larry you are watching our america question more. greetings and salutation. lately my hawk watchers of feels like in every country state and city chaos and heart break a bone not only around the world but here in the united states as well there are many cities whose headlines only seem to reflect a city in a people under siege seconds when their professional sports team wins a title or when the president makes a campaign stop folks living in these cities like chicago moreland's baltimore and now of houston only seem to make the news cycles when there's murder devastation in their streets and all the difficulties and sorrows the citizens of these cities face on a day to day sometimes hour to hour basis are real and do deserve

a newspaper's aid what is often ignored are their successes the individuals or communities in the city whose talent and heart overcome their city's dire headlines in baltimore a city most own most only see through its headlines of poverty and racial divisions there is a new generation of artists and thinkers who are proving there's more to their city than drugs and police violence one of them is writer speaker and poet belle born and raised in baltimore can one his gift of shaping words into windows has been featured in notable publications like the root and huffington post use even share the stage with legends like angela davis. today we welcome comed wanted to our stage flo he may share with you the beauty and the struggle as we start watching the hawks. what would it. look

like real that this would be the last to leave the bottom. like you but i got. to. believe that such. a welcome everyone to watch of the hawks i am tired rolled on the turf and i'm tabitha wallace earlier we sat down with fidel and started by asking him about his journey in becoming a writer and poet what in a world where everyone wants to be a movie star rock stars brought him to poetry and prose as a profession. my freshman year in two thousand and eleven i went to virginia state and i was studying sport management because i wanted to be a spoiler i had this big idea that i was going to be all of my friends agents because they played basketball and football and i was kind of

a little bit smarter than them and also play sports too when i was younger i played bass man only god and we were up thirty points down thirty points and i really had his new like this for me you know the feeling well it had all so so fresh me as professor name on a west and he was my english professor but he taught us a lot about black history and he forced us to really my and a little extreme views and he was always the hardest on me out of all of the students and i guess he saw potential in me way before i did so i was reading a lot of those authors i was reading a lot of j. the j. cole conjugal mob fabulous amy winehouse i was reading a lot of my favorite artists and i was santa myself that i can do this so i will write every single day really every day i'll even skip some classes to write and read and. nobody knew a stuff like two people on campus and my cousin avon and my friend back home are like call him and i read them stuff and fast forward to february of two thousand

and thirteen i was a part of his mentor organization and they was having a van and they had a dance group that was performing and a mission and they backed out last minute so michael week before the actual day at a show we were discussing were we going to do in a board meeting i was like i'm a i'm a do it the animation and he was like do we do some. ok you know we don't have enough in the loo so everywhere i turn three down thirteen came around and i was headed toward the stage it was. and i was about to tell the whole slag you know i'm just not ready and when they make eight mile i want to throw up like i thought i was a fake thing until the moment something was like. just door you know you don't have nothing to lose and i went up there in our performance my first time performance speak in front of a group of people and i got a standing ovation in front of like two hundred people. i said to my sorrow you're not the smartest man in the world but if this your first time you can get two

hundred people you know like you can connect with this you know amount of people in you can only get better so that next day i want to get in the hall and i changed my major from sports management to english in it were from that simple form of a different fraternities and sororities on. breast cancer awareness for suicide awareness for propofol stuff for veterans day i was just i got monster just right and i memorize them in like two days like three minute problems and then we're from been at virginia state in petersburg to the surrounding areas of petersburg home of the show. to have a fit and i came back on the bottom or and i told myself. you know you're just going to just take over the city and just use literacy to change from two thousand . i had some videos that went viral i dropped my book you know that. stuff for me you know. millions of.

you know get my first newspaper article written up only it was like a lot of new stuff for me and i was just going to keep our own people and just keep getting better you know. and you do you get better and better and better and there's more it just seems like the evolution of watching over the last couple of years and that were expressed to your latest. how a young boy has been decaying and. aged ten deaths in it you express what it what it feels like to be for lack of a better term being around a culture that normalizes. or you're being asked to normalize it. what is that piece mean to you and one of the things that stands out. your piece to me is this idea that there are two bald guys want to hear what i want to hear but they're currently different. case how my little bit about that tell me about the peace and that. you really when you're young on

a form you really don't pay attention to baltimore. because you stay where you are on the why people stay where they are not i had times where mr parker patterson park in a separate is the white neighborhood in a black neighborhood and all of these things make sense now because you know bottom of the first city in america to have a legal house a certain geisha and all these things but i remember being in patterson park at night and even on the other side of. the police will say i don't belong over here you know and i was out of stuff like that it wasn't as dramatic as you know what our parents and grandparents because i remember my father even told me he was the idea oh don't be impassible tonight because i mean when i was younger the white boys used to chase us out with bats you know that never happened but it's still the same type of culture but the first started by when trying to understand a true bottom or as was when i read the walk in is say he was talking about a two bottom was and i was like wow i never saw in that you know way and then once

i read that and i start again in my more proximity to both at the bottom or as i just i just want to do with. you know for me as a writer i want to do that my readers and of people who look up to me and you know help them out so i want them to understand that you know bottom or still vie races is very segregated and you know i just want people to be aware of that you know we have stores in our area on our side of the neighborhoods that are in you know other neighborhoods where you got a whole foods and i got fresh real food and we got funny foods and we've been growing up honey buns in cheetos and you know you think stuff is good for you man so you get old you know you see people like forty years old with bad babies and i forty five you get a leg chopped off and stuff like that you. there's the biggest thing and you know that brings up that issue you know you obviously you know i think at the core of places like baltimore the heart of this issue is poverty you know economic distress not being allowed to you know spread your wings and fly because you're not given

any opportunity to your horrible food and horribly school horrible schooling you know and just like any community the you know lives in the economic stress. you know social issues are kind of used to provide a cover for bigotry we see that over and over how do we address you know the you know there's not only you know the poverty but as well as the bigotry. of both these communities. as trying to unite and fix these issues i just feel like we have to. just try to. eliminate racism. and you know everybody concerns a produce race is ideas but a lot of times people who don't know that they consume and produce racism you know when they say these type of people are people out at all you know you say something

like you know you say if you understand. the point and. the detriment of you know and environment create and that certain type of person so people go off to college all the time and people say that i don't like. you know how many it would be probably were good not bad when they went in a. graduate like college really messed their life right so you believe that but you don't believe. that you know you go into these black neighborhoods and you charge ten year olds as adults you know when they do petty little game you know engaged in you know violence like people born this way something in the. created so if you to say cause can change somebody's but you say you know put you know oppressed people will you know blame him and make him you know you know not make him a victim as you know it's like beer you know it's our believe that we just got to

be equal around a ball when it comes to like we know you know you can talk about how it's criminal if you talk about poverty and crime and you don't target about the surge unemployment you going to criminal. violence and you know in not being in the jobs in the messed up schools like this criminal innocent raises idea but some people might see that as a racist because they see on the surface is the violence and they haven't picked up any books or really see these numbers and see how communities are affected when they lack certain things that they me rights are for my people just need to basically adequately for the board for we are going to you know we can attack this world a better place so they're a little bit different and one of the things about that is is this idea of respectability as a as a white person i grew up poor. government she is you know like i had those things

