whatever ridiculous yeah but this is i mean this is the thing about sanctions they don't work they don't work. they end up hurting not the person at the top just like russian sanctions do you think putin is going to miss a meal even you know is that do you think the people you know who are at the top and he thinks he's been in cuba do you think castro was missing a meal or do you think kim jong il is going to miss a meal now it's the people that barely have anything to survive on now and you honestly think that people who are starving the point of sanctions is this idea that they're all going to rise up and go up against them they don't have food you know they don't have food they have limited resources to begin with and we think starving out an entire generation of children is somehow going to answer the question and i'm sorry but you know and i agree with you completely tell that i'm sorry but why is talking such a negative thing in my mind is like isn't talking isn't dialogue isn't that the way you understand people that you prevent war from happening you prevent bombs from driving by continuing to talk absolutely ridiculous so hard as we go to break court

watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered and facebook and twitter your full shows at our two dot com coming up we ask off the lawyer jerk about what happened to bernie sanders his new book apparently he has the absolute states to watch. jail in this country and the d.n.a. of a bottle aside any sign of success. an estimated eighteen thousand since underage refugees are now living in greece. you know just don't know. what to do at home when they do you know food being. many so

just to make ends meet. always in the sector in the second i know all the signs in there that you know this is the biggest. all there is thirds are dealing drugs to make a living with. this it's a little it's a lot of blood runs in the. name of the. election brigade collusion fraud and a full frontal assault on the foundation of our democracy to any regular viewer of

c.n.n. and m s n b c that might sound like the tagline of russia gave a list of reasons that donald trump is now the forty fifth occupant of the oval office but to america's progressive left that is also the summary of the two thousand and sixteen democratic primary when hillary clinton and the d.n.c. machine succeeded and relegating the nation's most motivated and hard fought movement in decades to a pre-determined second place finish and a humiliating lesson in true democratic obedience many bernie sanders among them have accepted this stinging loss and learned to stay quiet and carry on but many have not one person who insists on continuing the fight for transparency has started litigator jared back author of what happened to bernie sanders joined us earlier today. the bottom line in my opinion is that bernie sanders. and in a system that was specifically designed for candidates such as him in other words

progressive candidates in the mold of george mcgovern to not get the nomination it was a rigged system and it was rigged from the start and it was rigged in a number of different ways and what i try to do in the book is put the pieces together and synthesize all the evidence that's out there in the public domain in order to explain and clarify how this system operated and in my view one probably the most critical factor in the rigging of the primaries against bernie sanders was the role of the media and the role that the mainstream media played in connection with the d.n.c. in rigging the elections against bernie sanders i couldn't agree with you more of the their role it was was agreed just across the board and just sitting back and

watching it you know. from a viewer and there's still a part of the media you could see that absolutely and that was one of the issues that a lot of bernie's supporters had they were frustrated a lot of people that they saw what they saw as a sort of reluctance on bernie sanders part to call out the full six its extent of the of the rate primary that he sort of acquiesce to the hellery coronation having studied this election so extensively do you think critics those critics have something to go on do you think they're right that part of that oh absolutely yeah absolutely in fact we are at a historic an unprecedented. time in our nation's history because we are we have been afforded an unprecedented opportunity to look behind the scenes at the workings of this rigged system because wiki leaks. really

a revolutionary publisher has released so much documentation into the public domain for us to study and so what i try to do in this book is go through that documentation and connect the internal. documents from the d.n.c. s. own servers and connect those documents into what exactly happened in the mainstream media. through the network that exists between d.n.c. operatives on the one hand and mainstream media operatives on the other and so what i charge in this book is exactly how the mainstream media works at the behest of the d.n.c. itself to create false narratives against bernie sanders from the very beginning of the process including perhaps the most famous of false narratives which i called

the myth of the bernie bro who yes that was a big one that was a big. special because everybody out there that about election i think you know everyone out there has people who are who you know they wish wouldn't speak for them or if you know i mean a lot of this is startling ultimately though there's still the extent of it is still that kind of like smoke and mirrors of the. now i understand you were during the process you know you were in the process of a lawsuit yourself over this matter. where where does the lawsuits that day is this something that we can expect to see come for to fruition or you know were the idea of this lawsuit you know i need to make this political statement because you know for the historical records because somebody had to stand up and kind of do something amidst all of this evidence flying around and then i'll ask is there any way to actually hold the d.n.c. ad in the clintons accountable you know for this rigging at the end of the day.

