that's. what's it like to be for us that's what before three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. first sip. q. mike having tonio in 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 is a way to keep victims quiet is the story unfolded a clearer picture of serial sexual abuser emerged and why sting 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 so that will give you some insight into the mind of a predator like weinstein and call out the people that helped him cover up his

history of sexual assault everything in hollywood is far from glitter in gold and later in the show all talk to you about the reasons in b.c. blocked the reporter from publishing the facts about weinstein sexual predatory behavior leaving young female actresses and models without a voice in it all is all about money so don't go anywhere america's lawyers start now. or. 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 a 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 that 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 judd 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 that claimed that he promised to help further their careers if they'd only given his sexual assaults these stories were corroborated by internal emails documents and witness accounts stretching as far back as thirty years all of them paint 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 just rudy giuliani but he'd also pumped millions of dollars into the

democratic party ranging from the pockets of the clintons to the obama's for thirty years weinstein operated unencumbered approaching women who were desperate to further their careers and he paid them off and he threatened 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 regime. brigitta how far back to these allegations stretch in 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 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 with far too many to name but among the most notable are going to pouch wrote kate beckinsale angelina jolie rosanna 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 rose mcgowan and also the italian actress asia argento mike so many women here brigitta you've covered these stories before even a really good job getting down to the basics of what happened in this story though so many people knew about affected people realize this was actually built into his

contract where it in the contract they had what lay called liquidated damages clauses tour yeah all harvey he may commit some type of atrocious act on a women but will reveal 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 and refused to say anything about how to keep this a secret. so as you 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 reason that i'm so infuriated about it 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 weinstein 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 to dig and there are some ugly ugly stories and at 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 an ex 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 teams 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 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 regime what is your take on 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. but 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's doing the harm to these women bridget i hope you'll follow this story i'm not going to let this one go because i think this has more to do 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 don or another aspect of weinstein story are asking why did corporate media outlets we used to publish the

story sooner about weinstein's sexual predator tori behavior and listen and you'll find. the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate that's thrown down a lot of boards that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i mean it's still on our to you america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get the straight talk in the break. still exist. rico's treated as one.

as. the island is controlled by the u.s. government and some crew even dependents. good at. it. there are. still many do wish to join the us hundreds more leave every day. beings. with the country at a crossroads for anger of 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 farrow run ahead

a report ready to go on one sting sexual abuse of models and actresses but in b.c. he chose not to run with it for reasons. that clearly didn't see it is if it reported was their story we don't 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 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 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 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 want him and bring women that work for him what he called honeypots into the room with actresses or models that he wanted to target. 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 harassed men and these attacks really is what they are what occur so i've 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 this 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 rug 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 all the director really wasn't working for harvey'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 naturally her think it will open secret everybody knew why wouldn't you jump on a scoop like that. of course how you are an anchor for how many other you are news anchor for what twenty twenty five years given that or you 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 the 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 ronan farrow is 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 in the wingnut out there he's been studying to 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 a 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 they 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 here conditioning if 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 handle 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 that 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 their is here at this house for free 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 no 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 is even operating in a way that that's where people can he was 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 makes them 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 of all very aware that there's not the banks we've been studying this for years the banks on the island pushed the issuing debt as a fix to the problems knowing and then got out most of the big banks like sent in 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 oh 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 to pay their bills follow this story have you back on that's all for tonight be sure to check out our website at alle dot 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 r.t. american program of this program in particular on channel three two one on direct television i might have an tonio in this is america is what we were every week

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a new governor. many young people have turned out before. bruce wants to make us a. little must. see him. trying. to look at least a little fun. has been passed bringing austerity measures to overcome the crisis. a federal american board is supposed to govern puts a rico. is the independent candidate she's determined to defy washington and many view the

federal board as a humiliation. can be overlooked that it is set up with. disability that enabled them to. seal easily the system that is sealed. and this is. a desolate. to. i mean. this. part of the u.s. has. to be good. i didn't. like. how. it would be. getting was like i.

was. paralyzed that public debt is sixty six billion euros i record in the history of the united states. to its status as a free associated state the island 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. and. they want to.

control the islands finances to pay back its debts to american creditors. since that announcement pull. dissipating. friends still. in the from.

privatizing public institutions tax increases strikes. middle class children are affected the most. tonight. the future.

