and

t.v. and it seems he's go global appeal but for some people his jokes go beyond the pale . all women of every race can be beautiful and i know some of you're sitting there going over your but i've never seen a beautiful aborigine but you know what you say you say yes that's to say yes because you haven't seen all of the right plus it's not always about looks maybe aborigine women do special things like jump on top of the wall the wall. for sale but i don't want the world cup football was. i mean look i get it i get it they have to say it's the french team but look at those guys i guess you don't get that tear by hanging out in the south of france my

friends. watch. dancing i bet that's the stance i but it wasn't it was the police this is the miners and they wanted money and it was a sad situation no one really knows what happened but everyone has an opinion i like this well it was the last job that provoked a new wave of outrage on social media though it's been actually years since it was first cracked it's about the twenty twelve americana massacre when police in south africa killed dozens of people during a miners' strike some on twitter slammed him for using provocative humor to build his career you know in a near loss comedian john f. o'donnell and also legal and media analyst lionel if there should be boundaries in comedy or not. comedy today is being infiltrated with these floyd ian screw ups these demented twisted angry sexually

backwater reared freud the a nightmare these these these pair of files who think it's funny to shock and to say something and whatever they say we're supposed to accept the reality is once we start letting these kind of p.c. monsters come into place and having like you know people decide what is you know what is tolerable and what is good we do cross the mess that we do cross a dangerous line and if somebody does a comedian does want to of their own volition apologize for a bit i think that that is ok like he did apologize for this the bit about saying you know aboriginal people are attractive to me everything is valid in terms of whether you call it humor or pekin commentary if you don't like it turn it off but a rule might be don't joke about something called a mass occur just saying i mean i don't know if there's any rules but i stay away

from master curry humor let me tell you what bothers me and in addition to this and i'm no real big fan of trevor noah and that doesn't mean anything you know read anything into that how many years ago were some of these jokes is there a statute of limitations number one do we just dredge up stuff that's number one and number two i don't mind or i do mind should say when some people get away with things and some people don't who decides who gets away with what who gets to say you could say it you could say it right that you are but you can't that's what bothers me we have to go back to the maracana musser in the way trevor joked about it let's again listen to a short clip. why didn't i use rubber burning so i didn't use i'd said yes because those things don't work anymore. these are the whole wheat and they couldn't control people so that's come with ammunition for those guys and weapons plus i guess is a waste of time which strikes have ended because of him against libya for that on

the news and yeah it is a very you know disparate and you to kind of say something like that and then kind of have this thing you know everyone say this was this was five years ago i was saying it's like how long do these our age police get to you know exist like what's the statute of limitation on saying something as comedians as creative people we're coming up with a lot of content we're throwing a lot of things out there sure if we say something that's you know that's really inflammatory and you know there can be a backlash and that's something that we have to we have to deal with right or wrong and let's also remember this is trevor no are ok about it so get crazy but if he did made there's jokes about palestinian riot for our prize ings with israeli soldiers. no no no no no so there's no applicability to humor across the board it's all what's in and what's not black lives matter sacrosanct the massacre that that's what it will what's a word not oh yes edgy is there a point there that maybe bravery is being lost in company a little bit but easy

targets are being deployed when it comes to the liberal versus conservative liberal . comics tend to you know go done the side of conservatives with the trouble ministration it's in sort of sort of easy for you know mainstream liberal comedians to you know go after the ministration of the republican party that's the kind of the wheel has a house where they feel you know comfortable like a lot of these shows would probably be considerably you know would would be happy if there was a hillary clinton presidency but they would have less fodder to go after you know if you're in the right group and the right person the sky's the limit if you're not republican trump supporter perceived to be right wing whatever you get no tolerance and no exercise of the free liberty of free speech that simple. coming up here an r.t. is the u.s. looks to midterm elections facebook scraps of camps it believes could impact the

vote will bring you the details coming up after the break. people in the last month. we were in. this. all day experience is all this. growth.

