i didn't know it and when i met. him i mean you heard that. the russian foreign minister warns that moscow is ready to end of ties with the european union if it imposes new sanctions on key sectors of the economy. we don't want to distance ourselves from the international community but we need to be ready for this if you want peace prepare to war and. a member of the world health organization just back from the coronavirus epicenter in china tells us that humans probably did not catch the virus directly from bats but from other animals instead . and outrage in france grows over american values supposedly being forced on the country as the renowned paris opera to diversify performances after complaints from

black dancers. i think there's a kind of a laziness of the intellectual process where they say well we're going to copy and paste and they come and they tell us how wrong we all. those are our top headlines at this hour don't go away the big picture is on the way. every 4 years the usa votes and the world watches and this time they got a real eyeful between the vote controversy and the violent aftermath how does that stuff look to our friends and foes around the world and how will president biden be percy you've thought and received by other world leaders let's ask john said ladies trilogy advisers in washington john is a geo political strategist he is a consultant to the department of state john welcome back to the big picture great

to be with your own thanks for having me. the ultimate insider succeeds the ultimate outsider donald trump whose 1st secretary of state the seemed out of his depth and whose eventual secretary of state came off gruff joe biden and his more diplomatic secretary of state already know many world leaders does this give the president an immediate advantage. to a certain degree hollande i think it really depends on a case by case basis which leaders of which countries we're talking about a for instance general secretary she is probably still wondering what kind of a relationship you'll have with president biden and abided ministration as you correctly note there will be a smoother more nuanced diplomatic tone to u.s. foreign policy joe biden is clear about that from the presidential campaign but it seems at least the 1st several weeks of this administration now largely sticking to

the trump strategy or deal with china a very tough on hung up on taiwan not me sure that we provide arms to taiwan coming down hard on changing and continuing to trump policy of calling china's policies against muslims genocide and so i think villages where there are going to be some differences maybe in terms of trade talks in the life she i think is going to be puzzled by the by the industry for some time to come will be whether moscow's perspective will be on the one hand you have very expensive to start nuclear treaty between the united states and russia but you also have a ban on fracking inside our lands which will make us a less powerful export of oil and natural gas which means that the prices of those natural resources will try and that will help the russian economy but there may also be sanctions on the russian german pipeline works too that will cause

a tremendous row between both the u.s. germany and the u.s. and russia so that's going to be a very fluid relationship i believe in the months to come and that would just round out right now hollande on iran which i think was looking forward to a restoration of the jews he always had through by administration but it seems today the white house is declaring that iran must meet the terms of that 2015 agreement and go backwards from iran has a travel over the last 5 years in terms of your. and a whole number of us here i really should some better treatment before talks can resume on whether or not you must join the nuclear agreement but your body to hold her got to be happy that the bike to ministration has to clear the roads and yes i'm not a terrorist group it is asian which is a bit of a slight against our traditional south and allies in the region so again very good ones foreign policy in this administration is free of us trouble hitchens' world

jonna take us inside what washington insiders call foggy bottom the department of state as anthony blinken takes over and president biden is appointing new u.s. ambassadors around the world how is the vibe inside state these days. i think it's a very positive one remember that antony blinken it is a veteran of the state department and he pretty much launched his foreign early relations career into state department in the early 1990 s. before moving over to work in the clinton white house and the national security council he's a year veteran of the senate foreign relations committee when now president biden was chairman a ranking member and then he obama national security council 4 years before going into the private sector so he said a steady well go hand of the state department of the democratic party as far as you salish friend and couple was

a number of veteran democratic friends in the state department who were both in the obama administration is far back as the clinton administration my own sense is that many every people and state have a sense that there is a steady you're held steady your hand at the helm in the state department it will be less disruptive than it was a trumpet ministration but of course president was very clear that he intended to be a destructive force whereas joe biden is looking to be more of a calming souths so to speak in the state department and we'll see that play out both in terms of a relationship between the white house and the state department with the senate and the house of representatives on foreign policy and so it's through our embassies and international organization memberships around the world we are speaking with geo political strategist john said a leading john you mentioned the china and russia always on the front burner you touched on iran which is always problematic what next for north korea

