as a supplement and wanted to bolster with garza, that is believe to be the 1st attack by him last militants on october. the 7th, some estimate more than a 100 of them fully on the end of this place and turned in came to the battlefield . this is how our 1st time on the ground. the attack happened on the last day of the cold and we call do holiday. some decorations to hang on, the terraces am on devastation. the find here was unfolding between our and to the chief militants and civilians. ronnie, weakness the invasion since his 1st moments. how did you understand the chemist attacked the sacrament. we start to see people with uniforms on them and the green uh uh, been done, has been done as in the some of the red ones on them. and collection equals and then there was a lot of other people with black close to running between them. they were the one who go into houses to break through until people cold up in barry like other

settlements across these really gas a boulder were designed as for dresses, in case of war could attack from the street, but not ready for ground incursion. this is one of the bomb shelters. there are many of them here in the settlement, just like so cold, say phones in every house. but this time they were not able to protect people. rum, as far as i understand, and every kid boots in every sacrament, to reach the pace, to be kind of like weapon storage room. you do have it right here. it was close and the guy was in charge of it was the 1st casualty. so we couldn't get keys. so we only we're only had was people kept the right for the homes. and some of them have pistols, which is nothing. and they're still of all right, of course, as of course,

but m i s the notion of their bringing us up to speed with that the reports of, from the middle east, especially useful. so you can get from the details of all the stories we're following. an arch has come, that'd be seen again by the ok. hello again everybody. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact. and this is what we're going to be talking about. yeah, to get decent, courageous visionary. people who believe in something bigger than their own. it is right, he is super smart. he is not afraid to speak the truth. he's a harvard professor and he's running to be the president of the united states. cornell west joins me here on direct impact. let's do this, the,

you know, i thought a lot, i thought a lot about what we wanted to start to show with the today and i was, i was thinking of myself as the right looks to the united states and wonders, what the hell is going on here is what they're seeing, basing to man who happen to be the oldest president's in the history of the united states. and now they want to do it again. one seems to be a little off is walker, and the other seems to need a rocker. they represent 2 parties that are generally the same and tend to offer up mostly status quote. people with the status quo ideas, a truce. that's the way most americans see it. both parties lie both loved to play up narrative that divide rather than unify. again, that's the way most americans see it. so why, why is it continue? let me give you an example by the way of what i'm talking about. the whole country knows that there, there's something horribly wrong with the president's mental and physical fitness.

i mean, you're, you're, there's no, there's no escaping that. right. and, and it, and it's killing his pulse and it's killing his, his chances of winning the presidency. and not to mention it's kelly is party now too. so given that scenario, you wouldn't think right, that republicans would just shut off, leave it alone. shakespeare said, what leave well enough alone, but they can't. they can't help themselves. they're starving for the spotlights starving for attention. so yesterday, i'm sitting here watching the news and these guys, they call a group news conference yesterday to say, i told you so about you know about, but even though really they didn't tell us. so here here's part, here it is. good morning. there is no longer any doubt that joe biden is unfit to be our commander in chief. the bite and white house far left the house democrats and the main stream media are in complete disarray because they know this to be

true and have been caught participating in one of the greatest media cover ups in american history. for the last 3 and a half years house republicans and the american people have been demanding details about jo biden's mental and physical decline. no, they haven't been doing that. look, not for nothing, but the republican party has been having hearings on capitol hill tons of hearings one after another where they seem to be saying, we all watch this with our own eyes. do they think we don't remember? they said just the opposite. in fact, they describe joe biden, that some evil genius who had masterminded a negotiate and these elaborate deals and contracts with the chinese government was millions of dollars. and they said he did the same with several other countries, including ukraine. they made about to be some incredibly corrupt which still might be true, but yet sophisticated wheeler dealer. and now, because everybody else is saying, oh,

they portray him at some doddering old man and can't even put a sentence together look, which is it? because it can't be both. manila, let me bring you in on this. you know, as i was watching this, i couldn't help and take that and i wonder what your reaction is a well rec, i want to be fair to the republicans here. i think all of these house committee hearings that they were holding regarding biting. we're all based on factual at least some part factual events that they can improve from joe biden younger days. either you know, from when he was a senator or definitely when he was vice president and the spend, the envoy basically to ukraine at the time where we heard him on video threatening to what's holding money and funding to you know, unless the ag, they're got fired so there are, there are some legitimacy to what they were saying before, but that was before, that was the guy that was threatening the job. i didn't, that was threatening people in town halls to like push up competition. we hold that

