oh did. i just find. hello there i'm going to watch and you're watching in question are broadcasting from our to america national news headwaters in washington d.c. one welcome our viewers from across the nation and all around the world here are tonight's top stories 1st up president trump pulling the u.s. out of yet another deal what's the reason behind this move and what will happen to the new start treaty set to expire later this year we're going to discuss that. as the grown a virus crisis continues to pummel the country's economy america's weapons manufacturers are looking all speed ahead details next then a new study says the country could have prevented more than 50000 deaths if measures were taken earlier it's time to use i.q.

. we begin this hour with breaking news out of corpus christi texas that is where officials are now calling a shooting at a u.s. navy air base terrorism related earlier this morning shots rang out at the base around 6 15 am local time f.b.i. officials confirm the suspected gunman is dead but a 2nd person involved in the shooting remains on the loose investigators say the shooting unbolted near the entrance gate and that's when the base went into immediate lockdown officials say one navy sailor was shot but he was wearing body armor and the base now secure but it's still not clear why the f.b.i. is labeling this incident terrorism related. and president trump has confirmed that the u.s. will pull out of yet another treaty this. time it's something called the open skies

treaty so in short it's a pact to help reduce the risk of military miscalculations that could ultimately possibly lead to war when nations do recon flyovers now the president says it's russia that led him to pull out of the agreement meanwhile a new meeting is set between trump's new arms control negotiator with his russian counterpart this meeting aiming to limit russian and chinese nuclear arsenals so joining us now to discuss boom bust co-host and investigative journalist that's one i spent 1st let's start with the specifics of what exactly this treaty covers yeah it's actually a pretty old treaty it goes all the way back to 1992 when the law when you were still in diapers i don't know. it goes like a long ways it was actually negotiated by george h.w. bush and then secretary of state james baker and so what they did is essentially created a treaty was right around the fall of the soviet union the emergence of this new russia and essentially what the treaty does is it allows for fly overs between

those 2 countries the united states and russia and it allows countries to fly over russia and russian planes to fly over the united states the problem is is that the trouble ministrations been getting angry saying that the russians will not allow the u.s. to fly over certain cities and so they're complaining that that has not been happening and so they say they're going to pull out of the agreement as a result of that so now president trump also just said this. we have a treaty as the other side doesn't adhere to it in many cases their old treaties older grievers said we pull out also so i think what's going to add that is we're going to pull out and they're going to come back you want to make you feel we've had a very good relationship lately with russia as you can see that with respect to oil is what's happening with oil. all right so you were the president there what did russia actually do or fail to do that prompted the president to make this decision

and then go on this this little short tirade there. yes so essentially what the president apparently was angry because in 2017 there was a russian aircraft that actually flew over one of his golf courses in new jersey and appeared early that angered the president also we know that russian planes do fly over the united states at certain times again that's according to this treaty they're allowed to do so the claim that's being made by some intelligence officials is that by doing that essentially what the russians are doing is they're putting themselves in a position where they can do mapping of certain facilities and they'd be able to locate certain facilities the problem with that theory is that you can go on to google and you can do the same thing without having to fly a plane over to be much more cost efficient just a math everything through satellite and through google so it doesn't really make sense that that's what's happening it seems like what the real concern is the real frustration is is that there are a number of russian cities that the russians will not allow certain planes to fly

over and members of nato are angry because they're saying they want to be able to fly over those cities and according to those members of nato they want to see what russians are doing in terms of military movements and they're not being allowed to do so so that is not that is not what the treaty is supposed to allow right the treaties opposed to allow flying over civilian areas not over military areas russians cannot fly planes over you right military air space ok so that's what the complaint is but what trump says he's going to get a better deal now right i mean he always thinks he's going to get a better deal then but i mean has anybody told him and other world leaders for that matter that there are 16 year olds that have really nice expensive drones that can map whatever they want i mean apart from maybe flying over the pentagon or something they can pretty much a map out the president's golf course that they want you know i was in italy they could set up again with. satellite technology you don't have to fly a plane over anything you just do it all from space. now bed president trump says

