to see these developments coming out stop executives only take a look at me it's really good. it's new life there are. coming up on our t.v. as i says marches toward baghdad the u.s. weighs its military options but again has ordered ships to the region and some u.s. workers of the nasdaq he waited from the embassy will discuss the crisis in iraq with the former governor of minnesota jesse ventura just ahead. ukraine's president says he will propose a peace deal with anti kiev groups in the eastern part of the country this comes as russia cuts off gas supplies over ukraine's outstanding bills more on that coming up. and the f.b.i. is the focus of a good moment hearing for the five men accused of planning the nine eleven attacks our team is that poor need to listen in on the hearing and we'll tell you why the

f.b.i. his actions are under scrutiny all the details later in the show. it's monday june sixteenth eight pm in washington d.c. and i'm your i david and you're watching r.t. america we begin tonight with the latest on the crisis in iraq today the u.s. announced that two hundred seventy five u.s. armed forces are deploying to the country to provide support and security for u.s. personnel and them to see in baghdad the forces deploying for the purpose of protecting u.s. citizens and property and if necessary it is equipped for combat this comes just after the violence that's been sweeping the country as insurgents game a stronger foothold in the north.

one by one iraqi cities are falling to an islamist militant group that's determined to move forward in taking control of baghdad blue dots shown here are cities that isis has seized recently last week mosul and to create fell to rebel fighters and just yesterday militants took control of tal afar which is just west of mosul the takeover of came just as sunni militants claim that they had massacred seventeen hundred iraqi security forces and in doing so they posted graphic pictures of a mass execution and to create as evidence and warning of more killing to come back here in washington the state department announced yesterday that it had reinforced security at the u.s. embassy and was relocating some of the u.s. embassy staff to more stable places in and outside of the country at the same time the obama administration has been considering its approach to the situation right

now it says everything is on the table from u.s. iranian military cooperation to unilateral airstrikes and the latest is that the white house is even considering sending a small number of american special forces to iraq to help baghdad slow the insurgency just to discuss the next moves for the u.s. earlier i spoke with former minnesota governor and host of off the grid jesse ventura ever sasson if the u.s. has an obligation to help deescalate the conflict. well i don't know you know let's go back to the iraq war and how it started i mean it was based upon lies to begin with when the united states entered that war way back in two thousand and three we were told weapons of mass destruction and ties to al qaida they all turned out to be false they were all totally bogus and so we go in there we overthrow saddam hussein we occupy them for ten years and now it's all falling apart again well do you want my honest opinion if the united states of america is going to go back into

iraq i think george bush and dick cheney should lead the way they should be the first two on the ground in iraq leading now leading us back in there all right only multiple cities have fallen to islam as militants and rebels are quickly gaining control of much of the northern part of the country based on the one hand we're seeing right now what implications for the u.s. if baghdad actually falls to the insurgents. i mean i don't know you know to me it's them forming their own countries you obviously got muslim movements the shiites the sunni's they don't get along they haven't gotten along for thousands of years and they've created these middle eastern countries that put them all together maybe we should look at this is an opportunity for the middle east to create their own countries to where these religions could all have their own separate countries and that way maybe it'll bring some sort of stabilization and and this ludicrous

wars that go on there for years and years and years in other words i'm saying maybe it's time for the rest of the world to butt out and allow them to settle their differences themselves these are civil wars going on for let's go back to do have eleven the official poll out of u.s. forces from the country critics now say that the president should have left a residual force behind after combat or perhaps should have focused more on iraqi prime minister maliki and his approach to sectarianism in transitioning out of out of iraq obviously there is so they have gone and in the first place but in transitioning how could the u.s. have done something differently to avoid the chaos that we're seeing right now. i don't think so this is all internal this is iraq this is religion this is religion fighting itself over there what could the united states possibly do to intervene and make it right and again we are the ones that caused all of this we caused it by

