tonight on our t.v. get ready for a showdown police politicians and protesters are all in chicago for the nato summit we'll tell you what's happening now and what demonstrators are demanding and the hard knock life for american inmates a new report paints a brutal picture at one of america's most notorious prisons is this a single incident for the nation's norm plus what's the difference between republicans and democrats according to our guests not a whole lot will introduce you to a college student and a recent college grad using their super pac power to fight the two political machine. welcome to our team my name's abby martin it's friday may eighteenth eight pm and you're watching our t.v.

this week as the long awaited nato summit in chicago and things are heating up thousands of activists from all across the country a flooded to the city for a massive protests against the twenty eight member states and addition to the ordinance is created to limit protester rights the city has already spent one million dollars on a riot gear to anticipate the crackdown against protesters for more on the events on the ground here's artie's on the stasi a charkha. the windy city of chicago turned sunny turned sour and the hometown of the u.s. president plays host to this year's nato summit nato is the u.s. commanded military alliance responsible for wars and war crimes on a global basis already the most watched city in the u.s. . as thousands of protesters begin to descend on chicago the city is in security overkill moat you've got a bunch of peaceful protesters here they spent millions and millions of dollars for this week alone i mean by absolutely absurd. police have reportedly see emptily

raided the homes of protest organizers they battered down the door and made several arrests and we believe these are politically based arrests millions of dollars spent on new police here trucks ready to function as rolling barricades businesses too are taking no chances what looks like a foreclosed building is actually a hotel in the heart of chicago why what was put up in order to avoid windows being smashed by demonstrators flooding into town office workers have been advised to dress like protesters in order to not be targeted fashion all one planet meanwhile activists there to express their outrage at nato is aggressive policies are blocked off and kept as far away from world leaders as possible we're talking about a peaceful protest not only by peaceful people but peaceful people dedicated to the cause of peace against a military bloc the mightiest in human history and they are being portrayed as the

force that needs to be protected while officials brace for riots know your rights training for demonstrators in your mind you know you're going to meetings and street action against the military block kick off nato is organization no longer has a mandate to occupy chicago denies and demands a nato disband they have no more purpose they're spending our taxpayer dollars on wars. and to buy and destroy and murder civilians all over the world where the ghana stand top of the leaders agenda protesters say it's time to put an end to the warfare at once the only reason we're still in afghanistan is for rare earth minerals and open the same reason the only reason we went into iraq was secure oil fields for american oil companies these are purely economic rewards that are sold to the american public purely on propaganda it's garbage demonstrators want the money pumped into the summit and its security to be spent on real me there is no peace majority in the united states we oppose war we oppose the war in the world's

preeminent war making organization. and we have a human agenda and a humane agenda that has no place for war with fences separating politicians from the people that human agenda is no more than a nuisance to be cordoned off is the r.t. chicago illinois so there you saw it the windy city has been turned into a police state with militarized riot gear l. rod machines and drones overhead things could get very interesting this weekend with massive protests expected to increase by the day earlier i was joined by our to correspondent charkha to tell me a preview of what to expect from this weekend's annual summit. well i'll be right now in the heart of chicago in the downtown area and if you can see behind me there are several hundred protesters gathered there is dozens of police officers there are in fact helicopters hovering above ground like you mentioned police cars everywhere we saw a pretty big march taking place earlier today with police following the protesters

on horseback definitely getting very busy and the biggest action that we're expecting will be taking place throughout the weekend namely on sunday where big march where tens of thousands of protesters are expected to show up for will be taking place a big chunk of the city will be closed off for this march to take place exactly how violent or intense things might get around here is still a big question we definitely can see that people are in fact quite worked up the protesters are saying they do intend to remain peaceful the but the police the officials the authorities in the city are definitely braced for anything that can happen including riots like we mentioned in that report over a million dollars has been spent on new riot gear for police officers so we're going to have to wait and see how events develop here through the throughout the next couple of days. there's for press are you guys going through checkpoints and shuttles and you mention free speech zones i mean where exactly are these free speech zones for the protesters and how far away are they from the nato head on