with those u.s. midterm elections on the horizon the specter of alleged russian meddling is reappeared facebook's moved accounts which it believes were being used to possibly influence the outcome of the vote but as samir khan reports next there is no evidence to point the finger at moscow. today we removed thirty two pages in accounts from facebook and instagram because they were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior this kind of behavior is not allowed on facebook because we don't want people or organizations creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are or what they're doing yes thirty two accounts were deleted to

face the arms race presented by quote well funded adversaries but who are those three to accounts influential enough to undermine american democracy in fact most of the spotted materials have zero to ten followers and in the scope of about fourteen months ran one hundred fifty ads for approximately eleven thousand dollars but let's get down to the nitty gritty who's guilty we're still in the very early stages of our investigation and don't have all the facts including who may be behind this in the statement facebook reiterated several times that they were unable to identify the culprit and even admitted that they quote may never be able to identify the source with the apparent goal of amplifying already existing conspiratorial narratives the mainstream media it's playing not an ounce of creativity went on to blame the usual suspect brushing actors continue to try to disrupt metal infiltrate the us political debate if not the elections them selves

well russia is interfering there continuing to interfere russia has been mentioned as the likely source of this interference in attempts russians and other nation states absolutely are attempting to manipulate us but on what basis the report didn't find russia or russian entities or russian linked entities responsible although some references were made to last year's findings which were they best democratic house minority leader nancy pelosi even demanded that facebook brief congress on these critical developments which she took as confirmation of the intelligence community's russian interference claims the latest announcement confirms the longstanding findings of the u.s. intelligence community and national security experts that's russia is actively utilizing social media in a car donated effort to sow discord among the american people and undermine our democracy. what does it mean to be an inauthentic account it's not really explain for a well if someone is against the u.s.

immigration policy which some of these anti ice accounts apparently were maybe they would like to conceal their identity maybe they're afraid of us authorities it's a strange thing are we allowed to be private thinking for identities private in the us without people assuming that somehow there are some foreign hand meddling in things it's very strange the real question is what does it mean that someone is trying to sow divisions among americans are we not allowed to disagree with each other on fundamental issues like immigration and other things and i looked at some of the pages and some of them were sort of pro-feminist women shouldn't have to cook for their for their man i mean how is this supposed to is a russian effort to sort of visions americans have always disagreed that's the nature of society of a free society you disagree not the so these people i think the mentality is not like north korea or something it's very bizarre. it seems the city of austin and the u.s. may have to rethink its neighbor report from the city's equity office raised the issue that the texas state capitol was named after

a supporter of slavery and that's a sensitive issue for a city that's considered one of the most liberal in the whole country. we're fact austin's equity office reviewed all of the city's property whether or not had any ties to the confederacy and they came up with a whole list of street names and monuments that they thought should be changed or

removed although it has to be said the cavite to all this changing the city name is not likely to happen any time soon as in the beginning medium priority anyway what's the controversy here a bit more detail well the guy in question is called stephen austin he's the father of texas there is he was secretary of state of the new republic in the nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery advocate and even from some infamously once said if slaves were emancipated they turned into a menace he had slaves as domestic servants as well still naming the city after the state found common sense says media relations consultant local resident john griffin. we've got this push in texas to try to you know be careful not to withstand anybody at texas is offensive because liberty's offensive the fact that texas is named that capital city is named for the person that started the colony in texas that became the state that's common sense the city council here in austin has

made a few a few very bad decisions like banning it so the city council would rather waste taxpayer money on frivolous ideas like this then actually doing real work. a russian climb has been rescued after spending nearly a week stranded on a mountain in pakistan he survived without food for several days while ensuring treacherous weather conditions. thank you for help move. how are you feeling now. what better of it is the morning. good morning to you. good to bug me but i was thinking about you learned gone back to the north but there's a little none of us. want to be. is a little bit of. mother in law and

a good mother in law and. you know a lucky guy there at the end of the day was may well so why some of the top stories are putting out so far this wednesday morning the first of august from our team is kevin i when i was watching.

all. and. russia is one of the countries that most buy capacity and all the very high population does that mean russia does need to be concerned about sustainability i would say yes absolutely you are no lucky situation where you have a lot of farm per person so to say you know you have a lot of wealth ecological wealth and but the word is very scarce so that's a huge economic advantage as well and saying wow this is an amazing farm let's look after it well because that's not our outset that's the naval us to live well in the

long run. but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and. or somehow want to it's. actually going to be press that's what before three in the morning can people that i'm interested always in the waters of our. question. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that.

