well oversight. well let's stop watch which. you. would know what you look like real that this would. lead to the bottom. line with the like you know i got. with. the deal. with. the world number one the hard science i rolled with the top of the wallace. i should never ever ever be shocked by anything that comes out of the administration when it comes to the intelligence community or any administration the intelligence community as we've seen over the years we're going to i got to ask you how bad has things gotten when when members of trump's circle

are now advising him to consider the alternate version of the social intelligence agency a privatized version of the central intelligence agency to counter the actions of like clinton supporters or deep state members in the cia that are going against him . you know what every president has had to deal since there was a deep state or an intelligence community and that they started putting and you know barriers between the interface so that there was checks and balances and the president just didn't use everything as as his own up until this point his own sort of candy store it's it's almost as if they have no concept of what's actually going on in their departments when you're literally sitting there having an entire administration go it's lame that they're being mean to the president not pushing an agenda guess what that's literally not what they're supposed to do they are supposed to push back on things that you do and make sure that they're covered they aren't supposed to just be there as a as a candy store for you to go in and be like here just through all these in

a staff. these people and do this but we'll do it privately you know great the drunken before and out of his own pocket and then he can deal with the legal ramifications but according to sources one of the proposals would involve hiring the am going to work. which is erik prince's new for this new eric prince thing they want to hire them for millions of dollars to set up a large intelligence network and run counter terrorist propaganda. i think that means are going videos for the internet. so that's exactly who it's this is a private company whose officials and employees are full of veterans of u.s. covert wars in the reagan area. contra affair and recent actions in iraq and i get these are not nice people these are people who quite literally have it least every

single one on one occasion has ended up in court on on the possibility of war crimes or war crimes adjacent. and who are some of these well known when i know who one of the items that he bought on to kind of help pitch this apparently is all over north from raleigh from the iran contra scandal you know he. according to scale and then he was brought in to kind of lend credibility that might help sell the efforts to the white house i think as you said is going to because this is ari nor odio no longer represents the last it's so bizarre because north following north actually represents the last time a president used like a shadow we grew from the cia you know the regular administration basically use north to set up. the secret unit to wage a covert war against nicaragua back in the eighty's despite congress saying that the administration could not spend any money on military intervention in the in the civil war of the central america in the one nine hundred dollar was there was the

iran contra rather than it was selling arms to help out the contras and like all of that almost was thrown in jail for it got pardoned later on i believe you know you see this over and over again now but what's interesting is everybody is denying this everyone is all across the board americans everybody denying yeah erik prince actually said and in emails to the intercept he said that unequivocal you stated that i have zero to do with any such effort and saying that i do would be categorically false knowingly publishing false information exposes you just have a legal action the only effort i've quite publicly pitched is an alternative to afghanistan oh gosh you wouldn't believe all the north american friends and you know the worst thing is. you know they're also going to cover too because national security council spokesman michael ensign told c.n.n. told c.n.n. that the white house does not and would not support such a proposal and could find no evidence that this ever came to their attention of anyone at the n.s.c.

or white house at all so we will just have to hold our breath and find out if this is going to actually be something true. or this is all just you know the rumors of the capitol hill in the white house these days. after tabulating the online votes of their reader poll time magazine finally announced its person of the year however this year it was neither a person nor a winner of the reader's poll that took home the honor the honor went to the me to movement the cover and put it ashley judd taylor swift susan fowler who exposed the sexism and over a woman using a pseudonym with a magazine says is quote a woman from mexico who works picking strawberries and adamah it with a campaign lobbyist for visa credit cards and the organizer of a campaign in california to expose sexual harassment in politics and i almost forgot the mysterious cropped elbow on the cover it's not a mistake it's a provocative artistic choice see it's supposed to symbolize the millions of women

who suffer from sexual harassment and assault in silence which is a great idea but there's nothing really provocative about the fact that the every woman on the cover in that elbow is white whereas by the way rose mcgowan who is abuser sent spies after her asia argento who had to flee the country after speaking out were in the world is gretchen carlson who took down roger ailes they didn't even include the woman who created the me to movement decade ago to radha burke missing is lupita nyong'o the only woman zurich years r.v. weinstein and who took some of the most vile abuse from his team for it where is e.s.p.n. firebrand or actual and feminist warrior leslie jones. so really i wonder how they managed to sidestep the winner of the reader's poll that's right he knew what feminist mail of the middle east crown prince of saudi arabia oh

