instead, hawkins would testify against nate as the state's star witness. >> i knew hawkins from the buildinge was a tenant in my building that i managed. i looked out for him and his wife and his kid all while they was over there. he truly know i had nothing to do with this, and i have always told him that. >> this was not the first time hawkins cooperated with the law. since leaving death row, he had testified against dozens of fellow el rukns. >> he had testified extensively at the federal trials of the el rukns. he himself had very, very significant credibility problems. he had acknowledged in the federal trials that he would essentially say anything to get himself out of trouble. >> they tried to paint him as a star witness, because he was an el rukn. i watched him get on the stand, and i was trying to make eye contact. because i felt if i could make eye contact, maybe he'll come out and say, i can't do this to him. but he never looked at me. >> hawkins testified that nate had been the shooter, but under cross examination he exposed his own murderous past as an el rukn hitman. >> hawkins

the one thing i keep coming back to is humphrey hawkins and what senator tillis raised as well as the think they did mention in the article but i don't thank you mentioned in your commentary to most of the questions, at least that i heard, is that humphrey hawkins expired in 2020 and it is no longer the law of the land. i'm not sure that is still a fair notion and i was going to also raise the questions, senator van hollen raised, is that we talk about this issue in my office. i feel very strongly around debt and deficit and let me be clear, and of the either clinical party has much legitimacy on the issue anymore but i do think there is a very much a change in consistency in your view under what was happening under obama where a group of us and both parties tried to bring down the debt and deficit to the chagrin of folks on both sides of the isle. that suddenly got blessed under president trump and i know you have already adjusted but it is a real concern to me. i don't doubt your integrity but i question your consistency on this but i want to go to another piece. in your writings yo

to russian proxies are also being accused of undermining the global response with more on it than hawkins. it's hard to find almost any modern day referendum election or protest movement that hasn't been tied in some way by government officials intelligence reports all media outlets to russian meddling it seems virus pandemics are no exception to the rule russia's intent is to sow discord and undermine u.s. institutions and alliances from within including through coercive mind influence campaigns this miss the allegations as a deliberate smear campaign it will be hard for most of us to find out what exactly russia is accused of the answer apparently lies in the report prepared for the state department's global engagement center strictly not for public viewing which details evidence of russia's alleged bad behavior and if one compares the charges against russia in the secretive report to what moscow has actually done you get 2 very different pictures. from. well if it's conspiracy theories u.s. officials are looking to find looking closer to home could do the job u.s. officials publicly ca

was quoting from the 1978 humphrey-hawkins act. and what i was explaining is that that legislative language actually sets out six economic objectives for the country and says attainment of these objectives should be facilitated by coordination between the president and congress and the federal reserve. that's in the law. i didn't write that. senator tester: if you believe that we need to pursue a more coordinated relationship with the president and congress and president's tweeting and influence from me is real. dr. shelton: it surprised me to read that in the language. enator tester: you wrote it. dr. shelton: i have been subsequently it has been attributed to me. senator tester: you wrote it. dr. shelton: i was quoting from the legislation. senator tester: the gold standard also in the "wall street journal," let's return to the gold standard and hope vice president would hasten returning to the gold standard. you talked about bretton woods at mar-a-lago. if that isn't advocating returning to the gold standard, then what is? dr. s

one thing we come back to, the humphrey hawkins. you did at least mention in the article but i don't think you've mentioned in your commentary to most of the questions at least that i've heard is that humphrey-hawkins expired in 2020. it's no longer the law of the land. i'm not sure that's still a fair notion, and i was going to also raise the question, senator -- -- senator van hollen raised. we talked about this in my office. i feel very strongly around debt and deficit. i don't think either political party has much legitimacy on the issue anymore. but i do think there is a -- very much a change in consistency. in your view under what was happening under obama where a group of us in both parties tried to bring down the debt and deficit to the chagrin of some aisleon both sides of the that suddenly got blessed under president trump. i know you've addressed it. but it is a real concern to me. i don't doubt your integrity but i question your consistency on this. i want to go to another piece. in your writings, you said that it would

