for you to do granted could definitely you know maybe use a pay raise and a job at a few others but just because there are jobs americans regularly don't want to work piecemeal and that's what a lot of this migrant stuff is it's piecemeal. and it's only an eight month job so those are big and little is known as the surge to the program so so the h two b. program is what allows u.s. employers or u.s. agents to meet specific what they call regulatory requirements to bring for a national see united states to fill these temporary. cultural positions. and what happened was congress had set the cap for the age to be program at sixty six thousand per fiscal year so thirty three thousand for half of the year thirty three thousand for the second fiscal half of the twenty teen. but what how big and is there more not to go around because it became a lottery instead of first come first served with these employers you know went at

the normal amount of time and applied for these visas for all of these workers a lot of them didn't get it that's a five out of eight didn't get they just didn't get lucky in the lottery despite the fact that they went in early they did it now they don't have people to work those jobs and then there are a number here that this really is an immigration issue it's not this is an i mean there's this idea that it's about immigration but this issue is is a lot bigger than that when you talk about that morgan was the general manager of a.g. phillips or eighty philips and son one of the many producers on hoopers island said this is not an immigration issue they come here abide by the rules pay their state and federal taxes their social security taxes and they send the majority of their money home to support their family their very important part of our local economy is and that's something i think a lot of people forget is that under these visa programs they come here they pay taxes they are paying into a social security system they will probably never get anything out of it we. but

they definitely will be there maggots and they're not asking to stay here but they're going to coming back and they're doing it every year but you're forgetting about one of the major talking point some of us that's just. a great example last year d.h. our secretary christian nielsen told representative bill keating quote the concern was that the visas were being given to those who are not seasonal workers will fortunately have seen an increase in for odd see the people there given out these visas under the guise of being seasonal workers were really they're not they're here to state that is the argument that you hear yeah that's the same argument that left a lot of people in the rust belt with no decent support from their own government with the money they were paying in their taxes because this is exactly what happens you don't shut down an entire program that feeds millions and millions of dollars think about this every one of those people who didn't have a visa to do that's two and a half jobs lost by americans in that rural county that only has few industries to keep it alive so no you don't shut down an entire program just because

a few people misused it you enforce it better you do your job you've got to put you've got to put you know you actually have to do good policy over just your you know your instincts to just make a few good quotes on t.v. and say that you're tough on something like that with national whatever art as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics that cover the facebook and twitter your full shows that are dot com coming up we uncover some rather startling changes to the u.s. department of justice prosecutor's manual that affect not only press freedom but voting rights as well to get the whole picture the big picture is all and cook joins us to.

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three million times that rapid growth in international demand for cheap oil has led to the massive expansion of palm oil plantations which is the destruction of rain forest. get into the zero a lot more than ten million hiked as of unique rain forest has been destroyed and it's a process that just keeps going. thank you. as anyone but the stanchest reactionary will admit times do change and our government's issues and priorities change with that so it does come as no surprise that the department of justice has issued a reworked manual for its prosecutors updating and re ranking some of its law enforcement priorities the most noticeable changes however had nothing to do with

the spiraling opioid epidemic terrorism as shootings or even the much talked about violence of illegal immigrants know the updates most striking changes were and what was from cut from the prosecutor's mandla namely parts focusing on press freedoms the right to fair and public trials and voting rights related provisions against racial gerrymandering and the media appears to be far worthier antagonist than any violent offender apparently with new sections setting video diaries sites on government leaks and on authorized contacts with the press so with freedoms out voting rights on the back burner and whistleblowing public enemy number one where does that leave us media veteran and host of the big picture holland joins us now to answer that question hello i'm all for streamlining thing but simple candidate from big. stump when he talked about for every regulation we had we're going to eliminate two in my lane in the media we have talked about this on a previous show where the f.c.c.

