Different incidents that have been taking place here in the persian gulf over the last several weeks how volatile this this region right here has become of late its almost like think of it this way its like this area here is like a line of demarcation between 2 countries that hate each others guts they despise each other right so heres saudi arabia on this side of the firs in golf right saudi arabia which needs United States protection here in the gulf which it offers which also needs United States protection here in yemen where its fighting a war right now let me show you the adversaries the other side right here is a wrong as you can see right there which supports the factions in yemen that are at war with saudi arabia and also what can we say about iran well they want dominion of this area of the persian gulf and are trying to establish a. With its navy so both iran and saudi arabia right you have iran and saudi arabia fighting for had gemini in this region they both want to say were the boss you know were were controlling this situation but something something happened last year something that began to alter this a little bit let me show you another map so we can capture what were talking about here bring that in if you can kevin all right here it is its these 2 dots essentially right here see these 2 locations that are not far from riyadh that last september of last year there was a bold attack i mean they hit them hard these are the famous aramco oil fields in saudi arabia one of them are kurds right here this is called an ill try pronouncing it but its a blue kill right here in this region and the other one occurred here in the region known as coup rise those are 2 big giant Major Oil Fields they knocked out Oil Production for more than 2 weeks shut them down and there is reason to suspect that you know who was behind it iraq right iran behind the attack so what happened saudi arabia turns to the United States after this incident and they say please help us United States so the United States sent them several batteries of Patriot Missiles and 2 jet fighter squadrons to defend these particular oil fields so guess what happened within the past week the United States says to saudi arabia sorry charlie were going to take those Patriot Missiles and the fighter squadrons back youre on your own because the saudis were Still Producing and shipping out too much oil causing the price of u. S. Crude to tank and all the businesses here were complaining to the white house the white house picks up the phone they threaten saudi arabia essentially telling them look you either stop producing or are you going to lose the protection that were giving you and then the white house did it wasnt just a thought. President trump pulled the protection so now guess what saudi arabia does guess what theyve just done they just announce that theyre going to reduce their output of oil again by another 1000000 barrels a day right so essentially as i lay out this an aureole for you you have to ask yourself who is the winner in all of this and whos the loser well the winner in all of this say middle east experts is iran interestingly enough while theyre also saying that for the 1st time in a long time theyre seeing the the saudi veneer if you will showing signs of cracking let me put up another sign that kind of shows you what were talking about these are the signs that the saudis are hurting right. Or oil demand down right nobody wants or oil because of covert 19 that stuff for a country thats basically a one trick pony economy right theyre forced to cut their production right they say that they will not pay for their own defense really. And iran is not letting up and now we have Something Else we have learned that its going to begin to tax its own people as we see here in the bottom of the kingdom is actually increasing its that its a value added tax which is what they call it there we dont have it here its a tax on consumers and businesses by a whopping 15 percent thats a situation something we havent seen in a while this is friction this is pain where there usually isnt any now how does this change the middle east dynamic. Thats all were going to drill down on right here on the news of rick sanchez where we believe its time to do news again. Is one of the worlds richest countries hurting at how much how many states in the u. S. Are opening restaurants today show greenstein is going to handle that for us is the Worlds LargestRetail Entertainment venue really reopening is me all right lets begin with the curious case of saudi arabia for decades it has flown to its wealth on the world stage often times to the point of seeming almost repugnant about it and with the exception of iran countries big and small all over the world have told saudi arabia whatever you want you can have but cope at 19 in the circumstances were seeing now globally maybe changing that is it episodic is it long term expanded coverage on this story and were going to get with our t. V. Correspondent john. Saudi arabia like the rest of the world has been struggling with the coronavirus pandemic the kingdom of 34000000 people has more than 42000 confirmed cases and close to 300 deaths anough to hit the economy there hard as well so much so riyadh is planning a tripling its vet the value added tax on basic goods from 5 percent to 15 percent starting july 1st while also suspending the cost of living allowance to its citizens starting june 1st saudi arabia instituted the back 2 years ago as part of an overall plan to cut its reliance on the worlds crude oil market the cost of living allowance of 1000. 00 reales or about 270. 