to stuff that nightmarish behavior there's also a bit of brinkmanship going on everybody's kind of like it's kind of exhilarating to look at how much debt we can pile on how much carbon dioxide pile into there how much smog we can put in there how many people we could put into one city how much prices could rise in the property market stock markets and stop another brinkmanship story that happened on our way out here to los angeles we had prerecorded an interview with fire stein of plan a ponzi dot com and it was funny because he said that iran mosque of test was guilty of securities fraud and lo and behold like two or three days later of course the f.c.c. has sued him for securities fraud partly because of brinksmanship because a lot mosque was negotiating with them and he decided he wanted to just challenge them you know you know i was talking to johnny in the viper room and you know ellen is a friend and he's really taken capitalism to that extreme that it needs to go to express

the people's guys in terms of the representation of equity in our inner being and i talked to johnny in his next role he left me to be in my original bar nine. must be considering this is all going to be taken place on wall street the pirates on wall street is going to be called i'm writing the script just so you know the last time max lived here was like two thousand and that's why johnny depp was huge back then and the viper room existed johnny depp is actually going to be playing matthew mallon one of the three races in a film so he's that guy and i was a friend of kaiser report until he passed away but i also want to talk about the brinkmanship that's in the headlines this week let's talk about real financial news max and some economic stuff happening in the real world this is not fiction this is not fake news agricultural exports plunge jump accuses china of meddling in u.s. elections so the change deficit widened by five point three percent and all this despite i guess because of the trade war agricultural exports would. around nine

point five percent from july and a whopping fifteen point two percent since june now the interesting thing is that china or the china daily which is the chinese government. you know news outlet they took out a four page ad spread in iowa basically telling the iowa farmers that it's because of trunks dual you know his his war is trade war with china that their exports have kline's trade so i guess following up on what we were saying last year wixon stream urges americans to listen so what does that mean in other words post the past work until this period of the nineteenth century went into more of a monster as global economy run by central banks and they were able to exert influence by adjusting interest rates and by printing money but now we're at a new markets all this period so the fact that china's taking out ads in iowa newspapers reflect the macbeth because it's going to be more trade for trade basis without the kind of influence a central banks have because central banks are not really in

a position now according to charm this is really trump business is thompson economic model he wants to get rid of globalization is at the u.n. and he's saying i want to take us out of all globalized institutions we just want to go trade and go bilateral we want to do individual deals and so something like that reflects this because china is saying you know what we have to come up with new strategies to exert our influence in the global trade so taking ads out and i would use paper whereas they used to maybe adjust interest rates or a movie when their currency down you see that that's now that's passe that's not really in keeping with today's new deal mark until this model and i don't see the problem with taking this to the people letting that because we are in a globalized world the hyper globalized world the farmer in iowa is selling to people all over the world consumers all over the world not just in iowa so donald trump. we did about these these ads taken out in the des moines register he said

china's actually placing propaganda ads in the day when necessary and other papers made to look like news that's because we're beating them on trade opening markets in the farmers will make a fortune when this is over i think you know just take it to the people and let them decide and let them hear both sides of the story and find out what's going on i totally believe that your most prized news and fig prices is a problem with monster as a busy end up with big prices and you end up with a glut of fake news but if this is real neal merkel isn't going to go back to real prices and real news so i think it's a reversion to the mean of trade as it's really been going on the planet earth now for thousands of years and i went to net on to the latest fed raising the rates by twenty five basis points and chairman drove house spoke afterwards and there was one thing that i picked up on in terms of something that you and i have noted over the past few years certainly leading into the twenty six thousand election when

obamacare prices soared and how that might have impacted the electoral system and the electoral vote of course that has not been discussed because. you know we all know what has happened to cable news and the mainstream media here since the twenty sixteen election they've basically become days of our lives or general hospital or some sort of soap opera and it's nothing gets discussed but here joan power points out something quite interesting the fed's not backing off towels standouts and zingers at the press conference asked if fiscal policy the ballooning deficit after tax cuts and spending increases comes up a lot f. l. and c. meetings drone house said because he was asked about fiscal policy and he said it doesn't really come up it's not really our job we don't have responsibility for fiscal policy but in the longer run fiscal policy will have a significant impact on the economy it's no secret it's been true for a long time that with. our uniquely expensive health care delivery system and the

