To 2 years ago and. I have no doubt that this was any intentional toys mean by that Russian Secret Services against the only. Way i say. Around i have no doubt that in order to and i believe its done as a reaction to who is absolutely terrible whats going on. Also coming up a president from former advisor steve bannon has been arrested on fraud charges allegedly tapping money from a private fund set up to help build the border wall between the u. S. And mexico havent been dealing with him at all. I know nothing about the project other than i didnt like when i read about it i didnt like it i said this is for a government this isnt for private people. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome but we begin the day with a case of suspect. Poisoning in the cutthroat arena of russian politics the countrys Opposition Leader alexina of all the is in intensive care and on a ventilator at a hospital in siberia tonight early on thursday he boarded a plane headed for moscow but the pilot made an Emergency Landing when of all these suddenly became ill now these are the 1st images that the world seoul after the plane landed in the siberian city of oh im sick of all the being carried off and taken to a hospital doctors there say of all he is in serious but stable condition his press secretary says that something had probably been added to the tea that no volley drank before boarding the plane at the airport. Poison and politics are not strangers in russia there is a long list of poisoning victims dissidents who found themselves in the crosshairs of whether mir putins. Silent and deadly high poisoning can happen when you least expect it the most recent event to steal International Attention was the poisoning of russian double agent sergei script and his daughter yulia in 2018. To do it with found unconscious on a park bench in the u. K. City of souls very poisoned with a military grade nerve agent know the chalk russia denied any involvement and while the script all survived others werent so lucky a woman who came into contact with residues of the toxin later died he wasnt the 1st time a russian defective was poisoned in the u. K. Only rule members will eat the echoes of the death of alexander live in cairo in 2006 the former f. S. B. Agent Alexander Litvinenko fled to london in 2000 it became violently ill in 2006 to drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium 210 he died after 3 weeks. That the 1st be operation 2. Was approved by mr. B. And also by president. Bush as you. Have been far lucky. With the ukrainian Opposition Leader in 2004 he was running against moscows preferred candidate. He was poisoned after having dinner with Ukrainian Security officials doctors say he was poisoned with dioxin he survives going on to become president of ukraine. Activists p. R. T. Versa love who has ties to russian protest group pussy riot managed to survive what he says was a poisoning attempt in 2018 hes theory is backed by doctors in berlin who treated him but luck may have nothing to do with him surviving. Is more. So as to. People who might want to go down that path. Despite constant kremlin denials of involvement the culprit behind each of these attacks is clear to most but the nature of poison means its difficult to hold perpetrators to account and for those who speak out against the kremlin they will always be left wondering if they are next. Well for more on this i want to bring in tonight vladimir our circle of hes the executive director of the russian Anti Corruption foundation thats a nonprofit which he and alexina of all the established back in 24 team he moved to london where he was granted political asylum glenda moore joins me from london tonight fundaments good to have you on the day let me ask you about these reports about mr know vonnie possibly being evacuated and brought here to berlin for medical treatments were hearing it could happen tonight would you welcome this. Yes. Its. Not only isnt in our Regional Hospital its probably not the best level of care that you can get and hes in russia the physicians there. Are about to trash our from Russian Security services who we believe are probably responsible or this is the nation thats out and it will be easy for Russian Security services to operate within the russian hospital so we wont feel much safer if hes moved to italy and europe and its most probably will be well its a safe 1000000 in that berlin do you think that russian president Vladimir Putin would also welcome seeing germany or france give mr know vali a new home outside of russia. I think this can be seen as the latest in this string of attempts to snowball me out of russia. He has been on that in the it was political pressure from all the russian authorities for the last few years has brought their sort of faith by 5 years on trumped up check this he won repeated lee assaulted killed most of last i think in one eye if you years ago and about a year ago while he was in detention. He was an attempt to light talks and took him so he suffered a case of questioning although it wasnt as severe as today let me ask you what amir do you have the confidence that the medical treatment that mr novotny is receiving there in own skin the hospital that that is going to be good treatment to mean do you trust the physicians that are treating him well as i said we would rather have kept. Him in hospital. There is a team of doctors a trauma who are flying to almost overnight they will assess his condition tomorrow morning and hopefully they will give a go it will prove is just but patient to a Government Hospital if this was indeed a poisoning who do you think is behind it. Well we believe its most likely that it came from the top of the russian power