like thousands hundreds of thousands of americans that they owe restitution to but i do want to say something about honey badger that we have a friend steve beauregard who we saw down in kent coon such as she round table he's with gold coins and he was just a safari in africa and he asked the safari guide he's he wanted to see where the honey badgers are and the safari guy was like honey badger is usually people who see the elephants the lions the tigers the giraffes like what why do you want to see how do you badgers and the guy hadn't heard of being by the fiercest animal on the savannah is the honey badger you know and of course the jolly mongers of the warren buffet's there's a good distance a mediator out of existence or they just croak. when they both have said they're like they're not long for the world well ok so wells fargo screws customers yet again now failing to make right and abuses elizabeth warren demands answers so wells fargo is getting get more deserved bad press gretchen morgenson and emily glazer of the wall street journal reported that the bank was making

a hash of the customer restitution at a promise to make in connection with his various scandals again i hate that they always call everything scandals or crimes like these are crimes they committed but even though the press firestorm last week was over the banks fake accounts the much bigger payments to customers and the ones it is messing up involve the force placing of auto insurance which in over twenty thousand cases lead to car repossessions and charging unjustified fees in connection with mortgages the journal story got the attention of elizabeth warren who shot off a letter to wells fargo c.e.o. tim sloan demanding answers again tim sloan was made c.e.o. after the previous c.e.o. was forced to step down finally after many months of and all sorts of senate hearings and finally they forced him down tim sloan was the former c.f.o. so he was in charge during all these crimes he was still an executive journalese crime so janet yellen had been basically suggesting that they get some outside help because all that it was infested their entire organization with. people who

obviously couldn't see what they had done was wrong rats. so you have to. basically bring in a honey badger to take it out right and you know combine that with the opiate crisis all these people that have had their lives ruined by wells fargo of course it's very easy to get hooked on opiates thanks to the drug industry and they're working together is some of the american genocide but charlie munger doesn't care any badger in the bitcoin will however put these guys to rest physically intellectually metaphorically what sound money and you're your own bank you don't need to rely on these crooks well as you head into the second half or you can talk to randy bowler about the twenty eight thousand elections coming up these sort of issues are still ongoing this this started in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine actually the frauds were committed leading up to the financial times thank you actually done in two thousand and eight and he's just admitting the noxious gases from his corpse is being interpreted as some kind of insight well you got to go to the second half little break don't go away stay right there.

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welcome back to the kaiser report imax jazzer time now to turn to four time mayor of pittsburgh and he also led the north carolina democratic party hey it's randiv already welcome back to the kaiser report it's great to be here max ok so we're coming up on twenty eighteen is a way the president you know he has a big downward movie gets crushed you know after being in office a bit there's a reversal but this president has caught the eye of some interesting folks you know his tax cuts have led to praise even from democratic leaning california corporations like apple or celebrities like bill murray you know normally in midterm elections the party in power is kicked in the teeth but these tax cuts

seems to have you know really grab people's attention even in the democratic party where you think well money is always going to grab people's attention you know we all knew that apple was offshore and all their profits and now when they've lowered the rates from thirty five to twenty one and some of the other things in that tax bill they're able to move billion tens of billions of dollars around to their benefit the question is what's becoming of a lot of this money i mean one what i read in bloomberg and other sources are corporations are buying their stock back yeah why would they buy the stock right exactly they're more into financial engineering then to cap x. they're not building out they're not growing their businesses as such they're just engaged in accounting tricks to increase the executive's pay more or less lead because of the legislation passed in the clinton administration which kept what you could write off they get the stock option so i predicted they would do that last fall and they're buying a lot of stock back so of course you know apple's happy because they had hundreds of billions of dollars caught up in this or at least tens of billions and very

wealthy people are happy and anyone that has an s. corp is happy because they changed the rules there and you had an s. corporate also you might decide to make a c. chord now because heck your tax rate went to twenty one percent so. twenty eighteen now mean this is playing well to the crowd yes. democratic party grain kind of laying out the the lay of the land for us and twenty sixteen and looking at the what was contributing to that dynamic in that election what can we look forward to in twenty seen in a nafta is nafta now back in play is this part of the mix well it depends what president trump decides to do it meaning he certainly pulled out of the deal in asia immediately that obama had been working on and obviously a lot of progressives oppose so it's highly likely that he's going to try to amend or change nafta. and of course how does that play and you know this whole open