after the. photo op relationship and what are a couple if there are a couple other hot spots we should be watching i got about 2 minutes. well north korea is always a hostile because of the near curial nature of the young leader kim. well know and also conjunction and also the fact that there are truly a weapons that are both increasing in quantity but also the is a potential regime change or regime collapse in north korea we don't know how to ensure that those weapons don't fall its hands a very dangerous idler service or not state actors around the world but other hotspots holland i think that taiwan is going to be a very very important issue for the united states because general secretary she's made it very clear he is looking to see how best to unify the i watch with china perhaps under his presidency we saw how he operated in hong kong finally united kingdom with impunity and is now looking perhaps to make sure that there is no

significant independence there i think iran and saudi arabia is always going to be a hot spot those are the 2 countries are looking to dominate the muslim of arab or arab the arab world the muslim world in the middle east you run its course and i arabs and examples that we're going to be happening between russia and the european union is going to be very critical we see just in recent days has been a very difficult relationship that has become more troublesome in the last several days and i think you know whether or not the european union decides to slap sanctions on russia because of the no volley case of a summit in march is going to direct that relationship going forward so tired i don't believe he's russian e.u. north korea views have been the troubles they might be able to meet with the months to come yeah we're short on time but i'm going to ask it anyway i must president trump ruffled a lot of feathers among our allies are we better off now are the brits and the

europeans heaving a sigh of relief that uncle joe is on the white house now. it's eventually what your intention is but looking at i believe the germans are probably much more relieved because they were very clear that they did not find president trying to be good but certainly prime minister barak's johnson found his philosophical can and. a number of other countries such as colin and specially in europe they had good relations with the trumpet ministration germany that's a question mark in some areas i think he thought he had a strong relationship with trump and other areas. for nato and the european union but the germans of the happy people in europe by her place presidents from who got off on the wrong foot with merkel as soon as he became president john said ladies trilogy advisers thanks again for your time and your unique perspective on

this changing world most years at this time we would be reporting influenza death tolls not this year because of what we're doing to stay or clear of that other virus early on in the pandemic doctors we spoke with here warned that just because of the corona virus doesn't mean that the flu took the year off then lots of people who don't usually ended up getting a flu shot last year's flu season saw 400000 americans hospitalized $22000.00 died including $434.00 children but the c.d.c. reports that during the 1st 3 months of this flu season only 136 were hospitalized and fewer than 300 died including just one child and children are a big factor we have spoken with vanderbilt dr schaffner among others here on this show and he reckons that kids not being in school afforded less chance to spread

the virus then in typical seasons. these are just initial numbers on the flu season usually peaks right now so if you haven't got your flu shot yet it's not too late meantime oklahoma has a problem after musing about drinking bleach then president trump touted malaria drug hydroxide clora quinn as a coded preventative before he caught the corona virus and armchair pharmacists fox news and talk radio were talking it up to undaunted by the results of this london school of hygiene and tropical medicine study which concluded our findings do not provide any strong support for a major protective effect from ongoing routine hydroxy chloroquine use in

may and executive order from oklahoma's republican governor removed restrictions on hydroxy chloroquine and they stocked up that gov also ended up testing covert positive after attending a trump rally by summer the u.s. food and drug administration reversed its emergency use authorization and oklahoma got stuck with a $2000000.00 stockpile of hydroxy chloroquine as for the vaccines that work google maps is rolling out an app that displays coded $1000.00 vaccination locations after a surge in searches for vaccines near me and google is donating $100000000.00 to the c.d.c. foundation and the world health organization and other nonprofits to fund public service health announcements about the virus coming up with president number 46 just a month in office who's already lining up to be number 47 here's