destabilizing the iraqi government when we invaded and caused war invaded the country occupied it overthrew its existing government so you know it doesn't surprise me a bit remember i lost a job at m.s.n. v.c. because i opposed the war nobody was opposing the war back in zero three and lo and behold i look like a soothsayer today don't i. where let's talk about what options are on the table for the u.s. right now secretary kerry said recently that the u.s. would be open to discussions with iran over what to do and it did not ration with the country what implications of us working with iran and the situation well you know what i think it's wonderful that aspect of it but why should we be working with iran against other muslims over there why can't we stay out of it and

allow them to solve their own problems these are religious problems you don't want to get caught up in religion and it's problems trust me you can and other military action that hasn't yet been ruled out of course that demonstration are airstrikes and drone strikes what are your thoughts on the united states moving forward unilateral unilaterally could this really do more harm than good in the end. yes i think it absolutely could every time we have a drone strike we create that many more quote terrorists it seems we're out there trying to create terrorists so we have someone to fight because that's all these drones are doing and as i understand it in reading scales book they're operating in about fourteen countries right now with these drones how would we feel if another country flew drones in our country would we allow that of course not you know i'm a believer in major general smedley butler the two time congressional medal of

honor winner wrote the great book war is a racket smedley says we need to pass a constitutional amendment that the u.s. troops cannot go over five hundred miles from our border we should pass that because we have the capability to blow up anything in the world why do we need our troops spread out all over the world and us policing the entire world we've got enough problems in our own backyard why aren't we taking care of the united states problems instead of the world problems do you think it could ultimately create some blowback. the how absolutely it's going to everything we do over there helps to create blowback we are the foreigners we're the ones sticking our nose in their business let me give it to you this way i loved it tell their story when the united states was discovered for the anglo-saxon world columbus came here on a mission he was trying to find a way to india by avoiding the middle east now this was five hundred or more years

ago they were avoiding the middle east shouldn't we kind of learn something why colombia and columbus was willing to defy science because at that time they believed would fall off the earth that it was flat but he was willing to fall off the earth rather than go through the middle east i rest my case so former secretary of state hillary clinton stated in her recent book hard choices that voting for the iraq war is one of her biggest regrets she now admits that she said quote i thought i had acted in good faith and made the best decision i could with the information i had and i wasn't alone in getting it wrong but i still got it wrong plain and simple as more politicians reverse their stance on the iraq war and do you think their new outlook could influence the u.s. response to the current crisis here. well it won't matter unless it's to save their political jobs let's remember that that's why hillary's doing this now that's why

she's coming to grips at the time they were all on board because if you weren't on board you were called unpatriotic if you didn't vote to go to war in iraq you were considered unpatriotic jesse ventura knows that label well because i was speaking out against the war before it happened and i was labeled unpatriotic for doing that so they're just being typical politicians very lifting their finger there holding it up to the wind to find out where public sentiment and how they can save their political careers the great thing about me as an independent i didn't care about a political career i did what i felt was right or wrong i'm pleased hillary has come out and said that but why did she voted back then she voted it to save their political hind dems because they would have been labeled unpatriotic and made a loss their next election and for them democrats and republicans it's all about getting elected over and over and over again now it's host of off the grid and

former minnesota governor jesse ventura. and now to ukraine where president petro poroshenko has cause for a truce in the eastern part of the country a region where the government faces a rebellion by anti kiev separatists and a famous a security chief poroshenko says he has ordered government forces to regain full control of ukraine's border with russia this week once the frontier is secure he says a temporary ceasefire should be observed and africa's made to agree on a peace plan meanwhile russia cutting off oil supplies to ukraine a state owned gas giant gazprom told the ukraine and asked to pay up front for gas after kiev failed to settle its huge debt artie's marina cut the river have a mormon. well we've actually heard from the c.e.o. of gas from alexei miller and he's been meeting with russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev and once again miller said that ukraine's position is

