as i said, had older plans, and this is where the story takes an almost on believable turn in a remarkable coincidence. just 2 days before the base, the inside the sea bed, lynch's co defendant, the us fraud trial. steven chamberlain was hit by a car while out for a room near his home in england. he was taken to a hospital and put a live support. but he died there on monday the same day as lynch's. your site gets even creepy. or when you read the names of those who went down with the both jonathan bloomer, a senior us banker from the financial giant mortgage stylee. he it'd be the star witness for an inch. chris, maurice little american prominent lawyer who defended lynch during his trial, but also was on board the do me off. and here's what he wrote right after the acquittal verdict 2 months ago. i am so glad to be home. and i live happily ever off. well, little did he know there's no doubt this string of incredible coincidence as leaves

more questions than answers. why wasn't mike lynch, the owner and most familiar with the, amongst a survivors? how could to the statistically most try men alive? both meet tragic ends within days of each other and the most improbable ways in any case, it looks like we may never know how to the luckiest man alive, seemingly became the luckiest in the blink of an eye all around this new. the other one is going to have your company with us here on the international. i'm next is direct info. i have to get through to work, but we'll be back in about 30 minutes. the the rick sanchez here. this is direct impact. and

this is what we're going to be talking about. shouldn't be the world's policeman. and we can't eradicate every claim to you and then justice in the world. but america can be and must be a force for good. what are we? are we are forced for good or are we really doing what we can to be a force for good? the former president, the former 1st lady, to give them command performances for pamela harris. we're going to examine at all and we're going to play it for you. i'm rick sanchez. let's do this. the . all right, let's get started with they to the democratic convention st. go up basically without a hitch. nobody stormed the stage, the palestinian protests. i bought a seeming lea taken over as some people expected. they might or taken the attention of the media. and it seemed like the person who,

who made the best page for couple of harris is the person who actually said she's the most like couple of harris here, comma la harris. and i built our lives on the same foundational values. and even though our mothers grew up in the ocean of parts, they shared the same belief in the promise of this country. pamela work, her way up to become vice president of the united states of america. the been ready for this moment. my girl, it was uh it was it, listen, it was a well received performance right in, in what amounts to pretty much on broadway performance, which is what these political conventions for both sides have now become. and there's no news there. by the way, her husband followed suit with another impressive performance which loyal us in the

crowd. i mean, that's what you've got to conventions. absolutely. 8 up. we do not need 4 more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos. we had seen that movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse. the better way to go. i mean, look at, there's no doubt right, that there's something infectious. something seemingly genuine about the former president brock obama's oratory. we've always known that unless in the gray hair it doesn't hurt either at this point. but behind the smooth veneer is question of

intellectual honesty. is that the right word, intellectual honesty in many ways, is he really being straight with americans or even the people there? the convention of or is he being intellectually dishonest? what's his comment? we shouldn't be the world's policeman, and we can't replicate every client and then justice in the world. but america can be and must be a force for good. discouraging conflicts. fighting disease, promoting human rights, protecting the planet from flight and the thing depending, we don't want to go to most americans. so last night when i was listening to a speech at home, of course, with my wife taking notes because you know, i'm a nerd, and i got to do this stuff. i made a list of those things and he just said, so let's talk about those real quick. here. he said,

not being the world's policeman. discouraging conflict with the united states does, right? we discourage conflict. we are not the world's policeman. we promote human rights. we're doing the most to improve climate change. what else? defending freedom and brokering piece. okay. let's take these one of the time 5. uh 1st we are the world's police, but in many ways, like a crooked cob, we only patrol the rich neighborhoods where we think we can somehow get something out of it. do we discourage conflict? hell, know, iraq, syria, libya, gaza. i mean, how did we discourage those things from happening? most would argue we cause the or at least helped promote human rights. one word, gaza. we do the most to improve climate change. i looked this one up last night. we make a 4 percent of the world's population, but we're responsible for 14 percent of the world, carbon emissions. these are just facts. okay. we defend freedom,

