no there i'm an election and you're watching it in question broadcasting from our to america's national news headquarters in washington d.c. we want to welcome our viewers from across the nation and all around the world here are today's top stories 1st where has all that stimulus money gone and how soon can the government reopen those are just some of the questions u.s. lawmakers are asking it as they grilled the treasury secretary and federal reserve chairman today plus president trump now threatening to defund the world health organization putting him at odds with china as he calls the health agency to china central will look at what china had to say about that then russia warns the u.s.

over the redeployment of nukes and that poland at the move which interestingly enough is also being criticized by some american institutions all right it's hard to believe i hear. ever since the coronavirus forced americans to stay home that obviously led to the shutdown of a lot of businesses and congress has since passed several relief measures aimed at getting americans back on their feet but after trillions of dollars got rubber stamp approvals the country as a whole is really nowhere near reopening and americans are becoming impatient with elected leaders well today the u.s. treasury secretary and the federal reserve chairman were grilled by members of the senate banking committee wanting to know where all that money went. rachel blevins

has been monitoring those hearings she is joining us now with the details as a rachel how did these hearings actually play out well this marks the 1st time that administration officials were questioned on the results of that $2.00 trillion dollars cares act and it was also the 1st time the hearing was held remotely for social distancing purposes now treasury secretary steve menuhin was questioned about a recent report which found that his department has actually spent very little about $500000000000.00 that was supposed to be used as loans for businesses and local governments and to that he said well they're planning to spend it they just haven't done it yet and he was also asked about accusations that the government has prioritize major corporations while smaller businesses have been left to suffer here was his response companies such as boeing that i had expected would need to borrow from us on a direct basis we're able to borrow 25000000000 dollars in the primary markets so i would say in the best case scenario the markets open up and we don't need to use

these facilities in the case of main street facility the municipal sicilia which we expect both to be up and running by the end of the month we expect these to have a big impact on both those markets. now that mean street lending program he referred to is a $600000000000.00 program meant to help small and midsize businesses that don't typically qualify for other programs and even though the us supposed to be up and running by june it's still not clear exactly when those businesses will get the help they desperately need and also reach a receiving record unemployment how did the officials respond to concerns about americans who aren't able to pay bills right we've seen more than $36000000.00 americans file for unemployment since down began and members of the committee expressed concerns about those who are no longer collecting a paycheck but are still expected to pay rent to that federal reserve chair powell said that the goal right now should be to focus on getting americans back to work take a listen to what he had to say. a long period. one employment. and really affect

people's ability to go back to work because they lose their networks they lose skills it was contact with the job market so it's interesting that people. intact is probably. in their job but in the meantime keep them out of solvency and things like that if should be should the. storm leaders were to take longer to get going it's also important to note that according to the latest year for its 44 percent of the americans who have filed for unemployment have yet to receive any benefits or have been denied all together and did they say anything about provisions for essential workers will the senators brought up those service industry workers who have remained on the job because they are considered essential but are still receiving low wages even with the higher risk at work here's what they had to say about that put their lives on the line for very low wages and they're still worried about their paying the bill so she is actually are well mr senator i just want to

thank all the essential workers whether it be the health care people the guys thank you thank you it's great but these are these are people what is it fair that our economy pays the essential workers so little in such work conditions now as for that 3 trillion dollars stimulus package that was just passed by the house the focus right now appears to be on making sure the funds from the last images package are allocated correctly before they move on to the next one still a lot for them to discuss obviously rachel once thank you for that update thank you . right taking a look now at the coronavirus numbers worldwide cases are topping 4800000 with about 319000 reported deaths and right here in the u.s. there are now over 1500000 cases and about $90000.00 deaths there these are the highest confirmed numbers of any single country so far. china's foreign ministry is mincing no words saying the u.s.

