What you think and i knew what. He thinks i do it for you if you want to see a clear very clear discrimination on the video you can discrimination im simply saying there are 2 genders male and female you can always find the latest news dot com stay with us now though for the new episode of the big picture. On this weeks show President Trump and try me as president or all smiles for the photo ops but theres a tough new wrinkle in the trade and after years of progress we are losing ground in the fight against air pollution but 1st temperatures rising in the persian gulf as whats happened there this week made war with iran. Holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our t. V. America. Thursday night the white house greenlighted then called off airstrikes against iran this came after accusations and denials over recent attacks on japanese and norwegian tankers in the persian gulf and iran shooting down an unmanned u. S. Drone in the southern persian gulf the trumpet ministration contends it was in International Airspace which iran disputes then reportedly the drones id transponder was turned off in violation of International Aviation rules and its wreckage landed within irans territorial waters and here is irans commander in chief of the revolutionary guard. Early this morning the air Defense System of the girds aerospace bravely shot down an unmanned u. S. Spy aircraft which trespassed our borders and was violating our National Security boundary and speaking with reporters in the oval office as that situation was still being assessed President Trump left iran some wiggle room i find it hard to believe it was intentional if you want to know the truth i think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid that did it well be able to report back and youll understand exactly what happened but it was a very foolish move that i can tell you this was a higher altitude drone than anyone could shoot down with a shoulder launched missile so someone fairly high up in the revolutionary guard would have to have turned that key is war with iran imminent lets ask state senator Richard Black who represents virginias 13th district in suburban washington has 31 years of military service or as a United States marine and in the Army Jag Corps and he is a decorated vietnam veteran who flew over 200 Helicopter Missions and saw intense combat action dick thank you for your. Of us and for your time on this weeks show. Thank you its good to be with you holland u. S. Military assets in the gulf include the carrier Abraham Lincoln a b. 52 Bomber Task Force although congress has not authorized war as required by article one of the constitution if it does how does irans threaten our National Security well theres orderly no threat to u. S. National security from iran if we simply moved our troops back. From being right up to the border of iran there would be no no interaction there be no threat of anyone being harmed so what we ought to be doing is we ought to be pulling back getting getting the fleet back getting the b. 52 getting the getting the drones back. You know i i looked this morning and i saw the pictures of the drone pieces that the iranians have recovered now the United States knew precisely the location of the drone when it went down. If it really went down in International Airspace why didnt we go out and scoop all this up how come the iranians were able to locate it when they didnt have quite the precision and yet they got out there and i think the answer is that it actually was in iranian airspace was the j c p o o a a irans new deal a step forward and was us a withdrawal a step backward. Well the Obama Administration was a is a very bloodthirsty administration they launched war on libya on on syria on your raman all unprovoked wars at but the one thing that i i agree very much with obama on was the j c p o a the nuclear deal which really offered hope to the world that we would finally began to find a cutoff point in this this continuing mideast war but unfortunately we backed off on that we pulled out of it and yet here we are were expecting that iran will comply with it even though we have said we wont comply and once we pulled out they were still in compliance at that point right. They were they have maintained their stated compliance they promise to stay in compliance for at least a year now theyre edging beyond it theyre saying ok well if if other people are not going to comply principly the United States then were not going to be bound by an agreement that other people arent bound by us a impose sanctions or crippling iran economically here testifying before congress this week is brian hawk the state department. Special representative on iran give a listen. Proxies do not have the financial means that they used to under the iran deal because our sanctions are denying the regime historic levels of revenue. Iran provides hezbollah mr chairman im sure as you know 70 percent of its operating budget that 700000000. 