since you just leave there is the right questions and the right answers. for sure. tonight harvey is downgraded to a tropical depression after dumping twenty five trillion gallons of water on texas and the two explosions rocked a chemical plant in possibly texas and the pentagon confirms the actual number of troops stationed in afghanistan as more troops prepare to arrive in the country and the iraqi city of kirkuk will go ahead with a referendum vote late next month on kurdish independence a military man sitting in for ed schultz here in washington d.c. you're watching are to america.

good evening we begin tonight with continuing coverage of now tropical depression harvey the storm has dropped twenty five trillion gallons of water on the lone star state thirty nine people have died and dozens more have been injured overnight though two explosions erupted at a chemical plant across the texas meanwhile vice president mike pence visited texas and urged americans to help texas in any way they can be after the president i want to urge every american to do what texans who themselves are oftentimes dealing with hardship in their own household their own family are doing that is find a way to help. you can go online you can donate resources or you can do like thousands of americans are already doing and will be doing in the weeks and months ahead and that is find a way to get here. and be the hands and feet and compassion of the american people to help these families help these communities rebuild. trade each other as has been

following all of the latest news and has this report this is an area of confusion while the chemical company argument says that there was two explosions and residents reported hearing pop like sounds local fire officials are now calling the incidents explosions there saying that it was more of small intense fires something that plant owners predicted what happened see the chemicals at this company and what the company uses these chemicals to make things like foam cups and hoses well those chemicals they need to stay cool but the intense flooding knocked out all of the electricity and two sources of backup power therefore resulting in what officials are calling a chemical reaction that resulted in a fire i don't want the public to die did these are man should be explosions we're trying to make sure that our citizens are comfortable and what's going on and that they know the truth and so with that these are small container ruptures that may have a sound they have a sound of a pop or something of that nature this is not

a massive explosion. there are nine containers total and this is just one of the three containers they lost refrigerator and on so we can expect similar type decompositions and other of the trailers and maybe even all nine of them but workers cannot assess the situation from the ground because the water levels still remain too dangerous while officials are saying that these chemicals are organic proc sides and they believe the chemicals are non toxic but at a press conference earlier today richard rendered an ark my executive would not say that the materials were in fact non toxic but he did say that the fumes were noxious officials even compare the smell to that of a barbecue but and by our mental agency at expert says that this is more dangerous let's take a listen in general these types of materials will be. if they if they either. they're going to be gases that are probably not what you have for

a normal barbecue they'd probably be in many cases or dangerous you certainly wouldn't want to read it because that's the kind of thing that could get in your lunch and cause problems you would never want to be exposed to and you're scared and that seems to be exactly what happened to fifteen deputies who responded to the fire they all complained of respiratory irritation and went to the hospital thirteen of the fifteen deputies have been released but what's also concerning is the fact that there are more fires to be expected. we fully expect that the other eight containers will do the same thing. the water is still in our facility in preventing us from seeing the facility. and we believe at this point that the safest thing to do is to allow the other eight containers product in those to degrade in. officials nor the plant executives can determine exactly how big these fires will be or what kind of damage they will bring it's all speculation at this

point but what we do know is that the smoke that was seen from these fires was estimated to be about thirty to forty feet tall right now residents within a mile and a half radius have been evacuated but environmental experts warn that while these chemicals are out in the air to wear as much clothing as possible and to find something that you can keep over your face like a mask to prevent you from hailing the material and they add that the fire could spread quickly throughout the air in this case that maybe having a lot of water around isn't necessarily about that. and the state department has ordered russia to close at the consulate in san francisco as well as to an exploding in washington d.c. in new york city the move comes in response to russia demanding the u.s. reduce the diplomatic mission in the country are to correspondent jacqueline has the story. based decision by the u.s. to close the consulate in san francisco and the two annexes one here in d.c. and one in new york city is really signaling a new low for relations between russia and u.s.

now this follows a new round of sanctions being signed off by president trump earlier this month trump himself has repeatedly said that he hopes for better relationships between the two countries and in fact just days ago expressed confidence that that could be achieved yet again and i hope that we do have good relations with russia i say loud and clear i've been saying it for years and i think it's a good thing if we have great relationships or at least good relationships with russia that's very important and i believe someday that will happen it's a big country it's a nuclear country it's a country that we should get along with and i think we will eventually get along with russia all this started last year when december in retaliation of allegations that russia meddled in the us presidential election the us decided to expel thirty five russians from the country. at that time russia took it in stride and did not react but throughout the year we've seen further sanctions imposed and earlier this august the last straw was finally struck and putin did order about the us embassy

reduce its numbers in russia by seven hundred fifty five members now today we do see the u.s. is reaction to that reduction closing the consulate and the two annex is the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has expressed his disappointment by the move from the u.s. saying this was not started by russia and the timing of the u.s. closures is actually very interesting today the new russian ambassador to the u.s. housing arrives he has already started on the job and said that russia will react to this decision without any hysterics whatsoever both countries have called for better relations between the two of them and yet washington sort of tit for tat approach really does seem to be getting in the way so now we can only wait and see what happens. washington d.c. . defense secretary james mattis signed orders to deploy additional troops to afghanistan today the details will be released later next week meanwhile the

pentagon has confirmed there are more u.s. troops in the country than previously thought on your part until it has been following the story and brings us the latest on yeah that's right manila until this week the pentagon acknowledged eight thousand four hundred troops in afghanistan but speaking to reporters this week a pentagon spokesperson a minute that number is actually closer to eleven thousand difference twenty six hundred but it turns out that original figure did not include troops on so-called temporary assignment as the spokes person down a white explained madison's decision quote the secretary. the secretary has determined we must simplify our accounting methodology and improve the public's understanding of america's military commitment in afghanistan in keeping in that mission the pentagon will now in. loued troops on temporary assignment in afghanistan politico reports mattis himself alluded to the lack of transparency in the numbers telling reporters traveling with him last week quote there is

a very strange accounting procedure i inherited which apparently did not count troops deployed to afghanistan iraq or syria for less than one hundred twenty days at a time now this is where things get tricky because while madison reviewed the procedure for counting troops in all three of those countries these changes only apply to afghanistan leaving syria and iraq still in the dark in fact this very administration announced in march it will no longer disclose troop levels in either country quote in order to maintain tactical surprise according to the pentagon last week president trump announced he will send more troops to afghanistan this week brother of the secretary of education who also happens to be the founder of blackwater erik prince was granted an op ed in the new york times to proclaim contractors not troops will save us vaness dems secretary mabus will report on the situation in afghanistan to congress next week and promises to introduce more facts

then but for now while the pentagon is attempting to bring about the guise of transparency we still have no concrete details spelling out the president's path forward in the country only that quote we will win while what exactly victory means remains vague. thank you for more on this we're being joined now by former u.s. diplomat jim jim good of you to be with us tonight and so for the last few years the dia d. has insisted that there were about eighty four hundred u.s. troops on the ground in afghanistan today we find out in fact there were much much more was this a blatant lie i think probably not it's i think at any point time you take a snapshot and say about this money and of course the explanation is and you can take it for what it's worth that they weren't counting people they're deployed for a little less than one hundred twenty days when you have a constant rotation people coming in and out you know i can understand how eyeballing the total number any given time would have some flexibility to it if

this is designed to be a more accurate count. i think that's a good thing but really i think we have to put in the context what are we doing there and that's what it's not clear to anybody at this point when we're at this point the semantics i think actually do matter especially with you we're here for this sure last monday when when president trump announced that he would be sending more troops but going back to this though was this an effort on the obama administration to make it appear as though there was a drawdown on troops that it was greater than it truly was it could have been a look i'm hesitant to accuse somebody of a deliberate deception unless i have some reason to think so this could have been just bureaucratic inertia in many respects and this is the way we normally count people this is the number the way we've always been at this the way we've always done and so on so forth maybe it was a desire to do exactly that but i don't think we have to prove that at this not at this point so now that the trouble ministration did come out with their own plans for afghanistan like i said you were here for it with me just last week. if you

want to call them plans because we sat here and dissected it for about an hour at least kind of a planet. but it's kind of a plan but you know why don't details not really heavy on anything as promised that . if anything he promised he'd be more opaque and there'd be less transparent the more surprise. we are going to be accountability in afghanistan if this is going to be the u.s. approach i don't think there is i mean it's it's kind of the trust me policy and right now at least with the segment of the population that supports mr trump that i don't think necessarily was expecting this from his administration remember he said his he said himself his first impulse was to get out he's been very critical way of these kind of missions and was well as in syria in iraq in places like that and you see where the i think part of that reflects the staffing that was ministration where in some sense the swamp is one where he is doubling down on what the policy