. yeah the guy allows women to drive allows them to drive and he gets twenty six percent of the vote really time everything didn't even list him in the runners up who were like donald trump. robert muller kimbra xion calling capper dick and patty jenkins it's as if the reader poll never really happened or maybe as often is the case the crown prince will get his cover in the middle east and women around the world will again see a glaring example of the hypocrisy of gender a man who bombed and starved a nation gets praised while a woman of color who spent a decade fighting for all of us to be able to speak out is relegated to the sidelines and that ladies and gentlemen is why we cannot rely on the mainstream media whether private or publicly funded to protect us to speak truth to us and to hold our abusers accountable and that over the walls is

a great point because it goes back to that big problem anytime you have a great political movement especially in the west in the home of capitalism cover was and takes it over corporatism takes it over and says hey we're going to put on the people that can sell the magazine cover the best you know put those folks in there not taking away from those who put those folks on there rather than who should be right. in this situation not relegated to the inside pages of the website . but who decides to make the decision that of all the people to put on the cover you put. three rich what three rich white women and. a lobbyist and a white elbow and the i mean i'm sorry but taylor swift does not get to be on not shouldn't be on the cover it's not that she didn't do anything for women this year but rose mcgowan the woman who star you know creative work these are people who should have been front and center why a lobbyist why this person and

a white elbow seems ok and i cannot fathom how anyone would believe the suddenly believe that we're like hey great the oh the prince of saudi arabia you just totally turned things around yeah that was one of the big things to the see him get this like lopsided are alive those were militants who are said beating out white cop or nick and everybody you know they are going to do one or two or five percent he gets like four times more than anybody else i'll say it do i smell box i mean what. everyone talks about but it's all the time of smoke. and i just mean it's weird for them to have announced it the way they did but he did when the readers paul and then just i mean i was so happy the need to move with the person of the i was theirs and i'm not and like i said already getting away from the good work that the people are going to do no one's trying to say that no no no you know but there again this is that thing of like there's there's better people in the movement that maybe aren't as popular or as you know politically and culturally friendly you know

but yeah there's that out right there and here's my thing about you know the prince . i mean there first of all the person of the year for time over the past in the past has been people it's like they never put controversial people you know adolf hitler was there person of here you know in one nine hundred thirty eight stalin in thirty nine and forty two back to us all and. khrushchev of the seven and then the ayatollah khomeini in one nine hundred seventy nine so it's not always like good people or people who think but this is a person who is not the prince is not prince is not a moderate his not awoke feminists he's just reportedly taking a billion dollar bribe to let corruptors go free so i don't know how i should feel that the voters picked on the women. yeah it is a shocking it's pretty girls i. think it's a very odd behavior every year will give them one right yes that's true maybe they

can do better. let's go oh say one thing for sure and since this a professor of history at yale had written a really great washington post piece and she made this point about why this whole thing why you know the princes it is a little odd even in those western governments and media outlets sing his praises the young crown prince is viewed domestically as in comp as an incompetent and corrupt ruler who hides behind liberalism tolerance and anti-corruption rhetoric so . all right ok now as we go to break card watchers told forget to let us know what you think of the topic for governor i'm facebook and twitter see our poll shows our two dot com coming up with oakum for waxman and girls back with all of the hawks just to discuss parts of battle for the declaration drusilla has become a real deal collusion on capitol hill stay tuned for.

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a move that some political shock waves across the foreign policy world present donald trump announced in a white house ceremony that the u.s. government will finally abide by the jerusalem embassy act of one thousand nine hundred five by moving the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem and officially recognizing the israeli government's claim to the historic city as its capital but filling a major campaign promise long sought by both the religious right as well as the neo conservative wing of the republican party the announcement sparked an immediate wave of condemnations from many world leaders ranging from majority muslim nations western europe and even pope francis himself but what does this decision really mean for the people of israel and palestine and how will it affect the future of the middle east to answer these questions and more we're joined first today by max blumenthal senior writer at alternative welcome max good to be with you goes the floods are back so this is unprecedented amazing day we're seeing snow i will get there are lots of those are just as you know present from decisions about as well