borders thing and then this issue with the wall and immigration i think they're all connected i mean his base is worried that the country is becoming grayer and the country is becoming browner and they all know by two thousand and fifty it will be white white population will be the majority minority so i think a lot of these moves are fear as are facing a future that people have never lived in i think nancy pelosi race and they said her greatest aspiration is i want to for a grand kids would be brown. what does that mean well i think that she's probably realizing it at her age and her position in california of course she comes from baltimore her you know her relatives were the mayors of baltimore and she's probably thinking of inclusively that you know things that used to be taboo biracial marriages you know loving versus virginia in sixty eight used to be illegal i mean you know most of these people don't forget grew up you know at the end of the jim crow era that are still in power i mean i think the twenty eighteen elections are going to be about you know the politics of women and progressivism

and democratic socialism versus the politics of dog whistles and white supremacy fair enough so let's talk about women in politics because that sam's there is a groundswell of activity amongst women in politics the very active all over the country and is this trend of course after the may two movement and after a lot of controversy the twenty six election involving tromp is going to now say a wave of women in office and what does that portend randi we're going to see a with a wave of women running for office and then i guess my assumption is a number of these women will win and what we're going to see is a change of values that are implemented in washington and state capitals and county seats across this country because women tend to look at issues a bit differently than men and there are gender differences in this and i think that's a good thing i mean we need to have people at the table they need to be there in

the decision making process and i think that those are the kind of changes that this country needs let's talk about focus for a second the democratic party they are still focused on some of these issues from the era go the so-called russia gate for example are they maybe a wasting political capital at this point on chasing that where they could be looking at something else at this stage of the game that might give them greater panic. nation into the hearts and minds of the voter well i mean the miller investigation and what you term russia gate you know that's kind of keeping alive. people's thoughts and kind of the the negativity around trumps when. but the truth of the matter is simply that you can't be a party or a political movement that is opposed to everything you have to be a party that is for something and that's what you're getting at right so what's your program and you know and you know leader schumer has been asked that others

have been asked that you've got to come out clearly and what and say what do we stand for well you know there are those senators and leaders in d.c. that have said that i mean they stand for universal health care for instance they stand for supporting the dreamers they stand for a number of progressive moves that would be good for this country the problem is that at the very top whether it's the republican or democratic party it's you know you've got your left wing in your right wing but the plane is the corporate plane then that's the ultimate problem the money issue well you know the. jobs issue is was really driving a lot of the votes and twenty sixteen great disenfranchisement in america from coast to coast people were feeling as though they were not participating in the economy trump brought in these tax cuts that had at the moment a great effect increasing jobs increasing salaries they got amazon with twenty thousand new jobs you've got apple computer going to create twenty thousand new jobs so the voter a goes to the voting box they are looking at their paycheck and

their think and you know why would i change at this point i think that focusing on amazon and focusing on apple is just our obsession with focusing on the whales you know whales don't live in an environment with an awful lot of plant in i mean you need to have everything in the economic biosphere so to speak right and that means small businesses that means medium size businesses they like to do. that because it catches people's attention that we're got twenty thousand jobs a small businesses are already out of the economy of millions and millions of jobs it's just a drop in this modern business is reporting increasing activity they're hiring they're expanding i mean it's trickling down i mean the trickle down though we've heard about since reagan actually is trickling down i don't think that that's it's that's not the reason we already had expansion in this economy coming forward there already was growth you can look at the trend line from two thousand and nine but also recently there exactly has it made a hockey's i said because because the tax code we're giving everybody in

a company thousand bucks that's running that's real money well you could have been giving everyone money by actually supporting other programs that people could spend for instance you know when people have section eight and they get rent vouchers who owns all that real estate that's rent the comes in your pocket that's hunt that's thousand dollars every month yeah thousand dollars one time divided over twelve than i take out some for the tax man so fair enough so you're if you're comparing what you would describe as a gimmick versus a more structural reform that could be sustainable over a generation that be more meaningful i think is why you're so i would describe it is like getting on a sugar high what happens after that to follow up on this you are a mayor a what do you think of these various cities across america prostrating themselves at the feet of jeff bezos begging for amazon to open their second headquarters there well the way economic development works in our country is we force in this apologies counties and states to compete against each other as opposed to having an o.

