sanctions we're going to turn now to dan kovach he teaches international human rights at the university of pittsburgh and he's also the author of the plot to russia how the cia and deep state have conspired to vilify. welcome dan always great to talk to you i want to start by asking if you think they think is bill is justified considering it based on the premise russia meddled in last year's election is there sufficient evidence to make that case at this point. no i absolutely think there is not such evidence and you pointed in fact to this study by the veterans intelligence professionals for sanity a group of former intelligence officials including bill binney who's very well respected they did their own independent analysis of. the alleged computer hacking in fact as you indicated concluded that the evidence showed that the evidence from the d.n.c. computer had been leaked and not half to meaning that some insider copied it the information maybe on a. floppy disk or whatnot and that it was not hacked in fact they said the evidence shows that the information was taken too quickly to have been a remo

have you been at the university of pittsburgh? >> six years. >> you say you are a sanders voter. >> yes. >> is that far left of center? >> i am very critical of the intelligence community, having , ied in written -- britain am a proponent of socialized medicine. >> but you voted for barack obama. and for hillary clinton. you spend eight hours with him, where was that? >> at the white house. our first meeting was in the people have seen pictures of that. the white house photographer was there that day. >> anybody else in the room with you? >> no. when i went back for my second afternoon visits with iraq -- barack those were in the private dining room, which is a little bitg room, a west of the oval office. way, aown a little hall private hallway. >> we have not talked about this, but one of the things you spend time with the women involved, this it includes sex, drugs, both cocaine and marijuana. when the president saw all of this, you have a lot more of it. was he surprised and did he kick. >> let's take cocaine. genevieve cook's j

it's fen nol is taking people out >> it's the dea and the university of pittsburgh released this analysis of 2016 overdose deaths state-wide. if you take away fen nol is the most often drug in overdose deaths. >> reporter: responders came to get him this afternoon and c streets he overdosed in a gutter. the current condition is unknown but i'm told he had been using a powerful brand of heroin called final fantasy said t be laced by fen nol. heroin is russian roulette >> you can do what you can do and get high and split. you can't do that no more. you come out here, now you're risking your life. you're going to die >> statistic facials released reports that said that fentanyl were present nearly 52% in all of p death. >> he calls fentanyl a horrific game changer >> one substance to another. substance extremely dangerous: weather potent. highly destructive. >> reporter: he ads dealers get it over the dark web from mexico and china the report is comprehensive, a layout of state-wide overdose to county to county region to region. josh shapiro called it a road map >> we got to follow the data

can washington is a professor of history and director at american university as well as co-author with all of our 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 can we can talk about collusion you know i want to stay away from what i essentially believe is a fake story here but one thing that is never mentioned in the mainstream media that i'm aware of anyway is is what does russia want in its relationship with the united states we always are told what the u.s. demands of everyone else but what did the russians want in this bilateral relationship but stan said basically zero go ahead alexander well this is exactly correct because of course the united states or shall we say the people who seem to

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 fake story here but one thing that is never mentioned in the mainstream media that i'm aware of anyway is is what does russia want in its relationship with the united states we always are told what the u.s. demands of everyone else but what did the russians want in this by a lot of relationship but stan said basically zero go ahead alexander well this is exactly correct because of course the united states or shall we say the people who seem to be in contr

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.

things further i'm joined now by daniel cole of a lesser of international human rights at the university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia how the cia and the deep state have conspired to vilify. we're so glad you could join us daniel thank you now it's interesting because you were recently visiting iran and we're curious to hear what you think regarding these things sions against both iran and russia there are still some disagreements between the president and congress when dealing with specifics iran is working to boost their oil production ahead of the proposed sanction extension and when it comes to russia these sanctions are penalize in the country for election interference that you know still hasn't been proven what do you. yes why i'm against the sanctions both against russia and iran. as i understand in the case of russia that the ukrainian sanctions is hurt their economy by about one point five percent per year which means it's having an effect on ordinary people i can say the truth the same is true in iran there's a lot of bitterness in iran about the san

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. >> reporter: the 39-year-old officer still recovering at university of pittsburgh medical center. >a thing that can happen to anybody no matter how safe or careful you are. it is something dangerous. >> reporter: last year another cautionary tale. retired marine patrick fleenor suffering vision loss after a faulty fuse launched shrapnel into his eye. >> four years of shooting mach.z)ine guns and being in hs way and never even came close to an injury like that. >> reporter: and new york giants defensive end jason pierre paul losing several fingers two years ago while attempting to set off a firework. >> in a split second it blew off my whole hand. >> reporter: now working to spread safety awareness. fireworks contributing to 11,000 injuries treated in emergency rooms in 2016. laws for operating them varying from state to state and by type. this video showing the hazards. so before the fireworks fun this fourth, remember, never relight a dud. always have a water source nearby. and make sure used fireworks are completely extinguishe more than 30% of the fireworks-related injuries last

