to find themselves worlds of parts, we choose to look so common ground the hello again everybody. this is as we said, a daily show, very different. we hold no punches. so look for it. true palm number one. johnson, mike johnson, for more than half a $1000000.00. that's how much money he got before he boated to send money to israel and ukraine. we're going to tell you all about a troop problem. number 2. so you cranium military in full retreat, who says that not me ukrainian general truth bomb number 3 still needs at 2 more universities here in the united states are joining these uh, these mass protests that are taking place all over the country. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact

the all right, i want to again, with something that we have really just learned about the leader of the us congress . and it's i'd say, slightly revealing, we're talking about speaker mike johnson. this is a guy who paid us. he wouldn't be sending money not be sending money to ukraine, orange, real or anywhere else for that matter until we 1st spent it here in the united states to fix problems that affect us like the problems at the border. for example, then one day, one day he says, how would the porter and the hell with us? and he pushes through a measure to send even more than people expected. pushes through essentially a measure that sounds almost a $100000000000.00 or thereabouts to ukraine, and taiwan is real. what happened?

right. well here's what he said back then. israel is a critical ally of ours, and i think most people understand the necessity of this funding. their funding for their very existence, they only stable democracy in the middle east. i mean, of course there's, for those of us who are believers, that the biblical admonition is, stand with israel. we will and, and they will prevail as long as they're there with them. and this is an important, very important symbolic gesture and a very important replenishment of their stock calls. for example, of the iron don't. there you go. kind of said something similar about ukraine. so that's when i said them today. twitter is a buzz with reports that according to fcc records, there's another reason that johnson perhaps came to this decision. actually there are maybe 524000 reasons because that is how much money johnson apparently received in a check from a pack. the group that pays off uh, let me just say the group that pays off politicians on behalf of israel, half

a $1000000.00, but wait, there's more, there's also a record of another $95000.00 that he got from another 4 in lobby group. the past more military a. what are we to make of this? let's find out as we're joined by a friend of the show international relations and security analysts, mark sl boda. so, um, as, as, as your friend, gomer, pyle would say, surprise, surprise. maybe you're not. you know, rick, i, i think you'll remember that, well, i've been saying since november that eventually this aid was, will be passed the, this military weapons for the key every human ukraine for a separate test and taiwan. and of course for continuing is really genocide in palestine. i'm only shocked in actually took so long and it is this speed of the about face,

the long period of whole thing out. and insisting that american border security must come 1st, seemingly having a good leverage position against the white house going into an election year. but then just at the last minute, just completely dropping it all. and um, and, and going wholesale as you know, with this money that you point out coming from missouri industrial complex. uh for. um, a john. it's an i at least i maybe i'm cynical, but i find this comforting because i know who exactly bought mike johnson. there is no question about it. it is a pretty clear quint broke. wow. and i just think, you know, there has been a suggestion that politicians like race, car drivers should have their sponsors like they should have to wear a special suit with the commercial branding of their sponsors on it. and my jobs in

a product and mic. right, right front and center lockheed martin, northrop grumman just i think you would look good and i think i think he could pull it off that it wasn't just a pat getting his vote on israel. obviously he apparently got another 75000 that they were able to trace, you know, these things will come out over time, especially when you go to some of those websites that report with a report on some of this stuff. but he got another 75000, not exactly sure who that came from, but it came from somebody who lobbies for the defense department. so in that case, it was probably the money for ukraine or the money for taiwan. when do you think, to our molly shots by hell cheap, mike johnson, how cheap it is to buy my johnson's? but that is, that is the most surprising thing to me. although apparently he also had a meeting with the american intelligence cheats. yes. and it was the timing was

right after he come out of this meeting as well. and i didn't margery taylor green and i don't hold with everything she says, right? you do, you don't have to. but she suggested who is a little, little black and a little paper just possible. but we've also bird that got completely as a, as it, despite it in doing that he was against you. crazy and a, you know, the subtle is donald trump couldn't be so i don't know exactly what this, this sea changes and byzantine american policy. but it, i mean, they, they stop on you know, we're going to talk now about something else, which i think is really, really important. and that's the subject of money that many americans believe is being wasted. there is news today that the ukrainian army is retreating, retreating and drones, by the way. and you know, is reporting this,

and this is important, right? cranium, military commanders are the ones who are saying this. and here's some of the quotes that i pulled from the article and they say that russian forces are attacking along the entire eastern fraud, which stretches 620 miles. i mean, that's like from, i don't know rome to switzerland from, you know, atlanta to new york. i mean, the, these commanders are also confirming to western media sources. this is important about your premium troops are falling back or retreating. and he says, the situation is really bad, expected to get worse, and it really makes you wonder why the u. s. and european countries don't stop this before more people, you know, needlessly get killed. but then perhaps it's because they just kind of don't get it . and when i say they don't get it, let me give you an example of somebody who had to have some had to have this explained to him. here's pierce morgan in an interview. if the west allows him to get away with this, i would not be remotely confident that he would not want to then stump his way

