thousands of missing text messages sent by f.b.i. employees they were sent at the height of the agency's probe into the alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election some of the exchanges that was seen raise serious questions about anti trump bias within the f.b.i. from washington now here's samir khan. months of text messages between two f.b.i. staffers linked to the trump of russia propane have gone missing one of the agents is peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa paige a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple payment to prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country

from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. ascribed the dates lost to misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning and saw for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i. his collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame of these text messages december fourteenth twenty sixteenth roommates seventeen twenty seventy and when did muller's investigation into prussian blue should start oh look may seventeenth twenty seventeen surprisingly convenient the timing is just too coincidental seems that they were trying to plant the evidence somehow as an insurance policy thinking that trump had no way of getting elected and then when he did scrambling in order

to try to stop the election or to create the necessity of an impeachment of trump they were conspiring inside the f.b.i. to figure out how to catch trump on some sort of you know criminal activity having a russian connection russian money laundering. being involved with in the room in the russian drum collusion of which they've provided zero evidence. the disappearance of crucial data is not uncommon in the u.s. intelligence community the n.s.a. recently revealed it accidentally or a surveillance information to simply free up space on its hard drives the data was related to the presidential surveillance program p.s.p. which included warrantless wiretapping during george w. bush's time in office the n.s.a. was ordered to preserve the information by a court as it was deemed important to a number of pending lawsuits. the b.s.p. internets count and it matched criteria that were broadly used to delete dead of

a certain type in response to mission requirements to free up space and improve performance of the backup system the n.s.a. has no reason to believe at this time that the continent data was specifically targeted for deletion. russia's defense minister has revealed that moscow is in talks with several nations ever the purchase of a state of the art russian missile defense system. has been ill internationally it is described as one of the best air defense systems in the world with a range of about four hundred kilometers and the ability to hit as many as eight hundred targets at the same time traveling at a speed of up to five kilometers a second i was going to say hour but no second and perhaps that's what explains the demand also russia is using the as four hundred in syria words job is to act as a shield for the russian army units in the country so let's take

a look at the system in action. it tell me which nations are interested in this the russian army's top man didn't specify although he mentioned the regions some countries in the middle east and also in southeast asia that wasn't the only sort of say teaser that came from the russian defense minister what he said was that whenever he's in talks with. other army bosses from the other countries there is always some discussion about

potential contracts to buy some of russia's best defense tech so if we are to believe him soon we are meant to find out who's next to get the f. four hundred mention the word next must mean that russia has already sold some of these defense systems well for example turkey has already god contract and i'll tell you what when these papers were of saw and it was big news this is what adds to spice to the story think about it turkey is a nato member and a key ally of the us in the region and it chooses russian made air defense systems to keep their skies safe someone else whose military my is all but dependent on america is saudi arabia and a few months ago the saudis and the russians agreed on a deal to purchase the system as well china is getting it india too so let's see if

the next customer proves to be a surprise. to me is however apple it has witnessed a mass brawl between turks and kurds as tensions flare overtake his military incursion into northern syria we'll have the details after this break. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the sixties. the only show i go out of my way to launch you know is the really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of our two year marriage is doing the same we are apparently better than. to see people you've never heard of love jackson night president of the world bank so very. seriously send us an e-mail.

welcome back to the program turkey's continuing military campaign against the kurdish militias in northern syria is causing tensions to flare as far afield as germany on choose day pro kurdish activists protesting next to the turkish airlines task at hand over airport and it up clashing with turkish passengers almost two hundred people were involved in the brawl which was broken up by police using pepper spray. i hate i.

was. was i a when i. was. when i was i found by one thing. anchor began its latest military operation against the syrian kurdish fighters at the end of last week if you use them as terrorists and is concerned about their growing consolidation of power in northern syria political commentator about the childish tell us that washington let's take a clear position on the hostilities and how the two sides work towards a solution close with find themselves progress against the might of turkey as we have see they are fortunate the scenes from frankfurt and probably other places

could actually spill over effect europe a few people who see far away it's very very hard actually to the american foreign policy at the moment first the americans have to explain to the allies of the world so the world what is the least raji and the policy bonds to which. do the will actually to have a peaceful settlement in syria. keep the. the political dignity of suv yes addition the state as this one would and number two do they actually want to end the conflict and seek peace while. one of the largest consulting firms in the world ernst and young has been accused of multiple illegal dealings a former employee who says he was fired for revealing the allegation to close the accounting giant is involved in bribery money laundering and the cover up of illicit gold purchases from conflicts and donna has. the details of the story