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reason for doing this study and the reason it's. those controversial and. important is that it demonstrates the power of social situations and playing roles that can lead healthy good ordinary people to do really bad things. about that unity the president biden yearns for how's that going so far let's ask 2 of my brothers on the talk radio family 2 guys i met for the very 1st time on the very same day about 100 years ago at a talk radio convention on the left progressive talker john elliott air america

alone and quite right we have our team eat the prest host steve malzberg welcome guys steve thank you paul what if anything has president biden got right so far. well i could come up with one thing and that is he said i believe he said i don't know if he knows he said it but i believe you said that he will keep the u.s. embassy in jerusalem and not look to move it back other than that i'm going to have to be a little sarcastic now to go down a list here i think it was great that he killed the keystone pipeline almost on day 11 of the 31 executive orders he signed in the 1st 3 weeks which is some kind of record killing all those jobs and then having john kerry say well go work go go build solar panels and wind panels yeah go ahead go go do that and of course jen

psaki and all those you know that they don't know where those jobs are because they really don't exist i think it was great that he has made a policy that illegals who are in this country illegally who break the law once they're in this country by drunk driving or assaulting a american they could stay in this country that's really not so bad you know what the heck why good why. and they got those damn vaccine plan what good is that going to do right steve. and i think it's great that he appointed someone to head the civil rights division of the department of justice not that he knows he did who in harvard when she was at harvard wrote that black babies are born superior to white babies because a melanin so i think it does you enjoy those are just a few of the things that he's done nothing benjamin netanyahu no call for the 1st 3 weeks picking attack in saudi arabia. the game is over what do you nighter this man has been what do you night or he's just john by the way equity racial

equality racial equity is the opposite quality otherwise you go to great job great man but he sleeps a lot a lot. i still don't sugarcoat it so it's not really about doing a great job but i think he's doing a great job and why i think he's doing a great job is his approval rating is so high he came in with a higher approval rating than donald trump ever had at his worst about his best day worst day so i'd spend it's been remarkable to see this he has put forth policies that everybody seems to like the 1.9 trillion dollar relief bill has a popularity rating of 86 percent which is almost unheard of the great pollster john zogby once told me anything over 70 percent i consider a consensus but to address a couple of things that steve said about if you get drunk driving you know they want to keep him in the country while they're for the sake of where bruce springsteen was born he'd want to deport bruce i don't think that's the greatest

idea who the hell is going to entertain us in music so you can have my rockets with that i just i'm just asking as far as the keystone pipeline it's a total canard about the number of jobs most people don't know there is a keystone pipeline right now it runs from the alberta tar sands due east to winnipeg and then due south to the gulf that's it it already is operating now the other one would go on an angle from the of alberta tar sands right down towards the middle of the country. and then slightly south and then directly due south to houston what most people also don't know is not a drop of the canadian oil when refined in houston will be used in the united states of america it is 100 percent for export as far as the number of jobs yes there would be a number of jobs especially on indian country which is always popular there be a number of jobs created while doing the construction but once the construction is complete the maintenance will be under $900.00 people $900.00 people if general

motors decided to move the plant we're talking thousands of people and people say gee that's a bummer that they lost their job these are not people losing their jobs these are people that don't have these jobs that just won't be able to get them will have to go elsewhere to work as far as his balancing the budget he's really budget conscious which is you the reason he doesn't want to move the embassy in jerusalem back to tel aviv because of the cost of bringing in mayflower i mean he said it would cost a lot to move it so he doesn't really want to do that so i i'm mindful of that he seems not to be reaching across the aisle because of the other side of the aisle has their hands in the pockets you look at all of the things that he's reversed and steve was talking about the 30 executive orders many of those were policies of course that trump pat we don't think it's really neat to have kids in cages so he threw that one out we don't think it's really happy to say to muslims from several countries no i'm sorry you can't visit disneyland and the and the and the tower in

manhattan and you know didn't you guys weren't you didn't let you do the last one so we don't want to visit in the new law. they've got all these policies put in as far as the e.p.a. as far as limiting drilling on park lands gee that's kind of great when i've gone with my kids and we've gone to sequoia national park or sitting at a picnic table with p.b.j. sandwiches i can only imagine how much fun that the ambient noise would be. with the machines digging the oil about $100.00 yards for. a look at the deer here's a royal watching this they think it's great. john and i shared a war india the only person who has been on this show more than steve malzberg is me but i'm have a new back to now the attention span has become an oxymoron we see communicate in key words just try to count the key words as sarah huckabee

