ok again for the read. on the news tonight twitter moved to ban r t and sputnik from purchasing ads on its website a week before the social media giant that's testified before a house committee and president the president declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency and takes aim at the controversial drug sentinel. and the president releases some of the j.f.k. documents today but says the majority of them needs to wait further review. a manila chance sitting in for ed schultz tonight reporting from washington d.c. you're watching our team there.

and good evening we start tonight with news from the twitter sphere the social media giant has now banned ads from our tea and sputnik relating to allegations of meddling in the twenty six thousand presidential election twitter will give away the money earned from r.t.m. sputnik spokesperson for the russian foreign ministry. said retaliatory measurements measures from the russian government are likely to follow artie's daniel hawkins has the details. this is a story which has a plot that thickens and develops almost on a daily basis that i received notice from twitter which began positively that twitter believes in freedom of expression and in speaking truth to power and ironically ended with the news that are all related accounts are now banned from advertising any content whatsoever on the twitter social media platform the justification according to twitter was artie's inclusion in that january twenty

seventh team u.s. intelligence report on allegations of russian interference in the us presidential election there have been no clear accusations of wrongdoing no proof of misconduct or breach of policy now this turn of events is even more ironic given twitter's previous relationship with r.t. this channel has decided to release some information just to dispel some of those. allegations of misconduct against the channel now back in twenty sixteen in the run up to the election twitter offered r.t. an exclusive package specifically for that event had the aim of delivering an unbiased point of view of the u.s. election now this exclusive special offer included many features from customize the mode you hashtags to analytics research solutions even a whole dedicated team of twitter specialists to help with media strategy now this according to twitter had the specific aim of reaching a wider american audience or viewers and voters to deliver artie's coverage of the

elections now why would twitter have offered this to a kremlin propaganda tool seeking to somehow manipulate or control the election i guess that's a question for twitter now after the gauche asians r.t. didn't actually take this offer up the price tag for the all these exclusive features was simply too high it went over all the budgets forty social media strategy what happened over the last year and a half when r.t. went from valued me to. a partner being equated put on par with bots and trolls which by the way the channel has never used or had any gauge with what so ever if he had been involved in violating terms of use or spreading misinformation or taking part in misconduct it would have simply been banned from social media platforms a long time ago now we've seen a wave of thinly veiled accusations on his theory against both russia and r t over

the last eighteen months or so twitter action included some of these in their september report which they told. russian interference in the twenty sixth the elections. misinformation again and no actual proof or evidence of misconduct or engagements of r.t. using these sorts of bots and all these sorts of tactics now in november twitter officials will go before congress to testify on russian meddling in the u.s. election no doubt r.t. will get a mention there as well part of the water pressure that the shuttle has faced over the last few months as described by our editor in chief margarita simonyan honestly i didn't believe that twitter was controlled by american security services it looked like a conspiracy theory to me no tweeter has just come fast. especially because american news outlets operated in russia will now feel the tenderness of russian teacher took measures that was the scandal takes new twists and turns it will be certainly very interesting to see what the twitter representatives do say in their

testimony before congress and if indeed they will mention previous offers of collaboration to this channel in the lead up to the us presidential election and for more on this let's turn now to legal and media analyst a litle of light on media are in line on my friend what do you make of all this. isn't the timing amazing. isn't the timing we have today on by the way the seventieth birthday of valerie rotten glidden as the world and everybody is looking at the connection between the hillary the hillary campaign the f.b.i. fusion g.p.s. a law firm who paid or could have paid between six and nine million dollars to that goes to purchase a russian da ca and you also have questions of the f.b.i. actually being perhaps complicit and what appears to be the most flu

a great example of actual at attempt to change the election of two thousand and sixteen you want to talk about real collusion but wait slow on the brakes no now we're going to talk about twitter and ads because when you hit that dog whistle when you hit it and you make your r t something happens and people and also manila isn't it also interesting they're right before twitter is about to testify lol and be you know they say we have to do something what we're going to do no more ads for you how about that loral how do you like that global platform free speech come on joy that twitter bad why did we love you will but but be careful be careful what you say god forbid somebody put across here is all of us because you're next but now we think up this correct me if i'm wrong it sounds like you're saying hey guys look at the shiny little thing over here don't look at the d.n.c.

