[000:00:00;00] the, the, i want to thank you for your loyalty to the ok. key on duty to the motherland. all will be presented for state awards. presidential welcome right. there is a lot of my putting creeps h. russian citizens released from western jail just following the biggest prisoner exchange between moscow on the west. in the 21st century of georgia is far and influenced transparency. it all comes into force that us suspends $95000000.00 of a to the country. we investigated washington's tactics to target those unwilling to obey the west. so cold rules based international order democrats in united states claim they will save democracy, disposing for the policies presidential nominee. it kicks off. there's not much

choice, frankly, only come on a harris. the only name on that value, the very good morning to you for all of us here with the all to international mothership in most go before we joined while correspondent for right now here on the program. it is our top story for you this i'll have not improved in has welcome 10 russian citizens, including 2 children. they arrive to interrupt you and not historic prisoners swap with western states or the president. honda file is to an adult saver and a daughter as a touch down, also president for the homecoming with the chiefs of both the russian and for an intelligent service on the federal security service, along with the countries minister of defense and put in assigned to those who had connections to the ministry for that loyalty. so that's a, let's see how it was unfolded. i want to thank you for your loyalty to the old steele duty to the motherland, which never forgot about you for a minute. and here you are at home,

all will be presented for state towards sometimes your look over to government the airport, the moscow. busy and that right there behind use the airplane, which land that's delivering 10 russian citizens, 8 adults, and 2 children from 30 president vladimir potent currently is just standing right there. first me reading the passengers off. uh this way. you can see that literally the red carpet has been rolled out for them as well. uh, including the uh, guard of honor. uh, also the head of, uh, rushes uh for and security service is here as well. it's either now coming out of the airplane. they're just about to go inside of the terminal. they were exchanged for 16 individuals has now been released to the west. rest of federal security service says that preparations for the exchange lasted for several years regarding those will just return to russia. these people were coming back from a whole list of western countries, including germany, the united states,

as sonia on norway and slovenia. and i think this exchange really goes to show that despite the crisis in the relationship, is we russia and the west. uh, certainly, communication channel, perhaps even the most important communication channel still remain open. so as a go to, i just mentioned that russia released at 16 people in baton, including those with western russian and dual citizenship among the american john list to evan. gosh, because it's charged and convicted of espionage and russia. also the conflict of spike poll whelan, also pardoned by putin, as well as the germans and the re co creek who was found guilty of terrorism charges and by the rule. so let's, let's go over this now the details of this massive prisoner exchange, all these uh, states waiting now joining us. but i can hardly hear in the studio. i'd like to see you, steve. so we're talking basically about what the biggest swap. i think you're saying and is the biggest off of the 21st century. are we saying, or this is absolutely huge. tell us about this way as well. of course, on thursday,

speculation was rife about this potential mass prisoner's fault between, between the russian federation, the united states, germany batteries, and other european countries. now we spent a long time yesterday to considering the potential names that were room it to be part of that prisoners. what we were tracking flights that were leaving russia. i'm trying to find out where they were destined. then on thursday evening we had at the turkish intelligence service. well, they said they confirmed that this exchange had taken place. now, in the took his capital and cricket, they gave a list of some 26 people that were involved in what is the largest prison us, what it since the end of the cold war. now, of course, $26.00 national was 7 nations. these, this discussions and negotiations would have been very complex, very delicate, i'm sure, but the united states. well,

it seems to have taken credit for its role in those negotiations, and there's been a lot of back slapping from a joe biden on his administration. we can take a listen to what he's at now. as of today, my business, i just brought them over. 70 americans were wrongfully detained. how hockey's abroad, the president was himself, personally engaged in the diplomacy, the prophets about many since before i took office, i would say that if you had not had joe biden sitting in the oval office, i don't think this would have happened edition, i assure the executive order in 2020 to authorize the penalties like sanctions and travel vans and those who hold americans against their will. and honestly, guys, i can just say this was vintage joe biden, rallying america rally and american allies, to save american citizens and russian freedom fighters. and doing it with intricate stay craft, pulling his whole team together to strive this across can finish line. of course,