sanders announced she is running for governor of arkansas. america is great because we are free but today our freedom and the rule of law are under attack. we've seen violence in our streets at a congressional baseball practice and at our capitol this is not who we are as americans to remain free we must have law and order and resolve our differences peacefully the radical left solution is to impose government control and since are shipped from the top down but their socialism and cancel culture will not heal america it will only further divide and destroy us but with the radical left now in control of washington your gov is your last line of defense. that was the bumper sticker hall of fame and i can smell a focus group a mile away every word of that whole 7 minutes and 45 seconds slick

highly produced video is top quality messaging and our pal talkers magazine publisher michael harrison figures the media is in on it. almost every newspaper or magazine television network or television news show in america today to one degree or another tries to determine through research through market studies what. as the audience wants and then they just serve it up to them so they're not disappointed and this is a an issue that we really do have to think about in terms of media theory and the impact of the media and journalism and talk shows on our society this has become deeply emotional and therefore people need that daily dose of you're ok if your point is right your side is going to win you're going to you're going to be able to save face at the thanksgiving table with your crazy uncle next november

everything's going to be ok people have so much riding on it and that's why i often say we're living in a time where we're dangerously close to seeking victory at the expense of truth. to cover the media for our tea is this pandering that michael speaks of a fair charge or a bomb rap. i don't know if i would call it pandering i think it when it comes to the left it's who these people are when you see chris cuomo and don lemon and this n.b.c. and all of these lunatics who 'd write columns thomas friedman oh china is better than us they you know how fast their trains go oh yeah they got we grew as you know concentration camps and genocide but their trains go so fast why these this is who these people are this is a time for media people who are really just talk show hosts there are no journalists anymore they probably never really were but now it's more apparent than

ever they call themselves journalists they claim to be journalists but they're nothing more than talk show host which is what i've always been. and they reveal themselves we've always known people like me and some others have known who they've been all along and now we see it left wing right where we cause it's morally they're fighting for a moral call so violence and distaste if it's morally right that's who they all are there want to be right here were see if there were a journalist until the corporate cost cuts and talk shows are much easier and less expensive to produce. i'll go ahead and agenda in an opinion. yeah john how about this i really think it's brilliant of steve to get a shameless plug in for his show criticizing the media i think that was pretty clever as far as a senator i gave up i watched turntable and i actually could see the forked tongue so it was it was interesting i mean what's really more interesting to me is sarah

obviously she doesn't have a television or if she does she hasn't been looking because she wouldn't have seen all of the riots and all of the things that took place and all the marauders on the 6th of january because if she did she would say that's my party of law and order aren't we the party of blue lives matter i have a fond memory of a guy being skewed with the tip of an american flag as he was being dragged down and the fact that they went after the police whatever happened to blue lines matter whatever happened guys can we negotiate our way and that didn't happen did it they still amber alert them and you know i think when general honore a russel honore a gets through we're going to find out there were some complicity on that so we'll see if we can come back and talk about that when he completes his report and i don't think that's going to be too soon because there's so much material to review

but is this really the party of law and order is this really the party of blue lives matter i don't think so unless they change their behavior. we're going to find out what this is on the way to the right and it was probably of the capitol riots and alluded to the capitol riots in that sound bite that holland played so i'm not sure what you're talking about that she didn't watch while she's she's thinking 2022 a bunch of people are already thinking 2024 and if you want to find out who is go to who is dot com and start looking at the internet domain names you can not get unsurprisingly trump 2024 was unavailable but look what was not avail. well when we checked back in october and now can be had mike pence 2024 is yours for a cool 5 k. if you'd like to draft the ex veep among republican senator mitt romney has been conspicuously critical of donald trump could romney 2024 dot com signal

his 3rd bite at the apple will we see ted cruz another crowded debate stage and will marco rubio be there again here's a clue even for florida dot com suggests that marco may be looking over his shoulder although these names are taken we can't always tell by whom some are masked or cybersquatter by companies like domains by proxy or contact privacy nc suggestion to whoever might be cybersquatting trump 2024 dot com get cash in advance thank you john elliot and steve malzberg for stepping into the big picture and thank you for watching the big picture we're going to be back same time next week and if you want to set your d.v.r. it's direct t.v. channel 321 the dish dish we are channel 280 the live stream is on you tube dot com slash r t america and all of it including every show i've ever done and thousands of our

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