and sal you see here in the united states hawk watchers many in the press and on capitol hill are not brave enough sadly they do not have the guts to admit that our political system here in the us the one we love to flaunt so much to the rest of the world is deeply and tragically broken and like most problems in complex machinery it's not the mechanical moving parts that are fault but good old fashioned operator error that's causing this rube goldberg machine that is our government to falter for evidence look no further than the us congress who in their short sighted fast food version of political discourse have gotten so caught up in political infighting and media grandstanding over the republican corporate tax breaks sorry republican tax reform bill that they forgotten or at least appear to have forgotten a rather important date looming on capitol hill calendars december the eighth and what happens on december the eighth you ask well that is the deadline by which congress must approve

a new spending deal for the twenty eight hundred biscoe year and if they fail to pass this by next friday the government runs out of money and we got ourselves yet another government shutdown now more than likely they'll end up ramming through some haphazard short term funding patch to buy some time but is this really the best we can do i mean if your child constantly gets bad grades because of always waiting till the night before to cram for a test wouldn't you as a parent say enough is enough with both democrats and republicans bailing on immigration and health care to the multiple sexual harassment allegations being thrown around to flaking on important deadlines that have now left nine million low income kids without health insurance maybe it's time we in the press start revoking the press credentials of congress rather than our fellow journalists. at least until those in congress start working for the rest of the american people and not

just the top one percent now let's start watching the hawks. it looks. real good. for the bottom. like you that i got. the. welcomer on the watch for the hawks i am the type of role to talk about this government malfunction earlier today i was joined by senior writer for regular politics ryan good boesky and i started by asking ryan with another government shutdown looming is it now fair to say that we need a massive congressional reboot on both sides of the political aisle here as well ryan had to say what i would say certainly the leadership needs

a reboot i don't know if it's everyone and i have as all of you in congress i really do like i really like thomas massey really tells a gabbert if just me if you will but know this you are in leadership and never probably will be and that's just because leadership has a tendency to protect their own ends that they are and you know that no one no newcomers and. i will say though that i think that when it comes to the spending thing i do think that it probably will make it on the ground a government shutdown i don't think that there's enough democrats who want to go into twenty thousand election year feeling really good in the house and decently ok in the senate being like we shut the government down and for what it's going to be for daca and i think that republicans from what i've heard from my sources inside the white house and from inside the senate the republicans have a deal right now to give some kind of protection to the dock as an exchange to end chain migration and there that deal is there and lindsey. just on n.b.c. forty years ago saying he supports a deal like that and lindsey graham is one of the biggest open borders people mcconnell was saying yesterday lower ingram so i think of their saying it then the

deal has to be there and it's moving progress and follow it forward and if that happens and there's a protection whether be green cards or some form of an amnesty i don't know if there will be the the anger there for claire mccaskill to sit there and shut the government down or for you know joe donnelly little bit anything that gets through those as a why what is it always have to be the last minute you know why do we always have to get a week out why we always have to get to this point and you know i'll bring it up i think you used to work on the hill long time you know i work for a candidate who are kind of campaigners but not saying that they would but look since two thousand and one the house of representatives as average about one hundred thirty eight legislative work days right right seven hundred words you could find this is a year this is after all the year right and new york times in twenty thirteen but found out that the house were nine hundred forty two hours in the entire year right you know i look at that and think of like you know average working class americans

forty hours a week maybe get two weeks off little christmas break holiday break here and there . should we be forcing congress to spend more time together more legislative work days rather than just raising money you know rather than just working the fund raising thing which we know causes problems for both parties well with some of the bad ideas that come out of the white out of congress i'm really happy i don't mean more often because sometimes i could be probably worse but i do think that i mean they don't include times being considered and all the rest of it but at the same exact time should congress be in office more yeah i think that that's why that's why you constantly hear conservatives and people they're saying they shouldn't have these gigantic three week breaks and paul ryan comes up with this and saying you know a list of things he's going to do in one year time but have a month off in between every month it is a little far fetched i think that's probably why you can't get better bills done and i think that's you know even if they had congressional time together where the both parties had to spend time together just talking about things or figuring

