was a leak. to the to the media so brennan was the political boy working for the expected hillary clinton. presidency so let's let's expand this investigation let's forget about the russians because this was and what the russians did and let's look at what john brown a did steve what we had i agree with that i think feel is absolutely right let me and say on this because mr brown was there with the torture the enhanced interrogation programs the destruction of video interrogation tapes. all under his watch and he should be also investigated for authorizing a participating in a virtual assassination program that is endowing the president authorizing the president to kill american citizens that he unilaterally decides were implicated in national security danger based upon unsubstantiated evidence mr brennan should be

under investigation for assassinations and i would drink to that ok let me go to steve here were given a peculiar situation here do believe jim comi or interim mccabe. that's a dilemma that's a really sad sad state of affairs which when you get to believe go ahead you know what i'm getting at steve go ahead well here's what yeah well of course called he's got the book coming out and he's been tweeting that oh i'm going to tell my story who cares but here's the deal colby testified under oath that he never authorized anyone to talk to the media about the sensitive information that mccabe reportedly or allegedly talked to the media about and 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. it's

front page every single day documenting every single thing we're talking about adding more but they couldn't ok let me go to guys you have stormy daniels out there and whatever else i'm going to go to a philip before we go to the break here philip. 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 lied to the f.b.i. so why should there be a prosecution of a general flynn if there are 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 our team. this prison for a single. a super. training very young. eight months of intensive school. reps. and they save lives. but it was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken all. it's forcing you to fight the battles that still exists to stop spreading tell

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a good deal i'd say he became. a citizen am feeling hopeful when it comes to cable you don't take a risk on the outer. parts . per. welcome back to crossfire all things considered i'm peter little to remind you we're discussing exposing the deep state. ok let me go back to bruce in washington which is let me give you

a hypothetical let's say in two or three months the wraps up 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 on this program and what 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 get like i go into finances or something about his son in law but they don't go through all of a myriad of other things that we've been hearing about or about people that or people that 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 that would be filed by mr moeller he's not chartered doesn't include investigating the clinton foundation or that he can do anything he won't sessions get any best again and so he can know that he's not through his charter is quite limited that is not true and you haven't looked at the charter peter it's quite narrow went to the head of ford and challenging. his indictment on certain counts ok all right you're a lawyer are just telling you you're a lawyer in foundation i have read i've read the charter numerous occasions even under the wildest delusionary given. 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 the 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 court 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 sent 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 i'm going to fill up right now but my question stands is that if there is an investigation into these other activities that we've 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 into 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 but i that would be a good this is go ahead 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 civil fifty one forty nine forming

a church committee i mean they have the majority so why have the white house said why don't they do this why is there sessions why don't 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 there were hundreds of millions of his statutes of limitation. needs to be prosecuted 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 breaux 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 the 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 a 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 into 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 brings 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 this 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 happened in 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 a little 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 the 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 fires of 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 at least 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 like it don't forget the rubber duck don't forget the rope 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 trouble fall to make it fire them all and really drain the swamp but it's not been done ok philip you know one of the things you think because 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 at r.t.c. an exciting remember across.

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system is not suited and it's not clear we're long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. the headlines in r.t. russia says it regards the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. as an act of terror while demanding answers to war unanswered questions also to come scores of civilians are killed as rebel shelling targets the suburbs of damascus and hits a crowded market. and facebook is under fire after the data of millions of its users was harvested and exploited in u.s. presidential campaigns we debate whether this amounted to election meddling. i understand that's the kind of party line which is whatever whatever the russian bots may have done was to warped by you know this larger things we'll see is the fact that facebook is a tool of proxy ifill well the government.

there is seven pm here in moscow you're watching international now the russian foreign ministry says it considers the poisoning of former spy sick a scrip owl and his daughter as an act of terror is just held a briefing on the case with a number of ambassadors attending the event and they were chewed up as more details . the foreign ministry spokesperson said a number of things firstly he reiterated that russia could have in no way benefited from the attack moscow says they consider this to be a terror attack secondly they stated that the u.k. refused to cooperate with russia which is against the convention on prohibition of chemical weapons and he mentioned the attack could have been orchestrated by another party but then clarified that russia is not pinning the blame on anyone and asked that his words not be distorted let's take

a quick look. we see that the british authorities are becoming ever more nervous and it's clear why the clock is ticking they have backed themselves into a corner they will eventually have to provide an increasing number of unanswered questions we expect from london and from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons an official count of developments regarding the scruple case we need comprehensive conclusions and detailed confirmations a spokesperson for the defense ministry also spoke out he said that it seems that britain is afraid to conduct an unbiased investigation into the scope of case and that the u.k. presented no proof that gas illegibly used to poison scruple was made in russia he went on to say that the formula of the subs and not the child was published by scientists. who is working with the us government the russian foreign ministry went on to talk specifically about britain and said it was and is one of the states that have been implementing a program on the development of new chemical weapons since one thousand nine

