you know we can all agree on that so you know at the end of the day shouldn't we be rethinking that foreign policy i mean from did run on kind of hey we need to pull back and do this less and you know in order to stop creating this kind of animosity we're going to come home and do it to us. could there be more analyzing of that and a half step back i would agree with you on that but donald trump also run on letting the military deal with the military knows how to to and that take out enemies and right now those are terrorists and so i think donald trump might be getting too much freedom and trust in those commanders and what they want to do because after all i mean that's what they do they go to war and they take out the enemy and so maybe pulling those reins back a little bit might be a good idea to reassess that but you know that's something we'll have to look at in the future and hopefully there can be bipartisan support for that look at us both agreeing on that topic i like that ok i like seeing that when that happens you know it's interesting because because it's that's why dialog is key over just yelling

and debate all the time that you see on the other channel that is key which is the view quickly but very quickly but has the republican party drifted over to know you've been trying to change you've been trying to get them to change have you seen any of that change in what you're trying to do over there change from what just just a little bit of time to just making it a little bit less of the kind of corporate type of mass that the republican party was before donald room. yep and i mean did you see the stating it all those you know chants usa and clapping for donald trump i mean what was it like the most i'm standing ovations in the state of the union or close to it so i think he is warning them over he's showing them that conservatives kill when conservative principles can win as long as they're going to know how to talk to the people i don't get i mean does the c.e.o. he does with these policies are a lot when mccain over but he is one of the salad thank you so much for coming out and talking with us thank you. as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let

us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that r t v dot com coming up the controversial topics keep on brewing as our overstrong stone talks the olympic doping scandal with david wallechinsky the president of the international society of the olympic historians stay tuned for watching the hawks. despite the history. of the sport. this is not about the lives of those from. the battle for. this. group is. for you if you were the first. nine hundred fifty two with the polluted seats of

concentration camp prisoners and from soldiers sort of. a much. more money. through. your bush. you know when you're at the ocean wouldn't you think you're there with the workers. in the with. the u.s. is losing into a number one the climate denying is precluding them from the dissipating in this new economy number one and number two the effects of climate change and why the catastrophes the global you know migrants that are the result of it all this other

problems are hurting the u.s. economy on the other side of the trade so you've got a double by. treating in sports is nothing to laugh about just like everything else in our lives it tends to be politicized to no end to the patriots for example who drew the nation's ire

of this past week and thanks in no small part to their history deflating footballs and looking for corners to cut or we could even look inside the white house where the president's favorite pastime is fueled numerous investigation investigate about lives analyzing his integrity at the game of golf but for the biggest of what a cheating story turned political drama look no further than this year's winter olympics in south korea where the athletes from russia will not be allowed. to compete this week under their nation's flag a decision officially made to punish the country for what the i.o.c. alleges a government sponsored doping program but that many critics see as a political attack in tune with the new cold war policies emanating from washington d.c. sean stone recently sat down with david wallechinsky president of the international society of olympic historians to hear his take on the scandal. they would keep these up at us and what is the recent decision been they got in russia's

participation in this year's winter olympics the international olympic committee following several reports in the clear in report. the oswald report the schmidt report. and russia russian athletes from competing at this year's winter olympics. but only banned certain athletes and they banned the flag the russian flag and the russian national anthem but they're allowing in more than one hundred fifty russian athletes to compete has a limp dick athletes of russia oh they are the fourteen they call them now and then we just had this decision there were forty three athletes who had been totally banned by the international olympic committee. they appealed them to what's called the court of arbitration for sport c.a.'s they are the ultimate decision making body in the world of sport not just the olympics and c.a.'s distance

declared that eleven of those athletes they upheld the ban but the other twenty eight they said there was insufficient evidence they said this is not to say that these twenty eight athletes are innocent but that we could not come up with the actual evidence linking them with the state sponsored doping skied that took place in russia and what does that mean exactly that russian athletes participate from russia but they don't represent russia how does that work good question i mean they you know since they can have the word russia on that are their outfits but they can't be the official russian colors that these different colors. it's kind of. a lot of people look at the international community as being wishy washy for trying to come up with a compromise to not punish clean russian athletes. and then they did punish a couple of the officials hard core so it's it'll be weird it's an odd

