Being challenged more than 100000 of you have watched and commented on the story that we did earlier this week a believes that the United States dollar is about to be horribly devalued because of what the fed is doing by printing so much money seemingly out of fair probably right the u. S. Dollar will undoubtedly at some point be worth less and may eventually be pushed out as the only world currency probably by china maybe in the next 10 to 15 years. But heres todays developments it appears that theres another player in the world stage thats making a similar move russia is now sending signals of no confidence in the u. S. Dollar as well and its doing so in a different way see the Russian Parliament has now officially cleared the way for the country to double its supply of gold what it is essentially doing is its removing the barriers including taxes so that russia can accelerate its gold buying spree the kremlin has made the dollar is ation as its been called a long term priority this its been going on since 2013 but now given whats happening in the United States economy. Seems to be doubling down is russia so where is this leading and what does this eventually going to mean for the u. S. And for the Global Economy were going to break this down for you right here on the news with rick sanchez where we believe its time to do news again. Heres our list of the questions that we think youll be asking the morrow after watching our newscast today can the United States dollar survive the challenge from china and now from russia. Why is covered 19 resurging throughout the United States and whats it doing to the markets why is United States in a spot with the International Criminal court. Look there is no question that chinas ultimate goal is to compete with the u. S. Dollar as a World Exclusive currency it is doing so because well because it can its that big its economy that large russia on the other hand has been pushing to the dollar is now since 23rd team or so it is doing so because it feels that the u. S. And europe has given them no other choice but with all the sanctions and the other acts of hostility as they see it but now russia seeing what is happening the u. S. Economy is doubling down and doing so in gold. Heres that story from moscow with r. T. Correspondent do you shop of all of a. Not a days march is domestic refineries use approximately 60 percent of their capacity and im going to in fact is hindering the development of the countrys Precious Metals not his ph d. Now russias lower house of parliament plans to adopt a new law according to its 20 percent of the on imported Precious Metals will be scrapped as a result of the billions of Gold Production the country is expected to double nowadays about 300. 00 tons of gold are processed in russia annually according to the latest data published by the ministry of finance in 2019 gold mining in the country increased by more than 9 percent compared to the Previous Year classes know 20 percent of the 80 on Precious Metals imports additional volumes of real gold will come from africa central asia and latin america that for more Precious Metals will be refined in the country in the future and that will positively affect employment of the population since an increase in the Production Capacity will require an increase in the number of joy. Jobs the move is also expected to create an investment gold market in russia according to experts as a financial instrument gold is protected from inflation and at a time of just political risks and financial instability due to the coronavirus pandemic the metal could be an excellent substitute for traditional investments in you had dollars at the same time since april 1st 2020 by russia has suspended indefinitely the purchase of gold on the domestic Precious Metals market according to experts that decision was expected 1st in more than 5 years russias gold reserves have more than doubled during all those years russia was getting rid of Us Government bonds and bind gold with the proceeds from that secondly now there is simply no additional money in the budget for that due to the 1000. 00 pandemic basically during the crisis as the price of gold is high its purchase apparently is no longer a priority for the bank of russia by the way as of may 1st 2020 the countries gold reserves accumulated by the central bank were worth 126000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars thats more than 20 percent of the total number of foreign reserves of the country we all know gold prices have been growing drastically recently just a year ago an ounce of the precious metal cost 1300. 00 u. S. Dollars at Global Stock Markets now its more than 7 1800. 00 currently the u. S. Has the most gold reserves in the world more than 8000. 00 tons russias 5th with nearly 2300. 00 tons thats nearly 74000000. 00 ounces of gold possessed by the countrys central bank us from our r. C. You heard you here mention in her report whats going on with covert martin well theres an update today growing concerns over a resurgence of coronavirus cases as states are beginning to reopen is that the reopening that is causing this this is what a lot of folks are thinking 21 states are now reporting an increase in new coronavirus cases and at least a dozen states are seeing. Drastic and for term hospitalizations some stage nearing capacity want to go is this going to lead to another well push Public Officials to ask for another lock down for more on this we bring in our to dirty jobs. As states are reopening cities and counties across the country are warning of a surge of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations this as the total number of infections in the u. S. Surpasses 2000000 today coast to coast pushing ahead with reopening plans even as experts warn of a potential 2nd wave of cold the 19. We will see some. Doesnt mean its true. Some medical experts warning of the u. S. Could surpass the 200000 death toll by september florida texas arizona and california among the 21 states seen an increase of cases texas reporting over 2500 new coronavirus cases the highest one day total since the pandemic began and one month into floridas reopening this week the state reported more than 8500. 