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and that's. actually as a slight as the survival guide let's learn the language let's say i'm the troika and you're pleased i'm greased on banks of the fight song thank you for something. or destroy the truth if your debt slavery. greetings and salutations many are asking is it time to let millennial start
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shaping their own future in a late two thousand and seventeen n.b.c. news poll only three in ten millennial said the republican party cares about people like them and barely forty three percent of millennial had a favorable view of the democratic party and at the core of this problem many say is a lack of forward thinking partisan bickering stuck in the baby boomers last desperate grasp for control and many millennia old are starting to ask why they don't seem to have a voice in the conversation more importantly why establishment politicians are actively silencing them on both sides of the aisle if you let you answer to our problems it just might be as older generations continue to distort government millennial distract government let me else it could be the answer to what are their being called government molay. as tech crunch writer holly recent gilman put it millennialists are changing notions about. life in part through technology and
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awakening of activism following the two thousand and sixteen election of donald trump today will be asking the youngest candidate running for congress this election morgan mata about how the establishment out stablish mint is in desperate need of some shaking up and what she plans to do about it so let's pick us up pick ourselves up our abode straps grab some of a cot oco toast tell those baby boomers to get off our lawns and start watching the hogs. were told to deal with the. real that would be a liar to the party. but it looks like you're like i got. to. tell. welcome everybody would like to know
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i am top of the wallet and joining me now is the youngest congressional candidate running to unseat california democratic congresswoman susan davis in the fifty third district is morgan montana thank you so much for joining us today i'm martin . thanks for having me back on your show yeah so so here we are you're running in california now for the folks at home one in eight americans is a california that's literally a big of a swath of people we're talking about and we've heard incessantly especially over the last couple of years that it's got the six largest economy in the world if it were country thirty nine million people in one hundred sixty three thousand square miles of land so california has a lot on its plate a lot to take up for someone and struggling with record breaking homelessness massive housing shortages and a question of how to deal with with the border. what issues facing the state made
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you run for office i wonder what do you feel are the most pressing issues facing california today. so there are a lot of issues facing california you name just a few but the main reason that i wanted to run for office right now at this point in time is the fact that less than five percent of congress are millennial and you pointed out earlier that we're under-represented it's a sad fact we're going to be the largest voting bloc by two thousand and twenty yet less than five percent of congress represent us so that's why i decided to run so soon in my life and my career because it is time that our generation starts stepping up to the plate because we can't just keep having these people in congress who are career politicians screwing up the future for the rest of us it's very true the point where you have to really start asking the question about our leaders making decisions for the world we're all going to live in tomorrow that they're not
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going to be and most of them if they're in their seventy's so many of them are it's like you're not going to be here you have to think about this as you said it's very early in your career and you're going up against a very imbedded democratic incumbent what how do you feel about what's. what it was the biggest struggle you think is going to be and taking her on if you get the primary. honestly i think that the biggest struggle that i'm going to face is name i.d. because she has been in office for almost two decades but the fact is i am not that concerned when i start talking to people i've actually had a lot of democrats tell me i'm going to be the first first republican they're ever going to vote for and that's encouraging to me the fact is susan davis has been in office for almost two decades and has only renamed a post office so you can look at her record on her website all the two hundred seventeen pieces of legislation that she has written and the only thing that has
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actually come through for rishon is renaming a post office so i'm pretty confident that i am capable of at least doing that. post office out of the way leads to two pages sadly i'm just going to do it. it doesn't matter what party you are in on this on this issue the fact is she's been sitting there keeping the seat warm for us yeah and that's the thing you see so many people that have been you're looking at the nancy pelosi as of all this you're seeing people have been in office for a very long time and that's both parties and one of the things that really hurt i think like. one of the things that her equipment most in the twenty sixteen election was identity politics and how hard it was played and how it was used. and yet no republican establishment is is i'm reading is starting to see to is counting on identity politics to then when this midterm there was a pew research poll in march and it found that more than half of white men and white women in this age group believe that discrimination against whites is
