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that he may as well see a good deal i'd say because the. case is a once in a company cable you chase oh wow. welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to turn to john mudd according to his twitter bio he's an attorney a legal analyst a teller of stories a bread baker and statehood supporter john a welcome thank you all right so john mudd you are a state good supporter what does that mean in the context of puerto rico well for

time immemorial even during the spanish times there was a certain conflict in politicians the few that were allowed to be politicians between being having. tanami being part of spain or being independent and nowadays we have the same three things the problem is that down the territory of the united states congress can discriminate against a church or whatever weight it wants to as long as it's not fundamental rights so therefore you are discriminating in terms of federal funding etc independence of course you have certain of that yours and its advantages and statehood you have it the better it is and certain disadvantages right so you're weighing up all those advantages and disadvantages and you kind of falling in the camp of statehood yeah it was just a little bit explore that a little more so what would that mean for people living well first of all first thing that you would do is that i was born in hawaii so i wasn't born in puerto rico my so this ship is protected by the fourteenth amendment what and did i was a bit will. porton case in nineteen zero one the puerto rican citizenship which

came in one thousand seventeen is not so but as long as i live here congress can say you can't have this you can't have that. once we become a state you will have equal rights but because your state can discriminate sansom and then withdrew it second. you would have an end to the endless debate about steps and that. debate of status status and that is consumes enormous amounts of of energy in puerto rico and resource there's a group of elite simpler legal who are opposing statehood simply because they don't want to pay federal taxes seventy percent of people in puerto rico because of their income or lack thereof would not pay federal taxes would even even have to file federal income tax returns but the big businesses the few that are local would have to sign the taxes joe you're saying seventy percent of people when they've been qualified to be in a tax bracket and they wouldn't pay tax those who are against statehood as such are

looking at it purely from that taxes lands are mostly not not exclusively there are people who say because we're different from the gringos we have a different culture etc i was that culture evolves it's not the same thing when i came to puerto rico in november of ninety sixty three my first cultural shock was in during the holy week in sixty four the whole programming changed i couldn't see my my my. my cartoons because they were religious groups that doesn't happen anymore because culture changes it's only in my lifetime if you look at one hundred years of course there's greater changes example nine hundred ninety eight before the americans came there was only catholic church with a lot of no protestants were allowed. because there was a lot of things that changed abortion gay rights etc have all been determined by american citizens so you're suggesting it's

a bit of sentimentality here that there has been enormous change already and so let's talk about some specifics or some since july first of twenty sixteen frederick i was effectively run by a. school control board appointed by the u.s. president under what's called from mesa now does this body get to overrule the governor and other elected officials here and how does this even impact the notion of sovereignty when i first heard of this the first thing i thought about was greece and the troika you know greece is having a lot of trouble and the troika being be and another body ruled over greece is similar what are your thoughts not the same the greeks could have said no we don't want your money we could have gotten out of the union with enormous amounts of difficulty and problems but they could have done they had a referendum and voted out as a matter of fact about they still in the mountains there's something there and they're in a stand but in puerto rico it's a little bit different going back to the downs where it's a bit will that answer but will says congress can give the territories

self-government or take it away and that's exactly what happened here the board when it was imposed took away some of the powers of the of the government puerto rico not all of them actually are the solution by would be out by swing as to the appointment of a c.e.o. or have bought and she said no you can't do that for the board or you can't do it that may change when the fiscal plans are approved but that's another matter all right so just to go into that a little bit more because on the surface it looks like from a sign and the u.s. has absolute control and they are that's a naive view i think what you're saying that there's more and more nuance to it yes because the problem is that not the u.s. you can say that congress territorial clauses congress made this. and make need for rules for the territories it's not the president of course the president has to sign up on it but right now the board has certain duties and

