it's time to start watching the hawks. want to go to. the for. real with this one. as you get to the bottom. like you know i got. with. the. welcome or the what parts i am the world and on top of the lala and if you ever think that you would be right in line. agreeing politically. with tucker carlson of fox news no no no no no but you know tartars been of a weird this last year he's actually there's been through things i've actually you know seen eye to eye with talker which is one of those moments where you have to

step back and say as the whole world gone mad right now but you know what he made a great point on syria made a great point on the chemical weapons strike you know the one we don't know what was responsible for this i mean the government tells us all it's assad it's assad assad well yeah i eard saddam had w m d's too that's what i'm that's and that is the thing that we're going through the exact same time and i keep saying like this is reliving two thousand and three post nine eleven all over again where everybody's blood thirsty for war because we saw something tragic on our own steps or we saw some need tragic the thing is those tragic things happen every day every day i mean coalition air strikes where we're bombing yemen yesterday or the day before and you know but we're worried about these pictures of children and these stories that may or may not be verified and any time children are hurt by any side nobody likes to see that but i think that's the great point is this is happening the world the world and no one's explained to me at all. all these new broke news

broadcasts those explain why it's the american people why we need to be involved like what what how this is important to us in our day to day lives. and you know it there's a lot of war i mean ali velshi i was and b. c. he basically this is what i love is the war porn that comes out from nowhere like you where a two thousand he wore viewers through like every possible strike from like the smallest itty bitty strike to the big huge damaging strikes it was like about a felt break and it wasn't exactly exactly the b.b.c. was pushing headlines and stories you know better sized weapons and you know big of a tale of the tape style set up between like russia the u.s. the u.k. friends of syria their headline was syria war weapons key players at their disposal it's an it's a you know it's a very just real complex ad it's an advertisement for this stuff and when i see those kinds of things i mean how is this news how is this important how does this better our democracy if that's you know if if that's the level we're going out now

and that's the question is what does this do is good for democracy it's good for our world community well it's not having all of these sort of pundits from both sides the neo liberal. group of me a liberal actually was trevor tim the executive director for the freedom of the press foundation and tweeted this he said pundits in the media are making john bolton's wildest dreams come true in its first week on the job everyone is calling for a new war and i do not understand one side hillary and the democrats that she wasn't an interventionist this wasn't a deal that wasn't sure what she was going to bring she was going to bring peace right and the reason and then on the same side you had donald trump's campaign saying over and over we don't want more interventional as we don't want this thing then why are the establishment democrats in the establishment republicans all getting together holding their hands and singing kumbaya lots of baseball. for

america that to me doesn't make any sense especially coming up on a and i know what it does do you not realize what they ran on though they don't because it just shows you over and over again that's the thing and you know talked about before it shows over and over again that all they do is tell you one thing on the campaign trail do the opposite when they get in office because of politicians because their politicians commenting on the rush for war group think that has once again taken over washington journalists and politicians mattei bet on the show he wrote in rolling stone whether trump has brought out the worst in the house or we've just lost our minds we've become a danger to the world and to ourselves holding john bolton door as a school aside weapons that trump might forget the awesome danger of nuclear war as a given the man is a fool but what's our excuse and that's the big question of the day what it is not only washington but the rest of the nations excuse i don't see people marching in the streets for peace right now i don't even hear of it happening over the weekend coming up whereas our excuse that now when you've got trump and bolton in charge

there is no one stepping up saying hey. let's give peace a chance. that . is not it of the emergency broadcast system but experts warn that maybe we should be testing that system a lot more in fact for less than forty us dollars a moderately experienced hacker could hijack the sirens alarms and notifications that are meant to keep us safe in the event of emergency or to such a sweet as the story. emergency alert systems were created to warn communities of natural disasters or even terrorist activity however emergency experts are now admitting how vulnerable the technology is you can be made to guard against hacking but this week security company best covered a vulnerability in san francisco's emergency alert system they found hackers.

