i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing planned three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied that the n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable.

i'm going to do just that if you're watching all of. us. long. long tell her about our washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture even of a passes and decimates our health care system has trumped care already made single payer inevitable last chorus cooper and sam sachs and it's politics in just a moment and is america's opioid epidemic

a drug problem or another example of corporate malfeasance raw muck i'll ask america's lawyer mack my it might happen to podio later on in the program. center republicans have unveiled the revised version of their so-called health care bill they say it's a step forward but is a really any better than the medicaid destroying tax cut for the rich in disguise that they came out with a few weeks ago let's ask tonight's politics panel. with a for tonight's panel our horoscope or attorney and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and same sex writer and founder of the co-founder of the district sentinel thank you gentlemen for being with us going to get you both here so as promised senate republicans reveal the new version trauma care

three point zero today the bill does have some noticeable differences from its predecessor predecessors for example it doesn't include as many absurd tax cuts for the rich although it does give multibillion dollar tax cuts to industry also sets aside forty five billion dollars to help with the nationwide opioid epidemic and an additional seventy billion dollars for high risk patients thanks to ted cruz this bill would also allow insurance companies to sell plans that don't include obamacare protections something experts warn could cause an industry death spiral at its core though the new version of truckers like every other version of trunk care it repeals the individual mandate it defunds planned parenthood it guts protections for people with preexisting conditions and most importantly it slashes hundreds of billions of dollars for medicaid and repeals medicaid expansion under obamacare so rand paul says is a big no susan collins says she's a know how many more no vote well one more no vote in this thing is dead thoughts

porus am well you know i think the mistake here has always been a failure to tell the truth to the american people right now people are suggesting . about fifty five or sixty five percent of the american people believe it's the government's job to provide you with health care so it's true in every other developed country in the world and it doesn't work in every other country in the world and that's why they have longer lifespans and we do and the american people aren't trusting the kinds of comments that are being offered by those who don't support obamacare because they aren't prepared to tell the truth which is we need to create an environment where we get as many people as possible covered and get them good treatment ironic sometimes without the government. at their own expense up to go we need to create are not going to do that in a country where fifty percent of the population could not withstand a one thousand dollar annual expense that was on anticipated yep that's part of the

problem is that we've created an economic environment where everybody everybody is practically having to live paycheck to paycheck no reaganomics it's like a devastated the senator obama care is only exacerbated that situation saying look this bill the reason why it hasn't passed yet you could give a lot of credit to groups like adapt and people who've had called members of congress at the republican town halls but fundamentally the reason why this bill doesn't pass is because republicans among themselves haven't yet agreed on just how many americans should die as a result of their health reform plan because that is what's going to happen when you start getting rid of medicare you're going to be looking at hundreds of thousands of people over the next however long you want to go that aren't going to have health insurance just that are going to be smaller entering dollars these guys are going to society harvard university and the american medical association fine since two thousand and nine with the number of people who aren't presently covered and i don't someone who are you are i my you know my uro when i have

a calling for single payer health care bill long before obama i am one of the people who was disappointed by obamacare obamacare was a half measure so if you go here it is the republicans. for a plan that quote is going to kill people when in fact the existing plan kills not listen to hillary clinton all of the existing plan kills people to the extent that republican governors refuse to give the notice arlene aof look at charlene dillon florida surely one is the other of three she had a heart condition she couldn't afford her medication and because she was working three jobs this woman she still wasn't making above the poverty level so she didn't qualify for obamacare and because rick scott the republican governor of florida and the c.e.o. of the company that committed the largest medicare fraud in the history of the united states rick scott refused to expand medicare she was cut your bills or had i didn't waveguide on heart attack rick scott republicans had a lot on their hands rick scott didn't wave the magic wand and make all of america

pay for a program that is never going to work and is never going to achieve one hundred percent it's not going to cheapen their own initiative on horris nobody nobody buys the stuff nobody is buying that on top of the governors who have chosen not to expand medicaid just the fact that we still rely on a system in which companies make profit off denying health care to their customers you will have people who are inevitably condemned to death those are the death panels that we live in the health insurance companies they've always been the death panels as long as they've been there so whenever we hear about government death penalty or anything that's all fantasy we live. here right to everybody to have health care like the rest of the developmental because no easy. is watching your plan play out in the united kingdom where a family is sitting there saying that doctors are telling me my child is supposed to die they want to turn off the switch and they want to deny me deny me the right to take my child put him on a plane and at my own expense and get him treatment that's what we're looking at