00 a year the leader of hezbollah in march had to make a Public Appeal for donations its the 1st time theyve done that in their history. You have shia proxies in syria saying to the New York Times the golden days are gone and theyre never coming back iran does not have the money that it used to. Pick given the dollars and cents hes describing and despite their tough talk is iran capable of waging war with us well iran is capable of waging war. They keep in mind they have a 3rd greater population than iraq had they have a 4 or more challenging geography which is very important in war. They are more distant even iraq was and so yes and also they have a United People even though there are there are a lots of internal disagreements about what direction playing should go when push comes to shove theyre all iranians you dont have the ethnic and religious differences that you had in iran if we go in there we are likely to suffer perhaps 20000 killed americans maybe a another 6070000 who will lose limbs be crippled be blinded and probably a 1000000 a 1000000 iranians men women children soldiers everybody will be killed. Whats the value of it what it what do we gain is not clear what the United States gains from that on wednesday members of Congress Held a hearing on the trump administrations iran policy in the midst of his pledge to send an additional 1000 troops of the middle east you recently wrote to President Trump explaining why you oppose the war against iran what reasons did your letter outline you know i said that i said i voted for trump not for bold. And im very concerned about him and pump a 0 taking a storage war i said that the 2020 alexion could end in disaster if we have a vast new war bigger than you know all the others combined and the public is public has no support for the war is very war weary and i dont particularly offended by the fact that. At the at the foundation of it we would be fighting for saudi arabia probably the most viciously antichristian nation on earth. They sent assassins to strangle and dismembered to marcus jogi a couple of weeks ago the month ago they beheaded 37 people mostly minorities the type of muslims that live in iran and also you know they were intimately associated with the 911. 00 attack at the very highest levels they got off scot free they never paid a price for killing 3000. 00 americans on 911. 00 i also pointed out the fact that the arraigning ends have never been responsible for any terror attack on american soil literally every one beginning with the 911 attack on the twin towers and pentagon has been either instigated directly by saudi arabia or it has been promoted by this very violent strain of of wahhabi islamists. This very vicious the tenets of that. Of that. Religious philosophy call on them to behead christians sure to enslave the women and so its to me its very offensive that we would be fighting for them now while a to your point i am very concerned about the number of potential casualties and what i see ive seen this happen ive been around a long time in military affairs and you see us provoking iranian to the point where we. Were hoping you said something snaps and we can generate some public outrage or whatever and we have launched into the war with with iran. Im almost out of time very concerned about it and i urge the president to back off from the from the approach more with the right youre not alone in that thank you senator dick black and coming up next the next elements literally in china trade tensions and the sickening air we breathe im holland cook this is the big picture on our t. America. Quick note for those italians that want to keep their savings or put it into because you can escape to confiscation of the government or the vatican the whoever runs the country over there and you will preserve your wealth and jurisdiction that respects your sovereignty as an individual and respects your wealth dont live in a country thats just going to rip you off blindly. Join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. We came here where did you work before you came here what do you live. Death row in many us States Capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims families they are very much in favor of the Death Penalty there are some people of the. Because of what they do they have given up their rights as live among us some even proven innocent years on death row more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize this is not working and we actually do something about. The United States and china are the 2 biggest economies in the world and trade tensions are near the boiling point in photo ops president s trump and pinning are all smiles but recent tit for tat includes trouble jacking up terror of some some 200. 00 b. 1000000000. 00 worth of chinese goods and blacklisting Telecom Giant weiwei china responded by raising tariffs on 60000000000. 00 of American Goods and threatening to cut off rare earth shipments how much would that hurt look tester as dr john gong professor of economics at university of International Business and economics in beijing is a widely read researcher and writer welcome thank you very much how tempting is it for beijing to cut off shipments of shipments are halted is a black market possible and will it impact the prices of rare earths i think the government in beijing might be tempted to do this but honestly the onus the i think in the short run probably it will jack up prices for a lot of the chinese goods but i dont im not sure its a good strategy in our own right because this country down to states does have a lot of supplies. That is a mountain but then the mountain pos mining in california its just that you know the price is not very competitive because its pretty high the Environmental Impact is pretty bad so thats why theyve been cutting production off. This material in mind but after we open it several years ago we submitted a supply of the product to self thats the magnetic products the sing to mature a self mostly coming from china theres also another small operation. Mascherano so its in the name is actually quite our want to score china grove. High in a grove when