fiction. today hawk watchers we had back to somalia for the latest on the investigation into the car bombing that took the lives of over three hundred people last saturday the guardian is now reporting that the tragic bombing may actually a been an act of vengeance in response to a botched u.s. and somali military raid that took place last august in the southern lower show battle region of the country according to officials the man responsible for the attack was a former soldier and somalia's army whose hometown was raided by local troops and

u.s. special forces two months ago in a controversial operation in which ten civilians were killed u.s. military involvement in somalia as was ramped up in the waning years of the obama presidency presidency and has only been intensified under the trumpet administration the raid last august so the deaths of three children between the ages of six and ten at the hands of u.s. and somali forces in the attempt to battle the al shabaab militia. and despite what the folks in the military industrial complex and all those neo liberal columns would have you believe i'm sorry but violence does indeed beget more violence especially in africa where a recent un study discovered that in a majority of cases state action appears to be the primary factor finally pushing individuals into violent extremism in africa in fact of the more than five hundred former extremist group members interviewed by the un seventy one per cent stated

that the killing or arrest of a family member or friend by the state was directly responsible for their extremism again this time for those hard of hearing in the cheap seats those humanitarian intervention is who just don't want to listen violence no matter how just but gets more violence. you know let's start watching the folks. what would you. like. as you heard a lot of. like you know that i got. this . week. well the watching the hawks i. had to have you noticed i didn't start with the greetings and salutations today

because i felt very strongly that i wanted to dig right into this story because too often we hear that we need more violence in order to stop violence and i'm tired of tired i know isn't it strange that the most like basic concept of human life that violence is going to mean more violence violence doesn't bring peace bombs don't stop wars they don't they never have the network to grow more terrorists and we create more anger and they create generations of people who hate each other for no reason like we have with the russian the u.s. now what happens if you have a bunch of military stuff a lot of politics and then this happens and then we don't care about another side of people a gap and destruction we kind of point it off like who care and death pushes extremism especially state sponsored death because because there's always going to be a push back you know the moment someone loses a brother or a daughter or a cousin of friend or whatever it is there's going to be pushback i mean more than thirty three thousand people over the last six years have been victims of violent

extremism in somalia this is and africa as well you know this is causing widespread displacement it was created an aggravated humanitarian crisis that it's affecting millions of people across the entire continent of africa thirty three thousand and one continent that's that's far too. especially done by extremists rights also hit their economic prospects as well because it's hard to do business in a place that's constantly in turmoil right and part of that turmoil as this you want to study points out because the state for better or worse is you know killing people and that's driving people in the economics that's driving people into this extreme ism you know it's what's really interesting is that you want to study also found out that eighty three percent of these five hundred people interviewed believe their government looked only after the interests of both of you seventy five percent place no trust in their politicians or state security agencies that is

where you need to be good you have to rebuild the trust between the government and the community if you're going to stop the extremism you're seeing in africa today and one of those huge refutes reasons and we've talked about it a million times in study after study one of the big reasons that they would say during this when they were asking these extremists what happened what how to turn the economic conditions where the most acute they were the most in need at the time that they joined the group while their families were starving you didn't have money you didn't have a home there so much to sort of deal with and some extremist groups even paid salaries and we saw this with with my soul and a lot of other groups is that when there's something going on it's mercenary so they'll pay higher salaries you know to go fight against the americans or whoever happens to be there and you take it because your family starving they need bread and they need you know clean water and those things take money and when you put someone in that situation feed your family or they don't care that it's you know

it's a terrorist organization like these guys are blowing us up with drones these guys are shooting us. i'm going to go to whoever i can find seven is going to change me yeah i mean what's interesting is you see that right when giving safety to my and the safety protection of us their family a tale yes it isn't just that they're they're buying the safety they're putting their life on the line to keep the rest of their families and what's interesting is and we were talking about earlier today when you talk about you know where i heard about you know people joining a dangerous group because of the economics involved in the there's more economic you know convenience and freedom and joining that group you see the same thing in the streets of the united states most people will tell you that the reason that they join the street gang is it's generally because of the sale of drugs and the shadow economy which is the shadow economy and there's no other upward mobility in their neighborhood the only people they see with money are drug dealers and i saw the same thing i'm situation is analogous not about drugs it's about extremism most of the people who have money are again you're them extremist groups are mercenary

so i want to be like them i can feed my family that way i can protect my you can see that and the trouble is though is that there is also that u.s. that empire that you know bigger bigger country coming in and can try trying to control smaller countries and the people in that country which is where you see that military intervention isn't happening all the time which is highly dangerous at the end of the day. the dominance of media in our lives has come with a host of positive benefits whether it's your grandparents being able to stay in the loop on every family vacation or reunion or allowing people in danger to easily let friends and family know they're safe but as with any other medium politics has found its slippery way into what originally started as an innovative force for good and has resulted in employees and anyone with a hint of political aspirations fearing for their lives over what may have lingered on their online profiles all this recently came to a head when conservative activists started launching extensive online investigations trying to out mainstream media journalists for harboring

a liberal bias or partisan leanings in private which prompted the pinnacle of the mainstream media establishment the storied new york times to issue an extensive memo last week to its employees instructing them to avoid posting liking or being connected in any way with anything remotely controversial or partisan on social media but what about the first amendment you might ask what about the simple fact that these journalists are intrinsically human and however much you want to conceal it will always have some kind of opinion and bias well apparently the new york times feels those concerns are secondary to protecting itself from the president's accusations of being fake news but what kind of precedent does this really set us a great question and i think in my opinion you know when you really look at it. journalism you you can't hide bias in journalism that's always going to be there it's been there since the journals of i mean yes they will tell you there shouldn't have biased stories and you're right you have to strive for straight up journalist

you've got to strive to do you have to know where you can put your bias aside or you can put your own feelings aside and just report the story as it is that that's where you have to be more and that's that's one of those things that sometimes maybe you should more of court on a very specific story or do it as an opinion. to keep yourself making that situation which i did last week with the weinstein scandal because. i worked there i had my own experiences i chose to speak about it not specifically in that case because i can't be right i know i can't i'm good i can't be completely unbiased not such an that's an opinion piece you know me so i'm taking myself out of being a reporter on that piece for the good of the story because i can't do it without being like what's wrong and here's the thing with like this policy the new york times try to lay down like ok well no one should be you know posting anything political or no one should be doing that actually i think it's better for your audience to make that oh ok well this this reporter does lean right or does lean

left or whatever maybe your likes you know purple elephant so whatever it may be that way i know when i'm reading that story i can have more context as a reader to you know is this person being a little tilted this way or that way so that way when i read a context and i can make an informed decision now there's people that can go online and go on social media as well no and go off the rails and of course there should be you know a company has every right to look at their employer and say you post something really ridiculous you know you shouldn't do that. but i don't think trying to hide it i think that nobody believes i don't think anybody should believe that the highly educated brilliant young minds are the hope of the world in the future but these these young men and women who are working at the new york times they're not robots are not our tama times they're real people and i guess we have to realize that when we as journalists become our brand and who we are becomes part of the story as much as anything you just have to be honest about it you know

