trust so former u.s. diplomat and the governor relations expert you think you know how we can go untold to. try to kill us correspondents there covering. a bilateral meeting for area. hope you can hand we haven't done a quick check with you but tell us a little bit about those meetings that have been happening today on the president putin's first trip abroad since being reelected and. kevin hello well i can tell you that a lot of our putin is of course here in ankara for two days the first day of talks is over and the general told was very positive we understand that this is the first trip of lattimer putin since re-election he was personally invited by the turkish leader on both leaders called each other dear friends they were joined by i believe a dozen of different ministers the foreign minister the minister of communication of sport and all kinds of agreements were signed as you were mentioning before and

it also seemed that they were trying to stay way from all the negativity that is coming from outside the region and mostly from from the things that are being mentioned when it comes to the script case and a lot of my putin was indeed at some point at the press conference asked about eliot latest word about asians by the order today in which was off so i just wanted to come to really really briefly has been shed you'll visit to tell us more about it in the fullness of time in about an hour when you back then see that i'm from. greetings and salutations the world is filled with borders or watchers take a moment look around you're nothing but borders and boundaries both real and

imagined i'm sure your neighborhood community is filled with property lines the parking spaces. most borders are really quite harmless organizing lines to tax you buyer for making sure you don't just mill about but stand in a actual organized line while waiting to get in the club and get your drink go but some borders in this world are deadly cross the line and you'll lose your life or in the case of the recent massacre along gaza's border with israel approach that line in protest unarmed or rolling a tire and you'll get shot down on friday march thirtieth israeli soldiers opened fire and unmanned drones dropped tear gas on the roughly thirty thousand palestinian protesters who were marching along the border and what palestinian activists are calling the great return march roughly eighteen were killed and according to the palestinian health ministry more than seven hundred fifty were

wounded and what a horrible no good crime did these protesters commit throwing rocks rolling a few burning tires and wait for it moving towards the fence line yes c.b.s. news reports that according to the israeli military its troops had followed strict rules of engagement and that protests are reporting themselves in harm's way by operating in a dangerous area. i see israel's using the spouse will abuse defense you know if she hadn't done what i told her not to do seeds till she knows she wouldn't get it so apparently moving towards their moving towards their friends in protest of said bands constitutes a live fire scenario for the israeli military and a bonus defense minister abbott god heaven or lieberman told israeli army radio quote from the standpoint of the israeli soldiers they did what had to be done i think that all of our troops deserve a commendation and there won't be any inquiry. well that may be true for those with

powerful friends on the un security council but an inquiry there will be because we aren't constrained by imaginary lines we are watching the hawks. it looks like. it's like. the bottom. like you that i got. this. week so. well we're going to watching the hawks i am with tyrone but joining me to discuss the shootings and the international reaction to them is author and journalist max blumenthal max always a pleasure to have you on my incredible what happened last friday and over the weekend i want to ask you know the israeli military is

a justifying their actions by essentially you know claiming that their border was under assault on friday is there any water to that argument was there any justification for those shootings yeah it's very clear that hamas launched an armed protesters into israeli both you know i mean this is a really clear case of israel committing a massacre in broad daylight against palestinians who are following the you know on your part until reported on one of those villages for our brutality from israeli soldiers for following gandhian tactics of on protest israel doesn't do ghandi very well and now the gaza strip which has been demonized throughout the world as a hotbed of terror has embraced this tactic on mass and we have to be truthful about it hamas did consent to this unarmed protest they supported it and were involved in it so hamas is involved in an armed protest should they be connect commended for that and. no they're demonized as well in the western media has taken

this both sides approach now before we get into the specifics i think one thing that we need to discuss is whether this really is a border and why that border is there in one nine hundred forty eight seven hundred fifty thousand palestinians were forced from their homes in their land in order to establish the state of israel with a jewish majority they out in order to maintain to maintain that majority in other words the ethnic purity of israel is contingent on one point eight million palestinians eighty percent of whom are refugees remaining in an open where human warehouse in the gaza strip an open air prison and when they approach that border what israel was doing with one hundred snipers with tank shells with tear gas drones experimental tear gas runs what they were doing is defending the ethnic purity of israel against a population that's considered a demographic threat just imagine if donald trump went out and justified his border policy on that basis that these people are not white and therefore we have to build