that does it for me my colleague dan hawkins the man the myth the legend he'll be here in about 60 minutes or so with a full and complete update but just ahead takes a closer look at bernie sanders chances of replacing donald trump in the white house you're watching. a low in welcome to cross talk we're all things considered. the 2020 presidential campaign is beginning to look a lot like the 2016 race but this time around the insurgent is bernie sanders who is not even a member of the democratic party again are not interested in establishment politicians in fact they appear to be rebelling against him will we see a trump sanders showdown. crosstalk in the 2020 alexion i'm joined by my guest lee camp in washington he is the host and head writer of the comedy new show redacted tonight on our team america as well as author of the new book bullet points and punch lines in milwaukee we have jennifer to master she is a inner tourney and policy analyst and in syracuse we crossed through how we hawkins he is a candidate for the green party nomination for u.s. president or across the rules in effec

i was quoting from the 1978 humphrey-hawkins act. that was passed a year after the federal reserve reform act. is -- andexplaining what i was explaining is that that legislative language actually sets out six economic objectives for the country and says attainment of these objectives should be facilitated by coordination between the president and congress and the federal reserve. that's in the law. i didn't write that. senator tester: i am telling you that if you believe that we need to pursue a more coordinated relationship with the president and congress and president's tweeting and influence from me on the fed, which i don't think should be correct, is real. dr. shelton: it surprised me to read that in the language. senator tester: you wrote it. dr. shelton: it surprised me to read it, and i merely revealed that. i have been subsequently it has been attributed to me. congress wrote it. senator tester: you wrote it. dr. shelton: i was quoting from the legislation. senator tester: ok, let's go a different direction. the gold standar

a couple of weeks ago robert singleton asked: moira fowler added: and mark hawkins had this question. richard burgess, the bbc‘s uk editor, joins me now and let's start with the fact that anyone watching the weather forecast has been told that more storms are coming and where they might hit and i'm interested in how you decide where to deploy people. i think it is a mixture of things. i mean, we obviously listen to those forecasts but we also are regularly in touch with our local teams around the uk to get that kind of on the ground information. and the point to whether stories is difficult because you need to be there when the weather is happening and you cannot really deploy afterwards because you don't get to the heart of the story and can often be much harder to get there as well, once the weather has happened, the severe weather, and the impacts of it. so we take a lot of deployment decisions that we often will deploy people and we find the weather is not such a story and then that we are not necessarily getting on air so it is a mixture of using local knowledge and of course the

the three time world champion still beat barry hawkins 4—2.o'sullivan is through to he quarter finals. now to some worrying news coming out of shanghai as their sports authorities have recommended to suspend all sporting events in the city — as a result of the coronavirus. the number of cases in china has now jumped to more than 2a,300 with almost 500 deaths so far. the move casts even more doubt on the chinese grand prix, that's in shanghai on 19th april. well here is the shanghai circuit, where it's believed that the race will have to at least be postponed. but with a record of 22 races this season, finding a new date could be tricky. and it's not the only race that's being questioned with the inaugural vietnamese grand prix on the 5th april also at risk. the capital hanoi is about 100 miles from the chinese border. that leads us onto the tokyo 0lympics, as 0rganisers are "extremely worried" about the possible effect of the coronavirus on this summer's games. the ioc said they were in contact with the world health organisation and had full c

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international i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. and the u.k. has finally made its farewell to the european union bringing to an end almost half a century in the bloc an extended period of up evil following that historic referendum back in 2016 but britain's new beginnings out without uncertainty of quarter explains. no it's not a late new year's celebration it's the u.k. setting sail from the e.u. after 47 years of being docked they're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future so working with you pays to chandra's you in your seats put your flags away you know anything a conflicted brussels bids them farewell you will be missed especially by european bureaucrats when it comes to london's money going into their coffers on the other hand westminster has been such a nuisance lately it could be just goodbye and good riddance almost half a century of the united kingdom's membership in the european union is over we want to have the best possible relationship with the united kingdom but it will never be as good as membership that could m

that does it for me my colleague dan hawkins the man the myth the legend he'll be here in about 60 minutes or so with a full and complete update butt.

