if i look at the only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. a. little triumph i as his national security advisor john bolton with the president claiming both he and his administration disagreed with many of bolton's ideas. pulp fiction is branded a c.n.n. report that the u.s. secret service is external to the high level spy for moscow 2017. israel's prime minister says that he will annex the west bank's jordan valley if reelected this weekend.

great to have your company this evening this is an international. trump has been wielding his axe once again with national security adviser john bolton this time the victim sacked according to the president over a number of disagreements and the more than explains announcement was made on twitter just before john bolton was about to speak for a press briefing john bolton the national security adviser of donald trump who is associated with the neoconservative school of foreign policy an advocacy of u.s. military intervention is that according to travis tweet he is out i informed john bolton last night that his service is no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration and therefore i asked his resignation which was given to me this morning i thank john very much for his service i will be naming a new national security advisor next week belle the 70 year. the old former u.n.

ambassador gave a slightly different version of the vents leading to his terminations her resignation then was given by trump on twitter he spoke to the press saying quote i offered my resignation last night and president trump said quote let's talk about it tomorrow well apparently the announcement came on social media they did not talk about it as was planned it simply was an announcement that he was done now mike pompei o the u.s. secretary of state also weighed in giving his analysis of what happened with john bolton and what's going on inside of the administration is what we heard from mike pompei oh i'm never surprised. i don't mean that on just this issue but i would say this the president's intitled to the staff that he once did and at any moment a staff person who works directly for the president of states and he should have people the trusted values and whose efforts and judgments benefit him in delivering american foreign policy i don't i don't know everyone's talked about this for an

awfully long time there were death with choices that are best and i told him i had different views about how we should proceed now john bolton has a reputation for being an advocate of u.s. military force and interventionism around the world he has vocally supported intervention in places like syria venezuela north korea and iran and there were some moves by the trumpet ministration that certainly fit in with his overall viewpoint strongly advocated that the usa withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and the trumpet ministration did indeed do that furthermore he has been strongly in favor of trump's moves against venezuela and he supported the withdrawal of the united states from the intermediate nuclear forces agreement with russia however according to the reports pompei was strongly opposed to donald trump's a meeting with kim jong il and one which he went to the demilitarized zone and then crossed into the democratic people's republic of korea. furthermore from what we

understand that trump also disagreed with thomas aoe and the suggestions he was making out when it came to recent events regarding iran or oil tankers and ongoing talk of some kind of negotiation so there were some very solid disagreements between donald trump himself and his national security adviser and it appears that those disagreements and now lead to john bolton stepping out of the trump administration. and the police and joined in the line by former u.s. congressman indeed former presidential candidate ron paul great to have you on the good run. if we look at the number of. foreign policy issues really big things that the u.s. is trying to tackle the moment involving iran north korea and afghanistan so much on the plate. in terms of foreign affairs what do you think of the timing of this.

but you know i've always had a problem with bolton every time i think trump is making progress bolton you know but in any room is a so i think the timing is just too late i mean not too late but later than it should be should be a long time ago. a lot of people here didn't even want his appointment because he's the only was able to take a position that didn't require senate approval so he had this position which is very very important but he's been a monkey wrench in donald trump's policies of trying to back away from some of these conflicts around the world and it's led to a lot of frustration from a lot of people like myself that would like to see you know back away from our involvement so in so many places around the world i think this was a long time coming then and the bolton interim simply didn't see. many foreign policy issues and if that was the case then why was bolton kept around for so long . that's the that's the big question. but this

is certainly true with bolton but it's true with some others too i mean see here's some of the generals that lean in this direction of he had them on and got tired of him had to fire him so some people say it's the pressure that he gets from the deep state you know the military people of the media people the people who call the shots so you've got to put these kind of people in your cabinet and and be taking their advice so there's part of that but you know i don't think anybody has the full answer for that and maybe it's that trump has instincts and wants to balance it with other people and not look like he's going off the deep a on but i don't think that's worked out too well i think it made him look like he might be inconsistent have a policy here the next day he changes it and that other people were able to bend his ear and any back saw but anyway when he does make some moves they're pretty definite and i would say this is very definite and those of us who would like less

