the most notable situation was a gentleman named benton strong who some people might recognize he was well known for aggressive politics when the b.p. oil disaster happened he actually went on m.s.n. b.c. we should get a picture of a man like him dressing up as an oil barrel at one point to try to like so he's definitely always been out there on progressive causes you will remember him maybe most recently before or after leaving the center for american progress in august of two thousand and sixteen he went on to be the comes directly for seattle mayor ed murray the same ed murray by the way who as of the end of twenty seventeen and for a movie sexual abuse an assault by at least five people including the child of a family friend so he. definitely hangs out with good people good composer while he was at the center for american progress. he is accused of sending lewd and inappropriate text messages numerous female colleagues a story that was confirmed by at least five other employees and one

a female staffer finally complained about this behavior she found that not only was she the one that was moved away from the team but that other team members and people in the in the within the organization were told not to talk to her and i was a work environment so while yet is three days paid vacation for being a lewd and lascivious scumbag in the word allegedly sure. yeah sure. so yeah so that's my thing as one staffer said this is the thing when this happens because it shows that all these things that you're doing and you're trying to be this progressive woman imagine this is the time when everybody thought hillary was going to win these women walked and think this is our we're finally going to have the real year of the woman and what ends up happening is one staffer had said quote you take garbage money to work at something you believe in and then you can't get into what you really believe in because you can't believe in the organization. once you see it well that's the thing you want to believe in the truth because of the democratic progressive ideals you want to believe in that but when you get to d.c.

and you see this kind of stuff it's hard to believe in the mission when the organization is so foul that thing and now they have cleaned up their act apparently you know they made excuses for every incident you know putting all the blame of course of the woman like we are used to that by now they're actually generation. but it wasn't until twenty eighteen that they fixed all this two years of the allegations were brought to upper management attention two years they sat on this that they finally released new sexual harassment policy guidelines you know this is that. and there's a union there by the way and the union had asked them for it repeatedly and the excuse was from that from cows that well we couldn't change our sexual harassment policy because we were negotiating your overtime oh right because you know physically even the safety and comfort building takes a backseat to pay blame the union blame the pay blame obama but don't blame the behavior we don't blame the woman here watching the hawks but we do blame of course

we got to go to break park watchers don't forget to let us know what you think about topics your government facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our dot com coming up journalist steve moore brings us the latest on the fallout from one of the largest prison riots in united states history so stay tuned to watch the hawks . elliston is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos and then build to kiss it to believe like you know. this is my complicity is going out on sunday oh maybe you. know john tell me there's a ship the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the old vision. you know when you can do this. and then let's do something else that is different this lady is a muscle that you are going to be competing in the dozens you do more than it was last

time but this will. run right along. a common refrain heard in the context of society's most hardened criminals is as brutal as it is dramatic lock them up and throw away the keys but in a tragic case recently the idiom may be more penal system memo than just tough talking hyperbole it all started with a fight that broke out among inmates at south carolina's lee correctional institution except unlike in the movies where you see the brother buzzers immediately blaring and blasting guards in riot gear restoring order within seconds for some air to for unexplained reason the correction officers at least stood by

for almost eight hours before breaking up the fight leaving seven inmates dead and seventeen wounded and even more inexplicably the official response has now focused on contraband cell phones yes cell phones claiming that the deadly riots started as a dispute over the precious communications devices connecting inmates to the outside world so to parse what exactly took place that we and why we are joined today by journalist steve horn welcome steve. good to be back thanks for having me always a pleasure not really cell phones but that's what what do the correctional officers and government officials why are they using cell phones in this case why are they going there. so cell phones have been and issues that have been sort of sent. during and that there are a lot of cell phones within the walls of jails and prisons in south carolina and across the country and it's been a big push by guards and state department of corrections offices to

try to curtail their use the thing is that in this particular case the investigation has actually yet to really begin about what the actual roots of the fight was what's known is that it was an intern gang rivalry people within the walls of this particular prison have said that they saw this coming for a while and happen to have happen on a sunday when there were less people. and also it was hard and it's a hard place to get on sides and rule south carolina and bishop hill south carolina but that said when looking at your question about the cell phones. i want to say that you know one of the things that we the story that we broke in prison legal news which came actually from cell phone photos that would be one of the reasons why. you know guards and department of corrections may not want cell phones besides