00 per month to state employees starting in 2018 to help offset the increased cost of the vax and a rise in the price of petrol now with revenues following day. Because of the coronavirus pandemic the kingdom is looking to recoup the money lost the countrys finance minister mohammad alger don said in a statement the measures are aimed at helping put public finances in a position to support the economy as it emerges from lockdown adding quote these measures are painful but necessary to maintain financial and economic stability over the medium to long term and overcome the unprecedented Coronavirus Crisis with the least damage possible the question is how much damage these measures will have the most drastic action taken yet by a major golf will producer since oil prices plunged more than half in march the International Monetary fund has projected that all 6 Energy Producing gulf states in the Gulf Cooperation Council saudi arabia kuwait bahrain cutter United Arab Emirates and oman will be an economic recession this year and as the g. C. C. States grapple with the Financial Outlook post pandemic saudi arabia is also planning to cut its Oil Production by 1000000. 00 barrels starting june 1st to reportedly further help support the Global Oil Markets coate and the u. A. E. Also planned additional cuts meantime the United States is removing 2 Patriot Missile batteries that had been guarding Saudi Oil Fields from iranian attacks and what was reportedly the fall out from the dispute over the Saudi Oil Price War with russia asked about the removal of the patriot batteries President Trump said this last week what i want to talk about it but were doing some things were making a lot of moves in the middle east and elsewhere were doing a lot of things all over the world militarily weve been taken advantage of all over the world our military and. In the sense that were and this is nothing to do with saudi arabia this has to do with other countries frankly much more u. S. Secretary of state my palm peo said the Patriot Missile battery which all did not signal any decreasing support for saudi arabia nor was it related to the ongoing oil dispute between saudi. Maybe in russia pompei 0 said the u. S. Still considers iran a threat it will likely be a topic of discussion when secretary pompei a meets with israeli officials this week in jerusalem where hes also expected to discuss Israels West Bank and plans and chinas control of israels haifa port for the news with Rick Sanchez John honey great stuff john thanks for putting that together for us so what do you do when all youve got is or why suddenly nobody watches it joining us now are 2 perfect guests to discuss this topic of former u. K. M. P. George galloway and economist and noted professor Richard Wolffe professor im going to start with you what do you make of this this sticky wicket that suddenly the saudi arabians of find themselves in. Well the 1st thing id say is that anybody who continues to believe in as secretary of state palmdale really needs to clean their ears and reopen their eyes at the understand you had it right rick this is a very important break in the relationship between the United States and saudi arabia they used to Work Together pretty well pretty consistently to make a lot of money for Oil Companies by moving the price up or down as needed now theyve had a falling out the United States in the leadership of mr trump wants to make friends among the people doing the oil fracking and in the oil business in the middle of our country from china in the north through texas in the south to do that in ca to get the price up and to get the price up the biggest producer of oil in the world is saudi arabia weve had a cold virus that worsens that the me and simple law of economics cut the supply so far down that the price of oil goes up that is what the people in the midwest the crackers want are and thats what the Oil Producers want a fact a little hurt all of us with our heating oil and our gasoline and the fertilizer producers will use the oil that comes later thats after the election the immediate job is what it is and its audis have to go along or else they get threatened in exactly the way you summer thats interesting and im thinking george i wonder. Are the iranians smart enough to new to to know this was coming and to kind of almost. In a mouth of alien fashion set this whole thing up as some are charging. No i think they just sit back and watch the special relationship between the u. S. And saudi arabia begin to see it and is whats happening as richard professor wolf just said the special relationship doesnt look so special now the trumpet ministration has punished saudi arabia quite severely here this is not just a token withdrawal its sending a big message to the world and the punishment is for flooding the market with oil trying to destroy the shero oil and fracking oil industry in the United States and severely damaging the interests of the u. S. And multinational Oil Companies so you might say saudi arabia was a trifle ungrateful in doing that because the United States underwrites the very existence of saudi arabia and president grump was very blunt about that last year when he said publicly that the saudi royal dictatorship would he didnt put it that way wouldnt last 2 weeks without the american underwriting and that was brutal but true so i dont think iran has set this up but iran is clearly a beneficiary of it after just how this caviar though rick theres still plenty of u. S. Hardware in the persian gulf the biggest u. S. Military base in the whole world is next door to saudi arabia and qatar and as weve discussed before the persian gulf is chock a block with American Naval hardware professor let me ask you economically speaking lets look at the long range picture here i imagine the saudis are saying eventually this whole things going to be over everyones going to want our oil again and were going to be top dog are they smart are they right or wrong if theyre thinking that way. Well i think that theyre probably carefully weighing the pros and cons of what might happen since none of us really know let me add another caution being production by a 1000000 barrels is not going to bring the price of oil up because the problem is much bigger than that there would have to be much larger cuts both in saudi arabia and in the other