because i think you. greetings and salutations and what has now become a yearly tradition hawk watchers when these summer days are long and hot in the united states rings in her birthday with fireworks barbecue and beer we hear of watching the hawks will once again strike a chord to honor the independent spirit of that day with a celebration of music politics and art starting on july fifth we will bring you five unique shows featuring five diverse musical acts in the genre that truly embody the passion creativity and spirit of independence from the early banjo blues of hubby jenkins to the punk pride of c.j.

ramone the uniquely los angeles sound of pastel felt the contagious heartbreak of chris angelus and the revolutionary rhythms of the flobots this year no musical stone will be left unturned and no independent voice will be left silence because in my humble opinion there is no better way to celebrate celebrate the political and spiritual birth of one's country than by showcasing one of its single most important values the freedom of speech and artistic expression you see after all the palette political in physical wars have been fought and the historians of record all the facts and figures it's the artists who provide us the human context the heart and the voice of our times so let's celebrate our own independence as the music of politics and the politics of music collide this week watching the hawks. but that's. it. it's.

like you know that i got. the. welcomer on the watching the hostile entire world with her and i'm having a life so it's out of this week june july it kicks off this week kicks off the music special watching on strikes a chord we had a lot of fun last year doing it now we're doing again this year for five fantastic individual interesting bands that kicks off with hubby jenkins. he was a part of the band called the carolina chocolate drops of the explore the old you know string music originally he had studied the saxophone and says his parents of build their house when he was growing up would blues and salsa the beatles then he

picked up the cello the eventually moved on to string instruments he cut his teeth as a busker in new york city which is what the buskers what's called a street performer the basically works for tips as he progressed in exploring his southern roots he came upon a lot of history about the journey of his ancestors the banjo which is you'll find out more about that in our special is actually a black instrument out of white one here's a preview of our interview with one the hobby jenkins the first moment your life where you truly found your passion for music. well i discovered my passion for old time music like after high school when i had been playing saxophone from the age of five until freshman year i started playing cello and bass and high school and i went to a math and science engineering school and was like i really enjoying music like i'm going to take a year off from college and and in that year is when i discovered. country and was

like ok i think i want to play music i think that's what it is for me and. it was like hearing skip james for the first time and thinking how otherworldly it was and not yet having any of the historical or social contacts yet but just like enjoying the music. and so that was like my my entry into the world of music and all that kind of stuff. and it's sort of like inherent with old time music is. learning and learning history you know like you know it's not like pop music where all the references are easily available and right there for you so just learn more about the music and so it's a learned. about the banjo being a black instrument about you know what really happened after slavery and how that contributed to our growth. i think credible and it's incredible how that the journey of music can take somebody in places they hadn't expected someone who and finding that through music i think it's so incredible especially when he talks

about it and viewers will really i heard some said so to watch on july fifth because he really gets into history and culture and things he didn't know and how the conflict of that yes yes i was really was impressive to me because you know i asked him when he when you start talking about the banjo being a black instrument and you know it's most people in the u.s. are kind of acquainted with you know why nobili you know yeah yeah you know and he said no actually is a region you know as originally a black and it was created there you know that was our music and you know it was interesting when he talked about what you got to see joy because we charge what he plays a certain crowds you know one part of the crowd is like hey that's my grandpa happy's instrument how dare you play it you know and the other so the chords like oh that's a racist instrument how dare you play that and so it's very interesting hearing him talk about that aspect when we sat down and talked with him about this and i've spent task that music you like you said you've got to hold on to that history and that historic and yet you take a listen to it here is

a little story no moment from performing the song telling your mind. literally. live. in the end. we'll. she's going. to the. point of seeing.

the old world. going through a lover and then we shift from from hubby jank and this amazing exploration of american old blues banjo and string music to chris sandal isu. on our second special will feature her she won the twenty thirteen best female album by the critics music critics awards she premiered the video for her album exclusively on ryan seacrest is a finalist of the bulk southern musician competition the album she's performing in the special was awarded the best female e.p. in the two thousand and sixteen alley music is a word and she was awarded the best female artist at the twenty seventeen international acoustic music awards it's pretty amazing and then she also fun fact sometimes performs with her twin sister and they do music together which is just this incredible sort of moment that is coming up yeah it's chris angeles is this really is the song is about heartbreak the beautiful songs about heartbreak and i

think we all kind of understand those feelings and what her music does kind of allow us to go in that in this clip we asked her about that journey that she took from the farm to having a seat at the table. my mom says that i was saying before i could really speak and there is actually a video home video of me standing on the stairs maybe two and a half male i grew older i don't know being opera singer so i guess i sort of want to do that. i grew up listening to my parents records and classical music and my grandparents and i grew up on a farm so we didn't have cable i think we got one channel and it had lawrence welk on it so we watched that i say we a lot because i have an identical twin sister so so i'm not saying like the royal we. so then really it was just about discovering those. those inspirations and then started seeing in church choir has been to catholic school

and then when we moved to california i got into theater camp and doing musicals and i had to be incredibly afraid to sing in front of people on stage just by myself is very scary but i wanted to for some reason and it got me out of my shell you super super. shy. you know it's really amazing when you see singers songwriters right chris because they really do you know take what's in here and present it to you to a lot of times it's emotions and feelings that you felt in their sharing with you gives you a kind of a some subprime ship a sense of camaraderie and tells you kind of give you a little bit of hope in the world and there is that thing of being shy you hear this a lot of musicians which always seems weird to watch how can you be a pop star how are you this musician to get up in front of these people and sometimes music and for a lot of theater like myself that's what helped us get over our shyness our social

anxiety and our feelings because you can't really talk of feeling great and there's no way that a lot of great political speakers are also very privately yeah you know but one they get up in front of the like i have to i have to get this out to get this message out to go share this with the world and that's kind of where the the healing factor comes and is that when when those the those who are shy but have so much to tell or give your thoughts on this you know sort of comes together and let's take a listen to the beautiful award winning song built this house written and performed by the crew. it was. love. to. see. a. man's.

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day like it or not i got tackled this fall this with lethal and. alfre to be exposed to the world opened up. and opened a new job for you all for you to start to put your. it's called the feeling of freedom to. everyone in the world should experience cleaned up and you'll get it on the old rolls. the old according to just. walk in the modern world come along for the rye. bread you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those for. your wife or.

donkey. what's your biggest fear you are going to bid on a hay ride when the last time medical board you say if you ever met the pope comes the best quarterback for exploring the topic that doesn't belong on the piece now i did give you due to my question more. thank. you welcome all right there a. long time ago you told me of the one of your favorite authors of losers is a. rock. it's true hello sir a little bit about a punk rock. that we have on this year's structure korea we've seen the home of live history and our ever growing i'm talking to some really amazing punk artists

which i think is indicative this time we're going through a similar time that when punk music came to be is so yeah this year we got to hang out with and and talk to c.j. ramon so he was born christopher joseph ford is one of the three survivors surviving members of the seminal band punk band the ramones which influenced punk music around the globe there's a legend that goes that sid vicious of the sex pistols told a story that they walked into the studio with a ramones album and told the engineer that they wanted to sound like the ramones and that's where the sound of the second of those came from so from eighty nine to one thousand nine hundred sixty jay ramone fronted the room out and went on tour he's born in queens new york he went on to serve in the u.s. marine corps and a laundry list of amazing major punk bands and now is releasing his new album american beauty so it's sort of amazing to watch and one of the things this is an

incredible incredible in credible it's his it's third solo album and the members of the band that are with him are also pretty amazing you know there are a who's who of american problem that the last twenty years get stephen soto or steve soto who's from the adolescence dan root also from the adolescence and piso is a from the street dogs a lot of raw energy but there's a maturity that's come to the sound of and. what it means yeah it's pretty pretty amazing the whole album by the way was put together in a levin day levon day pass work right there yeah that's pretty amazing and he also covers the tom waits on me out so here is a little preview of our interview with t.j. ramone. tell me about the new album american beauty and how what's the journey of that leads up to this album. american beauty is really different than the rest of my records. the first record i put outbreak on keys to was written over the course

of several years i left music around two thousand and two thousand and one had a family recovered from my time in the ramones. and then about two thousand and eight i started playing out again but in all those years that i was gone and when i started playing early on i always sat down with my acoustic guitar and played songs and so i had plenty of songs written by the time i recorded break on teesta my second record. less chance to dance was written i started writing those songs almost immediately after recording reconquista so when it came time to record that one i already had the songs it was a pretty both of those processes were pretty relaxed and without stress. after we recorded less chance to dance i started the same process of writing songs whenever i got inspiration and i use my. my phone i use the voice notes and i could be doing

anything and i would just pick it up and sing a line into it or play or if into it and so i had a pretty good stockpile of ideas and potential songs. you know the thing i love about punk is you cannot get more revolutionary and you can i get more the best example of first amendment self-expression in this punk music it's outsiders speaking truth to power oh and that's what i love about punk music because they don't like punk musicians and old punks don't that we know we are the one people who don't get more conservative we get smarter we get tougher and we play harder than they do and i do i know one thing that saved a reminder as and here is a little clip from his new album american beauty.