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. the same with the serial the modern now let us. know how many thoughts you're. sitting there when i see that i was here but i think i see that it was sort of get out

to us enough by you still nothing to miss you gotta get that it. was. was nothing in the senate to. be out of the senate so much as it was it. could last it was going to. look as if it was a bad thing it was a little looser it. was like a noble. cause. by twenty three and no longer receives a university scholarship. to complete studies she had to take out a six thousand dollars loan. to. do this in. the same percentage of the cities it.

was beginning to have a god like inside. 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 forty and her aunt was a teacher that. she still has the keys to the school. ok now you're kidding and say not a little gadget down the window to say. and to solve it on my credit the sun doesn't have time to get lost at sea and i'm. going. to go get into.

the. colo. pointed out again not a lot of it out there who i don't know as a lot of these. couples a lot older would that be good or zero. point zero one going to use out most. of the daily month. alone there will be enough you don't cost you a repeat. the moment to pull out the i have to be if you are trying to see it can you tell why you think we need to and can we were hoping to get so you know maybe. my little secrets audio tape on top of his unite to build good 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 as to them on. a test and get. this our young daughter him. but then i don't buy pro and. tyson localizing. he says will. 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 hardly as a social worker. potato as a week she helps seniors in need. when you add them along that's. going to say i. also see that 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 there's no way you're going to get a soul i mean we're there we're fifty in the early years little sympathy with your there's only been through this you're going to. eat taco bell told them toys hide separate line a big idea ensemble see if they absolutely angle the sandman down to the last maybe out. of the same bottle and be it's time they came damn i need to get up a little bit anyhow simple going to get in and gamble but then again i'm not down.

and put something close to an ethical thing they don't want to know but i don't know. why guys i made a professional is powerpoint to show you how r.t. america fits into the greater media landscape our team is not all laughter all right we are a solid alternative to the bullshit that we don't skew liberal or conservative and as you can see from his bar graph we don't skew the facts either talking have left these talking head righties oh there you go above it all so look out world r.t. america is in the spotlight now every lead might have no idea how to classify as and it actually took me way more time and i care to admit. mark twain said it's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been for that could be why america is so divided because people have been fed fake news paid for by corporate interests they beat you down until you believe their fairy tales well here's

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a public broadcasting system that has sold its soul for corporate money that we might as well be mice squeaking against an avalanche of squeak we must. have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those sure. why for those who dog marginalia now i live to do due to going to more. thank. you young lecturer giovanni is handing out hot meals on the rio piedras campus. there's a long line he hands out hundreds of meals every day and. we're

. going to see that again with the end. of the program on him. going to a lot of. the flamenco phenomena for him and. also. ruth and adrian the two young activists here as well. again. and. really easy to have been able to put.

up another we haven't. really. this year 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 thirty. 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 counseled. the public electric company is the business with the biggest debt in puerto rico. power outages have affected rural areas. you. even.

thought out. in this fifteen square meter room with a roommate for a year it's the best solution of some one. just as high as in american cities. bad. i mean. obviously. they're afraid that the power outage might last several days. ruth and

a roommate want to buy food are. still open thanks to a standby generator. that anything. you go. to in puerto rico ever think is more costly than in the u.s. on average twenty percent. enough. to capitalize law requires that the. american ships. blessing for the u.s. much of the navy which supplies percent of all food.

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to about educating people and giving them contacts instead of telling them to take dialogue is far more valuable than to be. on the news tonight attorney general jeff sessions testifies in front of the senate judiciary committee and denies any illicit contact with russian officials and the president turns an executive office building into radio row to pump his due tax plan michael harrison a talkers magazine joins us for the conversation tonight and china appoints xi jinping to another five year term as united states and allied officials meet in seoul south korea to discuss how to respond to north korea i'm michel supporting tonight from washington d.c. this is the news on r.t. america.