as you just mentioned that he thinks this will push them to come to the negotiating table but this is the 3rd treaty that the president has pulled out of 1st the iran nuclear deal than the one after treaty so what does this mean for the country as a whole and what does what does it mean for russia. well it's a really good question i mean what does it mean for russia at this point does that mean great harm to the russians probably not there's a great harm to the united states probably not a lot of these treaties now one thing trump says which is true a lot of these treaties are very old treaties and so when you're going back to 1902 the treaty was made at the time that the soviet union had just fallen as they said in russia was a fairly young country certainly the russians are going to want to different kind of deal right now based on where they are just as the americans certainly want to different kind of deal also the united states was not engaged in theaters of war around the world in 1902 the way they are today so there is a big difference in terms of just the geo political scape of the world right now and i think the other thing that's important is that as we're looking at this it

seems like trump does want to jump out of a lot of different treaties right now i'm not sure exactly what the tactic here is other than to say he's making deals because that's what he fancies himself as this great deal maker maybe that's ultimately what it's about is posturing for november to say sure good all the deals i've made over this amount of time short and lastly ben this new meeting between the arms negotiators of russia and the u.s. it 10 days sounds like american unilateral as i'm trying to only limit russia and china's nukes as it pertains to the new start accord how are you reading it yeah i think i think that's pretty accurate i mean the reality is is that the start agreement is obviously it's a cold war agreement right it was designed essentially to protect the united states and russia or the soviet union at the time for mutual destruction and so now we see that yes he's working on these other deals but as you said where is the deal with pakistan where is the deal with india you know where is the deal with israel and some of these other countries that have nuclear weapons and so there's big

questions about that does is it too russian centric probably so but the idea that we're even having these talks about nuclear arms right now it's a little remarkable that we seem to continue to find ourselves in these same cycles over and over again and we don't seem to ever advance from that we've been stuck in the cycle now for what 80 years yeah it's kind of get stale well leave it right there my prime bents one thank you so much for that update. you know if things. are while the majority of the u.s. economy suffers one industry is actually well may that's weapons american arms manufacturers are working full steam ahead and president trump is making sure that the coronavirus doesn't get in its way argues outfly which has that story as american civilian economic sectors come to a standstill. the war machine keeps turning. in the past couple of months the

u.s. has raised tensions with iran and venezuela air strikes in somalia have intensified america has provoked russia by suggesting the deployment of nuclear weapons in poland and u.s. warships have sealed towards china when it comes to china just this week but u.s. has made matters even worse approving the sale of 18 advanced or paedos to taiwan for $180000000.00 needless to say china is not happy. with finally burnley opposes the u.s. arms sale may hywel and she has made. in total the sale of weapons to foreign entities by u.s. companies stands at around $180000000000.00 a year and it coronavirus or not the trumpet ministration is making sure that doesn't slow down. with covert 19 lockdowns standing in the way of manufacturing president trump and its team have made sure to remove that hurdle when it comes to

the arms industry especially in terms of foreign sales adding to the government's march list of essential workers which includes health care professionals and food producers in april president trump added defense industry personnel employed in foreign arms sales to the list by all accounts this order is also helping weapons makers fuel domestic demand as well and we've spent $1.00 trillion dollars since i've been here more than that $1.00 trillion dollars on a military that we now have the strongest military we've ever had we have the best equipment the best missiles planes the best of everything according to the stockholm international peace research institute the united states remain the world's biggest defense bender in 2019 with a budget of 732000000000 representing 38 percent of all military spending in the world although slightly lower in february the pentagon released its 2021 budget

request at $705000000000.00 placing an emphasis on weapons that could be used against nuclear powers such as china and russia combining domestic with international sales the u.s. arms industry is pushing to nearly a trillion dollars that is not something that the trumpet ministration is willing to stand in the way of even if american workers are put at risk with covert $900.00 still raging in the states employees continue to work at military industry factories and offices around the country and with business booming the workforce is expanding. weapons manufacturer northrop grumman is planning on hiring $10000.00 more workers this year raytheon is bolstering its military wing advertising 2000 new jobs boeing which has laid off thousands of its civilian wing is looking to hire hundreds on the military and security side of its business and the world's biggest arms dealer lockheed martin has added 2365 new jobs since the beginning of

the coronavirus lock down with the intention of hiring another 4600 people. while some see national defense as essential to the us many are wondering how manufacturing weapons for foreign entities fits that bill with the willingness to put american workers at risk or military industry assembly lines u.s. government priorities become even more blurred for r t m alex marla bitch. now to our ongoing coronavirus coverage the number of cases worldwide now surpassing the 5000000 mark with more than 329000 reported deaths right here in the u.s. cases now topping 1500000 with about 93000 deaths so as america slowly reopening fight against the pandemic continues our team is trying to chávez reports now from new york. today more than 23000 new crew in

