U. S. Mainland is within the range of our Nuclear Strike and the button is always on the table in my office so this is sort of pleated in foods to have a new. But its a much bigger and more powerful woman here either rick by the side of the p. R. Through its President Donald Trump will calm down the world does not need such jingoism right now the situation is in a stalemate. And the United States have. Decided to use military means to solve the problem but i dont think everything has been exhausted it was do need to try their best even though all the likelihood of a diplomatic solution is becoming remote and remote. Well in a more positive Development Kim jong un has now reopened a Cross Border Communications link with south korea in what is being seen as a significant diplomatic breakthrough but the standoff between the u. S. And north korea does look set to continue into twenty eighteen after whats already been twelve months of personal attacks and vicious threats from both sides. Here of strategic patience. With the north korean regime has failed. To get what. They. Say will be met with fire here in. The u. S. Neglects the international communitys will to stop lisbeths on the Korean Peninsula behave like children fighting each other you kindergarten movie can stop them. And we can have. Out there shooting rockets all over the place you will have no choice but to totally destroy north koreas. Rocket. Is on a Suicide Mission for himself no one of them from himself is on a Suicide Mission. I guess. You get every time you know we need to pause we need dialogue. He is a sick puppy. Now twenty seventeen did see world changing events but it was also a year perhaps when it was sometimes harder to tell fact from fiction. The term fake news swirled around global News Coverage more than ever last year now explains what propelled it into the mainstream. Fake news the term that has filled the headlines and your social media feeds for the past twelve months has been deemed two thousand and seventeen word of the year at least by collins dictionary the nation relies on me to read truthful facts and i call and say that sound which is of god on strike. Its news stories. Like. This. And the Mainstream Media would have you believe that fake news goes hand in hand with topics such as russia putin and the kremlin fake news thats being spread by russia fake news has dominated the true had lines fake news spread by russia big news fake news kremlin spread misleading or otherwise fake news certain outlets even to the battle against the fake news phenomenon to the front lines this is an apple. Some people might try to tell you that its a banana money you can start to believe since this is opinion. But its not. Is an apple. Facts first should go without saying but the Mainstream Media have found themselves in the wrong on a Staggering Amount of occasions even c. N. N. Has been guilty of it they were forced to retract their report on a connection between Anthony Scaramucci who was on trumps Transition Team and a Russian Investment Fund manager issuing an apology for the false story three people lost their jobs over that one but of course there was the breaking news one in september by most major outlets in the u. S. Dropping the bombshell that the russians had attempted to hack the election systems in twenty one states caught red handed it was the evidence everyone had been waiting for to prove the russians did it until one by one states came forward saying no hack here and the story of two thousand and seventeen quickly crumbled onto december and some of americas most influential news outlets spread another explosive and one hundred percent false news story to millions yes the wiki leaks token of help to the Trump Campaign and the hacked d. N. C. Emails wiki leaks equals russia there for once. Plus one equals three and the kremlin and trump are in cahoots message sent in the final stretch of the twenty sixteen campaign if this email on september fourth gave donald trump his son and others the decryption key for hacked wiki leaks documents illusion question right because we could weeks was actually acting as an agent of russian intelligence the media frenzy was however short lived the files had in fact not been handed over before being made public but after so not the knockout blow to the president they were all hoping for surprisingly about the whole story was based on one email from a random guy and somewhere in the build up to the revelation hitting the headlines numerous people had read the date incorrectly the list of fakes goes on and on especially for russia somehow in the mix and inflammatory claims centering on russia are some of the best click bait out there and thats despite one major outlet being caught admitting the hype was all just a big red herring what do you thinks going to happen this week with gold rush is. Going to be really so perhaps the word of the year should be anonymous i grabbing headlines and allegations quickly turn to guilt despite no evidence all it takes is anonymous sources. Shocking video reporting now it has been a deadly start to twenty eighteen in yemen well tell you whats been happening there you start to bring. All those periodic album number seventy nine of those unique attributes that make it great for money because were not more in the back human has got forty years of history to it its evolved to all these technologies its a unique protocol and its like gold is