really. let's just talk about that as well. real quick as an example. we fomented 5 pools and then as well, we've been recruited and trained and a pointed to presidents and presidential candidates a freedom for the people of it as well as not. we broker peace deals where 3 times we fail to broker a deal and gods. but when it was possibly available and twice we told ukraine to walk away from any police deals with russia. so look, no, let me bring you in on this. look. i'm not arguing that we should be, that he shouldn't stand up there and be negative and just say we don't want anything or anything like that. we shouldn't be negative about this country, but new and i love as much as he does. and as much as many americans do, i think what i'm arguing for here, and maybe that's the reason we do this show is just a sense, a realism, you know, a sense of, you know, comparative intellectual honesty that the way i would do with my kids or with myself or, or with my wife, or would like football team. if i coached one,

you know, i want to constantly be telling them that they won when they last. and that's kind of a problem with mr. obama and, and with our political system, how do you see as well or rick, if you coach to football, team it. and if you're as good a man as tim walls apparently is as they kept saying last night, and how kind campbell harris is, is as they were saying last night. so we're, we're seeing this theme. and as you aptly pointed out, that this is all show, none of this is actually genuine. i think what we heard from brock obama, as well as michelle, is the ideals of what america should be painting. america as if this was j of kay's, you know, early 19 sixty's america. that's not who we've become this coming from a to time. former us president who authorized more than 500 drove strikes during

his 8 years as president killing thousands of people. many of them innocent civilians. yeah. then going on to win the nobel peace prize after you know, groaning. that's a part of small to, you know, yeah. and then, and then he's over here telling us about, you know, peace and, and, and monitoring the world to spread democracy. it's all a matter of how you define democracy, how you define peace and brock obama, as you know, because he is such a great reader as well as his wife. we should point out both the obama is, are great or readers and they command a lot of i think they, they, they kind of have the vision as a cloth, as they say, right? yeah. and the land or emotion and the blue ball is good for that. so we bring yeah, no, that's important in politics and i think, you know, i think mr. trump, which is that he would be able to read a teleprompter as well as either mr. or mrs. obama can read a teleprompter or

a lot of other people for that matter. but i think the point that, that, that i'd like to make and the point that why you were having this discussion is to be on the veneer of a beautifully read teleprompter and examine the world news. and that doesn't happen in these conventions that used to in the past, but it doesn't happen any more because conventions are now so fast check in the well, no, it's beyond that. they're just commercials. it's a commercial. there's no 2nd thing to do. there's no fats. it is just, you know, hey, i would greatly lots of great music. anyway, let's move to the other thing on the geo political front. in case you haven't heard, germany's now pulling back on the enormous contribution to the funding of ukraine. so i checked to see what kind of impact. uh, this is having look at this, this is what i found when i was looking for this. look at that article. what does it say? it's ending defense stocks into a plunge defense scott's fall has germany plans to reject ukraine. the folks who have been feeding off of this trough are now worried that this will become

a trend with other european countries telling washington luck. we've had enough of sending all of our treasure over to ukraine and, and here's how. this is also interesting. i checked on bloomberg this morning to see how they were reacting to this. uh, this is from london this morning. uh, bloomberg. news. here's the present or is on there, you know, political or pardon me, their business analyst. having a discussion, i think some of the inside here is interesting watching. let's watch it together. ukraine is fascinating and it's not just a go to story on the ground that is developing and days quite hot. it's a cool as to the impact, the, the credit and encouragement to russian territory, which we haven't seen over say. since the 2nd level is going to have both of the funding story and you're moving focusing on gemini, i think it's a really fascinating one. we know these kind of a debt. the discussions are these bunch of discussions i should say out of germany, or crucial with the fact that we're actually pulling back on ukrainian 8. i think it's gonna be something like 6 percent of what it was previously is massive because it's already being used as rhetoric going back to the states from the trump campaign thing we'll look at europe largest economy isn't helping kind of funding