Oil Producing countries who are not at all in a position to do that. Not russia not my area and so on so i think youre going to see more maneuvering as each side tries to give up the least an order to get the most and saudi arabia is going to have to do more than were seeing now if thats going to be the way to fix this problem and they are going to resist because its shaking up their own society its a really important story im so glad we had a chance to discuss it with up with you guys i appreciate your time to both of you thank you very much by the way theres something happening in the United States its very important this week in particular were starting to see restaurants all over the country open up the pens on what state what community theyre in one of the roles were going to break it down for you this is the news break sanchez and thats next will be right back. Id like it when the hosts ask a question for the guests and then actually listens to the guests answer and then react to that thats 8 folks Dennis Miller here ive got a new shout. 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Im holland cook i invite you to climb with me of the Mainstream Media empire and from that higher fat age to glimpse the big picture question more. Welcome back this is a really important story for all of us certainly of for parents or grandparents the the general consensus from the very beginning of covert 19 in this pandemic were going through has been that children especially small children are essentially not even affected by the corona virus not affected but no last week there have started to we have started to see some reports both out of the out of the u. K. And here in the United States and now out of california that seem to suggest that some children in rare cases are succumbing to something called pediatric inflammatory syndrome pediatric inflammatory sentiment a much longer but i kind of shortened it for you it is said to be associated with corona virus and can be quite serious on your correspondent files this report for us today with the latest out of new york which includes this risk to children. As many are expecting new york officials to begin easing restrictions on friday hard hit new york city has to wait and im a beginning of june is when well be able to start filling in the blanks de blasio addressing the likelihood of nonessential businesses opening up in americas largest and hardest hit city in the near future but cautions the state and local rates of transmission in cases is still a major factor unless something miraculous happened were going into june so i think its fair to say that june is when were potentially going to be able to make some real changes if we can continue our progress and more and more but the number of coronavirus cases in this city increasing as of may 10th hospitalizations 1st. We apologize we had a little bit of a technical snafu there but well be sure and get back to the story because this is important the part about the children is in the back end of her report we want to make sure you see that since we had just explained it to you well get back to that dont worry so lets move to Something Else which is equally important it seems like the measure of how businesses in the United States will begin to reopen is often best illustrated by retail and restaurants right and what i mean by that is this if a community is willing to open its restaurants that usually means its ready to start getting things back to normal so this week in our america reopening segment weve asked Michel Greenstein to look into who is and who is not opening restaurants in the usa the shelter get away rick the red states that were about to see here are where restaurants are still not allowed to offer and House Services all these red states are limited to some form of takeout or delivery right but many of these red states already have plans in place to reopen their Indoor Dining rooms right West Virginia kentucky ohio these are all states scheduled to reopen dining rooms next week in New HampshireWest Virginia and louisiana the dining rooms may be closed but outdoor seating is already allowed now in washington restaurants are closed over all but just today 2 counties were approved to start reopening their restaurants now the green states are states that have already allowed restaurants to start offering dine and services again like arizona which just reopened its dining rooms yesterday but still many of the states have restrictions on things like capacity right like in arkansas also opened yesterday but no groups of over 10 are allowed now texas alaska and florida these states have Indoor Dining rooms but are only allowed to fill them to 25 percent of their normal capacity in florida its not all counties but it is most in alabama indiana mississippi nebraska nevada and iowa 8 its 50. Scent of normal capacity again in iowa its not all counties but it is most now georgia is an interesting case because Indoor Dining rooms are limited to only holding 10 people per 500 square feet and by the way rick people from other states actually sort of flocking to georgia when they open their restaurants in fact an average of over 500000 people did that per day now South Carolina is also an interesting case because while they are reopening the restaurants in North Carolina are still close right and Business Owners in North Carolina say theyre actually feeling some of these effects for some of these restaurants you know restaurants in South Carolina are just a few miles up the road and the restaurants in North Carolina say that while they were barely getting by with the business they were making from to go orders now theyre making even less money now that South Carolina has opened its dining rooms and overall it really seems like dining rooms are the key here yesterday r. T. Spoke with Andrew Zimmern a chef and founder of a restaurant 6 Development Company he says that when it comes to restaurants going out of business its really about