attracting a huge amount of Capital Force for the for the achievement and you can say that you can simply go out there and create another one there are competitors of course just like there are competing species on planet earth for energy and survival but theres only one the apex predator or that is at the moment before he dies from all the dark. Hello again you with r. T. Now yemen has suffered its first deadly air strike of twenty eighteen with more than twenty killed in the key port of who died on new years day three of the worlds biggest humanitarian agencies have now joined together to highlight that yemen has passed the grim milestone of ensuring more than a thousand days of war explaining that three quarters of the yemeni population needs humanitarian aid that are back two thirds are deprived of food water and also proper sanitation. I am poor i have no tender i can live i suffer from the cold. I was given a place to sleep when some people to warm up on hot days ride on the sidewalk. There is no no help comes very rarely once a year maybe but now we have no help or blanket tighter fifteen people are sleeping or not. In other news this morning the ukrainian president is looking forward to getting hold of new lethal weapons from the United States. Tweeted that ukraines military budget is increasing to a record three billion dollars and that the us weapons will be bolstered by locally produced hardware the war in ukraine started in twenty fourteen after an uprising saw the government deposed but it did meet with resistance from the prior to the country leading to beating regions entering Armed Conflict against Government Troops more than ten people from both sides have died in the conflict according to the web and he was campaigner Richard Becker thinks that washingtons arms sales ringing paix the aim here on the part of the Us Government remains that it is headed for. A carriage ukraine not only to the European Community which the u. S. Doesnt care that much about but to bring the ukraine into nato. Headquarters is so prevalent so we cant really distinguish between murder us some sharp between our defense of weaponry in this case its all. Kinds of in defense of weaponry necessary for any modern armed forces. That the syria and iraq twenty eighteen does mean emerging from the shadow of i saw this brutal rule few families were left unscarred by what they went through but a ghastly f. One has the story of two young syrian girls struggling to survive after being left alone in the ravaged city of did it still. Meet sally shes five maybe six or perhaps seven she doesnt know and this market these streets home surviving isis is of the resort was no mean feat so many perished as a result of starvation sickness violence. If. Sally is a survivor she her sister and brother were abandoned by their parents years ago they divorced and left the children to fend for themselves and. All. You are all still on the land she spends her days begging stealing playing and surviving no easy lot for them in this life former neighbors who knew their family have taken pity on the kids and have looks out for them but its not easy to mark us now but i wanted to take her in and she kept escaping i sent people to look for her but she never stays in one place long showbiz escapes. There. Sallys sister all she has left since her brother died of starvation we found the older girl at the end of this gloomy bullet riddled cargill is a room with broken windows in it leaves a young girl with only flies bloodstain mattresses for company. About a month ago sagitta who doesnt remember her age was brought in with a head injury when she fell she damaged an implant that siphons away the fluid different people tell different versions some say the full was accidental others attempted suicide but i believe the fluids keep building and there will be consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow the pressure on her brain has grown. In hospital i dont know shell find no cure in that as order as we were filming a nice a shell landed just a few hundred meters away sagitta needs to get to damascus to survive but lacking identification relatives and trapped in a war zone its difficult to see how thats possible. Sagitta doesnt get so many visitors but there is one little person who always makes a smile. If left alone sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people there is cool is for optimism. Sidesteps suffering has touched a chord action is being taken to get the girls out of bed as order but for now all they really have the site from promises and p. T. Use each other or i guess dia ot see from that is on syria thanks being with us this morning dont forget you can keep across all of these stories plus others take. What holds us and do something to. Put themselves on the lawn to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president or injury. Or somehow want to. Have to go right to be precise with what before three in the morning cant be good that im interested always in the waters of my house. First sit. Its the cradle of jazz. The america the america we. Dont know all of this jazz feeling. A city of climatic contests trophies of alligators on the loose of poverty and crime are used by the least swell members of mob family close number. Of street racing in the heat of the night this is a new orleans supplement the best place in the world. 