the fact that you know potentially they could be drug trafficking potential they could be stuff happening with gangs outside the walls of those pick the jails and prisons is that within you know if someone actually has a cell phone they can take pictures and photo you know photos videos those sorts of things about what is actually taking place inside the walls and prisons in the united states is not really a site that we normally see and even often instance like this we sometimes may not hear of so one of the big reasons why this story became a national story why the associated press reported on it why c.b.s. news reporter and why we reported on it was because there was someone who had a cell phone within the walls of lee correctional facility and now the department of corrections south carolina is trying to say ok well whoever took these videos and whoever took the photos when we find out who it is we're going to bring criminal charges. as against this person of course we're not going to reveal our source i don't believe that the associated press will reveal her their source was either it's an important story newsworthy event as you said it's in the past

quarter century the second most deadly eruption and within the walls of a prison since ohio nine hundred ninety three so it's a really big story and there are a lot of repercussions still about what policies can be put forward going you know in the weeks and months ahead in the state and it will have national. national repercussions definitely most of. you know one of those who is one of the things that the guards brought up was this idea of jamming cell phone towers so that you know prisoners who did have these cell phones which we know happened we know they're used for criminal organizations then things like that drive traffic and although that happens without the cell phones i mean drugs are getting trafficked into into prisons the before beepers so obviously like that's needed in magic mountain which was a convenient way of what you know avoiding the high cost of just communicating with your family right to place exactly and that's and that's the point you know it's it's increasingly expensive for prisoners to just make

a phone call that they need to make our want to make so one of those things is our cell phones really that dangerous i understand why you don't want to have them in there but is there real danger i mean we've seen mob bosses and prisoners we've seen everybody having all of these things still conducting business are they really that dangerous in a in a prison there's. it's unclear you know what i've seen accounts of what's in that is now been a week and a half since this incident. the news accounts really are saying it based on sources within lee correctional facility in the state of south carolina actually very common that they're common place items within the black market of jails and prisons in south carolina and part of the issue how do they all get there well. corrections will say that they're being snuck in and being tossed over fences. that family may be bringing them in or visitors but the actual rip the other review no real

reporting has shown that often it's the actual prison guards who are making money off of smuggling them in and selling cell phones for you know upwards of a thousand dollars to two and a half thousand dollars so there's an issue of major corruption within the actual prisons and jails and states and that includes the guards and there's the other piece of this puzzle that's a follow the money question a base we're talking about blocking potential cell towers and who's going to profit off of that well there's a company that's step forward called secure us and that's a company that does calls where you know video calls or phone calls within jails and prisons across the united states it's a multimillion dollar company that has contracts across the u.s. in localities and states throughout the country and they're so that's they want to kind of monopolize the market by saying ok well you can really only make calls with our products so there's you know and at the same time they're going to use this

cell blocking technology that they have that they say they have that will be useful to stop the dissemination of text messages phone calls etc and you know that i think that's what we really have to follow the money when you're looking at this and really south carolina it's really crucial here because a spokesman for the name of robert johnson who was a correctional officer in that state. he has a horrific. story in which he was through cell phones was actually badly beaten up at his house and now he's kind of become a spokesperson for secure really south carolina is really the apa center of where i see the future of this sort of technology going forward and really is a push now to get the federal communications commission the f.c.c. to implement a basically a policy where regulation where they can do sell blocking technology the reason they can't now is because it's illegal under our c.c. regulations but there's a renewed push in the state of south carolina to make that happen and i know the

speaking of the f.c.c. the pie dough who's rather infamous for his interesting promotional tactic celebrating the end of the trial that he actually visibly and was advocating against cell phones in prison why is oggi pyar so they're doing and involved in this is it because of another example of follow the money. or you know i think it probably is i think it is in the reporting investigating done to see what kind of types of communications online lobbying and that sort of thing that a company like secure us and its allies in that industry are doing but it wouldn't surprise me at all if that's the case and it doesn't surprise me at all like you said that i did go visit this particular facility like i said south carolina is really a tipping point in the future of communications between family and prisoners held at facilities within that state i see that if it moves goes one way in south carolina we could see this happening in other places moving forward and of course the big picture here is that they would have

a monopoly on that mark and they charge exorbitant costs to communicate with families i'll say one more thing securest on top of the cell phone thing and the state like washington state a completely different part of the country secure has really moved into that that state's facilities by saying well the families visit and friends visit prisoners and people in jail and that stay there bringing in other types of contraband drugs . etc so not only trying to get rid of the use of cell phones and saying that's gotta be right and they're really trying to get rid of family visitation period so you see that happening so it's really the trying to get it switching one way track and yeah and sort of keeping people on the you know if you if the only way you can see your loved one is through a video conference that you're going to they're going to pay and i think it points to the the how corrupt it becomes and the prison system it's one of those things there's one of two things that i firmly believe should never be for profit and prisons are one of them and health care is the other so the prisons really what.