joe biden is long gone. so i think that's fair. yeah. what i mean. what about, what about, what about, what about my point about when, when, when you have an opponent and he's struggling with the home? i mean, i agree. i agree with that. let him dig his own grave. no pun intended, i'm not wishing no, no, i know i know what you're doing right. just strategically strategically as strategically let him dig his own grave, let him make his own bed with his stutters. and his fumbles. let him do that. just like president trump has been kind of mom, mostly mom, this the debate because he's letting joe biden, let's try to muddle through and have the, the negative media focus on joe biden. and not him at this time, which is why we've not heard. donald trump announce, who has the pick is and he will announce that at the republican convention next week and know walkie. so i think, as far as the media goes, they have been accusing what we've been seeing me as, as 1st,

a republican spin, because joe biden is vibrant and vigorous and bureau and the family stuff. but now it's a, it's a russian conspiracy that the russians are, they're pulling out the old play book. and now that the russians, they're saying the russians are amplifying that jo biden's condition really is or have bad as we see it has a brand new thing. and we'll have 24 hours. i haven't heard that. i imagine them, if it's not the russians, it's the iranians. and if it's not the right iranians, it's the palestinians. and it was about the palestinians. it's the chinese because we have to live in a world where we only have enemies, and those are the people that we seem to play the god, you're absolutely right. you're absolutely right. manila, pleasure, little short and segment today, cuz i want to spend some time with an old friend. thanks so much step sticking around. i look forward to seeing you again tomorrow. partner. look, you don't want this conversation. i'm in the middle and i were just having the real question and all of this is no matter how you see this, we're spend,

this is why do we have to choose seriously? why do we have to choose between these 2 parties right now, whether whether you like buy them, then you think he's not. craze are too. busy so there are you like trump, and you think he's not too crazy? whatever. when, when, when right now, 25 percent of americans hate both parties and both candidates. that's a real gallup statistic, by the way. 25 percent. so why can't we hear the voices of other candidates? why are we gotten to this point in this country? why can't other ideas be we can be thrown into the ring? well, that's what i'm going to be talking about today. and we're going to join by presidential candidate, former harvard professor cornell west. you will want to hear what he has to say. so whatever you do as you look at them right there, his smiling face do not go away, will be right back the

the, the, it's a great pleasure right now as we welcome you back to welcome to our show. doctor cornell was former harvard professor, running for the presidency of the united states. and, you know, it's interesting being able to talk to i, i think someone who's an old friend in many ways. cuz as many of you may know, and i'm sure he remembers that when i worked at cnn and i worked at the nbc and i worked at fox and all those years. well, one of the things that i remember was having the opportunity to interview with dr. cornell west and i've always thought that he was one of the few real truth colors

in this country. there were, there aren't enough of them. and you know, and dr. west is, i'm thinking about what i'm saying to you. i'm thinking to myself that i said something at the beginning here where i said, we've got, we've become a country where our politicians are all status quote, people with status quote, ideas, and use or happen to be just the opposite of that. do you understand where i'm going with that, you know, and they were one nobody just so very kind and generous. and we have precious memories of those days and cnn, and facts and others. but the crucial thing is you are as strong and fresh as ever . and that's a beautiful thing to be. the lo and i think of a brother. but brother, trouble, i say to myself a both lottery king lear and learn how in fact a powerful man and ruler becomes a human breed, being out of humility, to move from hubris, to, to humility and to move from lying and mendacity to integrity and

genuine generosity that's a spiritual issue, that's a moral issue and you understand that well with your own background, you've got to wrestle with all allowing that integrity to a merge. and all of us have that struggle on the battlefield of our own souls. but when you look at button and trump is very clear that they've, they've hemorrhage, they have risen so many different ways as a certain addiction to mendacity in lying and trumps. on the side of trump, where is no accountability, say, and do anything he wants. and by this toll only be good stuff and not really the full stuff. yeah. who really is everybody's got a good and bad in one sense. you think maybe it's what makes ma'am is cuz we, you know, i think one of the things that we all ought to do in this country, how in this world is, you know, looking at everything through our own and professions and look for better things

