congressman ron paul mr paul thank you for taking the time to speak to us this hour do you think there's still a way for the situation to be resolved peacefully. well there certainly is that doesn't mean that i think it's going to happen but you know if people would just act wisely this could be ended because there's. no reason it can't be good but expect the west the united states to back down and i don't think it's going to happen and i think there the pressure is so great on the people who want to confront russia it's all designed you know to to satisfy iran and to go after to go after iran is an entire iranian subject so no one there could be but they would have to be in agreement and the people could leave their the and the people who had weapons they just couldn't take their weapons so it could be devised the side of a no no we don't want all this fighting and killing it's not going to serve any purpose which it well you could you could just say well let's let the people who want to leave leave but then they would have to accept the. position that is part of syria which is what i t

also ron paul so narrow he has angered women in particular by making light of rape and seeking to justify the gender wage gap on saturday both an hour was released from hospital after recovering from a near fatal stab wound brazilians go to the polls in one week. to dhoni as a voting in a landmark referendum that could pave the way to e.u. and nato membership voters will decide whether to add the word north to the country's name making it the republic of north macedonia the government hopes to treat rather the vist week will settle a long running dispute with neighboring greece which itself has a province called macedonia. views borys ski is covering the vote in the capital's scorpio he said the result will shape the country's future. well basically the government here says that at stake is muscle tone yes future muscle tone european future if you like most of the euro has been waiting for almost twenty seven years to have a chance to join both major way in the european union but it couldn't because of the greek blockade basically greek greece was saying without solving this name issue yo

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congressman ron paul believes washington is willing to use these terrorists groups as long as the tactic benefits u.s. policy in the country the evidence is out there we are playing too many games with they are there because we've used al qaeda as the excuse for being there and yet i don't believe that is the case i think we were there for the reasons. that al qaeda is it's a haven there and we're on their side. the pragmatic reason for this is that. we think al qaeda will help our position the united states position to get rid of assad and this is a bipartisan republican and democratic position and it's only individuals like ourselves in the institute for peace and prosperity that are arguing this is totally unnecessary this isn't the first time that the evidence is very clear that we have aligned ourselves with al qaeda when we think it's temporarily a benefit to our foreign policy. in russia's far east around three hundred thousand soldiers and thirty six thousand military vehicles have been put through their paces they've been taking part in the largest military drills for decades. f

street and what companies have been reporting and why this probably has federal reserve chairman to ron paul'sattention and that would be because companies have been reporting that they have been spending a lot more on labor for months and months now and the aberration the anomaly if you will was that it wasn't coming out at all in the wage statistics so it's very possible that we need a broader safety of broader net to capture what what households are truly taking home an income because it might be a more robust rate than what we're looking at given the current calculus i mean it seems to me it would one you know benefits included i mean because benefits shift right to me maybe you have a bad year depends who the employer is and if you're an employer you don't think about what is the hourly wage you think about what is the cost of this employee in total so that's the metric you're using i don't know what the right calculation is but i would love having these things always be looked at and get the right things so it's an important data and let me ask you this one when you look at what's going

congressman ron paul says washington's position in syria is not about fighting al qaeda as claimed. the evidence is out that we are playing too many games with they are they because we've used al-qaeda as the excuse for being there and yet i don't believe that is the case i think we were there for other reasons and. it is it's a haven there and we're on their side. pragmatic reason for this see is that. we think al qaeda will help our position the united states' position to get rid of assad and this is a bipartisan republican and democratic position and it's only individuals like ourselves in the institute for peace and prosperity that are arguing this is totally unnecessary it's not the right position it isn't what united states should be doing it's not part of our constitution this isn't the first time that the evidence is very clear that we have aligned ourselves with al qaeda when we think it's temporarily a benefit to our foreign policy. why i think the most important thing would be was something that trumps a out do you know a few months ago he evidently didn't really believe

congressman ron paul he told us washington is willing to use terror groups in syria as long as the tuck tick is beneficial. the evidence is out that we are playing too many games with they are they because we've used al qaeda as the excuse for being there and yet i don't believe that is the case i think we were there for other reasons and al qaeda is it's a haven there and we're on their side. the pragmatic reason for this is that. we think al qaeda will help our position the united states position to get rid of assad and this is a bipartisan republican and democratic position and it's only individuals like ourselves in the institute for peace and prosperity that are arguing this is totally unnecessary it's not the right position it isn't what united states should be doing it's not part of our constitution and yet it drives us to align ourselves with a o'connor but this isn't the first time that the evidence is very clear that we have aligned ourselves with al qaeda when we think it's temporarily a benefit to our foreign policy. back to the top of the hour with more reaction to our scri

the point is it was ron paul who was running a space thing and he took money from the government and used it for this purpose i would say right on ron because you are a good guy so the question comes is elon musk a good guy or a bad guy? if he's a good guy he would be justified in taking money from the government, but if he's a bad guy and he is just hand in hand with the government. week over a whole bunch of elon musk's public statements and unfortunately he doesn't pass the smell test. he's not a good guy. he's not a libertarian and recently a book written he came out as a devout socialist which is not a good idea, not a credit on his life. we do have a chapter devoted to these people and we say if they are taking money from the government are they on the good side or the bad side. host: do you deal with should there be any regulation of space travel at all? guest: my view is not only shouldn't there be government ownership of anything, there should not be government regulation of anything. government is a bad institution, again, based on coercion. one of the courses i teach is re