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a significant as discrimination against other groups and it was just one part of this how they felt in the grand scheme of things do you think more identity politics is the answer for republicans as a whole. absolutely not i think that identity politics hurts both parties it hurts conversation it hurts democracy it hurts every. it's not it's not i mean we're all americans we're all human beings putting us categorizing us by different i think i said this to you on the last time the last time i was on your show categorize categorising each other is just causing more and divert the diversion diversity. disparate. i can't think of the word right now but it's making an example of it making it. yeah i think that's so strange and i think it's strange that they would you know sort of. pull that idea didn't work for hillary didn't work for anybody
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really. i want to ask you a little bit about the last week this last weekend was was tough for a lot of people like myself who never want to see a bomb dropped though we watch them more every day around the world being dropped in various wars so those recent airstrikes in syria brought up an issue that i don't think gets a lot of attention worse not profitable for anyone except for the people who make the machines of war if you make tanks and bombs and missiles that's going to be profitable it's not going to be economically good for the rest of us it's not world war two anymore where there's this big boom happening. you know we've been sitting in this you know there's not only very little advantage to the economy at home but you know we're seeing after a fifteen plus war on terrorism the country is not better and some would say it's worse off than it was before nine eleven how do you think millennialists feel about war and the continuation of what seem like and less wars on terror. i think our generation is like our parents and this peace and love we don't want to
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see war so i don't think that that's exactly i mean i hope that's not what what comes of these airstrikes i think that the president was just trying to send a strong message that we will not tolerate chemical warfare on civilians and so i i don't i hope that we don't see a war out of this i really do hope that's not what comes i don't think any of us want that so but i do think that the president did what he had to do yet some it's a tough job like nobody gets there's no winning and the job as president at this point no matter who it is. if the country is always going to be upset right and that's literally were were half the country is upset and half of them aren't do you think they're millennialists are as a generation going to be a little more. a little better at diplomacy like do you think the we're looking at a generation that's going to talk things through
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a little more than we have seen politicians today. i would hope so because i able to have conversations with my friends my best friend is the biggest bernie supporter in the world and i think he's just wacko but you know we have conversations and where able to come to a common ground sometimes and we're able to have a conversation but you don't see that on college campuses anymore and we keep seeing these situations where people are being shut down especially conservatives on college campuses conservative speech like ben shapiro and coulter yes and coulter says some crazy things but it doesn't mean that she shouldn't have a platform just because you disagree with her so i hope that we can come to a point where that's not an issue anymore because that's what really worries me this lack of conversation on happening on college campuses because that's going to come through for the rest of the world for the rest of time yeah and i think people hold on to that stuff what do you think i got but we got to about
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a minute left and i wanted to ask you what do you think needs to change about the political process to make it work for citizens instead of against them the way it is now. i think the political process we just need to have more conversations people need to be able to have a conversation instead of just say you're wrong you're racist you know throwing labels on people just because they don't agree with you instead of having a conversation with you and saying oh maybe i do agree with you on this issue so i think that that is going to be the death of diplomacy if we don't have a conversation yeah well i mean look at you and i i'm i'm essentially a liberal you're a conservative somehow we managed to have an intelligent conversation so i didn't know you are is that. so it's i think it's one of the things. it is really going to excel at in a way that the former generations that we have seen have it and i'm really thank you so much for coming on today morgan marto the republican candidate for
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california's fifty third congressional district thank you for joining us today things. as we go to break don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows at r.t. dot com and coming up tyrrell enter a sit down with former cia analyst and whistleblower john kerry also to discuss the whistleblowers faced from media outlets like the intercepts they tuned to watching on. what holds its institutions to. put themselves on the line. to get except the reject. so when you want to present danger. or some want to reach. out to the right person this is what the three of them will be good. interested
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always in the waters in the. first. in the philippine city of angeles when the u.s. military moved out the six tourists moved in. and now a whole generation of fatherless children is growing up here. my dad an opinion one month old couple simple than incl. my big day in sudan like i pass and i'm the only . son. here. sorry it isn't the first time the t.v. crew to see you or takes you for a no don't answer is
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a little bit now and that it's through your system. that's it the better you want my god found it. a bit better you can take the gilliver that you can't take the little girl. or woman you know. oh i love you like i did it you did it you. came. in today's day and age of total surveillance and governments largely distrusted by their citizens there are few more honorable notion than that of the patriotic with a blower who witnesses that covered up wrong and sets out to make it known insists