good evening friends we start tonight with attorney general jeff sessions testifying in front of the senate judiciary committee sessions but it has with democratic senators today who accused him of misleading the. senate at his confirmation hearing back in january during the hearing sessions claimed he had no communications with russian officials during the two thousand and sixteen campaign senator al franken of minnesota accuse the senator the former senator a.g. of changing his story the goalpost has been moved first it was i did not have communications with russians which was not true then it was i never met with any russians to discuss any political campaign which may or may not be true now it's i did not discuss interference in the campaign which further

narrows your initial blanket denial about meeting with the russian it's well let me just say this without hesitation that i conducted no improper cam discussions with russians at any time regarding a campaign or any other. facing this country ok how do i know our side at first. and that's been a suggestion that you have raised in others it was somehow we had conversations that were improper that to me is moving the goalposts every time and we're starting off with an action and by the end we're going to. you know a seventy five yard field goal so now everything else so now you take that they say if i ever met with the russian and not been candid with the committee and i reject that. f.b.i. document show former director james komi began drafted began drafting

a letter on hillary clinton's e-mails before completing interviews relating to the entire investigation e-mails forwarded to komi by f.b.i. official james robbie suggest the decision was made not to prosecute clinton as early as may of two thousand and sixteen komi did not formally announce the decision not to prosecute clinton until july of a year now congressman trey gowdy on the committee has called on comi to testify once again in front of congress gaddy is accusing komi of deciding not to charge hillary clinton before the preliminary investigation into her e-mail investigation was complete. on tuesday evening president donald trump spoke with the family of a u.s. soldier killed in the african country of niger earlier this month sergeant david t. johnston's mother claims the president disrespected her family saying in the conversation that the president said he knew what he signed up for florida

congresswoman frederica wilson was present during some of the call and claims the president was insensitive among other things the administration came out hard today at the press conference criticizing the political ization of the death of an american soldier i think that that the sentiment of the president was very clear he took the time to make a call to express his condolences to thank the family for this individual. service and i think it frankly is a disgrace of the media to try to portray an act of kindness white doubt and that gesture and try to make it into something that it isn't the white house also referred to general john kelly is discussed in the media for running with the congresswoman's side of the story i think the general kelly is disgusted by the way that this is been politicized and that the focus has become on the process and not the fact that american lives were lost and he's disgusted and frustrated by that and if he has any anger it's two words that for more on this let's turn to our

political panel tonight we've got with us mitch caesar former democratic party chair in florida and also amy tarkanian former nevada g.o.p. chair great to have both of you with us tonight i think a lot of americans are sitting out there tonight think and how in the world did this call go wrong how do you call a revealing widow and family and somehow it not come off right and i want your take on it amy you first tonight what do you make of this. well first of all i don't know i mean i wasn't on the call were you on the call was was your other guest on the call you know we can only go off what sara sanders actually told us and the fact that we know that general kelly was in the room when the call was made and he approved of the call we have to go with that. you know amy you bring up an interesting we're going i want to say you bring up a very interesting point he knew what he signed up for that seems to be the only

comment that's coming out of this conversation i mean the congresswoman from florida is not saying that the president said well i feel sorry for your loss or i'm very sad or think my english she on that call i wasn't even her well was i don't i just think it's interesting or curious that that's the only piece of the conversation that we're getting reported what do you make about well i think it's really important that we don't take things out of context just like with general kelly's frustration i to impress traded you know there's that can be taken so many different ways yes when you do sign up to go into the army or into the needy or whatever area it may be you do know what you're signing up for and you do know that you could be going into harm's way and it is sad and it is very upsetting when you do lose a life and we all grieve differently but we do know that this congresswoman unfortunately has never been on the side of protests and for her to actually divulge even that

one sentence if that sentence were told correctly you know that's not her conversation to actually be sharing the president pushed back on twitter this morning and he also pushed back in a short press briefing in the conference room here's what he had to say about his side of the story that a very nice conversation with the woman with the wife who has sounded like a lovely woman did not say what the congresswoman said and most people are too surprised to hear. cesar how do you unpack this. well the way i unpack it is first of all i know fredricka wilson very well and i find to be truthful yes she's a partisan but there are multiple other people in that vehicle including an aunt and uncle the mother of the deceased the mother laura believe the ceased and it's been confirmed that those words were accurate they show the problem is the president trump has a bad history of showing a lack of empathy. for their work confirmation by other people specifically the

mother of the seized who said he simply was without empathy and perhaps he should just write letters and not make phone calls i have to tell you it's a south floridian this was a big deal meaning. his body coming back here before this story broke it was live shown the car on the interstate going to the airport to meet the body before this part of the story broke is that congresswoman when you are politics here though mitch i mean do you think the chido going overboard i don't believe i don't believe so because there were other people that confirmed that i mean you do has a bad history in this yes absolutely i do and i actually come from a city unfortunately who just went through one of the worst mass shootings and in the united states history and when the president visited here he definitely showed empathy and our city was grateful so everyone grieves differently with loss i understand that and people sometimes are angry sometimes they're confused you know

