try to control people to talk to him i've always had an open door policy me anybody can talk to me so why can't the president talk to some people that he wants to talk to and not being blocked out but you know that's the bureaucracy once you got the power you try to isolate the boss and in that situation occurs announcing new going out but i don't know about general i never met him why why do you want to do this. hey larry come on. don't ask me to a question because you're eighty four yeah why are you still working well i don't want to get involved i don't want to go to watch the show. but since you asked me my age so what. you want to serve obviously you could just

relax in phoenix and take it easy well this is a big sacrifice on my wife mary sixty years she came down with cancer doing my court trial. and all of us watching the president she loves trump i told trump he's called my wife several times to see how she's doing all these other presidential candidates so i campaigned for was there on a chairman they forgot how to spell my name once you know once it's over joe always great talking to. the next month thank you thank you we're back. after the break.

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and they have a bad thing. you need to feel. something yeah i'm them what do you how to have a homophobe like your buddy look local do you wonder. if this. all mean that with him there's just no point to talking or negative crushed. by politicking continuing the political discussion let's spend some time with our panel amy holmes political analyst former staffer to senate majority leader bill frist and make lerner executive director of the democratic coalition and creator of the boy contract. studios in new york and. to start with you we just spoke with the

form america open the county sheriff joe arpaio who's running for the open seat in in arizona many in the republican establishment are worried that they might have another roy moore situation where things are going to have to do you think trump would endorse him well i don't know if the president is going to endorse. the sheriff. who is very controversial and certainly someone who has national mayme id i don't know if the folks of arizona necessarily like all the tactics tactics that he's taken i think we're going to have to see and we're going to have to see how he campaigns what kind of promises he makes to his constituents made with these happy to welcome you to politicking a third white house official resigned after being told he wouldn't qualify for full clearance it was national economic council george david banks what he and then of

course you got the rub porter situation what's your reaction to all that's going on in the white house in a it's very indicative of the chaos that we've seen since day one this white house has been incredibly embarrassing a national disgrace if you will if you've seen just the revolving door of individuals coming in and out who are woefully unqualified borderline dangerous as we saw with porter i mean them you don't don't even qualify for security clearance which is incredibly disconcerting and it's what happens when you elect a leader with no previous political or government experience whatsoever were you get the trouble ministration any. well we just heard a very partisan spin on the situation ignoring the fact that hillary clinton donald trump's competitor in two thousand and sixteen had her own problems with mishandling classified information if you want to talk about what's dangerous to the country she's not a president any to voters decided that hillary clinton could not be trusted even her own campaign manager for pal me aerie said during the course of that campaign

that she had a big problem with trying to i don't mean in our lives they mean that she's not a president no but i was just responding to the very partisan take that we were hearing on the white house i'm very concerned that at the very least the chief of staff was aware that rob porter for example had a lot of problems in his background and it seems to me that when you work at the white house that's an enormous honor and the very first thing you should be thinking about is serving your fellow americans and the chief of staff mr general kelly i'm afraid to say seem to put his own interests in having a staffer that he liked ahead of the interests of the american people and i'm kind of maybe leaning toward the side that maybe he's got to go i'm not sure i need to know more about it. vice president pence gave them a ringing endorsement i think i mean kelly i think needs to stay i don't agree with all of his policy stances but he's a strong leader he's organized he's you diminish the chaos

a bit in the tribal ministration much more so than it was he's someone i trust a bit more to make reasonable decisions with regards to foreign policy or military i think he's you know really made sure the president is receiving more accurate news and reports as opposed to a lot of the the fake and misleading information he was getting before hand and again he's not my favorite person he's not who i would love to have there but he's a lot better than what we've seen previously in this administration which has been it's interesting larry because we just heard a say that the white house was a do that disaster and full of chaos and now he's praising the chief of staff. i think there's a lot of still in play off into the getting better new i mean there's a lot of shakeout that needs to go on and weirdly made there on the opposite sides when it comes the chief of staff is the chief of staff is being told that he has a staffer who has not one not two but three people accusing one of his closest aides of despicable behavior first of all i just think that should be disqualifying