a form of blackmail. the position of the ukrainian side can be described as open blackmail the ukrainian government the prime minister wanted gazprom to allow ukraine to pay an ultra low price for gas like those in the customs union and it's certainly prices were not granted to kiev in ukraine said it would not pay back its gas that to russia it also said it would take our gas without any payment and in volumes it needs of course such demands are unacceptable for the russian side that's why gas problem and to the prepayment method at ten am this morning we also know that ukraine's prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk has imposed a state of emergency on the country's energy sector of course now has to pay up front if it wants any gas reform of russia now the price that russia was offering is three hundred eighty five dollars four thousand cubic meters even the e.u. energy chief said that the price was reasonable but again when it comes to ukraine's prime minister siniora he doesn't want to pay any more than the price

that was agreed with the previous leadership in ukraine before february's so right now since both sides are can't agree on the price or take matters to the international court ukraine is accusing russia of playing political games or russia simply looking to get its money back now of course as we know many euro kitty and countries they're dreading this period right now because they don't want to see a repeat of what happened in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine and that's when ukraine was called siphoning off gas and saying that for them through its transit pipelines and since of course we know that many european countries depend heavily on russian gas their concerns are understandable but right now the ball is in kiev supports and already we know as i said that many european countries are worried that we will see ukraine siphoning gas off of them since they can't get their hands on my. now authorities marina calls the reva now the topic of ukraine our tease the big picture spoke recently with steven cohen the the coeditor of the nation magazine and professor of russian studies and politics and why you and

princeton take a listen to what he had to say about the potential for military escalation between the united states and russia it's off the news a bit now it got bumped by the malaysian aircraft it got bought by donald sterling it's being bought by iraq today but the reality is that the ukrainian crisis the confrontation between moscow and washington is the worst in decades and if if this is possible but not certain russian borders russian troops crossed from russia into eastern ukraine southeastern ukraine and nato which is by the way as we talk mobilizing in eastern europe crosses into western ukraine we will then have and i've said this on your radio broadcast but it needs to be said again we will have something like the cuban missile crisis in one hundred sixty two when america and russia are laden with nuclear weapons are eyeball to eyeball on

a barricade that must be avoided and yet every day we get closer and closer to that possibility. no is stephen cohen coeditor of the nation magazine. well some are calling it an immigration catastrophe a surge of thousands of immigrants illegally crossing over the us mexico border most of the new migrants are children from central america and while various media organizations from around the world are questioning what is going on here we're now learning that finding the answers to those questions may prove difficult according to an e-mail obtained by the associated press border patrol agents in texas have been instructed not to speak to media outlets the e-mail which was written by an assistant patrol agent orders more than three thousand border personnel not to speak to reporters about the humanitarian crisis the e-mail allegedly went on to warn agents that they could be disciplined or even charged with

a crime if they speak to the media as the obama administration struggles to accommodate the massive surge of immigrants vice president biden is adding a stop and want tamala to a planned trip in latin america this week to discourage parents from sending their children to the u.s. on friday he's expected to emphasize that illegal immigration is not safe while meeting with top officials representing one of mala salvador and honduras. and now to guantanamo bear bay where the most infamous prisoners at the u.s. detention center are back in front of a military judge today khalid shaikh mohammed along with four other prisoners accused of planning the september eleventh attacks are facing the death penalty a military judge can read an unusual two day pretrial hearing today to gather information about accusations that f.b.i. agents have been questioning staff of the defense team it's a development that could create another delay in an already prolonged case earlier

i spoke with artie's may lopez who attended a special media viewing of the hearing from a military base in fort meade maryland and i first asked her to talk about why this trial continues to be delayed. so this is being called the most complex terrorism trial in the united states history what we have going on in guantanamo bay cuba is it fine to separate defendants all nine eleven coconspirators chart with the five a separate defense teams so first of all those five separate defense teams play into how long this trial is taking because as you can imagine a single trial with a single defense team has their own argument to make so you're talking about five of them also they're being charged for the deaths of two hundred ninety seven two thousand nine hundred seventy three people in the september eleventh attacks so obviously there's a lot of evidence to go through there are two hundred ninety three thousand unclassified pages of evidence to go through along with the numerous exhibit one hundred ninety and all as well as the testimony already of twenty two witnesses so

