i believe that's true most definitely and i'm like and like i kind of at the beginning is that what really concerns me is that if we allow this kind of behavior to take place where we allow the intelligence communities to kind of spy on the candidates the whether you like them or not or agree with them or not there has to be more than opposition opposition research to instigate that spying there's got to be more i mean i don't look if someone is legitimately a threat to the country in the running for a full out office yes you should take a look and say ok is this person dangerous but at the end of the day it's got to be more than just apo research because everybody does that and really how bad it scares me and how would you like to be under investigation by the f.b.i. when the f.b.i. agents are texting to each other this guy's in eighty eight we have to have an insurance policy against him winning and i mean come on great that's a great point steve malzberg always a pleasure to have you on and talk with you and. soon my pleasure thank you. as we go to break clock watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that r t v dot com

coming up filmmaker cory rowe enters the hawk's nest of the skies his new documentary film on p.t.s.d. and u.s. military veterans mile mark you don't want to miss this state so the watching the hoffs. have all gotten used to it the media hates trump and the president returns the favor in kind how his this mutually charged hate fest changed media and journalism does the corporate liberal media report the news anymore and is journalism a big profession in the service of partisanship.

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and runs there's a possible temptation. to just scientists truth to extremes. on the human race to science service to free of g.m.'s in crisis eight would be even be able to sleep cost the points of never sin. no montrose ubiquitous in american politics as support our troops from the yellow ribbons lining suburban streets to the widespread memorial day parades and remembered ceremonies that our nation seems to surprisingly focused on commemorating respecting and remembering while running circles around the actual point of helping veterans returning home from combat or injured in battle perhaps the months last month long waits at v.a. facilities as a giveaway of our government's glaring oversight of the real issues affecting about

drugs or perhaps it's the complete lack of discourse about the startling number of homeless veterans at our cities and the fact that over twenty better. as the day commits suicide nationwide that is why cory rowe the producer and director of the famed nine eleven documentary loose change has now moved on to his next project mile marker he joins us now on the show for a preview of his latest documentary thank you for coming on corey. thanks for having me on man hey i want to ask and you know you're a veteran you served two tours i got to ask why did you set out to make mile marker what what what is your objective with this documentary. my objective with this documentary is to let other veterans with p.t.s.d. know that they're not alone it's been fifteen years since my unit invaded afghanistan and iraq and my fellow battle buddies are struggling they're struggling with drug addiction legal problems family problems depression overmedicated just really being run through the gamut they're just being attacked like a four pronged attack for veterans or being overprescribed medication they're not

getting into treatment so there's a lot of things that veterans need help with and as you said there's this kind of feeling in america where we need to thank them and and we need to remember them but not actually help them and so i wanted to raise awareness for veteran issues in america and hopefully get these veterans who need it some real and actual help you as a veteran why why do you feel that there's that disconnect between you know society here and i especially our government where it's like oh we're going to parade everybody we're going to you know memorials and things like that at football games and fly jets over but we're not actually going to do the work to help why is there that disconnect. americans love their soldiers to go and fight their wars but they don't care what happens once they get out of the service and it's unfortunate but it's a true reality and i really want to bring to the forefront what they're going through i mean as i traveled across the country from los angeles to remonde and back i traveled over seven thousand miles and interviewed over twenty two individuals with specific ties to the p.t.s.d. world and what people don't know about this is quite incredible there's some

significant issues going on with veterans and till we get some real help for these guys it's only going to get worse and it systemic it's systemic from the d.o.d. to the v.a. and into the soldier's personal lives we have so many things that we can address and fix for these guys and we need to start the conversation so that's what i'm hoping to do i'm hoping to start the conversation at least pushed into the forefront around this memorial day season good good for you i like that and now you've spoken to college was about as you said you're traveling across the country twenty two veterans and making mile marker and like i mentioned yourself or a veteran but what's curious what really interesting is what was the most. prizing thing that you learned to realized in the process of making this documentary. one of the most unfortunate things that i learned through this process is that guys who get a bad conduct discharge guys who come home from war who served honorably in combat and transition poorly and to garrison life they can easily be discharged from the military under an other than honorable or bad conduct discharge because of their

