offenses twenty nine percent for drug offenses and nearly twenty one percent for public order offenses they also concluded that women often become involved with the justice system as a result of efforts to cope with life changing challenges such as poverty unemployment and significant physical or behavioral health struggles including those related to past histories of trauma mental illness or substance abuse so if the world looks to america for moral and ethical guidance then why are we in the u.s. telling the world that poor sick victimized and oppressed women don't deserve a fair shot at life. that is a great question i want to look at the report. you listed up the numbers of incarcerated people want to look at that again that was amazing the amount around the world when you really believe it differently that it was the use of the u.s. was two hundred eleven on or no let out as men women incarcerated one hundred seventy five of roger waters and forty four that boggles my mind that many people and certain areas of the world there's

a reason for that in places like brazil and in central and south america there are a lot of. abortion laws or a lot of female reproductive laws that women get to prison for having a miscarriage you understand that there is some really ridiculous laws yes but end up putting women in prison for these nonviolent ridiculous offenses or a lot of it has to do with they didn't couldn't make bond or didn't have the money to get to an appointment with their parole officer and then they're sent back at most the time spent and for misdemeanors for not showing up at a parole violation. in a perfect world you know jailing people would be the last resort but i think what we're seeing both federal and local jails and prisons are increasing the incarceration numbers of violent women offenders and you know we get to the private prison. plays a huge role in that. what's really interesting though having. to reset. the road. i believe me through. an angel called clean start kenya she actually has

the experience of being incarcerated herself and she told the nation magazine the quote it starts with a lack of economic opportunities which pushes these women to the petty survival crimes the broken health system the broken middle system the broken social justice system of any of these poor women fall through any of these cracks the bottom of that chasm is a prison and that someone who's looking out from the time she spent in one area in prison so we're looking at the same issues ultimately at the core and when you look at the women who are in jail we're not talking about serial killers and violent offenders and rapists people that yes ok we will put them in jail because. you bring it up small petty this is really petty stuff that shouldn't be there and what we don't realize is what in effect it has you forget seventy nine percent of women in prison are mothers or mothers with children there's little to no prenatal care

in prisons and if they do have it it's not good in addition pregnant women in most states are shackled during the labor process if they're in prison their children are with the babies or return them twenty four to forty eight hours after they're born and not that they don't have contact with them and because of the cost often of traveling to and having visits it's hard for women to then see their children on top of it most prisons have rules about no touching you can't touch your child even though you know you're doing this this has a long term effect on families eighty six percent of women in jail report having experienced sexual violence in their lifetime these are rape survivors molestation survivors nearly half of all single black and hispanic women possess zero or negative net wealth and those make up the majority of women in prison and i'm black and women are taller it's a low grade it's class this entire system is absolutely racist in classes when you tell me that when the largest number of women are for misdemeanor crimes and they're mostly. latino or hispanic and then they're sitting there in this situation

and getting put in jail for a ridiculous reason i think everybody people got to pay attention to that number of the women the women are being put in jail of a higher rate than men right now that that's the number that needs to change and i think that's a number that needs to be investigated we're going to follow up even more on that in the future on it as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics from cover to facebook and twitter to see our poll shows at r.t. dot com coming up we welcome the one and only had souls in the darkness to discuss what did didn't make it into the state of the union and will congress once again miss their their spending bill deadline states whom are watching the whole.

tricky suspicion to invade northern syria has foreign policy implications far beyond the middle east what our anchors objectives in syria and the region does it to suit table a final peace settlement to syria's proxy civil war and what is turkey's future in nato. the world is getting away from us dollar as well reserve currency the one road one belt policy linking up russia and china is out of the dollar every last trade oil away from the dollar and countries are desperate to get out of the u.s. dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says so here's the treasury secretary trying to make it look like oh it's are there for a lower dollar doesn't really matter what he says the dollar is going lower as we've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is a currency that other countries recognize as funding the wars and the weapons and the poverty that they're trying to escape.

