that's. it. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is again this must be done even as i am a good mother who says i'm going to be in this movie didn't dream and i'm going to be best understood look to what is going in. being sent back and forth moskos left in limbo between now and the international chemical weapons watchdog this searches for any information on the alleged poisoning of alexina found a fall without success which would be interfered with several times they say to berlin. germany regions crying foul over mounting calls including from the e.u.'s top brass to ditch the nord stream tear gas pipeline project while locals in a german port town threatened with the u.s. sanctions struck

a defiant. i don't buy that there is none it's that they're trying to tell us what to do here is really serious the way the united states is trying to manipulate german longstanding european interests you should look at your own interests come out and talk with. moscow demands anstice from washington amid reports the u.s. is arming groups in crimea that russia views as terrorists and those are the headlines for this hour we're back in an hour with the latest but for now it's the big picture. snapshots of america parents depend on school for day care teachers are weary of contracting the virus in the classroom children forced into distance learning are denied the socialization that is so important. written especially for

the young ones and nobody likes this distance learning meanwhile new york city is losing because illions and sales tax well ballparks and sports arenas are empty broadway is dark restaurants are going out of business and residents are bugging out it's the same story across the usa urban exodus and city and state government budgets hemorrhaging as washington arm wrestles over relief payments americans lined up for food and many can't pay their rent though their landlords still have a mortgage how long can this go on let's ask investigative journalist and boom bust in our team news contributor ben swann ben many who have been in work at home mode prefer to stay there and many of their employers would like them to do just that because they're rethinking the per square foot pricey downtown office space that telecommuting has obsoleted or has it been were we more productive in the

conventional workplace has product to be taken to it. i don't think it has taken a hit certainly not in terms of people who have to go and sit in an office cubicle someplace many of them seem to prefer the system where they don't have to commute as you said they're not having to sit in traffic every day and losing precious time their families doing that and many many big corporations are looking at the size of their facilities and saying why do we need to continue to do this as an example delta airlines is one of those companies that has kind of been on a buying spree for several years trying to buy new buildings to convert into office space for their ever growing staff they have now halted all of that saying there's no reason to keep buying buildings if many of our workers can simply work from home and only have to come into the office maybe once a week or twice a week and so i think there is a kind of a general rethinking of how this works but of course all of that holland is

separate from the service industry where workers have to be present and they have to be there and that's where we're seeing the most pain right now. yeah and workspace isn't the only rental economy that's been disrupted as a long ago a long time long suffering landlord i can give you the calculus you put up the mortgage and the tenants put up the mortgage and you put up with the tenants and during the pandemic there has been forbearance there have been even moratoriums but how long can mat go on then how long before the dominoes start to topple through property values and foreclosures well i think holland were there at this point remember the reason that forbearance had existed in the reason those moratoriums were in place was because of congress congress put in place moratorium saying you cannot foreclose on tenants if they can't pay their rent right now and they essentially kind of lock down apartments and home mortgages saying you have to give

people time the problem is congress can't get its act together and has really left the american people and landlords high and dry right now and so we're now beginning to roll out and see now a new phase where those mortgages are coming due payments are coming due and it's not just because of greedy landlords who you know are demanding this rent it's coming from banks who are saying to those landlords you have to pay us we don't have to wait any longer and so i think we're going to see between now and christmas really probably the worst time of year to see this starting to happen we're going to start seeing that play out unless congress is willing to intervene and i've got to tell you i'm absolutely stunned that congress cannot seem to reach agreements on issues that they themselves have been at the center in terms of creating this kind of economic spiral. yeah they can cause a problem it just can't fix it we mentioned new york city which now is facing

a $9000000000.00 deficit over the next 2 years and we read about the specter of 22000 layoffs. and every city and state is in the same boat depending on money from washington but ben does that money actually exist we've got uncle sam running the printing presses day and night how soon before inflation changes life as we know it. well i think again the 2 i think were there the federal reserve bank chairman drome powell just a couple of weeks ago basically reset the standard for what inflation looks like set a new ceiling on a new floor on it essentially saying we can put up with 2 percent inflation and not really count it and so what they're doing is is simply the federal reserve is printing the money they are floating billions upon billions of dollars to corporations and pumping it into the economy on a regular basis and now saying well we're not really going to hold inflation down because we're not really going to count inflation the same way so when you when you