lucian thing here but that's your thinking lionel how do you think this plays out to the average american citizen out there i am sorry to say my beloved fellow citizens of my beloved republic oftentimes only read the headlines the bumper stickers that said but i understand what is happening right now. as they heat is being turned up do you understand not you but you collectively the royal you what is happening right now when media outlets for the first five are finally waking up and saying maybe there was an actual couldn't spare recede between the f.b.i. law enforcement hillary rodham clinton the d.n.c. all to smear a private citizen a man who dared to run for president and that actually actually could have been theoretically this is what they're investigating the basis for a federal investigation and you have the other mitigated golf ball hunts but to

suggest that r t by doing what plays see and add that the straight and ad makes what citizens think and discuss and perhaps question more oh no we're not going to have that's kowloon they were talking about charging donald trump jr with treason because he met with this russian lawyer and if that treason what do you call this but we're not talking about that we're talking about that that that is a good point because you know they want to make claims of collusion on that side we've got to be fair to both sides here right so so tell me talk about this this narrative can you break it down for us. what happens right now is that if you go back and you google the evolution of this organization called your r t and how it has been saying gold out as being responsible for everything and i say this right now no one allegation not one

charge not one scintilla one or two rob of a proof of anything has ever been so much as a do or prove but yet that is true narrative does argue but now throw in sport need . in the yes and there are so many americans unfortunately still living in this borat battered outfit not. just this red baiting you you mentioned this i mean the cold war is over so i thought but also hey world the next time you think about going to twitter understands of the twitter you've got a lot of splendid to do lucy you're supposed to explain to the world how you use them for free speech what about the other countries does this b.b.c. ever fall of this category is r t the only foreign agency network news organization that has to endure this at how do we as americans who talk about our free speech or our first

a bad but how do we look the world in the eye and say well that for you you know i want to write you and i have talked about this on our friday shows sometimes and we'll certainly be talking more about it i think in the coming weeks thank you so much my friend for sharing your insights with us as always line of litle media in new york. and breaking today a u.n. investigative panel is accusing the syrian air force of a deadly sarin gas attack from back in april allegations of gas attack by the syrian government resulted in president trump ordering a tomahawk missile strike on the country's air force for more on this developing situation we're being joined now by jim jan trust he's a former. u.s. diplomat jim good to see you and it's always kind under tough circumstances though when we have you on so this is the first time that a u.n. subcommittee has concluded that one side or another of the syrian civil war has carried out any attack the use of of sarin in particular or any other chemical is

a war crime so what happens now on the international stage i don't know this is this the the gym as it's called not there yet but the joint investigative mechanism reached this conclusion this report today i've seen reference to it i haven't seen the full report will see what's in it i get i want to know the details did they go to construct the place of where the attack took place did they gather samples you know this is still under the control of jihad as rebels or maybe they didn't go there i don't know how they can reach the conclusions without going there do they go to share at the air base where the syrian air force planes took off to see if there's evidence of chemical weapons there i've seen reports i can't confirm them that the syrians have asked them to come and they haven't come i haven't seen any of those so as far as the report goes itself i don't know what i'm more concerned at this point is on the policy side of it what i have but what i see secretary tillerson and ambassador haley back to you think john kerry and samantha power say assad must go etc etc and so it sounds like you are interested in obviously knowing

the methods before of course you can recall one way or the other what the theory in syria claimed though that they got rid of their chemical weapons stockpile a few years ago in a deal that was brokered by by russia and the united states. what recourse is there if any well if it turns out they have sound if they don't i don't know what the recourse is and to tell the truth of the bill i don't think they do have them i really have a lot of doubt about all of this it seems to me that it's all jim up for some political purpose to reach some and which ultimately results in going back to rolling back the clock to demands of regime change if they still do have chemical weapons yes the. the russians on top of vera most more than anybody else should feel hoodwinked because they're the ones who made the proposal to get rid of the chemical weapons they don't seem to be convinced that that's the case yeah and i'm glad you brought up rex tillerson because today he has made some honest statements saying stuff like the assad family rule their time of ruling syria is drawing to an

end so what do you make of that i don't want to make it what you want to heard that stay been my first thought was the old saying yeah you and what army and what army is going to make him go none of these jihadist groups are strong enough anymore guy isn't strong enough al-qaeda isn't strong enough the kurds are our main boots on the ground there in syria syria right now they're not going to damascus they're not going to overthrow the government there so who is going to get rid of assad even if we're serious about what secretary tiller said the same so would we need a congressional declaration of war to do that. no obviously that's a dead letter of the constitution for a very long time presidents wage wars without any cong congressional authorization and all we just had this this this thing going on in the news here for the last couple of weeks who authorized that and real quickly what overthrowing assad just create another power vacuum for say isis of course that look the game plan all along here ever since two thousand and eleven has been for some radical sunni was

