those are. now. all. greetings and salutation but too often in our world today a hawk watchers far too many journalists choose to go along to get along when they are confronted by a story that if reported honestly could and most definitely would bring down the wrath of the powers that be upon their career credibility and character thankfully and lucky for us there are still many reporters out there who are not afraid to report the truth despite what the corporate news media's daily doses of paper thin

reporting and celebrity gossip gossip would have us believe with tensions once again rising to cold war level levels between the great nuclear powers of the world we need honest journalism to break through the wall of silence now more than ever i recently sat down with john pilger a journalist and documentarian who has spent a lifetime breaking through the wall of silence to port the truth as he saw it from his days as a war correspondent vietnam to covering the real intentions behind the united states asian pivot policy in his new documentary becoming war on china john pilger as one man who has spent his career watching the hawks. that got.

please. welcome the watcher i am tired but to recently i had the pleasure to sit down with john pilger in new york city to discuss the united states as recent pivot to asia and the state of journalism today and his latest documentary the coming war on china here's a quick preview of his film followed by our interview. the world as being a crime to regard china as a new enemy. the great power game is called put petrol war. first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war. where are we going to stop this process before it starts to. be a film is to break and silence

a nuclear war is no longer unthinkable. the equivalent to what. was exploded in the xylem every day for twelve years. they're not trying to run the world they want to keep america from dominating we need an enemy for all this money and china is the perfect enemy. to any a country that would come up against us we get better and better and better. john thank you for sitting down i want to start and ask you you know in in your in your long career as a journalist in documentary filmmaker well what was the point you know early on where you realize the the world wasn't as we were sold at the government's didn't act the way we dream them to act the military didn't have the best intentions for their countries or the people of their countries what was there a specific. moment or sequence of events that kind of open your eyes to the i

didn't think there was a particular. when i. left straight as a young man and went to england and then they can a career as a foreign correspondent going to countries where people have to struggle just to live was a shock to me i never imagined the world was like that. i suppose is the second point of suppose a piton if you like was spending. the late sixty's and seventy's and many years off that in this country in the united states i reported. four or five presidential campaigns.

but i didn't place myself in new york i didn't buy some soul from washington travels the country and i knew i think i had a glimpse of another america. and i would say that my political education was completed in the united states because i. was. the what whatever happened had the new most ripple effect across the world usually on people who had power in their own lives to influence the fake and that was probably the greatest influence and i've been coming back to the states that since and the view hasn't triage. that ripple effect you speak of for lack of a better term or the correct term he calls that kind of hidden american empire the you know kind of. the globe is plays

a huge role in this new documentary that you did the coming war with china i want to ask you what was the inspiration to tackle that subject what was the thing that said ok i need to get this documentary to debate this i need to put this together because people need to know about this. well the inspiration i suppose for was. was my own experience in the part of the well i covered the vietnam war and the wars in indochina on and off for a nano ten years until the very last day and so asia and america's invasions of asia. had had a great impact on me as a reporter. and some of my i suppose. part of my interest part of my home always been in that part of the world and when in two thousand and eleven president. travel to australia to announce is

a cold pivot to asia although he didn't actually call it that which was really what he was say was way going to move most of america's naval and air forces to the pacific to confront the second biggest economic power in the world to put out dominance to china already is surrounded by four hundred us bases that extend all the way up from australia through the pacific. through asia. japan korea and across here asia but now america was poised going to say to try and . west still the big guy on the block be careful it was probably the most provoking. the most progressive and yet the most

under-reported strategic decision made in the modern era in this country i say the other one of course is similar to the situation which wasn't my. but certainly is an invasion and it was an invasion of ukraine when the us overthrew the elected government and your credit in the whole point of that was to confront russia so the strategy was the ins and the two what they saw as the two great rivals russia and china. and. this i think but really where is. the whole. essence of the us russia so cold conflict was part of the cold war and so was the chinese but china has

grown spectacularly in less than a generation america's biggest trading partner it is it is now the third biggest power in the country in the on the planet earth so this was an extraordinary story. and a very dangerous move. i have to say something that the present president has yet to equal. and i think it's very astute when you pointed out that it was very underreported for what it was you know and anybody who kind of follows real u.s. history could kind of see the movement in what they were doing but that's one of the big problems i see is that we don't have. a very good education of what the reality of u.s. history is in this country for its own people and i was curious to ask you you know you see that with how you know the main. those kind of views china or the you know

the word used about china or russia or d. is that a uniquely us problem do other countries kind of shield the their their real motivations throughout history as much as the u.s. does. use of cool yes they do of course but the u.s. is the most imperial power in this we were discussing at the beginning what happens matches but the most striking thing always since i first came to the united states is that the u.s. intelligence. almost never takes responsibility. from the consequences of its actions across the world there's a kind of intellectual it's the bereft of of an intellectual let alone a moral on the sky and they can it's quite a craven situation you see it in in the the great old goodness of the intelligence

is the new york times and the washington post you see it coming out of the great academies in the united states we're about to have. a massive so-called retrospective on p.b.s. public broadcasting about the vietnam war done by the acclaimed. so. sort of the wood of this is that the scrapes. quoted in the new the smalling. the the the right to describes. the war in vietnam as being begun by decent people with good faith there was no good faith there was no that's that's not an opinion there was no good it was a deliberate attack on that country now and i mention that because that's terribly important vietnam because. vitt the maze defeated the

united states but it's never been forgiven that has to be constantly put that's north. and the collaborators in this suppression. of all the obvious to all the major truth a truth that unless it's on the steward allows for more wars more bombings to go on and all. we're about to have that again. one of the interesting things i noticed and speaking of vietnam in them china in the similarities that we're seeing is you know from what i understand is that i reached out to the u.s. for help before you know the revolution to get out and then as you made the point in your documentary the leader of china was also reaching out to the u.s. to deaf ears again so it's almost the british the vietnam. messages to to roosevelt. the

declaration of independence one hundred to clay had it all fit anonymous and had become independent and was was based almost word for word on the us spectrum ration of independence and he was it was he was helped by committees patsy who was an american special forces officer who believed that what the united states was doing in vietnam was actually wrong and now the same thing happened as i pointed out my film out said to whom. he tried to get in touch with three presidents he tried to get in touch with roosevelt and truman and then eisenhower and when you read what he actually wrote to them it's extraordinary it says. the. china and the united states have

so much in common we cannot develop without the assistance of the other great power across the pacific it was the kind of geo political overture but ordinary people men face and it was rejected those who carried these massive messages for themselves these american foreign service. were themselves pilloried before the hearings and so we get to the point in the late fifty's there was no one in the pentagon. and the pentagon so it may be no one in the department of state who could speak mandarin who could speak who could speak the language of the greatest power in the world the most populous nation on the world. as we go to break don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter and see our poll shows at our dot com coming up john pilger

and i continue our discussion on his new documentary becoming war on china and we also talk about the state of journalism today as we continue watching the hall it's . called the feeling of. every in the world. and you'll get it on the old old. old according to just. come along for the ride. i'm john harshman i'll give you what the mainstream media can't the big picture.

