was the part we just to look so common ground the the v use footprint is all over a romanian prosecutor's decision to pursue a case against presidential candidates. colleen george s good knobs, according to russian intelligence and also a head on the program. this, our president zalinski was moments away from signing an economic lifeline. and instead he put the card ahead of the horse and he base the hand that is feeding a lot of years. lensky refuses to seek peace under washington's terms and faces mounting pressure to concede. for step aside, the us suspends and the victory a to ukraine, sending us journalists urges donald trump to drop sanctions against our t thing, the biting your restrictions are constitutional.

the warm in the past 10 at night in mombasa in monroe mine here in moscow. welcome to the global news run and off on our brussels is on a war path against your opinion. leaders who openly support us president donald trump, to according to the russian intelligent services, the background to those remarks being brussels, barking of the romanian prosecutors decision to charge. presidential hopeful, kelly and george s booth and issue to the controversial list. the decision of the romanian prosecutor's office to bring charges against georgia school is backed by the european union's leadership. the european commission president russell of on the line demanded that the car rental socrates in bucharest not allowed georgia ask you to participate in the 2nd round election. she threatened to restrict remaining

is access to e u funds. if the representative of non systemic forces continues to participate in the election campaign after the attack on jo. jessica, you, we can confidently predict further attempts by the european liberal mainstream to suppress dissent in the u. an incredibly strong statement that from russia's for an intelligent service, saying it has evidence that the he was involved in the attempts to bring those accusations against calling. sure was jessica just through mind that this is a man who seemed as being a french kinds of they said, actually talk to the point in the 1st round of the presidential elections. he mania of november last day than just a few weeks later off to the requisitions of russian meddling in the election. these results were knows by the remaining constitutional court and charges who then voted in the last week against calling georgia school. today as being new evidence

showing russian was a total involved in meddling in that election. and in fact, the reasoning, the calling to address cruise campaign would soon viral was due to the promotion by approved european party the c n l. this is the national liberal party here in romania, despite the fact that they have been many charges with the games, calling to jessica, of which she denies all of them and says, this is essentially a political hunch tool. just to bring you more information about what the russian for an intelligence services have to say. they said that basically the fuel costs were declaring move on. notice this technically does lead. does that wanted to refuse to following what you were paying institutions have to say and move them to do. and it talks about several of the countries facing the same issues such as victor open in hungry and also a robot. so in slovakia it says this best decision to challenge college who was yes,

who came from the very top of the process of late from the commission president himself various level relating who's urging that everything should be done to ensure that there is no to we one of november's presidential election was george call i was calling to yes to coming top of that poll. now he was in court in the last day to appeal decision to bring those charges against him saying this, this is a political witch hunt and that she is not guilty one. i am innocent too. it is a political case. and 3, i saw parts of the case on antenna 3, which we do not have. my lawyers do not have. we do not have the details of the case. that is why i would as comrade, prosecutor dance, rush forward. she left school to give me that access to because i do not have the

details. i will continue to tell you that it is a political case that has been investigated. i am innocent, we are moving forward. we are the people we are romania pull that you have it. so when calling georgia, screw himself, he has not been given access to the file noise. i have his mu is a movie allegations that he was accused of and of course the evidence remained. his prosecution offers believes that has against him, and he's been supported by other political leaders in romania to including george simulate his faith to austin just a few days ago and saying that his country is essentially defending into what could be liked into a non republic. and there are many people in romania who support calling to jessica . just a few days ago, there was a mass raleigh here in the city of blue cross the capital city, with thousands upon thousands of individuals coming out to the streets and demanding the candidates demand that they did full of becomes the next president

over mania. it's meant to be determined whether calling georgia school who will be participating in that next we run olga to election. he just said he's going to follow the paperwork, waiting for that to happen. but we know for the moment he is waiting for decisions . final thoughts here, romania, when you say on the outcome of where they can access just access to the accusations on the evidence against him, showing that even sky faulty in bucharest. hard lesson to learn for flooding. there is a landscape after he quote bit, the hon. that feeds him with the us know, i'm noticing it's posing old military 8 shipments to ukraine, a white house official, total reporters, kids must be willing to stop the conflict. and that's not forthcoming. as the president has been clear that he is focused on peace, we need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. we're pausing and

reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution. well, we haven't heard any public confirmation from the white house about them pausing a do crane, but the media sure has been talking a lot about it. we've seen it reported in both blur. bloomberg and fox news also had its own segment covering that whole ordeal. the united states is pausing. busy u. s. military aid to ukraine until president trump determines the trainings show a commitment of good faith peace negotiations. that's according to a senior trump administration telling fox this is not a permanent termination of aid. it is a pause. the orders are going out right now. the official said this in response to granting presence, unless he's conduct over the last week and his words over the weekend. this all comes as washington and t f were supposed to sign ukrainian rare or minerals the last week because according to trump, i mean, he feels like the us has put tons of time and energy and money and to ukraine, and it's gotten very little in return so it's fine to make a profit and this c o,

according to the trump, is the best way to do it. here's the ukraine minerals deal. now, dad, or can it be revive? what, which well, i'll let you know we're making this space. you probably heard about it tomorrow and i so i'll let you know tomorrow night, but no, i don't think so. i think it's look at, it's a great deal for us because you know, bite and very, very flawlessly, stupidly frankly gave $300000000.35 more accurately uh, to a country to fight and to try and do things. and you know what happened, we get nothing and what we're doing is getting that all back and a lot more than that. but that bill didn't even get signed at all because before trump and zalinski could actually even talk about it, zalinski made a huge scene in the white house and got kicked out of the oval office. so what makes america a good country? is america engaging in diplomacy? that's what president trump's doing, can ask you?

sure. yeah, yeah. okay. what do you mean? i'm talking about the kind of diplomacy it is going to in the destruction of your country with respect, i think it's disrespectful for you to come to the oval office to try to litigate this in front of the american media. we're trying to solve a problem. don't tell us what we're going to feel. i'm not telling you. is issue a check days the year in no position didn't dictate what we're going to fail. you again. well, really is a people seeing you gambling with world war 3 and what you're doing is very dis, written disrespectful to the country, this country. i'm in the way that really that to you are more that a lot of people say where they should have. you have continued big trouble. so no, no, not a lot of talking. your country is in big trouble. i know you're not only know you're not winning this from the very beginning of the war. we've been long and we have sampled. i said, thanks. you have the these can we gave you the president, $350000000000.00?

you will you for your military equipment, then you tell us, i don't want to cease fire. i don't want to cease fire. that was with the a guy named bite and who is not a smart person. this is going to be great television. i was pretty shocking exchange in the white house there. but it's not really that surprising that zalinski would have that kind of behavior. i mean, after all, he's used to being to by the administration's golden boy, he is easiest to getting whatever he wants from the us government, but the times have changed. and now the trumpet administration is saying that once he's biting the hand that feeds him last friday, the president zalinski was moments away from signing an economic lifeline. and instead, he put the cart ahead of the horse and he bets the hand that is feeding in the united states and the american people are tired of putting the bill for this war. president trump wants to negotiate a deal, and unfortunately, it appears a president. zalinski is not willing to do that just yet. well, lot of people in the trump administration are saying that they have to be able to

speak with someone at the helm of ukraine's government. this actually ready to negotiate and zaleski just does not seem ready to do that. on top of that, the landscape keeps talking about security guarantees. we heard from new case prime minister, recently suggested sending british troops to ukraine as part of that security guarantee. but you are a slice president j events. he doesn't agree with that. he says that this rare earth minerals deal is going to be the best security guarantee that someone's can can get. it can come to the oval office and say, give us security guarantees. we won't even engage with you about what we're willing to give up. that's been the ukrainian pastor when that pastor changes as president trump said, when they're willing to talk peace and the present trouble with the 1st person to pick up the phone. the very best security guarantee is to give americans economic upside in the future of ukraine. that is a way better security guarantee than 20000 troops for us from some random country that has a photo of war in 30 or 40 years. they secured in guarantee, and also the economic guarantee for ukraine is to rebuild the country and ensure

that america has a long term interest. you're not going to do that and you come to the oval office and sold the president and refused to follow his plan for peace of the landscape and say, sorry or anything. like i said before, the trump administration wants to work with someone who's ready to negotiate, who's ready for a peaceful resolution to the ukraine conflict. and based on once the once the recently told western leaders in london doesn't seem like he's the guy for that. he says that piece is far away on the horizon. do you will do for the keep an agreement to end? the war is still very, very far away. and no one has started all the steps yet. we have the piece that we proceed in the future. must be just honest, and most importantly, sustainable chairs and so on, the backdrop of all these events, we also heard from the kremlin spokesperson, dimitri pass golf. were pointed out that no sort of negotiations between russia and ukraine can even happen before diplomatic relations are restored between the 2 countries. although none of that might even be necessary based on what trump has

