talk to the media about the sensitive information that mccabe reportedly or allegedly talk to the media about mccabe said that you know he was authorized to do it so and they both said this on their oath so one of them committed perjury apparently this is so outrageous and really i mean if we had an honest media in this country the new york times would be putting this story on its plate front page every single day documenting every single thing we're talking about and more but they couldn't ok let me go to cause you have stormy daniels out there and whatever else i'm going to go to a philip before we go to the break here phil. i'm sure general flynn is watching all of this with great interest so we have a number of people that have lied under oath and lying to the f.b.i. so why should there be a prosecution of the general flynn if there isn't going to be prosecutions against other people that lied to the f.b.i. the f.b.i. lying to the f.b.i. go ahead philip you know this is this is really the interesting aspect of the

investigations people are being gotten gotten by virtue of the fact that they lied about something and nobody's really looking at what they actually did if we look at what flynn actually accomplished or did there's there's something there but the fact that he lied his way the reason he's being hung out to dry and this seems to be the process that's being followed by the investigation when you think about it that's pretty scary and it is very very all right gentlemen to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on exposing the deep state stays with r.t. . for a we'll go twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all the son but there was one more question by the way is going to be on. coach

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what the. left alone has said. you know. that. your friends. think. this is. welcome back to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing exposing the deep state. ok let me go back to bruce in washington let me give you

a hypothetical let's say in two or three months. his investigation and let's say hypothetically there is a damning findings that the report reveals to the public how how will it be received if so much of the things that we've been talking about in this program and i've been talking about on cross talk for months now when we don't hear or have any investigation into the clinton foundation about how the f.b.i. was politicized during the campaign how they manipulated the campaign tried to influence it and we have one report that we will probably get we could hypothetically again like that go into finances or something about his son in law but they don't go through all the myriad of other things that we have been hearing about or about people that or people that are actively search out information like people watching this program in the sense of balance and hypocrisy will be so apparent bruce go ahead. well i don't know whether that can be large that

a report there would be filed by mr mole or his not charter doesn't include investigating the clinton foundation or the lenten season do anything he won't sessions can investigate on his own he could know that is not true his charter is quite limited that is not true even if you haven't looked at the charter peter it's quite narrow and in fact even afford it challenging it is easy it is indictment on certain counts ok all right you're a leon test telling you you're a lawyer and foundation i have read i've read the charter numerous occasions even under the wildest delusionary given interpretation of language it cannot include the clinton foundation that doesn't mean the department on its own can investigate crime that's how it ordinarily happens the special prosecutor is an exception and there's no reason why mr sessions couldn't on his own through the criminal division i knew the criminal division i work with a criminal division began an investigation of that sort the statute of limitations has not run now how should

a report be handled there is unlike in the independent counsel era which had lapsed after the clinton impeachment and acquittal at the senate we don't have an obligation of a special prosecutor report to be published moreover unlike in the independent counsel era there's no requirement that anybody who is accused by a special prosecutor port be given an opportunity to file a response to the accusation so the public can hear and see both sides of the of the investigative report so here the department itself could however implement some regulations that kind of open book approach to any report so somebody accused has an answer as an opportunity to state and a response said in public then can evaluate it then we will have an ability to provide some measure of credibility to the accuracy of the. assertions well well

said your honor and we go to philip right now philip but my question stands is that if there is an investigation into these other activities that we have discussed that ad nauseum on this program here. or maybe i should ask why wouldn't sessions not appoint a new counsel because i think it's imperative right now because as you said earlier in the program in russia gate it's so flimsy you can make it in anything you want but a lot of other things are very factual people lying under under oath unmasking leaking all of these things have legal. implications here you know talking to george papadopoulos in a bar you know i don't see the legal jeopardy but i would peter struck talking to his girlfriend looking for insurance i think we should perk up our ears and look at it more closely go ahead philip. well i hear what you're saying peter but the problem is i think that the the corruption is so broad yeah the united states

