left that are on the ground you know ron ron on that good man i'm not even like that on that point i do remember watching across the board and almost one of those rare moments of unity everybody said it's important. period we didn't get anything more than that ok i learned more about net neutrality listening to the jimmy door show it was an excellent program on net neutrality i learned an enormous amount there ok it was probably me let me go back to you one of the things that i find really disturbing in our political discourse is it everywhere if you post someone they're a traitor they act in a treasonous way and i criticize donald trump for that and i certainly i certainly criticize and this n.b.c. and c.n.n. for peddling the same thing go ahead rob. well one of the things that really used to infuriate me when i was a regular contributor to fox i've always been a democrat is i had people that would suddenly contact me on facebook or via

twitter or they are e-mail and say i can't believe you're a traitor and you're on fox and then i will would respond and say well how did you see me when i was on this week no i won't watch it well then how do you know what i'm saying or what i'm contributing and really as a result of fox i've met a lot of interesting conservative people that i never would have met who follow me on twitter or i've spoken to on sirius radio and i really enjoy the interaction between us one of the things i think that we have to make the distinction about also is that there are news shows and there are opinion shows the problem is that the opinion shows have taken over and the news shows many of them are letting too many opinions creep in and it can be with a raised eyebrow or an inflection and that's wrong if you're supposed to be a reporter and you're giving the news and you're supposed to let the you know or the reader let me say i've been here before you could write that you know we're

going to bring but i can't think particularly with this russia gate thing and it was a liberal corporate stations facts get in the way of spin for them and i think that's why you get so few facts i mean the memo the contents of the memo was a really discussed but it was a. the timing of it well i know we have the memo we can read it we can talk about it now but would we'll have to wait for the democratic one i mean this is what you're against me gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the media and their divide in america state with our team. i'm here at muddy field stadium in edinburgh the home of the high of scottish rugby i'm here to interview a scotland legend we'll a man who fought many great battles on this pitch behind me now he's engaged in the

greatest bottle of all his struggle against motor neuron disease. the u.s. is losing into a summer on the climate denying is precluding them from the dissipating in this new economy number one and number two the effects of the 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. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to meet the people themselves with simple song alone even some company elsewhere though they invited private companies to take over the utilities anybody tell us the rope was. allowed to miss you guys who got.

us because. of what you. brought up the locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than war it's about the hurt and the redistribution. downwards if you want to. welcome back across like we're all things considered i'm peter about to remind you we're discussing the media and the divide in america. let me go to you in new york here i i asked rob about using the word traitor and being considered very treacherous or treasonous here it's very difficult to have a conversation with someone after you've called them that ok and this is what i

find very dangerous i mean i can give you a real life example you know from the great. called russia russia russia ok and all of the name calling of leaders around the world and then how do you sit down and talk ok and i think that this is what's really foolish about journalism when you get that's hyperventilation that you know you get the the adrenaline rush and you feel really great but then when you you know think about what you just said and you're supposed to be some kind of. play is some kind of public role adding value to the public sphere and then you call he's a traitor you're a traitor it doesn't get down to it's not disagreeing with someone now it is the are morally. unacceptable that's not what we should do in journalism go ahead who you. well i think that the problem is the word moderate has become a dirty word i think that the left has gone far to the left i think the right has

gone far to the right even to the point where you have republican ton of republican infighting i mean we've got phrases like rhino sellout republicans anytime you know they want to make a deal with the democrats so that's kind of the world that we're operating in right now but unfortunately it's being fuel i think more or less because the larger and the larger percentage of mainstream media sources although that's kind of a dirty word that we don't always like to use are so skewed against the president you know they've been trying to undermine president trump this entire time so that's why they're reporting right now it isn't really necessarily reporting it's one hundred percent spin it's almost like their news programs have become opinion programs and there isn't really a lot of you know let's say moderate or middle of the road news that exist anymore in america you know ron i saw trey gowdy on face the nation the country needs more people like that you may disagree with his politics but at least he listened to hard questions and he acknowledged. some give and take which was so it's so

