rick: rick. lemonis: rick, are you the mayor? rick: i'm the mayor, sir. lemonis: how long have you been the mayor? rick: two-plus years now. lemonis: first flood you've had? rick: fourth flood i've had. lemonis: okay. you had the governor here yesterday? rick: we had the governor here. this is a crisis. lemonis: what makes it a crisis or not a crisis? is it the level of water? rick: level of water, the businesses affected. they're 80% off on their revenues from last year or 100%, as in the case with some of them that haven't even been able to open. lemonis: and they make their acorns right now? rick: right now, yep. lemonis: grafton's economy relies heavily on tourism, and an 80% loss of revenue to any business is enough to force them to close their doors. rick: if they don't get some sort of assistance, they will go belly-up. what we're seeing here is more issues of man-made. the corps, you know, they haven't had the ability to dredge. when i was a kid, you'd see dredges come up and down the river, you know, two to three times once every two to three yea

cross talking geopolitics i'm joined by my guest rick ross off in chicago he is an anti nato analyst and a contributor to antiwar dot com in bath we have bruce gagne and he is the coordinator of the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space and in charlottesville we cross to david swanson he is the executive director of the world beyond war all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate david let me go to you 1st and charlottesville. going after my introduction right here listening to the president the united states we're in a great ideological struggle against autocracy here very much in tune with what we experienced during the cold war which i remember very well and it was an ideological struggle but is we living in in 2021 in the ideological struggle on the on the world stage what's your take go ahead david. i think mostly in the fantasies of us propaganda i think the reality is more a struggle between plutocracy and oligarchies there's no democracy to be seen there's no nobody in the us public has

debt does that mean anything rick. it really doesn't and you know it's a big number so it has to have a consequence does it my way of looking at it even though we look at it and say well wayne quake nobody's ever really going to pay it in fact we will have to pay it and that's kind of where i was my starting point may be 40 years ago when i read . c.v. myers on the coming deflation eventually all of that will have to be repaid if not by the borrower than by the lender and so so 2828 trillion is a number we can't even wrap our heads around that but you have much bigger economies the the. i keep coming back to the derivatives market which amounts to something like depending on whose estimate a one quadrillion to 2 quadrillion dollars so that is so much bigger than the actual global economy of goods and services. it is so it's really hard to put $28.00 trillion dollars into perspective but trust me it will all have to be repaid at some point the number one component of the global economy is creating bet that if it's an va

susan: rick hess? mr. hess: yeah. it is funny, pedro and i disagree on a lot of big picture policy things. but the closer we get to the stuff of actually educating kids, the more common ground we come upon. two big issues pedro just touched upon. one, just the mechanics of getting kids back in the building tend to swamp the rest. how do we use members in a community, how do we use volunteers to make sure kids who have not been getting what they need or getting additional support. all of this comes to the wayside when it comes to budgeting. the second thing is what those of us who have the time to focus on this knew, but i do not think was immediately apparent to everyone, is technology is fantastic educationally when it's supplying particular needs. if you want a kid to get to watch something over and over, to pick it up, to be able to pick a formative assessment, kind of the way technology is used by a high school football team, to help them master of technique. technology is phenomenal at that. when you are just try

david we have to be more worried about the elites not the be the so-called talk received in the world rick let me go to this site the same question here because this is how we're being sold it and and you know obviously people in biden in his orbit they're all neo-cons they and they want another crack at this thing the interesting thing is that it's not a whole lot different than under trump so it you know there are differences in washington but not when it comes them pirates purely bipartisan go ahead rick. political differences end of the shoreline as yet each as it earlier this week george samwell like another guest on discussing the distinction i would argue the opposition between on the one hand international laws and trying to the united nations are there for example and what the united states and nato have been pushing recently under the curious name of rules based international order that term as that expression is used several times a day by nato secretary general stoltenberg blank and most notoriously at the nato foreign ministers meeting a few days ago and it's clearly they're t