than a vision we're very happy with it but you know previous experience we have to be wondering who's going to be replacing him you know is it going to be somebody that really will give support to tromp. instinct to back off a little bit that's what we hope but we have no idea who will be the appointee crisis that we face do you think even though it's very hard to guess anything with donald trump but do you think we're going to see a change in in the direction the u.s. is taking his foreign policy a change of approach to be it's afghanistan north korea or iran. no i don't think it will change a whole lot i because you know i work on the assumption that he truly does one of the back off from these places and right now without bolton i think he has a better chance so i don't think those of us and many people around the world would like to see us move in that direction so i don't think we should. it's discouraging

to say this is worse sometimes you know when. makes his decision to do something and then bolton comes in and breaks it up and. makes them start all over again that was disappointing but right now i think we have to hope that this is going to be a positive mood in that direction but only time remains because we been through this sort of like. the changes so often one day one thing you know he's very hawkish the next day has to change his mind but this i think is hopefully a step in a direction which will bring out the instincts that many of us believe he has. been through 3 national security adviser during his term in office does suggest that the next person through the door has to be a yes man and a woman. it's hard to say because being a yes person didn't keep their job so now i am i do i have no idea why that is the

case but what you say is true. but i think there are different people pulling strings somewhere be very very much engaged there are powerful forces there are financial people military industrial complex and many others the neo cons in the media there and the party opposition i mean the democrats used to be a less warmongering party and here they all they want to do a stir up trouble with russia so there's a lot of pressure there but the big question is is why does he get these people when they're given the wrong advice so this is just hope that the public pressure will be in such a way that he won't have to back off his from his in. this in particular is the united states in the run of it how do you think tehran will view this when they see this is an opportunity perhaps a moment of weakness from the u.s. . but it has that's hard to say because he's been the hardest and

unfortunately the most consistent you know with iran in wanting to be tough so i don't i think they should always be cautiously hopeful and optimistic but i don't think there's any reason why they would think a dramatic change in policy will occur with trump but who knows who knows about the advisor will be that's hope so we giving too much credit to the position of national security advisor just how significant is it. well yeah i think so recently it used to be nobody even knew who it was so they've had a lot of attention but it is important and if it's you know actually a good adviser doesn't have to be so visible they just give personal advice and try to persuade the president to do certain things so i think there is too much visibility and speaking of what's normal is it normal for

a president to go through so so many key members of staff not just national security adviser been through a lot of members in key positions is this just paul for the coast or is it unusual the way the presidency is going. well i you know it's hard to say he's a exposes himself more we hear about he's in the news so it looks like it's more so but my guess is a lot of this went on before it was just kept more quiet and they did it and trump is out in the open and he does a sweeping so everybody knows exactly what's happening. really appreciate it's on the you always welcome him amounted to national i guess former u.s. congressman roemer poll thank you. moving on now fiction is moscow is branded a c.n.n. report that the u.s. secret service is extracted a high level spy from moscow 2017 citing multiple sources c.n.n. claims that the spy was extracted as it was feared donald trump might expose him if

the white house and the cia say the story is incorrect so skeered taylor delves deeper. secret missions exfiltration of spies top level intelligence it sounds like the makings of a thriller and in a way it is because this is an elaborate tale recently yet by c.n.n. multiple trump administration officials tell me that these are officials with direct knowledge in a previously undisclosed to secret mission in 2017 the u.s. successfully extracted from russia one of its highest level sources covert sources inside the russian government the c.n.n. report claims a man at the highest level of the kremlin was secretly feeding theeye a information for over a decade that he was so ensconced within the kremlin wall so friendly with and trusted by president putin's in a circle but he even managed to photograph documents on the russian leaders desk

u.s. intelligence officials had already expressed concerns about the safety of this by other russian assets given the length of their cooperation with the u.s. this according to a former senior intelligence official the report is peppered with vague mentions of secret sources mysterious interviews and skips a bit on the facts facts make a thriller indeed the c.n.n. report doesn't even given in playing of the identity of the informant but the russian media was willing to give it a chance and landed on one smiling cough it's been reported that he previously worked at the russian embassy in washington before becoming up to stay counselor at the presidential administration not really the pinnacle of influence which is true that smiling cough worked in the president's administration but several years ago he was fired his position wasn't that of a top official all the discussion in the u.s. media about someone urgently extracting someone and saving someone it cetera it is

part of as you know a sort of pope fiction genre but c.n.n. probably felt it had a bombshell report on its hands it found yet another. unverified crump's just it was the russians not the american public who elected trump and then showing that washington had successfully outwitted moscow by sneaking a legit spy out but what could make this revelation for more delicious how about trump also being shown to be an unreliable slip president now that would be called a person directly involved in these discussions said that the removal of the russian was driven in part by concerns that president trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and that that could contribute to exposing the covert source as aspiring so just to clarify the cia gave up its most important source on the off chance that trump might spill the beans a source that's been cultivated over 10 years in the country is readily says it's