just ideological group to overthrow a secular syrian government that is not based on sectarianism and. you can only go only wrecked syria and turn into another libya the idea that to be another stable national state if you overthrow forcibly this government i think is is is not realistic that certainly never plays out well at least on the hands of the u.s. thank you so much for sharing your expertise jim jatra. top democrats and hillary clinton allies deny knowing about the now infamous dasi on president donald trump former clinton campaign chair john podesta and former d.n.c. chairwoman debbie. wasserman schultz denied to congressional investigators having any knowledge of that dossier that it was being compiled reports this week though exposed information the clinton campaign and the d.n.c. paid outside sources to gather damning information on then candidate trump so for more on this let's turn now to our political panel for the evening we have

a hall and cookie is the new host of the big picture and andrea kay she is a conservative talk show host hello folks good evening andrea over to you first john podesta debbie wassermann schultz they say they were unaware of who funded that dossier they both said that before congressional investigators do you see any way possible that the dust and and wasserman schultz who was then head of the d.n.c. could have been left out of the loop like this. absolutely not i mean you know what i find absolutely incredulous is that they would actually think that anybody would believe them at this point or believe anything that they have to say same thing with hillary clinton these are the people that have been lying to us over and over and over again hillary clinton went around for how long line to the american people and telling them that she didn't transfer any classified documents over her e-mail scheme this is the same hillary clinton who would lied into the eyes of the gold star families and and said the big guys he was about a video this is debbie wasserman schultz who ended with the d.n.c.

who. committed some crimes that should be investigated in terms of election tampering herself during the primaries and you know you look at some of the e-mails that were revealed about john podesta what was going on during during the election and that's why i think the d.n.c. refused to hand over their servers to the investigative bodies when they allege that it was russia who actually hacked into their systems so it's really ridiculous that they would think that anybody would believe anything they had to say at this point holland your response to this well i agree with it andrea about the credibility gap who's going to believe anything debbie wassermann schultz says but as we learned in watergate follow the money and it's not hard to see a parallel between this and the first story you did tonight about to our t.v. and twitter a twitter coming at our t.v. with an advertising proposal and what about this m i six gumshoe in the trenchcoat

who was already compiling data and we're about to find out from whom with these subpoenas bank records for fusion g.p.s. hillary clinton jumped on a moving train all of this awful research stuff started during the republican primary and just the other day on the lawn the president says he thinks he knows which of his primary opponents were there so donald trump fashion stay tuned now as. said hall and it seems as though the left is calling this standard opposition research but the media jumped all over the trump campaign when they agreed to meet with the female russian lawyer vessel in the sky at trump tower last year allegations of collusion etc where are the allegations of collusion from on the clinton campaign andrea. yeah that's a very good question i mean jeff sessions look at how he was treated in his confirmation hearings because he did what he bumped up against

a russian ambassador at a cocktail party and can take a few steps in d.c. and not bump up against that guy and on that basis alone he does something absolutely ridiculous ridiculous he recused himself look it is clear should be clear to the american people that our investigative bodies have been weaponized this is not a dasi a what a lovely word to use dossier this was a defamation file that was used and paid for not just by the d.n.c. but the f.b.i. started paying this man to do what to compile smears and lies opposition research is meant to find a bones that are buried in actual things that people have done in their past not come up with lies meant to not only destroy a man destroy his family destroy his presidency and undermine his presidency and you know it really is a scandal unlike in watergate and it was used reportedly as the basis for the obama administration to spy on the trunk campaign and his associates and i'm waiting for hillary clinton i'm way well that according to john brennan he said that that was

what the probable cause was based on was based on this dossier no this has been used to completely destroy a man and his family i'd like to see hillary clinton and other people dragged before congress hey why don't we have her home in chappaqua why don't we have the swat team visit her four am well i know about the men in this family can you imagine if hillary clinton took the stage with five children she had with three husbands trump made some self a bit of a target with all of these women who have come after him for sexual assault with the way he speaks on mike with children listening calling and as well with the f.b.i. and that has what to do with the f.b.i. paying somebody a foreigner to come up with smears against him well how was that justified as far as far as i knew in america you were free to get a divorce it was legal and it was. grounds for somebody to try to defame you and destroy your family and try to make it be a false grounds for impeachment at this point muller should have been fired or