rick walker back thanks for having me one max all righty wreckless kept from finish up what we were talking about inflation versus deflation we've been talking about this for a few years i think the breakthrough for me on this conversation listening to you again and you've been writing about this now for years where a lot of other people have been wrong in that you've been really saying the dominant theme here is deflation is the fact that and we'll touch on it now again you say ok it's one thing to reflate stocks and to boost stocks and to buy bonds but when the pension system starts to collapse like you're saying in illinois and presumably that will spread to other states that's a that's a deflation and all of a whole nother magnitude can you can you pick up on that and talk a little on it. sure i think you need to look at deflation as a process by which many many zeros are going to disappear from the ledger you know anybody who's 0 dollars is not going to get paid those dollars and of course there's a whole sort of daisy chain there of other people get paid once you get paid so t

rick walker back thanks for having me one max all righty wreckless kept from finish up what we were talking about inflation versus deflation we've been talking about this for a few years i think the breakthrough for me on this conversation listening to you again and you've been writing about this now for years where a lot of other people have been wrong in there you've been really saying the dominant theme here is deflation is the fact that and we'll touch on it now again you say ok it's one thing to reflate stocks and to boost stocks and to buy bonds but when the pension system starts to collapse like we're seeing in illinois and presumably that will spread to other states that's a that's a deflation and a of a whole nother magnitude can eat can you pick up on that and talk a little on it. sure i think you need to look at deflation as a process by which many many zeros are going to disappear from the ledger you know anybody who's 0 dollars is not going to get paid those dollars and of course there's a whole sort of daisy chain there of other people get paid once you get paid so tho

it will go mari, rick, ray, and tim. mari: when reagan finished speaking i decided to nip out the head to not get underfoot and move with the group. i was 20 feet to 30 feet in front of the president. i passed by the rope line. i was almost at my car. maybe i was at the car. i heard pop pop pop. it sounded like fireworks. i had never been around violence before. i had never heard much of guns before. i did not know what it was. the secret service agents -- i was bewildered. then i saw what was happening and reagan being pushed into the car. the secret service agent driving my car screamed at me to get into the car. then we screeched out of the circle. i had ridden over there with jim brady, a fabulous guy, well loved in the white house. i was going, where is jim? where is jim? as we made the turn through the circle, i looked out the window on his side of the car and saw him face down in blood. just to talk about that right now since -- sends chills through me and is a very upsetting memory. i realized what was going on.

so rick how to describe your penpal? >> unapologetic progressive who i have none the left always found extraordinarily interested in practical things and hearing ideas that he might disagree with. i think that's fascinating and awesome. it really comes from the book. so were going to spend the next 45 minutes or so really exploring this book. i focused on a conversation on four primary topics. one, how the book came about especially formats. what did you learn from each other, what impacted the pandemic and the racial unrest have on this project? and then what do you hope readers, educators and the larger world will learn from this book? so, one of my greatest challenges of this is our or so scheming to have this eloquent and thoughtful people i know oaks on quick responses. it got less than an hour we have an entire world of problems to solve so let's get to it. i may facilitate just a little bit. i will leave some time for some audience questions for it let's dive in. how did this collaboration come about and especiall

george i want to go to you but i want to ask rick a real quick question here rick how many citizens in the donbass have a russian passport now i think you've written about it you have the number. actually i don't i wish i did. as they are but whatever number of whichever percentage of the citizens and both were dancing and donuts do these are russian nationals that's right as i was that you know the follow up and the follow up on paul's point i guess russia would be obligated to defend their nationals if they were being assaulted and killed ok that was the point i wanted to make thank you i could but i don't know the percentage ok i believe it's around $500000.00 yeah and george what are you going to. inform our audience i'm getting i'm so frustrated that you know facts are not being presented to western public why are the people of the donbass wanting a russian passport how does can treat them how they've been treated over ever since 2014 go ahead george. exactly your paper is the crucial point they've been ball they've been terrorized they've been the subject of a massive military on