i'm not exactly sure how this particular family's dealing with it but i do know that this congresswoman has never been a fan of the president john kelly who lost a son in combat chief of staff bitch said that the call was appropriate what do you make of that. well i think that it's interesting you know way you know john kelly's been very silent i think he felt the confidence was broken we do know that president trump attacked prior presidents incorrectly about how they've got with deaths a.p. broke a story today specifically of some of the folks who passed away during a trump presidency to a different family said they've never been contact either by mail or by phone yeah i third family said just by mail you know i'll harken back to something the previous speaker just spoke to i'll match your your vegas with the puerto rico where he had a press conference and specifically said hey you didn't lose that many people not that many people died and then another time in puerto rico we said already

everybody have a good time now this guy is this the disconnect emotional right points well taken by both of you tonight midseason amy tarkanian thank you so much for joining us on this the saving. the russian lawyer behind a meeting with donald trump jr gave more details about the pressure she faces from the president's opponents and the united states media last month natalia veselin skya was accused of helping russian interference in the u.s. election in an exclusive interview with r t she spoke in depth about how she's been treated by the mainstream media and the news the political stunts just to make it clear i was never against any sanctions because they don't involve my client and i'm against manipulating facts i'm against how these sorties haven't investigated the story behind the many acts what happened in the us it was pure politics. as with malice i personally gave this memo to the journalists i can't recall her name

this is a translation off a memo that i prepared for myself before my trip to the u.s. last year everything our learned i shared with police and american lawyers this memo was the result of my own investigation. after two days of n.f.l. ownership meetings with players and owners the n.f.l. commissioner roger goodell weighed in on the weeks old scandal of players kneeling during the national anthem the n.f.l. does not condone players kneeling during the national anthem but will not punish them for doing it we believe. everyone should stand for the national anthem that's an important part of our policy it's also an important part of our game that we all take great pride in and it's also important for us to honor our flag and to our country and we think our fans expect us to do that. this network r

t america has been accused of producing propaganda for the russian government from time to time let me show you what propaganda really looks like this is the old executive building directly across from the white house the vice president's office is in this building on tuesday the trumpet ministration used this building paid for by all taxpayers to host a one sided radio road to promote in-cell the trump tax plan to the american listening audience no liberal talkers or anyone opposing the plan were invited or afforded the opportunity to participate and radio row or interview the president or vice president question more isn't this propaganda some of the top conservative talkers in major markets were used as vehicles of promotion for the trump administration it was free airtime free promotion and flat out an unchallenged message presented by the president himself meanwhile not

a single word of concern from the democrats because i guess they're too concerned about russia right in their own backyard there is propaganda and they are failing to call it out radio rows are a common practice in the industry presented by hosts who often have a clear ideological position for more on this we turn to an expert in the industry to tell us about the influence of talk radio in america michael harrison of talkers magazine michael nice to have you with us tonight it's been too long good to have you on thank you ed good to be if you give our audience a sense of what happens here what's the history of radio row i know they have them from time to time i have participated in and when i was doing a nationally syndicated show your perspective. well i was involved with the very start of the radio rows back during the clinton administration he was very talk radio friendly even though as time went by talk radio wasn't that friendly to him

and the first radio row was back when hillary clinton was proselytizing her own medical plan and that didn't work out very well hosts have been brought to the white house since then over the years to broadcast from the white house and to meet with the president and various members of the administration on both the left and the right both the democrats and the republicans but as the years have gone on and talk radio has become more partisan in terms of its format ics the ones that get invited are the ones that are most in line with the president at the time when obama was president it was very hard for conservative talk show hosts ever get a meeting or an invite to the white house and of course when george w. bush was there they had radio rows that were primarily with conservatives now the trumpet ministration had their radio row yesterday that was really pulled out of the air i mean it was a quick thing put together because there was a c.n.n. article about how conservative talk show hosts were disappointed that donald trump