and powdered milk and things that people if you don't live in this side of the line don't really understand but for me the one thing that i realized was even though i you know poor way trash where i come from. still have a certain amount of respectability that well but you probably sure it wasn't your fault that you live or it wasn't your fault where when you look at communities like baltimore and poverty is somehow the communities fault it's your fault. that there aren't jobs there it's your fault that the police have to be out there it's your fault how dangerous this and how important is it. for white allies and all of us to recognize like yeah i had government cheese it does. i was still prevalent. portman's that so. there isn't even max can be got a book or stanford again in the definitive history of races ideas in america and if

there's a. couple of suasion in the data people believe that black people have to be upstanding black folks you know get discriminated against in the police will beat them up and white people be nicer to them which is like one of the biggest myths ever going to be the boys in the first black harvard graduate and barack obama the first black president can tell you that you can with sperry's every day you can drink poppy aspies lasts for breakfast lunch dinner you can wear green wrong for st patrick's day it don't matter you cannot persuade a way you cannot if a person hates the group that you belong to is nothing that you can do to persuade them not to write so we just have to understand there is love who you love where you come from and love everybody that's a reflection of you are you going i'm saying like people ask me all the time you know how did you make it out how did you how are you different people enable and i

say i'm no different from them we are the same them in their me i just happened to stumble upon some scales and some tools as not accessible to everybody in my neighborhood and i did allow them just like you is so many people that come from the neighborhood and that's probably why i'm paul and probably you know make up all of these thing they probably say a lot of hurtful things to tabitha you know because of what chu chose to do you going to say in college that i'm not like them i don't understand what it's like to be their. only do you know you don't look down on those people because you know if you would have you know landed in a certain position from a state that you may you could have been right there with you going to like even if you if you read the west more talks about it's a guy i mean wes moore has is my. same from baltimore in the grave i just said when i went to visit my father in prison but one is imprisoned or life in the other one is a millionaire a new york times bestseller the past eight years he's been on oprah he's got all of these great things and he grew up in the same city would assign me and in the

beginning of the book he said the bone chilling truth is that his life could have been you know and could have been his you know aside all of it is libel up when you deal with oppression and you deal with poverty. as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover them facebook and twitter. that are. coming up and wanted to take center stage as it reads an excerpt from the latest piece entitled a no and then we welcome the fun loving correspondents from we're back in tonight degree coming up with stating the truth. all the world's. and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties aren t. american playing artsy america offers more. in many ways the news landscape is just

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graveyards. but and it is yeah if the pace continues the deficit will be swollen like a broken jaw bones make in two thousand and seventeen the deadly as yet and bottom more grandmothers will outlive their grandkids and the smell of says in a flash. the fades and colorful but how i'm supposed to pretend i'm happy while i walk on the ground blades of grass grow plants from swallowing the blood of babies i'm supposed to pretend i'm happy although a million screams from absent sons and daughters wrap my brain. i'm supposed to pretend i'm happy while a vision in the faces of the crying children and. the want. to rest in peace to all of the children. a bully a bad day a bloody skull a body bag as long as guns thunderclap striking holes through flesh so long live

the last black angles and the ones who are next i hope that the song seventy five. was going to want to put bill performing a portion of his latest piece of death. sadly the guitar to america show redacted tonight won't make the latest taylor swift album or her extravagantly capitalistic exploitation of i'm going to go away but it might just take your mind off your worries e-mails benghazi and tommy linger and for half an hour for the half an hour that is the kind of help society needs right now is definitely. joining us tonight to preview this week's latest episode are america hearty america's redacted tonight correspondents natalie mcgill and they'll meet carol. on labor day already. is it after a factor. might be a big big taylor swift listener not really. going for her and

it was really weird. the one of the flooding in houston can be traced back to a series a series of tragically greedy and ignorant policy decisions naomi you found that some people think the free market is the answer to everyone's trouble also disaster really yes so everybody's using hurricane harvey for some kind of talking point and . or no i'm sorry c m b c invited michael brown you know heckuva job brownie to talk about how important it would be. privatized relief privatized. you know flood insurance that people would get after an incredible disaster like this so. but what led us to have all this incredible destruction in southern texas was exactly that the lack of regulation

and the lack of zoning especially in houston it's the most sprawling city it's like saying the only. city because what is the city needs opening for now do you need to . be developed so one of the reasons why the flooding in houston was so bad was because they just paved over prairie's that could soak up the water and it wouldn't have been as bad have had they not have done that so anyways i have a clip from the show that you can check. in twenty fifteen republican the texas tribune published a report about how unprepared the famously un's own city houston would be for climate change and on coming storms the journalist heard of scientists and data simulators and may be we choose because oh they're poor dictions came true

they showed how local officials have been largely snow. building regulations allowing developers to pave over crucial acres of prairie land that once absorbed huge amounts of rain water but how could anyone complain when there was so much free parg aging now known sitting in the parking lot we should raise this elementary school to the ground and make it a used car dealership but those local officials like mike talbot the former head of harris county flood control district said the idea that these magic sponges out in the prairie would have absorbed all that water is absurd how i knew it was witchcraft kick your meter ones out of here and your number spelled scientists. are going to raise it we talked about a lot on this show and magic. for eighteen years that i was in charge of it and the

new guy pretty much thinks the same thing he does so. we have politicians and bureaucrats who think mater is magic yeah right it's hard to make sure. those things or doesn't do things let's not give any credit to it and i'm sorry but the other thing you're talking about that really got into my crossed wires t.v. station was like why do you see this over and over again with cable news channels like rolling out people who arguably failed their jobs when the in the playground tell us what not to do that. during the war in iraq prisoner what are they doing right here ok and then we know there's a minister who had been he's been on t.v. before so he's experienced a lot of monegan you know it was worthwhile when you call people like oliver north right and star brown and the like what should we do and then just say whatever this guy says to the. muslims are. wrong i don't just put your figures in here and it wasn't because i was a lower third speaking with your fingers and you're which is something like all the

time the pearly whites only. no it isn't no longer about making lanyards and getting mosquito bites things are a bit different to bay and you apparently have the story yeah so it's a lot less about capture the flag and more about perpetuating our country's thirst for endless war. our capture the flag and in these camps you probably know there was no reason huffington post article that came out that highlighted the summer team camps that i just gave you the experience of the military life and minus you know minus the homelessness minus the p.t.s.d. minus the lack of health care that you would experience once you have military right green leaves that part out but there's this one camp in particular in kentucky called military adventure camp when the camp director lovingly coined a military is the way and they have a picture of you have been

a are. there now actually yes there are girls girls there with their crush and. i mean girls have to make sometimes better boys exactly and everything so usually are. but yeah so this camp of particular stands out because they have a sniper course where kids are given assault rifles and taught how to shoot at human shaped targets so you know how good you are the kids at these camps were talking like sixteen teenagers like very only are two years away from being able to add up and go fight or don't like middle schools like a migraine or was thirteen fourteen and yeah. discovering their bodies right. i thought our treat a boy scout camp and i got to tell you they were not militarist all we wanted to do was like the girl scout camp that was across the lake literally in like a movie and figure out how to get across that you know i got to go to class because i got to figure out how to get over there. by writers you know like i'm so they