well you know it's actually quite interesting because the convention place where the delegates will be gathering is an entire over two miles away from where the protesters are being held and sort of in an area that's barricaded off and it would probably take about twenty minutes or half an hour to get there by walking which would be quite complicated so the protesters are actually being kept quite far away from where the delegates will be gathering this will not be your typical protesters chanting across the street from the convention center like we have seen at previous summits this is definitely something that the leaders want to have out of their hair for the next couple of days so. we don't think that the protesters will be able to get any closer to the free zone. in terms of where people are gathering they're literally gathering all over the city there are dozens of actions that have been taking place over the last couple of days with bigger or smaller groups taking place there was a pretty big action today organized by the nurses union which took place which gathered thousands of people we know that a couple of people have been arrested but it's definitely spread throughout the

city we are walking around we are looking for the action in terms of press getting to the convention center those who want to cover what the leaders are saying how the shuttle buses taking them there it was r t correspondent honest. well it's something that's joked about in pop culture but it's certainly no laughing matter shocking or not so shocking poll reveals that one in ten prison inmates has been raped or sexually victimized top of the issue the obama administration has ordered mandatory screenings and prevention regulations and hope to reduce the sexual assaults have been a lot of discussion about what goes on in private prisons but what if what about the state county and city prisons in two thousand and eighteen inmates in the new york city prison rikers island being eighteen year old inmate to death as guards looked the other way once investigated it was found that the death was not unique and in fact it was just an unfortunate casualty of an institutionalized fight club happening within rikers called the program where inmates violently fight each other to attain their place in the pecking order scandal resulted in twelve inmates and

two guardsmen sentence for their complicity and that was the end of it or so we thought fast forward four years later the village voice's obtained hundreds of internal correction department documents that expose the program has never stopped in fact it's just gotten worse take a look at this these are photos taken of teen and adult inmates at rikers island who've been slashed or beaten within the last two years is graphic images now put a face to the type of violence that advocates say have been going on for years and that's just the tip of the iceberg. officials now acknowledge that inmates fight three times a day and just over the last year rikers catalogue four thousand four hundred thirty five injuries so these documents finally bring much needed exposure to this cover up of systematic violence and it is happening more prisons across the country i was joined by the village voice news writer who actually exposed these cruel conditions graham rayman he explained the disturbing details of the immense day to day condition behind bars take a listen to the program basically guards are actively encouraging or

passively condoning. inmate intimidation. several there's a pecking order in this hierarchy among inmates will be leaders who get extra privileges who get. other inmates to use the phone to get their commissary money they get the best seats to watch television they tell inmates when they can be in their cell when they can't and it happens very commonly in the teen jail on rikers island and graham you one of the documents you guys got actually outlined the rules and that's kind of what you're specifying right now i mean this is this is actually documented that these are the rules of the program yes there was a document titled the with the program because what they do is they the leader is leading inmates will ask new inmates are you with meaning are you going to go along with what we tell you to do and if they don't they get beaten and that document was

seized in a search of a cell in the teen jail at riker's graham talk more about the weapons and the drug mules i mean are the guards completely aware that people are smuggling weapons and drugs inside or are they complicit in kind of the cover up of this aspect of what's going on. well there have been there certainly have been cases where guards are either been charged or fired for bringing contraband in on behalf of inmates for example there was a recent case involving cell phone there was discovered there was a case involving a. guard was allowing inmates to use an internet can use a computer to search the internet. and as far as the weapons go go the inmates can be very ingenious one one i found i saw was a eight inch fan blade that image had been broken off and sharp and they also take

pieces of the radiator and turn them in and knives are pieces of plexiglas and sharp sharp in them. they can be very creative in terms of arming themselves graham do you think that this is systematic across all city state prisons i mean is this something that you think is happening and we just don't know about. i don't know i mean my expertise is in jails the city jail system. remember you're dealing with teenagers which is a different dynamic than adults they tend to fight more. but at the same time i think the city jail system has has to take more responsibility in stopping this kind of thing i think if if you're a correctional officer and you know that you see this hierarchy in play and you let it and you let it happen then you're doing a disservice to both yourself the agency and the and the teens themselves do you think that the documents will halt this program once and for all or do you think it's going to going to be swept under the rug just like it was after the two

