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evening friends we start tonight at the united nations general assembly in new york city the president stopped short of criticizing the u.n. but did call for major reforms to the body he praised the plan to reform the u.n. and it signed on by one hundred twenty eight countries so far the plan calls for a focus on results rather than processes ensures all countries share equally in military and financial burdens and demands peacekeeping missions have specific goals we seek a united nations that regains the trust of the people around the world in order to achieve this the united nations must hold every level of management accountable protect whistleblowers and focus on results rather than on process. to honor the people of our nations we must ensure that no one and no member state

shoulders a disproportionate share of the burden and that's militarily or financially the president also met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to discuss the palestinian peace process and the iran nuclear deal the administration is expected to take action on the nuclear deal very soon. you'll see various. you'll be seeing bears. much of the international community supports the deal however last week russia's ambassador to the u.n. urged the united states to maintain the agreement with iran for more on all of this we're joined tonight by jim jatra former u.s. diplomat jim good to have you with us tonight there's a number of different things that have come up here first let's talk about the reforms that the president is pushing at the u.n.

the fact that one hundred twenty eight countries have signed on to this how big of a sea change is this and what does this say about donald trump and what does this make of the u.n. great again like he promised during the campaign look look i think this is just part of trump going full swamp and this is a perennial complaint of the united states particularly of republican presidents of republicans in congress we have to reform the u.n. it's a big bureaucracy it's not a fish and we don't get our money's worth. i think this will be sandbagged like any other reform initiative a new u.n. the fact the matter is the u.n. doesn't really matter for much except in the security council which is where the real serious issues of war and peace take place i don't make much of this at all. well the serious issues of war and peace have come up sanctions have been placed on north korea more so than any other country ever and how big of an opportunity or moment is this for the president tomorrow how should he go it north korea it's

almost as if this is the last pitch before the united states does something what do you think so it seems i think we're running out of rhetorical rope here is that when we get to the point of saying this is the end of the road we've run out of road i believe was the expression the general mcmaster used nikki haley is again saying threats north korea is begging for a war i don't know that there's any way for them to escape from the verbal circle they've put themselves in and again i don't think they've solved the problem that the there is no good military option but the the white house especially general it master keeps saying that there is a military option i think it's horrendous to think about if that's with the way they're really going on this this isn't general mattis it's not secretary tillerson and it's not nikki haley this time it's the president and if you look at all of their statements in recent months they have been in

a sense all over the map this is somewhat of a moment of clarity for the president on north korea isn't it it is and i think that's where when we look at what he's done not only with afghanistan what we're talking about with regard to the iran deal in north korea i think he's really gone frankly full swamp here on foreign policy where is the trump who said he wanted to take a different direction foreign policy this stuff is right down the line what we could have gotten pretty much from any other republican president except he's saying a little more forcefully with his own unique idiom. well the iranian nuclear deal it sounds like you want to throw that in the swamp is this the beginning of the end and what impact do you think russia will have asking the united states to hold on to this deal i don't know how much influence the russians have with the white house especially given the death spiral that our relations with moscow are in he has a number of different options i think i think i think the most likely one as he

says something to the effect that iran is not complying with the deal that throws it in the congress they've got sixty days to make a decision about re-imposing sanctions that way he can split the baby he's not pulling us out directly on the other hand he's not certifying and we know there's a push for mcmaster maddest tillerson to stay inside the deal gorkha and bannan who wanted to pull out last time in july are gone from the white house so i think there's a chance he could stay in but frankly i don't i don't think it's likely. jim generous always a pleasure great to have you with us tonight on the news thanks so much the president has referred to recent north korea sanctions as not a big deal and not strong enough artie's jacqueline vogel takes a look at what role the sanctions will play at the united nations general assembly really sort of sounds like the military option is sort of becoming the frontrunner for them we've had the american ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley saying that she feels that the united nations security council has

really already done all that they can when it comes to north korea and that she's really already prepared to hand off the crisis to the u.s. secretary of defense adding that in that situation north korea would be quote destroyed and that's something we have coming from a diplomat i said yesterday i'm perfectly happy kicking this over to general mattis because he has plenty of military options if the united states has to defend itself or defend its allies in any way north korea will be destroyed and we all know that and none of us want that none of us want war so there we have haley saying she's happy to hand it over to mattis and not long ago we had he himself describing briefly what that would sort of look like what a military option with north korea would look like and very trump us words saying that the response would be both effective and overwhelming any threat to the united states or territories including. or our allies will be met with a massive military response the response both objective and overwhelming we are not

looking to the total annihilation of a country namely north korea but as i said we have many options to do so and then the same like many remember all the comments that we've had from trump himself fire and fury and whatnot and amid those threats that we've heard coming from the president he's repeated a number of times that talking with north korea just isn't going to be effective not really diplomatic words that we have coming from the president. self and on sunday trump also referred to the north korean leader as rocket man and a tweet comments that are unlikely to go without a response and it's worth noting that while thumb in the trumpet ministration are still hopeful for a diplomatic solution calling for it it does seem that they focus has sort of shifted from that as sort of like an afterthought and going more towards the looming military option. and as it was stated in that report over the weekend president trump did refer to north korea's kim jong un as rocket man on twitter

meanwhile north korea's two northern neighbor has conducted joint naval drills south of lot of stock the drills involve submarine rescue missions and anti-submarine drills the military exercises come just a week after north korea launched a second missile over japan this is the second time the chinese and russian naval exercises have taken place this year the first occurred in the baltic sea back in july russia also conducted a series of military drills with belarus on the border with several nato countries president vladimir putin was in attendance at the maneuvers ok. i'm.