president trump state of the union may have been heavy on the picture perfect moments and memorable soundbites painted in all this thunderous applause and hewas a chance many things did happen to go on set and on notice trump was quick to throw out impressive manufacturing and jobs numbers to multiple standing ovation and his surrogates took to the airwaves almost instantly to chastise the congressional black caucus for not uploaded applauding his triumphant announcement of a decline in african-american unemployment but what is the economic reality underlying all this self-congratulatory pomp are we really had for a new economic golden age were called will once again reign supreme and crumbling factories of the rust belt will help us annihilate the trade deficit much like we will annihilate the illegal immigration problem president obama's promise to close guantanamo corporate tax rates for a sobering look at what we can and cannot count on and that gamut of threats and

pronouncements we are joined today by none other than at her how are you that are you real nice to see you always a pleasure and always i want to start we all watched the view covered it brilliantly here on r t the state of the union but what in your opinion did was left out you know it was a dirty little secret in all of this wonderful economy and it is really good you have to admit the meat into stock market you've got people's retirements you've got for a one k.'s you've got the education fund for young kids i mean families are building in the stock market if they're in it now here's the bad news with the tax cut health care costs are going up and the president the only thing you talked about in the state of the union was the mandate what's the rest of the story because insurance rates are going to go up dramatically in two thousand and eighteen and now the republicans own it they've done one move on health care and it hasn't been a good one so are they going to let this sit by the road. as road kill are they

going to pick up the mantle and do something about it and so this advantage of the tax cut that these middle class families are going to get that they're talking about that's going to get wiped out by the increases in health care coverage if they decide to buy it and buy get into the market on it so that's what he didn't talk about the next phase of health care and what they're going to do for all these people that he said he was going to let die in the streets right on the campaign trail and there were some other things left out but i thought that that was the most glaring put i would agree because of that i think that's one of the you know health care we all can say it was a cornerstone of his going away oh it was you know he didn't get so far the one the one thing that i notice is this idea of manufacturing jobs and bringing them back and my home state of wisconsin is one of those that's been trying to get more manufacturing of some kind back into the state so the big part a core part of trump's economic message was that he's bringing all of these jobs back and revitalizing it but more and more what we're seeing are headlines pointing out that this manufacturing companies are actually looking ahead to automating

their factory floors and that has to leave myself wondering for the people of wisconsin and for other states to see these are are the are two out of work americans really getting as sweet of a deal as trump is sounding them go it's interesting today the president talked about vocational training he talked about bricklayers you know which i found very interesting he wants to build a lot of stuff ok i got it and those are good paying jobs because those trades are hard to find right now go try to hire a plumber for your home i mean there are these are now very valuable jobs at much more than what they used to be because people have gotten away from the trade so. the as far as a manufacturing is concerned steel aluminum rubber glass electronics you know there's going to be a certain level of automation that's going to seep into that but people still have to run them. still have to be highly trained i was just amazed at some of the

things that i've heard in the steel industry about how the the how they have to make sure that they mix the steel properly per ton and what they're producing in the quality of it which is far better than what the chinese are putting out right now so america does have a great story to tell and those jobs are still going to be they're not as plentiful but they're still going to be there and most of the reduction in the industries that i've talked about has been because china and south korea they have done state sponsored type of formula of an economy to compete against the free market in the united states in the w t o formula for going after those trade agreements has been to slow yeah and that was one of the things is that what china did not reason they got like the i phone was that they had spent years educating people in those trades or getting people to that point and the concern i think a lot of people have is will these days when you have companies like foxconn that

are coming in are they going to get the best deal are states giving away too much in tax incentives just to get them here but then ultimately won't they have to because you said a lack of skills want they end up having to hire a lot of out of state people to cover those jobs are out of country you know you never go wrong by investing in education and i think that education in this country is going to see. a tremendous revolution over the next twenty years there's going to be more home schooling that's going to be going on there's going to be more internet technology there's not going to be the big school centers we can't said kids in school anymore because they get shot every day i mean this is there is a game i don't want to stand there have this going on i really think there is going to be a real revolution in the way we teach our kids in this country but investing in education is something i don't think the country can ever get away from because there is going to be tremendous competition and one of the slain trades yesterday.