europe could lead to an increased production so looking more definition for everyone right now over rick how much did the e.u. underestimate possible complications and delays in vaccine production from your vantage point what were the biggest mistakes made by the e.u. when it came to actually procurement. well if we compare the european union with what happened in the united states the approach was a very different it was kind of a legal estate we sign a contract with a company that produces a certain amount and then we have a fine like driving at site when in the united states it was a much more a market economy approach and which they came with a lot of money and incentives and it was kind of a rat race to find out who's the winner who can benefit the most from this huge incentive to preview was you know on a large scale in a short time and that was a very different approach and now the united states can provide exene on a much larger scale and joe biden is doing a much better job and he joined the european union but that is as we said before not just the problem of the european commis

thank you, rick. these are efforts i will continue to engage in. >> can both view you -- i know this group in here is worried about holding the filibuster. can the two of you just talk about the importance of holding this filibuster? what you think the prospects are? sen. scott: you have the filibuster to make sure you have thorough discussion before you pass a bill. that is the whole theory of it. real debate and real concert station -- real conversation and everyone gets to participate. right now, it appears we are lying on two centers, -- two senators to hold it or not. my belief is to -- i do not know what they will do. i know what we can do. we can make sure the things they are trying to do that all americans know about it. in my role as chair of the national republican senatorial committee, we are already running for ads in four states, states where we believe we can pick up senate seats, arizona, ads in english and spanish, nevada, ads in english and spanish, new hampshire into georgia in engli

georgia's new voting law is heating up as the states government has responded with welcome artie's owner rick sanchez to discuss and later with vaccinations on the rise what could we see as the music industry is live events begin to return later on we'll bring you from a true insider with a packed show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the latest jobs data out of the united states non-farm payrolls increased 591-6004 march the most jobs added in the single month since august of last year the unemployment rate fell to 6 percent this number far surpassed kind of sex spectator's of 675000 jobs added now it's important to note there are still 7900000 fewer americans employed than in february of 2020 just prior to the pandemic the leisure and hospitality sector led the gains adding 280000 new jobs for the month as bars and restaurants continue to reopen with students returning to in person school in the education sector added 190000 jobs meanwhile construction continued to see gains adding 110000 jobs all of which point to more good news for the economic recovery meanwhile

rick: happy to do so. it has been a great run in the first quarter is a continuation of growing adoption in each rating for global fixed income markets. it was gratifying because the market conditions were not that active in our core products during q1, yet we set a brand-new record for the quarter and revenues were up 16% year-over-year. what it reflects is that both investors and dealers are finding that electronic trading ot only more efficient, but it is also reducing cost. those economic benefits are carrying through to high levels of volume and higher levels of market share taking place electronically. matt: break down your clients for us. who is using marketaxess? rick: we are an institutional platform. if you look at our key client firms around the world, they tend to be all of the market makers and banks and broker-dealers that work to make markets in global fixed income and global credit and all of the institutional investors as well. the beautiful thing about marketaxess is almost all of our ord

that i mention in a very complicated relationship right now i mean just to follow up with you will rick i mean what you're kind of talking about there is the the you know these divisions that exist within leadership in the e.u. i mean this really has as has put a spotlight on you know all the bureaucracy that the e.u. deals with how difficult it is to come to agreement has it not. well it's not so much a question of iraq receive it's the very nature of the european union as something which is not the united states of europe this is a group of sovereign states that coordinate certain policies on a super national level and they had decided in the pas that they do something in health like the registration often pharmaceuticals but they have never decided that upon demick should be central the central. steared or a coordinated and now the european commission and the different bodies that are involved including the heads of state income and they learn the hard way what it's like to coordinate something that in a much more centralized political system is national leaders decide on behalf of t