trigger there one hundred fourteen sirens or blare out false malicious messages here you see a steel employee who says after discovering the radio frequencies could hijack the an encrypted system using only the thirty dollars radio you see pictured and a laptop false alarms can wreak havoc as we saw last january and hawaii while this false emergency alert of a ballistic missile threat was a result of human error not hacking it caused chaos among the islands at the time there were threats that kim jong il was in the pacific for an attack so it's no surprise the false threats that shock waves throughout hawaii and the rest of the nation last april a hacker was able to trigger all one hundred fifty six sirens in dallas that went off for ninety minutes were adderall david simpson the former chief public safety and homeland security bureau of the f.c.c. said it could be very concerning to citizens but certainly to emergency management professionals now while the emergency alert system for hawaii and dallas are under

federal signal corp san francisco uses a.t.r. systems a.t.a.i. systems is one of the biggest manufacturers for alert systems they have systems in place in several military bases as well as new york's revitalized rolled trade center or over the phone the c.e.o. of a.t.a.i. systems said since pustules announcement upgrades have been made to the system in the bay area and he also confirmed their military clients use a more sophisticated system compared to what is set up in cities like san francisco and los angeles and swedes are. so much greek beat the drums of war and you know pounding our chests and challenge the world. but let's not actually have security like safety systems in place that would like better inform the public if something bad happens like a bomb or other things dropping on them. yeah.

we've all got mad that is right and we don't even have the money and the infrastructure to keep hackers from you know to receive broad tornado broadcast hours fire that yeah yeah but it wasn't because i think we're in our age group we understand because it was such a cultural part of the seventy's and eighty's as we were growing up is that once a week you'd hear on the news that burroughs and then there were porter or somebody would say you know this was a test of the emergency broadcast system this is only a test if this is an actual emergency what if you know what i know we all know this from a child so just go wow one letter early in her of her work because they heard a whole child and it was that thing that if you were in you know certain urban if you're in a very strict tight urban center or and whirl areas especially it was vital yes and you know you it's the difference between life and death an attorney to a situation or in a storm situation so these things are actually really really important oakum politically there are important and i think having an emergency broadcast system

for many different threads is incredibly important and bolin sieber a researcher with the blue steel security firm he pointed out that in rural and urban areas many citizens have actually cut the cord and cannot be contacted via written via a reverse nine eleven united one one phone system consequently warning sirens play a crucial role as they are the only true were viable method to alert a population and mass of a public safety event and that's very interesting that they're kind of like i'm out for i don't want to hear them contacting me in an emergency right that's you know and that's or used to be where it was this idea that you could call people's home phones and they'd pick them up also if there was turn it off sometimes there would be calls or your phone phone would ring which is actually really bad because in lightning it's a whole thing. but people can't recall because we all went to cell phones and tablets so they don't know where people are so they don't know how to tell them which is why sometimes when you're traveling you're getting alerts for places that you aren't right so it's really interesting is that you see that now we're you know

you certain people get a beep on their cell phone saying oh there might be floods in the area that you were yesterday you know yes that's where it's funny we have so much technology and we spare and they have smart bombs to you know take out one terrorist on a sidewalk in the middle of it lead or something but our very basic mass communication and an amount of a natural disaster emergency things like tornadoes i bring them up because i'm from the midwest and that's why where i come for these are really important it literally is a matter of being life and death when you're out in those areas the first things to go is power and a lot of times that means your phone goes and it means that the cell phone towers don't you know things aren't working which means the end of the day hearing that which you can hear from miles is as important as get get in your because tornadoes come fast and that happens with a lot of natural disasters and now in a world of war. air raid sirens he's are going to be a top priority and the fact that we don't have a secure system where anyone could have them cause mischief and say hey why don't i

suddenly have sirens off in this you know area that everyone gives you what's that you know that's the potential that somebody get hurt simple yes exactly and that's the thing where you know even simple human error the one that happens or why it was one in the seventy's where a guy put in the wrong tape oh that's right and they thought of for a long time human error happens but the system should be their system played it out isn't that especially if we're going to be so war hungry here d.c. fact lake home first maybe all right as we go to break or bludgers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered a place to look at twitter see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com coming up there's a rash of democrats republicans jumping ship on congress and we will find out why with rice university political science fellow barbara jones stay tuned to watch the whole. um.

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the enemy gets to be there who are the bridges doing. this week the speaker of the united states house of representatives paul ryan hung up his suit and briefcase announcing his retirement from the u.s. congress when his term is up in january of twenty nineteen with ryan's retirement front line reports that so far more than three dozen republican house members and three senators have announced that they will not be running for reelection in november the highest number since world war two according to the brookings institution by comparison only seventeen democrats have announced that they are retiring from congress so what is behind this max exodus from the halls of congress are republicans fleeing being held responsible for the trump situation of