a wall to keep the non-whites out many ways that might be what he's thinking but this is the essence of what israel as a supposedly jewish and democratic state is and these are the consequences of maintaining an exclusively jewish state in the middle east and that's the interesting point you bring up because of a lot of people may see these videos are saying or why why would you do this why would you you know allow this to happen i mean at the most we've only heard you know the protests as well through a couple rocks rolled a couple tires of you know nothing that constitutes you know rifle fire back at them let alone someone getting shot in the back as we've seen videos as well because ultimately in situations like these and you know for the rest of the world it doesn't follow israel and palestine the way you have them there isn't worse it's all about all of optics it's what it's what are we seeing you know just as i'm turning my channel i'm seeing and when you see a kid get shot in the back or young man get shot in about getting shot in the back is not someone getting shot in the chest is coming out you have someone running away. a from you and that looks even more brutal and thuggish than than you could

possibly won that battle of optics on saturday it's interesting the i.d.f. put out a many many tweets which said and one of them stated quote yesterday we saw thirty thousand people we arrive prepared with precise reinforcements nothing was carried out uncontrolled everything was accurate and measured and we knew where every bullet landed that's a bold statement they later took down this tweet that disappeared but that's a bold statement. does this combined with the rest of kind of netanyahu and israel's official stance in reaction to this shooting a sensually you know what does that tell us about their attitude about this that they just feel they're not going to be held responsible for this and that they did no wrong yeah i mean you mentioned this video of a nineteen year old who's running. and running from the away from the fire away from the fence and he shot in the back possibly killed paralyzed i don't know

what happened to him and then israel's the israeli army i don't know if i'd call them a defense force they come out and tweet that we know where each bullet landed so they're taking credit for that bullet landing in that young man's back as he was running away during the massacre that's very telling you also at the top quoted avigdor lieberman the defense minister delivering a commendation to the israeli snipers who killed fifteen and wounded some seven hundred ninety people with live fire bullets were used which are bullets that actually explode once they penetrate the skin and break bones internally and then we saw israel root sheva israel national news which is a right wing website that's very close to the israeli education minister enough tally bennett declare that the palestinians have been seeking lots of dead bodies and for once we should give it to them so this is playing out openly in the israeli media celebration of the violence to mars and byrd who is a legislator from the left of center merits party the left wing merits party

actually led a protest in tel aviv against the killings and in support of people in gaza to have an end to this eleven year old sides and the amount of incitement that she has received in mainstream israeli publications is amazing i mean she's now called a jew hater and a nazi and so forth and so you know any israeli who wants to actually express outrage about what they saw they're going to self censor because the society has just gone so far to the. and then beyond that you look at the international coverage of the new york times or furrowing to palestinians just kind of dying on having after they have lost their homes like they couldn't find him after another tweeted the same robotic statement we are saddened and deeply concerned by the losses that we witnessed and call for an investigation it's like they're on sinclair broadcasting and they're getting the same script the same so i mean this again just gives israel complete impunity to carry out massacres in broad daylight of unarmed protests this week and we saw u.n.

secretary general i'm told her you know call for an independent investigation but then we saw what you know the u.n. security council meeting out of state it's kind of saying to them in the language no one home can have anything like this do you think we're going to see any kind of official inquiry into this from an international level we saw neo-con marionette nikki haley the u.n. ambassador u.s. ambassador to the u.n. actually work to prevent an inquiry this is the same nikki haley that stood up in the middle of the security council and bandied about pictures of children who had allegedly been killed by sarin gas in the held town of hunch a coon in syria obviously palestinians and their deaths are interfering with western and u.s. foreign policy imperatives they have been killed by a u.s. ally there unworthy victims if we put this and many other contacts let's say it was you know the the villains that we hear about like assad or russia or china or north korea of

a boy you know basically shot thirty you know shot out of. we are who in lockstep expel without any evidence accused russia and the kremlin of directing a chemical attack and of no each other on british soil without any evidence they demand no inquiry there and simply fall in lock step and demand total crushing sanctions against russia but here we have pretty clear evidence of a massacre in broad daylight and they say we need to wait for the un to investigate and then nikki haley comes out and prevents the investigation from even taking place. wash rinse and repeat the. little bit of time of march thirtieth was the beginning of what palestinian activists are calling the great return march oh yeah first day it's planned to go six weeks and on may fifteenth after the anniversary of nine hundred forty eight the bit you were talking about earlier israel's independence may fifteenth is also the bit that the white house is moving the embassy to jerusalem is the precipice of another long i've got i hate to see it but

