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more weapons more money to fight and more support to join nato demands ukrainian officials are making to president biden but is this the best interest of the united states we are going to discuss and that's why ukraine a wish is for the u.s. to get more involved in the area china is putting pressure on the u.s. to stay out of taiwan and it's going to use their climate change meeting with john kerry to further emphasize steve gill joins us to share his a realistic expectations of kerry's trip now back here at home what we are looking at those hurting the most from the quota virus having a real hard time getting the fund already allocated for renters and landlords are going to bring you the latest and the college sports world has jumped into the debate over transgender athletes but should this have been a fight they left the pros were going to give you the 360 view i am. you know his

this is you are right here on our to america. about climate change one of the major topics amongst world leaders before the chrono virus hit but you know john kerry and his delegation are set to arrive and wednesday in china to discuss raising a global climate ambition and putting this back on the main stage now this is all ahead of a virtual climate summit president biden is hosting later this month with which chinese president xi jinping has not yet said if there is going to participate now all this is also happening as an american delegation to taiwan is being perceived by chinese leadership as a personal side a signal of biden's commitment to supporting democracy for the island so. the taiwan issue concerns china's sovereignty and territorial integrity and china's core interests china has no room for compromise we urge the u.s.

to have a clear understanding of the situation earnestly abide by the one china principle and the provisions of the 3 sino us joint communique and not play with fire on the taiwan issue the u.s. should immediately stop any form of official exchanges with taiwan handle taiwan related issues carefully and properly and do not send taiwan independence forces wrong signals so as not to bring subversive impact on china u.s. relations and the peace and stability of the taiwan strait well to discuss that more than just the weather between these 2 countries are going to reinstate former u.s. t.r. official thanks for joining me steve. ok so let's talk about this climate change obviously very important and that's what the preface of this conversation that is happening between the united states and china but you think they're going to go anywhere considering all the outside factors or is climate change being used as

a negotiating tool by both countries i think it is being used as a negotiating tool by both you've got the buy did ministration that is now going to change the the temperature of the climate change argument by by make it climate crisis instead of climate change are going to change the wording to try and up the ante on the other hand you've got the chinese that pollute a lot more than we do and yet some of the pollution accord some of the climate change stuff that's being put into place won't affect the chinese it'll just hamper u.s. business so the chinese are happy to accept whatever the bided ministration wants to do in terms of ramping up climate change arguments because it just makes them more competitive in a world of environment and hampers us well and that's the ball right now but there's also so many other things going on we've seen past meetings not go so well between the by administration and the chinese government so do you think the chinese actually are taking john kerry or any other united states envoy serious right now considering the last 3 months and how the interactions have gone. the

short answer would be no they're not taken anything seriously with the by did ministration you know i'll be critical of the biden ministration when i think they deserve it but i'll be supportive when i think they deserve it and i'll say that sending a delegation to taiwan to make it clear that we are not going to back off of our support of taiwan with this sort of aggressive military posture that the chinese are showing the world i think that is a great point with the by the administration to do to show we're not backing away from taiwan we've seen what happened in hong kong where the chinese have not followed through with their promises have clamped down on hong kong and freedoms there and i'm proud that the bided ministration is showing they will not back away from taiwan and are sending a strong message to china on that front however we also know that the chinese have been backing away from the trade deal we negotiated they are not sticking to their promises with respect to intellectual property for example they are continuing to business so that the by the administration needs to tough up on some fronts but at

least they're showing support for taiwan and hopefully will start speaking more for freedom and a return to normalcy in hong kong but let's talk about that steve about the biden support is it one thing to say you know what we think that you need to obviously taiwan needs to be free it needs to remain independent but is it another to actually put military force order promised to have some sort of support decided and do you think the bottom ministration would actually go that far and get involved especially considering right now that how reliant the us is on china and so many different levels. well that's a mutual situation where both countries are reliant upon the other in terms of economics and trade you're going to see a lot of tough talk and word blurs the line is if you start crossing into actual military action you know we've seen the chinese flying closer and closer to taiwan showing some military threats to taiwan and again the u.s. has to make it clear that we already have agreements in place with taiwan that we will get militarily and gauged if chinese crossed that bright line now whether they or whether putin or whether kim jong un or or any of the others in the world really

