south in taking your last term. right up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each day. but then my feelings started to change you talked about more like it was a case still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with this one to. speak to because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker .

i've got to just look at your watches all the. swash poll. ratings and salyut asian. oh goodness goodness gracious c.n.n. you just can't seem to catch a break these days can you within days of getting caught with their journalistic pants down after miss reporting last week that the trump transition team member and wonderful wall street type anthony scot removed she was meeting with the chief executive of a russian business one just four days before trump's inauguration. story that turned out not to be all that accurate then saw the firings or i'm sorry resigning of three veteran c.n.n. journalist thomas frank eric looked brown lex haris now it appears that c.n.n.

has found themselves victim to one james o'keefe yaz that james o'keefe you remember him the acorn pimp scandal fame that guy seems the controversial right wing. i am. journalist if you believe manipulative editing and staged events that would make such a burn cone cover his eyes and shame could be called journalism you know that guy has captured one of siemens many producers spilling the beans on their obsession with all things trump and russia on c.n.n. constantly russia this pressure that this is ratings this ratings raiser at all right. that was c.n.n. medical producer jon bon a field in the rest of the video john goes on to wax poetic on the lack of hard evidence of russian hacking and from collusion claims and and how c.n.n. c.e.o. jeff zucker puts russia gate above many other important stories c.n.n.

responded to the video by noting that buying up the old is not involved with their russian coverage and as c.n.n.'s brian stelter tweets c.n.n. stands by our medical producer jon bon a field diversity of personal opinion is what makes c.n.n. strong we welcome it and embrace it. so it's a fake news perpetrator an independent media versus a fake news perpetrator and mainstream media is james o'keefe and c.n.n. go head to head. good on all stern it was them die is a little bit more inside. now let's start watching hawks. to wonder what it. looks like the real deal with. the plot of. the day like you know i got. to. be.

so. welcome everyone the watching the hawks i am tired and i'm top of the while it seems there are kids james there are their name. i think if i never hear this. in the news i would be happy sadly it's not a happy day. m. c m m m c m m c m m both mixed up with a deadly brew yeah not not not not liking this whole thing i mean it's hard to take james like you incredibly seriously ok let's be honest when caught in the past fabricating a lot right on the whole reason that we're out having to fight for planned parenthood to provide basic you know coverage for women is because of this the sky bus in the situation he fired someone i mean the video when you watch this video

about when you watch this video it you know you you can see that the producer is kind of giving it was thoughts on the situation inside c.n.n. when it comes to all things russian trump and it doesn't look like it's been you know concocted minetta thing but it was it was way yeah it's is and it's opinion you know and i guess the question at hand is when you if that's what's kind of happening with at least a few producers overseas in america feelings on it you know are the wheels coming off a little bit as they pushed russia gate too far at this point i think they have because this. i mean this is the thing people keep saying where where is this evidence where is this investigative i mean this was supposed to be their great moment was least one member of the people who were let go or resigned actually was part of this new investigative departments so you have to ask if that where is the standard i don't i don't care if it's just a web story or anything there has to be a standard but i find it a little crazy not crazy i won't use the word crazy but i will like that with brian

selzer saying like we love diverse opinions on c.n.n. i mean over the last few months we have seen him. sit have guests on you know like . matt taibbi and have him sit there and kind of be like well aren't you insane for even thinking about this other kind of idea you have kate baldwin who was a yelling at someone first saying i question the merit of that was gary c.n.n. so i think it's a little disingenuous for them to say like oh no we love diversity of opinion i would i wrong if that's not on russia i would agree the c.n.n. producer bought a bill also in the tapes but what was released talks about the kind of how and why outside you know of russia isn't pushed hard when recounting you know stories were camping a story about a meeting about what his boss kind of told phil about a meeting that he had with c.e.o. jeff zucker about you know why things are going left to the wayside when it comes