are we at the precipice of another long kind of battlefield summer quickly and anything can happen you know i don't i don't know if the population in gaza is i mean i think what this march indicates is that they're willing to try other tactics besides the militarized tactics which hamas and other factions are capable of but we have to remember that conditions in gaza i was just there are worse than they've been probably ever i mean you're talking that four hours of electricity a day just constant blackouts lack of access to water and the economy is in ruins so people can't afford food if it's there so there is a desperation anything can happen and benjamin netanyahu is under a lot of domestic political pressure wars always been a ventilation mechanism for him great insight today max thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure here i thank you for having me i think you are right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are to dot com coming up we keep the order of discussion going but we move around the world to the us mexico

border as we welcome political analyst author invent just south of moscow at the end of the hawk's nest to talk about from dhaka and building the wall stay tuned to watching the hawks. as politicians play partisan brinksmanship with immigration reform and the future

of trump's border wall for all the politicians think tank pundits and paid consultants the real consequences of these decisions may ultimately be trivial in the grand scheme of things what immigration policies really mean to these people a minor change in talking points slightly different campaign tactics but for many the stakes are much more real and while most of the country celebrated this easter weekend at the church pews and easter brunch is nationwide a few stray comments by the president sent many in the immigrant community into a rather understandable panic claiming that a potential docket deal is now dead and pinning the blame squarely on senate democrats not wanting to compromise on the border issue so hawk watchers with washington playing the blame game and the so-called dreamers looking at real donald trump's unreal twitter feeds for hints of what their future may hold political strategist salame oster an author of twenty twelve or twenty somethings joins me to decipher this dramatic back and forth that is so i'm confused on what's happening.

now during his state of the union speech a deal that was three times as good as the one president obama gave them several years ago when it came to dhaka and working for citizenship with these doc i recently and now you know he went back to the table with them after they got rid of that deal and offered up to eight million for a path to citizenship and they still didn't take that deal and so i think after giving democrats everything they want and more and still not be able to make a deal he's gone back on that they don't want to make a deal that he's not going to make a deal he's going to stay true to his campaign promises now and take a hard line on immigration you know it's interesting because. democrats nationwide seemed they did they made dhaka a number one issue just a few months ago they shut down the government and yet on protest of what was going on with the for a week in all that up or to have focused attention on the program but ultimately the spending bill many democrats democrat voters were voted for last one did nothing to actually address the dreamer fay they didn't even vote for trump to

a certain extent right in saying the democrats abandoned daca as their sons will issue their go to issue. they abandon it on this deal they don't want to give the president a win and quite frankly being need this is a campaign issue and everyone's been talking about that and it's one hundred percent correct if democrats don't have this dock issue what are they exactly going to run on we have tax cuts done which are doing great for the economy doing great for businesses and they could where defeating isis across the globe side to that those that do think that trump and the republicans might be playing with fire here by allowing young minority voters soon to be the majority and i think what twenty thirty and progressives to kind of mobilize around this issue of the twenty eight midterms wouldn't twenty thousand midterms it would be better have they just you know hey give them what they want get it out the way and then take away the talking point. you know you can definitely make that argument and i can see where that some people might think that's been official i don't president trump one in

a lot of places the democrats used to win because he took a hard line on issues like immigration. and i think going forward especially looking at his base and his voters rewarding this type of behavior we feel bad for dreamers that they were brought here to no fault of their own through their parents but at the end of the day it's not our fault that their heel legally it's their parents' fault they broke the law they knew what they were doing when they were coming here illegally and the consequences of that and i don't see why we should have to worry about that and to take those concerns and those financial responsibilities on i think going back i wouldn't be opposed on the president's original deal eight hundred thousand to one point three million doctor recipient having a path to citizenship especially the ones that have no criminal history of doing well again education in you know working in our economy and being contributing great conservative members of our society but going back and just giving democrats

