was rick proud of owning it? >> he loved telling everybody he had a monkey mobile. >> rick cigel is born in 1956 in stevens point, wisconsin. five years later, in 1961, a russian cosmonaut named yuri gargarin becomes the first human in space. president kennedy ups the ante and challenges america to be the first to put a man on the moon. >> this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> alan b. shepard. >> i'm john glenn. >> walter m. schirra. >> to launch the space program, seven men are judged by nasa to have the right stuff and are enlisted into a program named project mercury. >> all systems are go. >> their goal -- to complete a series of manned flights around the earth and pave the way for the moon missions to come. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> human space flight is special, because you're sending people with human eyes and human emotions to truly alien places. >> kei

week rick sanchez time buddy doing our part to keep you informed i'm rick sanchez and we want to welcome all of you who are watching us from all over the world especially those of you watching in places like indonesia and pakistan and parts of europe 'd in india where we understand so many thousands of people are tuning in by the hour let's start with this there is some sense of light at the end of the tunnel today as the white house has finally unveiled a plan it's just a plan mind you but it's something right for opening the u.s. economy and gradually ending the nation's coronavirus lock down this plan will ease restrictions in areas where there is a load transmission of the virus while holding the line on hard hit areas at least that's the way it's being conceptualized the white house calls it a guideline to be used by governors as they make the decisions about when and how to open the communities in their states governors call the shots that's a direct quote those words came out of the president's mouth as he shared his 3 phase plan to deal with corona virus while trying to restart w

america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez cover buddy i'm rick sanchez i want to welcome those of you who are watching us on the portable t.v. or on your regular providers all over the world all right india is in the news today the country's 1300000000 people are being told that their economic lockdown is going to be extended because the coronavirus numbers there are getting much worse much worse with each passing day we're going to be all over this story for you and we're going to be covering it throughout the course today but we want to start with this what in the world is going on with european carmakers who are being caught red handed lying and cheating seems bold but that said what are they lying and cheating about car emissions it's like if i sold you a car and guaranteed you it doesn't pollute the environment and you're not going to get fined for driving it ok and then you do for example if you drive a mercedes benz right now this may have happened to you investigators say the company that produces mercedes benz that produces the 280000 seat class and ea

hey welcome back everybody i'm rick sanchez a c.n.n. anchor this week made a comment on the radio about his job and his network that seemed highly critical here is what chris cuomo said during his radio show i don't want to spend my time doing things that i don't think are valuable enough to me personally i don't value indulging irrationality and hyper partisanship i don't like what i do professionally i don't think it's worth my time comments from chris cuomo on his serious show on the. radio the next day when the issue became very very public he came out saying that he actually loves his job he loves what he does and he loves working at c.n.n. to discuss this and other matters regarding journalism we have 2 award winning journalist chris hedges a pulitzer prize winning author and journalist new york times reporter and host of on contact right here in r t america and ruben navarrette nominated for a policy writes for the washington post group and is an r t contributor my thanks to both of you gentlemen for joining us. chris get us star

live from the world headquarters of r t america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez and it all again everybody i'm rick sanchez and we do want to welcome you all over the world who are watching us especially those of you who are using the portable t.v. app portable t.v. is what the app is called by the way places like india and pakistan and indonesia we welcome you tens of thousands of people tuning in every hour and we're so glad that you're there ok we're going to begin with breaking news as we told you what happened the white house today has in fact unveiled its guidelines for opening the u.s. economy it is going to be a 3 phase plan where one phase can't go into effect until there are 2 straight weeks of a downward trajectory many agree with the president to open the economy as there seems to be a push from the right and for many in the economic sector to do just that but there's also another if not equal push from the other side that saying that opening the economy would be both dangerous and irresponsible and that is the thinking of many in the public health se

rick sanchez hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez we welcome all of you watching from all over the world a public official in the united states has made one of the dumbest comments yet that we've seen and this is how we begin this story today with everything that's going on with one of our so by the way and this is important i want to share this with you this wasn't some off the cuff comment said in private or in a meeting everybody's entitled to a bad moment private and i'm probably as guilty as the next guy in that regard i think we all are right we all have bad moments when we're just talking among friends or family no no no no no no this is a public official who called a news conference to announce this thing that he says by now it seems the whole world knows that the reason that the corona virus is so insidious is because you don't have to have symptoms you don't have to be symptomatic to pass it on in other words anybody and young people especially as we've said probably a 1000000 times on this newscast can show absolutely no symptoms. but still be a carrier and pass on the d