that where we can create maybe a better world, and i'm not seeing that. and when i use the term status quote with you, i've been doing a lot of reading lately. and i was thinking of myself, you know, it's the same people, the guys who are in the state department today, we're there with, with, with, with bush and with trump and with clinton and with obama. and the same people in the c. i a were there with the oldest and the same people in treasury and after a while it's like we're growing, we ain't changes. we, we, i know i'm saying 8 and i probably shouldn't say that cuz i'm a grand that now. but you know, we're not moving forward professor, then you're absolutely right. i mean we, we're, we're, we're in a deep moment of spiritual decay and more of decadence. want to be honest about that. you would tell them what your precious grant the grandchild. yeah. and, and we all have kids and grandchild, it's a trying to give them examples of what it is just to be decent, and what it is be consistent in what it is to be compassionate. so those are the

things that are being pushed to the margin. it's all now just market value and talk about power, inspect the cold and putting people down and tragic other people and being so obsessed with attention. and you said you said what about maturity? go back to shakespeare. it again, when it hidden, it goes is right, and this is all now, what is rightness? maturing over time. what happens to an empire when it grows powerful and grows rich? but does it grow up? does it really grow up in one sign of growing up is not just humility, but concerned with the vulnerable when you become indifferent to the vinyl rumble. when you become indifferent to those who are suffering, the great reb i have shall used to say indifference. the evils more insidious than evil itself. specials you dec understanding of maturation we can go to martin king is the similar insight we can go to. gandhi would need to the similar hand do. and

so i wouldn't go to bail books and see a symbol of buddhist inside or in bed. does the service bonus inside, but it's a deeply human affair. we're losing sight of our common humanity though, but then that's not just a platitude. and that's real. as i hear you speak, i'm, i'm wondering why we're not allowed to give import to your candidacy as, as we should. i would, i would give you more important than i'm giving to any other candidate or certainly as much, do you have the, do you feel partially cheated? i know our country is the you as well. no. not really. i mean, any time it empowers in the k, it means that they are far removed from the best that went into the making of that in par. because every empire got some positive elements of the problem is you've got to deal with domination and oppression. and you've got to deal with the poverty and the suffering. you got to deal with the militarism. you got to deal with various forms in a phobia. but there is a best of america,

you know. see the java is the bass. martin king is the best. this is the here, harriet tubman she is about john co tray. they are as americans, donald trump. yeah. they are as they are the american as apple pie. but if we no longer have access to their examples, access to their love, the truth, the justice. then all we have access to other lies, the revenge, the retribution, and in the in. that's just the seeds of destruction, brother. and you know, the great american novel mobile did because about what america's addiction, this self destruction as a half melva wrote that a 31 year old man that's deep. and so i would go to tony morrison. similar kind of yeah. how do we the ring that into our politics? how can our politicians be as proofed? like, as our honest have been, you know, you use the word destruction and as you say that something clicked in my head and i

said, well, you know, it would be bad enough to destroy yourself, but we now seem to be planning to destroy the world. the fact of the matter is where it's going to start a war with china. why? who knows where it's shooting to start a war with russia, who, by the way, has more nuclear warheads. then we do buy essentially sabotaging at least 3 attempts so far. to stop the war in ukraine. look what's happening right now with nato. uh, same with a ron, by the way. and of course, the guys the situation. it speaks for itself. and on going on going, he can actually see the pressure is babies being killed and, and we would say it is about anybody babies and baby have the same values is really baby, same value as a cuban baby. same value was an 80 opening baby, same value as an iranian baby. we want to be more like consistent or it was you or president of how would you be able, you know, we use the word status quote,

you know, when i think of our foreign policy, when i think of our state department, i think status qual, uh, yeah, how are you, how would you tackle that? because, you know, if you did, you would get a lot of resistance. oh, well indeed indeed, make it and, and nothing wrong with resistance. you just have to be resilient. but no, you see, i am an anti imperialist presidential candidate, which means that i'm running, they had the empire in order to dismantle the empire. i don't think that america needs $800.00 military use around the world, a $130.00 special operations it over a 100 countries and $0.62 of every discretionary budget. a dollar going to the military. oh, we've got 62 percent of our fellow citizens doing what living paycheck to paycheck? where, where is the money to trace the dollars? it goes to war. how would that money be better spent? we need quality communities,