a lot of this you know came out of project. wonderfully controversial group and heard you know attempts to describe here and i want to get audiences really opposed to you know reveal the personal employees kind of exaggerations and what they believe so me ask you this do these groups have a point or are they exaggerating it for their own agenda we know project for you. there are heavy right leaning groups i mean there james o'keefe a boy put on osama bin laden last to make a point where he crossed a border an invisible border it's ridiculous but they've also been known to selectively things like that you know you are the exaggerating the bias that we see i don't think so i think it's there we don't need to know what they're leaving on the other when you have to do is look at any c.n.n. reporter or fox news reporter or reporter any of these people are hosts or pundits they are talking about their personal things they have charities for certain things of course if you have a charity for people in syria then you're probably not going to report on the

syrian conflict completely as unbiased unbiased or with this much clarity as you would if you weren't because you have a personal stake in that we all do because we're human beings but i think making journalist pretend like we're not humans that we don't have feelings that we don't understand and that sometimes what we do we bring are going to feel like you've got a facebook page that's your professional facebook page that represents your work at the new york times or any other place whether it whether it's journalism or whatever you know work says hey we prefer this on social media they're your job they're paying your salary that's their right to do that you signed on but it's your private page. is that really their right to tell you what to put what you can and cannot post on your private page i will say of us. and the thing that i worry about this is that millennia old are much more interested in their internet privacy of holding on to who they are as a person they understand that that has value and i think they're going to lose out on a lot of really talented people are because they are going to want to give up those

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world. mark twain said it's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled that could be why america is so divided because people have been fed fake news feed for by corporate interests they beat you down until you believe their fairy tale well here's a story for you it's called big and it's full of bad fiction. the hurricane season hit areas around houston and florida extremely hard this year and caused billions of dollars in damage the devastation seems to be markedly more permanent and serious in puerto rico where no overwhelmed infrastructure and

a significantly more complex response has left the island without much of the relief seen in the mainland united states but many of the reasons aren't mere coincidence they're actually part of a much more structural problem with puerto rico's overarching relationship to the rest of the nation so to put it in the tech world colorful jargon according to many on the puerto rican community the issues puerto rico now faces are a feature not a bug to go in-depth on what the island territory is now struggling with and how to write down earlier spoke with nelson dennis a former new york state assemblyman and puerto rican advocate. so how is how is political currently dealing with the crisis as far as being able to feed and get water and obviously fresh water food and shelter to the survivors of the island obviously many people are fleeing but how is it how are we actually dealing with the crisis as it now stands. as as you know it's amazing you so much. because. if your day only fifty percent of the island has electricity you know i

did it to speak to family members only twice. i don't leave the ration that i've gathered so you still have that indicate that people are really helping each other especially in the central areas. the interest your theory is down and female has done the best it could under chaotic conditions and fourthly that has to do with the person at the top. so it's going to take about six months or put out by the electrical power authority to to come back to full power and it's then anticipated that without a real concerted conscious effort the puerto rican infrastructure which is a won't recover. and political will be it will be to same it will be the political that was there's an opportunity there because now we can rebuild in

a strong and it in and digitally empowered way if we employ some of these reforms that that i that i mentioned to you but right now it's robbed a lot of people close to have so have of full access to to to clean drinking water . you heard the reports as as well and so it's just it's really it's a it's a it's i hope that it is a understood it and humanitarian crisis because i don't think something he understands there. well could be a ticking time bomb is this could get worse. and fuller egos that is now going to could be an albatross around the neck of the of the united states and their world opinion may may may shift the twenty five united states between puerto rico if it does as it continues always done it for the last hundred years we're trouble because when we go it never registered on the radar screen this is the time for

people to wake united states and and terrorists to realize that there is a structural revision starting with this reconstruction that needs to occur on that item. well certainly asian it strikes me that it's coming from a place partly perhaps of racism in the fact that a puerto rico is not part of the united states proper although it's still a colony as we've discussed and you've written a book war against all puerto ricans want to tell us a bit about the history of what what the war has entailed what does that mean that there has been a war systematically in your opinion against puerto rico by the united states. there is a man in the francis race who the police chief of puerto rico he's the one that it once it is the one that declared war against all puerto rico when they tried to get a minimum wage in the thirty three the great depression and and that is the title to sign in the book war he said if we instigate the sugarcane work errors of the policy of with there's going to war to the death against all regions and

unfortunately this sort of in a cold war because there's been a red carpet stretching from san juan to wall street for a hundred years a very first governor charles heard alan only means governor only seventeen months he had that in this first year fiscal report to william mckinley and it was really a business plan for how to turn puerto rico into a one crop economy that is sure that he could be conducted soil sample studies while he was governor he devoted most of his energies to that it was really a business plan he ran the wall street became a vice president morgan guaranty trust and then within ten years it became the treasurer then president then chairman of the order of the american sugar refining company which today is also known as domino sugar this man the first civilian governor of puerto rico from the u.s. became the king of sugar and when people realized the fertility and the profits that could be derived from puerto rico as shown by that first governor it just

became it was. just a wave of carpetbaggers that ever since so puerto rico has constantly only existed basically as a profit center and as a mis understanding a quarter of that that it is trading of the american economy that that there is more galley extended into puerto rico that's not so under the jones act alone that that transfers to the u.s. economy are about triple a one of whatever the transfer payments are going into the items and yet it's historically as you said it's the per capita income of the. it's less than half that in mississippi and so it's just been constantly kept in this subordinate condition. to the point of surrealism and when george orwell posed the novel one thousand nine hundred four in one nine hundred forty eight. you know it was a chance for the ship it to two digits data that same year in. puerto rico the u.s.

pressured the passage of lasik with ethan s. public law fifty three which is also known as lay that i'm going to gag law that will made it a felony punishable by ten years in jail to say a word sing a song make any utterance against the united states or in favor of puerto rican independence or to even own a flag in the privacy of your own home only flag would be that the size of a postage stamp or of this little phone you can go to jail for ten years and that law was passed in the same year that george orwell's full ninety four became a bestseller eight united states so you see if we have this sort of this surreal double standard where what happens in vegas stays in vegas but what happened in puerto rico never happened at all we only have the like a homestead massacre where seventy men women and children were slaughtered. polluting a seven year old girl shot in the back or killing two hundred people were injured because they were pro independence we never heard about it here i mean very few

people know about the poll it's a massacre very few people know about the central event in my book oregon still. a revolution that an aborted revolution of over nine hundred fifty that the united states put down in puerto rico quickly they mobilized five thousand national guard troops arrested three thousand puerto rico and bombed two towns in broad daylight the only time in american history the united states bombs its own citizens if they like. and not in war time. people don't know why and so. if this is the condition that they need for this long after all the years and people weren't even aware of the jones act i was lucky that it by new york times finally published an op ed that i had been submitting to the poor a long time then there's the weirdest look given that that history of basically eighty nations fifteen hundred miles away a lot of united states but not really and always being misunderstood i think it's

really at the time is that now to consider some alternative relationship to the united states we closed this one is manifestly this functional you can see it not working now and thank you so much for joining me today i really appreciate your time. thank you shouldn't. the first amendment protection of the freedom of speech here in the united states is arguably our most proud. probably most significant of the constitutional amendments we have this is why the mississippi school districts recent decision to ban from all school classroom is the classic you would surprise winning historical fiction novel to kill a mockingbird this is why it's caused so much controversy that banned the blow up the works the school district decided the racist language in the book about racial injustice in the south could make students and more faculty uncomfortable parties marine important i reports on this battle how it's not the first time censorship