and when you question more find what you're looking for. we'll go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. do you see this becoming a cold war as intense as it was with you know the u.s. and the soviets or is this going to turn. i'm not a futurist are all i can make those predictions in the spot one only has to go to the people who have studied this say the panel headed by general james cartwright some years ago who spoke of a wind of. decision making and when people. with the

responsibility for strategic nuclear weapons have to make a decision and that window has close to something between eight and ten minutes so a miscalculation mistake and accident they be. the the the the progeny of all of all of the kind of provocation that we're seeing at the moment they're also they're also. continue in that analogy that the old spring of propaganda. propaganda and censorship is the real problem you know we have now putting aside fox news but we have now the major so cool respectable organs of the media in this country who have given up real. i've been a reporter for. oh quite

a while. my work has been acknowledged i've never known a time when basic osp reporting has been so abandoned when the new york times the other day could run. a lone so-called investigation by someone cold scotch who was a apparently a report of a about about these russian trolls that subverting the great american bureaucracy to democracy one of these trolls is a sixty six year old. post in the midwest though someone who believes that hillary clinton was a war monger while she was aboard mungo but that apparently qualifies this person as some sort of russian troll the absurdity it's it's worthy of joseph heller

of catch twenty two of any kind of satire but unfortunately. we're not speaking about satire we're speaking about a campaign of war mongering aimed at what is that a that it's aimed really at eventually breaking up the russian federation. the enemy is independence all states that are independent they do not follow an american picked at iran used to be. libya used to be iraq syria is held on. russia and china big crime is their independence. and to see the media as such and all be a sixpence. emanating out of washington. and yet and yet some fool of it's own sense of importance as

a bastion of free speech. i think i've never known that kind of censorship in the united states even at the height of the great war as in the china mentioned earlier that kind of eight to ten minute. you know window and the fear of nuclear war and you wrote recently an article that referenced the classic novel and film on the beach in which the star gregory park is wonderful film i like the very much it tells the story of kind of the world in a post nuclear exchange and you know i have to ask you as a how how close are we to that beach right now you know from being on that beach. look we are close there's no question about whether that that final gap will close is i don't know as i say i think. the the point made in by

never shooter in this book and of course in the film was that that it. there was this incredible scene there there was there was one where they were all sitting around near the end saying half of this to be involved russia or china or in the united states and i think held by an a.o. or something and no one knew no one was sure how to actually stop what triggered it well that's if nuclear war. i think the same will be true i don't believe. although there are some truly. disturbing and possibly inciting people. in charge of strategic weapons i don't believe that any of them wants to blow themselves up yeah. i mean north korea no doubt is following

a very clear strategy that it's only by having nuclear weapons but we will not be attacked it's the madden it's the mad theory of war that has become the madman their way of the war but there's a lot to that are we poking him to kind of poking north korean can join room to justify that in circle moment of china you know to give it that kind of will we have to worry about north korea and that the meantime so nobody knows that we're kind of moving this military machine to china's doorstep to potentially choke tried off of resources to put them in their place so to speak you know are they you think they're using north korea as that excuse to kind of put these pieces in place. they could probably that's what you just described as rational and is a real a real possibility there's no doubt about them there is it is

a strange combination in my experience of a logik a rational but then the rationale ceases and there is a kind of ideological. their logical impetus. to move forward and you get this in. certain public official rules like. obama's secretary of defense ash ashcroft it was probably the most aggressive of his kind really now have. been. well you've got the three you can get through the matters and all of that you've got the three generals but it's. there's no doubt that north korea is used to assert america's dominance that the world needs america to protect it from madmen.

like the leader of north korea but that's the message to all this japan needs the united states asia needs it of course if you go actually go to asia certainly to china and japan as well. that's the last thing they need the whole island of okinawa which has twenty eight u.s. military bases on. where they are almost as i showed in my film almost by the order it was given to nuclear missiles at china and the pressure. they want none of this the people in the region want none of this and what has been demonstrated ninety ninety two ninety ninety four there were agreements between the south and the north and denuclearizing korea there was what was called

a framework agreement but even george w. bush. agreed to lay off north korea if the if the north koreans would stop their development of nuclear development and they agreed. that clinton actually a clinton to begin with if they went into the george w. bush period and was torn up. so we've had plenty of examples of. the united states the region in the world coming to terms with a country whose history explains why it is like it is always want try to finish on a positive note because i think that's important as world so i ask you you know do you do you see hope in all of this and. one of the things that struck me in your documentary was the people standing up to the base in okinawa for that reza out example and so i think the there is still hope to kind of roll this back and to

keep others from happening but it's a very good example and if you want to know the corrupt version of her that is become a campaign slogan and. promote the but i think there is real hope. in a place like. since the second world war people. almost the entire island is united in wanting to be a peace piece with its with its region. the same is true in korea when they cross the waters the island which. has been. demonstrating its its need for pays for many years. i think all around the world there is no question that's almost a given it's not who. it's it's who would want to invite.

nuclear war particularly into the region those who stand up to it are really i think the heroes felt time it is making their voices heard so is that so many of us here the and join with them as has been done in the paused in this city in new york in the nineteen eighties a million people filled the streets of manhattan in the freeze movement and that was to freeze the stationing of nuclear weapons in europe we now have according to nato documents circulating in germany. the intermediate range nuclear treaty is about to be. that means they'll be able to to face. into media training nuclear weapons across europe.

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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 parties 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 ends 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 week and you know what they're working. larry king now the united shaves of america hosts w. kamau bell seinfeld i think city time you're frustrated or angry there's something

funny there so yeah there's a lot of optimism here where we film the pilot for the freemason aids it was an episode with the ku klux klan and at that point by the time it was an august of two thousand and fourteen by the time that aired it like people were like why are you talking about the klan and then he's fast forward to now and it's like klan is in the deal clan is in it it's a kind of crackling. people say they would you like to interview trump i don't believe that there's any proof that there's anything to interview there. haven't interviews you know you have a back and forth conversation this particular trump is not somebody is trying to get this trump is not somebody you want to talk plus i feel like if i am to the right party member of the n.b.a. in the eighty's just went to africa and found tell people. that they need to be scouring america for the next leaders i don't know those people are currently exist every time we talk about is that is biden going to run you know when we talk about sort of the same old people running in twenty twentieth's like now it's can't be

that it's all legs song larry king now. welcome to larry king our special guest is w. kamau bell a claim comedian and host of the emmy nominated c.n.n. docu series the united shades of america kamau who serves as a c.e.o. use embassador of racial justice also host to podcast called denzel is the greatest actor of all time period and he's going to be in the iceman cometh in new york next year and politically reactive his radio show tom all right now airs on k l w san francisco's public radio and that was has been nuff book we all thought so w. kamau bell hits shelves this past spring. time. to canadian. yeah i mean i still think that stand up yeah did stand up did

a lot of stand up and sarah sisko still am a comedian still the stand up yes working on my new hour of stand up right now so that's my my korma comedian you grew up in northern gulf and no i grew up in sort of i was born imparato but then we moved back east so i lived most when i lived back east and then moved out to the bury about twenty years ago we were funny kid to my mom. i was an only child so i think i thought it was funny because they said my mom laughed and you always get into touchy subjects political subjects controversial subjects no what i started out as a kid you know who started doing comedy i was just like i was trying to be funny in whatever way i could be but i came from a household where there was always talk of politics and race and so i think i naturally gravitated to that as i started as i could do in comedy and find things funny in today's america i think any time seinfeld i think said in time you're frustrated or angry there's something funny there so yeah there's a lot of opportunity for humor in today's america in trump's america especially exactly yeah i mean you know he gives us he the tweets are manna from heaven give

me the genesis of united shades. i had a show previously called totally biased that was executors by chris rock and it was sort of like a standard late night talk show i did monologue was on f.x. and then f x x and then nowhere. and so on that show people said the best thing that i did was the man on the streets eichmanns which chris rock encouraged me to do i've never done that before and so when that show they cancelled at a meeting with c.n.n. and they had just i'm bored a mistake just lost and morgan spurlock and lisa ling and they wanted to launch an original show because all those shows it sort of exists elsewhere and they thought i could host a show that a pitch for show or a black guy goes places where he shouldn't go so i was the black guys and women would do it i guess. it's been two years as it changed under trump them under obama i mean i do feel lucky that we had a year. to sort of like get under you to get everything under our feet i think that