right so we filed the lawsuit very shortly. after the first documents showing the d.n.c. s fraudulent intent were released into the public domain and that actually wasn't wiki leaks that was good for two point zero which released a number of internal d.n.c. documents and i believe june of two thousand and sixteen which showed how the d.n.c. was strategizing to. elevate hillary clinton to the nomination and how exactly it was going to pursue a very specific and discreet media strategy among other things in order to achieve that outcome and so we filed our lawsuit very shortly after gucci for two came out with those documents that that lawsuit there were two hearings held in the district

court in fort lauderdale florida where the lawsuit was filed which is also happens to be debbie wasserman schultz's district and of course she was named as a defendant with the d.n.c. as the former chair person and so the court held two hearings. of eventually the court dismissed the lawsuit and said that our clients who were donors to the bernie sanders campaign didn't have what is called legal standing to pursue claims against the d.n.c. and debbie wasserman schultz for rigging the primaries but in the course of. these lower court proceedings something very very interesting happened in open court before the judge hearing the case and what happened is that the d.n.c. is counsel got up and said that the d.n.c. had every right to go into back rooms and select the candidates like they did in

the old days smoking. cigars and he said those precise words and there is absolutely no. nothing no legal resource recourse for that in fact the d.n.c. has every right to rig the primaries that way and this was a shocking statement i was shocked at the time i heard this and i'm still shocked and we and i said at the time if what the d.n.c. is counsel says is true then this is a very very sad day for democracy in this country because it means that there is absolutely no recourse that can be had legally to ensure that there are fair elections in this kind of country so worst on appeal in this case we appealed the judge's order dismissing us for not having standing and we are in the briefing process right now before the eleventh circuit court of appeals which

sits in atlanta and has jurisdiction over the over the appeals so i absolutely hope that that. that the d.n.c. is wrong about this and that we do have legal recourse and we are going to pursue this case until the very end and try to get justice for all of the bernie donors that were harmed by the d.n.c. conduct because they paid over two hundred twenty seven million dollars to bernie sanders campaign based on the belief that this was a legitimate and fair demick credit process and all the evidence shows that it was not but i think we've already gotten this these facts out into the public domain through the litigation process of course we've been blacked out by the mainstream media but that is a good thing that has come from the lawsuit but i hope it's not the only thing hillary and bernie supporters have harbored a pretty strong animosity for each other throughout the whole process of the. and

even through the election but most of them do seem to sarah share a certain reverence for president obama and the interesting thing about this this entire situation is this the fact that obama had a pretty big role in the primary he was essentially the de facto head of the d.n.c. at the time or at the democratic party he's responsible for appointing debbie wasserman schultz of the d.n.c. and it seems that all all things considered he has avoided his share of the blame here why do you think that happened. well i i think you're absolutely right this all happened on obama's watch but i think all of this is happened and all this is happening not just from obama but really from the very leadership of the d.n.c. right now which is swearing in till the end that the process. that there

was nothing wrong with the process or that you know claims that that that the process were unfair are unfounded and all you have to do really is read the briefs that the d.n.c. has filed in our case i mean they're taking positions like. to the extent that we're threatening their first amendment rights by suing them for rigging the primaries which is just ridiculous to me so you know the short answer to your question i think is that. the d.n.c. and its leadership including president obama or former president obama has very much doubled down on the strategy that they pursued in rigging the primaries against bernie sanders and when you double down on a strategy you never back away from the strategy never apologize for the strategy you never give any ground and so i think we're just really at

a historic log or heads right now in terms of the democratic party and people who were formerly in the democratic party because i know a lot of people are leaving the party or have left the party in droves over what happened in two thousand and sixteen to bernie sanders most of the dirt and i want to say thank you and keep up the good work that you're doing out there definitely check out your book what happened to bernie sanders sure thank you so much for coming on today and definitely like to have you back on as we get closer to the twenty team primaries because i think the blogger who talked about is going to play a huge role in who gets on the democratic ticket let the good person a lot of talk about that thank you so much for coming out and writing this book. well thank you for having me it's been a pleasure. this time of year the north pole or the arctic as proper scientists call it normally sits around negative thirty degrees celsius or negative twenty two degrees fahrenheit for my fellow americans but this year something is different see

the northern most weather station in the world clock temperature is at forty three degrees fahrenheit six degrees celsius all because the lack of sea ice is making it easier for warm air to head north but it also sent frigid air south to europe we were seeing record cold temperatures the eternal city of rome saw a freezing air snow fall for the first time in nearly a decade and then thirty years before that they call this siberian weather from the beast from the east and it brought four inches of snow to rome delaying public transport closing schools cemeteries and even bringing priests and nuns into the blizzard for snowballs the police have even taken to detaining homeless citizens to protect them from the elements it looks as if our weather.