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international. tens of millions of americans have been heading to the polls to vote in cheese days midterm elections with the whole country divided over the trump administration's policies and the democrats desperate to wrest back control from the republicans this campaign has been fierce. you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. and that's what the democrats in. two words are going to do find the money of the two thousand and fifteen election one which kavanagh and the other is caravan supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh brett kavanaugh witches that

are placing a hat on brett kavanaugh caravan invasion or about the caribbean chair of. a series of suspicious packages sent across the country mail by mail bombs fire alarm here will keep you posted on. the. midterms in the united states held every four years haul for a through the presidential term this year americans have a lot to decide including all four hundred thirty five members of the house of

representatives thirty five seats in the senate i'm thirty six state governance what's to decide let's talk about let's go to our to you america host scotty no he's great to have you on scottie we've heard predictions of a possible record turnout here for these midterms why do you think people are getting so interested in this particular vote. well let me tell you at this stage it's not a prediction it's a fact there is a record turnout in fact it almost looks like a presidential year and many of these cases and in some cases we're finding in some states in some precincts where they're actually going over and setting records even for a presidential election year so people are engaged and for a lot of reasons of the headlines that you just read in your last package people are paying attention and i think this plays into what president donald trump did when he first came into office he knew that he did not want people to go back to sleep to go back to the lives he wanted them to stay involved and so what he's done

is allowed people whether it works against him or for him tonight at the polls we'll find out but it's allowed people to actually feel like they have a vested interest in the events that are going on in the united states something that a lot of them gave up on a long time ago how do you assess things then what do you think the chances of the democrats for example taking control of the house sold suddens will both. well that's the thing most people think that the house is definitely going to flip the democrats just barely they only need twenty three seats to flip most people think the momentum is with them and a lot of that has to do with president specifically because this is the house these are people that are on the ground their first line to the federal government so that's usually a good message to president trump the senate i think the republicans the polls are looking like republicans are not going to keep it are going to gain some seats which is going to be maybe not her make that the house losing the house be such a hard thing for the top administration to handle another thing that we're looking at here are the governors' races we have thirty six governors races those could

possibly flip as well as president trump's administration has said they want to send power back to the states depends on who's in charge of the states on how much the federal government's going to try to push that power back down to to the local level. but just think about that you talked about you know the democrats expected to make gains just two years ago some of the scenarios so he wasn't particularly fancied in a lot of people could we see another upset. well that's where right now you we could there is still a chance you know headlines back and forth the looking at all depends on turnout you know you do have issues like cabin of and caravans that have brought people made people feel like they needed to go to the polls that their votes matter i'm going to put issue number three to your package with all due respect it's actually the media coverage a lot of people have said watch the media and how just absolutely outlandish and dramatic the media has been uncovering certain topics while ignoring others that doesn't sit well with the american people so the people say you know what i can't

put faith and trust and who i'm getting my news except for of course r t n r c america but i can't put faith and trust in going into the ballot box i can control that so i think that from that perspective you're going to see that the ride's more into the populist movement which is the g.o.p. republican ranks traditionally at the midterms usually the person in power in the white house their party has a tough time dating with the way all the way back to george w. bush he was the only one that was able to hold on to the house and the senate but this is a referendum on president trump there's no one that could make an excuse whether they win or lose this has to do president up his agenda might win but he might also be getting a clear message that they don't like the way he's actually pushed his agenda and the tactics that he's used with the people whether you're talking about twitter or his facebook posts or other things that he says it is rally. particular you find personally particularly interesting will be a great indication of the way things are likely to go. well that's the thing is the

kind of climate i always say go to florida always look at florida whether it's a presidential election year right now or not you can look at they've got a very contested governor's race and if the democrat is able to pull that off that means that probably down ballot all the democrat candidates are going to do just as well florida is usually a turn key very diverse community that handles all sorts of issues so if you see florida starting to go more blue than you're going to see that's probably going to be a blue night i you know i think actually it's going to be a fifty fifty night the good news in the end that tomorrow morning wake up america is still winning because you're going to have a more people are engaged now than ever before and when more eyeballs are on the government and that just means that more people are paying attention and that works better for everyone involved yet anyone interested in us politics is going to be a very exciting. very nervous just if you can just tell us a little bit more about america's special coverage what are you going to going to be doing for us. oh it's a finite fact we just finished our final run through for it we're going to start at

