it's just one person one this is that is exactly the kind of self examination that was taking place in the united states congress this week when the senate foreign relations committee held hearings on the u.s. president's sole authority to launch nuclear weapons. yes unlike most other nuclear powers around the world even in russia we here in the united states actually leave that great doomsday decision in the hands of just one person the president of the united states and given the recent style promo wars between u.s. president donald trump and north korea's kim jong un over twitter many are just a tad nervous that these two have their small fingers and fears that come with leaving the particular man from two thousand and eleven to two thousand and thirteen told the committee that he would the general simply stated watching the hawks. at the.

at the bottom. like you that i got. this. week except. for the watching the hawks i am i rolled and her and on top of the lawless and i do not have the power. yes the power to launch nuclear weapons is not in your hands but it is in that hands of the gentleman right behind you right now one president donald trump. i don't like that and i don't like that here and the whole here's the very unsettling thing about that power and were we are the exception to the norm from for nuclear powers in the world the us as of september twenty fifteen sits on about forty five hundred nuclear warheads nuclear missiles all in the power one man that's legally it says

the president at his discretion can decide if it's defensive as you know often so he can launch and everyone says. not during happy about that yeah i think it's very . disturbing because we're supposed to have a democracy is that one person can put us in the situation one person can't and that's sort of where we're in the problem the problem now is that we've always had leaders who seem to at least give lip service to the idea that it was a team effort and now we have a leader who it's not a team effort it's all about him and that's i think what scares people is there's this not time you know not a team or kind of atmosphere of a really dangerous thing and that's where the according to the union of concerned science is the president is not required to consult with any advisors before issuing the launch order no one in the defense department congress or any judicial branch can lawfully prevent the use of nuclear weapons once the president's order is given now in january gen january senators ed markey is

a democrat from massachusetts and representative ted lieu a democrat from california introduced s. two hundred eight or six six nine which is what we're talking about now and fee for it restricting the first use of nuclear weapons after twenty seventeen so this would prohibit the president any president from this point forward from launching a nuclear strike without a declaration of war from congress out the very well be nice if we actually got congress to declare war in the first place from we have all these military adventures i mean that when we've been having the war as the. resolution as much as i like the idea of a doesn't have much fans when congress never decides to the clear war sort of the problem is not that we threaten it a lot but we don't have a system in place to do that in a way that. the other thing that's interesting you know it isn't to me what really gets me about this isn't just that it's donald trump in office it's that we allow hold this to happen we've never have these conversations before the never sebag and

so should we really leave this authority in the president's head when you know other nuclear powers around the world britain's prime minister does have the launch authority but the ministry of defense can lawfully appeal to the queen to overturn it. parliament could also call for a vote of no confidence which require the minister's immediate resignation india pakistan. you know you have times councils decide and i think there was a new invention and i actually it was interesting it was a little piece of information i wasn't aware of until we looked at the story that it isn't just as lattimer put making that decision which is a little scary even in you know even in a country where you know our perception is that you know just warmongering ready to destroy the world i mean not a great allies here in the united states. that there is actually this this system in place that says no even bottom or putin doesn't get to make that decision on his own and here you're trying to make that decision on their own though that part of democracy is like wow russia is doing democracy better than we're doing tomography

on a nuclear war. that's a little scary but i would i do want to see it retired general robert commander of the u.s. strategic command from twenty eleven to twenty thirteen had this to say if there is an illegal order presented to the military the military is obligated to refuse to follow it the question is the process leading to that determination and now you would arrive at that so there you go here's a slightly of the what we don't even know what the system is someplace we don't even know what that is but that they have a duty. to stop it if we like basically the general saying look if we think it's illegal and suddenly you know the dude says hey laurenson was included no. they can do that but even a murky democratic server massachusetts' said i don't have confidence that the military chain of command would reject him or by the president to launch a nuclear weapons and they prevented a nuclear war situation so even then it's kind of like. would they really or would

they just replace the guy was of millen find a new guy. and another case of toddlers with weapons wisconsin just became the thirty first state me us to have no minimum age requirement for hunting with a firearm the bill which passed the legislature in july and was signed into law by governor scott walker this week also removes restrictions on how many weapons an adult supervising a child is legally allowed to carry previously a person had to be fourteen years old and pass a hunter safety course in order to hunt alone children and children ten and up could hunt but only if they participate in the state's mentoring program which requires an adult to be within arm's reach at all times and only allows one weapon between the two assembly bill for fifty five states a person may hunt in this state without obtaining a certificate of accomplishment taking away the ten years old restriction republican state representative rob saffold the bill's sponsor stated that quote what this bill means is that parents would now decide if and when their child is

