Warship going to discuss it all right its time to move i. Q. Sparks are flying on capitol hill today as u. S. Attorney general bill barr is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee bar is being questioned on his handling of various legal issues including the federal response to the nationwide protests and his intervention in the bob muller russia probe. That is covering the hearing and parent things are kind of getting heated yeah manilla heated is kind of an understatement at this point when it comes to this hearing because its still going on and it was called by democrats on the House Judiciary Committee initially to answer questions about the Justice Department sending federal officers to the city specifically that unfolded into democrats asking questions from roger stone Michael Flynn systemic racism george floyd president Donald Trumps twitter even coronavirus now you started with democratic chairman jerry nadler Opening Statement that was a scathing review of time as attorney general. And he had quite a lot to say about the man who was sworn in almost a year and a half ago and now theyre called him a puppet to the president by sending in federal officers to cities like portland to create havoc among protesters and to get trump president ial Campaign Footage then you had minority chairman jim jordan he fired back saying that bar was called before the committee for coming out saying that his department was investigating the former Obama Administration for quote spying on the Trump Campaign then showed about a 3 minute video of cities across the country who have seen violent protests like portland chicago new york atlanta and seattle now when it comes to answering questions you had both sides equally guilty for being partisan monella you had republicans throwing softball questions to bar like what happens of protesters try to burn down a federal courthouse to lead bar answering that when it comes to a federal property the d. O. J. Has the right to send in reinforcements to protect it but then you had democrats taking up you know some of them 5 minutes to give a speech or asking questions and then cutting them off many of them repeating that phrase i am reclaiming my time we heard a lot of that besides matters of the d. O. J. Those setting in federal officers another bone of contention was the case of roger stone who was charged and sentenced to 7 years in prison for lying to congress about his alleged connections to wiki leaks and the 26000 Hillary Clinton email drop out bar was skewered by democrats for quote letting roger stone go to which bar said the stone case was prosecuted under him and he felt he was guilty listen here. Which supposedly punishing the president s enemies and helping his friends what enemies have i indicted who could you point to one indictment that has been under the department that you feel is is unmerited that you feel violates the rule of law one indictment now you say i helped the president s friends the cases that are cited the stone case and the flynn case both cases where i determined. That some intervention. Necessary to rectify that to make sure people are treated the same now barr went on to say that while he agreed with stone sentence he didnt see fit for a 60 year old man to go to prison for 7 years now another repeated question by members of the committee who are also members of the black caucus was if barr believes a Police Officer should have qualified immunity to which he says no Police Officers should be held accountable reporting in the newsroom and fronsac r. T. And officials from the United States and australia are holding an annual summit today where the conversation is expected to include plans for future exercises in the South China Sea said a summit is taking place at the white house and made increasing tensions with beijing but will the 2 allies be able to get on the same page arties Rachel Blevins is joining us now to discuss the latest developments there so rachel what did we hear so far from the u. S. Side during these talks what weve heard secretary of state my pompei o really trying to ramp up this campaign to get all u. S. Allies to put pressure on china and today we had these talks with australia and following that meeting defense secretary mark esper said that one of the places theyre specifically targeting is the South China Sea take a listen to what he said. These exercises not only bolster interoperability but also send a clear signal to beijing that we will fly we will sell and we will operate were ever International Law allows and defend the rights of our allies and partners to do the same. Amid these challenging and Uncertain Times the u. S. Australia Alliance Remains a powerful force for stability and prosperity. Now the South China Sea is a body of water known for being rich in Natural Resources while china claims it has historic rights to portions of the sea it is run into territorial conflicts because the region also includes the exclusive Economic Zones of brunei indonesia malaysia the philippines taiwan and vietnam now the u. S. Is really inserted itself into all of the. And it is now calling for an increase in joint military exercises with australia in that region which would of course put them in direct conflict with china and now speaking of that region that is where our straightly is so where do they stand on this conflict while up until this point australia has really presented themselves as sort of a neutral party whenever it comes to the South China Sea but that all changed last week whenever they submitted a complaint to the United Nations after a confrontation with a chinese warship now in that complaint they specifically stated that they believe that china has no legal basis for their claims when it comes to that region if we take a look at the complaint also went on to say that the Australian Government rejects any claims by china that are inconsistent with the 1982 United Nations convention on the law of the sea in particular Maritime Claims that do not adhere to its rules on baselines maritime zones and classification of features now not only is this is a significant shift in policy but the timing here is also incredibly notable because we have australias foreign minister and defense minister here in washington right now for talks with the trumpet ministration when they are of course looking to escalate involvement in the region now it weve already heard about australia and the us side on this what is china saying