basis they have been in previous years meaning forty percent of the labor the crab industry needs will not be there which leaves the interdependent economy in maryland at risk since each unfilled visa leads to two and a half jobs lost in the area as the president of chesapeake bay seafood industries association jack brooks private quote it devastates our community is our local markets the people who make our boxes right here in our county the people who service our quitman our truck drivers our truck repair people the local markets it goes on and on and on so the question remains if us natives aren't willing to enter the job market to fill these less than desirable jobs why are we discouraging legal migrant workers whose labor keeps these rural communities like reapers i've learned driving. because they take. yeah that is like this blows my mind when you see stories like this is like here you have a system set up keeping business is a place doing all those people are agreeing to do what sounds like some pretty terrible job i mean you know it was only an infection as there was just disk you

know shucks some crabs of that's the right terminology i don't think crabs but boisterous but you know but but they do they literally are taken by these pigs are seriously are breaking up are pulling all of the meat out of these scraps by hand these are called three d. jobs around the world and the reason i called three d. jobs is that they are dirty dangerous and demanding although sometimes they also use degrading or demeaning we do have records i want to. they have to do some of the things they have to do is they have to purchase a lot of their own safety equipment so that when you see people with cut up hands they don't have gloves safety gloves are like the metal does is because they can afford them this is what gets under my skin was when you told me something like that because that's those moments for a full out there who are complaining about people stealing jobs or they get out of jobs will you do is old senator jobs for you to do now granted could definitely you know maybe use a pay raise a job a few others but it just goes with much because all their jobs american graduate

don't want to work piecemeal and that's what a lot of this migrant set is it's piecemeal. and it's only an eight month job so those they're big and little is known as the stage to the program that they started so so the age to be a program is what allows us employers or us agents to meet specific what they call regulatory requirements to bring for a national see united states to fill these temporary naan at the called out of her 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 house of twenty team. but what happened is there weren't enough to go around because it became a lottery instead of first come first served these employers bust 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 only five out of eight didn't get well 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 no hearing this really is an immigration issue it's not this is what 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 mortgage is 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 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 one thing 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 probably won't but they definitely will be they're going to they're not asking to stay here but they're going in they're coming back and they're doing it every year but you're forgetting about one of the major talking point some of us that is the

great example. 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 if 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 give a visa to the. 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 the better you do your job well 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 quotes on t.v. and say that you're tough on something like that national whatever art as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think about puppets or cover to facebook and twitter your poll shows that are t.v. dot com coming up we uncover some rather startling changes to the u.s. department of justice prosecutor's manual but for the fact not only press freedom but voting rights as well to get the whole picture the big picture is all and cook joins us to walk off. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from day shouldn't let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development the only move really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

with. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education alone higher education is becoming just another product that can be bullish and sold so there's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business where you could. finally couldn't we. want is the place of students in this business model for college i was born nine. i'm extremely more education the new global economic war.

as anyone with a staunch us reactionary will admit times do change and our governments 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 no 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 diary 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 keep it simple candidate from big. stump what he talked about for every regulation we had we're going to eliminate to yes in my lane in the media we have talked about this on a previous show where the f.c.c. is tossing out 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 is this simply streamlining or is there an agenda behind that too yeah that's the big question and to me 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 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 you know now you know 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 rice yeah yeah yeah freedom when they're taking freedoms away and one of the things that we should have protected is leaks in the in a whistle blowing and we talk about like the difference in that they review the

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 the leak is that 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 are you. a riveting retelling of the story of the pentagon papers what is dead and 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 is 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 have lionized the trump stir and demonized 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 yeah 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 and say well you know 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 what was so important to put down of this is going to happen it's important we 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 mention the erik's all over you know representatives or souls legislation because it's very interesting though is that you also have offsetting legislation is where you have you know they passed laws saying that you can't go in and film industrial farming location is that it's like that so you'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 on the 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 and 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 isn't 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 shape districts yeah that makes absolutely no sounds like there's already county lines why can't you do things well they didn't 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. what's interesting too is in this report it specifically you know takes out the idea of racial jury man right yeah because this free ride to do it i'm going to ask about this sort of this to really think that politicians on either side of the aisle are 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 seven the members of congress are not coming back so i think they hear the footsteps well enough but i will say you know what they've been doing it for years without having to bring up race you know they didn't find those cute words to kind of like say race but not say race you know. a code word and everybody doing exactly that and they have been hearing 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 pay this was racially districted movement should be stopped at 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 good boys. 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 notify senior officials about any and all lawsuits against the government that is your 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 as i live it is not a matter of them and i. will 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 that the end of the day not when you're there on the ground we'd like. i think not we like to think not i would hope i would think that you know people are generally respectful sure we know that those local happen all the time but i do think as well as issues that the media likes to explode i think there are a lot of us thing yes it is just out of control pick an issue any issue no minds