things out and there wasn't so much animosity i think maybe that would be better. but as far as what their agenda is i don't know if it's necessarily the time they're spending or who's making the gender in general i just think that right now the leadership especially the republican leadership because that's who is in charge right now just tone deaf like just straight up tone deaf i don't mean they understand what twenty sixteen was about i don't think that the democrats are going to produce democrat leadership or you know from i mean you've got republicans tone deaf you've got democrats told of all they can say is russia russia russia trouble trouble trouble and nothing about any kind of actual plans moving forward what they want to do to make the country better right well you know paul ryan was the koch brothers rally a couple weeks ago and he said and he said next is welfare reform and trump is letting him run which is the biggest mistake in the world welfare reform i don't remember a rally trump how are they said you know welfare reform now they said build a wall had a plan about the student debt reform that would be very popular now what about ordering the fed which trump said he was for what about there's a million small populous bills that would be very popular. right. to try where

people can people who are dying of diseases contrive medications what about you know decriminalizing marijuana not legalizing but just decriminalising it everyone can stand jeff sessions rates so just decriminalise million million little things that really wouldn't matter the american people you know then this gigantic hunt to sit there and change obamacare or to you know find ever the last regulation to change it's just a what a waste of time and with the exception of donald trump and some people inside the administration. almost everyone in congress would still be there doing the same things that hillary clinton or president or of jeb bush for president and that's the problem ultimately is that leadership really does need to change because they are tremendously town deaf and the ideas coming out are just ideological they're not popular not cemented in reality or cemented in what the american people across

out a really do want well let's let's move to another interesting topic which is self policing of congress you know that we got the tax bill we got the shutdown those are the major things everyone is talking about but the other element people are talking about is the sort of sexual harassment allegations that are now getting you know that the me two campaign has now moved in the congress. and they're taking down some pretty big names i mean you've got two more people coming in john forward al franken now for john connor is exactly you know he's now they say hospital reports that he's hospitalized with the stress apparently from the media coverage of oh here we were i need days this year so i don't you know how they know a lot of us all of a sudden you know and now there's another bizarre story about congressman al green who allegedly dated in aid and then blackmailed her with drug addiction you know to keep her quiet i mean this is ridiculous when you hear more of these stories coming out like please you guys you know try to have some semblance of moral responsibility to your job. you know. and there are you know can we really

expect congress to police itself i mean look you look at mt lauer he loses his job you look at all these other people in media they're losing their jobs their stuff yeah rightfully so allegations why is no one stepping down in congress why is no one saying you know what whether true or not i realize now i've tainted my office maybe it's time for me to step back and fix this problem take it back to anthony weiner a couple years ago the man yes flashes parts and he he didn't really and at first he didn't step down for weeks the reason democrats started probably him to step down wasn't because what happened it was because he because he lied to nancy pelosi about it and that will. really the worst part was the lie it wasn't what he actually did there used to be back when boehner was in charge when cantor was in charge they would have a really strong. rule about it where they were pushing they had bad behavior but you know the problem is is that they go home to their districts most voters don't care and most people are most of the opponents are not capable of running

substantial races where they would oust them any less they have the feel they feel the need to sit there and. control themselves or to have a certain standard look at look at really more for perfect example roy moore these two allegations rather than sitting there and because he can get his name with a ballot rather than saying i'm saying i'll run and if i win i will step down but you have to put a person i like in my place which we have he sits there and runs and then doug jones running in alabama the immigrant since there and says let's get transgender kids in the same bathrooms let's have a gun let's have assault weapons ban and he's pro-choice to the third trimester and he wants amnesty for illegals he's running in alabama that's a man not running a serious race right so there is no fear that he is going to win a brand more will probably win in two weeks because the democrats are running a serious campaign because they're more attached ideology and they are to. winning in the state they can win it and the same is true for all of these congressman you