this is phone bus broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton thank you for watching coming up today as president trump says he'll meet with iranian officials with no precondition what does that mean for their number one economic engine oil alex one hile of it helps us figure it out and tells us the latest with the saudi aramco initial public offering it's still weighed yet again plus as the federal open markets committee meets what's the fed reserve up to and will they make any news daniele de martino both the c.e.o. of the intelligence joins us to tell us and it is your smart t.v. spying on you watch out manila chan gives us the details steve malzberg helps us understand how it does that you will leverage the assets and as tributes of twenty first century box when this sale goes through what's to get to but first we hit

a few headlines. tech stocks are in correction territory and some investors are wondering if the market is moving into a new phase the fabled fang group of stocks facebook alphabet corp the parent of google of course netflix and amazon were all down significantly in trading on monday with losses draining from two percent for alphabet to nearly six percent for netflix sometimes fang included stock apple took a much smaller nick of point five percent after monday facebook was down a total of thirteen percent in july the tech heavy nasdaq index closed down one point four percent overall on monday and u.s. president donald trump has said that the he would be willing to meet with the president of iran in response to a question at a joint press conference yesterday with the italian prime minister mr trump expressed a broad general inclination to meet with adversaries with no preconditions so i believe in meeting i would certainly meet with the rand if they wanted to meet i

don't know that they're ready yet to have a hard time right now. but i ended the deal it was a ridiculous deal i do believe that they will probably end up wanting to meet and i'm ready to meet any time they want to and i don't do that from strength or from weakness i think it's an appropriate thing to do if we could work something out that's meaningful not the waste of paper that the other deal was i would certainly be willing to me mr trump's backing away from the nuclear deal brokered by the five plus the p five plus one group of nations has severely undermined advocate for diplomacy within iran and made meetings with u.s. diplomats a virtual political suicide mission for any iranian official european partners have been quietly see that mr trump's attacks on their hard fought diplomatic achievement and lobbied hard against a trump administration's plans to reimpose economic sanctions that were lifted as part of the accord barring any diplomatic breakthroughs the white house will

reimpose economic sanctions against iran next week on currencies metals and in the auto sector sanctions on shipping and oil iran's primary source of foreign exchange are set to snap back in place in november and as president trump says he'll meet with iranian officials with no preconditions what does that mean for their number one economic engine oil alex behind all of which helps us figure it out and tells us the latest on the saudi aramco i.p.o. it's delayed yet again alex let's start with iran what's the latest when it comes to their main export oil. well of the just look at oil itself today dropped by about one dollar to sixty nine dollars and that has a lot to do with this new tone of president trump here diplomacy as it's a funny thing how headlines and press releases actually change oil prices and just this happens to be one of those headlines now that also all of this is wonderful hearing the way trump is talking and i think most of us in this world would like to see diplomacy and discussion about war or bombing people so that's

a great thing but at the same time just these are the the looming sanctions that are supposed to kick in in november are having an impact on you and already we're looking at about one hundred thousand barrels a day last in sales for iran in the month of july and we're hearing that many companies are stepping out of the rent knowing that these sanctions are going to come into play so i mean obviously we're hoping that this doesn't happen that there is a deal struck with the with mr donald trump but we'll see what happens in that respect but let's talk about those companies one of the biggest companies is total total is a french energy giant they've stepped back they were actually the first company to go into ran in two thousand and fifteen when sanctions were dropped and they are stepping out now we're also hearing about banks banks are not willing to finance iranian oil anymore so we can see the impact from their part of that part as well and here's a big india is going to buy less oil from iran they're ready doing so they're

trying to play nice nice with the united states and cozy up to the american government so that might be a big hit now that everybody's they hey look iran's done no iran is far from done because there is one country out there that buys more oil from iran than anybody else more than india which is number two and that would be china china has already promised you know what we're going to buy more oil if these sanctions kick in and here's a double whammy we're going to wean ourselves off of american oil so when china says something like this the whole world listens. and of course free rent just having that that ally to keep them afloat that's a big deal we've also hearing that russia is willing to step in if some of these companies move out so rand does have some cushioning around it even if the sanctions take and hopefully though we can hear from mr trump some more and hopefully these people actually do sit down and meet with the iranian government and we don't have to go through this whole dog and pony show it looks alec's like