hidden in the court papers filed by this auditor against his ex bosses could be one of the grandest smuggling scams greed money laundering and back door dealings measured in billions of dollars. is accusing one of the world's biggest audit ing firms of covering up the tracks over dubai precious metals megacorp act one. ernst and young for an audit inspectors come to dubai and the first thing they see is a pile of moroccan gold buyers casually bundled up on a desk stacks of gold at a gold refinery could be business as usual except these buyers are literally painted silver in order to sneak them into dubai four to five tons of gold gold bars coated silver smuggled old to more cool arriving in dubai declared as gold when the team found the discussed it with with colucci the admitted this is the

way of doing business with the with these moral consult lawyers inspectors do some more digging and what they reveal brings us to act two some of the precious metal in colossi scoffers could be blood gold shuffling through papers auditor's discover the refinery was more than happy to shake hands with small mining operations in sudan and the democratic republic of congo apparently colossi asked for no licenses offering cash in hand in exchange for gold proceeds from search sales and conflict torn countries are known to directly fuel gang wars which are responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths soldiers naam group leaders see in control of the gold mines is a way to money guns and power for forty share the ruthlessly of them targeting civilians in the process so ernst and young employees calm through colossus cash transactions that's when we get to act three apparently the company deals in cash almost as much as in conventional. bank transfers that's billions of dollars go

into a legal black hole impossible to trace so the auditor's diligently record every failure of the dubai giant but there's no pat on the back for them from the boss we requested a meeting with the babies to get it or when they realized that we're not going to alter our findings or change them they went ahead and. changed their own guidelines in such a way that our findings and or for their conclusions will not be made public ernst and young have denied allegations they were in cahoots with the group the dubai refinery is still in business saying there's been no material impact on their ability to operate or trade i'm just really high on the man who led the team and expose the alleged wrongdoings says the audit enjoy and branded him a troublemaker and sacked him so is blowing the whistle a noble thing or just a falls here and in this saga it's left up to the court. and of r.t.

. it turns out a north korean pop star who was thought to have been executed is now going to lead her country's delegation at the upcoming winter olympics and it's not the first time there's been confusion over the well being of high profile figures from that part of the world.

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god i'm going to hold. my. ratings in the salutations well thankfully after a weekend of federal government shutdown we are still standing here in the united states of dysfunction at noon on monday the shutdown ended not with a great bang but with a whimper of a vote to once again kick the federal funding can down the road for another three weeks or so presumably so the democrats republicans can better honed their blame game skills and further perfect their abject irresponsibility towards their jobs and us citizen. senate minority leader chuck schumer announced monday that after

several discussions offers and counteroffers the republican leader and i have come to an arrangement we will vote today to reopen the government to continue negotiating a global agreement. sorry charles but you can't put enough polish on this latest congressional debacle because it is and will always be a permanent staying on the linoleum countertop that is us politics sadly my friends the stains are many and frankly guests are really starting to take notice and stage right the twenty eight thousand idle men trust barometer published just in time for the world economic forum's meeting in davos switzerland by the idle and global communications marketing for i don't trust barometer in case you haven't guessed by now measures the public's trust in various institutions and governments and according to their latest then you will port report trust in the us has suffered

the largest ever recorded drop in these surveys history among the general population and even more outstanding is the trust among the informed public in the us imploded plunging twenty three points making it now the lowest of the twenty eight countries surveyed. so let us thank our illustrious democrats and republicans for destroying our faith in a working government and forcing us all to start watching the whole. thing. it looks like. we. ask you to pull out of it. like you know that i got. this.

week so. welcome everybody to watching the harks i am i robot and i am however the while i'm in the shutdown yes the shutdown has finally ended we've got to it was epic we didn't know if the sky was going to follow what things were going to explode if seven eleven wouldn't be open or what other horrible catastrophe would befall on our seven eleven will be opened because unlike the government when you work at seven eleven you don't get to just shut the story down because you don't like. the price of thing i like that i like a little crazy tabloid they put another stop gap which i think is their fifty five keeping track for coming up to this but they put another stopgap in basically just to keep the government funded to just do their job was that some simple goal i know this stopgap ends of feb i believe eighth and you know after the latest circus you

know doc biting and chip and like all these things are fighting over is there any hope for the united states congress to actually get their act together do you have hope to have with the congress will one day act like congress and do things not with this congress no third. on you show they should all just be like liquid prize from the moving boxes and stuff and just little like guides to moving they should just start moving and getting their offices backed up because they're not going to make it through and they're not selections like over there there's no they're not doing any work and i'm not the only person who thinks that the this is a matter of trust can you do the job will you have results well we're seeing no results and this isn't just for one year this is for four years eight years twelve years sixteen years this isn't new and that's what the item and survey actually according to the report you have no country saw steep declines in the united states you had

a thirty seven aggregate point aggregate drop in trust along across all american institutions and at the opposite end of the spectrum you have china that experienced a twenty seven point gain more than any other country so here is this you know the big scary communist china that's going to take over the whole world they literally have more trust their people have more trust that's incredible that's a great if when it's an interesting group or here's a democracy it doesn't it shouldn't be that hard to earn the trust of people if you believe in what you're saying then the people will believe in it but that's the problem our politicians don't believe what they say they just i don't think so i mean chuckle schumer i think you know people could say oh he's such a smart strategist and he's brilliant at what he does and then to me his strategy is just kind of failure after failure after failure at least actually doing the good of the people the same of the republican side because the rise i mean it's out of point i'm sorry everybody hates congress because congress doesn't do their job well the c.e.o. of big adelman richard the c.e.o.