you're making profit off and it should be made. yes history made crystal clear there's still no there's been no comprehensive investigation yet in this state it's been a week and a half an hour talking about the policy that should next as opposed to getting to the root cause of what actually happened and particular case the source that i spoke to who took who got these horrific photos of the aftermath of this incident that left seven people dead he says that had nothing and you know this is one source so you can't say that's a death and if a company says this had nothing to do with south and it was just a beef that existed between these rival gangs and there are a lot of people saw this coming and it wasn't a shocker that end up happening what's shocking is what you said is that it took eight hours to respond to for four hours no one responded at all it took four hours after that finally ended about the time all of a sudden we saw seven people dead twenty two people in hospitals and we now

reverberation and that facility where it's a ten year back where we could see you know unfortunately future incidents and they don't actually get to the root cause of what happened so the governor there has issued an executive order he said ok we're going to. do these things we're talking about with communications were. exaggerated or doesn't get to the root cause of. action before action before investigation i haven't heard that at all in the weeks that we've seen in the last couple weeks at all. thank you so much for coming on today always a pleasure talking with you keep up the great work out there. thanks for having me appreciate it. despite the last few desperate gasps of winter for those of us living in the northern hemisphere spring is finally here in the hot humid days the summer fast approaching but further is here for those and for those of you still waiting and dreaming of your white christmas and filled with the wonder of lost for

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headline news saudi arabia was qatar that its regime faces collapse unless it starts backing u.s. operations in syria. french leader emanuel necron of maneuvers between pleasing europe and donald trump on the iran deal during his address to the us congress. this agreement. may not address all concerns but we should not abandon it without having some see substantial and more substantial instead. for extremists it's revealed that an alleged bodyguard of a son of bin ladden has been claiming benefits in germany for more than two decades . russia's defense ministry displays fragments of missiles it says the

syrian government intercepted during the recent western strikes us had previously claimed that all of its missiles hit that target. worldwide news from r.t. and moscow name calling pm on wednesday here our first story the c evening saudi arabia's foreign minister is warning qatar that it faces a rapid collapse of its regime if it doesn't support the us military in syria. qatar should finance the u.s. military's presence in syria and send its own military forces there before the u.s. president lifts american protection for qatar if the u.s. is to withdraw its protection represented by its military base in qatar then the regime there will fall within less than a week. this comes as we've heard different words from trump basically giving the

impression he's still making up his mind about whether or not to withdraw u.s. forces from syria he's been talking about it for him in terms of very soon relatively soon it's not exactly clear now we did hear trump say that if saudi arabia wants the usa to maintain a military presence in syria they should help pay for it they will be making a decision very quickly to ward nation with others in the area as to what we'll do saudi arabia. is very interested no decision and i said well who do you want to say maybe you can have to pay so now we hear the foreign minister of saudi arabia saying that there are regional rival are must share the burden of the fighting in syria or else there could be some rather harsh consequences it's interesting to note yesterday tuesday donald trump was at the white house a speaking with the french president mccraw on and he seemed to indicate that there were other countries that had been approached by the united states about increasing

their role in syria financially as well as merit militarily but there is talk of the prospects of an arab coalition in the works for syria now this is certainly not the first point of disagreement between qatar and saudi arabia folks who recall over a year ago there was a falling out between the two countries and that resulted in a number of countries cutting off diplomatic relations with qatar saudi arabia and during that spat we heard that donald trump unprecedentedly accusing qatar of funding terrorism. said that they absolutely are not funding terrorism in that statement from trump was simply inaccurate so now we've heard these very very dramatic words from saudi arabia's foreign minister who are waiting to see what comes next i spoke earlier with security analyst and former british army officer troubridge who says any gulf state sending troops to syria we break in the middle. well a lot depends on the difference of course between what is being stated quite grandly