government that everybody has an interest in not letting it be investigated and we probably need something go like you remember the church commission in the seventy's right basically looking into the intelligence community we need something maybe that has a broader brush but. as bruce has has has correctly said the mandate for from ruler is fairly strictly and narrowly defined and that of course was deliberate to add to to make sure that it doesn't really get into other issues that would expand this this investigation so broadly that it would be. a ten year job to investigate corruption in the u.s. government which we all know is pervasive you know that you're going to see that would be a career that i bet would be a good this is go ahead and i had to rush now go ahead right now right now that the the there's nothing that prevents the house dominated by republicans and the senate

dominated by republicans sieve fifty one forty nine forming a church committee i mean they have the majority so why have the white roosted why don't they do this why is there sessions why will they do it because we have a weak and cowardly we have a cowardly system where people do not step up for their own responsibility and we talk about lies as well i'll tell you one the department of justice our prosecutor right now mr james clapper then yes director of national intelligence yes tells a lie to the senate intelligence committee that he is not gathering data on millions of americans i guess they were hundreds of millions of his statutes of limitation one hundred fifty firefighters needs to be prosecuted to the statute of limitations and all he was promoted you know he got a pay i would actually be hazardous is passion here steve let me go to steve here could say you know bruce brings up a really good point and i think steve and i agree. on this point here where is the will power i mean the i mean we don't know what's going to happen after the

midterms but between now and the midterms just exactly what bruce said is true you know we could get a church committee together but why don't the republicans get their act together go ahead steve they're republican the republican leadership is feckless now and it's always been feckless they're the worst of group i've ever seen at communicating there should be a press conference held every day with every revelation that comes out ryan and mcconnell should be there with the chairman of the various committees say this is outrageous where are you mr attorney general appoint a special prosecutor i don't know what's up with sessions i've got on many shows on i think even on that last time i was on with you peter and said by the way as anybody seen jeff sessions there very well may be an investigation going on behind the scenes into the whole f.b.i. investigation process and to hillary's e-mails and the clinton foundation but you know what i don't care about behind the scenes say this deserves a special prosecutor and do it now and if it doesn't happen i have to wonder what

sessions has to fear because maybe someone's got something on him and he knows it you've got it all these things pop into your head it's that no brainer give us a special prosecutor you know you know philip you know. up a really good point here if there isn't transparency you know we're going to continue down this path what i really worry about is that you know we will go through additional election cycles we won't learn from the mistakes of the two thousand and sixteen and will get more and more politicized and then you get a banana republic you know i mean we cia and the f.b.i. were never set up to to work inside of domestic politics in it and there's ample evidence that that's happening at least in the last election here and if there isn't a church a committee like thing i don't see that will be able to avoid it will disk continue to repeat and probably even intensify go ahead philip. you know i absolutely agree i mean we're you know we're kind of looking at the minutia of what's going on and there's something really big behind it that we're afraid to touch because too many

special interests and and too many people in power would be affected by this and again i mean to me that the horrific thing that that has has been emerging from all of this is that the fact that our national security institutions and organs have been corrupted by this process where essentially they become part of the political system that is this is the kind of thing that occurs in. a tyranny or an autocracy where the national security is basically there to protect the party in power and that's essentially where we're heading. you know you know bruce wayne you know we have a remedy here though i did before peter let me tell you to go to bruce right now cedar point here and i want to insist yes what the remedy is right in the oval office mr trump in the next five minutes could tell mr sessions you appoint a special prosecutor to investigate clinton foundation or i'm firing you if there's

nothing that impede to me has that power under article two if his team isn't doing the right thing he can fire them why doesn't that he could also release mr sessions is not going to get over it really kind of far as a gary somebody who will go ahead steve steve that he could declassify it all that is right on the precipice lives on his own can declassify he can declassify it right nice any information he wishes. and that's for sure but i just saw point out here harry truman said rockwell lighthouse steve go ahead if you look at don't forget the rubber duck don't forget the real talk about the deep state the state department the f.b.i. the cia they're still full of people who don't like never like trump and are loyal to the democrats and obama and they're still in there and obama has theirs in my opinion this sort of shadow government working where strings are being told there is week after week after week of the most confidential conversations the president