there every year we go out to los angeles and shoot this special we did last year and we did this year and one of the great things about going there lay is l.a. music yeah you know and i mean i'm the l.a. scene is fantastic you know especially when you get in there and it's you know. one of the great things is that you've got the our next group that's going to be that's

going to be playing july tenth is pastel felt which is a young up and coming all girl band on the hit in the l.a. scene play in the troubadour hitting all the l.a. haunts you want to hit. it was a very interesting experimental awesome sound yeah it would have taken all of these things together and making this very artistic low fi sound that you know is it's really modern but it speaks to a time long time like the sixty's sound it really it's pretty incredible it is pretty incredible that you know this group is really what happens when you know kind of makers or artists that work in different mediums find partners together because they have this great you know graphic artist background comic book artist background a lot of these girls have so i want to get to the clip here's the band discussing how l.a. how l.a. sound becomes apparent when we're traveling but also how that sound develops we want to definitely take a listen to this how much does the feeling of los angeles and. find its way into

your music and you know is that is that hard because also one of the sins you're trying to do. i mean i think it became more obvious when i went on tour we went to like the northern california and like a lot of the ones that we played with are like like more focus like just as we like would visit different regions like the music would bury kind of a little bit more into like coming back to l.a. it's like oh yeah our friends kind of play a simple somewhat similar styles of music with other thing other influences but i think that's when i kind of like notice that it was more of a regional kind of like vibe yeah i guess i think there's like a a weird standard that might be here that makes it maybe a little more like clean early. in a way that i don't know what do you think i feel like people hold themselves to a different standard here and things come out of the gate pretty tight and polished

which is something i'm not used to actually. be i think it ups the ante for everybody thing a trickle down effect so yeah fully formed in. l.a. it seems like they don't really have much of a gestational rough around the edges period it seems like they just come out like guns a blazing because they're taking it pretty seriously. i think you could say your definition of the indie rock band yeah you know they're just playing the shows in the clubs got their audience you know selling out you know selling only. worked up through the ranks to the l.a. scene there is sort of this place for stephanie that they used to play a lot now they're more an echo of sand which is all part of this like indie indie based music scene and l.a. and specifically and that sort of eastern l.a. is so very laid back over to varia which is very artsy and it's a lot of these makers where you just make things and you figure things out what's really interesting about them is they were named one of the top ten bands to watch

in twenty seventeen or l.a. artists to watch twenty seven thousand by the sally weekly and it's so great because there is these these women that got together and and really are finding out how to express stories and music and do what they can well and that's the thing i like about doing this series is not only do we talk politics with all the you know with all the artists and how that plays into their music but we also talk you know a little bit of their history their sound and who they are and where that finds its way into their music and i think the thing that's paul about the propriety of people we have like pastel fell in the hub you know that is you get all these different levels of like where you're out on the musical scale it was in terms of terms of like the you know to me it's like it's so great going from like a c.j. were moments but in the business forever to well it was you know they're making waves and they're coming up they're not brand new but they're definitely not like you know at his level yet but they're there you know i mean like they're all the way and finding their voice is so cool so cool you know well i want to still take

a second to listen to a little of that low fi high concept a reverb made by pastel felt their song emotional. you you. you you. you. you you. move to that it is and our main event the big one will air on july eleventh that is

our main main show on the big stage this will be colorado based alternative hop group the flobots their new album no enemies was released this series is kind of a force in this time where you know protests are necessary to fight for true american values not the ones that are trying to sell to us all the time. there are you know these things are being crushed by those who can't see that you know we talked about this on the show a lot that there's any human action that their actions are in the main and these are politicians these are public and this is everybody so the flobots aren't just a musical group though they're building social movements they're part of you know it's sort of the flobots foundation and it's part of working directly with their communities to mentor kids and they really are trying to use music as a way to make the world a better place i mean what's more what's more. it was striking a chord but yeah it was fascinating meeting and talking you know to johnny five

br'er rabbit and everybody else in the group you know and they you know there are definitely people who put their you know put their activism where you know where that put their heart where their activism where their mouth is they are very very big they walk the walk they don't just talk the talk yeah they are seriously down to every family they do they walk and talk that talk i one of the really cool things was the flobots and denver's wonder band dance company got together and when they released the album and they've been doing performances they just it's more of a ballet with the music and it's something about this movement that's really great it's this collective power of movement and music so when porton so important let's take a little look at. conscious hip hop the power to change here the flobots lead performers johnny five and parappa discuss how they became musical partners. forever and were from being called flobots from denver colorado and. alternative hip hop play music for the last ten years plus together and you know for us music is about

engaging the crowd but it's also about kind of engaging people with the message. so what are you guys together because this is sort of a new. version of the group or not version i mean as things evolve what brought the two of you together as artists. loving the eczema. loving g.i. joe lots of nerdy things we were too nerdy boys who were placed in a highly gifted and talented program he was in the fifth grade i was in the fourth grade. and it's a memory that i remember very clearly i saw him down the hallway i was with my father i remember i told him my dad's army and i see that boy the blue hat he's going to be my friend and here we are how many years later twenty twenty years later we thought we're going to be making comic books professionally. but the world that we crafted in comic books and of becoming the worlds that we started crafting and exploring with our wraps. yeah truly fascinating people and i mean great music

really great music and really it's a sort of group effort in every it's one of those bands that when you see everyone in the band just fleetly in that moment you never feel like anybody is not in there and they they will like they're having so much fun but they're enjoying what they're doing and it means something it's pretty pretty amazing and i really you guys have to see this little again another band that you know they they lead with their heart they want to make the world a better place through their music through their lyrics and they're actively doing that mamsell the best conversations that we had you know i that i've had a long time was with the flobots and johnny five and bear rabbit you know as a pretty great let's take a short a little short preview of the bots with their new song carousel.

it's. just like him man it was really a good weekend for you anyway but you know it's good but you know it's important like i said before you know artistic expression music filmmaking all that is sold to society and i don't care what anyone says yeah they can say we're a political talk show but you know what part of politics part of culture is also the art and art of speaking out to try to change culture for the bettors so doing so that i think when you try to say that art isn't new if there are it doesn't matter to the discussion of what we talk about every day on the show i think you you lost the thread there you have lost the thread and that is our show for you

today remember everyone in this world we are told we are not told we are loved and the sort of tell you all i love you i am tired rolled into downtown lawless keep on watching those hawks and have a great day and night everybody. larry you are watching our america question more.