so that by the time the second season came because we filmed the pilot for the. shades it was an episode with the ku klux klan and at that point it was in august of two thousand and fourteen by the time that aired it like people were like why are you talking about the klan and then you fast forward to now and it's like the klan is in the daily news klan is in it it's a kind of back larry. everything comes back eventually bell bottoms the klan story it's got to be something that i really feel like either i don't know enough about i feel like people as a whole don't know enough about so for me it's got to be areas where it's like and also i do want some sense of either emotional or physical jeopardy something where it's like i have the stakes do the producers book the guests and everything and yeah you know pretty busy so yeah i mean they do i would great staff there right here in l.a. but also i see just a lot of people a lot of times like we did an episode about east l.a. boyle heights and east l.a. and i basically booked

a lot of the show from friends of mine who i knew who worked in immigrant rights movements and who were mexican americans and activists and so i went to them is that we need people or the show because they can't find anybody and so a lot of times it's my contacts will get us guess she is happy. if season three routes are silly season three about two weeks twenty six years and maybe exactly ok one of the most memorable moments for this year you you talk to all right leader white supremacist which is spencer first why'd you pick him first of all thank you for calling what's purpose is not everybody will do that at the time we picked him it was because he was not as famous as he is now we were trying to find some we were filming in the d.c. area and we about it was all about immigration refugees and the producers like we find somebody who has a different viewpoint and it just so. happen that richard spencer is going to be there doing one of his wife's promises conferences and so we just pick them like oh he's there in the area and then by the time we are closer he start to become more

known and so would we have picked him knowing what we know now i don't know but certainly he was not the guy he is now we are surprised he agreed to speak to i was until i got there and realize that you know he he's a guy who craves the spotlight he craves the attention he wants to be he wants the weird thing about richard spencer is he actually wants to be like that if you watch the interview with me it seems like he's a guy who wants me to like him he just won't let me go to his party afterwards. did you have tough time preparing for that i mean you can read all the things you can get all the research i like the stats on research but then when you sit down and you've done these things we said don't somebody who. what surprised you the most about him. that he was so cavalier with his hatred. that he that he seemed to a lot of times you see people on t.v. and they're screaming and yelling but he was he was hateful with a smile why does he think because of pigment color that he's better than you

but if we could answer that question larry we would both win the nobel peace prize do you think he thinks that it's only pigment color i think that unfortunately a lot of this country's history was written by people who were really telling the whole story so a lot there's generations of people who have grown up reading history books where the pilgrims are always the heroes and the indians are the savage tribes who need to be domesticated and slavery was a sort of this is this bad thing that happened but once we got through it everything was fine and so the history books for a lot of people were written that way and they believed them and so they think. in those issue books through it and it's either said or not said is that america is a white country america was dominated by europeans and the british and it's here for us and even though when the irish showed up they were considered white you know in. the italian sort of they were considered white david see all graduated to whiteness so there's many people and as we see some of them are on the web in the white house who believe that this country set up for white people. was

a rough yes it was your tired your no hate in the bay rally in berkeley how did that go the nazis left so i think it was pretty well. it was like eight years ago as you got to chase the nazis out of town do you think there's an old left moment nobody on the left is has created that title the president created that tried all the title i know people in the barry who are sort of accepting that title because there's a black woman i know name and nancy armstrong temple says hey black people are good at taking things you think are insults and turning them into pluses so there might have been an all left pocket so all of the past i don't see any may know there's no there's nobody that's not a real thing and trump as he often does just starts talking and he thinks becomes out his mouth and it must be true or heading into season three of united. auto workers yeah we're in pre-production right now i was just on the phone call one of the producers was that was the first thing is go and you know we're still we like to keep a little bit. of care was interesting in the loan but. we will start until next

april so we're still we're still put it you know is there anyone you're dying to cover i mean i would about trump people say they would you like to interview trump i don't believe that there's any proof that there's anything to interview there. haven't interviews you know you have a back and forth conversation i know you've interviewed trump before but i think this this particular trump is not somebody is trying to get this trump is not somebody you want to talk to your kids c.n.n. my old home home they take home a fake news what do you make of that. it's a way to try to i mean it's a very effective way to create the myth that the facts aren't real and so now by calling c.n.n. fake news and other mainstream media outlets fake news it just gives his base license to say that anything that comes out of the. those places is not to be believed that he has to go on c.n.n. all of. the watch c.n.n. i mean c.n.n. did a good job for the election they probably deserve

a cabinet position covered him too much yes yes. why did he win why did he win the electoral college i think that's exactly why he won i think that we when we talk about why trump won we don't focus enough on the fact that we're the only major nation that does our leaders election that way that we don't just count the votes you know so for me it's like yes there's a lot of mistakes hillary could point a lot of mistakes hillary made it into the day she won the popular vote and that should be how you pick a world leader you know we have an electoral college because jefferson and those guys. they thought what if we elect a moron. yeah it was said at the time shouldn't we have a group of people like doors who can. vote for someone else and yet i did the thing a lot of people did i wrote all the electors and said hey can you can you throw this guy out and they many of them wrote back and they don't see it that way they see it as their doing the duty of the people which is like them yeah which is the

popular vote is actually get to the how do you make sense of the current division in the country i don't you know i don't see this current i see it is continual you know this is one day tweeted out we've been divided for decades in our sponsors yeah all the decades you know ever since this country was founded we've been founded on division from the you know columbus didn't land in say may i come here he you know the british don't show up and say hey can we work with you so for me it's like this is a continual division that sometimes it's like it's healing in the sometimes gets looks like it's getting worse you're married to a white woman do you how do you explain all of this to your kids holy a kid my kids are six and three so the three is a six understand the six i understand slowly she was well i mean look just last night me and my wife both went to the nothing in the bay rally and then i was watching you know we're two. my wife showed her pictures of the no hate in the bay rally and said this is where we were today this is why we did this we talked about why we took our kids to a meeting the day before a very berkeley meeting about white supremacy with kids for kids you know so.

i can hear them laughing. it's so it's scary to her but it's like it's feels like irresponsible parenting if you don't do it. older than you i by a little bit i remember the days in the u.s. senate conservatives and liberals went to dinner together sponsored bills together when they thought it would help the country lyndon johnson got everett dirksen to support the civil rights bill compromise was the lord of the land what changed. you know i think the minute you start to put more money into people's positions and more power. i don't know that politics should be a job that makes you a lot of money i think the problem is there's that that it becomes about how do i keep my job instead of how do i work best for the american people i mean i don't think it should pay you a living wage but i think the problem is is that you can clearly see these people

have more invested in keeping their jobs they do and actually helping people orrin hatch was the principal speaker john ted kennedy's funeral. that don't have anymore can it get a call back together can it work again i just need a leadership it needs it needs better leadership but i also think it needs i mean you know i guess i'm a democrat technically but i think it needs the democratic party really has to take a real hard look at itself and figure and there has to be new ideas new leadership but you can't just sort of go down the same road and i will after the break biggest best advice dream gas and more in a round of if you only knew with our special guest w. kamau bell don't click away. i'm john harshman and i'll give you what the mainstream media can't tell the big picture we'll go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture.