a virus cases documented in the u.s. the world health organization reporting the biggest one day increase of coronavirus cases yet new data from columbia university suggesting that tens of thousands of deaths could have been prevented if the united states had implemented social distancing measures in early march that's about 2 weeks earlier than it actually did around 36000 people or people would have died in the epicenter of the outbreak new york city mayor bill de blasio didn't close schools until march 15th then it wasn't until march 16th that president trump urged americans to avoid travel limit large groups and stay home from school governor cuomo not issuing stay at home orders until march 22nd so we're going to put out an executive order today new york state on pause policies that are sure uniform safety for everyone the virus quickly sweeping through new york city helping fuel outbreaks in louisiana texas arizona and the west coast this as private companies race to find

a vaccine. but now a sign of good news to harvard studies in monkeys reveal the adding antibodies to the corona virus either from passed into. actions or from prototype vaccines do offer protections from re infection in one study 9 monkeys that were infected with corona virus did not get the disease again even after they recovered and in the other study 25 monkeys were given 6 prototype vaccines while 10 received a fake vaccine well 10 of the monkeys had high degrees of the infection in their noses and lungs 25 either had low levels or no detectable levels at all this as the virus continues to grip hard hit new york city as unemployment numbers soar the demand for food has never been greater we are no money we are not fools. hanging out beliefs on the makeshift food pantries now set up throughout the city providing thousands of meals a day for those in need each week are steadily the numbers of bigger and bigger and bigger. is is very prevalent. not only do you see

homeless people but you see people that are food insecure the number of people being unemployed. huge and our numbers have grown by 100 percent the pantries serving nearly 15000 meals just last week and since the shutdown the city has provided more than 32000000 meals to residents we have destroyed in the city of new york has distributed 32000000 meals to new yorkers who need food. and this effort is growing every day by next week over a 1000000 meals will be delivered per day delivered to york officials say the state department of labor has now paid out more than 9000000000 dollars to 2000000 people who have filed for unemployment claims since the pandemic began meantime a new report finds that it will take the city at least 4 years to reach prepaying demick unemployment numbers but the city will not start to rebound from the crisis at least for another 2 years reporting any york trinity chávez r.t.

. and op ad in the new york post goes on an extraordinary rant demanding an end to the law. down in the state we're going to discuss that and then over at sports regina hamm shares some memorabilia heading the auction block that place tribute to the late kobe bryant said about what all the latest news and anything you might have missed make sure you download our brain free app portable t.v. you can watch there 24 seventh's i'll be back in 2. oz no t.v. no crow. no shots no. action just felt. going to let me stress.

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the images of these eerie quiet silent times square streets they know that this is unheard of and not seen even following 911 now one writer a let it all out unvarnished his calls to reopen the city that never sleeps so in a new op ed for the new york post we're going to discuss that and we're going to bring in our very own very vocal new yorker of light all media line and my friend you and mrs al have been under the cuomo lockdown for months now you've witnessed this firsthand but i've also heard from friends their 1st hand accounts from there also new yorkers who say they are witnessing death at every turn so which is it is new york city really ready to reopen yes. yes by the way it's so good to see you it's been 70 days 70 days since i've been in this this whatever this thing

is call let me tell you something with this it depends you know you show these these kind of a demolition day after time square but i'm i'm in hell's kitchen we have riverside park here just people out all the time and there's their people it's there's activity the comfort is right well i'm pointing to wall here but the comfort right here was here it came people were out and about a jogging it's like what reality do you want whenever we went from being told that we would have received your reader trucks to to handle the dead bodies stacked like cordwood as it all was and poof they just stopped talking about it we had the comfort you know the javits center with 3000 beds and all the some people who would be dead just went away they were digging ditches and makeshift graves in parks here in the city to handle death and the destruction of these people who are unclaimed and nobody talked about it that we i mean so what reality do you want and discover

never discover who figures what he did the prime time have you watched him have you ever spent any time listening to him wax prosaic about. it nor do we did we because what are you talking about then we've got i why am i out why don't i have and we got to point out that the governor's younger brother gives him a lot of air time on a different network and like you said right right now governor andrew cuomo seems to be this media darling he has his daily press or as he gets around of applause for the handling of this in his state and i don't know new yorkers they tend to vote democratic but there are a whole lot of republicans in new york who back trump who want the city and the state for that matter to completely reopen and some are even blaming the media for this continued lockdown what's your take on that. well yes to all of the above i