00 new coronavirus cases the most of any 7 day period this as at least 12 states are reporting an increase in cold in 1000 hospitalizations arizonas daily tally of cases has abruptly spiked in the last 2 weeks hitting its all time high the state now reporting hospitals are around 83 percent capacity californias hospitalisations also hitting their highest mark since may 13th. Is actually. Is occurring across the country. Drivers and. Some experts say the surge of new cases is linked to memorial Day Festivities one hundreds pact russia france pulls beaches and parks during the Holiday Weekend and in the wake of the nation why protests following the death of george floyd in Police Custody many are now wondering what will happen in the coming weeks. My hope is that you are still practicing you know social distancing where you know masks being smart being safe now well there could be several reasons as to why we are seeing you hotspots emerge throughout the country one thing is for sure the resurgence of cases could consequential just scale back on reopening and if hospitals hit capacity it could cause the state to close down once again reporting in new york trinity each others r. T. Imagine pretending to be a cia agent. At least for a while getting away with it this is a crazy story. And some of us a former head of Public Affairs for the Drug Enforcement administration in other words a guy who used to work like marketing for the dea and then later he became a producer for a tabloid entertainment show t m z fox the network fox not fox news was arrested and charged with orchestrating an elaborate scheme in which he posed as an undercover cia operative and then scam 4000000. 00 out of Government Contractors who apparently bought his game bought his story this is nuts heres john hardy with more on this. Homeland this is not unlike the hit show time series about cia spies and operatives this is the real life story of a scam artist who managed to convert contractors and various companies into putting him on the payroll by posing as a cia spy a 22 page statement of facts by the u. S. Attorneys office in virginia alleges that 44 year old kerosene Kenneth Courtney of Tampa Florida told about a Dozen Companies he was part of a secret cia Task Force Working on intelligence gathering and that the companies needed to hire him to provide a quote commercial cover for his top secret and classified work the department of justice claims he even provided fake documents and used unknowing Public Officials as part of his scheme adding quote courtney went to extraordinary lengths to perpetuate the illusion that he was a deep cover operative prosecutors say he diverted 4400000. 00 over 4 years from 2012 to 2016 from the various companies that fell for his ruse courtenay never worked for the cia but he was a Public Affairs chief for the v. A. From 2005 to 2009 and he held a bunch of other jobs over his career including reportedly a t. V. News reporter at one point and even a producer for the celebrity gossip show t. M. C. On far. Ochs courtney did apply for a job at the cia around 2005 according to the d. O. J. And was reportedly given a conditional on her but never responded to it during his scheme he got a job as a private contractor for the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center and was privy to classified information and as if that wasnt enough courtney conjured up quite the story about his life as a spy and soldier in the gulf war claiming he had hundreds of confirmed kills survived an assassination attempt by a Foreign Intelligence Service and sustained lung injuries from oil field smoke during the gulf war actually courtney who is 44. 00 would have been in high school at the time of the gulf war and only joined the navy after the war had already ended and he suffered lung damage from forest fires in montana as a youth it was only after some of the Company Started questioning why the cia wasnt paying them for their contracts with courtney a fraud apparently unraveled Garrison Courtney who also went by the alias glenn now sitting gary pearson pled guilty to wire fraud and faces up to 20 years in federal prison for the news with Rick Sanchez John hardy i guess if youre going to try and tell a lie make sure its a whopper make sure its a really big one seem to work for this guy for a while while rick sanchez youre watching our special coverage on this friday edition and we will be right back. You know mix is called the dismal science for a reason it is often imprecise in almost always open to see what you want to see in many ways to do nothings remains in our economic situation. Is much more than about our politics its about the way we live for this foreseeable future are we witnessing a recovery if so what kind of. The world. Thinks. We dare to ask. What about europe today openly criticizing the United States i know thats not something you hear every day because well for the most part the u. S. And the e. U. European union act like best most of the time