were going to sneak over to the girls and booby traps. for the right i'm going to get i know it's like adventure military camp. to you so long but. the girl i know i mean there are also out there. are things like i don't think. so what else can we expect this week on redacted tonight apparently. you guys did the best work and there are some other people and there is this one. with the hair the hair yeah so we covered in as rand cover what ever the name so basically how the d.n.c. lost yeah oh you mean the piece of land without a jesus moment about the soul of their party and the lawsuit basically a lawsuit being tossed out because the judge said you couldn't prove. anybody was hurt by the d.n.c. favoring clinton but of course lead in the. details that came out revealed that

they had no interest in being having a democratic process about this at all and that essentially they could just pick whoever they want to have. this not felt yeah not really sure who they are picking hand not like you know did they have to be democratic i mean they're only called to them and she was lovely go back to like boss tweed style you know you i think it was. in the back room of the cigars or just pick who we want you know time someone i was approached you are a sad loss of all three are really showing. that sense this is ok. it is not my extraordinary times we live and i think that we can all agree that and i'll say this because thank you good for the good work that you guys do because man we need we need a good chuckle every now and again especially with the dire news that we're presented with. so thank you again for the good work you're doing. and don't miss

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i wouldn't tell you but i don't know the last seventeen global goals and then on the night i picked two to focus on climate change one was gender equality. my wife is from greenland and. as you know actually see the consequences quite clearly there she did the places receding and it's it's something affects all of us all next on larry king well. larry king now my special guest is nicholai cost a while the critically acclaimed actor best known as jamie lannister on h.b.o.'s the mega hit series game of thrones currently in its seven season we've also seen the films like black hawk down kingdom of heaven more recently small crimes on netflix newest movie a shot caller a very powerful role where he portrays a successful businessman turned prison gang so we'll talk about the movie in

a while. well you survived this week's game of thrones where you didn't die no i didn't when you signed on for this did you expect to die yes i mean. to be honest i didn't expect this to be doing this seven years later and i read the script and i was like this is a great story but it's crazy how can you shoot this as a television show. but i was wrong you didn't have to try out for the you can do you know i mean no i did i did a scene by write for the guys and then they offered it to me and then. they told me the like if we were lucky the first three years i knew what was going to happen. and also when why. is it a good question i mean i think it's a mix of things i think. as always with any as you know any good show and you know you have characters that you can identify with you have dial images that are

interesting intriguing. that's it's fundamentally a good story interesting it has surprises you know in season one we killed off what we thought was the main guy in that star of the show beings character that was that was one of those moments where you go will this make or break the show and thankfully the you know made people even more excited about it. and then i think that you know it's set in this like weird parallel universe so it can play everywhere which is also part of the six there are no countries named no exact their own names exactly. but that's one of the thing i mean i've been traveling and then that it never ceases to amaze me that wherever i go people or they watch the show they a little bit or all over the world george r.r. martin wrote the book yes you know him i've met him you know of course he's an executive producer on the show and he sees a great guy clearly american he's american you know from jersey we're kind of mind

as martin. sick mind of. you know i believe nobody it's you know he's it's just i don't know how these writers like tolkien you know you you do that with those people there or rallying they create these enormous worlds that you can dive into and it just see seems that they don't know how to do it and just an amazing man generation how do you view jamie lensed or. why i like him he trusts his best. obviously i mean i'm brad member when i read it first i thought it was just an amazing character you know the first scene more or less you have see him have sex with his sister and he tries to kill an innocent kid i thought that's a great starting point and then i knew what was going to happen i knew he had this big transformation. you know he that's the thing about all these characters is that and one of the fun things about doing a show that goes for so long is that you have time to show different ask you don't have to show everything in one go would you call jerry be heroic he's done heroic

things he's also done horrible things but you know he i think he. really but it comes from a good place but he does and then he you know he. the first thing and i think that the one thing that defines him he has a line in episode one where he does something horrible and then he says the things i do for love and i think that is that at his core and i think that's why you can forgive him a lot as you love his little brother he loves his little brother he also loves his sister but he he loves his little brother for sure the violence and the action the money of course to make up for so this is h.b.o.'s biggest hit right yeah it's mind boggling but it's also fun i mean we shot this sequence that was shown of the two weeks ago called blue train it was almost four weeks we shot in spain and the director had all the toys available if there was no difference from shooting that

hour of television to shooting the you know the biggest movie. hollywood and it's just exhilarating and it's fun to you but for us of scription toll of each company you know sponsors i know it's how do they do it they make money. how do they know they have people who pay every month to watch for it yeah but still it's still it's surprising but then again you know i've noticed that because over the years we've done a very you know contracts and then are they they get they can figure in there's a lot of merchants and things you have any input into the scripts i try but no no next year is his last year you know if you feel about that it's well you know i'm going to miss the people but it's a great feeling to be shot with it's one story you tell one story it's an a.t.l. a story you know the end i don't know the end no come on well i wouldn't tell you anyway but i don't know the end. has obviously it's been a boon to your career financially and professionally is there

a way it might hurt you well i am no would you saying no you jamie all the time you know of the first thing i did i'm as you know i'm from denmark and the first job i got was a movie called night watch and it became a huge hit in denmark and it took quite some time but i was known as the guy from that movie and then that's always going to be the case you do something that successful in the you know you might have done ten other things and no one's seen that so it's i don't worry about it it's a good problem to the new film a shot caller a title that were told me nothing. what is it about color is it's a person drama he is the shot caller has the keys to the yard so he controls the art the person but the person he's a guard no he's is an inmate but he is in control of what they say the yard which means that he controls how people act with it and they tell you that they he becomes a shock or how does he go to prison well he's the stars out he makes his. a really

stupid mistake a terrible thing here he goes i was i'm friends you know has a few glasses of wine he drives home friends in the back he runs a red light crushed the car his friend is killed he was over the limit so he goes away for involuntary manslaughter and and you would think and he's actually you know he knows he has you know he's done something horrible he's ready to you know do the time. but what he's not prepared for is is a. person in the prison system and how extreme that experience is and and how what you have to do to survive so he comes into this is this prison and which is completely segregated into by race. and he it's like a shark tank. and i remember reading the script and i thought it can this really

be true and then i spoke to brick wall the director and the writer and he spent years doing research. and i met some former inmates and some current inmates and you know. people who are in conversion it's him or he said in l.a. and that's where the guy's from and i find out that that is really the case i mean that these gangs that run the prisons i mean are so many things i learned i didn't know i mean i thought that the gangs in prison would be you know the gangs from the street the spill into the person i didn't know that it was the other way around that these gangs in the street started inside and i still run from inside which is insane but anyway the guy comes in and to survive. he joins up with the white king the wise white supremacist white supremacist and then he does the news today that's a terrible thing but he's like ok i'm just going to go with this you know i'll just get me through these two years and then i'll be out and then i'll forget about it

