he's available in complex we can see they are going to. do you guys know that the united states actually decided to sell weapons to taiwan recently. i haven't heard. you know really keep up with politics you know and. well there you have it yeah average american has no clue how the u.s. and taiwan are related at all but the u.s. president sure does this as president obama is forced to play with fire walking the tightrope of true friendships between china and taiwan. that's what president reagan did nine hundred eighty when it works start out with a far john sears know the people in this campaign i want you to are struggling to nominate general stood like a star even rumsfeld lost his job so is it time for history to repeat itself well

obama fights to higher with his new jobs plan many are saying what the president needs to do is fire this during a time where he's fund raising at thirty six thousand dollars a plate and he can't even put food on the table. for about hyperinflation. right now the fact you're great. and well at least someone's excited about the economy we're going to sit down and talk with free money with not you not you lesko famed author and self-proclaimed federal grant researcher. well all free money isn't as easy to come by for some prison contractors that found a way to make big bucks by cashing in on undocumented immigrants ahead here how one man's american dream was crushed after his residency was revoked four years later.

it's right is a timer sixteen four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our t.v. well the white house has given the green light to the sale of an arms package to taiwan a sale that is leaving a lot of world leaders on shaky ground here's the deal taiwan says its fleet is aging and was hoping that the deal that they got would include new advanced f. sixteen jets the u.s. which has provided weapons to taiwan since world war two and is obligated to help based on a one nine hundred seventy nine law will instead sell less advanced bolder jets to taipei the reason china who doesn't want us to help taiwan at all especially with advanced weapons now in some ways you could look at this like a crazy sibling rivalry china in taiwan two siblings that obviously don't get along at all china in fact still claims taiwan is its province and has apparently fifteen

hundred missiles targeting taiwan well the u.s. and china are also family these days especially when you consider how much of u.s. debt is held by china so what you have here is a sticky situation and it shows based on the u.s. sort of backing down in some ways it shows that china is still very much the older stronger growth or so is this is the simple version of the story but to help me make more sense of it all i'm joined by investigative journalist and r.t.e. contributor roland martin. well let's talk about this all the way china sort of threatened the u.s. if they would have agreed to that fail of new were more advanced and you could say you know if the u.s. economy suffers china will suffer but it seems to me that this is not just business when this is personal this is geopolitics actually was what is going on here taiwan and china have had actually had pretty good relations considering the fact that the

claim each other's territory for their for their own and national is on taiwan and communism of aging through a process called the cross streets negotiations however china looks at the united states interference as something that they don't want to deal with they have no problem dealing with the government in taiwan especially the current president who is a big advocate of this cross street dialogue increasing trade between taiwan and china for example but whatever happens out of this fight or deal china will get four point two billion dollars in military aid from the united states maybe not the advance of sixteen's maybe in a package to update their current fighters current sixteen's but put this in context with hillary clinton were rattling sabers about the south china sea disputed islands they're disputed between five different countries china philippines vietnam. and malaysia. in

addition to taiwan she she has been rattling sabers against china so it looks like there's still some old free china cold warriors in the obama administration parading around as democrats when in fact they look like they're closer to the old richard nixon on the one nine hundred fifty s. there were of quite a few forces that rain pushing for the sail for that sail of the newer more advanced ethics teams and that includes the lawmakers who supported a bill basically to reaffirm that close relationship between the u.s. and. i want i want to read something that florida republican congressman foley on a lot ruslan said yesterday in a statement she said quote in order to protect u.s. national security interests in the pacific we must ensure that taiwan has the capability to defend itself from an attack a core corps and my mainland china taiwan relations act requires this it is deeply concerning that the current administration's commitment to the very foundation of the t.r.a.

seems to be faltering most glaringly through its continued refusal to sell taiwan the next generation of sixteen's or diesel submarines. other lawmakers including texas senator john cornyn also you know this would have brought us jobs which he desperately needs and these newer jets are made by lockheed martin talk about kind of the truth behind the politics here between these lawmakers getting involved and wanting the u.s. to sort of tip that scale between the u.s. and china well with roslyn and we have actually someone stuck in time she is basically she doesn't want to have any dialogue with. cuba because she's a basically cuban from south florida so she's against any initiatives with the castro government and it looks like her policy views of the china is going back to the old debate between nixon and kennedy in one hundred sixty whether the u.s. will protect queen morion might sue these people like cornyn and. robert menendez who's a democrat from new jersey i should add he's

a member of that same cuba coalition ileana ros lightnin is a member of these are cold warriors but then again they're also got hold of the military industrial complex they want the french the arms when it is a new jersey court in texas and where as a roslyn and she and she is the chairman the house foreign relations committee but she if you want to republican administration after obama you're find people like ross lightnin in that administration these are people who are playing brinkmanship . i know they like to do with russia cold war years in the twenty first century you mention when how relations between china and taiwan relatively speaking are decent these days despite some pretty. you know things between them that run deep in terms of opposition to one another. and that china china has been warning the u.s. for quite some time about this this deal which has been in the works for a couple years now i know one official chinese newspaper even said quote you know

