the, the, the, the, the body. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact. and there is a developing story that we are still following for you. it's out of western europe . it appears to be attempted assassination. the. yes. those are gunshots that you heard right there. the shooting victim is the prime minister of slovakia, who as you know, has been in the news now as a critic of sending aid to ukraine. in fact, he talked about it just recently. we're going to cover all of this for you. i'm rick sanchez. we're all over the story. let's get to it. it's the all right, we're going to begin with what appears to be in the fascination attempt of robert

fisco. that's how you pronounce his name. i know many of you are going to see this thing from time to time. you see it's up to speed go, but it's not. it's pronounced fiscal a significant player in europe and politics to say the very least, especially during the last year. we are told now that he is in a, as you might imagine, after seeing some of that video. just that short clip that we showed you moments ago he is in a life threatening condition. right now we're going to re q this video so you can see it before we put it up there. victor, you're going to see a man with a white shirt. he's a 71 year old. he's already been apprehended. he's gonna come up. looks like on the right side of your screen. he comes up and, and then he started shooting out. i'm. he's shooting in a, in a downward direction. apparently $4.00 to $5.00 shots lets us watch this together. you see right there and they start to pick them down. i don't know if you're able to see just as it comes into the frame. the fisco had just finished speaking. he

was checking hands with people in the crowd when this guy who looked like just another person in the crowd took out a gun and a shoot some uh let's, let's go through this and watch this one more time. can you make that out in the and then you can see how they start to pick them down . just go ahead victor. play that again. a there it is. the so that look that's, that's the moment that everyone's going to be watching now. and authorities watched after that they were able to apprehend the man. as you know, cisco is the prime minister of slovakia. why is he? why is slovakia so important? why does this incident become so important at this particular point in time? well let, let's talk about that. let's talk about slovakia. there's the map you may have seen moments ago as we go through this. when the soviet union broke out, many of the satellite countries became independent as we all remember, right? in, in the case of czechoslovakia,

it was really divided into right one side became what something called the church republic. others like calling a church, you and the other became slovakia, right? it has been for years, a country which has told the nato line but recently, and this is where this new story becomes important. recently, following the election of, of fisco, robert fisco, it changed with his pronouncement that he would no longer send arms to ukraine. any essentially was disagreeing with nato and the mostly european position. basically this a disagreeing with nato's empty russian position. and in doing so, who's in joining? well, he's joining hungry is victor, oregon, and a growing list of dissenters who are saying, no, they're posing ukraine's entry into nato. well, also asking for truth in this conflict, they say this thing between russia and ukraine is ridiculous. we shouldn't be able

to find an end to this thing. that's what he's arguing, right? that's what he was arguing up until he was almost shot. in fact, here's fiscal making that declaration. this is the original one he made. we had this on our show here, direct impact just right after it happened when he made this statement right after he had been elected here it is usage of when i, what could i need is that show up and it will from idaho. on the 2nd i was just trying to look with the dc, just asking you guys key flushes to use our b, r e, or which i'll just get out of the seat and that okay, you know, i'm not the one i was. what do you need? my also started the switching each day. i'm gonna do training a blue sutkowski waykell, but it was interesting to shut off the whole bunch of old school to do another bus ship because i tried to leave it after running a rush. them you help channel, who's getting out of the students that i knew kinds of the 1st is still significant, which i do was 82 is associated with that. but i so, so basically what he's saying, and what he's telling that reporter is what you don't know the facts. i mean, i'm learning, there's a lot of things that are going on and you create that. it's not exactly the way

it's being presented by washington and not exactly the way that it's being presented by nato. and that's this, that, that's the critical moment where he started to say something which was very different from the conventional wisdom that was taking place at the time. busy throughout of europe, so that, that kind of sets the table for you. a lot of people watching this and say, okay, someone's been assessment and who is this guy? and why is the important? that's kind of why he's important at this point, and we're going to be talking to an expert in just a little bit who's going to relate more information, but uh okay, let's do this at this point. we've got 2 more pieces of video that i'm gonna share with you. and i also want to bring in my colleague manila chan to help us go go through this video manila if you could come up. and you saw the 1st video, we've got 2 more pieces of video now. i think what we're about to see here you and is the aftermath of what happens after he shot, where the people suddenly crowd the body. and then you see some of the secret