refreshing to see it was a really remarkable moment but you know what what i would get if we compare let's say hannity and rachel maddow you know both of them have one thing in common one phrase our democracy is at stake our democracy is being threatened but for very very different ways again maybe i'm off on this here but it's the status quo the new status quo that's coming into being that they don't seem to understand here you know we have a f.b.i. that has gone rogue it's been gotten rogue for a long time it's nothing new it's just the curtain is revealed this isn't going on a long time to ideas and then maybe remember j. edgar hoover i mean i do ok guys i child at least ok so i mean you know using this you know. our democracy is is under threat and i find that really hard to believe in and i thought it very disingenuous go ahead ron. i'm one hundred percent with

you and fact whenever somebody says to me hey trump hijacked our democracy you know i don't like trump but my response is well we were kind of overdue to look into a new one anyway so maybe that's a blessing in this midnight and you hit the nail on the head with the status quo comment peter what nobody really wants to talk about in the corporate media is that the status quo is broken and ileo i would say to you you know i think on a lot of issues we probably don't see eye to eye but i think that the reason that moderate has become a quote unquote dirty word isn't necessarily because being moderate is right or wrong but because the status quo is so completely broken and people are disenfranchised as a response to that you know donald trump ran on this idea of some kind of outsider some kind of you know guy that was really going to disrupt the status quo you know and whether folks bought that or not you know i personally didn't i don't

think that's what he is at all but that's what he ran on and that's what he sold and people bought into that because they're so tired of the status quo and neal liberalism ok well a rabbi who has done it on some levels though continue to go ahead who knows that he has done it already voted on it well we've seen as for keep going to go ahead go ahead go ahead to new york go ahead. ok i'm so i'm sorry i apologize if the delay i'm sorry nobody has done that on some levels and i think that that's the reason why there's been so much opposition to him you know it because we're going to finally i think and they're going to do this to themselves i think the elements that were anti trump are going to lead to you know uncovering a lot of the things that went on during the obama administration you know things that were conducted by hillary clinton things that were conducted by barack obama the justice department you know on the right a lynch eric holder all this information is going to come out as

a result of their crybaby and being anti trump because he was ultimately seen as a threat because he's not really necessarily in bed with you have a lot of these people that were the whole well for you bring up you bring up a really interesting point and let me go to rob right now because it's something that i've been mulling over quite a bit in again it's this memo issue here is that you know it seems to me and i read the memo very carefully and i find it very believable ok i've been for unfortunately i'm have to follow the story twenty four seven is forced on you it's and it's a fictitious story but what isn't fictitious is malfeasance at the highest level of the d.o.j. and the f.b.i. i mean i'm i'm convinced of that and i thought the memo was very well laid out of a very interesting narrative but rob the problem is is the mainstream media just denies it and i find that this is what the part of this cultural civil war that is brewing in the united states is that you're going to you do have a part of the population of the public that is aware of these what i think are

reasonable facts to believe and then you have the corporatists here in the media denying it and i think that you can't it can't be that can't be elevated in the air for very long because people are going to say well i mean flynn is going to go to jail matter for it's going to go to jail but comi lied clinton lied to the f.b.i. and they're not going to go to jail and at that point there's going to be a train wreck go ahead rob. first of all i think we're getting into way too much supposition which is a big problem right now in the media the media shouldn't be acting on either side be it right or left or whomever absolute judge jury and executioner absolutely and comparative ok and i just as an aside i'm sorry but i've been chuckling about this when i j. edgar hoover got mentioned i thought what kind of nickname would trump come up with him cross-dressing j. edgar but anyway. and i'm going to get

a little to gentle here peter ok to ron and julio but one of the things that really bugs me and i feel that people who do what we do at least at the highest echelons and i'm talking about the highest paid people like a mad or or sean hannity if i were king i would force them to get on the third avenue bus with me where it originates way down in the bowery and ride it all the way up to one hundred twenty fifth street a couple of times a week because i like to do that i get stories there i meet people there and i interact with the actual public that i then speak to on radio television or via a column and i think that if you're going to call yourself a journalist and you don't do that and instead you ride around in a limousine and make your thirty million a year or whatever it's going to be i don't understand how you feel that you can aptly communicate with the public so i think we have a big problem there i agree it's kind of like being a professional athlete now i mean are you really in touch with your fan base yeah i