made cleared as a landscape. and he doesn't have the cards to disappoint dice. the suspension reportedly applies to all us military equipment, not currently in ukraine, including arms in friends. it's or waiting for delivery from poland. now weapons cargo up the country's logistics hub, has already been cut off according to warsaw. a crucial question, as well as whether the us will cut off ukraine's data access as washington controls a huge the disproportionate number of key satellites. while there's no form of word that you created and officially i sent it the key of a scrambling to find an alternative military communication system in case you little must. star link is polt. well, a us journalist has a very just donald trump to dropped sanctions against r t in an open letter. been sworn argues that the curves on russian media levied under former president joe biden are unconstitutional. the excuse used to

place our work under sanction was based on an old lie, the russian r t had in some way interfered and us selections. this move is unprecedented. as no us administration has ever banned, blocked or sanctioned a news organization, the biden administration through the treasury department placed financial sanctions against our t and tv varsity there by making it illegal for american journalists to exercise their constitutionally protected rights of freedom of speech and press the building of social media companies by the biden administration was corruption on display, however, by the outright banning of a news organization with abiding administration has done is a violation of constitutional law as well. some background law september, the ip going by the us administration of 9 to you. sanctions targeting several russian like that's blaming them for a co berkeley quotes undermining democracy, an entropy ringing us selection. following washington's move us tech to and mess uh,

which ones facebook and instagram bottom several russian news networks. most of us condemn the restrictions. seeing that the washington has declared war on freedom of speech. director of the not does all of us state departments global engagement center went as far as blaming ard, see, for ukraine's the lack of support you've asked question for matt, for months and months about you know, the global south and why there's not more support for ukraine in this part of the middle east, or that part of latin america or this part of africa. well, one of the reasons not the only reason, but one of the reasons why so much of the world has not been as fully supportive of ukraine as you would think. they would be given that russia has invaded ukraine and violated real number one of the international system is because of the broad scope and reach of r t, where propaganda does information and allies are spread to millions, if not billions of people around the world. well,

some great gas joining us now to at this sect. all that's it's a pleasure to welcome on to the program journalist post on political commentators scouting now to use on legal on media on the list at line or grip to see you both started. can we kick off with you? you also sign this open letter we mention saying that by your a sanctions against our to your, on the constitutional. can you elaborate? how so? oh, absolutely. because here in the united states, it's been this false predicate for the past few years. we have freedom of speech and freedom of press. in fact, it's one of the greatest talking points, the politicians, when they're running for office, they states including this current administration. the problem is, especially under the body administration, we saw unprecedented amounts of censorship that happened and they not only did it by taking this network off the us airways back. and i think it was 20172018. but more importantly, they decided to not go after a company that was an american based company. they provided content that went on

our tea. that meant that there's science, my voice, my coworkers, voice is about 30 of us and being able to state the truth. and more importantly, disrupt the narrative as a mainstream networks that work internationally broadcast that they were trying to rest of the world. that everybody here in america loved to buy and ministration. the joe biden is going to be re elected with pamela harris. i'm all of the various slides that were turned out to be completely false and proven on election night back in november line or the previous us administration blame the loft. busy of support for you print to run the world. that was ortiz fault. how much truth is there in not assessment is not right. the doors meant for the power of anybody. you responsible you were this nobody else? no thinking, no truth, no reports. look, let me, let me explain to me, this is my constitution. i know my beloved constitution as

a lawyer who is well versed in this. one of the things which we've always had a problem with unit is that whenever the government has acted as a proxy through like social media, the government is always a no, no, no, no, that's not us. these are private individuals. the, the, the 1st amendment prohibits government, don't police actually directly silencing darn well this is it, this is direct is the gets. there's no argument here. the federal government, joe biden say you can speak from the same group that gives you voice of america. radio, free europe. how come p b s n p r? that's no problem. i b, b, c, no, i, i don't understand it. so this has come, this has got to come to an end and not only that, my friends, people love this, they love you. they love just opinion facts. and if it's not true. 7 don't. 7 c