of course once you sure can with the devil they'll want to go so it has some fairly trying to go into any prisons and we went down the aisle went to one and it was i mean i think one of the things about this movie is that first of all. you know i feel i'm very lucky to be part of this and i think that what you want to do with any movie or in a television show you want to you know entertain people you want to you know want to want to be a great story and then if you're lucky hopefully sometimes it'll be about something that would make people think and i think rick wall achieve that would shock color because it's a it's a gripping thrilling movie but then it's also about something that affects all of us and it's that there is there's this desperate need for prison reform in this country it just doesn't work and we're wasting enormous amounts of money and resources to great psychiatrist call manager tell me the biggest failure in

history is for instance. through. to do it's supposed to do and it's just it fails us as well and then spend money we're usefully wasteful and also it's just the human resources that we waste i mean you have it like yes a nineteen year old boy he does some things to steals a car he steals and even that's so stupid yes you have to pay a price but hopefully we should be able to put this guy back into the goals that yeah but that's the whole rehabilitation is not a priority now it's like limits. mince words you and your and that's does this guy have anything likable well yes i mean i think what i yes absolutely he he loves his family. and of course he's very much aware of the consequences that you know it's not only his life that's destroyed it's his ex-wives his son i mean it has horrible

consequences but at least he's still driven by. wanting to make something right in life do you think it will be well received i hope so good at that you're good at guessing no you know on no you never know but i've seen the movie and i think he did a great deal in all of us did a great job of that movie and and i think that the people who've shown it to the very sight of you like hollywood do you like the whole aspect of movies and you know it's it's yeah you know i love you know i love this country i've been coming here from you know since i was a young man and it's always been you know hollywood has been this is magical. place and remember i was there i work with the the director and michael apted years ago and he moved out and i said why do you do that and he said well you know if you if you want to work in this studio the movies this is where you go which is very true . and you've done theater i did the first ten years of my career i did

a lot of i miss it and it's fun i mean that's it's life that's the actors yeah that's where you learn your craft after the break game of thrones star nikolaj costa walled off will step into the if you only knew hot seat you want to miss this the new film is shot color in theaters august eighteenth will be that bad. boy. could be. could be about to meet as exclusive is he going to do with respect. to. bottles. stockbrokers because. when you come to your.

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must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. it would make a lot of cost a world of the film is shot color opening friday aug eighteenth you were u.n. ambassador right goodwill ambassador yes they have been many in that role danny kaye yeah. audrey hepburn yeah what do you do well i basically you know with the success of game of thrones there's

a bit of spotlight here and try to put that spotlight on something a little more interesting climate change or a. global goals and then i then i picked two to focus on mom's climate change and one was gender equality. my wife is from greenland and. as you know greenland you can actually see the consequences quite clearly that you need to see that the glaciers are receding and it's something that affects all of us and it's you know i think it's a it's very important that we take it seriously and you know the world is taking it seriously and things are happening next set of some people in the world who don't believe in science yeah and that's so i can understand they i don't understand how is that i don't think i will say i'm not a scientist but no but if one is not the what what that's like is like saying i don't believe in the color red. ok but you have your beliefs but let's not make that your children i have two daughters and i said like well it's wonderful that

all those thirteen and sixteen to teenagers. you know those years nobody yeah if they did then mark they're back home and them are yeah we play a little game of if you only know ok i just throw some questions at you ok go i who was your childhood so every crush oh that was from the blonde girl from up on oh yeah man yeah that was the biggest risk you ever took. the big as a brisk i ever took i don't know i guess acting favorite part of being in america you have a home here i don't have a home here at home what do you like about being here i love the energy and i love . i love the people who place we'd find you want to day off. on in the forest in the mountain not on

a mountain bike you know the dangerous that i love it yeah person you'd like to switch places with for a day. just for a day. i'd like to cut one of one of the astronauts in the space station just to get up there have a look down and be cool in their own stranger's job you've ever had i spend a summer cleaning a sawmill. as a young man and it was the filthiest thing or the best piece of advice you ever received don't take advice you know we're still a bit over that was the best piece of advice don't tell us longest period of time you've been awake. you know i was thinking of a member month as i do an all night radio show and i do television during the day and i think it was. twenty four hours while they will i think yeah i know we talked about ice then and i think that it's dark or light all of that yeah and

we i shot there when i was in in ninety seven and we had a yeah it was the same thing twenty four hour where we just kept shooting was a low budget movie we had to finish in but you i mean you go crazy in the unknown. person from history you'd like to take to lunch. a few. well the obvious ones are the ones that. bit roll you regret turning down. i don't have any movie no no there wasn't something you said no and then you sort on the screen and said why did i take it no no i usually don't go watch that the stuff it's what something we should all be paying more attention to. i think we are now i just need the notion of just don't judge other people you know the whole thing of them and us let's just

get them to watch a having difficulty with our presidency. not as the know not the presidency and maybe the guy sitting in the chair of the ship is the. luxury you can't live without chocolate most of the cold game of thrones scene to shoot. well there was there was the most difficult physically was for this to to its services go had to fall into this river and we shot in this tank in belfast and it was a whole day of just falling through the water in this armor and it was absolutely disgusting how do they choose where they're going to go like why would a and both of us well belfast northern ali is amazing to have so many different locations and it's easy to get around it's you know you it's

a small town you don't waste too much time in traffic they have studios and they have an amazing tax break of course spain they have beautiful castles great tax breaks iceland's just expensive but they have ice. and craig has in the make to dubrovnik is beautiful thing where's the base that's belfast that's where we had a very interiors and. so the cast is there throughout the shooting yeah yeah we go we have like up until now we've had two full size units shooting at the same time. though with one called dragon the un's one is called wolf and usually one of them will be in spain and the other one will be in belfast do you like the people have more than great they still have it in for the british oh yeah. those are no no corey anderson asks you display lots of great leadership qualities as jamie lannister are there any real life experience you've pulled these traits from.

no i'm a father i guess but no i think my use that as an excuse for leadership my my wife would would would hit me know you do like jamie yeah i like him very much and you have to like you know i don't think you have to like the character you play you have to try to understand him and understood call a deal like that well i like him as well i like most of my character that's funny because because you know i have played some real not very nice people that didn't like but there are also some parts i've been offered that i just couldn't do because. you know i've you know there was that big story of a couple years ago of camera with what high school was built with a football coach that was you know if you don't kids right and there's a script that came my way which was kind of use that as inspiration and it was that play that kind of guy and i just couldn't do it corey anderson on the larry king

now blog asks what can you tell us about domino oh yes that's it's a new european movie that brian de palma's is directing was shooting really down yeah it's really it's a it's really cool. i'm very lucky i get to work with amy's he's brilliant he lays everything out right it's just yet and then he has this very specific vision. it's a thrilling stories about what had goes on in europe now with the paranoia of the it's a thriller and it's about the this constant sense of threat from from terrorist attacks you should know we should now we're. in the in denmark in brussels in spain. like all the traveling i do joe meet them on the larry king now blog i know you've been asked this a lot but what does it take for you to betray your sister. on game of thrones what will it take for you. jamie have to betray i mean i christian and i wish i knew the

answer but i and even if i did i would do the end zone and it would be watch the show you can have to watch the show to find out if there is an answer that at all tickets on twitter who are your closest friends on the game of thrones. well it's the some of the crew members of course the writers and then the my in my scene far as i'm going on kristie we've become really good friends. lena headey and also crime attaches on twitter what has been your favorite shooting location for game of thrones well there's a you know they have to broaden it is wonderful. in season three and it's just beautiful beautiful city right on the the ocean spain and i mean all of the places . belfast have a love that p. williamson on twitter do you watch game of thrones every week. no no i watch it

when i can. i am up to date do you watch dailies no no no you know what you did i did. magna purple on twitter what was the worst two edition you ever had all the fuel i think the worst one was it's kind of funny it was a. it was an american movie i flew out for this thing and i was told that i was going to meet the director there produces and based i walked in and they had no idea it was coming but the casting director just told me to sit down and then she had one of those little cameras and she hit the camera as if she's turned it on and she said go ahead and i started my scene was like a long fifty five page monologue got halfway there and i heard the sound of that i know well from as you know when you put on an idol for too long it just shuts down so she hadn't even turned it on and that was probably the low point of she could mean she didn't want to waste tape on me. and finally k.j.