structure even if it didnt come from mr putin its himself it is the russian regime that he created that made it possible this is not the 1st as a nation of russians still activists and opposition belligerence and as this nations are never investigated and the responsible are now brought to justice over the last few years now and it became the most prominent for us in a position to pull it just and exposing corruption and jony of the russian regime and he really is a source in the eye of russian authorities one way that is true but he has been a thorn in Vladimir Putin side now for a long time so why attack him now. Well over the last year that has been. Quite a significant change in the political atmosphere in russia the ratings of president putin and of the russian authorities in general have been decreasing now there is cerm oil in belarus which shows the force of protests in a great crunch of a close to russia and neighbor country and there are Regional Elections in september which probably will so. Why low results for the united russia the party of so in this situation is becoming warrant were dangerous for us to have to so this is they was of really the reason blood near a circle joining us tonight with the latest and with his valuable insights vladimir we appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you. In the United StatesPolitical Parties are in the middle of Convention Season the democrats wrapped up their National Convention this week with joe biden as their president ial candidate the republicans take to the virtual stage next monday and there will be most likely lots of focus on that important battleground state pennsylvania in 2016 voters there helped put trump in the White House Well they do it again this year the democrats are hoping to win the state back and theyre hoping that Vice President ial candidate harris can boost enthusiasm among black voters. Black voters in philadelphia could be among the kingmakers in the november election president carried the state of pennsylvania only by a slim point 7 percent margin in 2016 less than 45000. 00 votes this time around democrats hope the nomination of come on harriss Vice President ial candidate will tip the scale in their favor. Nominee gosse is already Vice President of she can win an organization that supports women running for Political Office for her come on harris is the best role model she can think of. For many women that are seeking to run for office she is what you would want to kind of try that poorly she maintain that level headedness and im sure that theres a ton of frustration that shes faced and shell continue to face so you know i think they can learn determination and i think they can create they have an opportunity to watch how she handles this for many of dominics black friends come all the harris nomination is an inspiration that touches them on a very personal level. To finally see someone. Who comes from similar backgrounds who comes from a similar understanding culture to be in a position to actually make some change as a culture and as a people i think when we see. You know our per our people rise in our women in such a way you feel connected you just instantly want to support them but not every black voter thinks that way reverend todd johnson has been a pastor in philadelphias black communities for 30 years and hes one of the very few staunch black republicans for him kemal harris is little more than a publicity stunt by democrats. They were looking for a person of color to appease their base and they were looking for somebody of a female gender so that they could appease their basis ok we got that check but i dont think we should be choosing people for positions based on their gender or based on their race that to me is the stench that i dont want that. For my daughter or my granddaughter i want to say to them when you want to get a job because of your color and because of your gender but many in philadelphia see more income on harris than just a candidate who was chosen for her race and gender. Think its the best thing and happened to this country not only that shes a woman but shes and shes a black woman plus she is a woman and death want to make a change she shows. Ambition you know like dont give up on your dreams people always telling you you can be nothing and you can do things you know its good to see people to shows that you can be anything you want and do anything. In philadelphias black Community Many are enthusiastic about the 1st woman of color on a president ial ticket the question for democrats is will that be enough to carry them across the finish line. For my next guest says the democrats will indeed have enough votes in november to end the presidency of donald trump and when Allan Lichtman predicts the outcome of a president ial election people take notice since 1904 hes called it right every time Allan Lichtman is a distinguished professor of history at American University his latest book is predicting the next president the keys to the white house preselection its good to have you on the day weve been looking forward to talking with you today you called it right back in 2016 you said that trump would win this year you say that he will lose sua. Its all based not on the polls not of the pundits not in the day to day events of the campaign but on my prediction system a 13 keys to the white house which is founded on the insight that american president ial elections are based off or down in the strength and performance of the party holding the white house and thats what the keys gauge it look at the big picture things like Midterm Election results there were parties long and short term economy scandal social unrest policy change Foreign Policy lessons