should without you don't take it, that's what the, that's what the tell me why would they say we're not children, we're not in some tile. we want to give it a choice. we know that it has alternative views, but we want to hear it because it gives us a sense of what is happening from the other side. precisely, i'm looking at the joint task at funder of a truth in media news analysis. i've been this one who sent that open letter to the us president. and then you've got the conversation started. what were you primarily seeking to achieve by addressing the u. s. liter as well? yeah. everything you guys are talking about. we just simply this, you know, i don't care what people think about r d. i don't care how they feel about news from around the world, whether it's the bbc or it's coming from alger 0, or it's coming from cbs or cnn, in our country in the united states of america. we have a very simple principle, the very 1st amendment to our constitution. the very 1st right in our bill of rights is the right to speak freely without government interference and the right

to a free press repressed by the way, does not mean professional press. it means that you have the right to publish ideas that go against what the government believes that government has no right to get in . the way of that. that is one of the founding principles of our country. so when we see or all day long, that, that we have to support the ukraine war and support zelinski because he's the one bastion of democracy in the far eastern part of europe. and yet we have to defend that wealth. sacrificing our own democratic principles, sacrificing our own bill of rights here in the united states is ludicrous. and ben, what are the chances? what's your sense that the trump administration will actually review this sanction? i believe it's going to happen. i believe that it's happening even now. and i would make a prediction here on the show you can have you back on tell me if i'm right or wrong that within 2 weeks time, 2 weeks time, i'll say it right here. there is going to be a move to remove those sanctions. the trump administration has been making a very, very bold statement. as we pointed out,

the letter about free speech around the world will put your money where your mouth is and we believe that they will. i believe that the president trump will enact of the remove the sanctions, i believe, but he disagrees with the sanctions. he things are foolish in the way they were designed by the way they are. they're not just foolish, though they're illegal. they violate the constitution. i believe within 2 weeks time it will be gone. me scanning now as some say r t found is to do with security, not censorship. how do you respond to that as well? that's the key is that we're supposed to be dealing with freedom of press. you know, i listen to the conversation, i remember on our wall or to america, we had a saying that said trust the viewer, and that's what we continuously told each other or to bigger trust of you or that if we provided the information, we're going to trust our viewers to have enough intelligence to make the decisions themselves, to do their own fact checking and almost time and time again. they came back and said, your telling us the truth. it's been the mainstream media. there's other sources on there that have been telling us live. that debate is trying to think one way that is not exactly what's going on in the world. i think that's why you saw such

a strong push by the bottom instruction to make sure that our voices were shut down right before the election. and i think this has just been, and i think donald trump, if you would have more than this, but on his radar you would assign these uh the sanctions to repeal them on day one . i think it's just making sure that we get them in front of the right people and like been said, this is where i've got to give been and our to a lot of credit. we don't believe, i don't believe in any way. this is constitutional, but we still abided by the law. we are law abiding american citizens that just want our voice back to just want to be able to tell the rest of the world the reality of what's going on in america. and this continues censorship right now. i think trump is completely against that, and i agree with when i say within the next 2 weeks, if not before, then you're going to see these sections repealed across the board and i hope r t restored back to the american airways vinyl on the point you and other attorneys have made the point that the us could be violating its own principles by bonding media outlets based on their relations with the president set by the,

by the administration. hi, damaging, how's this b as well, it's damaging if it's not corrected. if it's not corrected as, as been stated, if it's not adjusted, understand from the, the i already the hypocrisy the hotspot of somebody from the united states government saying that r t is involved in misinformation this information, data information. what ever, that means. i've never heard of that. how about gobbledygook list so that we're not there, and yet, so what do they do in order to of, to, to deal with and address information that may not be correct. let's stop the information. let's shut it down. every single thing that anybody has ever southern r t, they say they're wrong. why let me say something on a personal note. this may not be anything to anybody. i've been doing professional, whatever this is for 38 years. i have never, i have been,

i've had some of the golf glorious times on r t in 38 years r t has never so much of has asked me. what are you going to talk about or, you know, we'd appreciate if you kind of never, i can say that about it. listen carefully. any man working out lit up any storage unit ever name. it's 5. anybody for this is, this is the free is the most expressive, the most it and what just very quickly in order to understand how the world feels have to get out of the united states. you have to, we are blessed with this, with this cook off in the of opinion. so this is not just about this, this is about freedom and this about this come the, the marketplace of ideas it's, it's just, it's, and again ben said you for this and i hope this and hope nobody ever has to see anything like this. again, it is a stain on our constitution. i'm, by the way, boy,