aging of our population we've gone on an unsustainable fiscal path for a long time so he's saying our economy the united states' economy is on an unsustainable how do to health care costs do you see this discussed and you would think that. the fact that the u.s. is on an unsustainable path would warrant deep conversation on fox on m.s.m. b c on c.n.n. on the mean news channels here that what do we do about this how do we stop this unsustainable path how do we stop these health for health care expenses what do we do but we don't see that conversation ever happening on the news here which is why you have well yeah i mean i think you're right this phrase unsustainable as an interesting phrase coming out of the central bank because their job is to cheerlead the economy and to always talk about the optimistic future and to never mention any negatives whatsoever that's the new role of the fed so to talk about an

unsustainable path is remarkable in that regard and it's interesting that he lumps health care in with fiscal policy therefore legitimizing the idea that obamacare is a tax it is a tax and it's an unauthorized tax and the corporations of america under the constitution it's not legal for them to impose a tax on americans but it's more than just that it's the entire health care system you say even people who have a job at some corporation and the corporation provides you with health care that is not obamacare because this next headline also shows you know one of the problems that has happened in america and why we have two thousand and two thousand and one crash why we have the two thousand and seven to two thousand and nine crash why we have this upcoming massive debt fueled financial crisis to stand talking miller says it is part of the reason is that incomes have not bang going up america's twenty. year shift people are getting paid less in cash wages salaries and more in

benefits in large part because our health care system is still so expensive so over the past twenty years companies and governments have been paying their employees more in benefits and less in cash wages and salaries and that's especially the case among people who work in the highly unionized public sector the big picture of all the different types of benefits the cost of health insurance has consumed the most of the average worker's compensation representing eight point two percent of a dollar in pay today versus five point eight cents of a dollar in one thousand nine hundred eighty that's because the us health health care system is so expensive right in the change in cash for benefits and the problem there is that i can convert my benefits into gold with hard money in savings so i don't have no economic sovereignty yes they don't want me to give me any cash because i would put some of that cash into gold and i would have economic sovereignty and financial independence but that is to be shunned at every. every

every step of the way because we are to be beholden and we are to be enslaved by the system well health care eight year raise is what they said because a lot of people have said where has all this productivity gone a lot of it has been captured by shareholders and the c.e.o. class and the executive class but the fact is that it's also being captured by the health industry that which is part of the fire sector the finance insurance and real estate so it's capturing all your gains but that doesn't get accumulated you know if we spend twelve thousand dollars a year each on an obamacare health insurance policy it's not like that saved for us is not doesn't it just disappears into the pockets of the health care executives that's extortion it's essentially extortion they should change fire economy the hell fire because you need the h. for health care health finance insurance and real estate best the new economy well the fire health. liliane out. well we have covered this pretty extensively that.

the integrity of the economy is being undermined by the county and larcenous to behavior of this all got plea or shake down economy storing every chance they get without any pushback by congress progresses involving other americans actually do anything worthwhile and in the last thirty seconds here max i want to say that in fact our obamacare premiums are going down next year that was a shock and partly because they had jacked up the price is so so high the last two years so they made too much profit and they have to lower that because they can't spend every syster on times square with the three card monte knows you gotta love the market when a couple of bucks on the way out so they don't stab you in the neck well we're back with a lot more fun and games here in hollywood right after this break so. we interrupt the kaiser report the full episode which can be found on our website to

bring you more on our breaking news this hour the u.s. has formally charged seven russian military agents linked to a global cyber hack it comes just hours after britain and the netherlands claimed they have foiled cyber attacks by russia and international groups have been quick to join the accusations the e.u. has already expressed its concern along with nato chiefs government needs to. international law in this way that will be consequences that they will be exposed only for the e.u. . to fully. express our complete sort of the we do with those afflicted today's announcement by the dutch and the british governments have exposed russia's indiscriminate campaign every time it's the wrong tool russia. this ridiculous. behavior. to discuss this or. there we are now joined