responsibilities and or going to puerto rico on certain things but another state can't. i have to read the opinion by the judge swain i think it was in the limber still mr somewhat to really understand it and maybe you will have a little difficulty but that's the way it is if you mentioned. right so tell us what it is prepping what role have a plan and bankrupting the territories ok. we've got to go back yes let's go back to the one hundred thirty six people nowadays when i understand it but in those days most people thought that capitalism was in the last straits we're talking about the question and that planned economies so union south and that's you germany were wrote this was most of the intellectuals in the world thought that the body the democratic party. was inaugurated or made in one thousand thirty eight in one thousand nine hundred twenty elections in ninety forty one it takes all of the different electrical companies that were in puerto rico nationalizes them and

creates but the government is going to take care of the problem is that once you have politicians in charge of something as important to your grid they make political decisions they don't make business sense so they slowly being bankrupting but i bought and right now owes nine billion right now when i worked on wall street we sold what we call bombs all the time you get triple tax exempt it's like b. plus or something like that yeah eating and i was they have been in cumbered with a lot of debt and i think a lot of that was just convenience of selling debt inventory on wall street debt that was not needed they just became over encumbered with a lot of debt. this is a question i've had for a while what do you think about that you have two. similar but you're saying this like you've been offered the money so you say ok i'll take a right you have to look at it from another point of view when i was growing up in

puerto rico as everywhere in the united states i was offered drugs by people and i said no some of the people i knew said yes and now they're in street lights and what are we asking for money. it's similar here you may say that wall street was trying to that were eager to issue bonds but it was those and dying to do that so they could have money the politicians and do whatever they wanted. if you look in two thousand and one. thing was twenty seven billion dollars ok now you've got a new predator on the same year the way you characterize wall street was a bit of a predatory relationship there now you've got hedge funds coming in and they are seemingly strong arming the government into paying back loans that maybe should not be paid back accent john paulson for example is a big player in all this is i understand it well i see you shaking your head was he got rid of bonds what he did what paulson did

a very smart marlee came in he saw like this whole thing has a lot of potential has a lot of that everybody typical capitalising buy cheap and and so there. has fundamentally ok if you buy at ten cents of the dollar and i offer you fifty cents on a dollar. you making forty cents on line sounds good hedge funds to usually not always because you have to look at argentina right argentina being an example of maybe hedge funds acting in a more predatory fashion but also famous. in this case get hedge funds to make deals for example but if they had a deal by a fifteen twenty percent at the end it was a twenty percent haircut on. the board said no to a four to three. but that's what happened and the government was all in favor of it but the warts and sort of going to go through so what to be fair to say your view would be like hedge funds in themselves are not the problem they're just pure

capitalist entities the management of those had trons could be a problem in that they're not being directed in a way that would be beneficial. you have to understand one thing. on any form any business is run for your stock. for the benefit of your stock not for the benefit of people who are equal that's supposed to be the government the same government that took all these loans to keep funding. they are never ending appetite for giving saying to people so they would vote for them and then hasn't worked for the last four or five elections so that's the way it goes right ok well i mean that there could be an argument that the on the fun side there is a bit of duplicitous there but let's let's move on to let me put it that is their purpose is to make a buck their purpose is not a public purpose right that's what their purpose is to make

a buck but the idea of it and narco capitalism let's say government run by an arc of capitalists is not a favorable outcome i won't lose in our natural capital while you're saying that the market would have the ultimate discretion in determining what's best for the i'm no no no no no no i'm not going to the market politicians as opposed to what they're not because they're deferring to the has no bearing because what they're doing is your default issue and your politician me. you make the decision to take out a three point five billion dollar loan like the previous government. are you going to pay no the taxpayers what are you going to pay it's not you so you get the benefit because i spend the money and people only favors right but i don't mean in the past are some of the politicians being funded by in fact the same financier's do it ultimately benefit by the arrangement that is not necessarily great for folks but i just want to ask you about the hurricane that's coming along and you know maria two hundred thousand left the island sensor chain maria. the storm has caused

