he did join us here on our team to national for the program so far in the morning here we are back soon with much more. twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest kill people. but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and a huge amount of pressure can remap you have to be the center of the shuttle would

you. agree. you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down there we go. alone. and i'm really happy to join us for the thousand in the world cup in russia meet this special one come on both appreciate me to just say the review the aussie team's latest edition make up a bigger. look. greetings and salutation we are celebrating the great american tax bash here in the united states this week cork watchers yes every spring in april millions upon millions of hardworking u.s. citizens file their tax return. and celebrate the exciting ways their government is

spending their hard earned dollars in fact as an added bonus this year u.s. taxpayers got to see their hard earned tax dollars in action with president trump's bombing of alleged chemical weapon facilities in syria just a few short days before this year's annual tax day on april seventeenth and want to display it truly was according to c.n.n. b c last saturday u.s. forces fired sixty six tomahawk cruise missiles on three syrian targets early in the morning local time making for a price tag of ninety two point four million dollars for those missiles alone ninety two point four million dollars that is that is that is one the hell of an early morning bill not even bill maher celebrating his birthday at jumbos clown room in los angeles reaches that kind of proportions. jeffrey up steam

birthday party you know maybe given the cost of legal themes and the stains on your soul from attending but it wasn't just the u.s. taxpayers that got nicked for this little meal liberal morning jaunt and syria u.k. prime minister theresa may spend roughly six point three million euros on the eight storm shadow missiles are fired into an alleged research facility near almost bend re of common space points out quote that it costs twenty three thousand four hundred twenty pounds to resettle a syrian refugee for a year six point thirty two million pounds could therefore resettle two hundred sixty nine refugees from syria. and remember these figures are just for the missiles alone we haven't even begun thinking about the cost of fuel logistics and the man hours that went into the strike imagine how many schools hospitals are affordable housing you could buy for the cost of one friday night out on the town

with the military industrial complex this is why we are always watching the hawks. it looks like. it's like. the bottom. like you that i got. hit with. this. week so. well the watchers are so i am so i robot and i'm going to laugh i mean ninety two point four m. in the end. i mean you know what you could get people with that are a half a bunch of people student loans or there could be more i guess the answer. you

could do the same as those are my muscles are they make fancy lights and everybody they're making a go boom they make you know male politicians feel adequate finally you know that adds a little extension to certain things you know when you can blow up you know brown people half way around the world makes you feel tough well you know you've got a bunch of politicians who are. who are definitely having some problems at home with a little bit of pushback on what their agenda was so you trace the mayor who's in the middle of all this you know trump is in the middle of all of this here and of course you have my crown who's now being questioned about what israel i mean i'm sorry it's all of the like. very very well the dog yes very well the dog very and the money allowed when you really look at it just the missiles alone going how much do you know and everybody what i mean look this was a big week for lockheed martin and raytheon raytheon especially get a big big friday night saturday morning like they know how to party i mean lucky martens joint air to surface standoff missile has extended range talk about

a name for jasmine here which c m b c calls a stealthy long range air to ground missile made its combat debut in the serious drugs they dusted jazz mirror up like a look at what we got we got jazz mere. well according to jail jazz near cost taxpayers u.s. taxpayers about you know one point four million dollars each and you know which means that the cost of jazz mirrors debut on the dance floor was about twenty six point six million tax dollars for the nineteen of them that were fired into syria you also got look the tomahawk missile all that already hold a regular i don't know tomahawk missile tomahawk missile been dancing on that stage for a long time now we've got the dynamics we've been watching has been for going to the theater going on so those who. they cost about one point four million. you know those plays of the big ninety two. ninety one million dollar cost but here's

a kicker to have your talk about her. countries with with a lot of. militarism tomahawks have been deployed more than twenty three hundred times since joining the navy's arsenal of just one thousand nine hundred. twenty three hundred times who kept us alive when you sit there and go out and the time that i've been around. we have dropped. home and this is the thing about these we talk a lot about these missiles about a million you can assume that any missile any any of these that whether it's a tomahawk or joe's mayor or whatever beautiful name they give it to it next unicorn i'm thinking would be the next one maybe put some glitter in a rainbow on the side of the great a lake or fun and it was. the glitter balm i don't know. yet the thing is there's also the cost of everything else we just talk about oh it's a million dollars a million dollars is a lot more that goes into that so when you think about it you've got the total in