live by russia's ambassador to the u.k. alexander get vanco thank you so much you're very welcome to the program now the u.k. has been most active in accusing russia with the british foreign secretary today claiming moscow's now behind six major cyber attacks across the world since two thousand and fifteen what's your response to that. well basically of course we heard about that statement and of course i read the statement but we believe that this kind of statement reckless and explain why first of all this statements are not supported by any evidence this is first second we hear this kind of a legations for quite a now quite a time and in this to sell than seventeen for a former foreign secretary boris johnson was in moscow. a lover of russian foreign minister. over the him to have a consultations on the cyber security and he said if you have any questions

in connection with the alleged russian activity we can put this specialist from two countries sit down on the table and to discuss professionally what are the concerns of the british side the british refused to do this and instead of the they launched reckless attacks on us without any evidence so from my point to you this kind of allegations absolutely unacceptable if you want to discuss something if you have something in hand you have to sit down and discuss it but they refused to discuss and this is just showing that there is nothing behind i mean from the british side from that point of view. you talk about a lack of proof but i suppose that evidence against russia has probably been presented this time at a news conference was that not enough to convince you. absolutely not enough

because you know there's another part unity to ask additional questions to the british side and we're going to do this because this is quite a big story you know this is the name of the russian intelligence organisation you know if you names there are expelled and all these things but the beef i mean this is this substance is not. basically given so we're going to ask the british side to give more information on that and we're going to repeat our call if you have some information please share this information and we're ready to sit down and talk. of course at this point today several countries presented similar accusations not just britain do you in your opinion is all of that unfounded accusations. well i'm quote quite interesting that everything is well coordinated. maybe you are aware of the reason meeting of

the nato countries today going in brussels and they're discussing the cyber warfare so basically the nato countries are planning to create its own forces before says so this is one of the part of the story then the british side made a statement and of course all the newspapers like in command immediately. gave reflections to that and then we have a few other countries who made the same statement so basically we see this some kind of a competing well coordinated campaign to discredit ties russia and of course that's from my point of view it looks unacceptable. along with this wave of accusations western states warn that they will respond to russia's actions what could their response be possible it. was difficult to see but if you if you watch the reports from the british parallel parliament you will see

that there were for a few months there were quite aggressive statements from the different m.p.'s they were calling for be. against russia the call for undermining the economy over usher in some other things so basically they are calling for something which is really control digs the international law and this is you hear from the legislation buddy from my point of use to pedia this is first second we hear that certain statements were echoed by the british government and their representative especially from the minister of defense so this is this kind of statements the violation it is the intentions of the would be the violation of the international law as far as the british accusations we want the evidence who want to hear the proofs and we're ready to meet them and to listen to them with the facts in the hands so for this is just the political statements which were not

buying now you've been in your position as ambassador to the u.k. since two thousand and eleven in all your time in the diplomatic service have you ever known the atmosphere to be so toxic against russia. i would say that. it's like the waves because if for example when the british want to launch the competing they're just behaving like that we have seen this on the libyan young case and we know how it ended up it ended up with the most of the information concerning the litvinenko case this is the poisoning of the mr litvinenko was classified and nobody has access to any information on that then we had before that you know we had the ukraine so there was ukrainian crisis there was a coup in ukraine and the was is the so much the same atmosphere we heard we we

have seen the same situation in when where there were some let's see alleged use of chemical weapons by the syrians and there was the same kind of information campaign now we see in other companies in but in all these cases we didn't get any proofs and by the way if you look at the the latest story when the u.s. france and britain. made a missile strikes against city duma this is not far from damascus when the try to prove the international community that the syrian government used the chemical weapons so far we didn't see a report of the w on that matter so the western countries are delaying that report why they're delaying because there was no use of the chemical weapons and the western countries use that this information as a pretext for the military strikes against syria without any proofs so

basically we're just witnessing in another campaign but we want to see the proofs and we want to talk directly not through the media because even in this crippled case we didn't hear the official story this is just the leaks in the press but this is not enough for the serious conversation and this is not enough for us. as you were saying these times of difficulty often come in waves but in the past all sides have eventually come through do you see a way out at this point and are we at the beginning peak or end of a wave. well i want to of course when we were of the dialogue we want to see the proofs who want to see the arguments and we want to hear that directly today the british government is voiding from the direct talk with us and that's the beauty. and you were speaking about not having communication