twitter ten sixteen onto a what was your game of thrones auditions like it was very quick and painless i do right away yes i was very lucky. and more than lucky yes. big thanks to my guests never like costco although be sure to tune into the remaining episodes of the seventh season of game of thrones airs sunday nights at the i'm pm on h.b.o. . called out now in theaters as all those that find me on twitter at kings things or i'll see you next time.

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in our institutions is our democracy in danger. we'll examine that was sam daley harrison marianne williamson later on in the program. donald trump's amped up bombing campaign against isis is killing a staggering number of innocent people according to a new report from air wars in the daily beast as of july thirteenth more than two thousand two hundred civilians appear to have been killed by coalition raids since trump was inaugurated upwards of three hundred sixty per month by comparison air wars estimates estimates that coalition strikes in the fight against isis killed twenty three hundred civilians during the entire obama presidency joining me now for more on this story is medea benjamin co-founder of global exchange and code pink author of the new book kingdom of the unjust behind the u.s. saudi connection media welcome back thank you good to be with you tell thanks so much for joining us so what's going on here is this just the result of isis the war

moving into more top populated territories that it got cranked up and i guess the larger question all of these civilian casualty numbers seem just frankly surprisingly low to me for a war that's been going on with this kind of philosophy well let's take that piece by piece i think the tremendous increase in the number of civilian casualties is due to a number of factors one yes the war has ramped up as the fighting got into heavily populated zones in the case of iraq in syria and mosul in iraq but i think there's other factors involved in a big one is that trump has basically said to the pentagon do what you want and you don't have to check with anybody else just decide where you want to bomb when you want to bomb who you want to bomb and the result of that has been the use of big bombs it's become normal now to use five hundred thousand pound bombs in

residential. neighborhoods that was the case on march seventeenth you remember that bomb when they were trying to take out two snipers and used a five hundred pound bomb that killed over one hundred people because the whole building exploded or going after a fly with a ten gauge shotgun that's right and there's no investigation afterwards no accountability no sense that the u.s. has to acknowledge these casualties in fact the u.s. has stopped giving an accounting of the casualties and just thrown it into this umbrella of the coalition casualties and of course the majority of the airstrikes are done by the united states in the case of syria it's ninety five percent in the case of iraq it sixty eight percent so i think it's a combination of things but it's very important to recognize that even with the fighting in more populated areas has there been more attention and if there were

now in the case of iraq a more attention to civilian casualties it would mean many many many lives that would say we're saved in you're saying the numbers are not big numbers i think you have to put it in context of the larger picture of civilians being. harmed and that so many more people are dying not directly perhaps from an airstrike but from the lack of medical facilities the lack of food fleeing the kind of desperation that people face when they are refugees so there are a lot more people being killed as a result of this war it's just not being identified in those numbers so we're not counting them or are there is not a you know how do you know that this kid's cholera came as a result of a bomb that took out the infrastructure that was put in a clearing in the water well that's right in colorado let's talk about the case of yemen where they talk about ten thousand civilian casualties and i say that's

ridiculous to talk about ten thousand civilian. casualties because there's three hundred thousand cases of cholera because there's. a famine going on so i think whether it's iraq syria or yemen or anywhere where these wars are going on we really have to have a much broader. understanding of how people die during war is and more and more it's not from the direct result of of attacks by munitions or other weapons it's more the wreck the destruction of the infrastructure whether it's the water the sewage system the health care facilities the schools those kinds of things from from the the video and the pictures that i've seen it looks like we're just you know bombing people back to the stone age to use an old phrase but but arguably a literal you know i mean just you know there's nothing works anymore and everything's gone and these cities are just devastated if that happens if i was

a kid growing up in lansing michigan back in the day and canada came in and just bombed the crap out of lansing michigan and took out everybody's house around. i would forgive them i mean i would probably spend the rest of my life trying to do something about that are we creating a new generation of terrorists as a consequence of those i think there's a lot of people in both iraq and syria especially in mosul iraq are saying you know what kind of liberation is this when our lives are destroyed whether it's killing people wounding them because we haven't talked about how many people have been wounded by this or forcing them to flee their homes with nowhere to go and so what kind of liberation is it and yes i think in the process we and we haven't seen the end of it yet because even if you talk about mosul being quote liberated not only do we have to question what is left but we also have to say who's going to take

over and that's particularly true in the case of syria because already you have the conflicts going on about who is going to take control once isis is removed and that will bring back in new conflict with different players trying to determine who gets control so the wars are not over by any means once isis is gone it's just a new stage of the ongoing wars and ironically there's been virtually no coverage of this in the american media well because it's all trumped all the time and even when there has been some major changes for example just recently. administration announcing that they would no longer through the cia be supporting rebel groups in syria i mean this is a major major change in u.s. policy and yet it is barely covered in the u.s. media so i think the obsession with russia the obsession with every tweet of the

term puts out is really keeping the media from covering some very important aspect. acts of the war in the middle east who's winning who's losing what is the role of saudi arabia what's the role of iran what does it mean for the u.s. to say it's no longer going to be supporting rebel groups that have been trying to overthrow assad these are things that the media should definitely be talking about well into that last point and you're one of the most insightful observers and you're familiar with your you've been there many times what does it mean that we're no longer supporting the rebels against assad well first of all it doesn't mean that the u.s. is not involved in the war is anywhere because the pentagon is still involved in the war against isis but it does mean that there has been a deal that has been brokered with russia and with other countries in the region to

recognize that assad is not going away and something the media barely talked about which was fascinating was when trump went to france and met with mccrone and mccrone basically said we're not going to go after assad anymore that's a recognition that assad is strong with the support of russia and iran and that the real politic is that we have to broker an end to the conflict with assad and that is something that the trumpets and ministration has recognized as well was that was there an element of ok we took out. you know we took. in libya we took out gadhafi in iraq we took out saddam hussein that you know didn't really work out well doing that and so this is a change in policy from the obama policy in the early trump policy. recognition one that the policy isn't working that since. the intervention of russia