are that's where it's there and try and erato i don't care if i have a two point zero it's like you say it was terrible terrible example tragedy. larry family's got nothing to do with their health care system speaking of single payer health care no one is arguably more responsible for bringing some single payer back into the mainstream of american politics than vermont senator bernie sanders it was the centerpiece of his twenty sixteen presidential campaign and perhaps as twenty twenty one as well in a new interview on mark thompson's paresi radio show bernie said he's not ruling out another run for the white house are you leaving two thousand and twenty on the table you taking it off the table not not taking it off to a larger set up not made any decisions but i think it's what you do what we should bernie run again he's the most popular politician in the united states right now and is effectively a shadow leader of the democratic party even though he's not in the democratic party where does it behoove the left to look for a younger figure i think he's clearly the most popular politician in america he's built up the infrastructure that he didn't quite have in you know when we ran in

two thousand and sixteen he's got it now he's got the name recognition that he didn't have back then i think he's clearly the front runner the only issue is his age in the birth he doesn't exactly show any signs of slowing down he's already going around the country holding these health care rallies all the time i don't see anybody else who can who can knock him off that top spot right now as the top contender except the democratic party itself or possibly it was with worn by being maybe i. seem to quieted down a lot as you just raised about iowa body they're running for reelection the age of bernie sanders in my mind has absolutely nothing to do with whether he could be fit to serve as president the fact that he has some of the core aisy is ideas in the world like everybody's going to get health care paid for by the guy everybody else but the entire best world like crazy idea and it doesn't work there and it doesn't work there but i save sandon there is no one even

a rerun of the pulleys tell the truth i always said this about bernie he told the truth that democrats have been lying for the longest about what. there are real ambitions are let's go rename it medicare for all if you like but let's go with this idea that the people who brought you the post office are going to provide you with quality health care and frankly ben franklin event of the post office as they . go to the post office and drop a letter in the mail and they'll send it all the way to hawaii for forty cents or fifty cents or megan's a pretty good way you know they are a very high rate of success there is a very high rate of success and if we had better talk about the reason why they're losing money we can go and talk about legislation that was a house there it's not that big a deal if however i go to the doctor and it turns out my heart ailment isn't getting treated properly because of malfeasance or because they're incompetent or whatever reason out of health care refuse to pay the doctor no because of the

reality of the actors who take medicare or income no hope and fact the very thing is their income their truth is a declining number of them are and as long line number of doctors are taken insurance to the the fastest growing fad in medicine in the united states right now is concierge practice apollyon movingly only sure it's cold so why go down because they are so sick and tired you know with the united healthcare at all those other why aren't you in favor of a situation where we make it possible as a concierge medicine really only works for people who make over two hundred thousand i will know that's not true there are not many people can if there are no write a check for six thousand dollars a year there's no in fact obamacare itself explicitly created co-ops so that small organizations can set up their own concierge services and if you listen to concierge service they have a variation on h.m.o. but anyway it's in a disturbing preview of what awaits us on our rapidly warming planet a twenty two hundred square mile iceberg shelf is broken free from the larsen sea

ice shelf in antarctica scientists have anticipated this break for months a delaware size iceberg is now floating freely on the weddell sea global warming in the devastation it will bring to everything on this planet is a choice so why horace are you and your republican friends embracing the apocalypse. because we like science more than you guys do any if you look at this particular case the scientific evidence is overwhelming that this is not a factor of global warming you guys are the signs deniers on this particular factor but you don't mind with your alarmism because it serves a purpose i think what you meant to say is you like the fossil fuel industry funded science because those are the only scientists are on the record and that global warming isn't a problem that it's not a no no i'm telling this long we don't want to actually make everything better for humans we'll have to look a little bit warmer days for this and i'm going to talk about this because of the

early broad consensus that a this is not going to raise sea level i say you know sea water levels because ocean levels because it's already in the ocean but be that it does have to do it absolutely not in fact in p r c n n whatever your new source in the weather channel when they have reported on this they they have interviewed doctors scientists and of the federal government representatives of nations across the globe who all say this has happened it continues to happen this is not an act of globalization has been calving forever but essentially what i've been hearing it isn't even the largest and i don't disagree it's one of the top ten largest and it's one with a human known history but you know it's not the largest but basically the argument that you're making that i've been hearing from other conservatives is the old smoking argument there's not a little flag the pops up on this tumor this is came from those camels that is smoked back in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and similarly when a glacier calves off there's not a sign that says this was caused by global warming but when more and more glaciers

are calving off all of a glacier zine el to being out take it up with the scientists i'm not talking about spokesman take it up with the scientists it's the scientific community that disagrees with what you know is the scientific community is saying sure global warming is a factor but it's not the claws of this particular and i can't say we can't say for . like you can't say this particular cancer was caused by the by this particular cigarette but that doesn't mean the cigarettes don't cause cancer does mean global warming doesn't cause glaciers to melt we're out of time here i'm sorry i got to wrap it up sam horace thank you both for pick us tonight coming up is big pharma to blame for america's deadly opioid epidemic i'll ask america's lawyer might happen tony all right after the break.