ten pm eastern to eleven thirty a lot of things are incoming but we're bringing in larry king is going to kick us off we've also got rick sanchez who's just start office start off with us these past few weeks but more importantly we're actually have reporters that are going to be looking at each state individually and it's not going to be all about we're going to be an expert analysis from our panels but more important we're just going to give you the straight facts of what's happening on the ground without necessarily spitting it we're going to tell you exactly what it is and we trust the viewers to actually make their minds up for themselves that once they're presented the facts that they can trust go some of the first on the seven happened i think in political broadcasting i look forward to the many thanks to a very good host scotto know that every time you go on air it happens. with you of course goes the appreciate it. now more than ever it seems that these midterms are about wall particularly he's not even on the ballot because of more pronounced details. usually the midterm elections in the united states are about as exciting as watching the grass grow low public interest and low voter turnout and the ads

have a very amateurish quality to them. the agenda a vague and. then mr trump said you're right or. are. we. so why is the biennial snooze fest suddenly turned into a political extravaganza well it's apparently about one man i'm not on the ticket but i am on the ticket because this is also a referendum about me so let's go over what's at stake. the big one is impeachment if the pollsters are to be believed the democrats could regain control of the u.s. house of representatives with a majority they could then gain the ability to bring formal charges against the president impeachment has been on the minds of some democrats that he is impeachable the democrats want to retake control of the house so they could move to

impeach the president telling me it impeachment you think that trump should be impeached i would vote yes you would have to take a vote i would vote. now the democrats could get the ball rolling with the u.s. house but whether or not they'd be successful is a different story let's remember no president in all of us history has ever been removed through the impeachment process richard nixon came close but he actually resigned before the senate could put him on trial but impeachment fears aside a blue wave could put the brakes on the presidency. so trumps policies that's what's really at stake here if the democrats regain control of the house they could block and delay the donald's plans he can kiss that big beautiful power. wall goodbye plus if the house goes democrat but the senate remains republican we're going to have some good old fashioned washington

gridlock two words for you government shutdown. in the case of a democratic surge we can expect an onslaught of investigations into the trumpet ministration with the house majority the democrats could subpoena witnesses and get their hands on key documents this means that all things from business transactions to furniture purchases and sexual assault allegations all of that could come under scrutiny so we are going to have oversight committee hearings on their presence use of the cell phone the democrats take over the house then he's going to be subpoenaed to investigated to want to see the truth now results are hard to predict but one pattern from the post twenty sixteen world seems to be playing out pretty well at the polls americans get to choose between chaos and more chaos cable mup and artsy washington d.c. . meanwhile the trump of ministration has been raising the alarm of

a foreign interference of the sick using china russia and iran of meddling in the photo through social media. critical elections coming up in november and control of congress at stake twenty eight t.v. this year's midterm election that this year's midterm elections as the twenty eight midterm election season begins to heat up there are new concerns about the security of america's election system i mean how secure are we there's been some finger pointing at both iran and china russia. now to a developing story we have a breaking news to tell you about it got us here in russia so i guess the simple question is is russia still targeting the united states no question the russians will meddle in this year's midterm elections russia is at it again at it again russia is up to its old tricks. i mean i can speak seem to be either willfully or blissfully ignorant of what's going on. why would the president say that they are doing this why do you see such a rush he hasn't even tweeted

a single piece on russia's goal is real simple a message to the road trust to create division of social and political content carry out cyber attacks two of them or the other nefarious that you were in the middle of information and meme warfare is james bond evil villain level plotting the russians they know everything that irritates this country when congress and the general public disagrees simply along party lines and the russians are winning they seem to know everything that hurts they're going after all this stuff women fighting around this country have been heating up more so they're really not articulating a single viewpoint they have weaponized freedom of speech and the public loses trust in the press the russians are winning and the only thing stopping them is news media broadcasts like this be careful what you read they're still trying to get in our heads in this country resilience need for us to stand up and say we're not going to allow some russia to tell us out of the.