has been ignoring them that he actually hasn't been reaching out and going on talk radio on conservative stations so the next day all of a sudden there was a radio row and it was predominantly obviously conservative friends of trump do they help ratings does does this work are they influential for people trying to message to the listers. well i think that anything that you do that has such a high profile as broadcasting from the white house with the president the vice president and kid ministration officials is going to create a buzz among listeners but i think it's more of a prestige thing especially when it doesn't have time to be promoted this thing as i said was put together in a day i think it's more of a prestige thing and i think on a personal level it's kind of a kick for the hosts who suddenly become very enamored by the idea that they're in the white house and they're talking to the president there's something about the presidency of the united states that melts even the most hardened commentators so i

don't know if it's like television where it's event driven and ratings reflect each day of broadcasting radio is rated in a different way so i don't i don't think it affects ratings per se but i think it has an impact on the prestige of the station and the hosts reputation is trump being good for talk radio he's been fantastic for talk radio he's been fantastic for the media from a business perspective and that's that's my expertise is from the business perspective he's created conversation he's created controversy he's created material and he has boosted ratings not just for radio but for talk television even newspapers are enjoying a resurgence because of the country's fascination with the trumpet ministration as probably the most compelling reality show of all time michael harrison publisher of talkers magazine michael nice to have you with us tonight thank you. thank you ed a

man suspected of killing three in maryland was taken into custody in delaware the saved thing. prince is believed to have shot five of his coworkers in hartford county maryland and another individual in wilmington delaware shortly before nine am prince entered a maryland kitchen countertop company where he works in killed three while wounding two others the sort of thirty seven year old was in possession of a single handgun firefighters have contained nearly all of the wildfires ravaging california this month fires have destroyed over two hundred ten thousand acres and cost the state more than three billion dollars in addition forty two lives have been lost and close to two hundred people have suffered injuries as a result of the fires fifty seven hundred structures were consumed in the fires with over ninety thousand people forced to evacuate their homes officials in california are estimating the potential environmental impact of the smoke from the

fire. china's one thousand communist party congress started this week china's leadership ping was granted another five year term as the country's chief officer xi jinping gave a three and a half hour speech in front of twenty three hundred delegates from the chinese communist party during the speech the chinese leader called for strengthening state owned enterprises and referred to china as a quote great power repeatedly neither donald trump nor north korea made appearances in the speech. north korea's deputy u.n. ambassador warns a nuclear war may break out at any moment meanwhile former secretary of state hillary clinton spoke at a forum in south korea and criticize the president's foreign policy stance towards north korea militaru has been following the story and joins us with more this plays almost like a soap opera oh that's right however hillary clinton though didn't exactly call out

the president by name while in seoul but i think it's safe to presume that she was taking jabs at potest what she called the actions towards north korea bellicose and aggressive and perhaps that type of behavior is what triggered this response from the north koreans do when deputy ambassador came in riyadh and he said quote unless the hostile policy and the nuclear threat of the u.s. is thoroughly eradicated we will never put our nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table under any circumstances and by all accounts u.s. officials insist that diplomacy is the preferred route in handling north korea the deputy secretary of state john sullivan said the u.s. has not ruled out direct talks with north korea but added that allies must be prepared for any eventuality this as he met with his south korean and japanese counterparts in seoul south korea now to be clear to clear up any confusion these

diplomats meeting in seoul is a completely separate event than what was attended by hillary clinton she was invited to speak at a different event also held in seoul but at that speaking of that is where she criticized the president's actions which appears to contrast what his top officials are espousing clinton called his actions cavalier dangerous even short sighted but also called on china to step up their role in intervention this part actually in line with what trump has called for in the past clinton called on china to tighten and absolutely enforce sanctions against north korea she also. china's retaliatory actions against south korean business is conducting business in china following the deployment of u.s. anti missile systems in south korea china has expressed grievances to the u.s. over the use of the bad system claiming its radar could be used to pierce chinese territory concerns over u.s. spying so add there is a lot of diplomatic talks happening in asia this week specifically in seoul the

american japanese and south korean envoys will also discuss stalled nuclear disarm disarmament talks that involve north korea china and russia the last time such talks took place was way back in two thousand and eight all parties though still hoping that diplomacy will be the winner in this war of words and you know we just can't talk in afghan way for more on this we go to group the policy specialist at the institute for china american studies so rob thanks for being here tonight let's talk about xi jinping first appointed to a nother five year term how does this work. he is supposed to be appointed to the second to the second term which is supposed to be his last term he use a president who has accumulated enormous power and authority in the communist system and therefore there is this thinking that he will extended beyond the five year term my inclination is to is that he will not do so he did it is not so much about the xi jinping sure as much as she jinping being the core leader offered

