i'm. he was. trying as the pain is in moscow for a two day official visit comes amid beijing and 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 moment where migrants are being forced to work for a local now fear gangs that says the country is under quote an enormous pressure over them migrant crisis. and when mccrone announced plans to slash the size of france's parliament. and a bit to make it more the fact that passing new laws.

three am here in the russian capital and you're watching our team from national welcome to the program. china's heat and she tenpenny is in moscow for a two day official visit its match was lattimer put in the crown lynn and their third encounter this year their leaders then had for an informal dinner before tomorrow's business schedule of talks on the economy and bilateral relations ten billion dollars worth of deals are on the table and they try and he's president will not leave empty handed he will be decorated with russia's highest medal well with more on what's on the agenda here is r t s my guest if they'll also be more pressing jus political matters. including north korea and its alleged pursuit of

nuclear weapons but also south korea and america's plans that station on the peninsula elements of its missile shield which neither russia nor china like very much they say that the system conceived far too much into russian and into chinese territory she jim pings visit to russia may also be a message china and the united states increasingly at odds that there was a brief spell where the two enjoyed good relations they made deals met talked and even ate chocolate cakes together the honeymoon says the press is over peeing called donald trump today to tell him that relations between the united states and china will be worsening there were a number of negative factors chinese warships and jets were recently sent out to confront an american warship that china says got too close to its territory we're

talking about disputed islands in the south china sea which china claims as its own but the united states says that it's free to move around in the area according to international law also the united states threatening chinese banks with sanctions because of their dealings with with north korea the united states labeling china as one of the worst human trafficking offenders in the world and what really put the nail in the coffin was donald trump announcing one point four billion dollars worth of deals with taiwan which china views as a renegade province so certainly no telling how far things will escalate and there's no predicting donald trump. political analyst jars of trunk things that the risks and turbulence and u.s. relations is you tube asians reluctance to bow to washington structure. there

are obviously problems. especially over the north korean issue but donald trump administration seems to be exerting pressure on china to do a lot. of career to give up its nuclear weapons program but china feels that it is in no position to do so is of course a danger to such gestures may bring about an escalation of tension. and exacerbate the mutual distrust between the two countries hopefully they understand the human porton of avoiding such gestures beating too serious military conflicts and confrontations. and now the e.u. has promised to how it's really deal with the overwhelming and flux of migrants to the country arriving from africa well brussels also agreed to boost funding for

libya's coast guard however no direct reference was made to is the appeal for the e.u. to take some pressure off by allowing rescue boats with migrants to dock and the poets of other member states and while rome is getting angry over the lack of support from the e.u. and has threatened to close its ports to rescue ships the interior minister claims that the country is under huge pressure well this is taking place as the country has taking in handwritten thousands of people across the mediterranean from africa and according to the u.n. almost eighty four thousand people have arrived at it at a tally imports says the start of the year and some asked to mates predict the number will jump to two hundred twenty thousand by the end of this year while it's the calls on neighbors to help francaise even the use drones and dogs to hunt down

those. trying to slip across the border between the countries my colleague aaron spoke with italian journalist marcelo fora who also says that if the e.u. does nothing to help its length through the migrant crisis the political situation of the region could take a turn for the worse the european union is keep saying we want to have peter lee we don't understand the teeth that he is facing a big prizes but so far every measure as it's been a effective and there is a sort of double talk for example this morning to the newspaper said that there would be reason agreement between eataly germany and france to try to have a new position in europe and what we have heard there by the very many studies something totally different and what will be so much grown person macone sr is that he would not konami for migrants to come in france and fact is

a is closing the border between eternity and fronts in the southern part of france so the question is a war what it what it what they will do what you can you know we do have p.t.s.d. and if you don't do anything those are the political situation reached to be very. out of control which means that the current government can become very unpopular. or the migrant crisis gripping ancillary reports are emerging that mafia gangs have been increasing there and plans and this is so important palermo by taking advantage for a few trees are the charla devinsky travel to the port and used a hidden camera in some areas to find out exactly what's happening just behind me is where the famous sicilian market in ballo takes place here in atlanta know every day and why in the day it's a hot spot for tourists in fact they're recommended to go and see the market is one

of the things to do here why. on the island of sicily but at night the market just something completely different and instead of selling fresh produce and fish what's being sold on the streets is hard drugs and the majority of the people selling drugs are migrants from africa that's what we've been told by one local journalist francesco. we film in secret with him on the streets. very powerful trafficking. drugs. need to use. drugs. they are using. specific. facts to sicily has a history of crime mainly perpetrated by the mafia what's happening now is that

it's teaming up with migrants to kerri-anne criminal activities the main gang is black acts which is forcing new migrants to work for them. for. my four. to. use. don't refuse to join black. activities.