kind of jumble the math and you change the standard of what has been inflation in the past what will happen is the federal reserve will continue to print and then as inflation begins to rise they'll say well based on our new standard of accounting we don't really have inflation but in terms of what states are seeing you know if there's a fascinating new article this out in the wall street journal that takes a look at that data behind cities and states and the lock down because remember with covert 1000 the argument was all of these lockdowns and shutdowns have to happen in order to flatten the curve that was the terminology that was used well of course that didn't work but new data point show that not only did it not flatten the curve but in areas where there was strict lockdown it did not decrease the number of covert cases and in areas where there has been reopening of the economy it has not significantly increased covert cases so despite the the general thinking and the presumption of what would happen that has not been the case and so i think

based upon data and science we should be looking at this and saying do we keep the economy locked down the way that it is especially in places like new york. between september 21000 and september 2020 amazon stock doubled meanwhile. brick and mortar stores legacy names like lord and taylor brooks brothers j.c. penney neiman marcus are in deep trouble like telecommuting e-commerce has merely accelerated a term that was already in motion bend have we seen a permanent shift in retailing. i think we have i think what we're seeing right now the 1st of all you know if you are amazon when we talk about these lock downs you don't want to see a change right this works very well for them it works very well for e-commerce companies and tech companies that are really reaping as you said incredible windfalls right now but as a result of that what we are seeing is

a major major blow to middle class americans mom and pop shops that were already suffering as a result of e-commerce and then of course big box stores and brick and mortar stores which were again were already on the ropes they have now suffered a kind of a. blow that i don't think they can come back from at this point and really what i think the shift is beginning to move toward is will there be new competition in the e-commerce space not in the brick and mortar space i don't think a lot of those businesses will be able to come back we're now looking at 6 months into this pandemic and there is no talk right now hala no talk at all of saying here is the deadline for getting business back to these companies and again even the menial effort put forward by congress in terms of the p.p.p. loans or the payroll protection loans that is all dried up many businesses didn't even get it in the 1st place and those that did haven't had it for months and there

is no talk of being able to bring this back to them so where is the advocate for those businesses there doesn't seem to be one that has any power in this country and i'm almost out of time so i need your short big picture answer but i can't resist asking everything you have just told us is so far here comes another flu season we've got political rallies another super spreader events popping up colleges are back can we sustain a twin demick or is october destined to look a lot like april what do you think. going back to what i said before the data point show that the response so far of the coronavirus whether or not it was well intentioned or not and we can debate about that but even if it's well intentioned has been ineffective that's what the data is showing we need to rethink the process and whether or not we continue to do long term damage to people in terms of health and in terms of the economy. it's tricky investigative journalist and boom bust in

our team news contributor ben swan thank you for stepping into the big picture and now an update on a story we have been following all along and it's one that has been frightening us all lately guns in america as firearm sales doubled in the 1st half of this year usa today or pinion contributor justin mcfarlane wrote i'm a licensed gun owner but i haven't carried in years why i'm black and i'm scared open carry and concealed carry are white privilege at protests and everywhere i'm a black trained licensed veteran afraid authorities will kill me 2 key phrases you hear from trump on the stump are rigged election and 2nd amendment rights and with every mass shooting we hear the refrain that

a good guy with a gun could have saved the day but washington metropolitan police veteran and criminal justice professor ronald hampton says it's not that simple. second amendment activists seem to resave and unison the good guys with guns can take care of the bad guys with guns i want to move on i want you to think back to when you were in the bag ok you were in uniform and you respond to an active shooter scene you see somebody not in uniform with a gun what do you do you shouldn't you shouldn't and i mean that's it and that's what the that's what we were trying to do we were also trying to do which was really. stood in even understand the more name this certain things that when you encounter someone with a gun in the uniform you know what to do and you even sometimes have to ask for code of some if they're not even going to follow the new you don't have to really act as though that person. right going to hurt you or someone else so you have to

you have to have your gun in your hand ready to use it and you can't hesitate the book. if you are one of 5000000 new gun owners in the usa please get trained and please be careful coming up what else are presidential candidates saying that should concern us we will talk about toxic talk next this is the big picture on earth. you know the economy is a manmade structure. china's got engineers financial engineers economic engineers. thinkers. colossal 1st they failed over time what happens when the foundation of