has prevailed over spree speech in a country whose foundations are built upon the freedom of expression. at least seven free speech organizations are publicly condemning the biloxi school board for unilaterally removing the american classic to kill a mockingbird from the eighth grade required reading list in a letter to the school superintendent the national coalition against censorship and other first amendment advocates protested the move arguing that banning the book without a formal committee review violates district policies and raises serious educational and legal concerns regarded as a masterpiece of american literature harper lee's nine hundred sixty s. novel deals with reese's and injustice in the south as a black man is unfairly accused of rape it contains racial slurs and the n. word the vice president of the blocks the school board defends the book banned

saying quote there were complaints about it and there is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable unquote now the book remains in the school libraries while eighth graders will no longer be required to read it the move has drawn criticism on social media with the former secretary of education and others insisting a ban against to kill a mockingbird is a form of cultural cleansing the decision is just the latest in an ever growing list of historical references up on public chopping block last year a philadelphia school board banned the adventures of huckleberry finn from classrooms because mark twain's writing was not inclusive and made students uncomfortable of mice and men suffered the same fate after an idaho school board said the classic contained too many profanities even oscar winning classics aren't protected in august memphis theater ended its thirty four year tradition of

screening gone with the wind after several patrons reportedly complained than one nine hundred thirty nine. film was racially insensitive now while the list of things people find offensive continues growing critics say a recent history alternately prevents the public from learning from its past reporting from miami marina r.t. . while houston and other american cities have been covering their urban areas with concrete and destroying wetlands at an astronomical pace italy and china have been looking to integrate modern green technology into the concrete jungle they're both building vertical for a second take more than twenty thousand trees and plants per building in an effort to reduce pollution but we're using the trees to absorb micro particles and c o two and then adding one thousand ladybugs per each of these buildings that you parasites and a lot of vegetation to be pesticide free and now they're setting their sights on space so if no bouyeri architects who design the chinese and italian vertical

forest buildings teamed with the chinese space agency and universities future city lab to create a conceptual design for a possible shanghai colony on mars new shanghai will use ecosystem like seeds and something they call the door which will function as an antenna inside a giant pod with vertical forest cities inside of it see these pods or seeds would provide infrastructure and atmospheric gases needed to preserve life on mars the only question now is where do i set up there as that's brilliant technology and i. futuristic technology if i ever saw it you know massive hanging gardens and mars that's that is the standard of care to space something good good makes me glad i live this long to see greylock attacks out there saying no we didn't do this in order to try to make this work it's pretty brave that was pretty amazing over. everybody remember in this world we are told we are above the sorts all you wall i

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do colonies still exist. rico's treated as one as our own oil economy calls and. them account for only money and a portal for equal as you know and i know a lot of it doesn't make. the island is controlled by the us government and some puerto ricans crave independence journal it was the almighty god you know it was getting about on a global good at either way but i mean to sort of randomly go over that again a game a game pointless the earliest. still many do wish to join the us hundreds more leave every day knowing. i'm a long way from india. beings. with the country at a crossroads for anger on the island is on the rise.

just. as you're watching. larry king now old wood from mere notion of the present day. an affair with a woman of a different color was. provocative and now i think you know partly because of people. you know. humbled on a daily basis. love work with. so many aspects of. purchase problem solving and leadership. strips. the insights that we have plus. and sit.

with her because she was a scammer for sure. as she was taking the pictures tried to kiss me. on the head sort of startle and she looked. all next on larry king now. larry king now return visit with actor writer director tony goldwyn for six years tony has been ruptured audiences as president fitzgerald grant on the a.b.c. smash hits scandal he's also known for divergent goes the last samurai and outlaw all problems where he played warren jeffs the cameras director of conviction in a walk on the moon he now stars as ed miller in the new movie the man who brought down the white house that's in theaters now and the final season of skin. little plein years of total theft on a.b.c. we'll talk about felt in a while so it's hard to put an end to

a show it feels right and yet sad in this and scandal has been such a dream job you know that i had never done. a regular series before. because i directed two other things and i wanted to make that commitment and this one fell right and i'm just been so lucky so but seven years of playing the same character i think it's time to put it to rest to say i'm thrilled that we're doing it at a time you know to finish strong and shonda rhimes decided this was going to be the end it was her choice and you know it wouldn't be a. the alternative is just to go on until the show peters out no one's watching a lot of time when and to gets into a role like you did they don't get movie parts because there's such an association with the hit show that you did though yeah well the world's really changed where you know when i first started acting in the. late eighty's. you could not work in

both t.v. and movies but if you were if you worked on television you were sort of banned from movies and once i'd managed to break into movies i was told you cannot do television so all through the ninety's and even the early two thousand i really i only did movies. because it was it was considered career suicide and now it's completely changed you know netflix said yeah now all of the best work is happening on television and everybody wants to it wants in so there's no longer any stigma did the cast play any part mending the show was just shut down does this leave the show on this decision i think the network would have been happy to keep it going she just called us at the end of last season and said this is what we're going to do this is the last season seven years you know this is that it is and you're no longer president right so how does the part develop into this well we'll see what i saw that we have two of the inaugural of the new president your ex-wife right so that was the end of last season i directed that i was that actually so my ex-wife

is now the present time you know fits my character has has retired to vermont for the moment to start a foundation to disappear from the show no one i disappear and then i will reappear . and you know the sort of vortex of power that shawn the likes to explore and scandal can you know no one can stay with out of that vortex for long when you're working with all these actors on a regular basis and then you direct them what's that like it's great it's a really unique experience you know it's like. we're we've all become a family and it's a very intimate experience because we know each other very well. so for me it's a privilege they're all great actors and to be able to kind of help someone with their process is is really special and then also i get to work with certain characters in the show fits doesn't interact with much so when i'm directing i get

to work with all of the folks that i don't normally get to work with director any episodes in the last yeah i directed the second episode this year we just finished that a few weeks ago so i think you know how it all ends no no i just know we never know from one episode the next in retrospect why is the show been such a hit because i knew the girl she's playing judy smith the nurses sure i'm on my show yeah she's an amazing woman amazing if it happens a few times in a career you're so lucky but i've experienced it a couple of times where something works. the concept just really works as a piece of entertainment and it seems at the same time to touch. to happen at the right moment in our sort of social history and i think that the combination of doing a show about you know politics and about you know the power center of washington. that you know involved an interracial

love affair was able to be incredibly entertaining at the same time as tackle social issues that are right you know. on the surface of what we're all thinking a lot of talking about you know shonda rhimes just hit it with this concept i think at a time when it was really needed and we could accept black white love affairs and yeah i mean she didn't wear the white remember when you know that i probably talked about this before but. when scandal premiered the notion of the president of united states. having a illicit affair and be an affair with a woman of a different color was if you know provocative to say the least and now i think you know partly because of people like shonda rhimes in storytelling that's become you know not not so remarkable. fortunately in the same way that chando had

you know my republican chief of staff. but the third episode we found out that he had a husband and that was sort of startling and stunning and now i don't think that would be too remarkable seven years later samuel goldwyn that's right you know your grandfather i knew him well you know i was i was fourteen when he died he was quite a man when he was here that he was a real character and i loved him dearly and your dad was also producer again my does him jr was also a very successful producer you star in felt the man who brought down the white house i had the honor of interviewing muggs i know you did right after it was revealed he was deep throat and you play mr who is he ed miller was felt right hand guy at the f.b.i. and a very in his kind of you know felt was not a man who had a lot of close friendships and miller was one of his close you know close friends you know really this really is watergate from the f.b.i. his perspective which is a view into the scandal but we really haven't seen you know we've had woodward and