trailblazing transgendered. as soon as i could express myself i knew i was a girl i gravitated towards barbies dolls dresses everything feminine and you know with the love and support of my family i was able to drive and be the girl that you see here today it's really hard sometimes especially online people are saying these things like burn in hell your boy why are you even in libya present yourself just you know when i see those comments it kind of just motivates me to continue sharing my story like ok if you don't get it then i guess i have to keep putting myself out there i would kind of have like a heartfelt moment with him look in his eyes and say you know i'm here speaking on behalf of the trans fair you why do you have to treat us this way we're just kids and we just want to be happy and we deserve to be treated equally and respect for

who we are plus how did you deal with discrimination i just fought with two fests nobody messes with my kid in the school had a problem i went to the school i bought and doctors i put in attorneys i put in specialists like i was going to let anybody tell my kids she was somebody that she wasn't all that song larry king. says jazz jennings the sixteen year old you to blogger activist public speaker and television personality jazz is one of the young there's publicly documented people to. identify as transgender and has since become a national figure for activism and advancement she's been named to time magazine's twenty five most influential teens huffington post fair was teens list and is the recipient of the column hagan's courage award jazz along with her parents

co-founded the trans kids purple rainbow foundation which aims to assist transgender youth we'll talk about that later the first season overhead t.l.c. show i am jazz premier is june twenty seventh at nine pm and later we'll be joined by jackson's mother jeanette i am jazz why did you come up with the show why was it important to make it well we we knew that transgender youth in society weren't fully accepted and transgender people in general face a lot of hate and intolerance so we just wanted to normalize what i'm going through as a transgender teenager to show people that i'm just a regular teenage girl who goes through normal teenage problems and you know it's ok to be transgender just live your life authentically be yourself and be proud of who you are so do we know the whole many transgender youth usually was transgender is i've interviewed quite a few there are adults yeah but there are many transgender youth out there and i

feel like our voices aren't often heard and that's why a lot of people don't see these transgender youth but more and more are coming out and stepping out of the shadows and i feel like we need to be there to place protections untill out these youth to thrive rather than you know suppress them an order we see in season three in season three you'll see my bond grow with my family and me hanging out with my friends but most of all it focuses on the bottom surgery which is now a big part of my life and it kind of explores the different problems that i go through with that you'll see in the season that i go like on consultations with doctors and it's a fun journey i say i'm on the search for america's next top majority. are you worried about it i mean obviously dangerous surgery there are with any procedure there are complications so i mean i think my mom's more worried than i am but for the most part i'm just excited i feel like this is the last step to complete who i

am as a person and you know i know i'm a girl but this kind of just confirms that you know i'm ready what type of reception have you gotten for us on it's been the people we have had a lot of positive feedback a lot of people have said that they didn't know what it meant to be transgender prior to watching the show but after seeing my family story they were able to realize oh transgender people are just like everyone else they are people too and also transgender individuals transgender youth in particular have said that the show has guided them down the right path through their own journey and i'm glad that we could kind of be an example of you know what it means to be transgender or your name as a boy my birth name was geron j r o n n when did john know he was different as soon as i could express myself i knew i was a girl i was two years old walking around and telling my mom that i was a girl i was a girl and i gravitated towards barbies dolls dresses everything feminine and you

know with the love and support of my family i was able to thrive and be the girl that you see here today as a teenager who were you attracted to boys. this is interesting because i consider myself as pansexual which means that i don't necessarily have a preference when it comes to attraction in terms of gender gender identity or sexual orientation i just love people for their soul and who they are so i'm really attracted to everyone personality when you had these feelings when you had the male genetics gender what was it like it was really hard for me because i i was so young at the time but i knew that i was different i wouldn't want to. leave the house in boy's clothes i knew that this wasn't who i truly was on the inside and you know society didn't fully understand how could this child be transgender how could this child know that they were girl but i persevered and i kept insisting that i was feminine that i was a girl and i wanted to live my life as who i am so. yes i'm the youngest of four so

two brothers they're twins and they're nineteen and then i was sister she's twenty one and the two brothers are mayo and the sister is female yes. you're the youngest how did your parents respond to your telling them this so when they first saw what i was going through and struggling with my gender identity they were confused they thought i was going through a phase that i would grow out of it and that i would eventually you know revert back to boyish things but when i was so persistent in my actions and feeling that i was a girl they knew that this wasn't a phase and that they had to just love and support me so when i was three years old they took me to a specialist and i was diagnosed with what's now called gender dysphoria and from that moment on they just knew they had to follow my lead listen to what i had to say and ensure that i was happiness by providing me that i was happy by providing

me unconditional love so you saw discrimination you know i definitely have you know people aren't fully accepting and they don't really understand what it means to be transgender and this could cause you know comments of hatred and cruelty to merge and i it's really hard sometimes especially online people are saying these things like burn in hell your boy why are you even living your life as a journalist stupidity yeah and i think people are just ignorant and you know when i see those comments it kind of just motivates me to continue sharing my story i'm like ok if you don't get it then i guess i have to keep putting myself out there when you went to first grade we will boy. so basically i officially transition when i was five years old. and i was going to garden at a new school so basically we thought it would be like a fresh start so they didn't know i'm at the kindergarten no one knew but i was pretty open about my story especially since when i was six years old i appeared on two thousand and twenty with barbara walters so it was very public knowledge at

that point so people knew and. yeah i mean yeah i just lived in my truth now there are guesses jazz jennings after the break we'll talk about the fight for the rights maybe a little politics and later we'll be joined by jazz is mother jeanette stay with us live this year but people. are. going to go have a party thank god i'm home. as miss like winter weather for you it's rough it does get a little bit colder a burden off and. i'm really glad that i could spend this time with skyler she just couldn't really comprehend what it's like to be transgender in some of the things i'm experiencing so how's your college search going i think i might be going in state for my freshman year of college and then probably transfer after that are you going to have your bottom surgery by next year yeah actually this doing this

through summer my god that's so soon i know you say that i'm so excited that's amazing all i'm jealous so are your parents holy supportive of your choice i think it's always been a lingering thought since i came out i think they've been mentally preparing themselves and i think that they have been ready for me to tell them when i was ready i mean a lot of sense back with jazz jennings i am jazz premier's june twenty seventh in its third season good day to day life does it ever have obstacles definitely you know being transgender it's a challenge and it of itself every day on social media i receive comments people who say terrible things or in person people just school say things to my face like you're a boy or you're a freak and you know every day can be a struggle but i i think i have a pretty thick skin and i have the love and support of my family i'm lucky so therefore i've been able to move past it and just stay strong what do you read

those things on i try not to read the comments i. at all that's our number one rule my family don't read the comments but every now and then it just kind of pops up and you know all the state of the news you've come a long way baby and certainly the l g b t has come a long way in them are you surprised at how fast is seemingly fast it's becoming generally accepted i'm really happy that people are really opening up their minds and seeing that l g b t q individuals are just like everyone else we are all people down to the core and we should realize that despite our differences we are all the same and we should just embrace those unique qualities and kind of unite the society and really love one another what are doctors say is that a chemical is that it. was sown what is it sickly so there's been different theories and stuff like that but some people say that it could be. basically something that happens in the womb that causes someone to be

transgender but honestly it doesn't even matter to me all that scientific stuff i know i'm i was biologically born male but it doesn't really matter because on the inside i knew i was a girl and being a girl makes me happy and i just who i am so i will just let me let me live on top of their genes you know what the genes are all g.b.m. i have a lot of friends who are teenagers who are our elderly t.q. or are transgender girls who become boys yet every moment you regretted coming out . i've never regretted coming out not at all i mean this is just who i am as a person and i'm so lucky that i was able to transition early and have the love and support my family and you know there's no regrets why would i look back you know have you ever had a regret and looked back and thought you should have been a girl like me you know i never planned i never thought i should have been about mostly because of high heels you. know their struggle president trump when the

regionally north carolina had that problem with bt and bathrooms said he had no problem with hers and any of his hotels any gender good use any bathroom anytime they want and he is says changed his tune how do you feel about that well yeah he didn't really keep that promise he rescinded obama's directive and that was something that greatly affected my community specifically you know transgender youth because without that protection in school we are vulnerable and i feel like the school environment is somewhere where we should be able to thrive and not have to worry about simple things like the bathroom but it creates this unsafe environment and makes it so much more difficult and i think by staying strong as a community we can hopefully move past this you go to a ladies' room school of course i do no one questions that you know if you had the chance to meet with president trump would you say to him. going god i would say so many different things. i think most of all i would i would kind of have like

a heartfelt moment with him look in his eyes and say you know i'm here speaking on behalf of the transgender youth why do you have to treat us this way we are just kids and we just want to be happy and we deserve to be treated equally and respected for who we are who says you've had it and you have the show and you can do you encourage other people going through this difficult time to come out. i think that it's important that we let our voices be heard you know hiding in the shadows isn't going to get us anywhere i want everyone to be able to be proud of who they are and to love themselves and share that love and pride with the community beyond them obviously there are safety obstacles for some people and then other individuals don't have the support of their family or parents and you know could potentially be kicked out of their home so it's really really difficult and i think we need to look closely at those struggles and try to support those people

more and more but instead we're focusing on other things you know the problem of people a table in general do you know or i've met caitlin before you does it make you feel good to know that things are changing so rapidly yeah i'm glad that you know i think after caitlin jenner came out with her story that almost everyone knew what it meant to be transgender almost everyone knew what that word was and i think it created more you know visibility for our community and showed that we exist and that we want equality and change to happen. after a break we'll be joined by jazz is mother jeanette the show is jazz is on t.l.c. . don't click away.