you know just oil prices maybe throwing a monkey wrench in to saudi arabia's reform plans there with mohammed bin solomon and at the center of all is that saudi aramco which they say has been delayed what do you know. iran caught in the blood a monster of a company that is and we're talking about a big long term plan here the crown prince of saudi arabia we've talked about this before he wants to modernize his nation and he wants to wean his nation off of oil there rampal i.p.o. was a part of this is pushing this forward forward but a lot of the rank of remco exacts are saying this is not a good time to do it the way that oil prices are going up and down it's probably not their best interest but just let's learn a little bit about aramco i mean does this company's not that here's a couple of graphs to explain to you what i've read call really. absolutely huge beat out companies and profit like apple samsung microsoft or you can see exxon is

way down there when you compare it to aramco and it would have been the world's biggest i.p.o. or it will be when this happens that i was the bigger that alley bob and that was a twenty five billion that you're think it was a whole company get a guy p.o.d. that's a no this is five percent of a rambo we're talking about five percent it's going to be valued anywhere people are saying between fifty and seventy five billion the crown prince was looking more at a hundred billion dollars number in his head that he thought would be wonderful if this deal to actually goes down but it doesn't look like it's going to happen this way we're hearing now that this deal is probably going to be delayed once again as you mentioned. four into two thousand and nineteen and you know it's really not that bad for the saudis at this point because the crown prince himself has a lot of other business on his hands like economic and social reforms at home as well as the fact that his foreign policy and we're seeing the way things are moving he's paying a lot of attention to that as well and for looking just at the other side of things from. a little bit while back with the crown prince did when he put all those

people into the ritz carlton where they collected about one hundred billion dollars there and that was money that was out there anti corruption deal that they did or the be reported with that it was absolutely lot of money one hundred billion dollars that's with us hoping for the red go five percent so they're pretty cushy right now there's their war chest is full they're not really too afraid that they have to do this deal right away but it's something that they'll definitely want to push forward in modernizing their country and becoming a part more so of the world community always great information really really super interesting today thank you so much our to correspondent alex mileage thanks alex. and in the wake of last friday's second quarter g.d.p. numbers of four point one percent the federal reserve's open markets committee meets tuesday and wednesday and what are they discussing and what can we tell you about it here to help is the c.e.o.

of quill intelligence and the author of fed up why the federal reserve is bad for america daniel de martino both danielle thank you welcome it's always the u.s. economy has accelerated that four point one percent growth rate in q two and that's a quickest pace and twenty fourteen and president trump has and should rightly claim some victory for his policies and when we look at growth in light of the f o m c meeting today and tomorrow in washington what are the metrics that the governors are going to be considering. well i think that they're going to be trying to figure out what happens on the other side of this great big report will we see sustained growth of this level in the quote in the third quarter that we're currently in you know to to on the plus side we have indeed seen inventories run down dramatically which was a surprise in the second quarter g.d.p. report one of the reasons that some analysts have their forecast upwards of five percent so we know that we're going to have a lot of support going into the third quarter the question will come down to what

is happening with u.s. households their ability to keep spending at the levels they've been spending at their ability to keep pulling this economy along and we actually got some consumer confidence data today bart that suggests we have a pullback in the offing right now i saw that and they revised the number two and and we're speaking about those numbers daniel recall back i think we've spoken about it i'm sure we have back in the campaign in two thousand and sixteen there you know the president look at the campaign trail as it were to get four five six maybe seven percent g.d.p. and a lot of us said oh come on you know what do you smoke and but i want to explain for all the boom busters out there when we look at the economy in the talks about a one point eight percent g.d.p. growth rate and so does the congressional budget office i mean what's really something that we could expect if we're if we're at four point one now get to the

end of the year is it two is it three. well i think that there is a high possibility that we actually see a three percent annual figure which really would be extraordinary given how slow this recovery has been but again i think the fed is going to try and focus more on what happens after the third quarter what happens going into the fourth quarter i mean as you just mentioned campaign promises can be whatever campaign promises can be i mean look at what the italians promised all of their people craziness but just the same going further out past this year look at it this way i'm in new york today bart if wall street firms have begun to budget for recession to hit in the year twenty twenty that really means that they're internally budgeting for twenty nineteen there is no way that i think we can completely eradicate the business cycle so there will be slowing at some point in the next twelve months in my view and that's why i think they have these estimates.