sions will be asked and answered, but later we fails in very short day off to the attack happened and talked to those who fought with the militants. and here is a short sleep from my october report. we're in bed, a supplement in toronto to boulder with gaza. that is believe to be the 1st attacked 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 teeth, milton's and civilians. ronnie, weakness the invasion since his 1st moments. how did you understand how my eyes attacked the 2nd and then we start to see people with uniforms on them and their green uh, uh, been done,

has been done as in the some of the red ones on them. and collection equals where 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 and kill people cold up in berry like other settlements across these really gas a boulder were designed as for dresses, in case of war, could attack from the sweep, 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 save rooms and every house this time they were not able to protect people. rum, as far as i understand, and every kid boots in every sacrament, the re supposed to be kind of like weapon storage room tv on 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 only had was people kept right for the homes. and some of them have

pistols, which is nothing. and they're still to. but that's the update. this all you can get for the details of all the stories will following on archie to come by now the the ok. hello again everybody. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact and this is what we're going to be talking about. you have to get decent, courageous visionary, people who believe in something bigger than their own. he 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 way it 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 offers 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 status quo ideas. it has, it froze this 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 killing us party now too. so, given that scenario, you wouldn't think right, that republicans would just to 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 in 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. and 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 problems 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 mastermind didn't negotiate. and these elaborate deals in contracts with the chinese government was millions of dollars. and they said he did the same with several other countries and put in 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 as a 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 were 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, less 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, leave him alone. i mean, i agree. i agree with that. let them dig his own, grew no pun intended. i'm not what she said. no, no, i know. i know what you're 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 or 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 of 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 the move, it's not the russians, it's the iranians. and if it's not the right iran and 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 because i want to spend some time with an old friend . thank so much step sticking around. i look forward to seeing you again tomorrow. partner. no, you don't want this conversation. i'm in the middle and i were just having the real

question and all of this, 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 vitamin and you think he's not crazy or to older? or you're 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

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the deepest you of us and that in the word part, is it something deeper, more complex might be present during that stop without collision? is that still part of as 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 think someone who's an old friend in many ways, cuz as many of you may know, and i'm sure he remembers it. 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 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 have a 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 that when 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. me, 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've had missing so many different ways as a certain addiction to mendacity in lying and trumps. on the side, the trump, where is no accountability, say, and do anything he wants. and by this toll only the 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, look 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 were in a deep moment of spiritual decay in moral decadence. want to be honest about that. you were talking about 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, 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 mca valley 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 hadn't had goods is right, and this is all now, what is right in this maturing over time, what happens to an empire when it grows powerful and rolls rich, but does it grow up? me doesn't 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 ruble. when you become indifferent to those who are suffering, the great reb i have shall use to say indifference. the evils more insidious than each. busy of self specials you dec understanding of maturation, we can go to martin king is the similar insight we can go to gun the need to the similar hand do inside we can go to bail books is 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, the brothers, that's not just the 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 personally 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. 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 get 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 to of is the bass. martin king is the best. this is the here,

harriet tubman, she's about john co tray. they are as american adult drop. yeah. as 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 see the 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 we go to tony morrison, similar kind of yeah. how do we bring that into our politics? how can i politicians be as drift? like, as are 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, she can actually see the precious babies being killed. and then we would say there's about anybody babies, the person and baby have the same values is really baby, same value. busy as a cuban baby, same values, anything else mean baby, same value of an e, ronnie and baby, we want to be morally consistent. is it with 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, i'm making an end and nothing wrong with resistance. you just have to be resilient, but no, you'll 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 military units around the world. a $130.00 special operations it over a 100 countries and $0.62 of every discretionary budget to a dollar going to the military. 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 a right to health care. we need to write the housing. 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 that have more priority brother 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, might the king had to break with l. b. j, because he was lying to had the crimes of the vietnam war. yeah. here, right, you know, and i mean very much so the sad thing is the both parties had been tied to big money and 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, them around the world. look at, look at the various us government interventions in latin america over the last 50 years. that was republicans, as well as democrats. yeah, yeah. yeah. could be guatemalan, $54.00, oregon 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 and 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 them. andrews who criticizes our country, but new. i criticize my kids, it doesn't mean i don't love them. that's exactly right. we'll say this is what i mean by maturity and humility. when you love both, you respect, protect and also call wrecked. 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 empowered 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 the strong woman, but a strong man. that's where the patriarchy comes in. we'd know, but the strong man is tyronica and usually that tyra the gold picked to really plato's republic, that tyrant himself is so shot through with a narcissism and of masochism and an inability to engage in introspection. and what does it do? he leaves the place off the cliff. now you said 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, but wave of people of all colors, all genders, all except orientations are religions who are willing to be courageous, compassionate, sacrificial truth. tell in just the seeking and joy spreading that to keep the joy of the 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 natal? 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 tell you the boys. 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 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, to counter the count of the marriages, the 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 acr. busy off of global south global north now is going to be the threat of doing capital is ones that have gifts of history,

the very ugly colonialism that still want to hold on, rather than embracing each and every one of the $192.00 precious nations and countries that constitute this blog, which you have to literally ripped, but another place to start that was, is george ken, as pa, for peace in february in new york times 1997. when he said it is an air to expand nato, that george kennan was the very mine that brought not just containment and that the communist policy. but nato 1949 again. and again, with rid of the 1947 as you know, then what the, what was the responding to the collapse of the soviet? yeah, yeah. all of us were pressure, but all of it's domination. but how do you bring them in? we didn't do that. yeah. in putting themselves said recently, twice, i've come to the united states and said, make me a part of nato instead of engineer. i mean, let me be a part of what you guys do. and they said, no, we don't want you to be a 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 them? don't you think that's? that's exactly right. that's exactly, but it far, but it has to do with orthodoxy. dogmatism narrow enough, and especially those at least the cost to the washington consensus that you've talked about in an in your presentation. no. but they just locked in to that kind of parochialism, and also tied to the big corporate interest and the war manufacturers and other well, payton here my for director is given me the big 2, which means we've got 2 minutes left. so i think over 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. uh 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 by. oh yeah. yeah. we got to pay for the brother and jill,

and the other is clear. he doesn't have both paddles in the waters form of elderly abuse. to have him out there acting as if he's. he's 41 rather than 81. i'll go back again. re king lear button, 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 sudden 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 this time it not just to 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 means if it somehow was 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 felina movie with my all the athletic crate. these roughly like leading the cartridge or the 2nd civil war by lead because your door or 3 and both of them have

been in such spiritual lives as the go 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 a bless the nobel and used a strong absolutely is always a joy to be in conversation with the much god bless you and your loved ones,

my. your good man. thank you so much. god bless you as well. that's our show. remember to always look outside your own boxes. 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 what else seemed wrong? just don't you have to shave house after kids and engagement because the trail when so many find themselves will support. we choose to look for common ground the the

opposite. they just saw me. there are once again, how much is that you 3, include eventually during different countries, own neighbors within the block or against doctor. i understand you cranes desire. it is a sovereign country club. membership of ukraine in nato is only a guarantee of a 3rd world war. why things price up for jo body to drop off of the presidential race with look at the trip to the western democracies used to get the election results. they need to imagine how many after votes can view as representatives of the interest of your people. spokespersons for their political and national will have a keen sense of the genuine demands sentiments and means of millions. and it would be no exaggeration to say bill.