know conner's can go home to detroit and unless there's a democratic narrative there's no republican who can and he's probably got a million dollars in the coffers anyway so he doesn't there's no fear from these people unless there's a real crime like i'm going to show them when you have the party whether you're democrat or republican kind of you know you see you still lot of members of the parties like jumping mediately in defense where you saw with pelosi you saw with roy moore you know everyone kind of jumps into the fence and mischa leaves as oh it's wait and find out yes there is a you know innocent until proven guilty but you have to also look at just the big of the office and say ok even if i'm innocent there's a so this is turned into a circus and we need to get work done. right rather than focus on you know what i've done in my private life right yeah you would you would hope that with roy moore i think the funny thing is as a robot republicans jumped off for a more it was because of the people who already hated him because he was against my column mcconnell attacked me but it wasn't what he did it was because what you tried to use to me it's like look any allegation should be either feel you are saying about it that's ok now what style was the sister of so here i don't know if

that moment you said o.e.m. mistress was one thing that was all that he sat there and said i'll vote for mcconnell vote for his agenda i bet they sat with us out there and said ok give this guy a chance first but because he was against the kamikaze this is our chance to give it up i think that that is a lot look at the commerce conner's all these allegations people in the press saying oh yeah we couldn't take the same elevator some everybody know nancy pelosi says he's an icon in the senate right now the house rather is. as we go to break or quarters don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are coming up former u.s. foreign policy advisor jim drucker ascenders the walks in us to discuss the end of the conflict in syria and what the future holds for the war torn region want a mess of state to watch.

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protracted civil war that has ravaged the middle eastern nations and two thousand and eleven what started as an outgrowth of the arab spring movement mixed with some distinct ethnic and sectarian tensions threaten to turn threaten then turn into a repeat of u.s. led regime change on paro of iraq and libya only to then morph into a prolonged proxy war between the us extremist groups ranging from al-qaeda to isis all kinds of middle eastern power players and russia but six years later and here we finally are at what is hopefully the grand finale multisided conflict that has claimed half a million lives and displaced millions more so as the world's attention begins to noticeably shift to other hot spots we're joined by former u.s. foreign policy adviser jim to evaluate just how far we've come and where the future is likely to take us that you for coming on jim thank you you know i want to ask you first you know i mean i really do kind of see the end of the syrian conflict

within our sights it seems like it might actually be wrapping up and with the recent meeting between president russian president putin and assad in sochi are we finally seeing that war come to an end is there finally a light at the end of this long dark tunnel we've been. in a sense yes there are really two fights going on in syria one is the simple one the government versus the various jihadist groups have been spawned from the outside that fight is coming to an end the government wins such stays in power it's that simple what were unfair. seeing is the beginning of another struggle that is much more complex with the goals all the regional powers it involves the saudis the israelis the syrians the iraqis the iranians the turks the kurds and of course the americans and the russians all with somewhat different calculations as to what this war is really about and that's where we have the potential of donnelly a continuation in a different format on the war in syria and maybe also in iraq but even the prospect

of a wider regional war. let's talk about syria's future what columns that you mentioned about you know the kind of conflict between syria and you know the various groups the syrian government all those various groups. now there you know we do see kind of an end of that coming what what do you think will become of assad of the syrian government will you eventually be you know force that step down really choose a successor will he stay in power what do you see happening i don't think will be forced to step down i think we will see a new constitution there is going to have to be some kind of negotiation and of course in any kind of peace negotiation somebody has to sit on the other side of the table and that's the problem here we know who's on the government side with their essentially two groups were looking at to sit on the the if you will rebel side one is a group actually based in moscow this is political opposition people who can credibly be said not to be terrorists on the other hand how much they really matter on the ground any and all is really an object of speculation then you have the saudi led group who really are a bunch of terrorists there's sexually al-qaeda people who we don't know yet if