almost impossible to infiltrate i could even buy into that if the cia gave something to what quits i mean they aren't exactly trumps cheerleaders their response that must have come as a bitter blow at c.n.n. h.q. misguided speculation that the president's handling of our nation's most sensitive intelligence which he has access to each and every day driven alleged exfiltration operation is inaccurate i love a good story but anonymous sources classified information which is impossible to verify trump is incapable of dealing with the discreet demands of office and washington being a step ahead of everyone well it just fits all too neatly. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has announced if relate to this weekend he will next the jordan valley forms part of the west bank and has long been labeled by critics as occupied territory. and. we are on the eve of elections

president trump said that after the elections he would present his deal of the century for a permanent agreement. for israel's and the palestinians it will be presented just a few days after the elections and it's right around the corner this offers us a great challenge and a great historic once in a lifetime opportunity to apply israel sovereignty over our settlements in judea and samaria and also other areas with significance for our security our heritage and our future. the disputed territories of the western bank and gaza strip along being the seed of discord more than 600000 israelis including in west jerusalem live in settlements which 1st appeared in the region more than 50 years ago and the international organizations including the un and the e.u. of course these there is a serious breach of international law israel though rejects the accusations claiming that those territories never belonged to any country and so no legislation

has been violated political analyst mitchell barak believes that no one will take this issue seriously on an international level. it's a cynical use of policy it's a cynical use of a very serious issue it's a serious use of a contentious issue internationally although most israelis would agree that the bekaa valley belongs to israel and will remain in israeli hands for many many generations but to use it now i think a lot of people think it's a political stunt and it's a political stunt that may work have we seen any international reaction from the united nations or anyone else when the united states recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel and moved its embassy to jerusalem the answer is no words are very easily used but seldom in force and whereas it is a contentious issue there are people that think that maybe these territories are occupied there are a lot of people that think that they're not and right now the united states is in the corner of that and you know and again this is

a lot of electioneering. chawner islam to germany for hosting the prominent hong kong activists who want beijing described it as disrespectful that he was greeted by the german foreign minister. on the the phone the nice china is extremely unhappy at germany for hosting hong kong separatists so they can undertake anti china separatist activities and a german foreign minister publicly meeting such people it is disrespectful of china's sovereignty interference in its internal affairs. correspondent on a quarter picks up the story from berlin. berlin recently rolled out the red carpet for hong kong opposition leader inviting the 22 year old busy to a human rights event at the boom to stop once there jumped at the opportunity to call hong kong's political situation part of a new cold war we are in the new cold war all hold all. we

heard everywhere over to this day. is resisting the probably a chinese it was time for wong to turn on the charm for germany's big wigs and foreign minister heiko mosse was one of the 1st to be won over after hearing that one was detained in china for breaking bail and then released just a day before the event moss was overjoyed. we will come to. the street. and what could make a boom the stock conference even better a photo shoot wong was pictured with the leader of the white helmets an organization often praised by western leaders and just as often accused by critics of staging chemical attacks and supporting terrorist groups by now wong's probably an expert at posing in pictures because just last month he was caught on camera meeting with an employee of the u.s. consulates political division in hong kong and although wong has been hustling hard for that western support he's also been very critical of the west and the fact that

they haven't done enough of the fugue of all i want the conflicts to be resolved without violence and anything else would be a disaster and joining the law is a house but it's a country with 2 systems and this is i'm in hong kong gives people more civil rights than in does it china. i think chancellor merkel for speaking to hong kong in beijing but it was far less clear than the hong kong people wanted germany's business interest should not override the universal value we believe in if the chancellor wants to do something then she must help urge president xi to respond to the call for free elections of course china has even more against western officials stoking the flames of opposition in hong kong they've already labeled meetings with western officials as meddling and the root cause of violence in hong kong but based on this most recent rendezvous it seems the west is not listening donald quarter r.t. berlin. donald trump us praise the country's record military spending but

said that it was only forced to do so because of the threat posed by all this. we've achieved record funding for the us military 700000000000 dollars last year 716000000000 dollars this year 738000000000 dollars and you know i'm a big believer in budgets but we had no choice we had to rebuild our military with all that's going on today with china with russia with radical islam with everything that's happening. however the latest report by the congressional budget office has revealed the federal budget deficit has exceeded one trillion dollars that's an increase of $168000000000.00 over just the previous year over the body claims that the figures will improve when september's tax payments taken into account. the libertarian party presidential candidate great to have the on. the federal