sun the question. is who russia. matter. of the day before the vote the f.b.i. along with other government groups issued a joint statement warning americans of possible russian meddling it adds that the kremlin could spread false information and propaganda among voters don't you mcadams executive director of the wrong paul institute says moscow's alleged interference has become more of a political tool than an actual security concern. or the interesting thing is there's never been any proof presented it's just a bunch of scare tactics i initially the claim as you remember was that the russians tried to help trump when but when they could deliver no evidence whatsoever it became some amorphous thing like they're trying to undermine our faith in democracy by making us argue with each other as if we've never argued with each other before on these issues but what's interesting is the spending on the

advertising in these midterms election there is a good piece in the nation recently that found that for mid september to mid october in the house races they spent point one percent of the ads mentioned russia point one and in the senate not a single ad mentioned russia what does that tell you if the democrats really believe that this president is controlled by russia then why have they said nothing about it the fact is they do not believe it they have just used it as a way to try to overturn the elections they're not going to put their money where their mouths are because they know there's nothing there the new york times needle us the newspapers graphic barometer of early election results is making a comeback for these midterms but with painful memories of the democrats presidential defeat of twenty sixteen the outlet is making some changes. i. i.

i. i. i. the new york times selection the adult still gives me p.t.s.d. from november the eighth one to sixteen. is a test transport of the new york times needle on november eighth went to sixteen. which in the new york times which is going to kill me pleasure backs off two thousand and sixteen elections we. were in the middle started twitching towards trump you could tell who was watching because they were the ones who started getting distraught there were people crying

in the news room that night. we had many many discussions we all agreed that aggregating polls and then coming out with what looks like a new york times summary and then placing that too prominently on the home page was not the right thing to do so we're not going to repeat. iran's foreign minister has released a video lashing out at renewed u.s. sanctions. added he's focused on minimizing their effects on his people. the u.s. administration appears to be that imposing draconian sanctions on iran will bring about such pain to our nation that it will force us to submit to its bid no matter

how absurd. or fundamentally flawed its demands are and today we and our partners across the globe will ensure that our people are least affected by this indiscriminate assault in the economic warfare that directly targets the iranian people notwithstanding hypocritical claims by the trumpet ministration to the contrary. earlier on tuesday spain joins russia and condemning u.s. demands that countries follow its when you sanctions on iran is a joint news conference in madrid moscow's foreign minister sergey lavrov said u.s. actions on tehran are absolutely illegitimate and disappointing and washington's all tomatoes are quote an acceptable spanish counterpart just echoed those concerns . the canadian prime minister over there actually i agree with minister love the from his rejection of any kind of approach that sounds like an ultimatum including

from the u.s. the e.u. and spain in particular have been very critical of the u.s. is unilateral decision to denounce the nuclear agreement with iran and most which affects us badly from the point of view of the economy and security and the european union insisted on doing everything possible to keep this agreement alive and for the sake of our companies so that they can continue working is vesting and trading with iran the information that we have is that iran is complying with its commitments in this agreement and the u.s. does not have any arguments or reason to reject it without seeing any more france germany and the u.k. of a should a joint statement defying trumps threats the european companies doing business with the islamic republic they say they'll work to maintain and develop financial channels with iran and moscow insists tehran has been in full compliance with the terms of the nuclear deal. donald trump says the new restrictions is the strongest american sanctions ever against iran effect more than seven hundred individuals

they also aggressively target the financial energy and shipping sectors a load of a noosed former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says that he you anger at the move may have dangerous consequences. up until now foreign policy of the united . sorry was mainly you know reflexive of whatever the united states has said not because they're just full of loot good they're mostly agree with it also and now there's a fundamental disagreement governments and public opinion is not always exactly the same i mean though the government here in belgium in all and so are very slow in decent matters but basically when they are so slow in not standing by the west that they'll you know a lot of things already given also the historical context so we're discworld go you never know and i hope that it will work out somehow because this is indeed a very dangerous situation but it is more than that this has to do i mean you

