thanks a lot it's another heated debate in cross talk with peter lavelle. you don't leave universal basic income when you have an economy around the world that rewards imagination and monetizes free thought free thought free movement of capital and all those intermediary forces go out of business a lot of bankers lose their jobs a lot of politicians lose their job the nation state collapses as we know it and people are as free as their money because right now money is a lot freer than people. do colin is still exist. ricos treated as one visitor annoyed co-equals on the hind fulsomely toe and then only on the portal three cool. little can on you a lot of seats and they can be seen on the island is controlled by the us government and some puerto ricans crew even dependents joe it was the only god you know it was getting out on our local good at either we like it but i'm going to sort out what i mean we're taking a game where you can point to last year obviously. still many do wish to join the us hundreds more leave every day knowing. that i'm a long way from

welcome back to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing russia u.s. relations. ok let's go back to dan in pittsburgh a kind of to echo something that peter said before we went to the break here it's very interesting if you look at so many cases just recently let's look at ukraine. maybe historians peter will probably tell us one day or his generation that will follow what really was the motivations of the united states in overthrowing the democratically elected government things didn't go out the way go on the way they hoped for so it was russia's fault syria that conflicts are in all the way back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't involved in it at all but when things started going wrong of course it was the russians the did it's the that's why the country is still broken at war and we could go on and on we could go with the election in the united states hillary clinton lost the favorite of the mainstream media last somehow it must be someone else's fault it must be russia russia place the scapegoat role that you have in the title o

hello and welcome to all things considered i'm peter lavelle fifty years ago the american naval vessel u.s.s. liberty was brutally attacked by israeli forces the attack on the liberty was one of the worst assaults ever carried out on a u.s. naval vessel in peacetime and committed by an allied country since then the survivors of this unprovoked attack have been seeking justice. crosstalk in the u.s.s. liberty i'm joined by my guest ken o'keefe in new york he is a political analyst and the ex u.s. marine who renounced us citizenship in greenville we have philip nelson he is the primary author of remember the liberty as well as author of two books on lyndon johnson and in lake jackson we cross to daniel mcadams he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate phil if i can go to you holding the book there in greenville you've written about this. just real quickly i know it's there's a lot of detail in the book is been told is very good but a lot of o

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle well it happened bladder mere putin and donald trump met for their first much into this debated handshake was it worth the wait and what happens now. talking the importance of a handshake i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have exclusive for used to director and writer for the duran dot com and we have political analysts we spoke nic international right gentleman as always talk in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate the big news over the last few news cycles of obviously is the meeting of blood amir putin with donald trump here but let's talk a little bit what happened right before before we talk about the.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle i suppose it's time to speak the obvious cold war two point zero is officially on this cold war is different and possibly far more dangerous these are uncharted waters as the trump white house attempts to find its footing. across talking sanctions for sanctions i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have and he is the president of the american university in moscow and we have blood amir goldstein he is an associate professor of slavic studies at brown university right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ed let me go to you first you're the greatest booster for u.s. russia relations that i've ever met in my life and you continue to do it now we have sanctions for sanctions we have once president signs that once when we all assume that he will he is essentially handcuffed himself when it comes to relations with russia under these sanction bill he has to go to congressio

hello and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle every once in a while crosstalk has a look at the big picture of a story in this case it is the middle east one of the current defining trends who are the winners and losers and how is this fall. and very dangerous region changing and it is american influence on the declining. cross-linking the shifting sands in the middle east i'm joined by my guest so i mean nader in beirut he's a middle east analyst and in erbil we have joe lauria he is an independent journalist or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated let me go to you first joe my introduction was very very broad. from your standpoint and you're in iraq right now what what are the most important trends affecting the middle east because there's so much going on right now unfortunately particularly the united states it's overshadowed by what i call fake news i want to do real news on this program here joe your thoughts were how is the middle east changing go ahead it's very easy to get lost in all th

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle well it happened blatter mir putin and donald trump met for their first much into this debated handshake was it worth the wait and what happens now. crosstalk in the importance of a handshake i'm joined by my guests here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have exclusive or used to director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst we spoke nick international gentleman as always talk crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate the big news over the last few news cycles of obviously as the meeting of blood in your putin with donald trump here but let's talk a little bit what happened right before before we talk about the demon we had the warsaw speech which i think the lame stream liberal media completely mis understood donald trump was talking about values he was talking about civilisations and of course he took a few snipes at russia which i think was perfectly acceptable a