what has happened and what has been going on this whole time is since there may twenty twelve arraignment there have been ten different pretrial kind of hearings we're seeing the next kind of slew of them they stopped off in april and they can get into why they stopped off but obviously it's just taking a long time because there are a lot of procedural hearings that need to happen first. not as to just to slow down the trial when it actually does start taking place and obviously vs being a civilian court this is a military commission which has much more stringent guidelines when it comes to how these procedures work and exactly what steps need to be taken while talking about these alleged conspirators who are these five men that are on trial so all of these are the nine eleven coconspirators obviously of helping plot to complete the nine eleven terror plot the most notable of which is obviously going to be the nine eleven mastermind or so-called mastermind khalid shaikh mohammed along with him in

that courtroom as the stuff we he is described as a nine eleven financier and facilitator also m r all baluchi he's described as a find a nine eleven facilitator who engaged. in helping a range the travels of thirteen of those nine eleven hijackers also with them as well lead been a tosh he's described as a nine eleven facilitator he actually helped case the airport security in the united arab emirates to help those those hijackers get onto a plane that would eventually end up in the united states and finally we have ramzi bin al s'shibh he's described as the nine eleven quarter nater who really put all of those efforts all of the coordination into play and getting everyone on the same page for this terror plot and again you were at a special is hearing at fort meade watching this all go down what happened today so today has been described as a very special type of pretrial hearing under investigation right now is whether or

not the f.b.i. did in fact conduct investigations that resulted in them questioning members of the defense team so the defense teams found out in april that four members of the various defense teams might have been questioned by the f.b.i. now those defense teams the people that were question were not lawyers after this point do not know what the investigation was trying to uncover we do not know who was the target of this investigation we don't know what they found if anything what we do know right now is that the f.b.i. investigations are allegedly over or so says the prosecution there are no current investigations going on and that none of those investigations were against the lawyers themselves but the reason the lawyers are making such a big deal out of this is that they say that this is having a chilling effect one of the lawyer says that he actually put off a trip to the middle east for a fact finding mission because he was afraid that he could be seen as some type of

a conspirator himself so they said this is a major chilling effect and they want to know what is going on so what these these defense lawyers are asking for is for f.b.i. agents to testify. to the court on the on the record under oath about what exactly this investigation was trying to get out these two separate investigations and as i understand there was actually increased media presence at this trial at guantanamo bay where is the surge in media interest coming from here. well obviously we're seeing a surge now we're saying if the surge both here in fort meade there about double the amount of reporters that i've seen here but also a good time obey one tunnel they actually had to switch planes that usually sends a little charter jet over carrying journalists who want to go and attend those those guantanamo bay hearings in person they had to switch to a c. seventeen cargo jet to accommodate the fifteen journalists that have now asked to

go over now what the song results from as you can imagine is the major conflict that arose from the bowe bergdahl prisoner swap where he was swapped for five taliban members to qatar so there was a lot of tension a lot of interest in this congressional members were not informed that that swap was happening chuck hagel just testified last week saying that the reason that they weren't notified was because there just wasn't enough time there was too much risk and too much uncertainty in order to be able to warn congress that that was happening so congress is very interested in this journalists are very interested in this and admittedly the public is becoming more interested in the ongoings that went on i'm ok also as i mentioned these trials have been held up since april ever since the f.b.i. kind of investigation came to light so this is the first time in quite a while that we've seen these five people including muhammad with his orange iconic beard in the courtroom and one of them is actually participating in a hunger strike that was interesting to kind of see his demeanor. it was archie