service people try and literally lift them up and throw them into the back of a vehicle. so let's watch this. here it is the so there he is in the middle of the and those are just civilians. by the way, those, those are just civilians that are, that are there on the ground. i think we may be able to queue up some video now of him. his secret service and his security details, if we have that, i'm not sure. grabbing him and then throwing them in the back of the uh, in the back of the car. there it is. there it is that there he is. now they're taking him, they're putting them in the back of a security, and they're gonna whisk him away interestingly enough to roosevelt hospital named for the president of the united states during world war 2. and when that was, we watched this, your thoughts what you've learned, what you're reporting on this up to now. yeah,

obviously it's hard to watch. right. rick. somebody getting gun down like that, obviously are everybody's thoughts and prayers, whether you like him or dislike him, that he survives, you know, the, that was multiple gunshot wounds that he now worth noting. this is 5th, those 3rd go round as the premier. yeah. they had parliamentary elections last fall of 2023. it found that his party, the snare, s as the, as they're called winning. and very quickly forming this coalition government and their forms. there hold platform this mirror, assess the pledge to hold all military a to ukraine. they also denied being pro russian. meanwhile, he have heard to the, well, you corrections, you know, every day lab, rob is a dear friend, you could, you could be against the war and not necessarily be on one side or the other. and i think this is the funny thing about this. i mean,

the reason fisco has become suddenly someone known all throughout europe is because of this position in no way. are we at this point saying that this position had anything to do with his being right, shot, or this assassination of the right. it's, it's way too early for any type of conjecture. it would be a responsible and that's not what we're going to do. but it is noteworthy if not newsworthy, that this is the position that he has held. and he's a bit of a maverick and having that position up to now. so yeah, he's lucky, he's not one that simply goes along to get along. right. he is. i'm average of sorts. he's very, i know is now he's very anti establishment motive right now. we don't know at this point exactly why this person did this. you know, we're reading that there are reports coming out of the area. that's just a very tense time in, in, in the country. and this guy is very much a populist,

you know, you know, rick, it further to that. i mean, as i'm following this, as it's unfolding, i mean there's still a lot to look into about who the shooter or the alleged shooter is. what his motives are. we don't in this point, however, what we do know, even though that it shows a government has come out very clearly against support a more war, expanding the war in ukraine. we just see tweets coming from people like ursula vander land, the commission president. she has said, you know, she condemns this vile. it's actually called a violet tap on the prime minister. she condemned any violence and thoughts and prayers. the nato boss just oldenburg. same thing. shocked and appalled by the shooting of the sister is what he said. he watches them think, well, i'll lead recovery to, i mean, would it be can the spectrum tv? yeah. to be fair. i'm not sure any of them made those declarations, but i guarantee you that their press secretary or their lawyers run something you

know, i mean, i'm sorry, but at a time like this, what do you expect that these people who yeah, are going to say who by the way did probably not necessarily like him or that's not fair. who, who didn't like the positions that he had taken in fact, but let me add to that. i've got something else i want to share with you what. what makes him interesting is that he's the kind of new brand of european liter. i mean this guy does not necessarily told the british line or the nato line. in fact, he almost appears to have a better understanding of the global south position held by countries like china and india, and brazil and russia. and this is not something most europeans gap, right? they all think it's all about washington and london and, you know, and, and, and paris. that's also why he doesn't hesitate. and just recently did so here he is criticizing his european neighbors for their ukraine strategy. let's take a listen. i mean, is there a fee? i mean, if it, huh, yeah, the west sees them, you know, just waiting on this financial military assistance. the space sanctions degree is

not able to result the military conflict. they pulled a short match on the battlefield. a look, i'm no expert manila on, on european relations and what people in europe think uh i, it's tough enough for me to figure out what's going on here in washington in our own country. but i will tell you that this attitude, this proclamation that he made and the others he's made before that are, are, are not in keeping with the way most europeans think. right. yeah, i would say that this, his government, the coalition government is able to form within weeks is reflective of how at least the slovak, young voter feels about all stuff. so i think that shows that they support his ideals and the smart assess these positions. and it's important to note that there is a more right wing populism that is kind of sweeping europe,

mary s s d is actually populous left, lena, interest. so perhaps that lend some credibility to why they kind of lean over towards the global global view. not, not too different from some of the things that we're seeing in our own country as we prepare stories about both individuals on the left and the right sometimes seem to make more sense than those who are the conventional politicians or the quote unquote establishment politician. manila, thank you. we've got a guest coming up in just a little bit and we're going to take a break. but when we come back, i want to return to the latest on slovakia with an expert on the region who also happens to be in that area. george sam, welly is going to be joining us. you see him there on the screen. he's an expert on this region and on both slovakia and hungry where he is now don't go away. george is going to join me in just a moment. the