on. the political. turning to politics that i senators lindsey graham and bill cassidy say their new effort to repeal obamacare is gaining momentum earlier today arizona governor doug doocy voiced his support for the bill the legislation continues to face strong opposition from members of both parties and senator ron rand paul of kentucky as

valid that he will not vote for the bill as it leaves too much of the affordable care act in place democratic senators chris murphy referred to the bill as an intellectual and moral garbage truck fire chuck schumer and nancy pelosi democratic leaders have strongly criticized the new move to do away with obamacare after a few we go. from here bad. days. while this latest version of trump care may live under a new name brand cassady no matter how many ways republicans try to dress it up this bill is even more dangerous than its predecessors let me be clear this is a red siren moment for the entire country if this bill becomes law our health care system would be dramatically curtailed and there will be chaos in many

states. the graham cassidy bill will repeal several central parts of the affordable care act it does away with the individual mandate and replaces subsidies to insurers and funding for medicaid expansion with block grants for states the bill also places lifetime annual caps on policyholders preliminary numbers suggest the bill would cut obamacare spending by seventeen percent by the year two thousand and twenty six the congressional budget office plans to release an official report sometime next week for more on this we're joined tonight by former congressman bob barr from georgia congressman good to have you with us tonight i'm curious your thoughts and i know that you've been critical of both parties as you stand as an independent how big of a failure would this be by the republicans after campaigning for so long and now the third effort to try to do this what if this doesn't work your thoughts it would

be an embarrassment on top of an embarrassment on top of an embarrassment for the republicans they really have to do something or do nothing to continue to go out there as cassidy and graham are doing and claim that they're almost there they're forty eight or forty nine votes they only need maybe one more one is cicero in the game and particularly given the folk pas that the senate had just a few weeks ago really i think is not very temperate i think they're setting themselves up for failure to be honest with you at the end of the day d.-a think some republicans would turn away from this because john mccain keeps hammering on process saying that there have been no committee meetings there have been no hearings there have been no real process of development to deliver to the american people the best possible available health care what about that. if if members of the senate and if members of the public generally don't know what obamacare is by

now and don't know some of the fixes ben that have been proposed then they're really involved in a sort of rip van winkle a scenario everybody knows what's going on everybody knows the problems with obamacare everybody knows that there are various fixes and this latest one is just the latest one that does put together some of the pieces but i don't think hearings have anything to do with that it's simply as a matter of whether or not the republicans can convince a few workouts of ten members of their own party and i wouldn't even bother with mccain because you have no idea what that guy's going to do the only person less predictable than him is donald trump and he isn't even now fully onboard with this latest proposal is lindsey graham grandstanding in all of this or do you think he has a real good plan rand paul says it's ninety percent obamacare. lindsey graham grandstanding

i can't believe that you would even put those two terms together the fact of the matter is that this this really it it takes a few of the pieces and fixes some a little bit you know when i look at it my thought is fine if you want to if you want to pass this and turn some of the decision making in the funding decisions over to the states i have no problem with that whatsoever but i just fail to really understand why cassidy and graham are are so optimistic at this point given the most recent failure and the failure in the house just a few weeks before that. mr barr were there be some real strong political fallout for the republicans if this were to go through i mean they're calling for a lifetime caps now that is jargon if i may for just telling people guess what if you're too sick insurance companies can drop you that's going back to the old system that will leave millions of americans uninsured

what do you think of that depends on what you mean by the old system the old system that we had when i was growing up where the government played a very very minor role in health care decision making and big insurance companies were not the ones making ninety percent of the decisions as opposed to the doctors that system actually work pretty darn well the problem now is we have way too much government way too much power by the insurance companies to make really any system that doesn't start all over again and put together a system that puts doctors in charge of patients is really not going to solve the problem it's just going to get more and more costly but lifetime caps gives the green light to insurance companies to drop people they don't want to cover anymore an insurance company is in the insurance companies have been given way too much power by the government to be continually in charge of these

decisions when a doctor prescribes a medicine for somebody and that person then goes to the pharmacy and says the doctor prescribe this and the pharmacy comes back and says sorry charlie the insurance company says you're not ready for it then something is very very wrong here with the insurance companies making those decisions and any proposal big gives them as you say even more power i think is going to be very dangerous congressman bob barr always a pleasure bob thanks for joining us tonight appreciate it so much. for more on health care we now go to our political panel the saving republican strategist christine lane and also misty maris political analyst and civil rights attorney a couple of things i want to talk about tonight first of all this issue of health care chris what if the republicans don't get it done what's the fallout back home

back in their district when they go home and say we failed what kind of impact does that have or i think that's what's going to happen i mean they're going to have to explain to their constituents exactly what happened but again i think for many of these states i think that they're conveniently just to look at hoping that this just goes away permanently because there are certain sectors of their state that do benefit from the program from medicaid in particular and i think that's the real struggle republicans have had this whole time is sort of messaging to replace a benefit with something that you say is better to take away a benefit and explain why that's the case so i think it's going to be difficult i think with the time frame you're looking at i think it's going to be difficult to hammer out a deal and get it done misty are the democrats playing this right right now i think they are ad first of all i don't know what's different now then in july i don't see how the republicans are possibly going to get this done my question is why isn't anybody listening to john mccain i think they should be listening to him