are being changed any more we don't want information we want affirmation and that's a great port right there at the very very well that is one of those things that we all need that we're very meeting society now i mean really 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've 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 a footnote a political ideology that's very dangerous as well of watching. always a pleasure out of you know all of that you so boards are 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

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russia says it's waiting for other nations not to admit that they also my new flag should not to choke off the czech president claims that his country produced and stored the nerve agent similar to the one used in the sultan's brain poisoning. in another controversy surrounding the attempted murder of the russian spy to this sounds day the u.n. chemical weapons watchdog contradicts its own chief who really has said that up to one hundred grams of the top secret agent was used in the attack. i don't want to. i think that. the. demonstrations along garza's border with israel into this six week dozens of palestinians including two journalists are being killed through the great march of

returned protests come by the truck if not tonight and also. two journalists mount a legal battle in the u.s. to fight for their alleged inclusion in washington so-called kill list they say they were wrongly suspected of having links to terror groups. or they just after nine in the evening in moscow this friday my name is kevin welcome to the program first and russia is putting pressure on its international partners to declare whether or not they have produced the novacek nerve agent in the past it comes after in the last twenty four hours the czech president claimed that his country did produce and store a substance very similar to the one that was used in the attack on a former russian spy in english city a soul's break is words appear than to contradict those of other czech officials

they showed us i just got that i want to say this live on air the most likely origin of that chemical are the countries which have been intensively studying chemicals belonging to so-called novacek projects since late one nine hundred ninety s. they are great britain's slovakia the czech republic and sweden the question should be raised about the us to the e.u. russian claims that the czech republic is one of the four countries most likely to have manufactured the nerve agent used to poison sergei script on his daughter a holy unsubstantiated and highly speculative. the russians crossed all boundaries when they said the novacek agent could have come from the czech republic that is a lie. novacek 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 to be there might be now we expect answers from other countries that as we said had and still have the potential to develop normally

check well russia says the revelation undermines the u.k.'s case but in a statement to r.t. the british foreign office repeated its claims that only russia has the technical means operational experience motive to target the scruples separately there's been confusion in the probe being conducted by the international chemical weapons watchdog with the director general of other o p c w stuff being unclear seemingly over how much nerve agent may have been used or discovered the o.p.c. w. would not be able to estimate or determine the amount of the nerve agent the blues used in salzburg on the fourth of march twenty eight in the quantity should probably be characterized in milligrams. for research activities or protection you would need for instance five to ten grams of so but even in souls free it looks like they may have used more than that without knowing the exact quantity and total maybe fifty one hundred grams or so which goes beyond research activities for protection of the saga that started on march fourth with the poisoning of sergei

script pollan his daughter yulia and the snowball effect it has seen we have certainly seen quite a bit of backtracking and lots of questions in fact about evidence this latest statement from the o.p.c. w. follows statements from their own chief of this organization saying that it was probably from fifty to one hundred grams used in this attack and we've seen tweets from the russian embassy here in london questioning what exactly one hundred grams of such a nerve agent on a door handle would look like of course with a door handle reference being discussed as one of the possible ways this cripples had been poisoned so that's one latest example of how we've gone from some information becoming completely different another example that made headlines here in london of course was when scientists from the porch and down the board tory said they could not identify the source of the nerve agent used in the attack while previously before that we saw boris johnson talk about how he has been reassured by

