Is a boom bust the one business show you cant afford to mess up their montecito going to washington coming up the u. S. Is expanding thanks to ramp up the pressure against the north thing to pipeline between germany and russia we have an expert panel standing by on the b. O. J. Is filing suit against internet giant google will discuss other nonsense to be the 1st of many antitrust lawsuit to break up the Worlds Largest tech company we have a lot to get through so lets get started. The north stream to saga continues as the United States is stepping up its efforts to block the north stream to pipeline which would provide natural gas from russia to germany u. S. Secretary of state my pump aoe says the u. S. Is creating a coalition of nations to help prevent the pipeline from being completed the pipeline is supposed to provide a major cost benefit to the german and. Market with natural gas being delivered directly without any intermediaries the u. S. Backed by poland baltic nations and ukr
Pipeline is supposed to provide a major cost benefit to the German Energy market with natural gas being delivered directly without any intermediaries the u. S. Backed by poland baltic nations and ukraine has long been seeking to disrupt the pipeline that will carry russian gas to germany via the baltic sea joining me now to discuss the us coca cola spends juan and former u. K. Member of Parliament George galloway thank you for being with us today ben already the United States has put placed thank sions on this project in fact in december of last year those sanctions forced a Swiss Company to abandon the project what is the u. S. Talking about doing this time. Yes so what the u. S. Is really doing and you know you know im not a fan of sanctions really on any level sorry i disagree with them pretty much in principle but this to me seems to be maybe the worst example of how sanctions are being used you have 2 countries here that have agreed germany and russia to have a natural gas pipelin
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Will stay out of its funny that you mention my pump who who says that he believes that endangers europe because it would make it dependent on russian gas and then he says would endanger ukraine in his opinion he says in my opinion so opinions here and matter a lot georgia Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is saying that the u. S. Should stop speculating on our stream too and that it should now be a matter of principle for germany to actually go through and complete the project. Well ben is right this is a particularly egregious use of the sanctions weapon against remind you a close ally of the United States germany is not some Banana Republic in Central America germany is an ancient and big power d in the oil ally of the United States and of course the biggest economic power in the European Union by some distance it just goes to show i say in parenthesis how absurd the charge of the Trump Administration is somehow a puppet of the russians this is of course not just short of war ag
We lead the program with news that u. S. President donald trump and 1st lady maloney a trump have tested positive for cope at 19 the president announced the diagnosis on twitter hours after tweeting he in the 1st lady were waiting for test results following news that one of his top aides hope pics had contracted the virus in a tweet sent around 1 am friday morning trump said they will begin the quote quarantine and Recovery Process immediately adding we will get through this together following reports questions were raised as to whether other Administration Officials had been exposed to the virus Devon Omalley the press secretary for Vice President mike pence issued a statement saying as has been routine for months Vice President pence is tested for coping 1000 every day this morning Vice President pence and the 2nd lady tested negative for cope at 19. Vice president remains in good health and wishes the troops well we recover so with the latest news well lets take another look at the