believe that the bided ministration will be as tough as they talk i think remains to be seen they are all as we've talked before testing him we're seeing it with with iran we're seeing it certainly with putin in ukraine we're seeing it with the chinese threatening taiwan and kim jong who didn't backing off from continuing to show that he's he's still a bad boy with donald trump out of the white house so a lot of tests are going on and we'll see if if president biden passes or fails and i think it is a pass fail test i don't think we're looking at a great here and that's the scary part is i don't want to see what happens when when biden fails with that probably does not mean good for anybody that being said let's go back to climate change on this because that's what the preface of this meeting is why do you think china should actually agree to deal on climate change with anything when you look at their economy and they do have a lot of regulations but unfortunately regulations aren't about necessarily the work or are they are the climate why do you think it should be in their best interest to even go into any sort of an agreement with the u.s. or any other country that would be involved. i think it's because it will be

a one sided agreement the chinese when i mean the climate restrictions that will be put in place if we return to some of these climate change agreements impose burdens on the united states that don't apply to india or china or some of the other biggest polluters in the world so it's clearly in the best interest of china to impose more restrictions on us to help themselves and their economy at the expense of the american consumer of the expensive american industry so they've got every reason to ramp this back up because it's a win win for them and a lose lose for us and that's exactly what i think it's going to happen on this god sure we'll go into it all talk all it does is put more regulation on us and we've obviously seen in the past even with the paris trade agreement they never necessarily abided by steve once again thank you so much for joining us thanks guys we'll talk again. president biden also says today that he is not going to pass responsibility of the afghanistan war 'd on i president now he has set

a date of september 11th to be out of afghanistan and with no conditions the united states will begin our final withdrawal begin it on may 1 of this year well not conduct a hasty rush to the exit would do it we'll do it responsibly deliberately and safely and we will do it in full coordination with our allies and partners u.s. troops as well as forces deployed burn nato allies and operational partners will be out of ghana stand before we mark the 20th anniversary of that he is to tack on september 11th. but even before his announcement president biden was getting major pressure from some of the biggest military contract holders like raytheon northrup lockheed martin to name a few saying it was wrong to withdraw but they were using this based on human rights and women's rights on the other side of the aisle senator mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham also chimed in saying leaving would be a grave mistake so will by did accomplish this goal and does this have anything to

do with what is going on in ukraine currently give us more insight we into the issue we welcome former naval intelligence officer official john jordan john thank you so much for joining us this is a developing situation in this case obviously today i have to think with everything going on right now why to day do you think it was that you we saw joe biden decide today i'm going to announce like the last 2 presidents have done that we're going to pull our troops out and when. will the biden this race is having a tough few media cycles with the crisis at the border the j.n.j. back seen in the need of a good story and for them withdrawing or retreating from afghanistan is something that is rather popular with the american people but this is very very dangerous for conditions in afghanistan and seriously undercuts the prospects of the afghan government in terms of having a pluralistic democratic future versus

a reserves and so the taliban because when you tell everyone we're going to leave without condition that telegraphs very clear to the people to people on the ground who's with you and who isn't and who may win in the end well it's interesting that you say without conditions i think that's a bit different you know john biden also spoke about the history of the invasion and what the role of not just the united states but the international community has been as well went to afghanistan in 2001 to root out al qaida to prevent future terrorist attacks against the united states planned from afghanistan. our objective was clear because it was just our nato allies and partners rallied the scientists who ask other countries of the countries in the region to do more to support of canisters especially pakistan as well as russia china india and turkey they all have a significant stake in the stable future for afghanistan you know that's the thing do you think this state of international cooperation could be possible in

a country which is as fractured as afghanistan is is absolutely fractured there's multiple ethnicities multiple groups multiple languages spoken in afghanistan for example and not every one of those countries that president biden named really has a stake in afghanistan and hard to understand what turkey has to gain or lose there are what china has to gain or lose other than a chance to poke uncle sam of the united states in the eye is why afghanistan has been neglected when it's not being invaded by somebody being neglected and that's the real story so it's it's tragic and it looks very much like an ultimate win for the taliban in the u.s. some country or some coalition really commits to ensuring the long term survival of the afghan government well and that's what's interesting i know you as you were listening to your probably like me going i think i've heard this before and we've seen president rob he said even before i was elected back in 2012 he was tweeting out saying we need to get out of the afghanistan he ran on that he said actually that he got the majority of the troops out by christmas i remember that promise

even obama said that this was a promise that several presidents have made now and they've not been able to do it how much stock do you have in this case that he is going to pull troops out and we are seriously going to see an american presence whether good or bad take it out afghanistan. what remains to be seen and that is a great set of questions is everybody said this before but will it happen it hasn't happened largely is certainly in the case of the trumpet ministration who said something very similar to what biden said because ultimately it was decided you know the generals in the intelligence committee with whom trump had such a troubled relationship kind of forced him to walk that back and saying hey we need to make our withdrawal contingent upon conditions on the ground and certain benchmarks being met in our ongoing talks with not only the taliban but the afghan government and trying to get those 2 to talk to work out their differences rather than just setting an arbitrary deadline and president trying to walk that back to and it may be the president biden is forced to as well well that's the thing conditions that's the big difference i think between when trump said this and what

