The News with Rick Sanchez - May 20, 2019 (19:00 ET)

Google hits Huawei w/ telecomm ‘Pearl Harbor’

Following President Trump’s emergency order forbidding business with telecommunications companies owned by “foreign adversaries,” Google banned Huawei from using any of its proprietary software or hardware. Will the move force China to the bargaining table and conclude its long-standing trade war with the US? Rick Sanchez has the story.  

What is Huawei really guilty of?

RT America’s Michele Greenstein joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the implications of Google’s cessation of business with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei and the devastating implications for Huawei’s long-term profitability. Then Todd Shipley, president and CEO of Vere Software, joins the discussion. He admits that there’s no proof that China spies on Americans via Huawei phones but that the US has “lost control of the technology.”

GE, Johnson & Johnson’s Brazilian bribery exposed  

Numerous multinational corporations have allegedly channeled payoffs to officials in Brazil in exchange for lucrative health industry contracts in a scheme that persisted for two decades. Investigators say that these corporations behaved like “a cartel.” Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof joins Rick Sanchez to share his expertise. He points out that this is a problem far beyond Latin America.