was in the past making a few little tweaks on rules of engagement but there is no strategy there is no end game there is no nothing as far as anyone can try as i recall if i recall correctly last week you said what came out of the administration last week could have come out of president clinton or president obama or jeb bush had said you have national events are exactly right right so we're already sixteen plus years into afghanistan are we going to end up being a permanent occupying force there i mean that's how the local theater and some people have actually said that we should be doing that that we should be there for fifty or one hundred years we should be in iraq for a hundred years look how long we've been destabilizing germany japan how long we've been in south korea there are some people who think the solution to instability is for the americans to babysit it for the rest of history it seems i don't think that's a strategy i don't think it's a good way to handle our responsibilities in the world i don't think it's america first i don't like it when americans for people don't like it when the united kingdom it about right so it's exactly and it's you know again i think we have to

look at the bigger problems he's having his administration with congress with the rest of his agenda and for whatever reason he threw in the towel on the you will be back to with you to dissect that i'm sure thank you so much for your expertise jim jatra thank you. erakat. minister is expected to announce the full liberation of the city of tel afar from isis considered to be the last stronghold of the terror group in the north of the country more a guy as you have spoke to people on the ground in that war weary country for the bits of parts of. iraq. with violence and it has adapted following invasion and occupation by america iraq has steadily grown its military now it's just an. iraqi whether the even knew just how many soldiers are protecting them the only one in. the.

manner. we. are that could be. here is some perspective iraq's population ignoring kurdistan is roughly thirty million of those approximately nine million men and one in three a third of all men a soldier has. to. see that they've. had to say. it's a vicious cycle workman hanging over teaches needing schools.

abandoning their fields and. service pays much that's a. good. but there could be see a lot at that a club has been recently going to. mosul university once the second biggest in iraq but it's seen better days just like everything else in the city is the kicker though classes are in session. with walls and ceilings still. nevertheless young men are abandoning study in favor of easy money in the police forces they get guns. and opportunity.

too often you'll hear the stories everywhere troops raised in jews this private armies shakedowns turf wars snooping and protection rackets violence has become a currency. but chewing this conclave stream i think isis will be defeated and there'll be no need for this huge audience perhaps so but america and britain should iraq years ago find that it's sometimes a set. not. become

a set on. the system as it may it's called a war economy whereby an entire nation adapts to live and thrive in perpetual war or at. guys do you have. for iraq. the city of kirkuk in northern iraq has approved participation in a september twenty fifth referendum on kurdish independence the city is not technically part of the kurdish region in iraq but it has a significant kurdish population the city's council turkmen and arab members boycotted the vote a government in baghdad strongly opposed the referendum iraq's neighbors iran and turkey have also criticized the referendum so for more on the significance of this upcoming vote we're being joined now by. is the assistant professor at birth technical university gary thanks for being with us today. so first i got to ask you

how do you see the kurdish referendum playing out in iraq. it was previously decided by the kurdish regional government to organize this referendum however the city of kirkuk was an included in the. let's say concept one of the cities which was actually according to two thousand and five iraq constitution was not. part of the of the kurdish regional government and it wasn't in the kurdish region no the provisional state the council which has been created after the two thousand and three american invasion in iraq they decide. to join the referendum which was also boycotted by the turkmen and ups so the key players in the region do they will they recognize this vote as official no matter what the outcome is depending who are the key players if you ask the kurdish

regional government they do organize the referendum because they do seek independence but if you. government and all the people who are living in the region such as turkmens and are up they won't recognize it obviously so they think it will be like a fraudulent vote correct. do you think the us will support the independence referendum well i got news from the turkish media and of course the unofficial news actually received americans also are in favor of postponing the referendum however they. also said that there is not sort of an objection from the american side. that referendum will be organized so right now everyone is pointing fingers he has been directly approving it actually interesting now or can you tell us what is turkey's position on the us arming kurds

in order to fight isis. well we had several occasions recently to see the turkish position in this regard when it was for instance highly criticized by turkey then last week there was secretary of defense visiting turkey and he was harsh to criticize by president of the ground when he showed the pictures of the gun ski even by the united states to the forces with alleged. codes in the hands of p.k. k. and during the operation a series of transferring weapon exactly so there were several occasions for that especially in last year's attacks. turkish army was conducting operations inside of turkey against. they were unpacked american drones found in caves in southeast of turkey especially in cities of should knock one sounds like

turkey is not happy that the u.s. gave arms to that expression writers exactly why why then do you think perhaps the turkish the turkish paper that published the secret location of us bases in syria do you think the paper did that as sort of retaliation for the u.s. arming the kurds at all i mean i don't see that there is certain retaliation but it was rather proof to show that actually americans and the courage to act together in the region because as far as i know there are not official american bases in syrian territory so those are the areas seized by the kurds from isis and they are just used by the american forces i guess so it was meant not to hurt hurt americans but more as to show the turks that existed there exactly because we have these american turkish alliance in the region and i think that the turkish government or

turkish side tries to trust america to prove and. just seeing that these bases and areas by p.g. forces are used by the americans alleged to fly american flags over to show that this is an american one so they really tried to get also some sort of. protection for not being hit by the turkish army for that very interesting perspective thank you so much for your insight. the f.b.i. says a complete lack of interest from the public in hillary clinton e-mails justifies withholding the documents that bureau has rejected an open records request by a lawyer this week attorney. made the foyer request as part of a push to indict mrs clinton for perjury so for more on this we're being joined now by that attorney tie clevenger type inc you so much for being with us this evening so first i got to ask you can you tell us what made you decide to tackle the

clinton e-mail issue. actually it wasn't an indictment i have filed our grievances against her in arkansas trying to get evidence for this board says. i just got tired of watching power powerful people get away with things that would send the rest of us to prison. you know it's it's not just a democrat thing it's a bipartisan issue is that sort of a passion project for you. it is yes i mean this is not i didn't start with hillary clinton i've done this kind of stuff on my blog for years and what are the grounds for getting someone disbarred how is has clinton and her team have they met a certain threshold that that would hold them liable to being just far. well if you destroyed thirty thousand pieces of evidence and you lied to congress about it under oath yes that is grounds for disbarment and if any other attorney had done the. p.r. on that term in the way they would unquestionably be disbarred and so in that case

we should talk about the f.b.i. do you feel that the f.b.i. got it wrong in not recommending charges against clinton last year. i don't know how they could have gotten any more wrong i mean it's a joke what they did there's absolutely no excuse to say that that is not a matter of public interest and in fact after they first told me that i responded in the letter with an article from the washington post i said here google these search terms i did that anybody who follow the twenty sixteen election cycle knows it was a matter of significant national interest now you know a lot of people watching this are going to are going to say you know that that maybe you're just a trumper and that you're doing this to back the president. can you explain some of the motivations i know you did at the top but can you get into that a little bit more and explain why you feel that this has to be done. so well that

the main thing is nobody else was doing it i am a republican i have never denied that on my blog however i've gone after as many republicans as democrats so it's not just an attempt to pick on hillary clinton in fact it actually started more as a matter of exposing the politicization of the various state bars that's what this began with working on a book partially on that subject and so i decided to use the ultimate illustration and so i started songs bar grievances and then on the f.b.i. side filed the four years to get some of the evidence out funny they should say the pull it is that politicize ation of the bars i was just going to ask you then do you feel that the bureau itself has become politicized and that their their job and their role in american society cannot be neutral anymore. it's almost like they're trying to destroy their reputation but i'll tell you within the last twelve hours i've actually changed my view on what's going on i don't think this is an attempt

to protect hillary clinton after senator grassley and senator graham wrote their letter saying that currently former f.b.i. director komi was already drafting a statement to exonerate this claim even before she or the other witnesses were interviewed i think this is simply an attempt to protect the f.b.i. itself it's got to be embarrassing to them to show just how badly they botched this investigation not accidentally but on purpose and for political reasons i'm certainly looking forward to seeing more come out of your investigation thank you so much for sharing your insights with us very interesting tonight clevenger thanks very much. and that does it for me that think it's and i mean what chanting in for and shelter porting from washington d.c. i will see you next week.