to be a towards ukraine why should the united states as one argument not showing up in the us political sphere, not to mention what kind of preston does a set for, for all other countries within europe as well. rainbow right is right. i mean, if other countries look at business, i will wait. it traveler, you're not going to put any money in this. why don't? how are we going to put any money on this? and then there's the question of how the problem layers, if she becomes president as what pulls the name of the k right now, how is she going to play off those being the, you know, the daughter of indian parents or partial indian parents. it's fascinating and then i was also fascinated by the fact that he starts off talking about, well, but there's in this incursion going on, which shows that, that incursion was manifested as a way to get people to say squirrel and look the other way. and, and, and it may be working and it, it, it may be working, you know, a yeah, yeah, i think, i think you're right on that regular with definitely this, this small incursion, all of it impactful for getting your attention has little to do with,

with the ultimate outcome of the way this war will ultimately and rec, and that will, of course, have to be ukraine coming to the table at one point point or another because the funds are drying out. so let's go back to what's actually happening in germany. we know that the, that the germans are the economic powerhouse, the economic engine of the european union. and they had been funding a very distant 2nd, but still 2nd behind the united states, this ukraine war. mm. i mean, the u. s. as in the hundreds of billions there in it for you know, the 10s of billions, but relative to economic size. okay, that's, that's fair. but the, the new, the new finance minister christian listener. now he is notoriously very hawkish when it comes to keeping the budget in tact. i guess we could compare him almost to kind of a a ron ron paul. yeah. libertarian type of of keeping the budget and nice and

squeaky clean. good for him. so he's the one that's kind of pulling the plug on this. he's sent a letter that got wait, i don't know by who we don't know yet at this point, but the letter got leaked earlier this month in august. he sent a letter to the defense ministry, basically saying, we're pulling the plug on ukraine. i'm trying to balance the budget. you cannot take any more money from germany's coffers in 2025. you're gonna have to look elsewhere and i suggest you and the g 7 go look in the frozen russian assets if you want to fund this war, but it aint coming from inside the country. so this is going to be a huge change of the flow of weapons and of course aid overall. and to your point, what's going to happen? what else can it, who gets elected here in november? what, what, what, who's going to keep finding it? well yeah, and then looking at the situation and they're asking themselves,

this looks like a lost cause to a certain extent, so we're throwing good money at a bad situation. do we need to keep doing that? 1 of course mr. zalinski is trying to create a diversion so that they look at it and say, okay, maybe we'll hold back and see how this ends up and, you know, most, most, most uh, yeah. geo politics, important military people tell you that finally master that's probably not going to end well for him one way or another. so finance minister finance minister doesn't care if you, if you're like doing a shock tactic over here over there. he says, i don't care. there's not enough money in my coffers for this country. all right, lord, department, go look somewhere else period. but when we come back, thanks manila. when we come back, we're going to talk more about this and this as well. so indian prime minister in the under moody is heading to ukraine to talk. we think about a, some kind of peace deal with mr. zalinski and the man that we're going to be talking about this with has a, well, interestingly enough,

he's written an awful lot of books. he's a respected historian, he's an author, he's a commentator, as read jape rashad you're looking at right there. he's a really smart guy, interested in just wrote a book about cuba place i was born. we'll talk to him when we come back. the, the there's no end in sight over how you're going to continue to destroy the earth. is

the case of the med, most of the people i tried to go to the gym, but i'm certainly not ready to fight russia. this is also absurd. this is the 3rd world lunacy re washing press for. so the funder line likes to say, we have the tools while we just start with stability and business deals to help me living on that. we have very close propaganda. you know, a price here in new york. i think we don't know the aftermath any time that you're not allowed to ask questions, you should ask all of the questions. the more questions ask a better. the answer is will be the one to come here since i was 12. when my grandfather told me that his mom came from russia that we were, i was part russian. i didn't plan on staying this long. i was gonna look around. i was gonna see if it was for me, but then i came and then i was like, i remember when i go home, i've never been happier in life than i am here in most of the i've only