hundred seventy s. he added that the porton down lap in britain is used to conductance parents involving use of chemical weapons now we did have a reaction from a london embassy spokesperson who stated that moscow doesn't have to present anything in terms of scope or case but is ready for a joint investigation london has proposed russia a dialogue over this case however it doesn't see a constructive approach from moscow now the ambassadors that didn't. attend were britain u.s. and france britain and the us sent embassy workers instead a crimp spokesperson reacted to the u.k. decision by saying that it showed willingness to hear rushes to its questions moscow to date has denied any involvement in the attempted murders. the russian former intelligence officer and his daughter you were allegedly poisoned insults three both of them remain in a critical condition and so this diplomatic spat that has gone on for

a while now looks to continue to go on for some time meanwhile the u.k.'s foreign secretary boris johnson has said he believes that the script poisoning leads back inexorably to the kremlin however he went on to say that this case shouldn't lead to an end to all dialogue with russia adding that london wasn't trying to start a new cold war well i want to be very clear that we do wish to engage in a new cold war. that i don't want i remember. no new arms deals became the main topic for the talks between the saudi crown prince and the u.s. president on tuesday and donald trump did find a creative way to present his potential customer with more military hardware. five hundred. million dollars five hundred forty. million dollars that.

wealthy nation we're going to give the united states some of the common however that meeting was met with protests to you is activist called on washington to stop backing this saudi led bombing of yemen. this is a crisis crown prince it's here in the u.s. it is inside the white house right now meeting with the president he's here to secure a cure for u.s. weapons to be used against me and you're also a bargain himself as a reformer well being responsible for creating the worst humanitarian disaster on earth yeah. ok well let's talk about some of the issues now with maria sort and she's a defense analyst and she joins us now good evening to you mary you're very welcome let's just talk about trump at the moment trying to sell the saudis more weapons

obviously given the clip i'm not sure you saw it but he's very keen to do this but i suppose this also gives the saudis a lot of leverage doesn't it over thorny issues like yemen. i think it's the first time that the u.s. so the relationship has come into such struck focus where the u.s. administration is trying to sell the u.s. military war machine to the so these and they're expecting to get a hard bargain and in that case they believe that they actually have a leverage in terms of so the arabia's nuclear program but in reality what we see on the ground is this that actually does the so these which are holding the leverage at this moment because only twelve billion dollars worth of trade has actually commenced between united states and saudi arabia with regards to weapon sales and the united states is expecting around hundred fourteen billion dollars worth of trade which doesn't seems to be the offering which so the arabia is

looking for rather that it's news is so there may even be pulling out some of its money from the united states and maybe perhaps bidding into other initiatives in terms of economic markup as well as in defense relationships also at this meeting maria they're going to talk about saudi arabia's nuclear development in fact later today i think in congress that's going to be debated what do you think we can expect from that debate do you think people will be in favor or against. most probably the u.s. administration trump administration would try to give leverage to the saudis for the nuclear program but there is a big problem the biggest problem is one that the so these are not coming out as strongly in favor of the u.s. arms as the united states was hoping one number two the saudis are only signatories to the n.p.t. and there is no additional protocol which has been signed between saudi arabia and

the international atomic energy agency and number three the saudis are in no mood to give the uranium enrichment right to the americans so that does puts the america american administration in a difficult position so. this is going to be a difficult position where the u.s. administration will try to get these so the nuclear program off the stage and the democrats would be trying to stop this program now the biggest question here will be that will the u.s. the ministry of defense or the defense ailes actually manage to sway the congress which doesn't seems to be in place at this moment but they would definitely be a strong push by the trump administration to do this and the saudi prince is taken to the stage for that hasn't he said he wants to pursue a nuclear weapons program also i think we can listen to a clip on what he said for certain events until it's a saudi arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb but without a doubt if you run develop the nuclear bomb we will follow suit as soon as possible

do you think washington would support that position. actually what washington is actually looking for is in one way a balance or in the region so while the six party you know by plus one talks have worked for iran and the iranians have not conceded to the u.s. demands and the british demands that the british oil companies must be given a share in the iranian oil cheers as they come off the sanctions list so they're hoping that they can leverage the saudi nuclear program but the reality is is that it's a question of nuclear options so at this moment yes the so these do not believe in a nuclear weapons program but if things go westward they go east you cannot take this possibility off the table number one so in this case it's going to be very hard bargain that the saudis will give away the right of natural uranium processing

and they would believe that the americans would be the sole arbiter sort of salt providers for you to saudi arabia they would be looking at other markets including russia they'd be looking at other places including china and maybe even perhaps other countries such as south korea so i think this in the nuclear front it was not going to be easy to get to them for the united states even if they think that this is something which they can leverage this so this way the saudis have a far bigger edge at this moment for the u.s. defense industry than the americans would like their own government or for that matter the international community to police ok maria look fascinating to talk to you really appreciate your insights thanks me time to you that was nuri a source and defense analyst. in other news this evening a series of missile attacks have struck government controlled suburbs of the syrian capital killing at least forty four people. it is real my.