to do so. selling drugs is not the only way many forced to make money if you just head down this main street here literally just off this main street is where many of the girls. in origin selling their bodies you know it's often it's there have been many investigations in the profile surrounding drugs only. child prostitution but regardless of what we. do nothing seems to be able to stamp it out it's one of the reasons is because there is a constant source of migrants who willing to take the place of anybody who is removed from the streets. selling drugs this is a problem that seems to have. the migrant issue has come to prominence again on this time in austria where

a tunisian man is suspected of having killed an elderly couple allegedly motivated by his hatred of the country's far right freedom party. will explain. an eighty five year old woman and an eighty seven year old man were killed in their own home there was that an attempt made to burn their bodies and burn the house down or police have confirmed that a fifty four year old man who came originally from tunisia to austria back in one thousand eight hundred nine is in custody he was well known to the couple in question we understand he delivered food to them a number of times a week that they'd helped him out with money in the past it's also believed that the reason that he. he's the main suspect in having carried out this this attack and why he turned himself into police was that he believed that the couple that were linked to the freedom party of austria the far right anti immigrant party we've also heard from the austrian chancellor christine cairn who said this where

he's condemned this attack in the slaying of these two elderly people such crimes destroy trust in the strength of our society and should be condemned when people are killed because of their real or perceived proximity to any party as happened in linz everyone needs to speak out but if it turns out that they perceived political affiliation was the reasoning behind these killings well that could have huge ramifications through austrian politics but also through politics throughout the wider e.u. however multiculturalism max perutz the sindo says that the suspects ethnicity shouldn't be taking into consideration. this sort of attack was wrong the fact that the man was tunisian to me is almost barely. a detail i mean the man who's been living there since one thousand nine hundred nine i would say he's equally austrian as he is tunisian so to make an atom of the fact. that because he's

too usually he would have committed this act is absolutely absurd the party the suspect the couple had links to join the anti brussels until my grand faction and the e.u. parliament back in twenty fifteen that's known for a number of controversial policies including calls for zero immigration and a ban on muslim symbols similar to the one on the nazi swastika in austria spoke with a member of the freedom party of austria who told us that its political stance and should not change and the light of what's happened. well i think you could assume too much of all mainstream media so there you get a lot of misinformation especially about all politics and they give free way to i would say hate speech they speak out against aids speech where they give a lot of hate speech against policies that are deemed to be politically correct like all parties and if you consume the media's without criticizing their content

and was all thinking twice you may be used to believe that who is guilty for everything that happens to you what i have to add of course is that even the violence is threatening it calmed leads to us or other people abandoning their political positions if we think if we deem it necessary to not do a lot certain symbols of radical islam certain symbols of and to democratic feeling all we have to stick to this position to relive and what happened was some mad mad guy guys do. foreign ministry has slammed fresh claims that syrian government forces have used chemical weapons the allegation was posted in a tweet from an account apparently linked to the so-called free syrian army its authors claim that the government troops out the launched several toxic gas attacks on rebel held areas in an eastern suburb of damascus russian foreign ministry

spokeswoman marie as a hard us is that she's not impressed by the latest accusations the chemical show is gaining momentum the latest proof that an information campaign against damascus has begun is a message about talks against attacks in eastern guta a piece of paper created in line with all the rules of the western media and now this is the beginning of a chemical attack and condemns it but this is merely a pretty good. this comes just days after the white house claimed it had information that damascus was preparing to use chemical weapons washington threatened to take action if that happened but russia dismissed the allegation as found it and warned the u.s. against any provocations monday damascus said that the us is refusing to investigate the previous alleged chemical attack that took place in a probe awarding to syria's foreign ministry washington opposed to sending international experts to key sites

a link to that incident they were getting zation for their profit bishan of chemical weapons carried out a remote investigation then concluded that so aerion gas the o.p.c. w. did not assign blame for the attack but the u.s. pointed the finger at damascus and bombed a syrian military base there is syrian journalist a library ham with the details. of this dissatisfied with the results and the findings of the c.w. probe into the alleged chemical weapons using touch economy april this year the syrian government said most of this to get turkey through the help of turkish mediators which according to syrian government compromises the integrity. taking into consideration but turkey has been hostile towards the syrian government and has actually made every effort possible to talk with the government of president bashar al assad the syrian officials also so that they have communicated to repeatedly with all the c.w.o.

about. vision for the protection of chemical weapons have told the syrian government that they are able. to visit the country carry out their investigation firsthand later on became dependent on samples to live or to them interview also testimonies of. who went to them in turkey. despite the fact that the syrian government sent samples of its own gather to look at. and how the rage for i witness accounts to be read to me to actually with investigators from the obvious who don't live in damascus according to the syrian government these samples and stimulus were not reflected in the final. report that was published by the oversea w. also the other important issue that was raised by damascus all the chemical weapons to syria used to have were destroyed under the supervision of the international organization and they were destroyed abroad to prevent any future claims that syria

has part of these weapons inside through interviews for future use and the us actually point to a certain dignity for a missile for some of. the. united states decided to carry out an act of aggression against damascus which not only consider the reaction of damascus but also any repercussions that could happen from other reactions from hours of syria including russia. and i think he was referring to iran in the context syrian writer abdel had died believes that washington is now changing its tactics to achieve its goals and the reach of. this narrative off chemical. weapons use at. the start shows how the failure of american foreign policy and how. they reach. in threatening the syrian people the syrian state and the syrian army is obviously the most ridiculous