well china was very quick to fire back to that complaint and they accused australia of intentionally trying to provoke a conflict while at the same time proving their loyalty to the United States now we saw an article that was published by the global times in which it said that the relationship between china and australia has now deteriorated to a very bad point and the chance for a turnaround is slim in the near future one of the main reasons is that australias policy lacks independence and its current choice is to closely follow the us lead now we actually saw a dispute earlier this summer and which australia accused china of being behind a cyber attack and what resulted in that was china slapping tariffs on australian barley and banning beef imports from australia not the time australia didnt. So this meeting could be seen as australia finding a way to Counter China while at the same time of course increasing their alliance with the us absolutely got to be friends with the us if you want to stand a chance against china i guess Rachael Blevins thank you so much for that thank you. Now over to the latest code at 900 numbers worldwide cases now more than 16500000 with about 655000 reported deaths the top 3 countries with the most cases the u. S. Continues to lead the way followed by a brazilian and then india right here stateside cases topping 4300000 with over 148000 deaths meantime georgias governor and the mayor of atlanta are squaring off inside a court room over imposing a massive order and then down in florida intensive care units at 49. 00 hospitals have reportedly reached capacity as Health Care Workers are pleading with governor Rhonda Santas to require a state wide mask mandate for more on the Health Care Workers demands lets go to our team is john honey down in miami. Miami Dade County Health care professionals were talking about nurses were talking about doctors and they held an Online Press Conference to basically push for more covert 19 regulations statewide and they were really led by a woman a more of a baker registered nurse here in the miami area and the head of the Service EmployeesInternational Union or as you Jackson Health system thats a big Health System here in south Florida University of miami Health Hospital among others anyway she called on going to Rhonda Santas to quote become the leader we need him to be and to come up she says with a consistent Strategic Plan to fight the ongoing pandemic here in florida heres what she said listen so please governor do seem to. Honor to deal with the science and. Start mandating man. Asks in public social distancing hand washing and it would be ideal if we could get testy. And tracers to actually identify where this virus is hanging out and how we could put an end to it once and for all we are the richest country on earth and i expect more from our leaders that im seeing right now. Well currently Miami Dade County in the city of miami speaking of mass require people to wear masks and public and police are enforcing that rule issuing citations to those who are not Wearing Masks or in some cases wearing them incorrectly on a personal note i had a Police Officer roll up on me over the weekend and tell me to pull my mask up i had it down while i was talking on the phone i didnt get a ticket but we had a conversation about that theres been some debate about the fairness of requiring of giving people tickets if theyre not wearing the mask appropriately or in the right way even reports of Police Setting up quote unquote mask traps in and around the city thats a whole another story for another time but speaking of mass a judge plans to hear the arguments on an emergency request by georgias governor to block the city of atlanta from enforcing a public mask mandate there and other kovan 1000 safety restrictions while a lawsuit on the issue is pending now the Atlanta Journal constitution reports that state democrats are siding with Atlanta Mayor kitchell lance bottoms on the issue and surprisingly not governor brian camp the republican governor who as we know now as weve reported here on the show has been criticized for his rollback of coded 1000 restrictions even before florida and florida was one of the earliest states to do that all of this as the debate continues over the use of hydroxy kora queen which is of course. Being used to treat the coronavirus will facebook and twitter youve probably heard about. This removed a viral video that was read tweeted by President Trump claiming dr anthony felt she misled the country about the anti malaria drug thats being used to treat kobe 19 with the houston physician in the video saying that she used it successfully on several 100 patients well theres no confirmation of that but twitter and facebook did remove the video cord to officials with both sites for providing false and misleading information and now the latest on this manila twitter is also now suspended the accounts of Donald Trump Jr for sharing that same controversial video so the battle rages on manila back to you john heidi there in miami where youre asked john. And over in california where demonstrators chained themselves to a fence outside of governor Gavin Newsoms home the group is calling for the release of inmates and an end to immigration transfers as the corona virus continues to spread inside state prisons the protesters were arrested and charged with trespassing and failure to leave Unlawful Assembly and failure to disperse after a warning. And elsewhere around the world riots are taking place inside a bolivian prison following the deaths of 3 prisoners due to corona virus some inmates climbed on to the prison rooftop waving flags even a cardboard coffin and banners demanding that they be seen by doctors officials at that prison are still waiting for medical test results of 20 other inmates who died in recent weeks suspected to be coated related. And things are heating up in the Persian Gulf Region after iran fires missiles at a mock carrier u. S. Tensions and then over the sports h. Q. Over again to hammer brings us war bad news. Baseball and remember to keep up with all the latest news and anything you might have missed make sure you download the branding free app portable t. V. Where you can watch 247 ill be right back. We go to work. Straight home. I like it when the hosts ask a question for the guests and then actually listens to the guests answer and then reacts to pets hey folks Dennis Miller here ive got a new show. Oh yeah you know. Go