ready to participate in a mentor and hunter program and not the government which i think is an odd statement since the mentor and hunting program as a government program what also seems odd is the complete lack of forethought into safety while setting up a system that is begging for abuse by hunters looking to bag extra game so is this another act of pointless lobbyist filled legislation or a real issue for parents. you know wow never realized before you brought me this story to the the risk. you know that there was thirty five other states besides god so that said well whatever age the kid is i mean what's what are you so scared of kids with god. i mean that kid you know this is one tabitha waller so yeah there are holes as i'm in a very young eight hundred percent and i was definitely under a time when this was taken but that's in wisconsin and that was the rules that we used to have in them something as

a wisconsin native and someone who grew up around a lot of hunting because we're in a rural area we live fair and we're all. is that you know we had systems and play well and i think the biggest question that everybody asses like who would be to allow kids under ten yeah you know like you know five year old running around in the woods trying to hunt deer is ridiculous to me and who lobbied for wabbly the n.r.a. everybody and then the safari club white tails of wisconsin wisconsin bear owners association because you know five year old something bears and there was constant viral maholm herds rangers and clubs and educators they all lobbied for less government control over the farmers now who was against what was the hunters education instructors association oppose this bill because it removes the firearm requirement which is necessary for a tremendous ship of young hunters yeah wow yeah so the idea of the mattress and the way it used to be and a lot of people are also pointing out the fact that you still have to have a license to rent to drive both in wisconsin and you have to take

a boat or safety as i did to drive about if you're fourteen years that you have to take pretty as i say in your license you're going to see more yeah and so what you're saying is that kids are it's less dangerous and you need less restrictions on a gun than a bow. and inputs and about this whole idea of the mentorship program in wisconsin which is one of the it's a really important thing when you're talking about hunting and if you don't know if you're against the second amendment or a against hunting i just leave the room. because i that's a whole other part of that argument or for the circular member of the army i was at work or hunting there's a conservation level that when you live in you grow up it's nice to say we shouldn't hunt deer and bambi and all of that when you don't live in a rural environment and you don't have to feed a family of four when one hundred seventy pound about the average for a deer a white tail deer that you catch can can give you up to sixty pounds of meat for a family again if you're if you again or anything just a whole nother thing but here's my thing about the mentoring program the so important also with the boater safety these programs are put in there so that you

have someone there at all times teaching them the safety watching the gun if both people if it's a ten year old and the adult who's supposed to be watching them are both hunting that means the adult is paying attention to his gun not the other one and in the case of deer hunting you can't two people wouldn't be right next to each other both trying to hunt the same deer so it takes away the idea of the child or the person you're mentoring needs to be within arm's rant so they've taken that out so now this kid can be anywhere at any point. what do you think is the real motivation for the others you know to lobby for it but like what's the motivation i think the motivation is strictly about ways to people can game the system game the game system gaming the game system i like that but what the what you do is you want to have extra you want as many tags as you can have for a family so that you can tag as many i think what's going to happen is adults are going to sign up their kids. bring them to the wall. and that kid's never going to

go out with a gun and never going to experience the x. box on their love and then they're going to go out and put their kids tag on and say oh i got a second here because you're only allowed one and unless there's this is it's going it's going to do it's have conservation issues and i think it's safety issues and i think it takes things it's going to take tags out of the hands of people who really do need that plus at the end of the day i mean seriously i'm pro i'm very much for the second amendment i'm not so much for you know given the seven year old free rein no runaround would have gone all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows at r t v dot com coming up author and journalist russell enters the office and us to discuss the recent j.f.k. assassination documents and what secrets are better covered than we celebrate the mayan lives of a truly forgotten master of the state to watch. every

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of my. friends. here in the united states in just under a week on november twenty second we'll be observing the fifty fourth anniversary of the assassination of president john f. kennedy get it is this the nation was one of the darkest and most controversial moments in u.s. history and has throughout the decades since spark more questions and debate than answers and acceptance this isn't due to the intense mystery in official secrecy surrounding the assassination and one of its central figures lee harvey oswald in late october president donald trump after bowing to pressure from the u.s. intelligence agencies continued the veil of secrecy after releasing some but not all of the remaining redacted files on the assassination author in journalistic russell has spent more than half his life investigating the death of john kennedy

and he spoke with us earlier today about what he and fellow researchers at who what why dot com have and have not uncovered in the recent release. oh yeah i would say there definitely is i mean there's no smoking guns quote unquote that have been found yet and you know what's what's really unfortunate about it is that still a lot of these files from the cia and the f.b.i. are being redacted that president trump has has allowed the intelligence agencies to continue their review and decide what now i'd still be a matter of national security after fifty four years so that seems pretty ludicrous to me but any rate what's come out so far as some very interesting material especially to those of us who've been studying what probably really happened for a long long time. one thing that came out actually this summer was that the mayor of dallas earl cable at the time. whose brother was charles cable he would been number two in the cia under allen dulles before president kennedy fired them