i'm rick sanchez. and we're going to fulfill repeated promises of possible to the people and come on you know we've all pots be. pretty rough. now you want to. know. cut cut cut. cut cut cut cut cut link up. the. covert 19 continues to spread and the u.s. death toll mounts as the government prepares to dole out 2 trillion dollars in relief we'll get perspective from 2 form a congress one and the currently quarantined mayor of miami it's all on this edition of politic. welcome to politicking on larry king donald trump gives his administration high marks for its response to the cole the 19 pandemic but is that a unanimous rating for his assessment on this we're joined by bob barr former republican congressman from georgia he also served as former u.s. attorney he joins us from atlanta bob president trump says that he has done a hell of a job in dealing with the cold and 90 situation what do you think.

well and make rick obviously the guy was asleep at the wheel. that's the only thing i can say i mean i just came back from mexico where i live an hour from pavement and an hour from electricity i have no television contact i live it's remotely as you possibly can and even though i do this new this all the way down to mexico off the grid an hour from pavement an hour from electricity no radios no televisions and yet i was aware that people who didn't show symptoms could pass this disease on all i can say is george good luck with your governor seriously though i do think someone in that position and i'm sure you did it when you were governor you have people around you who are smart in their particular area this is a time to listen to doctors and scientists right do you think from what you've seen too many politicians are trying to just blab their opinions out there rather than listening to the people who are supposed to know this stuff. well you've got to remember something brains are being smart and paying attention isn't a prerequisite all you g

oh yes everybody i'm rick sanchez it is tuesday here in washington d.c. and we want to welcome those of you watching us from warsaw to wellington and around the world whether you're tuning in by satellite on t.v. or on portable t.v. the app we thank you for joining our global conversation today we learned the united states has surpassed china in the number of deaths from a coronavirus pandemic and on this very day interestingly enough perhaps by no coincidence the united states and russia united states and russia believe it or not have agreed to a deal that would allow russian medical supplies and assistance to arrive in the united states the agreement would be historic and it comes at a time when u.s. and russia have been at odds on sanctions nuclear treaties and many other issues but we're going to begin in india. now remember this remember this video we showed you yesterday of police beating curfew violators in india to persuade them to go so isolate in their homes seemed harsh at the time until you look at some of the new projections for india accordi

rick sanchez fan i want to get i'm rick sanchez to all of you who are watching us from all over the world whether you're watching us on regular t.v. or on portable t.v. the we are so glad that you are here with us tonight we have to begin by asking a very important question one that's really dictated to us by by history and here it is with both the president's approval numbers and the u.s. economy in a freefall is it time for us to wonder about a wag the dog scenario wag the dog you know is where u.s. leaders or really any leader from any place in history or all over the world diverts our attention from something they don't want us to see by creating something else look over there or squirrel. something else for us to focus on i think president clinton the war in the balkans i think president bush iraq think president reagan grenada we could go on we could go on so what about trump iran. why don't i ask this because in recent weeks the tensions between the united states and iran have escalated seriously both in words and in deeds with comments from both sides of sound like they're itching

live from the world headquarters of the r t america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez and hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez whether you're picking us up in taipei or tacoma or any place in between as we broadcast live around the world we welcome you you may be watching us on portable t.v. the app by the way we're so glad that you're there you know our job here every day is to look out for you so one of the stories that we're going to be bringing you today has to do with a tech company that might be selling your personal information to facebook and if they are you should know about it so we're going to tell you but let's go ahead and begin with the very latest number where there's good news and some countries and some not so good news from other countries china south korea seem to be getting over that the proverbial or infamous curve while other countries not so much the united nations is declaring tonight that quote humanity faces its greatest challenge since world war 2 meanwhile here in the united states as we report to you just a block from the white ho

america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez. hi everybody i'm rick sanchez to all of you watching us from all over the world either on regular t.v. or on portable t.v. the app if you don't have it you should get it we are so glad that you are there within the past 24 hours the united states military has begun what can only really be described as a major move with the transfer of its f. 35 joint strike force team 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to elson air force base in alaska i want to show you exactly what we're talking about we put the map up so you can see that area where alaska is and if you were close in on this a little bit you going to be able to see just what we're talking about at least as far as alaska is concerned there's the air force base we've kind of blown up this area so you can see what we're talking about this is where the f. 35 there are going to join the f. sixteen's that are already there or along with the 169 air refueling unit now. what is the reason for any type of enhanced u.s.