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the legendary case of n.s.a. contractor edward snowden twenty fourteen the go to beacon for all those who seek to follow in his footsteps is then the intercept an online publication backed by famed journalist glenn greenwald banned by the united u.s. department of defense on its computers and according to its boosters at least it whistleblowers best friend but how whistle friendly is the intercept once you get past it's highly real and public image apparently not at all especially in the recent case of terry all barry a former f.b.i. agent prosecuted for leaking national security information to the intercept joining tire of winter earlier was john kiriakou a former cia officer and whistleblower to discuss the case and more. done thank you very much always a pleasure having you with us in mind thank you recently we've seen whistleblower the f.b.i.'s terry obery he step forward minnesota was targeted through the espionage act. for passing along national defense information to reporters
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allegedly at the intercept you know subsided and cheap but see read stated news reports have suggested that the process prosecution may be linked to stories published by the intercept we did not discuss anonymous sources the use of the espionage act a person who was a blower seeking to shed light on matters of vital public concern is an outrage now john i've read you've put out word you've stated some very strongly that potential whistle board should avoid the ever so yes it took you were one journalist there yes could you elaborate on that why what's happening oh yeah i think that the intercept probably means well i do. but they go about it in a very amateurish and ham handed way they encourage people on their website to send them classified documents they have encrypt in keys posted so you can you can encrypt your data and send it to them the problem is once they receive that data they handle it in a way that is really irresponsible for example what they do is in the case of of
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all barry the f.b.i. agent in minneapolis they took the documents that he allegedly sent and then wrote a freedom of information act request asking for exactly those same documents and actually and actually listing the titles of those documents so all the f.b.i. had to do was to go through its databases to see who had printed all of those documents they identified him and maybe two other people then they went back to their own internal surveillance video and they saw him taking a photograph of his computer screen and they got him and he immediately confessed and apparently has already taken a deal let me say something before i move on to the next example say something about his case the information that he is alleged to have given to the intercept just a few years ago was not classified or interest rate this was unclassified information that just recently the f.b.i. has decided to retroactively classify so i would say that had he been willing to
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fight this thing he may have had a case where about a career that's interesting that no one what qualities are barkers whether it be you know something like the intercept or an individual reporter what markers should a whistleblower look for in a journalist or organization the ok i know i can trust these people i know. dot their i's and cross their t.'s and i know i'm safe first with what they look for. the technology has gotten so good that the government has weapons that they didn't have even two years ago. and so really the only safe way to do it is to send it to wiki leaks well now if you if you want to give it to a specific journalist here in the united states you're taking a risk in a couple of different ways we know for example that reality when or when she allegedly sent a document to the intercept what the intercept did was they made
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a copy of the document send it back to n.s.a. and said is this a real n.s.a. document not realizing that when you print a document and you're an intelligence community employee there's identifying information embedded in the document it may be in the dot of an eye or in a period but it's got your name and your employee number well if you're a national security journalist or you profess to be a national security journalist you want to know those things so reality winner was arrested only two hours after the intercept had published the story based on her documents so it's just not safe anymore and you either have to use no documents at all and the journalist frankly is going to have to take your word for it or you go to wiki leaks well you know it's interesting when you look at the culture in d.c. because i've always seen it's feels like there's an unspoken underscore understanding in government that there are good leaders and bad leaders sure you
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know and you know. further you explain the difference between them because you and i get to see it in a lot of people might not understand that but it's like when i see newspapers and stories all the time was the anonymous source told me or this person told me and no one ever seems to get prosecuted for that and you know that is rushing a certain agenda but reality women or other people like yourself suddenly all are going to go full bore at this but what's the difference between a good leader and a bad leader and b.c. there if there's one kind of good leaker and two kinds of bad leakers the good leaker is a whistleblower and there's actually a legal definition of whistleblower. it's bringing to light any evidence of waste fraud abuse illegality or threats to the public health or public safety the american people own that information even if it's classified the american people own it and if it reveals a crime or waste fraud and abuse then the american people have a right to see it that's a whistleblower now there are two other kinds of leakers there's the official