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of alleged to abuse by an officer. today, a sheriff's deputy in columbia, south carolina, forcibly removed a student from a classroom at spring valley high school. i saw him just talked to her sprained her and initially, you know, i didn't think is a problem because i knew that she was just, is quite a student in the class. someone looked at the police officer and says, here as law enforcement that is worse. clearly attacking, abusing power and thoughts and then there are others besides, this is what's wrong with those totally be on discipline. black children, he was there, enforcing a lot to meet in the crime, to quote, disturb schools in any way. that means any disturbance that any kids causes in school is by using force is never afraid of for necessary. a tops fee for never gonna change your mind. some people will never change their minds about the video. they think i was wrong,

and that's it. the water back, i'm right, sanchez, joining us now is georgia. so i'm really a senior research fellow at the global policy institute and he is joining us from hungry george. let's get to the details of this particular show that we are preparing right now is being produced uh hours before or i should say, uh, some of the, in other words, were going on a little bit early. so there's a possibility that the story will develop as we go by the time of errors. but from what we understand right now, he was shot. so real times you shot in the arm, you shot in the leg. and of course, the biggest danger for him, right? now is the fact that he was also shot in the abdomen. they say he is in a life threatening condition. he's still at the hospital and we know that the person who shot him the sailor has been captured. but we really don't know much

about him. is there anything you can add to any of that for us? you know, until we find out a little over about who is this to say was what, what motivated him. so it's, it's irresponsible to speculate. it's clear. first of all, that a few scope was a very controversial vega. and even in the clips that you showed me, the things he said actually went beyond the stuff that a victim or binds to think a or bun has also been very critical of the nature of e u stance on ukraine. but this was, this was much more magic. they, this will makes no sense. you know, it's damaging us damaging our economy and we need to bring it to. and then what fisco was saying, however, was russians were killed by ukrainian chest. that's it's accurate of and he clearly what happened to know that's why he's,

it's an accurate account of what happened in 2014. but you can then see what he would have aroused an enormous amount of anger and hatred. and the media has been a peddling list of the anger and hatred towards the day of today. if you look at like political magazine. yeah. almost every day they publish them. they don't worry about it. they did it at a couple of days ago. he's the strength of freedom easy, i'll blowing democracies out the media, freedom to slovakia. so it's an ongoing thing. and, you know, with just speculating, hit, you know, when you get somebody who is mentally unstable and you get hit with this sort of propaganda they ought to, they well, good for somebody over the next day. said something saturday that i thought was very interesting. let me, uh, let me read you what the reporting is on this just just recently, just

a few days ago. apparently fisco said on the side day, the only way to end russia's war against ukraine is for kia to give up some of its territory. and he reiterated his position, which is very different from the position being proclaimed by nato, the united states and other european countries. um, what do you make of that declaration of bought by fisco saturday? it is obviously correct. it's over a realistic position. there's no other ways will can come to an end without ukraine who's giving ops time show up out of his search rate. you know, the brand had an opportunity back in april 2022, basically bringing awards without losing and it's urgent that that's moment this box that, that, that's gone. so he was obviously things are listed. and again, you can see why. and i cause

a lot of distress among the people in the market, but people in europe, i mean that the of certainly an emotional attachment to ukraine. it's is gone. it's just because of the psychotic in europe now. yeah, let's, let's watch this some of this video again. i think we have some of the aftermath video that we played earlier, and i just want to capture it if we can, as, as you and i are having this discussion and victor, our director is going to have that on in, in the background. because i'm just wondering from what we learned, he went and spoke at a cultural center. there it is. that's the cultural center. gave a short speech and he went out. people were waiting for him. he was a, he was embrace the show cans with people. he talked to them, but most politicians do, you know, uh, you know, kissing babies as we call it here in the united states. when this man just came out of nowhere with the gun and started shooting out of it. you, you say there is, there's the guy and i counted at least 5 shots, you know, again,

that's could be ricochets. you never know, but that's how many i counted when i watched the video. i'm just trying to put, put me in that head of the people who are living in that region now and, and why is there such attention? why is there so much anger i was reading before i went on the air that the media seems to be of elevating this are they and why? as well as the geography slovakia had a bob of fund or a gun, it explains why hungry black you are actually a rather close up politically. actually the geographically also very, very closely. and in the case of hungary, especially at the best a real problem. there are a 150000 on gary and we're in ukraine. so the world has a very personal meaning for how to get a chance and for us locked in. and they know that as things get, you know, going,