of all the worlds. and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties are into american play r.t. america offers more american personal. in many ways the news landscape is just like the real news fake news good actors that act and in the end you could never hear on. so much parking for all the world's a stage all the world's a stage all the world's a stage and we are definitely a player. i do not know if the russian state packed into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credit 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 us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. most of the united states of america on c.n.n. is w. kamau bell what do you think president obama's thinking we haven't heard from him

he made a couple of references he said in a tweet yesterday to support the hurricane victims which i thought was very intrigued considering the way you look at trump's tweets obama sent out tweets that here donate to the red cross and trump's tweets were just how we're doing awesome and good in fabulous and not sad you know so for me what is he thinking i really do i don't know what he's thing i read that i've read somewhere that he said that he's going to come back in the fall to help rebuild the democratic party and i'm like hey we don't know if we're going to be here in the fall you know if we can kill support congressional races i don't i don't know i think he's still very popular he's still very popular but i think he may be more popular as an independent force in some sense i don't know that he i don't know that in this way they want to get involved in the in the day to day running to the right would you ask him if he spoke to you would you say speak out more yeah i mean i think that our i would ask him what he doesn't that's what i would like to ask him i wish he would speak up more but i would ask him because he clearly is very calculated about how he's been caught it is all career and part of the calculations what he had to be the america's first black president because he was thinking on ways and really thinking

ahead in ways that people didn't think he people weren't anticipating but i would want to ask him why he doesn't speak out more forcefully in my question what we need to obviously in times of stress leadership. trump doesn't hasn't provided that obama was a leader reagan was a leader as anyone you'd say boy. that's my. yes but there are activists who have no shot of intern electoral politics there's many people that i consult and who i thought oh garza's one of the founders of black lives matter just me saying there's been people whose watch is good. you know so for me it's like there's many qualified leaders who i follow pew and have no shot because of other systems and would have no interest in running for nobody in the senate you know i i don't. i feel like i am the direct party member of the n.b.a. in the eighty's just went to africa and found people. like that they need to be scouring america for the next leaders i don't know those people are currently exist

in the in the halls actually no qualms anymore you've got to run in primaries to win in primary and i feel like there's probably probably a city comptroller somewhere who's who's who's really has the natural talent but we're not looking in those places we're sort of still talking about like every time we talk about is biden going to run you know when we talk about the sort of the same old people running in twenty twentieth's like now it's it can't be that is bernie going to run again it can't be that we have to go he's in trouble finish the charm i think we have to think i think we can't get comfy with the idea that he's never going to finish i think some people on the left are like oh he's never going to make it through and i think we have to let go of that idea because we are already in a place we were expecting we play a little game of if you only notice is prepared by our producers just questions who was your childhood so liberty crush crush. crush that's the joe from facts of life . biggest risk you ever took. is meeting the k.k.k.

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thing people get wrong about you. that i hate white people have one in my house and i think that i married well. i got to have ones that i'm raising the longest period of time you've been awake. only as they have never done the full twenty four hours i'm definitely done some twenty hour days the biggest regret biggest regret not taking my career not trusting my instincts in my career sooner. person you'd least like to be stranded of a desert island with. that's. i think that would be not good i would not want to use everywheres and i was reamed gassed rusty bad and i don't dream guests on any one of your shows dream guest denzel washington on my denzel. they got it. he would do it he would do it i've heard that i don't know

how i was going to talk to it on a broadway and ice man cometh before and i have a place i hope to be there and yes land hickey yeah something that people aren't paying enough attention to. so many people are not paying enough attention to. how the how the public school system is letting our kids down. why. we if you don't invest money in the public school system it's a very clear thing that if you do this schools don't have enough money to. to invest in the in the system in the kids' education gets worse and so when we say why don't people why don't our barn american smarter why are we inventing new things were it's all about the public school system we might have a secretary of education who doesn't believe that yeah. person from history you'd like to take to launch malcolm x. you know i know him well come on larry but i hate to break it just interviewed him twice i'll call ball in ten years from now in ten years.

hopefully working still in the show business before him much less on camera working behind the camera give others only want to produce things absolutely yeah well kind of legs united shaved heads how long do you think it will go you know i think that we'll see a trunk those two terms that we had at least eight years. do you want to do more films and documentaries i want to do i really enjoy doing documentaries i really enjoy and i'm not just on camera with i really enjoy doc that's my favorite of her and i said me today you don't like you don't like watching fiction i like you i guess i don't deborah jeane one hundred on twitter what do you think the best thing the united states as the united states has going for itself right now. the best thing the united states has going for itself right now. freedom freedom of speech and freedom of the press you know is a. long as we can keep that going i think we have a chance. at the rule thirty three on twitter do you find that democrats are

becoming more open to listening to the right now the trump is in office or is there a greater resistance well first of all i think i don't think trump is really the right i think that's i think if this is an opportunity and i think that republicans and democrats have to come real republicans real democrats have to come together i don't know if they'll take it what is the if he's not the right he's like that if if the villain bane from the batman movies was a president he's like as just a disturber just a chaotic force ok j.m. ten sixteen on twitter what do you make of the column capper next situation can you believe he's essentially being blacklisted. i think it's really interesting that you know a lot of people talk about this the n.f.l. let's players get away with a lot of things that you know they break as it's breaking laws and you know domestic violence a lot of things that they sort of still what a lot of the players come back and only so it's pretty interesting that a guy who just as i'm going to kneel during the anthem who doesn't disrupt the

anthem doesn't stop other people from wanting to stand for the anthem but it but that they think he's too volatile for the league even though at this point it's clear worse quarterbacks are being signed every day on the larry king blog what's the worst thing ever had said to you on twitter oh my god. i do get a lot of hate but i really really good at like letting it roll off my back now i mean you know some of it is like some guy this morning said i was not bad but it was funny he's like your objective really not funny and i said well he was subjective not objective so i felt like i was like i use it if i can go back and be funny i'll do that but you know i don't i'm not scrolling through twitter to find the worst things but i see you know whenever things get clear i do want to say the things i don't like because it is going to encourage people to send them my way. on the larry king live is there a nation of broad the united states would do better mimicking politically and socially i don't know i feel like you could really go through a whole. like buff a platter of the rest of the rest of the world if you have the resources to make it happen i think that certainly we could have nationalized medicine like the u.k.

candidate as certainly we could adapt norway's version of how they incarcerate people where people live in a one bedroom apartment in the long distances twenty years you know certainly there's if we we have the money in the real we have the resources and the money to make that happen we can go through the world pick the best stuff i just love and always amazing place grants last could we ever see you host a talk show on c.n.n. or another network is that something you'd like to do and i had a little experience with that it's not my thing i think some people you know i really like being out in the world so yeah i mean i don't i don't think that would happen. corey anderson on facebook of all the voices and commentators on the right which one is the most difficult for you to listen to and who would you like to go toe to toe with. the most difficult one for me to listen to i don't have to listen to anymore because c.n.n. let him go that was jeffrey lord because not. because i didn't feel he's not playing fair at all he's not using facts he's just again he's sort of junior who

would i like to go toe to toe with. there's no way i mean i feel like the people who frustrate me the most are people i would know and have conversations with because i don't think they're really being genuine. yeah you know i don't there's no way that we've always talked out of the rather talk to end of our oath as a republican who cares versus some of these other people t.j. seifert on facebook what role do you think social media has played in america's current political climate i mean overall i think it's it's it's probably it's not a net plus it's probably somewhere in the middle cause i think it is certainly made things worse i think the anonymity of social media has made things worse here early and i think that the way in which people use social media to attack people not of this comes from like the all right sources to sort of really whether they find out you or your home address is and try to try to threaten you allow us of make things way worse i think that. i think most of social media do a really bad job of protecting people you can spread any law and you spread any law