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle the republican controlled congress can't unite around trump's legislative agenda but with democrats there in unison when it comes to punishing russia for alleged meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election russia will brush off new sanctions as it did three years ago but the europeans won't. cross talking the sanctioning of russia i'm joined by my guest mitch firesign in new york he is a fund manager and author of the book planet ponzi in charlottesville we have david swanson he is director of world beyond war dot org and in london we have alexander make your us he is a writer on legal affairs as well as the editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate alexander let me go to you first in london very broadly speaking what are these sanctions all about why now and most importantly what do they hope the u.s. congress and presumably trump is going to sign it and what do they want to achieve with this exerci

welcome back to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the attempt to impeach donald trump. let me go back to you in imperial beach you know why don't we turn everything upside down ok i think we've had you know some people have known donald trump for decades and you know i see them on the cable networks and they say that's the way he's been for decades that's the way he is ok so you know he's a bomb thrower he talks from the gut that's the way is he's a new york real estate guy ok but i'd like to turn everything upside down do you think the mainstream media is competent in their jobs because i have very strong doubts look what's been happening over at c.n.n. in the last few weeks months and even years i mean this is you know crash and burn i mean all of the on ethical behavior going on there we know it's a winch a witch hunt against trump they've even had ranking staff on a producer say that i mean this to all of the admissions so i have to really wonder if they are really competent in doing their. and poor of all those people that criti

hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle i suppose it's time to speak the obvious cold war two point zero is officially on though this cold war is different and possibly far more dangerous these are uncharted waters as the trump white house attempts to find its footing and. cross talking sanctions for sanctions i'm joined by my guests here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have and were he is the president of the american university in moscow and we have blood on your goldstein he is an associate professor of slavic studies at brown university right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ed let me go to you first you're the greatest booster for u.s. russia relations that i've ever met in my life and you continue to do it now we have sanctions for sanctions we have once president trump signs that means we all assume that he will he is essentially handcuffed himself when it comes to relations with russia under these sanction bill he has to go to

hello and welcome to our all things considered i'm peter lavelle well it happened in and donald trump met for their first much interest a paid handshake was it worth the wait and what happens now.

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle well it happened blatter mir putin and donald trump met for their first much into this debated handshake was it worth the wait and what happens now. crosstalk in the importance of a handshake i'm joined by my guests here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have exclusive or used to director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst we spoke nick international right gentlemen as always talk crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate the big news over the last few news cycles of obviously as the meeting of blood amir putin with donald trump here but let's talk a little bit what happened right before before we talk about the demon we had the warsaw speech which i think the lame stream liberal media completely mis understood donald trump was talking about values he was talking about civilisations and of course he took a few snipes at russia which i think was perfectly acceptabl

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle well it happened blatter mir putin and donald trump met for their first much into this debated handshake was it worth the wait and what happens now. in the importance of the handshake i'm joined by my guests here in moscow mark sloboda he's an.

hello and welcome to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle fifty years ago the american naval vessel u.s.s. liberty was brutally attacked by israeli forces the attack on the liberty was one of the worst assaults ever carried out on a u.s. naval vessel in peacetime and committed by an allied country since then the survivors of this unprovoked attack have been seeking justice. crosstalk in the u.s.s. liberty i'm joined by my guest ken o'keefe in new york he is a political analyst and the ex u.s. marine who renounced us citizenship in greenville we have philip nelson he is the primary author of remember the liberty as well as author of two books on lyndon johnson and in lake jackson we cross to daniel make out and he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate phil if i can go to you.

welcome back to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the shifting sands in the middle east. ok let me go back to sami and beirut one of the most important changes that's been going on is the change in leadership in saudi arabia in the sort of giddy about it it looks like washington is given a green light is this really smart to embolden this young crown prince i mean you know the recent foreign policy of saudi arabia has been nothing but utter disaster in that you know we can look at syria and we can look to yemen but it looks like the saudis are being prodded along early and given a green light from their allies does this worry you for the region and for saudi arabia itself go ahead sami. definitely that is in a new era in saudi arabia i mean some put it this is that of of appeasement that is definitely in change and. it's more. it's better for the young prince given what's going on was in yemen given the challenge of facing up to iran which is not an easy challenge given that it line in oil prices i mean the conditions of his leadership a

hello and welcome across the uk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the trump handshake at the g. twenty is now part of history well their meeting appeared to go well both presidents said so moving forward on this bilateral relationship is problematic at best are the u.s. and russia destined to be enemies. talking russia u.s. relations i'm joined by my guest peter cosmic in washington he's a professor of history and director at american university as well as co-author with all over stone the untold history of the united states in pittsburgh we. he is an adjunct professor of law at university of pittsburgh as well as author of the plot to scapegoat russia and here in moscow we crossed alexander me curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander but before i think go to you first ok we can talk about russia gate we can we can talk about collusion you know i want to stay away from what i essentially believe is a fak

