friend but and some of the actions are too i mean i don't think any of us really took seriously that there would be a meeting with kim so soon nothing much came of it and now he wants to meet with the iranian leader a days before in capital letters on twitter threatening and i mean michael how do you explain that or inside just expediency the mid terms it's just the here and now and worry about the implications later because i mean from the on the outside looking in this is very confusing and we're supposed to be experts to be able to figure this stuff out go ahead michael. i think one of the hallmarks of trump's foreign policy is that it's trump it's not a collective view of the state department with way and this from d o d and other places and intelligence it's trump. and he's proven to be fairly adept at it so far however you may or may not like the outcomes he's gotten in with korea he's reworked trade agreements in europe and elsewhere some of it has been to our total

benefit some of it has been a conciliatory benefit. we enjoy a relationship with china we haven't had and maybe ever. i don't know that what he's doing is confusing bad evil wrong or fattening but what i do know is that it's in his head and it's been working with us far. talking diplomatic level and so i'm not prepared to throw it over just because i don't understand no no you know i get on with that which i don't understand i can't i get your point maybe i get your point i mean in the way he sees the world here and his base and i think it may go back to northwood here it seems to me. even a year a year and a half in the donald trump doesn't have a lot of interest in foreign policy he's made a group of promises on the stump and he's committed to realizing each one of them i've never seen it a president so adamant going through his checklist ok is it really his that he is.

idea of american exceptionalism american first is it really does domestic politics driving it for him. well i think you're right i mean there is a very very great interest in domestic politics and he has made all the promises and as you say i think the first thing that steve brandon did but he had to the white house it's a i've wanted to put up a white board with a whole lot of the promises made and i stopped taking them all but i think the foreign policy perspective the president trump ours is one of increasing american power and extracting as much value economically commercially financially and so on from our allies associated powers don't form enemies and i think all that is down to who's our long term idea that america has been ripped off and i think if you look at domestic politics then the kind of people you defined as or americans. basically so you can say message that you have been ripped off white american men

in particular by women by minorities by immigrants and so on and you lost status of what he's going to do or restore american greatness and ok i'm going to just going to jump in here you know meyler we have an american i have a large brain reserve sort of after i am going to short break we'll continue our discussion on american exceptionalism stay with. us well it's got a lot of oil but there are many refineries and this is take the oil you know on their trunks elaborates are well positioned to throw the machinations of a crypto currency you know my suggestion is you know maybe build a few refineries you know sell a higher end product and put that money back into the economy in this way may take ten or fifteen years but you're not going to be taken over by some see. you.

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me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you there. you come across like we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing american exceptionalism. ok david you know ever since trump entered the the oval office a lot of it's been trying to understand if there's a rhyme or reason to his foreign policy and i think that even on this program it's kind of coming together it seems to me it's kind of like going back to the

nineteenth century great powers competition without all the values that they were pushed since the second world war it just it's just really kind of brute power and it vantage and looking for competitive advantage and it's very brusque and it seems to appeal just as interesting pointed out to us in the first part of the program it does appeal to his base go ahead david. yeah i think you know it appears to be all donald trump but just as you know reagan and gorbachev came out of the meeting and were told by their advisers no no no you can't get rid of nuclear weapons every time trump has a good idea like get rid of after get rid of nato he talks to his advisors and it's off the table i think that you know it was actually an actual break with u.s. exceptionalism is not on the agenda of donald trump or his advisors i mean it would look like joining the international criminal court joining the convention on the

rights of the child joy in the united states is party to fewer major human rights treaties then almost any other nation on earth it would mean giving up the veto at the united nations it would mean getting out of afghanistan there's a promise i'd like to keep i mean this is a guy who promised no more of these wars and their family you know killed their families bombed the bleep out of them so it's easy to say he's keeping his promise because he promised black and white but the ones i'd like him to keep he's not keeping us. well as you know a few like building the wall and walking up hilary that i don't necessarily need him to keep either but this is not this is a guy who thinks he's running the world and it's dangerous to what extent he is but he's not overruling the weapons dealers or the big players in washington d.c. you know yeah michael in this that seems to be very contradictory because he said in interviews that the united states shouldn't be the policeman of the world but in fact it remains the same ok am particularly you know i mean if you look at the