is tossing the rules the technology has obsoleted but we wonder is there more to it than that has for instance chairman paved the way for this soon clear tribune merger by specific deregulation and that's the hint that i got off this action here when they've added something about attorney general jeff sessions tough on crime policy and the things they've deleted you know that you talk about yeah so. so is this simply streamlining or is there an agenda behind that too yeah that's the big question to me and it smells a lot like political posturing that we've seen over and over again where they'll look kind of you know you see congress do it all the time we're going to pass this totally meaningless law just so we can say we passed this meaningless right on the campaign trail this is a lot like that but the real you know the question is you know if you do you really think the government is kind of going after it through these changes are they are they going after the quote unquote out of control press that one could could say i

mean you hear them talk about it all the time but is this the actual all right here it is in the manual the the whistle blower stuff tab mentioned and there's certain key words that just jump out of this document you know if you take time to go through it respect for religious liberty so interesting it's not a black and white thing now it's kind of loaded and you mention the laws these aren't fully named laws that are often named to sound like the opposite of what they're going to do right yeah yeah yeah freedom when they're taking freedoms away and one of the things that we should have protected is leaks in the end and whistle blowing and we talk about like the difference between the really leaks have been a problem obviously there been politically there been a lot of leaks that didn't have anything to do with really you know showing waste fraud abuse collusion any of these things a lot of it's been politically motivated but. why is there a need to cut those other sections out instead of just dealing with that one thing

and do restrictions on prosecutors is that. is that really going to deemphasize like does that need to be deemphasized in order to take the leaks seriously all depends on whose ox is being gored you know leaking is glass half empty word for whistle blower right best movie i've seen in months is the post you know tom hanks and meryl streep you know riveting retelling of the story of the pentagon papers what a set of never leaked right you know some people actually here in washington still have a vertebra. and we have both of us spying. so you know acts of political courage depends on what the issue is you know it's a very so i was there something i mean obviously now we've never had a moment in this country where everyone agreed that something was great or anything you know when nixon was thrown out you know obviously not everybody thought that was a great thing but this it was a very it's hard to understand where the political motivations and the patriotic i

guess motivation as particular administration is allergic to leaks you know we've heard the stories out of turn in your phone when you get to the white house stuff like that so obviously it touches a nerve with them but what touches a nerve with us is this stuff about the press the stuff about the media and a lot has been introduced by congressman eric swalwell from california which he calls the journalist protection act and get this it makes it a federal crime to intentionally cause bodily injury to a journalist in the course of reporting or in a manner designed to intimidate him or her from news gathering and how timely is this all along the campaign trail the president ranking out the press in the back of the room by name poor katie ter you know we lionized the trunk and demonize. the media and fake news and we've called the press the enemy of the people and you and i know members of the media who are getting death threats and

e-mail in these grisly phone calls here so i think it's time to add rather than subtract protection for what the founders considered was going to be our check on power when you think about that that's a pretty important thing because well you know the second amendment arms they at least have a gun say right now they had weapons but at that time you only had you know newsletters and you don't have press even remotely and no protection so i thought that's so important that that was so important to put down of this is going to happen if importantly make the irony being that our president lives on unfiltered media right you know you can tell what time he got up from twitter i will say it's going to be really interesting you know you mentioned the erik's all over you know representatives of souls legislation because it's very interesting though is that you also have offsetting legislations where you have you know they've passed laws saying that you can't go in and film industrial farming locations events like that

so they're going to see these two laws but if this gets passed you're going to see these collision collision and it will be up to the courts to decide plus again goes back to the how do you decide who is and who's not a journalist you know is the kid who didn't go to school but has the camera report and writes in a blog and is breaking stories that way is he considered a journalist more and more you got to go to columbia for years the n.f.l. has been credentialing bloggers for the super bowl because they want to get covered where the next generation of fans is reading and watching and listening so you're right you're absolutely right when you say courts i got to chill because who's appointing these federal judges for life now yeah that's the other flip side is i think it gets into a very when you start saying you know when you start putting penalties or people who go after journalists or putting penalties journalists themselves that it gets very scary right there because again you're asking a group of professional you're asking these people to decide what is. and what is not there that is a very interesting issue. i'm curious about gerrymandering because that was the