claim that can be driven against syria especially in these days when syrian army is liberating area after area and were the people embracing his own. his own leadership so definitely than the lies in geneva and vienna that failing in securing it keeping the syrian army out of. on the jordanian iraqi border and reaching their desire very very soon i believe all the draw of the american policymakers to. drive this new narrative against syria france's president is planning to shake up the country's parliament we'll tell you how in just a minute. here's

what people have been saying about rejecting. the law and. the only show i go out of my way to. the really packed a punch. is the john oliver of r t america's. we are apparently better than. the sea people you've never heard of love back to the night. president of the world bank so very. seriously send us an e-mail one of the biggest challenges that any investigators face in dealing with cyber crime is. who did it what did it come from and as we've seen with many of these attacks when you've mentioned one across the recent run somewhere it's still unclear where that originated from so our clear message to government is to work together around the world to minimize this risk to grow those relationships and make sure that diplomacy is the key to everything.

all come back the french president and i know i'm across wants to slash the size of frances palm and by. and now it's the plan during and interests of the senate and national assembly invests. i thought a moment one with a smaller parliament but with stronger means is a parliament where work becomes more fluid where parliamentarians can surround themselves with a more better trained staff a parliament that works better that is why i propose to reduce by a third the members of the three constitutional assemblies i'm convinced that this measure will have a positive impact on the general quality of parliamentary work reducing the size of the parliament wasn't the only proposal mccraw inmate the issue of terrorism was

also touched upon in his suggested lifting the state at the merge and see by the autumn and bringing in tougher antiterrorism measures on top of that across in wants to loosen labor laws in a bid to boost jobs as for its with spoken to expressed opposing views on the plans . there was a member of parliament for many years each a good seeing a good reform morris it's good it's course too much more now. we have to reform the structure and the way of working inside parliament and the shuttle between the national assembly he's a good reform a form in year we spoke of all of these reforms nobody did so we'd go of an honest needs good good in the good sense this is a very bad idea i think this is the best way to kill the parliament because you see it should be we'll see tonight on the population about three hundred thousand

instead of hundred and twenty five hundred and fifty so it will be very difficult for each m.p. to control its territory to know its territory and in fact you know more than that you want to add to. reform a proportional election that makes of parliament absolutely under control. publish an unconfirmed story about the russians doing something bad and then issue a correction if it turns out to be false well that's actually a pattern that's been set by some mainstream media giants and the associated press for instance has issued for such corrections quite recently or does he have to trying to well explain now. if only it were a fact that russia hacked the u.s. elections that would make some journalist lives so much easier here's something recent from the new york times the american intelligence community has said there

were some interference is a fact not an opinion get it fact ok but you still have to explain why something's a fact they chose this report with its many high degree of confidence tags attention judgments that don't imply that the assessment is a fact while the author of this and why times article got too carried away scroll down correction the assessment was not approved by all seventeen organizations in the american intelligence community though that's what millions of new york times readers were told in the original article at least it got caught with all those pesky fact checkers about life ain't that easy yet in school they taught me about the world's most respected news organizations like the times associated press but what do i see now on a.p.'s website that very same clarification the correction for four stories over

a period of three months you bet that correction didn't reach as many people a piece of describers as the original four wires last week we got a glimpse into how stories with the hash tag russia and trump are done on c.n.n. live on c.n.n. constantly a. rush of this for. this ratings but honestly i think. it's just like. most of the you know we don't know and. john. proved this video was leaked after another c.n.n. online piece about trump's russia ties trump's associate has met a c.e.o. of a russian investment fund that headline would make the internet go. but guess what it turned out to be false the article was were tracked it completely no corrections had three c.n.n. staff members reside well you can only learn from your mistakes just don't be so

shoddy owning up to what. police and how many have dismantled makeshift camps set up by a protester as i had of the g twenty meeting the protesters gathered to voice their condemnation of policies that they believe fly at the root global inequality that is first surrounded the camp which was located and the cities and turn bad then park confiscated eleven towns and use pepper spray on protesters who refused to dismantle them stating that an overnight stay was prohibited as streets near the park are currently under police surveillance and the upcoming g. twenty meeting is expected to see a serious of protest marches and hamburg with over one hundred thousand demonstrators anticipate it because. we reached a point where you should ask yourself is there still democracy when it jurisdiction

allows a certain way of building a camp and the police force is ignore the jurisdiction and start their own initiatives then that is for me personally fascism yesterday i got the impression that they do what they want but there was no chance of communication there was no chance of cooperation regarding this small tent nothing. next an r.c. international will show you the negative side of tourism on some of europe's most iconic places to stay with us. the feeling of. every the world experience. that you get all the old will. go according to just.