mean being a being a journalist on television is just another word for being a high paid celebrity ok i suppose you know they're going to have their own you know celebrity awards were but he shows up ok but you know. this is one of the things that i find worrisome is that you have a corporate media that has no interest in the public whatsoever they have a bottom line. they have their donors they have the sponsors and all that i mean they. them that system is perfected here but they get further and further away because i am convinced that it was the corporate media that elected donald trump by calling the rest of us deplorable and running with the smearing at us and laughing at us and talking down to and i think that i'm from the midwest people don't like to be talked that way from both coasts ok it's going to happen again in twenty twenty if they don't change their tune go ahead ron yeah you know i don't disagree with that i mean i do think that the corporate media did elect donald trump and

this is you know just the whole model you know i say that if you want to democratic experiment to be successful and you have the media structure that we have in the united states that would be a lot like wanting to open a gourmet restaurant and cooking exclusively with spam and no other ingredient i mean it's just not it's just not the right kind of structure to have this is side and we want the one silver lining in all that though is that i mean people are leaving cable television news dro i mean the confidence in cable news gets lower and lower every year there's academic studies that come out constantly there was a harvard study recently that revealed that what the media talks about and what people actually care about is so disproportional it's about about seventy five percent to six percent and that's why people like me have a job they have pets why well you know that's why there's shows on you tube that

are sustainable now who are so thirsty of news and they're finding it i'll give you mark dice i mean his daily. video i mean he can he's competing with the major networks this one guy ok i mean you can do jimmy door does very well any time jordan peterson is on anyone's program the the hits go through the ceiling here you know i'm agreeing with ron let me go to ron let me go to rob because i think you know people are so desperate to hear different voices and stop being spin pounded down your throat all the time go ahead rob. well the last time i was on the show what we discuss is one of my favorite lines from the classic film broadcast news is albert brooks says you know we're in trouble when we become more important than the story and there is way too much spin and we were also it's it's become so much about ratings and i started in scripted television on comedy shows

and you know i learned early you know well it doesn't matter if you're funny or if it's good what one of the ratings and one of the nielsen say and. so you're striving for that rather than alternately delivering the news or the real story and again from both sides i'd have to have certain sources i've used and boy oh boy have they been wrong but in the first week of december i sat down and have had an interview with with an attorney who is really plugged in and he was telling me to what in two weeks kirschner is going to be indicted well you know ok i mean i already said things had gotten around i got it i got it just being here guys we've run out of time i certainly miss walter cronkite many thanks to my guests to new york and in los angeles and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.g.c. unix times and remember.

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julian assange remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london after a british judge refuses to lift and arrest warrant for the wiki leaks founder. the us defense secretary asked congress to approve a major funding bill for the military and singles out russia and china as key global threats. and human rights watch reveals how anti psychotic drugs are being misused by american nursing homes. where you see movements the only drug you can even talk to.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow on cape partridge thank you for joining us. a british judge has ruled that an arrest warrant for julian assange remains in force meaning he's still on able to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london and the president of ecuador has given a statement saying he will continue to protect the within weeks found artie's an associate churkin now has the latest on the standoff. it was expected today that a judge would move here outside the court behind me to potentially lift the arrest warrant put in place by british officials in connection to the initial allegations made against julian a songe by swedish officials his legal team have been saying since since those were dropped it's time to drop the arrest warrant however the judge here has decided that at this stage this would not happen quite yet so this was technically the last legal hurdle for julian assange to be able to walk outside the airport or an embassy and not be arrested now there was certainly some confusion earlier on in

the courtroom where the judge said that at this point she's not persuaded that the arrest warrant should be lifted and lots of journalists started to publishing headlines that the court had ruled against him and julian assange to want to twitter as he often does to say that this was big news and the hearing was actually continuing because legal team and julian assange himself have said time and time again that what's key and what he fears most is possible extradition to the u.s. let's take a listen restress undermines willing to answer to british justice in relation to any argument about breach of bail but not a better place in justice in america. this place appears and has always been about the risk of extradition to the united states and that risk remains real while it's also been made clear that even if at some point a court here in london does decide that julian a songe could potentially walk a free man his concern is some kind of guarantee of free passage again to would

