i don't believe it was because if it was that they would have done that go ahead christopher totally agree peter i mean if you look at the entire investigation of what's happened there hasn't been any sort of consistency going both sides in terms of just having a standard and sticking to it and it sort of shocked me throughout the whole soap opera of the hillary clinton e-mails that at some point there's going to be politics and there's going to be all that stuff but at some point there has to be some sort of unified standard if you're breaking the law you're breaking national security protocol you should be in trouble and if you look at i mean look at james call me i mean he's a beta male who's on his boring book tour he's a he's a clown it's about him it's not about the duty of the f.b.i. i think there's a they really need a facelift i think the brand is really hurting after all this and just tend to agree with with your premise and your lead in charles who read before we go to the break here i mean i get i've still got to stick with my narrative is that i think that sessions and and ray and others understand the implications once all of this is revealed about how the deep state colluded against the drum campaign that's

going to put it's going to be an institutional crisis when this comes out go ahead charles. well look i think the institution has been in crisis for a long time you know robert mueller was in charge of the f.b.i. from september fourth two thousand and one to supplant a fourth two thousand and thirteen then followed by james comey look at the number of disasters that occurred under their respective watches they could find obvious clinton foundation for what they missed the uranium one scandal they missed the laureate scandal they missed the scandal reorganizing confederation two thousand and nine forward you know what didn't they miss and the reality is that technological tools of god ever stronger and we the american public the wider world need to debate about how much power security services should have protected our country snoop inside our country and then not to take care of that those secrets art disseminated around to blackmail politicians to blackmail donors and to be used for nefarious purposes i think we need to have our eyes wide open here

a major league investigation anyone no matter how powerful who broke these laws needs to be investigated ideally indicted convicted and sent away to prison ok well you know a you know i before we do the break here mother did find those seventeen russian trolls in st petersburg you know don't underestimate him gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on donald trump's spygate. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars and. more than ten point zero or timestamping. eighty five percent of the global well you want to be old bridge eight point six percent market so thirty percent last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per

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ok let's go back to los angeles ha. charles made a wonderful point at the end of the first half of the program here is this what they're really afraid of with a second investigation because first of all the first one with muller has not look you know if you're in washington d.c. i mean if something really important about collusion with trump and russia would have been released a long long long time ago i mean how many leaks in there always leaks one direction have you noticed that and he let me stay with ha here i mean they're afraid of the second. investigation because it really will reveal institutional corruption and i even think and this is where i think it gets really tricky and dicey because that goes beyond party affiliation and i think that's why they're very hesitant about this because it will and a lot more people not just one side go ahead ha well let's look at who has been investigating daal trump john brennan lied under oath about spying on the senate

james clapper lied under oath about the n.s.a. spying on americans james komi lied under oath about exonerating clinton before her interview peter struck in a text message said we can't take the risky use the word risk we can't take the risk of trump becoming president we have to engage in the in chicken and insurance policy that we spoke about a mantra mccabe's office trying to just fire a molar and tweet that text. but then let's look at andrew mccabe he lied and he lied under oath twice and lied four times this is the office of professional responsibility at the f.b.i. so you have all of these people who are an immense positions of power lying either lying under oath or obviously part of not a conspiracy theory an actual conspiracy of individuals to achieve a political goal john brennan met with harry reid during the election to inform harry reid of alleged russian interference he didn't why didn't we inform president

obama why didn't he meet president obama the n.s.a. the f.b.i. and the cia have a fifth thirty five billion dollar combined budget with for thirty five billion dollars the american people get moderate to high confidence and if you look at the d.n.i. and the h.s. reports the two intelligence reports that all of this is based on there's nothing certain to zero evidence and there's a war there are warranty disclaimers stating that even high confidence the highest level of assessment even high confidence could be wrong yeah and they actually say in one of the reports don't take anything we say as fact so the intelligence reports are completely just basically opinion three hundred thirty five billion dollars of opinion you have the d.n.c. who never gave its computer service to the f.b.i. they hired crowd strikethrough hillary clinton purchasing through her law firm crowd strike paying crowd strike and also paying christopher steele infusion g.p.s.

and glenn simpson for the still does if anyone colluded with russia it was hillary clinton well who purchase the steel right and it was how this russian source in the foreign country is the u.k. not russia here christopher watching the cable stations do you is it conceivable in your mind that president obama knew nothing about what his underlings were doing is that conceivable in your mind. it could be i mean i think there was a general awareness i mean certainly and he had to know sort of the obsessive instincts of hillary clinton wanted to be president i mean you know we heard the end it's from election night in terms of the people that hillary clinton was most angry at was bill clinton barack obama and then donald trump it was everyone's fault but our own but we should definitely take a pause for a second to acknowledge hillary clinton's talent she can't even cheat in a win you know i don't think that if you're cheating and you have all this behind you you do when she can even cheat and win and the whole thing about you know three

million votes she won l.a. and she won new york right you know because electoral votes hillary clinton couldn't even cheat and when charles i want to go i want i am not going to let obama off the hook here because it's been explained to me and by a number of people that have experience in high government is that such a coordinated plan such as we're discussing right now could not have been done without the white house knowing about it so what did he know in when did he know it charles i i you know i think that's absolutely the case i mean i think that in this narrow matter. the clintons in the obama's got together i believe in the june through november two thousand and eight timeframe they hammered out a deal the memorandum of understanding that supposedly regularized relations between the clinton foundation among the clinton foundation bill clinton the secretary of state is it is a complete piece of garbage it's not enforceable that wouldn't have gotten across the line if there were real lawyers a member of barack obama president the harvard law review hillary clinton smartest

