good to have you with us you're on our team it's a day i will research are. coming up on our team iraq faces a crisis as violence grows baghdad experienced a suicide bombing while another city falls under the control of radical militants the latest on the fighting of what it means for u.s. foreign policy in the region ahead and declassified documents reveal a near nuclear catastrophe for the u.s. in the one nine hundred sixty s. two nuclear bombs were dropped in north carolina but didn't detonate more on this incident coming up. and in d.c. space x. is the latest spacecraft is on display the dragon v two was designed to carry us astronauts to perth's orbit and beyond we'll give you an up close look at the

future of space travel later on the show. it's wednesday june eleventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm near a david and you're watching our team america. we begin tonight with the latest in iraq a suicide bomber has blown himself up and this a gathering of people in baghdad shares slum of sadr city killing at least fifteen people meanwhile islamist insurgents have seized to create a city that situation situated one hundred fifty miles north of the capital this is a major gain for us llamas rebels who just yesterday captured the city of mosul to create which has a population of about two hundred sixty thousand people is the hometown of former iraqi leader saddam hussein insurgents represent a group known as isis or the islamic state of iraq and the levant and just recently

a report from the wall street journal indicates that the iraqi government is open to allowing the u.s. to conduct air strikes against militant targets to talk about the security situation along with the very latest foreign affairs stories making headlines i was joined earlier by retired marine jake deliver to oh he's a political researcher at the university of birmingham in the u.k. i first asked him about the people who make up isis and the extent of their control in iraq and neighboring countries. isis is primarily a group of domestic iraqis and syrians but however a huge contingency of foreign fighters as well they have penetrated local groups local armed groups and manipulated them to be a part of their cause which is the disintegration of the modern iraq in the modern syrian state the toppling of the assad regime getting rid of the maliki government and installing some sort of extremist pseudo taliban ask type state they

are nefarious they have they do not they're not favored by many iraqis in fact recent polls indicate that iraqis do not support isis however what's interesting is about insurgencies in general is that they're able to gain power and they're able to manipulate local society if the government is weak in their territory so what we've seen over the last twenty four hours as isis has taken over mosul and tikrit is that the government is weak the government's military is backing down from this fight and the people generally speaking don't in those neighborhoods don't support the government either not that they support isis but however the government's weak and it can't protect the people and this is an offshoot of al qaeda this is this al qaeda in iraq this was a. cow his organization in two thousand and two that was basically united states was navigating while it's doing its counterinsurgency with petraeus that organization has manipulated and molded through different branding and arguments

internally but isis is the new al qaeda in iraq more or less ok and this week we've seen two different cities seized by islamic their insurgents that you mentioned were coming off may which is the deadliest month so far in twenty fourteen for the country and a lot of people have attributed this turmoil to the election you know obviously we've got this political upheaval i mean do you think the politics settle we're going to start to see the violence draw back or do you think it might just know or know the violence is going to continue its. the uprising is on the decline the couple in reasons we know that the first thing is going back a few years the maliki government isolated and continue to alienate the sunni population which the former the partnership between assad which was the awakening from two thousand to two thousand and nine the government had a sort of general partnership political partnership there that ensured iraqi security and ensured a sort of partnership generally between the shia and the sunni through a series of political brash and brazen decisions that the maliki government did

they isolate the sunni's even more going back to saddam days and just to quote him a thought or else he said that essentially that al qaeda is everywhere in the streets if it's not for the they. would rip the country apart. so that twenty thirteen now we are twenty fourteen is pulling back not protecting the people the government is weak now you're seeing her isis run rampant throughout the city throughout the countryside and it's only going to continue to get worse and now we see maliki likely about to secure a third term is there anything the united states can deal or are they sort of going to have to resign to basically working with him the united states really is impaired in any sort of malleable can dribble efforts it can do it can give some money it can give some training of some weapons but in terms of assisting the government in pushing off these rebels and government reform the united states is really impaired number one because we obviously we didn't have the sofa to keep our troops in post two thousand and eleven and on top of that we don't have the

