signing 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 a 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 and 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 like 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 house d.m.c.

you know 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 as james o'keefe and c.n.n. go head to head. good on all stern all of them die is a little bit more inside. now let's start watching honks. the. real thing. as you put it out of it. like you know that i got.

it so. welcome everyone the watching the hawks i am i robot and i'm to have in a while it seems their kid james over there in may. i think if i never hear this name again in the news i would be happy sadly it is not a happy day you can have your exams ok if and c.n.n. and c.n.n. and c.n.n. both legs mixed up in the deadly brutal yeah not well 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 now. 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 in the video when you watch these things you know about when you watch this video and you know you you can see that the producers kind of giving it was thoughts on the situation inside c.n.n. when it comes to all things rush it doesn't look like it's been you know concocted meddling but it was it was way yes isn't it's opinion you know the question of the hat is when you if the kind of happening with at least a few producers oversee america feelings on it you know or the wheels coming off a little bit how they pushed russia to get to for their sport i think they have because this season 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 will use the word crazy what i call a little like 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 was wrong as that's not on russia i would agree the producer bill also in the tapes but what was released talks about the kind of how and why you know over. isn't pushed too hard when recounting you know a story is recounting a story about a meeting about what his boss kind of told him 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 covering the climate accords. but we're down with the let's get back to. the c.e.o. . own so. even the claim that accords usually go ok they did but we're moving back to russia i mean you know that's kind of the thing anymore in watching c well it's like a major news story will happen and it's late it's gone and gone maybe a day maybe half a day and they're right back into anonymous sources claim this anonymous official sources claim this you know and all that and that of course they're getting fed out a lot by the washington post and new york times who are also there doing totally on anonymous sources in this day and age and 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 media's 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 can 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 us of lawyers john kerry are 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 and james ok james i mean why it's hard that it's like when you see these you know you got like this guy from independent media that it's like oh i would do nothing and i mean you know this guy . the great source. you see this question of. we will green the girls yeah 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 let's keep that in mind this was all done without the person's knowledge and it was all he had 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 nancy lying to someone to pick their brain and a personal what was supposed to be a personal off the record conversation and in truth you recorded them without ask without getting permission and then show the video interviews things you lied to them that i went to a journalist shouldn't have to do which lets literate people without their permission is going. to believe the 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 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 a week grilled oh 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 aren't 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. you 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 i mean there's no i mean i don't just blame the

president i blame this is year old says. you know until two thousand and one you went through the bush years then you went through 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 elected the kind of poll numbers oh shucks we don't know what that person's going to do share 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 distress to get disliking you know these out of the barrel road 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 that is

a really that's just yeah you have to remember that at all you know like i was saying that you got a lot of unpleasant looks during the iraq war during the bush administration when you traveled overseas and 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 were 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 the oh yeah 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 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 pot there's no there's no follow through it's just you know we're going to do something. and they're the hugely good deal you know what i learned this even played out recently in the u.k. were you know thousands were out there protesting planned visit intrusive may you know tons of criticism for not standing her ground and setting up that meeting with the white house you know the mexican president very similar p.r. crisis here 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 it's equal parts go around you have a media that's wildly 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 sounds and he also promises saddam will get isis but i'm not going to start any other conflicts i'm tired of always you know you're seeing now 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 it's like with health care yes we just go one thing after another and i think it's sad because his supporters a lot of people were looking for something different than our system is broken anywhere because you also have the battle between the democrats and republicans in congress that has been already going to get over it anyway so it's going to be kind of one of those impossible things so these number. really don't surprise me at. all

right i'm going to break don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics recover of facebook and twitter see our poll shows at r.t. dot com coming up we welcome military veteran and author tony into the hawk's nest to find out if truth is indeed stranger than fiction when it comes to the good old military industrial complex stay tuned to watch. our own sona. song.

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the terror and espionage plots we also see in the news are straight out of a homeland up a so our lives really are stranger than fiction you stay 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 and world of fiction me retired brigadier general a.j. general tate a spent twenty eight years in the military serving as deputy commanding general of the u.s. armed forces in afghanistan before retiring in two thousand and nine he then brought his talents to for government serving as north carolina secretary of transportation and c.e.o. 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 really 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 have merged 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 escape 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 in between so it's a lot of fun but i'll tell you what for example the siege here though will 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 and it's got and it's you know 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 that 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 now adays well those are actually as i want

to ask you is when you sit down to write something like you know you know military fiction i guess is a term we could use for when you sit down to write a book like this with your background you know how much does that play a member and i know what richard moore cinco from seal team six there he writes now you wrote his first book which ever was that we're going to say all about right but then it kind of took graham of 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 me 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 our lives are 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 all you are speaking of afghanistan what kind of jump into the current situation is very because you have a tremendous background in this 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. and we've seen the spread of isis in the country and on top of the taliban that's still there and all of the 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 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 al qaeda we we did not do that and and so that set the seeds for sixteen years of engagement mick nicholson 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 mc he works for me when i was the deputy commanding general he was a colonel there and had 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 why. you've really got to do is build

capacity there so it's about building capacity to govern building 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 that 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 an infinitely harder to rein in infrastructure most of them one of the big things the criticisms that came. to obama were that. his policy was more important information on the ground and that the pentagon the generals had to go through too many hoops to build to do things when they could they couldn't act quickly and it was all policy over information now what 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 those situation seems very well doesn't seem like it has very good oversight it 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 in their. doing this 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 and wait so you know that it happened and now i was six and zero seven when i was there i'm curious because again 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 somewhere around 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 right at the next aid command line and you know that's a lot of money and i and i and i understand you know it's 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 our 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 but i think that was part of the trumpet ministration coming and saying the 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 that part of that was also trimming 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 what i would go to is that why do i get taken care of soldiers you know my i come from a long line of you know 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 to me it seems ridiculous that i was born 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 soldiers when they come taking care of these kids who at eighteen nineteen years old go off to fight for all of us and then they come home and we aren't treating them with fact 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 basically they can precisely fight and properly fight and execute their missions 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 trade off comes in in the balance as you want to the best air cover somebody who was sort of say bye to a ten 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 to have a but then when you know when they know they were there they are going to go there is if you know what i definitely want to have you back on because i feel like there's a really great conversations to get into and i thank you very much for coming on to keep up the great work over there. thank you so when i was in bora bora boy. with all the bad news that we're all from physical war a twitter war is it's important to be reminded that for all our fallen 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 hunting. tends to

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