is trying to smear china with finger pointing over the cove it outright by threatening to help withhold funds from the w.h.o. listen. the above mentioned open letter of the u.s. leader is full of language like maybe and it tries to mislead the public in this possible way this is when you're trying to present your control launchers and shirk the us his responsibility i know for incompetence and it's known for mentioning drill this is few to hear me and here to weigh in with an international perspective former u.k. m.p. george galloway so george what do you think of the chinese foreign ministry spokesman for the language there. well blistering indicates that china is rapidly running out of patience with those mounting the scapegoating campaign they have just as predicted it would started with retaliate against australia sometimes insultingly referred to as the gum on china shoe

they have placed 80 percent on all australian goods and services coming into china which will of course have a devastating impact on australia's economy which relies very heavily on trade with china and the will shortly i predict do the same with canada and both are a warning shot to the united states and to britain for matar but china isn't going to put up with this for an unlimited time the truth is mandela you and i can delude ourselves into imagining that your country and mine which have by far and away the warst record on the coronavirus pandemic the greatest number of cases the greatest number of deaths we are rapidly catching up with you with a mere fraction of your population but you and us are the worst in the world now we

can delude ourselves that is a mere coincidence down to the fact that both of doors. our stunning blog or we can be a little more thoughtful about the marjoram is ringback our model our model of capitalism but we sure are in common and our contempt for international organizations and cooperation on the edge on the national level are believed when you knew laughter lism on the boule in the china shop and little john bull were trotting along behind an uncanny similarity george between the u.s. and u.k. numbers but george i mean this is is clearly a finger pointing exercise i mean we have the white house contending that china had the original findings of the virus then china saying the u.s. simply didn't do enough to contain the outbreak at the end of the day why does this

matter at this time george i mean can we compare it to those infamous hillary clinton sound bites heard all around the world when she sat for 13 hours before congress about libya saying what difference does it make. well it doesn't right this moment make a difference on the european spokesman you just go to late are making the point in the middle of unimagined say let's compare to as many do to the 2nd world war for people to be quarreling amongst each other this kind of base level on this level all on disability can only weaken any alliance can only weaken any fight against the nexus stensholt threat which it grew up with 19 obviously is ringback about of course the day will come when what everyone done when they did it will be germane and will have to be properly analyze the w.h.o.

have conceded charge that they made some mistakes there or as it happens small mistakes but. complete and a week to the blunders that your country and mine have made now george for the record for the viewers here this is a rare time that you will ever hear me quote hillary clinton but the president trots ultimatum to the w.h.o. has sent the organization scrambling to reorganize there is a mad dash by them to review their member state response to coronavirus could this perhaps george be a good thing brought upon w.h.o. by trance threats the same way that we saw movement at nato and they started upping their payments once trump threatened to withdraw the us. wish you would withdraw the us i don't think the w.h.o. will miss donald trump i don't think they'll miss the united states government's. affairs they'll miss some of the finance but that will be made up and i think that

the united states will be the loser from this this question of isolation doesn't have any validity in the face of a virus that quite obviously knows no boundaries doesn't recognize boundaries or national flags and so you can withdraw into your own counsel but when your council is as bad as brits another american scoundrel has been here in britain they're falling apart today blaming each other the reality is we're all going down the plug and 2 i think that the british and american people are probably going quickly to. our we've got to leave it right there always appreciate your time george galloway thank you for those insights. and a new trade war appears to be brewing between australia and china on monday australia announced it welcomed the global support for an independent coronavirus

pandemic investigation and then today china placed tariffs on around 80 percent of australian barley. australia's trade minister says his country doesn't want to trade war with china but is prepared to take china to the world trade organization over this issue. and over and she laid dozens of protesters clashed with police demanding food aid amid this ongoing pandemic lockdown the lockdown has taken a toll on the country's poorest protesters block street group stones and firebombs at police during a heated exchange in response authorities fired water cannons at the crowd. and back here stateside the texas salon owner who was jailed for keeping her business open during the outbreak traveled to michigan to back another barber in a similar situation the 77 year old barbour reopened his shop for more than a week into finance of state lockdown orders before state regulators took his license away he continues his fight to reopen and urges other business owners in

michigan to join in. and in a signed letter president trump's position confirmed that the president has been taking the anti malaria drugs had dropped a cork when now trump surprised reporters at a news conference yesterday when he admitted taking this drug for more than a week his doctor concluded that the potential benefits from use outweighed the risks trump has repeatedly pushed for the drug as a potential cure for coke at 19 but so far studies have found that theory inconclusive. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and even one american institution say relocating u.s. nukes from germany to poland would be a dangerous idea we're going to discuss that next and then over at sports ready to hand brings us a runaway game over in the qur'an a baseball organization and to keep up with all the latest news and anything you might have missed download our brand new free app called portable t.v.