bernstein's perspective we hadn't had nixon's perspective. you know in many different versions but this is a really interesting look at it. particularly given what's going on in politics as we speak just like we're going to liam neeson liam's just such a great actor and a wonderful guy and i've known liam since he first came to america when i was just starting out as a young actor and lee and i just got here we we had some mutual friends and used to hang out when he was just busting out in movies. and he was as down to earth a guy then you know in these as down to earth guy now as he as he was then what do you make of that we have to ask everyone ask what do you make of mr trump. well i'm not a fan i think that. you know i think that trump has a genius you know for. me getting media attention i think he was really brilliant

on that and sort of branding himself an understanding that by just dominating the news cycle. that. had more power than anyone ever assumed and we've seen it again this you know recently with what's happened with the n.f.l. you know coming out. he seems a bit you know a brilliance for right is the health care bill was take credit to mccain said he wasn't going to vote for the ladies all of the reasons the clearly north areas declaring war suddenly you know president trump goes down for a political rally in alabama and goes after calling copper neck and what is there one talking about this weekend you know collin cabinet and the n.f.l. and. he's. you know it's extraordinary the art of destruction i think you have said give you a quote shonda is all about being girly into the same time the doesn't begin anything or even the fact that women are sensual superior to men given

a chance vastly more powerful that one for being physically smaller women would have dominated the earth long ago did i say that you said that only and how do you know they siad if you base it on your wife my wife my daughters the women i work for and you know there's a little bit of hyperbole in that statement of vastly superior i think it's more about equality but i do think that. you know. i'm humbled on a daily basis by the women that i love and the women that i work with and find that . you know so many aspects of the way a woman approaches problem solving and leadership. you know outstrips so many of the instincts that we have as men you directed a commercial about hillary clinton i did that's right yeah what do you make of of hillary oh it's so long yeah she's such an incredible woman was not

a good camp she was not a great campaigner at all they're certainly she's personally she's a great was you know. she's a extraordinarily brilliant woman she's a real deeply kind and warm woman. she is not the greatest candidate we've ever had although i think that done i think that she faced in this a lot of past election forces that were beyond. you know i don't think you can fault it's easy to monday morning quarterback oh well hillary did this hillary did that in many ways i thought she did an extraordinary job. as a candidate i think that she her personality very much did come through i think that she dominated in the debates i think that her performance at the democratic convention her speech was perfect. you think you know it but they present i think she would have made a great president i do and i know that the things that you know the weather was komi coming out with what he did will find out what the impact of the you know the

russians were i think the unique skills that the donald trump brought to this contest were overwhelming and certainly took out sixteen was it sixteen republican you know only it is just knocked em right out so i don't you can. you know and i think that hillary is about the work and the job she's not to create self promoter as a by her nature you know she's so on and he's the opposite he's a brilliant self from others i you know to blame her. you know her. campaigning style you know yes their machine their political calculus was way off as i was at the campaigning is gunson oh my god who knew you played warren jeffs i to throw him away would mormon or as he was say he was the true mormon it will the fundamentalist mormon the other tell that yes yeah he was for people that don't know he you know raise head of this fringe community of fundamentalist

mormons who still practice polygamy and how do you find the interior of that so that was a very disturbing character to play i found you know it's one of the pathological narcissists. and i found that condition fascinating he was also a pedophile and that was a very disturbing thing to get inside of. but. but that's the perverse fun of being an actor you know to be able to step inside a psyche that at times can really be repugnant to so i'm on television you know what i did all i did fortunately as an actor you warren jeffs was given his narcissism was a. a compulsive. recorder of himself so there were hundreds and hundreds of tapes that he recorded which ended up you know causing him to go to church but i

listen to hours of him talking about himself did he believe in his faith. i think it yes he believes in his faith but he like so many narcissists manipulated his faith to serve his own selfish impulses up next tony on success and transcending his noble roots more with tony goldwyn after the break. i'm a trial lawyer i've spent countless hours poring through documents that tell the story about the ugly side of. corporate media read uses to talk about news car news company i'm going to paint a clear picture about how disturbing how cool drugs corporate conduct is becoming in model these are stories that you know in no uncertain terms on my pepto your

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

becoming indistinguishable. tell that tony goldwyn is our guest see stars in felt the man who brought down the white house in theaters now you come from hollywood royalty we discussed that with a whole support of your family of you getting into the business did they not yeah it was mixed you know i think it caused my dad some real heartache when i decided to be an actor a my mother had been an actress and so she was very kind of you know understood but my dad you know it was someone who was a producer and a more business side just saw his friends who were actors going through such a hard time and then acting that tough profession to break into so he was i think he's worried for me and then after a few years when things started working out he became my biggest did you like

trading dead people like in ghost yeah there was i mean look at that point i was thrilled to have the job so. and i honestly been concerned at the very beginning of my career i thought the more likely thing i could get typecast in was kind of the all-american boy you know which i thought might be terribly boring to play so when i had you know went after this part in ghost which was this villain i thought oh i know how to play that guy and that's different when someone might normally cast me as and then i but i love playing villains because it's always fun to find the humanity in those dollars are just don't look in the mirror and say bad exactly exactly so every villain will justify it was self and say no i was doing a good thing i was doing what had to be done or it's not my fault that movie holds up it really i saw it recently it really does it's a great film we play a little game of if you only knew you did not have to and so this is not a court of law i was your childhood celebrity crush. oh my lord i had so many.

i think it was marlo thomas you probably knew all outgrow a little secret talent i learned how to say whatever talents i have i've put out there's something. guilty pleasure guilty pleasure i really like. really good bourbon whiskey gin being all in that no eye to eye jim jim i can appreciate good jim beam but i go for the like pappy van winkle the stuff that's ridiculously expensive but as worth every penny is jack daniels a burthen junkie and well technically know his doctor has been in tennessee and serves not only in kentucky where does job you have a head i worked when i was nineteen i worked surveying gas pipelines in the deserts of western colorado that was the weirdest and difficult.

who would you trade places with for a day. probably barack obama when he was president something you wish you a better at i wish i spoke other languages besides english would never fails to make you less my wife last time you were star struck the i was the phone first of all the other weekend and i bumped into helen mirren and every time i've seen her i mean she's one of always just makes waitresses pretty gorgeous yeah. best compliment you ever got. whenever people tell me how great my kids are strangest fan encounter. i was working on projects shooting in toronto and i was scouting locations it was directing this one and a woman came up to me and said could she take a selfie with me because she was a scandal family i said sure and she as she was taking the pictures tried to kiss

me full on the mouth and i turned my head sort of startled and she licked my neck and then she took a camera in walked away and said thank you very much and i thought that was really . something people get wrong about you. people of late keep trying to tell me i should be running for president that i would be a good president that is not correct. what should we be paying more attention to we should be paying more attention to our public policy in the details of it and stead of being obsessed with the latest you know what it was dominate the news cycle i think we owe it to ourselves to really look at what's happening kind of behind the curtain in the quieter realm is this something you long to believe to be true but realize wasn't yeah you know as as you know in our past conversations i'm a big supporter of the innocence project and criminal justice reform and for many years i assumed that. our criminal justice system basically functioned effectively