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as jennings is our guest i am jazz third season we're now joined by her mother jeanette jennings do you get involved in her show i guess i do i do a pretty good mom don't i. didn't shoot the show right in our hometown in south florida ok take this back you have three other children two twin boys and a daughter older yes both boys are boys and a girl is their sister so. what happened when and how did she approach this with you. she came out i always say singing in tunes like hey i'm here and i'm jazz and i want to hear all the sooner she could verbalize and she spoke very young like she would even crawl towards girly things when she could speak she would say i want dolls i want dress up i want everything that's girly like never acted like a boy and extremely feminine i thought ok we're going to have

a gay kid here because she was no wonder the boy got a gig i thought at first like your husband yeah we said well probably going to get more about the siblings they were so little they didn't really understand they just were like well how come he's not acting like a boy because that's the way he wants to be he wants to act like a girl just let it be but he was still there he just backed down and he. when did you know that he wanted to be a she really. think jeff mentioned it when we took her to a professional at the age of three and they confirmed what i already thought that she was transgender at that point a professional event doctor psychologists who had a lot of experience in this area and said you know what i truly believe your child is transgender but i can't help her because i don't treat children i've never seen a three year old who's transgender but it least we were validated knew that you know this wasn't a fades because at first we thought it was a phase and we were totally open to it i just want to her be happy and i saw

a child suffering not being able to express herself as she was she really was and if this will make her happy that's what i want to for her when i read the suicide side attempt rates being so high i close to fifty percent but i'm not going to play russian roulette with my child's life i'm going to do what's best for her her body has room he's the same as me took him a little longer but like maybe a month longer he's very open minded and very accepting of both the siblings there are two i guess it's just family like they just love jazz and that's their little sister and the oldest one she was a little bit hesitant at first because she was like i'm the only girl on the princess and then we explained how serious this wasn't she's like ok i'm going to love her forever you close to your sister yeah i'm super close to my sister but aunts uncles relatives in the beginning after say not everybody was open to it it was harder for some than others right now it's been you know so long since she's transition that everybody's on board now but in the beginning the pronoun some people weren't ready to switch over completely took a few years how did you deal with discrimination. i just fought with two fists and

nobody messes with my kid if the school had a problem i went into the school i brought in doctors i brought in attorneys are born and specialists like i wasn't going to let anybody tell my kid she was somebody that she wasn't she said you worried about her possibly having the operation because you know what pair. doesn't worry about their kid having major surgery i'm this is you know she's going under the knife for a long period of time and there's no turning back i mean this is seriously that was going to do it i know she's going to ask you years ago i wasn't sure but now i know where you are is destroying our present current president that she is i would say if. i don't get into politics too much and i'm not very happy with what i've seen right now what do you both think that is discrimination in the community or do you think it's rapidly changing. i thought for a long time we were making a lot of progress and you know with the change of administration things definitely

were pushed back a little bit but i feel like the more more we stay strong and stay connected as the queue community that we can help you know prevent this discrimination from occurring and we could put the positive message out there you are perhaps too about your daughter going as public. yes initially it took a long time for us to come to terms with it we didn't want to do it and when she was six she was invited to go on with barbara walters and we were like no we're not doing this and then after a few months of realizing that nobody was going to speak out about this we we felt it was the time the border doing the show yes if she did want to do it would've done it what's the trans kids purple rainbow phone patients that's our foundation where we raise money to help transgender children in their suffering and we use the money to go to composite like we put together a whole yearly party for transgender kids from all over the country and canada so we just want to put smiles on faces of kids that are discriminated more than anybody else how do people get more information about whom you can visit the

website trans kids purple remote dot org and also just you know look us up we have a facebook page as well and you know strands kids purple rain mobile phone data. when you started this and started hearing from people were you surprised at how many there were i was like when we came out we didn't know of many other people of little kids and right after we came out all the support groups started popping up online and they all had little ones like jasmine like oh jeez we're all alone we're not the only ones who have a transgender kindergartner like if felt good to know that there's others in the same boat with transgender friends yeah i definitely have a lot of transgender friends there are many a lot yeah i do have a lot i've met many people over the years at different conferences and you know i the. they're also amazing you know were just kids and we just want to live our lives and when we're with each other we have this commonality and we understand one another at

a different level and it's really cool everyone at school more on i think everyone at school pretty much knows that i'm sure there are two boys treat you. it's definitely an interesting situation because a lot of guys don't really talk to me because i'm transgender i don't have any experience dating really and i don't do that much i mean i'm only done like a little bit but you know at school people kind of bored me. any jokes. what you mean jeff will make jokes yes people do make jokes about me. when i was younger there were rumors spread and people called me chick with and stuff like that so how did you handle it i went to the school complained. made a big stink about it and you know parents were brought in and i just want to protect her when she was in elementary school she wasn't allowed to use the bathroom for five years. has had a weekend warrender girl. you know i'm super proud to be a girl you know this is just who i am and you know i am proud of the fact that i'm

transgender i wouldn't change it for the world because if i wasn't trenchant i wouldn't be sitting here right now sharing my story being the strong person that i am today and it's made me a confident person and a person with pride and i'm proud to be a part of this movement and to just be myself and allow other people to be themselves as well you know mother has departed because she thinks hold a question should go to her daughter from social media as they do alan j. on the larry king now blog is it's. pride month across america are you participating i've been doing a lot for pride month we have been going to different community events and actually a few days ago we were just at a different festival and there's been pride parades and everything so it's been really fun and nancy is on the larry king now blog on this this season of i am jaz you were interviewed by conservative host tommy lauren what was that like. it was

tense definitely you know i felt like i was walking into an enemy territory in a very conservative yeah she's already she young to she's pretty young she's in her early twenty's i would say and it was a scary situation where there's no show done in dallas but i think it got cancelled miles all are now but so what happened so basically i did an interview with her and she's known for her very like aggressive approach to talking about these issues and you know you have to see on the show but. you know i'm not going to reveal any spoilers short on your show yes it's on i'm gas. did you get we must of had some sort of there is definitely tension and disputes you think you might have changed your mind. i don't know if i was fully able to change your mind but you have to see ok demon hodge on twitter what advice is help you the most so far in life. i think you know the advice provided to me by my family they have told me

that it's all about unconditional love and i feel like that's helped me the most because it shows me that you just really have to love who you are as a person and then share that love with other people and the world beyond you jan vague so on facebook how are you liking fame. honestly i would definitely consider myself as like a private person and i know you chose to go public and i don't like attention that much really so it's hard for me to you know be in this folly and have the cameras in my frees but i always say that if it can met if it other people then i'm willing to share my story demonology on twitter how do you deflect bullying. honestly i just don't let it get to me i i don't care what people think about me if you're going to judge me without fully understanding the continent my character then who are you to say these negative things so their opinion doesn't matter and honestly just motivates me because it shows that there's still ignorance present in our

world. is it painful emotionally. not necessarily because you know these people they don't know me so why by going to take their opinion to heart you know i get more affected when people that do know me and who i care about say something negative about me but that doesn't happen that much coriander said on the larry king now blog what's the biggest misconception about transgender people that you hear oh there are so many different misconceptions that people have i think one of the biggest ones i hear is how did you know that you were transgender you were too young to make that decision because you know as soon as i could express myself i was two years old saying i'm a girl i'm a girl i'm people don't think that two year olds even have concepts of gender but that's not true because little kids they gravitate towards feminine things or boyish things and you know it's not like i transitioned right at that moment we did and saw that it wasn't a phase so i mean and i think another misconception is also that it wasn't

a choice a lot of people think i decided one day that i wanted to be a girl but it wasn't really like that it was i was a girl right from the start i was born this way so very different from the homosexuals yes the gay men who i've interviewed many times i think of eunice sergeant who won the silver medal silver star in world war in the korean war he was homosexual like mad but never wanted to be a girl yeah because gender identity and sexual orientation are two completely different things generated energy is who you want to be and sexual orientation is who you like sheryl swoopes to who larry king novel are when you. go to college will be a major oh my god i haven't even thought about that i honestly have no idea what i want to be when i can older i'm just going with it where do you see yourself in ten years. what do you want of the you have to have some for but i really have no idea

i know that i just want to do what makes me happy i like being creative and doing artistic things so broadly something like that but i definitely definitely think i'll continue sharing my story you know i always say that i'm going to put my message out there for as long as it's needed and you know right now i definitely think our voices need to be heard as a transgender community and i'm going to continue sharing my story to create positive change just like to marry and be a parent. one day you know right now i'm sixteen the. jazz. big thanks to my guests. earlier to our mother to make sure to tune into the tonight season premier of jazz starting on june twenty seventh at nine pm these as always you can find me on twitter and things things see you next time.