behavior in garrison what this translates to is a complete removal of their benefits they and some cases also have to repay their bonuses upwards of twenty thousand dollars these guys then have the same rights as felons and struggle to get a job and provide for their families this is a huge issue that americans are not aware of and we need to fix it immediately and some of the most common reasons that these guys are getting kicked out is for the use of cannabis which if you really look at it is actually them attempting to treat the p.t.s.d. which is already gone untreated and so the third act of this movie focuses heavily on cannabis and its positive effects for veterans over the choice of pharmaceuticals because as i said the v.a. the standard model is this ship you know garbage bags full of pills to these guys and we're talking opiates barbiturates massive psychoactive drugs that can represent p.t.s.d. like symptoms we need to remove these guys from these these really powerful drugs and get them on something more natural and at the same time get them into actual treatment so that they can understand the triggers that are happening in their mind

and understand what p.t.s.d. really is because again that's another really confusing thing that a lot of people don't understand is how p.t.s.d. manifests and what it looks like inside of our soldiers and in mile marker you see this time and again you see all these stories of all these different veterans in different ways showing that there are p.t.s.d. manifesting and it's something that not a lot of people are used to and when these guys have these problems in their society instead of being labeled as someone with p.t.s.d. they're simply labeled as a problem and i was one of these people i struggled after a loose change i my p.t.s.d. hit me really hard and i went through some really bad years and it took years. treatment and effort for me to get back on the straight and narrow and and to get my life in a positive direction and that's what i'm really trying to do is just share my story in the story of other veterans in america how how does a veterans p.t.s.d. usually manifest you know if you have someone in a family as a veteran or if your friend is there things like that you know what what what should what signs should people be looking for them what can they do to best help.

absolutely and so i'll give you an example of my own p.t.s.d. and how it manifests i moved here to l.a. and everybody knows that l.a. traffic is is pretty famous and for me as someone who served in afghanistan and iraq i was ambushed several times during my deployments so for me when i get stuck in traffic that's a trigger and what happens is my body and my adrenaline starts pumping and i start to fear for what's going to happen in that situation and i start to get aggravated and agitated and else you know honk the horn or all yell at people are all try to cut around traffic and if you don't know what p.t.s.d. is you don't know how to identify the signals because veterans are adrenaline level is already three to four times higher than the normal person walking down the street so in this situation is my adrenaline gets pumping because i'm stuck in traffic and my p.t.s.d. start to kick in i'm having what's known as a fight or flight response my body is telling me my brain is telling me you're trained that this situation is unsafe you need to remove yourself from the situation as fast as possible and get back to your or your assembly area which is

your home and so for someone who's not treated with p.t.s.d. they don't know how to identify this is a trigger and they don't know what's happening in their mind furthermore if someone's in the car with them and witnessing this person go through this kind of episode they're just they're labeled a problem like i was and their family doesn't even want to get in the car with them so it takes a lot of education for soldiers to understand in families to understand what p.t.s.d. trigger is what your personal p.t.s.d. triggers are and how you can do a threat assessment and work that down and so at the end of the day what mile marker is really hoping to do is i'm selling treatment i want to get veterans into treatment because i want to give them a mission veterans need a mission and that mission is to live a better life that's brilliant you know i think a great example as we were talking earlier about you know the politicians and society says one thing and does another you know donald trump for you know ever there would dawdle he ran on a very clear cut promise to take care of the voters reform the v.a. in in working with the veterans across the country and doing the research into those things has there been any slight improvement since since donald took on. no i

mean i haven't seen any dramatic improvements i'll be honest i'm pretty disconnected from my government at this point i don't feel that they have a large impact on my life and everything that you were discussing in the piece before this seems very disconnected to me and doesn't really seem to really get here to anybody that i'm working with on a day to day level so i'm haven't seen any problems all i've seen is a lot of noise or any solutions for that matter i've just seen a lot of noise and a lot of arguing and and at the same time veterans are still dying every single day and so you know i'm getting out there we stood on hollywood boulevard this past weekend with a fifteen foot long sign and all it read was it's estimated that every day twenty two u.s. veterans take their own life and you should have seen the shock and awe on on just every day persons faces as they read this and kind of watch them you know calculate that statistic in their head and if you really think about that twenty two veterans a day estimated i mean just think about the action of someone taking their life so commonly is is heartbreaking to say the least. of it is it and when you realize you

have the numbers or you talk about how many homeless veterans are in this country and all that it truly is star going to breaks your heart in the process of creating mile marker did was there any cooperation whatsoever from like the military or the v.a. or anything like that. sure yes i did get a chance to interview dr paul who's the executive director of the national center for p.t.s.d. and white river junction vermont she essentially writes the book on how the v.a. treats veterans with their p.c. and they've rolled out some pretty significant new new studies that have worked very well and i was actually a part of one of those studies it was premier down here in long beach california i was actually paid for my involvement and went through twelve very intense psychoactive therapies that had a dramatic effect on me the v.a. is doing what they can and dr politian are is a wonderful woman and i really appreciated her time and shoot splaying things to me from her perspective but in a lot of cases the v.a.'s hands are tied by bureaucratic red tape our oversized