we need quality education. we need the right to health care. we need to ride the house and we don't need to have a 1000000 fellow citizens living on the streets and the ridges imply the history of the world. does that at all? does this have more priority, rather warp rella or it just does. it does surprise you that suddenly the democratic party, i'm sure if you're like me, you grew up a democrat, you know, or looking at the democratic party as the, you know, today trusted me. that's not where i am today, but by the way, i'm not on the other side either. i just, i, i criticized. oh, you think to yourself, you really like what use up to vendor. but did you ever think that the democrats would be such a more binders as they become as a party? a well, you member martin king had to break with l. b j because he was lying to had the crimes of the vietnam war. yeah, you're right. you know, and i mean very much so the sad thing is the both parties had been tied to big money in big military. and you had to be truthful about both that as me do exactly identical. but it certainly means that both have consensus when it comes to

military adventure wisdom around the world. look at, look at the various u. s. government interventions in latin america over the last 50 years. that was the republicans as well as democrats. yeah. yeah. yeah. could be guatemalan, 50 flaws in b, brazil, and $65.00 dominican republic and $65.00 and go on and oh no. yeah. and a, a jilly and you're right. oh, it's sheila and $73.00. 0, my god, you mentioned guatemala on 54200000 people. that because we decided we didn't like the person they elected and we decided to go in there and take them out. and it's a story that's too often and told them, by the way, when i tried to tell that story and cnn, they said you're out of here. we don't want an anchor. who's, who criticizes our country, but new. i criticize my kids, it doesn't mean i don't love them. that's exactly right. what's the, this is what i mean by maturity and humility. when you love both, you respect, protect and also call wreck. and if you love your country, you protect you respect. but you also correct. yeah,

and that's the only way in which you continually mature what you give up on maturation, bravo. you got stagnation or destruction. and we're living it in a moment in which, you know, the united states is the 68th input and the history of the species. we, as there's been 70, and all the empower sooner or later begin to do the decay as the military overreach abroad, and corruption of the leads across parties and the frustration of the citizenry and the hunger for a strong man using that a strong workman. but a strong man, that's where the patriarchy comes in. we know, but the strong man is tied around eco and usually that tyra the gold picked to really plato's republic, that tired himself is so shot through with a, a narcissism, and of masochism and an inability to engage in introspection. and what does it do? he leaves the place off the cliff and i use it before as the world would tell him

where we got an ecological catastrophe. we've got to come to terms if the nations can't respect each other and work together to deal with ecological catastrophe. what are we really talking about? yeah, but the good news is, there's always a cloud of witnesses, the wave of people of all colors, all genders, all except drawing patients. all religions were willing to be courageous, compassionate sacrificial truth telling justice seeking and joy spreading that to keep the joy of that brother, 5 minutes left in this interview. and i want to ask you about 2 things that are in the news right now. one of them obviously, is nato because it's taking place as we speak. and the other one, of course, is going to be the condition of our president. why don't you say we start with nato? i'm curious about what you're thinking. as i look at nato meeting this week, here, no less in the united states, i see a group of nations who are trying to define themselves by separating themselves from other nations. they seem to be saying,

we don't want anything to do with india or russia, or china, or iran, or south africa, or many of these countries who are on the other side instead of saying, come join us, let's be big. they seem to be saying, let's be small and we're going to be getting ste. yeah. that's the most of my, i'm getting. how am i wrong? you know what i'd say. it was what an essay. 1945 is chicago defenders. he said he sees a world war 3 coming about with united states trying to strangle hold russia and suppress china as of 1945. and the boys wouldn't write on everything. nobody has a monopoly on true, but it's very deep inside. he has because you're absolutely right. of course you can see the attempt to do that. the counter, the counter, the emergence of various countries in the global south. yeah. and you can see tip attempts to act as if we're not in this thing together as a human beings across the global south global north. now it's going to be the

