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A suspect who was africanamerican stories already making headlines all over the world and and this is the image thats already become iconic take a look at this picture right there this is really an important image and there you see it you see you see the officers knee with what appears to be his full weight pressing down on the suspects neck while the suspect is on the ground and handcuffed with this is say the officer held his knee on the suspects neck despite pleadings from the suspect and from bystanders for their part the officers are heard on the video suggesting that they tried to put the suspect in the cruiser but they were unable to do so also as we look at this image. Its important to note that the reason that this suspect is being arrested is because a merchant called police accusing him the suspect now identified as george floyd who you see right there with the officers knee on his neck of trying to pay with a 20. 00 bill that the merchant believes was counterfeit so thats what started all of this ok what i want to do now for you its trying to show you part of the actual video and look this goes on for quite some time ive watched it many many times and its tough to look at right and the reason i find it tough to look at and i think the reason even though im not showing you the whole thing youre going to find it tough to look at is because it seems on its face the feeling you get as you watch it is that its cruel and its just extremely cruel to see a man suffering like that but as the officer is holding his need down on floyds neck we can repeatedly hear and its clear that we hear him saying many many many times i cant breathe i cant breathe sir i cant breathe he says. Let me play part of this video for you so you could hear yourself. And you could almost see the observation you could you could almost see him there taking the weight off of his ankle and applying it on the suspects neck they held him down for a process of approximately 5 minutes thats according to witnesses thats according to Police Officials whove come out today. And now its also important to note i think this is important that the maneuver that is the maneuver that is being used by the Police Officer with his knee on floyds neck that you just saw right there and said no way sanction by any Police Procedure and thats why when the when the police chief of minneapolis saw this video that we just showed you he saw the entire thing obviously many times he immediately called the f. B. I. And turned over the investigation to the f. B. I. And to the state bureau of criminal apprehension said within hours all 4 Police Officers on the scene were fired still as you might imagine the anger look at this frustrations in the air touched off by this incident it remains palpable thousands of people interestingly both black and white some sad some angry came to the area from where where where mr floyd lost his life and theyre there to protest many of them ask why this type of incident continues to occur time after time in america where more often than not the suspect or the victim is africanamerican. Were going to drill down on this for you on what police did and also what they failed to do here on the news of rick sanchez where we believe its time to do news again. All right here we go the list of the questions we think youll be asking tomorrow why would no one in a uniform recognize a suspect in the process of dying why why is chinas explanation for sending or should i say what is chinas explanation for sending soldiers into indian territory into india. And a new era of human space flight is about to take off what do you do we need to go. By so lets begin now with the question that Many Americans continue to ask themselves why does this keep happening why do we continually have to report on incidents that seem to depict Law Enforcement officers in america treating africanamerican suspects suspects differently than they would treat other suspects and where in cases like this one this one in minneapolis that i just showed you that treatment often results in the suspects death. We have an explanation coming up here of what police may have done wrong maybe what they should have done right but we want to start now with the facts of the story 1st and here to bring you that is our 2 correspondent michele greenstock. Hundreds of people packing the streets of minneapolis Holding Signs that say black lives Matter Police responding with tear gas. The spark to these protests was the death of a man named george floyd which occurred as a Police Officer handcuffed floyd pinned him to the ground and kept his knee on it for at least 7 minutes in a video that made the rounds on social media and in the news floyd can be heard saying i cant breathe officer and begging dont kill me. Bystanders tell the officer to let floyd brief saying quote hes not responsive right now hes not even moving and check his polls but the officer keeps his body weight on floyds neck until he stops moving and for at least after. 