lived here a few months, but i wanted to tell you what fascinates me about russia and share the stories of other foreigners who lived here. like jay who worked as a chef and now raises goats and makes cheese the countryside choose. like chat who's been granted political asylum because he's being persecuted by the f. b, i us, embassies, and for countries that come after me it's, it's wild like an american family that recently moved to russia with 6 children. i've never felt safer at my entire life than living here the so welcome back. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact if you want understand deal politics. you need to read the j per shot. his latest book is entitled on cuba . interestingly enough, that certainly got my attention reflections of the 70 year old struggle. but listen

to this guy's also written a lot of other books. there's the on cuba book, which is out now. he's also rick written, the struggle makes us human. washington's new cold war, in fact. and i sat here now and started listing all of his books. so we would never be able to have a conversation. i have a i agreed to be with you. thanks a lot. likewise, let's start with my, uh, marie, uh, going to visit with mister lensky. uh, what do you make of that? do you think he's going to anger the russians for doing that? i don't think so. i think it's really important to mr. moore this trip as well as in guest relationship with russia in context. i'm after the soviet union collapsed. india began to get very close to the united states and in many ways, subordinated india national interest to the interest of, you know, the united states, other g 7 countries and so on. well, in recent years,

india has been asserting its national interest. it's very interesting. um, one of the reasons why in the i didn't condemn russia in february 2022 was that india wanted to continue to buy russian oil. when the indian foreign minister s just some kind of a distinguished diplomat, was honest general, why you continuing to buy or at least said something very interesting. you said, you know what india buys in the your home or i sure you order by is it an afternoon? think about it. and then on another occasion, he was asked, what do you mean the i joined need to plus and he said no, we don't accept the need to word view. um, this is an interesting and wow thing that's happening in india z, mr. moore, the was in russia in july embraced vladimir, but there was a photograph that circulated loader me, zalinski attacked that embrace,

saying that, you know, this is disgusting and so on. well, mr. movie is going to ukraine. he's met zalinski before he met zelinski at the margins of various meetings, most recently may at the g g 7 meeting. so it's not that the strangers, but i think you got to understand that when this conflict began, there were 20000 indian students in ukraine and india had to work with the ukrainian government to evacuate the students that next on the one hand, multi is going to say web takes a lot, lot of media by helping us and so on. and then he's going to carry the message. the look on was ending negotiation. you might as well negotiate. now, i mean, and i heard of negotiated in february of 2022 in bella, ros. this sort of negotiated in march 2022 in turkey. and we know bars,

johnson came in and said, don't negotiate. he said that on behalf of the united states, lloyd austin gibbs, that don't negotiate the chinese they've been saying negotiate. now the indians, as saying, negotiate central of the center of gravity of the world is moved to raise yet, if they give you game, which cannot pick itself out as a neighbor of russia and deposited silver in iowa. if your brain was to survive as a real country, it has to listen to china, india, other countries that are respectively in its neighborhood, not just washington. let me ask you a question. i wonder what your opinion is. i'm sitting here talking to you. i was thinking about this we, we may soon have a partial or have indian president of the united states and coming to here is her parents are indian. i don't know if i phrase that correctly, but you know what i mean. so i would think that gives her a very different perspective of the world. then somebody like joe biden,

who think she's, you know, john wayne and wants to just kill, kill, kill, and start wars everywhere. because we're american, we can do that. do you fake? just tell me a weight of her so far that she will differentiate herself when it comes to foreign policy and not necessarily be all over the south tennessee and, you know, bombing iran and giving a 100 percent support to israel and saying that we gotta, you know, help destroy russia by giving more money to ukraine. all these things that are predecessor to what is it? well, look, you know, you started the show by playing the clip from a former president, brock obama. he has a very similar biography, as company i had as his father was from kenya. his mother was, you know, an american woman, complet harris's mother was from india. her father is from jamaica. they met a while graduate students in california. um, they have something similar between obama and

a couple of hairs of manila was saying earlier that during obama's tenure, he drone, you know, any legal, extra judicial droning of several people, including all lucky born in las crucis mexico. yeah. mexico he was killed and then a few months later, his son, 16 year old daughter at mon, lucky born in denver, colorado 16 years old, was droned, june under mister obama. so, i mean, does having some foreign experience, but still obama and indonesia, for instance, where his mother had relocated him. does that change your view of the was i would think it does a little bit. does it prevent you from being the front bus and all of us stayed there many years ago? so the agent said to me, you know, if you have a large enough hammer, everything looks like a nail. the us military is a very large hammer and it really makes the president sitting in the oval office