people every child in cuba it's a basic education that's a huge improvement from where it was down hawkins discuss the potential impact of scientists remarks on the race with a panel of guests. but any sauna saying this thing at a time when the democratic party's already split its the vibe that it's going through perhaps a bit of a p.r. it means here across this i mean this is a really bad decision isn't it sanders to me shows his integrity here look he's been saying this for years that there's videotapes of him saying these things about cuba and fidel castro in the soviet union i mean how can he backtrack on those things honestly you know he's just you know reaffirming ideas that he has had for many years the concern is not him saying good things about the literacy program it's i said it thing that mussolini got the trains to run on time that was not what it is that people associated with what mussolini did it happened to be the case but he was a murderous dictator as was castro spineless democratic stablish man shows their true colors it's like a litmus test every time you can say one po

international daniel hawkins welcome to the program russia's foreign minister has used his address this year's munich security conference to call for approach with the west so that moscow's international partners have long sought to portray it as a grave threat and argue that they need to stop invoking the russian found some with the details. so to get allow for all of the russian foreign minister he gave a very quick fire address to the munich security conference he started off by talking about what russia sees as attempts to rewrite history of world war 2 speaking as we approach of course the 75th anniversary of the end of that conflict he went on to say that the spirit of alliance is as important today between russia and the west as it was 75 years ago between the then soviet union and the west he did say that when it came to improving relationships with europe as some european leaders have been speaking about iraq this year's security conference there remained what mr lavrov called a crisis of confidence that is the u.s. would be most what you show is a crisis of trust is being felt

that does it for me and in fact for the weekly my colleague dan hawkins will be here in about 30 minutes time with a full and fresh look at your news this is our 2 international certainly got. plus talk about 20th century socialism this is when governments made mal investments and then they bailed out those mal investments until the economy went bankrupt versus 21st century capitalism this is one banks make malinvestment say when they go bad they bail out the malinvestment and that cycle continues until the economy goes bust and that's where our. time after time here we're going underground as u.s. senator bernie sanders tries to win iowa in his battle to unseat donald trump but this winter has presidential elections coming up on the show is the choice and the imperialism. and war we all screw up we're not brother ali and we also got to spend the extra.

live from moscow thanks for joining us on our to international tonight i'm done hawkins welcome to the program that we are starting with breaking news coming out of germany the media reporting at least 10 people including children have been injured in the town. so after a car drove into a carnival procession police say they have arrested the driver we're joined live by peter all of the latest what do we know more about this incident now in the state of. we've had a lot more information confirmed by officials the chief of police of frankfurt has confirmed 30 people were injured in this incident 7 of those seriously the investigation has been taken over by the attorney general's office in frankfurt this is after a silver mercedes crashed into the crowd that was celebrating in monteith carnival in the central german town of smiles and. as i said 30 people have been injured there what we know about the driver is that he's a 29 year old man from the nearby vicinity of mass and he was arrested at the scene and is understood to have been under the influence of drugs and alcohol investigators

from moscow thanks for joining us on the international today daniel hawkins we do this morning welcome to the program. now in the last hour or so donald trump wrapped up his state of the union speech to the backdrop of his own impeachment trial the senate could see his fights one way or the other within the next 24 hours and there was a feeding the president spent a fair amount of time looking back instead of forward. this state of our union is stronger then ever before well the world would not now be witnessing this great economic success of the well the united states has become the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world i little companies are not believing they are coming back to the usa well i keep my promises we did our job well. at the beginning of the address trump apparently turned down nancy pelosi as hand-shake he also talked about efforts to counter terrorism mentioning the us killings of ice a leader al baghdadi and an arabian top management general have a trump also boasted about new legislation that will enable victims of crimes to sue so-called s

