credit for eliminating isis and he seemed to have hinted at continued military presence in the region saying quote we will continue our fight until isis has defeated he ended it with north korea calling it the worst of all dictatorships warning that their pursuit of nuclear weapons could very soon threaten our homeland even though d p r k has never attacked another country before north korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland past experience has taught us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation i will not repeat the mistakes of past administrations that got us into this very dangerous position while russia and china have been trying to reduce tensions between the u.s. and north korea and they even called on the u.s. to provoke them anymore but somehow they were designated as threats and from speech around the world we face rogue regimes terrorist groups and rivals like china and

russia that challenge our interests our economy and our values in confronting these horrible dangers we know that weakness is the surest path to conflict and match power is the surest means to our true and great defense i was just a watching mainstream coverage earlier in the only criticism they had well these foreign policy wise was that he was apparently too soft on russia. that's not close live to our guest patrick heading saying executive editor of twenty first century wired dot com thank you for joining us on r.t. international mr headings the now in the state of union address mentioned china and russia as rivals who challenge american values and interests why they're taking such a harsh rhetoric against moscow and beijing. i think it's important for

donald trump that there's some concessions that he needs from people within his party who quite frankly want to see him go and the democratic side the house and senate as well so he does still have to make some concessions and make some dog whistle noises to the neo conservatives for instance and you know the united states requires to have major enemies to justify the seven hundred billion dollars defense budget which is actually one point one trillion if you break it down in reality and talk of expanding the defense budget and over the next two years to officially a trillion which would probably be more like one point three trillion in reality so these are all important noises for the president to make the state of the union to sort of shore up support from the defense bloc as it were. that china has already responded to transfer moch saying they reflect cold war thinking would you agree

that the president's address was quite aggressive. i think from a chinese to that perspective yes it does ring a bit cold war ish to russia however we're beyond cold in terms of the cold war the rhetoric is much more aggressive much more pursuit for us the agenda is much more pernicious even when the cold war was happening between the u.s. and the soviet union and it's become a centerpiece of u.s. partisan politics the whole russia gate issue unsurprisingly chuck used his address to promote his america first message once again saying the u.s. should maintain its troops overseas to fight terrorists is not quite a shift from his presidential campaign promise that america would no longer be the policeman of the world. yes it might appear to be but this president has made a number of departures. all of his campaign promises more or less in terms of

foreign policy in terms of domestic he's he's very much on track with a number of items he's doing exactly what he said he was going to do but in terms of foreign policy i think the neoconservative war hawking elements have managed to get control and surround this president the the military the generals james mattis and so forth and this interest group and the companies which they essentially represent are definitely steering the president's overall tone of the foreign policy that's evident in madison is national defense strategy and the united states' national security strategy papers over the last two months patrick henningsen executive editor of twenty first century why dot com thank you for your time. it was a common aussie international hackers claim a canadian champion's positive doping test was covered up ahead of rio twenty six. well you after this break.

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i've always said it's a bank circular that's the primary use of bitcoin. welcome back now the russian hacking group is claiming the canadian olympic committee covered up its national poll vote champion testing positive for doping prior to the rio olympics. joins us in the studio with the details now so what are they claiming to have dug up here the activists have found an email exchange and it is supposedly between the people from the canadian olympic committee and also on another canadian sport fourteen which is responsible for sport ethics in the country and the emails reveal some of what allegedly was happening behind the scenes of canadian sport

around the rio olympics and you won't be impressed because it looked like attempts to play down an anti-doping rule violation and also. quickly. trying to do some quirky damage control so here's the athlete to the center. well it's all about the case of former hold champion shawn barber in prior to the olympics he tested positive for cocaine but instead of being thrown out of the olympics after several and tarnal disciplinary proceedings and cat of the for the pole vaulter was allowed to go moreover for a while this case was hidden from the international olympic committee the c o c was not permitted to disclose sean sue wish and prior to or during the games we do not condone this behavior sean has apologized for his mistake and poor judgment