come along for the. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic hallucinations that bird fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most. society on politics as a species of endless and needless political theater politicians and just celebrities are to ruling parties are in reality one party or party and those who attempt. to. run universal to me just sign the push through the teeth and exploitation of the little boy are pushed so far to the margins of

society including by a public broadcasting system that has sold its soul for corporate money that we might as well be squeaky against an avalanche. we must. say there i'm lindy france the boss broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight the institute of international finance says the global debt now rests at three hundred twenty seven percent of the world's annual economic output we look at who may be at fault here also italy have borne the brunt of the refugee crisis it's now present to slam the brakes on accepting more in the midst of its own economic crisis my guests and i talk about guaranteed government jobs versus federal basic

income versus the current welfare system we delve into the ideas thrown around and whether any real change is likely to take place standby starts right now. goldman sachs is making big changes to the front page of its website it's now included an explanation of block chain to potential customers the firm describes block chain a series of recorded digital transactions as a technology of trust saying that it will combine the openness of the internet with security of cryptography there's been good reason though for a lot of caution for crypto currencies they're still comparatively untested and

volatile on top of this they're currently decentralized entities making them susceptible to massive cyber attacks and privacy invasion. full days ago the chiefs of major tech firms converged on the white house for a party of sorts to discuss technologies impacts on the economy workforce and federal id infrastructure as well as emerging technology some big wigs showed up much to the chagrin of customers employees pundits and protesters including the ever present resists movement my guest says this protest approach is counterproductive and that it's losing steam when facing big business and big money i sat down with patrice on luke a senior fellow at the independent women's forum to discuss when we consider that there was a. kind of a campaign to get the c.e.o.'s not to come to washington d.c. last week for the tax summit and they still came and were talking about chess

pieces from amazon we're talking about tim cook at it from apple like some really big names were in the room and we rewind back to last fall even after the election before the election one hundred fifty c.e.o.'s in the tech sector they signed an open letter openly against president trump you know the candidate trying to time and you know we. some big names also kind of set out some of the white house early white house discussions around tac and business leaders. he resigned as you know for a number of mistreatment accusations but i think what we're seeing is these c.e.o.'s are looking at not just the short term but the long term you know this administration is pushing forward with a pretty aggressive agenda and they want to not be left out of the table or left out of the discussions they want to be a part of shaping the policy and i think it's important to realize here these are not nonprofits these are big business guys a lot of them are great places to work they have great benefits they're coming out

with progressive products but they're not a nonprofit they want to capitalize and move forward and they're going to do this and i think that a lot of people take their progressive message and don't want to actually realize that this is business and in all its ugliest forms would you agree with that well i mean think about what companies exist for for profit and that's not a bad thing i want to service making money exactly where enriching the lives of consumers like us you know and so they're thinking through you know when you look at some of the items that are coming out infrastructure there's a huge the opportunity for broadband access or expansion across the country and if you're interested in that that's an area for you to be the internet of things. there is a really interesting movement to think about how do we shape policy around that and if you're thinking if you're amazon if you're a big company that is producing. products that are wired products that are connected to the internet products that are making people's lives better but leverage infrastructure you don't want to be on the back end of hearing about

policy changes that are going to fundamentally defect your business model and if you don't do it someone's going to do it and if you do it right you can be instilling confidence in your customers in a lot of people so let's talk about the optics here we've seen people bow out of that sort of inner circle of what trump is trying to gather because of the optics what customers say whatever their employees say how do you think how important is that going forward for these people as you said candidate trump you know brought those people into the room after he was elected. how do you think this is either going to. roll off people's bags or if they're still going to take it seriously as far as the c.e.o.'s meeting in the room sort of turns i mean there is they're thinking again about what they're trying to accomplish you know from a business perspective and so i'm not going to downplay the importance of employee satisfaction employees perspectives and even their customers perspectives i mean a revolt by your customers can have a huge impact on what you decide to do you are what invitations to the white house

you decide to take but they're thinking through things like tax reform which silicon valley has been pushing for because they're thinking about all the money that the revenue they earn overseas and how to bring it back here then it states without having a huge tax burden tax bill so they're thinking ok we have an opportunity here to not just increase our bottom line but also allow us to expand our businesses by getting on the ground floor when it comes to these policy discussions you along with what you've said you know apple gets maybe less than one percent business tax in ireland right we've got. the head of apple cook talking about really liking some of donald trump's agenda ideas meanwhile mark zuckerberg attend these meetings that ironic to you because. ireland's getting it ireland is giving out a great deal still he wants in on this well the official statement is that there was a conflict of interest for mr zuckerberg you know i do think it was interesting that we didn't see as twitter's c.e.o. there we didn't see facebook c.e.o.