by. On larry king. Live learning your dog wallace said i never learned anything when i was talking its important to a list of. Questions. First so much going on in the world dont you think whens the last time you add a real birds eye view of things shouldnt you be more than just hours of bickering and giving 30 minutes ill take you off the low. Im chris hedges the corporate coup detat has destroyed our Democratic Institutions the commercial media is burlesque part of the reality show president s expose the trivial lives seen on content question more. My. I. R. G. C. Running drills in the strait of hormuz was observed firing a missile from a helicopter at a mock up u. S. Aircraft carrier this has many in the west saying this illustrates the persistent threat of conflict between tehran and washington now iran has been threatening retaliation against the u. S. Since the murder of Top Commander general custom solo money back in january for more on these events in the middle east lets turn to former pentagon official Michael Maloof so mike is this normal or is that common for a foreign hostile states to run dress rehearsals with mock ups of american ships i mean how do you read the this training when i see a number of students number one i think it was really meant to be a morale booster and to show with determination on the order wrong that. They are going about it all wrong number one u. S. Has already informed iran that if any of those vessels come within 100 meters of any u. S. A u. S. Warship they would they would blow it out of the water number 2 youre not going to find a u. S. Aircraft carrier box in itself into the strait of hormuz it will be more open sea and so unless they use the there are many subs with torpedoes not iran does have a torpedo that can do 250 kilometers an hour its by cavitation this in the highly unusual type of torpedo that they got from the russians. But but what it did do by showing and openly displaying like that is what type of maneuvers they would actually use which helps United States in planning its counter offensive against such and such tactics so i think that this is really meant to be a more obtuse or for the i. R. G. C. At that time but it really is no way to go about writing disabling a u. S. Aircraft carrier right probably not a good tactical move if youre trying to do a sneak attack ok oh my god the the strait of hormuz is obviously a very contentious body of water its a its a vital choke point for a vast quantities of oil to travel in and out of the middle east is there any significance to why the ira g. C. Is doing training there i mean like you said where the world is watching especially given the new patrols to protect those oil tankers. Well its yeah its inflaming the maneuvers in that area its close to shore your little speed boats are going to come out from the shore so they cant be too far out if theyre going to go after in an Aircraft Carrier the Aircraft Carrier will stay outside in in the arabian in the arabian sea for most intents and purposes the United States will not bottle up and our craft carry inside the strait because its so narrow so that said that its really meant to ok you know if you like a show of force. You know its all its really an open display as i said its morale booster for him. As a practical matter thats not a way you could take out an Aircraft Carrier now in your opinion is a kinetic war between washington and tehran a real possibility. I would say no at this point the United States does not regard iran any longer is a they regard them as a manageable risk but not as a threat. And i see and i think that what were seeing evolve here more and more and your previous stories pointed this out is that pivot towards asia and china as being the the culprit in the eyes of the u. S. Policy now youre going to be seeing an iran China Alliance gathering more and more and already that thats thats raising concerns here in washington so i think that. Youre going to youre going to see a closeness of those 2 countries principally because of the b r i but also for strategic and and trade reasons and theyre going to be increasing their abilities to work more closely but i dont see kinetic action at this point ok so your prediction that said there yeah thats that that said if israels undertakes actions. Against against lebanon or against syria against or iranian oil forces which i think theyre trying to propagate i think thats a problem hold that thought speaking of that let me get the viewers up to speed over to the other body of water to the mediterranean there was an exchange of fire between lebanon and israel overnight a report from the ground say has bala launched an attack over the border can you expand on those events for us. Yes well you know it all began when the israel attacked. Entity or individual inside of syria and then the then husband as i understand it sought to respond to which israel then. Countered by reinforcing up on its northern northern border and in the in the go along so i again i see this as a larger effort by netanyahu if you try and precipitate and private kates in order to draw in a reaction from hezbollah as we saw one other time and this time i think because netanyahu politically has so much at stake or so wide of a political survival he may want to go of a few steps further and just really try to bring both a battle and iran into a conflict and thereby draggin the United States and the timing would be interesting because of all the turmoil receding seen leading up to the u. S. Election and also the possibility that in this room there might be a 3rd election. Thank you alex in 4th election i think that we have lost count of how many i guess go in the path here a cliff one calendar year that would incredible mind always good to talk to because its its important for us to remember that apart from coded there are some other things happening that are that could possibly change the landscape of politics and life as we know it happening especially there in the middle east and just to sum it up your prediction here keep our eyes on iran and china as their relationship gets closer yes absolutely i think i say i think thats going to be a biggie it means basically that china including russia have decided to ignore u. S. Sanctions and theyre becoming almost useless anyway and this point all right mike maloof always appreciate your expertise thank you. Thank you. Other news making headlines around the world china will officially halt hong kong extradition treaties with Canada Australia and the u. K. According to Chinas Foreign Ministry this is in direct response to similar suspensions by the 3 named countries and in addition china will suspend extradition treaties between hong kong and new zealand you are. Switching over to the sports h. Q. Regina hamm is there with some bad news coming out of the world of baseball what is the latest now its never good yesterday you know theres more fallout that is coming out on those about you yesterday from the world of Major League Baseball as the marlins today reveal more positive coronavirus cases for more cases an exact are added to miamis growing kobe 1000. 