the in total the u.s. airstrikes in syria involves aerial refueling ok earlier air these aerial refueling tankers that we talked about there have been. doing good work for democracy over there it's a zero and then you have u.s. fighter jets that were tasked with ask ordering the bombers to their targets and then the bombers themselves were it's where the b. one b. lancers so alternately according to see and b. c. what they said while the costs and type of additional aircraft involved are unknown the total number of comets and jazz mare's cost one hundred nineteen million dollars yet so really we spent when you really are all open to actual hard costs you know trying to businessman you show me i want to see you know every european al show me what happened during the strike it's really bad especially when you're telling working class americans all through the rust belt that it's gonna get better that they're gonna fix stuff but you could spend a hundred million dollars like how many schools roads hospitals you know these are

the questions of the seven it's easy to kind of look at these numbers and it just stand back if you all kind of crack a joke just so feel a little better but at the end of the day we're talking about ninety two million dollars hundred nineteen million dollars bringing death to people what a waste truly a waste of money but you know what else it's waste of money two point billion five . raytheon stocks made this last week two point five billion. the n.r.a. is systematically keeping the hard working poor in this country down but it's not the evil right hand of corporate gun manufacturers and our trade it's the evil right hand of corporate restaurant owners and our rage that's right the national restaurant association the other n.r.a. has spent over three point two million dollars just in twenty seventeen and even more the previous years on lobbying congress and what pray tell are they lobbying for well one of their favorite pet projects is making sure the minimum wage for

tipped and untypical workers stays low very low they even tried polling the public about such things as whether they supported raising the minimum wage to ten dollars an hour the exact thing they have spent tens of millions of dollars making sure doesn't happen in a presentation document obtained by the intercept g.o.p. pollster frank luntz is firm once global reported that not only did seventy one percent of those polled support an increase in the federal minimum wage but seventy one percent of them also wanted the increase despite it increase to call in cost to them as customers looks like this that are a shot themselves in the foot. or. maybe when you first told me that they talk about the other i was i was sort of of the national rifle association with. national restaurant association if you hear of this even if you are doing it to keep wages down yet profits up because it's the end of the world if you know it's all going to fall apart as they keep saying let me begin with the money here of the

national restaurant association some real senior vice president of the. at our race skills i would say that's sort of there is research and knowledge group to say that the restaurant industry now in the united states is larger than ninety percent of the world economies that's a lot of restaurants a lot of food consumption but you dollars to donuts alone. lot of that is chain corporate restaurants although they were right to say that that it's oh no with small businesses but they say they play trickery with that i mean there's a lot of private restaurants we all watched over to china get a pretty good idea what a kid franchises are a large fry and started to look at restaurant here some numbers restaurant sales reach seven hundred ninety nine billion dollars in two thousand and seventeen which by the way more than the got a three keep wow more of it on the other hand are write books food is important and i think when you have a population that says overtaxed overworked and run to the ground as the u.s.

population you don't got time to cook at home right. i'm sure that a big deal with this rise in there too does four point three by the way that's seven ninety nine billion that's four point three percent higher than twenty sixteen they've now posted six years of consecutive growth and they're complaining and worried about minimum wage being raised up they've got to fight that they've got this crazy socialist horrible idea of eighteen people a livable wage it's really incredible and when you go and the like. when you know a low corporate mentality and corporate corporate persona because it's like they are detached from the normal world of how things work because when you go into the presentation it shows the national. plan of how to pivot the argument away from raising the minimum wage because you know we don't want our workers to actually you know make money that they deserve you know we want to make sure that they stay downloads and to survive until some work for different jobs in one industry.

so they're pivot away was is that they see these talking points come up i'm sure when minimum wage comes back into the cycle again because this is them plug money and be a lobbyist right is don't tax tips ok you know expand career and job training exemptions for small business owners and increase funding for insured. what does that mean to you to have at the end of the day what does that smell like to you oh yeah the cost to be so busy to service workers don't make enough money so hey you know what we should do we should get the government to pay for their insurance we should get the government to pay for food stamps to go oh that's wal-mart there he tried that literally disgusting you know the one script you're saying they got they have this whole idea they also gave talking points in the presentation back about how even though the numbers and people don't care about those they have this i will look at that this way it was really interesting because. they said who analyze around the

poll they actually said in their talking point that businesses will close let's be clear about who makes up the majority of the restaurant industry it's small businesses and locally owned franchises so they operate with razor thin margins already the sad reality is that with a higher minimum wage many with simpler no longer be viable like this is they don't lay off employees or shut down their doors entirely let me tell you this ok first of all razor thin margins that's what most americans are living on that would be work and that you're talking about working there and this minimum wage thing right so you've got two thirds of minimum wage workers are women good subsisting most of them are mothers these are mothers these are daughters these are people that most likely are how are caregivers for children or the elderly or members of their family and they're working on next to nothing razor thin margins if they really cared if they're worried about razor thin margins then they'd pay people. freakin level wage it's not a difficult when you make eight hundred billion dollars

a year as an industry it's not that difficult let's be honest at the end of the day too i wonder how many executives are getting those monstrous amounts of salaries that don't you know those were just people were making double the other room so how can you know i just can't cry for you argentina grill i don't know if it really does or to grow it is clear it's everywhere as we go to break card watchers don't forget to let. you know what you think about topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our shows of r.t. dot com coming up media legal legal analyst lion-el and there's the hawk's nest to discuss how the long standing expectation of attorney client privilege attorney client privilege is now skating on thin ice so i break out your swim trunks and get ready for the second half of what.

