imposed sanctions currently laid on the country see new reports by the center for economic and policy research has found that since the economic sanctions were implemented by the trumpet ministration back in two thousand and seventeen get this more than three hundred thousand people are estimated to be at risk from lack of access to medicines or treatment an estimated eighty thousand people with hiv have not had antiviral viral treatments since two thousand and seventeen and that the sanctions have led to an estimated more than forty thousand deaths from two thousand and seventeen to two thousand and eighteen and that oil production when most vital resources in the country has fallen by thirty six point four percent since january two thousand and nineteen. so my friends were but his way once again making headlines headlines rubio tweeting away and operation liberty off to a spot start let's pull back the curtain read between the lines and start watching the hawks. what. looks like real that this would. get to the bottom. like you that i got. with that we. would. listen. to. welcome everyone to

sachs, leading economist and director of the center for sustainable development at columbia university. he recently co-authored report for the center for economic and policy research on the deadly impact of the u.s. sanctions on venezuelan. the center is estimating more than 40,000 venezuelans have died since 2017 as a result of the sanctions. we welcome you both to democracy now! miguel tinker salas, what do understand is happening on the ground right now in venezuela? what has taken place? and the significance of juan guaido standing together with leopoldo lopez? >> what took place yesterday was intended coup. the problem is, you would normally have the generals and the admirals standing at your side. obviously, that did not happen. it was an attempt on the part of guaido and lopez and his faction within the right-wing opposition to try to create greater divisions within the military. it was obviously that he did not have that support. what happened was they had a handful of lower ranking officers from the national guard. they had one general from the military intelligence service. but they did not have the core within the army or the navy or the air force. they

is executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research and joins me now from washington d.c. good to have you with us live on al-jazeera i mean for months now various commentators have suggested the u.s. heading towards a constitutional crisis i mean after today's events i mean where are we with that train of thought. i think we're in the middle of a constitutional crisis i think the constitutional crisis began when the president had a hotel in washington d.c. which is the central place for people seeking to bribe the presidency to make their bribes i think that we've had a constitutional crisis since the president told the treasury not to provide his tax return that by law had to go to the house of representatives i think we're in a constitutional crisis when the president has engaged in serial acts of obstruction of justice and there are no rapper cautions thus to far and honestly right now the democrats are still not responding to the moment the way they should and that actually makes the constitutional crisis worse. protagonist in this co

correctly pointing out that that's precisely what these sanctions are doing it's the center for economic and policy research and a think tank in washington d.c. recently came up with an analysis. that according to some estimates it could be as many as forty thousand people have lost their lives due to the sanctions because of the lack of access to medicines that was prevented precisely because of the sanctions and all the time claims that the u.s. says is helping the people of venezuela out and if he means by regime change do you understand how washington could be helping the people of the country. yeah well clearly they think that closing. the. access to these kinds of supplies and so on is going to cause a regime change operation which would bring about as well as the better government but that's something for the menace remains to decide so we're definitely not helping by forcing a change in government that's helping would be the only if there was actual negotiations between the opposition and the government but the u.s. government is not in the least bit interested in doing guard and they always talk ab

the new report by the center for economic and policy research says u.s. sanctions have killed forty thousand people in venezuela since just twenty seventeen don't see many mainstream media reports on that it's about time we had programs with infomercials designed to protect people from u.s. aid. are you in the line of fire of american aid missions we can help you we've all been hurt by american help at one point or another sign up for protection from american help today. these sanctions are not sanctions they are economic war they were meant to kill but on let's let's let's back up a little let's assume you don't know anything about it as well all or even iran or syria none of it does anyone in the world believe the trumpet ministration is really worried about sick children this. is in fact a question at the heart of all the as they drive over on hundred bombs a day many of them children do you honestly believe chris farley over there is sitting at a. growing oh i hope those venezuelan nino's get my man to see that. or. that's like asking marlon brando if

imposed sanctions currently laid on the country yes a new report by the center for economic and policy research has found that since the economic sanctions were implemented by the trumpet administration back in two thousand and seventeen get this more than three hundred thousand people are estimated to be at risk from lack of access to medicines or treatment an estimated eighty thousand people with hiv have not had antiviral treatment since twenty seventeen and that these sanctions have led to an estimated one.

