News. Views. Hughes - June 04, 2019 (17:00 ET)

Unleash the Orca: New drone to fight Chinese 

The US Navy has contracted with Boeing to produce four 50-ton, 84-foot undersea attack drones, dubbed the “Orca.” RT America’s Sara Montes de Oca joins News.Views.Hughes to report on the project and other ways the US continues to flex military muscle in the Pacific. 

Malaysian PM wants gold-backed Asian currency

At the 2019 International Conference on the Future of Asia, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad proposed moving toward a gold-backed common Asian currency. Investigative journalist Ben Swann joins Scottie Nell Hughes to point out that the last national leader to propose a continent-wide alternative reserve currency backed by gold was Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Remember what happened to him? The US has an enormous stake in dissuading other countries from ditching the dollar.

Why does UK hate Trump?

Former state Representative Dee Dawkins Haigler (D-Georgia) and conservative talker Andrea Kaye join Scottie Nell Hughes to react to President Trump’s mixed reception in UK during his state visit.