political stature within the middle east you remember hundreds of thousands of iraqis suffered under the occupation not in a sort of because of what we did but it's because of what we didn't do and so the iraqis remember that they're not going to support us presence again so unless there's some sort of other you know magical event you know you know a third party intervention from saudi arabia or something it's highly unlikely that the united states can do anything can jubal to stop the violence and to support the government. seems to be a pretty severe gridlock i want to transition transition to some other iraq related news after nearly seven years of legal limbo a federal court is finally taking a look at whether four americans are criminally responsible for the deaths of fourteen iraqis and the blackwater incident of course are you surprised that it's taken this long to really work itself through the courts and finally be heard by a federal court and decide once and for all now the blackwater case is interesting because they were armed soldiers or are there armed contractors operating as

soldiers in a conflict zone in which the law was very great at the time it took a series of rulings the series of arguments on behalf of the government on behalf of press political pressure from the iraqi government and on behalf of. obviously political officials succumbing to certain pressures so i'm surprised that we're actually at a court case now. i think it's more than likely that they're going to come out is guilty and i think there is some sort of problems that are going to occur in terms of sentencing because how is it how do we have precedent for a situation like this because it is it's a new precedent of course and lastly i only have about forty five seconds left but i want to get your take on the prisoner swap of the five get the detainees with bergdahl senator or excuse me not senator defense secretary chuck hagel appeared before the house armed services committee today let's take a listen to him being challenged for not informing congress thirty days prior to

the deal. did you or did you not notify congress within the thirty day time frame yes or no no ok what i was yes or no no does the administration intend to violate the notice requirements of section ten thirty five of the india a and section eight eighty one eleven of the d.o.d. appropriation act in future transfers. not unless there. not unless there is an extraordinary set of circumstances like this one and so he is of course defending the last minute deal a lot of lawmakers are angered over what happened do you think that our a chair is overhyped a little bit or warranted we just need because. criticizing the president or supporting a minute situation like this for the sake of not buying into political grandstanding which is occurring on both sides generally speaking the president's decision is legally arguable for one major reason is because the proper authorities when congress had been notified of an ongoing dialogue about this for some time this

didn't something happen overnight magically all we didn't know about it that's not what occurred there was an ongoing debate there's an ongoing discussion congress did know about it and as a result when the presence of the pull the trigger he's legally covered in this regard the big concern here about the exchange is what is what does one the united states gain out of this and what does it set for precedent for future political negotiations insurgencies and islamic in our movements are occurring across the world they're only on the rise here not a decline what's the say the next our movement captures another person sets up another awkward situation united states is set to negotiate for one person over five thugs this is precedent set this is a bad sign for our political standing in the world and also it gives other armed groups fuel for capture and negotiations right jake to liberate a retired marine and political researcher at the university of birmingham thank you thank you. a shooting at an oregon high school yesterday has the country reeling

over get another tragedy spurred by a gun in the hands of a teenager but lease say the suspect fifteen year old jared michael padgett had an assault rifle handgun and several magazines when he opened fire at a gym at reynolds high school in troutdale police say an autopsy determined that padgett died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the attack one student fourteen year old amelia hoffman was killed in the boy's loft locker room the incident in oregon marks a seventy four choosing on a school campus since the newtown massacre and the already thirty seven shooting and twenty fourteen the latest numbers are all according to a gun control advocacy group every town for gun safety of the seventy four shootings on the list thirty five took place at a college or university and thirty nine occurred in k. through twelve schools the incidents are reported across thirty one states this map shows the locations of the incidents topping the list is atlanta georgia which saw ten shootings on school campuses in the last year and

a half and rounding out the top five were florida tennessee north carolina however not all of these incidents were mass shootings and not every incident resulted in death or injury the advocacy group says a school shooting is when a firearm was discharged inside the school building or on school campus or campus grounds as documented in publicly reported news accounts president obama tried to pass gun control legislation after the shootings at newtown but a watered down version of the bill failed to become law. so do you know how many federal workers have permits to carry guns the numbers might surprise you are these honest churkin one has more on who's packing heat. think of agencies like the fish and wildlife service and the food and drug administration they don't sound like they have the most aggressive missions out there do they well it's officers like these that have reportedly been part of a curious trend to increase their possession of ammunition for example the u.s.

