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 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 that's what dialogue is key over just yelling and debate all the time that you see on the other channels it is key which is the. quickly but very quickly has the republican party drifted over to know you've been

trying to change or 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 maybe 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 sttng in 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 there are good i know how to talk to the people i don't get out he does the c.e.o. he does with these policies he wasnt my claim 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

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treating them sports as nothing to laugh at 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 investigative headlines analyzing his integrity at the game of golf. but for the biggest up 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 under such an 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. david can you please update us on what is the recent decision been regarding russia's participation in this year's winter olympics the international olympic committee following several reports mclaren report. the oswald report the schmidt report banned 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 the you know more than one hundred fifty russian athletes to compete as a limp dick athletes of russia oh and they are 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 scheme 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 there 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 story and do you think that russia actually should be banned as a whole from 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 had the watergate i mean you know hearings. some of us learned while united states as a good justices 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. the orders in 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 of 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 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'd 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 in forstmann 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 testing equipment improves you could have retroactive. disqualifications which is what you've had now with the beijing olympics in them. london olympics. they passed the test at the time from many

different countries and then the retested ten years later or nine years later and they failed 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 i'm 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 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 that 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 have that much salt so in eleven of them they pass the other twenty eight they could not find excess 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 as in this new documentary by brian focal ikarus he documented 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 you still 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 rison and 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 or weightlifting 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 you're going to lose and this is an old argument that goes back way way way way back in the history of human beings before there 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 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 p.d.'s whoa the nine hundred sixty eight was when they first started testing in the olympics for drugs i mean if you can go back to one thousand and four and you know thomas hicks who won the gold medal in the marathon you see photographs of him

afterwards. like this well they'd been giving him strychnine and brandy throughout the race and at that time that was legal but 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 enhanced me has gone on forever whatever to make you a better athlete and it wasn't until the sixty's that they won't wait a minute 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 doping commission they saw the way the tests work they brought all the information back and they devised ways to get around. this weekend hours before the big game hundreds of protesters took to the streets of minneapolis minnesota to take a knee and solidarity with n.f.l. player collin capper nick and to speak out against police brutality and in the shadow of football's biggest day and while many taken the artist bob young williams

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the headlines on the international u.s. republicans who allege that the dossier that's behind many of the. may have been based on information provided by the clinton campaign. funded by the clinton foundation. human rights watch has published a new report revealing how strong. drugs are being misused in some us. are you so sleepy did a. one who was. totally dry

and you can even talk to. girls and keep up with the times though some of the girls affected say that losing perfectly good but no good reason. in tuesday worldwide news headlines live from moscow thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. us republicans have released a document alleging that the man behind the trump russia dossier was not only funded by the clinton campaign but was also fed information by. mr steele's memorandum states that the report was information that came from a foreign subsoil who is in touch with a friend of the clintons it is troubling enough that the clinton campaign funded mr

steele's work but that these clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding mr steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility the so-called trump a dossier was compiled by a former british intelligence officer crist's deal and claims to establish strong links between russia and trump during the twenty sixteen election the steel dossier was criticized for containing flaws and being unverified but it was still allegedly used to secure surveillance on team drum and become an important part of the investigation earlier however it was revealed that the dossier could have been funded by the campaign of his rival hillary clinton and if the latest claims that clinton affiliates also fed information to its author chris steele turned out to be true it could potentially undermine the entire collusion probe. no but did we catch them in the act or what you know what i'm talking did we catch them in

the act they are very embarrassed they never thought through to get caught we caught them basically you have a opposition research which proves to be propaganda and not even factual information that led to the appointment of bob mahler to investigate trump for russian collusion that appears not only not to have happened but to have been invented by the democrats paid for by the democrat national committee and the clinton campaign and now they're investigating trump i still think the funniest part about this is they want to say trump well we couldn't find any collusion so it must be obstruction of justice that he fired the former f.b.i. director what was he obstructing if there was no justice to be served because what they were investigating wasn't even true i think that's laughable the republican party earlier released a memo outlining a potential bias on the part of the f.b.i. and the department of justice in that trump russia probe the document faced