because he wants to reach across the aisle try and reach a bipartisan agreement on health care and actually go through the legislative process at this point what the republicans have to lose. not well they've got a lot to lows if they don't pass this after going after obamacare for seven years let's talk hillary clinton for a moment she gave an interview today if she's doing the rounds for her new book what happened she talked to n.p.r. today and she went so far as to say that she would challenge the legitimacy of the election if it is proven that russia did collude with the trump campaign chris where does this go it goes into hillary clinton's legacy in my view which is you know the excuse amperage i mean the fact is she lost again end of story i think it would be an embarrassment for her i think this book is an embarrassment i think that she just didn't campaign in the right states and you know more affable experienced candidate that actually connected with voters like

a barack obama had the success she didn't have i think it goes nowhere i think she needs to disco away for a while or focus on some positive aspects and the democrats don't want to hear this either i mean they she needs to let it go what about that mistake is this a whining tour well look i think that at this point the american people spoke donald trump as president let's try and work together to do the best that we can for the american people but that doesn't take away from the fact that the russian probe is important and whatever comes out of that could have implications. well implications but her and i would agree with that. but the bottom line here is is that hillary clinton is graben. i'm not i'm not seeing the upside for the progressive movement in this country when she goes after bernie sanders i mean he's the most popular democrat or a lefty in the country right now and the day she puts out her book he puts out

a proposal for universal health care and oh by the way has sixteen other senator standing with him i mean is is hillary not hearing or seeing any of this mystery and what's the upside i don't really see an upside ad i mean i think that it's time to just move on move past the election she should and she should be supportive of other people in her party chris nigh way in your final comment on hillary clinton she says she doesn't have a future she's got the money so what do you think she's doing. i have no idea i just by my final thought on hillary clinton is just the fact that she thinks as though this this e-mail thing or this call me letter did her in i mean her ethics did her and it honestly i think there was really more fodder in flames on president trump and he just i mean the folks just wanted to hear that you cannot make a message i think she lost on economics lost on message and i think she should have gone more directly to the voters which she tended to stay scripted i think people

saw that and you know who knows but i think she needs to do something productive for the democrat party because the excuse manufacturing is just not creating positive energy they need to look to the future. when mr maris great to have you with us tonight thanks. peaceful protests turned violent over the weekend in st louis missouri protesters took to the streets after a judge found former officer jason stokely not guilty in the two thousand and eleven death of anthony lamar smith artie's ashley banks has been following the story and has more force than i actually had today marks the fourth day of protests in st louis missouri this morning more than one hundred people locked arms in march silently on market street located in the downtown area of the city to protest the acquittal of former police officer jason starkly stockley he tried to arrest smith on a suspected drug deal smith decided to flee and while doing so hit a police car with his vehicle a high speed chase then ensued when police caught up with smith stockley says he

felt in danger because the sole smith holding that silver revolver prosecutors believe smith was unarmed in that stockley planted a gun in smith car because stop please d.n.a. was the only d.n.a. found on the gun and just five minutes before stokley shot smith he said to his partner that he would it shoot him since friday residents have been protesting south lee's acquittal saying he is responsible for smith's death now i spoke with him are very high in hell lurd human rights attorney and. executive director for a partnership for civil justice fun and she said the prosecutors kind of proved that stock lee's life wasn't in danger the judge said the prosecutor couldn't make that case and what this really allows is police officers to kill with impunity because all they have to say is i was afraid for my life. according to authorities protests in st louis are pretty peaceful during the day and become destructive at

night st louis missouri interim police chief a lawrence old school spoke during a press conference earlier this morning saying quote we're in control this is our city and we're going to protect it earlier sunday more than some thousand people gathered out police headquarters without incident however sunday night things turned a violent most of the protesters from earlier had gone a whole leaving around one hundred demonstrators who decided to march of back toward downtown knocking over planters breaking windows at stores in hotels and scattering plastic chairs at an outdoor venue authorities say police made calls for protesters to disperse some didn't listen and as a result more than eighty people were arrested and on friday at thousand protesters paid a visit to st louis mayor a lighter crew since home throwing rocks am breaking windows they were met with two hundred police in riot gear who used here gas to disperse them over the weekend at

least ten police officers suffered injuries many protesters are arguing police are provoking them by showing up in riot gear and armored vehicles and police argue they have no choice but to protect themselves attorney bear hide in hell lurd agrees with the protesters there is a lot of violence with violence is coming from the police the police in st louis have been attacking the demonstrators they have attacked with physical force with pepper spray with chemical munitions and this is against demonstrators who are violating the law who are peaceful demonstrators of mass arrested them. strangers including journalists who happened to be in proximity of the demonstration the police were heard chanting whose streets our streets you have the chief of police saying we own the night in this makes it very clear their presence and the way that they're behaving against the protestors makes it clear that it's really a paramilitary operation against the civilian population and you know it's a provocative way of responding to the people who live in this country authorities

are gearing up in anticipation for more protests for the time being at least and want to protest as scheduled for this evening and university city ed. thank you ashley hurricane maria was upgraded to a category five storm today maria is growing rapidly with winds of up to one hundred thirty five miles per hour and is expected to hit puerto rico by wednesday morning. it's going to put it a problem in puerto rico is that the electricity and water go into the power system is precariously let's face the problems and try to solve with the things we currently have. projections indicate maria could hit florida later in the week as the state struggles to recover from the devastation of hurricane irma ten thousand people in the florida keys are currently homeless tens of thousands more remain without power throughout the state of florida and collier county alone residents

are still without fresh water as the drainage system struggles to deal with the remaining floodwaters recovery efforts across the state are expected to cost more than fifty billion dollars meanwhile on saturday governor rick scott has issued new rules for nursing homes in florida after last week's tragedy in hollywood relatives of those who died have begun to take legal action against the nursing home. six nasa research subjects are merged from an eight month isolation on sunday the researchers took the. part in an experiment designed to understand the psychological impacts of long term isolation in space or on mars the experiment was conducted on a remote hawaiian volcanic island the subjects' a freeze dried food for the entire period and had their communications delayed by twenty minutes all while living in a twelve hundred square foot living space nasa scientists hope to send humans to