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system in the entire world last richard esko in just a moment and as violent hate crimes arise in the age of trump of the chickens finally come home to roost for nixon's southern strategy alas neil mccabe and valerie ervin into its politics and. obama care repeal is back from the dead and more dangerous than ever over the last few days they exceed the less than two months ago after they narrowly failed to take away the health care of millions of americans senate republicans are once again up to their old tricks over the past few days they've started coming together around a bill put together by senator lindsey graham of south carolina and bill cassidy of louisiana they're trying to sell this bill the so-called graham cassidy bill as some kind of moderate compromise in reality though this new obamacare bill or anti

obamacare bill is just as cruel and reactionary as every other republican attempt to repeal obamacare in some ways it might even be worse joining me now to explain why is richard asco host of the zero hour and senior fellow at the campaign for america's future rich or welcome always good to be here. it is always great to have you richard so here we are little over a month after obamacare repeal seemed deader than dead and once again alarm bells are growing off all over washington d.c. about graham cassidy how does abbott well look you know a trump wants a bill he wants obamacare repeal it's an embarrassment to the entire republican party that they can't even do destruction wow not only can't they build anything they can't even destroy that's politically embarrassing so graham when cassidy a lindsey graham and caskey got together a work on that's a you know it wasn't going away there's too much lobbyist money behind the

eradication of the affordable care act and the tax cuts and go along with it so it's not a surprise to me it is a surprise here in washington d.c. to a lot of people though. you know can you lay out the details of the so-called graham cassidy bill what what does a do what is the take away order that funded word of the you know all the how is a different from previous obamacare repeal it sounds you know tom it's essentially to all intents and purposes the same i've got all the paperwork here but but the bottom line is it does all the things that they've been trying to do all along it takes away any kind of guarantee for americans that they'll have protection for preexisting conditions it allows states to create their own rules or non rules when it comes to what we're being called essential health benefits things that health insurance needs to cover states can opt out of

eliminating maximum out of pocket so those people with serious medical conditions can find themselves without any insurance at all after a certain point on issue after issue it tweaks here and there but it's essentially just as bad it takes away the subsidies that were built into the affordable care act for people to be able to afford to buy insurance when when it was too expensive for them it turns them into block grants cuts them back dramatically and then phases them out all all together over time it turns medicaid into block grant so it's not a national program anymore and it restricts the increases based on cost of living increases so it basically whittles it away year after year after year it's basically the same old ugly republican nihilism. block grants is a phrase the. seems kind of wanky and a lot of people don't really understand it can you explain exactly what a block grant is how it works why this is consequential my recollection is that

a lot of bill clinton's ending welfare as we know it had to do with block granting stuff to the states correct me if i'm wrong but out of can you for people who are not familiar with what we're talking about can you give us a little perm or on this you know of a theory you know there's a good sort of a line of rap that goes with it which is that you know states know best how to spend the money would just give them a block of money as a grant and they can decide how to spend it but when you're dealing with issues like welfare assistance to family to poor families or health care you're really dealing with life and death and we either are or are not a country that has fundamental values when it comes to matters of life and death so to me in situations like that a block grant is a kind of economic fiscal trick that's played in order to allow people to either in given states to not spend the money at all on the neediest people among them or to

play games with their or to use it to reward their political corporate friends and we we've seen all of that happen with block grants. so in theory of the federal government to say ok michigan you know last year we were providing you with five hundred million dollars for health care for your people and although we were giving it directly to them and they were interacting with us you know through medicare medicaid whatever it may be so next year we're going to give you five hundred million bucks and maybe the year after four hundred fifty million bucks or maybe you're out of there four hundred million dollars could michigan not only and you know any state of course i'm just picking one from random could they could they simply say to their citizens well you know we have a little less money so you have a little fewer benefits or even worse could they say hey we got five hundred million bucks in the federal government and supposed to go for health care or you know we'd really like to buy a new gold plated helicopter for the governor something like that well i doubt they can do that most cases they can they can obviously we haven't seen the fine print

here i don't think they could buy a gold plated helicopter that's really trumps job it's an executive function. but what they took several alum surety that. be too heavy to fly when you think about it but but what they can do is they can they can write the rules so that they benefit wealthier rather than poor people or or so that they don't cover the kind of health care that most people need you know that's a classic republican trick we're seeing in the graham cassady bill in the nat national level where they're bumping up tax breaks for health spending accounts but those are only good for people who can set who a earn enough to pay federal taxes and be earn enough to set money aside which most americans these days can't so you know there are different ways you can use the rules in a block grant to benefit your own constituencies. so the politics of this john mccain. you know quite influential senator these this in the republican

party who has been for a long time was opposed to the so-called skinny repeal of obamacare the last the last attempt that they made fact he was they want to shut it down with those famous thumbs down in the senate now that his best friend lindsey graham is promoting this . is the republican caucus in the senate going to be unified on this what do we have any sense of the politics of this well i think it's still shaking out but i would not count on john mccain to be on the right side of this you know he hasn't been on the right side of all the critical issues at the critical time but was great theater when he came back wishing well on his eyes and in his condition but but while that was great theater a worry was that he was looking for a way out right away to get back in line with his party and this could very well be . in the meantime senator bernie sanders has dropped his bill has proposed

proposed his legislation for medicare for all and it's really expansive i mean you know includes vision and dental care and all kinds of things no co-pays no deductibles you know no nonsense from your insurance company no three phone calls to beg them to me it's the bill all i kind of stuff. it seems to me that this compares in a very positive and favorable way with that of many other country in fact even covers done till of many other countries and yet it'll still be less expensive even with this full coverage than what we're paying right now for health care just because we're so badly screwed by these for profit insurance companies so-called insurance companies and and for profit hospitals and whatnot what do you think are you know. would i be wrong to say that this the bernese bill if it passes would give america the united states of america arguably the best health care system in the world yeah i think there's a very good likelihood it would as it's written now i'm not i don't know of any

other country that has coverage that comprehensive dental vision first dollar meaning no co-pays or deductibles no no premium contributions i think it could very well be the strongest health care program the best single payer program in the world and again and as you alluded to tom the fact is we pay far more for health care in this country than any other developed country forty percent more i think than the runner up and that's without covering all of our people and that's with giving a lot of people who do have coverage pretty poor care when you combine the costs of private insurance and public insurance so so putting it all together you could have the best system in the world and that conceivably pay less than what we're paying today. so what are the mechanisms by which bernie's bill and by the way we should add there's fifteen other democratic senators who've already signed on to this and that's just like this you know in the last couple of

weeks. if they were sixty six oh i thought it was sixteen with bernie at sixty seven he didn't have any that's great oh that's marvelous so we've got we've got another one since last i've been out of the country for a few days so. so so. you know they say it's really unlikely that things like this will pass the republican legislature i believe that but you know donald trump has done some strange things you know what if somebody were to sit him down and say let me tell you about tommy douglas the most famous man in canada the guy who brought canada single payer health care and now you know seventy sixty seventy years later however long it's been as the most beloved man in history wouldn't you like to be beloved like that is there any even remote possibility trump could jump on something like that while you know trump many years ago did say he thought that single payer health care was a better system i think the fact that his party will never go for it but you know it raises an important point because i don't want to hear another by the way all of

the leading democratic presidential candidates have signed on to this bill how franken and who's been mentioned in cory booker and harris i don't want to hear another democrat tell me that there is a know how to work with the republican congress i want to hear democrats tell me how they're going to get rid of a republican congress and replace it and as far as i'm concerned now we have a clear democratic position that more of the party embraces this ok this is what we're for they're for sticking it to you and leaving you without the health care coverage you need and deserve that's a debate i want to have because that's a debate i think could change congress. yeah well arguably the repealing of obamacare after all the lies and misrepresentations that were told about it all those years by both republicans fox so-called news right wing hate radio you know led to this groundswell that arguably helped elect a lot of republicans i think people are realizing now that they were lied to hopefully. given that this is not a lie that this is