has and information from the white house and here and there and don't think that's not orchestrated so when we talk about deep state it's holdovers and again yes that's could be trumped fault you could fire them all and really drain the swamp but it's not been done ok philip you know one of the things you think is you've served in government. former spook yourself do you think that there will ever we'll ever find out. specifically who did all of the leaking in the first hundred days of trump's administration because that's illegal those are felonies people go to jail for that do you think there will be a follow up on that go ahead philip. well i'd like to hope that there will be a follow up on that. the thing that. is notable in all these cases that there's always kind of a paper trail or there are people that are sitting in the room that basically hear what's going on and later on come out with it we have to hope for that kind of shall we say integrity in the process where the we're picking up on the things that

occurred that have been carefully hidden. i'm somewhat optimistic these things have a tendency to come out of ten chile and i think it would be good for the country it would be good for our democracy well also and we're going to finish on this side we have been there i don't want peter i want to correct one thing really when we don't have an official secrets act in the united states it's not automatically a crime to leak information even classified information there is an effort to get a statute like that but it has to have certain elements of aiding the enemy sabotaging the national diantha under the espionage enemy can you enemy and say they need any a single lead the enemy is a model we've got a great pair gentlemen the enemies the media many thanks to my guests and want to do new york and leesburg and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t.c. unexciting remember across.

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kate partridge and you're watching the news headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow. the twenty three russian diplomats expelled by london have arrived in moscow this comes during the ongoing spat between the u.k. and russia over the poisoning of former spy so ghostscript these are the pictures from from nuclear airport in moscow a total of eighty russians have now left the british capital these include family members of the expelled diplomats and other staff artie's party boyko reports on the latest in the standoff. is twenty three diplomats and their families so close to a hundred people who were waved off by the remaining embassy staff in the u.k. they boarded a russian government plane bound from moscow and the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander yes convention he is school them to the airport this is what he had to say take a listen with the three diplomats means forty percent reduction. and that's the

world already embassy this why there will be doing these in the issue visas is becoming a little bit more complicated these days you know to work here in the u.k. but this is the new reality is this is the different level of. the major problem for us you know all this. is that we don't have any evidence no evidence presented to us and for the time being you know we don't have a need for a mission aboard the police and the diplomatic expulsions are all part of this fall out between the u.k. and russia following the poisoning of sergei script and his daughter in souls very over a couple of weeks ago now over two weeks ago last week to resume a blamed the kremlin for the attempted murder of the former double agent and his daughter she said it was high. likely that the noisy child agent originated in

russia and she announced a raft of measures in retaliation the kremlin responded on saturday as well in turn with a list of twenty three british diplomats who were being expelled from moscow that's yet to happen the kremlin's also announced the closure of the british consulate in st petersburg and the closure of the british council which is sort of the cultural shoots of the british embassy in russia for tat measures and to resume a met with the national security council today there had been some expectation that she might introduce more new measures further measures against the kremlin but her spokesperson has just been talking and she said that there is action being taken at the border to monitor and track people whose activity threatens the security of the u.k. and its allies she's saying there's work by international inspectors to get samples of the nerve agent going and the prime minister is looking forward to more talks

with the states on the spy poisoning later on this week so she's really reinforced what was unveiled last week but stopped short so far of adding to the list of measures she has however said that all the measures are being actively considered and they're going to be ready to deploy by to reason may at any time now in the meantime the investigation into what actually took place how that nerve agent was administered that is still ongoing and is being handled by london's anti terror police unit their latest statement says that this is an investigation that's set to last for many months to come they have some two hundred fifty detectives working on collecting evidence around the clock and on top of that investigators from the hague from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons they have arrived in the u.k. this week they're collecting samples of the nerve agent used from the lab that's handling it here as part. an independent investigation into what happened and the

