Stimulus relief bills filled with a lot of wasteful spending all right its time to get your news i. Q. The record between the United States and iran is heating up even more today threats are being volleyed from both sides after a Close Encounter at sea for more on increasing fears for a full on battle breaking out between iran and the u. S. Arties Rachel Blevins is joining us from the news room with more to this rachel while manila does not appear that either the United States or wrong is backing down following a dispute in the persian gulf President Trump said he stands by the order he gave to the u. S. Navy and if any iranian vessels get too close to an American Ship he expects the navy to quote shoot them out of the water we dont want. Surrounding our boats and traveling around their boats and having a good time we dont want them anywhere near a bus and so you know the order it gave it and they got to say it again but ill give you that order thats a threat when they get that close and they have got a very substantial weapons on those boats but will shoot them out of the water. Now in response to terms of warning the head of irans revolutionary guard fired back and said his forces have been directed to retaliate against any American Forces who threaten the safety of their military or nonmilitary vessels. Will he tell you in his own name we have ordered our naval units at sea in case any warships or a military units from the naval force of americas terrorist army wants to jeopardize our commercial vessels and or our combat vessels that they must target those warships or naval units. While the u. S. Accused iran of dangerous and provocative maneuvers in the persian gulf last week or ron has argued it was forced to increase its patrol presence after the u. S. Fell to follow protocols iran has presented the dispute as an issue of National Security noting the proximity to their countrys border irans foreign minister took to twitter writing quote u. S. Forces have no business 7000 miles away from home provoking our sailors off our own persian gulf shores the latest conflict also follows the launch of irans 1st military satellite pentagon officials were quick to argue that the launch was evidence of threatening behavior claiming a secret military Space Program could be a step towards creating ballistic missiles. I wont tell you exactly what the intelligence is because thats classified information but what i can tell you is that when a very long way and if you have a missile that goes a very long way. Whether or not to put a satellite in space or not go into those details but it would a very long one which means it has the ability once again to threaten. Their neighbors or a large and we want to make sure that they can never throw the United States well u. S. Officials claim the launch violates International Law reports of noted that satellite launches do not violate irans 2015 International Nuclear accord which the trump an industry shame pulled out of back in 28. 00 team after removing the u. S. From the deal trump proceeded to target are wrong with increasing sanctions attempting to cut off the countrys oil sales altogether but now that oil prices are historically low iranian president rouhani says his country is not hurting nearly as much as other countries because there are economy no longer relies on oil exports meanwhile oil prices are on the rise again with the Global Benchmark surging nearly 40 percent on thursday after hitting a 21 year low earlier this week this reminding the world of the power that comes with even the prospect of an International Conflict as it remains to be seen whether the latest exchange of threats between the u. S. And iran will develop into a military conflict reporting in the newsroom racial blevins r t. In a confrontational tweet President Donald Trump is ramping up tensions between the u. S. And iran when he instructed the u. S. Navy to shoot down and destroy any iranian vessel that harasses American Warships along the persian gulf now this amid the coronavirus pandemic with u. S. Numbers nearing a 1000000 and iran leading the way out of the middle east still the persian gulf remains a tinderbox just one move away from a flare up so joining us to discuss former u. K. M. P. George Galloway George we know that trump is the. 1st politician to use twitter for diplomatic relations or i guess in this case and diplomatic but now even his former National Security advisor john bolton is doing the same thing hes weighing in on iran yesterday tweeting this he said quote irans launch of a military satellite is proof we are still not applying enough pressure deterrence has not been restored and coronavirus is not slowing down the ayatollah has irans goal remains i. C. B. M. s capable of carrying Nuclear Weapons they cannot be trusted now george people thought once bolton was removed from his post that things went with iran would simmer down apparently not now what. No definitely although it could all be just a ploy to drive the oil price up and if it is its working and president was very clear that he would do anything to rescue the u. S. Oil and gas business so driving up the price is a good way of doing that on the assumption that one slip can let loose the dogs of war its a very troubling time and the contrasts completely would be called by the secretary general of the United Nations right at the beginning of this pandemic and the. Guns should be stilled sanctions should be lessened instead sanctions are being ramped up and guns are more ready to bark and indeed are barking in other theaters in the persian gulf the clue is in the name of the law the powergen gulf 7000 miles from the United States where the u. S. Navy is provocatively patrolling the most likely spot but could lead to a very big conflagration but the u. S. Has forces in colombia maneuvering on the borders all venezuela you wouldnt be surprised to wake up and discover that military action had begun and i was shocked even i was shocked when the ancient treasure of palmira in syria one of the wonders of the world was actually bombed by israel this very week israel is still bombing syria even in the middle of the corona yeah so it sounds like the u. S. And israel have very similar plans going on during coronavirus but george why do you think President Trump has this i dont know how to describe it except maybe a fascination with iran is it because his predecessor president obama had a