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my pap and tony a host of america's lawyer when white collar criminals policy high profits and sneer at the pain of those they rip off and ruined so that's where i come in question for. you. nato has back in the news this week with the u.s. ambassador to poland raising some eyebrows with this bizarre tweet she said if germany wants to diminish nuclear capability and weaken nato perhaps poland which pays its fair share understands the risks and is on nato's eastern flank could house the capabilities here now georgette mosbacher the ambassador to poland is a political appointee she might be regretting that tweet after

a lot of blowback from the international community experts at think tanks like the brookings institute have actually weighed in and called this quote a truly bad idea and went on to numerate the many reasons why and other experts who have actually been on the ground as a u.n. weapons inspector say this would be a massive provocation to russia now that expert is scott ritter he was also a u.s. marine corps intelligence officer at one point in his career and he is joining us now to discuss this now scott you have an interesting piece for r.t. dot com on this matter so you would actually agree with the folks at brookings institute saying this is a bad idea. it's a horrible idea it's 1st of all it serves 0. deterrent value i mean the whole purpose of having nuclear weapons in europe is part of the nato a nuclear capability is

a is for its deterrence value anybody who actually thinks these weapons are going to be used or have the utility in combat suicidal should get their their mind checked if you're going to deter somebody you don't provoke them simultaneously and to move these weapons from where they currently reside in germany. poland eastward violates a whole host of agreements and. it also puts nuclear weapons within you know moment momentary striking distance of a russian territory which means any time a polish aircraft that was configured to be capable of carrying a nuclear weapon took off from its base russia would have to go on alert and when you have a constant alert status like this mistakes are going to be made and that increases the likelihood of conflict it doesn't deter anything so it's it's a it's a bad idea all across the board does this type of rhetoric coming from folks like mrs mosbacher worry you given that they are political appointees i mean she like

a lot of others who are ambassadors to various countries have little to no foreign policy experience do you view this as her personal blunder on twitter or do you think this was a calculated move. no this is not a calculated move 1st of all in order to move nuclear weapons from germany to poland you would need a decision made by the nato council and it had to be unanimous decision because nato is a consensus driven organization there is no consensus for this whatsoever or even a full incident we're ready to take these weapons today nato would have to agree in the united states would have to agree and this would require the department of defense working with the arbonne of state in an interagency fashion craft you know the the agreements necessary i mean georgette mosbacher a political appointee in poland tweet this out is an embarrassment but it's not a reflection of actual policy she's but you know the problem is she's she's

stirring the showing that there's an absolute disconnect within the trump administration between the real policy makers and those people who are make you are grabbing the headlines now just a moment ago you were talking about germany at and richard grinnell the ambassador to germany is also as we know serving as. fillin d. and i are these 2 job roles now showing a conflict of interest especially given that the german as the pain leader is calling for a withdrawal of germany's role in housing american nukes. well fortunately the director for national intelligence has ciro input into america's strategic nuclear posture he's an intelligence officer he's not a military officer he's he's not part of the the nuclear posture review process but he can speak about threats coming from russia or threats coming from china and he can speak about how the united states response is threats so this is not a situation where you would have an inherent conflict of interest but i do find the

fact that you have an ambassador to a critical nato ally it will have it as an acting director of national intelligence you can't do both jobs well which means if you're going to try to do one job well failing in the other and we see this is a situation where he probably should have held fire when it comes to criticizing germany it's a it's a very complicated subject it's a sensitive subject inside germany and by him injecting himself in this manner what appears to be in a coordinated fashion with the rest of american policymakers again is just stirring the pot when it doesn't need to be stared and we have got what with all this discord among nato member states given this highlights how dysfunctional or perhaps even the font there i say it with organization might be. the nato has had an identity crisis since the end of the cold war but in fact if you go back and take a look at the discussions that took place between the administration of doing

george herbert walker bush jim baker in the secretary of state in the president himself that they had with mikhail gorbachev president of the soviet union and where sharon i.z. the foreign minister about you know how to reunify germany and how to get the soviet union out of the east. sure in other countries guarantees were made about nato not expanding. security baker said you know nato is in the post cold war and are more of a political institution than a military institution but somehow the united states lost track of the asian nato today is very much more a military institution and a political institution when you say military institution to confront who'll if we say you don't want to have a problem with russia if you want to peacefully co-exist then why do you have a military alliance whose sole option is to control and russia nato is time is long past and it's time for europe to us we got