because of the bay of pigs disaster earl cable turns out to have been a cia asset now nobody knew that all this time and it. he was in charge of president kennedy's motorcade route that day so you know it does raise some questions other very interesting memo came out from j. edgar hoover that he had sent right after was killed by jack ruby and what hoover was saying was that this seemed inexcusable because you know if the warnings that the f.b.i. had given the dallas police department well there's nothing further said than that but what kind of warnings with the f.b.i. have been giving i mean something about jack ruby you know somebody's going to kill oswald it's really very curious and and also that that ruby they said to have links to chicago and organized crime or so the rumor was but that memo ends with hoover saying we've got to get something out to the public to convince everybody that oswald was the lone assassin so you know it makes you think about certain things we can get into some other specifics about the cia documents too if you like the

interesting how much the you know with every new release it seems we you know over the years with everything related to that assassination it not only answers a few questions brings us a little bit closer to the truth but that opens the door to about many more each time yeah you know and one of those questions is the involvement of the former soviet now so former soviet union u.s.s.r. and cuba some back in sixty three and even today there are people still trying to tie the killing of kennedy to the soviet union in cuba what in these documents either proves or refute that claim. i would say so far it raises a lot of questions and indicates that this certainly was not the case even though it was made to look that way by certain people in other words the question that arises from these files is was oswald set up or was he setting up a scenario where the blame would fall on the russians and the cubans and this is all through a trip that he made to mexico city or allegedly made we're not even sure it was him

at the end of september one thousand nine hundred sixty three little less than two months before the assassination supposedly he went to the huge. an embassy seeking a visa to go to cuba and to the russian embassy where he met with among other people a man named kostikov who turns out to be part of the department thirteen or assassinations unit of at the time of the k.g.b. so i mean yes that looks very suspicious on its face but here's what happens the the news of this is sent by the mexico city cia station chief winston scott directly to washington on october ninth and it goes interestingly to the cia's office of counterintelligence which is run by james angleton angleton is a very suspicious figure in all this there's a new book about him by jefferson morely just came out but what happens then is that the very next day after this cable arrives the f.b.i. for some unknown reason yet takes removes his name from their watch list as a person of interest and that's very interesting i mean did the cia suddenly say

something to to the f.b.i. like we're working with this guy in some way so don't worry about him anymore i mean it certainly raises that question then on november fifteenth about a week before the assassination the f.b.i. guy in new orleans and a felony warrant a breeze he sends a memo to angleton zz office and he says just want you to know basically that oswald is now he's not in mexico anymore and he's living in texas so it's all very weird i mean the mexico situation has always been very strange and involving people like david atlee phillips who was the cia's operations officer in with cuban affairs in mexico at that time and has definitely been linked to some very shady stuff and unlike what happened to this little the legend tape and photo of oz wall that was sent turned out not to be oswald right after the assassination is now called the mexico city mystery man. phillips was involved with the cuban exiles and with the with this group called alpha sixty six out of miami and

a man named antonio veciana who is still alive and has finally came out and said identified philip. difficulty phillips's dead as his case officer who at a meeting in dallas in august of one nine hundred sixty three late late august brought lee harvey oswald to that meeting with him that yana didn't know it was oswald until the assassination happened and he sat on this for many many years and finally talked about it and talked about philip's under a pseudonym to the house assassinations committee it's really incredible when you look at the intelligence community fingerprints on this you know. do this marine know this kind of little marine as they've been told told us to reserve as the factor came back in that all of this. is that you know in researching this and spending the time that you have looking at the assassination is that the reason even to this day fifty years later we're still seeing the cia and intelligence community saying no no no we need to keep vetting this or none at all not all of

them yet no no no let's keep it redacted you know are we seeing more of these kind of cia intelligence fingerprints on oswald with the release of each new file. yeah i mean and a lot of it as as i say have been as they released a file on david phillips several files actually but most but the whole period from the early one nine hundred sixty s. is not there i mean it's redacted so we're not going to learn much about philip's during that period george joe an e.t.s. who was in charge of this cuban exile group a very suspicious group called the d r e in miami they're still withholding all this stuff on what was going on the journey to it was working out with those people at the cia's jim way of station so you know the fingerprints of intelligence on ours will go back even before but certainly to his alleged defection to the soviet union in one nine hundred fifty nine when the question is was he sent there by the cia or some other intelligence agency to claim to pass radar secrets to them because he'd been workin observing the you to spy planes so was oswald sent at that