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publish the price of its oil and china starts a crude oil venture convertible to gold are we seeing a shift away from the dollar dominated market un uncertainty how will trump america first policy play as world leaders descend on his hometown of new york city for his first u.n. general assembly then chevrolet standoff the us isn't the only country losing jobs to mexico canada workers on strike demanding job security from g.m. is nothing to blame we have that a whole lot more so standby boom bust start right now. i. then as well as ditching the dollar opting instead to publish the price of its oil in chinese currency according to venezuela's oil ministry this is all part of

president nicolas maduro plan to quote implement new strategies to free the country from the tyranny of the dollar now the move comes in response to us saying sions that blocked certain financial dealings with venezuela but it could also be a step toward the dollar rising the global oil industry as a whole right now oil is traded almost exclusively in dollars the last week beijing announced plans to start a crude oil futures contract priced a new one and convertible into gold and china is the world's largest crude oil buyer closely followed by the us famed financial investor and commentator jim rogers to. that a new contract in a different currency could allow exporters to avoid u.s. sanctions and that countries like russia iran and china are interested in the prospect but he predicts a significant shift away from the dollar will take nearly a decade. russia's own economy has taken hits over the years because of sanctions specifically from europe over conflict in ukraine and crimea and that's pushed moscow's trade interests to china where mutual trade is up twenty five percent so

far this year that's according to the chinese ambassador to russia who announced the expansion monday that china has been russia's largest trading partner for several years but the connection continues to grow reaching forty six point six billion dollars in bilateral trade turnover the first seven months of twenty seventeen and twenty sixteen total trade was less than seventy billion this year china's commerce industry expects it to reach eighty and trade ties between the two countries is only getting stronger russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev says he wants to increase bilateral trade to two hundred billion in the next three to seven years driven largely by sanctions from the us and e.u. russia's economy was in recession for two years when i spoke with russian direct investment fund manager correll dmitri of at this year's bric summit in china he told me russia has found a way to thrive in the face of sanctions and increased cooperation with china is critical to the success. on the topic of countries working together this week world

leaders descend on new york city for the seventy second session of the united nations general assembly all one hundred ninety three member states have equal say in this forum one nation one vote now is president donald trump's u.n. debut how will he be received ortiz trinity chavez has the story for us from new york a day before the u.n. g.a. general debate president donald trump attended a un general assembly meeting to discuss reforming the united nations and he took his criticisms a straight to the source during his first appearance at the u.n. as president donald trump called on the international body of leaders to improve the way it does business in recent years the united nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement while the united nations on a regular budget has increased by one hundred forty percent and its staff has more than doubled since two thousand and we are not seeing the results in line with this

investment speaking for about four minutes president also called on the world leaders to hold every level of management accountable and focus on the results and not the process and he shared his views on how the un can be better on development management peace and security we seek a united nations that regains the trust of the people around the world in order to achieve this the united nations was told every level of management accountable protect whistleblowers and focus on results rather than on process. to honor the people of our nation we must ensure that no one and no members show a disproportionate share of the bird and that militarily or for the meanwhile u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov met sunday night in new york on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly the meeting that was initiated by the u.s.

it lasted about forty five minutes the pair discuss cooperation on the syrian crisis issues in the middle east and the agreement to bring peace to ukraine according to the u.s. department of state the two recommitted to the complex military operations in syria reducing the violence and creating the conditions for the geneva process to move forward pursuant to united nations security council resolution the seventy second regular session of the un general assembly debate will convene tuesday where president donald trump will make his formal debut on the world stage in front of one hundred and ninety three member nations this is a very big week for president donald trump he has several one on one talks with foreign counterparts to discuss global issues one very important meeting he has later on this week is lunch with the leaders of south korea and japan to discuss rising tensions in north korea which is also a top priority on the u.n. g.a. its list reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. to keep the conversation going we're joined now live by trinity charges from our

new york studio trinity obviously this is a gathering of one hundred ninety three nations but from the sounds of it all eyes are on one president and the president donald trump with his debut what can we expect from him this week. you know some of that's a very good question that's a question that's on everyone's mind this will be his time on one of the most whole profile stages in the world and we're talking like you said about one hundred and ninety three world leaders i think a lot of those leaders will want to hear what he has to say as far as what kind of . it will take especially since he has long criticized the u.n. back in two thousand and sixteen when he was a presidential candidate we heard him talk about the utter weakness and the incompetence incompetency of the united nations during his campaign trump at one point even said the united nations is not a friend of democracy it's a friend it's not even a friend to freedom but since taking office he has definitely softened his approach

and his stance on the u.n. saying that it has tremendous potential but this is a chance for the president to reach all of the world leaders out the same time and talk about his america first approach that he has long talked about his national security adviser said on fox over the weekend that the president will emphasize three themes which is to protect the american people promote american prosperity and help promote accountability and sovereignty among trinity will be following your reporting from new york thank you so much artie's trinity charges. so as we look at more issues from a global perspective but let's tackle one that's a little harder to track global income inequality has been pretty hard to pin down thanks to the secrecy of tax havens like switzerland and the cayman islands but new data should fly on just how much the world's wealthy have stashed away machining