and one of the factors that the president is pushing now pretty hard is only give us your best. merrit immigration. meritorious status to get into the country and i think that's that's going to be a big debate but yeah huge debate another interesting thing speaking of debates is next week february eighth is the next double line for the for the petard they've got to get that spending bill passed by then and you know meanwhile the deadline to pass doco is also approaching that's what marcia. do you think trump and congress are going to actually reach some sort of grand bargain by the by next week with roberts that probably not probably not on and they're not going to get a deal done in seventeen days and that window is cut sharp now we're not very far from february eighth and then of course the big deadline on it is march fifth of that got to do something by then but i think that it didn't wear very well with the american people certainly all of the republicans are going to vote for a continuing resolution will there be ten democrats probably will because they were

politically injured it's going to be hard for them to come back with a positive narrative to the american people i think we've all got the message on docket the president certainly has it and he's thrown out a plan for pillars take it or leave it this is where we are it's a negotiating point i think it's in it would be good measure on the part of the democrats to go ahead and give the president a good solid chunk of the wall if you're going to get dhaka i mean i would i might add these people of color are never going to forget the fact that the democrats never gave up the fight why would you give that to the republicans and i think that schumer and palosi are way off on their narrative with the american people right now they are totally following everything from does they are way too focused on this memo talk instead of what muller just do what he does and stop trying to poison the well every time i talk about medicare medicaid social security you ask the question what they didn't talk about in the state of the union no talk of medicare medicaid social security. this is huge to millions of americans they want

to know if the next move by the republicans is going to be depravity to privatized all of those things that's a great thing to bring up because of the fact that you're talking about the entire generation of baby boomers is now facing that right now well yeah but even future generations we're not saving in america nobody can those who can't can't and those who should be saving for the future aren't you know it's one of those things that kind of drops in both ways do you think that the democrats will ever started get off this it is really instruction asked at this point they're not you know they were doing half of it to make ways to end positive things on one side and the other side was obstructing it makes sense but it seems they've just given up which are narrative to the country that's what i want to ask the democrats what's your narrative to the country and i think chuck schumer in new york and. in california ok the democrats are going to win those two states we're going to do with the other forty a big truck in the middle of the country you know when the democrats were strong

with dick gephardt was from missouri when tom daschle was from south dakota yeah ok when they had leadership from the middle of the country now the republicans who they have on their leadership team the food from south dakota right ok they connect with the middle of the country that's the way the map is it's going to be hard to break into that you better start talking to these folks about jobs you better have the democrats better start talking to him about their future instead of keep pounding on these red herrings about well the best thing we can do is hope for the russian investigation so we can impeach trump that's not a plan for america no it's not for a plan for the democratic party you know it's you know very well it's also with. the. mention of at the top of the show but you know mr bengazi himself trey gowdy announced that he's walking away from the game which which was kind of shocking but it's also i've seen that happening a lot more from people who were expecting like gowdy and all that. thirty five

members are slated to leave politics or potentially run for a different office is that a reflection of a rougher political climate these days in print or do these people know something we don't well know they casting out slick you know who wants to stay in a lousy job when you can go do something else you know all of these congressional members come in and they get visibility they get a pretty good paycheck they can set themselves up for a better job later on now you mentioned trey gowdy gallies a very talented guy in fact in fact i think he's probably one of the best legal minds in congress and the republicans refer to him a lot from the house and the senate and i think he's an honest broker i do and he's got judiciary experience in the past working at the justice area i think he's going to go back to that he can had an awful lot to it i think he's one of the very few in congress that hasn't been given partisan comments about all of these investigations he's very focused on the facts i think it's unfortunate that he's leaving and i know he went after benghazi but maybe he didn't go after benghazi not