as we seen that very self congratulate 3, they dismissed the role of russell. of course, i couldn't resist in taking a swipe at moscow. a bite in praising nato allies. i but not everybody seems overly happy. the german jones, the old of shouts while he's one of those, he said that he didn't take the decision likely to be involved in this prisoner exchange. and he lamented the release of what he described as a convicted criminal. he was a cost without having to fight him, cross equals, who was charged. and joe, for life, for the 2019, but of a georgia national, a chechen bulletin, but as letting me put and pointed out in his interview with the conservative board calls to talk a call. so he explained, well, this particular individual was charged with pretty gruesome war crimes, including lining up russian p. o w 's on the ground and then running over the heads

of running over their heads in his call. now of course, show said well, yeah, he went on to phrase the role of the united states. he of course, as a guy and he was to talking about balancing on the release of a convicted criminal with what he described as it is and prisoners in russian. a jo's, he was again referring to rica cree guy. he was employed in the united states embassy and but him before crossing into crane on a humanitarian mission. of course, it wasn't known before. he became involved in combat operations. he was arrested in the but a roofing capital minutes key was fight to golfing by the russian ministry installations . and he had planned to play well that countries royal network. but it'll show, said, not only did he need to strike this balance, but he also said that he did it installed a diversity with america. now let's take

a listen to what show said is not my once again, it was a special moment for me a moment that a certainly further intensified the friendship between the us in germany. the conversation i had with the american president emphasized this very much, and it was also a sign of our mutual willingness to do something based on our shared tradition as states governed by the rule of law as democracies. and also it's free societies. so that he was keeping praise on the united states talking about the special relationship he went on to boast about the freedoms that they have in germany. of course, he failed to mention compact magazine, which was recently bond for having an interview with the russian foreign ministry spoke to one very is a how to of that. now we've also had some reaction from donald tuscan potent, he's praise, what he said,

the hey rotors of the russian or position and nato states and the guy. and he's probably used his country's role in liberties of those. but i was not mean aside surprised. i mean politic and you're going to get into the spotlight, the limelight. well, you have the opportunity. never, never had a good price. go to waste a kind of thing. you know, so it's all good pay our optics. but what, what about the, you know, we saw some of the russians ceremony here. i mean, it was a bit of pomp and circumstance and a bit of, you know, hogs and flowers. what about the russian reaction? i don't know just from the credit, but also russian officials with the russian responses being very different. we saw the plane landing yesterday and the russian prison is taking that 1st step towards freedom. they were greeted, of course by the russian president vladimir preaching. he presented fly was to an, a, an adult you of and adults. of course, these were held in prison. the adults you over held in a prison in slovenia. now he signed decrees. paulding many of those that was 16 prisoners that were freed from russian praise prisons. of course,

evan goes to reach the wall street journal reporter and pull weight and well, among those that were posit. and then he said, well, he did this with the i'm of bringing russian citizens, how he was like price or rather the russian side or side price, the by the resume president, alexander lou katrinka, by his role on the gesture of goodwill in releasing rica creek, who we mentioned earlier about a most coated praise, the role of each of those countries that were involved in indigo. she was, we can hear from russia's forward ministry, spoke to them, and maria's a how to the and hey, what she got to say on this, of what many have called an exchange. i would call a batch. we'll of south control, self control of prison. this self control of political sorts, his self control of special services by all accounts was of the best. perhaps it is also a question of face and hope that the people in this state are behind you. and

today's history has once again sandy's face and hope into the knowledge that we don't abandon our room. now honestly, also spoke to the press secretary of the by the resume president, who said, well, she said explain well slots like this. um there was a, there were long standing negotiations. these a discussions would've been happening in those back. china was for some time, but she said that not my publicly these. busy kind of discussions happen happen privately. so again, she was praising russia's role in those negotiations. now again, we see that as we saw the look of an apple yesterday, we sold the prisoners for the free prisoners being greeted by the police. and of course, you know, they would scream, the delighted, we've heard the relatives of valerie said i just knew of. he was one of the longest, i would say one of the longest sentences he was a j o for 27 years now. his father again,