through the media but direct dialogue you're there in london does that mean that you're not getting any direct information at this point. no we didn't get any information because we physically send a lot of diplomatic notes this is the diplomatic correspondence i'll give you another example on the twelfth of march russian citizen mr goose cough was killed in london and since that time almost half a year passed and since he is the russian citizens citizen we asked for let's see the results of the investigation of the of his death and at the beginning we got the note from the foreign office that we have to talk to the school yard ok so we send a letter to the school yard and we're waiting for a few months for the answer then we got the letter from the scotland yard that you have to talk to the foreign office then we came to the foreign office and the

foreign office said well you have to deal with it in due course with the scotland yard i mean it's looks like not serious for the for the big country like britain and that's one of the examples or for how in the new example of the new british reality is so we want a dialogue we want to hear explicit answers to the questions that we put to the british side so far we didn't give them the xander yucca van praagh the russian ambassador to the u.k. thank you so much for finding time to join us on the program today we go live now to playboy and london for more polly what can you tell us about the accusations against russia. well according to the british government the dutch government and now the us government to the cat is out of the bag the russian military

intelligence agency the g.r.u. is an agency that's normally meant to exist in the shadows and yet it has been plunged into daylight today because of this list of accusations that is becoming increasingly extensive the latest government to accuse russia's military intelligence agency of wrongdoing is the u.s. the us department of justice announced very recently that the u.s. government has indicted seven g.r.u. agents they say and accusing them of hocking of identity theft of money laundering among other things take a listen to what washington had to say the seven defendants are charged with the producers campaign of hacking stealing private and sensitive information and publicizing that information to retaliate against russia's detractors and sway public opinion in russia's favor. over in the netherlands investigators have accused four of the same russians that were cues to by the u.s.

department of justice of being hacked is with the g.r.u. as well these are four russians that were recently expelled from the netherlands for attempting to hijack the o.p.c. w. in april while it was dealing with the investigation into the poisoning of sergei and. they released images of these four suspects in the netherlands that diplomatic possible and at the very same briefing in briefing in the hague the british ambassador to the netherlands accused the g.r.u. of attempting to hijack porton down which is the u.k.'s military laboratory here in the u.k. and the u.k. foreign office in the wake of the script powell case the script poisoning and they accuse. g.r.u. agents of attempting to hijack the investigation into the downing of flight m.h. seventeen as well that's a lot of allegations for one day but it doesn't stop there take

a listen to what the british defense secretary gavin williamson had to say about moscow. this is not the actions of a great power this is a very actions of the pariah state and will continue working with our allies to isolate them and make them understand they cannot continue took themselves in such a way why is he calling russia a pariah state well because the british government released a statement overnight on top of that slew of dot dutch allegations that we got this morning we've got the brits accusing the g.r.u. of being responsible for the hacking of wada that the world anti-doping agency in the wake of the russian doping scandal they've accused g.r.u. agents of being behind the hack on the d n c that's there's clinton e-mails that we did in the run up to the election of donald trump over in the u.s. and they also accused russian spies this as four hundred systems well the united

states made it clear it does not want them there you know it goes against our policy to have a nato ally such as turkey use an ass four hundred system part of the problem with that it is that it is not in iraq robel with other nato systems and so we are against the having some of our partners and allies around the world potentially purchase us for hundreds it would trigger carrots or such and i'm not going to get into that but we have made very clear what could trigger sanctions for other countries and entities around the world the list of countries washington has tried to convince against buying russia's weapons goes on but with india everything hints that it won't be just words and almost a godfather style of a threat the pentagon has warned that it has its sanction machinery in first gear if india decides to follow through with the purchase of russia's missile defense system we would still have very significant concerns if indeed pursued major new

platforms and systems i can sit here and tell you that they would be exempt that we would use that waiver that would be the decision of the president to fuse feast. the major new platform capability that india has acquired from russia the united states has essentially backtracked on the previous promise to defend india from the sanctions that's why the expected arms deal is such a bold move for india don of reporting from new delhi the. us national security advisor john bolton has announced america is pulling out of an optional protocol to the vienna convention a move that could prevent the u.s. from being sued at the international court of justice it becomes the latest in a line of international judicial commitments washington's withdrawing from just this year the united states will withdraw from the optional protocol in dispute resolution to the vienna convention on diplomatic relations the united states is officially withdrawing from the un human rights council we will not cooperate with

the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c. baseless claims are brought against us for critical bodies and institution i'm just prosecution by this illegitimate court the council cease.