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expected frequent lightning is occurring with this storm caught on the open water stay below deck if possible keep away from ungrounded metal objects. if republicans don't mess things up it's about to get a whole lot easier for you to take banks to court that's because earlier this week the consumer financial protection bureau you know that thing republicans talk about like it's the second coming up whole pot unveiled a new rule the bans companies for requiring customers to sign away their right to a class action lawsuit sounds complicated but this is a really big deal here with me now to explain why is my pappa tonio host of

america's lawyer right here on r.t. host of ring of fire radio and author of the new legal thriller law and disorder pap welcome back. could be here thank you it's great having you with us you're a career trial lawyer you've led many class action lawsuits can you talk about the significance of what the c.e.o. of p.b. just did. yeah will forced arbitration as well corporate america's biggest scams their arbitration clauses in your credit card your contract your cell phone plans you have to sign these if you buy a car the list goes on and on the point is this what they've tried to do is say that's not really the way we should conduct life for consumers consumers should have the right to go to court when a corporation has committed fraud when a corporation has stolen from them when a corporation has made a product that has potential to cause harm to them in some way and so what the chamber of commerce did is chamber of commerce said how do we take lawsuits away

from consumers and they came up with this idea of arbitration arbitration in a nutshell is the company that has caused you the harm that's lied to you that has stolen money from you that's committed fraud that's affected your family the criminal corporation that those folks they get to name basically who the arbitrators are so it's the equivalent of a corporation stealing your money in saying gee i really want my case heard and then you have to appear in front of the same criminal corporation that stole your money with arbitrators that are so stacked against you that the chances of recovery are almost impossible and so the c.f.e. to b.b. has tried to say we've got to end this people ought to be able to bring a class action and the beauty to what the corporate thug gets away with is if they're only stealing one hundred dollars each like you have a credit card that they have some credit card scam that we see from all the wall street banks in some form or fashion over the last ten years if you have

a credit card and we're able to steal from you only one hundred dollars the corporation knows that individuals can't go to court for one hundred dollars the attorney's fees to get there are going to be far more than that and there's no recovery beyond that one hundred dollars so they keep pushing arbitration because they understand it's a way to stop. up consumers from ever fighting back when the thieves from places like wall street go after go after consumers money where are the places for somebody who's watching right now and doesn't you know is unfamiliar with the word arbitration or doesn't doesn't doesn't know what you just shared with them. where are the places what are the contracts where you would find forced arbitration clauses where an average consumer would that they might not expect in that they should look for and what can you do if you find them well. yeah so well you're going to see him on virtually everything your phone you know doing business on

a phone buying a car virtually every every contract involving involving a credit card they're all going to be there and so but the point the point is the place that they're really headed with this is to say to you you know you have to sign this if you don't sign it we're not going to give you your phone and if you don't sign this we're not going to give you your credit card so the average consumer says what the heck and the so right now you have a live elizabeth warren's group that says you know that's just not right because your chance to ever change the corporate corruption at one hundred dollar losses for a million people a million people can't file you know can't follow a million lawsuits with a million different lawyers for one hundred dollars each it's never going to work like that so there was something called class action you bring a class action somebody represents all of those million people they get all the one

hundred dollars back and that's a way to control the corporate thuggery that now has overrun america it's the worst you know i've been doing this i've been doing this for thirty five years and i don't ever remember a time in history tom when it's been as bad as it is right now and in so all arbitration is is just another way for wall street to steal from you the u.s. chamber of commerce loves arbitration because it allows their corporate members to steal from you to commit fraud to get away with virtually all kinds of awful things and you know that you really can't go to court you can't have a jury hear it you have to hear three people that are lined up by the very corporation that caused you the harder they are bitters i do i want to move on to opioids but just. well yeah let's just do that we were talking earlier today about how the new version of trump care that was unveiled unveiled today sets aside fifty

four billion dollars to help combat the opioid epidemic you're currently part of a lawsuit against big pharmaceutical companies for their role in creating this opiate addiction crises crisis talk about that how are they responsible for creating this crisis. well it was brilliant. the opioid distributors did people like mckesson and the manufacturers produce for example that made these that created this call this colossal catastrophe what they did is they understood that they had to sell an awful lot of opioids to make the twenty five billion dollars that the industry brings in every year so what they did is they promoted the idea of over use i've been handling cases in virginia for counties in municipalities governments in west virginia in kentucky and in the ohio