and he was saying that he didn't believe in miracles until this happened, but he did believe in the role of the russian president vladimir putin and not abandoning it citizens in russian in prisons. sorry. across the well, i guess the, you know, steve, at the end of the day you get con, keep everyone happy all the time. and there have been some who are not entirely pleased with the, with the whole way this unfolded and the actual exchange itself. can you, can you tell us anything about that? well, of course not everybody's happy though. still people that being held in prison as a teacher being held in russia. now that was included in this landmark prison to swap. now that family has demanded immediate action from jo, buys and on that particular issue. and spinning again has what is come on. the criticism because the, the families and the supporters of the child. goodness,

pablo gonzalez, now he's being held in a post prison for quite some time. now, his supporters have said that the, his own country, spain, well, they didn't, if to figure, to do anything to secure his release. but russia did, we can hear from his lawyer and i, the spain has done nothing. ablow has jewels citizenship. i don't know how well when the spanish authorities found out that by blo gonzales would be released. they did not contact us and i understand they found out about it from the media. the last moment, spain participate by sending intelligence reports against popular gonzalez and his lawyer. that is me. pablo is a very resilient man and has stood up to everything he made it through. and now it remains to be seen what the consequences will be. it was an unjust imprisonment, long and hard. now some have spoken about

a potential for him in relations between russia and the nato countries and the west . now, i'm pretty certain the one year ago we perhaps wouldn't have seen a prisoner swap, certainly not on this magnitude. and we have to take into consideration the next huge geo political peebles taking place across the world. not only the situation in, in gaza but also in the russian advances on the price of. busy at in ukraine we've seen a change of government in prison. one of the key allies we've sold, we've seen that to have even talking about peace talks involving russia. we call not mentioned the fiasco in the united states with the bye didn't presidency in him, no longer being the candidate on the full coming elections that so that could be a potential solar and relations. but we'll have to wait and see you. i think you make a very, very good point that stephen, you know, i notice the foreign relations really happening off the key of send some of his

talk guys to beijing. they went to china and also they met with president g. they came out with a different tone, and now we're seeing little steps being made. a lot of people are optimistic about wes, this prisoners what may eventually lead to all these steps we need. thank you very much. i what we did here from a former c, i'm as larry johnson, and he says, look at the end of the day, joe biden is going to use this politically. will no surprise beth. but larry says that the other day is also one likely to change washington's relationship with moscow. hapless what would have been surprising was if the united states had directly engaged with russian officials that would have signaled at least us in russia or now talking to at least on a very practical level. but it appears that it was up to turkey to be the go between. so that, that means that neither that he, a rush or the united states are talking directly, which is concerned,

this is biting, celebrating, creating his legacy is the greatest president ever in the history of the united states. it's a joke, but you know, basically seem to have no self awareness. joe biden probably can't depend to change his own adult diaper that he wears. and yet, you know, the counting him is great. the diplomat that you can't even remember the names of it is on the secretary of defense, much less the name of foreign leaders. so now that's just a street, it's a ridiculous concept. there's too much, economically, it's stake in the united states for maintaining conflict with russia. so these various corporations that comprise the military industrial complex, they are, their profits are heavily dependent upon keeping the war and ukraine going. that's always the last thing they want to see is any kind of normalization of relations

between the united states and russia to and frankly, if, you know, if i was asked to give advice to the russian leadership, i tell him just ignore the united states. united states as a lost cause. it's going, it's going to take some, some damaging debacle here in the united states for the american people to wake up and realize that russia is not our enemy. russia is not a threat. but right now, those are the voices to try to present that like me, myself and others like dec mcgregor, scott ritter, raymond calvert, we were roundly attacked or vilified as being studious of a president proving or somehow on the payroll of the russian government. it's a lie, but that's the story they want to tell. so many more details on his release and how the basically the largest prison, a swap between russia and the west. since the end of the cold war unfolding got you