badwater back to those are the rick sanchez i'm rick sanchez and there's a saying in america that all politics is local well we're here to tell you that when it comes to pandemics. that's also the case and that's why where you lou determines how you are fair and how you will fare as a result of the coronavirus whether now or in the future take for example los vegas the united states gambling capital it's where tourists go it's america right well what happens when nobody wants to go out what happens when people don't want to gather what happens to a town that's 90 percent tourism yeah kind of ugly here's our t. correspondent the. protesters in las vegas standing against their governor for continuing the state's lockdown as a result of the crown of virus we're here because governor says a lack is expected we don't wait for the 1st amendment protesters like palmer neary say residents are ready to get back to work governor says a lack is responsible for the shutdown of the economy in the bad period where tourism based economy effectively shut it down putting it least one out of 10 nevadan

we welcome you back i'm rick sanchez here in the news of the rick sanchez we're broadcasting live by the way all over the world 'd it's 15 minutes after the hour here in our nation's capital in the united states those of you watching in europe or pakistan or throughout parts of india we welcome you whether you're watching us on your favorite provider or you're watching us on portable t.v. which so many tens of thousands of you have been reaching out to us who are on portable t.v. we're glad you're there and i think we can do to assist all right speaking of india india's prime minister neuron the modi is announcing that he will extend the country's lockdown for 3 more weeks did so today the reason the numbers there have continued to spike but alas citizens are abiding by the lockdown causing some really. eerie images on the streets of some of the most crowded cities in the world as you know that are of course brought to michelle greenstein is by she's here in studio with us to bring us the very latest that has been coming out of india where you have a show well india's nationwide lock

this is rick sanchez. thanks guys but as a survival guide. when customers go buy your discipline. in health well reduce some lower. that's undercutting but what's good for markets it's not good for the global economy. if you watch a lot of cable news channels you're seeing a lot of living rooms lately because we are social distancing and until the situation stabilizes they don't want to come into the studio in washington so hello from rhode island where i live and where the astute of you are may surmise that barber shops have not been deemed essential businesses and sadly there are other businesses that right now even in this crisis are trying to rip you off we're going to hear from attorney author professor and ace scam buster stephen j.j. wiseman he'll be here in a few minutes with a scam alert you won't want to miss but 1st cabin fever setting in you're not alone how to cope let's ask the author of among other books the power of off the mindful way to stay sane and a virtual world psychotherapist nancy

well by the way rick this is extraordinary television. interview and media showed him live in television history totally remarkable television well who is sarah killer starmer well the 1st strange thing is that he's already been knighted he's the 1st summer night of the realm who's felt the queen's cold steel on his shoulder and been told to rise circular stonor he's a former public prosecutor which makes some again an unusual pick for a labor party supposed to be the what course party he's also a multimillionaire which again it's a little bit of art dean is the architect of the bricks it policy which destroyed labor in december in the british general election essentially he wanted to remain in the e.u. despite the points of view of the majority of british people he's very rich he looks like tony blair but without the laughs with the bizarre image of bill clinton tony blair without any of the redeeming features not. have a feeling your tongue has placed firmly in your cheek george we could go on forever but we're out of time as you can se

live from the world headquarters of the r t america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez. and i everybody i'm rick sanchez to all of you who are watching us from all over the world rather you're watching on regular t.v. or on on the app that's becoming so popular portable t.v. we are so glad you are there the friction between the united states and china has just reached another milestone in this one is much more tangible than the accusations that have been going back and forth about who's to blame for the coronavirus let me tell you what's going on for the 1st time china has expelled and actively denounced the u.s. for what it calls the illegal trespass of a warship off the shisha islands it doesn't stop there though china is now putting the united states on notice that it's willing and capable to defend itself and then suggested that the united states should put aside its quote cold war mentality and take time instead to test and quarantine its sailors from further spread of covert 19 those are china's words now this is a further escalation of the south china sea