point into russia and his file was controlled for years by counterintelligence which is in charge of all that kind of thing by angleton group and the cia and there's a lot of questions you know was were they watching oswald at that point or using him to try to ferret out a mole within the cia i mean there's all kinds of of really weird questions that arise from all this but the fact is they've been and the f.b.i. too i mean the f.b.i. after oswald came back from russia in the summer of sixty two they interviewed him on a number of occasions i mean they were very interested in him and then all of a sudden in october of sixty three after this cia cable goes out to mexico city they just started are not that interested in him anymore although they did meet with him again this agent james hosty before the assassination really had oswald requests so you know the fingerprints are. really all over this young guy and you know the suspicion is who was he really certainly wasn't a lone nut gunman you know and i don't think although there's still an effort even in the media now to make it look like it was the cubans or the russians if anybody

was behind him they'd they don't ever get into the fact that it was much more likely the intelligence agencies the mafia and perhaps some extreme right wingers that's what the soviets by the way believed right after the assassination there were they did a study of this and said that they believe the extreme right wing in in the usa was responsible interesting now a lot of people would say look it's been over fifty years why are we looking at this why is that important it could just do damage now that we don't have to go through so let me ask you mr russell why is it so important for all of us to keep researching this assassination even after all these years. you know it's because we really don't know what happened and it was a turning point in american history i mean after that since that time a lot of things changed and if the president of the united states j.f.k. who had made a lot of enemies among some very powerful people could be gunned down you know in broad daylight and the truth of that be withheld to this day then what kind of

country are we you know as i look back to i'm giving a talk this weekend in dallas at a conference and you know i really read kennedy's american university speech where he talks about the importance of nuclear disarmament it was really coming to something incredible in one of the great speeches of all time you know with with nikita khrushchev of the u.s.s.r. at that time and you know it was it was compare that to today and what we've got going on with all this talk of nuclear war with north korea i mean you know there was there was true statesmanship back then kennedy was was changing in office he realized through the confrontation of the cuban missile crisis that you know things could be over the whole world could blow up and he was responsible and he did everything he could after that happened to make sure that the word. i was never going to face that kind of crisis situation again we lost a truly great man in j.f.k. and you know the truth has not been told about it and the american people are still interested and deserve to know what i think they don't most definitely do and so the leads to my next question i'll ask you know what is the next you know what is

the next step in assassination assassination research you know what is there another milestone that we're waiting for is there anything down the line the we can kind of who are interested in this can look forward to it in terms of being revealed or coming out. well we're not sure what's still going to come i mean there were so far the documents have been released that have been withheld you know since . since the nine hundred sixty three under three different three different times over the past few weeks then there was a huge release on november ninth of thirteen thousand and some documents so those are being poured over very carefully by researchers including the who what why news organization that i've written a couple of pieces for about this and i'm sure they're going to find out more this week and the people what people are looking at at the conferences that are going to be going on in dallas that are held every year so we really don't know and i just hope that eventually these redactions are going to go back in so that those missing pages about keep people that we've known about for years that could well have

played a role in this like david atlee phillips david morales george joined eighty's with the cia and others are finally going to be released and we can get some kind of bigger picture of what was going on back then. only one cat has traveled to space and survived and now she may finally get the respect she deserves a job parker a world renowned sculptor has teamed up with producer matthew serge guide to raise enough money through kickstarter to create a statue a few days that honoring the first and so far little only cat to go into space and survive in one thousand nine hundred sixty three this that is stray found on the streets of paris eventually found her way to the french government where she went on to be trained with fourteen other cats in compression chambers hygiene training center affairs is. and even had permanent electrodes wired straight into her brain to monitor a neurological activity then on october eighteenth one nine hundred sixty three at eight o nine am stern faced a fetus that was shot into the atmosphere on of all the meek a.g.i.

forty seven rocket the flight lasted a full fifteen minutes reached a height of one hundred fifty six kilometers and brought us that back home safely she went on to work for some months with the french space program until she passed away and we honor her today nouvel on though and said we honor you man maybe we're back there's a first. oh. it was hard to watch those are i was really with all that stuff will get a way to go over and that is our job for today remember everyone that lives world we are told we are above nothing so i tell you all i love you i am tired old winter and i'm top of the wall and watching bill sparks robert great.

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a grant from some corrupt congressmen in america billions of dollars and the side effect is always make me into stu's i mean do suicide me into suicide what you know flag is inducing suicide because you look at that you say oh it's a former cop or say. you seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better lock with their better and i think they are and hurting one of my my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been killed by phone to us and we had a thought to him yes we did yes this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw i did to

return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know this but we are not. this is you had learning right now the world anti-doping agency blocks russia. from being reinstated amid a lengthy scandal calling it non-compliant the details and reaction coming right out. of the news this hour the search for alleged russian meddling in the u.k. builds momentum with research is claiming social media accounts influence. the kremlin blamed for an attack on britain's energy grid. and president the former lebanese prime minister to france but says it's not a next in the wake of abrupt resignation.

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