. now for a moment just think about the treatment that the russian athletes have been getting all this time and listen to how sean barber was cleared basically what he did was claimed that some hearings that he had ingested cold came during a sexual act with a woman he called a professional woman plus barbour apologized so canadian sports authorities were happy to let him go and keep the i.o.c. in the dark about this but by the way just for your information a few months after the olympics barber came out as gay and said that he's proud of it i would assume the i.o.c. would treat this very very seriously today not well i can tell you that first of all when they found out it was too late to do something about it because the olympics were already over but there were some people within the international

olympic committee that weren't so happy with what was going on president thomas bach allegedly called the ruling a decision influenced by national interest in the meantime if we go back to the e-mails canadian top sports officials were allegedly doing their best to make sure that this case doesn't get any other attention whatsoever including legal attention it does not seem bright that this is being suggested publicly one of the independent process determines the athlete was no folds in this case what are the fan the i.o.c. had the right to appeal the decision at the time a number of them did. so the warning as you can see is suggesting that anyone who's asking questions or anyone who's somewhat concerned about this case is there when something wrong and this is the point where i want to go back to the decisions that are being made about the russian both in rio now ahead of the winter olympic games

in young chang and i guess this is what we may refer to as to double standards absolutely highlighting some very serious or double standards there thank you for those details let's go. israeli legal activists have filed a lawsuit against two new zealanders one of whom is jewish herself and that's because they apparently influenced pop star lot to cancel her tell of even gig let's get the details now from artie's paula paula good to see you can you from is there on the details how did all this come about when late last year the new zealand pop star norwood announce that she was canceling a performance that she was scheduled to have given here in tel aviv in june of this year now it seems as if her announcement was made following an open publication of a call by two new zealanders urging her to boycott the country lord posted her

response on her twitter feed. noted in speaking with many people about this and considering our options thank you for advocating me i am learning all the time to. now israeli activists are suing those two new zealanders in what appears to be the first lawsuit filed under a controversial israeli and he boycott law the law goes back to two thousand and eleven and it could open the door to civil lawsuits against those calling for a boycott of israel including of lands occupied if it can be proven that that call knowingly in aid to a boycott knol the law is part of the israeli government's way to try and deal with the boycott sanctions and disinvestment movement that has been growing traction against israel in recent years it does allow the courts to impose damages against defendants now critics of the law of course argue that it stifles freedom of speech

and freedom of expression. polis lire live from tel aviv thank you for those details paula when a countdown is well under way for russia's presidential election in march the incumbent lived in a putin is running for what would be his fourth term two parties the right wing l.d.p. on the more liberal leaning yabloko fielding the same candidates as before planted a zhirinovsky as grigori you have been scary there are also some new faces at russia's communist party is now represented by poker dean and known as the strawberry king thanks to his collective farms and then those eggs t.v. hosts any assault chap who says that a vote for her is a vote against everyone aussies works on a boyko sat down with a. i want to show people russia that there is another point of view this is the goal of my compay i know you can't win on the elections where only putin always wins but in

himself on many occasions that russia needs more competition both political but he never gives if. you know all the facts you are so subtle i don't hear forty two years i'm just a little blonde girl you know coming from going to shows and how to balance with me . i've never said that a president should be you know one field expert. of the only good way for us is along the way i know that many people want to foster change but change only happens as a revolution i am against. i want to educate people i want to bring them truth and i want together all their problems to make them federal it's the same old russian paternalism waiting for the officials to fix the problem don't you think that you are essentially playing the very same kremlin

tactic no i'm not i am the change people want to see. to northwestern iraq now where u.s. led coalition as strike has reportedly hit civilians and local police instead of terrorists the incident took place on found today reports suggest at least eight people were killed and twenty injured here's what i witness has told us. you have to say ok when we ride by car to find people killed or wounded the officer carried a wounded woman and laid her down in the car that same car was hit by a missile killed fifteen seconds later they opened fire on the people and their houses with a machine gun shortly after this missile hit a police car and officers were killed. oh.

iraqi officials confirms they called for a u.s. led air strike but insist it was to target a terrorist cell but u.s. military command also says that's how things unfolded is that an investigation is underway. iraqi security forces conducted a raid and apprehended a high value dash leader during extraction of the dash later a dash member reportedly initiated an exchange of ground fire and iraqi leaders called for coalition air support several people were killed and wounded during the exchange and the incident is under investigation by iraqi and coalition officials the coalition operates by permission and in direct coordination with the government of iraq and its security forces the head of the iraqi security and defense committee called on the government to adopt measures to restraint the u.s. led coalition's actions in iraq. back at the top of the hour the latest headlines are theater.