3. Very. Good. Very. Well floyd died in Police Custody its unclear at this point if lloyd die due to suffocation choking or Something Else the Police Statement however says that floyd appeared to be suffering medical distress and that he died after being transported to the hospital for now the medical Examiners Office says that autopsy results are quote pending further testing and investigation minneapolis mayor jacob phrase stated that the incident does not reflect the values of the Police Department as for the 4 officers involved in floyds death they were at 1st relieved of duty status with pay but as the. The mayor then announced they had been fired i believe what i saw and what i saw was wrong at every level no charges have been filed against the 4 officers and Police Family says they want him charged with murder for the news i think sanchez Michelle Greenstein are here. All right so there you have it joining us now is overtired u. S. Marshal matthew fog marshall thanks so much for joining us sir we appreciate you sharing your expertise with us which is really important right now lets start with this so i heard the i watch the video many times you probably have to and i heard the officer say that they tried to put him in the cruiser but they were on able to put them in the cruiser does that explain what they did then by holding him down in the way that they did can you make us understand that or make sense of that for us. Right rick ive been to the nafta federal Law Enforcement training cynical george ive trained but Law Enforcement officers from around to confront them on the job 30 years theres no place in our training where. You take your knee and put it on smythe neck you can subdue them you can hold them down but put your knee on the internet that way this guy. You saw if he did in a man is saying i cant breathe it just takes me back here and god in new york you saying i cant work and the guy used a chokehold devils outlaw about a week on this particular. This thing that he did put its new in the next theres nothing we have that allows that so we right there he was wrong but then the fact that the man is saying i cant breathe you know it really bothers me is that the ive also still of the round and watched this they knew i actually see them back in when we did a one off to stand in that film but he what italian man let up let up but he didnt say it because he didnt want other people to feel like they were weak so now there is no there is nothing in our training that allows that and what happens is it just simply shows that disregard for life. Procedures how we should be doing things and what happens is a lot of these offices you dont have jobs they get all the training and the old saying its a good i like training this is how we do it here i have 2 questions left for you the 1st one is explain to us what they should have done ok you have a large suspect maybe hes physical as a lot of people are but cant get him into the cruiser what are you supposed to do that. You hold him down like they were doing and you try to talk to somebody this wasnt like you but somebody had a gun on him but something sometimes you want to have to you know youve got to have some type of compensation and sort of mitigate a circumstance down to where the person gets up and you walk when you get up and get really good get out because it was like that man was really. You know resisting so hes pulled away so the problem is the problem is that you need the knee on the net but youre saying having him down is not a problem putting your knee out of his neck for 5 minutes thats the problem. When hes saying i cannot breathe when the moment you start to say i cant breathe he also is sort of let off of his neck should have back the way he kept saying to the point the way to make him stand i cant even if they say for some reason or another daddy in particular death wasnt cause this was for us that something this was still her behavior that its nothing less than an assault and it should have been it should be aggravated assault and the police should have shot these officers right away because in a commanding environment the only way you can keep control and you have to have swift action it doesnt mean necessarily going to be the victim which they should be but the bottom line is it should be swift action ok should have been shot but there is i mean considering the history of these types of things this is swift action or then hours they were fired within less than a half hour the police could call the f. B. I. And told them to investigate and now there it looks like the into the moving on this is different than other cases weve seen though isnt it marshall. I dont know if i can say its different because i said new york reminded me of the same thing the case of bad what a man will say to enter in the answer is just dont you want to let we sing or went on were getting these cases where people tell you theyre being how youre hurting me and also dont care so i think what happened thats what everybody is looking at the man told him many times i cant breathe youre hurting me and also just didnt care you care at all doing what you did excellent conversation thanks for your expertise thanks for sharing that information whether we appreciate it marshall. Says the news with rick sanchez lots going on and we want to thank you for being there whether youre watching us on cable or on the portable television up the very latest on what is going to be a very historic restored moment in florida returning to space its going to happen live not without danger not without risks but well have it for you stay right there. I like it when the hosts ask a question for the guests and then actually listens to the guests answer and then react to that answer a folks Dennis Miller here ive got a new show. On the larry king question being listening learning you know ive always said i never learned anything when i was talking and simply to listen. Question more. Ive seen the horrors that arise with money and evil. Corporate criminals who trashed countless lives theyre just one more dollar to their billions. 