but also you would know that that would reflect poorly on the president and states as i say i'm not ready to say that i think that the chief of staff should go but i'm leaning in that direction and i may do you think president should sit down you'd rather mower absolutely i mean it's what the majority of americans want it's his responsibility as a public servant to answer for his potential crimes and would really address a lot of the questions that are still up in the air in regards to investigation and he said he wants to so you know the president claims a man of his word so he should follow through on that will he i doubt it but it would be very very nice to see and i think he owes it to the american public using gamey he should. larry you've talked with a lot of lawyers on your show all of them tell you that the president ited states should not be sitting down with miller that it's a perjury trap that miller already has on record what he would want to then

confront the president with and if the president's statements don't comport precisely with what he has then he can say the president was it wasn't being entirely forthcoming and we know this president we know donald trump we know that he is inexact in precisely this language and i just heard nate saying something about potential crimes well so far we haven't seen any what we know to arrive to you actually also hold on to me or let me finish let me finish what we know is that michael flynn the national security adviser was speaking with a russian agent during the time of the transition which all people agree was a completely appropriate and during those discussions that were taped he then was asked by robert mueller to explain them and discuss them and what he said to the f.b.i. did not comport with what they had on tape so many people came to the conclusion that that interview was more of a perjury trap would you want to do that to the president ited states many lawyers including alan alan dershowitz of harvard law says that's ridiculous and

irresponsible and not good for democracy and certainly creates constitutional issues. so first of all we've had four indictments in the russian investigation or no two guilty pleas for the f.b.i. so to say you know there's nothing there is completely inaccurate you know this is very clear miller has something and it's what he called a perjury trap you know that implies therefore that trump is then guilty of something so you know if he's coming in well that's what you're just going to we can settle if he's coming into this interview concerned about perjuring himself that he's likely guilty of something so you can't have it both ways either he's innocent or he's guilty. amy guilty of what exactly nay that's what everyone keeps asking a good argument what and so far the investigation which was intended to investigate russian meddling meddling into the election what we've discovered is that the clinton campaign and the d.n.c. hired fusion g.p.s. to hire christopher steele a british agent to get information from the russians to smear donald trump so if

you want to talk about clues and it seemed to me having to be close to aggressively on the other side that's been that's been very well covered that christopher steele was never hired by republicans fusion g.p.s. was republicans dropped it in the primary than democrats picked it up and in the course of that christopher steele was then hired to go and collect information which he did from russians who were very likely very unreliable spread disinformation the f.b.i. got that big of a deal it f.b.i. said it doesn't care who the information comes to them from they follow up so it doesn't matter who brings them the right so here here larry here's what's really interesting about that in the file is a court application the f.b.i. did not make clear that this information was coming from christopher steele while living that i heard it by an opposition campaign they did not make that clear i'd be very interested to see the file application and be to know the opinion of the judge now that all of this all of this has been revealed or much of it the american

people the f.b.i. has said or least most of said they relied very much on a dossier which we now know was a partisan document meant nothing here and undermine the internal look in part a little bit is nothing seems to. with his base his personal lawyer announces the trump a one hundred thirty thousand of his own money to a porn star who allegedly had a sexual encounter with him. how bad is this nate or why doesn't it blow up him as a as a as a public figure i mean this is very damaging is it not it's incredibly damaging but i think it would more so during the election at this point people are numb to these kind of scandals which really tells you a lot about this president and the kind of man that he is it's absolute disgraceful but i think at this point we have larger concerns to worry about we have you know a president in a stray ssion that's under investigation for collusion with

a foreign adversary we have a president that's you know trying to tear down our democratic institutions while we have to stand on the sidelines and we have a huge election coming up in november where you know we have potentially can tremendous gains in the house and that's what democrats need to stay focused on now the worry is is unfortunate but it's unfortunate it's not going to blow it as much this should amy how do we solve the dockets thing why gal got very gracious and wow well why didn't this we resolved. well that's a really interesting question that i worked for bill frist you know during the two thousand when they tried to do immigration reform unfortunately the other side was torpedoing torpedoing it because it seemed that they wanted an issue more than they wanted a solution the president united states donald trump the one that nate seems to feel is you know illegitimate in some way despite an election the president has said