compromise. as a historian do you think that russia actually should be banned as a whole for this year's olympics even the athletes who weren't caught doping i thought that the international in the community should have banned all russian athletes from the pinch on winter olympics even the clean ones because even though it's not their fault. the message you're sending is you can cheat and get away with it. and unfortunately that appears to be even more the case with the court of arbitration for sport. decision so you know sometimes people different people learn different lessons in the united states so when we have the watergate i mean you know hearings. some of us learned while united states is a good justice is cision system but other people learned oh we can cheat better

and so i'm afraid that that's what happened with this this russian doping situation they were guilty in the orders and the system was created from the top down and except for not being able to use the flag and national anthem. they pretty much got away with it but it's an interesting conundrum and we've seen so many of the big athletes who've been caught after the fact that the gold medalists like marion jones and carl lewis. marion jones is a very interesting case because she never felt the doping test ever and yet she was guilty and the only reason it came out was that there was a criminal case in the united states against it was called the bulk of case and which she was proven to have perjured herself and in the course of that investigation she admitted that she had taken steroids and her medals were taken away from her but she had passed every doping test you've ever taken which is the

frustrating thing with the docking system right now what's interesting to me is that more americans have actually been caught belting at the olympics than russians that to say that more americans are actually doping the russians but as some doctors would put it everyone is doping so doesn't that just prove that inforce meant doesn't work. what's interesting about the enforcement is that there is a good step was taken which is that the international committee now keeps the doping samples for ten years so that as as testing equipment improves you could have retroactive. disqualifications which is what you had now with the beijing olympics and the london olympics they they passed the test at the time for many different countries and then to retest in ten years later or nine years later and they fail and so this is like a warning to athletes and their trainers who want to dope you can get away with it the day of the olympics but down the line you may lose it so i think that was that

appeared to be a good sign. but again when you have a very complicated cheating system such as the russian government used replacing pool you know going to because what the russian russian system did they picked out like three dozen athletes and said you're probably going to do well in sochi give us a clean sample. now they give the clean samples they hide them away freezer and then they started giving them a cocktail they call that the duchess cocktail and i which combined. steroids with alcohol i actually found the most amusing detail was that this duchess cocktail for the men the steroids were mixed with vodka for the women they were mixed with their move so the athletes actually didn't have much choice and if you read

carefully the mclaren report they make it clear we are not blaming any of the laboratory workers because it was clear that if they didn't cooperate they'd lose their job and so the mclaren record in the international and committee said that we want to punish the people on top not the people on the bottom but the athletes took these drugs and it's technically a complicated case and what's interesting about the decision the just happen is that. eleven athletes were disqualified because we don't know because they haven't released the actual details of why why some were disqualified why some weren't. that'll come in coming days presumably but apparently there was excess salt. in the tested.

samples in which you die if you had that much salt so in the eleven of them they passed the other twenty eight they could not find access samples and the russian laboratories would not allow access. to their samples inside the laboratory so the world anti-doping agency was not able to to follow through on that and that's why these twenty eight got away with it was interesting to me is in this new documentary by brian fogle ikarus he documents of experiences with doping under russia's chief scientist gregory cough and what's ironic is that brian doesn't get better as a cyclist as a result of using these p.e.d.'s his performance actually drops off in the previous year so isn't there maybe a wrong assumption that p.d.'s are always in to give you an advantage absolutely i mean you still just because you're taking steroids doesn't mean you're going to be better used to have to train you still have to be better than everybody else it's