a coherent policy or manufacturing policy that's unified that so you don't have people throwing you know tax breaks and this and that at these various companies so i would just say that those and others are you know playing by the rules of the system and forcing the politicians you know to come to them you know what the best offer i mean the truth of the matter is they want to do a ribbon cutting and say we just opened a new plant that created ten thousand jobs that's a lot more sexy in. interesting than saying i just worked with you know five thousand businesses that created two jobs. trying to hit home runs and sort of get walks and signals or throwing the home they're throwing the long ball back the baseball metaphors that we love so much here in north carolina we do i do yeah you know so what is now the attitude in the democratic party may i mean i hear what you're saying a sound you know like you're trying to. bring it up bring it all together and like rational you know i was underestimated tromp and it looks like that's going to

continue i mean. what's going to derail this guy i mean there's no skeleton in the closet same strong enough to do. nobody in washington can stop him he's got is twitter sphere that he just broadcast irakli with goes through mobile round mainstream media he's out is unstoppable. i'm going to stop with the electoral college was designed to stop a person like trump and it did because our institutions have been failing for decades that's a very interesting point the electoral college was designed to stop a charismatic let's say person from garnering the popular vote in a way that would be representational to the nation as a whole and somehow he defeated that and won the electoral vote how was that possible against the most widely anticipated when in american presidential history

for hillary well on on a lot of levels i mean it wasn't just donald trump you know republican policy makers you know and americans for prosperity and other groups have been you know working on ways to suppress the vote since obama won i mean this is about the politics of race as well this is about the politics of preserving white privilege and white power so i mean these things were already there this table was set and donald just kind of elbowed his way into the room he benefited. from suppression and wisconsin when i told you how he could win i laid out the states that he could win based on what reagan democrats did in the past and based on how sanders did in the primary and it happened but let's not forget that in wisconsin tens of thousands of people were not able to vote based on voter i.d. laws that were rammed through by support from the koch brothers and others why because they know if certain populations vote their ideas will not win which is why they don't want to have a huge turnout they win when the turn on

a smaller and speaking about twenty eighteen yes there could be a blue wave but what's holding it back is a red firewall what's that red fire wall gerrymandering most of these districts are impossible to win in right now if there is that being a state that is the most gerrymandered probably in the country as far for i'm hearing you know better but as that the case yes north carolina is rated on indices you know from people around the world where they look at actual countries and let's not forget we've got ten million people in the states a word as large as many countries as being one of the least democratic places on the planet when they rate you know athens is of the election interfering. maybe a domestically instead of looking from outside forces there any way down to go here in numbers man we've got to go thank you man cause report thank you for having me on report all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser a part of me max keiser and stacy everett i think gets ready voller federation's on twitter it's kaiser report and tonight on.

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a ceasefire for the rebel held district of eastern. people. don't do it don't do it don't do it and we did the right thing washington will relocate its embassy in israel to jerusalem in a move the palestinians say could destroy any hope of a peace settlement. and three friends from australia challenge themselves to a grueling ninety kilometer cross-country skiing race in sweden despite never having tried to. teach q. in moscow here let's bring you up to date on the stories we're tracking this hour first syria where the state media is reporting that islamist militants in the rebel . have launched a fresh round of mortar shelling on residential areas in the capital.

three people are said to have been killed and a further fifteen injured it's the second time civilians in damascus have been killed in a bombardment by insurgents this week. eastern ghouta is a suburb of the capital and it's been under siege by pro-government troops since twenty thirteen but the violence there is dramatically intensified as regime forces attempt to topple the last rebel stronghold close to damascus according to some estimates more than four hundred fifty people have been killed in the district this week alone that's led the u.n. to call on all sides to agree to an immediate cease fire the security council is expected to vote on a cease fire resolution later on saturday it was delayed after members failed to agree on anything on friday evening they'd argued over a draft which proposed a thirty day truce and for the evacuation of people from the area who need medical treatment russia maintained that there was no guarantee that the militants would have died by the agreement moscow also said that it wanted the al nasra group to be