to russia let's take a listen to what do you. see you see and instead in our internal bleeding he said good job everybody can agree with limited words. but we're done with that let's get back to. the scene you know. so. even the claim that courts usually go ok they did but we're moving back to russia i mean you know that's kind of the thing i mean watching c well it's like a major news story will happen and it's late it's gone and. maybe a day maybe half a billion they're right back into anonymous sources claim this anonymous official sources claim this you know and all that i met and of course they're giving out a lot by the washington post and new york times world as if they're doing totally on anonymous sources in this very image no one standing up and saying no you know that's what i want to see i want to see someone actually stop hiding behind the veil of anonymity and give these news medias people something to talk about that's real or if you really think that it is this important that it's this scary for the

america you're going to stand up and say things like you know an attack on our democracy all of these things take it seriously then actually take it seriously if you believe that there is some truth to what i'm sorry if chelsea manning can stand up if people have many whistleblowers john kiriakou you know edward snowden will put their lives their futures everything else on the line why. if you're here to do the work do it stand up and say this is what i believe exactly and james o'keefe you have to understand my kind of what's going on in james ok james so i don't want to it's hard but it's like when you see these you know you go out like this guy from independent media that it's like oh i would even have the i mean you know this goes a great source. you see this clash and it's like usually a little green in the gills yeah a hollywood reporter it's so according to the hollywood reporter a spokesman for the organization stated that it was the project veritas employee who filmed on

a field without his knowledge so keep that in mind this was all done without the person's knowledge and it was already been introduced to a c.n.n. producer by a third party after expressing that he had an interest in pursuing journalism as a career. and that this all happened in early june which is again man sixty lines as someone to pick their brain and a personal what was supposed to be a personal off the record conversation and then sure if you recorded them without ask without getting permission and then show the video interlacing to lied to them that's i went to a journalist shouldn't have to do. literate people without their permission as governor james and trouble believing sprucing become million dollar was a million dollar federal lawsuit over a sting video against some democratic organizations they were trying to show that they were he was trying to say that they were trying to provoke violence toward. the now president campaign rally is one of but i think you have to take them with a grain of salt he also said this is someone who works there who has

a personal opinion. but when all these things sort of happen in a matter of week one minute you have to retract a major story on your big i mean it's one thing but russia is a pretty big story to not be crossing your t.'s and dotting your eyes for over a grill yeah. as the president made clear to a group of union workers recently he has no desire to be the president of the world and finally the poll numbers back him up here for a very simple reason not many people outside of the u.s. have any confidence in him at all according to a recent pew research poll views of the u.s. and our president have taken a record breaking tumble since the inauguration this january the feeling it appears is nearly universal our neighbors in canada and mexico have apparently never been less confident in our president with just five percent of mexicans having any confidence in the office at all it's a similar story with our allies in asia where the white house is escalation of the north korean crisis and sharp words on trade seem to have had a dramatic

a fact and when the president announced in the rose garden he was elected to represent pittsburgh not paris he may have made a point no word on his latest pittsburgh numbers with things in paris certainly not looking good and not just paris the dramatic swan dive of love for the white house is practically universal throughout europe the cherry on top of all of this the same pew poll finds more of the world community trusts russia's president putin than our own commander in chief all this begs the question then since when did america first turn into america dead it's. only when you're trying to make america great again. i didn't know we weren't great again it's a good thing where i could say. no it's fascinating to me you know when you really look at how much we told you and this is annoying and i don't just blame the president i blame this is your. you know in two thousand and one you went through

the bush is the new one the obama spiked a little bit with obama but then he made some pretty troubling errors there and you know and so now you kind of have this and every time a new president is elected the kind of poll numbers oh shucks we don't know what that person's going to do sharp but now after kind of seeing the disarray and the donald's put on everything it's kind of thrown everything into the over the place i mean look the world's a pretty diverse place with a pretty wide spectrum of views and biases but you know ultimately you know the president seems to have accomplished something really unheard of that the entire her world is pretty much united in distrust again disliking you know these out of out girl rode to battle the media is definitely but a good step from the get but still it's his actions that are causing this what jumps out about these numbers is not just how universal they are but how on precedent they are i mean these are really just chest yeah you have to remember that that all you know like i was saying you got