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the trump putin handshake at the g. twenty is now part of history well their meeting appeared to go well both presidents said so moving forward on this bilateral relationship is problematic at best are the u.s. and russia destined to be enemies. cross talking russia u.s. relations i'm joined by my guest peter because they can washington he's a professor of history and director at american university as well as co-author with all over stone the untold history of the united states in pittsburgh we have dan koblick he is an adjunct professor of law at university of pittsburgh as well as author of the plot to scapegoat russia and here in moscow we crossed alexander me curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander before i want to go to you first ok we can talk about russia gate we we can.

we'll see you here on the top of the hour with the latest news but up next cross stuck with peter lavelle tackles america's neo cons and whether they could be making a comeback. blowing welcome to crossfire for all things are considered. like a bad cold you can't shake the neo-cons are back and they're back with a vengeance long associated with the extremist wing of the g.o.p. and tied to kind of structured policy failures they have now found themselves being embraced by the democrats and the liberal media it would seem being anti russia track strange bedfellows. crosstalk in the return of the neo cons i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and author of the book bombs for peace in washington we have michael maloof he is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense and in toronto we have andrew moran he is a libertarian writer journalist and author of the war on cash right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i alway

low in welcome across all things considered i'm peter lavelle every once in a while crosstalk has a look at the big picture of a story in this case it is the middle east one of the current defining trends who are the winners and losers and how is this volatile and very dangerous region changing and is american influence on the decline. cross talking the shifting sands in the middle east i'm joined by my guest so i mean nate are in beirut he's a middle east analyst and in erbil we have joe lauria he is an independent journalist right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated let me go to you first joe my introduction was very very broad. from your standpoint and you're in iraq right now what what are the most important trends affecting the middle east because there's so much going on right now unfortunately particularly the united states it's overshadowed by what i call fake news i want to do real news on this program here joe your thoughts were how is the middle east changing go ahead it's very easy to get lost in all the details

welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some stories in the media. ok gentlemen let's switch gears we have upcoming we have the president of the united states meeting the president of the russian federation something that trump i think wanted to do and talked about during the campaign and he's been more or less blocked from doing it in the g. twenty and could be on the sidelines i've been hearing that he wants to have more formal and a lot of people around him even of his aides are saying it should be a lot more informal because of the atmosphere that toxic atmosphere here is not going to. i think though ok wait here let's tell me what this meeting means if it means anything and what both presidents want to accomplish what both presidents were looking forward to this meeting for more than half a year and the closer this meeting they got to this meeting the less they were you know we're looking forward to it simply because they expect the expectations are lower with every week with every day do you think that you think we sh

hello and welcome to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle it's probably fair to say no other american president is more controversial than donald trump was so many powerful forces arrayed against him can he succeed even stay in office we will see however legitimizing the destructive means employed against whom may be the lasting damage. across talking the state of trump world i'm joined by my guest so mira khan in washington she's a columnist and political scientist in new york we have. rob he is a political pundit in journalist contributing to the huffington post and in seattle we have callers he is a writer activist and progressive you tube or all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it zach i always go to the person that gets up early is for this program and you get up really early probably not too much traffic that's the that's the upside here is that what is the state of trump world six months into this presidency go ahead oh the state of trump world is we are kind of surprised to be uniting against

welcome back to cross like we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the attack on the u.s.s. liberty fifty years ago. ok phil i'd like to go back to you in greenville it seems to me and correct me if i'm wrong that the the u.s. turning a blind eye to this myth of gross injustice done to the sailors of the u.s.s. liberty they've made it's seems to me an interesting point of departure because we have seen how the israeli lobby influences american foreign policy actually even drives that some people would say in the middle east so if you can get away with committing murder and i think that you know on the face of it that's exactly what it was committing murder and you can get away with it you can get away with just about anything else go ahead phil well that's true and it's obviously an atrocity that cannot be forgiven in any way but it's important to for me to stress the fact that all of the other books ever written about the liberty. sort of skipped over the involvement of lyndon johnson and our book does not do that pen's much of the responsibility on

welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the. sanctions. ok marc let me go back to you and we opened up a can of worms is this cold war two point zero and i think it is and you were nuancing it go ahead yeah i think it's more of a great power conflict if we take a look at it from a realist international relations theory paradigm because while all of this is going on we have to remember that these sanctions target not only russia countering america's adversaries through sanctions act russia iran north korea it actually sanction syria again as well it also sanctions the european union you have to actively this is i think that's what effectively this is what it does in the sense of so there's multiple players in this while all this is going on the u.s. this week twice fired on the radio and ships in the gulf of mexico that was not the gulf of mexico that was about the persian gulf from here so here all persia they were playing games of chicken with the chinese in the south china sea were firing ballistic missiles. tat with nort

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle for many particularly his critics to trumpet ministration is nothing less than chaos on steroids for some who know the president this is merely business as usual for him is this a winning strategy for the president america and the world. crosstalk in the trump presidency i'm joined by my guest james jatra in washington he's a former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership in williamsburg we have andrew langer he is president of the institute of liberty as well as host of the language house on network and in london we crossed to interject palmer he is a professor of international politics at city university of london all right gentlemen crosstalk rules and in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jim let me go to you first in washington an article in politico a couple days ago caught my eye and it it really said a lot to me about the presidency donald trump good and bad and in between and the title is to america it looks like chaos for trump it's just tuesday i th

welcome back to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle we're discussing c.n.n. and the state of the media. ok richard let's go let's go back to the veritas. secret videoing of the c.n.n. producer i find it very disturbing that they would just the bottom line it just to make money i mean this when we're talking about very important political issues well and political stability in the country the country is greatly divided i think the media is pushing that a jet making the country even more divided they have a little nisha audience and they they placate it and it's very very lucrative but where is the journalism in this and where is the honesty in this because you know we people in the media are not very popular and i would say it's because of people like c.n.n. go ahead richard. you know peter you steve and lionel can. this notion of whatever it is that everybody in the intelligence community is convinced and says under oath happened which is that the russians through wiki leaks through all these bots and millions and millions are going to change anything to do t

welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the recent g. twenty summit. ok mike let me go back to you know last week i learned this phrase mean girls ok and so there's already injected in our discussion here and i mean girl to angela merkel go yeah well i'm not sure the angela merkel qualifies as any type of girl this all want to overly margaret major and the way she has been proclaimed by the western media and most of its politicians as the leader of the free world and she was on full display at this g twenty summit they were talking about it is some kind of. chance for her to put forward her position as the defender of globalization in the liberal world order and she felt it to work let this is this is some of the quotes. that we have coming out of me angela merkel from this i have to take things as they are talking about the protesters and the riots often two different things that disrupted the entire events from the outside the police did their best and talking about the results of summarizing the storm and a very sober as

following welcome across all things we consider them peter lavelle revealing the truth c.n.n. in the nothing burger better known as russia gate also when trump tweeted in washington melted down and what to expect from the putin trump meeting in homer. cross talking some stories in the news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor although he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have dmitri babied she's a political analyst we spoke nick into. national origin when crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it a lot to cover here we have c.n.n. in the spotlight if it weren't for trump's tweets they think we'd be talking about a little bit more we can talk about that at the counterfeit network news also known to some people as c.n.n. or the clinton network news outfit. since that story has moved along demon russia gate something that is a spent force well i mean it was this and my impression is that. you know th

welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some stories in the media. ok gentlemen let's switch gears we have upcoming we have the president of united states meeting the president of the russian federation something that trump i think one of the doing talked about during the campaign and he's been more or less blocked from doing it in the g. twenty and could be on the sidelines i've been hearing that he wants to have more formal and a lot of people. around him even his aides are saying it should be a lot more informal because of the atmosphere the toxic atmosphere here is not to be decided you know and we think though ok well wait here let's tell me what this meeting means if it means anything and what both presidents want to accomplish what both presidents were looking forward to this meeting for more than half a year and the closer this meeting they got to this meeting the less they were you know we're looking forward to it simply because they expect the expectations are lower with every week with every day do you think that