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leaker that's the anonymous source that we're always seeing in the washington post in the new york times and elsewhere often times that is what's euphemistically called an official leak and what what the white house will do or the pentagon they're really the two most prolific leakers is the leaks some information that sensitive just to see how the public reacts and if there's no reaction or a positive reaction they'll attack that policy if there's a negative reaction then the withdraw the policy that's sort of how they gauge public opinion now the other badly is when somebody leaks just for their own benefit or because it's exciting to them or they like to see the excitement of a new story and know that they were the source or they like to impress a journalist which happens more often than you might suspect that's interesting that's really interesting you recently we saw was a former f.b.i. deputy director mckay yes he was essentially look go for disclosing information to
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the media and i'm having a lack of candor under oath i want i was curious what is your take on that whole situation and his firing and living and getting what go. i'm of two minds about mccabe number one i feel just terrible for the poor guy and he was a week away or a day away away day away from the qualifying for his full pension and he was fired so he still has a pension he just has to wait another ten years to tap into it for more than ten you know it's ten years he has to wait so. so i feel bad for him in that respect but on the other hand you know so many of us as you pointed out a minute ago have had the entire weight of the u.s. government fall down on our heads when we've gone to the press and he got off relatively freely you know he lost a little bit of his pension and some democratic congressman offered him
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a job so that he'll get the pension at the end of the day anyway but he's not been prosecuted and for that he should thank his lucky stars and he has and i know that he had a good go fund me site the got of like five hundred thousand dollars matter of two weeks it was stunning that was that was apparently operated by like a k. street p.r. company and all this kind of like you know i don't think mccabe's will be all right here you know. likely write a book and that's always a good one too it's interesting because then that gets us into some of the f.b.i. stuff and i know you were you were cia but but having worked in government that's why i feel comfortable asking when you see you know the tax we see between like f.b.i. agent peter could and lawyer lisa page many kind of look at those attacks and that action of them with mccabe involved as well the there's a massive amount of political bias in that situation you know you clearly you could see their political bias towards like sure i'm a crowd sort of clinton. and
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a potential for conspiracy lack of a better word to kind of bring down or or disparage trump after is elected leaving before he was elected and tied in with the whole russia and everything else you know how much does personal politics play at these institutions not much everybody has a political opinion. almost never does that political opinion influence policy i'll give you an example it's kind of a fun one but yes it's typical of what happens behind the scenes especially in the federal law enforcement or national security community i was participating as a note taker in a secure video teleconference a classified video teleconference this is just days after we had crossed the border into iraq in two thousand and two and the commander of central command general hoar was briefing the group and the group was chaired by vice president cheney condi rice was on george tenet was sitting in front of me i was no taker top people and
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during the course of the briefing general hoar said. things are going so well since we've crossed the border we can be in tehran by august and george tenet paused for a second leaned forward and turned off his microphone and turned to me the note taker and said did he say tehran or did he say baghdad and i said he said tehran and he said to me have they all gone mad and then he turned back around and turned his microphone back on and sat silently well that's typical we all have a political opinion when the policy is set the policy is the policy now were these text messages inappropriate yes they were in a lot of different ways and they should have been cheating on their spouses at the same time you know that just feeds this whole notion of a conspiracy but did it affect the investigation probably not.
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there are many musical genres that everyone can agree on fans of hip hop and country come up and mix well and beethoven and thirdly not for everyone but one that comes close to being universally enjoyed or at least tolerated as a chat and it's not just humans that enjoy jazz apparently as one florida dairy farmer found out at henderson and has played the trombone since al. school and ever since stepping out to practice once in his garden the musically inclined farmer discovered that nobody loves this music more than his four legged herd during a one off acts that it to an entertainment staple on this farm henderson that it takes time out of his busy schedule to serenade his bovines with the jazziest tunes believing but a little music is the least he can do to give back to his happy herd and show appreciation for his livelihood and that's our show for you to day remember everyone be good to each other at their i am top of the wall and keep on watching the hawks that have a great day and night everyone. is
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going it alone because it's a little country. tonight because i got a tremendous i think about the little bit of suckers every week because we're a great britain. with manufactured incentives still to the public well. when they're really close to some project themselves. with the famous larry go listen to the woman. in the middle of the
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money almost long faces back at the e.u. parliament as the french president tries to justify saturday's bombing of syria. british m.p.'s also vent their fury at not being consulted over the u.k. french u.s. military strikes in the wake of syria's alleged chemical attack. the members of this house seem top let's say in foreign policy in this country the president troubled. also this hour should robots have rights while as experts calling the e.u. not to grant machines legal status we debate the issue with boss first.

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