there and these are very big media companies you know i think they're making a calculated decision about you know. going to whether to go it alone whether you decide which show up to where do you send your maybe your. lobbyist to rather than yourself being in a photo op with the president so if you think that all of your patronage here. you will him something he says oh we're going to work with you but you owe me this. president is not known to have said that do you think people are a bit gun shy if they were going with president obama for the same reason then they would be but i don't see that i don't see that and when you look at the obama administration president obama worked really closely with silicon valley he had to call in the tech cops the techies to rescue health care dot gov the obamacare website when it when it crashed and so there's there's always been that kind of relationship i think what last week's meeting did not just from a policy perspective was from

a relationship healing perspective you know to say you know this silicon valley needs to be part of the idea of modernizing washington d.c. and its tech infrastructure but also thinking through how are these policies that are coming out of washington would affect us. since the beginning of your a red crisis it's italy that mostly bore the brunt after years of feeling ignored by the e.u. the mediterranean country. is now threatening to stop accepting refugees after she joins me in the studio for more on that bianca hasn't the number of refugees actually relatively decreased over the years it has so you know compared to twenty sixteen and twenty fifteen the amount of refugees going to europe has dropped but a majority of the ones that have traveled in twenty seventeen to europe have gone to italy so italy isn't feeling relief like other e.u.

nations are which is why if they're looking at different methods to deal with it now because of its location italy has always acted as an entry point to europe for refugees but for the past few years the sheer amount of refugees arriving has taken a toll so big that the government is threatening to shutdown the ports the possibility was discussed at a meeting between the sorry serves as italy's ambassador to the e.u. and e.u. migration commissioner dimitris ever marvelous in a statement said quote italy is right when it comes to being when it comes to the situation being untenable in fact just over ninety two thousand refugees arrived to europe by sea in two thousand and seventeen of that total almost eighty four thousand of them ended up in italy so most people would agree that the italians need a break but closing off the ports for refugees might not be an easy fix disembarkation is governed by international law which could make for complicated legal problems

ahead the move would also for ships to change their sailing routes in particular vessels the coast guard frontex and nations participating in the anti-smuggling mission operations sophia could technically be banned too it's a situation that would definitely concern the united nations considering the criminal activity that's forest in the wake of the crisis earlier this year the un's migration agency or into refugees being sold at modern day slave auctions in libya it's not just the threat of human traffickers that refugees have to worry about despite the best efforts of aid organizations. conditions at official and unofficial refugee centers are often understaffed with very little resources but at a meeting next week migration officials are expected to discuss italy's dilemma and figure out what to do. figure out what to do it's going to be more complicated than people thought it would be like hello are here according to our president how the aid groups responded to this big efforts they're also hemmed in by

a lot of laws so all the aid groups are clearly very program except and so they're disappointed by hearing italy saying that they might not accept as many refugees as they have been for the past few years i don't think it's much of a surprise because italy in addition to greece have really been incredibly overwhelmed compared to the other nations so it's not that they can say they're totally shocked by it but you know these aid groups are saying the reason we have to bring the men is because if we don't we risk them all drowning out at sea and then we're spending our time going there or worse risk exactly so you know they're not happy about it and i think they're definitely going to be involved in talks moving forward with the e.u. officials but they would you know it's not the best situation right now but they certainly don't want to turn any people away of course the u.n. announced that lots of syrians for turn to their homes what can you tell us about that it's an interesting little even think about it is but four hundred forty

thousand syrians have returned home after being internally displaced so these are people that didn't end up leaving the country they just had to run out of their affairs in the road over. well that and in addition to that thirty one thousand who did actually the country went back so it's a very small odd glimmer of hope i mean it's good to hear these things but as we know syria is just in most parts not safe to go back to so it's partially good news but still concerning for most aid groups and. that's that some very surprising news about that thank you so much. we're going to head to break now but stick around because when we get back the institute of international finance of the global that now rests at three hundred twenty seven percent of the world annual economic output . is back in amount.

would you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those up for your wife. what's your biggest fear of a big moment here right with the let's talk a little bit what would you say to that. but what about. let's point out that those would be. now i do do due to the word more. your launching on our team special report when there's this. is one that's. basically everything that you think you know about civil society have broken down. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. we should not be. the normalising. we don't need people that think like this on our planet. this is an incredibly situation.

which the hawks founded by three young americans who love their country but we have to constantly question our government watching the hawks brings the stories the good points to the points. we dig a little deeper we get the stories that everyone else is afraid to touch is afraid to talk about because they don't want to upset their corporate sponsors or interrupt their government access now is the time for that are we to question more . we're in this post truth world or world we're going to have to matter to educating people and giving them contacts instead of telling them what they can dialogue is far more valuable than to be.

borrowing sprees in the developing world has spurred a surge in global debt levels to a record two hundred seventeen trillion dollars according to the institute of international finance this is position to global debt at three hundred twenty seven percent of global economic output or g.d.p. as one of the most authoritative trackers of capital flows the i.f.'s. warns that three trillion dollars in a jump now creates a danger of short term debt repayments to emerging markets according to the iowa fast in some cases this sharp debt build up has already started to become a drag on sovereign credit profiles including countries such as china and canada for its part china accounted for two trillion dollars of this rise for the now nearly thirty three trillion dollars this coincides with the continued d.

