Seem like hyperbolic right why then are we leading our newscast on this night with the suggestion of this potential scenario because 2 World Leaders are coming out and saying that it is what they think could happen and these are leaders who know the region the Asian Pacific both men are all straight and both have held the position of Prime Minister let me take you through it 1st its the former Prime Minister and china scholar there is thats kevin rudd who has just penned an editorial in Foreign Affairs journal where he says the risk of Armed Conflict between the United States and china in the next 3 months. Was especially high. Then as you might expect australias current Prime MinisterScott Morrison was asked to comment on his predecessors statement and surprisingly he basically agreed morrison said that the hot war between the us and china was quote previously inconceivable not considered even possible or likely but not anymore. To australian Prime Ministers one former one present sounding an alarm they seem to want the whole world to hear should we heed the warning or see it as what some would call it alarmist view. Well answer that question right here on the nose rick sanchez where we believe. Its time to do news again. Here is the list of questions we think well be asking them are after watching this newscast today are australias concerns over a war between the United States and china justified what really caused the devastation in beirut and what an explosives expert have to say about it are sports making a comeback or will we see even more game cancellations. For almost a full year now we here on this newscast of watched as relations between the United States and china have deteriorated there have been arrests there but sanctions have been terrorists there but military exercises and interactions in open waters between military and that was all before the covert 19 pandemic that has one side now accusing the other of purposely making the world sick to gain any good amik advantage wow we begin our newscast today with our to correspondent john. Hot war cold war cyber war or whatever war the Prime MinisterScott Morrison said in a recent interview with c. B. S. News and a war between the u. S. And china could break out if cooler diplomatic heads dont prevail he was responding to a recent article written by his predecessor kevin rudd who warned of a potential hot war that is an Armed Conflict between the us and china in the run up to the us president ial elections in november well i dont know if its up to. Differently. And certainly not as dramatically as cuban has but you know. Weve acknowledged that what was previously you can say. And not conceded. Even possible. So that tom says hes not conceded in those come to. Australia has had its own issues with china lately china has criticised australias recent handling of the corona virus pandemic and morrisons comments about prioritising and indopacific alliance to balance quote chinas economic coercion after beijing banned australian barley and some beef imports following cambers call for an investigation into the origins of covert 19 morse and also took some recent heat for his view about to talk being as he said a line that connects right back to china still australia and china are significant trade partners china is the single biggest foreign owner of us truly in water with chinese investors now surpassing us in ownership of australian h 2 o. And australian imports hit 56 point 6000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars in 21000. 00 and during the past decade australian dairy imports to Mainland China have grown more than 4 fold according to recent reports Prime Minister morrison has called on china to enhance regional and global stability rather than he says focusing on a narrow national or aspirational interest while also urging the us in trouble ministration to resolve its own issues with china on trade security and International Law for the news of Rick Sanchez John how to get stuff to others for breaking that down for us lets bring in some expert guests who can help us to fly for those jobs at least as a political analyst with Trilogy Advisors out of course George Galloway as youve come to know is our former british m. P. Who oftentimes talks about these specific issues in this part of the world a job im going to start with you. How would you describe what not one but 2 Prime Ministers of australia are declaring. First let me be. Kinneret but just knowing that i believe that we have entered the phase of the cold war 2 this is pretty much the case now after chinas actions over the last 6 months beginning with the spread of covert action to the australian Prime Minister as i had a chance to read this on and there is article this morning and i dont think theres anything thats really all that startling about either the Prime Ministers comments tonight a war between china and the us is no longer inconceivable given the very accelerated militarization of the South China Sea by china i mean to be a success i just to potentially invade taiwan the suppression of freedom and autonomy and hong kong and attacks along the china border over 2000 miles long so we see a pattern of chinese lives around the world is distracted. By economic devastation but i dont believe theres any such thing as 3 months window where war is more likely or anything like that and i believe that there will be much cooler heads prevail in both washington and beijing. Any deliberate steps towards war but the danger is deepening what has been happening on the chinese belligerence in asia and beyond the potential for a miscalculation could lead to an escalation that no one wants to see occur just to be clear at the very beginning i heard you mention covert magazine are you asserting as president that the chinese did covert 19 on purpose. No im not and i actually dont believe thats what the white house has been stating what we do see is either immense gross incompetence on the part of the Chinese Communist party or potentially and i think this is really where the mistrust has emerged in the white house between washington and beijing the communist Party Leadership from xi jinping and knew this was far more dangerous it was no longer containable it would hind and yet beijing. Need to impress upon the International CivilAviation Organization to allow for International Flights through our own to be united to europe and worldwide while it shut down Domestic Travel from rwanda to beijing shanghai and other major train he said its ok good i just want to get a clarification on that i had to do the riyadh lets go to George Galloway george i imagine you are my to disagree with with what mr should leaders have to say. Well that was the world as viewed through the Looking Glass where words mean exactly what you decide the mean and in many cases those statements were of the precise opposite of the truth its not china others call warships in the south american sea its america thats got warships in the South China Sea its not china those Nuclear Armed planes off the coast of china its the other way around the belligerence is all on the other side the un has just been a start but we both agree on this is nothing all that remarkable about what 2 australian Prime Ministers have said because trade wars cyber wars propaganda wars called wars often times pave the way to war if the whole war breaks out and of course were in if youll forgive the pun completely Uncharted Waters will it be a conventional war with a escalate to short range Nuclear Missiles will it escalate to our continental Ballistic Missiles in which case you and i will never talk again rick because the world will be and the end susi arms with which some people approach these existential questions ending of. The human race questions it is quite frankly. Good and you know why good dog was not just a movie bill clinton in my lifetime kills one of my