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hello and welcome to crossfire we're all things considered. the release the memo moment is upon us republicans are billing it as some kind of silver bullet revealing political corruption at the highest levels of the department of justice

and f.b.i. the democrats on the other hand and their supporters in the liberal media distraction . finally the public will decide. to cross knocking released the memo i'm joined by my guest lee stranahan in washington he's an investigative journalist and a co-host for faultlines on radio sputnik also in washington we have james chatteris he's a former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership and in los angeles we cross the goodman he's a columnist and journalist published in the huffington post salon the hill and other publications right gentlemen cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate a.j. as usual you got up early as for the program god bless you glad to have you with us all right we have our heads beginning to roll we have enjoyed mccabe out.

rosenstein next then who else and talk about the state of denial in the liberal media go ahead ha it's good to see you again it's great to be here well the obama white house illegally spied on trump since two thousand and fifteen this is according to the guardian. q was sending information to the u.s. intelligence community community about trump associates this is before the alleged russian hacking of the d.n.c. this is before all the facebook posts apparently gave swing states to try and this is before the russian hacking narrative. there is no crime that trump is said to have committed so they've been spying on trump illegally susan rice on mask names illegally and they tried to find information on trump associates even though donald trump has never been accused of a crime and he's not the subject of a crime they haven't found any evidence and it's been since two thousand and fifteen the mulla probe is completely partisan and it was

a result of james comey squeezy memos. russia never interfered in the election to the point of giving the election to anyone what took place was it was a one point two billion dollar loss from hillary clinton and to cover up the loss we know that there was an insurance policy so peter struck in the text messages stated well i spoke to andrew mccabe and now mccabe is out. and we can't we can't. question whether or not we have to have an insurance policy if in the event that trump wins then you have speedo struck ok all right. ha you got a lot of material right there let me go to james here i mean ha's got it down cold here the facts here but james i mean the fact of the matter is that we're going to actually see what's behind the curtain here how the obama justice department and f.b.i.

operated as they went through the election cycle this is the real scandal here because if you look at all of these things peter struck at his girlfriend and all these things with andy's office and all that there's nothing about russia they're absolutely zip but go ahead james. that's have sure a little really right what we're really talking about i think the key word here is conspiracy there was a conspiracy with and organs of the of the federal government particularly the f.b.i. i understand there's some reference to the cia in this memo as well we'll have to see if it's in there or not but i think if you look at the hysteria with which the democrats have been opposing release of this memo and also the distraction that the media has been pursuing to take away the attention of this memo if you go to the three networks or m s n b c or or c.n.n. they don't lead with talk about this memo they talk about trump once thought about firing miller it's the saturday massacre all over again it's attempt to deflect deflect from the real news which is this thing which i expect in short order we

will see what's what and i think i do think some other heads will roll you know just because you know it's interesting you know the non news event is news i mean what kind of world are they living and i know what kind of way actually they live in a very intellectually corrupted moral world that's what i think here in a legal you had christopher ray came out of his office and kind of wandered up i guess it was to the capitol and he looked at this memo here and reports say that he was surprised or shocked i don't remember the exact world word why in the world. the head of the f.b.i. surprised about material that the deal way in the f.b.i. gave to congress i have to wonder what's going on with the head of the f.b.i. if he is shocked and we all are in a very worrisome place here go ahead lee well let's talk about the real problem here the problem is not rogue agents the problem is institutional the problem is i'll use the term deep state you could also call it the persistent state it is not