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John who is the director of Public Policy at Hindu American Foundation and what he shared with us is why china has sent almost 1000 soldiers into india where they are now literally and camped on the india side of the border now granted its a disputed area that were talking about still its an action thats stirring international reaction. John said that china is doing this because they are trying to purposefully divert attention from their other misdeeds here to take a listen to how he 1st and foremost is a distraction from what youre seeing in hong kong from chinas culpability in the early stages of the spread of coronavirus but at the same time its partially in response to assisting chinas ally pakistan which is essentially a failed state that cannot assert any control over the sheer harsh words obviously hes putting the blame directly on china joining us now with perhaps a different perspective on this is khan. Palin and pardon me hes a columnist for Foreign Policy in focus mr howard had thanks so much for joining us you heard the perspective that many in india are sharing and thats certainly what were hearing in the indian media as well what is your take on why china would put 8021000 troops on the indian side of this border. Course the chinese do not the chinese say that the indians are the aggressors and this is been going on for some time in this area last year there were a couple of fistfights and you have people throwing rocks at work or and so this particular area is disputed only through china and india are also pakistan i do think however that you really need to look at this in a regional way and that is the chinese are reacting to a growing strategy mainly led by you merican zx to bring china out of was a series of potentially hostile allies should be on south korea theyre working in indonesia in the mode of government in india and this tension really goes back to the initiation of george w. Bush and an agreement that they made to allow the indians essentially to build more Nuclear Weapons and it sort of set off a Nuclear Arms Race in asia in south asia and that this is a reflection of that yeah you have essentially a conflict there a territorial conflict and not just one country with Nuclear Weapons but 3 because you have pakistan border and then you have china and you have india now apparently the chinese say that the indians had promised and been given the right to hold that land that territory but not to build it up and thats exactly what the chinese are saying theyve seen them doing dont you think thats the precipice for this actually happening. I think that thats what the chinese say i think is probably true i dont see any of the building roads in the region and building up so as the Chinese Students are. In it i think it would be a mistake to get focused on this one incident its a general patter that people are making the most of this right. Now the americans and the u. S. State Department Issues you know are condemned china. And secretary of state my home peo is particularly and probably most anti chinese a secretary of state with our hand again is related knowingly to tensions between india and sure let me let me just say let me stop you for a minute mr allen ok if thats the case if the United States is trying to make china look bad in the eyes of the world and hoping the the incidents kind of do that why would china help them why would china send in 800000 troops something they have not done in 20 some years in that region. It doesnt seem to me to be a very smart thing to do i see some of the chinese actions in general in the South China Sea for instance against vietnam philippines except how heavy. I understand the rationale there looking at the possibility of being isolated the way the soviet union was during the 1950 s. And 196005 a series of anti soviet alliances and so i think what makes a makes a pretty testy and i think thats partly what this is about i dont think this is going to turn into anything major thats my own feeling but you never can tell you know these are Nuclear Armed states and. Then things happen well you certainly know this region khan how i have. My thanks to you and my apologies for screwing up your name twice. Everybody mr knox is the irish and i have it appreciate it thank you very much something really special is going to take place today and you should be able to see it live as it happens were right here on r t america were happy to say space x. Its a private space Transportation Company essentially its going to launch its very for. 1st passengers into space youre looking at live pictures now the astronauts as they prepare that bob behnken and doug hartley theyve been training since well since 2018 and this is the very beginning of what is d a new era in human space flight for the United States really for the world and its not without danger and its not without risk but its going to be the 1st time in nearly a decade that people have been launched into orbit from american soil and itll be the 1st time that a private vehicle is actually going to be taking them there joining us now from florida is our t. Correspondent john hardy whos following this story for us and bring us up to date this that this is a pretty big deal job. Yeah definitely it is a big deal its a historic flight and right now rick all systems are ago the big concern has really been the weather over the past few days weve had a lot of stormy conditions here in florida particularly south florida and Central Florida a lot of wind lot of rain choppy seas so that was creating some concern about whether or not this launch would have to be postponed until possibly the weekend though at this point were being told that the weather is cooperating and all systems like i said are ago the launch is scheduled for 4 33 pm Eastern Standard Time from Kennedy Space center at Cape Canaveral florida this is a hard time and it is an instantaneous time what i mean by that is they have to launch at 433. 