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human human race by the end of the century dick cheney once said we should start a war with a country if there was just a one percent chance that that country was helping terrorist get a nuclear bomb should we apply that thinking to climate change a one in twenty chance that's a five percent chance of a literally a total human a pocky human apocalypse is insanely high valorie your thoughts it's a real i mean watching a hurricane maria. churning up in the caribbean the last day or two and all the devastation of the last two or three major storms we've seen here in this country and abroad and we're seeing heat as well as rising water it's not a joke it's real and folks need to really begin to pay attention i wish we did spend this much time and resources on saving the planet as we do on whether or

not there is going to be a nuclear war between america and north korea and so i think you know that the bell has rung and that we need to have all hands on deck this is very serious and it's very real. neal you know the report and it's also been corroborated by another university of california study this report suggests a one in twenty chance a five percent chance that by the year twenty one hundred all humans on earth could be dead as a consequence of climate change let's say it's only a one percent chance like dick cheney at any given moment there are about ten thousand airplanes in the sky if there was a one percent if every day one percent of airplanes fell out of the squad that would be one hundred planes a day falling out of the air falling out of the sky day after day after day that's a one percent to five percent chance which is what scripps is talking about that's five hundred airplanes a day five falling out of the sky do you think any american would get on an

airplane if every day one hundred planes crashed all around the world and if that's the metric of people you know of if if that bothers you if you would be reluctant to fly then why wouldn't you be concerned about climate change well i mean i mean how many people signed up to go to mars and there's like a zero chance that they're ever going to cut it out except that it was mars i mean it's like you're talking about percentages ninety five percent sounds pretty good to me what it was that you give us eighty years ninety five percent we're going to make it i mean you haven't told me what it's going to cost to fix this problem is it going to cost one hundred dollars is it going to cost one hundred trillion dollars i mean do we have to create how many new jobs do we have to nero we're top of the environmental hagelin wait a second we're talking about your death your staff your to your families does the end of the human race what the hell it has cost to have to do it that i mean it's all came to you and said neil you've got you've got cancer and you know there's a there's

a five hundred dollar treatment here just take these vitamin pills maybe it'll work and there's a ten thousand dollars treatment i don't think you'd be arguing about the money would you well listen i mean from my wife is a hindu so for her it's it's really not the same percentages that other people have it's going to be no reincarnation if there are no more humans. honestly tom i think everyone wants to save the earth nobody wants to have dirty water and dirty air you just have to give us a number what is it going to cost if it's going to cost too much we're going to take our chances if the cost is reasonable neal let me give you a number let me get your information over the fastest the fastest growing source of jobs in the united states right now yes it is renewable energy specifically solar and wind that's the fastest growing source of jobs it's far away from anything china is is creating solar power every month equal to what the rest of the world pretty much does every year you've got germany was able to generate one hundred

percent of their power through a solar power on a couple of days that actually what i'm saying is that without the subsidies and own thing neal those american dollars jobs anime and make a hell of a lot of money. i think all those solar and wind jobs are heavily subsidized tom in fact and altogether the cities know are you know winds are really a dollar general risky all you have to do is turn one screw and call yourself a wind company and you can start cashing in i don't know why we're arguing about how much this is going to cost this is all about saving humanity saving human lives what we're seeing now is how horrific it's going to be as the earth continues to heat up and its people drown in catastrophic hurricanes and other kinds of of weather events and cell i don't think most people walking down the street in washington d.c. today are going to ask how much is that going to cost to save my life and my family's life and my grandchildren's lives you know that's kind of extraordinary

valerie and i think it's so important to push back and show that in those countries and in those states in the united states you know i was getting at over twenty percent of the power from the wind texas is getting over twenty percent of their power from solar and wind in those states that are doing this it's actually creating jobs and stimulating the economy it doesn't cost anything any i got to move along the age of trump apparently is an age of eight according to a new study out of callous state san bernardino's center for the study of eight and extremism hate crimes are up about twenty percent in the nation's largest cities so far just this year two thousand and seventeen the search in bigotry inspired violence has seen increases over two hundred percent in cities like portland oregon and long beach california republicans made this deal with the devil a long time ago people like nixon reagan lee atwater decided that they would explicitly use racism even if by dog whistle to win elections what we're seeing now is trump in the wave of hey he's inspired seems to much to me to be the logical

conclusion of their embrace of white supremacy back in the back in the one nine hundred sixty s. well i mean obviously white supremacy goes back to the found in this country but but. but the specifically the republican party did republicans want this to happen or do they think that they could just control racism as a little wedge issue and just just for a little detail on this recent study found that the k.k.k. played an essential role in turning in the south solidly from a democratic to republican stronghold according to that study counties in the southern in the in the old dixie states counties with an active klan membership show the most significant increase in republican voting between the years one nine hundred sixty in two thousand of all states in fact recording from the study quote klan counties showed an average three point four percent greater increase in republican voting than non klan counties neal what it what do you and your party going to do about this well i agree with you there's a lot of there's

a lot of violence towards our loving president donald j. trump and his supporters there's a lot of hatred that's ok it's not about as i orange people bigotry oh it's the violence that we saw here in d.c. during the inaugural weekend i mean i've been out of i phones of left wing sort of mobs going after trump supporters and police officers i saw an ad for i've showed you tom of the left wing mob going after secret service agents in front of the secret service officers and from the light i'm told that they run over with cars and kill. or is this a contest on or is it say so so how many people are you allowed to chase around the white i ask that question neal because more people have been killed by white right wingers in the united states since nine eleven than by any other group including so-called muslim terrorists valorie your thoughts on those that's why yeah i mean i find it incredulous that i that i have to hear from republicans all the time they

they skirt the issue the fact of the matter is that donald trump ran a very racist campaign from the moment he stepped on the political stage and he's pretty much zero zero zero. when the door wide for weiss the premises and people who hate who hate others to be able to come out and sort of proudly proclaim that you know we're here and where fighting back that's their terminology not mine but this is a country based on on the premise that that white people are a superior race and even at atwater you know to his credit in some ways was kind of brilliant about the way that that he and the folks in the in the nixon era sort of laid out what was then you know a way to win elections and now it's wide open there's no dog whistle anymore it's

like being proclaimed a loud and proud from the white house that's crazy that's actually republican he says i've never met these races you keep talking about i covered the trump campaign i went to twenty or fifteen of these trump rallies there was no racism there there were no dog whistles there this is just garbage and i can't believe you keep repeating it as a as a black woman as a black woman who lives in this country and who has two black sons and grandchildren i can tell you that what i feel like when i'm walking down the streets of many cities that i travel across the country as there is a tremendous amount of fear and people of color communities because of trump being in the white house well that's that's the fault i was leaders in the remote operated that fear. no it's not all and valerie we have just we have just a minute left and just a real quick question here donald trump seems to be working out some deals with

chuck and nancy as he calls them full of palosi and schumer who has the most to gain who has the most to lose from these i'd like to quick answer from each of you neil you first real quick president trump basically is cutting the same deal that ryan mcconnell would have cut but he's just not going to drag it out for weeks or months i think trump wins because he's showing leadership. ok our your i don't know if that's leadership but i think that palosi needs to rethink her strategy i don't think really high value i believe that she i don't think that democrats need to stoop to. cutting deals with trump to get things done i think what we're seeing is that of democrats sort of like really use the clout that they have in the house and the senate right now on the ground across the country the way we stopped the republicans protect from taking away obamacare if we stayed in that vein i think we would all be out. thank you neal ok valerie are and thank you both so much for

being with a good time and thank you and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport it requires you tag your it. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporation confirmations from washington washington media the media. voters elect a businessman to run this country business equals power who must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before.