and iran has been so powerful in terms of giving assad the backing that he needed that taking out a side is very unlikely right now and the other is a look around. it comes afterwards and i think an understanding that now we have to broker what comes afterwards now rather then thinking we can overthrow assad and then figure out who and apropos of that it seems to me crazy for us to be in a proxy war with russia and it seems crazy for me to mean for us to be antagonizing iran at a time you know there are major regional player. or off on no you're absolutely right and unfortunately with the moment that we're in terms of the tremendous antagonism that the press and the democratic party have against russian interference in u.s. elections or involvement with the trumpet ministration the working with the

russians is not seen by many as a positive thing but it has to be done and there are cease fire agreements that have work been worked out between the u.s. russia and jordan that is actually working right now in one small sliver of syria that's supposed to be extended to three other areas so i think that it is important to recognize this shifting of power within the region and how syria and how iran is a major player right now and the trump administration is all over the place because while on the one hand they are making a remittance with russia on the other hand you know that trump himself is still in namrud with saudi arabia and has basically given the green light to the crisis with cutter in the other gulf neighbors so it's endings very very mixed strains messages especially when the secretary of state tillerson has a very different message from trump himself and meanwhile there was

a bar really put in an amendment to the military appropriations that are going through to to do away with the authorization to use military force. under which trump is currently operating in the minute or so we have left what paul ryan pulled that what's going on with this well it's a terrible thing something that was a major achievement with both parties consenting by voice vote that is to put that on the agenda and people very excited about now we're going to force congress to really talk about whether we should continue in these wars and paul ryan has pulled it might not be the end of the story because there may be other ways to get that back in again but not a very democratic move on behalf of paul ryan to say the very least small d. as in small does not a very republican move smaller republican either this is you know you would think when both parties agree on something then the speaker of the house is has the

responsibility for making that happen after seventeen years of continuous war is that the american people are tired of yeah in a u m f that had to do with nine eleven and none of this has to do with nine eleven and none of it's crazy medea benjamin thank you so much thank you for having us coming up with trust in our democratic institutions declining and now can we the people reclaim what is rightfully ours as marianne williamson and sam daly here as right after the break. here's what people have been saying about reject. the only show i go out of my way to you know what it is that really packs a punch. is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same. apparently better than. you see people you've never heard of. the next

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according to a due a.p. poll forty fully three quarters of americans think that they no longer have influence in washington d.c. they also think that the rich and powerful have too much influence in our nation's capital and not only is that true but it's a sign that our democracy is fundamentally broken so how can we fix what rightfully belongs to we the people joining me now are two people who are hard at work figuring that out sam dealey harris is the c.e.o. of the center for citizens of parliament transformation the c.e.o. of results and author of reclaiming our democracy healing the bridge between people and government marianne williamson is a lecturer and the author of eleven books including the law of divine compensation and it's great to have you both here with us thank you so much for joining me and i

want to start out with you had this this a.p. poll that says seventy five percent of americans feel like they're ignored in washington d.c. it's actually should be ninety percent shouldn't do seems like the bottom ninety percent doesn't get what they want legislated well i think particularly because of the occupy movement i think people really did get the message that there's a one percent that they sort of dominates the reins of government and that we have really changed the social contract from the government of the people by the people for the people to government of a few of the people by a few of the people for a few of the people i kind of corporatism obviously has replaced amok with say i think where people are now is figuring out who if anyone is working on their side in all this where do the republicans stand where do the democrats stand and i think people have to take some responsibility here to people feel that way but then if they feel that way why haven't they been voting i mean i seventy five percent feel that way why haven't seventy five percent voted in most of our elections so i think that the current crisis that we're going through is really waking people up and

this is a moment of peril and possibility i think people have to think deeply. about how their own disengagement in many cases contributed to it getting this bad and then a kind of reengagement which sam is so good at is what's going to fix this but we have to fix it in some very fundamental way as well and there's also this morning mental issue just to follow up on this miriam. a lot of people i think thought that they were voting for change you know donald trump you know in his in his political campaigner his campaign for president so all the bankers there are killers i'm going to bomb going to break up the big banks and you know. these companies are something our jobs are going to stop i mean they i believe that many people well intentioned people actually because he was running on on basically a democratic platform i'm not going to touch your social security medicare medicaid we're going to stop the crazy trade deals we're going to bring back the job in this but he was also saying a lot of other things and i don't care how much you might have liked certain things

that he was saying there were other things that he was saying that i think would make any person or should make any person at least question his dedication to certain democratic principles so i think that part of that even has to do with the fact that we've stopped teaching our children civics in school there's a lot of there's a lot of ignorance i don't mean stupidity but ignorance among the american people about what our constitution says what our declaration of independence actually says too many people aren't really aware anymore of the basic bulwark principles of american democracy and so don't know to be horrified when assaults to those principles our president and i do believe not just in his presidency but in his campaign. donald trump said a lot of things that i think would have made a person thinking. very deeply about some of this to at least question maybe they would have voted for him anyway but i don't i don't want to give the whole thing isn't. a pass on this this didn't come out of the well and the fact of the matter

is he got three million fewer votes than the candidate who actually won the popular vote so you know so sam you've been doing essentially the same talk with different titles one is writing checks signing petitions and protest marches is that all the risks and the second is are shouting in silence the only two options bringing bipartisanship and transformation to political activism are you rejecting resistance so i mean i'm clear that without the resistance we'd have a massively mean health care law enacted right now so the resistance is critical and it's important especially for stopping bad things from happening but if we only have resistance that's not going to cut it we really need other ways to get good things to happen and so. you know we spoke a year ago and i think i was mentioning a new climate solutions caucus with ten republicans and ten democrats or at the

time of the election it was down to six and six because four republicans either retired or lost their seats after the inauguration eighteen more republicans eighteen more democrats came onboard now over twenty four republicans twenty four democrats on this house climate solutions caucus that doesn't come that doesn't come from the shouting how is it that that never gets reported well i mean it's not noisy enough so you know so so that's a specific that's. very and here in d.c. for the results international. tell us what happened and about the session well as you know sam found it results and it does have to do with all the things that he's been talking about citizens actually taking. the part in our democracy going back to what you and i were talking about before too many people don't even know the basics like you know i always say to people take the phone number of the switchboard of the u.s. congress and put it on your refrigerator make

a constituent calls results they teach people how to write up then too many people don't know you know don't really they know they don't have a real visceral feeling for the fact that your senator works for you your congressman works for you call them up tell them how you feel make noise so i've always supported the work of results and tomorrow i'm going to be talking in my workshop about how in order for this revitalization to occur yes we need more citizen activism but once again as we were talking about before there's been a deadening inside us we ourselves have to have to come awake again we have to we have to recognize the united states is going through a kind of dark night of the soul right now we need to get up we need to dust ourselves off we need to realize once again a lot of our own disengagement. contributed to this our reengagement is the only thing that can change it but it has to be reengagement on a whole fundamental level that has not been present and that's what i want to talk about tomorrow the changes inside us you know we treat government in