budget deficit. is what does that mean in real terms for the us economy. what that means is that we have an administration that is putting the needs of europe of israel of saudi arabia above the needs of the american taxpayer today american taxpayers are paying for a military many many times the size of what could possibly be needed for the defense of america so that the u.s. military is able to defend europe and israel and saudi arabia rather than letting those countries provide for their own defense it means that we have so many departments that are doing nothing but getting in the way of the american people and if i'm elected i'm going to cut military spending close to 0 i'm going to be firing most we're shutting down most departments and firing federal workers because we cannot afford to keep wasting money on a failed the welfare warfare state. president always talks up the

performance of the u.s. economy since he went into. how would you assess the way things have been going since he went into power. there is a testament to the strength and innovation of the american people that even with the nonsensical regulations and tax burden that the trump administration has been putting on us including tariffs on steel something that every heavy industry needs including all these additional terrorist selling goods to other countries including being forced to pay many times what we need to for military spirit and the. and the american people still allow us to do reasonably well but we could be doing so much better if we could get rid of all that burden and if we had if we could stop paying for the defense of other countries paying for department that we simply don't need and don't want if we can do that and if i'm elected i will do that we would be doing many many times better you talked about you'd like to be spending down to almost 0 doesn't trim complained about how much previous administration spends on

the military and yet he's doing exactly the same isn't it always has and always been this way and isn't it always going to be the way. you know right now we're living in an information age we have access to many more forms of media many different forms of major media social media and the american people are waking up more and more people know that the united states spends more than the next 7 nations combined on military many people start to figure out that by being part of nato the united states need to maintain the military many times the size of anything we could possibly need more and more people are clamoring to leave nato leave the un just use the military to defend america and no one else we're not the military is not supposed to be a global charity service it's supposed to be protecting the american people at the lowest possible cost to the american people and given the advanced military technology that we have that cost is close to nothing and there's the budget

deficits gets big it's a trillion of course the the national debt just continues to grow that's into multiple trillions of dollars. how far can that be allowed to go and is there anything that can be done to turn it around. the only way to turn it around is a cut spending we just have to cut military spending cut spending on welfare including things like government schools that have become this near universal welfare for the middle class but the big threat over here that people don't want to talk about is that a debt this large becomes an actual threat to national security i don't think that that that radical islam or russia or china are real are a real existential threat to the united states are many times more economically military powerful but if the u.s. defaults on its debt that kind of economic catastrophe could actually be a threat to safety and security inside of the united states so if if trump was

actually concerned about national security rather than just pretending he would be working to cut military spending not finding ways to increase it it comes down to just cutting spending on unnecessary warfare cutting spending on welfare firing federal workers cutting taxes and letting american innovation really achieve what it can. mean you talked about those risks with having a budget deficit and having national debt but every president seems to operate in those circumstances that every year the country's losing money every year america's debt gets bigger just how real is that threat if this was a normal person on the street and they were the company was losing money every year in the debt was getting big it would end pretty quickly how does america get away with it as a country. so i mean take a country because it has it's using the dollar is actually is as a world reserve currency so you have so many other countries that are invested in

the dollar maintaining its strength so busy it allows the united states to borrow more than is in the benefit of the united states right now the united states is spending so many times not just its. not just did that the debt as become so many times the tax revenues if you look at the mine are a cut these trivial cuts that congress is trying to make on this massive massive deficit you realize that they're not really taking it seriously because they're not willing to let people go without we have to say listen we're the united states we're not the united states of france or of germany or of israel or saudi or of saudi arabia we need to be ok with saying they can defend themselves or if they can't defend themselves they can face the consequences of not defending themselves it is not our job to defend everyone from everyone world policing is a failed military policy as it creates enemy and as it creates enemies and is a disastrous economic approach and ensures that we keep borrowing money from china

from all the other countries in order to maintain this insane policy it hurts us in foreign policy we can't really take china to task properly because they're holding so much of of our debt over our head using that as leverage again the debt is the threat the actual foreign militaries which are a we compare to the united states military are not a legitimate threat of a good speech appreciate you all the time i was in for him i guess is the libertarian party presidential candidate thank you. busy news out of that wrap things up for now do stick around a bit but with the top stories plenty more enough.

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