joining us for more on this would be younger what is this new research telling us wall summed up quickly it basically argues that global income inequality is actually worse than we initially thought. thanks to new data we know more about the scope of worldwide income inequality than ever before according to a report from the national bureau of economic research the amount of money stored in offshore tax havens is equal to ten percent of global g.d.p. that's equivalent to nearly five point six trillion dollars so all of that money isn't spread out evenly over half of it stashed away in gulf countries in latin america well nearly fifteen percent is in europe and traditionally it's countries like switzerland that take the most heat for tax havens but they've actually been on the decline there on the other hand they've been on the rise in asia there was also an increase in the u.s. so it's still below the average so with the exception of a few. has grown over the past fifteen years and that impacts income inequality

work taxes are concerned since the world's richest can avoid some of them for example look at the us or wealthy metropolitan areas are making income gains as rural areas lagged behind since two thousand and thirteen the average income in the twenty five largest cities rose by eight point four percent according to the u.s. census bureau but for those who lived outside of those areas the average income only grew by five point three percent now it's certainly not just the u.s. that has an inequality problem in fact the secretary general of the o.e.c.d. said he years ago that we've already reached a tipping point worldwide. that might be the case bianca let's talk more about the us what you were mentioning to us what are some of the factors that play into the growing divide that you see here well according to new data from the census bureau it sort of shows how the tech sector has had an inadvertent role in income inequality if you look at the tech hubs in the u.s.

whether it's francisco seattle denver and charlotte they the tech sector is really booming there so it's created a lot of jobs now as a result the average income has grown by almost ten percent and is higher than the average across the board in the u.s. which is a good thing it's creating jobs helping those local economies but in the other cities and suburbs and in particular the rural areas that don't have the tech to benefit from they're not seen as much growth they're still having a little bit of growth since the recession but not as much and really hurts the areas that have already been impacted by the drop in manufacturing and so forth so it's just an example of how something like tax haven certainly add to income inequality but there are also things that are a little less out of our control just the way that our economy changes which sectors sort of died down which new ones pop up which also of course makes it harder to one quantify the scope of income inequality but also makes it harder for us to argue and agree on a solution to fix it but as we're learning a little bit more about it thanks to this new research on where does the u.s.

stand when you compare it to the rest of the world well definitely depends which measurement you use if you use the genie co-efficient which is a very popular method the u.s. is only we're number four in terms of countries with the most income inequality so we're pretty high up there and in fact we're getting to the point where the u.s. is being used as an example as of what not to do in australia another nation that's struggling with income inequality there was a report from a trade organization that basically said our economy is going to become americanised if we don't stop so they're saying we're going to see jobs with less pay more hours less holidays and everything if we don't try and fix this all right . thank you so much for that report. all right time now for a quick break stick around when we return a defense contractor giant takes to the skies and space with a multibillion dollar buy of a rocket maker we'll look at what will drive president trump's decisions on immigration his heart or the country's wallets and as we go to break the closing

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the deal announced monday details northrop paying seven point eight billion dollars in cash for the company setting orbitals shares soaring more than one thousand percent before opening bell northrop also absorb orbitals one point four billion in debt now orbital is more than a rocket maker it's also heavily involved in the missile defense business at a time when conflict with north korea is putting a bright spotlight on the industry orbitals defense system group includes development of advanced missile interceptors the deal boosts northrop's presence in the space and missile business orbital has billion dollar contracts with both nasa and the army along with contracts with the u.s. missile defense agency now the deal is still subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close the first half of next year the money shouldn't be an issue though northrop should be able to easily handle the seven point eight billion dollars price tag in two thousand and seventeen the company expects to make about thirty billion dollars in sales. another u.s. company though is that ferry as well as we start the week general motors has been

hit by a labor strike in canada with workers walking off the job at an automotive plant the union has made it clear their beef is beyond just wages and working conditions it's about survival alex and hyla which is in toronto for us with this one alex it seems like talks between g.m. and the union that they were going well what happened well to the stopping of the factory just both to about two hours outside of toronto or out of place called in crucial three thousand workers who work walked out the decision was made at eleven pm on sunday night to do this so that when you look at the breakdown for workers who supported this was ninety nine point eight percent of was. signed off on this in august saying if that they could not reach a deal they're going to walk out now if you talk to g.m. they say everything was going fantastic it was going the direction was supposed to go and for some reason these guys got up and left g.m. started writing this off as something that is dead in the water there so they're hoping that that's

a good wednesday or later in this week that they could at least have a tentative deal but for now what the workers are asking for and i'll break it down for you is higher wages better better and better benefits as well as more investment in the assembly line in this factory now this factory makes the equinox the chevrolet equinox and the vehicle itself they used to make the train as well and that went to mexico so equinox is the bread and butter of this establishment that's what the workers know and that's what they want to have entrenched here by seeing that g.m. makes a bigger investment they'll know that their jobs are more secure they don't want to see this truck or this car going down to the down south when mexico as well so that's the demand out there making and that's where survival is the question ok when you say that it's really about survival that actually ties into the nafta agreement doesn't it we just does another six ottley this right so that when we see all this all of these cars over the trucks going for manufacturing in mexico it's

all within the nafta agreement canada mexico and the states and if you look at this graphic sort of gives you a good idea of what is going on here so you look since two thousand and four look at mexico i mean they shot up in auto manufacturing big time while canada and the us i mean canada had a massive drop there all of our cars we've talked about this before and trucks parts are made either in canada and the states and mexico crosses borders all the time when it comes to nafta now that we have the nafta negotiations up again canada has started to make a little bit of a push here and that's a lot of the has to do with the right to work that we're seeing in the states so in the states if you are in a union or if. your work for a company let's say like g.m. you have you could opt out of paying union dues and still the re-use basically represented you either way what candidates say is that this is basically not fair use have to be union your workers have to pay their union dues and because of that it's obviously that the states there's an advantage over the canadians if there you