other thing that came up and how you found actual shaped districts yeah that makes absolutely no sense lots are like there's already county lines why can't you do things well they fixed it in pennsylvania now that you know it's getting a look elsewhere and again it will be the other party's turn at some point you spend enough time in washington here and you get the sense that things are going to work out but it could be rough sledding in the meantime and what's interesting too is in this report it specifically you know takes out the idea of racial jury man right yet it has this free ride to do it i'm going to ask both the sort of us to really thank the politicians on either side of the aisle or going to be stupid enough to run out and start tearing my under in right along like white and black neighborhoods and saying oh well hispanics live here whites live here i want to make sure i get so far over seventy members of congress are not coming back so i think they hear the footsteps but i will say you know what they've been doing it for years without having to bring up race you know they don't find those cute words

to kind of like so you race but not say race you know. a code word and everybody doing exactly where they have been doing that for years we've seen the last thirty or so you know just recently had a case in texas where you know they were arguing you don't behave this was racially districted movement should be stopped but the texas courts said no you know i wasn't you know i think that you're going to continue to see that but under that kind of coded language at the end of the day all politics is local. you know i want to get to the last piece that came up with this and this prosecutor's medal you mentioned earlier is religious freedom you know i mean aside from from this man who is kind of focused on going after leaks and this new direction you know there's a new direction is that they're worried about the infringement on religious freedoms requiring government lawyers to know. by senior officials about any and all lawsuits against the governor there is you all and it's religion really under

attack are we supposed to separate church and state here anyway what happened to that how many how my and my friends write our brooms out to our coven meetings there's a lot of it is that it's not going to. say it again and you know it does seem a little much to me because i think i think again that's one of those issues in the media where it's being blown up in the media that there's a religious war but there really isn't at the end of the day not when you're there on the ground we'd like to think not we'd like to think not you know i would hope i would think that you know people are generally respectful of each other we know that that's like will happen all the time but i do think as well as the issues that the media likes to explode this i think there are a lot of us thing yes it is just out of control that pick an issue any issue no minds are being changed any more we don't want information we want affirmation that's a great point right there at the very very well that is one of those things that we all need that we're very meeting society now anything we need people to tell us we're got enough we need to know we have enough bolivar's and politicians i think are no different they need to have lots of money i mean you look at it you know the

democrats and republicans both all the emails you get from them are all about by the teacher we got to raise one human nature anything that challenges us is now deemed fake news and we need to change you know then you're still the prosecution manuscripts for all the problems you are going to part with just as this business just to fit you know political ideology to be this very dangerous is why i am watching. always a pleasure having you on all of that you so much for joining us today. from the majestic rivers to the depths of our deepest oceans all the way back to the small crack running through your neighborhood the life giving force on the planet earth is an interval part of our daily lives which makes masses upcoming launch of its gravity recovery and climate experiment follow on or grace follow so vital to better understanding our small blue planet to. spacecraft scheduled to launch on may nineteenth from vandenberg air force base in california the space x.

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simple dozens of vehicles involved in the all have to be in sync. i. am in philadelphia eight pm in perth australia and three in the afternoon here in moscow this friday april the fourth welcome to our to international i mean o'neill our top story the czech republic has revealed it produced a similar nerve agent to the one used to attack former russian spy surrogate script how his daughter the country's president cited an intelligence report confirming that the poison had been made last year. do you know that choke was produced and tested in the czech republic it was a small quantity though we know when and we know where it was done it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened the president of the czech republic saying that nava child