through into other countries. why you confident you wouldn't want to do that as well? you raise a lot of different issues and let's 1st go to the whole subject of what his motivation was for innovating ukraine. my argument, as i said, was that he was prompted by nato expansion. has this was a preventive war to stop ukraine from joining nato. your argument is that he's basically an imperialist spent on conquering all of ukraine. and then when he's finished conquering ukraine, what he's going to do is move in to eastern europe and he's going to, if not restore something that looks like the soviet union. he's going to create a greater russia, coupled to a russian empire. i think that's your view, which is of course, fundamentally different than mine. my argument is that there is no evidence to support your view. i do not think you can point to anything that was said or

anything the road that indicated that he was interested in conquering all of you credit. why would you believe that course? why would you believe them? why don't you believe me? who knows nothing and has never read anything about putting nor do i watches, news conferences or anything else for that matter. says piers morgan. i read the new york times and i watch cnn, the bbc. and that's where i get my opinions. but there's something else here by the way, i reported a moment ago, and this is important that these commanders, this one general in particular and ukraine is the one who's coming out and saying, look where we're treating. they're moving forward. this thing is not gonna get any better anytime soon. if he were saying that before the us congress gave him money, i would have said, yeah, he's saying that because he wants more money. but he's saying that after the money has already been delivered, which tells me what he's saying is probably true go um, absolutely. um, this is coming from and

a role alexander stairs. he's the head of the ukrainian of the givers in the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the one who replaced zillow reasoning, and he has grudgingly admitted to a tactical, whereas drawl from multiple parts of the front. now here's the thing, he's not actually retreating. his troops as what happened did of day of go. the same thing has happened further west of ab day. i've got were russian forces have dashed through 3 at a rapidly attempted construction of defensive lines. by the key. every team in rapid succession, boom boom, boom. within a. 1 months or so. and the leads um, breakthroughs, russians now blooming. they're in the operational space. and cambridge in military units, multiple of them. they are breaking en, route, borders,

go in to conflict zone, are you i was like, oh sure. no. and just if you are a little bit further north, the west, the moat and surrender a 6 or battalion that what the round there the out and surrendered. that's a police of 100 considering the coverage james unders battalions. so this is actually serious key trying to all right, hey mark, sorry about that. it's just that you're breaking up a little bit. so what we're going to do is we're going to get a break in and we're going to come back and we're going to continue this discussion . and i'm really looking forward to hearing what you have to say about what's going on on university campuses. because even overnight, me more protest, more people, more police more arrest. and we're going to bring you this in just a moment. stay with the

quinn vines, mass of warn, aid package was passed by the us congress. it was met with much fanfare and political bluster. however, as even mainstream media cast out on whether the state will change military realities on the ground illusions it would seem diehard the every spring and summer. the melting optics move reveals a band of machinery, millions of rusty barrels, and the detritus left by human expansion into this most inaccessible of territories . yes, i used to move so as a customer or both of us for someone from your doors at the bus to be joining us. an issue. calling to us from clean optic travel to heis island home to the biggest opponent station on the front of joseph land occupied a go. yeah, they asked me for i was my was or more you have to do should. so it means if you

have, would it be a when we see lots of money and i'm familiar with this, so i'm gonna stay on the old stuff list. so must you feel like you are a mess almost a little bit. see me membership when you to that's got the serial. know boy as a female, replace chico. i mean sort of the optic plan is main objective was to explore and come kind of these harsh lands. they had no time to think about waste management now and, and then i guess they could remain for centuries. that's my of my choice of. so it's pretty at the question system is the most upon your company to inquire about the deal to issue the video of alleged abuse by an officer today, a sheriff's, deputy in columbia, south carolina, forcibly removed a student from a classroom at spring valley high school. i saw him just talking to her and her and

initially, you know, i didn't think is a problem because i knew that she was just is quite a student in the class. someone looks, the police officer says here as law enforcement that is worse. clearly attacking, abusing power and thoughts and then there are others besides, this is what's wrong with those totally be on discipline. black children, he was there, enforcing a lot to meet in the crime, to quote, disturb schools in any way. that means any disturbance that any kids causes in school is using force is never pretty for necessary. a tops people were never going to change them on something and never change their minds about the video. they think i was wrong, and that's it. the hey, welcome back. this is direct impact on rick sanchez. we apologize for some of the little audio glitches we were having there just a moment ago and were re established now with march lebow. so he's going to be able