but today the e. U. Is saying it has very serious concerns with the Trump White House and what the Trump White House is doing so here let me set this up for you here is what this is really all about so the International Criminal court is investigating whether war crimes occurred during the Afghanistan War and whether they were committed by say the taliban or Afghan Forces or u. S. Forces look at everybody or u. S. Contractors but upon hearing this president drop immediately put a camacho on this by putting sanctions that essentially punishes anybody who comes before this court as a witness threatening anyone who assists the criminal courts investigation in any way if it looks into the actions of any u. S. Soldiers or u. S. Citizens is the e. U. Right for questioning trump or is mr trump right were going to debate this but 1st here is our t. Correspondent alex mohan of it. It may be ok for people of other nations the crime. Which you have been convicted of is of significant gravity but when the u. S. Is accused of war crimes the one time supporter of the International Criminal court says its citizens are not subject to the same rules rest assured that the men and women of the United States armed forces will never appear before the i. C. C. And nor will they ever be subjected to the judgments of unaccountable International Bodies even though the United States was a signatory of the treaty which established the i. C. C. In 2002 just weeks before it took a fact the george w. Bush administration withdrew from the International Agreement the reason the u. S. Was concerned that a court outside of americas borders would have jurisdiction over its citizens the trumpet ministration is echoing the sentiment i. C. C. Cannot subject americans to arrest prosecution in jail the us is not a party to the rome statute that created the i. C. C. And even if a prosecution were to proceed it would make a mockery of due process however even after president bush pulled out of the agreement there had been times that the us has worked with the International Criminal court the Obama Administration assisted in i. C. C. Investigations including helping to expose human rights abuses in sit down start for region but now things are different trumps beef with the International Criminal court is an investigation that was greenlit in march the worlds only standing war crimes tribunal is looking into alleged misconduct by u. S. Troops in afghanistan the probe zeroes in on crimes against humanity including torture rape and other alleged misdeeds by American Forces during the war in afghanistan and at cia interrogation facilities in countries including poland lithuania and romania all who are i. C. C. Member states. Following this precedent the u. S. Could also be investigated for similar crimes in iraq and for assisting saudi arabia and its brutal Yemen Campaign currently the i. C. C. Has 123. 00 member countries including major u. S. Allies such as the United Kingdom france and canada even with friends on board the latest investigation seems to have irritated the trumpet ministration to the point where its lashing out Trump Administration is taking the following actions. First were authorizing the imposition of economic sanctions against i. C. C. Officials directly engaged in i. C. C. Efforts to investigate u. S. Personnel or allied personnel against that allied states consent and against others who Material Support such officials activities and 2nd the u. S. Is imposing visa restrictions on officials involved in the investigations and their family members although the Trump Administration may insist that americans are not subject to the court since the u. S. Pulled out of the rome statute things dont necessarily work that way american citizens can be subject to the i. C. C. Has jurisdiction in investigations of crimes that are committed in countries that are members of the court such as afghanistan in fact there is nothing unusual about this as with all countries if u. S. Citizens commit a crime abroad they are subject to a foreign courts jurisdiction. Many believe the u. S. Sanctions against the court undermine bits global order while diminishing the power of sanctions which are usually reserved for terrorists and dictators and not organizations trying to uphold the law for use with rick sanchez and alex my love it. Joining us now ned ryan c. E. O. Of american majority also joining us former u. P. A. M p George Galloway george i kind of think i know where youre going to fall most but im not quite sure where ned stand so let that wanted to throw out the 1st salvo here. Well no i mean weve never as pompei aside weve were not part of the rome statute we have always fought the i. C. C. Attempts to assert jurisdiction over u. S. Military personnel and again i would reiterate george w. Bush who i wrote for was exactly right we were not going to be part of the i. C. C. For fear that it would target military personnel and the real question the real debate here rick is over National Sovereignty the u. S. Is not going to surrender some sovereign sovereignty to some International Court and if they insist on trying to assert control this is why youre seeing the trumpet ministration push back if you would like to try and do this we will revoke pieces for you your family members and well freeze your assets you can have it both ways you can target u. S. Military personnel as war criminals and then try enjoy all the privileges and benefits of this country george to you. This is our court to were talking about judges legal officials i mean you cant appoint yourselves as the worlds policeman but refused