criticism from the democrats but republicans now say their investigation will proceed to encompass even more branches of the government yes so let me get to that so phase one of our investigation was just getting to getting at the pfizer b.s. what we're looking at now is the state department and some of the irregularities there and some of the most vocal critics of the memo have been the washington post and the new york times that journalism has become the subject of a new film but it's on to use american explains journalistic values can change over time. the washington post and the new york times once established themselves as shining beacons of true journalism a brave group of reporters who would stop at nothing to find out as much as they can in their quest for truth but i'm actually talking about the seventy's back then new york times and poster less risk jail time by publishing classified documents on the vietnam war the new york times begins its explosive series based on the pentagon papers publication of

a covert version of the war that ran counter to much of the optimistic talk that it permeated official statements preview now daniel ellsberg leaks the documents to the washington post you want to learn more go to the movies and check out the oscar nominated film the post seems like the perfect robot alter trump attacks on the media and according to the creators that was actually the intention one thing that both of these areas have in common that really attracted me also to tell this story is two presidents. declaring war on the news media i really feel that we shall overcome what all of us have been so subjected to over the past sixteen months while spielberg's political message is pretty difficult to miss even in the trailer you'd probably be required next. we don't. we. why don't you going to do this is ok and what are those two newspapers up to these

days well they're not exactly true to the idea of exposing the intelligence community the washington post was one of the loudest voices against the release of the newness memo why because this classified document which alleges misconduct by intelligence services quote in danger's national security and wa po published a number of articles predicting devastating consequences from the memos released and slamming donald trump while they were at it and media who are in favor of the memos released got bashed as well the clip on paid for fake news russian propaganda dot ca that of course was used by the obama administration to obtain pizer warrants to surveil members of the trunk campaign. the new york times who exposed the pentagon papers back in the seventy's were also against it so the cia and f.b.i. went from bad guys hiding their secrets from the public to a pillar of society standing strong against the evil trump the irony today among many ironies is how the mainstream media forgotten their own history the new york

times washington post today when it comes to a songe and others call him the worst threat to our republic is that we've ever seen but just years ago decades ago the same behavior. now lauded in the movies seem to herald this particular type of behavior that is showing again the unmitigated unbelievable hypocrisy that astounds me daily so there you have it the same outlet that has democracy dies in the dark as its slogan would prefer its secret intelligence actions never see the light of day samir khan r.t. washington d.c. . the french island of corsica saw a large nationalist protest on saturday ahead of a planned visit by the country's president emanuel macron local authorities say six thousand people took part in the protest the rally organizers put the figure at

twenty five thousand. yet it was yet. a. call from the. u.s. of course with fridge but with corsican and they should recognize that this is a money we are protesting because of course chris being held hostage by france because currently everything is being decided by officials in paris. these are the question of the peace when you first of all would demand the transfer of corsican political prisoners to corsican prisons families are suffering because currently political prisoners are located far away from their homeland this is the most important demand. the president's two day visit to the region whose population is just half of a percent of france's those come at

a time of rising separatist sentiment. the nine hundred seventy s. corsica's fight for independence is at its height with a nationalist movement carrying out a series of bombings and shootings the deadly campaign will continue for decades in one thousand nine hundred eight the top official on the island florida and yack was killed becoming the night state worker to be murdered by separatists in two thousand and fourteen the national liberation front of course lay down its arms declaring a permanent ceasefire opening a path for separatist and pro autonomy political parties to reach a compromise with the central government back in december and nationalist separatist alliance won an absolute majority in the course going to leaving micron's political movement far behind that victory raced separatists hope. i.

get their wish list is relatively modest at least for now the main cause official status for the course can languish control over the local budget and no more holiday homes for outsiders clogging up this paradise known as the island of v.t. of course can leaders warn paris should he calls some people are now telling me if winning elections does not even get us to hold talks on what we gave you a mandate for democracy is a dead end to go from that to saying bombs are more effective than votes is something i don't agree with words which at some point could be validated by a number of people. giving in could prove difficult for highly centralized france previous administrations have met corsica's demands with irritation and even refused to negotiate on hints he may be different specific promises approving allusive so far. we can see the possible changes but it's elsewhere within the framework of the constitution this.