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we used to cringe at donald trump dog whistles remember this from 4 years before the george floyd episode when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon you just see him thrown in rough i said please don't be too nice like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head you know the way you put the hand of. like don't hit their head and they just killed somebody don't it they had i said you could take the hand away ok. now our president is speaking unvarnished terms about those people invading the suburbs and as we mentioned earlier he keeps bringing up a rigged election and 2nd amendment rights do words have consequences let's ask

washington communications specialist claire meyerhoff and artie's own steve malzberg host of meet the press claire many vote prognosticators reckoned that your demographic cohort white women living in suburbs that ring cities will pick the president in november in his virtual convention speech trump warns that if the left gains power they will demolish the suburbs do you think that message resonates. yeah i'm just really scared i'm going to cancel my golf game because i'm just so terrified of these of these urban riots and things like that and i've been hearing a lot about this about democratic lindt cities that are the places of violence but you know nobody gives credit to these democratic cities when they're doing awesome like last year new york city if you walked around if you said oh my god this democratic city is just terrible no you would have gone and seen the new vessel on the west side you would have seen all kinds of wonderful things in new york city

and happy prosperous people so as far as the this fear factor i find it pretty interesting especially in light of the new recording of donald trump saying he doesn't like to scare people when it comes to the covert virus but he definitely loads to scare people when he talks about these riots and things that are going to happen in joe biden's america but actually they're happening in donald trump's america. you know you got that right and the respected the republican pollster frank luntz told the wall street journal the trump is his words talking about the right issue but he's talking the wrong way suburban voters want public safety even more than law and order they want safe streets rather than dominating the streets his rhetoric is over caffeinated steve could trump's message backfire. no law and order safe streets that call the same and i got to say with all due respect to you and your guest i wish that they would make the trump people would

make a commercial out of it with the the almost mocking of what's going on in our cities when you see people in a mcdonald's in pittsburgh being attacked and a black manager being attacked when you see elderly people sitting on the streets of philadelphia and outdoor cafe being attacked and you're laughing oh i'll cancel my golf game then that would be a perfect commercial for the drum campaign because it's that kind of attitude that's going to ride donald trump to victory absolutely no question about it people are scared they're scared to leave their homes and go take a trip into the city they're scared that it has come into the suburbs in so many cases we've seen a candidate for office in minnesota walk down a residential street with a bullhorn and a crowd behind him shouting at kids white kids on the lawn and if you laugh at that

keep laughing because you're going to laugh donald trump right into a 2nd term well we'll find out soon enough and the observant viewer may surmise that our panelists are of asymmetrical political views so let's have some fun steve i will ask you the converse question next but 1st things 1st clear if you had candidate biden's ear what would you tell him that he is doing that is working and not working. well i think the one thing that he has to do is he has to bring us together because the democratic party we are very 1st rate so i think it's doing a pretty good job of that and he should do more of that i would like to see a little bit more of who his choices might be and i love seeing the lovely dr jill biden their biggest one of my dreams is to get rid of that seemed to loss as an education secretary someone who doesn't give a hoot about american education has never been a teacher or anything like that and here's the lovely dr jill biden who is a community college professor and maybe perhaps. who are head of education

yes and i like rhode island governor gina rimando for commerce secretary but you know that your turn if candidate trump were willing to listen to anyone and that anyone is you what would you tell trump do more do less. i would tell him that he and by the way you know the wall street journal came out with this recently in an editorial but i tweeted this out long before that i'm not saying they got it from me but i didn't get it from them what donald trump needs to do is say and i don't know if he's capable of it this is not an election about me you may not like me you may hate me but you can't turn the country over to the radical left to a woman who says as vice president yeah maybe the boston marathon bomber should vote yes so you lose your health insurance but you won't have to fill out those insurance forms yeah let's give it all to illegal aliens too i mean radical as the

radical left could be and joe biden who i'm sorry to say every time he opens his mouth he can even read the pre determined answers to predetermine questions off the propter without losing his place so trapes to say you're going to hate me i don't care but you cannot make this about me it's about political philosophy and you don't want what about 15 percent of the country really believes and that's what you would get if you vote against me. yeah i would put a blooper tape up against biden to any day but i don't think trump is. really going to want to know that we'll do that on your show but i don't think trump is capable of making it not about him and i agree with your point he does this fairly effectively he says they're not coming after me they're coming after you and i'm protecting them clear the tweets have got to be heard in trump though