thousand and incident well my understanding is that is that the the jail commissioner here dora shiro is trying to trying to deal with it she has added some staff in jail and i think this this article sharpen the agency's focus on on the problem. did anything change after two thousand and eight . well two thousand and eight chris robinson was murder it was was like the perfect storm of events. you know you had the guards actively telling the inmates control your control your fellow inmates and and his the fact that he died was was highly unusual it hasn't been a homicide in that jail since. what about what about that are the. go ahead so i but the passive condoning of these practices has continued for sure

and there's also been a problem in that jail of the warden covering up incidents of fights and injuries and discouraging inmates from reporting them which is still under investigation right now there's also a federal investigation into violence on rikers so we'll see with echo's i mean it just seems like regardless of whether or not it's a city prison or federal prison or a private prison i mean it just seems like a lot of people who go into the prison system come out more hardened gangs running things and they use more drugs and there's just so much violence i mean do you think this is just an inherent thing within the prison industrial complex let's say and why isn't this more talked about i mean the fact that we are not rehabilitating prisoners to assimilate back in society properly. well i think out of sight out of mind their constituency that doesn't have very much political influence. i mean if you're if you're

a teenager and you've been arrested for graffiti let's say a nonviolent crime and you end up in rikers. and you find yourself getting beaten up you know that's going to change your life i mean that's not a small thing is going to come out either traumatized or over harden or you're going to or the next chance you get you're going to go after the people who beat you up so it is it is something also these are people who are not convicted of a crime they are still pretrial detainees so they should be afforded they are innocent until proven guilty so they should be afforded more protection than say a. prisoner or someone in this in a state prison who is serving twenty five to life for homicide for murder it is a shocking story graham and thanks for publishing those documents and everyone should definitely check those out and. hopefully it's not systematic across the nation but it is very shocking that is graham rayman village voice writer.

typically when someone hears the words political action committee their eyes glaze over thanks to citizens united paxson used to funnel insane amounts of money into political campaigns leaving the little people sometimes voiceless but not anymore thanks to see them go bears pack kits more and more young people are forming their own packs nationwide but none are as interesting as a liberty for all a super pac run by texas businessmen john ramsey ramsey is a twenty one year old econ major just nine credits shy of graduating college senior with over eight hundred thousand dollars of inheritance money he built liberty for all from scratch and he's got to a level where it has substantial political pool liberals focused on springboard in ron paul's libertarian philosophy beyond the single lections and into institutionalize those ideas from a grassroots level earlier i was joined by the man himself john ramsey the founder of the party for all super pac and preston bates executive director for liberty for all super pac and the day of age when the average called student blows their inheritance on traveling around the world i asked them why did he dare to invest it

in the political system instead take a listen so really motivated by the dire circumstances that we find our country at the moment we're fifteen and a half trillion in massive unemployment you know that's just not the american way of life so i think people deserve a lot better you know and they get involved it's really an ongoing experience to be able to come up with my own super pac you know and be a pack of people you know a super pac that gives the little guy the table a lot of people in this country are sitting tired of being bulldog rather stablished and you know to get a little got a seat at the table it's quite an only experience and i'm looking forward to going forward with the organization it is it is that you say that because you know when people hear the words super pac i think their eyes kind of glaze over and it really does leave the little guy out and you are you guys are kind of giving the little guy a voice and starting this i want to talk about you know there's a there's numerous ron paul liberty super pacs across the country what makes