correspondent megan lopez. i will still see her report from former nixon aide confirms what many have already suspected that president richard nixon and campaign manager john mitchell sabotaged the vietnam war peace talks in order to win the one nine hundred sixty eight elections and an oral history released by the national archives nixon white house aide tom charles huston elaborated on the president's involvement he said over the years as i've studied it i've concluded that there was no doubt that nixon was would have been directly involved but it's not something that anybody would have undertaken on their own created the report under orders from the nixon white house to look into allegations that president lyndon johnson had bugged the nixon campaign and halted the bombing of north vietnam all in an effort to fuel peace peace talks and orchestrate an october surprise to help democratic candidate you were humphrey when the election huston's report concluded

that not only was l.b.j.'s white house guilty of bugging the nixon campaign but then nixon and mitchell played an active role in de railing the peace summit in paris by promising south vietnam better terms if they hinder the peace talks nixon's obstructions sparkes president johnson to accuse nixon of treason to republican senator everett dirksen of illinois in this private recording take a listen. some of the you. are going to get me he's a hamburger. or he's murdered. the burger. or the second. time ever i don't know how to get there sam. and they aren't. screaming. why has it taken so long for this information to finally be released while huston had this to say about nixon and johnson i think there was an implicit understanding between two very politically sophisticated

people who had been in the arena for a very long time to say hey look this thing is over you know neither of us are going to gain anything by stirring up this pot so there you have it forty years later and still a lot to learn about the nixon presidency which is of course which of course ended in his resignation. pluto the sometimes planet planet may be hiding a pretty huge secret while two huge secrets to be exact astronomers in spain believe that hiding behind pluto obscured from our view our two additional giant planets spanish scientists in madrid discovered the potential for the two massive celestial bodies at the outer reaches of our solar system after studying strange patterns in the orbit of rocky objects around pluto and putting the newly discovered wharf planet twenty twelve v.p. one one three scientists believe the first hidden world would be about ten times the mass of earth they believe that this planet is moving in resonance with

a bigger planet that is somewhere between mars and jupiter in size and would orbit two hundred times the earth's distance from the sun but can we ever conclusively confirm the existence of these two planets while scott sheppard at the carnegie institution for science had this to say as there are only a few of these extremely distant objects known it's hard to say anything definitive about the number or location of any distant planets however in the near future we should have more objects to work with to help us determine the structure of the outer solar system so there you have it time will tell. now does it for now agree may. i'm marinating in the financial world moves. back to serious developments having not started a dance only take a look at me it's really not good but it's my life there are blues and there are facts.

in the us we were near our constitution we hold it up to the world as a piece of art really equating its importance in the realm of government to the bible's importance in the realm of religion and yet despite this reverend in today's world of government gone wild we can't stop talking about changing our constitution and now our lawmakers are getting more serious about that and more than one hundred legislators representing thirty three of our state attended the mount vernon assembly in indianapolis recently to discuss how to put together

a constitutional convention under article five of our constitution if two thirds of our state or thirty four of them asked for a constitutional convention to make amendments then congress must call one representatives from both sides of the aisle are behind the movement conservatives who are angry at how huge our federal government has become along with our national debt and you've got progressives who are angry at how our government is interpreted as the first and second amendment they don't like how corporations are now being granted free speech rights and they want to clarify language around our right to bear arms the mt vernon assemblies goal is to work together as a state to address all the bridges dickless crabbe our federal government is trying to poll that's right railing against the government is not just for dissenters anymore nope now even our state and our legislators are mad at the feds attendees will be discussing how to set up rules and procedures. to implement

a real constitutional convention and how it all might be financed our country hasn't held a constitutional convention since seventeen eighty seven so the assembly is taking the first step of figuring out all the logistics these representatives aren't the only people within our government who want to change the constitution either north carolina is writing up its own resolution to call the convention over campaign finance reform and former supreme court justice john paul stevens just wrote a book called fix amendment how and why we should change the constitution first we have the constitution as an immutable perfect document that the rest of the world's upon over then the few radicals on the friends began banging their drums about making changes to it and now our lawmakers are finally getting real about making changes to rein in our out of control greed.