a lot of unpleasant looks during the iraq war during the bush administration where you traveled overseas with all what you guys used to wear committee and the fact when americans would travel post nine eleven they would wear candidate pins instead of american and so people wouldn't think they are now just five six months after the inauguration he just below bush era reside in the world that's huge that's a big big draw i mean there was there was no love for bush and that's what's so strange is that when you look at this kind of idea. deal breaking i think that's the problem is that you have a lot of this is a guy who breaks theo's you know and one of the president's big selling points was his ability to make these hugely beneficial deals around the world you know he was going to fix trade is going to solve the israeli palestinian conflict is going to solve the north korean problem and. six months in what are we saying you know yet what have we seen and what have we really seen me and there's this idea that we

should be talking more about the positive things but the part there's no follow through it's just yeah we're going to do something. yeah and they have a hugely good deal gently you know what i mean i don't know if there's even played out recently in the u.k. we're you know thousands were out there protesting tribes planned visit intrusive may you know tons of criticism for not standing her ground in setting up that meeting with the white house you know the mexican president very similar p.r. crisis the last year so the real question is how can you conduct diplomacy when you have this toxic pushback from the people like it's like oh no don't deal with him you know and i think like i said a lot of this can be you know equal parts go around you have a media that's while the against him so you're not going to see much headway with anything he's trying to there his deals and things he's trying to do just aren't sitting well with the world because they're not good ideas to begin with well and when you have a budget that quite literally you just added things and why if and like there is

basic basic addition and subtraction mistake in the budget when you're bringing up that he wants to start a law about immigrants not being able to use public assistance a law that's been around for twenty years already it's a basic basic not it's like having someone who was in the car business suddenly getting into the clothing business and telling everybody i know how to do that and let's remember too that he also owns and he also promised use of our mortgage i use this but i'm not going to start any other conflicts i'm tired of always you know you're seeing that there's no you know him kind of pivoting and changing and being like a politician changing his tune once he's in office because you can't it's like with health care yes he's got one thing after another and i think it's it's sad because his supporters a lot of people were looking for something different than our system is broken here because you also have the battle between the democrats and republicans in congress that has been already getting out of it anyway so i mean it's going to be kind of one of those impossible things so these numbers really don't surprise me. that we're going to break don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've

covered facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com coming up we welcome military veteran and author tony into the. just to find out if truth is indeed stranger than fiction when it comes to the good old military industrial complex stay tuned to watch and. i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta e-mails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims. i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied that the n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate

media has once again proved to be an echo for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable from. your launching and our team. that's. basically everything that you think you know about civil society have broken down. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. who should not be on the normalising mind. we don't need people that think like this on our planet . this is an incredibly tense situation.

on larry you're watching our amount per student more. in many ways the world we live in today is a surreal place where presidential campaigns are wilder than any house of cards plot the terror and espionage plots we also see and the mirrors are straight out of a homeland upis out our lives really are stranger than fiction these days so in these strange times it's only fitting that somebody who's seen the madness of it all takes refuge in the comparatively monday in world of fiction me retired brigadier general. general tate i spent twenty eight years in the military serving as deputy commanding general of the us armed forces in afghanistan before retiring

in two thousand and nine he then brought his talents to government serving as north carolina secretary of transportation and c.e.o. of d.c.'s public schools but to cap it all off he is now hailed as the next tom clancy prolifically writing military fiction so so tony let me ask you is truth really stranger than fiction you know i think it might be a bit when you look at all the news that's out there you know fiction is habitually a refuge for people right they want to live vicariously through the program protagonists they want to be entertained they want to escape and they want to feel that charge and now you can watch t.v. twenty four seven we have reality t.v. because the two worlds merge so much and the task of a fiction writer is you make a contract with your reader that i'm going to take you into a world you're going to scape for a week or two days or however long it takes you to read the book and you're going to come out satisfied that you've taken