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to pay their insurance health and employees health insurance once and for all find out it's lonely. as the trump administration and congressional republicans push forward with their far right agenda democrats are still struggling to come up with a positive platform of their own especially when it comes to economics but outside the halls of congress a consensus is emerging among progressive activists about what policies they need to support going forward and tonight we dive deep into those policies with one of america's leading economists joining me now is richard wolffe visiting professor at the new school co-founder of democracy at work and the author of numerous books including capitalism is crisis deepens essays on the global economic meltdown richard wolffe welcome back thank you tom glad to be here again thanks for joining us professor i want to talk about three big policy plans tonight single payer

health care free college and universal basic income let's start with single payer health care it's portrayed as radical in the mainstream media but isn't the existing american health care system the actually radical health care system. absolutely the american health care system is the outlier it's the own usual among advanced industrial countries to put it in the simplest way possible we americans pay out much larger share of our total income as a people for health care than any other advanced country even comes close to it and the irony is the results we have the quality of our health care the length of our lives the amount of time we spend on going to a hospital are very mediocre we're not the worst we're not the best but we don't get particularly good outcomes but we pay more than everybody else for the medical care we get if we weren't blocked from being rational we would long ago have

changed to do what most other countries have done which is one or another cause and of single payer or a program more like that it's a real tragedy and a cup a kind of a comment on the failure of american economic and political leadership to deal with so fundamental a problem as the health of our people the moral case for single payer health care is pretty strong and i think to many people a progressive bet it's even self-evident but why does it make sense from a macro economic point of view to create one giant national insurance plan arguably a monopoly. well we what we have already is a kind of monopoly on the part of the people who sell medical care the hospitals the doctors the drug companies and a medical device makers and finally the medical insurers these four industries have come together and realize that by working as a group they can get more money for their collective opportunities to sell than

they could otherwise what a single payer system does is put an equivalent lee powerful body or the single payer on the other side of that market to begin to get some kind of fair deal otherwise if there's lots of dispersed players individuals so forth and companies i only one of them could go i'm a seller the medical industrial complex we get the crazy excess profits and prices that we as americans have to pay it would be in the interest of every american to reduce the cost of medical care and all that would require is getting rid of the monopoly operated by the doctors hospitals drug insurer drug companies and medical insurers which they shouldn't have been allowed to have in the first place it's a brilliant analysis besides given access to everybody in the country the most

important thing about single payer is that it would take profit out of the equation when it comes to health care he talked about that why is it so important that some parts of our economy be divorced from the profit motive. well we have learned over many many generations in this country and elsewhere that the profit motive ten under some circumstances get you the kind of social result you want and if that's what the mass of people want in a democratic society then fine use the profit system in those circumstances where a majority agrees it's positive but likewise societies have long ago decided that there are things that the society needs that shouldn't be handled by profit making enterprise is because of the social consequences of doing it that way that's why we have public free education for all of our people that's why we have public parks wherever we go that's why we don't have a military that's a competing collection of companies but is rather one unified government agency and

that's why we run the the highways the way we do and so on there are many things that are better handle in a non capitalistic profit driven system because that puts profits first and everything else second and most societies don't want to make that kind of decision and i don't think americans would do so either and would be much better served by a nonprofit run medical care system for the same reasons that they don't want their education run that way etc makes perfect sense now to make policy gain support among progressives and in some state houses new york for example is universal free college free college is commonly portrayed as a handout at least by conservatives but should we actually think of it as an economic stimulus. absolutely look we as economists and i speak here for almost the entire profession are telling our students in high schools in colleges and

universities that the united states future depends on being successful in a global economy and that means we have major competitors around the world and one of the key determinants of our success will be the quality and the quantity of our train young people the number one institution that develops that is the college in the university in our country to short change that institution is to short change the very crucial future of the american economy it is an irrational step number one number two we already provide of patchwork of inefficient overlapping programs to help young people and their families get an education which involves huge amounts of government money it's irrational not to bake it go the other way stop requiring the payment for this kind of a thing just like we did with high school and junior high school and elementary

school for the same logical reason was good for the country was good for the economy the same applies to the next level of schooling and that's what we should have done a long time ago and i believe most americans would again welcome it and the third final point. some of our most important competitors i'm thinking here of germany i'm thinking here of china are already moving down or have already reached the point of free tuition free college education they understand it and it's only again the private profit motive the private enterprise of the big universities that want to stay that way that is holding us back from doing what the country needs you know let's let's talk now about universal basic income or yeah this is probably the most radical proposal floating in progressive circles right now is that a better idea in your opinion than the government serving as the employer of last

resort. you know in my humble opinion while i understand the desire to do it so many people fall through the cracks we have such inequality in the united states the antipoverty programs are all contested all the time they have problems this is not a successful way of dealing with a country like ours the logical thing and what most people want is the following you're part of a community in the united states we want you to work because that's part of what being a citizen is if you're physically and mentally able to do that we want you to work in a place that is good for the community and good for you as an individual a place where you can grow a place where you can contribute and likewise you need an income to be able to lead a decent life in your family the easiest thing for us to do if we were rational and not bounded by a capitalist profit mentality would be to say everybody gets

a job and everybody gets a decent income and then we won't have extremes of wealth and poverty we will not have the struggles over how much to take from those who have too much to make life bearable for those who have too little you know it's a crazy way of running a society and so yes i understand the impulse to do something to create a floor below which we don't let anyone fall which is what u.b.i. is a buyout but i think a far better solution would be to go to the root of the problem give people jobs give people decent incomes and much of the problems we now have from failing to do that will be solved and yet a lot of the support for universal basic income is coming out of silicon valley and it's sort of a variation on. i don't know if you ever watched the jetsons back in the day but you know george jetson went to work and for three hours a day about every twenty minutes he'd lean forward and push

a button and that was his. job you know there's this whole you know the all the job losses due to automation. as well as we move into a more automated society might a synthesis of u.b.i. and perhaps government work programs that might involve things that are not necessarily thought of as high status jobs but had something to do i mean i'm thinking of the w.p.a. the c.c.c. those kind of things might there be room for something like that. absolutely you know if we become more efficient if we automate there's always two ways to deal with that if you have a machine that is twice as effective as it used to be if you're a capitalist you fire half your workers the remaining half being doubly productive can take care of producing what you did before and you save the half of your salary costs you pocket them as profits i understand why capitalists do that but from a social perspective from

a human perspective it would be much smarter to say to all the workers you now work four hours a day instead of eight because in four hours you can produce as much as it used to require eight hours of your labor in that way automation does what we always promised it would do which is free us up to not have to do drudgery to reduce that part of life and open up the space for artistic efforts for creative efforts for relating to one another in more humane and rich ways why don't we face the reality that automation could be a liberation for the human community rather than the opportunity for some to profit while others face this unemployment problem as if it were dictated by the machine it never was the machine never was the problem it was how the machine was used in

relationship to human beings that proved to be the profit problem and that was driven by profit and there in again lies the key issue we finally have to face absolutely brilliant professor richard wolfe thank you so much for being with us tonight sir thanks tom i appreciate the opportunity always great talking with you coming up you just heard progressives take on single payer health care free college and universal basic income but what do conservatives think we'll find out after internets rumble right after the break. all the fuel we don't need something. everyone in the world should experience. and you'll get all the old the old. the old according to josh.