because look at all these e-mails of look at look at what the f.b.i. was doing with the e-mail investigation and all of the discrepancies that are there so the point made today by the speaker was that this is what congress does it takes them time to get to the root of the peg of the whole deal but eventually they're going to get there and normally these investigations take well beyond a year year and a half sometimes two years we'll let you know the night is so what's going to i know we're a long way from november but it is going to be the economy if if there's a dip in the market and then it comes back the republicans are going to say see if those tax cuts that really work for you but the democrats are going to have to get a narrative on health care and protecting the big three most of what you had always a pleasure to have a young man to be with it and also to have the house. it has widely believed that human beings migrated from the african continent between about one. hundred thirty

thousand and one hundred fifteen thousand years ago but a new discovery of ancient three hundred eighty five thousand year old stone tools in india has made anthropologists rethink the entire time line of the development of technology in the us sharma center for heritage education in india has spent the last two decades collecting and analyzing seventy two hundred various stone tools found along the creek in southern india and say that of southern indian state of tom would not do what they discovered was that these sophisticated tools carp from course indicated that modern humans were in india thousands of years before we thought they were and while it doesn't change the theory behind me out of africa hypothesis it does mean that our human ancestors in india were far more advanced a lot earlier than we thought the fact of fossils and bones are rarely found india near the size makes proving the theory difficult but it does mean that india has a story just under the surface about her history and the history of humankind just

waiting to be discovered that it was still true today remember everyone in this world without all the love develops and so you all love you. and on top of a lot of people watching those talks of a great story and. joining me at this post on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see that. i don't.

think it's a. yes justice department secured a warrant to spy on donald trump's republican campaign using a highly dubious report paid for by the democrats a unique classified memo claims. the memo was sent to congress it was declassified lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that . coming up this hour the world anti doping agency saying is it seriously concerned with a decision by sports talk or to overturn life time olympic bombings and twenty eight russian updates also ahead. a man. five migrants are shot and dozens more injured in a mosque brawl out

a food bank in the french border city of cali a number of residents we've heard from tell us they're living in fear. i think we need a structure put in place to protect this there's a lot of delinquency here it's a catastrophe for the french and especially for the people of the violence is really damaging. just after one in the afternoon in delhi is seven pm in dublin. and on ten at night here in moscow wherever you're tuning in from this hour hello and welcome we begin with breaking news the controversial congressional memo that's been stealing the headlines in recent weeks has not been released after receiving approval from the u.s. president it accuses the f.b.i. and the justice department of securing a warrant to spy on donald trump's presidential campaign based on verified claims

in the trump russia steel dossier which was paid for by the democrats i think it's terrible if you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on in a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than. yeah there was a lot of anticipation in the build up to this memo being released it has now been released and has been looking through it for the past hour or so callup the revelations in the memo what it what are you taking from this what's the main points from it. well if you take a look at the four page memo that there was so much anticipation of you'll be coming across some rather interesting facts now the christopher steel dossier this

was the basis on which the f.b.i. acquired their warrant under the foreign intelligence surveillance act their warrant to wiretap members of the trumpet campaign that was based on the infamous steel dossier from christopher steel now we also know that before they received a warrant some on the basis of it the f.b.i. referred to the document the f.b.i. chief said that it was so laces and unverified furthermore the f.b.i. was aware that the d.n.c. and the hillary clinton foundation paid roughly one hundred sixty thousand dollars for this deal dossier to christopher steele they knew it was paid for by the d.n.c. but they did not mention that in their applications for a warrant from pfizer courts furthermore. steele was only working for the democrats christopher steele was a long time paid f.b.i. informant he'd been working with the f.b.i. he was considered to be an f.b.i. source and that apartment of justice knew that the f.b.i.