was. was yeah god was your reaction to the night this past weekend you probably saw some of the wall to wall hurricane or more reporting it was mostly a name vapid coverage like this you know when you can hold here and you can surround yourself with couch cushions you know if you can spot and a brick structure well we're back on the story of the big bad wolf the people who live in the struggle to cozen sort of usually the stories of people who live in stone structures like this whoever put the who literally jumping the american populace down the nursery rivals. very seriously no where there was very little mention of climate change ecological collapse you know you know people often say that we're the frauds right in the slowly boiling pot of water but we're worse

we're frogs in a slowly boiling pot of water with program porters standing there going it's getting got a warm hand here yet i can feel a little sweat on my breath oh well basically sunset stay in your all those and generally it's not so boiling out here ok. so i decided to off fix the corporate media has hurricane coverage if you look on the right around here that's where we're here and the way to really make a gun fight. so a lot now but if you look you'll see this is what i'm actually going to like her are among the strongest atlantic hurricane ever recorded and said don't come back the next go in the caribbean sea. to go. just blows. eighty five mile per hour winds for the longest duration ever recorded in prague

and perhaps the largest evacuation ever in the u.s. just two weeks ago hurricane harvey was the largest rain event to ever hit the continental united states the wildfire was one week ago was the last thirty l.a. fire recorded and this alone just to put all of this but look ok. it's not. recorded on the planet are starting to go after thanks to you and i'm better capitalism. but since we're in the media won't even mention the reality of the. real sickly murdering future. children and children. in the rest of climate change i don't know how any of my sleep at night. the prostate problems that i keep.

suggesting. that we. be. have that. that's what our hurricane coverage should look like instead or corporate media rarely talks about climate change and when they do it's part of a debate about whether it's real or not well we've had our nasa scientists tell us we're screwed now let's give equal time to a french fry cook for why half of these candidates right i'm on top of that our politicians are literally passing laws against doing anything about climate change in twenty twelve a new law was passed in north carolina banning coastal talmuds from preparing for so you level right us. what does that even mean why is it you're not allowed to get on your tippy toes i like. it in florida governor rick scott bay as it's

a tour of climate change from being you is why for what florida's emergency manager mocked for not being able to say the words climate change. were those words you're using i used climate change but i'm suggesting that maybe as a state we use atmospheric reemployment that might be. one. suiter versions of our mitigation plan will be required to have language discussing that issue when it should be issues that you mentioned earlier regarding. yeah yeah it's that bad i'm surprised florida guys get by herb since normally branding science works like a charm i don't like like when the church imprisoned galileo for saying the earth orbit of the sun and then afterwards the earth cut out. dead you know

that's how they work you can imagine it's science it's ok it's we're all going to die today you can make a buck from big oil so you can have three houses and did six cars and seven kids by five wives you. want to be clear god unplug the old me the old twit he is but this is not his fault we have known about this impending destruction for decades the fossil fuel companies knew and yet we subsidized them to the tune of trillions of dollars shell oil even made a video twenty five years ago that they then suppressed. energy consuming way of life may be causing climatic changes it has consequences for us.

now i'm not saying that would have be dressing park at the box office but the point is they knew that b.b. was real and boston fuel has spent billions funding climate denial bold now our entire government is made of big oil donald trump made the head of exxon mobil he's chakra terry of state hillary clinton flew around the world promoting fracking as secretary of state obama laid more oil pipeline than any of them george w. bush invaded other countries just for oil the entire corporate state is it or you aghast orgy when everybody just just just talking and each other think they'd like to try rather find out whose foot is in their crap. thank you thank you. but that kissinger back there. wasn't sure i really know and and they don't care

they don't care and you know why they don't care because the poor suffer the most and the soonest from climate change they they can't afford to replace their homes or their lives or buy new cars with when their george doesn't cover it and by the way of course the surest isn't going to cover it they've never covered i don't know you know you did on the national application you you didn't put that your car smelled like cat urine and that's ok that's a preexisting condition i'm sorry so yeah we're not we don't cover that in the case of blooding by we will give you this for a stress reliever right here you did just squeeze that every time you think about how you lost your cat pets car that's right easy easy sweetie the poor suffer the most amid recent global flooding more than fourteen hundred people in south asia are. dead and tens of millions more have been affected by monsoon rains the worst flooding in a hundred years has left one third of bangladesh submerged in nepal almost half

a million people are food insecure meanwhile the rich after profiting off of this catastrophic system or largely not in trouble in fact many profit off of the new found disasters and here's the most maddening thing about this the solutions are here the answers to our energy and environmental problems are already there they already exist wind solar title geothermal you to strap on a car battery to chris matthews jalousie i'm pretty sure we. think the answers are already there it's the delay between proven solutions and their application in the real world gauges the ability of the socio economic system to adapt properly if the social order can incorporate them to further ecological balance improve public help solve problems and increase prosperity then there is

a structural problem inherent let me rephrase that if we have the solutions to the destruction we're seeing and we don't use them they were out of our goddamn ah it's alright your voice is gone robert thank you thank you thank you. we kanye west on a bad day look like deep octo prawn pro football all right. we are switching bastien of to these solutions because we have abandoned the pursuit of a well functioning world for the pursuit of money meaningless dollar bills will kill all of us and only eight percent of the world's currency exists as physical and physical cash so it's not even out of physical thing it's a thought to do your hands like the placebo effect or the difference between. i'm a great general public and just like the meaning behind sports all right it's a magic irie. i mean he answers are here those are we the

people just have to demand them do not support or vote for any politician who was funded by big oil block the pipelines put the solar panels in it's time for a new world and or move. the legal way because it's all tied up to. the belief that there is actually decide. i. believe that it's ok to do it from behind senator rand paul stood up on the senate floor and said

something pretty interesting two days ago iraq was today to oppose an authorized under claire and unconstitutional war on authorized under clear and cause there's a war i'm place a talking about are we being invaded by canada right now they probably want our natural resources like to read. you can have a when you pry him from my cold orange fingers. what we have today is basically unlimited war anywhere anytime. any place upon the globe. i. think he's talking about says. well you see we have to be at war all the time because we have a lot of indah. natives enough boba who are mon all steroids all young men like. you if we didn't send them over there to fight we'd have to fight them here at home

all right and i know from experience they gave me wedgies in gym class and. my amendment would sunset in six months the two thousand and one and two thousand and two use of all through zation of force yes what rand paul is talking about is why trump and general mad dog mattis are still allowed to keep bombing anywhere they want anytime they want what lie as if the world is their firing range the authorization for use every tool. used to be used to be young and. the authorization for use of military force was approved by congress in two thousand and two and egypt ministration has just kept using it as if it's a white shack for being. like like them paris hilton or something all right and yes

she is still alive and she's tweeting things like my dogs live in this two story doggie mansion and they love it oh do they do that in paris do they. way to win back the nation's hearts and minds. but of course no one in this country winds and liz war well no one except congress. after rand paul's speech congress voted to throw out his amendment because a limited war is just fine with them in their defense the weapons contractors have paid to a lot of money. for example democrat mark warner voted for endless war this week and here's a shot of the hot tub he was able to buy with the fourteen thousand. dollars he got from northrop grumman he did win that thing every night. was it was it