that really meant means crown prince mohammed bin solomon is ready to throw in the towel and let them go to the table and in fact how many they're actually even syrians that can credibly be part of the peace negotiation so we don't really know yet who is going to be working out this deal with the government and what that's going and then of course there are the kurds who is the u.s. main u.s. boots on the ground and i think they do have a strong incentive to try to find some arrangement with the government and not to be used as a cat's paw by the americans or anybody else were for other purpose. and they could because the kurds are still looking for their own kind of like area kind of carved out that they can kind of claim to be there oh sure sure well that what they would like is it intense up and stay which is what they thought they were declaring in iraq a couple of months ago and that didn't work out now you know with everything that's happened after so much focus on isis the rescue of the millions of refugees the horrible horrible suffering that that's occurred inside of syria because of this war why are we seeing the same kind of i guess you know why aren't we seeing any

kind of for lack of a better word jubilation from mainstream media and other outlets of look this might be done we're brought almost at that point so she wants to me i haven't really seen any kind of coverage of that no because how would be it in this unit failure list remember the western media has been such a cheerleader for the government policy of supporting these terrorists without disclosing that they're terrorists and have so demonized assad as another hitler and chemical weapons and killing his own own people all the usual stuff we get in these you know atrocity porn for the for these wars it's very hard from the say what you mean that evil horrible person is going to stay in power we've got to do something so i think they want to downplay that so i had and i had also i think that the element of well in a sense the russians won the americans lost when it came to the outcome of this war and they don't want to admit that either but you mentioned there's something more on the horizon in terms of you know kind of a multi nation multi card issuer can you tell us and tell me more about that live

where where do you see it now that you mention saudi arabia share more of syria you know you've got you know everyone stills has issues of the rot in iraq and all that what what what is going to come next on a regional basis there do you think well i think the real the real wildcard right now is how far does saudis the israelis want to go to the mat in their antipathy for iran and how much they are determined to drag the united states into yet another regime change war this time against a much bigger more powerful country than iraq was or even even syria. mohammed bin so mon he seems to be the prime instigator this point in this we get that whole bizarre incident with the the prime minister of lebanon resigning in the not resigning and so forth and whether there is going to be some attempt militarily to it to interdict the so-called land bridge between iran iraq syria and that has been law in in lebanon and also the israeli concerns about not having any has bill all iranian assets based too close to the golan heights and least according to israeli

media the americans have been turned a deaf ear to the israelis concerns and they're actually having to go to moscow to try to get some consideration and again we don't know where this is going to lead and that's really interesting because the next question i want to ask you body has kind of u.s. influence in the region with with this kind of stopping of u.s. regime change tactics in syria. are we seeing a shift away from u.s. influence in the region you see in russia now come in and kind of say ok we were able to help with sabriel to maintain the stability of our government there the u.s. wasn't through proxy able to topple that government there would we see the fallout from iraq and you know the toppling of saddam's government are we potentially seeing a shift away from kind of u.s. influence in the region or is our goal stay just because of israel and saudi arabia we could be and as i say the israelis and even to some extent the saudis are realizing they have to talk to moscow as well i mean that's one of the differences between american and russian diplomacy the russians talk to everybody and we don't

we certainly don't talk to hezbollah for example i if i think there's a sense in which you know look you have a lot of people saying oh this is terrible the russians are taking over the american promise in the middle east but it doesn't seem to occur a lot of people our interests there are far less than those of the russians and just because the saudis have an interest of the israelis have an interest doesn't necessarily make an american interest and this being led around by the nose by client countries that are pursuing their own interests and not looking out for american interests i think has got to add the paradoxes. the trumpet ministration has rhetorical gone one hundred percent on the saudi israeli line but in practice they seem to be somewhat slouching out specially would trump's talk with mr putin recently to say look we need to resolve this i think the wild card still is the current we have thirteen illegal military bases in kurdish controlled syria mr madison sectarian mattresses were staying there obviously it's not directed against