breakthrough with that nation or could there be something deeper than that and also george i realize that Boris Johnson has just recently recovered from coronavirus but we havent heard americas allies speaking up. No i think the british on the europeans are very anxious about the ramping up of rhetoric trumps behaving a bit like dr strangelove character or rather the man that got astride the rocket and headed for russia in the epic kubrick movie of that name so i dont expect youll hear much supportive rhetoric coming from europe because people are worried. You know one was one slit and the dogs of war are unleashed and cry have and what i have it would be the straits of hormuz well 30 percent of the worlds oil passes through this geo strategic agenda box i think President Trump is obsessed by president obamas breakthrough on the Iran Nuclear Deal a but i also think hes unnaturally cracked on not chalet close to saudi arabia and people in his own family even more close and i think they hate iran with a vengeance because saudi arabia does too. And lastly george looking back at American History since president jimmy carter 1st acute iran a state sponsor terrorism virtually every american president who followed has told that same narrative why is that. Well the United States could not have been closer to the live shot of iran the greatest tyrant the middle east has of all known and theres a lot of competition for all but title since he was overthrown and the United States was revealed the revelation was necessary to have been up to their neck in defending him as his people rose up in their millions to overthrow him the picture has been as bad as it could possibly be between the United States and iran ironically among the iranian people really love america they really love america they would like to be more like america but every time the United States tightens the screw with more and more sanctions the danger of more and more war in the middle class the elite in the young people that would otherwise be quite true american politics i know about because ive been surprised in iran how people actually would much rather have good relations with america rather than this dockers drawn all the. Time believe you hit it hit the nail on the head there george i will have to leave it right there George Galloway appreciate your time today. Pleasure. Right there is no doubt the u. S. Economy is in peril the latest unemployment numbers are out bringing the total number of americans out of work to 26000000 meantime Many Americans are still waiting for their government stimulus checks to arrive all the while there are reports now that dead people have already gotten theirs are to spare in front i can joining us in studio shes been following the story so parents how i dont fill me in here how is that even possible that people getting checks right so on the surface it looks really bad but theres actually a whole thing going on here and what that is is that dead people yes again have already gotten their stimulus check the government has. Even admitted to this happening but its a double edged sword because the i. R. S. Is trying to send out these payments as quickly as possible as everybody is suffering but each state keeps track of death records which are then reported to the i. R. S. But while the corona virus is killing tens of thousands of people theres obviously going to be a time lag and that is ultimately another bold monella boy do we know how many how many deceased people have received money so we do not know that number right now but we do know that the i. R. S. Has issued 80000000 payments and ultimately some 170000000 people will be getting paid but unfortunately this is not the 1st time that weve seen this little fiasco happened back in 2009 during the Great Recession we had 52000000 people they got a check for 250 bucks and 71000 of those people were dead which was a good 17000000 dollars and one percent of those payments given out now you do have President Trump saying that you know hey sometimes you give the bad check to you give a check to the wrong person were going to try to take it back but then you have legal experts monella saying that if you were alive when this stimulus plan passed and then you die legally you are entitled to that check so it would go to next of kin maybe possibly this is all New Territory fair and i know so ok since were on the subject subject of checks there are alive people that are so not getting their checks so what about those unemployment numbers so it is not looking good at all the dow jones actually predicted that last week there would be 4300000 new jobs our new unemployment claims it was actually little higher than that 4400000 now you can see by looking here at this chart the only good news is that last week there was a decline of 810000 but that still its 4400000. 00 that is would be the equivalent to everyone in the entire city of chicago and phoenix filing for unemployment now the department of labor comes out with their new rate calculation in 2 weeks but its projected to be around 23 percent the rate during the Great Depression was 20. 4 percent of the grand total over the past 5 weeks 26500000 this has protesters continuing to take the streets in some states not following the social distancing roles and calling for the country to get back to work arguing that these stay at home orders are destroying the economy by employers lets have those go and those up are still going to have that all working were struggling because we dont have the other half what im looking to help you with friends and family members that i know that have been impacted by this. And i. Think their business is on the verge of cant sustain this story longer so i have friends and neighbors dont just businesses here down there daryn theres a lot of businesses and you might be able to. Now the house is expected to vote in approve the 484000000000. 00 corona virus relief bill which the Senate Passed on tuesday so its now the house that will be sending it over to the president s desk which president has promised to quickly sign it now this bill is geared toward Small Businesses and hospitals and another big ad is the 25000000000. 