and what we find is you'll have a county where they'll be one hundred thousand people and the opioid industry goes in there and the distributors the people that are what we call detailers the sales people on the road they find all kinds of ways to push their drugs and so they'll have a county of one hundred thousand people where they've sold two million opioids in that county of one hundred thousand people over a period of about eight months so the industry knew that they were creating drug addicts there is no question the information we have so far is overwhelming there's an incredible book i recommend it to everybody it's called dreamland it's called dreamland it talks about how the industry created this catastrophe what they would do tom is they would figure out where can we sell drugs who are the most who are the people most likely to sell drugs they did again a demographic analysis they said go to white middle class that is that and is in a declining economy let's go where they're losing jobs where the u.s.

government is shipping jobs out of the country where there isn't work where there is despair let's go to those places because we think we can sell more more opioids in places like that and they were right and if you look where they went the story plays out every time they did a good demographics analysis they said who's going to buy our drug. and how can we sell more drugs not just for use of acute pain these drugs never should have been used for chronic pain they were made for acute pain surgery two days maybe after surgery but right now this is a startling number ninety nine percent tom ninety nine percent of all the vis class of opioids is sold in america ninety nine percent well truth is we have the. ninety nine percent worldwide us buys ninety nine percent of all those these opioids that i'm describing and that's we have we have such an addiction problem we've got to counties that can't even afford for the medical care they can't afford

the the rehab care you're having to build entire new elements to their to their police departments their dependency cases are over over whelming them where they're taking children away from these attics there are cities and counties in this area right now these areas that i'm describing were eighty percent eighty percent of that of that of that city is not just first generation but sometimes second generation of opioid addicts and then comes after the opioids are after that's cured in comes what we call the black tar heroin that comes from places around mexico and they follow the opioid business opioid comes in they target by demographics the black tar heroin business comes in and simply follows that to to reverse this a typical county is going to need three hundred million dollars just to solve the

problem if they face this problem for more than five years three hundred million dollars won't scratch the surface of what's going to take to clean this up so those are the cases that myself in a brilliant young lawyer named paul feral he's from west virginia who's come up with the schematics of how to go after these companies absolutely one of the most brilliant young lawyers i've ever worked with and so we're all involved in trying to bring these corporations into a courtroom and take away this dirty disgusting blood money that they've made for so many years selling these drugs like in the final minute a half or two minutes or we've got here what does this say about our justice system that we've thrown millions of people in jail for selling pot over the last few decades. it's but a lot of these giant pharmaceutical companies to create the biggest addiction crisis perhaps in human history i don't i don't know the history of the old opium wars but the seems like it's got to be right up there. no it is the biggest in

history here is the quick answer the department of justice has always done they they did it under literate loretta lynch the entire obama administration was faced with this it started about the end of the bush administration and then the obama administration the way they dealt with it was to say to these companies that they knew were pushing these drugs well gee whiz we're going to fine you you're going to have to pay fines but you know what not one of them went to jail and we're talking about overdoses there are some communities tom the size of right here in pensacola the size of this community they're having ten to twenty overdose deaths a day and it's being ignored by corporate media of course because corporate media you know they don't want to tell this ugly story they're unwilling to tell this story because advertisers won't let them tell the story so this is handled under the radar for two decades and finally this brilliant young man paul farrel connects all the dots and says well we're going to we're going to we're going to come up

with a way to do this so on i'm totally committed we have probably the best team of lawyers they've been put together since the tobacco wars that are going to go after these corporate thugs good and that's the only way i know to describe them after understanding what they've done that's great mike papantonio it's always great having you with us thanks so much. and that's the way it is it's a night and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag you're it. my.

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we along with are the one. on the news tonight the president meets with the french president macron and out his breakthrough with russia on the syrian cease fire and the president defends his son from meeting with a russian lawyer last summer the attorney from the aguilar of family scott volver sits down with us tonight and the senate republicans unveil a new health care bill in the latest round of the repeal and replace saga i'm ed schultz reporting tonight from washington d.c. you're watching r.t. america. good evening friends we start tonight with the president back on the world stage

while washington in the mainstream media are fixated on e-mails in russia president trump made clear to the french people and the president today that he understands the history and the importance of u.s. french relations if there was ever any tension between these two new presidents it never showed at this press event trump reaching out to the french with praise and respect the friendship between our two nations. and ourselves i might add is unbreakable. our occasional disagreements are nothing compared to the immortal bonds of culture. destiny and liberty that unite us so scrawly unitas also after months of tough talk on trade the two seemed comfortable with the direction and basis for future cooperation the clear difference was the paris accord here trump studios ground and was noncommittal yeah i mean something could.