by various politicians and leaders and what actually may actually turn out to happen on the ground let's not forget that this would be an occupation force because syria of course is a sovereign entity certainly the recognized government of syria has not invited these other countries from the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council states to come and join in any action or any military operations inside syria itself let's not forget sad president assad and his forces are winning the war in syria and almost certainly at some stage those that then replace american troops may well end up in combat against syrian forces and possibly also russian forces and those countries will be keen to avoid that i suspect. just over an hour ago the french president finished addressing the u.s. congress where he got a woman come from lawmakers. best birthday to. the president of the freds

republic. emmanuelle mccrone spoke enthusiastically of the special bond with when the two countries in a lengthy speech full of historical references. france as participated in the story of this great nation from the very beginning. let us for a moment transport ourselves to the past the french philosopher evolve. and benjamin franklin george washington son of america and france let's get son of the united states burn the in can see monder beauvoir to martin luther king president of the results from thomas jefferson to hemingway's novel to focus novels this is this very special relationship this is this.

right let's expand on all that now with artists americana and washington are there some error what else to mr mccraw have to say. well along with those historical references there was some policy discussed most notably the iran deal now the media has portrayed a trump and mccraw relationship as a bromance a sort of speak and even comparing it to the infamous bush blair bromance of the early two thousand but that could definitely be a mischaracterization considering that mccrone took some positions that were totally out of line with trump's policies and including that he expressed support for the paris climate agreement using the phrase make the planet great again which is in stark contrast to trump's make america great again slogan now mccraw was a bit more ambiguous regarding the j.c. p.o. way or the iran deal calling for a more comprehensive deal while reiterating that france would not be abandoning the twenty fifteen agreement now president stance however is not so far off from

trump's in that he did call for a more comprehensive deal but the notable is the only notable difference being that he france wouldn't be tearing up the deal which trump has threatened to do on numerous occasions but wasn't so bold on tuesday when he met with trump. on the phone for a number of months i've been saying that this was not a sufficient do you but it will enable us at least until twenty twenty five to have some control over the nuclear activities we therefore wish to work on a new deal with iran we signed it at the initiative of the united states we signed it's both the united states and france that is one we cannot say we should get rid of it's like that france will not leave the g.c. purely because we signed. again mccrone did clarify that the necessity of

the agreement outweighs washington's concerns and he urged other countries to stick with the deal until there is a better one now for some context trump issued an ultimatum ultimatum in january that the u.s. would unilaterally leave the deal if the signatories did not agree to more to a more comprehensive deal that specifically targets iran's ballistic missiles and it is speech micron called for monitoring iran's ballistic activity which is not part of the g c p a way but it's also important to note that the i.a.e.a. the international atomic energy agency has verified that iran is in full compliance with the agreement just as recently as march and b. iran's a ballistic missiles are not capable of carrying nuclear warheads according to their foreign minister now trump argues the opposite but mccrone and trump reaching consensus on the j.c. p.o. way was something that other signatories failed to predict especially considering that five hundred french british and german m.p.'s wrote a letter to u.s.

congress asking them to support the deal saying that the concerns should be addressed separately and not within the context of the j c p a way which is evidently in direct conflict with you so check out what the e.u. and russia have to say about it. and what can happen in the future will see the future but there is one deal existing it's working it needs to be preserved we are against the revision of these agreements and believe it's very counterproductive to de rail the longstanding international efforts will make sure that these agreements and shrines in the u.n. security council resolution weren't be violated. trump has until may twelfth to decide what he's going to do but now that there seems to be some division amongst the members of the e.u. it's impossible to predict what exactly will happen ok for now in washington so america thanks very much for the. all right well let's see what the view is interrogative talk to political analyst side my stuff a question welcome back to our. donald trump and emanuel necron have both been

digging in and opposite ends of what they think should happen with the iran nuclear deal that we've had this extremely tactile display over the past couple of days in washington do you think mr mccraw managed to win mr trump round hollow thanks for having me on the show well i believe maccarone has moved to washington for a number of things most importantly is winning donald trump support you know from the trio of european nations that are considered as allies of the united states donald trump has shown some cold blood relations with the angular miracle of germany he has somehow this respect the resume of engler and the only one that he has been fund of working and coming closer with the french president but the french president there is a reason why he.