a ride with the protagonist in the antagonist and all that happens and with twenty so it's a lot of fun but i'll tell you what for example the siege here the latest book that i've got out it's got a rainy and special forces in southeastern north carolina it's got autistic savant code writing eleven year old girl of course and it's got and it's going. who kidnapped and then our hero jake megan native american from the outer banks of north carolina asked a rescuer and you know that is something will can sort of rip from the headlines there where you've got sleeper cells and you've got a lot of stuff that people are talking about nowadays so that was actually one of these i want to ask you is when you sit down to write something like you know you know military fiction i guess is a the term we could use for when you sit down to write a book like this you know with your background you know how much does that play you a member of i know like richard marcinko from seal team six here he writes now you wrote his first book which ever was over in your camp say all that right but then it kind of took on the james bond role in all of his other books you know how much

of your military background plays into the writing of these books or you know events that you witnessed that maybe we don't all know about you know things about nature well tara i think really what i do is i draw on the characteristics of the men and women with whom i served to create my protagonists in my characters i look for bravery i look for courage i look for a code of honor by which they live and then the bad guys we've all had bad bosses we've all had and we've all run into bad people and in our lives or even opponents on the battlefield and so i think it's that that i pull on it's not like i'm going back in time and say i'm going to write specifically about this combat action in afghanistan or iraq or panama or wherever and so what i really try to do is i create real live characters filled with the best of the troops with whom i served and i served with a lot of great great americans on the battlefield most stuff and most of the

speaking of afghanistan will kind of jump into the kind of current situation is today because you have a tremendous background in this and i'm curious to your opinions you know over recent months we've seen kind of the steady rise in terror attacks across afghanistan we've been married now for a long almost sixteen years longer it. and we've seen the spread of isis in the country top of the taliban but still there in all of that you know what what do you see as the end game in afghanistan and is there any kind of a good exit strategy for how long we've been there well i think the whole thing was complicated by our headlong rush into iraq in the two zero three timeframe because we had to unplug intelligence unplug signals and really focus as a main effort on iraq in a supporting effort on afghanistan and to me at the time when the nation asked for a head on a platter the one time give us give us this individual give us this group. we we

did not do that and and so that's the seeds for sixteen years of engagement mcnichol so in general nicholson who is one of my closest personal friends he's in charge over there if there's anybody who can solve this problem it's mick he works for me when i was the deputy commanding general he was a colonel there in the entire just about half the country under his command and then you know he went back as a one star and now he's there as a four star in charge of everything and what you've really got to do is build capacity there so it's about building capacity to govern bill and build the capacity in the military force and building capacity in a police force the trick is there's no nationalism there there's no sense of unity like there is in america you live from valley to valley from region to region and it's very synthetic there and to create this nationalist army police government

is is a challenge and it's one third larger than iraq eight million more people in iraq and infinitely harder to rain and infrastructure most of them one of the big things that criticisms that came. to obama were that. policy was more important information on the ground and that. the pentagon the generals had to go through too many hoops to be able to do things when they could they couldn't act quickly and it was all policy over information now when we seem to have flipped that script completely we're giving way more aptly way to generals in the field where there's the last oversight even for things like drone attacks where's the danger at night because neither one of the situation seems very well doesn't seem like it has very good oversight that doesn't seem good strategy so i think if you're going to lean in one direction you lean in the direction we are going now where general nicholson was able to drop the quote unquote mother of all bombs a month or two ago on on the isis hideouts in the tora bora mountains and we were

able to do raids and syria to capture confidants of al baghdadi as has happened in the last week and gather intelligence on them so i would rather lean in that direction because what you have is really great responsible americans who are going to own up to their mistakes if they make a mistake they're going to own up to it these generals that we've got in the field right now are all of my peers and i couldn't be more proud of them because they own it they know what's right and they're doing it for the for the good of the country and i have to tell you when i was in afghanistan the number of terror attacks that were being planned against the united states that we were able to disrupt surprise me back in zero seven in no way so you know that it's happening now six and zero seven when i was there i'm curious because jim you know i want to ask you when you look at like the budget of the u.s.