mean this is a strange this is a strange city it's i've got news for a lot of people whatever your impression was politically in terms of left and right that goes out of the way when when you have new yorkers being told you can't go to a church but you can go to a liquor store like everywhere else where i'm asked to go where i'm asked some people abide by it but you have this mayor de blasio who's in disgust match this lights out match with the governor to see who can be tougher in this weird parallel universe instead of government saying listen we're going to be trying to ease back you know the question is very simply this is this work closing down the entire world economy i look at people right now people are distrusted with the media distrust that per usual there's going to be a revolution bloodless of course and peaceful but people have had it there's going

to be a reconfiguration and a recalibration of everything political parties disney says media oh. this is the beginning i'm feeling it every single day people have had it with this and that i mean we don't believe the virus is true and i don't. know don that's the the president's former fixer michael cohen he's been released early from prison today after serving just one year out of his 3 year sentence because of coronavirus concerns in prison he's going to remain on house arrest for the remaining term of his sentence doesn't that speak to keeping the city on lockdown or does this reflect on the form of cronyism. oh this is i mean this is this is a good term in prison but because of the better question is if if if you're not calling why don't other people let up what is you so special if you know anyone who has he something will do this or does it make any sense to me look i will talk about that well in terms of why he's even there in the 1st place probably know

every were turned around there's inequity why does he get out why do some people white huge some people in connecticut they're open for business short of a year and a boy in the bubble kind of a world but still but not new york new jersey is different we're city to city is different so this is the land of equal justice under the law it's nothing but inequality and i'm telling you people have had it you're not going to recognize a city a year from now or discuss how people are shifty big time what a weird i miss you i miss you too i don't it is a weird new norm we don't see each other often enough in person my friend line voting my arm why don't you go check out what he's got to say on you tube there's a lot more to it thank you. it was a divided vote but a senate committee has confirmed john ratcliffe as the new or director of national intelligence the 49 to 44 vote was right along party lines with all democrats opposed trump renominated radcliffe after being

a key defender during the president's pitch many hearings. and other news from around the world for a 4th straight night now riot police in paris clashed with protesters over the death of an 18 year old motorcyclist overnight protesters can be seen throwing fireworks at the cops they are rusted flared up last weekend after the 18 year old was killed in a collision his family says a police car was involved but the police tonight at claim. and regina hamm is here at the sports h.q. regina many people would obviously love to have a piece of kobe bryant to remember him by and now they might. at the chance to if they've got the money of course money talks and you know it has sadness foretold because been almost 4 months since you tragically lost and the star kobe bryant and his daughter giana in a plane crash california now pieces of his memorabilia are up on the auction block but the money does go to a good cause joins options but more than $50.00 pieces from kobe's 20 year n.b.a.

career spring catalog 8 the collection includes a number of signed or game or in jerseys warmup outfits basketballs and nike sneakers many of the items are expected to fetch a high price tag as fans want to remember the black mommas legacy there is a silver lining to all of the nasa brain is still working with copious formally named models sports academy and 5 percent of the proceeds will go towards that venture always good. and to different of a sport powerlifting is an impressive feat and those who compete like hockey or bjornson or the mountain leave so many in awe for one hour later in africa he's hoping that his impressive feat inspire those who are bullied to take their insecurities and turn it into strength his name is shakes a new also could be from burkina faso 20 year old just 20 years old is a powerhouse lifter that is making a name for himself on the international stage so he won the world log to lift championship a 2nd euro 21000 lifting a whopping 220 kilograms or 485 pound log he started his career

choice 16 when he placed 3rd in the world junior strongman competition the birkin he's athlete claimed he can deadlift and squat over 400 kilograms that's about 800 pounds but what actually sets the r. and b. apart is his desire to give back to kids who are bullied he says he was picked on as a child for his weight want to inspire others just tune out all the noise and focus on your dreams whatever they might be it's always aspiring to end your week window with a good story a feel good story you know i don't think i could squat 800 pounds but i'm glad he's showing kids you know what ignore the haters all right so he's basically saying get so big and enormous that the haters are going to be terrified of you and. i'll stop picking on you yet you know strength and size yet take no kid out a medal no i give her that regina and you don't go anywhere because we're back at 7 pm with a lot more news for you nasa making preparations for next week's space launch find out what makes this next launch so important for commercial space travel so that's

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