i go to china grove in North Carolina operated by hitachi matto they make some this kind of material too but most of the stuff is actually coming from china. So thats why i think in the short run poverty you can see a surprise crunch the price is probably going to go up but over the long you know United States has other options so i think its something to can its come one come chinas government i think of and im not convinced this is a very effective Long Term Strategy well you mentioned electronics we cant live without ours how else are rare earths you used in products that we deal with every day we this is such a to use a lot of applications this is a magnetic material and the magnetic mature is a useful lot of things for example i phones you know you have this vibration device electric motors almost all electric motors use magnetic materials so this is absolutely critical and if you think about electric motors the electric casone on the streets. Of motors used for english up occasions electric bikes for example in a school. Also this mature is also critically used. For a miniature application but fans applications laser guided missiles for example you must come on material so its actually a quite strategic material well you mentioned the politics of the situation listen to this statement from Chinas Ministry of commerce. For one issue show apart from serving domestic demands we are willing to meet the real. Demand for rare earths from other countries but if any country is thinking to block or suppress the development of china products made from chinese rare earth it is unacceptable emotionally and. So there is some leverage here politically correct right right this is i said i think its it can be quite effective in the short run but. Im a little bit concerned about the effectiveness of this thing ok well longer term you mention but we have reserves of these elements here in the usa do we rely on china for these rare earth elements because we dont want to mind them ourselves or their environmental considerations that we would just assume people are sure absolutely absolutely and the reason why theyre mountain costs mine was close that some was put by Market Company clermont to cop it was reason it was close down its precisely because the cost is too high its not competitive with the products imported from china partly because of lower labor cost and i think partly because of the lower costs associated with you know a little bit lax environmental regulations here that kept to keep in mind though that these costs also cleanup in china as well. As i said the mountain pos monk only is opening right now its some some production as a matter of fact as a percentage of their production actually was exported to china for making it into magnetic material really yes it was a busy the company itself was actually. Owned by a Chinese Company for 10 percent of akeley so this Chinese Company has some equity stake in this in this operation and that is for why they actually exporting back into it to china so the door swings both ways thats. What we know out terror of so hurt us here the things we buy at walmart are going to get more expensive and how does a trade war hurt the consumer in china. I think it is several ways 1st of all i think and i think the most important impact the most Significant Impact is really about jobs because. You know because of the breadth used exports from china to the United States means that. Especially copper americas operation in china is going to be cut tailed and that means job losses for the chinese economy and also you know the products remember we also have in china we also have tariffs american imports as well so all of that means that you know that the products sold by American Companies or exported following that it states also seem price hikes for example costs big ticket item from the u. S. Exports to china is high and automobile is the most expensive s. U. V. S theyre getting more expensive because of the high tariffs and we 1st read about this it seems like a Macro Economic issue that other people have to negotiate but this really does hit the Kitchen Table in the Family Budget after john gone thank you for your context and perspective on this thank you very much. Over just the last 2 years the air we breathe is now more polluted than just a few years earlier reversing years of progress according to data from the United States Environmental Protection agency Gina Mccarthy now director of harvards center for Climate Health and Global Environment previously head of the e. P. A. In the Obama Administration says that no less then the future of our kids and our country is at stake we do not have the cleanest air and we have not crossed the finish line when it comes to pollution President Trump claims the opposite saying earlier this month in ireland we have the cleanest air in the world in the United States and its gotten better since im president who is right lets ask donal levels professor of Atmospheric Science and president ial fellow at the university of illinois professor welcome. Yes thank you for inviting me if our air quality had been improving until lately what has changed what went wrong. Well theres been a large emphasis on increasing the burning of fossil fuels and that is a major contributor to. Not only to Climate Change but also to air quality they really going to have hand in hand and that thats one aspect in the other aspect is that under this administration the Environmental Protection agency has been aiming at reducing the emission controls. Dushan ing the effectiveness