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i've got to do just that if you're watching all of. us swashing. i'm lindsey francis is broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight wells fargo is in the hot seat again with an expansion on the number of customer accounts it opened also net neutrality gets pushed to the back burner yet again and this comes as congress goes back to school on capitol hill in just days we've got the details on that and cyber security the state of new york is requiring financial services companies to overhaul their departments and it comes with a high price tag my guest tonight discuss stand by right now.

we have new information on the wells fargo fake account scandal the bank has revealed that up to three point five million accounts were potentially opened by its employees while under pressure to meet aggressive sales targets but without customer permission this is a one hundred thirty thousand account jump in those fraudulent accounts up from the two point one million originally reported one hundred ninety thousand of those incurred fees and charges the original investigation only covered the years between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and fifteen but investigators quickly saw that the scandal timeframe extended from four years to seven years the type of

accounts extend to five hundred seventy thousand needless car insurance accounts opened without customer knowledge as well as five hundred twenty eight thousand customers which likely were signed up for online bill pay. this scandal is the biggest in wells fargo's history it cost then c.e.o. john stumpf his job in the bank is also under congressional inquiry and an investigation by the justice department wells fargo is so far set to refund two point eight million dollars to customers in addition to three point three million and is already agreed to pay. next week a house committee was supposed to hold a hearing on net neutrality but on wednesday we learned that a hearing has been delayed until further notice for she has more on that for us now what's the reason for this back burner ring of this well the committee invited

leaders from a bunch of different tech companies and internet service providers but none of them committed to even attending the hearing and they're kind of important in this debate the u.s. house energy and commerce committee was planning to meet next thursday to discuss the future of net neutrality under the obama administration broadband internet was regulated as a utility which stops providers from blocking or slowing websites it also prevents them from operating fastlane services but the trump administration wants to change that ever since it was appointed chairman of the federal communications commission congressman who was in for a fight is moving forward with scrapping the obama rules though he knows he has more than congress to worry about executives from eight different internet companies and providers declined an invitation to testify in the hearing or even attend at all it's a fairly divisive issue in silicon valley though most companies that have spoken up

are the ones that support the current rules that includes facebook google and amazon to name a few and according to a report from earlier this summer they were allegedly told by republican members of congress that they shouldn't push too far. if they did that mean they might have problems with other policy issues that they care deeply about and republicans have been able to count on some providers like eighteen t.v. rights and comcast all of which support changes to the current rules but it's unclear exactly what they will support when it comes to those changes and they're already having a hard time with public support outside of the beltway and silicon valley leaders and how the rest of the country to worry about too and right now the figures aren't looking good in fact a recent study shows that a majority of americans who wrote to the f.c.c. regarding net neutrality want the rules to stay in place. it's an on going war isn't it yes that is tell us more about the study you mentioned who conducted it so it was conducted by which is

a consulting firm and it was funded by broadband for america which is a pro net neutrality group but what it did was basically analyzed all of the messages that americans were able to send to the f.c.c. were guarding net neutrality they were able to say i support the current rules i want changes and at the surface sixty percent were against. a proposal thirty nine percent supported them but when you were able to submit these messages which was done online it wasn't like you were writing a letter so they couldn't go through the physical copies of them you can you could have submitted an automated one that said yes i want to keep the rules the way they are no i want to see changes and they found that ninety eight point five percent of the personalized messages were in support of the current rules so a majority of these people want that submitted of course i participated in this want to keep the rules the same now again this is by broadband for america i was funded by them when there are pro net neutrality group but you know going off

without data alone it doesn't look good for lawmakers that support the f.c.c. chairs current proposal right let's talk about this this hearing being delayed a trade association made some. think comments about this what what did that groups so encompass which is a trade association association that represents a lot of these groups which is also pro net neutrality. published a statement regarding you know that the delaying of this hearing and they basically said if these proposals were to be enacted it would go the way of what has become of the cable industry right and we know how frustrated many americans are with their cable providers and they're saying listen if you implement these rules it can be really frustrating for customers and executives alike ok thank you very much. on august twenty eighth the new york state department of financial services kicked off strict new requirements for banks and financial service companies in the state

of new york they are now mandated to create a larger scale cyber security programs they're also required to hire a so-called chief information security officer it's the first law of its kind let's bring in an expert on this please welcome todd shipley president and c.e.o. of a software thank you so much for joining me on this big things are happening what are your thoughts on the state requirements. well thanks for having me this afternoon i think this is a fantastic thing that the seed of new york is actually doing now you have to remember that this kind of framework for assessing what they're doing for service here is not new the national is to destroy america has been doing this for some time but the state of carroll state of new york has just finally implemented the law requiring that the banking industry actually do this and i think this as a first in the country will be a guy for other states to follow in the future one of the main compliance requirements is to hire a new chief information security officer some companies have this now it's going to

be called c.i.s. so it's not cheap in san francisco some numbers we've got you know the cost can go upwards of three hundred eighty thousand dollars for this person it's a big job j.p. morgan citigroup might be able to handle that but what about the smaller companies . well it's going to have a huge impact i think a lot of the other companies that you've named probably already have somebody in place the need to reassess the title probably but there are already somebody doing this function within the company and the smaller banks that are looking to doing this will have to implement something now the good thing on the law is they don't have actually have to hire a person full time they can have somebody designated already within the company responsible for this or they can hire a third party to do this but it does come at a cost and they all need to understand that it's not just the cost of the person that is coming in to do this work it's the fact that the companies are now responsible for cyber security that they really haven't been responsible in the law before you know let's talk about cyber security in general you mention these costs

if we look at some of the numbers we have in this chart we see that since two thousand and nine look at these numbers go up spending on cyber security has increased pretty substantially topping over but about sixty billion dollars in twenty seventeen alone hitting point three five percent of the u.s. g.d.p. just to put this in perspective this type of increase in spending how hard will it be for any company to maintain the minimum requirements for you know state requirements or even federal requirements as they maybe come online. well that's going to be huge as war and more companies are put under regulation by there is the state or federal energies to comply with this is going to be huge but i think all companies are recognize that over the past decade the increase in requirements for cybersecurity of any kind has gone up substantially unfortunately it's a cost of doing business and they need to invest in it as part of the

infrastructure that is part of what the company does to prevent crime within their own networks you know we always say that you know bureaucracy in this sort of government infrastructure it just tags along right after technology and a lot of people would say this this is a long time coming. actually after the so many happy yahoo hack things like that those are just media companies that even financial firms but the maiden and costs on something like this someone who works in cybersecurity how much can any company expect to actually spend on maintaining systems. well they're going to spend a lot and that ends up being part of the problem there is not just an initial investment that brings in the equipment and the software to do it all these software devices and. procedures that are in place require maintenance and it's going to be have to cost at least forty or fifty percent probably of what they already spent for initial implementation so it's going to be huge for these companies to maintain that but they've already been doing this this is not something new these companies understand that it's occurring so it's just part of

what they've already been doing is just being identified now and that the cost is going you know astronomically high but it's something that they have to do otherwise they're never going to be able to be part of the internet world ok so you would say that a lot of these financial services firms especially have already got onboard themselves because you've got to keep your credibility in your safety for your customers but now it's being sort of. you know across the board there trying to get sort of a uniform approach but what kind of a strain does this put on the system you've got to notify state regulators then seventy two hours of cyber security or data security instances breaches this system a bit vague. well it's hugely vague in this is going to end up being the problem when they say a cyber security event that impacts the system is that a spam e-mail that potentially comes in is it then that actually were somebody gets through the network and actually into the system it isn't clear yet what that means and that's going to be one of the problems that these companies have to deal with

in reporting to the state is what is an event in the state has to be a little bit more clear about that i think that's going to eventually fall out but right now we don't know for sure what it means because the state hasn't defined it well. for those companies to respond to it so it's going to be a big deal as you say something sort of vague like this the vague outline that these companies are getting as i mentioned before a drag on the system from a government perspective is the government sort of up arming to deal with a situation like this. well that's the part we don't really know yet is how they're going to be able to respond to all this data as it comes in what it's going to mean to them how are they going to critique companies for failing to report are they going to find them we're going to go we don't know yet. well it seems terrifying for a lot of these smaller companies to have this these vague sort of marching orders but do we know from the government what is enough and what's not enough as far as