the fed prints the money and then the pentagon blows it up in various countries around the world or sends us soldiers out there to get maimed and blown up you don't die for your country to protect democracy you die in america to stop inflation that's what the soldiers out there are dying for missions replace the american flag with an upside down dollar sign or something. it's a common refrain you hear from old curmudgeons and finicky traditionalists of all stripes nothing is sacred anymore the rudeness of talking politics of the dinner

table moral savages pay women the same salaries as men loud conference calls and the brutal assault on restaurant dress codes but now we can add to that long and somewhat tedious list the long standing expectation of attorney client privilege contrary to popular belief aside from its role as a major plot device on the sopranos on the wire the attorney client privilege serves the vital purpose of not only allowing mobsters to plant conspiracies in their lawyers offices but also allowing all kinds of defendants be the innocent are not so much to speak openly and freely but their attorneys in order to mount the best possible legal defense and now after a somewhat shocking headline breaking f.b.i. raid on the office home and hotel room of donald trump's attorney michael cohen it appears that the department of justice has no intention of letting the president get off as easily as tony soprano to discuss the wider implications of this raid and the ongoing court battle we're joined today by legal and media analyst lionel

of leno media thank you for joining us but know. one of the best the maddux reading from popular culture american jurisprudence to perve very. little let me just i mean we've we've seen the constitution shredded since nine eleven probably even before that but let's put the biggest question to brad first is a tough attorney client privilege value but something vitally important to our legal system is that no officially dead in our constitutional republic. no ok to be the kill joy here not even close thank goodness for your goodness my this is one of the funniest cases i got to ask you question first of all if somebody came here from another planet some of the new sion and said why are you talking about michael cole and what is why is he so important most people i would suggest would say. i haven't

the fog you know i don't know why we're talking about it because stormy daniels i don't know what what did he do. i don't even know why are we all what's the big deal of michael cohen they rated him ok and that's bad i mean so so here's what happened and i'm going to where various has because i'm a trained lawyer i can take any side you want the f.b.i. rory is investigating him for potential wire fraud now get this as they say on fox news get their ass this is a guy who has more money than you can imagine they went to with holmes it is the dollars that he owed to meet that guy that he won the most incredible legal minds a real estate mind it's a fortune. he got one hundred thirty one of a thousand dollar equity line in his home to pay for stormy daniels supposedly to

keep her quiet for wedeman what ok so that may be allegedly that might be wire fraud because it didn't tell the the mortgage people what this was for that's over one hundred two is it an f e c a violation is it than in kind contribution is it wire fraud when you took the gotten gains of this home equity imagine those forget reverse mortgages hi i'm cairo ventura forget what do you have a a a an erotic new dancer you want to pay off how about a there's there's gold in them there are walls tire of interest home equity loans for silencing what i mean you can't but you can't put words in this so. so so that blows up ok now so then if if he transferred that you have wire fraud f.e.c. violation ok fine ok terrific here's the problem it gets even better when they had the hearing the other day don't remember your lawyer this is this is cohen's lawyer

normally i don't know call me crazy represent his best interest so when they have this hearing before a judge kimba wood and they made a big deal about you know she married george soros i thought she married george i know she oshie officiated ok fight because this week everybody was saying she marry george soros which of course so during that during that you got to hear this during the course of this thing the government says well judge as you know mr cohen only has one client that would have been good but his lawyer says whoa no. he's got more judge woods is really who are they vow i can't tell you what you mean you can tell me i'm a federal judge lifestyle don't you know you're going to tell me no. judge they would be embarrassed so all of a sudden believe it or not you find out about this other person and then somebody

from the back who represents new york times says tell us who there's another person is as they say it sean hannity ok. did you feel the shock waves yesterday but you know what's the big deal is sean hannity showing his and he says he's not my lawyer i gave him ten dollars pursuing this myth that somehow you got to give a lawyer money for the attorney client privilege to a blind eye and. so what i'm saying is this really isn't about the attorney client privilege you know but the million dollars is there's one point we're not talking about that president because he gets to go through these things excuse me these are my communications you may have i hold the privilege now i hope i've thoroughly confused you while it's retaining you the whole time life is confusing what i actually read about this is that you know. listen to this it actually feels like there should be a show called the real business guys of new york after real housewives because that this what like