the exact same laborde tory that russia was behind the attack we have no verify the for so you sort of start to see where actually was manufactured so typically you will not tell you to look cool down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that but when i look at the the evidence from the people from important they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy where so i said are you sure and he said as they dug and of course a lot but not least we saw russia being identified as the culprit in this massive saga that brought relations between russia and the u.k. to a brand new low and while russia was being called guilty almost to meet. really we have to remember that any official results of an investigation are still yet to come. with no charge to bridge security analyst and former u.k. armor army officer hey there charles so the o.p.c. w. spokesperson says the amount of the nerve agent used in salzburg cannot be established a leak could be milligrams though we're talking grams earlier on when you think of

something so important like this and what's weighing on it and the o.p.c. w. being such an important and respected organization are you not surprised that this confusion is happening today yeah absolutely i mean i was one of those so i'm sure there are many there or stylish when we first saw this interview appeared with the chief of the. turkish diplomats of course who runs that organization or heads it up who gave this interview a couple of days ago i think in most versions yesterday stating that around fifty to one hundred million grams are of not been used i mean this as your report just said you can almost trying to visualize what that would look like dripping off a door handle it's it's a quite a lot of material let alone not a chemical but surely that kind of thing that amount would wipe out solsbury and possibly most a wilshere wouldn't. yeah absolutely i mean we can refer to the experts themselves

including one who actually. helped to devise this substance and back into soviet days. actually was on record today as saying yes it probably would have wiped out pretty much the whole of souls free and so therefore it was it was a ludicrous suggestion to start with and so but one can look at that and say well ok it's very easy probably to make a mistake in the middle of an interview and say grams when in fact human milligrams but that is actually contradicted by what the i.p.c.c. . have said because they have said no it probably would have been actually in milligrams but actually in fact we haven't been have to make any estimates at all and so bearing in mind that they have actually contradicted what their own chief said it makes you wonder what was the reasoning behind the chief actually saying something that appears to be not just a mistake but at least officially untrue yes certainly it was grassed upon by headlines in the west that said that this was further proof that such a huge substance assume huge amount could only come from

a state of course to bolster their case that this might be russia yeah i mean message releases that then of course for the twist last night the czech republic said that in fact when the when the president asked his security services if his country ever handle that stuff made that stuff in the past came out last night from a report was issued two weeks ago all or he said that was secret that yes indeed they manufactured something pretty similar to the kind of thing they thought was used in sol's because now russia was present other countries to reveal whether they produced this similar kind of navi chalk type agents because there are a lot of denials first on but now slowly slowly slowly maybe we're hearing more countries are making that stuff and of course a lot of people argue they should be and they'd be negligent if they didn't because they need that kind of stuff to use as a test. yes from the outset the government's case in the u.k. has been pretty much that only russia could be capable of producing this substance and deploying it in this way but almost from the outset that case has been very severely undermined not least because. some scientists who speculated that actually

porton down in identifying the substance so quickly suggest that it must of itself synthesize this material in order to have some kind of base for comparison and also of course it's on record or demerge very quickly that it was on record that actually for example iran in full cooperation with the o.p.c. w itself synthesize this material to enable scientists and so on to be able to actually test for this material identify it and therefore really for quite some time we've had confirmation that actually that's central plank of the u.k. government's claim to only russia could produce this was actually likely to be untrue and this of course admission from the czech president is further confirmation of that i mean even the chemists themselves who produced this substance of themselves gone on record and said that it's highly likely that for example britain and other countries have themselves in small quantities produce that of course what's happened since that's been undermined is the british government is then going on to claim it has further not evidence of course but

intelligence to suggest that this was russia for example coming up with a claim again so far completely substantiated of course but nonetheless spread to the media and it's briefings and so on that there is intelligence to prove that russia has trained people on smearing novacek on door handles of course nothing has been produced to substantiate that but that is the kind of level that the british government is now seemingly reliant upon and it's of course the stuff that the special redtops love over in britain chose to bridge security analyst former u.k. army officer thanks very much for your thoughts now meantime. here's a turn up for the books you can can year west is a russian spy a secretly working for. according to a renowned strategic intelligence analyst anyway the connection well the accusations come off the west publicly revealed his warm support for donald trump the connection nor heard of no looks at the ever growing army.