and also to further increase the gap between the south and those which already exist in europe well rick i saw you nodding to somewhere barry was saying if you want to jump in here how if we just take a country like greece which it's most important sector is tourism their loss is 70 percent if they don't find any alternative way of organizing state systems to allow people to get the ground needed. tourism and go on vacation it's not only terrible for the country but it's also coming with a lot of mental consequences that have also not been addressed in the beginning when it was all about how can we save lives so they are so many different overlapping russian else in the whole function that. in the term off the pandemic we learn that we also have to include other points of view and to find a balance and that makes it so incredibly hard to decide what is right and what is the wrong decision simon their pain commission said last month that it was considering emergency approvals for vaccines do we know where that stands currently that you know they will be making their. decisions privately a

right gentlemen cross in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate rick let me go to you 1st in chicago 1st of all i want to compliment you on your amazing work at antiwar dot com i think you're in a very important voice and resource for people really want to understand what's going on in ukraine and you do it exemplary work there so you know one of the things that really irritates me in looking at western media coverage of what's going on in ukraine is that they frame it as a conflict between russia and ukraine which is not the case here and and president putin made that very clear in the readout that we got from the white house when the president spoke to each other so talk about how it's being misframed this conflict go ahead rick. it's an honor to be on your show with with paul and george in addition to yourself 1st of all thanks it's you know it's very clear the narrative is in many ways goes back over a century you know the kind of russophobia that began in 1917 but did not disappear with the end of the cold war and with the dissolution of the sovie

let's bring in rick caruso and ge gemini ceo and co-founder tyler winklevoss rick, what is the appeal of not only an investment in bitcoin, but also, offering to be paid rent from commercial and residential tenants in bitcoin >> hello, tyler and tyler. listen. >> hey, rick. >> this is an exciting annoya announcement to make we believe that cryptocurrency is here to stay and bitcoin is right for us and allocated a percent to the capital markets into bitcoin and we use gemini as a platform in order to be able to execute that what's equally exciting is applications that gemini are doing, winklevosses are doing that will literally be a game changer for consumers and i always benefit from partnering with the most thought forward people and cameron and tyler are ahead of the curve on this so our consumers are going to benefit mightily from this one more thing when this pandemic is over and it will be over consumers want to reengage and a sense of community and have enrichment in the lives but some behaviors are going to change and the companies that win their loyalty will be the companies t

i asked rick to be one of our advisors so i will follow up with him soon. >> that's great. rick? >> it is interesting. civics have been a passion of mine forever. it's funny when the education decides it matters. i remember in 2014 you cannot get them interested now trump wins the election and it is a huge issue but it seemed to be for many of the people because the purpose of civic education was ton make sure people wouldn't vote republican. after all in 201645 percent of democrats said it was not a free and fair election. that may have been a problem this democratic illegitimacy. now today we saw an election were more than 80 percent of republicans say it was not free and fair. that's nuts we just saw cpac rather than being regarded as a destructive dishonest and treasonous embarrassment, donald trump was welcomed as a hero. people said yes indeed. pedro talks about the challenges and he is right you can find these anywhere in american society there's just not a lot of right wing schools and education so certainly on the right we have our own challenges. so given it's really ha

had the president spoke to each other so talk about how it's being misframed this conflict go ahead rick. it's an honor to be on your show with paul and george in addition to yourself 1st of all thanks it's you know it's very clear the narrative is in many ways goes back over a century you know the kind of russophobia that began in 1917 but did not disappear with the end of the cold war and with the dissolution of the soviet union as a matter of fact what we're seeing is an intensification and i'll connect this directly with the ukrainian situation in a moment but what we've witnessed in the united states over the last 5 years and i don't know how many foreign viewers realize the full depth of the you know the russian anti russian hysteria and so forth that permeated the media in this country to you know right down to the granular level where if you go to any news site and read the comments sections of particularly on you tube the story have anything to do with russia you'll see not only dozens and scores but quite literally hundreds of statements in a row just reeking of you know venomo