of the Clean Air Act to towards allowing more emissions so a candidate a trump promising to slash regulations about President Trump sure has kept has made a difference he pulled us out of the parasite cord and this deregulation is going to continue to contribute to the problem. Certainly. There is that cat ago hand in hand so as long as we continue to push heavily for the use of fossil fuels the use of coal especially that is going to add to our air quality concerns now you mention fossil fuel theyre building these coal plants in china at the air and ending as a mass can something half a world away like that impact us here in the usa. It certainly does one of the things my own Research Group has studied extensively over the past is how how as long range transport of pollutants particularly from asia been affecting the u. S. And it does have an impact. Thats not the largest part of our problem by any means and in fact china is trying to do a lot right now about reducing their own emissions but but it does have an impact upon us even that far away how geo physically does that happen. But the pollutants have lifetimes typically of a week or so depending on which pollutant it is summer much longer and so they will get into the. You know can be carried by winds to. As far as the United States particularly have an effect on the west coast the United States but weve actually see impacts across the United States from from that long range transport of pollutants as theyre things people watching us can do as individuals to help or will only big changes improve air quality. On theres a lot of things we can do. Individually by just looking at what youre personally doing in terms of allowing emissions to the atmosphere. To give you a sense of what impact. Weve already had across the United States the Clean Air Act since 1990 weve had weve seen a decrease in emissions of 73 percent of the key pollutants that science carbon dioxide. Hydrocarbons many many other aspects that has. Resulted in a savings of about estimates about truth 2 trillion dollars. Primarily due to the 230000 lives that have been saved over that time period in the United States and the 66 reduction in. The hospital visits of about 66000. Events per year or so. So that alone would tell you it makes a lot of sense to. To do something about Climate Change yet you know are we 100 percent perfect no we we still have in the americas as a whole about 300. 00 deaths per year related to air quality and worldwide over 4200000. Deaths per year related to air quality issues professor donald levels from the university of illinois thank you for your time. Sir happy to help and thank you for watching the big picture im holland cook in washington back next week and on twitter at holland cook in the meantime question more. Just driving the trumpet ministrations around policy is confusing contradictory and even incoherent would be undone. Statement as members of his administration beat the drums of war the president suddenly injects themselves into the conversation with words to the contrary what is the world thing. Oh why a paradise with some ground turned into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants theres no question otherwise why would that the Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day and you have many of these people who have one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of Environmental Research going on in hawaii whether these Companies Feel they can get away with those because the people have less political power. Im max kaiser this is the kaiser report exhibit happy days are here again summertime is upon us and the news gets great every single 2nd of every single day i cant believe how great everything a stacey max in the last episode we were talking about germany falling apart and Deutsche Bank which is basically all of europe in fact now were going to talk about italy but 1st i want to set up the whole Global Situation with a tweet from 0 hedge and i was talking about investor gunlock and he said that before each of the last 3 recessions one market pete 1st japan then europe then emerging markets now it will be the United States so thats really quite interesting here is the japanese market crash recession heres the European Market and then the u. S. Interesting look at perhaps we could be seeing the us head. Into global recession yeah i remember looking at the chart by good lack guns lack and it goes all the way back to the beginning of my wall street career and during these recessions or times when i took years off like ok so the 87 to 90 it hit that was to japan peak then i was in paris for 5 years then you had a period of growth up until all the speak of europe then i went back to the south of france for 5 years then i met stacy then we had a period of growth now and were saying that the American Peak will hit so itll be time for a 5 year vacation again. Im not sure where but somewhere but this is. Take of bitcoin and say adios into the sunset i think were done well this is in the you know the context of all these guys like unlike selling all their equities theyre getting out. Im buying bonds predicting a huge recession because if the u. S. Obviously is in its own space like its beyond all of the emerging markets europe and japan and terms of where their stock prices are now over to italy which of course has had catastrophic economic story happening there and weve been again covering this for 10 years the European Central bank has managed to keep it afloat
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