warned about the mad men on capitol hill pushing the f. sixteen sale we're playing with fire and could pay a disaster as price and what kind of disaster a surprise do you think they were threatening well they could increase their military presence as they already are in the south china sea there's also the. dispute over some islands between japan and china this could ratchet up tensions on the korean peninsula okinawa taiwan all the way down to the south china sea but i think there are some elements in both the obama administration the republican party that would like to see that showdown with china which actually owns our debt and i think that that's the key here there are some people who would like to see a breakdown in relations i think in the u.s. somehow to get out of paid instead to china which isn't going to happen now a lot of kind of interesting connections there between the u.s. and china of course the intense rivalry between china and taiwan runs deep and has a history to it as well the u.s.

reaction clearly important in all dealings it does with taiwan but here's a question how much exactly does the average american really know about taiwan well our seas are going to you sarah took to the streets of washington d.c. to find out i went out on the streets of washington d.c. armed with a camera mike and a mammoth task americans a simple question. why is it so important to the u.s. where is taiwan. asia. islands where you're. going to. trash joining us this morning nice to talk hear from you know the. answer did you guys know that red states decided to sell i'm silent i had read that i did not i hadn't heard that you know i don't know that you know i didn't. if i'm not mistaken i was of the impression that taiwan was. occupied by the british oh i

think our relationship with taiwan is probably just as important as our relationship isn't there you have it it seems americans kind of know where it is but why it's such a big issue reporting from washington and i general said oh. i think when i want to get your thoughts on this i mean to what extent do you think that the american public is aware at all of all these different kind of divisions and complicated relationships between the countries where we are not very aware of them and all because if you watch the cable news networks you would know that taiwan certainly existed you know that the part of white house party crashers. you know broke up but that seems to be where the focus is with the media the mainstream media but taiwan is a very critical part of our policy towards asia but again it's not it's not the nineteenth it's the one nine hundred sixty s. and fifty's for republicans and some democrats who want to play the old for most

nationalist china card but for the american public in general they have no idea what's going on over in the streets what about the future of leadership in taiwan there has been some talk that the obama administration has sort of try to get involved and maybe have a hand in who might be coming up next in order once again not to take that delicate scale were president the current president of taiwan is a big proponent of the cross trade initiative however his opposition is favored it favors somewhat of an independent stance for taiwan something to china doesn't go to go for we also have a transition in china itself in the people's republic which again is very important considering this maneuvering going on with supplying taiwan with weaponry and just finally when i guess i want to get your take. and what you think the bigger implications of this whole deal was this was a long deal in the making in terms of the sale it's sort of was

a compromise on the part of all the countries i guess with the bigger picture here well the u.s. will be supplying taiwan with weaponry the report is four point two billion dollars worth. let's see how china looks at that if it's if it's weaponry that china doesn't look at as as aggressive towards china they'll probably go ok with it but if it's any sort of advanced weaponry especially weaponry that could counter china's missile threat to try taiwan we're going to see some problems between beijing and washington right always an interesting discussion with you and that's a good journalist and r.t. contributor but nothing well we end this week like we have so many weeks this year with a sense that things in this economy have not gotten much better now for many it's simply another day without a job of president obama is hoping to fix that and he's traveling the country to sell his american john's that's hoping to get people on board and also hoping congress well you know that you will pass this bill well i would certainly not be

the first time the government has gotten involved to try to help and there's one man who wants to make sure you're aware of every opportunity the government is giving away money you may not even recognize take a look. that you. like billion dollars do you think there's a. right to make a little. something i suffer from. hyperinflation. and turn on your. well that man is matthew lesko a bestselling author and entrepreneur now i just i'm simply as a question mark i guess what he joins me here in studio to talk more about this ok i got to ask you first how many of these have now got your colorado today yeah we have about fifteen or more of these these things. and i know you also keep

a blog you write about the economy i know you written recently about the american jobs act and i want to start with something that you kind of talked about in a recent one in which you said that people need to get in line because the american jobs act could give them as much as three thousand dollars but it's all the benefits and goes through or not there's so much out there now how to help you and the problem is you know people you know learning their information about the government hucksters like me you know who are probably trying to sell you something you know like right now if your credit card debt you don't don't turn to somebody you see on t.v. going to help you that because that's going to cost you money the government right now has thousands of offices where they're giving grants to professionals to help you get out of that credit card and they're out there to sell you anything there's just the help you but they don't ever ties they're not allowed to advertise they don't have money to advertise that's what all these programs that are really great i think to solve people's problems you don't have any money but what are some of the best programs that people i mean we have one right now we're getting

