sent to president trump in a veto proof that ship to discuss this we're now being joined by paul craig roberts he's a former assistant secretary of the u.s. treasury and chairman of the institute for political economy paul great to see you thanks for joining us today. in your new article the new russian sanctions bill is washington's monument to its criminality can you explain why you wrote that quote congress would rather destroy the president of the united states and increase the risk of nuclear war than avoid conflict with russia by normalizing relations talk to me about that. it will reach greatly dacres for too many reasons why and it prevents presidential from ever normalizing relations with russia and as we all know the tensions now are very high marks they are higher than they are who are doing the cold war the other reason you will is extremely dangerous is the economic pressure is good so russia will close its desire and to replace russian sales of natural gas to europe with emerging sales so it harms the ruble harms the russian economy and so earlier isolates russia from europe well

people might not know who george gilder is but he was in the reagan administration work with paul craig roberts father of reaganomics all that sort of stuff but you know him back from the eighty's all those famous books and and the tech industry during the ninety's and he's actually an older guy but very very pro bitcoin and i overheard a debate happening between him and peter schiff while we were waiting to go up on stage and i whipped out my i phone and grabbed some of the debates there is a little bit of interference at one point somebody had a mobile phone that made a little bit of interference but let's cut that clip to see their debate about bitcoin this point is a new. it's currently dominated by speculation and you're right. it's maturing into a current no it's not and never will be a crow will still could it ever be a currency the middle is not is the moment no it's not the forms unlimited will do shows you the current use of criminals you don't care about volatility because it's like it's like change to have your money want it well it's a specialist in venezuela they're using it is th