international tonight hawkins' welcome to the program. the 3rd whistleblower investigation into the alleged chlorine attack in the syrian city of duma in april 28th in. the years i serve or the most stressful and unpleasant ones of my life i feel ashamed for the organization and i'm glad i left it. given to the investigative news website the gray zone project on its issues of integrity during the probe it follows revelations by 2 other watchdog employees stressing the same issue they also question the findings of the against the of sifts through the evidence. we like to imagine that these massive global organizations the un the i.m.f. the u.p.c. w. these juggernauts a good but knives that at the end of the day what they do is good for mankind but as with many things in life you take a closer look and you're left the supported one whistleblower saying the u.p.c. w. was biased corrupt well he could be wrong just an opinion to whistleblowers saying the same thing makes you think could they be right u.b.c. w. says no ignore them space is an a

from moscow thanks for joining us tonight author international diana hawkins welcome to the program a leading politicians in germany have bitterly criticized the modern day of tea party in the wake of wednesday's racially motivated mass shooting in which left 9 people dead. haven't established a direct link between the attack on the party. if he has help for meant an atmosphere of xenophobia and hatred. but that at 1st glance it looks like it was a lone wolf but at least one member doubts but there were those who had provided him with this i mean mission and the differently moment the gifted in germany struggles to come to terms with the events of this week's tragic slayings we've seen politicians from the christian democratic union the social democrats they are part of the ruling coalition as well as the left party on the greens as well coming out and accusing alternative media day of funding the flames of far right extremism in the country of course there's a direct connection between the growing strength of the f.d.a. and the increase in right wing violence citizens of foreign desc

live from moscow thanks for joining us on our to international tonight i'm don hawkins welcome to this program. now this tuesday was day 2 of wiki leaks founder julian assange is hearing on extradition to the united states where the whistleblower was wanted on espionage charges if handed over he could be facing a 175 year prison sentence for his role in the publication of classified intelligence data that he has the latest. day 2 with crown court and we have the song cheering supporters have been out in full force again we can hear them chanting throughout the proceedings now we had the defense talking today talking about why these allegations should be thrown out of course they talked about mrs manning's involvement in the release of the 200-200-6200 extension 7 iraq talk documents the iraqi diaries and obviously the release of the collateral murder video saying that she felt that her conscience required her to release those documents. julian assange as she was handcuffed 11 times prior to the course of these hearings stripped naked twice and his case files calmly skated after the 1st

from moscow thanks for joining us this hour i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. that was taken more than 3 years and divided people up and down the nation but after almost half a century the u.k. is finally bid farewell to the european union 11 pm g.m.t. on friday the result of the biggest democratic friend them in british history was finally and acted parts of the u.k. burst into celebration leave voters turning out in force. in london where. the festivities north of the border in scotland which voted to remain. our colleagues in london were covering the historic event as it happened here are some of the highlights. i. see. that was a bit out of. the we're all still here only now yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened yeah the big problem how did not trace all the. course from the saudi who has the trait of being in the thick of things that is a pro break that party but what is the atmosphere like now. just as you've joined me it's not. least because the people just broke out it's a rendition of god save the queen that i. just know. she is sadly being

indeed if you get more into it keep us posted thanks very much for now saskia i can tell you don hawkins is here throughout the coming hours the saving to take 3 more on that rather breaking news that comes in from a given oh and thank you for watching out international a great evening. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. max keiser and stacy herbert dig into the burning questions of this election cycle one topic every week will tax student debt trade wars corporate money universal basic income and more catch up with what's front running this sunday exclusively on r.t. . not a moon through ma but in its 3rd was one of. the much for the privilege of. marriage to do more when they're. quite in good order produce. no medicines to treat. pity. that bad. julian a so much trouble still.

international tonight i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. tensions are growing between russia and turkey this wednesday about softer turkey's president threatened to launch attacks against syrian government forces in war stricken province recep tayyip erdogan also accused moscow of targeting civilians in the rebel held region which provoked a furious than all from moscow r.t. senior correspondent of the details. rebels and the islamists are facing catastrophe in the span of a little over a month they've lost a 3rd of their territory so you're going to stand why turkey which said which paid armed and trained those rebels as outraged at the gun is beside himself he needs to vent the shrike out. the syrian regime as well as russian forces and iran by militants icing with it needlessly continuously attacking civilians committing massacres a kurd in syria might find strange of the guns concern for civilian casualties but russia took those accusations seriously pointing out rebels had launched ceaseless drone attacks on the russian base violated t