whether or not a company is meeting these standards are we sort of in a holding pattern to see what for the rules are going to come out especially from a financial perspective for these companies. well i don't think so because if you look at what the state of new york has implemented it's the this national institute of standards technologies previous framework that's been around for quite a long time and this just been working on this for a decade or more i wrote about this you know a decade ago how to deal with risk assessment for law enforcement in the same space and nist has been working on this for a long long time and implemented this framework that the state of new york is doing so it's fairly straightforward and there is not a known everybody knows what the framework is interesting to keep up on on how this situation evolved and the new stuff to a lot of people thank you so much todd shipley president and c.e.o. of euro software. thank you for a big. hurricane harvey has not brought the boost to oil that some expected oil

rose one percent today but u.s. crude stands at forty seven seventeen cents in fact oil prices fell this week analysts say the focus appears to be more on the lower demand from knocked out refineries they hit to supply from producers actually twenty five percent of u.s. refining capacity so far was slowed by the hurricane according to goldman sachs nearly three million of the eighteen million barrel refining capacity in the united states has been stopped members of the organization of petroleum exporting countries admit they're stupefied opec has extended its agreement to restrict production and to boost prices and harvey has not helped opec has done this for months and just see no break meanwhile for the first time in two years gas prices hit above two dollars a gallon jumping fourteen percent on the news that motif the largest refinery in the u.s. or shut down by flooding from hurricane harvey it could remain close we've just

found out today for up to two weeks. time now for a quick break stick around though when we get back the new c.e.o. of general electric plans to carry out aggressive job cuts to get in line with expense cuts also my guest tonight top goal is a safe haven rally or are we seeing something longer term go to break here the number the closing down. the. there you go. good on the your role in. the world according to just. walk up to my world come along for the

ride. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down in the news business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer . questions there. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories that are critics can't tell and you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create

change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth artie's able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ins up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every we can you know what they're working. it's a new job planned by a new c.e.o. new in general electric chief executive officer john flannery now says the company will reduce staff at corporate headquarters and those occupy non-revenue producing jobs in departments such as human resources recruiting corporate security

helicopter and jet operations and procurement just to name a few. no numbers have been released but those close to the situation tell the media that the cuts will be aggressive the plan is to take out two billion dollars in cost by the end of two thousand and eighteen according to g.e. flannery will present a blueprint of those cost cuts to investors in november but jobs will go before that g. stock has fallen twenty three percent this year alone. and wall street showed a higher open today the dow jones industrial average was up two point three percent at opening at twenty one thousand nine hundred forty one and then the s. and p. five hundred went up two point two seven percent at two thousand four hundred sixty four the commerce department says pending by u.s. consumers a group point three percent in july the highest in three months also the federal reserve's preferred inflation measure increased one point four percent from july

two thousand and sixty eight it's the smallest year on year increase since december two thousand and fifteen so we've got tepid feelings about a rate hike by the end of the year on top of that wages and salaries grew the a.d.p. jobs report indicates two hundred thirty seven thousand jobs were added definitely an option what was projected now in the previous session just after the government raised its estimate of second quarter economic growth stocks climbed. gold breached thirteen hundred dollars this week so what brought us to this point and will this last please welcome c.e.o. of euro pacific capital peter schiff peter thank you so much for talking with me about this when one does well the other doesn't do so well we're talking about the dollar versus gold if you look at gold the u.s.

dollar since november of last year up and down way down and then it swung right up spend the strongest. in awhile let's just say that since the beginning of this year we've just seen it go straight up we're seeing a total geek line now. short term drop off of the dollar is this a problem that's been happening for some time now. i think the dollar had a substantial rise based on the expectation that the fed would be able to normalize interest rates and unwind its massive balance sheet and the general belief that the fed's experiment had actually succeeded and that the economy was in better shape as a result and so the dollar kind of rode that rally and now i think it's starting to surrender those ill gotten gains you know the dollar is on pace for its worst year since one nine hundred eighty five we just finished the month of august a down month for the dollar it's been down six months in

a row and so the weakness in the dollar is one of the reasons that the price of gold has been rising in dollar terms but it hasn't risen much in terms of other currencies but i think that's about to change i think now that we've really kind of broken out gold's above thirteen twenty in dollars and in fact goal was strong most of today even as the dollar began the day ferber it did end negative but goal was still up against all currencies and i do think that that trend is going to continue between now and the end of the year and then accelerate next year you know the argument can be made that political tensions with north korea push gold ob causing it to break thirteen hundred this late but do you think. well goal was going up regardless of the political tensions in north korea which seemed to last just one day in fact gold was up that evening but it actually finished down the following morning so gold has been rising and it's not because of a safe haven you know if people really were concerned if there were

a geopolitical fear out there the stock markets would be falling but they're not the stock markets are right. so people are not buying gold because they need a safe haven at least not from geopolitical events they're buying gold to get out of the u.s. dollar they're buying gold to have safety from inflation which a lot of people haven't understood the risk but i do think globally the risks are going to start to become more evident as a result of monetary policy that is this that around the world not just the united states but in europe and japan and china there's been a lot of money creation interest rates have been how the artificially low and i think currencies around the world are going to be losing value and so people want to get out of them and some people buy stocks and other people are buying gold and i think more and more people will be buying gold around the world and if we ever do get a real geopolitical threat then i think people will flock into gold as they dump equities but that's not happening yet let's take

a little bit of. the dollar's decline since we're talking ninety seven down ninety three on the dollar index now some are saying that is a good thing. goldman sachs has said it's actually an attractive. long trade on the dollar what are your thoughts. well i think going long the dollar would be wrong i mean i think that trade has already played out and i think the better you know the real money to be made betting against the dollar but the question of whether or not a dollar going down is a good thing it depends on your perspective you know if you're a foreign if you don't own dollars if your debt is denominated in dollars if you buy commodities that are priced in dollars but your income is in other currencies that is a good thing and i think the weakening dollar will end up being a very positive event for a lot of people around the world particularly in the emerging markets that have a lot of u.s.

dollar denominated debt and especially some of the countries that not only have dollar debt but that export commodities so they will benefit but. it is a negative for america because a weak dollar means that americans have less purchasing power so it means our standard of living goes down because things are more expensive for us to buy and ultimately it's going to push up interest rates says the world has to price in dollar weakness into interest rates and so far the fed has been able to keep rates artificially low but a strong dollar made that much easier for the fed once it's fighting a weakening dollar the task is going to become increasingly difficult right so let's talk about those those rates traders in the u.s. they're more interested many times of course and knowing about fed policy we heard some tepid statements jackson hall last week and we're talking looking at spending inflation by the fed's own index that it looks at pretty low do you think there could be an interest rate hike by december

a lot of people say no do we see another rate hike at all much could it do to the dollar prices by the end of the year well either the dollar the dollar is going to go down regardless of what the fed does i mean the trend is in motion and you know the fed has shown a propensity to raise rates regardless of the economic data ever since trump was elected president so i don't really know what they're going to do maybe they'll raise rates again before the end of the year but regardless i think they're very close to the end of the cycle i mean anybody who's smart now is looking beyond the next rate hike to the next rate cut because that's going to be the beginning of the next easing cycle which i think is going to take rates back to zero maybe even below zero it's going to on leash you know q.e. four which i think will be bigger than the first round one two and three combined and so those are going to be more important factors also look at the budget deficit that i think is going to be exploding over the next several years particularly if we go into recession but if we get tax cuts and you know course we're going to have

some big government aid package for the victims of the hurricane in the right why then tack. and you know all that money has to be borrowed because we literally have nothing save for a rainy day and when we have a day we're poor as you know we have to go and borrow the money ok real quick before we go we've got to talk about this debt ceiling september is a big month for the u.s. government it heads up on capitol hill again it's not only going to talk about raising the debt ceiling but also to create a spending bill for the next fiscal year as we move into these talks do you think we'll see any sort of market reaction a real this turn into sort of another wait and see situation where we won't see any real market reactions until we either raise the debt ceiling or go into a shutdown of some sort. yeah well you know i don't think anybody really believes that the debt ceiling is going to go off i mean this is a phony crisis that they've manufactured but you know the real crisis is the debt ceiling going up i mean i would love to see the debt ceiling stay there because

that would shut down the borrowing and force the government to cut you know its size and spend less money but you know we're going to keep on raising the debt ceiling and that is the crisis because that means the debt keeps growing and so the downward pressure on the dollar is going to keep rising you know you're not alone in that fair let me tell you oh thank you very much peter schiff c.e.o. of europe pacific capital. well time warner the parent company of c.n.n. the mainstream media news giant says it is donating one hundred thousand dollars to victims of hurricane harvey and it's matching employee donations also stepping up to the plate comcast and d.c. universal it's giving one million entire nations to that relief effort something unique here the company will also donate advertising time to the organizations that are undertaking this aid so at least comcast is sharing the air but it kind of makes you wonder about these companies which directly profit from the hurricane ratings go up when you cover bad weather everybody in news knows this it's why we have the weather channel the pre landfall the preparations you can see it here when