aren't they even with some of his peeps. well i just love the whole radical left thing that joe biden does this radical left wing person that's boyer from philadelphia stanley man whose was in the senate for so many years and rode amtrak as he's just the most radical person that ever walked the halls of congress and then channel harris also so radical the prosecutor yes they're just they're really wow that's the radical that's the radical left. so as to your question i can't remember. you know it's a it's a very i thought i did so far at the tweets turning off even trump's peeps hey here's the thing about dream speech they are his people that's it i live in both country i live on the water i count to 10 votes i'm going to ask my house this labor day but that's usually it's more like 25 here in the eastern shore of chesapeake bay of maryland and so yes people are people i don't think they care

what he tweets i don't think they care what he says they are voting for trump and people who are voting for buy go yachting survive it's all about turnout this time around. yeah even with the audiotapes accompanying the woodward book i wouldn't be surprised if no boats change and every 4 years americans shrug if these 2 are the best we could come up with if you go back to 2016 those registered voters who did not vote outnumber the voters who voted for either of the major parties candidates so steve then claire what issues do you think will drive turnout in november well i think primarily it's going to be law and order or safety which is the same thing frank luntz that's going to be number one and number 2 is going to be concerns over how the coronavirus will be handled going forward are we going to reopen are we going to close down are we going to you know. destroy as you pointed

out in the early part of the show with the end businesses can continue to go out of business and people going to continue to lose their livelihood and you know maybe one day we'll get the statistics on child abuse and domestic violence abuse and how it's skyrocketed through the roof because of these closings so crime and safety in the streets health and the economy which is into related to handling the coronavirus that's that's going to be that's going to be the key the key measure. that claire to quote vintage james carville it's the economy stupid and you remember the gipper are you better off than you were 4 years ago what do you think brings people to the polls claire. well again i really think it's about turnout and i think with such a polarizing candidate like donald trump i think we have a lot of people who are definitely going to vote just to keep donald trump from having another term and i'm one of them a lot of my friends are so that's that's where we are and then on the other side my friends who love donald trump man they love donald trump they're not voting for joe

biden they're not totally for anybody else so that's i think what we're really looking at suny it is really more about turnout if you look at michigan a state hillary clinton lost so so i am just a sliver back in 2016 that's a state that i think is easily going to come back for joe biden and so he's got to pull back michigan is going to pull back pennsylvania and then he's going to get one other state so it really just depends on those people in florida arizona north carolina have high hopes for a cow kind of hand is running for senate and i think that he's going to bring out a lot of democrats who want to see an end of thom tillis the other senator in our north carolina so i really am a firm believer in the electoral college in the swing states and those people who live there and the almighty turnout in the selection you know even even team trump members lately have been allowing that they may have a path to election without florida and that's a headline i'm almost out of time so i can't take more than 30 seconds from a trivia but i must ask you both prediction we will know who won the presidency

when steve then claire. you're not going to know for a law long time and of course you had hillary and everybody saying to joe biden don't concede under any circumstances you think you've got violence in the streets now wait till after this election it's going to get bad it's the democrat game plan especially if they lose earlier losing early you're going to see riots like you haven't seen before. well don't count the dems as the only ones who are armed which is why we're talking about guns but lot of mail in ballots clearly you think this is going to be like 2000 where it goes on for a month. yeah hanging chads i totally remember that palm beach county and the whole florida situation i don't know i kind of have a feeling that we might know later on election night especially since i think we know that to me only about 11 percent of republicans plan to cast their ballots by

mail and a lot of democrats are so if we see a really good democratic turnout perhaps we will know it's the democrats night because we know they're probably more democratic ballots in the post office or wherever they are before they get counted. no other guest has appeared on the big picture since i took it over 3 years ago more often than steve malzberg claire you've got some catching up to do and i hope you'll both come back thank you for stepping into the big picture and thank you for enduring the big picture we're going to be back here same time next week and if that's inconvenient for you to set your d.v.r. on directv we're channel 321 and on dish were 280 and if you have cut the cord congratulations were on pluto t.v. channel to 79 they just added a bunch of movies to you can watch the live stream of r t america on youtube youtube dot com slash r

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