friends the finest woman in the out of world. Dog maneuver are to distract attention from the failings of his administration and donald trump has more than bill clintons problems right now just a few months out from the president ial election you gentlemen gave us 2 trusting points of view on an issue that we wanted to take a look at and we were certainly glad that we had you both here to take us through it. Go away thank you sir for joining us for that discussion. And it is time now for our weekly media models where we look at the media stories with an emphasis on what is right and what is wrong in this profession joining us now nationally syndicated writer and Award Winning journalist Ruben Navarrette ruben always good to see you lets start with the name igor go on its even fun to say but interestingly of this week we found out igor dead chain co is the source behind the socalled an infamous steal a report that was written by a guy used to be an officer with 4 m i 5 that started the whole brouhaha here in the United States if we had known at the beginning that there was just some guy just down the street from where were im speaking right now maybe igor dead chunk of the source of the new information im not sure we would run with the story the way we did was it right yeah rick sanchez good to be with you again this is really an example taking a long way home right this is something that was created in part in washington d. C. Goes all the way around the world goes to the. Hotel it comes all the way back again back to the same block word. Started yes its true the f. B. I. Has said that so much of the Russian Investigation had its roots in the now discredited still dossier. And now we find out finally where some of his crazy allegations that were in the dossier where they came from and they came from this gentleman igor shango as you say yes who because you love saying his name so you know they had anything on ukrainian god based in washington d. C. And not it was this plant inside moscow right there next to putin you know spying on the president of russia this guy could have been like you and me. The reason this is important is that theres so much evidence polly up and it has piled up over the years that the democrats were determined to create in their words an insurance policy and in case donald trump got elected they were determined to do everything they could in the Obama Administration with a wink and a nod from joe biden where we heard that name before the Vice President now the democratic candidate to try to either deny the victory or make life very difficult for him once he was elected at all goes back to the dossier which is the root again of the Russian Investigation so this story while the democrats would love the story go away man rick its more timely than ever because one of the main figures involved in this is running for president on the democratic side hey i want to switch topics a little bit because twitter is in the news again there is a twitter. Twitter apparently now is banning all state by the way twitter and facebook and these entities they change the rules weekly they just all of a sudden they see a story weve got a new rule now you cant do this or you cant do that at least thats a way i see it is a little different at least from the foundations of our profession in journalism so their side of any state affiliated media entities from any specific countries of their choosing. Will be banned so the b. B. C. Is ok but if youre about as well and the thing for example youre not ok and i guess it could change from week to week. What do you what do you make of that. Right the social Media Companies rake in these Big Tech Companies that testified more recently before congress you know and theyre wired into everything theyre wired in the media and corporations in the politics and the case of twitter if you ever thought twitter was going to be political was it going to involve itself in g. O. P. Politics only not it is involved in that i read the story several times and i cant make sense of it i dont see how you can say on the one hand state sponsored media from russia bad state sponsored media from the u. K. Or the u. S. Thats ok also theres a laughable line in there where the folks at twitter apparently know so little about media they think the quote independent media lacks any kind of political agenda i mean ive been in media for 30 years rick have you ever found a piece of media that didnt have a political agenda what is. Defined for me because thats what he seems to be conflicted in one way or another i have no idea yeah yeah he was in the steel dossier youre absolutely right good good conversation i appreciate it as usual ruben thanks so much you bet thank you. d have you watch it let me tell you what weve got coming your way after this break were going to have a weapons expert whos going to be joining us he will tell us about the explosion thats what he knows as all of us try and figure out what really caused this explosion in beirut but the world is talking about and focusing on well be right back with. Our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic elucidations that birthed fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most. 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On the about the world and whats happening around me i see seals on the screen in last every t. V. Because the fake news near its a state. Building no places with him after brick by brick pool is that they keep plenty of them in this war but i found it didnt work then oh. Hey welcome back im rick sanchez World Leaders are responding to the disastrous explosion at the port of beirut earlier this week so today the president of france he visits the side of the blast while bringing material aid to the nation as well as the promise of even more support and he wasnt alone theres other european nations italy for example germany have all stepped up promising a israel closer to home offered to take in lebanese medical patients iran has offered support russia the extra step it seems they sent to doctors and nurses and actually created a temporary Field Hospital arties igors a donna was there has the exclusive details. This is a Field Hospital in its early stages it is just being built in fact theres another group of emergency workers on the way with more infrastructure but this is where russian rescue as will be taking those injured those still in need of medical attention from after the blast. Well everything that you can see around me was erected overnight it was literally an empty lot just 2 oclock in the morning last time i was here well fast forward 6 old hours and well theres already a small tent city here. Well these are search dogs have been traveling with me or rather i was with them and they will be sniffing out those who may be still trapped and alive under the rubble. The city of be roots is devastated morally physically financially in fact of all places that ive ever been to apart from active war zones of course this one with all the rubble of destruction and vehicles just abandoned at the side of the road resembles a scene from a postapocalyptic movie the most and the russian aid effort aims here at relieving at least some of the pain im done of reporting from beirut in lebanon ati card i looked up the actual blast once again let me show you once again what this blast looks like there it is and its a pretty wide shot right so you can kind of see or as we discussed yesterday where is this explosion emanating from the coming from the ground the coming of everybody to try to work through a separation so joining us now. Is explosion expert renee joining us from Miami Florida mr basulto thank you so much sir for joining us this is your expertise is there anything you see in the video or what youve read or any of the evidence or to the reports that would lead you to believe that this is either a case of sabotage or S