korean peninsula i mean a peace between the koreas denuclearization maybe the american troops could go home there be no reason from the be there and then the entire foreign policy elite has their hair on fire like oh my god please don't let it break out it will change our world ok i mean it seems to me that he just go on really up against the street you know against the the stream there and he keeps coming out with these ideas i mean you know i said earlier i mean you know threatening iran in the most course way and then say i'd like to meet you in no condition preconditions i mean the outside looking in finds that very very confusing i mean the rains have already said through their aides is that while we sit down with someone that broke a country that broke a treaty that we just signed only a few years ago i mean i how does that show that america leading go ahead michael. you know it wasn't a treaty and they didn't sign anything but that's that's a semantic problem we haven't ever had you know well it's an international has

agreed i mean no they were it was a it's multilateral it wasn't just with the americans ok go ahead. but i think the the the the point you're making is good and it's correct but if it stops and i think that's what we have to focus on is that the goals his foreign policy goals are as the professor correctly observed although i think for the reasons different than he observes and that is that we are interested in better trade we are interested in exercising our trade power and to increase american presence and wealth at home american exceptionalism america first through trade treaties through trade work as opposed to naked aggression and use of foreign power which other presidents have used obama was soundly criticized on the right for wanting to meet with the iranians with no preconditions i find it interesting that my brothers on the right don't have a problem with trump doing the same thing i just i just throw that out as an observation well i mean i think that you know but michael's back to hang on hang on

but hang on michael i mean in the same week basically threatening hostilities with the rand and then saying you want to meet with preconditions you don't have to worry about your friends on the left or right you have to try to figure out what the president is talking about ok that's not my point and you know this was the same. you know your point is right but this is the same tactic we took with north korea you know a little camera man blah blah blah you know terrible person going to face the earth you know boss office or the next thing in our meeting in singapore this is the art of the deal this is a part of the tactics of moving forward this is part of the noise involved in making the deal and making the negotiation and doing the work and it's trump he is unique he is rare he is something we haven't seen before the swamp can't make head or tail out of them and nor can anyone else and this goes back to my earlier point which was just buckle up just as you've observed many times peter buckle up and you're just going to have to wait to see how a poilus out and response will do their best to keep their arm around it i just

don't know how it's going to work out ok brace for impact ok let me go back to you here then and then ok so what is the justification for the united states being in afghanistan it's not bringing democracy there anymore apparently what what what how is what's the justification for the in the eagle behavior of the united states in syria or is it bringing democracy there anymore it's not apparently so why are they still there so i mean this makes it very patently obvious that just brute force beyond international law this is what trumpet is opening up to go ahead. well i think you know when we look at the big picture of little change we have our whole range of new emerging powers some of which are very. recent the military and they're looking around the world resources and they're looking to increase their him in order to protect their mind in china for example is building the one built one road initiative which is going to be under right across from

china all the way to spain and in the indian ocean you've got non-state actors like isis and other organizations also challenging these. allies and other regimes as well and i think what really president trump is trying to do is effectively grapple with the same problem. which post-hole or presidents of. to try to outline which is the whole world environment changed the big difference i think with president from he doesn't really look at the idea of enjoyment of building an orderly system or ordered a rules based system or rather he wants to open it up you want to loosen it up and he wants to make it more transactional but i think what he's trying to do it's look we've got this big international series of regime it's america's been ripped off its own too much it's has too many large deficits with everybody and what we're going to do is we're going to let nationals and try to renegotiate our position and

effectively of ordinates everybody else ok not that we the big grown ok although again like i said it looks like it's going back to the great powers of the nineteenth century without all of the rhetoric at least it's more transparent david you you mentioned russia is it really worth it for trump to go down this path that we had the helsinki summit i was critical of the president's delivery at the press conference like i was in singapore is well it's not his forte it's got to work on his game there and then he wanted another summit and then what blocked it back the russians and invited him to moscow why is this so important to him is it a campaign promise or is it just you know the media hates it when he does it and that he just pushes back to show that i am president i'm going to do what i want to do what is this fascination here go ahead david. well i think there is is all kinds