the storm hits the aftermath you show the tragedy in the cleanup you lie. the traumatized locals and you knock your ratings out of the park when they cry what's really odd here is offering power donations while making big money on the devastation and most importantly the devastated victims. but that's just a bit suspect to me. thank you for watching that's all for now check out the show on youtube dot com. thanks for watching the next time. your launching an r t america special report tonight it's about you and me. chase a great 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 on the normalising mind. we don't need people that think like this on our planet . this is an incredibly tense situation. 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. i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied to be n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the u.s. . the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an ethical 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. he's a surgeon turned satirists who risked prison and worse to joke about powerful military leaders and ruling. just fundamentalists boss a muse that is known to many as the jon stewart of egypt is back and he's my guest on this edition of politic. politicking on larry king it's a return visit for my guests this evening boss m. yousef he's the cardiac surgeon turned political satirist don't know many have done that who for a time had the highest rated show on television in his native egypt he was forced to shut it down under authoritarian rule he's in america now and he's on set with

me for the next thirty minutes we'll get his scalp was sharp assessment of trump's presidency so far and find out why he's pitching a morning after kit for muslims in america he's also author of the revolution for dummies laughing through the arab spring and he's the focus of the documentary tickling giants welcome back oh that nice to be back the washington times recently described donald trump as a gift from the comedy gods to professional you murderess you agree absolutely i mean look at the ratings of s n l and daily show i think a lot of people has survived in the comedies fear and even been added to the comedies here because of the donald trump's little trump is great for comedy horrible for america you think i was one of his roasters at a famous comedy central roast of government to remember that do you think he and i know mo and i'm not sure if he has

a sense of humor do you think he does know it's not just about the sense of humor i think he doesn't have the sense of being a public servant if you see how he reacts to criticism in general i mean specifically for humor and satire but he doesn't understand the idea that if you are running for office or you. you are in a public office it is part of the job of being criticised i mean if you look at him for example in his. press conferences does anybody have a good question for me does anybody playing nice can you it can you be nice to a just begging people or asking people to be nice it's not people's job to be nice and when he can solicit perience in the corresponding dinner that was a big thing that was a big it was the first president ever i mean reagan missed it because he was shot it does whether you do you more comedy writers write all their shots actually and he said no i'm not going to take this because i'm above criticism and he doesn't

understand the idea of being a public servant and that reminds me a lot of what i saw in the middle east peace people who are in any kind of with or i'm not you even have to go all the way up to the president or the king talking anybody like a minister or some public official they consider making fun even criticizing someone in a political position a sign of lack of respect we're very big about lack of respect and i think i see a lot of parallels when i see the blow up from doing that what do you think of his using twitter. i mean just. well. we can joke about him using twitter all you want but what he's doing is a part of cutting the undermining the media don't isn't an immediate listen to me and he is late to this while you do like feet news media so i speak to a lot of from supporters and it doesn't matter how many facts how many pieces of

information you tell them oh the media are biased you are guests in july of two thousand and sixteen and yet you do this to you busson before don't trump became the g.o.p. nominee we talked about his campaign rhetoric. america's democratic process we will play this for you now observe all right you're looking at democracy you're a doctor is your prognosis that american democracy is that no i think the american democracy will be able to be healing itself because used to you have institutions and constitution in place that will will actually make sure this will happen the thing is i know that you guys are very worried about donald trump being you know xenophobic creases whatever back in the movies that's monday we are used to that but here's the here's the difference i think it's not going to be the worst thing to have these people rise those kind of hatred because people will come to

understand that people running on empty rhetoric is not enough it's all of this fake patriotism all of this hate all of it will fall nothing what if he wins so what i mean people lose so was so would that mean like you know it's not going to be like and improve or a king great dictator people will understand that this kind of rhetoric if i mean it will be painful i mean it's not going to be an easy right but even if he wins eat people will understand that their problems among going to be solved by empty rhetoric their problems not going to be sold by just saying let's make america great again i lay amazing in suspenders. when president two hundred twenty five days yes better or worse than you expected i think it's the exact exact legs not surprised by it and no surprise it's just it's the arc of the whole empty rhetoric that they built up to support anything though i support anything

that he's done i can't see anything that he has done he allowed those but i mean just to be fair he kind lake interfered to allow these eight of again niggers to come in and compete in a computer or in the competition that's the only thing that i remember. i want to see pronounce his name all c.c. . the head of egypt a fantastic guy and say he's done a tremendous job under trying circumstances. what do you make of that well. it is no surprise these are peas in a pod these are lake authoritarian people who somehow find each other it's the same thing if you look at the relation between c.c. and putin it's the same each other and i think. donald trump envy c.c. how are you putting all these people in gee how are you passing all of these.

people being on your back and i think he envisage as if this is maybe the first time in history that an american president look up to an egyptian president hoping that he'll have his place the only difference is putin has a sense of humor he is i've been with him he's funny he's. good i mean. putin is kind of. is a dictator that he knows what he's doing. ok you recently teamed up with the entertainment side café yes to pitch a morning after kid for muslims in america watch this folks. i'm here to tell you that terrorism sucks right but there's this other aspect to it that we usual overlook. that day after. this is a day where people who have nothing to do with the incident get treated as if they were actually did it but this ends today introducing the muslim morning

after the morning after because all you need to protect you from anyone who may want to hurt you because they think you. know i don't know because i'm house and chain of a kid going to stop you every day to get from targeting us why don't you open it and see for yourself the muslim. american flags over your house and everything. to remind people you're one of the c.p.u. with. something like a white person. a framed picture of you in. the country music singer. she knows. a special pass through back to the symbols in the now i can go to any library i want and if you order now with throw in a key kid with an older according to help you get out of. yesterday's . buy that will do for now.

how do you come up with this thing you have. yes. it will be available on amazon soon and with thing is i have always talked about. what does it look like for people like us in the morning after because i'm really scared i mean i was in the in the in the restaurant with friends of mine when that . happened and all of my friends their reaction was a human reaction it's like is everybody ok i mean is anybody hurt and my reaction was who did it what's his name is his name mohamed are we screwed i mean this is like our reaction every time we find ourselves being apologetic every time this happens we go oh peace loving people islam is peaceful first of all don't do it because we don't owe anybody an apology and second nobody will ever believe us in

this x. and so we i and doesn't just affect us it affects people who look like us who by the way a huge portion of the word you know latino. african american who look a little bit like us you have christian arabs who exist you have jewish persian by the way were one of the people who were affected by the travel ban because somebody in the. stand that there's a lot of jews also in iran so we came up with this idea. yes of course lake there's the t. shirt there's deflower there is that so you can so you can tell everybody that your bag is safe there is a framed picture with toby keith this is how to. speak like an american i like this because this is going to look it's. an automated condemning device i hereby condemn that there's that but they also like this because this is like a special kit. for them looking muslim so and this

only has one t. shirt would say. i am not a muslim so that would be enough so late just like get out of my hair and if you had this food real whether it was i think it was i mean well i think we should start accepting most word is good yeah and the muslims were as. you had to do something to put this together oh yeah i mean the people a cafe bring carmel and blake and really like us to your dog. cafe is a new platform and they are actually getting into the platform and they are their own part of their products is also scary and they came up with this and by the way brian carmel who is the head writer who he's jewish way the way so muzzled off and he is one of the funniest people i've worked with and he me and him we come up with this ideas about like how to bring people together through humor. and the team on

cafe every one of them just like wonderful people of idea yet don't call in. it's not twenty nine ninety five. you know what i think it was. awesome stay right there we'll be right back with more politicking after this the muslim morning after care. about your sudden passing i found the just. taking your last term. to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry finally i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest . i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to

never again like it said one does not leave a funeral in the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one different person i speak to now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its make. all the food we don't need go to. everyone in the world should experience flu go and you'll get it oddly all the old. the old according to just. look up the modern world cup i am sure there are. to.

watch the hawks founded by three young americans who love their country but we have to costly question our government watching the hawks brings the stories the give voice to the voice. we dig a little deeper we get the stories of the average one 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 why. but we need to question. this truth world. words have to matter to educating people and giving them contacts instead of telling them what to. dialogue is far more valuable than to be.