government is just really holding a lot of things back and we need to remove that and really maybe start to introduce maybe some private industry into how to fix this because as we've seen time and again our government just is not capable of handling something of this magnitude and as you see other private industries raising up to fill the footprint where government is lacking i think that might be a possible solution that's of that's a really interesting viewpoint i mean i really like that in every community better solutions of the government can do it have no other entity can do it than people in the neighborhood people in those communities and people care about those of others they've got to pick up the slack and do it themselves and and so of that leaves the next question i ask you what what are some easy commonsense solutions as best they can be and it's a complicated subject that people can get behind or advocate for that would be important and easy to implement and deliver some real results for these for these poor souls suffering from p.t.s.d. or trapped in the v.a. system. sure thing it's

a great question and one of the first and foremost things we can do is education with all things like mile marker is is designed to be a conversation starter it's in hopes to educate people and then after that activate them because there's so many people out there that care about veterans but they might not know how to actually help them so mile marker shows you a lot of different options on how soldiers try to fight with these issues and fail and where you can step in and really have a conversation communication is key you have to communicate with your veterans you have to try to understand what's going on in their head and you have to get it out of their head so that really leads us to treatment which is first and foremost one of the most important things we can do in treatment doesn't have to be between a veteran and a doctor a treatment can be between two vets having a beer watching the sunset and talking about what they went through one of the most striking things that i learned in the differences from previous wars such as world war two to today is that during those wars soldiers were returned on a ship as a unit over a lengthy period of time several weeks in which after that they were given

mustering pay and there was kind of a decompression period and they returned as units together today you can be in combat for breakfast being mortar attacked and home with your family for dinner and that is an extremely jarring transition and without proper d.-o. d. systems in place and classes in place for people to understand how that transition's going to affect them mentally maybe not today but maybe a few years down the line they need to understand that because there is a huge mindset amongst veterans that they don't want anything from the v.a. or the d.o.d. and they don't want treatment and there's a stigma associated with p.t.s.d. they're going to take my guns and all that and that's why i really like your sub bring in the community and the word cora got to thank you for coming on the very quickly where can people see the movie. you can check it out right now exclusively on i tunes for the rest of this month and then a look spam to the rest of the outlets and d.v.d. and june so i really appreciate you having me on today check out mile marker film dot com you can files follow us on social media reach out if you're a veteran and you need help i'd be happy to talk to you thank you very much sir for having me on. thank you very much and i stay. you got to have heart kid you're not

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reich. we are working on something and you know there's a chance that it'll work out there's a chance is a very substantial chance it will work out. next month splunk meeting with the leader of north korea saying the highly anticipated talks may be delayed or may not take place at all it comes as north korea is reportedly dismantling its only nuclear scientists part of a bargain deal with this we have. on our correspondent will be reporting on his journey. as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here those who go to north korea. also in the program this hour the german government admits that close to two fellows and far right extremists in the country may. it be illegal possession of

a firearm. and america's ambassador to israel is tricked into posing with a photograph or one of only as mosques in jerusalem is replaced with a temple we apply riyadh. coming on live from moscow every hour of the day this is r t international my names you know neil welcome to the program our top story donald trump say's his much anticipated summit with north korea on june the twelfth may not happen the comment came during a meeting with the south korean president in in the u.s. capital both washington and pyongyang have previously suggested they may not be willing to hold talks unless certain conditions are meant to smear account brings us more now from washington d.c. . well according to trump the summit could take place or it might not even take

place but the president has never really been one hundred percent sure we are working on something and you know there's a chance that it will work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance that it won't work out that doesn't mean it won't work out over a period of time but it may not work out for june twelfth i think it will be very successful but as i always say who knows what's going to happen you know i often say who knows who knows but you know the words they give you everything can be scuttled everything can be settled but speaking of mixed messages on one hand a special coin is being produced just ahead of the summit depicting the two leaders meeting and all smiles then their strong guaranteeing kim safety and promising that north korea will be a rich country we make a deal i think kim jong un is going to be very very happy and he'll get protections that will be very strong his country would be very rich then on the other hand trumps threatening the libya scenario the model if you look at that model with