to be heard loud and clear. hey, let's get to what i mentioned just before we went to the break up to more universities. here are reporting math as protest today. students taking to campus malls, protesting against us, involving and ward with an emphasis on the situation and guys of virginia tech students. place, you know, well, students at the university of texas as well, have now started protesting. and if they're anything like the students at the columbia university in new york, they're not going to be going home any time soon. listen to this. we will not be by the invitation talk that you can see out. 7 i do know that this is our mobile lives . there's hundreds of them here today. they will not be with the man. we will not be done by force. i'll tell you, i mean, this thing is growing by the day. a lot of university professor,

but presidents are perplexed, they don't know exactly what to do. the media is reporting it as if these people who are protesting are all something just shy of terrorists themselves. and police departments have been moved them in some cases. moved out in other cases of the here's the thing though, mark right now, no matter where you are in the united states, if you turn on the tv newscast, these are the pictures that you're going to see. and to that you say, what if i say that this is a perfect example of the american brutal police state repression in america. you have the right to express your political opinion. uh and uh, to protest freely. unless of course, your uh, political opinion goes against the american foreign policy. and joe, political orthodoxy like israel then it's,

it's clearly shown that you have no such freedoms, right? if the freedoms are, are only good when they don't threaten the interests of the powers that be like, like the aforementioned apax, the iron grip on, on the u. s. political, a leak. um so, um, yeah, we're going to see this. i mean, i've seen pictures of snipers on groups, and this is all facilitated because any criticism, any criticism at all of israel in the united states is called out by the political ally and by the mainstream media as anti semitism. immediately you cannot criticize israel, open your mouth, and criticize israel like john maritime, or did in his book of the the, the lobby, which with steven wall, which detailed a prox power over us foreign policy. um,

you can criticize israel, it is just, it's been turned into a verb. bolton crime. what's interesting is, many of the protesters are jewish students who have the position that they're against the zion is government in israel. and the media is having a real tough time trying to explain that one as a cover the story. and they can't that there's a sense of too much anti semitism. and what the professors and the police are really trying to stop is the anti semitism. and then suddenly they turn around to do an interview and the student they're interviewing says, i'm jewish, and now they're like, oh my god, i don't know what i'm going to do. and that happens a lot. as i've been watching the coverage in the united states. i, i, we, we need to move on, but i don't know if you want to make a comment on that. a. yeah, they're awesome to just to fix it as self hating jews who are confused. people i mean and brushed away. there is another story by the way, that setting the internet, a buzz today around the world that it has to do with a very popular talk show hosts who suddenly disappeared staying on this subject

that you and i were just talking about. her name is andrea marie scott. uh, she has a showing a place called l. b. c. it's a network that broadcast discussions about current events is pretty good. i watch them from time to time is a comfortable talk. show suddenly, mirrors go show is nowhere to be found. seems to be off the air. now here's why people are wondering what happened. it's because her last show that she did was an interview with an as really official. i've got a clip of it. i'm gonna show it to you here. it is. what israel did by taking that action against iran was taken, would escalate to what is already an incredibly fragile situation. defend subject. so that's an outrageous framing of the reality. it's not, well i just framing of the company who is a diplomat to government, not just the frame. okay. i mean is right. it's fascinating that all she's saying is something that is true. the is really official of fires back at her and now

she's, she's off a year. i mean, competitor point by the way, what do you want to say? yeah, yeah, i've been on l. b. c, full disclosure before this. this isn't a surprise to me. the, the control of the, um uh, you know, the me is railing. power is as powerful in the united kingdom is as it is in the united states. we saw the former opposition leader, the former labor leader, jeremy corbin slandered and driven from his position over obviously false accusations of vanity semitism simply because he criticized that is real and it's just amazing to me how much the american and even the british politically what the national interests of israel and specifically zionist israel, over american interests. it's, it's just boggling to me, joe biden himself,

how many times as he said, i am a zion, it's does he know what to do? even though what that means, that the support of a greater israel over territory that belongs to other countries. something else i want to talk about while i have you, i want to show you a fascinating headline. this is coming out of australia. here it is. i found this past ending you probably, you have a real, a geo political sense about you, so you may be able to explain this to us a little better. the article says that india is moaning, government operated a nest of spies in australia. and i thought, what, so you were to write according australia, is head of the countries intelligence organization like their c, i a since 2021 indian spies of a stablish relationship with current and former politicians in australia, as well as a foreign embassy. and state police services inside australia. so here's australia saying, the indians have spies in our country and they're spying on us. what's going on