liberty for all different. yes ma'am so we're we're focused on becoming at liberty institution that when selections government is most invasive intrusive offensive at the local local levels and it's unchecked we feel like we can quickly create a niche where we have electing and are supporting freedom candidates that are all the way up from the president down to city commissioner and frankly school board so that the edges of establishing that's the role we're hoping to play going forward so instead of folk and is focusing on just federal elections you guys are really honing in on the grass roots kind of building an institution would you would you characterize the pac as more of like a third party park no i don't think it's fair to say i'd say you know frankly it's a second party pac the democrats and republicans are almost so similar it's it's tough to tell them apart we think that american go in a free or

a less for your direction and we hope to run freedom candidates in both parties and all parties americans like choice for cars and coffee and fast food and why only have two choices for political parties we think we should invest in you know plurality strategy we're going to do well you know ron paul is such a popular man for multiple reasons i mean he has such an amazingly consistent track record in congress and everything he says is just it just seems so genuine and i think that has really helped his following what are the chances of continuing to garner similar candidates like this i mean what how do you guys see that panning out. so i'm going forward i'm in the wrong hole tell just so you know that the movement is not about him it's about his ideas you know his ideas of getting tremendous popularity especially with you know they say that the next generation will inherit a lot of the debt they're ever that's this is the generation you know and people

are there they're excited to see new ideas coming into the spectrum that excited to see you know someone talking about freedom which is a uniquely american idea it's something that americans value and they're really excited going forward you know they want to see change in this country they want to see change in the right way and we've got this president mention got us to go at this point you know towards less freedom or toward more freedom and i think the way to go is toward more freedom obviously sure but i mean there aren't that many candidates you have to admit that emulate ron paul's full package i mean the nonintervention isn't curbing back all of this insane spending and the liberty platform the civil liberties liberty platform and even his son rand doesn't really go forward on i mean he's a civil liberties activist but he doesn't really narrow his father in the nonintervention ism and foreign policy arena i mean are there candidates out there right now small or big that are kind of telling this whole platform that you guys are supporting. i have yet you're right to cast doubt on the currents of current

scene right now as it stands and so part of our identity is becoming an institution that not only you know is a super pac but our brand is going to evolve into a five alinsky three c. four we want to recruit these folks we want to prepare them we want to train and educate them we want to have their back and we want to hold them accountable but you know i think americans are tired of government being in their bedroom and their bank and i think there is that the ground is right for us to sow the seeds of freedom from top down everywhere in all fifty states not four corners we plan to be relentless in that pursuit so you guys are kind of taking the opposite approach instead of honing in on candidates that are already out there you're really kind of building the base for candidates to be pooled and really rise up talk a little bit about this race in kentucky which is nine hundred miles away from your hometown you guys are in kentucky right now you said yes man ok i had

a talk about thomas massey what made you what made you support him so thomas massie you know i get asked this question quite a bit you know why do you support tom. and you say you that that's not me that's a reflection of our supporters i mean being a pack of the people on a bottom up organization you know we have our supporters telling us about you know thomas massey you know he's a great candidate he's got consist of consistent record on he's a job creator you know before he went into politics you know greater in the private sector you got to do degrees from mit so he's an engineer you know it's he's a pretty some of the other people in the race you know they they're playing a political games whereas you know thomas massa he's on a professional politicians professional job maker you know just to have someone come that with a consistent record is really serious about this debt problem as well you know it's a lot of young people who are really serious and concerned about the death row and thomas massey's about a return his own congressional pension and that's you know it's one thing to talk about. when you're actually taking steps and taking you know pledging to do things

to pay down the debt that's very inspiring and that's how you get my became. and i know that you said it is and it isn't you it's the pack but i mean you have to admit that it is most of your money funneling end to massey's advertising's right i mean i know you guys are talking about wanting to raise ten million dollars the first summer i mean do you think that this is a feasible goal and you have a lot of interest in the pac right now and who would be investing in share abbi and you're right you know the kind of criteria we use to get involved in a racecar is there a candidate who matches are consistent you know absolute values philosophy and became we went so thomas massie check yes on both of those boxes and so it was a no brainer for us to get in wall and so going forward yeah you know but in the summer i'd like to have raised two million dollars we're already on million toward that goal and we haven't really reached out we haven't really been running a fundraising operation by this initial start up capital get us off the ground and