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women for their lives alone liberal rumbalara horoscope or the national center for public policy research and charles our economist and president of the market institute thank you both for being here with us tonight thanks for having us so as republicans continue to push for their ghastly tax for the tax cut for the rich disguises the health care bill americans are warming up to single payer or universal health care a new quinnipiac poll has found that american voters support sixty to thirty three percent and expansion of medicare that would make it available to any american who wants it also known as universal health care so you know i don't get the republican opposition of the small business owners liberated costs go down people who want to go off and start their own businesses they don't have to worry that if they get sick they get wiped out people who want to leave a dead end job better stay in there because the health insurance this will liberate the american economy what could possibly be wrong liberals opposed to free market

policies this is the this is pretty much yes they completely does though the way that a free market works best is free entry and. easy and larry are pretty high insurance so you know this is this is regular small business easy entry and easy exit from a market and the more that you put in front of a small business owner by happy to pay higher higher taxes to support this you're going to have a problem keeping. employees there if you want to or if you want to european style economy where young people are unemployed at twice the rate that they are in the us and all people are unemployed outside. of a few countries so it is true thank you but the fact is is that i would blame here and you know i blame the euro only the left want to do the republicans want to free market system and that's what they've been pushing for you to go to hell over a market system and insurance because you've got to have millions tens arguably

probably hundreds of millions of dollars and millions of customers just to be an insurance company going to spread the risk over a lot of people you know one person gets sick with them with a million dollar your illness and it'll wipe you out if you don't that that's not a free market there are huge barriers to entry into the insurance but so you speak of these things as all static i don't know that something has to be a million dollar cost for any injury or treatment what we now know is under the system that we operate presently there are a lot of these treatments that could end up running up those kinds of costs if you look in the phils and charles has been really good at identifying this phenomenon if you look at phil's where the government doesn't have the big presence you see when you compare nine hundred seventy nine hundred eighty to two thousand and ten two thousand and seventeen the cost of various types of surgeries and treatments they were dramatically dramatically lower if you're talking sixty seventy and eighty percent the question is why aren't we having conversations about what kinds

of things can move away from the government on bro we're not having that conversation because that has nothing to do with the question. before us i think it's marvelous that innovation technology automation you know we've gone from vacuum tubes to transistors to integrated circuits to now just you know little tiny i think it's marvelous the costs are going down wonderful what we're discussing here at least i thought we were it's who pays the car i don't want a cardiologist who gets paid ninety five thousand dollars a year and that's the average that you're getting paid in the united kingdom i do not want a cardiologist that is paid that way so you would i rather you would rather have i heard a zero million dollars you would rather have a doctor who went into a for the money than a doctor who went into a because you know i don't want to or shabbes not as i want to attract the most talented i want to attract the nigerians here in the i want to look they are not i have been three are you absolutely know with by the national who are citizens of my children that i think yes well do you think total evidence is not what is going to

win this debate i think i've heard that for you someplace before i will agree with you but the fact is that over here i want to doctor who is treating me as a patient instead of treating the ensurance company or the government as if they are us wants you to have a doctor who is treating you as a money tree i don't know problem with that and i'll tell you why out because in the u.k. and in france they have redirected the talented into the banking industry why aren't we asking for the smartest the highest i.q. people the most capable to come into the life saving in america if you do that you can be highly compensated in those countries you cannot and many people won't do it i don't think that that's where innovation and creativity can occur you know what's so sad about this what's so just incredible about this is both you guys seem to think that the only thing that motivates people is money you know i lived in germany for a year in a place that had a medical clinic there salem international dot org you can check it out and dr gere

was the physician there and you know one day we were talking i said you know how much you make and he was like turned out to be about one hundred ten thousand a year and i said you know doctors in the united states can make two three times that. and he says that's not why i want to medicine i want to medicine because i love medicine i want to help people i would much rather have doctor gear take care of me than your doctor who wants to be a millionaire the more skilled a millionaire the market works where it's given the freedom to obviously not only get creativity you get innovation and you get advanced and you have the it launders practice medicine there's a doctor i'm all in favor of their doctor in austin texas that provides discounts to our patients that we're in spurs because she can but that's against the government rules she has to not take government money no rand paul gets paid in chickens but still it's it's it's great i'm yeah freedom forty three million americans currently hold a whopping one hundred four trillion dollars in student loan debt which cannot be discharged through bankruptcy the average individual college graduate meanwhile is

thirty seven thousand dollars in debt this is a problem virtually unheard of in countries like germany that provide college education to all of their citizens for free according as to for veterans of military families the g.i. bill after world war two returned seven dollars to the american economy in increased tax revenues because people made more money when they were college educated for every one dollar invested seven dollars came back to the government this is an investment shouldn't our government be providing free college education as a way of stimulating innovation in america you talk to horace you are the best and the brightest here's how you get there that's not hand for every dollar that you spend on it you get seven dollars back in additional tax revenue so tom you now want people to pick a college education because it's financially lucrative for them now is that what you're saying because i will tell you that in most of the sure you know most of europe what does that have to do with and in most of europe they tell you by the time you're ten whether you're college age material because we don't have

government control over our education system you can be eighty and decide you want to go and get a college degree that isn't possible in. and it came to that's not particularly if you're actually it absolutely is it's not what you're talking about is the high school system again i lived in germany and when our kid was when our son was ten or thereabouts. it was like ok is he going to go into the real or into the whole surely is going to go into the school that is college prep or is he going to go into the school that is that is for trades and by the way in the trades in germany you can make sixty seventy eighty miles and i was here it's a good job is we do the same thing in the united states so that's we just don't have different school buildings and i'm going to college educated it's not ragged they go out on america ok train america you were free to pick the choice of college or not college that you can enjoy that is not true though we can't go back and not only for intel but as a parent i could a challenge the teachers you know they said we want to put this we want to put your

son into the college prep class i could have said no i want him in the vocational education class they were not always having a government bureaucrat tell you your kid shouldn't go to heaven well it's the same thing in the united states you i have had my column and i would rather go to your classes in classes you know. just sit in my last student loan payment this month so i just got out of this debt and graduations on you for making enough money to get out when i went through school i chose an expensive college and i chose it because it had small little classes because if i went to the big school i would have graduated it took me longer to graduate i went in more debt than i should and i don't think you should have to pay for me making this weird decision no and here they for you doing that if it meant that my country was more innovative that there was more tax revenue down the down the road that we could do good stuff with we could go go back to a conversation up what he meant on the moon and things like that you know it's.

been a a let's move it we just have three minutes left in a move that has progressives all over the world watching with eager anticipation finland in january launched a two year pile of. graham to provide two thousand unemployed citizens a universal basic income of four hundred seventy five dollars a month very theoretical but universal basic income that the one thing that i would think would get both of you guys in support of this is that if you set the u.b.i. at just a little above what the maximum that anybody could make if they maxed out all the welfare programs available you could do away with probably hundreds of state and federal programs and replace them with one single u.b.i. you have a huge huge why you guys fits all would be perfect yeah well. you know well farai everybody in the country should have at least ten fifteen thousand dollars a year in income so that there's a floor that they don't fall through every no matter what horizon capable of

working and earning income should be expected to do so you know sarah pailin did this and elastic on the wrong i don't care who did it every person capable of work should be expected to do so and the rest of us who pay for the people who don't will be cheerful about doing it why we're not cheerful is because we're expected not just to pay for the people who can't work we're expected to pay for the people who won't work if you want to be an artist starve like you're expected to throughout history don't expect me to pay the bill for that those social u.i. is the standards of the fourteenth century charo i mean look if we look at the minimum wage hike in seattle right that ended up causing the boom to me that did not boom the not even that i'm just how he has been totally debunked and if. they were it i would look at it in a way we've soon see that is the wave of left likes looking at science i know that when the study comes out that's actually scientifically based it's done by the

people that one notices. there have there are two studies one says a job then one the other is what i gained in one done by berkeley where i go i'm sorry i was late every single study that bird. please research is going to say today tomorrow and mike this is not a debate about that's why this economy is made up going away just about universal basic income everything you know doing like sarah palin doesn't alaska every man woman and child was minimum wage is better than it would be i have read here that she ran for vice president joe it's paid because they tap into oil and gas that's why every time they find their universities i come in and alas no no it's not their universal basic income taxes they are seeing it planned for every one stakeholder as an. ok you get the last word for us and that's the way it is and thank you for being with us thank you and that's the way it is and i know forget the marker see is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag your. people

have got to know whether or not there present or supply american people deserve to know your friends at this point does it mean a guard against the military industrial. we shall never know golden gate. or you should know that there is still yes we do but we're not. sure.