rick sanchez battle again everybody i'm rick sanchez i want to welcome all of you for all over the world who are watching us right now especially those of you who are watching on portable t.v. the app and play conversation is turning toward what will actually happen in the future how will our lives actually change and here's what i mean by that a lot of people have been led to believe that had some designated time some magical time we will all receive some type of signal like that from authorities and everything is just going to go back to normal folks that's not going to happen in fact nothing could be further from the truth and i'll give you an example the spanish flu of 1800 came in 3 different waves and it changed the world 1st of all it went on for 2 full years it changed how people lived and it also changed the business of health care with governments all over the world realizing it needed to somehow be a little more centralized so i'm bringing this to your attention today because gavin newsome the governor of the biggest state in america has come out to explain for the very 1st ti

and hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez who all of you who are watching us from all over the world either on a regular t.v. or on portable t.v. using the portable t.v. app of course we're so glad that you're there i want to try to tackle today the question that deep down most of us have asked ourselves or our asking ourselves what is it about me that makes me unique unique enough to not get sick from this coronavirus what is it about me that might allow me to survive it if i did get sick what will allow me to avoid the hospital what will allow me to not be put on a ventilator what is it about me is it my age is it about whether i smoke or not or whether i may be smoked in the past. these are important question does it have to do with how long hard your concentration of the virus that i was exposed to when i became infected small exposure minor sickness large exposure major sickness is that how it works. then there is the question of genetics is it possible that because of my particular d.n.a. because of the chemistry that i was born with i will be more apt to beat this thing . or l

and iran he may not have a choice for the news with rick sanchez john hardy. the coronavirus hit china 1st and hit hard it's just now the production lines plants factories are starting to reopen remember china is where the rest of the world gets everything made so when it went down things didn't get made so here's what's going on now other markets like india vietnam mexico already starting to compete with china in manufacturing because workers there get paid less that pressure on china is now being magnified by the coronavirus and the unwillingness by most big countries to get all their eggs from one china basket will this reshape the world economy. this is a trend story here now with our. correspondent. in madrid they're heading back to work with masks in hand while moscow streets remain virtually deserted the coronavirus reared its ugly head in different places at different times and governments are reacting accordingly china which was the 1st place to get hit hard by the virus is now seeing it significantly retract the country is leading the way for world e

rick sanchez and hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez we want to welcome all of you from all over the world who are watching us especially those of you were watching on portable t.v. the app in places like india where we understand that certainly in that part of the world we have tens of thousands of people who are tuning in to us hourly we thank you for being there all right let's start with this look at this video russia is announcing that it has concluded its investigation into the crash of this super jet 100 that crashed last year at bosco airport you're about to see the door open in the front the chute will open and you'll see some of the passengers boarding in the video and it's harrowing video it shows the plane as you can see what it makes a crash landing and then you actually do see the passengers exiting the fuselage which is still on fire 41 other passengers who were on the plane were not able to get out and she's going to be coming up in just a little bit now out of the economic front guess who is in line to become one of the biggest if not the biggest economies in the ent

america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez and hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez to all be watching us from all over the world whether you're watching on regular t.v. on your provider or on the app portable t.v. we're so glad that you're here with us within the past 24 hours the united states military has begun what can only be described as a major move with the transfer of its f. 35 joint strike force team 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that you say come on i'll show you here's an air force base in alaska this is interesting that this move is taking place right now it's right there at the base that the 30 five's are going to be drawing meaning the 6 teams and what else do they have that they have 169 air refueling units so it's a big operation that they're going to have they're now what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area the 1st thing obviously to look at is russia right why well geography and history both play into this story look at how close

live from the world headquarters of the r t america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez all right hi everybody i'm rick sanchez we welcome all of you watching from all over the world as we begin this newscast 2 breaking stories that we're still following for you and need to bring you up to date on the 1st one is coming out of los angeles interesting early enough a train engineer intentionally on purpose drove his locomotive at full speed into a u.s. naval hospital ship that's docked there to try and help coronavirus patients the guy's name is a duato more right no he says he did it because he's suspicious of the u.s. military vessel and that he doesn't think it's there for the reason that we're being given and he wanted to warn me entire world about this his train there's the picture plowed or it hit the ship now we should tell you this national mental health officials are advising all of us to look out for each other at this time i'm going to give you a number if you're watching us in the states this is the national u.s. help hotline if you need help or know som