leveraging of advanced economies cutting total public and private debt by over two trillion in the past year. and the center for american progress a huge think tank on the left is pushing expanded government employment programs could be a great tool for training and employing a much needed skilled labor force in the united states but some fear it could create large an ineffective government bureaucracy handing out jobs that aren't adding value meanwhile others argue that universal basic income is the remedy to the current state of an ineffective welfare system well my guess have economics professor and program director at bard college points out the flaws in this and then lays out a plan check it out to jump into proposal is not a new proposal so i'm very encouraged that they have embraced the language and some of the rationale but it seems like what they're proposing is a bit more modest than what the actual job guarantee is the job period is a permanent standby policy that often is directed to the unemployed in

good times and in bad so even if the peak of the economic cycle we have about two people per every job opening so we'd need an employment program that will capture those unemployed people as well they're targeting him by the four point four million jobs and that seems rather small. yeah. to say the very least and right now unemployment according to statistics isn't the worst we've had but it's still not great and that's a much more than that and we need out there now see if you want to train and start apprenticeships fine but they don't guarantee private sector jobs for us to meet we need about twenty million full time jobs in today's world to have that number right what do you think about that yes some of my colleagues i believe economics institute have done a recent study that does the full count. we're looking at anywhere between twelve

to twenty million full time jobs a show. twelve to twenty million so we need to account for people who have left the labor force right after the crisis people who are working part time but need full time work. other people who are invisible to us there is pent up demand for jobs even among caregivers simply because there aren't well paying jobs and so if we were to look at really the demand for jobs we're looking at much bigger numbers well tell me about these public jobs what number acquire an increase in government projects funding bureaucracy we know anything right now. the right political right is taking over elections in this country we just saw for a special elections the democrats are zero for four obviously the presidential election was it was one thing how do you think the american people would ever think that increasing government projects to offer employment would work because that

sounds like what it would require to keep people publicly employed not just trained . all right i think that if anything this last election told us that people want jobs i mean that israel hard of their economic anxiety there are other issues without a doubt but with respect to our policy agenda going forward people need work and so . given what we are already doing and how little we have how meager the expansion has been how. few jobs we've been able to create people i think are hungry for a lot more aggressive approach so are these going to be. government jobs they can be federally funded but they can be locally administered they can be administered by a nonprofit social interpret ventures there are many ways in which we can do this what's important to keep in mind is that this is

a policy that compliments private sector employment the government already spends in countless cyclical ways in other words when the economy is bad the government already provides a considerable amount of stimulus but if we were to do it through job guarantee we will simply be providing jobs to people who have been laid off that provides the stimulus to the economy we essentially limited a jobless recovery and as the economy recovers then people transition into private sector employment so in a sense we're not changing the function of government we already do counter cyclical spending except we don't know how much we need to spend because we don't directly employ people but doesn't the sound a bit like i mean you're going to have to agree increase public funding for jobs are fees jobs worthless do we need them is there a demand for these jobs are you just creating jobs where. you know so that someone

can pack a lunch and go to work every day and come home with a paycheck which we all know is very important people have pride in work and a lot of people unemployed want that but can we just go about willy nilly creating jobs to guarantee a job and if not that is the word job guarantee a bit misleading. it's a guarantee in the sense that if somebody needs work we will provide a project that will employ them at a above poverty i've argued for a living wage so in that sense it's basically a promise that's what it means to be a guarantee but then a job guarantee what kind of jobs would those be out what will project we're talking about we talked about building needed infrastructure are we talking about administrator or someone working in the you know the state highway program like in my state and they pay people fifty thousand dollars a year to do p.r. and make new pamphlets i mean i don't people that do that and it's not necessarily something that's really needed but we do need road workers so i guess what i'm

asking is these projects that people are being trained for what what what's an idea of some of those types of projects. so there are lots of socially useful to it is that just go unfulfilled i mean if you just look at the care gaps whether it's elder care whether it's child care whether it's community care i mean we have a lot of public squalor these jobs are for the public purpose these are socially useful jobs there are many many things that we can think of whether they're small environmental jobs like renewal cleanup whether they are small infrastructure jobs whether they are again care care work there isn't a shortage of things that we need to get done but what we also know is that unemployment imposes enormous costs on society and we already pay for unemployment we estimate that we're foregoing we're giving up about. half

a billion to ten billion dollars about her day because we tolerate high unemployment now this is already paid for we are there also enormous costs that are associated with unemployment whether this these are health costs whether this is crime with its incarceration whether it is the urban blight and the poverty that we have to address this is paid for what i'm suggesting is that if we were to do a direct employment program that provides people with decent work decent pay doing useful public projects that will reduce significantly the enormous costs that we already bear right and a lot of people as you say you can fold that into. two trades and you know engineering refrigeration even all of these things that that so many people even with high school educations can vocational training method i'm trying to say valuable vocational training that so many people can't really get

a hold on if the government maybe as you said funded those things it would add so much to the projects we need now i want to talk also about what cap is targeting as an unemployment rate of our i'm sorry apply employment rate of seventy nine percent of the prime age working group that's nice do you think that's even possible. i think it is possible i i wouldn't necessarily think that this is the appropriate target i think the target is to provide work to those who need it what about the population that is not prime working age if we were to look at the national unemployment rate most economists believe that we are already at full employment but if you actually look at county level unemployment you will find that their pockets around the country some surprising areas in fact that are not michigan or ohio that suffer from persistent ongoing depression levels of unemployment and this is ongoing even in good times so if i were to do. i will simply provide