a went on this that's not president trump he's never going to give someone give away everything he wants to make a deal and to make a deal he's got to get something in return and in return he wants that border wall . and interesting element of this is the is the border wall and i want to ask you about that next is you know there's rumors floating around though and they could have been circulating after the omnibus spending bill the trunk may direct the military to construct the wall independently and bypass congress all the other is that a realistic remark about actually happened. i would love to see that happen when i worked on the campaign and i was crafting talking points for the campaign when it came to young people on issues like the border wall and immigration my suggestion was to make it all about national security because at the end of the day that's what it's about if we can reduce crime if we can reduce bad actors coming across

the border. to potentially cause harm on a mass scale in the united states and i think that is a national security issue you know you go back to the drugs and and other types of criminals coming across the border over and over and over again more than two dozen times i think you can definitely make the argument that it is a national security issue and i think you can put homeland security in the military in charge of conquering and fixing that issue which would be more border security involving a wall and there are technical things that the president and others have suggested i ask this all the time about the wall because i'm actually staunchly against the idea of building the wall i get the lure of it i understand the style like oh we can build this wall and people can get over it and look at how secure we are but to me not only is it kind of ludicrous i mean look the great wall couldn't keep common law was the biggest wall known to man that couldn't stop i don't think that any wall that we build the big is really going to keep people out but the other thing that frightens me is that a wall built today to keep people out can just as easily be used to keep people in

and that might not be under donald trump but that could be over the next president of the next president i saw how this how the cia and the n.s.a. have been abused to spy on and on u.s. citizens and i just don't see any at some point in the future you know that wall could just as easily keep you or me from leaving the country if we had you know if we had to. that's an interesting argument and i can definitely see your point on that i haven't thought of it that way hopefully after we get this inspector general's report and others and and we reform these agencies hopefully that's something we won't have to ever worry about but i mean the wall is not meant to stop an army. coming across the border it's meant to stop you know the several thousand two million people that have come across the last you know decade or so who are not trying to stop tanks or anything like that we're stopping bad actors people trying to smuggle in. humans human trafficking as well as drugs and so i think a wall is

a great idea combined with all the new technology we have to keep us safe. the technology i can get onboard with ok we want to use you know drones we want to use things like not armed drones obviously we want to use that to scope out the border and keep the border secure i understand that but the to me it's impossible to build realistically over most you're trying to with a hammer. john mccain when he is there as an fall back on. that filibuster rules and why they aren't getting anything done i wish they would get away with it i think there's nothing wrong with fifty one votes it's going to get donald trump's legislation passed legislation that the people voted for. and they can't hide behind the democrats anymore you know republicans are just as guilty as democrats in some situations you know kicking the can down the road especially as we saw that with the omnibus bill i mean spending has skyrocketed with a republican controlled congress and they want to make the deal make. you know

claim that they had to do that because you know they need sixty votes and they need give democrats on board who wanted a lot more spending and so i think going to fifty one is really going to set republicans up in especially republican voters on figuring out you know who are the real conservatives in there who are the real fiscal conservatives who are really paying attention to the major issues we have with our debt in this country and so i think going to fifty one is a great idea. if you think in the same situation democrats wouldn't do it to get whatever they wanted to cross republicans are insane to think that and i think they need to take the gloves off and really start playing the game up there and delivering on what the american people voted for let me ask you this really quick yes or no answer if there was a report if there was a democrat president in the rev a democrat controlled senate would you still be in favor of fifty one votes and. i you know when you have that situation you you know turn the tables on me there but i would i would be in favor of it because i think that it really is going to show who's going to follow through on their campaign promises how are they going to

well education are they going to pass where are they going for the floor and i think it's important to know on both sides of the aisle who's doing that who's there we're going to stand up for what they believe are burned out parts of the south lost of the fifth thank you so much for coming on always talking to they always a pleasure thank you great to be here they. are . the wisconsin department of corrections realized the discrepancy between their male and female prisons while male prisons basile with programs to help inmates train for legitimate employment women's prisons often lack in education and opportunities for female inmates. but that's changed now the two inmates at the racine women's prison dana and denise have become the first female inmates in wisconsin history to graduate from the machinery job program at gateway technical college for six months the women attending classes five days

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