he's happy to legalize to create legalization and a path to citizenship by the way for daca recipients and also for millions of people who would qualify for daca but didn't apply dollars for this of that but what he says that he wants in return is some immigration reform and there's a question there really that democrats are willing to only a lot of people don't know why the days leading including a lot of immigration activists came here again is why is it have to be let them go i'll let them get a pass this is a ship if you give me a war a war is a war liza people what wiley i really want to know who went and i actually don't i agree with you one hundred percent but i don't think actually the point of debate is about the wall the point of debate is about chain migration that if you legalize this group of people that process then creates chain migration which donald trump the president has said he wants to reform democrats don't want to because that

those are their future voters they want chain migration i think that's where the real battle is make. this is what's so unfortunate the immigration debate right now it's such a more complicated issue than let's build a wall that will solve all our problems and it's really unfortunate that the president wants to waste government money government resources on building a wall that our country does not need net immigration to from mexico right now is actually negative we are losing more immigrants to mexico than we are gaining it's been steadily declining since two thousand and seven we have absolutely no use for this wall dock and needs to be put back in place we define protections for the one point six million immigrants who are here and a pathway to citizenship for them and then we should have a larger conversation afterwards about how we can improve our immigration system not just ban everybody as the president wants to do amy or president i just explained doesn't want to ban people in fact he wants to create a path to legalization both for dhaka recipients and also people who would qualify for daca what the president has said to the other side is and in return for that we

should have immigration reform so this doesn't become a floodgate of chain migration which a lot of americans polling so disagree with by the way they don't agree that you should have all of your extended family members coming on the strength of one person who's gotten legalization. made wonderful having both of you with a sad little man call on you again thank you nate great haven't you have you back to thank so much thanks guys and thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things and don't forget to use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking.

but if north korea really believes we're about to conduct a preemptive strike of this could be a significant and a serious preemptive strike that may. they may be motivated to make it

to try to be just for the guys to have their own first but. the stakes couldn't be higher and it's happening in syria the goal of destroying the islamic state is largely complete now the syrian proxy war is in train the new stage for the players and one of their aims and what does winning. in twenty four you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know here. is. the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four. those who took part in the studio over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these another goal that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. headlines

on r.t. international that u.s. secretary of state meets turkey's president as america begins to adjust its rhetoric regarding the conflict between ankara and the kurds in syria. the olympic spirit is being embraced by competitors from around the world at the winter games in south korea with rifles helping each other out. it makes me really proud to be able to help another nation and it always feels good when we get help from them as well. french president emanuel moves journalists out of the presidential palace which has been their home for decades. that morning on friday here in moscow thanks for joining us this is. the u.s.

secretary of state is in turkey in an effort to mend ties with ankara a rex tillerson has held talks last in more than three hours with the president of the one now the nato allies have been at all kodesh forces in syria in the run up to the meeting of the defense minister the turkish defense minister made clear. from the united states. we demand that this relationship and by that i mean we want them to and all the support given to the syrian arm of the. let's have a bit of a closer look now at the two groups referred to by the turkish defense minister of the p.k. k. for example the kurdistan workers' party a group that's been fighting turkish authorities now for more than three decades. calls them a terrorist organization now the why p.g. on the other hand is mostly kurdish militia based in syria and korea gods them as a branch of the p.k. k. however the us led coalition sees the y.p.

ji as allies now in january the pentagon announced it was creating a kurdish led border security force in the region and that move triggered outrage from ankara which started a military campaign against kurdish militias in northern syria the turkish president even threatened to target american forces if they stood in the way i mean complaining that the u.s. is failing to deliver on its promise to stop militias or washington now appears to have changed its messaging on that issue. we have never given heavy arms to the wife e.g. so there's none to take but in terms of weapons the united states has provided weapons to the syrian democratic forces for use in rocca we need to arm and train and equip their pressure and help the kurdish government in a deal and they're strong and starch allies we should be using we should be doing the kurdish region to be the bin smoothers really proving to be the most

reused on a long standing. support of the kurds or the pressure on the frontlines fighting isis now the turkish government considers these kurdish forces operating in syria to be terrorists and feels quite threatened by them and has been a long outspoken in demanding that the united states and its support for these forces. why you still here why do these weapons still arrive america is in the process of creating a terror army on our border do nothing on our borders do not provoke we will run out of patience tillerson has arrived in turkey and he'll be going to an embassy a u.s. embassy in turkey that is on a street that's actually named for the military operation against those kurdish forces armed by the united states operation olive branch that's sending a pretty clear message to washington that they do not approve of this policy of