a very rationalistic way people in politics treat it like it's just some machine and they going to tinker with the parts of the machine but that lack of organic and holistic perspective isn't working for one thing and it's absolutely in the twenty first century a country is not our externals it's our people and so i want to talk about a politics that really is aligned more with who we are as people because i feel deep down democracy is aligned with the deepest yearnings of the human heart it's a democracy is not just a political imperative it's a moral imperative so i want to talk about those those those aspects of democracy that have to do with the deeper yearnings of the of the heart and how we have to pour back into it the deepest aspects of ourselves if we want to get it back on track at this time soon talked about. a deeper engagement and if i could just share this quote from frances moore of the pay who said our real problem is not a heating planet or rampant malnutrition we only have one real problem our own feelings of powerlessness to manifest the solutions right in front of our noses and

so to get the deeper engagement people have to link in with organizations that can dissolve that powerlessness. go for it well you know i'm in a field where i don't coddle that in people it's like when women say how do i find my voice you find your voice by using it on behalf of someone other than yourself you find your power by using it i mean on one hand what sam is doing giving people the tools is certainly correct but there's also a lot of i feel powerless a kind of whining about what's been happening that would lead people you know if you want to google how to get involved you find organizations like results and you know i said to people all the time you interested in a particular in a particular subject or topic google it because there are all kinds of really marvelous organizations you can be an activist so i think we need to know what francis herself would say right now but i think we need to move and i also think

with what she said that before this current era of craziness i think people are activated now we just need to find the topic find the cause get online fund organization and remember the midterms of two thousand and eighteen are closer than you might think all men are men and speaking of organization sam you're also working with the quakers. veterans tell us about well friends committee on national legislation a scieno they had no chapters two years ago in this. way and now we have sixty around the country they're focused on reducing the pentagon budget well the president's asking for a fifty four billion dollar increase it's a tough assignment but they have folks all around the country getting together for a conference call. we've got speakers in writing these op eds and letters to the editor and meeting with members of congress and not doing it alone doing it with others so we can make a difference to quakers are great unsung heroes in american democracy. absolutely

and the bullishness movement emerged from the quakers many of the leaders of the of the woman suffragette movement were quakers. profound profound influence and continue to be of and apropos of that area and you've been one of the more outspoken articulate people arguing that we need to have some sort of an intersection between spiritual politics and certainly not a state religion or anything but bringing spiritual body into politics well i think democracy is by its very nature an intersection of spirituality and politics the founding of american democracy was not just important in terms of the political history of the world but in terms of the moral evolution of the world the idea that god created all men equal i mean that's in our declaration of independence it's an idea that we could create a society where to the best of our ability self actualization of the individual would be possible that's really what democracy is about the possibility of self

actualization that there shall be no external form of obstruction to your being everything that you can create for yourself that god gave you as a possibility within yourself and that the government would advocate for your for that possibility against any form any barrier to that actual ization and what has happened of course today is that the government is not only not advocating for the people against the excesses of a corporate order that would limit the capacity of people to self actualize but is too often a hand made its to those to those forces that would cap the possibility of self actualization but other i think you know you look back to the to the abolitionist movement. you look back to the suffragette movement you look to the civil rights movement we've gotten off course before and people such as the quakers and others have risen up to get us back on course and we can do that now i think the only question is well will our generation went out on the job people such as you guys to

perry and sam thank you both so much frank you. and that's the way it is tight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag your. car . on. the field we don't know. the. theory of.

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welcome to the wonderful world of blood donation around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of generosity one of the noblest acts in modern society but the reality is different altogether. if there's the perfect money making industry our willingness to pay for available therapies basically especially for a loved ones knows no bounds at the heart of this business class mom a yellow liquid rich in proteins it's the main component of blood it's more expensive than oil burners he looks protest. get down to duty to process tell us a new book anybody else misquote acceptable shall die each systemic keep down man

i'm meant to be beautifully shot cliffy did you pull. off a motor car and communal the meanness she was killing me so. i don't want to do and i'm sure most of us. we decided to explore a little known area within the health industry the blood trail. our investigation took us to france germany and the us they don't like arrest or interview they're done oh yeah i'm a. they want something a do all right they need to stop public want to know. today carlos is donating blood despite his busy job he's a regular blood donor at the red cross center and lows on carlos sees his act as a sign of commitment to the community. especially if more than one hundred million

donations are collected each year worldwide in two thousand and fifteen. the swiss red cross registered three hundred eleven thousand donations the figure diminishes each year and they're constantly seeking new donors their message is clear giving blood saves lives. southwest of my did new. sickish for it did not add to. them under. more similar to the additional. that. just couldn't keep one. push towards come in can the board to prolong the need to get the team. flu mad. if. they have blood is a quite peculiar juice said with glee but he's not the only want to be interested

health is also an industry and blood donations are subject to the laws of the market. but for. what will this shift is that when you don't before giving blood these swiss donors must complete a medical question here and give their informed consent in particular there is one line at the end of the form a sentence. in small letters i am aware that some components of my donation may be used for the production of drugs only a few donors read this line though it's crucial in reality most of the donated blood is sold to private companies something the red cross doesn't advertise. to help them i hope to sponsor thousand look spent on periodic. does seem to fold loot spent in the us highest in these the boot spend and since not in the

loop in the us plus more. investment need plethora. getting thoughts to them on that include tile in the system plus muscle the. plots and the swimming it detect in the tail and get it out to be tail ticed foot putts he entered in the uncool salute to low stop and decent as well the woman said style to use the title to us into fast off to put scent gate in the so going on to talk till needed into sleep the sinfield men did. look to their own to come into. the plasma fractionation industry these are the pharmaceutical companies that buy eighty thousand liters a plasma from the red cross each year the humanitarian institution makes nearly ten million swiss francs from the sale of the donors aware of it.

doesn't. remember doing yesterday between a soap opera house so. i know many. of the shows i. don't know more don't understand if ya'll said if it could only do so if pierre priscus assaulted vernia. he said don't his appeal to the summit and watching. them when you don't do so. first discovery the majority of the donors blood is sold to pharmaceutical industries. the industry is so interested in carlos's blood for a specific reason it's liquid parts called plasma contains sought after proteins. they're used to make very expensive and profitable drugs. who are the players behind this industry. we decided to track the plasma trade.

to see it out to fix fifty seven percent is made at the flat plastic. liquid poison the whole of life that transports water and nutrients to all sounds or not it is composed of approximately ninety percent water and ten percent protein plasma plasma industry is healing chant a handful of companies share the world market baxter in the usa bearing in australia and your foals and spinny and the company pharma in switzerland which we discover through these promotional films. is produced by the think bio reactor developed over millions of years of evolution the human body for these companies plasma is nothing but a raw material and very lucrative to europe and the professional term is fractionation the name of the procedure that transforms donor's plasma into drugs

to do this with a callback to freeze and to mix thousands of liters of human plasma these companies control a market which is worth seventeen billion dollars and growing steadily history so that the plasma gong margaery the president and co-founder of up to pharma is a very discrete person forbes estimates his fortune at six billion dollars this is one of his very rare public appearances how do you. see the future developing these products are life saving drugs and they will be required for some patient groups as a lifelong therapy presumably they're covered by and most insurance they have to be as to very expensive but that is also the other part of the same from the same calling them many countries who simply cannot afford to provide this kind of level of treatment to the population yet at least it sounds easy when you say replies

will be a bit well enough to just go through your population your country the ploughs well and you'll be in good shape when you make those products that's not the case. remains a family business dedicated to the way it's going to patients to go. in that like adventure. throughout the world the lives of millions of patients depend on these treatments tomorrow is one of them today she's receiving her treatment at a hospital in bear since childhood she suffers from an immune deficiency that causes repeated infections. yeah thanks to her plasma based treatment tamar's life has become easier so much so that it would be difficult for her to go without. and they