have been professionally run but when we start running a fund raising can campaign when we start reaching out to value freedom i think in million dollars as maybe conservatives for what this package is that is interesting i mean ron paul every time he does a money bomb it seems like he just gets millions poured in and ever really is mostly coming from individual donors and really the grassroots level will definitely be following your guys work very interesting and the liberty movement is definitely on the rise that was john ramsey founder of liberty for all super pac and preston bates executive director of the bring for all super pac thanks so much for coming on you guys d's seat scandalous capital of america whether it's watergate or win or gate and things like politics they're always trying to cover their tracks and in fact it's so prevalent here that d.c. has their own tour given an overview of its most notable scandals and history artie's christina for zahau went on the tour to bring us more. we're going to make our way up through the treasury building and you know there are many ways to see

d.c. and and many things to see that you know general there are but hidden in the shadows of the grand architecture on these renowned streets. an intriguing history you did stuff on about in scorning. at fourteenth in h. was the former. port unquote porno district of d.c. he grabs a couple pistols and he runs out the door and i was distinguishing mark on this dress there's a semen stain on the dress but new to the washington d.c. tour circuit is the d.c. scandal tour we love scandals in american history is rife with flukes and flaws as is that is true of any country there seems to be an inordinate amount here in washington why is that i think it's a power play you know everyone wants lowkey want higher power and that how folks

think they can do anything and yet. people in power they really push fear mongering perspective on the american citizen re and to a great degree you could say that who is the father of fear mongering the united states . and unequivocally i can say that's j. edgar hoover it's no surprise then that this was one of the stops on the tour but as we know scandal comes in many forms as to be expected an overarching theme was sex and all the politicians caught with their pants down or with women who weren't their wives apparently and happen all the time where i'm standing right here the side of a very popular strip club in the seventy's called the silver slipper and then there are those scandals that have it all politics sex and drugs we found here at d.c. city hall the talk about one of the city's former mayors who still reports here to work and the city councilman i'm talking of course about marion berry. i'll be

goddammed that bitch that bitch did that to me from the set ups of sunk to the get out of others. this tour covered it all like benjamin franklin he would wear coonskin cap and you know the various ladies for hire on the street thought that was a rather rambunctious move and would compete for him and his attention scandal it seems one of the few constants throughout history. and social evolution that one. of the committee to relate nixon eventually was found to have broke into the watergate what is it that people love about scandals. well a little good humor little of us large amounts of society start to deify some of our founding fathers. past the point of realizing they were also just human being.

a look back of a different kind and a new perspective on how some things just never change. in washington christine freezone r t. that's going to do it for now for this week but be sure to tune in to our team next week for a brand new lineup first up california's day of reckoning governor jerry brown knows he has an uphill battle ahead and i think he's found a solution to the state's economic problems austerity his mojo you name it and we've got to cut it he's holding true to those words slashing spending especially on social programs but as a state falls deeper into the red is this a solution or a sinkhole we'll explore next that's been described as a post-apocalyptic city and if you come from detroit it's easy to understand why abandon homes and empty lots played almost every corner of detroit seventy percent of murders go unsolved and more and more people are moving out and all this outlook

is dismal one business is thriving private security will tell you all about these so-called threat managers and what they're doing for the city and last but not least when a person blows the whistle on government wrongdoings who protect them from potential repercussions at the moment that answer may be no one a new report has surfaced that alleges that the department of defense office of inspector general has systematically ignored pentagon orders to provide protection of those responsible for reporting fraud abuses and the waste of taxpayer money and went on to say that over half of the one hundred fifty two cases studied were disregarded and some of the whistleblowers were handed grave punishments including demotions threats of real discharges dismissals trials and mental health referrals to shocking case for sure next week we'll show you how deep the negligence really goes well those are just a few of the stories we have in store for you next week along with more in-depth news interviews so keep it tuned right here to our team for more on the stories we

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