00 for coronavirus testing in manila this bill follows a similar one approved the last week however that one actually ran out of money so fast it was scooped up mainly by restaurant chains and National Hotels so that resulted in this latest bill having to be put forth through the house still a lot going on there are friends i thank you for filing that report. And critics are saying the latest coronavirus stimulus bill is full of wasteful spending is this truly emergency spending were going to discuss and later at the sports h. Q. Regina hamm reveals why for the greatest athletes in their sport will soon grace a golf course. People are really remarking that 2020 is a mirror image of 2008 is the exact same problem banks over leverage blew themselves up and are now demanding a bailout at the point of a gun from the fed and other Central Banks and except this time the dislocation in the economy combined with the coronavirus is so great that weve tripped over into medieval ism thats how messed up this. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Tyson nation will community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. By the way. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or remain in the shallows. The world is driven by shaped by. The day or thinks. We dare to ask. A long recession has passed nearly 2. 8 trillion in stimulus spending just over the last 7 weeks yet anger is growing as many Small Businesses are not receiving aid and money is running out all this as some criticize the 300000000. 00 granted to publicly traded companies such as Ivy League Universities so wheres the accountability and doesnt the buck stop with President Trump so to try to answer these questions lets bring in our very own Scottie Nell Hughes host fuz he was hi scott good to see you so tell me you know that washington is known for throwing money at a problem you know just making it rain thinking theyre going to fix it what is the american taxpayer really seeing any of these benefits to justify the largest stimulus bill in u. S. History. Well the simple answer is absolutely not now as todays jobs report just came out saying 4400000 people were added to the unemployment rolls that means 20000000 americans right now are out of a job there are 80000000. 00 and that means that basically 20 percent of america is not working and yet were in the marcus debt weve ever seen in the United States ever been with 2. 00 trillion dollars so no now granted some a few weeks ago did get that stimulus check of about 1200. 00 or additional 500. 00 per child but what does that have to cover it is not really going to last the average American Family so of course when you hear stories of people like harvard that actually has an 80000000000. 00 and down and getting millions of dollars in other ivy leagues you go wait a minute but what about the actual people who need the money right now just to pay basic rent in electricity oh yeah absolutely and lease there are some businesses with a conscience who are returning that money so well see if harvards one of them so after this outcry harvard says the same thing theyre jumping on that bandwagon doing good but what are some of these other places these other places funder are going which some say is still wasteful. Well and thats the thing now yes hartmans were turning their fund shake shack to turn their funds but guess what they legally got those funds appropriated to them based on how this bill is written and theyre only returning it because its such the public outcry and anger that they got the money in the 1st place so weve heard about money going to palaces like the kiddy center to pay for employees that the next day they let off weve also heard about money going to n. P. R. This latest bill actually lose money for Community Newspapers and National Guard corporate newspapers which yes those are very important theres no doubt they are employees as well but why are these more why are certain groups over others getting chosen to receive these bailouts that is what raises the red flags in washington d. C. I scratch your back you get a stimulus check for me and that seems to be the pot what is the policy right now going into this for sure for the stimulus bill but like i said its putting in a debt you know that not only were not going to be able to pay our generation but id be surprised if our children and our grandchildrens generation is going to be able to get us out of a 2. 00 trillion dollar hole ok scott here heres what frightens me at the end of the day the buck stops with the president its at least its supposed to his signature is the last thing the president with signs the bill along with the republicans who have joined in passing this through the house through the senate do they not know whats in the bill how are they getting mad after the fact. That is the question though because unfortunately even like with the stimulus project that we saw back in 2008 we didnt find out what all was in until 2010 in this case youre looking at 800. 00 page bills that are being written and unfortunately nobody really seems to know what there is in them until its already passed that includes the president im scratching my head in the at the republicans and the democrats who are going pointing fingers at each other you wrote this bill your signature is on it and youre using my money to pay for it and yet then you come back after youve passed and said how dare you harbored how dare you shake shack how dare you peace corps get money from it well unfortunately were not seeing the accountability that was promised to us monella in the very 1st bill were nancy pelosi said there was going to be a Congressional Oversight Committee that was going to see it well that Oversight Committee is not doing their job and theyre supposed to be the backup to congress is not doing their job and allowing these money to continue to flow freely unaccounted for and as todays jobs report shows its not actually helping people keep their jobs ok real quickly last question here i got to play devils advocate for the Big Companies the shake shack the mcdonalds the burger kings the harvards if this money is lawfully written out for them whats wrong with them having that money because they do have hundreds of employees to pay. And they do in shake shake actually got heres the problem shake shack in here is a National Corporation well guess what how its based out of is that under 500 employees well and shake shack location they deadly have less than 500. 