to go to a court and threaten a scorched earth towards the court if they have the goal to prosecute crimes that were committed in a country which is a member of the court these alleged crimes do not gather it is a member of the court therefore the court has. Every right to examine allegations of war crimes in the long conflict still going on in afghanistan. And refusing to allow look julie in our sound as a personal friend of mine the same people who are taking this approach to a the idea of sending an american accused to a court in the hague other very people demanding that my friend must be sent by britain to the United States to disappear for the rest of his life publishing documents which revealed war crimes said to you were a world war taught world what couple things 1st of all are talking about a question of legitimacy and do we actually recognize us or we never have a rick we have never recognized their legitimacy to assert jurisdiction over us military personnel why not address the issue weve never given it why no but. Why i would ask why would we this is about National Sovereignty were not going to let them target u. S. Military personnel who were sent there and i would i think the bigger argument we cant talk about it too much but is again why are we even sending people to afghanistan and iraq i would quibble with that but they were sent by their commander in chief and by the generals but i will say this rick if youre going to quibble about the United States pushing back we should talk about russia we should talk about china we should talk about all these other countries that are also not part of the i. C. C. Again because of the issue of National Sovereignty as your problem just would try us troops or one of our contractors what about some of these contractors we hear about whove done some pretty awful things in different places if they happen to have u. S. Citizenship they cant be held by a court either who are being who are being held accountable who have to face charges in this country rick who are being held accountable thats what pompei all stressed he stressed that very issue so galloway to you george can we he say look we should trust the United States our court system is every bit as good if not better than the World Criminal Court so let us handle it were going to do it well well do it right. You are entitled not to extradite your accused people to the hague that is your National Sovereignty but whats being done here is to threaten the International Court from even investigated cases of alleged war crimes thats completely unconscionable has father divided europe from the United States if the United States is content to lose every friend its ever had in the world then go ahead the plot of. The run. The nord stream to the International Criminal court go ahead burn everything tell everyone to go and get lost but dont expect to be loved the end of. You you make a good point. Well know those those are all issues of course which thats why trouble selected we didnt want to be part of the core we didnt want to be we disagree with norm stream to and i will say this rick at the end of the day economic interest will continue alliances and friendships moving Forward Trust me people will still want to do business with the United States for economic reasons so spare me some of this so in the end the guy who has the gold has the power. Right my thanks to you. George what a wonderful conversation with 2 really smart guys defending their point of view thank you again. I was a hell of a debate i like a good debate and i like to go back and for the. Galloway talk like that one guy was a maniac but i was going to be. The guy you just boyd of do you talk about you know gallo. So we can we got 2 minutes to for you to tell me whats going on with redacted tonight i understand youve got a barn burner coming lets see how much we can squeeze in here i did 1516 facts about the american policing that a blow your mind some of them im sure youve covered on this show you know American Police could kill roughly a 1000 americans a year year after year in other countries you know in the u. K. They average like 3 to 7 a year in denmark and switzerland they often go a whole year without killing anyone so what was that was the number here 1001000 in the u. S. 0 in certain other countries denmark switzerland can you believe they let everyone live why would they do that is crazy right and then i also get into like the prosecution rate which we dont often talk about from 252019 and we see also reported on this 3 officers were actually convicted of the highest crime of murder 3 out of 14000. 00 americans killed or something 3 that the prosecution success rate of point 0. I saw that one percent of officers have ever been involved in anything questionable have ever been brought yeah. And then i get into the training which training of Police Forces across america they average. A 100 hours on how to shoot their weapon and 8 hours on deescalation so they learn a lot how to kill people very little how to not kill people how to avoid killing people and trained army rangers and guys who are coming back from the wars and every stand in iraq which is like right are we are one people yeah but with p. T. S. D. On the streets its kind of like but were not enemies im not the enemy of a Police Officer why are you greening him by somebody who was in a war with our enemies i agree and also if you compare it to training of other professions like in most states hairstylists need more training than a cops arm and mandatory must have and. 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