The News with Rick Sanchez - December 07, 2018 (17:00 ET)

Ron Paul: Arrest of Huawei exec will leave US powerless & broke

The US sparked an international incident when they ordered the arrest of Meng Wangzhou, CFO of Chinese telecom giant Huawei. By most indications, Huawei is being punished for selling communications equipment to Iran. Former US congressman Dr. Ron Paul (R-Texas) tells Rick Sanchez about the consequences of Meng’s arrest and problems in US foreign policy vis-à-vis Iran.

Alan Grayson calls appointment of Heather Nauert ‘pathetic’

Former US Representative Alan Grayson (D-Florida) joins Rick Sanchez to weigh in on the appointment of former news personality Heather Nauert to the role of US ambassador to the UN, deeming her a “talking head with little or no discernable qualifications.”

How A.I. ‘hallucinations’ endanger society

Artificial intelligence is far from a perfect science, and examples abound of machines failing to recognize things that would never confound humans. They can be made to mistake a sea turtle for a rifle or a human voice for an orchestra. Researchers are taking these AI “hallucinations” more and more seriously as self-driving cars, robots and other intelligent machines play an ever greater role in society. RT America’s Dan Cohen reports. Then, investigative journalist Ben Swann joins Rick Sanchez to weigh in.