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More than twenty two people have been killed and four hundred fifty protesters arrested in iran as iranian president Hassan Rouhani might be reevaluating his Economic Policy its iran continues to face in major protests in response to the nations economic woes a study conducted to five the key complaints of citizens found that the majority of people had issues with unemployment weak purchasing power corruption a weak currency the reaal and an unequal distribution of wealth among irans regions these issues have been part of a larger problem since the lifting of economic sanctions think sions on iran back in two thousand and sixteen the same sions were put in place to cheer on the Nuclear Proliferation program many of the citizens were anticipating a Major Economic boom but so far non oil parts of the economy are still struggling even as president rouhani introduced austerity measures which has been viewed and negatively by the public while the government has officially determine the Unemployment Rate to be around twelve point five percent many believe it to be much higher among irans younger population the reaal has also grown a weaker. Against the u. S. Dollar sinking to forty two thousand nine hundred from just thirty six thousand a year ago Foreign Investment which could be a boon to irans economy has been minimal and part due to u. S. President donald trump stance against iran. But going the most common crypto currency has long been a go to favorite for criminals operating on the dark what now theres a new criminal court on the rise making it easier to commit online crimes theyre called privacy queens or youre a new breed of crypto currency designed to be harder to track due to Law Enforcement mainly monitoring bit of this new Digital Currency has flown under the radar for the last few months poll the European UnionsLaw Enforcement agency is one of a report three months ago citing that crypto currencies like mon nero and z. Cash are quickly becoming popular in the Digital Black market money has become so popular that it has risen in the ranks to become the queen of choice for online criminals because bitcoin is Underlying Technology makes a detailed record of all transactions. Take it a step further by encrypting the users ip address and set of generating a fake what Minerals Price has quadrupled in value shooting up from ninety one dollars in october of two thousand and seventeen to nearly three hundred fifty dollars currently. Later that mark the one Year Anniversary of Donald Trumps inauguration as president lets take a birds eye view of the past year and then take a look i had at twenty eighteen joining us is veronica birkenstock a former member of the Campaign Finance committee and part of the trump Transition Team last year ms birkenstocks thank you so much for joining us many of us had all the high hopes last year for what candidate trump a spouse did his goals yet im not sure hes completed all those things for a number of reasons but how do you view what the president s done in the last year given that hes had these republican majorities and how do you grade the president first first year in office. I think president has done an amazing job i mean this tax reform obvious it was his first piece of major legislation thats actually passed through the house and senate but theres still a lot of work to do weve had a four percent growth rate in our g. D. P. And the mandate for Health Insurance that they are has been now null and void so i am very optimistic about whats going to happen in two thousand and eight ten cannot wait to see what actually happens on january nineteenth and and moving his agenda forward so lets talk just a little bit about tax reform because i like a lot of people you i assume were really positive on what he talked about you know i wanted to give average folks a tax break and certainly of corporate folks to the guy that follows business and finance and they got that they went from thirty five percent down to twenty one percent but on average folks you know its not so sure that this is going to be a good deal millionaires and people making above half a Million Dollars a year are going to get a tax cut but the folks that are making an average i think the average there in texas is like fifty six thousand and change and its just a little bit higher than the National Average those folks may be at a few hundred dollars but at the end of the the years you know theyre going to pay a few hundred bucks so how does that square with what he promised or is that just the best you think he could get done. Well i think i disagree with you on that i think more than eighty or eighty five percent of people are going to actually see a huge drastic cut in their taxes not only in their taxes but also in the average wage we have unemployment now the lowest its been in seventeen years and so we have seen wages increase and most people will say im pretty sure by the time the payroll checks are all around the table where people actually be able to visually see it and not just hear the pundits who are disagreeing us and this was just a Millionaires Program because i dont believe in that actually believe that the majority of the American People will actually say a tax decrease this year well thats a talking point and i hope youre i hope youre right that thats not according to the the Congressional Budget Office and what they said if you make over a Million Dollars youre going to get a nine thousand