i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta emails 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 of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing planned three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied the beat n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale the balance 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 big 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. was a. lie. thanks to. do with the health care debate which i don't believe exists i do not believe there is a health care debate sure there are red faced politicians screaming about one make believe side of the other but that doesn't mean there's a legitimate debate it's kind of like alex jones radio show like i get that it exists somewhere and then

a certain number of people who don't watch properly listen to it like. i know it's out there but i don't really acknowledge it's a thing that matters. not even alex jones believes what he says matters. no seriously seriously in court recently his lawyer said on his behalf he's playing a character he is a performance artist. yes he's impersonating an internet troll who's medications are not interacting well. anyway in order for there to be a health care debate there needs to be two sides with some merit that can be argued about right but that's nowhere to be found in the health care debate right now instead there are two sides both of which are disingenuous both of which are corrupted by big money both of which are hardly even science instead they're just two separate spots in the center of whatever proverbial thing we're picturing i i'm i'm picturing a duck and i don't know why you always i always picture a duck but the debate should be is our country wealthy enough to cover the health

care of every man woman and child if the answer is yes. then the who will do it. and the answer is yes then. the other side of the debate should be let them die and i admit that side of the argument is a bit terse but it's not without merit especially if the dying patient happens to be the man who gave the young michael bay his first camcorder thereby putting us all on an inescapable calamitous path to a future involving at least seven and men as many as thirty six transformer movies . i mean a small car turns into a five story robot with heavy artillery and hundreds of millions of moviegoers are fine with that. it doesn't even it here to the law of conservation of mass. and that gaping plot hole is then followed by two hours of meaningless metal pieces

flying at your face you know vomit inducing tornado of talk. and god help you if that sock is in three d. . so if that man who gave michael bay the camcorder were to get a rare lung infection i could be talked into joining a lot of guys side pretty. good. point being in the health care vs let them die debate there would be two legitimate science but we don't have that we have trump care versus obamacare on one side you have a pro corporate system designed to enrich industry consisting of slimy parasites who spend their days and nights trying to figure out how to make sure sick people either over them lots of money or die quick and on the other side you have trumped care. well with one of those two options there are no

preexisting conditions except for the bridges to condition of a national psychosis which acts like this is a genuine debate. don't get me wrong trunk care is undoubtedly worse the estimates are that by twenty six as many as fifty one million americans would be uninsured as of last year their world near twenty seven million americans uninsured but saying obamacare is better is like saying it's better to catch crabs from sleeping with a hot young lady than to get a permit to use gym towel. sure i guess. what should we just be focusing on the fact that you have crabs. and should you also switch jim is i mean is. it worth the ten extra dollars a month when. our health care system both obamacare and from care is a travesty it's a good tactic it's on par with with your love for your beloved dog getting hit by

a truck that was carrying your favorite ice cream so not only do you lose your best friend but now your favorite ice cream tastes like profound sadness. for forever. millions of people have filed for bankruptcy over the past decade because of health care costs and it's rich people. live on average fifteen years longer than poor people partially due to the cost of good health care this unmedicated an unmitigated failure in the wealthiest country in the world will get even worse under any conceivable version of trump care. it will kick millions of people off their insurance. and will set up what remains of obamacare to crumble to the ground so that trump can go we're told you would. most of trump's presidency seems to be premised on the idea that he can just set up everything to collapse even further

and then sell ugly had to do so. but all of these health care plans are simply tinkering around the edges of the unique torture device designed to suck money out of gas brittle americans and place it in the pockets of morbidly obese insurance companies all right by design that is our system by design and as you can see the insurance company heads it's rather run by a very diverse group of people there. but they you know what they see past their differences to bond over the fact that they're all sociopaths. told the world. you're sure ideas such as universal health care exist but they're only allowed like quick three minute shout outs by bernie sanders before c.n.n. plays him off like he's an oscar speech that has gone on too long you know i really

think everybody should get health care why why are you pushing me i just i think we have enough well cabo it can go in. just the last week the democrats in california have killed their own single single payer plan even though they could have passed it if they had wanted to by adding like this is a legitimate debate we are self consciously so little fi and cultural acceptance of the idea that health care should be exploited for profit all right it should not stop dignifying that thought process. and that's why i have a tough time running around yelling breathlessly about how bad the g.o.p. plan is make no mistake it's awful it's it's on par with political or health care plan a right wing quit which was shoddy at best. but let's put it this way all right imagine

there were a ferris wheel that was poorly constructed and therefore was decapitating all the riders and for some reason each decapitation made a lot of money for the c.e.o. of blue cross blue shield right and you were walking by and you noticed two people standing there arguing over which was worse the fact that a ten year old angel of a child just died on the ferris wheel or the fact that a forty eight year old just died. well one is clearly worse but you wouldn't weigh in on the debates you'd probably be like how do you turn of the wheel shut up shut up is not very real. when it comes to health care it's time we did demanded they turn off the ferris wheel all right making money off of the fact that someone is sick or injured or dying can't magically morph into a morally defensible way of doing things any more than a volkswagen bug can magically morph into a massive building size robot starring in

a movie. and that's why we're the only developed country that deals with health care this way coming you from washington d.c. the value to be. the way. i. am. now is take the news from behind good trump white house is the most unethical and secretive in history which is staying alive for a house that has been filled with every flavor of war criminal fog and sexual pervert that house that has would make fifty the fifty shades of grey dungeon look like the wee's playhouse. was well they would play health wasn't exactly on the up

enough right. is it wrong in polite company to ask whether someone ever had consensual sex with a chair and sat. around. to rail all right. anyway trump press secretary sean spicer a man who always looks like he's having three separate but on real. light it real allergic reactions. is now giving most of his press briefings under the condition that nobody can see him which raises a lot of questions. such as isn't the point of a president having to make people aware of what the white house is doing in which case wooden cites to be one of the top three or four some says. we would need so spicer has left the reporters with only hearing and smell and they are failing miserably at describing the smell in that room. they really have i mean if they did

i think the adjectives most often used would be pungent rotting villainous corpse and a hint of lavender. so basically you now have spice in a bunch of reporters huddling in a like a linen closet yelling at each other this is actually from a press briefing this week this is the you're going to do it you're the person so please let's work through this not just. put me through the cameras why don't we turn the cameras on when we turn the cameras off i'm sorry that you just want to turn the cameras are showing they're in the room the room. it sounds like they're in the upside down place from stranger things. well ok you have a good. shot. for at least some of these really some of these briefings the white house even said reporters couldn't record a video or audiotape and couldn't report on the fact that they were instructed

doctor up born. and right now i'm reporting on the fact that they weren't allowed to report that they weren't allowed reports raw. ls. ls did seem to tame in the first in. the first few days when i was in office you remember he allowed cameras everywhere like there were people just running down the halls with cameras probably because he thought being president would be simple like he would just waltz in and sign some things titled approving all of the pipelines and no m.r.i. for poor people immigration immigrants can eat a bag or whatever. a bag of they picked themselves because we still kind of need them in the fields. then. don't shoot the messenger. then trump started the process that the job is

a little more complicated than that so they got rid of the cameras next the white house began texting using an encrypted app that automatically deletes all correspondences and a few days ago citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington filed a lawsuit against them for this auto delete app but more and more secretive this white house gets the closer and closer we slide to a fascist state we now have a reality game show host as president a completely secretive white house filled with trolls and utterly corrupt congress and economic empire that has as much chance of holding itself up as steve bannon pira wedding on and a half the ways had during the filming a lame is. thanks obama. no really i blame obama for. at least partially because you know for the increase in secrecy despite talking a big game about transparency obama ranked as perhaps the least transparent administration