the dea and university of pittsburgh today released this analysis of 2016 overdose deaths statewide.entanyl, is the most often identified drug in overdose deaths, my take, if you don't believe them, the street will prove it to you. ♪ >> reporter: responders came to get him him this after. he'd overdosed in gutter. man's current condition is unknown but i'm told he'd been using a powerful brand of heroin called final fantasy said to be laced with fentanyl drug far more powerful than heroin. former addicts tell me it was always dangerous but now heroin is russian roulette. >> it seems like you can come out here and do what you can do. you can get high and you can split. you can't do that no more, man. you come out here now you're risking your bleep life, man. anything you grab you'll die from. >> reporter: hours before state officials had released the report which states that fentanyl or fentanyl related substances were present nearly 52% of all of pa's overdose deaths in 2016. that's 130% increase over 2015 of the gary toggle special agent in charge of the dea philadelphia division ca

further i was joined earlier by daniel khaled a professor of international human rights at the university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia how the cia and the deep state have conspired to vilify putin to get his take on the latest proposed sanctions. well i'm against the sanctions both against russia and iran. as i understand in the case of russia that the ukrainian sanctions actually hurt their economy by about one point five percent per year which means it's having an effect on ordinary people i can say the truth the same is true in iran there's a lot of bitterness in iran about the sanctions and in particular about the nuclear deal you know they feel that they held up their bargain with the nuclear deal they actually poured concrete into their nuclear facilities destroying them meanwhile the sanctions were never lifted against and as promised. for example medical sanctions were supposed to have been lifted and yet those are still effectively in place you know which again the fact ordinary iranians and. and frankly i don't see the justification for it and either

if you are not familiar with the pittsburgh steelers third round pick out of the university of pittsburghn. last year though he had cancer. had to sit out. had to recover from hodgkin's lymphoma. now is cancer free and he is not only leading rookie jersey sales but he is third overall in the league behind tom brady and dak prescott. wishing him the best as well in his recovery cancer. >>>falcons rookie duke reilly showing off his strength on instagram. he's pulling an suv down the street so al if you need your car moved give him a call. he can just drag it down the street for you. before the season starts. >> get out of the way, man. >> it weighs about 5600 pounds. reilly is a 22-year-old third round draft pick. >> why though? i'm -- >> why? because he wants to be on youtube and he wants everybody to know who he is so you can watch him this season with the falcons. >> this guy is saying he's going downhill. >> he better not be. 5700 pounds will catch up to him real fast. >> uh-huh. >> we agree. >> i would not want to pull a car downhill. >> why is he doing that? is that like a workout. >>

i trained at the university of pittsburgh in pennsylvania in emergency medicine and i grew up and live in my heart is always in california, so thank you all for being here. i'm emergency medicine doctor and i take care of complex patients with different multiorgan trauma with different needs and urgencies and we always have a method of approaching these complex situations. simple recipe here would be first do no harm to stabilize the market, three take care of the patient and you have talked about how there is active decision that the trump administration is currently doing that is harming the marketplace harming patients and that's an outrage and a shame because the people suffering are the american people the people that need healthcare. second, we need to stabilize the market and i had introduced a bill called the marketplace certainty act that will do just about permanently funded csr and increase the eligibility to receive those co-pays and deductibles subsidies for patients up to 400% federal poverty level, which were an individual is about 40000 46000 so the quote of letting oba

he is the chairman of the department of neurology at the university of pittsburgh medical center.joining us tonight. there's been a statement released describing the senator's condition and the tumor that was discovered being a glglioblastoma. having read that, what do we know about senator mccain's condition tonight in. >> lawrence, the details that have been released are a bit scanty, but it has been said he has this tumor called a glioblastoma. this is typically a very malignant brain tumor unfortunately. it can grow fairly quickly. in this case, it seems to be rather small. it sounds like from what i have been able to gather from the reports that this started as some bleeding within the brain, that the surgeons then went in to remove the blood clot from the brain, and in the process took some tissue that showed evidence of this tumor called a glioblastoma. >> and given the basic outline of what you know tonight about this case, what do you think would be the recommended course of action for the next few weeks anyway? >> well, the usual treatment for this, lawrence, is first to

. >> reporter: the 39 year old officer still row covering at university of pittsburgh medic >> it's somethingt to anybody, no matter how safe or careful you are. >> reporter: last year, patrick fleenor suffering vision loss. after a faulty fuse launched shrapnel into his eye. >> four years of shooting machine guns and being in harm's way, and never even came close to an injury like that. >> reporter: and new york giants defensive end jason pierre-paul losing several fingers while trying to set off a fire work, >> in a split second, it blew off my whole hand. >> reporter: now working to spread safety awareness. fireworks contributing to 11,000 injuries treated in emergency rooms in 2016. laws for operating them varying from state to state and by type. this video showing the hazards. so before the fireworks fun this fourth, remember never relight a dud. always have a water source nearby, and make sure used fireworks are completely extinguished. erielle reshef, abc news. >> i mean, i don't want to add to the debbie downer vibe, my uncle lost his eye to a fire work. >> his eye? >> his eye, one of