resigned because the entire basis for that false russian collusion story has been completely unraveled well well well recited but for the laws of physics rush limbaugh would be doing cartwheels now what makes him self a bit of rain target with the way he conducts himself that's my point all and i'm going to give you that's the last word there tonight thank you so much holland cook and andrea kay. the. president has declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency around sixty four thousand americans died from drug overdoses last year roughly one hundred seventy five people every day the president introduced a number of new measures that the administration will take to counter the opioid epidemic including combating the import of this controversial drug offense will. the u.s. postal service and the department of homeland security are strengthening the

inspection of packages coming into our country to hold back the flood of cheap and deadly fent know a synthetic opioid manufactured in china and fifty times stronger than heroin and in two weeks i will be in china with president xi and i will mention this as a top priority. and approximately fifty thousand children in the united states are held in correctional facility is according to the a.c.l.u. america has the world highest rate of juvenile incarceration a new report shows the state of florida is the oath think feeding and failing and diverting kids from jail art is more important i has the report for six years morris copeland has been at the forefront of miami's juvenile justice reform what you don't want to do is saddle children with arrest records for the rest of your life in the last. fiscal year miami dade county has reportedly seen a twelve percent decrease in juvenile crime and the largest decrease in youth

arrests in the state of florida copeland credits the county's civil citation initiative applied to those under eighteen who commit mr minor offenses taking the arrest record away but also making sure those children are held accountable for what they were doing may be paying a restitution maybe do apologise to victims or doing whatever needs to be done go into. a treatment mental health treatment experts say replacing jail time with community service and counseling has successfully kept first time child offenders from cycling back into trouble while miami has become a national leader of using civil citations to divert kids from jail the same cannot be said about the entire state of florida according to a new study three quarters of florida's sixty seven counties are failing at issuing juvenile civil citations while only two counties earn and a grade while florida's rate of issuing citations reportedly increased ten percent

in twenty sixteen the majority of law enforcement agencies in the state continue to rely on arresting kids for a low level crimes like underage drinking and disorderly conduct florida's sheriff's association and prosecution attorneys association have fiercely objected to a statewide juvenile civil citation mandate arguing it would tie the hands of law enforcement in the meantime advocates say counties implementing civil citations as an alternative to jailing juveniles should receive increased funding for her rehabilitating america's most vulnerable population marina r.t. miami. and today was the day thousands of people were waiting to see thousands of documents to finally be released regarding the j.f.k. assassination r.t. america natasha suite at. the latest on the document release the tasha. yeah that's right manila you know as you mentioned some but not all of the thousands of

documents that we've all been anticipating have been released just in the past hour and now the f.b.i. and cia are asking for more time to make redactions to the remainder of the documents that have been withheld and the question remains you know once these documents are fully released all we really know the truth about president if case assassination on of ever twenty second one thousand nine hundred sixty three did lee harvey oswald act alone as the warren commission arbitrated the following year or congress form the assassination records review board or in the government to release all of its files on the assassination in twenty five years however the president would have authority in blocking its release initially president trump announced that he walked in the release of the files even tweeting wednesday the long anticipated release of the j.f.k. files will take place tomorrow so interesting so today was supposed to be the day but now the white house released this statement from the president saying i am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted at the same time executive

departments and agencies have proposed to me that certain information should continue to be redacted because of national security law enforcements and current affairs i have no choice but to accept those redactions so the release will be further delayed judge john who served as the chairman of the board that compiled many of the documents about the president's death said while he follows supports these documents be released he wasn't sure if the national archives even has all of the documents you know that is going for it may have been destroyed years ago long before we. it was simply destroyed after we began our were we. identical copies so nothing was destroyed during the late ninety's. for example the central intelligence agency is found not disclosed to us.

no i think you're. actually made he. could still be missing. a twenty thirteen gallup poll shows only thirty percent of americans believe that oswald acted alone the other seventy percent points to other theories ranging from the cia the mafia to fidel castro well that's why judge to him sought release in the records was so vital to the american public and everyone abroad. there is still records that are. needed particularly when so. interesting to people. concerning. so long after this you're going to leave the question that they're simply speak from. so middle of those thirty five hundred documents twenty eight hundred have been released this evening and the ones that are being withheld will undergo a one hundred eighty day review period and so the question remains once these

documents are released and full well a put to bed in the theory that oswald acted alone well that's for the public to decide when ella i guess everybody's got a hold on a little bit longer thank you so much attash a suite in los angeles. thank you. that's the news tonight follow me on twitter at manilla channel all right manila chanting in for ed schultz reporting here from washington we'll see you back here next week have a good day. mark twain said it's easier to rule people than to bring to them there's something that could be why america is so divided because people have been fed fake news for by corporate interests they beat you down until you believe their fairy tales well here's a story for you it's called big and it's almost. six.

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