a job now you talk about jobs other you know when you get up to eight thousand dollars to train for a new career so now if you're in a career going nowhere if you're on wall street and you want to get a massage therapy yourself they. you know there's a program at eight thousand dollars to do that and that's offices at the local government you know so people don't know really work call you know whether you're a republican or a democrat here in washington everyone is talking about jobs and the economy obama of course gave that famous speech last week where he urged people at congress eighteen times pass this bill republicans were quiet about it but we're starting to feel the kick back i want to play something that speaker of the house john boehner said just yesterday. so the president. they're not doing their jobs if they're not constantly focused on removing impediments to job groups. and if they're not focused on that there will be part. john boehner calling for

people to be fired that aren't focusing on moving the impediments what do you make of all that. he believes that if you have your tax code creates jobs i mean i was small business hours but i don't want to tax cut you know i mean we people out there doing things and all of us talking about it's just short term anyway you know and why worry about the next year or two what we have to worry about is a next twenty ten years you know and that to me is where the investing in the long term whether it's your own education you know or in technology that's going to make us more productive or things like that that's what we should put great i sort of scholarship on call i don't need my give up money scholarship fund because you know when you're like sixty thousand millionaires getting so security like two thousand dollars a month under me that stuff your kid could go to college for like a thousand bucks you go to college and then we're going to see you can go to college absolutely unplanned ali if you go to community college although that's not

the only program it's about the true issue here for you know a thousand and fifteen hundred bucks now so that's like free lunches downtown here in washington you know speaking of that it is of course the time when the president needs to start campaigning and it was also last night that he had a big fundraiser in georgetown i believe it was thirty six thousand dollars a plate. there is i'm sorry thirty six hundred dollars a plate that people are going to call and exactly. a lot of money people pay that money he is making money talk a little bit about how you kind of see this contrast between these types of fundraisers that while the economy is not doing so well i mean to me it's a waste of resources i mean what we have to do in this going to take the resources we have and start planning for our future you know i mean there and throwing money at our ideological preferences you know it is just a waste the effort and it's not probably going to study we're you know we have to worry about what we're going to be doing ten years from now you know mark next

thursday that's the real planning. we have to do in this country it's really really interesting. you know it everyone sort of wants to give the president advice whether it's speaker of the house painter or media pundits i want to play one other thing do we have this sound bite from james carville. we lost all the seats at nine hundred ninety four a lot of us got far i didn't have a consulting contract with the d. and c. people he made changes that's what happens that's what president reagan did nine hundred eighty when it started out well he fired john sears and other people in this campaign i want you cussed out like that how many generals did like that far even rumsfeld lost his job it girl publicans far newt gingrich was saying to not go on well i'm sorry to coach the ballot you know this will go forth you've got to do something you've got to change direction here it just looks like you're saying people doing the same thing over and over again and work and all right so boehner says obama you know should fire people james carville that obama said have you i

mean is that the case it does that and you say you need to simply change the roster here i don't mean you see not the past i've been in this town long enough you know where they come in after two years of changes and we're still not going anywhere i mean it's something more systemic than that it may help on the edges but how do we get down i mean to do the critical issues in this country like education and if we don't educate work because we're competing and we're not you know in maryland competing with people who jersey we're kids in maryland competing with people all over the world and they're studying harder than we are you know they're getting more educated than we are that's what we have to do in this country. just final question for you i want to get your take on i mean your the the way you do things here i mean you have your question marks raising konstam is this working are you getting attention or people coming up to you and asking what do you mean i can get my hands on the cover of three different questions in my mind who are the course of course is just like i always wonder why you. are the kid you know didn't have the

courage of the you know in my fifty's you know and this is me inside you know and so a lot of people think i'm an idiot and that's fine. but the people like that i know i go to like them because this is what i am i'll tell you a. lot of people very excited. you're coming into the studio today after entrepreneur nothing less going to thank you so much for your take on all of this well free money doesn't come so easily for thousands of people right now one industry that seems to be raking in the big bucks though is the prison industrial complex and it's cashing in on undocumented immigrants argue correspondent mungle endo shows us how. three dogs. knew how. great company so. we were. newlyweds hope and dream and stuck him were living the american dream a dream quickly shattered by immigration agents after knowledge reach us residency

was suddenly we had poked because of a four year old drug conviction and therefore asian standing high better and it just felt like a nightmare nasri an immigrant from singapore was hauled off to the south texas detention center run by geo group the second largest prison contractor in america geo along with corrections corporation of america for c.c.a. have contracts with immigrations and customs enforcement together their annual revenue is three billion dollars both geo and c.c.a. which operates this facility in san diego have repeatedly been accused of lobbying for tougher immigration policies in order to keep their cells full were given it to corporations their hijacking our legislators their hijacking our government and they're pushing for their own particular agenda to make money private prisons are