a better way to spend you know its defense money being part of the of in order to have an alliance who dates back to the late 1940 and reach early 1952 when the world was a completely different place as no role in the world today all right we will leave it right there scott ritter thank you so much for your expertise. well thank you for having. and elsewhere around the world french president and just lost the majority in the national assembly 7 defectors from his own party broke away to create their own new group in france's lower house of parliament this new group called ecology democracy solidarity group as they're now being called hope to put pressure for a more left leaning policies and staying in france clashes broke out in a paris suburb for the 2nd straight night between officers and protesters this after the death of an 18 year old on a motorbike protesters blame police for this accident. at

a fast moving cycle out as headed toward india and bangladesh forcing authorities to evacuate millions of people while maintaining social distancing. is expected to make landfall wednesday morning forecasters warned of extensive damage from high winds heavy rains tidal waves and even. flooding in crowded cities is only the 2nd super cycle in recorded history that has formed over the bay of bengal. and back here in the u.s. officials in arizona say high winds caused a brush fire near you next to nearly 5 drupal in size overnight 132 homes had to be evacuated luckily no structures have been burned just yet but the fire did come within about $100.00 yards of some residential properties. very good news there right regina let's head over to the sports h.q. regina american fans here are dying for some baseball but they've got to stay up pretty late to catch the korean baseball organization to do 1 am and 5 30 am and i

shamelessly say i stayed up for both because there is a need to watch the baseball and twins wanted to return to their winning ways so they had on the road to hopefully come away with the w. against the same time lions top of the 1st r.b.i. sing off the bat it turns out that song breaks up and nothing late in the entrance 1st baseman roberto ramos sends a ball deep in right field for a 3 run homer run twins up for nothing this is on a rampage and so on top of the 1st this time so homer to right field off the bat of oh you want 5 nothing to leave now since on any deep hole and your job before it gets worse another r.b.i. single by you. scores under the 8 nothing is more of that small sign of hope lines in r.b.i.'s and by kim some through putting his team on the board so much that lions should weigh the visitors leaves a 2 run home run by regular. lions make it a 10 for ball game but bottom of the 9th lions a better grounded a 3rd sets up

a double play in that is all she wrote folks twins right the ship and come away with the 10 picks when. the n.h.l. is looking to try and restart their season in hopes of crowning the newest stanley cup champion so on that note let's start a tuesday edition of this day in sports history with the team that won its 1st ever stanley cup championship. back in the good old days of bruiser hockey 104th philadelphia flyers in the glory days as a broad street bullies defeated boston bruins and one of them showed up to win their 1st philly cup title flyers took the series to game 6 and then the spectrum where they played 1st to seal the cup for the flyers in the 70s but tonight $991.00 we go and willie becomes the 1st african-american driver to compete in the indy 500 he's also the 1st african-american driver to test drive a formula one car 186 and then just 2 years ago in 2018 at the foggy 143rd running of the preakness justify one the middle jewel the triple crown becoming the 5th horsford bob baffert to in both the derby and the preakness he would actually take the triple crown at the belmont and speaking of horse racing monella we mentioned

it last hour the belmont stakes will now be the 1st jewel in that crown this year it will go on june 20th like planned but with no fan so if you're going to wear your big hat wear at home it's yes you got a social distance at home you know you're going to see that i want to see that tweet at me at regina wareham i want to see your hats on jan and i mean it as if they're old enough igs jewels of derby's but you know what i'm sure the belmont has its own you know specialty but wear your hats wear your pastels it's good to see horse racing and then the derby will actually be on labor day weekend and it'll finish with the preakness right up the street in baltimore in october i hope so i hope that. all right thank you for that regina hanna and we will be back at 5 pm with a lot more news for you in new york city new data reveals that the minority communities are the hardest hit by the coronavirus we're in a break down those numbers plus dogs now being trained to sniff out $1000.00 you heard that right we're going to tell you all about it all that and more coming up at 5 pm but that's it for now keep up with everything in question at all times by

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you know there is so much out there to cover so today let's kick things off with a story about coverage a little too much coverage if you will i'm talking of course about the news that last week both republicans and democrats in the u.s. senate joined together to pass the usa freedom reauthorization act of 2020. not surprisingly the usa freedom reauthorization act has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with codifying indorsing in the ultimately legalising once again the national security and surveillance state that we all call this current version of the united states of america you see after expiring back in march the freedom act reauthorization restores government powers that lets law enforcement collect tangible things tangible things related to national security investing.