and this is why we are pleased to announce the debut oh. look the morning after pill. for anyone who looks a little bit muslim. would be. good. this is a little bit about the. oh my god i'm so sorry it's just i don't know why it happens all the time. but go back to taking that was a clip from cafe dot com starting my guest. pitching his morning after kit for muslims in america he's also the author of the revolution for dummies laughing spring and the focus of the documentary tickling giants in the united states he's often called the jon stewart of egypt have you met john i mean i met him a couple of times if he was tired he he looks really good leaf is having this

yeah but he'd be having a great time we will have you having a great time but look i understand you've been he's been doing this lake lake. seventeen years to be that show up every night yes yes yes it's ok what did you think of. that was. that was heartbreaking to see all of these people coming on one message to face how they were in power and powered and thing that they can this would not have been. happening a couple of years ago it is just that many physicians of giving voice to these people when somebody sees the president as a bully or as a racist and he gets away with it a lot of people are encouraged to follow suit but what is heartwarming is that just a few days after what happened in boston they were reduced to a cubicle in the trump praised the boston protest you know. what i.

would do i'm home along time do you really think that he thinks that the protesters against white supremacy and naziism were would be the other hand well i here's my theory is no other and here's what i think i would look from i think he doesn't care about what you and me or people who look at these people as receive think he's speaking to his base i mean for his for his base for his supporters what they see are a bunch of liberals crying and screaming over how a prison could do that and i would like to quote something that van jones said then jones the c.n.n. contributor and host and he's been here is a wonderful and very eloquent person he said tonal thrown for many of his supporters are for lakewood you simpsons for many black people they know that people knew that would you simpson was was pretty much in will the what happened

maybe was guilty but he had the right any. and for them he has the right enemy he's just trolling the liberals trolling the progressives and they hade the little mind does it hurt you that the political morning console poll done last once showed a majority of americans support the administration's muslim travel there does that hurt you. it doesn't hurt me personally but it kind of it just shows that it's fear works fear is a is a wonder is it is a very powerful tool and he that when they do that if we we don't mean old muslims but as a matter of fact they do i have been in political and in other places where i have met a lot of support and they believe that anybody who belongs to that religion is anti american they don't see. the difference between someone who is

radical or someone who's just you know porn after nine eleven george bush spoke to an early muslim citizens or because he at his say what you want about george w. but in death moment he knew that he is president for all americans and he knew that he made it and many muslims serve in the army and there are many people who are part of the citee and because they hate was good getting out of hand after nine eleven as a matter of fact one of the very first victims of hate crimes after nine eleven with an end egyptian christian he was not even a muslim he was like an owner over there and he was killed in his shop and he was christian and a couple of indian seeds were killed to the problem with he does not like when you say like the muslim but it goes far beyond the muslim bad when you have like three individuals from indian descent that were killed or eleven used christian were killed on his porch and that's why we we had this idea of like well to muslims like

you know like stay off our back it's when when when discrimination arrives it doesn't discriminate apparently the president someone of job creation has been put in charge of. solving the middle east from that would be lovely oh my god question or oh he will do a great job i mean i thought of that i think he looked at the middle east it's already a mess how how bad can he get can it get so given question or. why is that insoluble bill clinton i don't like to drop names but he told me. that the british irish was a piece of work piece of piece of pie compared to the middle east. or it. first of all every american president he comes of for years he he to do something that would actually matter in the middle east he would have to do radical changes that could actually affect his chance to be reelected so nobody

wants to touch that file until the last year or two terms which is not enough second you have basically two nations two ethnic groups and you have like people from lake jewish people from all over the world to settle there you had people who palaces bear from palestinian people over eighty there they have been land taken there have been settlements how can you solve that but this is a haze of us yeah. i think right at the same food aid zacky well why didn't the palestinian home get the like i feel like i'm in a jewish home exactly the sheer dissin food but at the end of the day i think land is is the number one cause for all for feud and for conflicts all over and do so let's look problem of land but how can you solve i mean look i would be a little bit vice because i'm an arab and because my my my wife has a palace to come from over half palestinian but you cannot solve the problem while

you are building settlements and you are denying them can the united states solve the problem. the united states has solved many conflicts helpful the many conflicts during sentries during the years by putting pressure on the players i don't think they united states would like to put pressure on the israeli government as much as they want to put it on the palestinians because at the end of the day israel knows how to market itself and they have they're pretty much powerful beyond the president they have people in congress and the senate and the lobbies so i think it's going to be very pressured very very difficult to pressure at an israeli government that does not want to have peace. or do you think of fake news fake news you were may go living with a fake news you want to look at fake news you come to my country and we can show you what for you can use it as a matter of fact one of the very repeated cycles of faith to news that we had piece

of news that we have actually captured the commander of the american six fleet when america tried to interfere and for many people he's still a prisoner in egypt and people believe that. you want to talk about usenet speak the army in egypt has and she claimed they have found a cure for aids people believe that at we like i mean when when she was a fake news and i'm not impressed you come to my country i'll show you what free. news in america oh absolutely i mean they just like a couple of days ago from fox news the guy who did this leg. videos mocking the chinese people in chinatown new york he had i saw a shark in texas and he was talking about like a fake picture that is circulated many times before anybody would like a simple google. search know that this is fake they deal with fake news as facts and. then of course one of the most circulated piece of news is like how obama is

a secret muslim how he co-founded i says we've been having this lake three years before you guys got it so for once know it we were ahead of you guys you have a fox news in egypt pope the whole media is fox news the only difference is it is state sponsored so all of the news outlets is owned by the state whether directly or through businessmen and it is fox news twenty four hours. i mean it's even even late now the state is interfering intertainment and drama and comedy they basically are owning all of the outlets so there is absolutely no way to go outside of that control you are often heckled aren't your performances you know that happened a couple of times by people who were sent by the egyptian council but that didn't happen again thank god you can visit your use the generals running a country yes what do you make of generals in this administration some people think

that in these particular particular generals we're better off well just a couple of days ago who was it so a very defense yet the secretary said he actually like he didn't. agree with donald trump all of the transgender soldiers up yet so he's kind of like he stopped that so i think this is good i mean this is this is the i mean you can say whatever you want to with america but the the biggest thing that and that's why in that video i told you it you could have trouble but the foundation is good you will not have a general coming up with troops taking over power or forcing the prison to do whatever if he's a bad president we just leave it out but the worst thing is to bring a tank or a gun into a conflict of ideas because you would have no conflict you just have the gun you just have to think and this is this is what you what i respect about like what's

happening in europe and what's happening in america it doesn't matter how bad it is you know going to have the president being overthrown no matter how bad it is overthrown by don't we know the thirty four percent of americans support him. does the egyptian leader kind of support. well here is. all they do there i don't know how how on is the polls are but the problem with egypt in the middle east in general. people look at the army as the most holy thing ever there it's morse the army is more sacred than religion and many people supports the army or whoever is representing the army out to fear of chaos because they look at syria they look at libya look at erratic enslave we don't want to be this we're better off having a dictator that keeps things together other than just fold into complete chaos and this is the kind of narrative that dictators in the middle east have proving it to

for many years it isn't me or chaos and and syria was a perfect example when bashar assad found that his position was threatened he destroyed the whole country so i either continue ruling the country or you would have no country. so you're saying that the three percent is swayed by things like that yet and i think if you would have like a similar poll in egypt much harder than thirty three percent because they are not just thinking of him as a person they're thinking of safety if he's there if the army is there it's safe to be cannot they don't understand that you can separate the army from the state the army is the state is stability you cannot separate the three are you a pessimist you know. looking at what happened to me i think i'm doing pretty well . thank you for coming back thank you still raising you thank you so it's like to buy the first get of course we thank you for your time today and thank you for

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greetings and so you take a shit. prepare yourselves hawk watchers because today i think it's time we upset some safe spaces and dive headlong into a controversy that's been simmering boiling and dominating the streets and campuses and social media conversations here in the united states ever since the tragic clash of protestors in charlottesville took but took the in the life of an innocent

young woman and forced two disparate groups and neo nazi white nationalists once again into the headlines clearly two groups who are on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum clashing with each other is nothing new or controversial but what is stirring up all the activists social media outrage are the allegations that despite claiming to stand against fascism and are members of an deep are often using the very same violent tactics of the fascists they seek to overcome their sweet killer surprise winning journalist i'm no fan of fascism or the corporate state chris hedges has come under fire as a recent article entitled how and depot mirrors the all right. in his article hedges makes the case that the use of violence by the end of the movement not only gives more power to the corporate state but it also waters down and denigrates their cause edges writes what took place in charlottesville like what took place in february of february one black bloc protesters toward u.c.