open ended job offer and i will try to get the program to these distressed communities some of these distressed communities may have elderly workers that still need work some might have young workers that have very high unemployment rates so the way that i would go about this is simply providing in a targeted way a job opportunity to anyone who wants it then people can voluntarily select into the program and only then can we know really what is the appropriate employment to population ratio that we will end up with i think the most the thing that would actually sell this is if you the american people understand what these jobs were how much they were needed and they weren't just trying to find someone something to do for a paycheck i want to talk about a universal basic income it solves a fix to social welfare you say this concept is essentially a trojan horse can you explain that to me. well it's

a giant voucher program the universal basic income promises. paycheck to anyone whether they work or not whether they're rich or poor whether the economy is doing well or not on ongoing basis so it is popular with the right because it is seen as a replacement to existing welfare programs it is popular with the corporate sector because if that represents if that actually leads to replacing some programs that might lead to privatization of some public functions so we have this model where the corporate sector doesn't have any incentive or impetus to provide decent pay because this represents a subsidy why should a company provide let's say health benefits if somebody has a basic income voucher that can you know buy health care on the market why should we provide high pay or high wages if there is that other additional income that one

could supposedly use to provide for themselves so it is a subsidy now compare this to the job guarantee the job guarantee provides a decent work a distant pay if the private sector wants to hire a person in the expansion from this program they will have to match that wage benefit package and so that becomes an effective minimum wage for the economy and this could be very interesting if we hear more as this possibly develops maybe not of what these jobs would be to fill in these communities and even in their urban urban blight areas that there's there's the jobs have fled the opportunities have fled what could be created there thank you so much for coming on and talking about this forgot to bring you want to talk about this more very soon probably not. associate professor of economics and migrant chair at bard college thank you. a guest on the alex jones show has actually made nasa released

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for who we are plus how did you deal with discrimination i just bought with two fists nobody messes with my kids the school had a problem i went to the school i bought in doctors i put in attorneys i put in specialists like i was going to let anybody tell my kids when somebody is all next on larry king. our special guest says jazz jennings the sixteen year old you too blogger activist public speaker and television personality jazz is one of the young there's devore publicly documented people to identify as transgender and has since become a national figure for activism on 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 call of 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 third season overhead t.l.c. show i am jazz premier's june twenty seventh at nine pm and later we'll be joined by jazz 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 heat 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 teen age 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 transgenders i've interviewed quite a few they're 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 until 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 giant. 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. birthname was geron j r o 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 you would try to do boys on 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 every one personality you 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 boys' 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 i had 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 how did you are 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 fading 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 yeah 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 burning to hell your boy why are you even living a 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 cannot garden at a new school so basically we thought it would be like a fresh start so they didn't know him 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

twenty 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 back to look i don't 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 and 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 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 in and of itself every day on social media i receive comments people who say terrible things or in person people just schools 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 why do you read those things 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 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 chemical is a homo so on 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 of the genes or oh yeah 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 up. 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've been a girl like me yes i never claimed i never thought i should have been a more mostly because of high heels you. know their struggle president trump when

the regionally north carolina had that problem with. 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 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 homes 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 of the problem of people a table in general you know i've met caitlin before yeah. it is a big you feel good to know that things are changing so rapidly yeah i'm glad that you know i think after killing general 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 show 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 a jazz is on t.l.c. . don't click away.

just that you're watching all the. people who got to know whether or not there present or surprise people deserve to know at this point does it mean a guard against the military industrial or. no . yes we do but the. future of the sacred. jennings is our guest i am jazz it was 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 us back you have three other children two twin boys and

a daughter older yes both boys are boys and the girl is your sister so. what happened when and how did she. this was you. she came out i always say singing in tunes like hey i'm here and i'm jabs 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 we haven't already got a gig i thought at first like your husband yeah we said what does is probably going to get more about this. 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 or he yes back then and he when did you know that he wanted to be a she really. think just 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 and want 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 at least we were validated knew that you know this wasn't a phase because at first we thought it was a phase and we couldn't do 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 and by you 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 is 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 was 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 parent 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 in this is seriously that i 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 were is destroyed by the president 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 l g b t q 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 we would've done it what's the trans kids purple rainbow phone patients that's our foundation where we raised money to help transgender children in their suffering and we use the money to go to composite likely 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 preparation both dot org and also just you know look us up we have a facebook page as well and 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 with 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 geez 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. also amazing you know we're 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 know what on i think everyone at school pretty much knows and 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 the ting really and i don't do that some of them much i mean i'm only done like a little bit but you know at school people kind of. any jokes. would

be mean just looking to make jokes and 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 about room for five years. you're going to work and war and the 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 transgender 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 how 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 on nancy as on the larry king now blog on this on 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 emmy 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 argue or you must have 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 very much 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 face 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 to you. 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 ahead of us a sergeant who won the silver medal silver star in world war in the korean war he

was homosexual like mad but never thought he 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 whoever the king novolog when you go to college what 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 so i'm just going with it where do you see yourself in ten years. what do you want to 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 though probably 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. right now i'm sixty miles over the. jazz. big thanks to my guests. earlier to our mother to make sure to tune into the. 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. it's called the feeling. every the world should experience.