escalating in this sponsible way which is being peddled by the british and by the friend of the poles that it's going to be hungry. and slovakia to relatively small countries who are going to be the hardest hit because they're going to be in the middle and they're not interested in the wall. they have no, they don't have a dog in this fight. they want this and, but they that wants to going to be in the heart of this kid. and let me go with him to get the hungry and hungry and nose. it was dragged into 2 uh was, and it was the blues in both was right. so you have to give up an awful lot satera trade in both will work. so they want to say out, but this is causing a lot of distress. i mean, we, yeah we, when we do like micro, openly talking about getting ascending french forces into your groups. the british, we're only talking, you know, you know, the dispatch real storm shadows, stop collisions without weapons. well, this disclosing regular things,

i'd say because, you know, this is essentially moving inexorably towards will, but when they dropped and so the idea that hungry to smoke, countries are going to get absolutely pallet. oh well let me ask you this cuz i'm curious. in a case like this, obviously in the united states, uh, sans the j f k assassination. and perhaps the assassination is brother. usually the authorities co, a less f b i walks in. sometimes they get other federal authorities, local authorities, and they start this uh, this very, uh, a very well developed investigation as you know and nothing is left on turned and we can trust that they're going to give us a sense of what really happened here. the reason i ask you this question is, i know nothing about the authorities in a country like uh, slovakia. okay. can you share with us whether we can, whether there is a,

going to be a credible investigation to determine what happened here? who did this, and whether that guy was alone, wolf, or whether he was sent by someone as we learn more about what happened here regarding both of you say, look at his motive. i don't know whether it will be credible, to be honest. i suspect the story he will get is assailant um was a crack ball. you know, he's a, he has a history of mental problems and, and so i doubt whether they want to go and explore other avenues. that was a why that, a conspiracy, i don't know whether there was but i suspect that the story will be, you know, let's try, i'm limited and just make it about this one guy who is a crack. but that's what happens. and i think that, you know, there's always the, the way the media spin this, you know, when it's a,

a figure i'm on the left is live on the liberal left who gets a shot or is subjected to violence. then we get a big conspiracy. it's already, well, it was all trump and it wasn't because the concert rhetoric the far right extreme right of a danger, you know, things and so on to. but if it goes the other way, then little is just the crack. but so i recommend you remember what happens when the uh, there was the base game with the, the congressional getting baseball games and a number above. yeah. and congress city including steve police, the guard house majority leader who was bull was killed. and the person who did it was not any a bonus, and a support. bob was thinking of as a follow up rachel mad loony rusher, gave conspiracies, and he was upset with watching it. and that's what his head strove to. however,

the me a down played the just this is a crack but he's the bar lou. the need to say is spent a bit away. that boy, it's old trunk. maybe it was inspired by from state and speech. speaking of left or right. what's interesting about this is that orb on, i guess, you know, this whole left or right thing gets crazy. and i think sometimes we in the media pay way too much attention to it because there's a lot of people who have a little bit of both, including me and probably you. but it all gone tends to be uh, hundreds or bond tends to be more to the right. and fiscal tends to be more to the left. yet they both found themselves on most of not many of the same positions correct, or is a very peculiar mistake on the right because of when it comes to what you can nomics, you know what summarizes what is or bands economics or bands. economics is august.

the owner is a capital this company, but the capital banking finance construction factors should be in the hands of hong vans. he really doesn't want, you know, multi national corporations coming in at owning on gary and farm land, hunger industry on gary and buying some years in a financial success. so yes, it is a capitalist the social is, but he worked very much national ownership not, not, you know, it's in that you'll be in the hands of. so it's small that from, from fisco. and they both obviously share views, only big growth, very hostile to immigration. they both have very conservative social views, marriage highly that things like that. obviously them, you know, on the same page when it comes to foreign policy. so there is a batch. the difference between love yeah, i mean, i think this goes probably

a more as a more socialist leaning with hold on the switch, which is why i like to say and we're out of time and i apologize for interrupting you. but, you know, as i tell many of my friends and colleagues in the media here in the united states and cnn, and nbc and all the other places that i've worked, you gotta stop getting so caught up with labels and party affiliations. and talk about the facts because that's more often than not where you're actually going to find the truth up, that you are a pleasure to have on. thanks you. thanks so much george. we appreciate your break . again, the, the story develops. we hope we bring able to bring you up to date. obviously things will change. you might see some differences in the story. by the time that the show errors, we will continue to follow it and bring you up to date as we go here. that's our show, remember, always look outside your own box, choose as we say, don't live in boxes. i'm rick sanchez and i'll see you next to the

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