The News with Rick Sanchez - May 10, 2019 (17:00 ET)

US tightens noose even more around Iran

While Iran’s critics continually argue that Iran poses a threat to the US and Israel and deserves US sanctions, Rick Sanchez suggests that the latter may be cynically doing all they can to provoke Iran into war. 

Rick Sanchez calls BS on war-profiteers running Defense Dept

President Trump has nominated Patrick Shanahan as Secretary of Defense, who worked for 30 years at Boeing but never served a day in the military. Should the US Defense Department really be run by someone whose company makes huge profits from war? Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof joins Rick Sanchez to share his insights on this new low in an era of naked cronyism. He argues that Shanahan “lacks strategic vision” and “only has a corporate mind.”

Live from Tehran: Are US & Iran going to war

Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran, who helped negotiate the Iran Nuclear Deal, joins Rick Sanchez to discuss Iran’s vow to restart their nuclear program in the face of US violations of the agreement and deepening economic pressure. He says that from the beginning, “the Iranians were the only ones committed to the agreement.” He ominously predicts that a US invasion of Iran would create worldwide economic calamity.