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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 imprisonable wars have been fought and the historians have recorded 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 the. real thing is. as you put it out of it. like you know that i got. the. welcome or the watching the hawks i am tyrrel the third and that is out of the last so it's out of this week june

july it kicks off this week kicks off the music special washing off 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 that explored 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 mentally moved on the 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 and explored 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 hobby jenkins. was that first moment your life

or your 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 sax the. phone from the age of five until freshman year i started playing cello and bass in high school and i went to a math and science engineering school and was like really enjoying music like i'm going to take a year off from college and and in that year is when i discovered country blues and was like ok i think i want to play music and 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 sort of like going to hear it 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 i just learned more about the music and sorts of learn. about the banjo being a black and 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 him say 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 nobody yeah yeah you know and he said no actually as a region you know as a ridgeley a black and it was created there you know it was our music. you know it was

interesting when he talked about what you got to drive because we charge well how would he play certain crowds you know one part of the crowd is like hey that's my grandpa presumes to run. how dare you play it you know and the other so called 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 a hold on that history and that historical yes i think about until here is a little stark no moment from ivy jenkins performing the song telling your mind.

we're. seeing. here your life. well going through a lover and then we shift from from have this amazing exploration of american old blues banjo and string music to chris sandal to. 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

she was a finalist at 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 early music ratings awards 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 is this komodo 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 singing before i could really speak and there is actually a video home video of me standing on the stairs maybe two and a half true. i don't know. being opera singer so i guess

i sort of wanted 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 watch that i say we a lot because i have an identical twin sister 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 got into theatre 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 want to do for some reason and it got me out of my shell super super. shy. you know it's really amazing when you sue singer songwriters right chris because they really do you know take what's in here and present it to you know

a lot of times it's emotions and feelings the you felt that in their sharing with you that gives you a kind of a sense of companionship 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 from a lot of musicians which always seems weird 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 kids like myself that's what helped us get over there are shyness our social anxiety and our feelings because you can't really talk about feeling all that great and there was no way that a lot of great political speakers are also very shy privately you know but one they get up in front of the mike it's i have to i have to get this out i 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 who are shy but have so much to tell or give some of us 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 chris and it was. just. a. few. clues.

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hard hitting radical comedy news like redacted tonight is where it's at. a welcome welcome back all right. a long time ago you told me that one of your favorite authors of music is in the public rock. through a little bit of punk rock. we have on this year's drugs record yeah we see in the home of history an hour of going out and 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 so yeah this year we got to hang out with and talk to c.j. ramone 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 the ramones album and told the engineer that they wanted to sound like the ramones and that's where the sound of the sex 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 there are a who's who of american punk 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 yes it's pretty pretty amazing the whole album by the way was put together in a levin day. work so it's pretty amazing and he also covers the tom waits on the out so here is there's a little preview of our interview with c.j. ramone. to tell me about the new album american beauty and how what's the journey that leads up to this. 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 won 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. i 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 and 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 reasons and old punks don't do 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 to 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 las 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 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 kind of like more focal influence or like just as we like would visit different regions like the music woodbury kind of a little bit more and so 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 employees but i think that's when i kind of like notice that it was more of a regional kind of like vibe so i just i think there's like a a weird standard that might be here that makes it maybe a little more like clean early hall is 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. 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 on the you know worked up through the ranks in the l.a. scene there is sort of this place that they 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 in two thousand and seventy by 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 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 about 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 pulling 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 you know they're making waves and they're coming up they're not brand new but they're definitely not like you know his level yet but they're there you know i mean like they're on 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. high concept a reverb made by pastel felt their song emotional.

you. you. you. you you. you you. you. you you. rule 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 they're out there 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 and 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. and now we're from a band called flobots from denver colorado and. you know alternative hip 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 evolved what brought the two of you together as artists. loving the eczema. loving g.i. joe lots of nerdy things were to 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 as i was with my father and a member i told them 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 years or twenty years later we thought we're going to be making comic books professionally. but the world that we crafted in comic books and are becoming the worlds that we started crafting and exploring with our wraps. yeah truly fascinating people and 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 fleetly in that moment you never feel like anybody is not in there and

they they will like they're having so much fun yeah i think they're enjoying what they're doing and it means something it's pretty pretty amazing and i really you guys see this little again another band that you know 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 in 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 flobots with their new song carousel. it's.

it is really and we can't save anybody you know. 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 better so i think when you try to say that art isn't new art doesn't matter to the discussion of what we talk about every day on the show i think 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 to tell you all i love you i am tired robot and on top of the lawless keep on watching those hawks in every day and night everybody.

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