as all a lot of time with the get the most media coverage like we saw to be a wall to wall off an end up not being the impact for unprecedented. well i want you where you are does this particular movie stand out to you in its significance will this have impact will this be a prosecutor will this actually kind of live up to a lot about hype that they're given i mean this is going to have massive impact on the ground throughout the region you know trump is poured fuel on the simmering flames and you know what he has done first of all we have to recognize is really the culmination of decades of bipartisan pandering to the pro israel lobby and israeli meddling to subvert american foreign policy you can go back to one thousand nine hundred two two when bill clinton on the campaign trail attacked george h.w. bush for refusing to declare israel the cat to do declare jerusalem as israel's capital then in one thousand nine hundred five both houses both chambers of congress passed the jerusalem embassy act a man being the and the c.b.

relocated from tel aviv to jerusalem and bill clinton refuses to sign it because he recognizes the kind of impact it would have on the ground barack obama in two thousand and declares that a pack in an active just shameless pandering that dirt jerusalem was the undivided capital of israel and so what trump has done is use this bipartisan pandering as precedent for an actual decision which will have serious ramifications the first of which is to discount and finally discredit the united states as a broker in the middle east process the peace process the second ramification is to take the corpse of the dead peace process to more bun peace process and put it in the incinerator once and for all which means the consolidation of recognition that israel is operating a singular unitary apartheid regime from the river to the sea and this will have implications across the globe. one of the things that we were just talking about

saudi arabia and part of that the thought. lots around that are that some sort of deal might have been made between jared and the trumpet ministration and saudi arabia about this before it's happening and i don't think any of them will care two bits about what actually happens to people on the ground so i'm wondering since you have been on the ground you spent time there what are the immediate effects that people will first of all you're right that there has there is a very special relationship between jarryd been so mine and the saudi crown prince mohammed cushion are there basically interchangeable figures came along with benjamin netanyahu you have this axis from trump to riyadh to jerusalem and you've seen the israelis and saudis moving closer than ever before so what they're trying to do with this move is to basically eliminate the palestinian national movement just push the palestinian people aside so they can join together on what really

unites them which is this camp this belligerent bellicose campaign against iran this obsession with iran but first they have to take care of the palestinians on the ground you have to recognize there are three hundred thousand palestinians in east jerusalem thirty six percent of the population they only receive fifteen percent of the services their entire neighborhoods in jerusalem that receive no services while its residents pay taxes to the jerusalem municipality so this is a consolidation of apartheid but more disturbingly what it will do is send a message to jewish israelis and jewish settlers that is true salaam is theirs palestinians do not belong there and it will intensify the kind of vigilante violence we've seen that can really heat things up on the ground i want to bring in . the director of these two nurses of middle east. i want to ask you to move from you know recognizing jerusalem to the capital of israel in regards to

prime minister netanyahu your brace to this announcement as a victory for israel. but is the rust of israel's political world united are. aware of solidified. or could it ultimately hurt. well certainly there was a domestic consensus in israel out in paper all recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital that is something that really across the board and costs all the major political parties is over the exception of the joining our list there is support for but i don't think this is really going to do a whole lot to improve. his domestic situation he's facing multiple indictments concerning two action allegations he's. been waiting for some time on israel is there isn't so he might get a very temporary domestic political boost from this but i think it's ultimately not going to really save his political fortunes in the long. interesting max let me ask

you this even even as a lot of as we've seen a ton of political and religious leaders around the world condemning the decision we've also seen a lot of people in the israeli media are reporting reporting that moral get several governments privately are saying that they will move their embassies as well that they will go along with this what do you see this as a the first domino to drop or do you think that's what's going to happen that something is going to move all these embassies and why is that so didn't like what what do you gain from doing well you know first of all we have to look at the domestic base that trump is appealing to here sheldon adelson one of his largest donors has demanded a move of the embassy steve bannon was that a judge roy moore rally in alabama where he said jerusalem is the capital and christian zionists and timers in the crowd who really represent trump's hard core base were you know cheering just getting really excited about that announcement so