we're saying about it about it if they conditions trump has said there is cations but i do want to pivot before i let you go we got to talk about nato and everything that is going on right now over in the region you know where do you think our nato allies stand right now in regards to letting ukraine become involved in nato which is what they want especially considering we're seeing this ramp of escalation of words between the united states and russia over the area. this is a potentially very dangerous situation in some ways it's reminiscent of 1914 and how world war one broke out everybody thought on all sides that they could communicate with the other and send signals by blustering here troops there it was all embodied really barbara tuchman's book the guns of august and this kind of looks a lot like that here we have u.s. 2 u.s. warships in the black sea we have russian you know 50000 troops or russian troops you know building up along the ukraine border alternately i think that russia wants to and will succeed in humiliating nato and the united states in the eyes of not

only ukrainians but it's going to have implications for the baltic states as well when it becomes clear that nato is neither equipped nor by temperament inclined to really do much other than the kids sanctions here strong words of the u.n. to to support their otherwise allies and so i think this is a potential to be a real bloody nose only for by the biden ministration but for nato in eastern europe and the former soviet republics which is exactly what trump was doing i think ministration he was continuing to pull back on last and things have changed here and obviously ukraine wants to be a nato they need to have nato support if they have any chance of standing on the ground which i don't even think the american people and i said before that as well but also nato is germany and germany right now i think is a player that not many people are focusing on what are we hearing do you think from them who is close to completion of this north stream to pipeline which is extremely important to the region. well germany isn't militarily doesn't have

military capacity sufficient to really intervene anywhere too far from their own borders but more to the point as you point out scotty is that germany is dependent largely on russian energy supplies and of the nordstrom to pipeline it is more than 90 percent completed you know germany has as much to it doesn't have a lot of leverage where russia is concerned so it's going to be hard to see how the germans who also have their problems with lockdowns coronavirus aren't very interested in foreign adventure military adventures anyway along with a very weak military it's hard to see how they would want to play a major role other than the aforementioned sanctions and diplomatic notes and notes of protest at the un in with ukraine so it looks i think that nato is largely including germany's going to leave ukraine hanging hanging them out to dry after defending them in a politically pro-forma way and john just like you said i think you know it's a bipartisan issue americans want to see the troops come home from afghanistan i don't know if we really have the stomach right now to see them deployed either in

the case of taiwan and china china or russia and ukraine i just don't think they have the stomach for that i don't think that's necessarily in their best interest considering it doesn't necessarily affect us right here in our own home munroe doctrine gosh for bed thank you so much for joining us. my pleasure. now after a return the money has been approved does no good if it's not getting to the people who need it the most and that was our 1st 60 panel when we return. just like freeze dried water just add water. and then. it's art just art here's a child confer $100000.00 all you need is the ark to go with it but you've got the

token just you don't have the heart just at heart it's freeze dried our histories dried bombs it's freeze dried productivity it's trees tried money it's it's sold as if it's something in it. what it is of this is a bit. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic probably the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and tom. transgender issues could be controversial and now the n.t. ringback double a is looking to you to power to influence state legislation now recently more than

2 dozen states have either passed or about to pass legislation which limits transgender athletes to only play and the gender they were born citing unfair physical advantages for those born male but wanted to compete as a female now the catalyst of all this legislation came after president biden one of his 1st acts as president issued a. becky to order banning discrimination based on gender identity in school sports now the end is saying it will not hold a championship at places not free of discrimination so to give us the $360.00 view we bring in laurie host of the bronx laurie show and dana 1000000000 civil rights attorney thank you both for joining me here today i had you on because you are one is my legal expert one knows sports world well i figured we could have a good healthy conversation on this and so let me actually start with you on this one barack should the n.c.a. have even become involved in this issue. absolutely and i really wish they had not heard of this issue it's it's not smart it's going to read inevitably disaster in

the competition and we're all we really want to think about where this will that we will beat and that will be the expansion of. the turbulence you know real sports are a map it's a great idea well that's the problem and obviously in sports you have a fair field that's what the n.c.a.a. play there is to have a fair field of play across the board but then there's also the legal issue on this day on the throne to go to you know many state schools receive balta their findings from the state government could this actually from a legal perspective have a bad effect on those schools if the state legislature and the n.c. double a that controls that school sports program don't see eye to eye. no i don't think so at all and i do not see this issue it is something that's actually. pretty much a controversy out there on the fields and this is an issue that's been kind of hijacked who too. you know spread some. some laws that