postal service is one of the agencies in the u.s. stocking up on small arms ammunition why go figure for reasons why we question the u.s. department of agriculture also reportedly requested three hundred twenty two. caliber works of machine guns last year the u.s. social security administration placed an order for one hundred seventy four thousand rounds of hollow point bullets the mission statement of the federal agency does not indicate why they want any animal at all let alone so much raising lots of questions about why an agency specializing in servicing seers would require gunpower the agency explained that this wasn't by any means an intention to defend themselves against senior citizens but rather for the office of the inspector general where agents investigate social security fraud and other crimes another scandal that had sent the internet was involved the national oceanic and atmospheric administration which oversees the national weather service while it's fisheries office of law enforcement reportedly requested forty six thousand rounds

of bullets no less officially this was to protect marine resources and be able to reinforce international treaties both concerns over the last two years have been peeking about an increased militarisation of local police departments throughout the west as well as a record high number of guns possessed privately throughout the country agencies focused on postal service is helping out the elderly and overlooking fisheries and oceans life make an unexpected group to make it into the wide list of those being able to get ahold of weapons in the u.s. and if they see it you're going to new york. now unusual collaboration the cia and georgetown university have teamed up to host their first joint public conference on national security a conference which featured a host of scholars and national security acts for its looked at the role of intelligence in the twenty first century. and has more. cia director john brennan

was upset with the media with how as he said distorted the narrative is with regard to the work that the cia is doing all these reports about drone strikes edward snowden's revelations about the us government trampling on civil liberties all of this is not to john brennan's liking his mission is to restore the public's trust and not only of the american public but also of the public globally foreign governments are becoming embarrassed of their cooperation with. because of the bad perceptions that are out there and that worries john brennan they have been dismayed. seems to be skewed. after nine eleven a lot of trust was put in then as the director said it went the other way he obviously did not focus on how the agency managed to squander that trust by providing flawed intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in iraq or maybe due to the drone operations which reportedly kill more civilians than terrorists or due

to how the agency managed to miss the boston marathon bombers even though they had the warning but it was not there to talk. but they don't want to create an impression that the agency listens to the public and here's what he said about the balance between secrecy and open. president obama already has taken a number of steps to provide greater accountability and insight into the community these measures largely address the operations of our colleagues the national security agency but these two clear direction for all of us this community the cia is committed to charting a way forward in the president's words secures the life of our nation preserving the liberties that make our nation fighting for journalists were not allowed to ask questions only the participants of the conference and those were scholars. service intelligence professionals. the questions that john brennan received were very

general character and this was the first cia conference on national security by the way we were not allowed to film anybody in the audience the cia has just launched this twitter account and all of this is a result of john brennan deciding to engage in more public appearances to fix the tarnished image of the agency this was an all day conference among other speakers there was the house intelligence chairman mike rogers and all of them it seemed try to help the agency improve its image. all right that was artie's gynae to check in on. hard to believe but in january of one nine hundred sixty one the united states almost nuked itself is actually true according to a recently declassified report published by the national security archive the us air force had an incident in which the two atomic bombs were released after a b. fifty two plane carrying them went into a tailspin during a routine test flight one of the two bombs on board was actually an armed setting by the time it hit the ground near goldsboro north carolina and it shut detonated

but it was spared because of one low voltage switch that failed to activate properly this near nuclear explosion first surfaced back in september of two thousand and thirteen when investigative journalist eric schlosser obtained government documents that were later published in his book called command and control to discuss this incident further i was joined earlier by r t producer tyro ventura the first explained what could have happened if the bomb actually detonated . the fallout alone would have hit washington baltimore philadelphia and all the way up to new york city we're talking millions of lives have been put at risk you're also talking about a four megaton bomb which is equivalent about four million tons of t.n.t. a million tons of t.n.t. that's two hundred sixty times more powerful than the bomb that was dropped in your oshima so incredible amount of damage and destruction could have happened because of this incident it's incredible never missed it just by happenstance that this