this potential extradition to the u.s. given that american authorities to see the least or point on the copy with the work week elites have been doing and have said time and time again that they want to see him on u.s. soil the united states do something to stop mr sausage that right now this guy's a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the gut ought to be. and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons do in a sundress legal team will continue to battle it out here at the court room in london it's clear that what's key in terms of what happens to julian assange will largely depend on any guarantees including from the uighurs that he would not be taken there and this is continuing to be

a major hurdle despite what happens here in london depending on the decisions that will come possibly as early as next week on february thirteenth and on tuesday there was a minor scare at the ecuadorian embassy in london a package was delivered to julian assange is containing a written threat and an unidentified white powder police inspected the substance and it turned out not to be dangerous respond to confirm the incident on twitter well given the scale of the revelations wiki leaks has published against the u.s. it's not surprising many think washington the scheme to get its hands on the song wiki leaks expose details of torture at the guantanamo bay detention camp and also published damning u.s. military logs on the war in afghanistan and the company also leaked the cia spying tools as well as this.

this video in which we can exclude collateral murder shows how american helicopters gunned down more than a dozen iraq leaders and more recently the release of the d.n.c. even ours which then allegedly helped donald trump when the us presidential race human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes these hotel ations pretty easily see aslan extradited trying to meddle with the u.s. election is no doubt the. bottom line in your sound case is the very serious and likely risk that he would be extradited to the united states to face a whole raft of very serious charges including espionage which current theory carry the death penalty at the very least he can expect forty years in prison and possibly life imprisonment so it is totally understandable that as a rational human being during your sons' would not wish to step outside the

ecuadorian embassy when the risk of arrest and extradition to the u.s. hangs over his head. the british tackle our love who won his fight against extradition to the us on monday has visited you inside at the embassy lovers accused of carrying out cyber attacks on the f.b.i. and master among others while wiki leaks is also known for publishing classified information about american politics and the work of its security services love said he wished a song luck in the case. for five years inside a small embassy means julian massagers had plenty of time on his hands broken up by visits from his friends and supporters.

in. the back seat. well meanwhile u.s. defense secretary james mattis has urged congress to approve a massive funding based for the ministry the trunk administration is pushing for a seven hundred billion dollars defense budget for this year rising to seven hundred sixteen billion next year. as the details well james mattis the secretary of defense was speaking before the congressional armed services committee in his remarks he talked about how both russia and china were in his view

a major threat to the united states because they were updating their nuclear arsenals well russia has reduced only the number of its accountable strategic nuclear force and russia has been modernizing the weapons as well as other nuclear systems. moscow advocates a theory of nuclear escalation from military conflict china to is modernizing and expanding its already considerable nuclear forces pursuing entirely new nuclear capabilities now these words come from a country that recently updated its nuclear weapons doctrine the us nuclear review was recently released and in the review the united states named russia china iran and north korea as potential threats to the united states they could essentially attack these countries with nuclear weapons in what they deem to be extreme circumstances and that includes a non-nuclear situation later in his remarks before the armed services committee mattis actually talked about increasing the u.s.

military budget at this point the united states has the largest military budget of any country in the entire world it's bigger than the top eight other countries combined however james mattis says that it's just not enough this is what he said no strategy can sure vive that you pointed out chairman without the funding and insufficient funding and created an overt threat an under-resourced military congress must commit both an increase and sustained investment we must be good stewards of the tax dollars and support the budget for our military we need congress to lift the defense spending caps and support the budget for our military no strategy can survive without the necessary stable predictable funding if you need more money for weapons who is better to scare the u.s. public with then russia and sickle commentates a new rockwell thing such as launching crease in the minutes he punches is a dangerous that they want more money because they just want more money i mean

that's the way the government lives to do it lives to spend u.s. military budget. more than ten times the size of russia's it's the course the by far the largest in the world much bigger than china's and much bigger than anybody else's and they want more they want to spend more money they want more troops more weapons more planes more everything evil. it's a horrendous thing. i don't know what's going to happen but it's very very disturbing that these guys are talking openly about this kind of military escalation that can end then the whole country is being destroyed in the whole planet being destroyed. and human rights watch report has exposed how drugs are being misused in american nursing homes victims' relatives say strong anti psychotic medicines are used to control residents with dementia the rights group has released some that.