had been produced and stored in the country could of course be seen as quite a considerable development since it reiterates the point that russia has been making throughout the script saga for all of this time saying that it could have been produced in a number of countries including the czech republic and the us now the president of the czech republic did say that this was a small amount and that it had been destroyed however still this is important given that previously we have seen ministers of the country deny this possibility the russians crossed all boundaries when they said the novacek agent could have come from the czech republic that is a lie now of course when accusations against russia started if you recall the united kingdom was saying that it could only have been russia to produce the novacek nerve agent that was said to have been used to poison sergei scruple and his daughter in sol's very on march fourth however this came with a combination of arguments made by the west saying that it could only have been

russia that russia was the only country they thought would have a motive in a situation like this as well as had a history as they described it of carrying out similar attacks every culture does about the identity of the culprit no other country has a combination of the capability the intent and the motive to carry out such an act is no poolesville alternative explanation yet but do six because this is. a. close evil are actually able to forgive. the plausible explanation and this is of course that russia had denied throughout the whole scandal however it did unravel and snowball into a major diplomat. atic rao bringing ties between russia and the u.k. to a new low leading to a handful of expulsion of russian diplomats from a number of countries as well as the boycotting of the world cup about to take place in russia this summer and again despite the fact that russia over and over

again said it had nothing to do with the incident had called for joint investigations to be carried out including with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and of course taking all of this into consideration it's curious to point out that following sergei script hall and his daughter yulia regaining consciousness in the hospital here in the u.k. the story and the whole scandal has pretty much disappeared from the political and media limelight so it's going to be interesting to see whether or not it could in fact return following these latest statements made by the czech president or the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is the heart of moscow not expect sensors about other countries development of nava chalk like substances. i want to mine everyone that it was london drenched the czech republic confrontation with russia and is because of the pressure from the british authorities then it escalated into an expulsion of diplomats now it turns out there were no grounds for

them know that for even three weeks now we expect answers from other countries that as we said had and still have the potential to develop. just to recap check leader said country until legends reports identify the ancient made in his country a substance called a two three four a novel chalk type substance we got the faults of global affairs expert george zimmerman. it really does blow the whole british american thesis out of the water the british american thesis was that nobody bar of the russians could have produced it even though no evidence of ever being produced to suggest that. it ever was manufactured in russia and the people who go anywhere in the world

could not have done it i mean the formula had been published in the united states already some years ago and now if. what the czechs are saying today proves to be correct then. explode the entire british american thesis. us rapper and celebrity can the west is a russian spy secretly working for of love him or putin that's according to or not own strategic intelligence analyst the accusations come after wes publicly revealed his support for donald trump rutgers the now looks out on ever growing army of kremlin agents remember when being portrayed as a russian spy was funny a bit of a joke. over. what he'd done in the dark when. just the way to a filing your russian spy assaulted. by

a kitchen. who isn't funny now could be anyone in the oval office in the pentagon madison square garden. can years recent coordination with trump along with his use of infamous or rhetoric and symbols confederate flag reek of products here just join up the dogs time year indorse trump publicly their friends. i'm not saying can you west is involved at all in the trump russia scandal but i am saying he has russian ties and was there right after the twenty sixteen elections scott did walk in or perhaps work in a contributor for the us news channel m.s.n. b c and also founder of russia gate agrees there are just too many dogs not to connect them kanya west went to russia he went to russia he

literally flew to moscow and walked around the jew see what he got up to i sure didn't get to be doing anything it's now so or vs why didn't we see it before we see it now and there are more of them clint eastwood openly backed trump and the russian connection is blatant clint eastwood speaks russian. pretends to. oh and robert de niro he hates trump or so he says but look at the facts he cool owns the chain of all true a luxurious restaurants in moscow and he's opening a new one soon you know who goes to his restaurants oligarchs we're not blind anymore and there could be russian spies in my audience and i wouldn't know

everyone is a suspect. are you a russian spy now yeah that's what russian spies say ellen the generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who've recently been to russia they held. and did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere the president the republicans hollywood your neighbor your friends maybe probably even you. a british police monitoring group passed forced u.k. authorities to release its kuntar terrorism training materials after years of court battles the document.