dollars tax cut the last year but the first year two thousand and nineteen youll get a sixty thousand dollar tax increase and if you make below sixty thousand between fifty and seventy five thousand you get eight hundred dollars tax cut the first year and then the last year you actually pay one hundred thirty eight dollars so i just i mean well see i guess the the reasoning here is that you know if businesses do better they will pass it on there is some evidence that folks will be you know hiring more people and i guess well just will this bank on on that help out on some of the other things youre in texas there are how about the wall where we give them a grade on the wall that was going to be built. The walls not built but i cant wait for today about texas has suffered many many years where the illegal activity coming across the border especially some of our and neighboring towns and cities and counties there on the border so im hopeful that that was actually going to happen come january nineteenth when we actually found a pass a spending bill that there will be allocated dollars turn to build and taxes exist theyre excited about in my district here in district on twenty six we are huge advocates of building the wall how were going to pay for this thing i mean you know and i understand me look hes got a republican congress. Im not sure why it hadnt been passed so far other than its not that popular among all republicans many republicans particular in the south but how were going to pay for this i mean the entire time i was in government republicans have really been out there talking about the deficit and here with the tax bill weve got a one point five trillion dollar hole in the in the deficit and then with the the wall another one hundred billion dollars i guess is what some people are saying is sort of cost how we can actually pay for this thing i think a lot of the cost savings at what we actually see a reduction in what illegal immigrations actually cost in this country so when you look at the cost first is what were going to be able to say once we actually can secure our borders i think thats where youll see most of your savings i dont like to say private enterprise involved and securing our border hopefully that will be an option thats put on the table where private enterprise and actually bit and actually work toward securing our borders let me ask you to disco another minute or so here because birkenstock but how about infrastructure i was in texas not too long ago and boy you need you need Infrastructure Improvement there just like the rest of the country its one of the things that i also thought when candidate trump talked about it that we really needed to do it so far weve only seen six pages of talking points on it is it important in texas and do you think were going to get that done this year. I absolutely think it will get done and it is definitely important not only to texas but many states and we had a lot of damage here in the hurricanes earlier in the year and lot of those cities are still recovering from those devastating storms and the flooding but were also an emerging status far as new business is moving here to texas so that infrastructure is going to be critical when it comes to be able to expand in being able to absorb the increased traffic the increased need for homes and the increase a need for our Bridges Entertainment our Water Systems you know pollute lee i hope we get it done let me just ask you before we go weve got to get about got about sixty seconds what should is there anything out there that the president could have done better with as far as youre concerned anything it many mistakes were missteps he made. I mean theres always mistakes you can always go back and look at things you wish you had done better but i think hes done a very very good job considering while he was up against and and actually having to deal with the resistance and persistence and congress not being able to move bills along fast enough but i think hes learned some of those lessons on how to negotiate obviously is probably the master of negotiation but they were going to see a lot of great wonderful things happen in two thousand and eighteen and im looking forward to seeing what happens in early january when the house and the senate come back together i know there is a meeting this weekend at camp david and im hoping and praying that mcconnell and ryan will get it right and start supporting our president in the his agenda forward not just for the well i just i just i also for the country yeah well i i hope youre right that some of the stuff good good youve done some of these missteps the tweets and stuff to me just you know thats a learning curve that i hope it gets over but to i admire your optimism is birkenstock thank you very much and good luck with your race they are you thank you for joining us thank you have a blessed day thank you so much time now for a quick break but stick around because when we return well take a look at how the your i was going to hit a record high. Plus in the wake of the tax reform bill officials and some high tax states are looking for ways to reduce the impact on their citizens whose deductions for state and local income taxes will be care less the calls for his take on what might actually occur and as we go to the break here the numbers out the closing bell. Manufacture consent to public will. When the really close is project. The flaming. Lips