didn't happen it's just a technical failure basically i should have gone all right just luck eric schlosser the investigative journalist who researched this quite heavily for his book found that there are only seven hundred noteworthy incidents involving nuclear weapons that took place between nine hundred fifty eight and nine hundred sixty eight just a ten year period and the public doesn't know about any of these should come as a shock the rate at which these are happening i mean i think it should come as a shock to any u.s. citizen just how i mean this makes it seem how inept we are in dealing with nuclear nuclear weapons and we need to hold our government accountable to the most powerful weapons on earth and that seven hundred incidences you know over the course of these years i can understand back in the cold war the secrecy involved you know we're competing with the russians at the time we don't want them to think we're in that we also don't want to panic citizens you know how kind of how many mistakes were making with these weapons but we need to have accountability with this across

the board because it's still happening today absolutely and to talk about what's happening today outside of the mishap of that meeting nuclear bombs there's been a host of other issues that different nuclear missile bases can you talk about some of the you know the most recent examples of security breaches i mean just last year security forces a u.s. nuclear base in montana failed to recapture stolen nuclear weapon it's a drill that they would run in terms of like ok you know running this drill about what would happen to someone still if they failed to recap. in the drill you know the air force called it a critical deficiency which is probably the biggest understatement of the year the pentagon also removed a commander in charge of four hundred fifty minute men missiles at the pentagon concluded that he drank too much and was a trip to russia was boarding with suspect women you know the air force also then fired nine commander commanders for a cheating scandal and where that involved the emergency war codes and these proficiency test for the emergency war orders so you know they're basically handing

out answers so they could continue to pass each test without actually really testing them and are they ill trained we don't we don't know what is going on what's happening is that in the air force right now there's a lot of low morale because of the focus on terrorism and yeah you know they they know that there's no room for advancement there's just it's a low morale they don't really you know a lot of these are soldiers out there a lot of these you know air force you know folks are just you know they are just kind of feeling lost in their jobs so they're getting lax in their duty it just so happens again lax in their duty with new nuclear weapons now as our t.v. producer tyrrel ventura. space travelers they're ready for a new ride but you has revealed this latest space venture the dragon the company behind the magic space x. has been in the private space exploration business for twelve years however the dragon is the company's first spacecraft capable of bringing humans to the international space station and taking them back to earth a new space capsule had its grand reveal here in washington d.c.

last night artie's making lopez was there and she has a story. it's a tell tale into the future of space exploration space x. c.e.o. elon musk is heading from coast to coast showing off the dragon to council a state of the art space craft with an interior that looks more like a tesla car than something to carry astronauts into the great unknown. musk and his team shipped the capsule across the country to show d.c. elites it could be possible within a few years to bring a crew to the international space station and even beyond that some members of the public were even allowed inside representative dana rohrbacher was one of a handful of congress members to visit the dragon to here's how he describes it this is always a really cool rohrbacher believes it's time for private companies to take over and

lead the way in space innovation what we have here with is an example of where government and the private sector can work together give them the goal and let them go for it in the future i see more private sector involvement seven crew members will fit inside this new improved capsule as beecher's eight a super draco engines that will help land the spacecraft at the exact point that it actually took off from what the perception of a helicopter so theoretically this capsule will be able to be reused the same day that it lay out musk says this feature is an absolute must if space travel is going to become more affordable in the future but it also has traditional parachutes on board in case anything goes wrong but as a twenty first century a space ship should last. something else remarkable about those engines this is also what will be the first fully printed engine so this is