predatory capital is ones that a gift of history, the very ugly colonialism that's bill want to hold on, rather than not embracing each and every one of the 192 precious nations and country that constitute this blo. when you're absolutely ready, but another place to start that was, is george ken, as pa, for peace in february and new york times 1997. when he said it is an air to expand nato, the george kennan was the very mine that brought that gift containment. and that the communist policy, but nato 1949. the gab, in the game with rid of to 1947 as you know. and what the, what was the responding to the collapse of the soviet? yeah, yeah. a lot of it's refresher but all of it's domination. how do you bring them in? we didn't do that. yeah, important themselves said recently twice. i've come to the united states and said, make me a part of nato instead of engineering. right. i mean, let me be a part of what you guys do. and they said, no, we don't want you to be why,

why would we not? and i would invite she, i would invite the i a to, i wouldn't, but why not disagree with them to their face? not away from? don't you think that's? that's exactly right. that's exactly right. but it far, but it has to do an orthodox, the dogmatism narrow on us and especially those at least the cost to the washington consensus that you've talked about in an, in your presentation. no. by that they just locked in to that kind of parochialism . and also tied to the big corporate interest and the war manufacturers and others . well, uh, take me here, my store director is given me the big 2, which means we got 2 minutes left. so i think of let, let, let me leasing the last 2 minutes for this very important discussion about something that's taking place in our country right now. the condition of our president. what, what, what is your take on we, what we as a nation, what his wife, maybe the people around him should be telling. uh, as you would say, uh brother. but oh yeah,

yeah. we got to pay for the brother and jill and the others is clear. he doesn't have both paddles in the waters form of elderly abuse. they have him out there acting as if he's. he's 41 rather than 81. i'll go back again. re king lear biden, please come to terms with law the time come to terms with the client, all of us on into the very moment they were born, we're old enough to die. we're already in the process of a said kind of decline and it becomes crystallized by the time you get a certain age. and it's clear that it's highly crystallized and his time is not just the move a side. but then you've got to deal with a democratic party that has its own corrupts and then the allies been told about by me is if the somehow is on the cutting edge of fraction, isn't it? me? don't believe or line i that that's what would oh, it looks like it's it's, it's a lot like watching a filename movie with my all the crate. these roughly like leading to tucker,

georgia, 2nd civil war by lead because your door or 3 and both of them had been and such spiritual as, as it goes, decline and, and it was supposed to sit there and take it. no, i mean while we're seeing port numbers where people are looking at both, i'm saying i'm not even sure i want to vote for either of these guys. it's a fascinating situation in our history. and then we have people like you, as we leave this conversation, let me just say that i'm sure i speak for millions of americans when i say it would be so good for our country to have you standing there, toe to toe at these debates with these 2 gentlemen and not just you, but others as well who may have a little different perspectives and they're being denied that and i for one believe the more voices the better. and that's the reason maybe we're not growing as you. and i said earlier, um professor, thank you for taking time. there's always the bless the nobel then used a strong absolutely is always

a joy to be in conversation with him and god bless you and your loved ones, man, you're good man. thank you so much. god bless you as well. that's our show. remember to always look outside your own box is truths, don't live in boxes. we like to say around here. i'm rick sanchez and we'll be looking for you. next time. the position i would suggest in belgrade was suggesting that we send americans in and uh, the bridges on the drain and put on your bill is us on the bottom of the dining room probably now. now that's what it's done when it's here. all the owners will

tell you that it will save you from esl classes in the middle. so these are what on your file. post closeness, most of our thoughts in this one is not as a guide on a source or sit emotional around noon. it may be, you know, a lot less radioactive than that something is active uranium, but still it's radioactive, as talks instead of taking killed the laptop. you want me to go and see so easily. again, let's see the echo seats. not going good. i don't know those image mold was suggesting we pharma fell great bill, call us what they were just the each

the the youth as representatives of the interest of your people spokespersons for their political international will have a keen sense of the genuine demands sentiments and means of noise, and it would be no exaggeration to say billions to people on our planet. lot of a put in the dressers, briggs, parliament, members at the farm in st. petersburg. and that's a, that's the best thing to operation in the budget multiple a well i think they just saw much. they're all once again, the promises that eventually joy for after the, even that countries own a buzz within the blocks are again, such as i understand you cranes desire people to sovereign country. put membership with the crane in nato is only a guarantee of.