administration are they cashing out for a lucrative private sector job as they are and through appeasing special interests while in office are they afraid of losing their seats in an unpredictable midterm or are they really just looking to spend more time with their kids like paul ryan says to help us answer these questions and more about the current state of congressional politics is the united states in the united states today is mark jones a fellow and political science at the baker institute for public research at rice university thank you for joining us. oh it's my pleasure thanks for having me on you know mark look at the political landscape here in the united states today what do you what do you believe is behind this this exodus this exodus of politicians from office is part of a kind of normal flow of mid-term politics a bit of the highest it's been since world war two. well there's one amount that's a normal level and we're seeing that mostly on the. or credit side that is there are always people that are hitting retirement age that have health problems or have scandals or are seeing the increase in what's said in the records is what's occurring on the republican side of the aisle we're seeing

a much larger than normal number of republicans resigning and they are at least not seeking reelection i think there are several reasons one is far more republicans than democrats were snared in sexual harassment or me two scandal related problems and thus chose not to seek reelection because they are effectively forced to i think the primary driving force though is the reality that more were more republicans every day believe that the party is going to lose its majority in the u.s. house in november and have decided that they would much prefer to cash out into either in the private sector or pursue other career options then rather a tough re-election campaign only to go back in the minority because we all know that in the us house being in the minority is not a very fun place to be because the majority effectively controls everything that's a great point it's no fun to be the minority in the us. is it really you know it's not fun being a minority in the us in general that a good point and you know speaker of the house paul ryan his claim is that he's

leaving office to spend more time in this family and i'm asking you and looking at the water should we believe his claim are there there's a lot more important factors in this decision you know his. whether or not he was going to actually make it and wisconsin i know that least over the last couple of months he has proponents have raised more money than him in wisconsin do you think his decision is about really about this i want to spend time with my kids or is it something else. that's really rarely the case for driven politician like paul ryan you've pretty much given up spending weekends with your fan are spending weekdays with your family that's more of an excuse he's probably saying is that he doesn't really enjoy his present situ. trying to balance the different factions within the republican party and even worse so he doesn't believe or at least has a strong belief that the republicans are going to lose their majority in the u.s.

house which means that he would be in the minority come. come january and if there's one thing worse than being in the minority is being speaker and then going to be a minority leader that's going from being at the pentagon power to being sort of trying on the opposite side trying to make do with the best you have but it's not never enough let me ask you real quick if you think have you heard anything about whether or not paul ryan is looking at you know running for president or say running for governor of wisconsin is there anything else politically on his plate that we've heard about yes. it's our life i mean scott walker's indicated he's running for reelection and so that's at least out for a while he could always of course run for president in twenty twenty or twenty twenty four perhaps more likely will be moving into the private sector and taking advantage of a lot of the contacts he's made during his tenure as speaker and longer tenure in congress to earn a living that he presently is not earning as a member of the u.s.

house that's an interesting thing that you bring up because i think that that doesn't get talked about enough is how you know when politicians leave office you know the kind of jobs that they take and how that can kind of become that revolving door that we talk about so often like a lot of politicians will leave office and become lobbyists. how price does that play into their decision making while in office were suddenly oh you know what now is the time a pass the tax reform i can kind of jump out and i think cashman chips and how much does that play a role in decision making that you know in putting those decisions above the good of let's say the american people. but i think people also have to look out for their families you know speaker ryan has children who will need to go to college a member of congress earns a good salary but for someone with the training and skills of paul ryan it's not a salary it's not commensurate to what he did in the private sector and so i you do see many members of congress when they hit their fifty's or sixty's even late forty's to say that i'm now going to sensually take advantage of all the contacts

and skills i've made in the public sector turn a much higher income in the private sector now of course then that rate does raise a lot of problems and qualms with the issue of effectively inside inside networking that works against the american public and in favor of lobbyist but it's a fact of life in washington great point and they also walk away with you know insure a really great insurance and a really good retirement package that i think paul ryan is also going to be getting but one of the things is that this these these. this accident is going to open up a lot of congressional states what kind of campaigns do you think we're going to start looking forward to this summer in the midterms are we going to see more bernie sanders or we're going to see more trump style candidates or are we going to see you know sort of that middle ground you know you have a lot of democratic socialists wanting small actions or or any of those what do you what do you see on the horizon. well on the republican side it's going to be