arming kurdish forces the united states is caught in a strange place between two allies it's aligned with the kurdish forces and it's also aligned with the turkish government a member of nato that considers those kurdish forces to be terrorists we spoke to one a political science professor who says that turkey is losing patience with washington and needs more than just words from its ally. actually there i don't know what united states want but in turkey the government and the people of turkey believe that it actually is of you are fed up with these words that's coming from america i'm not saying we have to be you know understand the security teams of turkey it's the same kind of big kurdish forces. turkey is expecting there's some you know not promises to do something related to syria an issue now this is you know not so waiting any diplomatic source for on the united states just want to

keep its promises to deliver those promises to get otherwise i think it doesn't work you know this kind of diplomatic meetings for turkey. is not one week since the winter olympics in south korea officially began but while athletes and coaches have been embracing the olympic spirit or some fans of resorts are making online death threats here's artes in pyongyang. unfortunately with these winter olympics the story has been that every other day yung chang treats the media with some sort of scandal so far perhaps one of the most disgusting ones for me was when a canadian short track speed skater was receiving death threats from the locals after she finished fourth first but then a south korean athlete was disqualified and then her position was upgraded to start place and that's when the ugly things started happening but you shouldn't get the

impression that the olympic games are doomed because in many sports there is such a spirit it's the kind of family spirit that goes first after nationality rivalry politics etc there was one good example when george cross country skiing competition a russian skier lost a part of his equipment and then an american coach rushed to help him out if the russian skier had to do this u. turn you know come back take it up that would have been a disaster for the race but thanks to the american coach it didn't happen and we talked to the met separately the russian said the cross country ski family is is exactly that it's a family we often benefit from russian or no region coach is giving our athletes a pole in a race and we'll do the same i would say it's very friendly when you walk by

a russian athlete or coach would always say congratulations or if we've had a good race they will say congratulations to us three years ago and most of the entire russian women's team came up to our hotel and had tea and cookies with her continued and not many people spoke the same language you know a few words of russian a couple of them they knew some more english than we knew russian but we had a great time and that it was one of those moments in my career that i. well i guess when it comes to poll littered coal rivals russia and the u.s. when it comes to helping each other out in force it works both ways and here with me i got the silver medalist in luge brás master who definitely knows what i'm talking about and he's ready to tell us about a story that happened to him a few months ago as far as a descent chris hi again congratulations and what's that story was the russian

athlete i guess helping you out yeah thank you very much who is it was a couple weeks ago where i was having a very difficult last season people were starting to reach out and help me and there was a specific russian athlete he offered me help like technical help with with my pod with with fiberglass with with aerodynamics and although it didn't work because a much larger than he is the fact that he was willing to reach out and help me in such like a desperate time shows that sport can bridge you know cultures it can bridge politics that we can connect on the human level through sports and that's that's really what embodies the olympics here is that so many countries are coming together connecting through sport and it really shows the power of the human spirit absolutely this is a small little step it takes a lot of people to get one of these and i can't think samuel enough for thinking about me and just trying to help me out in a time of need i am very close friends with with so many different russian athletes and yes there's been

a lot of scandals and i'm really i can't wait for the day that we can move past this and we can just see right back to sport clean sport it's so easy to talk about negative things but it's really difficult to highlight these positive situations you know who knows maybe one two lympics this will all be behind us and we'll get right back to you know clean competition and a lot of fun. and for olympic athletes from russia it's another day and another medal was a go the team won another silver skeleton athlete nikita came second in the race beating athletes from the u.k. and latvia is silver is a medal for the olympic athletes from russia team. now the winter olympics are the only major sporting event you might want to follow this year with the football world cup now just months away r.t. host stan collymore looks into the history of one legendary football club but that despite its massive influence on the game never actually hit the big time.

little quiz for you which could spoil all white kids. which quote gave all eleven players to three separate england guy which inspired one of brazil's right football clubs ladies and gentlemen i do view corinthian casuals. what actually happened was in nineteen zero seven there was a split between the f i became. and it was quite acrimonious to do with amateur and professional and the f.a. refused to allow any if a player is all clubs to appear on the pitch is all there so there was a complete split their spirit was healed in and just at the start of the first world. after the first world war the two clubs.