don't have this this how can you put this hurdle of a union also canada wants to see mexican workers paid the same as canadian or american workers for the exact same job that they're doing so we want to see a level playing field and that is going to be obvious and there's to be a lot of head butting around that with president trump and with his team so right now the way it stands even with a negotiation like you're seeing what's happening in her shawl and terrio this really touches upon many facets that deal with all of nafta so that's a can of the states and of course mexico right artie's alex in toronto for us thank you so much thank you. as u.s. president donald trump works to keep jobs in the u.s. some of his other policy goals are working to remove workers from the country whether it's mixed messaging on dreamers those immigrants whose parents illegally brought them into the u.s. as children or aims to cut legal immigration and have some economists are worried

trump's immigration stance will harm the economy not protect it let's bring in marshall our back for his take he's a research associate at levy economics institute marshall thanks for being here i want to first talk about these dreamers and dhaka the deferred action for childhood arrivals program because it sounds like trump is going to work with the dems to keep these eight hundred thousand some immigrants in the country trying said he would deal with these dreamers with a big heart but is there an economic reason to keep them around. but will he says a lot of things. not sure he's displayed much of a big heart and it's almost as if wherever deals with him seem. to get the word they want to hear so i'm not sure whether we can take his public statement seriously but i think it's more more to the point. it's politically toxic for either party to be seen to be deporting over eight hundred thousand people from the country even though it might please

a hard core of his radical followers the main thing is that you know this is a really the legacy of a problem that's been existence since the one nine hundred eighty six the last time we had a. immigration amnesty under ronald reagan and the problem and i think the tied up with this is that you had. amnesty given to a over three million illegal immigrants but the quid pro quo was that you would somehow regain control of the borders and and therefore restrict the flow of illegal immigration and ultimately what we ended up having was a an amnesty and there was no real reform on immigration or the immigration laws per se and that's created this bill to present this skepticism which has led to extreme measures such as the proposal for the wall and you know in a sense got tied up with that as well as being tied up with the debt limit but we

don't hear a lot about the immigration laws in this country changing we do hear a lot about that wall that you mentioned marshall what was the economic basis behind that though because you hear that you know terms pretty adamant about this he says the wall is going to happen whether it's tied to this legislation or that legislation that's going to be the case but then he's surrounded by experts that say well maybe that's not the most economic way to go with this that maybe there are some better ways at enforcing the border what say you. well look he says look we're going to do the wall because when he's on the campaign when he was on the campaign trail or he's on some rally in arizona he gets that's where he gets the biggest cheers. and then he says and who's going to pay for it and they all scream at mexico well that's the case in why on earth do you need congress to appropriate money look there's no other than the fact that i suppose if you spend twenty five billion building a wall you're going to get some economic benefit from it in the sense of that it's

an infrastructure spend unless of course it's mexicans building the wall that mean that's the other possibility but he clearly it's a sound bite and i know that people say that you know well look at they they have a wall in israel and it's been very successful over there but you know it's slightly different circumstances you're dealing with the. millions of people that are hostile to israel's national security i don't think that's the case here with the mexicans by any stretch they want to participate in the american dream not destroy it and secondly look at the map i mean you know a wall in israel wouldn't even cover you know one third of the texas border so i mean it's nonsensical and your last point general john kelly who is now chief of staff and was originally appointed is homeland security sector secretary himself said that a wall in itself won't get the job done you know it has become by and with border security and maybe some form of higher surveillance more border control guards

being hired so when you've got the former head of homeland security saying this and you've got a lot of moderate republicans and of course the democrats are also saying that they want to there willing to do a quid pro quo on some beefed up security another not to do the wall but the makings of a deal out there and at this point i think trump is more interested in just putting points on the board so to speak than having the wall per se even though there are people like rush limbaugh lauren and coulter who will be very upset with him that he doesn't actually physically construct the wall but he's also a deal maker so we'll see if he decides to you know deal with the dems on that one but let's talk a little bit more about legal immigration now publicly. back to bill that would slash the number of green cards that were awarded each year in half and it would be implemented on a merit based system which had mixed reviews and it included giving preference to those speaking english can we see examples in other parts of the world where they've been using

a point based immigration system and and what is been the result of that. yes well i'm from canada originally by the way i came here legally and and used a lawyer just for the record i am a green card holder but look at canada australia are two problem if examples of countries that do use a points based system and yes in the case of canada for example which i know pretty well the ability to speak english in french which of the two official languages is a big factor in the point system but there are also it's also skills based so there are a number of things where that are put on it but but it is not discriminatory and it's working its work very well it commands a lot of political legitimacy precisely because it is perceived to be neutral as far as race or religion color creed goes and you know it would seem to be a very very good model for the us to adopt in fact in the u.k.