of pressure on him to meet with and work with russia and to not do so and to treat russia as having attacked the united states and started a war and to engage in war with russia and everywhere in between i think that it's appropriate that the united states and russia as the major nuclear weapons powers meet and get rid of those damn things before they destroy us i think it's critical for the united states and russia as two of the nations doing the most to destroy our natural environment to meet and start reversing all the policies david that's not so much on the agenda. i mean complete agreement with you in on this they would they would have what why it seems to me that. trump engagement with russia should come out very clear twitter is fine with me i need to deal with a lot of your putin to sign a new arms control agreement it's about to expire in two thousand and twenty one this is what's most important to all of humanity why can't he just write that i

mean that is very straightforward and you know what david it's transactional what trump is supposed to be all about go ahead david well it would make perfect sense it would fit with some of his agenda of body it is not where he comes from it's not something he knows anything about it's not something he's hired anybody to keep around him who would advise him to do and it's you know the got the us media and the democrats and half the public screaming at him not to do anything cooperative with russia even if it kills us all so it's not shocking that he hasn't come out with that position of but he should he and i'm well there's good in the world and russia should be pushing him in that direction ok all right michael. where does he go from this from his russia gambit now i mean he's put it off until next year because of the midterm. because he can't do anything transactional

because just like david said perfect crystal clear even trying to save humanity he's the boogie man donald trump is evil incarnate even if he wants to save humanity that's a problem in the united states that's a problem with american exceptionalism forty seconds to you michael my friend last word real quick and i promise to stay and save my time what the trump never telegraphs what he's going to do will make promises in a campaign context he'll have elude to things in a domestic policy context he's never going to say up front what he's going to do it's one of his huge criticisms of his predecessors and so because he hasn't said it's there doesn't mean it's not going to be there and he's had some surprises foreign policy wise stuff no one expected but it was always part of his design and i think that we just have to buckle up and wait well you know that's why i call you one of my donald trump a sharper is that was a very good answer i like that that's all the time we have gentlemen many thanks to

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is just school and seven am head in the russian capital we are watching the weekly on r.t. international good to have you with us our top stories from the past seven days facebook's upping the ante in its crusade against fake news it's going on another bombing spree in an effort to stamp out the phenomenon and thereby limits efforts to sway political opinion. explains. thanks for joining us franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts spewing fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. not the us of those by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian vaults and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've

evolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook well this facebook slash twitter online police rate is an actual news story this week yeah you can take plenty of the earlier reports replace the word russia with iran and get pretty much identical stuff all right speaking of facebook this time it bad six hundred twenty five pages traced to iran and then unknown number of pages linked to russia it just wouldn't work if russia didn't get mentioned and the reason for this verdict is we removed multiple pages groups and accounts for coordinated in offensive behavior on facebook and instagram what kind of sin is this in authentic behavior let's hear from zuck speak will they use similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they

were doing we ban this kind of behavior because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make on facebook the issue of trusting what pops out at you from the internet it's almost as old as i am. ask her where we should meet. it seems like you're chatting with somebody just like yourself not only even if they show a picture of themselves it may not really be who they say they are it could be somebody dangerous i'm not trying to say criminals who take advantage of online platforms shouldn't be banned or prosecuted but dear facebook the way the internet and social networks have worked for years is that users can be who they want to be online who said they must stick to what someone thinks is authentic behavior what if i want to be an elf or santa or

a real news hound and my now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe i come to the us just for all the things they can do i may stay because of all the things they can well looks like online platforms will force us to adjust to a new reality where a step away from your genuine behavior may lead to a ban or some distinguished fact checkers will tell you who you should or shouldn't trust so next time when he choose to complain about a post online think twice what if the fact checkers disagree in fact whatever you do they're better think twice. meanwhile there's concern over facebook's latest tool to tackle fake news which will involve evaluating uses based on how