making millions off of the crackdown on undocumented immigrants they basically manage every aspect of it detainees life just like a government prison except that contractors are doing it for profit c.c.a. and geo are not the only private companies making a killing off of our border security infrastructure wells fargo is reported to have millions and shares in private prisons security contractor for g.s. boasts about their ability to transport hundreds of thousands of detainees every year people like oscar an undocumented nursery worker who himself has been detained several times now and when i was not caught me in around ten times through the use of this is made known i was a smuggler. but as oscar's final. success in settling in america shows the billions of dollars being spent on private contractors to build a border wall and on high tech monitoring equipment have not sought the flow at all

the homeland security mentality the lobbyists are really. paving the way for many more contracts for private companies to have with the u.s. government to ensure that there's always this fueling system of building more walls those multimillion dollar contracts come back tech speer expense of course private prisons receive up to two hundred dollars a day pretty teenie a record three hundred ninety thousand immigrant detainees passed through the system just in two thousand and ten but what they want is to increase profits will be cut medical care because services the cubs the higher qualified personnel and with that happens the pats translated into abuse systematic systematic abuse throughout the country. there have been reports of abuse and even death said private run immigration priscilla to use it is a system over which is only expected to expand as long as profits dictate the

immigration debate in los angeles ramon bill indo r t and we are coming up now on an election year immigration policy will no doubt be an issue as ramon said that will be debated and discussed but you know whenever this comes up there is a major component that is always missing and that is this notion that detaining people keeping people locked up is a successful business prisoners are profitable so the more of them there are the more money to private practice the private prison industry brings in earlier i spoke to one who is a good here is the president of almost any of us usa about this connection between the private prison industry and the tightening of immigration laws across the country. well i think you're absolutely right the private prison system is very interested and has been from the beginning about toughening ross regulations. immigrants because they understood

very early on that this was a very big business. and we have a situation now where essentially what we have is the whole way. baby involves the private prison system on the one hand and conservative politicians on the other working hand in hand through professional lobbyists to make sure that the congress of the various things keeps allocating money so that the private prison system continues to expand and one thing that we've noted over these last years is that in every single state where politicians at the state level have been signing have been defined congressional law and federal laws use me in terms of implementing

immigration law. you know you've seen an expansion of the private prison system in those countries with the net result that not only have the prison system expanded. but immigrants are now being in prison for longer and longer periods of time because the longer they stay in prison the more money those private contractors from the federal government it seems to me almost similar to what we now know about you know the banking industry yet another industry in which the people who stands to profit as the same ones making the rules and i want to talk specifically about one of the most glaring examples of this ad is of course arizona's immigration law as the ten seventy where police. officers were ordered to lock up anyone they stopped whether it be for a traffic violation or whatever reason who could not show proof that they were citizens i know two of governor jan brewer's top advisers are former prison lobbyists so the connections are aplenty what about those who constantly say you

know this is in the name of safety we need stricter laws to keep car to keep the united states safer what do you have to say to those people. well yes of course you need to keep you know states. but when you're dealing with immigrants what you have to understand is that by and large it is not a binge or is family and it's getting in between and locked up for long periods of time you seem to be what you are hardworking law abiding tax immigrants who have been mistreated regulation and who are now confronting very tough immigration laws of the state and federal level say a result of which you know they're being. penalized for being in the country without documents and they get caught up in these. private prison industry which is that direct result of all these racist policies that we have seen in that people

states are cross the country. you know the american public is nor more state to be than he was before the. immigration regulations and the prison system explosion that we've seen a lot of good point you're making here some of the really interesting that i didn't know about i just want to get in one more question and that is i mean we saw this report and we showed one of the largest. corporations in this industry which is geo but there's also the corrections corporation of america c.c.a. why is it that when we talk about immigration reform and when we talk about this on political platforms and you know all the pundits debate in the mainstream media why is this part of the story and not being told that these major contractors are working with the government and profiting off the arrests of illegal illegal immigrants. well it would only hear about it because everybody basically has been

conditioned in the greater american public to. simply assume that anytime you're talking about individuals that are being incarcerated you're talking about the worst of the worst and there's not point discussing what you know what the reality is what's going on i mean who who's making profit on the mystery of this individual the assumption is that this individuals are very dangerous criminals as we mentioned earlier and therefore they deserve to be like oh no we are a and so the last thing you won is to begin to inform the american public that somebody is making huge profits that incarcerating the ambac you meant that is not just an issue of what to do with them but is big business for individuals that are directly connected to some very powerful politicians that don't want anybody to find out about.