did you say some controversial things you've shocked me in your one line? all i have to say as well as what you did say live on their ben in your views. how does binding r t compared to the previous social media? censorship of independent voices, especially under us government pressure. yep. so how do you compare the 2? is that what you're asking? yeah, we yeah, we compare and like this. first of all, i v excuse again that's been used is that social media companies were pressure, which by the way is illegal. we're pressure by government entities and government agencies just suppressed certain information and to take away the voice of people who were online, right? citizens who were online and by the way, journals like myself, like scotty like, why know, we've all been centered heavily on social media here regardless of whether or not that had to do with our tea. that's just the fact. but here's the truth. it doesn't, it is not as much of an affront as what the us government did when they shut down our teeth because they didn't just view shadow banning or trying to silence people

or kicking them off platforms. they literally made it a crime. they made it a crime to work with archie, and that's the kind of the crux of the letter as well. this letter goes to the fact that it is illegal for us citizens to work with our team. we cannot even volunteer for our team if we just set as journalists where he is going to work for free. because we believe so much in the mission of our tea. that's a crime under the sanctions. and that's a huge problem. you're essentially saying we are making it illegal for you to work with a particular newest organization because we disagree with the ideas that might come through that would. you also tells you a lot about the influence that the us government has over every other media organization. not just in the united states, but around the world. there was only one that they would make it illegal to work for because they don't have the ability to influence the content that runs through their scrubbing. now you and the other guests have worked in both main stream, alternative media, do you or have you seen a growing trend of suppression suppression in the media spirit,

and how's it being targeted at specific viewpoints as well? what's been great, is that not only domestically, but also internationally working with stations the gone air that on the u. k. in and brazil, and those that are in the middle east. and absolutely, if i go on there and i just say exactly what the presenter is, the view point, even if i supposedly disagree, as long as i say it stay my boundaries, i'm invited back on. but if i just happen and yeah, i've seen it right most recently with these developments they've lately been happening in a p structure for i talk between russia and ukraine. if i just happened to step out of bombs and especially challenge those, i could challenge you right now and you're going to be ok with that. you're still going. invite me back on that right. there is a way that the students are and you, that if you actually step out of balance and you challenge what the network is putting on, you can consider yourself on that blacklist date time and time again. and that is how hosts are being able to also control the narrative. now, behind the scenes, the same host will text me and say,

i agree with you. i just have to say this way. i have to buy what to keep my jobs, keep mine and keep my paycheck coming. i have to push back on you, even though i technically agree with everything your say, and that right there is how you know that censorship is real in america today. and here's why i think if they do not take care of this, now it's opening up hand doors box for future generations on a wide variety of issues like how things been going in the right direction as regards media, freedoms under the trump administration hall. so literally a big change charges of what is going to change drastically by virtue of are you kidding door? i'm not going to go through what this president has been through himself. and i also want to throw in a line much who immediately said, we're not gonna have minutes anymore. we're going to be able to say what you want. and, and, and this people couldn't handle that. let me explain, explain something. if you really want to neutralize an opinion,

if somebody is saying something that you think is dangerous, the best thing you could do was tell him, go ahead and say it's not even important. but if i want to create this, this mystery, this danger, i bad it, it becomes it forbidden fruit. these idiots don't even know what they're doing. do you know what it's like, what, what, what, what a network in this country would do to have a member of a government say, this is the most dangerous. their information is so critical, so good, sol, sterling, sol, surgically accurate. so laser like it can change geo politics and it has to be big enough. people wouldn't give anything to be able to say, i mean all they, they shouldn't even control, you know, up up a football score. nothing. this is, i cannot believe. then again, i hold this up with this because in america, we'd love to talk about the flag in the constitution. it doesn't get any more

american than this. the 1st amendment is the 1st amendment for our reason. well then you've got the conversation started. thank you so much, all of you for coming on and sharing your views with us as always this spring and lightning has been entertaining as well. been sworn investigative journalist finder of the truth in media side, starting out use american journalist news anchor on political commentator. and finally there line a legal on media. i will the slide from new york city as always, thank you and good. all right, so a reminder for up to the minutes developments quite either a today to give ortiz x page or follow with all that's going on up the moment. we'll ensure you don't miss the moments that matter. the no, yes, 5 it's menu.