who produced the study actually. he called this lack of trust in the government the ultimate irony because when you think about it all we've heard about is how unemployment is down and the stock market is so great. and this is where you see that huge chasm between the a leaves and the rest of the country this is why you had the election we had because they don't realize that nobody who is the one percent cares about the stock market because it doesn't change what our what our paychecks look like it doesn't change how much you know your mom or your grandma or whoever has to buy milk it doesn't change that you have to pay your rent you're not going to magically just because all the stock market's doing great you have it doesn't affect most people don't have their money in the stock market tragically you know going to aruba they don't judge it but yeah i mean it's like you know look you've got people like star mortgage going crazy more hours every day people are excited more about bitcoin certainly are about to start morgan at the end of the

day that's a very it's this disconnect yourself what is there with the big way the reason that people like it is that politicians can have their hands on it going to hell is at some point you have to just say trust in the media is going to trust and trust in our institutions it isn't trust in the institutions as they stand it's the people who are running i could and that's why certain systems don't work because you've had person after person after all it's just we've been we've got our money stolen we've been spied upon we've you know wall street bailed out there you know we have whistleblowers being thrown in jail there is no public trust in government because government has not earned our trust you know and that's what they are missing they just assume hey i get the job people automatically trust me no you get the job if you actually have to do the work of the people not the lobbyists and the people pulling your strings. for decades teenagers have climbed water towers car service tried to drink a gallon of milk eight ghost peppers and generally did incredibly stupid things to

gain acceptance or amusement of their peers the tired pod challenge is the latest teen stunt to terrify adults and the media these alondra pods of small packets made out of dissolvable jelly containing concentrated laundry detergent are meant. for convenience but their colorful appearance has allegedly caused an epidemic of children and teens eating the laundry pods and dying or has it according to the current headlines there's no doubt that something must be done to end the scourge teens even longer progs for fun their children mistaking them for candy senator chuck we must investigate snorkeled chocolate schumer has been on the laundry pod case since two thousand and twelve when he made this claim at an official press conference saying quote these taz were supposed to make law household chores easier not tempt our children to swallow harmful chemicals i saw one on my staffers desk and i wanted to do it. and quit says twenty files procter and gamble the company

behind tied pas has added a bitter tasting but non toxic coating to the outside for the pods to deter children for biting into that they've added additional lots of the containers and are educating the public on how to keep them out of the hands of toddlers but according to the american association of poison control centers in two thousand and seventeen more calls came in regarding hand sanitizer toothpaste deodorant mouthwash more than the laundry pozen fact the calls which were mostly regarding children under five and over half of which aren't even related to an actual ingestion has gone down fourteen percent since twenty fifth. so pearl collectors is asking that was the lending that corporations and the government become our de facto nanny is really the best use of our fragile democracies. well now we know why the government is in this race because good old chuckle schumer apparently has been more interested in whether people laundry pods. or double chocolate really is this

is this how far we fall and that it's it's congress's job to think about these things i'm sorry when i was growing up. you know we had iron metal playgrounds we had things that actually hurt us and you know the classic george carlin routine of little johnny swallows the marble then the other little kids realize if we shouldn't swallow more abuse. that's kind of what i got to lose darwinism child rearing it's very interesting we have mystery yes kids too there's this idea i mean you think there should be something you can't just say like oh who cares you know of course i mean there should be some sort of safety measures but is it really is this a huge problem that we need to have story after story and all of these politicians talking about bills to protect the children what because their parents don't want to parent if you're right i mean i'm sorry if teenagers on you tube want to eat stupid things for clicks and then they get hurt and go to the emergency room everybody watches that and says hey i don't want to eat that because i'm going to

go to the emergency care you know now it's sort of strange. that well there was an there was a study actually in the journal pediatrics and ages one to three accounted for seventy two percent of cleaning products to little babies a poisoning so there's more time on these cleaning household products forty percent of those poisonings came from cleaners in spray bottles so tie let me ask why are we regulating spray bottles that's a good question you shouldn't say that too loud this close to capitol hill we might start seeing them suddenly be like oh my gosh spray bottles we have to go regulate that you know i mean of course you put your you put labels on it and all that but i think it's just because it's like you know hey this is a new fangled fancy thing that you know these things of have only come out like these positive a little recently so it was i mean the funny thing that people say like they've never been around but this washer have made it for a long time and you know back in our day we had the entire bread out of the box with a season to have our.