as they've been speaking about breaks it and what sort of. policies they'd like to follow they too have made reference to the points based immigration system so that would seem to me to be a much more sensible way for the us to go back to that's the way the immigration system here used to be very very skills based before the nine hundred sixty five that came into play real quick we only have about a minute left marshall but i wanted to ask me if we make the emphasis on skilled based immigration there's an argument out there that no one's going to take the low skilled jobs these are jobs that regular american citizens don't want what do you think comes of that well the answer is if you pay a living wage you'll get americans to do the jobs i mean we fought a civil war over one hundred fifty years ago to abolish slavery so while whenever i hear this argument about americans won't do the jobs that. other people will do the question is do you want to pay a living wage would you want to pay slave wages we abolish slavery so let's let's

pay a sensible wage and i guarantee you'll get americans to do them thank you so much for your take marshall our backward. associate levy economics institute appreciate your time thanks one thanks for having me. a rolling stone gathers no moss as the saying goes and right now in order to keep its brand alive magazine rolling stone is up for sale again for fifty years rolling stone has been a staple known for its music and pop culture journalism and for its iconic cover photos of celebs from john lennon to jennifer aniston however there's not enough star power to help rolling stone's financial troubles the announcement comes six months after rolling stone owner when are media announced being debt free in one year after selling forty nine percent stake in the magazine to a singapore based digital music company but with a ten percent loss in newsstand sales last year and likely declining it's less surprising here is knowing when our media is hoping the remaining shares of rolling stone fly off the shelf faster than its monthly issues all right that'll do it for us for now thank you so much for watching be sure to catch boom bust on directv you

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a back and forth conversation this particular trump is not somebody is trying to get this trump is not somebody. i 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 all people. like 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 was 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 kamaal right now airs on k l

w san francisco's public radio and that was has been nuff kamala's book we all thought so w. kamau bell hits shelves this past spring i'm sorry we're out of time. first a canadian. yeah i mean i still think that stand up yeah i did stand up did a lot of stand up and certain cisco still am a comedian still do stand up yes working on my new hour of stand up right now so that's at my my korma comedian you grew up in northern california no i grew up in sort of i was born in palau to but then we moved back east so i lived most when i lived back east and then moved out to the barre 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 saw me my mom laughed and i was you always get into touchy subjects political subjects controversial subjects you know 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 trumps 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 done board aim stages last word in show and morgan spurlock and

lisa ling and they wanted to launch an original show because all the shows that sort of exist 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 now 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 our 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 you select the 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 air. is where it's like and also i do want some sense of either emotional or physical jeopardy something where it's like i have stakes through the producers book the guests and everything and yeah i get overly busy so yeah i mean they do i was great staff there right here in l.a. but also i suggest 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. if season three routes or silly season three about two weeks twenty six years they may be 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 promise 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 know about it was all about immigration and refugees and the producers like we find somebody who has a different viewpoint and it just so happened that richard spencer was going to be there doing one of his white supremacist conferences and so we just picked him like oh he's there in the area and then by the time we are closer he started 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 should prize 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 liked 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 this that is all 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 did he seem to a lot of times you see you see these 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've 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 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 in the web in the white house who eat who believe that this country set up for white people. yes give us your tired your no hate in the bay rally in berkeley that the nazis left so i think it will pretty well. it was like eight years ago as he had 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. we're heading into season three of united chese you started working on it yeah we're in pre-production right now i was just on the phone call one of the producers was there was the first thing is going on you know we're still we like to keep a little bit. of care was interesting in the long weekend as a start we will start until next april so we're still you know still put it you know is there anyone you're dying to cover i mean i would about trump people say that 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 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 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 i did every speech he made. 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 can 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 why 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 dora. who can throw that out and 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 they're doing the duty of the people which is like them yeah which 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 it as 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 first 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 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 holding a kid my kids are six and three three it was a six understand the six i understand slowly she was well i mean just last night me my wife both went to the no hate in the bay rally and then i was watching you know weird to me 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 what we took 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 there 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 did it become about how do i keep my job instead of how do i work that's 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 the orrin hatch was the principal speaker at ted kennedy's funeral. that don't have anymore can it get a callback together kemet 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 and new leadership but you can't just sort of go down the same road after the great biggest risk best advice dream guests and more in

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on the whole and by products. that we. want. 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. 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 low 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 would 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 tall 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 there's 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 everything 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 think trump will finish the term 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 are left 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 was 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. as meaning the k.k.k. for the united states of america that there was publicly. getting married is right into that that had to be a lot of laughs the k.k.k. was on the best piece of advice you ever got. best piece of advice i ever got personally a comedian named kevin who told me early on in my standup days don't think you can just be a stand up comedian you have to think of other things you can do and so my career right now is proof that i think that the worst piece of advice should quit doing stand up comedy from my dad place where he told you to quit oh yeah. dad.

he's been insurance for thirty years or something place we'd find you want to day off in my house in front of my television person you'd switch places with for a day person i switch places with for a day. who would i switch places with for a date kevin hart i don't know i don't do any set ups no thank you. but somebody it seems every good life you know to get there we go through science one 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 two half 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've 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 guest on any one of your shows dream guest denzel washington on my doing the way god. he would do it he would do it i've heard that i don't know i don't know i was me only talked to it on a broadway and ice man cometh before and i have all played i hope to be there and yes playing 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 did 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 i hate to break it just interviewed him twice i'll come ball in ten years from now in ten years. hopefully working still in the show business but working much less on camera working behind the camera give others only want to produce things absolutely yeah what kind of legs united shades has how long do you think it will go you know i think that we'll see if trump goes to terms that we have at least eight years. to that do you want to do more films and documentaries i want to do i really enjoy doing documentaries i really enjoy and i would not just have 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 of freedom of speech and freedom of the press you know as 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 that 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. 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 just a chaotic force ok j.m.

ten sixteen on twitter what do you make of the column kaepernick 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 allow 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 lee 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've seen 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 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 distance of twenty years you know certainly there's if we we have. the money and the rehab 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 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 general. yeah you know i don't there's no way that we've always talked out of the other talk to end in a varro who's 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 in peer glee 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 interested in trying to threaten you allow us of makes things way worse i think that i think most of social media do a really bad job of protecting people you can spread and spread any law and you can also you can see you can use it as a way to flood people to tax the way that milo did with his don't many people and finally had ben lacey on twitter when can larry be. podcast for the reaction he could be on the anytime he wants to ok we will book it i will come on oh we're happy to have you i would not thought to ask you i think. that in. great pleasure to meet you big thanks to my guest w.