live from moscow good to have you with us here tonight there are things about hawkins welcome to the program. now supporters of julian songs that we could have been protesting in london in solidarity with the imprisoned whistleblower this comes ahead of his hearing on possible extradition to the united states which gets underway on monday they were jeter was there. i'm here in the center of london with protesters who are opposing the possible extradition of julian assad to the u.s. we watch from australia house and you know his heart is australian of course to parliament square and you can see behind me there's a lot of talks going on and some entertainment in support of putin now this is of course the center of british democracy and supporters they've gathered here ahead of the wiki leaks founder hearing on call in court on monday people are. serious this. it's a crazy. it's more freedom it's about the future of. journalism. of. journalists. have to be able. to be decided whether he is indeed extradited to the u.s. he could be facing 175 years in prison for leaking documents. accusi

here in moscow thanks for joining us in our teens and hawkins welcome to the program. a monday marks the beginning of the road to the white house for us democrats candidates battle in the state of iowa caucus vote that's proven influential in deciding who runs for president and is the candidates just all for a shot at the oval office outsider and socialist bernie sanders is leading the way in terms of donors and joint front runner in the polls. the start of the usually litmus test for what's to come bill and hillary clinton back in the day went from victory. were to run as the democrats candidate so of course did barak obama in 2008 ahead of the victory of the vote later this monday here's what the latest poll are currently indicating bernie sanders far left there enjoys a surprisingly with former vice president joe biden they've left other centrist can that it's far behind in the polls and as elizabeth warren in the last place there are reports and why washington may be wary of sun as a victory. the iowa caucuses are upon us and monday as the 1st primary contest takes

from moscow thanks for joining us here in our international daniel hawkins welcome to the program. of violence broke out between an american military convoy and an armed group of individuals near the northeastern syrian city of commercially that was on wednesday one person was left dead state run media in the country say the victim was a civilian that's a claim the u.s. has this fighting erupted when a u.s. convoy changed its usual patrol route and was held up at a checkpoint. good luck. to them i go. and residents pelted the vehicles with stones as they attempted to pass through the checkpoint according to syrian state media the american patrol then opened fire in retaliation a u.s. military spokesman said however the convoy was responding to small arms fire russian military police later arrived on the scene to mediate tensions also rose dramatically in northwestern syria on wednesday assault of a turkish leader threatened to military action against president assad's forces in a more of that his arteries were against the. rebels and the islamists are facing catastrophe in the span

from moscow thanks for joining us here not internationally hawkins' welcome to the program. tensions are growing between russia and turkey this wednesday after turkey's president threatened to launch attacks against syrian government forces in war stricken province again also accused moscow of targeting civilians in the rebel held region which has provoked a furious from moscow. senior correspondent more against the i've told me about the latest developments. look at it from from turkey's perspective the rebels that they've financed with measurable fortune with you know they fed they train their house for years and support the. support that they were either way that no other side has supported they're now watching their their side they're rebels facing catastrophe they've lost a 3rd of their territory in need lived over the last a month and a half so obviously the gun is out of rage and he needs to strike out. the syrian regime as well as russian forces and iran by militants and seen with it continuously attacking civilians committing massacres now a 3rd in syria may find. c

international i'm done hawkins welcome to the program. leading up for titian's in germany have bitterly criticized. in the wake of wednesday's racially motivated mass shooting in. 9 people dead. link between the attack on the party lawmakers are all agreeing that has helped cement an atmosphere of a xenophobia and hatred. but had i not shot 1st glance and it looks like it was a lone wolf but sex and one man girl i doubt but there were those in the woods provide his humor with ammunition and the d. is definitely moment of in here as germany struggles to come to terms with the events of this week's tragic slayings in we've seen politicians from the christian democratic union the social democrats they are part of the ruling coalition as well as the left party on the greens as well coming out and accusing alternative for germany the day of funding the flames of far right extremism in the country of course there's a direct connection between the growing strength of the f.d.a. and the increase in right wing violence citizens of foreign descent