i trained at the university of pittsburgh in emergency medicine and i grew up and live and my heart is always in california. thank you all for being here. i'm an emergency medicine doctor. i take care of patients with different urgencies. we always have a method of approaching all of these complex situations. first would be do no harm to stabilize the and stabilize the patients. you talked about there are active decisions the trump administration is doing that is harming the marketplace and harming patients. that's an outrage and a shame. the people that are suffering are the people that need health care. second is we need to stabilize the market. i introduced a bill that will permanently fund csr's and it will increase tell jiblt to receive those copays and deductible subsidies up to 400% federal poverty level. so the quote of letting obamacare fail is very misleading. it's one of the more frustrating things. you all hit it right on the head of the nail. it is a way to hurt people in order to force people to want to swallow their placebo or actually their poison. i want to ask mr. coh

went to kennedy school of government, did my emergency medicine training at the university of pittsburgh and then went back to harvard to do a fellowship in international emergency medicine where i received a masters in public policy and i went back. before all of that grew up -- lived in a trailer park the first few years of my life, so i experienced hardship, poverty and was able to really understand why people suffer with the lack of care. and all the challenges that come with that. so from a young age i wanted to be a doctor to help fight for health equity, to help relieve that pain and suffering from communities like mine in coachella and all over the nation. and i've done a lot of work internationally as well in mexico and haiti right after the earthquake. and i've never held office before. i never participated in a campaign before my own in 2012. and i won and here i am. >> so with your background and experience then you saw the house pass its version of health care reform, you see the senate wrestling with it now, what do you think about the current effort and various tracks that

when i was in johnstown, pennsylvania, students at the university of pittsburgh, johnstown, had just found out that a star on the wrestling team had died of an overdose involving fentanyl. it's heartbreaking to hear the stories of lost lives. we know these are stories you've heard all over the country. most lethal drugs are not made in the u.s. and ondcp works with federal and international partners to improve international drug control and dismantle organization that's traffic these deadly drugs into our communities. beyond opioids, we also face a rapidly growing threat from cocaine, as well as serious threats from methamphetamine, synthetic drugs, and marijuana. i look forward to discussing these specific drug threats in more detail in the q&a. ondcp serves as the lead drug control agency and adviser to the president on drug issues. our activities include policy development, coordination, and drug budget oversight, as well as targeted grant funding. our position within the white house provides a platform to build support for proven strategies to address quickly evolving drug threats

. >> brought me right back to university of pittsburgh. abby: is that a good thing? day. we'll have a contest. one of the most important things you need to do in those first three months is make sure your kid sleeps regularly and the best way to do that is with swaddling. it's critical, right? you've gotta make sure you have a champion who knows how to swaddle. is your husband ready to do this this? abby: i don't even know if he's changed a diaper bef.re pete: coming up, we have a couple of experts. clayton: pete and i are going to have a swaddling contest to see who can do it quickly enough. pete: i have a super-swaddling technique as well that i've not patented yet. abby: my husband jeff is coming in, i think we're doing it at 8:50 this morning, i just want to see how bad he is. you don't want to miss this segment, i promise you. it'll be a good .ne pete: my wife called me a swaddling ni.ja abby: oh, a ninja. high compliment. we also have a lot of politics we want to get into. we want to bring in the trump deputy campaign manager, president of citizens united and fo

university of delaware. back in 2013 he was drafted by pittsburgh pirates.ht he pitch's begins phillies just 36 miles away from where he was born. thanks to the rain first pitch tonight at 6:50, 30 minutes or so. >>> sixers will wrap up their first leg of summer league play in utah, markelle fultz will not be in the line up, averaging 20 points and three assists in the two games. nineteen year-old has learned a lot over the last couple of weeks. >> just the pace of the game, working on defensive end, and work on the things and just a lot of people seeing how they can score and just learning the teammates. we have not been together very long. i just learned where i can find my teammates, best to score at, stuff like that. >> ukee, that kiddies legitimate. >>> rookie fur can korkmaz made his debut, 19 year-old from turkey had a rough game, finished with just three points. give the man credit, he had 11 hour flight. >> yes. >> to the u.s. on monday, five hour flight to utah. it will take sometime. >> my first game. i will get better and better every day. it is

when you look at the city of pittsburgh in pennsylvania, blue cross, blue shield was -- i think they lost $500 million estimated and you are seeing coordinated -- like the universityf pittsburg medical center, which has insurance groups, they have control over all the hospitals, and you are seeing health care cost going through the roof rather than requiring hospitals, big pharma, biotech, and all the organisms that are involved in this system requiring them to sacrifice, like they are asking the american people to sacrifice, that people cannot even afford to go to their ortors or pay for co-pays are dealing with situations in which the hospitals become -- disney world now where you can pair the complexes to those in europe and it is ridiculous. we don't need a disney world hospital, we just need good equipment to take care of us and to be able to diagnose us. we don't need these lavish complexes. it is really start when you look at europe -- stark when you look at europe and the differences and the system is in very deep trouble. host: in capital heights, maryland, independent. need to takenk we -- completely out of health care. this existing government should be