the new report by the center for economic and policy research.

do report by the center for economic and policy research says u.s. sanctions have killed forty thousand people in venezuela since just twenty seventeen don't see many mainstream media reports on that it's about time we had programs with infomercial.

if we use all of the squad and why do we use a chosen candidate for the venezuelan government leader as well as washington's this from the center for economic and policy research report finds us sanctions on men as well as spawns full potential of thousands of deaths and this is what supporting america's sanctions on venezuela just like on iran are illegal in international law. but america has the veto it the united nations so i mean very often when for every country at the u.n. votes century america trying to stop its interventions it just has a cost that one american vote and that defeats that we had the reporter or lou could have heard what you just said about the legality of saying to the e.u. recognizes you know has done rather than merely rule in read the meter or not all across the west people have come up supporting a man who's talking about a military coup and you've got this is this maneuver in the arms business. talking about sending follow announcer eric brilliant blackwood or denying that reuters suggestion good good a bit like george are going to evolve we don't have the right to intervene to overthrow other governments have been democratically e

candidate for the venezuelan government leader as well as washington's this from the center for economic and policy research report finds the u.s. sanctions on men as well as sponsors will pretend of thousands of deaths and this is what supporting america's sanctions on venezuela just like on iran are illegal in international law. but america has the veto it the united nations so i mean very often when for every country at the u.n. votes century america trying to stop its interventions it just has a concept one american vote and that defeats that we had the reporter or lou could have heard what you just said about the legality of saying to the e.u. recognizes why do you know who has done rather than merely were in readily available we not all across the west people have come up supporting a man who's talking about a military coup and you've got this business maneuver in the arms business talking about sending follow down to eric brilliant blackwood or denying that reuters suggestion good good good good luck george we're going to evolve we don't have the right to intervene to overthrow other governments have

resolved by precipitating economic and humanitarian disasters, making ordinary people pawns and hostageges thereof." a recent report by the center for economic and policy research and d economist jeffrey sachs estimates 40,000 people may have died in venezuela since 2017 because of u.s. sanctions. visit democracynow.org to see our recent interview with economist sachs. in colorado, an 18-year-old student was killed and eight were injured on tuesday in a school shooting at the stem school highlands ranch south of denver. authorities have taken two students into custody. douglas county sheriff tony spurlock spoke to reporters outside the school. >> two individuals walked into the stem school, got deep inside the schooool, and engaged studes in two separatate locations. we do have eight students that are in area hospitals right now. several of them are in critical condition. both of the suspects we believe our students of the stem school. they are not injured. amy: the stem school highlands ridge school is located just seven miles from columbine high schoolwork 12 students and a teacher were shot dead 20 years ago on april 20, 1999. also about 20 miles from aurora

targeted venezuela since 2015, sanctions which according to a report released by the center for economic and policy researchath of 40,000 venezuelans and will lead to the deaths of thousands more if these sanctions are not overturned. president trump, if he truly cared about the american -- or the venezuelan and american people for that matter, he a wod end the disastrous policy and the sanctions and he would look into john bolton's eyes, into elliot abrams' eyes and mike pompeo's eyes and say, you are fired. you are leading me down a disastrous path and something that the president said -- m >> tucker: you are passionate! >> he was celebrated by the american people when he said iraq was a mistake and now he is willing to do it again. >> tucker: it is a bipartisan -- i mean, biden came out today and said that he agreed. >> it is a bipartisan issue. >> tucker: it would be interesting to know why that is. i believe in an open debate, and i'm not sure i agree with everything you said, but i'm glad that you could say it here. and you were just there, and i don't think that you would be allowed on any other show