this is what it's about even though and i think doug pointed this out on twitter fifty three percent of americans actually oppose this move. we hear verbal condemnations from the e.u. verbal condemnations from jordan pathetic milk mealy mouth statements from saudi arabia which could care less about the palestinians and you know whether or not they move their embassy to jerusalem what they are failing to do is impose any costs on israel any consequences for a move like this which does away with the peace process that these governments of claim to care about for so long it would require actually sanctioning israel imposing costs on people who do business in companies that do business with the settlements refusing to resupply israel militarily and none of these governments will do it so they're just paying lip service and then in that sense it's a it you know they're sort of complying don't let me ask you you know what do you feel is going to be you know coming off of what do you feel is going to be the ultimate impact you know in your research in your studies you've done in the middle

east and i mean israel what do you feel is going to be the ultimate impact on this long term well i think it's a knockout blow to the united states his credibility as a quote unquote honest broker the peace process i think for some time people are raising questions about whether the united states was really an effective mediator in the peace process and of course raising questions about whether they even was trying it worthwhile trying to resurrect this peace process so i think this will let me deepen a palestinian skepticism about. the intentions of the trumpet ministration the it be that trumps peace initiative. peace initiative is likely to be dead on arrival if. palestinian president mahmoud abbas follows through with what he's talking about which is essentially something we're going to have students with not take any longer taking what those palestinians come to be is really

a waste of time and i think any way something undermines calloused interest so i think. the peace process was already tense instead but what. they thought was true that. we got about two minutes left to get a minute from each of you if i can but let me ask you this you know we've seen now all the accusations about you know collusion with russia and like all of the things going on there between the trump you know administrator here but when you look at like you know the movements that have made recently and what came light of what the michael you know the michael flynn accusations and all that what he pled to looks like there's more collusion between like saudi arabia and israel with the trump campaign as you mentioned earlier the maximum them with russia. you have today's announcement you know deep deep do you think the at and the news about you know. you know you mentioned that the peace movement probably going to work out but do you feel there's more of a collusion on that side of things than. with russia. well i certainly suspect that

behind the scenes the saudis have been involved in this type of would be very very surprised if the saudis weren't informed before and i think the saudi public reaction today is really just paying lip service and having the boy stopped after meeting with question of the saudis basically quote i could have possibly had and essentially told him what the terms of the trumpet ministrations peace initiative would be and that had no choice but to accept those jobs or they'd find another palestinian leader who would do so so i'm certainly i think there was a lot of. suspicion here that this may be the prevailing to some sort of u.s. saudi plan peace plan and a peace which may involve essentially trying to force the palestinians to give up any claim to the situation and i think that would be completely unacceptable to the palestinians and to much of the international community but given the maverick

behavior if you like of the saudi crown prince and his somewhat legless foreign policy in the middle. this would be in keeping with lots of marks are pretty yeah i think that israel and saudi arabia have defined trumps policy towards the middle east in these policies that implications across the globe so of course these are the sources of real influence within the trump administration but more broadly throughout washington and we've seen chuck schumer the senate minority leader the chief democrat in the congress say that he actually urged donald trump to make this announcement discharges schumer is you know heavily funded by the pro israel lobby so this goes this problem goes well beyond donald trump and beyond that it really highlights the importance of civil society initiatives like the boycott divestment and sanctions movement which really at this point is the only means to exert pressure on israel to roll back its seventy year campaign of apartheid against

palestinians the peace process is over the united states as a broker is finished and we're now looking at a new chapter in the middle east no no merrick's i got to say thank you very much max blumenthal senior writer at ultimate thank you for coming five president of waxman director of northeastern university's middle east center thank you so much for coming on a bit giving us your thoughts on this highly highly interesting subject all right everybody about is our show for you today number everyone in this world we are about told we are loved so i tell you all i love you i am a robot to tap and while its people watch your most hawks in every great day and night but. whenever you buy russian product. you are not just getting excellent quality. television as well.

israeli forces respond with porter cannon to gas to mass protests in the west bank following president trump's move to recognize jerusalem as the capital of his right . no one knows what will happen the dangerous days are coming to jerusalem the u.s. president makes a statement on the israeli citizens will need to pay the price for it also to come this hour russia and the united states top diplomats to discuss syria ukraine and north korea is they met on the sidelines of a security conference and the cryptocurrency bitcoin spikes at eighteen thousand

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