berkeley attempt to host the crypto fascist million up a list was political theater it was about giving self-styled radicals a stage it was about elevating their self image it was about appearing heroic most important it was about the ability to project fear this newfound power is exciting and intoxicating it is also very dangerous however many activists and progressives don't call this dangerous they call it necessary because they are at war and they are now accusing hedges and anyone else who casts a critical eye on the tactics of and as dividing the left and playing into the hands of president trump the all right and the white nationalist neo nazis they fight so let's journey into the heart of this great debate as we start watching the hawks.

that i got. while they were on the watching the hawks i am tired world and. joining us today journalist author and host of on contact welcome chris. thank you chris you know after publishing this article this week you you've now been accused of dividing the left an essential helping to promote a false moral equivalency between the violence perpetrated by the. violence perpetrated by. the black bloc how i'm curious how do you respond to this criticism over your article well the left was divided including in and before i wrote this article over whether to employ violence and acts of vandalism or not.

number two it's my job as a writer to stringently as i can write what i see as the truth. and whatever those consequences are. you know we have to live with it. so both of those accusations are kind of a canard. i'm looking at this it made me think of when where younger we have a different view of all of our ideology and how far we would go to stand up to it and in this instance made me think of william pollack who wrote the one nine hundred seventy one book the end sold over two million copies and in it called for a violent insurrection in two thousand and thirteen he actually wrote in a guardian op ed that is anger at the thought of it being drafted in vietnam had quote blinded me to the illogical notion illogical notion that violence can be used

to prevent violence i had fallen for the same irrational pattern of thought that led the u.s. military involvement in both vietnam and iraq the irony is not lost on me so chris let me ask you this is there a legitimate argument average of you made that violence is acceptable as long as it's done in the name of this you know the correct set of beliefs if you're doing it for the right side is it ever acceptable is it ever productive to society. it's always tragic and. i spent twenty years as a war correspondent covering conflicts in central america the middle east and was in sarajevo during the war in the former yugoslavia. there are moments when societies are pushed to such an extreme as was true for instance i'm sorry ava where they have to employ violence. in that city which was being shelled by the serbs day and night two thousand shells a day constant sniper fire forty five dead a day two dozen wounded a day. was protected by trench systems we knew that if the serbs surrounding serve

forces broke through those trenches a third of the city would be slaughtered in the rest would be driven into refugee and displacement camps and that was wasn't conjecture we were that what happened in vukovar adreno valley and all sorts of other places so at that point you know especially being shelled. nobody was sitting around in a basement arguing over pacifism but that doesn't save you from the poison of violence i think when you look at foreign occupation such as our occupation of iraq israeli occupation of gaza i used to work in algeria and land at the airport and would say welcome to our area land of a million martyrs the foreign occupier comes in and only speaks the language of force. and they're only going to be driven out through force but what we're confronting here in the united states is is more akin to

a revolution in revolutions are always fundamentally nonviolent no revolutionary movement succeeds unless the significant sectors of the internal security as well as the military either refuse to defend a discredited regime or defect and that's been and so what is it that the state the corporate state is seeking to do it wants to demonize the movement to keep it from brain broad based and that's what these figures do remember the. the people they're fighting in the streets come out of course defending in any way their repugnant racism and bigotry and. they come from the same economic class largely and. and that plays into the hands of our corporate oligarchy and that's you know one of the things i also want to kind of get to is that you know a lot of the you know anti for activists or the you know the progressives are kind of defending the actions that we've seen you know also point to the fact that you

know they also do a lot you know they really they claim that they do a lot more har more good than harm you know like protecting dr cornel west in the clergyman in charlottesville from the nationalists who are kind of running the lines there you know there's also they're also running a relief aid program in houston. and they say they're getting this kind of bad rap in the media especially given the forces that they're. fighting against you know is there truth is the media kind of stepping in and clouding this issue and kind of you know hyping up the violence in order to kind of paint that picture of the. yes there is no moral equivalency between these right wing white nativist groups and i was very clear about that in my call. the numbers of hate crimes and including home assad's that have been committed by these hate groups we can certainly go back of course to the oklahoma city bombing. anything that's done by anti phone but i

think that when they carry out these tactics they actually squander their moral authority because they have moral authority. and they play into the hands of a trumpet ministration at a state that really is frightened of a broad based anti capitalist movement and wants to criminalize all any capitalist organizing and resistance. groups like the black bloc or and give them the kind of images that they can disseminate to demonize the left and then carry out more draconian forms of control the road from wherever we are groups you are the people movement to me has some others has resembled this idea of the past that to some extent it looks like a slightly less organized version of groups like the weather out there ground the united freedom front and the same to be asleep liberation army which had certain

ideals that were very democratic that were anti-capitalist that were more socialists that were considered the sort of militant progressives yet every one of those groups were heavily infiltrated by the ira they were not violent actions not on not actually the under weather underground but yeah most of these were at some point they were steered into violent actions by undercover f.b.i. agents that ultimately the point of their fight was lost because they didn't heed the warnings of people saying look there are people in your group that are pushing you into certain things am i just being paranoid or is there a real threat of that may. that happened in the kids the weather underground is a good example because the weather underground came out of students for democratic society which was the largest antiwar. organization in the country and the members of the weather underground mark rather than bill ayers and others bernard adorn became frustrated that they couldn't stop the war especially after

the tet offensive and so they decided to carry out this campaign a bomb in which by the way when they spoke to the vietnamese delegates. from north vietnam they employed them not to do it so that when nixon began his bombing of cambodia the s.d.s. was destroyed as a movement. and it did all of the things that the nixon administration wanted which was to paint the left as dangerous as and. and violent and and it played totally into the hands of of the state i mean i think we should also acknowledge that violence even when it's carried out in a i don't like the word just but when it becomes inevitable as that was when i covered the war sorry of all or when i covered the war in el salvador it doesn't save you from the poil of poison of violence it elevates those who have a penchant for violence and a capacity for violence. and i think for me that's why violence is always tragic

i'm not a pacifist but i think in this case. it's a lot of people who are kind of looking at resistance as a form of catharsis and if we're going to topple the corporate state which we must do to save our country and ultimately to save our planet it's not about how we feel it's not about joining a group of. you know one hundred black clad massed figures and projecting fear which is an intoxicated and empowering emotion that that is. you know it's frankly just kind of infant we have to begin to dismantle and attack the structures of the corporate state many people talk about fascism these guys marching through places like charlottesville are not going to achieve power we're not talking about attacking the nazi party the elements of what sheldon will

and calls inverted totalitarianism or the corporate totality they already have power and yes figures like trump and people within the corporate state will use racism and white nativism and all of that stuff to further their agenda but we do we we we've kind of missed a focus here of the the the forces that we have to confront are not ascendant there are they're already in control exactly exactly and you know we deserve a little bit of a time and you know chris one of the things also that jumps out to me is that one of the reasons you don't use violence as alternately violence isn't going to change the mind of the person you're trying to change you know if you punch your races that's not going to make them less racist. and it in fact it plays totally into their hands i mean people talk about how nobody resisted in germany

well that's just historically faults up until nine hundred thirty three when the nazis took power that there were street clashes consta. really between the communists even the socialists had their own paramilitary groups and the fascist went and sought it out because in the end the capitalist class and the ruling elites are always going to a saw side with the fascists when they feel capitalism is under threat which is precisely. what happened in germany and most germans were sick of what the violence that was happening in the streets which they blamed on the left yes it was true that the fascists were the ones who incited it. but that's something that we have to understand that the state is looking for any excuse to shut down all anti capitalist even those of us who are adamantly opposed to vine most definitely they are there and they will get this gives them this to give them the opportunity exactly what does i have to thank you for coming on the bay and. being

the wonderful spokesman you are for that for this kind of thinking and that ideology thank you saying as i understand the new one exactly exactly like you thank you. as we go to break cork watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered have a facebook and twitter and see our poll shows that r t v dot com coming up sean stone gets to the bottom of the controversial pardon of share of joy of horror a paro type from president donald trump with award winning filmmaker covered both state two to watching the. all the food we go through. every the world should you do read it. and you'll get it on the old old. old according to jeff.