and failures and the works is of 6 or more of the keys turned against the party holding the white house they are predicted losers thats how i predict in 2016 because the incumbent democrats want 6 keys against them as of late 2019 and only 4 but then america of course will take with the pentameter and the cries for social and Racial Justice and trump made a big mistake who didnt understand that when youre running as an incumbent your junk on your record according to its governing not paying their own instead of subsidy you want with alan has he reverted to his 2006 will play book and try to talk way out of the result was bad for the country and bad for trump because he lost 3 more keep professional a term economy because we have a one year recession long term because of the negative growth and social unrest that adds to said it was more than is needed to predict his defeat i want to ask you 2 in 2016 you said the donald trump. Could shatter all historical patterns because he had no track record at the time now he does have a track record and you know its not very good when the past 4 years does that true track record itself does that hurt his ability to get reelected. Absolutely its his own track record that spells his a feat his failure to deal with the pandemic led to the economic collapse that cost him 2. 00 key is being only the 3rd president in u. S. History to be impeached by the full house and even the republicans who acquitted him in the senate made it what he did was very wrong that triggered the scandal. Has failed or is shivs all over the world in miss usa a israel treaty is just share of a commits israel and nothing cost in the Foreign Policy success case governing not campaigning counts trump has no one to blame for this negative situation felt better an analyst told me last week that despite trumps poor Approval Ratings trump has been consistently stronger than biden when voters are asked which of the 2 president ial candidates fit they trust more to handle the economy the how do you factor that into your model i mean weve always heard since bill clinton you know its the economy stupid well its not the economy only comes from true of my kids if it was just the economy Hillary Clinton should have won going away in 2016 because the economy was very good that democrats are the one going away in 10682000 because the economy was very good and thats not just the economy its a whole range of issues and i dont base it on the polls and look at the polls on somebody other issues anyway Like Health Care dealing with coronavirus. Biden is way ahead of trump but that doesnt figure because if it looked only at the issues hed be wrong most of the time because the democrats are almost op ed in the issues and before we run out of time friends who want to ask you does your model include the possibility of a sitting president not recognizing the results of the election or a president refusing to leave the white house absolutely not there are some things outside my model that keep me up at night one has Voter Suppression are we going to have a full and Fair Election trump is trying to stop that the other is russian intervention no trump will again welcome and exploited and trump will not accept the results of the election no matter what dont go to his grave claiming he really won but hes not hes a coward he cant look people in the eye and fire them hes not going to barricade himself in the white house and call on the white supremacist mulisch to protect him to leave but who claim the election was rigged and he really should have won professor Allan Lichtman we appreciate your time your insights tonight and i am sure we will be talking with you again especially at and after that big election day thank you. 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President Donald Trumps 2016 Campaign Promise to build a border wall with mexico and to make mexico pay for it former chief white house strategist steve bannon well tonight bannon has been charged with fraud in a scheme centered around that border wall he entered a plea of not guilty at the new york courthouse today that will prosecutors in the city allege that bannon and 3 others illegally use money from an online crowd Funding Campaign called we build the wall to pay their personal expenses including cosmetic surgery the money about 25000000. 00 came from hundreds of thousands of donors those donors were told that their contributions would be used to Fund Construction of a border wall with mexico to stop migrants from entering the country many technologies are going to bring in tonight author and journalist James Kirchick in new york jami its good to see you again we have spoken numerous times about the people in Donald Trumps nearest orbit Flynn John Bolton and nail steve bannon just how serious are the charges that have been slapped against ban. I think theyre serious for steve benen i mean he stole over a 1000000. 00 you could be spending quite a long time in jail if hes found guilty of these charges im not sure if theyre really serious in terms of the president or or the administration that doesnt really seem to be any connection in fact the entire purpose of this charity if you want to call it that was to privately raise money to build. The border wall so its explicitly not connected to the government there there seem to have been some minor involvement or i think some members of the trump family sort of gave their blessing to this they might have provided a quote to be used on websites are meant mentioned it in interviews but it doesnt seem that theres a real in measurements between the administration and what bannon was was doing or the this president today said that he didnt know anything about it apart fro