and. i was wrong about that there in many ways if in theory it may be you know if working at its best if it can function well but. if it is it doesn't and i think we all need to really there were innocent men women in prison there are maybe as much as five percent of the people in prison now are innocent some social media questions ok and the l nine seventy one do you feel any funny or embarrassing auditions stories you feel comfortable sharing. oh i have so many bears in our edition story the though the worst one which are rich is too long to go into but when i was before even sort of when i was a i was auditioning for acting schools and audition for juilliard and which is one of the pretty woman i want to great acting schools in america and they liked my

first audition and called me back and i met up with my best friend who was in new york and he said well let's work on your audition pieces during the break and he got me to completely change everything i was doing and i went back in for my callback to juilliard to face the entire faculty of the juilliard school and completely changed him one of the things i did with. the money you would you do you have a monologue right there to play and this was a play where a guy was talking to himself about whether he should call a grown up for a date and my friend said what you should do in this audition is like be getting dressed you need an activity like be doing something don't just stand there and talk to them and do it in front of the mirror so i thought well that's a great idea and i go into this callback with all these people and so i need to get dressed so i take off my shirt my i have a sweater and a shirt a button down shirt and i lay them out of the table and a bare chested and i go and i in and i sort of created

a mirror for myself and i was so nervous when looking in this mirror realizing i was just looking at the stone faced auditioners i forgot to put my clothes on so i do this monologue and i realize i forgot to get dressed in the model i get on these people who made no sense of why i had taken my shirt off so that was another human a late story a bless the floral nun nozzle who is better to live or jake and why fitz is better for live because of live would just stop saying no. she and fitz have a very profound connection and could actually have a healthy future together groovy good. what was all of a stone like to work with on nixon oliver was completely inspiring to me he's the greatest director i've ever worked with nightingale zero seven two one what will you miss most about being on the scandals the people we've become a real family hole is it tell you what's the most inspiring thing you've learned from your family. the power of love and how that can transform your life.

m k t w mom have you heard about a release date for the film a little something for your birthday we're so anxious to see it as a film i do or sharon stone earlier this year no i don't know yet when it's coming is it a mystery it's a romantic comedy you like working with us or is amazing. a scandal f.t. glom well why is it so important for celebrities to speak out on the current political climate look we're given a platform we're allowed a platform to use our voice because people will tune in and i think if you use it responsibly i feel a responsibility to speak out both the you know politically but especially on social issues of importance lana eighty two is tony any future plans to star or direct on broadway yes durham directing. a musical

that we're you know hope one day we're going to broadway we're going to be doing it out of town next year so we are doing to the music i have never done it we've you know i've been working on this one but no it's my first time have you acted on broadway i have yeah i did a musical read first and largely promises promises you did promise that if we did arrive on broadway you know who made that role famous. jerry orbach area or back that exact lord all down it's right there he was a hell of the singer dancer he sure was old do you ever receive hate for the biracial romance between you and carrie washington's never never once. l e d o o o how's the culture on set different when you have a female show rather. well one of the big differences is it's completely family centric scandal is all about accommodating people's family names and you know we now have a pregnant cast member and sean has completely rearranged our schedule to accommodate katie lo's new baby. and it's and i've experienced it myself you know

if you have a family issue that comes first lady again how do you think your character fits has grown over seven season and what is the biggest misconception about him i think that fitz is mature as a man. i think he's really. you know learned to face his demons and become centered in himself the misconception about fitz. is that he's all. he's often dismissed as. more of a lightweight than i think he is a good president i think he was a good president yeah i really do i think you did a lot of good even though we were more interested in his extracurricular life gwendolyn told was there ever been a point in your career way i didn't think it would work out and many many times particularly in the early years broke raff if you could just say one sentence to

donald trump what would it be. please please please think deeply before you speak thanks tony thanks love talking to a great start thanks to my guests tony goldwyn felt the man who bore down the white house is in theaters now in the final season of scandal fifteen years often told was just on a.b.c. you can always find me on twitter would change things simple see you next i.

heard. a. lot of. the mission of news with it is to go to the people tell their side of the story our stories are well sourced we don't hide anything from the public and i don't think the mainstream media in this country can say you know i think average viewer knows that r.t. america has a different perspective so that we're not hearing one echo chamber that mainstream media is constantly spewing. we're not beholden to any corporate sponsor no one tells us what the cover how long the coverage or how to say it that's the beauty of our t.v. america. we give both sides we hear from both sides and we question more that journalists are not letting anything get in your way and bring it home to the

american people. you're watching an r t america special report tonight about this about me as well that's. 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 on the normalising mind. we don't need people that think like this on our planet . this is an incredibly tense situation. for. europe. to. get it.

right or wrong from right here or. whether it's the very. least. pavin tonio and this is america's lawyer recently news broke that film producer in hollywood studio film executive harvey weinstein had been sexually assaulting women for years using his position power as a way to keep victims quiet is the story unfolded a clearer picture of serial sexual abuser emerged and why she was forced out of the company that he founded the biggest question is why it took so long for these revelations to come forward when so many people in hollywood were clearly aware of what was going on tonight will give you some insight into the mind of a predator like weinstein and call out the people that helped him cover up his

fifty three of sexual assault everything in hollywood is far from glitter in gold and later in the show all talk to you about the reasons. b.c. blocked the reporter from publishing the facts about one hundred sexual predatory behavior beating a young female actresses and models without a voice in it all is all about money so don't go anywhere america or bargain. for. just a few weeks ago the name harvey weinstein wasn't even close to being a household name even though he had been a major hollywood player since the 1980's weinstein was a film producer in the studio executive who co-founded miramax and later formed the weinstein company weinstein had worked on films like pulp fiction and the english patient and good will hunting and during this time not many people outside of

hollywood even knew or cared who weinstein was but then on october fifth the new york times ran a massive investigative piece on the years of sexual assault carried out by weinstein the piece quickly went viral and force winds seemed to be removed from the company that he founded but one of the women who came forward with the allegations of inappropriate behavior was from weinstein about why she was ashley judd according to interviews judd said that nearly twenty years ago weinstein and invited her over to his hotel for what she believed would be an early morning meeting instead she was sent to his private room where he asked if she would watch him take a shower really judge said she wanted to leave the room quickly but in a manner that wouldn't put her on weinstein's bad side i suppose and prevent her from getting work in the future she had to play it cool the new york times reports that other women ranging from actresses to studio employees were propositioned by

weinstein they claimed that he promised to help further their careers if they'd only give him his sexual assaults these stories were correct. raided by internal e-mails documents and witness accounts stretching as far back as thirty years all of them pay weinstein is a pathetic piggish predator who hollywood was more than willing to protect from prosecution and civil suits during the same time period weinstein had quietly reached settlements for sexual harassment and abuse of at least eight different women in two thousand and fifteen a sting operation was set up in new york after a young model told police about weinstein's aggressive advancers towards her the police did everything they could to gather evidence against weinstein and sent it to the district attorney's office but that's far from where the case when nobody wanted to touch harvey due to his powerful political connections including new york city mayor jim rudy giuliani but he had also pumped millions of dollars into the democratic party ranging from the pockets of the clintons to the obama's for thirty

years weinstein operate an unencumbered approaching women who were desperate to further their careers and he paid them off and he threaten them if they talked about what he had done to them for thirty years very credible stories swirled in hollywood's elite circles about weinstein's behavior and yet no one came forward to prevent the sexual pervert from attempting to destroy the lives of young women this situation is one that could have easily been fixed decades ago if just a few of these women had had a little support from their hollywood peers. joining me now for more on this story is r t america correspondent rizzi to some toes regina how far back do these allegations strachan and who are some of the women who have come forward we've been following this story

