the intelligence committee that made a report hundred fifty pages that said well we don't find any actual collusion with a campaign although the russians intended to influence in some other way the outcome so here we have a president in doubt in your article two of the constitution he can fire them if he believes they're undercutting himself he can fire mr rosenstein he doesn't have to wait well for mr rove sessions brucey hand if he doesn't do this because he doesn't want to bruce you need to appear on the on the liberal cable stations to tell people that because they're american people aren't told that very often philip john brennan's name was mentioned here i think i know why he had such a furious and i think even childish tweet about the mccabe firing is that we go back to the lack of candor again i think john brennan is probably has the least amount of candor and all the cast of characters here i mean i would really like to know how many times he leaked to the media because that's the at least one reason

why mccabe was let go because he leaked to the media go ahead philip. you know i agree i mean you know we keep looking at the f.b.i. and this and unfortunately the cia or at least the leadership of the cia was much more guilty of of this kind of lying and sneaking around for political reasons brennan it is known approached a number of european intelligence services to obtain dirt on the donald trump campaign with which information then was leaked. 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 in what the russians did and let's look at what john brown it did ok steve what we had i agree with that i think feel is absolutely right let me and

say on this because mr brennan 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 who are 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 state of affairs which when you get to believe go ahead you know what i'm getting at steve go ahead well here's here but of course 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 colbert 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 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 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 archie.

bridges for a single. super. training very young. a months of intensive school. reps. and they save lives. welcome back to crossfire where 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 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 in this program and i've been talking 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 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 have been hearing about or about people that or people that actively search out information like people watching this program or the sense of unbalance and hypocrisy will be so apparent bruce go ahead. well i don't know whether that can be a lot is that

a report that 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 in addition on through 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 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 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 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. the assertions well well said your honor and we go to philip right now 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 but i that would be a thread this is going to go ahead to right 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 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 they were hundreds of millions of a statute of limitations one hundred fifty firefighters needs to be prosecuted the statute of limitations didn't know 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 rings 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 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 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 for peter let me tell you to go to bruce right now cedar point here and i want to insist yes what is 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 look over and really kind of fire isn't gary somebody who will go ahead steve steve that he could declassify it could all that reason 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 as 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 trumps 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 easy enemy is a minute 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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russia says it regards the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. as an act of terrorism while demanding answers to all the answered questions. scores of civilians are killed as rebel shelling targets the suburbs of damascus and it's a crowded market. and leaked documents reveal the extent of the u.s. national security agency's efforts to track down and identify big news it's. great to have you with us just to past midnight here in moscow my name's neil

harvey this is r.t. international. the russian foreign ministry says that it considers the poisoning of former spy. this daughter to be an act of terrorism has held a briefing on the case with a number of ambassadors attending the event details his artes in the dia chewed. 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 and official account 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 script 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 conduct instruments 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 script 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. did not 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 and willingness to hear rushes to its questions that moscow to date has denied any involvement in the attempted murders of so can you list cripple the russian former intelligence office cripple and his daughter yulia 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 while the u.k.'s foreign secretary boris johnson has said that he believes the script old poisoning leads

back to the kremlin citing a number of allegations but claiming that he doesn't want a new cold war. i want to be very clear that we do not wish to engage in a new cold war i deprecate that term i don't want i remember them of the old cold war . they got the road so to welcome. criticism the option putin's can use it the way he was the one hundred thirty seconds here so i think the comparison with nine hundred thirty six is is certainly right. russians as ever responded with denial distortion and delay and that is their tactic. the cyberwarfare disinclination middling in european election campaigns to say nothing of election campaigns elsewhere

a general feeling that russia has got to be moved i think we're past the stage where we can don't you boris just being boris this is a provocation too far even for him and annoyed to discreate and i studied insult being directed not at the russian government but at the russian people given the election result we just had which proves that the russian people stand rock solid behind their government government and more importantly given the history of the second one was the sacrifice the epic sacrifice made by the russian people to the cost of twenty seven million lives lost in liberating europe from the scourge of now see fascism this is and i know why disgrace and i fear that if someone does not reign in this man sooner rather than later the damage he does and will do will live on after him. russian foreign ministry spokesperson is a part of

a has reacted to boris johnson's remarks especially his comparison of the upcoming football world cup with hitler as a limp dicks of back in one nine hundred thirty six he dubbed that comparison unacceptable and attempt to portray russia as a common enemy and i discussed that development earlier with john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris britain needs to aggravate relations with russia in order to increase its own worth you know of all the comparisons of all the historical comparisons one could have drawn that really is the most hackneyed and the most frankly stupid and boring he says that the trail of evidence leads to the kremlin but the metropolitan police which is investigating the matter says the affair is very complex and will last weeks or months those two statements cannot both be true why is scotland yard wasting time why don't they just ask boris for the evidence and he can give it to them and they can go on investigate other crimes instead so this is all a load of absolute nonsense. as tensions between russia and britain

intensified the u.s. president decided to improve or so american relations by congratulating vladimir putin on his election victory it sparked outrage there among some politicians and parts of the media on twitter the u.s. president accused the said media of being crazy saying that quote getting along with russia is a good thing he added that russia could help in dealing with various problems but i guess the of picks up the story. trump's gone and done it again something completely normal but it struck so what the hell lay into him he called putin and congratulated him despite very clear instructions not to literally his brief said do not congratulate in capital letters according to an anonymous source not that that bothers anyone these days do not say congratulations on

capital letters and the president gets on the phone with them and says congratulations you shouldn't be congratulating president putin for the sham election but he just did it anyway dangerous strong man who is threatening western democracy that requires a strong sponsor so dark some call of up to say at a boy putin's critics in the haters bristled with indignation john mccain's twitter account always hyper sensitive to all things putin blew up poor it was mccain teed off president trump insulted every russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country's future probably best not to show mccain the margin by which putin won he's old and frail but twitter o'boy twitter do not congratulate actually trended and they came up with some pretty funny stuff do not stare into the sun followed by

a picture of donald trump apparently staring into the sun that silly and not good for you then a picture of mike pence touching something that clearly has a do not touch sign on it funny because he shouldn't be doing that and this guy has do not congratulate on his organ donor card so if he dies don't congratulate him get it come to think of it i've seen funniest stuff but it's trump they'll take it and for. force any opportunity to bash him even if he does something normal that's called protocol and there are many countries from around the world that when someone. wins if you well i don't like action that you pick up the phone and you place that phone call angle or merkel and emanuel macro also congratulated putin many others did to some god like for it some didn't it's nothing personal the thing

to do would like or dislike just protocol you're going to have to work together anyway but these days not even that flies john claud you president of the european commission he got flak no seating and shameful they call it now a few years ago they called it diplomacy but down with the old let's all behave like angsty teenagers and post funny pictures on twitter. series of missile attacks have struck government controlled suburbs of the syrian capital killing at least forty four people. as you saw it was three of my relatives are injured my wife and daughter are in surgery right now. only mama and my son told me he wanted to celebrate my.