a it's printed in canals a special high strength alloy that's right. printed because it was more cost effective for the space x. team to figure out a way to print the engine as a whole rather than create tools to build the engine by hand another major difference between dragon to end its predecessor to the current version one makes use of be counted on that's on the space station great version two is capable of docking or totally without the use of the arm while space x. has not yet tested whether they will be able to bring the dragon two safely back to earth just last month you on musk announced that the reusable rocket that will be used to propel the dragon two out of earth's orbit made a successful soft landing in its first test on cape cod the dragon two is expected to make its first unmanned test flight by twenty fifteen and launch a crew into space by twenty sixteen so it looks like the next great space race is kicking into gear but this time instead of countries competing it's private

companies that are expanding human reach into the depths of space reporting safely back here on earth meghan lopez r.t. if often heard tales of doctors listening to music all in the operating room but sexting that one comes as a bit of a surprise a doctor in washington state is accused of sending sexually graphic images and text messages during surgery arthur silverstein is an anesthesiologist at swedish medical center in seattle washington state department of health says he compromised patient safety due to his preoccupation with sexual matters while in the o.r. and if that's not bad enough apparently the doctor had been sexting none other than a patient and that includes sending a selfie where he was dressed in hospital scrubs while exposing himself according to a seattle t.v. station one of his text messages read i'm hella busy with c. sections but sexting is not the doctor's only problem police say silverstein illegally prescribe painkillers to patients one of which he's accused of having sex

with add work without evaluating or diagnosing them. the hospital says they are investigating the behavior and silverstein's medical license has been suspended. and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is comedian chris hardwick there's a part of what's to come when you will as you said a lot of common problems this is a little like probably ought to be left alone left right yeah i think so i think you know for whatever reason there's this interesting confluence of the comedy attracts a certain type of personality and it also creates a lot of personality issues at the same time neil simon said most you murder is based on tragedy well of course we talked about this before the cameras are rolling about how is. your father died and you lay my gold because it's such an awful thought to me that i can't help but express it comedically because that's my defense mechanism but i've been writing stand up about my dad's death and trying to

find that line between what people in an audience can handle when you talk about death and laugh versus like what's human about it like what we're all going to do it at some point why can we not find ways to as a community go hey this thing sucks but we're going to laugh about it because we have no choice. so ten at nine pm tonight here on our team america and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america check out our website r t dot com slash usa and follow me on twitter at amir david for now have a great night. this

story is either about how people love dave terrorists or about how it was sleep they are either way it's a doozy ok so a few months ago california senator levy was arrested for trying to sell rocket launchers and missiles from a radical muslim group in the philippines to an undercover f.b.i. agent in exchange for campaign phone he accepted about forty thousand dollars from federal agents and in return he was going to put them in contacts with terrorists who could get them weapons because apparently the senator joe was just how to get

in touch with terrorists personally he also supposedly knows a gangster with strong ties to a chinese crime syndicate who was also arrested in the sting operation so the senator got caught by the feds trying to smuggle arms when meanwhile he's actually known for altering strong gun control legislation he's also promoted campaign finance reform from lots of podiums meanwhile he tried to take money from a dangerous arms deal to finance his own campaign. so while he was doing this he was also running to be california's next secretary of state as a result of his the rest he wanted to drop out of the raise but according to the l a. tines his attempt to drop out wasn't accepted because by that time he had already missed the deadline so he was still on the ballot when californians just went to vote a few days ago eight candidates were up for secretary of state and out of those eight senator he was just federally indicted as a gun runner finished third all told two hundred eighty seven thousand five hundred

ninety californians or about ten percent of all the voters voted for the guy who was just splashed all over the local news for trying to broker a weapons deal involving foreign terrorists so what do californians just love ating global terrorists or did they just love you so much that they were willing to overlook his alleged massively corrupt ways more likely they were too busy shopping or watching the real housewives to even know that there's sen was just arrested for dealing are more likely they just saw a name they recognized on the ballot and voted for him because branding really works with half asleep humans so if you want to know how awake people are and how much they're paying attention to the crap that really goes on in the world look no further than this story for your answer and that answer just by terrify you tonight

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