a collective leadership of the chinese communist party which is leading the party in the state in the country of three and a half hour speech is that what they normally see in china i don't think you left anything out. let's revisit this with this he is at the pinnacle of his political career this is that speech delivered at the pinnacle of his political career it's a work report and this work report actually has been has been drawn up over a full your which he delivered how could he not mention north korea and the situation on the peninsula and the possibility of nuclear proliferation i know that's that's important but i don't think he wanted to get into a speech which was particularly adversarial in terms of particularly talking about international issues he did talk about international issues as to the role of china more broadly in the international system but he did not touch upon individual

issues he was rather trying to show that he is the heir today in shopping and like deng xiaoping did a thirty year program of reform is now setting in a similar program for the next thirty years for stocks of korea what hindrance if any does hillary clinton provide just showing up and criticizing american policy when you know we really don't know what we're dealing with there you know it actually doesn't help and here's the reason why i believe hillary clinton aside for a moment barack obama had given a speech in berlin just before president trump was getting to berlin i think earlier this summer and he was just trying to show himself the anti barak obama and then type barack obama policy also so he needed to frame himself i mean donald trump needed to frame has this thing on those lines and this is exactly what's going to happen anything that has come out from a democratic from a democratic side he is going to reject first of all even if it does it even if it is at the expense of the hosts secondly on top of that i think i mean hillary

clinton shares some deal of the blame too in the fact that over the four years when she was secretary of state in the four years there after i mean really not that much not that much happened north korea says war at any moment you believe that should we believe or no i don't think we should believe that right away. but the reason for this i think i personally think is because there are again a whole set of war games happening right now as we speak on the korean peninsula including strike forces who could decapitate kim jong un so this was just more off a deterrent threat of course the threat of a miscalculation always exists when parties are saw i mean just next to each other but what we should definitely be looking for is this providing an excuse for kim jong un to test and intercontinental ballistic missile sometimes all right sue rob you have to thank you appreciate it. one mississippi school district is drawing criticism after banning the book to kill

a mockingbird from classrooms the district says language in the pulitzer prize winning novel about racial injustice is making parents and children uncomfortable portnoy with that story tonight. at least seven free speech organizations are publicly condemning the biloxi's 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 biloxi school board defends the book ban saying

quote there were complaints about it and there is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable unquote in 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 rating was not inclusive and made students uncomfortable of mice and men suffer of 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. them was racially insensitive now while the list of things people find offensive continues growing critics say a racing history ultimately prevents the public from learning from its past reporting from miami marina r.t. and that is our news tonight follow me on twitter with moves with like me on the facebook page we got my post the yes there every day you can now see america on direct t.v. channel three twenty one. point that i've been watching thanks for watching hopefully we'll see you back here with.

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united states. how do they enlisted affair and be an affair with a woman of a different color was. you know provocative and now i think you know partly because of people like shonda rhimes in storytelling that's become you know not not so remarkable i'm humbled on a daily basis. for women to love them or work with. and formed from so many aspects. where a woman approaches problem solving and leadership. you know outstrips so many of the incidents that we have as men plus woman came up to me and said could to take a selfie with her because she was a scandal for us and sure which is she was taking the pictures tried to kiss me full in the mouth and i turned my head sort of startle and she licked my neck and then she took her cameron walked away all next on larry king now.