excluded from the truce. put the dupatta which is the main problem minister and used to as i mentioned he's consciously or unconsciously to do the same as the other syrian rebels just how to lose reasonable touch and we still don't have evidence that the coalition led by the united states is treating. as a real target and of course who drove the tension of our american colleagues to that fact we don't see your comments having any effect well it's been a tough two days of rhetoric and negotiations now it all relates to the district of eastern ghouta that's east of damascus a suburb that is currently under the control of rebels and terrorists it's an enclave and at this point the syrian government is trying to retake the city in an anti terror operation now at this point the anti terror operation is being widely criticized by western leaders there reporting that civilians are being killed

recently we even heard from the u.s. president donald trump i will say what russia and want to read and what syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace i will tell you that we're there for one reason with it to get isis and get rid of isis and go home we're not there for any other reason and we've largely accomplished our goal but what those three countries have done to people over the last short period of time is a disgrace now at this point the leaders of the international community are in full agreement that civilian life in eastern is very important and that the conditions are dire all want to make sure that civilians are safe however there are clear disagreements among world leaders about who is to blame for the situation in eastern guta. western nations have been extremely vocal in their criticisms of the syrian government's over its operation in eastern guta however critics have accused

them of double standards particularly after their muted response to the campaign to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from islamic states although that was having a devastating impact on civilians it was deemed to victory was necessary at any cost. by the escalation and strikes me humanitarian disaster systematic targeting of civilians this is how ongoing slaughter of trap civilians it's about the case of the syrian government as well and we call on this including russia to ensure that this violence stops.

in iraq and in syria people are much more accepting that because it creates their city being liberated they understand what they were suffering civilians will get caught in the crossfire civilians will get hurt civilians will get killed if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at a price i know voidable part of war and commanders have to press on despite their responsibility for civilian casualties in iraq and syria lies with isis the good guys and munitions people on a battlefield with different political commentator john white says western powers reluctance to target terrorists will only add to the suffering of civilians that.

change propaganda. into the realms of the fantastic creating groups such as nusra front and jash islam which is the dominant function in eastern guta these. groups which adhere to the same ideology responsible for nine eleven and a whole litany of terrorist attacks there are no being depicted there's rebels as part of zones of second world war repute whereby the syrian army. just drawn from every part of the multicultural and multi-religious was a city in society there are no being p.t. there's a lot of the waffen s.s. an army of occupation the than an army of liberation so this narrative will continue syria comes closer to achieving its complete liberation and the suffering of civilians which no one can deny is being prolonged by this continued attempt to undermine the attempts of the syrian government and its allies particular russia to liberate the country. the u.s.

has announced that it will move its embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem on may the fourteenth the day will mark exactly seventy years since the state of israel was founded you told president had to say about the decision which immediately triggered a wave of violent protest. people begging you don't do it don't do it don't do it. the. campaign against it was so incredible. but you know what the campaign for it was cool so incredibly and we did the right thing. following clashes in the west bank city of ramallah palestinian activists attacked the u.s. delegation that was visiting every section polling center the americans had to be

evacuated from the area over twenty palestinians have been killed and around a thousand injured since tensions flared over donald trump's decision to recognize traditional as the israeli capital his american with more on washington's initiative. to put it simply trump said he doesn't care what the world thinks about his decision to move the embassy to jerusalem which actually supports israel's claims to the city but when he says the campaign against his decision was incredible he means this. the clerical garb or. the protocol that. everybody. even though trump doesn't care people in the region do today we saw clashes in hebron continue which israel on the other hand is praising its minister

for transportation failing to trump in a tweet even called him a friend of a back in december in a security council vote of fourteen countries condemned to trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital and including and among those were stolen. u.s. allies like b. u.k. and france and in the general assembly one hundred and twenty eight countries got the use of the veto obstructed the security council and unable to perform his duties and do dick kids a work of the international community to be resolved to a negotiation between the two parties are un members. threatened or the other members this is bullying and this john boehner will not bow to that now despite international backlash the state department has notified congress that assembler c. will be moved to jerusalem on may fourteenth which is much sooner than originally planned last month the vice president pence at the embassy would be moved by the end of twenty nine.