covered right. there are dante dog, the when it's a good to have your company full this program life or most guy. well, you know, running file of america's so called rules base international order. it will cost you as the price. georgia is apparently willing to pay as it's transparency of foreign influence. little comes into force. and then a rather should we say on diplomatic move, would us secretary of states now says aid to that nation is suspect after anti democratic actions by the trojan government. and also a comprehensive review of biological cooperation between the united states and georgia as a result of that review of the united states, exposing more than $95000000.00 in the systems that directly benefits the government of georgia. the message is quite clear, they will support georgians as long as they have 0 atlantic aspirations. and the soil is not very your atlantic apparently,

because it asks for transparency something washington is clearly notice final. well, the law in question simply asks n g, yellows and media organizations that receive over 20 percent of their funding from abroad. so register as organizations promoting foreign interests and to submit annual financial reports which will be made public doesn't sound, i'm democratic, but actually very logical, especially considering the amounts of warren interference and proxy wars these days really themselves have a similar law. but of course, washington doesn't like a level playing field because that's what expos and potentially limit the data. so it's interference in georgia is affairs, it should be clear to the governing party in georgia that there is a path back that having free and fair elections without violence against civil society making whatever transparency requirements they want this for an

agent law make it compatible with the law rather than compatible with the russian law and not have trying to develop a deep water port in a not clear. these are steps that are really important for georgia to take. that's what they torture and government needs to do if they want to maintain a friendly relationship with they, you wes, play bar rules like whomever we say, do not cooperate with china and then your back in the game. it's sort of and surprising anymore because we've seen washington use this tactics so many times. remember when joe biden fried sense of, of hold $1000000000.00 and they to ukraine is kids didn't fire prosecutor and i went over, i guess the $1213.00 time to keep the, the, and i was go, i suppose, to announce that there is another $1000000.00 loan guarantee and i had gotten a commitment from portion co and from lots in new york that they would take action

against the state prosecutor and they did. so they said they had it, they walk out, depress, kind of so nice, and i'm not going to or we're, we're not going to give you the $1000000000.00. i said you have no authority. you're not the president, the president said, i should call and i should. i'm telling you we're not getting a $1000000.00. i so you're not getting a 1000000000. i'm going to be leaving here. i think it was about 6 hours as long as i'm leaving the 6 hours and the prosecutor is not fired. you're not getting the money. all sign of got fired and they put in place someone who was solid. that was in 2016 when joe biden wasn't charge of washington's ukraine policy, which somehow saw his son, the hans or by then get a cushy, a lucrative dig, a local energy company. and when the plaza cuter started investigating the company after claims of corruption, why done? apparently, once of the prosecutor gone, it exchange for that 1000000000 in

a. this is how they operate when they need something. and what washington leads from georgia is exactly what it needs from ukraine to own it politically speaking. well, one could argue that they already own the presidents are cindy about it, but it is today when the guys to russia stands before us, partnership approach went with europe. and america is a true way to maintain our independence, peace and strength. certainly, europe isn't that surely closer to the georgia presence hard because she was born and raised in paris. she even had 2 passports until 2019 started in the us under people like a counsellor to us president lyndon johnson who later became national security adviser to president jimmy carter. and this was the kind of rhetoric that the future modern president was learning. well, unfortunately for washington, george's president doesn't have all the power in the country so she can help them out,

which is why it seems they're resorting to withhold any money again on the admissions or something. so to cite america, i'm the european union needs the only golf guys that you shouldn't the law on the transparency of foreign influence. i don't see by the parliament is i'm the an excuse for the west to the mountain, georgia to open a 2nd front with russia since the beginning of 2022. there's been serious interest in opening a set, confronting georgia, which would week and rushes position would also destroy all countries. there is a global war policy. this party is not interested in the fate of georgia that own the interest is weakening russia clips. once again that you watch the show and it's true colors which have nothing to do with the proceeds of democracy, but rather the pursuits of domination. as we heard from the director of a center for issues of globalization, who says that the western pressure on georgia, it's simply comes that the police. he doesn't want to sacrifice his own national interests, nor does it want to be

