Are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow the International John thomas certainly glad to have you with us now russia and the United States have voiced their alarm over an armed standoff between israel and syria in a phone call president putin urged Prime Minister netanyahu to avoid any new confrontation while the u. S. State department described the latest incidents as a calculated escalation started by iran now it started with israel intercepting what it claimed to be an iranian drone crossing israeli airspace Israeli Forces reacted by bombing twelve targets in syria including socalled iranian facilities syria then shot down an israeli jet calling it a response to a violation of airspace but perspectives in syria and israel on the situation differ in certain respects. The Syrian Army Commander should just statement confirming that syrian air defenses intercepted israeli fighter jets that were carrying out an airstrike on location in central part of the country and then
Us now for the kaiser report looking into the ongoing turmoil on the global stock markets. I am x. Cause or this is the kaiser report lets talk about the overall economy hows it doing max were talking about the g. D. P. Now forecast Atlanta Office of the Federal Reserve predicting a five point four percent g. D. P. In q one two thousand and eighteen preston j. Byrne response wow these are reagan early one nine hundred eighty s. Numbers thats a lot of growth brought on by a policy is that would stimulate growth so what is the opposition going to say to try to make this sound bad i dont know well i imagine youre a guest in the second half is going to say the atlanta fed has always had an outlier saying wow the economy is booming and in fact theyll have to revise it down to like two or three percent right now theyre saying its five point four percent it could just be a parting gift for janet yellen who was the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve i can pull up my collar in honor of her you k
Convicted or frowned to be guilty of fixing those prices and they pay a fine now if you apply the same justice to the people that were stealing the log detergent from various shops in the ghetto you would go to them and say hey man dont steal everything from the store and they would give you like ten bucks and say heres my final ten bucks fine leave me alone dont dont bother me i got stuff to do and then they would do this crime these prison population in the cost of persian population would die would go down substantially if they apply the same sense of justice to people stealing stuff from stores as they do when they allow banks to commit larceny and wholesale theft willy nilly without any deterrent whatsoever think of the jails would be only half empty or a quarter empty just all you know charge people a small fine and allow them to go steal from your moms and grandmother to pay that fine like the banks do to pay the fines these banks steal in the open market from each other from th
Stable the Economic Security situations. Well you know its one hundred percent under the control of the International Olympic committee to determine where the games are going to be held so you know when the i. O. C. Decided to put the summer games in rio or when they decided to put the games in beijing the summer games in beijing or any of these places there theyre putting the i. O. C. Is in control of that so if they really were interested in placing the games in developed countries the i. O. C. Could do that and they havent done that theyve theyve shown this trend recently to want to put the games in these developing countries that as alex pointed out and as many people know are not in the financial situation where they can lavishly spend on facilities yet the i. O. C. Somehow forces them to do that and then the marker in a stadium or all the its all of these in rio that are just sitting there unused that thats really put a lot of financial burden on developing countries and i rememb
University under fire following the sentencing of former usa gymnastics doctor larry nassar. A new investigation under way into how he got away with decades of abuse and if anyone at the university where he worked knew. And a sunday sitdown with Chris Stapleton. Fresh off his saturday night Live Performance a few hours ago and nominated tonight for three awards to go with a new Justin Timberlake collaboration that right now is number one on itunes. Were at home in tennessee with the singersongwriter whos become a crossover star with a lot of help from his wife and partnermorgan. Its him completely that outshines the sun in a lot of ways to me. I dont know if thats the answer or not. Youre blushing. Outshine the sun. Come on. I think youre a very bright star. I do. Thank you, darling. A sitdown with Chris Stapleton and morgan. Lets begin this morning with our top story. President trumps first state of the Union Address. The economy and immigration likely to lead the agenda, but in the g