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a trade secret we decide to visit swiss medic this is the swiss authority in charge of drug control including their origin these expert analyzed plasma samples each week as well as the blood derived products that are used in hospitals and. not just in profit also thought in yet interesting is they not only cooked and it's. been down to. the department they still. are equal to it i think will be down to taste. but the bait but the. live feed. didn't do. the k.p. so it was going to. sit up with the fish. competition made up stuff. ok it's

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quest twenty fifth street the address listed in swiss medics register some of the plasma used in the drug sold in switzerland comes from here. this blood collection center belongs to the australian companies c.s.l. donate plasma save lives earn up to two hundred dollars a month. there are donor ads everywhere which tell us that the volunteers are paid for their blood. as opposed to most european countries the usa allows compensation for blood donations this practice is legal. we enter the premises which are under heavy surveillance impossible to speak with the stand.

just yank it it's an engine she did you know we did you know it's ok for us the create an across the street it's good to get. the center is in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. cleveland is a devastated city the financial crisis of two thousand and eight was a fatal blow. pastor lester williams knows the reality of life in this neighborhood many of his church followers. last month. period that.

would i guess. is legal so i will probably go to. that but with you strange is that companies they continue to call this a donation. but what she's a donation when when you pay someone is not as as good. it's not it's not free just with a donation should be should be free that when do they do exploiting exploiting people in whatever conditions he is economically. and actually now to do a nation to actually pay him for not in charge of the us in charge in switzerland for the pleasant and so make your money on it in both ways you know the little good they're giving to these people is not very much.

in cleveland all the market leaders are represented see south poles. we also find octave pharma the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like that to. that of a bull market goes there twice a week to sell its plasma. budget right now where a month for thirty two bucks for red forty five dollars for a full fifty dollars a month insurance is so so out of it to say of the ballpark around. trying to turn twenty five a month and i found out that i can with a plasma or you know or you know that's the problem when you're on tight budget it's a fragile thing to know. we wanted to go inside with him to speak with the people in charge this turned out to be impossible the hostility increased the closer we

got to the center and. nothing you were almost property is that is now my friends meeting so we question donors outside in the parking lot. first those this kind of like the extra money thing you know just to get a little money on the side you know hope new bills and stuff. just kind of you know became a regular star you get fifty. new customers in. a week and get. up to forty along if you've been dating for. a year. it's starting to let you know times we. yes this. is good for the families is good for my family and. so one hand wash the other.

you know and does it for any kind of moral reason no one does it for them or no one no one does it because it helps people it's one of the side of things is that it helps. the procedure is well established as soon as the plasma bottle is full the donors credit card is credited. here there are very few now. this is the plasma bank or so most. like a regular. they put their money on your car immediately after you get done. sometimes. they forget to put the money on your car and you got to call the number on your car you know because if you don't call the number on your car and stuff you want to be without money. after the economic crisis donations stored in the usa going from fifteen million in

two thousand and seven to thirty two million in two thousand and fourteen look schafer is a sociologist at michigan university. when we look at the numbers of families reporting cash in. two dollars per person per day in any given month. it well more than doubles over at. ten year period and when we look at the number of families who are who are on food stamps it actually quadrupled emergency food assistance goes through the roof so when all of these things are put in the same direction. we walked into the plasma clinic down the street and just ask people why are you here what's going on people lost their jobs haven't been able to find work and in many cases that's going to be the only and i mean in that household and to their only option. we rejoined mark at the entrance

to the center it didn't work out the way he wanted the center refused him because his blood pressure was too high. to be able to donate. and it's very important because. i take my blood pressure medication and i think i think i. said if you can donate it it's a it's a find it show issue it is it is it is. likely it's not life or death it's not asked to do it. it's valuable stuff. that i'm going to have to run for along with a you know just for you know i mean i'll take care of it soon i'll be able to i'll be able to get my blood pressure straighten out and that's why it is good for me to . we accompanied him

to a small subsidized apartment that he's been living in for a year. money to make the cell phone home when i had my stroke it was about three years ago i went into the doctor's to be quite honest i was drinking a lot i was doing drugs i was combining a lot of bad stuff so the next day i went to the cleveland clinic which is one of our really good hospitals and cleveland. in the word with people that thought of a lot of money as you get raided it when you get raided it means you can basically go there for free and get health care and as we're qualifying the lady do it you say oh you're way below poverty level. way below you know there's below and there's way below so that was an eye opener. there

are times when. for my own self-esteem. i don't want to accept help i want to be able to. say no thanks but no fix to a god to farm. it's kind of easy money. it's necessary at least for me it's necessary. for mark and many other americans blood is last source of income. he could no longer donate he'd have no income. but all of these blood donations are affecting his health. david this is

a doctor in one of the city's largest public hospitals metro health is the safety net system for cleveland we take care of people or guard less of their ability to pay for a lot of our patients and the people that we take care of at metro health this is their one of the few strategies that they can use to get money out of the literature of say about the long term effects of donating was that we i couldn't find anything in the literature describing what the effects or i know from talking to my patients who do donate plasma that they're tired so they get fatigued they have headaches but beyond that. and now all i know is the red cross has one time a month and these guys are doing it twice a week. to talk to this individual who was donating my patient and he may not be able to afford a cell phone bill or rents and that is more important for his health potentially

than the down side effects of donating because if he doesn't have a cell phone he can't get a job. or he can't pay his bills. you know how free is so. this is the this is the dilemma that weren't. but if you could earn extra money while doing something great for others to farm up last month you can not only are plasma donations by dole to the treatment of rare chronic internet it diseases you could own the usa is the world's main exporter of human plasma with seventy percent of the world market their success is based on a foolproof recipe by building on this type of campaign they nurture the image of a country with excellent sanitary conditions. the market is under the supervision of the food and drug administration the f.d.a. stamp is a guarantee of quality opening the doors to the international market each week

frozen plasma is dispatched in shipments mainly to year. this is the other side of the american dream masses of poor people willing to sell their blood they provide an unlimited pool of primary material we wanted to understand the conditions in which blood is collected seven am in cleveland in the parking lot of our pharma. doing no more dead heat we were abot dad and i want to get no more i just smog and i didn't need flour we need it most kill me so. i don't want. i get it raised you know it slows. a motor car. and. these stories illustrate the industrial pace and inadequate checks however the pharma assures the authorities that there is strict donor monitoring but if that's

the case why didn't the swiss company let a sentence have just why did they prevent us from talking to the staff it's how are its donors selected to check we had to go and see for ourselves with a hidden camera. on larry king and you're watching our t.v. america question more. look to get. all the food we don't need. everyone in the world should experience fleas and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to

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