00 because if they dont rick maybe they risk missing the International Space station during its rotation around or if so they have to make that time and that is when the demo 2 crew of the space x. Dragon will lift off from atop the falcon 9 rocket and continue to orbit linking up after about 19 hours with the i s. S. Assuming all goes well and this does proceed the demo 2 crew you mentioned theyre veteran astronauts bob bank and doug hurley whove been preparing for months for this flight going even back to 2018 theyve been in quarantine for 10 weeks they arrived to the cape in Kennedy Space Center Last Week they have been going to through all the final details all the checks of their suits of the helmets of the spacecraft and on and on so nasa administrator jim bryanston said that he texted the 2 astronauts writing quote if you want me to stop this scene for any reason say so ill stop in a heartbeat he said they wrote back no more go for a launch so its truly historic one on one rick because this is the 1st time space x. A private company is sending out 2 astronauts so its really a test flight aboard a spacecraft and its the 1st since 2001 that the u. S. Is sending 2 u. S. Astronauts. Aboard a u. S. Spacecraft on u. S. Soil to orbit so really a new era and space flight about to begin from a historic launch point launched launch pad 39. 00 a which is where the apollo 11 mission blasted off from way back when so you know really an exciting day were watching it were following and im looking at right now the 2 astronauts are in the capsule they strapped in right around 30 minutes ago so theyre doing kind of a final preparations as we get ready for the you know for a countdown here can you imagine i mean all of us all of you watching was shot right there from all over the world what is going through the mind of those 2 guys as they get ready right now to get shot into space and johns going to join us as are many other guests were going to cover this live for you will be on the air shortly before 430 and well carry it through to 5 oclock that new york or washington time for those of you who are watching us are around the world what a day what a story john how do you thanks my friend look forward to. You bet meeting you are having you on here again in just a couple of hours here all right all right lets lets do this now we go to europe where the e. U. Finds itself stuck between a rock and a hard place the old veritable rock and hard place the old continent has been the u. S. His right hand man really for almost a century now but the rise of china has shaken that bond recently and with china and the u. S. Now officially mired in a new cold war as we just alluded to moments ago the top diplomat has said that the time has come to choose sides. That europe has to decide whether its going to stick with this special relationship this bond with the United States or change course maybe radically and start growing with china whos about to become the new world d superpower all right weve got 2 minutes for this discussion but i want to hear what George Galloway has to say he joins us now george what say if you. Well it was an important statement and its important in 2 ways 1st of all it does mark as youve alluded move away from the United States just 7 days 6 years after the great sacrifice of d. Day and the landings in normandy know d china and the United States are being viewed as someone that you have to make a judgment between theres no automatic city anymore in europe support for the United States it also is important because a explicitly states the new asian sent century has begun youll remember some of the fellows on the. What determined that this would be a new American Century well for the e. U. The new asian century has begun and the European Union is going to have to find a way of maintaining decent relations with both sides and that isnt going to be easy because washington isnt going to like the small print of what the European Union diplomats have said today yeah it sounds like theyre making them choose now now more than ever it looks like the United States is pushing other countries its either us or them and you cant choose both were just going to have to see the way this plays out i was hoping we could have a little longer conversation george but weve had a really busy newscast so i look forward to talking to you again my friend always enjoy my conversations with George Goodnight so once again were going to bring you live that moment when the space x. Is shot into well into orbit in fact were going to leave you with you taking a listen to the sounds are coming now from Mission Control here it is and well see you again in a couple hours. 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