00 alberich bringing the total number of 17 tests positive thats about 51 percent of the traveling squad Philadelphia Phillies have announced thankfully the players are personnel on their squad have tested positive for the virus however its still caused tonights game against new york yankees be postponed many want to and ill be commissioner rob manfred to weigh in on the situation as it changes and when he did his response was less than reassuring take a listen i dont put this in the nightmare category i mean obviously we dont want any player to get exposed. Its not a positive thing but i dont see it as a nightmare we built the protocols to allow us to continue to play thats why we have the expanded rosters thats why we have the pool of additional players and we think we can keep people safe and continue to play and just in the past few hours corniest hands you have past in Washington Nationals players voted against going to miami this weekend following the marlins code 1000 outbreak sources confirmed to e. S. P. N. The league as Ken Rosenthal said will make the ultimate determination but its very hard to see them going against the will of players. Such a sport thats pretty gets placed l. A. Ive seen made easy work against the Seattle Sounders in the round of 16 match at the m. L. S. Is back tournament. House of that effort can be seen in your going for diego rossi jumping right into 13th minute sounders center act as if youre already got out trips up crossing the 18 yard box eliot see them be aware that families who takes it oh rob see of course he can reverse that in draws 1st blood of the game elliott see the one merely a couple of replay angles rossi draws out saunders goalkeeper stephan fry in a clever dribble for sale on it right past a great leader adding to their lead 39th minute forward bradley right philip this is the pass by the cheap left in there to pick it up and his curlers out of 4 am of to seattle she dont yield her own will you take a look right here that look his arm just extends ever so slightly pushes it into the goal frye is ready to be the curler but goes the absolute wrong way bad 1st half or seattle they call back 75 minute show dean jones of the cross 2 will bruin goes to the back post senning that right footed shot in seattle gets on the board 2 to one but thats where the luck runs out l a f c 82nd minute rossi take this pass right here from eduardo and wrote c. Is going to make a run with it r r got turned it over and the forward is going to capitalize right here on that opportunity ellie f. C. With a 31. 00 lead thats roughly 7 full of the torment theyre going to do it all again 7 minutes later another seattle miss jake by center back to south benson and l. A. s. There with a left footed chip shot right past fry in the black and gold the 4 to one leave that will hold true stoppage and they move into the quarter finals and will face orlando city on friday which is a great manila and you know wed like to see baseball face their games on the upcoming but we do have some news the league has confirmed that Miami Marlins are done for this week they will play again monday their scheduled games are just off the table Philadelphia Phillies will be playing maybe on friday and the yankees that were supposedly the phillies are now going to play the Baltimore Orioles so theres a lot of waiting around theres a lot of moving parts dont for one week how are they going to play so soon given that more than half a very. Travel team is sick with kobe so like manfred said they do have that pool of players about 60 of them that they can pull from to sub in and out however what happens if you have a player who has tested negative that could end up testing positive in a week you never know symptoms develop it takes 14 days for incubation very fluid situation that seems to be getting out of control very quickly just dont hold your breath for baseball yet just stick to the k. B. Oh thats right all right thank you for that regina we will be back at 5 oclock with a lot more news the trumpet ministration plans to keep troops down in Portland Oregon meanwhile a group of protesters are now suing the administration over the use of tear gas and rubber bullets plus pro publica releases a trove of n. Y. P. D. Disciplinary records much to the dismay of state officials those stories and more coming up at the 5 oclock hour that does it for me i am going to let him make sure you keep up with everything and i dont mind me telling him that one will be you can catch 247 i will see you soon. The thing is that when you get money printers in charge. Printing all that paper money. Is themselves really fills their head with dream its the primacy thats the ultimate form of supremacy is i print therefore i am and if you can pull the levers of political power with your fear of money if you can acquire assets that there if you have money it gives you that god complex that we have so much of around the world and countries and big corporations and now its all going to come crashing down. Greetings and sal you taishan us all right lets start this party off with a bang with one of the most Important News stories currently taking place in these United States of america im talking of course about the trumpet administrations deployment of armed fatigue clad teams of unidentified federal agents to major u. S. Cities like portland and chicago under the guise of protecting federal property these agents have snatched u. S. Citizens off the streets in the dead of night never used Blunt Force Trauma chemical weapons upon mothers fathers and military veterans for simply exercising their right of freedom of speech and assembly and tragically it appears that the checks and balances that normally prevent one branch of the u. S. Government from taking actions like these do not seem to be working at all