a mixture of probably depending on the district on one hand you're going to have more conservative trump style activists because that's where a lot of the powered energy is within the republican party today not on the establishment side but for many of the more competitive districts where republicans are party there is a fear among them in republican circles that if they nominate somebody who is too conservative that that could cause them to lose a seat on the democratic side what we're actually starting to see is something that we've had on the republican side for some time that is real battles between two any logical wings of the party in the republican party it tends to be the establishment versus the tea party wing but we're now seeing on the democratic side are centrist service talisman types who are aligned with nancy pelosi and standing hoyer doing battle with more bernie sanders types candidates who have real inner g. and the support of the base but what the establishment fears is that many of those individuals will lose to republican candidates in general elections because they're too left to be electable in their districts do you think we're going to see that

play out that way this fall i mean it's it's very hard to predict i mean we're still six months away but that's a really interesting dynamic where you have now the two biggest parties in the land to completely split within themselves area you know i could that actually play could we see possibly like more third party candidates win a seat if they get the right money in the right exposure. and know that the us system is still very much anchored in favor of either republican or democratic party with almost no space or room for third party candidates outside of some real exceptional. cases such as with bernie sanders or perhaps maine with maine with angus king but by and large a third party cancer effectively blocked out of the us system and i don't see that changing at all but then let me ask you this though really wasn't the tea party essentially a third party that got its hold by a sort of putting its talons into the republicans i mean didn't they act as a third party. one though they act as an interest group that is the key was they

operated within the republican party that is what the tea party activists did was especially in states like texas is they took over the republican party and but they operated within it so you didn't see tea party candidates running for a third party or as libertarians you saw them competing in the republican primary in capturing the republican nomination and that's really what always happens in that for if you want to if you're a democratic socialist your best bet for actually reaching power is not to run as a democratic socialist or as a socialist or progressive is to compete within the democratic primary capture the nomination and then rely on the party support as well as partisan identification in the name brand of the democratic party to vault yourself into public office that's fascinating yeah and i think that's a really i think you're going to see a lot of that coming forward but you know the goal try to change the party from the inside because it is too hard to kind of break down those walls very quickly just to finish up where do you see how much is foreign policy and how much is you know

the issues we've got going on with syria right now north korea potentially russia where do you see that playing out in the midterms in these upcoming elections got about a minute. well by and large it's not going to have a major impact as long as we don't see an actual war or some type of conflict that has a very negative impact on the economy on the other hand to the extent to which it. portrays the trumpet ministration as not being especially competent and being unpredictable that could work against republicans because it fits the narrative among many democrats as well as some moderate republicans that the president is not doing a particularly good job and isn't a particularly good president. marvellously i say thank you for joining us today awesome insight into what's going on especially in congress it can be confusing for a lot of people out there thankfully we have good political for all of political science pros like yourself over at the baker institute for public policy at rice university thank you so much sir. thank you. on march seventh two

thousand and nine the kepler spacecraft launched and now as its fuel is running low it's time for its semi-retirement from the search for life outside of our solar system of course don't despair because tess is here to grab the baton and keep the search alive test stands for the transitioning exoplanet survey system in an mit led mass a mystery mission which plans to spend twenty four months in space monitoring two hundred thousand stars for things like changes in brightness when planets transit each other's orbits what makes test special is that she will be doing scans and collecting data from the whole sky thanks to four identical cameras that are aligned to take two hundred thousand two minute scans in each sector at detail four hundred times that of the coupler spacecraft as a test project scientist stephen ryan hard put it tells us is a really optimized for knocking on doors in the neighborhood and saying hi how are you what is this planet actually like and here's two tasks which launches on april sixteenth from cape canaveral in florida i'm her hunt for extraterrestrial life man

tess is going to be busy that's going to be busy that i know i love that but that's the ultimate so for you right there i'm four hundred somebody cameras and it's the folly of a sort of three hundred sixty day review where you get the whole sky and you can literally watch the builder you know we might find that other planet with life that's not just about water oxygen or about we could be finding. a lot about all right we'll leave that as a show for you today remember everyone in this world we're not told we're loved ups or tell you all i love you i am i robot and on top of a lot of people watching those talks about the great thing in life there.

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the u.s. defense secretary admits that his country has no concrete evidence there was a chemical attack in the syrian city of duma but might strike preemptively to defend american troops there. after a lengthy cabinet meeting theresa may fails to shed much light on london's course of action on syria merely stressing a need it to coordinate with. allies meanwhile the german chancellor gives a firm no to military strikes against damascus. good stunt with an even to end its kind and shy indonesian us from my. own need not to need to tie leaking . also this hour the u.k.'s foreign secretary is in no doubt russia was behind the screwball poisoning after u.n. watchdog confirms the substance used in the attack that is despite investigations not confirming russia as the so.