a shock at all that the cia is involved in this because the fact is whoever is in the white house whoever is in congress there is a persistent group of people who stay from administration to administration it's an unelected fourth branch of government and that's what's happening this is an institutional thing and whatever you think of donald trump whatever you think of his policies i don't trump supporter but if you don't like him. it doesn't make any difference he was clearly an outsider who deep state the persistent state was very very worried about and part of that apparatus is also the media i cover a lot of white house press briefings let's flash back to last spring over and over and over again i was in that room in the white house press briefing room when trump came out and said that i was that trump tower that was wiretapped he said it remember that the media activism he was a crazy person and it was five days of questioning and i remember every media

outlet was tag team each other a us this all asked that now cut to the last week i was in three briefings last week at the white house and i was there the first time a question was asked about releasing this memo i had sat through a number of briefings it already been on social media right and it had already been out by the way why was it on social media because over one hundred republican congressmen looked at it it's not russian box one hundred republican congressman look at something and go we think this should come out it's going to resonate through particularly republican social media so part of it is going on in years cannot eat meat when you need to cover it up that well yeah because they're complicit in ha i mean this is this is about i'm not i'm going to say watching m s n b c and c.n.n. and they're terrified of this memo i mean watching them go blue in the face but what about national security what about what about this some salt i mean they don't

even want i mean i thought sunshine was the best cure here i mean not that was an old liberal mantra at least way i was growing up ok i mean they want to continue to live in darkness where they bring the public with them every single night go ahead a.j. well there's a reason why fusion g.p.s. and buzz feed are being sued by three russian bankers an entrepreneur i think trumps lawyers suing fusion g.p.s. . the trump russia does see a was. nonsense and it was a fantasy maybe bill clinton's fantasy who knows it was complete and utter nonsense gossip hearsay derived from russian sources so so the collusion is actually the d.n.c. and hillary clinton purchasing the dust for around nine million dollars in fees to the law firm that clinton used. the congress should ask for an itemized report to find out how much was actually paid for this nonsense used for feisal war

and so that's what. the memo it's all about that's what we're getting all about. gossip and hearsay being used. you just mentioned. you just mentioned going to james here you remember when the quote unquote trump dot ca russia does ca came out how everybody wanted to shop it around after buzz feed let it go everybody wanted to shop and look at did look at that l mazing amazing of course they were a bunch of fools they didn't even know what they were reading i read it and thought this is ridiculous on the get go but when it comes to a memo about information that the d.o.j. in the f.b.i. have cole a did and made available to these investigations these committees here liberal media doesn't want to say a word about it except for it will be a danger to national security you know what the liberal media is a danger to national security go ahead james that's right and that's why i'm reserving my let's say excitement and celebration over the release of this memo

when it comes out it's going to be a silver bullet to shut this down yes i think some of the cancer may be cut out of the bureaucracy and maybe some of it won't be my concern is that it is fundamental purpose to make sure there could be no rapprochement with moscow that relations would stay very bad unfortunately i think it's largely succeeded in that purpose i have people who are defending trump referring to the steel memo for example say and it's full of russian dirt and putin's propaganda and we have no way of knowing where this british spook got this or how reliable sources were how much of this was just made up because they were getting paid your client wants dirt will give you dirt well but the russian bad narrative has been so entrenched now i'm not sure how we get it out you know that's good that leave that's interest that's a very interesting well and i agree with them completely because they die it's been cast on that element there ok across the board you can there if you question it to your viewer you're a. useful idiot but the interesting thing also that well you know the media the i

mean everything on hold or the other side though is that we see the level of. corruption at the highest echelons of a law enforcement so you get the worst best worst possible award worlds here go ahead legal jump in well here's what it is this is a dissin from ation operation against russia period that's what this is and you can't have a descent from a sion operation by only going to one side know what you've been talking about the liberal media again i'm a republican. supporter and i used to work as a lead investigative reporter for breitbart let me say this breitbart has been just as bad on this issue and the right conservative media this is why i say this is a distant from asian operation about russia that succeeded not just because the left media the new york times washington post m s n b c and so on but because the right media with stories like the uranium one story for instance which demonizes russia which i.