00 employees the problem is all of this mill is these local franchisees need to be looking at their corporation 1st with their very rich c. E. O. s as well as these large Ivy League Institutions need to look at their endowment funds before they come to taxpayer funds this is the reason why were having this 4th round of a bill is because they ran out of these Small Business loans in the 3rd bill if they would have actually made them truly Small Business and i promise you we might not have to go this next 7 bring around a 4th round and having to be more specific on its clearly not 1 well thought out they have got a lot of kinks to work out still i know he was thank you so much for that update. Thank you. The Trump Administration plans to invest around 12000000. 00 in new aid projects in greenland but why you ask apparently to tackle chinese and russian influence in the arctic now the news of this you might remember comes less than a year after President Trump expressed interest in buying greenland which is part of the danish. Reminder say they welcome the idea but the 12000000. 00 has to come without any conditions. And how and in haiti a house of worship turns into a house of horror after a Childrens Home run by a u. S. Base church goes up in flames the incident took place in february killing a lot of kids some as young as 6 years old but it hasnt been until now that haitian authorities began to investigate the event as possibly criminal investigators could soon determine if members of the u. S. Church called bible understanding should be held accountable. Take a look at this researchers have finally mapped the entire surface of the moon the 1st time in Human History and this paves the way for more effective future moon landings for other nations choosing to take up that challenge and the images were put together by the u. S. G. S. Astro geology Science Center in collaboration of course with nasa and the lunar and Planetary Institute that looks pretty cool. Ok lets go over to regina ham at the sports h. Q. Regina it looks like golf might be making a return in the next few weeks for at least a one day event one day and one day only because the rest of the p. G. A. Tour isnt set to start a 5th season until these june and likely that fans in attendance however 2 of the biggest names in this world be hitting the links for one day for a very worthy cause 15 time major. Tiger woods is having a rematch with 5 time major champion Phil Mickelson some time in may doug do the math champions for charity the duo will be joined by 2 of the biggest names from the world of football Peyton Manning and tom brady while an exact date and time have been revealed predictions put the event in florida where the states governor supports having it occur however the p. G. A. Tour needs to approve the event in which its players participate one of only a few roadblocks to hosting the tournament but if it does go ahead the quartet of superstars will donate all money to benefit coronavirus relief. And cited sealing scandals involving both the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox why the baseball world now boston finds out what its punishment is for Major League Baseball the 2018 World Series Champions are stripped of their 2nd round pick in this years amateur draft for breaking video rules during their championship season and will be commissioner rob manfred concluded red sox replay system operator j. T. Watkins revised sign sequences for players he suspended without pay through 2020 postseason and barred from free play room through 21 of this guy right here former red sox manager alex cora is also suspended through the 2020 postseason lastly Houston Astros for the boston job after the 27 season he recently parted ways with the red sox in january after he was implicated as a key individual in the astros sign stealing scandal and you know manila fun stuff tonight though to get away from all that negative news the n. F. L. Draft 1st round is a good night for all of us sports fans its as close to real sports as were going to get all digital all digital one guy even handed out a camper so he goes from his house to draft in the camper and then goes back to house. Some very serious stuff there but a lot of fun all right and well see how that goes 1st time ever i have thank you so much and dont go anywhere because well be back at 3 pm with a lot more news for you for example were going to talk about some technology during this coronavirus. Pandemic so much stuff that some advanced technology can actually keep tabs on how close youre physically getting with others while social distancing restrictions remain in place and i tell you its kind of creepy all that and more coming up if we cant thats it for now keep up with everything in question at all times by downloading a brain is one of the police and military about. The e. U. The e. U. One on one with economic adviser to president drum stephen more on this edition of politics. Well go to politicking on larry king economic adviser stephen war says the time to start reopening the United States for business is now he recently shared a lot of controversy when he compared social distancing protesters to civil rights activists rosa parks will find out what he meant by that as he joins me for an end of the war mama one in addition to advising the president mr moore is a member of the White House Panel on reopening america. Stephen thanks for joining us. The senate has approved a former navy 1000000. 00 leave peg is Risky Business is whats your reaction good idea. How not the biggest fan of that by the way larry so good to see you again thank you so much for having me thank you i think there are real problems with that loan program its become a bit of a sieve where that week it keeps spending more and more more money and i have a problem that a lot of the Small Businesses larry that need the money the most are necessarily getting the money we made a big mistake in turning out loan program which is something that i supported outloud for support of steve forbes supported the idea who during a time of crisis you want to give healthy businesses that were healthy and that dont have customers a bridge loan so they can get through this so that when were up and running hopefully very soon that they can they can be up and running and hiring workers what we do is we transform that into a Grant Program so that if you didnt lay off your workers the loan became a grant and so what happened has happened larry and this is a story thats not been widely tell toll is that the healthy businesses the ones that were going to layoff the records anyways they said