discriminate against people who other people don't like but you know the bottom line is how can the n.c.a.a. not say that it. you know prohibits or opposes discrimination on the field how can they not say that how can they not get involved at this point and say we support you know fields and all are for you discrimination now i get it you know i've been a coach i've played baseball i understand but of course you know i'm a guy you know there's really only affects women sports and you know i mean. you know we don't we never pay attention to women's sports in general unless there's some sort of controversy like this but this is just i mean think about it just back in march there were 20 different legislatures out there trying to pass laws and transgender athletes in high schools and they could not decide to see. sample supported why there was some sort of need for this you know the science is

there the the science is there has been there for a long time and they don't discuss the issues in terms of male female that is going to sit in terms of testosterone levels and if the scientists are saying hey you know it's fair and the legislative bodies cannot cite a single example example of how it's not unfair then you know leave it alone well i'm broke and i go to you do that just shake your head and i could i have to think of you know i think there are some track titles that actually were broken 20 different track titles and you and that were broken by those that were identifying as females this is my problem it hurts female athletes doesn't it. that's exactly right i think in connecticut is where africa my home state by the way it's really it's really embarrassing to think that somehow girls notice things between male and female sports as if we want to race all the history and all the understanding so that we previously had but the supreme court has made it very clear a long time ago that there is

a heightened scrutiny standard when it comes to differences or models that evokes differences between men and women that's ok they understand that it's not the same thing as strict scrutiny as you might have if there is going to be laws between let's say blacks and whites that's almost impossible to have a law like that but when it comes to differences between men and women yeah there are differences that's the reason why we have male and female prisons and that's recently why we have a 2 recently male afterwards so there are there are distinctions and it's it defies logic and common sense and experience to say that somehow there is no experience no example of men being stronger or faster or being able to completely dominate or is something let's broaden down you know this is a conversation i want to continue i do want to continue this when i want to thank you for giving your input i don't be interesting to see if there's pushback on the end she devil a on this all right thank you. thank you very much speaking of pushback some along

makers have been pushing to cancel rant and debt from the pandemic as they continue to rack up all this while congress has allocated an additional 20000000000 dollars for rental relief in the coming month base r.t. correspondent attach a sweet has a looked into renters and landlords alike are still facing hardship and not getting their dollars. a moratorium against evicting someone during the pandemic has led to some always up to a year's worth of back rights and now with applications in the works some issues are springing up in the system including states being slow to dole out the money. these are just copies of the e-mail from the relief assistance program. one of the 1st one is thank you for applying and they gave me a confirmation number bonnie genet whose massage therapy business dried up during the pen demick applied for rental assistance in july she said she was denied

because she failed to prove a loss of income by been rolled in the. right relief program since july 30th of last year. and i got denied didn't even know i was denied for several months until i enquired the 66 year old new york city resident now owes more than $26000.00 and back rent on her one bedroom apartment now fearing she'll be evicted well 25000000000 in federal aid was set aside in december for the states both renters and landlords have shared in the frustration waiting months to hear if they even qualify the emergency rental assistance is expected to help some 13000000 people but doing it out is another issue for instance in orange county california applications open february 1st the 1st checks were sent to landlords mid march but with more than 10000 applications most of them are reportedly still under review so why aren't states spending this money for rental relief some are pointing to burden some requirements or programs

that have been poorly set up other say states shifted funding away from mental relief with a notion they might miss the year in mandate to spend the money so then where is the money going according to the national low income housing coalition less than $4000000000.00 in federal aid was spent on rental assistance advocates say $34000000000.00 was needed for unpaid rent and as congress gears up to give an additional $20000000.00 in rental assistance some states are making changes last year kansas set aside 35000000 but siphoned off 15000000 for other uses it came to light late december it actually had more time to distribute the money mississippi set aside 18000000 rental assistance but committed less than 3000000 by december there was a misconception that the rental aid was only for those at risk of homelessness but a u.s. department of housing and urban development spokesman denied ever relaying that information to the states is because please explain to me who is eligible i know so

many people who make a lot less money and they still don't qualify and so where's all of that aid man. going to meet the criteria in new york was difficult for some lawmakers needed tenants to prove they were paying more than 30 percent of their income toward rent individuals making under $99000.00 and couples making up 219-8000 were to qualify another issue for renters proving they actually needed this rental assistance was being able to show a loss of income from april to the end of july when we actually saw an increase during that time from extended unemployment and other benefits however congress passed a bill in march to send an additional $20000000000.00 to states which will be distributed in the coming months reporting for news these houston r.t. and that's all for today show thanks for watching i'll catch you later.

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