gadhafi that was a total decimation we went in there to beat him now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely but let's quickly remind ourselves what happened in libya in two thousand and three gadhafi renounced his nuclear program but despite that he was overthrown in a meta led campaign years later so not a fairy tale ending for gadhafi but it's not just rhetoric that could be jeopardizing diplomacy there's also joint military drills being held between the u.s. and south korea on north korea's doorstep but thankfully some are questioning the need to provoke young yang especially considering the historic meeting that took place last month between the north and south and this also comes at a very special time just as the u.s. is going back on its word to adhere to the iran deal pulling out of it entirely well it is interesting to see how trump and this is topic barger seem to be at. odds with each other i don't know if his management style is to create chaos and

see if some order comes from it or what in fact may be his style problem is that washington confuses the idea of negotiation with the idea of surrender the meeting for trump and him in singapore should have been the beginning of a dialogue of a process instead john bolton others have laid down the law here's what you've got to do i think bolton said tell us where we should send our planes to pick up your stuff and take it away i mean if i would north korea particularly watching it how the u.s. tore up the iran agreement if you have any mind at all you would be very very skeptical it's very important that people understand that president moon of south korea is really the most important president here not trump i know trump thinks it's always all about him but president moon of south korea i believe is the one who's really in the driver's seat here and they are playing a very important role both in terms of south north korea relations but also bringing the united states along it is possible that north and south korea could continue to build their relations there are

a lot of economic issues that they could work on diplomatic issues reunification of families that have been separated. well to meet its end of the bargain north korea is preparing to dismantle its nuclear test sites in the country's remote north east there have been six nuclear bomb tests there since two thousand and six which were carried out inside a month and it is the world's last officially active nuclear test site where north korea released an official statement describing how the site will be dismantled saying there will be a controlled explosion to collapse all the tunnels now that will result in the entrance points being blocked well after doubt that the above ground facilities will be destroyed and some changes have already been observed by experts on satellite images shelved in april and earlier this month buildings are being demolished together with a real line artie is one of the few news channels that's been invited to witness

north korea is fulfilling its end of the bargain igor's down off is our correspondent in the country. we're in the beijing international airport and as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here those who go to north korea we've been here for the past couple of days and all journalists part of this press tour have been amassed in the chinese capital because that's where we got our visas that's what we where we got our tickets so now we will be proceeding to check in to our flights those are the windows that we're waiting for the personnel and so i'll be signing off and meeting you hopefully greeting you from north korea itself next time so this is the end choreo flights we will be taking to get inside north korea thing is we aren't even exactly sure as to where exactly we're headed because according to our media to documents we're going to the southern port city of one sound but according to our boarding passes we're headed to the north korean capital pyongyang so i guess the

north the option but to find out on board of the plane. as it seems seems you know you're going to pyongyang or to one side ok once and ok thank you. so there are probably twenty journalists here on this plane and so as we're going to one son i just want to give you with a glimpse as to what's going on on board would be only given out press releases like this one for example the pyongyang times it's mostly about politics but also features pieces like recipes for this rice and month or cake and also we've been given and this very very karl colorful. magazine which features everything from the latest one has to what's been going like in the life of me i'm going on the supreme leader of north korea but also power if each is panorama so young and the like to pieces like the ones for example how you speak the local be speaking in.

i. i so you walk out of any airports what's the first thing you expect to see it's a bustling crowd of people pushing and shoving it's a taxi drivers offering their often overpriced services well check this out nothing of this sort here it's just an empty parking lot and three buses that will take us to the city we will be taking an eleven hour train to get there and then we will be writing for four more hours by car and hiking for another hour but we're being told that the spectacle is well worth it. down off there he is among just a recount a group of international reporters about managed to get permission to visit the nuclear test site at lots of interesting parts suspects to this journalist on the

train for instance to the site were reportedly told not to open the blinds during the trip despite a sporadic internet connection igor is still managing to post details and photos from the reclusive country on twitter you can find what kind of food you can expect in north korea plenty more fascinating to bits on is. moving on the german government has admitted that iran two thousand far right extremists are in legal possession of at least one weapon according to media reports the country's green party so use the government is sweeping the problem under the carpet artie's peter oliver to the story. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as far right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty

sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous right citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war weimar constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed hitler to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to either neo nazi groups or far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects various right wing extremist currents and right wing extremists among right citizens use those connections to cause confusion to provoke authorities and to create a social platform for right wing.