country participating in the ne, so campaigns out for my libya and lead them on the get duffy has admitted it is possible involvement in civilian deaths. i remind the 10 countries, including 6 from europe to pause a nato's operation unified, protects the wish. last at 6 months in 2011, a warning you might find the following: images disturbing account paid to the collapse of big adolphe raising the revolutionary leader was captured by militants of the national transitional town, so often as to icon, the colonel's calling boy, the operation. let's to move that a decade of instability in libya, which remains divided to this day. was divine of a tory also stays, the nato has never acknowledge the consequences of his as twice on libyan civilians . i knew never admitted any single case eh, while i it said replace you know, to the civilian assembled, civilians,

homes of city of all fluids being removed. most people are sleeping in their homes when they were tenants. never admitted that except for one case, no. the bloomberg meant to flock one house in and somebody in june 20, 2011. and even in this case the, when i say the nature of my vision did not fully accept the responsibility and then press the gave you the situation. it said, you know, what was the kind of what they call quota, what collateral damage. it was. i know of a mean the weapons that destroyed the house. and that's it. so the 1st is the challenge for us and has always be lucky permission. which country did what, when on the other thing is that most of these got crazy, even when we broached them outside the issue,

processed i couldn't for really talking to entities or the, i'd say it's busy of the okay. and so on. and so they just say ok, this is, this has to do with nate to go today to when we went back now to why i did it several times, hundreds of times over the last 10 years. you know, they list to 1st rejected to meet me in person nature organization versus as well as then the executives, any questions that i was to about about the delivery end the civilians get when you, thanks for joining us here on the international look coming up next rick sanchez has the latest episode of direct impact. so that was more news in 30 minutes. the hello again, everybody. this is as we said, a daily show, very different. we hold no punches. so look for a trip on number one. but johnson, mike johnson,

for more than half a $1000000.00. that's how much money he got before he voted to send money to israel and ukraine. we're going to tell you all about a true problem. number 2, you premium 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 a, 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 the 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 sends 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. they're fighting 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 administrative 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 why he 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 to pass 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, as, as a, you're a 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 of this military weapons for the key every human ukraine for a separate test and taiwan. and of course for continuing is rarely 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 a job. and 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 search with the commercial branding of their sponsors on it. and mike johnson, 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 $75000.00 that they be 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, but how cheap my 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 american intelligence cheats. yes. and it was the timing was right after he come out of this meeting as well. and i think marjorie taylor green and i don't hold with everything she says, right? you don't, you don't have to. but she suggested who is a little, little black and a little paper. yeah. it's possible, but we've also bird that got completely. i'm as a, as it,

despite it the in thing that he was against you crazy and a, uh, you know, i guess as subtle as 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

that 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, how needlessly get killed. that 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, and 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 into 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 said or anything that wrote that indicated that he was interested in conquering all of you crime. 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 in ukraine, is the one who's coming out and saying, look where we're treating. they're moving forward. this thing is not going to get any better any time soon. if he were saying that before the u. s. 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 body has already been delivered, which tells me what he's saying is probably true go um, absolutely. um, this is coming from a roll alexander stairs get. he's the head of the ukraine. he has the givers in. as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the one who replaced uh this is illusion and he has grudgingly admitted to a tactical withdrawal 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 week. 1 or so and the leads um, breaks through russians now blooming there in the operational space. and cambridge, the military units multiple of them, they are breaking and wrapped up 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 surrender police of 100 considering the coverage. james honors 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, more protest, more people, more police more arrest. and we're going to bring you this in just a moment. stay with the, the world's largest democracy votes the rest of the plan. it watches in an emerging, multi polar world. india's voice matters. but who will be the power behind watches, almost 1000000000 people decide and billions more, react the

the hey, welcome back. this is direct impact. i'm rick sanchez. we apologize for some of the little audio glitches we were having there just a moment ago and were re establish now with march the boat. 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 mass protests 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 be outside do now that the students are mobile, like there's 500 of them here today. they will not be with the man. we will not be done by course. 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. 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 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 uh iron grip on, on the us 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 is 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 protestors 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 they 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. 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's setting the internet, a buzz today around the world that 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 and said you have more stuff. she

has a show in 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. it's got people 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 you did was an interview with an israeli official. i've got a clip of it. i'm going to show it to you here. it is. what israel did by taking that action against iran was taking what escalate to what is already an incredibly fragile situation. then subject to that's an outrageous framing of the reality. it's not, well, i just framing of the company who is a diplomat to govern. that's not the way just 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 here. i mean,

to probably reply 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 really power. uh is, is powerful in the united kingdom is as it is in the united states, we saw the former opposition leader of the former labor leader, jeremy corbin slandered and driven from his position over obviously false accusations of at the semitism simply because he criticized that is real and it's just amazing to me how much the american and even the british political elite, 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 zionist, 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 is coming out of australia. here it is. i found this past standing. 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 heard it, right? according australia is head of the countries intelligence organization, like their c, i a since 2021 indian spies of establish relationships 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 the thing we see increasingly across the western media. there seems to be some, some, a eddie editorial lines as the political rhetoric is heated up against the indian government from prime minister modi because the scene is not getting in line with us, the interests and not stopping trade with russia. 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 on pro, if he's almost getting a little bit and that he, india is getting a little too big for its britches. the i am asked 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 a gemini. and they're buying a wholesale of roger, an 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 we 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 is, 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 and saw totally a shock because it's sort of a long time to come to that decision and then for them to overturn it and it was totally so. okay, so what, what there's a big conversation started here. apparently, the judge drew it out because they brought in witnesses that had nothing to do with the case. these are women who have 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 met a whole lot of these big across the water. now, is it where 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 know it has dominant, aided us politics on issues, 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. it? no, 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 or any of your cad, you deserve to be called a bad guy. i mean, you see where i'm going with this? 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 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. one, 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 saying, 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. and 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, the side of the world we've, we've got to stop living in these little boxes. truths are. they don't live in box, they are everywhere. that's what we believe on the show. i'm rick sanchez. i'll be looking for you again here to provide the director of the the garage of business services. the screen of the boss can do either steve in the system with key at the

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