not like you just automatically going to get it. and you have to be good on the day of the event. and you know the way that in the filmmaker is and in others used you stop taking the drugs at a certain point. and what they tried to do with the sochi olympics was to by replacing the. dirty samples with clean ones it allowed them to keep taking the steroids later including during the olympics. but yeah you know you can't just take steroids and sit back in your chair and are going to be a great athlete in the work that way and you know the argument that is often used in track and field weight with them is the trainer the doctor will say to the athlete if you don't take steroids you'll be the only one in the final who isn't going to lose and this is an old argument that goes back way way way way back in

the history of human beings before they were steroids you know we're going to give you a raw egg and sherry and you're going to be better than everybody else you know but they go ok coach as i do it you know what's going to the history of the substance abuse issue at the olympics you know the 1980's were a bonanza one nine hundred eighty was considered the chemical lympics but i think sixty eight was the first year that they really started tracking substance abuse and b.d.'s well of the one nine hundred sixty it was when they first started testing in the olympics for drugs i mean if you can go back to one thousand know for you know thomas hicks who won the gold medal in the marathon you see photograph of him afterwards. like this well they'd been giving him strychnine in brandy throughout the race and at that time that was legal but i you know you don't want to take a lot of strychnine and brandy ever much less when you're running you know twenty six miles but so this idea of unhandsome is gone on forever whatever and make you

a better athlete and it wasn't until the sixty's that they won't wait a minute we we need to start testing. the problem was that. you know it was easy to infiltrate particularly by the east germans infiltrated the system they were part of the deal. commission they saw the way the tests work they brought all the information back and they devised ways to get around it. this weekend hours before the big game hundreds of protesters took to the streets of minneapolis minnesota the take a knee and solidarity with n.f.l. player collin capper nick and to speak out against police brutality and of the shadow of football's biggest day and while many take a knee artist fabio williams aka the occasional superstar puts paint to stone cement and brick to address the tensions and perceptions surrounding civil rights and race in the united states today williams uses his artistry to create stunning new rules of contemporary and historic civil rights icons throughout the streets of

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republicans i don't feel. lonely and welcome to crossfire or all things considered i'm peter lavelle the memo has come and gone but this controversy is far from over the political bias of the deep state has been revealed and the illegal activities exposed if anyone will be held responsible. crosstalk in the memo i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor all of which is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have she is

a political analyst we spoke nick international our german cross-talk rose in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want i was appreciate we're going to talk about this is kind of a post-mortem here might be a very long winded but then son fold here let me just give real quickly for our viewers here six takeaways most important take away from the memo that was recently released by the g.o.p. regarding pfizer war. criminals intelligence committee hillary clinton and the d.n.c. hired foreign spy to concoct a fake dossier on from. the clinton campaign in the d.n.c. gave fake dossier to obama d.o.j. and f.b.i. the department of justice and f.b.i. knew that the dossier was fake and politically motivated the department of justice and the f.b.i. present fake dossier to face a court to. it trying to wiretap we're talking about a page in this case the d.o.j. in the f.b.i. don't tell the pfizer court that the darcy is fake and from trump's political opponent and the face of court. defrauded into ordering wiretapping the trump

campaign again page here. this is victor this is devastating ok devastating there is well six smoking guns at the very least and from what i understand this is i hate using the term tip of the iceberg but what. the intelligence community made available through the the white house was approximately ten percent there's a lot of underlying evidence that can be released that was based on these six points look at the irony of the situation and the american intelligence community accused russia of interfering in the election process in the united states while in the aleksey there is not a single fact. there is no beast there is no factual basis for seeing that at all russia did nothing to fear the american actions but the american intelligence community there was a case certainly directly interfered eagerly institutionally interfered in the american political process and this memo outlining this parts of that interference

not all of it we know of instances. where they interfered and it shows how what the american intelligence community is playing in the american society and. you know mark what's really interesting to me when i read the four pages plus the one and a half pages from the you know the white house. i have to pat us all in the back we've basically got it all right yeah basically connecting all of the dots that's what i want to say is actually there's very little new here very little we have been saying all combinations for a long time it is a partial confirmation because of course the democrats the f.b.i. a whole host of former deep state officials from the liar liar james clapper on down came out and the clear that releasing this was a democracy attack on security national security the heavens would fall well.