these independent middle tier restaurants the ones that rely on dining rooms and not the fast food chains he says that these restaurants will be hit the hardest financially lets take a listen i think theres always going to be a man for super fine dining at a very high level i think at the very bottom of the tear the sass crude sector is going to secure this out really really fast theyre almost ideally suited for limited. Customer contact anyway its all those restaurants in the middle the independent restaurants and we need a Restaurant Stabilization Fund we need a long term sustained support of this industry so that they are open for business and the reason we need it is that we are the 2nd largest employer in america right behind the Defense Department and. Thats good stuff michel thanks so much for bringing us up to date its always good to see under simmer by the way bizarre foods right. Get back to this report in this business we call this a real rock we had a little technical snafu with the report from new york but this is important because it has to do with children in particular so lets rewrite this report so you can see it once again this is again turn a child is filing a report out of new york where there now are signs that some children can be affected by a current of ours here it is. As many are expecting new york officials to begin easing restrictions on friday hard hit new york city has to wait and im a beginning of june is when well be able to start filling in the blanks de blasio addressing the likelihood of nonessential businesses opening up in americas largest and hardest hit city in the near future but cautions the state and local rates of transmission and cases is still a major factor unless something miraculous happened were going into june so i think its fair to say that june is when were potentially going to be able to make some real changes if we can continue our progress and more and more but the number of krona virus cases in the city increasing as of may 10th hospitalizations were slightly up to 57 from 55 a day before and the number of i. C. Used also increased to 555 from 537 the number of people testing positive up to 14 percent the virus claiming more than 20000 lives since the outbreak began the city testing around 14000 people a day who wants to ramp it up to 20000 a day but if the shows are still scrambling to understand how the virus affects children the citys Health Commissioner advising families such tripe to remain indoors as much as possible their reality is that were still going out. Isnt being shown and so it turns out im actually a muslim. Family. Much as. It should. Be. So you see. This as doctors in california identify what they believe is the 1st known case linking killed in 1000 to a rare inflammatory disease in children as cases grow across the country at least 11 states have reported children with the rare pediatrics linked to corona virus with new york now investigating at least 93 cases reporting in new york Trinity Chavez r. T. We had some cavity odds to this because its this is a story thats now getting looked at by Health Professionals from all over the United States and in fact the world so i want to share with you some of the Key Takeaways because i know many of you are parents and for the 1st time youre thinking its bad enough if this disease affects me but my goodness what happens if it starts to affect our children here heres what some of the the consensus in the Health Care Community seems to be 2 things are clear about this now very still mysterious pattern of illnesses 1st theyre saying look and this is really important its rare ok its not like children all over the United States and all over the world are being afflicted by covert 19 all of a sudden the 2nd thing that theyre trying to the point that theyre trying to make is that clinicians who suspect that there is a case should immediately contact a pediatric Infectious Disease rheumatology or Critical Care specialist and this is something that they want all physicians and people listening to the sound of my voice right now to be extremely aware d they do say here heres some of the symptoms theyre talking about a child presents which is a medical term for what the symptoms are persistent fever inflammation defined as elevated lymphoma for example evidence of single or more to multi organ dysfunction shock in the child renal kidney issues and some additional features which they describe so these are the things theyre saying that you need. To look for in a child at this point its still rare still considered something that theyre following and were obviously going to bring you all the information we can as we get it by the way. In our next episode the latest on whats going on with disney world theyve Just Announced in Business World that theyre going to start taking reservations going to tell you all about that and break it down for you right here on news rick sanchez or as we like to say so if. You do news. You cannot be both with yet you like. During the vietnam war u. S. Forces also bombs neighboring laos it was a secret war. And for years the American People did not know. How much it is officially the. Country per capita. Human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this Small Agricultural country jordyn wieber. Even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago is the u. S. Making amends for that tragedy in laos was built to the people need in that little land of mine. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics. Small business im show business ill see you then. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation whole community. Are you going the right way or are you being led software. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. For a mate in the shallows. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confront dacian let it be an arms race off and spearing Dramatic Development only personally im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time