results of that are expected to take at least two weeks and the u.s. state department has voiced its support for the expulsion of the russian diplomats was also hinted at possible u.s. measures over this group case understand and support what the british government has chosen to do in terms of kicking out. the russian diplomats from its country as i just said to leslie a minute ago we're not going to preview some of our activities but we are watching closely and we may be taking actions. yeah there probably will do something. you know that britain is america's closest ally it seems to me that this is all reeks of the old cold war. days when you know you're trying to portray the other side as evil and i think that's what they're doing to try to gin up this . picture of russia. you know this evil empire again. russia is demanding the u.s. either proves its accusations in this poisoning case or paula jones my colleague

andrew farm i discussed the developments with artie's daniel hawkins so far over the last fifteen days it's very much been a predictable different arctic tit for tat the expulsion of those russian diplomats and the british diplomats likewise from moscow what we do know and of the wider fallout the support u.k. has received in a merkel one major european power leader has been in conversation with the polish prime minister mr. moore where he where she has condemned russia and divided russia provide proof of what she describes as it's known involvement in this case proof of its innocence this is what she had to say we are of the opinion that there are very serious indications there russia has something to do with this now it's up to russia to show this is not the case and president. likewise joining in the chorus implying that russia may have stockpiled or perhaps even lost control of some of

those alleged chemical weapons chemical agents it does possess calling on russia to reveal any of those to the piece of this is the statement from the french. the french president has called on russian authorities to shed light on their role in relation to the unacceptable attack in salisbury and to take back full control of any programs not to clear to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons further to those talks in warsaw the polish government also. saying unconfirmed sources at the moment but saying they are considering expelling russian diplomats in solidarity with the u.k. also considering apparently bringing in sanctions against certain russian government officials and certain companies as well the whole. owners here of course being on russia to prove its innocence and prove. evidence of a lack of involvement in this case as opposed to the other way around the u.k. provide evidence of direct concrete russian involvement. to these countries that cetera very much of things perhaps slightly being turned on their head here how do

you ask somebody to prove their innocence in a vacuum prove you didn't do something how do you do that when the russians have a request of the british to give the same samples they've given to the o p c w to the russians so they can they can compare it to whatever data they have at their disposal this shows i think the extreme bad faith on the part of the british government i think the americans and the other europeans are basically just sort of going through the motions in supporting their ally but i think theresa may is way out a way out beyond her evidence on this so i think this is getting out of control of course denied any knowledge any involvement in what exactly happened to mr script while the presidential spokesman saying that confirming once again that russia the russian federation has not developed such nerve agents has not stopped while such nerve agents and indeed destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile last year in twenty seventeen nevertheless that diplomatic route has occurred. delete facebook

is that facebook as we heard who is under fire for allowing the data of millions of users to be collected without their consent and data gathering firm called cambridge analytical is at the center of the controversy and is now under investigation in both the u.k. and the u.s. . as the story. deletes facebook it's the hashtag that's been trending on twitter this is actual network here's this off feel reus face that played a part in getting. in the white house from fifteen million facebook users was harvested by a troubling analytic company and what appears to be the largest leak in the social networks history in two thousand and fifteen we learned that a psychology professor at the university of cambridge named dr alexander kogan lying to us violated our platform policies by passing data from an app that was using facebook logon to s e o king which analytical the firm that does political government and military work around the globe it all began with the cambridge

university professor creating a personality up and passing the information acquired on to a third party cambridge analytical once facebook realized it violated their terms they wanted all data to be destroyed there has the potential to be a lengthy legal battle and the fuel to the fire is the fact cambridge analysts say they were conducting separate work for the trump's presidential campaign surely the double trump campaign was the first opportunist in data gathering think back to a bomb as reelection campaign in two thousand and twelve is former media analytics director claims they managed to get a lot more person in from ation than their rivals efface but he is clicks on the democratic side it enabled campaigners to access a wealth of information all thanks to the loopholes and facebook's privacy terms facebook twenty five election we got people to opt in and the privacy policies of that time on facebook were that if they opted in they could tell us who all their friends were where this gets complicated is.