a couple of weeks now but every day there's some new iteration this is a story that's not going to go away should not go away until we figure out all the moving parts what's your take. mike as you said these allegations have been going as far back as thirty years and dozens of women have come forward in fact far too many to name but among the most notable are kate beckinsale angelina jolie rizana arquette ashley judd and rose mcgowan the allegations include unwanted sexual advances groping harassment sexual assault and even rape allegations that have been brought forward by at least four women including rose and rose mcgowan and also the italian actress asia are in cento mix so many women here brigida you've covered these stories before going to really good job getting down to the basics of what happened in this story though so many people knew so mad affected people realize

this was actually built into his contract were in the contract they had what lay called liquidated damage caused his tour yeah all harvey he may commit some type of atrocious act on a women but will women will we've agreed in advance to pay two hundred fifty thousand dollars or five hundred thousand or even a million dollars depending on how bad that advance was so how do you keep these allegations a secret for so long without the help of producers and agents and people working in the studio other pay other actors that knew darn well what was going on in refused to say anything about how to keep this a secret. so as he said in hollywood actually in the industry the entertainment industry this is not a secret in fact it is common knowledge that harvey weinstein is a predator and that he prays on women but he is the co-founder of miramax and the weinstein company which are two of the biggest film production and distribution companies in the world he's the person that people think when they when they're oscars he's not the person that people want to piss off because he does hold the

keys to so many jobs production jobs writing jobs acting jobs so the whole industry is very afraid of him in fact at least sixteen of his coworkers say that they had knowledge or had witnessed these crimes that women say that he has committed against them and yet they said that they did not want to come forward out of fear the fear of losing their jobs and also people who did come forward say that they were intimidated one person even said that they believe harvey weinstein smeared them in the tabloids just because they tried to call him out for this so i'm curious even the unions i mean these actors in the the folks that work on these movies they have a union the union knew what was going on the producers knew what was going on the agents knew what was going on and not one person had enough courage if they would have all gotten together and said you know what this guy is a piggish ugly predator and we have to stop this now because if we don't stop with already there's going to be another in another that are just what the reasons that

i'm so infuriated about is women are being blamed for not coming forward these are women that all they needed was a little bit of support someone to say yeah you do this ashley and we'll support you in this what is your take on that any of these women attempt to come forward and warn the public about how dangerous this man was. women did reportedly come forward in fact several women reportedly settled with him which means that they were forced to sign nondisclosure agreements as terms of those agreements they also had payoffs and legal threats that were used by their p.r. and legal teams which created these campaigns to suppress the truth from coming out and women warned other women in the industry against wind see and in fact the actress just cast and said that she had long heard about allegations against him and that she was careful rose mcgowan says that she tried to warn amazon studios not to work with harvey weinstein and she just openly admitted this week that

harvey weinstein indeed is the studio executive who raped her she had not publicly disclosed who the person was because of those nondisclosure agreements this is a problem in hollywood it's an industry that is known for creating the casting couch in which women are expected to exchange sexual favors with the men in charge in order to get roles in the film industry mike so it's a deep seated but the problem is don't you see this believes out to other parts of our culture in our society that's like us in the open hollywood is far from golden glitter i mean if you really start doing and there are some ugly ugly stories in it some point you know. we start seeing a pattern i mean prosecutor for example prosecutors look for a pattern of behavior and they say they start asking questions there was clear clear pattern here even all the way to the prosecutors in new york city they had all i got to tell you i was the next prosecutor they had all they needed to

prosecute this pathetic predator now what talk about patterns that you that you would say are important in this case. so in this case most of the women do have the same story they say that they were lured to harvey weinstein's hotel rooms either by him or people on his team's under the false pretenses of a professional meeting and many of the women share the same story they say that when they arrived he appeared in front of them in wearing a bathrobe and then ask them to give him a massage so there are clear patterns here and i imagine that in the coming weeks we're going to see a lot of people start opening their mouths and coming forward and explaining some of the things that he's done and you know i'm ok with that because sometimes it takes everybody joining together to fund that courage but when i think back on this all it took was a handful of people supporting these women that were fighting for their career these are these are people starting from kids that one of the they wanted to to be able to have a job just like everybody else in this pig gets in their way and actually

intentionally interferes with their career if they don't play his game look let me ask you something i can't get away from this here hillary clinton saying all this is terrible this is terrible hillary clinton how does hillary clinton talk about this issue when she's got this this white elephant sitting in her living room with bill i mean if you think about it it was hillary clinton there was it the front of the charge that when after lewinsky i mean when lewinsky alone victimized lewinsky she helped lead that charge don't you have problems with all the ironies that are coming out of the story rashida what is your take in my overreacting to that because it's really bothered me when i listen to what she has to say about how horrible harvey weinstein is all she has to do is look across the bedroom floor. what you're exactly and actually harvey weinstein was a huge defender of bill clinton during the monologue monica lewinsky scandal and in fact hillary clinton has gotten numerous donations from harvey weinstein in fact

he's donated personally up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars to the clinton foundation he also hosted a massive fundraiser for hillary clinton's two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign in which she earned millions of dollars in contributions from the hollywood industry and again this does go back to our culture we live in a culture where women come forward and other women shame them and everybody turns away from the accuser and instead celebrates the man who is doing the harm to these women. bridgette i hope you'll follow this story i'm not going to let this one go because i think this has more to do with than a two week story this has a lot more to do than just hollywood but hollywood is the pit that this story at least is emerging and it's going to have a lot of a lot of tentacles out everywhere thank you for joining me all dogs another aspect of weinstein story are asking why did corporate media outlets we used to publish

the story sooner about weinstein's sexual predator behavior with a man you'll find. still exist. ricos treated as one. hundred forty three cool i see little can i do a lot of seats and they can be seen in the town the island is controlled by the u.s. government and some puerto ricans crave independence. either

way but i mean. still many do wish to join the us hundreds more leave every day. i'm a long way from india. with the country at a crossroads anger on the island is on the rise. bob. a lot of brawl erupted during a segment in this in the season rachel maddow show with freelance in b.c. correspondent run in faro run had a report ready to go on one sting sexual abuse of models and actresses but in b.c. chose not to run with it for reasons. that clearly didn't see it is a fit report it was their story we'll see this is a fit report there but it was finally released to the new yorker joining me to talk

about this is legal journalist for trial lawyer magazine molly barrows who's covered a lot of these kinds of stories molly let's get right to this house in d.c. possibly arguing the defense of not publishing the story i mean there was i can't name a reason we know this the i wasn't the lawyer that said you can't do the story it came from the from what i can see it came from the advertising department don't do the story because harvey advertises with us an awful lot what's your take well there is yes there's a lot of speculation about that there are other journalists are coming forward saying the same thing and right now the spotlight is on n.b.c. news president no oppenheimer he said when ronan ferran brought him that story that it simply wasn't ready that they gave him the go ahead they gave him the resources they wanted him to look into this investigative piece but he said that when grown and brought it to them earlier this year that there were gaps in the story like victims being hesitant to give their names because they were scared of weinstein he