in history up to that point as p.b.s. reported in twenty fifteen the obama administration set a record again for censoring government files or outright denying access to them last year under the freedom of information act my favorite word is set a record again. because you know. there's nothing more satisfying than setting a record and breaking your own record. some people say well obama gave a bunch of interviews right that's transport transparent yeah but most were not hard hitting they were with people like anthony boardgame and all right who didn't even broach the twenty six thousand drone bombings last year for some odd reason but did get to the bottom of why obama doesn't like raspberry cheesecake. gordons important questions between the secrecy of the spying on american citizens and the

unitary war powers obama handed down a dictator's tool kit did he think donald trump ted cruz or hillary clinton would give all those insane powers back here you go i'm done with secrecy now i'd like to shine a light on my corruption now of course i want. frederick douglass said in eight hundred fifty seven power concedes nothing without demand and as trump said about frederick douglass frederick douglass is an example of somebody who has done an amazing job to be recognized born more i notice. times amazing job and at a shade under two hundred years old. he says brian williams over. on second thought donald leave the cameras off. to go to

a quick break but join me on twitter i'm at lee camp or at redacted tonight plus i have a live comedy shows coming up in minneapolis chicago and washington d.c. just email redacted tonight at r.t. america dot tv for details and take it well direct back. at the. it's called the feeling of freedom to. everyone in the world should experience freedom and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to just. welcome our world come along for the. blood you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those for. your wife.

now i may give you due to one or two more. in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around currency corporations run washington the washington post media the media. the voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. there's a real irony going. tobe like a. response both ways to people and that's always what the terms think that's the least expensive realistic. goal for harry now wholesale surveillance you feel you have already while there's room to soissons president has used so excuse i really

start to worry because it's garbage real question. that i was going to paddle back to the internet from the f.c.c. on july twelfth over forty thousand people organizations and websites like netflix and twitter will participate in a net neutrality day of action try to access those sites and you'll instead see a page with words like blocked or upgrade or the spinning wheel of death. not to be confused with the spinning wheel of death on the price is right. and which of you gets the wrong price for a container of dishwasher detergent they execute you. that's not your grandma's price right tell you that much for more on this way turn to our senior internet

expert now we go. yes you that was struck me when i'm doing this right it seems like you know the importance of free and fair internet a lot more people will be aware of their leaving or twitter and netflix are the only ones that matter what i mean but the others what i'm talking about is the rest of the websites participating in this blackout one of those being ok cupid which i can assure you from personal experience deserves to be run at lower speeds. right i don't need an ok cupid instant message coming in at lightning fast broadband that says let me see your fake. i could sit in the queue with the rest of those clowns asking for locks of my hair. that's my profile clearly states i don't do feet or hair stuff until the second date. ok a little creepy but you do you do have great hair. it's so cute you name it they

are on my head. oh dear god ok maybe. they can take you a bit was the best place to start but even they all websites deserve to be accessed at the same speed as other sites blacking out these pages shows us what the world would be like without a fair internet but this isn't this isn't a completely blackout these sites it's just a reminder to send the f.c.c. your first round of pro net neutrality comments before july seventeenth plus the other side is just the strong before the first i've seen there were over four hundred forty thousand anti net neutrality comments alone it was the worst it was a spam bot natalie that the anti neutrality comments were fake like all of the thousands of people didn't even know their names were on those comments because their info had been hacked oh. ok i was wondering how four hundred forty thousand people all just happened to say the exact words the plan currently under consideration that the f.c.c.

to repeal obama is titled the power grab is a positive step forward and will help to promote a truly free and open internet for everyone i thought maybe it was divine intervention. or at the very least the most successful chain letter i've ever seen . personally i'd say scrap the blackout and tell everyone to send the f.c.c. common form to twenty people in an hour or the internet die. you'll never orgasm again. ok that could work but first of all. it wasn't divine intervention it was an intervention and the second these protests actually do work in internet blackout in two thousand and twelve halted the stop online piracy act which would have promoted censorship plus the f.c.c. still has to vote and it's really terrible for them with millions of people are on public record saying that ending net neutrality is an awful idea but the f.c.c. is votes for it anyway ok ok you may have a point but to be fair there were millions of people who once said don't make

swedish fish oreos and then it happened anyway. look at it even the fish knew it was a bad idea and. maybe having fish makes oreos healthier that again everyone. thank. you may recall that prompted inauguration of bunch of protesters were arrested well the trials of the g. twenty activists are still going on and many including some journalists are facing years in jail for more on this let's go to john a for donald for the breakdown. here at the intersection of twelfth and el in northwest. see this is a location where over two hundred thirty demonstrators most of them peaceful were kettles by police for several hours during the january twentieth protests of

trump's inauguration and no a kettle what your grandma may use is to make you that caramel popcorn you love so much it's this. damn the d.c. police went nuclear they indiscriminately pepper sprayed the crowd without warning they used tear gas clashed bang grenades concussion grenades rubber bullets and smoke players so i guess they didn't literally go nuclear. don't have. nuclear weapons right. now would be easy over two hundred demonstrators are now facing felony charges that could carry up to seventy five years in prison if they are convicted seventy five years we're protesting from states they should each be given seventy five years worth of free

oily rubdown i'll volunteer. but seriously the initial charge of felony riding holds a maximum punishment of years in prison already draconian adds but it's a grand jury returned a superseding indictment that added new charges inciting or urging to riot conspiracy to riot and counts of destruction of property now full disclosure did some of the protesters partake in property damage yes it was a very few months literally thousands yes did the d.c. police overreacted unlawfully arrest innocent people yes did the following all right journalist coverage of the vandalism make me laugh again yes this is just completely. and. you know we conjured your hate and oppression at the american people. and especially young white middle class americans this is not

peaceful protest this is anarchy this smashing bank of america there's measuring. i've never seen somebody have so much sympathy for bank of america you know they give americans like oh yeah we sort of we deserve that. again the vast majority of protesters were nonviolent including those who were detained not to mention that half a dozen journalists covering the march were also arrested and two are still facing multiple felony charges which is a further chilling slap in the face of the first amendment. well at least the d.c. police didn't finger anybody's you know the holes. oh wait they did and officer ordered five of the detainees to take off their pants before grabbing their testicles and then inserting

a finger into their anuses as other officers laughed this is amounts to molestation and essentially rape one of the people subjected to this said he felt like the police were trying to break him and make sure he was punished. lawsuit time the a.c.l.u. is suing washington d.c. police alleging that officers wrongfully arrested innocent protesters during president donald trump's inauguration the lawsuit accuses the d.c. police of holding some protesters for as long sixteen hours and depriving them of food water and bathrooms thanks to that report world's most mature looking middle school student the a.c.l.u. filed a lawsuit on behalf of four plaintiffs and there's also other legal activity by multiple organizations in the works including but you're lied twenty seven hearing about a motion to dismiss all charges. which would make this segment useless in a month. i guess some call it that i am not cool with that

well ultimately it needs to be understood that this criminalizing of protests is happening all over the country there's an unprecedented crackdown at least twenty states have put forward or passed laws meant to silence dissent and we will not let it happen reporting from washington john f. or donald exactly. right. there on the right i mean there was every you know. there are your headlines from the future in august you'll read a. in move to further hinder reporting on white house activity trump changes name to the symbol. then after coming up in two weeks

f.c.c. increases risk assessment of uncontrollable free and fair internet to severe. and one week from now pentagon announces of more brave patriotic young people joining military for brave patriotic health care. that charge still but i interview my friend give me your under jacket the night the i.p.t. last night you walked out a you tube dot com site redacted tonight until next time good night. yes i thank you. larry you are watching r t m our question for.

your launching an r t america special report. this. me is one of. basically everything that you think you know about civil society have broken down and. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. we should not be the size of the allies saying. we don't need people that think like bush on a plane. this is an incredibly tense situation.

that. we. are. trying to maintain is in moscow for a two day official visit comes amid based in strained relations with washington which is accused of military provocation in the south china sea. we have an explosive report from the italian court of polaris mon where migrants are being forced to work for a local mafia gangs that says the country is under quote an enormous pressure over the migraine crisis. and the one micron announced plans to slash the size of france's parliament. and the bed to make it more a fact if sad thing you.