one of the larry king now attorney visit with a. actor writer director tony goldwyn for six years tony has an ruptured audiences as president fitzgerald grant on the a.b.c. smash hits scandal he's also known for divergent ghosts the last samurai and outlaw prophets where he played warren jeffs and one high end the cameras director of conviction and a walk on the moon he now stars as ed miller in the new movie thel to the man who brought down the white house that's in theaters now and the final season of scandal premier's october fifth on a.b.c. we'll talk about felt in a while so it's hard to put in then to show it feels right yet sad in this and scandal has been such a dream job you know i had never done. a regular series before. because i directed two other things on their one of the 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 done 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. the alternative is just to go on until the show peters out no one's watching a lot of time when a not to gets into a role like you did they don't get movie parts because there's such an association with a hit show that you did though yeah well the world's really changed where you know when i first started acting in the 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 the best work is happening on television and everybody wants to it wants in so there's no longer any stigma about did the cast play any part mending the show was just show it is this is leave the show on this decision and 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 rights so how does the part develop into this well we'll see why somebody up in 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 fitz 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 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 all 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 have to work with a direct an episode in the last yeah i directed the second episode this year we just finished 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 this 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 and with that 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 i'm not not so remarkable. fortunately in the same way that chando had you know my republican chief of staff. but the third up as 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 and 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 why 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 him 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 that 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 libyans just he's 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 guy then you know it is down to earth guy now is he as he was then what do you make of what we have to ask everyone asks 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. media 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 that a 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 latest all of the reasons the clearly north korea is declaring war suddenly you know president trump goes down for a political rally in alabama and goes after call and copper neck and what is there one talking about this weekend you know college cabinet and the n.f.l. and. he's. you know it's extraordinary the art of distraction and 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 sensuous superior to men given a chance vastly more powerful said 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 sayat you based on your wife my wife my daughters the woman 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 an extraordinarily brilliant woman she's a real deep lee 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 letter 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 about the great present i think she would have made a great president i do and i say you know the 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 donald trump brought to this contest were overwhelming and certainly took out sixteen was it sixteen republican you know like it was just knocked em right out so i don't you can. you

know and i think that hillary is about the work in the job and 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 out there campaigning as gunson oh my god who 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

narcissist. 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 a 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 yes he believed in his faith but he like so many narcissists manipulated his faith to serve his own

selfish impulses of success and transcending his. mall with tony goldwyn after the break. the local wal-mart is selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they don't. produce talks credit tell you that will be gossiping tabloid-y. files of the most important day. off and telling you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all the walking. all the world. and all the news companies merely players but what kind of part is already america playing r.t.

america offers more. personal. in many ways the news landscape is just like the real news big names good actors bad actors and in the end you could never hear on. so much parking on the world stage all the world's a stage all the world's a stage and we are definitely a player. i do not know if the russian state 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. to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied to be n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate has once again proved to be an ethical government claims that cannot be verified

you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. 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 hard 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 we you know it was someone who was a producer and a more business side just saw his friends who were actors during through such a hard time and then acting the tough professional 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 know like trading bad 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 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 you know 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 jim beano and 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 no is directing 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 what 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 well know 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 a project 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 startle and she licked my neck and then she took her cameron 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 a quieter realm is this something you long to believe to be true but realise wasn't

. yeah you know 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 affectively 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 are 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 stories the though the worst one which are rich is too

long to go into but when i was before i even sort i when i was a i was auditioning for acting schools and audition for juilliard and which is one of the preview when 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 change them one of the things i did with. the money you would you do you have a monologue from a 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 a 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 and i mean 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 in the so i do this monologue and i realize i forgot to get dressed in the model i get on these people who are made no sense of why i had taken my shirt off so that was. a great 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 group. 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 that 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 were 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. guam 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 you know politically but especially on social

issues of importance len 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 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 yet and we did arrive on broadway you know made that role famous. jerry jerry orbach 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 kerry washington's never never once. l e d o o o how's the culture on set different when you have a female show runner well one of the big differences is it's completely family

centric scandal as is all about accommodating people's family names and you know we now have a pregnant cast member and shonda is completely rearranged our schedule to accommodate katie lowes new baby. and it's and i've experienced it myself you know if you have a family issue that comes first the again how do you think your character fits has grown over seven seasons and what is the biggest misconception about him i think that fits his 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 he did a lot of good even though we were more interested in his extracurricular life. has ever been a point in your career way 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 you retard 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 premier's often told us if done a.b.c. you can always find me on twitter with james thing simple see you next. i'm

a trial lawyer i've spent countless hours poring through documents that tell the story about the ugly side of. corporate media everything uses to talk about the car . i'm going to paint a clear picture about how disturbing alcool blood corporate conduct is be calling him on these are stories that no one else can get on my pepto your host of american . question. what politicians do something that. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to press. you to go on to be press this is what the before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters and the how. close

it. rejected tonight is a comedy sold it not the fangs by the colbert. would you go after the global race since it's just more your live profit over people at every turn. the data it's not for me is like madison it's like a cancer joke from all the stress that the news but still 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 up.

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