a real housewives wrap up episode i mean i just it's the most ridiculous thing is it's this idea of like you say that i think people watch a lot of television and movies and think certain things are real like oh i gave you a dollar so here's my lawyer and that's how it works like what you think sort of persists and yet one of the things about this whole michael cohen rape. is you know is that it's under where did the where did the targeting come from ok so was you know on the surface the warrants that were issued were for investigation into this very very rich man michael cohen our you know lawyer michael cohen's taxicab medallion business right right so we have these taxi cab medallions he wasn't paying taxes one fees on them but at the same time we know that the matter was referred to the southern district of new york about these taxi cab medallions by robert muller who is part of the rusticated investigation to make it even more

ridiculous right so he also passed it on he said you know listen you guys. other district you handle this is in your jurisdiction and they're saying oh thanks a lot because they're not this wasn't a taxicab down your nose where you are and by the by people are saying to you no they came at six o'clock in the morning as a yass in fact the real new york honest to god legit wise guy i mean the professionals always have their wives making coffee come on and. they make it better just don't don't know it's true and i didn't know who frank. you're a customer years ago used to said his wife had to give coffee and donuts to f.b.i. agents who are on surveillance so this is you know the average american now is all of us and saying boy they're pretty rude and by the way they have safe crackers where them they will save crackers they've got locksmith anything you need they've got somebody there but the bottom line is the first question is no the attorney

client privilege is still here but here is when it applies that they we all should teach if we can if i talk to you you're my lawyer for the purposes of the they're asking you legal advice or you were rendering legal advice in a confidential setting where there's a reasonable expectation of privacy not in a cocktail party but just i go to you those conversations regarding that advice either ask for or given that is a privilege along with the husband and wife privilege clergyman penitent privilege psycho therapist patient privilege there are a number of them these unique these unique relationships that the law and the legislature requires and recognizes that being so special that we cannot compel or to have those privileges and those confidential conversations are ruined or breached by compel testimony you know it's interesting to me

a lot of those is the reaction like you were saying you know it came in at six o'clock in the they had saved. a thought you know really explaining what the you know privilege and attorney client privileges excellent job but one of the things i think is interesting to me about this whole case is seeing privileged people reacting to how like the poor and you know the street corner drug dealer or whoever is treated every day right you know you know it's like oh so sorry rich white guy you're going to knock down your door well guess what this happens across america every day you just don't see it because you're in a privileged position and usually doesn't happen to you guys rakesh and you and you never. stormy daniels run up to some to some to bed i don't know meth dealer whatever too but over that their means i don't know what that means but you don't talk about somebody who some three time a loser this is they they act like oh my god i'm so should win but i ask yourself this question why is this so interesting it's really not that easy to break the

news or body and sean hannity with all due respect sean hannity said he's now my lawyer guess what that's there there goes the cases now moat so i don't know what you're going to dig through this but here's the best very quickly they have this thing called the taint committee please no jokes it's a family show but there's little that is called the eight committee where you have somebody from the department of justice who goes through this and says i am not a part of this but i'm not going to tell my colleagues in the same building in the same department in the same agency on the same floor what i've got i'm going to go look through this and say. so this is so what they're going to do is they're going to select a magistrate magistrate judge these people who are going to maybe make this determination what will this is still we'll see how this all shakes out at the end of the day because it it's just absolutely ludicrous but i always always a pleasure having you on to really break this down and help us understand this and

sad to be always a pleasure lionel of line on radio thank you so much. it's tax free care the good ole us of a and besides paying taxes to a government that doesn't really represent you and use your hard earned money to kill brown people for a politics and profit we all go out of the joy of being told that the iris was broke well still had to say that's right on jim's of our and i seventeen the last day to electronically file your taxes online taxpayers got this message stating that the system was down for a planned outage that was to last for of april seventeenth two thousand and eighteen to december thirty first one thousand nine hundred ninety nine now i don't mind waiting till i'm about eight thousand years old paid my taxes but no luck americans had to do with the old fashioned way so there are literally a lot of tracks that are in the mail and if it wasn't a ludicrous enough already jeffrey tribbiani the i.r.s. every commissioner for operation support told the house ways and means oversight committee recently that we are concerned about the potential for

a catastrophic system failure is increasing as our infrastructure continues to age . taxes and government computer outages we just can't escape them and we. need everybody to remember in this world we are told or loved about so i told all of those you i am i robot to the type of the wildest people watching those offices ever great day and night everybody. what holds it. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go right to be this is what before three of the people. interested in the war.

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