first, we are using the full scope of our sanctions authorities to inflict real costs on your ron paul's ballistic missiles program. in march of 2017 and april 2018, the u.s. imposed sanctions against a total of 19 foreign entities for transferring equipment to iran's missile program. in july 2017, we designated 18 entities and individuals under executive orders for otherwise supporting iran's ballistic missile program or otherwise facilitating the regimes military procurement. we designated four additional entities in connection with the missile program under the same executive order. in may of 2018, we designated five iranian individuals for providing ballistic missile expertise. the individuals were also responsible for transferring weapons to yemen on behalf of the cuts force. while we are sanctioning iran's missile activity our economic pressure is much broader. the u.s. is re-imposing sanctions that were lifted or waived as part of the nuclear deal. the first of these went into effect on august 7 and the wil remainder will be in novembr 5. we are attempting to get iranian oil impor

i know ron paul keeps a picture of grover cleveland in his office. and this also, well, certainly contributed to grover's unpopularity at the end of his second term. but by some accounts it extended the panic. although the panic also for the first time we do see some semblance of public works projects in boston. i think they paid people a dollar a day to chop wood. so there were some programs beginning, but most of the relief programs during the panic of 1893 were run by labor unions and also churches and other charitable organizations. there really was no kind of government support program. the panic was also exacerbated and, again, i go into it in the book. it's just some amazing writing i that i do about this panic of 1893. it's really going to blow your mind. but there was a hurricane that hit the southeast coast of the united states in the fall of 1893, and it couldn't have happened at a worse time, and it pretty much devastated georgia and the carolinas. and this contributed to even greater, greater problems with the panic of 1893, and there wa

some of the primimaries of the two parties are--if you read that ron paul got x% and romney got y%, then they each get a certain number of delegates. that's proportional representation, and we've had that in elections in the united states, too, but we got rid of it. the europeans have it. so in germany when the die linke party got 12% of the vote, they get 12% of the seats in the parliament. so 12% of the people who are in the parliament are members of a party that believes that germany can do better than capitalism. highly successful, capipitalist economy produces a criticism, and if you get more than 5%, not only do you get your seats--and that's true in the laender, in the state legislatures, too--but you get something else. you get money from the government because the democratic idea in germany is if you get more than 5% of the people e interested in what you have to say, then itit is important that you have a platform in which to explain to people what your posititions ar, what your proposals are so that the population can make an informed vote, and so the government allocates mone

house speaker paul ryan and ron desantis countered his claims.dent talking about this? i think it's a no-win situation. even if the death toll is inflated, god forbid it would be awful if they did that. still a large loss of life. there is no win here. >> this is why there are times when trump could have been more careful in his phrasing. but that's not the president we elected. this is one of those things where you have to let it ride out. i think people like me who are trump supporters are like, i wish you didn't tweet that. then the overreaction is so much, we think, we don't care. kennedy: that's what's so exhausting and distracting. we have a potentially deadly storm hovering off the coast of the carolinas. here the president could be more empathetic and instructive. >> i think two things can be true at the same time. you can think trump's response toward the claims are wrong, and you can also believe the democrats with the whole tragedy of puerto rico that they want to use it against the president. they do want it to be the bush katrina. th

ron desantis apparently leaving congress. this morning he sent this letter to speaker paul ryan asking that his resignation be effective, quotediately. i thought we had a picture of the letter. we do not. he wantings s to focus on the b with andrew gillum. >>> the nfl season is back, as well. we'll go to minnesota with a long list of competitive list. >> do you like what he's doing so far? >> no. me personally, no. i think things are just fine. >> i think he's doing a good job. >> he is a racist. i'll just say it. >> but first, a desperately needed story to make you smile on this monday. let me introduce you to valerie. she works at the "today" show store and working overtime to bring joy to the travelers trekking through terminal e. take a listen. ♪ how do you do snot good morning to you ♪ ♪ how do you do >> welcome to the happy room. ♪ get your happy on >> everybody gets a good morning whether you want one or not. happy is as happy does. all you need is a little love. >> all you need is a little love. airports may not make you smile but that certainly will. enjoy that. valerie, thank you so much for spreading joy. ♪ how do

ron desantis. joining me now donna edwards and brian darling and former staffer for senator rand paul. interesting numbers here, as we officially, if you will, get started to the final stretch here, congresswoman, is some of the numbers. on "meet the press" today during the data download something that caught my eye was the number of seats that were competitive. you may have seen this, too. on the democratic side, five are competitive in terms of democratically held seats. on the republican side, 65, congresswoman. >> wow. yes. i did see those numbers. and what that says to me is that, one, we have got a lot of democratic enthusiasm out there. districts that shouldn't be competitive, in fact are competitive. and i think that what we're learning is that in an off-cycle election, it's always tough for the party that's in power, the party that holds the white house. this year it's doubly tough, and i think democrats are going to, you know, november 6th marks a time where from now until then democrats are going to run on the issues that are concerning the american people, and i think it bo

ron, thank you. >>> coming up on "gma," we're going to have the very latest on tropical storm florence. >>> plus, the major headline in the russia probe. paul manafort, former chairman of the trump presidential campaign, pleading guilty. he's now agreeing to cooperate with robert mueller. so what does this mean for the president? >>> and this story had a lot of people talking, a gas company is now giving their response after as many as 80 structures are destroyed in a series of gas explosions, but is the danger over? >>> plus, as floodwaters rise in the carolinas, a warning about the hidden dangers facing those who decided not to evacuate. we'll be back. >>> "good morning america" is sponsored by pronamel toothpaste. protect your enamel against the effects of everyday acids. he effects of everyday acids. . and the dentist really has to say let's take a step back and talk about protecting your enamel. it's important to look after your enamel because it's the foundation for white teeth. i believe dentists will recommend pronamel strong and bright because it's two fold. it strengthens your enamel, but then also it polishes away stains for whit

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