here, mark. okay, so no slash all countries buy on each other, so as repeatedly gets caught spying on its allies. like the netherland, often with, with denmark, which is a little closer to the us, acting as a facilitator. all countries spy on each other. what's more interesting here is that it's being called out in public. yes, and this is something we see increasingly across the western media. there seems to be some, some, a heavy editorial lines as the political rhetoric is heated up against the indian government from prime minister modi because he's seen as not getting in line with us, the interests and not stopping trade with roger. and he's about one step away from being declared anatomy of the united states like china over. that's fascinating. i thought the same thing, not to mention something else. i'll throw him. he's almost getting

a little bit and that he is getting a little too big for its britches. the iron mask has just said that they're about to be the 3rd biggest economy in the world. they were 5, went to 4, now 3, eventually they're going to be 2. they're going to have a 10 trillion dollar economy. probably isn't sitting so well in places like new york, i would say no. yeah. especially when that economic power eventually translates into military power. and geo political power, right, and india becomes more defensive of what it sees as its own interests rather than the interest of us to germany. and they're buying a wholesale of roger and oil and other resources, in contravention of us sanctions, is just one case in point. i want to know what you think as we go here, i think got about 2 and a half minutes left harvey weinstein. back in the news said to be hospitalized after hearing that his life sentence had been overturn the question. now being asked of what, what, what is the right standard of evidence for

a sex crime in the united states is what people are talking about on the streets and the dinner tables. weinstein, of course, you should know was once the most successful, richest man in hollywood, until he was sent to prison for life after sexually abusing women who wanted to be in his movies. a court has now thrown out his conviction, which is, which is not sitting well by the way, with at least one of the jurors, and found him guilty. here it is. when you saw the news this morning, that wine seems conviction had been overturned. what did you think? i was totally in shock? totally a shock because it's sort of a long time to come to that decision and then for them to overturn it, it was totally shocking. so what, what there is a big conversation started here. apparently the judge stood out because they brought in witnesses that had nothing to do with the case. these are women who had had bad experiences with him before. and i'm thinking it's probably going to create an argument in the united states. would people say, you know, it shouldn't just be about, he's a bad guy, let's put them in jail that there may be a lot more going on here. have you thought about this at all to?

i'm not a whole lot of this big across the water. now is it we're on this, but you know, i've seen it from a far and it seems that there has kind of been a, a, a scarlet letter salem, which trial fervor now it has dominant aided us politics on issues of sex and gender over this. um, a lot of movements to me to movements and so forth. which is not my defense of harvey weinstein. yeah, no, no, no, of course, of course, listen. i get it. they've, you know, there's a difference between i'm a bad guy. sometimes you're a bad. we've all had bad moments in our lives. you live a long life, you screw up, you make mistakes. we do things that we wish we hadn't done. i get that. none of us are perfect. but what he was doing was over the top, the question is, is it life in prison over the top, or is it just you were getting it your cab? you deserve to be called the bad guy. i mean,

you see where i'm going with this. and yeah, i'm life life in prison. i'm personally that seems a little excessive to me. but then again, i, i'm not a woman, i'm more concerned with the of public opinion and how through media and social media is which trials that entire careers have been ruined before any legal mechanism takes place. i want, that's a good point. and maybe that's the last point to leave this on is the fact that the media decided they were going to make this guy the worst person in the world. and the court system seemed to pick up on that energy that was created. and it may have fostered its way into the case and maybe that's what this appeals court is looking at and say, no, no, no, no, no, no matter how bad the guy is, he still deserves his day in court. and it has to be just, i think that's what the court is saying. i hope that's what the court is saying in this case. and again, like you,

it's not to defend harvey weinstein. but this has been a good example of a good conversation about a lot of things going on that we need to be discussing mark about as usual. my thanks to you say hello to your mother. if that was her calling, and we'll be catching up with you again very soon, and that's it for us. before i go, i should remind you, by the way of our mission. simple. really? beside all the world we've, we've got to stop living in these little boxes truths, or they don't live in box. they are everywhere. that's what we believe on the show i'm retention. i'll be looking for you again here to provide the director of the, the shop.

not sure, come on this as they do little show. they've got this thing. so let me ask him that way. for me, is the non smoker in your mind restored enough to monday. so stuff with interesting and show. erica, by a demo print that issue and you're still or do i have to wake up moment, but that's not i was made up of course the trailer span that we can partner. so i this is a good you're, you're poor. 2 let's just do bulk over here, but as of now it's particularly like cut them around quite inflate and well this is crazy. nice not aggressive. is it? absolutely. i'd rather proof of an issue with the much just isn't good. that the so the 3 of us and you can leave

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