had and the department of justice in the f.b.i. were well aware of the fact that christopher steele had an agenda against tromp was quite biased they still used to report furthermore we know that the deputy attorney general bruce or his wife was actually hired by fusion g.p.s. the firm that the democrats hired in order to get this information on trump so essentially this document points to the fact there was a great deal of what appears to be collusion between the clinton campaign and the f.b.i. and department of justice two entities that are essentially supposed to be bipartisan enforcers of u.s. law it appears according to this document or at least it's purported in this document that they were working to prevent the election of donald trump it wasn't certain old kalib up this memo would actually be released at all was that you had a lot of people a lot of organizations staking their claim saying that it should not be. yes we heard many calls from many prominent figures for this document to remain

classified they wanted this four pages to be not in the perspective and not available to the american public remember nancy pelosi the leader of the democrats in the u.s. house of representatives said that releasing this document which is now fully public would somehow be a threat to the national security of the united states this is a nancy pelosi the intelligence is that it's the cia the d.n.a. at the end. national defense everybody has their element of it and so it is in methods must be protected now as the debate about the releasing of the memo escalated russia most certainly came into the picture there was a letter that was sent to the owners of twitter and facebook urging them to investigate the role of russian bots or possible russian bots in the hash tag release the memo furthermore we even saw an escalation of this rhetoric with allegations that devin noon is the chair of the house intelligence committee was

himself a russian agent let's take a listen to some of what was said. is it possible that the republican chairman of the house intel committee has been compromised by the russians as a possible nuclear threat or russian agents running the house intel committee on the republican side i hope that's not the case i mean this is behavior speak of that though i mean i'm not the first person who's raised this he's behaving like someone who's been compromised now the document is available to the public and across washington d.c. various sources and various individuals various high ranking people are reacting to its content a lot of questions are being raised we heard the earlier comments from trump about people being ashamed of themselves a lot a lot of reactions to the release of this four page memo that has been unclassified and now reveals the activities or the alleged activities of the f.b.i. and the department of justice to the u.s. public artie's killam i've been bringing us all that information live from new york

but indeed let's get some reaction is kind of was saying because i'm very happy to say about calling romney former f.b.i. agent herself and whistleblower joins us live on the program calling always a pleasure what do you make of the memo here they you are initial reactions to what you see is the key revelations. well i i was shocked by the conflict of interest that existed before these four successive fice applications including an associate you know high level attorney in the department of justice whose wife worked for fusion and in fact was part of the gathering of information by studio i think that that's a serious conflict of in of conflict of interests we already care the conflict of interest for instance of the people that are claiming to know about investigate the so-called russia gate who go back now and you find out that these were the same officials who signed off on the success if i say applications even if you get some

benefit of the guy to the f.b.i. on that first application in october of two thousand and sixteen the questions remains why would they have continued for three more ninety day period when they had already terminated christie all as a source for having gone to the media and just as an aside if you remember october of two thousand and sixteen when this first fice application would have been presented to a feisty judge again with less than complete information about who christie all was as their source but back in october none of the media that crystal was trying to peddle this story to be tried in no other media but he only really was successful with mother jones david corn that was the only reporter who actually thought it was even read of all and yet the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. thought it was credible enough to to actually go for ninety day periods of

surveillance on this carter page. you know the big question calling in the build up to this was always going to be does it show that the powers that be those who hold the power in the f.b.i. on the justice department were biased against the trump campaign your thoughts on the. well there's indications that that they were because bruce or was already aware that christie said he would try to do anything to keep our trump from being elected obviously people shared. views with struck in page and we know their tax the only way we would actually get to the bottom of this by the way would be to examine more of the communications between the teams that were investigating the only reason we know struck in page's bias was because they were having an extramarital affair and essentially got investigated by the i g but really if you think about being at this point there really should be some

examination of all of the other players here the other the other department of justice officials who signed off on those five say applications they really should examine this further they should also look at whether this steel dosia i think this is the number one question that remains how much did the steel go see a in that that kind of salacious bogus information how much of it has ever been verified we don't know how much did that play into the intelligence community's assessments that russia was colluding in october and in january of two thousand and seventeen we're already seeing a lot of reaction of course from democrats who are coming out all cylinders firing basically belittling what's come out of the report the consequences all vis what are they going to be do you think well we we could hope the consequences would be more of a public demand for more and from a.