wanted more people to go on the record with their identities farrow says his story was the was reportable and that others in the n.b.c. network had agreed that it was he had these people lined up to go on camera some of them and it did want their faces covered employees who had worked with harvey going back to your report earlier with the former reporter talking about how he would bring women with him and bring women that work for him what he called honeypots into the room with actresses or models that he wanted to tarred. at sexually and under the guise of having a professional meeting and then he would ask the honeypots to leave and then he'd be alone with these women when i allegedly these harassment and these attacks really is what they are would occur so all of this was moaned and they just didn't have anything to do with this is in the story it didn't have anything to do with we don't have sources it didn't have anything to do with our legal department told us not to it had to do with one thing the same thing we see within b.c. and so many of corporate media we can't tell the story because our advertisers will

get mad miramax and the want the weinstein organization and all the movie advertising that was going on some cat on the fiftieth floor made that decision now you talk about really phil griffin is the person that holds the key to what in the him s n b c reports phil griffin had to be the person involved in there to let's not blame it on one person but i think this is not just an m s n b c problem this is a corporate media corporate problem another side of the sharon waxman she wrote a piece a long a long piece about how the new york times also blocked her story about this whole saga that she wanted to publish in two thousand and four what's that about molly. yes so so many people are coming to the forefront now to talk about what they knew about harvey weinstein and when they're asking a lot of other questions about who knew what and when and waxman is

a good example immediately after the new yorker did their piece of course that's ultimately where farrow had his explosive piece run where three women who accused harvey of rape went on the record to come out now the new york times piece obviously a few days earlier came out talking about initially broke the story with these allegations ferrous piece talked about rape and waxman came out immediately after that and said hey i work for the new york times ten years ago i was looking into a story the allegation then was that weinstein it hired a director who had no film experience because his real job according to waxman and the tips she had received was to park your women for him to bring them up to his room on pretense of the meeting or to bring them to some sort of business meeting where he still took advantage of them in the open business office some behind closed doors she said she had the word of the one particular woman they were going in ferreting it out as you will in the media but as the story came closer and closer got together and came closer to print she got calls from russell crowe she got a call from matt damon vouching for this director saying that basically weinstein asked them to call her and say ah the director really wasn't working for her but

he's a good guy they claim now they didn't know that they were supposed to be calling her on pretense of protecting harvey that they said that weinstein just said that for this director he's a good guy but ultimately that's the story that she put together and she said that beside the calls that she got from those actors she believes that weinstein put pressure all the way up the ministry of ladder and that before it was all said and done her story was gutted and relegated to the back page and the paper so nationally her think it will open secret everybody knew why wouldn't you jump on the scoop like that. of course you are an anchor for how many i know you are news anchor for what twenty twenty five years given yes tory like that where you say ok here's the person they're willing to stand behind the story here's the contract for god's sakes where we gave this thug we gave them a pass by saying we know that he's going to sexually assault somebody and when he does we have what they call liquidated damages built into the contract where we're

going to pay two hundred fifty thousand dollars or five hundred thousand dollars people don't even know about this part of the story they knew this guy's history so well that before they would put him around people they had to say we know he's going to assault somebody so let's go ahead and go ahead and liquidated damages ahead of time so this won't be so public and a look right now gloria all read is on this and i got to tell you this is the kind of case i really do believe that this is the kind of case that can shut that organization down they were already having financial issues this is the type of thing that could in this well look let me let me ask you something as this case goes forward where where do we start looking i mean where where in your opinion do we start looking about who is responsible for a for this type of thing in a news organization and why don't we why don't we talk about that when we talk about do we really have to have corporate america corporate media operating in

a way that we really can't even tell our stories because advertisers just won't permit us to do it where do we start with a story like that. well it seems to me you start with the f.c.c. is directive if you're going to broadcast news if you're going to be in the media business then your first and foremost priority is to give the public the information they need to be informed and to make good decisions you can apply that to everything from local politics all the way up to this harvey weinstein issue because this is an industry wide problem this is about sexual harassment this is about allowing men in power from roger ailes with fox to bill o'reilly was fox to behave badly because they impact bank accounts and they impact people's jobs so these men were allowed to lead with fear to rule with fear and because they were profitable their bosses did nothing until it became a stain on them until the public found out about it so if i'm in a newsroom i'm just going to go back to basics and say what's moral and ethical what does my editorial board say is a standard for reporting i've talked to rape victims before i've talked to molest victims before they don't always want to give their names they don't always want to

have to be on camera sometimes it's easier to talk to a print reporter than it is still tell me no either way there are steps you can take to verify and get around it and still get the story out and serve the public well let me just to some ron and pharaoh's credible rachel maddow knew absolutely he was credible m s n b c knew he was credible in b.c. knew he was credible this guy was a wingnut out there he's been studying the look into this story for years and there is no way that n.b.c. can come through this and say you know we were legitimate thanks for joining me the story is the story we continue to cover because it goes in so many different directions thank you. for the rigors suffering from enough from there seventy billion dollars and now after hurricane maria hit the island puerto ricans are living in a near kill zone with clean water electricity and food virtually unavailable joining me to talk about this is attorney peter moves a peter what is the infrastructure capacity in puerto rico right now i know you

you're involved in puerto rico in the last few years has been a huge. you've represented these some of these folks have lost massive amounts of money because of wall street scams you're tuned in to everything that's going on down there tell me what your take is on what we're hearing from the media and what what reality is bad it depends where you are san juan isn't as bad as the outlying areas some of the smaller towns and rural areas but the rural areas and small towns as you indicated in the opening no no power no clean water no basic services there's hundreds of thousands of people's without homes so the further you get from the kind of the urban center in san juan the worse it gets san juan isn't too much better power still a major problem what very small percentage of the population ten eleven twelve percent have has power and it's intermittent it's going in and out in and out and

a never think about well we don't have power one of the problems i mean it is the ripple effect hospitals can't get gas to keep the generators going to keep the hospitals up so the ripple effect is huge not just air conditioning it's you tell it rick perry that great bastion of intellectual thinking i heard today called it treated puerto rico like it was another country right and you know a lot of americans don't understand it's not another country they're part of the united states to be there and we are we should be horrified in and bears on the way that they're being treated now granted thema is being stretched a lot of different ways but i think this lands really this all starts really with the debt crisis that you have followed that's the big hit i mean it's first of all the money issue is a big is a big issue you've handled that debt crisis for puerto rico for how many years now we've been down there since the two thousand and thirteen we represent over one thousand investors two thousand and thirteen august september october the debt

crisis took a huge downward spiral and then it's continued all the way today to continue to decrease in. quine month to month to month that the that the people of puerto rico murdered and that now to this is very scary because hastert and tell us what we have added a recipe for disaster i mean you have absolutely we have an island in the caribbean that is essentially a colony of the us they have disparate tax treatment they have different tax schemes worst tax schemes that we do they don't have representation in congress they're borrowing money year to year to year to live to pay for their basic services garbage health safety welfare the debt gets up to seventy two billion dollars it tanks craters the power grids already in disarray and then hurricane hits now you've got it absolute complete you had a clear and you're not taking on it i almost want to ignore what so much input is from media in general what is your take to where this this island is even operating

in a way that that's where people can do is not as of right now the governor has said that they're looking at potentially another government shutdown because they don't have money to pay for essential services at the end of this month seventy two billion dollars of debt on this tiny little island with a population of a couple million people and the the scary thing is is you have like for example president trump a couple weeks ago when he went down and he was kind of shooting the the the rolls of paper as basketballs into the crowd saying we're going to wipe away the public debt what he doesn't understand what doesn't resonate is that the people that own a good chunk of that debt are the people that live on the islands now there's not wall street is it might sound like wall street is going to take the hit which will be great because wall street lowered wall street absolutely cause they created the debt crisis is there any quick first algeria where there's not the banks we've been studying this for years the banks on the island pushed issuing debt as a fix to the problems knowing and then got out most of the big banks like santa and

their u.b.s. got out reduce their exposure to public debt down to zero last only almost nothing left. the main the islanders holding the debt and now you have president trump saying it's just white really dead and the people that are going to get killed or the people that are on the island who count on it too to pay their bills follow this story have you back on that's all for tonight be sure to check out our web site at a law where you can actually talk to an attorney about any of the stories we cover on the show and find us on facebook at facebook dot com slash r t america's wars are also you can watch it all are two american program of this program in particular on channel three two one on direct television might have an tonio in this is america's war we were every week we're going to tell you stories that corporate media is ordered not to tell because their advertisers won't let them just like we saw with the in d.c. weinstein saga have a great night. rejected