welcome to my world come along for the raw data. ordinarily presidents wait until the very last weeks their presidency to start doling out pardons and commutations but as with all else this white house does things a little differently and pardons are no except said last friday the president granted maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio a supporter of his full pardon and no not for some personal transgression or indiscretion but for refusing to comply with a federal judge that ordered our peo to stop racially profiling hispanics for an inside perspective on the sheriff's stone sat down with kevin both an award winning

documentary documentary filmmaker who spent extensive time with the sheriff. giving or start by asking you how did you decide to feature sheriff joe arpaio in your documentary american drug war that was made about ten years ago and well you know when you're trying to when you're investigating the drug war it's easy to find people that want to come on camera and speak against it what's hard to find are people that will come on camera and speak pro drug war and all those people tend to like hide you know behind their offices and you know you know really get these people to come on camera sheriff joe turned out to be the one guy. who not only would come on camera but he would talk loud and proud about it had drug war slogans painted on tanks and you know he was he was totally gung ho on the whole thing and so he just seemed like a perfect characters to fill that niche in that so sure of joy admits that about sixty percent of the two billion american prison population are there because of drug related offenses how does he justify this and what is his logic for the rush

of blood give these people over drugs i don't know they. justifies it i think he just sees himself as like a man doing the job he's been elected to do and you know he's carved out a role he carved out a real niche for him self in phoenix ca like so most like the perfect place for him if you've been to phoenix or know people who live in phoenix oh i love it i love all that by the way. but you know it's calm like a little safe haven and it is crazy because most of all the men that i met intensity were either in there for dui or math and phoenix has a lot of that and so you know i didn't see like the big immigration thing when i was there ten years ago so would you characterize sheriff joe is putting on an act or does he actually believe in preserving as many people as possible. i think it look i think he's a ham for the camera. obviously loves media attention he knows how to play it up and i think he has a sense of like being outrageous and knowing that if he's outrageous that he's

going to keep getting all this coverage that he gets and the coverage help some keep getting reelected and you know he's he's become like learn how to like play the p.r. machine and. and i am pretty sure he's figured out a way to profit from all of his prison activities you know a lot of people or claiming everything from like. making money off the old food that they were serving people to making money off the clothes in the pink underwear and and he was even selling you know pink underwear with marigot joe slogans on me when i was there he was he sells postcards with his name on it gets and all the prisoners sign it so it's a it's a weird situation you know i myself of if i was crossing the desert with drugs in my car which i would never do i would avoid maricopa county like the plague we know the economy's you talking about economies you're talking the prison economies and you know obviously that there are full fledged economies that exist for trading and getting goods and services but how much the sheer joy actually control of

facilitate the economy it is jail yabsley. i mean cutting off pornography i mean i when i was there they cut off men a lot they wouldn't allow the men to have catch up you know and so he is really come down so i you know i don't know what's going on with like drugs or cigarettes or all that but. i mean he you controls everything that goes in or out of there i think a lot a lot harder than other jails well he's the tories for running a tough jail prides himself on it but how much do you think she believes in corporal punishment yeah i think he said when i asked him why do you treat the men that are still not convicted yet differently and he's like we're not running an airline here we don't have a first class and coach you know this is more equal opportunity punishment system here and so i think he looks at the jail as is like one you know i don't think many people spend more than maybe one or two years in there i think that's a maximum so he's going to make it as rough as possible did you ever get

a sense of racism from sheriff joe the drugs were really like a black latino problem or an immigrant problem how i went in there with the whole opinion that it was going to be a very racist type situation but when i got there i actually like a majority of the men were white i was surprised i mean there are some spandex and blacks in there but there is a mostly white man that i that i talk to and i think this is before he started his immigration patrols you know i've been watching that unfold but you know i mean you know once again if you know phoenix and like that kind of people that have voted for him over and over again for the last twenty four years you know there's definitely are racist by is there but i kind of look at him as you know i mean you can blame him for the racism but it's almost as if he was just the right man for the right job it seems to me that a lot of this language around the immigrant phobia that we've been seeing has to do

with drugs and gangs coming out from latin america but how much do you think this sentiment was. at the heart of the american drug war. yeah i mean i definitely think you know the way keeps getting reelected is to paint this nightmarish picture ca like what trump is don of the border. and yeah he's definitely turned those people into the bogeyman for all the you know the rich are white people of phoenix who want to protect their little kingdom and and so he became the guy that guarded the castle for everybody and you know and he got all this press out of it he became a hero and you know i think in a way it's almost as horrible as that is he was kind of brilliant in the way he did his p.r. but in the sense it seems he is the personification of the american drug war fears of black people poor people immigrants anyone that basically could go crazy and overthrow the system or harm or social system that has to be

controlled you know what i found interesting is when i talked to more and more e. he was first of all these ten years ago he was pro medical marijuana. you know he had no problems you know it talked about drugs but he you know if it did become like the crime issue and all that but i think you know to me the most inhumane thing about tent city or the sheriff joe prison was making people who are suffering drug addiction to sit in a place like tent city where they need rehab so you know he was definitely like anti rehab pro punishment as far as people who probably just needed medical help and for those who don't know what is tent city tent city was share of joe's little private concentration camp that he built in a giant parking lot outside of one of the prison facilities there south of phoenix and he put up a bunch of army tents and you know in the summer get up to be about one hundred thirty degrees in the summer people so their shoes would melt the fans didn't work i mean when it wasn't hot some of the men would prefer and i you know i heard

stories of being inside of the jails where a guy used to put. toothpaste is ears at night to keep the cockroaches out some really like awful stories from all of it so besides the heat i think some of them actually preferred to be out intensity except you know in the dead of summer so but it was in joe you used to like love to tell people that complain about the heat that that our soldiers are in iraq and it's hotter in iraq and you know how dare you complain when they're not complaining and they're fighting for your freedom and that was his logic and this is where he was detaining those presumed illegal immigrants the ones without due process those intensity that's what i've heard yeah that's what i've heard it of the day it seems to me that you're actually beyond getting reelected he really wants to have national attention i mean he made a name for him so we have to obama on the birth certificate issue why does he care so much about this national persona for himself. you know after i was there he had his own reality show i don't know if you ever saw the sheriff joe reality show so i

don't know i think he's just like anybody else i think he is a good bit of a ham you know i mean he's he could have been cast on the sopranos you know i mean he's he's like an italian gangster i learned that he died when his mother was born here that. you know he talks about eating spaghetti and meatballs all the time and you know. i think he just loves the attention like just anybody else and he found a way to get a lot of attention make him so he made himself famous i mean look how famous he is since you're a jew aside how much is the american drug war really just about corporal punishment and social controls. oh i mean i but i believe at the end of the day that the war on drugs is all about just controlling the profit margins of alcohol tobacco pharmaceutical companies. that's really what it's all about i mean you know first of all marijuana. the reason they they are really fighting so hard to keep marijuana illegal is because everybody can grow it and it cures just about

everything so once that cat gets out of the bag the pharmaceutical tobacco and all comp. these are going to take a massive hit probably already are and it's obvious because you can see there are already allying themselves to get in the marijuana business so you know what else do you not into when you're fighting a war you need the soldiers you need the guys who love obedience and hierarchy guys like sheriff joe you know i mean like i said i mean not everybody wanted to have their face out there because they i think deep down inside they know what they're doing is wrong or sheriff joe almost likes being like the tony soprano character he likes being like a lovable psychopathic killer. and he just filled a perfect niche for the for the places this you know big city right on the border people wanting to protect the border the whole thing i mean he was like the right man for the right job to do groucho's decision to sheriff joe. i don't know and i you know it's the end of the day he's eighty five years old and i don't really know how much prison time he actually would have done i think it was the whole thing was

more of a symbolic gesture. i don't know i know a lot a lot of worse people have gotten pardoned so you know i don't really have an opinion about that you know i know it's pissed a lot of people off i can see why it's disallowed people off but i think this whole thing is more symbolic than anything else. students from across the world gathered for a competition held by idea architect you must get his latest four and a future as the hyperloop our transportation system involving pods an airlift to well. then surely we'll get a person comfortably in from washington d.c. to new york city in twenty nine minutes and teams built the pods and must team built must team built the tracks a german team created the winning pod which hit speeds of over two hundred miles an hour breaking hyperloop previous record and if you wonder why this is new is i'll let you answer that the reason i love these things is because it makes me excited to wake up in the morning and you need these things you need these things there's

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