military you know we're talking you know i think they're just now asking for some six hundred forty billion dollars i mean when you're when you're close to the seven hundred billion to it's almost two thirds of the national right you know these are astronomical psalms you know especially when you compare that you know we're spending you know around the next eight to you know that's a lot of. and i and i understand you know it's defense you know the old there's cold war department and that but you know is it where do what do we do to kind of cut that down that money because at the end of the day after it's there's a lot of waste of the pentagon we see stories about it all the time here and it's not going to the people that really need it at the end of the day it feels like it's getting lost in bureaucracy and boy you know when the next come when our next rivals to use that term are spending so much less than us do we really need to be spending that much well i think that was part of the trumpet ministration coming and saying that all these collective security arrangements that we've got they you know they're not paying their fair share and so part of that was truman the part of

that was also trim in the state department and all the foreign aid that we're providing and security is a little bit like oxygen you don't really realize you need it until you don't have it and so it's one of those things that if you're going to err on the side of spending a little too much but the oversight that we need you're exactly right we need oversight we need to make sure that we're not just buy in the next new thing and the big weapons system and unfortunately you get the quickest bang for your buck in reducing personnel and so we went from five hundred eighty five thousand troops in the army to you know below five hundred thousand in the last four or five years and now we're having to creep back and seems to be the problem and when i look at is that led you know i get taken care of soldiers you know my i come from a long line of veterans of world war two. and that to me is of most priority spending money on systems that we don't really need in the new wars that we fight that to me seems ridiculous of our sport and also it seems that i would as

a as an american as a taxpayer i think what we can see a lot of times as more and more of those funds being put to taking care of the filters on the economy taking care of these kids who are eighteen nineteen years old go off to fight for all of us and then they come home and. we aren't treating them with respect like i would love to see billions go into that well and on the front end you want to make sure they're trained and equipped so that they sound like a bacon precisely fight and properly fight and execute their mission so you want them to have the best equipment the best body armor the best helmet protection the best weapons and so that's where the tradeoff comes in in the balance is you want to best air cover somebody who was sort of saved by to a turn swooping down low i know that when you call for power you want to you want their radio to work you want those are points of law they always work at least there as time went on you have a but then when you're making other work there are going to go there was going to

be no one really you know i don't really want to have you back on because i feel like there's some really great conversations to get into and i thank you very much for coming on with the great work over there. most of us are all so rather than going for a boy or a boy. with all the bad news that we're all from physical force and twitter wars it's important to be reminded that for all or for our faults there are still many many people working to make this world a better place take for example the scientists who recently made a breakthrough and a potential treatment for the fatal neurodegenerative disorder huntington's disease the inherited disease generally breaks begins an adult and is caused by a gene that releases toxic proteins that cause a breakdown of nerve cells in the brain will new research published in the journal of clinical investigation is found that the scientists using a crisper technique of genetic targeting and d.n.a. editing have been able to provide a permanent therapeutic treatment for huntington's in mice here's to the good folks out there who are working hard to make life just

a little bit better for the people out there and that of our children are very remember in this world when i told her loved enough so i tell you all i love you. and on top of the while loop on watching those hawks number great. what you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those through health care see your wife or. what's your biggest fear. of a big moment a right wing so let's talk a little bit bored you say if you ever met him but what about. exploring the topic of those aboard the. now i reviewed you told bush jim moore.

welcome to on contact today we discussed the assault against girls and women with feminists mary lou singleton and maya dillard how do you create accommodations for transplant ball at the same time that we don't overly or unnecessarily and framed on the rights of others and when man or children or parents i think children should be able to do whatever they want that how what does it mean to live as a boy or live as a girl other than sex is something. wrong with chris hedges. patriarchy across.