i think the u.s. is still there last time i checked anyway after that but you know what you know what the interesting thing was and the flip side of what mark is saying is that you know it was a threat to national security it's an affront to our intelligence agency to have law enforcement you know you say used to be the liberals that used to be very you know worried about law enforcement everything is flipped over right now ok but the interesting thing is immediately after it was released i don't know if anybody these liberals or c.n.n. or m.s.m. d.c. actually read it but then they decide it's. nothing to see here. how could the within one new cycle it was a threat to national security then move along exactly to see here i think what we should prevent from happening here is this let's move on attitude prevailing again because we understand where it comes from trump is basically leading the same poll it's just now hillary clinton and obama have been lead and before trump was elected

he struck at syria he published this all for nuclear posture review right so he is basically moving the country towards a war movie and humanity was destruction so now they are prepared to let it be and i think what they're prepared to lead a beeper a very different reason to picture i mean you have the former director of the f.b.i. i mean i watched the hearings he perjured himself repeatedly. and i'm sorry let's make sure you know i wonder what mike flynn was he watching or did he read the memo that paul mann afford read the memo to the read die did ok but we have a whole cast of characters at the d.o.j. in the f.b.i. that perjured themselves in front of committees and under oath where there's a game where you can't you can't walk away from their job is going to do it well i mean i'll go much director of national intelligence did it twice. and the other

occasion. is james called me going to twitter and frankly proclaiming himself a victim. like to the victims of julie mccarthy code me or the rosen stand these are the loving descendants of george florida let me. put to shame can i put the cherry on top ok gentlemen. headline from the new york times the feeling new york times trumps unparalleled war. on a pillar of society law enforcement i mean this is orwellian i mean from what i read of those four pages that there the deep state is that war with the democratically elected government of president of the united states that is the assault that's going on right now this is so duplicitous it is so hypocritical to hitler and i want to the biggest accusations is it's starting to undermine americans trust in their intelligence community out of i don't know if my kids need

to know all of you out there but i've been doubting our intelligence community since oh the iraq war since the gulf of tonkin. gulf war from the libyan genocide i've you know i mean to the spanish-american war and you need an ships in fact if i could for a minute but for the intelligence court the family deals with the whole reason the for sending up to the court was to prevent the abuses that the american intelligence community. did in the seventy's in the sixty's in the fifty's so post post with our great america decided to create this act and what do we see now we see that first it will let's go back to how this court functions if we look at this record of this court last led judge to almost every single last ninety nine point three percent said only nine point eight percent ok this is a secret court that hears secret arguments about how our intelligence community

wants to spy on american citizens they approve ninety nine point eight percent of cases brought against it no no negative no credible oversight or it's a rather special court authority it's a rubber stamp secret court and they're spying on american citizens and this is they they bring obviously fraudulent evidence in front of it they look this is the important game and we think we know what you're right but i mean let's let's let's it's let's finish it. in the thread here they're spying on american citizens a citizen who is working for a political campaign for a presidential candidate i mean this is the this was the whole reason the fires of course were put up to make sure something like this would happen and actually because of the way it was set up we have and we have the rest of them they know how to go around let's be perfectly clear about this they know one of these people seriously believe that carter pager george papadopoulos these bumbling inturn

idiots were russian agents this was an attempt to use their bumbling to get intelligence wiretaps inside the trump campaign it's true well what i find especially astonishing about this whole story is that feisal warrant was based on a story written by michael isikoff. and why do you want to get the story from the facts facts from christopher stealers so the story is that d.n.c. campaign paints a pace christopher steele so that he would dig dirt on trump like heem going to mosque or hotels meeting with prostitutes there sleeping on obama's former badly you know in a hotel then michael isikoff takes an interview from this guy and then finally decides oh the whole possible fits together.