the political leanings of those civilians and as mark weisbrot and jeffrey sachs recently showed at a center for economic policy and research study in this really bracing report over forty thousand venezuelans already been killed by u.s. sanctions twenty seventeen to twenty eight hundred so the u.s. is using sanctions in the place of conventional war we just heard about twenty minutes ago vice president mike pence at the oil in arms industry front council on the americas in d.c. declare once again that all options are on the table it does appear however that president donald trump is not particularly interested in the military option and neither are the joint chiefs in the pentagon. the u.s. doesn't have a head in its support of. donald trump and is in a cycle of been tweeting now from the center about to what extent what does this report really reveal. well it really reveals the pride in the state department in harming venezuela's economy and the contradiction. it contradicts the public messaging of the state department through. spokespeople like kimberly brier who tweeted several days ago that one. and his fake government

have been imposed on venezuela which we now know from a recent study from the center for economic policy and reserve research have cost the lives of forty thousand venezuelans between twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen and the sanctions imposed since january have as this tremendously important enforcing and effective trade embargo on venezuela making it really hard for venezuela to engage in any trade isolating the country and as you say we are now in a standoff and there is no end in sight but down trump and his administration and one which has received who has received funds from the united states government who has supported as is leopoldo lopez they have no answer they have no solution and they don't know how to get venezuela out of this mess ok which is what happens in the coming days for the moment thanks very much for joining us kevin got solar in chicago. must protests continue in sudan where demonstrators have staged a million strong launch to press for civilian rule protest leaders say the military isn't serious about handing over power the two sides have agreed on forming a joint civilian milita

dean baker is a co-founder of the center for economic and policy research in washington, d.c. his areas of research include houses, microeconomics, intelligent support, social security, medicare, and european labor markets. he's the author of several books and his piece "medicare for all is not a fantasy" was published on cnn's website. he received his b.a. from swarthmore, and ph.d. in economics from the university of michigan. great to have you here. mr. baker: thank you chairman mcgovern and ranking member cole. i appreciate opportunity to speak here. i have to say it's a great honor to be next to ady again. i knew him from prior days when we were in the coalition to pressure the fed to allow more full employment. that was amazing effort that he deserves credit for in addition to his subsequent work. i want to make three main points and say a little about the transition. first i want to say that medicare for all is affordable. that the bulk of the payments should be coming from shifting employer premiums to government basically to taxes. it's not additional money out of work

economically and wondering what trumps true intentions really. dallas. maron one is the director of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies i think shows president i'll try out this more interested in negotiations than war. well i think he still he said he wants to blind maximum pressure on iran to bring to bring the iranians to the table of negotiations i believe that this president is not really interested in fighting iran i think he's more interested in negotiating with iran the iranians they think he's bluffing actually he is merely wishing psychological warfare against them so i think he's thing to make them feel like he's more serious. about what he says what he says on one hand on the other hand he's trying to deter them from taking any action against the measure as he has already taken against that you're on the economy because this president he wants to strangle iran but he doesn't want any other action from the iranians to these moves from what the american officials are seeing specially mike pompey with the secretary of state to the united states seems to have intelligence. about. september televisions by the iranians

. >>> economic policy institute research director josh bivens and center for freedom and prosperity chairman you or do you have an answer to counter, or are americans just not clued in to what they should be thinking >> yeah, i would say, i don't think they're really sort of -- i don't think they're really well-designed poll questions i think as a lot of you noted, 62% is a pretty high number for people who think either wealth distribution is a problem to be addressed by government or raising taxes on the wealthy my view -- and i think a lot of people share it -- is that we cannot have an economy that actually delivers broadly shared prosperity for everyone until we actually check the power of the ultrarich and corporations i think lots of americans believe that whether or not those particular poll questions really get at that doesn't surprise me that they don't i think when you ask people what they're really concerned about, they list a bunch of things about the economy in general i would argue a lot of those things, whether it's addressing the cost of health care or higher education or job