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come along. and. basically everything that you think you know about civil society have broken down. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. we should not be. normal i think. we don't need people that think like this on our planet. this is an incredibly situation. greetings and salutation. too often in our world today hawke 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 i got. to watch for the entire robot tour recently i had the pleasure to sit down with john pilger in new york city to discuss. the united states is a 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 a war. be a book this film is to break and silence a nuclear war is no longer unthinkable. the equivalent to one hiroshima 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. pity 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 even in your

in your long career as a journalist in documentary filmmaker what was the point you know early on where you realize the the world wasn't as we were sold at the you know governments 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 sequin of and it's the kind of open your eyes to that i don't think there was a particular but there's no doubt that when i. left destroyed 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 of 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 it. was. the what whatever happened had an enormous 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 few hasn't triage. bad ripple effect you speak of for lack of a better term of the correct term he calls that kind of hidden american empire that is you know kind of dominating 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 documented debate this i need to put this together because people need to know about this. only inspiration i suppose 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 halters 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 sort it out dominance of china already is surrounded by four hundred u.s. bases that extend all the way up from us right through the pacific. through

asia. japan korea and across here asia but now america was rich boys going to say to china. west still the big guy on the block be careful it was probably the most provocative most aggressive and yet the most under-reported strategic decision made in the modern era. in this country i say one of them the other one of course is a similar position which wasn't my. but certainly is an invasion and it was an invasion of ukraine when the us overthrew the elected government on your credit and 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 it was with the chinese but china has grown spectacularly in less than a generation america's biggest trading partner it is it is now the biggest power in the country they own the planet earth so this was an extraordinary story. and 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 point 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 that movement and 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 populous kind of views china or the you know the words you used about china or russia is that a uniquely us problem do other countries kind of show. sheild there are real motivations throughout history as much as the us does is this just a cool yes they do of course but the us is the multi imperial power and as we were discussing at the beginning what happens matters but the most striking thing always since i first came to the united states is that the us intelligence. almost never takes responsibility. for 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 intelligences the new york times and the washington post you see it coming out of the great academies in the united states to have. a massive retrospective on p.b.s. public broadcasting about the vietnam war done by the acclaimed. so. sort of the the wood of this is that the scrapes. quoted in the new york times the smalling. the the the describes.

the war in vietnam as being begun by decent people with in 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. visit the maize to feed to the united states that's never been forgiven that has to be constantly put that's not. and the collaborator 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 as you made the point in your documentary that the leader of china was also reaching out to the u.s. to deaf ears against it so much the british and the vietnam. sent messages to to roosevelt. the declaration of independence one hundred to clay had it all fit anonymous and had become independent and which was based almost word for word on the u.s. declaration of independence and he was it was it 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 him. 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 with 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. ordinary people men face and it was rejected those who carried these mass messages with them souls 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 whole. decade the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big

money for. a lot of boys that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. on r t america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get the straight talk in the break news. guys i made a professional ish powerpoint to show you how artsy america fits into the greater media landscape is not all laughter all right but we are a solid alternative to the bullshit liberal or conservative and as you can see his bar graph real it skew the facts either the talking head lefties talking at righties oh there you go above it all so look out world r.t. america is in the spotlight now every really have no idea how to classify as and it actually took me way more time than i care to admit.

rejected tonight is a comedy to solve it is not a defect by the corporate media. would you go after the corporations that just more your life profit over people at every turn the data it's not for me it's like medicine it's like a cancer joke from all the stress that the news put you under redacted tonight is a show where you can go to cry from laughing about the stuff that's going on in the world as opposed to just regular crying we're going to find out what the corporate mainstream media is not telling you about how we're going to filter it through some satirical comedic lenses to make it more digestible that's what we do every week hard hitting radical comedy news like redacted tonight is where it's a. little

much. 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 window of decision making and when people. with the responsibility for strategic nuclear weapons have to make a decision and that window has closed it's something between eight and ten minutes so a miscalculation must spake and accident. the way the the the the project of of of of the kind of provocation that we're seeing at the moment they're also they're also. continue in that analogy is that the offspring of propaganda. propaganda and censorship is the real problem here 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've given up real journalism i've been a reporter for quite

a while. my work has been acknowledged i've never known a time when basic osprey porting 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 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 so full of its 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 wars and 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 referenced the classic novel and film on the beach which the star gregory peck 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 a simply wasn't there there was there was one where they were all sitting around near the end say half of the still 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 war hell would 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 the survey of the whole yes but there's a lot to that are we poking him to kind of poking north korean can join the room to justify that in circle moment of china you know to give it that kind of a 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 well be 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. certain public official rules like obama's secretary of defense sash ashcroft was probably the most aggressive of his read now have. when. you go three you go through the matters and all of that you've got 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 so it made to china and to 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. the order 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 reach of the world coming to us 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 in this 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 the for the a resident example and so i think the there is still hope to kind of roll this back

and 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 piece of peace with its with its region. the same is true in korea when they cross the waters the island of which. has been. demonstrating its its need for pays for many years. i think all around the world there is no question it's almost a given it's not who. it's it's who would want to invite or

break a 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 nine. tonight sees a million people filled the streets of manhattan in the freeze movement and that was to freeze the stationing of nuclear weapons in europe but we now have according to nato documents circulating in germany. the intermediate range nuclear treaty is about to be torn up that means they'll be able to to base. intermediate range nuclear weapons across europe.

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