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a stage all the world's a stage all the world's a stage and we are definitely a player. if. for. the. wonders of her. pick. this is a stronghold for puerto rico's independent party. only

. those. who. want to keep. an eye on the caribbean island which was annexed by the us in eighty ninety eight is about to elect a new governor. and many young people have turned out. before. ruth wants to make us. the number one but if i lose i am. done you must elect to seventy percent that's up to. the south china. sea to look at some of the illegal alien funny. new laws being passed bringing austerity measures to overcome the crisis. a federal american board is supposed to govern puts

a rico. she's determined to defy washington. a federal. system that is. considered. to. be part of the u.s. as. you go to your. how did it be i did it i thought.

it would be. i thank you i thank you thousand. public debt is sixty six billion euros i record in the history of the united states . to its status as a free associated state doesn't have the same rights as other states that's why it's not allowed to declare bankruptcy. that's the paradox of put a rico its citizens are american but the territory is treated differently.

to pay back its debts to american creditors. and.

privatizing public institutions.

oh it seems i guess i am going to have. to put some of. the country's biggest public university has announced another round of budget cuts

students and lecturers have been affected by austerity for five years the university already owes five million euros know what it was they moved to see the film i know that has been you know many years that it. was it except that. i still think that it will what about people that i remember and i think the other see that it was sort of get out there was enough but i've said enough to me to see that it was that way of. asking a little bit of him he was on it so that it wasn't. looking like the last it was going to. look at this it was a business it was a little. bit it. was like a little bit early i think i. was twenty three and no

longer receives a university scholarship. to complete studies she had to tell. out a six thousand dollar loan. to say. the same resentment. to get it done by. the public university isn't the only one affected by the austerity policy. fifty kilometers from the capital school had to shut down in twenty fourteen her aunt was a teacher there. she still has the keys to the school. ok now you're kidding i think not a little gadget down the window to say. you.

and i solved it on finding the sun doesn't have time to get lost at sea and i'm. going. to go get into this. somewhat. kolo. pointed out again you know i'm in a lot of it out there i don't know a lot of the cia leak the couples a lot of would be good. about. it all going to use out most. of the daily month. i thought i would be in hospital possibly repeat. the moment not to go out i have to be if you are trying to see i don't know don't you think me too young can we were you know he

said you know maybe it's. my little secrets audio tape on top of his unite the broken stick with us so you know. because of its debt the government has already closed down one hundred fifty schools on the island off of the sped so far worry about their future. symbols and quite a lovely idea there sit them on. a test and get to see this our young bought him they. bought up in a don't buy pro in a. bison no casing. the school closures have added to. his village now seems empty.

the capital industry and tourism had long been the. development engine. but eradicating tax benefits for american companies drove the ricoh into crisis its unemployment is twice as high as the usa is. how do you know. how they don't want them. to repay our student loan hadley as a social worker. patel is a week she helps seniors in need. and when you add them along that. many.

of us say oh. he. is sixty eight years old and he doesn't receive a pension he still works as a painter. was not. going to. work. i know it's always going to be in the soul i mean we're there we're within the early years little supper and we go there's only been through december over as he.

will be although a damn voice ha it's a pro it was a big idea i'll hold will see you day i'll sort of be in the sentimental they like i say maybe out of sight like i say wow colombe is how they came down to only to get up a little johnny's are simply going to do it and gamble but then again monday i will tell him put something close to i left the building i don't want to go but only. just. in case you're new to the game this is how it works my economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington

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on the rio campus. there's a long line he hands out hundreds of meals every day and he said. we're . going to see that you've been with. the program on. the film for him and. also.

ruth and adrian the two young activists here as well. and. really easy to. get and i'm sure and i'm. not going to be able. to see a ruth wasn't able to find a job she lives on three hundred fifty euros in public assistance. by. the chemical our society going to from the moment. of going to think oh man. people will be in.

you know. a few hours later the city comes to a standstill. the island experiences a power outage. at the university. but if. you. think. the public electric company is the

business with the biggest debt in puerto rico. power outages have affected rural areas. even. without. ruth has lived in this fifteen square meter room with a roommate for a year it's the best solution of someone. just as high as in american cities. better. hard for some from alaska.

to know about and. i mean honestly. i think that. they're afraid that the power outage might last several days. ruth and a roommate want to buy food these are. still open thanks to a standby generator. that any. girl. in puerto rico ever think is more costly than in the u.s. on average twenty percent. enough.

to. pick up a television or requires that the. american ships. blessing for the u.s. much and navy which supplies percent of all food. without this law will put a rico could save a billion dollars a year. this year a new austerity measure was added to resettle its debts the island increased consumer tax. seventy percent to put to rico's public debt is in american investment funds. which

receive tax benefits for the loans. and you action group has denounced the island colossal debt for several months it speaks to a gun and blames the us for much of it was a good animals with. no economy calls and really pal in that i'm able to have on the same cause. only allowed by you have. seen both. but only meant only on the part of recall. and i knew a lot of. rebuttal by guns initiative was seeking to cut the debt it's trying to prove that it all came a belt illegally. for mother to. love once it was in the fourth or equal probably

a bit every time they want to know. that all being important they get sick or throw out a few months bill for us to go on. when people see almost as. oh yes i remember. can the dead be partially counseled. in the meantime the crisis is worsening. a few kilometers from the capital ruth with it's a grandmother. carbon is ninety and lives in her house alone. she's been a social worker a whole life. and simply. you.

know common fios for a pension the public pension fund is empty here. normally one of the nothings young gay you about it might. be here. you're pulling in seeing young and then but i hated by michael mean where else. to the rules. like. the one most of commons children who fled the crisis by moving to the us. i p. ok. in most. new york being doing going over to my gay yes i can go anywhere don't go. as i like up you know i'm going to freak on. the part but it was never going to make it

a lot but oh yeah i mean that it will be good i guess we haven't but you know you know way laurie going off on me leah but what i meant. by yeah i. guess we get these things. better only very welcome but don't recall whether we've. got to get our own way this english on the letter you could do but by then any. better i mean what the. man who what i'll say doesn't look important because i would be. in an american passport is the last resort thought ruth doesn't like a tall gentleman will see it oh my god you know. what i know. either like it but i mean what i mean we're going to get in a game where you can point to last year are you asking the scene don't you think it

. it's. only a few shows a dream of independence. the american pulse bulge triumphs. more and more put a recall the island actor is among them. is waiting for his flight from san juan airport. to. model. fails. every day two hundred put a rican smy going to the u.s. it's the greatest migration crisis in the island's history.

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