a vessel. how does that go on that leash of this was just an excuse to press the george in leadership. so they clung to this law and began to promote this topic. but supposedly this is the only unmanned reasons for the discontent of the united states. in fact, this pressure, which is now being felt in georgia by the west european union. and the united states is caused by the unwillingness of the georgian leadership to completely sacrifice the national interest of their country in favor of the interest of the united states. and the foreign policy arena. all these measures, including the freezing of 8, now and so on. but the united states are punishment for disobeying the instructions of the united states on the part of the united states against the background of this statement in georgia, there will be definitely a speech by political parties. these countless public non governmental organizations that have existed on western grants for 30 years, a huge number of them, which, you know,

very aggressive active use. and now they are all becoming more active. they will accuse the georgia leadership of departing from european values. i think it's not going to stop there. i think that this freezing of these $95000000.00 will be followed by more serious sanctions against the country's leaders and the economic sphere. economic sanctions so that the population feels much discomfort. so off the job i didn't was forced to walk the plank, can drown his dream of a 2nd presidential tub voting for who will be the democrats choices. now go from underway state side. the kicker is there's no choice on the ballot other than campbell a higher than you were men, but she was the most um, popular democrat during the 2020 primaries, but now she's presented as the best choice ever. so open out to all these kind of pop in for this report from the so called best june of democracy to the democratic party presents itself as an all inclusive representative organization. they say

democracy is at stake in this upcoming election. and if they lose, the constitution could be on the chopping block, and of course, they just drive their organization as democratic and representative. democratic delegates from across the nation made their voices heard. overwhelmingly back in vice president campbell of harris's, the democratic policies. presumptive nominate. while there's a problem, nobody voted for carla harris. she was not on the ballot and the democrat primary. and then actually the, to me the most. the most interesting thing that i see is when you watch all these, these delegates, all these delegations are coming out now brought the carolina has decided they're buying commer harris and new york says they're buying come wires and each delegation starts. but this is like watching the election results in north korea because what, what do you mean? the delegates are suddenly for cala harris. the delegates were voted for by the people of the democrat party and 14000000 people or something voted in this selection. and suddenly there, but it's don't matter anymore. now,

despite not even being on the ballot during the democratic primary, comma heiress still has all the delegates, the dnc chair said so our party has met this unprecedented moment with a transparent democratic and orderly process to unite behind a nominee with a proven record who will lead us in the fight ahead. so how exactly does that work? no day, no contested convention, comma harris is now in charge and the conversation and prepare the coordination. now the dmc says they will postpone the vote to august the 3rd, if a credible challenger can be found, but so far there is nothing and the clock is ticking. meanwhile, complet arrows is picking her. ve the running mates. a lot of people have been calling connell here is a disaster for a long time, including a lot of people on her own side tire is really the 1st woman president, 1st black woman, president and 1st asian president. but i don't vote for who will be the 1st i vote for who will win and for whatever reason, irish has never been popular. you can count the number of delegates she won in the

2020 primaries on one hand. as long as that hand has no finger in 3 years as vice president, she's been quieter than an electric car. but it looks like a done deal. what a democracy when one of the 2 main candidates, one of the only candidates that has a real shot of winning is somebody but nobody voted for kayla mauppin. archie, new york. yeah, did you know that come on, harris used to be dicing the full about san francisco mayor willie brown. it's true is quite a long time ago. she was about 20 years old. he was about 60. but did you know that when he brown helped coach become the district attorney in san francisco? in fact, he had had a hand in helping to push up her career all the way until she found herself suddenly in washington, i guess you go to have friends in the hi,

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