with all the ad against that can produce. it makes it feel like you better use this hammer any with, instead of negotiation, let's have confront vision. it's a really, really bad habit trick, and i wish wish the people of the united states have come to terms of the fact. the rest is a great country, but it's just another country on the planet. you know, we people in the us up, people like other be books. you don't need to have much other be books. you can talk, you can negotiate, you can find a way to live together. otherwise, we're basically driving each other through some sort of you aren't big, mast hatred, which i really am not looking forward to the final question. cuba. i'm fascinated about your book. i'm fascinated about your conversations there and, and what you've learned talking about using a hammer on

a small nail 70 years now. that hammer has been hitting that little country over the head is cubic foot fault at all. is there anything they could do differently, and what do you see for the future of q about from this point on it was leslie. you are right. 11000000 people rig smaller than new york city. okay. this is really important for people to understand. it's an extraordinary country, as you will know, since you were born in cuba. it is really beautiful. it has people of great intelligence and sincerity. yes, there's a lot but you but can do to book and surrender. gilbert can give up and say, bring back the gangsters bring back the casinos, bring back, you know, the big u. s. companies, they can do that. the embargo disappears. but if they want to live as solving people, as people want to develop their own agenda and the word that is just simply not

being allowed by the united states government, you know, in the archive, i phone us government complaining that the us, the, the cuban revolution led by fidel castro was disobedient. that's the word that was used repeatedly. it is a disobedient country. gastro is, but this will be viewed and i think you're a guest. fidel castro bought people is not a child. i've met gastro as you have extremely edited. i, bright man, a real symbol of the cuban people, you know, starts up as a lawyer in cuba wants to make a difference. but he was up against the dentist, or is it, you know, i mean, i know it's literally the mob. yeah. also, the kennedy administration behaved like the mob. they basically said if you don't listen to us, we're gonna whack you. yep. trying to take him out of the cubans. incredible. during the pandemic, i interviewed

a number of cuban doctors would going around the world to work in govig parked wards. that means wards where people were struggling to survive from the go with dirty young doctor. while she was in costa rica in a hardwood, i asked uh where does your families use it? it's there at the moment or the end day in cuba. i have a young child, a miserable. i type with them, she said, but i wouldn't be anywhere else. and i said, why is that? yeah, she said, because i became a doctor to so then the cuban revolution is brought to me that and i, for my god edit time in the united states, for instance, when people harding vaccines here with the cubans going out there and helping people. and when the united states please cuba on the state sponsor of terrorism list, i reacted very poorly to that because i said they're not state sponsors of terrorism . this steve sponsors of public health and you don't get to be penalized for being

a state sponsor. yeah, i think it goes, i wish i could have a conversation with michael rubio to try to encourage him to see this differently. but mr. rubio is, has been on maintaining the strangulation of this little island. yeah, unfortunately, that's politics. and unfortunately, it involves money and it doesn't involve goodwill. and it's not just market rubio, by the way, there's a whole hell of a lot of them. what did you, what, what are the, what an honor, what a pleasure enjoyed the conversation. thanks so much for sharing some of your wisdom with you. let's do uh more conversations like this. if you're willing to come on. always a pleasure. thanks a lot. thank you. that's our show. remember, always look outside your own box. true. say don't live in boxes. i like to say i'm rick sanchez, will be looking for you next. that all the

adult. sorry. so this out of the $4700.00, you put in shoes, have been killed in too big to infiltrate the cost region according to the russian m. o. d. bad side of that ukraine, sabotage, and because, and suppose as we repel that type of thing to attract the neighboring region, also is a major advocate for steve a piece of this region. india stance is very clear. this is not an error of war. amy is crime is never a demo d. all right. was imposed of the in hopes of finding a roadmap to these new grain. the setting for the lunches of wounded people in gaza rushed to hospital as 9.