journalist thomas frank eric looked brown lex haris now it appears that c.n.n. has found themselves a 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 russia this pressure that this is ratings this ratings raiser and 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. were pretty. good looks like real good with. the bottom. line. like you know i got. was

that we. would. be. welcome everyone to watching the hawks i am tired and i'm top of the wallace seems there are kids james there are there in maine. 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 best guy but in this situation he fired someone yeah i mean the video when you watch this

video about when you watch this video is 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 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 i the question at hand is when you if that's what's kind of happening with at least a few producers over it see in america the 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 thing people keep saying where where is this evidence where is this investigative i mean this was supposed to be their great what least one member of the people who were let go or resigned actually was part of this new investigative department so you have to ask 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 or a 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've i've seen him. sit have guests on you know like. mattei e.b.m. 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 out on 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 producer bought a bill also in the tapes but what was released talks about the kind of how and why . you know of russia isn't pushed so 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 getting 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 to the let's get back to. the c.e.o. . own so. even they claim that ford says they 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 then 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 that a lot by the washington post and new york times who are also is what they're 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 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 and 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 of many us levelers 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 you're 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 jay and so does everyone it's hard but it's like when you see these you know you go what's good for him in the print media but it's like oh i would even have the media you know this goes to the great source. you see this question of. we will green the girls yeah hollywood reporter it just 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 they had been introduced to a c.n.n. producer by a third party after expressing that he had 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 if you're if you recorded them without ask without getting permission and then show the video until these things you lied to them that's why would a journalist shouldn't have to do it which letter of people without their permission to go and trouble and 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 presidents campaign rally as 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 over grunow. 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 and 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 listen i mean i don't just blame the

president i blame this is your old son. you know it's all because of the 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 then every time a new president elect of the kind of poll numbers oh shucks you don't know what the person's going to do sure 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 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 what you guys used to wear committee and the fact when americans would travel post nine eleven they would wear a candidate pins instead of american and so people wouldn't think they were but i know 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 it says 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 order is saying yeah yeah 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. yeah and they have a hugely good deal gently you know i learned this 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 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 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 also owns and he also promised he said i will get 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 sad because his supporters a lot of people were looking for something different in our system is broken anywhere because you also have the battle between the democrats and republicans in congress those who know what he's 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 you know. all right i'm 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 a truth is indeed stranger than fiction when it comes to the good old military industrial complex stay tuned to watch. our own so no. more.

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in many ways the world we live in today is a surreal place our presidential campaigns are wilder than any house of cards plot the terror and espionage plods we also see in the news are straight out of a homeland up to so do 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 and world of fiction me retired brigadier general a.j. 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 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 so

bitterly a refuge for people right they want to live vicariously through the protests 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 protagonists 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 well in southeastern north carolina it's got autistic savant code writing eleven year old girl of color 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 about nowadays so those are some 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 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 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 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 but 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 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 to 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 kind of 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 sixteen years longer. and we've seen the spread of isis in the country and 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 and they go to 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 mick he worked 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 what you've really got to do is build capacity there so it's about building. pasadena 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 value 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. 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 and now when we seem to have

flipped that script completely we're giving way more at the way to generals in the field where there's the last oversight even for things like drone attacks where's the danger in that because neither one of those 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. 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 oh 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 the next eight command line and you know that's a lot of money and i and i and i understand you know it's the family 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 back on 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 or 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 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 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 where 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 up 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 home to 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 respect like i would love to see billions go into that well and on the front end you want to make sure they are 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 the best air cover somebody who was sort of say bye 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 to have a but then when you know when they know they were there they never are going to go there is going to be no one really you know 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 rather than bora bora boy. with all the bad news and we're all from physical war a twitter war is it's important to be reminded that for all 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 big. an adult is caused by a gene that releases toxic proteins that cause a breakdown of nerve cells in the brain will no research published in the journal of clinical investigation has found that the scientists using crisp her 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 is our children today remember this world without the loved enough so i tell you all i love you i'm tired and on top of the all the fun watching those hawks never great. i see i don't want to say no i'm still at the same yeah sometimes. only

steerable you know. these mug me the book says yes but that's a lot of holes you included monies. for stimulus to get them so you got some magnificent. some place from which is much more food than saving they say some people do really nice and friendly in my conformance they're welcome in russia it's all very interesting very good good good the food was dusty it's not very enjoyable place to be really very friendly ok told. you the number one letter to be so maybe some good news someplace you go through. the punch and go sell yourself there most people the last year were very bad the flyers everyone here which are those little things will still. think you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations run

washington washington controls the media the media the. voters elected businessmen to run this country business equals. boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. economic development is all about numbers really pleased to report this quarter we earn one hundred six point. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think about the fact that our c.e.o. mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says c.n.n. . with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. is that just you know a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine

hundred eighty to the point now where people are the just totally submerged their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society from the part of the government tried to do both nationally maybe. it might be making things worse. by saying this is not how capitalism works but lose one goes hopelessly disastrously wrong. russia's foreign ministry say yes the u.s. is quote inviting terrorists to carry out a provocation in syria after the white house claims the muskets is preparing to use chemical weapons. a former u.s. intelligence chief says meddling is in russia's d.n.a. proof and continues to infiltrate.