should not forget why is the u.s. so aggressive against iran has nothing to do with the return there the character of that regime because we have two regimes that are allies in that area without far worse i mean saudi arabia to name just one it has to do with the feeling that they have that they're losing control of the middle east and then that this one country that doesn't abide by the rules their rules that is to speak and i do believe that my fear is also that for the moment you know in the past by a lot even george bush junior you knew that somehow there were advisers in the background who said ok let's let's turn now miss a bit and then but this president doesn't even even have reasonable advise us by his side. paris paramedics have been blocking the city's ring road

another king routes for a second day with a so-called snail protest sars a place that billets is a big part of roads reportedly causing hundreds of kilometers of traffic jams and demonstrations of the changes in conditions that the paramedics say will put them out of work. the protests are just the latest in recent weeks and they come as right wing party leader marine le pen has overtaken emanuel for the first time in the polls that are ahead of. elections next year r.t. strong quarter takes a closer look. france has broken out into protest as of late on nov fifth five

hundred paramedics as well as two thousand supporters took to the streets to protest a government reform that would end state funding towards medical transportation and on the same day macron found himself trying to defuse a growing up roar about the rising taxes on fuel prices in france already angry citizens are prepared to block roads on nov seventeenth in response to this with authorities preparing for the worst and recently there were even several severe building collapses in a poor neighborhood of march say with leftist politician john look mel and sean saying that it was due to an indifference to poverty in france and the latest polls are actually seriously reflecting this says for the first time ever marine le pen and her euro skeptic party are polling at twenty one percent that's higher than macron and his party's nineteen percent and amidst all this macron is beginning to promise things on an e.u.

scale for example a new european army separate from nato and dependency on the united states we can't protect europeans without a real european army faced with a rush to run a buddhas that's shown itself capable of being a threat i want to create a proper security built against russia which is a country i respect which is itself european we need a europe that can defend itself alone without depending only on the united states in a way that exhibits great to sovereignty so as macron continues to focus on issues like a european wide army and these problems internally in france become larger issues for him it just starts to seem more and more like he'd rather become president of the european union than continue as president of france. still midfielder one of england's top football clubs has received abuse and threats on social media after refusing to wear the traditional remembered ahead of almost this day which marks the end will. in saturday's match for manchester united in

a monument to did not wear the flag which is also seen as a tribute to modern day british service members he later explained his decision. i recognize truly why people were poppy's i totally respect everyone's right to do so and i have told will sympathy for anyone who has lost loved ones due to conflict however for me it is only a reminder of the bombing of serbia in one thousand nine hundred nine on reflection i now don't feel it is right for me to wear the poppy on my shirt. to cheat and reportedly said the issue is so fundamental to him that he would leave the club and england if forced to wear the tribute artist alexi or she has the story. it's not every day you see a professional footballer take a hard political stance but that's exactly what manchester united. did regarding wearing the poppy well you would think that this would pacify all the tension because it was heavily criticized for not wearing this poppy but yes some people

took to social media to deliver a lot of abuse towards the serbian players now some were suggesting that he should be injured others were saying that he should leave the country and play elsewhere but in serbia his decision received some price appreciate it as. politics shouldn't be involved in the sports and people should not talk to him about a decision i appreciate also decision to explain to fans why he made the decision to game and in general. i would do the same i think he did the right thing and then when your mouth it's no i think is the. very very beginning no football player . like a man you know because this is the good good good think he's doing now but even in the england itself explanation left very mixed response some people actually defended him and said they respected his choice after all he was not even an

english player but say that to stoke city's james maclean from republic of ireland who also refused to wear a poppy and got so much abuse coming towards him that it just you know the social media literally exploded with vile things said about the republic of ireland international player and he even had somewhat of a confrontation with the fans at one of the recent stoke city games so all this basically raises a big question what is wearing a poppy in england a symbol of remembrance or something that you can use as a stick to hit a player if you refuses to wear it based on his nationality if you are doing it. in a team sport then i think. really sometimes you should swallow your own personal. opinions i don't think about that is the only english to do it it was still you it is dealing with the good. from the war us become but for me is that what i did if

he lives and works in britain yes he should off on the national dish and puppy days especially that yes they should yeah. that wrap things up for the face new salad to stay with us though plenty more coming your way in thirty mins.

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