trustworthy they are online it's in addition to the site's existing efforts to stem the spread of misinformation the idea is to protect users from those who indiscriminately flag up fake news outs real vice versa the system will even be used to predict which articles need fact checking based on news this history of posting stories despite facebook boosting efforts to get rid of fake news there are still a few big questions about this latest method like which chooses or which countries will be part of the new fake news initiative it's also not known how the evaluations will affect individual users on the sites or how the process will be more misses it's put facebook in the media firing on but the social media giant insists it's not as bad as it sounds we developed a process to protect against people indiscriminately flagging news is fake and it's tempting to game the system the reason we do this is to make sure that our fight

against misinformation is as effective as possible the c.e.o. of online privacy company crypto hippi outlined the ethical implications of facebook's policy if i think it's political pressure i think it really comes down to that they are putting themselves in the position of mediating human relationships which is first of all a very unhealthy thing to do and it's something that they really are grossly. incompetent to do the users primarily will not know what is being done to them and they will be manipulated in all sorts of ways we don't know what. took of donald trump's possible impeachment took center stage in the u.s. media this week amid a scandal over two of his former associates. going to be impeached with this i think the beginning has to be set and mark right now and wolf we're in

a watergate moment but there is i think a lot for the president to fear the discussion about impeachment comes off to transects campaign chairman paul man a force was found guilty of numerous fraud charges and his ex lawyer michael cohan pleaded guilty to presidential campaign finance violations and that today paying hush money to trump's mistress says it's landed the u.s. presidents in hot water as co-head this implicated him as an orchestrated of the scheme by president the democrats to dismiss really keen to rake up as much muck as possible in the midterm elections or there's muck you have my glove my public will be influenced by this in the run up through the november elections the special counsel probe was initially launched to investigate alleged collusion with russia but has so far only exposed fraud on the election campaign violations they can do so the right human which we got to hope the company where is the closure

you know they're still looking for closure where it's a closure finds a delusion the fact that they haven't come up with anything that proves there is no russian collusion or they've wasted two years to find fairly pedestrian violations sure if you went into any of the campaigns including hillary clinton's and spent two years with an investigation team in the grand juries i'm sure you'd find a lot more than this filings and maybe some violations of campaign finance laws. back to michael cohen now legal fees equal big costs the former lawyer has lost the donations to cover his defense and it's paying off to his raised more than one hundred fifty thousand dollars in just three days as caleb maupin reports it's not always business to be dismissed by the president's. and donald trump was a host on the reality t.v.

show the apprentice he really took the show's iconic catchphrase to heart you're fired you're fired you're fired. now that donald trump is the president getting fired by him isn't exactly a career setback take the case of michael cohen this is michael collins lawyer urging people to support michael cohen with an online fundraiser for hoping that he will get some help from the american people so we can continue to feed the audience isn't it they don't know if they are ready to donate some people might be laughing but the cash is flowing and then there's peter struck the disk raced former f.b.i. agent who sent to trump messages to his mistress now he's raising money online he's already raised four hundred forty three thousand dollars half a million dollars on a go fund me just for hating donald trump those cancer patients on that side that are like hey we hate him too can you pay for my treatments i know you really hate him we could tell and then there's andrew mckay the f.b.i.

director who was fired without benefits now mccain has already managed to raise five hundred thirty nine thousand dollars this issue of him raising some money in order to pursue this you know that's one issue it's an ethical issue it's it's something that you know doesn't reflect good character and if you want to get more creative than crowdfunding you can always write a book i'm rosa manigault newman's new book unhinged tells stories from inside the white house thirty four thousand copies were sold within the first ten days and before on the rose it was james komi the fired f.b.i. director now he wrote a book about donald trump and within the first week six hundred thousand copies flew off the shelf writing books about donald trump is a smart move this year every single title on the new york times nonfiction best seller list has been about donald trump so it donald trump yes.