The News with Rick Sanchez - February 01, 2019 (17:00 ET)

Rick Sanchez: Cold War is back on

Rick Sanchez discusses the Trump administration’s decision to abandon the historic INF treaty, struck by US President Reagan and Soviet Premier Gorbachev in 1988. There is no evidence that Russia is not in compliance with the treaty, but nothing now prevents the US and Russia from developing intermediate-range nuclear weapons.

RT America’s Sara Montes de Oca reports for the News with Rick Sanchez on the roots and significance of the INF treaty, a decades-old cornerstone of global security. Then Dan Cohen discusses reactions from Trump’s opposition in Congress and around the country and RT’s Daniel Hawkins reports from Moscow with Russian reactions.

Millennials demand the rich pay taxes

Who should pay more to provide for our society? Your viewpoint may have to do with your age, with millennials and the youth tending to favor more progressive taxation. RT America’s Michele Greenstein joins Rick Sanchez to explain that “the American Dream is dead” and to argue that wealth stagnation and falling standards make such changing attitudes inevitable. Then economics and co-founder of Democracy at Work Prof. Richard Wolff joins to share his insights.