democrat gene he'd also voted to continue donald trump on limited war powers and here is her beautiful marble countertops she got with the twelve thousand dollars for rain. she's deep in the thing every night i see. them in that green. republican mike quaid voted to shut up rand paul and take a look at his awesome robot sex doll that i. think cost ten grand which is how much he got for weapons contractor boeing he's actually he's actually not deep in that because he just hasn't found the right moment to make the move and. he doesn't want to appear to ask for it. would you like to know if his watch a movie just what. of course those weapons contractors didn't really give that money directly to the politicians they gave it to the them in the form of campaign

contributions a.k.a. legalized bribery but think about that two thirds of the senate voted to continue unchecked war powers for donald trump. that let that sit what happened to the so-called resistance by the democrats you said trust you thank you for the past two years. thank you thank you the past two years telling us talk to one stable to be the commander in chief of the military remember you told us he shouldn't be allowed near any plans much less evolved button and now you are voting to continue his on limited war palace have you no souls you view. apparently this resistance has the structural integrity of one of those used car dealership wacky

inflatable to man. that damn thing that thing has a stronger backbone than the democrats all right. they go whichever way the wind blows and you know when he's better than the democrats because at least when you're dealing with him you get a car at the end of it. we have to go to a quick break but as i've mentioned before facebook and google are suppressing alternative media like us so if you want to hear about all our videos text the word redacted to four four four nine nine nine it'll get you signed up to our e-mail list for a we'll be right back. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big

money corporate interests and a lot of voices that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i'm a troll on our to america i'll make sure you don't get railroad or you'll get the straight talk in the straight news. questionable. called the future we don't know. everyone in the world should experience flu and you get the old. the old according to gesture. the modern world come along. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic

hallucinations that. fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most deluded society on politics as a species of endless and needless political theater politicians more than just celebrity are two ruling parties are in reality one party to corporate and those who attempt to puncture this. breathless universe of fake news to sign the push through the cruelty and exploitation of the neo liberal for our first so far to the margins of society including by a public broadcasting system that has sold its soul for corporate money that we might as well be mice squeaking against an avalanche of squeak we must. thank you ah thank you i know how many of you

have probably heard that the u.s. has something called osha the occupational safety health administration which helps ensure a safe and healthy workplace. some of you are already laughing. you know it's one of the things in the federal government designed to help people you know you know a lot of things left over from a bygone era it was created by that crazy hippie president richard nixon. anyway the agency recently removed its running list of us work related deaths from its fraud home page and buried it deep in the web site for more on this we go to our senior labor expert now and again. they. were so this seems a little sneaky osha's part to suddenly hide this information now that being sneaky and being sensitive to the families who lost loved ones some of the deaths in the in the company didn't have

a prior violation they're not publishing it at all. besides no one's reputation to take a hit from a one time freak accident. i want myself in the screaming spanker at six flags in the seventh grade. does that mean i should have been called coop the loop for the rest of the school year you. know what does it just the come from pre-algebra. place of anything that was totally one brand for that right above me in a commercial congratulations but it sounds like corporations are being held last and less accountable for the safety of workers many of whom take great risks to do their jobs so it's not like they're done with safety they now feature formation on how companies can voluntarily cooperate with osha who was safe here. you know when you know how well corporations self regulate just just ask the big banks who pay the equivalent of like a parking ticket for defrauding the american people really how. right corporations

are great at self-regulating. look at this workplace safety video that a company voluntarily made in order to keep their workers safe. when there is. this just a recipe for disaster. whatever yes. ok . safety is the number one priority here at the manchurian center. yeah the most funny part was when that guy died i after. after seeing that i'm sure these workers are going to you know they're going to take safety seriously now only corporations will always move towards the money and if that means a few workers die so be it look look at that look at the coal industry for decades workers have been dying of black along at young ages and they hardly give

a i mean i mean how much money did that company even put into that safety video five bucks l no way it says right here that. ok yeah it was five dollars. ok but. that's still that's still one dollar more than the four dollars a year our government spends protecting each us worker from safety hazards right it would take one hundred forty nine years to inspect every u.s. workplace that's what corporate self-regulation is vital to that instinct to have inattentive mail warehouse employees with zero peripheral vision and terrible taste in music. the reason we're going to have more workers getting hit by forklifts or worse is because we let unions go to in this country vulnerable workers have little or no rights without unions yet they've been gutted by right to work laws this is been

a long time right there. were this this is really good will go a long time of republicans and corporate democrats for decades ok yeah well you are right that nowadays a strong union is as hard to find as control of my bowels on the rest of the letter . rectal reckoning i thought it was called the screaming sphincter oh no i heard both of those. but it was good wasn't it for them damn again. thank you it was just like we thought the k.k.k. was a thing of the past and now would be bad the same goes for segregation in our public schools for more on this raging controversy let's go to redacted correspondent. behind me is the lyndon b. johnson department of education i will get there is something even uglier that is

going on in this country. god i have seen parking lots with. charmin there were new strategy wealthy white communities are resegregating public schools in alabama and schools around the country ok kids it's back to school time grab your new notebook your new back tracking the meds in a civil rights lawyer the new form of segregation it gets a little media coverage even though at least seventy one communities across the country most of them why in wealthy have sought to break away from their public school districts to smaller more exclusive ones the parents spearheading this operation claim it has nothing to do with race but the legal name of this process is breaking away as old says session secession why don't you call your new school district the schools against northern and greg and your test prep

academy that could be the case kaplan at the center of the latest secession battle is in gardendale alabama a suburb of birmingham with population of fourteen thousand and eighty eight percent of them are white and it's located in jefferson county that's black i mean why not isolate this tiny town from my county multiculturalism is overrated if you only think the children and his daughter didn't intend for the picture of her and a friend to become viral and controversial the photo which we've chosen not to show to students in what looks like black face maybe they were just taking diversity into their own faces if integration is not an obvious solution to you i've got scientific proof attending integrated schools reduces the likelihood of incarceration and poverty for minority students and raises test scores while white

children stores are unaffected oh you want more sweets daddies segregation means fewer resources for were children. oh you want even more studies well that's too bad i have to move on. but now the south is undoing decades long work of civil rights attorneys like u.w. kliman so they have to come back to court and continue to fight this is so wrong he should have retired two decades ago the parents who waged a campaign to cede said that the media has twisted and turned this issue to make everyone think this is about we're ok if it's not about the raise why did the campaign take political advice from former state senator scott beason a champion of separate school districts who once called black people aborigines that is really offensive. to dictionary you should grow as you.

you know do all this is the end they all smug that we can store garden city schools this year he's just like oh really didn't think that the scam would work. since two thousand when the department of justice oversight of school districts that needed to segregate is on the decline and flowing to the government is saying . hey south you do you you believe you the civil rights attorney clement on the case tell already successfully fought against succession forty five years ago one woman said i never envisioned that i would be fighting in twenty seventeen essentially the same battle that i thought everyone in one thousand nine hundred seventy one this is the time for us to raise awareness about resegregation and not forget the past and also one man means worrying what the man

we're tired for the love of god let him go thinking let him see is grand kids let him finish that jigsaw puzzle of the white house that he's been working on for the past twenty years. this is naomi caravan e we're back to tonight. and we will be all next week but there will still be a new episode of redacted tonight v i pay you next week and you can get new web exclusive content you tube dot com so i suggested i also check over back to the night on direct t.v. channel three two one until next time good night keep right. in case you're new to the game this is how it works my economy is built around core reason for racial lines from washington to washington media. the media.

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