america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez everybody and here we go again i'm rick sanchez there are millions of americans who are going to be wiped out by this crisis and many if not most of the cases it's going to be through no fault of their own but you know who's not going to get wiped out if president plans continue weak companies whose revenues are in the toilet because they never planned and then ever saved for a rainy day those corporations some call them some b. corporations by the way their own by wall street hedge funds banks c.e.o.'s board members who have in many cases and by the way this is important in many cases they have been taking that money out of their companies while they've been doing pretty well and they've been sticking it in their pockets in the form of stock buybacks much of it with money they got from taxpayers government money during previous meltdowns now heaven forbid that i or anyone else should ask the question of whether some of these corporations should simply be allowed to go under is anybody asking that question yes we found

but what about everybody i'm rick sanchez we're here with this is the news with rick sanchez where by the way we made a commitment to you. months ago that we were going to be on top of this corona virus story and we're going to be on it and we're going to bring you updates and we're going to tell you when there's something important you need to know and when numbers change we're going to bring them to you but you know we're not going to do we're not just going to give you the drudgery of the story every single day because in the end whether there are this many people or that many people in the change is minimal you don't need to do an analysis on it every day it doesn't really affect your life and after a while just getting coronavirus coronavirus coronavirus coronavirus and nothing else gets. downright depressing so we're covering all the news that's going on in the world right now including important information as it comes in that we think affects your life when it has to do with coronavirus on that note time for global coronavirus update desk with ben swan to bring us the latest o

america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez band hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez whether you're picking us up in sydney singapore or any other place between anywhere in the world where we're broadcasting live from now we welcome you or you may be watching us on portable t.v. the app by the way we're so glad that you're there you know our job here is to try and look out for you so one of the stories that we're going to bring you today has to do with a tech company that might be selling your personal information to facebook if they are this is the kind of information we think you should know about but you know what we're going to do we're going to begin with the latest numbers where there's some good news from some countries not so good news from other countries china and south korea for example seem at least according to reports be getting over the hump the infamous curve while other countries. not so much right united nations today declaring quote humanity is facing its greatest challenge since world war 2 meanwhile here in the united states as we report t

rick sanchez. her body i'm rick sanchez we want to welcome all of you from all over the world who are watching us on this friday especially those of you are using portable t.v. watching us in places like india or pakistan indonesia we're so glad tens of thousands of you from what we understand are tuning in every hour thank you there is a sense of at least some light at the end of the tunnel today as the white house has unveiled its plan mind you plan it's only a plan for opening the u.s. economy and gradually ending the nation's coronavirus lockdown the plan is to ease restrictions in areas where there is low transmission of the virus while still holding the line on areas that are hard hit the white house is calling its guidance to be used by governors as they make decisions about when and how to open communities in their states governors call the shots those are the president's words now governors call the shots as he shared a 3 phase plan to deal with corona virus while trying to restart a disma

if rick's cafe american and the saloon's black piano player, sam, are for sale. how does rick respond? in the language of abraham lincoln. i don't buy or sell human beings. this line perhaps more than any other reveals the ethical underpinning that signals rick's transformation, his willingness now to take a moral stand. and i think it is no accident that he uses the same kind of antislavery language being used by the office of war information and by the lincoln playwrite robert sherwood. in fact, it is very likely that the author of humphrey bogart's antislavery pronouncement was howard koch, a "casablanca" screenwriter, the author of the "lincoln as kentucky college professor" play from the federal theater project. and so even though lincoln, himself, does not as robert penn warren said flash ritualistically across the screen "casablanca" embodies the lincoln-like moral urgency being used to get americans behind this new effort. so this, then, this lincoln was once again, or at least his spirit, once again being reimagined and reinterpreted. in some ways this m

rick sanchez. hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez and we want to welcome all of you watching from all over the world there is a public official in the united states who's made one of the dumbest comments yet since we've started covering this coronavirus crisis and by the way this is something i think it's important to say you're too this was a just some off the cuff comment that he made in a private meeting or something like that everybody's entitled to a bad moment in a private and probably more guilty than most when it comes to that regard talking with your family or your friends know this this is a public official that we're talking about who called a news conference to announce what i am about to share with you but now it seems the whole world knows that the reason the coronavirus is so insidious is because you really don't have to be symptomatic to pass it on to somebody right in other words anybody but young people especially can show absolutely no symptoms none whatsoever but still be car