Author: Ed Schultz

‘Shadow Brokers’ Auctioning Off NSA Hacking Tools – News With Ed

The US government’s top spying agency may have itself been victim to a hack. A mysterious online group known as the “Shadow Brokers” is auctioning off malware and hacking tools that it says come from the National Security Agency (NSA). RT America’s Simone Del Rosario speaks with Tom Parker, the chief technology officer at cybersecurity firm FusionX, who says attributing the hack to a specific person or government is tricky, and the information may have been leaked by the NSA itself to “show its military power in the domain of...

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Vice President Biden to Travel to Turkey in Attempt to Mend Relations – News with Ed

Vice President Joe Biden will be traveling to Turkey to restore relations between the US and the Turkish Government after recent tensions developed following the United States’ refusal to extradite a Muslim Cleric that the Turkish government believes to be the mastermind behind the attempted coup in July. RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky states that America’s largest nuclear warhead stockpile is at the Incirlik Air Base and a recent report from the Stimson Center questions the United States’ ability maintain control over nukes in case of a civil conflict in Turkey. Vice President Biden’s trip also comes weeks after Turkish President...

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DOJ Reports Show Long Standing Tensions Between Police and Minority Communities – News with Ed

In a campaign stop with Vice President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton touched upon the recent racial unrest in Milwaukee stating “everyone should have respect for the law and be respected by the law.” Roland Martin, host of News One Now joins RT’s Ed Schultz in the studio stating that the DOJ reports in multiple cities such as Baltimore, New York, New Orleans and Cleveland among others that “there is a long standing issue between communities of color and between police departments.” Martin continues to explain that all the recent unrest and video evidence of police brutality “forces Americans to...

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Trust Issues? Clinton & Trump Rank Low on Trust with Americans – News With Ed

Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are polling lower than they would like to with the American electorate when it comes to trust, according to Carnegie Mellon University professor Kiron Skinner. Professor Skinner joins “News with Ed” and says that Clinton should be “dwarfing” Trump in terms of trust with the American public right now, and that if Trump would go into a “deeper analysis” of the statements he makes, he would likely be more...

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