isis because isis is on the ropes so why are we staying there some marketing chip against on the peace settlement that's a good point to make and let me ask you this looking back now you know at the length of this of this conflict there are in everything what do you feel are the biggest were the biggest misconceptions or even misinformation spread during the syrian conflict. that were there a couple things one is all the atrocity claims i think were very very unbalanced in a war like this there are no no clean hands but i think the main thing is that depicting this as a sectarian thing that is that what it may be turning into now is this shiite sunni kind of thing but initially this was essentially a secular it still is a secular national state which was not sectarian a nation in danger but the people trying to overthrow the syrian government wanted to impose a center and they wanted to hardline one hobbist sharia ruled state there and most syrians of whatever religious background don't want that and that includes the majority sunni and i mean the first lady's a sunni most of the generals in the army are sunni's they don't want to live in

a crazy type of state and if it weren't for those people we would not be seeing this victory and of course the russian intervention made it made it made a big difference how do you how do you think when we when you look back yes you know history is always written by the winners but but how do you believe history is going to judge of the syrian conflict looking you know stepping forward say fifty years from now looking back you know how does the syria where as a fall how is history to judge that it's a mess i think reminds me of the old soviet joke that a historian someone who can accurately predict the past because we were. we do have this tendency toward revisionism and there is a lot of lying that's gone on for the last six years that does need to be revised on the other hand how much of that could be written by the same media that have been spewing out all this nonsense for six years i don't know if we will have a real on is accounting of the pros and the cons in the in the in the dirt on all sides that takes place in any kind of war like this can i totally agree with you or word of u.s. foreign policy go next to the middle east i mean i would like your k.

it to change you know syria obviously what they want to go isn't going to work there you know you see these other rapid changes you see you know where you could study israel's kind of reaching out a little bit saudi arabia is now rushing out to the russians where where does u.s. foreign policy go i don't know and that's what that's my concern is that if we still stay locked on to well you know whatever riyadh and jerusalem want and it sounds like trump may move the embassy to jerusalem which will have another impact in the middle east we will not be pursuing our own interests which as i say are rather limited that region if we are willing to take a step back declare victory day i says to see it to eat it that's what mr trump said he wanted let's leave it at that and not try to play kingmaker throughout the region i think we can maybe take a more moderate more reasonable and balanced policy in the region i don't know who are capable of doing that especially when you look at the kind of static you see around mr trump especially of tillerson south and pump ales in that state will say i'm concerned that part of the reason you mention trump is kind of a paradox when it comes to his issues there is

a part of the reason of who is around him and who is in his ear i think it is i think inside president trump there's a tiny little candidate trump fighting to get out who wants to pursue what america first policy but around him he's got people that he put there who were just look they could have been in a jeb bush administration or hillary clinton ministration most of them and you sort of wonder why does he put these people there that he he is by definition going to get a lot of bad options placed in front of it was always kind of and these things got about a minute or so left i want to ask you know what what what's the best thing that you've seen come from this of a you know the what's the best hope that we've seen come out of all. yes well domestically as to when the best hopes is that a lot of americans have become skeptical becoming skeptical of what they hear in the media they don't just believe everything they're told and whatever c.n.n. dishes up maybe the bad news is that the government's taking efforts to make sure they could limit the alternatives that have the you know this the the good news is if we do take the second path that we do take a step back from an attempt to control everything in the region i think we can begin to get

a more normal balanced if you will america first policy that looks at our own narrow interests and doesn't feel that we've got some great mission to undertake on behalf of god a body of a little bit of a driver say do you think is think you know if you so much pleasure. as a as a dedicated ex-pirate fan i must say this next story makes me want to drop everything and head back to school then the university in turkey has unveiled a new course in its curriculum that is causing college age science fiction fans around the world to start rethinking their majors you of all ology and excell politics is now officially being offered at the university according to the dog on the newsagency the purpose of the class is to prepare students for the possibility of extraterrestrial contact newsweek reports that the course will focus not just on practical preparations and galactic diplomacy but also on the purported history of coverups related to alien contact in fact bosley the classes tutor told the media

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