tens of billions in damages and so what's happening to the economy from that point of view a big population drain where where we're at now. obviously there's been enormous amounts of damage at the same time there is still money coming in from thema couple of the lease has come in already being spent. there is going to be more money from insurance there's going to be more money from the federal government. interestingly enough the economy has just shrunk by fox five percent and the income the government gets from the economy is shrunk only by five percent which is really good considering the enormous amounts of damage the hurricane call for example i live in and the border towns of san juan and why now which are fairly good well well run places and i was eighty two days tricity. so there was a lot of damage and if you consider that there's only

a five percent decrease that's pretty good i think there are many will rebound because of what i tell you after hurting you five hundred years of resilience well in the resistance and. spirit john i got to go ok on the price of being on the show . i would that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with may. stacey armored like to thank our guest john if you want to read just on twitter it's kaiser in fort and. the most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good. it's only whims of a much larger mission was once there was much more widely distributed we have

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and i welcome you watching international they often it's just gone to a in. an act of terrorism that's qualifying the alleged poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter russia's foreign ministry adds that it does expect answers on the scruple case from the u.k. and also questions why london refuses to even cooperate on the investigation. 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 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 your organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and official. developments regarding the scruple case we need comprehensive conclusions and detailed confirmations a spokesperson for the defense ministry also spoke out and 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 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 u.s. and embassy workers instead a criminal spokesperson reacted to the u.k. decision by saying that it showed unwillingness to hear russia's to its questions that moscow to date has denied any involvement in the attempted murders of scruple and so this diplomatic spat that has gone on for a while now looks to continue to go. for some time there are two there were former russian officer was jailed in russia for handing secrets to british intelligence he moved to the u.k. though in a spy swap in twenty ten three weeks ago scully palin's daughter were then found critically ill in seoul u.k. police expect their probe on the alleged poisoning to take months has been heard however british politicians were quick to pin the blame on moscow britain's foreign

secretary has become the latest to launch accusations. russians as ever responded with denial distortion and delay and that is their tactic. the cyberwar for this information middling in european election campaigns the scene of the election campaigns elsewhere the general feeling that russia has got to be moved. 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 oracle or johnson has been one of the most outspoken in blaming russia and even compared it to now see germany. the goal the rods floatable. quitting the regime putin you can use it the way that we use

the modern thirty six other groups here so i think the comparison with mike in thirty six is is certainly right. that moscow has already called the comments unacceptable and offensive we spoke to independent journalist and author joe larry he thinks that britain's top diplomat is trying to boost his own popularity at home . that's a p.r. effort on barres johnson's part actually look the british government is not treating this event as a criminal investigation and is using it as an opportunity to spread more bellicose rhetoric against russia and it's up to the accusing party to present the evidence first and then the defense will counter that so britain has presented no evidence whatsoever of russia's involvement in this to this point well the russian blame game has extended into some areas once considered beyond political point scoring a london correspondent and the see the reports now an educational project with an

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dismissed. and if they say it you're going to party wild well the script case was one of the issues that sophie shevardnadze did discuss an exclusive interview with the russian presidential spokesperson dmitri peskov you can watch it in full here on friday but here's a pretty. we have to remember the starting point is the words of president putin that russia has nothing to do with this accident and maybe it's a very rude comparison especially in this situation i don't think that anything can be big can be ruder than their reality but nonetheless just imagine moscow city car accident. there is a victim of the car accident and we see what was the car and the car was a british me car let's say a range rover and just imagine that myself or foreign ministry spokeswoman makes

a statement that the man was killed by a british made car in a car accident in center of moscow and highly likely a prime minister of prime minister of great britain may be responsible of that murder. is it crazy is it crazy it is crazy. we're not speaking about. attempt to murder to murder a russian spy in great britain where it's being about attempt to murder a british spy in great britain if he's handed in so russia quits with him he's of zero value of zero importance go ahead. we're not as crazy as to to even to think about something of that kind. before presidential elections. and before such important global.

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