lawyer in the world you know from the very beginning this was an artifice the clintons had something on obama we don't yet know what it was and obama decided to play along he what he was in for two terms hillary was supposed to succeed him and then cover all the stuff up and so absolutely i believe certainly valerie jarrett is arry or consider a guest. she knew all about this and you know it's high time that we go back over this because the thing to remember whether you're a democrat or republican this is a a horrible precedent that people are going to look back for decades and say you can get away this with this type of criminal behavior twenty years from now forty years from now maybe four years from now or two years from now somebody is going to try to do far worse than the clintons and the obama's did and we need to expose what happened we need to investigate indict convict and incarcerate people who did this and send them away for a long long time and take away all of their stuff you know ha i think

a lot of viewers watching this program initially i think that were very partisan here and i think charles put in put it in the best possible words i mean i'm not doing this everybody knows my partisan politics but it's not being played out on this program i think what all of us are talking about is institutions and values and the rule of law and i think that's what really ties us all together i'm a conservative ha you're i know you're a progressive here but we're on the same page about. decency in public life and in officials being held accountable and this is why i think we need another investigation to see to make sure that the government officials expect particularly the unelected ones are held to account go ahead ha well absolutely and there's a famous c.n.n. clip of president obama saying it's absolutely impossible candidate trump should stop whining yeah and it's impossible that anyone could rig the election and he went on and on about how the experts and all the authorities and the most educated

people would never ever stoop so low as to blame anyone for an election loss so trump should just stop whining then we have nonstop whining continual and never ending whining from from clinton and the democratic party. they're going to lose the in the midterms there or they have like what if thirteen or fourteen point lead in the house in the generic polls for both the house or the house in the senate they'll lose the senate or they'll the g.o.p. will keep control of the senate and keep control of the house and they're going to limp into two thousand and twenty trump unless there's something god forbid that's just on unforseen trump will easily defeat democrats in two thousand and twenty because democrats don't stand for anything they think that people care about russian interference in the election cares nobody cares holes polls are showing

that people are tired of miller muller doesn't stand for anything except if he could indict people on jaywalking he would there's no collusion with russia there's no evidence of anything. the interesting aspect of all of this is that democrats have convinced themselves that for example the trump jr meeting is some kind of example of treason trump jr never got any e-mails from clinton and even if he did they would have emanated from a server that was once on encrypted outside the us government that stored special access program intelligence and by the way anthony wiener had eighteen classified emails on his laptop and we don't even have to get into the pictures on that laptop so the issue here is the biggest cyber security scandal. in history you had a secretary of state hillary clinton who had special access program intelligence that was transferred somehow on to her server maybe brian pagliaro maybe justin

cooper nobody knows right now but the d.o.j. is actually investing their good i'll bet it was answered but a chair but a lot of people around the world know exactly what is on the deserver it was like an open door exact everybody stopped by ok and that's why i was i to i don't think of any kind of foreign foreign intelligence service would have ever said anything about it i mean if you're going to keep getting this free information from the secretary of state why do you want to interrupt it let it get government no one in their right mind would have said. we have we have these e-mails nobody the intelligence community would ever do anything like that it was a gift it just kept on giving ok christopher let me go to you because. you know the motor investigation here i mean what does he have to show to prove that it is worth over all the long time period here i mean we you know paul man of fort had nothing to do with russia papadopoulos had nothing to do with russia i

mean he lied to the f.b.i. none of these things had all those seventeen kids ok they can't even speak english and the most of the ads on facebook or after the election i mean i don't understand how m.s.n. b.c. and c.n.n. keep this going i mean most of it is silly ok go ahead chris for. no i think the point was made earlier about sort of like you're dedicated to this track and you just don't know when to stop i mean you've hit the brick wall and you're just you're focused on the gas i think they've committed themselves to that narrative for so long they wouldn't know what to do it themselves if they tried to do something else and in terms of hillary clinton's excuse i mean she wrote a whole book about it i mean it's like what happened it's the only it's the only book or the question and the answer is on the cover you know hillary clinton has and so i thought i mean that's kind of the way i look at it but in terms of mahler i think that i think it's problematic and i think that you know there's just been a lot of lost faith i mean now they're sort of harassing essentially trump's

friends i mean some of his advisers yeah they've looked into their harassing their businesses their associates i mean again it's almost like the same issue we touched on this you know you're so committed to that you don't want to turn back but i think they need to have independent counsels look at all this stuff from now on so that people can at least have some faith or ever the compass falls it'll be fair and regardless of political outcome we're almost out of time i want to ask very real quick question i think carter page is going to get a very big check one day from the u.s. government curved defamation yes or no what do you agree agree or not. it's possible you know i mean it's what do you think that maybe the administration what do you think charles garner page is going to have a payday check is going to be denominated big. ok straight up what's big like you look at our ideal man that's all the time we have here many thanks and i guess in washington and in new york and in los angeles and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember ross talk to us.

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quote. the headlines in our city back from the dead to the apparent killing of a russian journalist. turns out to have been staged in the tent by training authorities to smoke at those planning his actual murder. also to come a b.b.c. document from the fields delta is treating the x. russian spy sick i get it powell and his daughter initially thought they were dealing with drugs and therefore took no additional precautions plus schooling the italians the budget commissioner says he's accused of trying to tally sleep. by doing mongering about the economic consequences of having populists empower.

the as. the work of you watching at international this evening we start this hour with breaking news to you from ukraine because the russian journalist and kremlin critic. he was declared dead on chews day has been shown to be alive and well he appeared on ukrainian state t.v. together with the country's security services you said that the murder was staged to expose those trying to kill him they also insisted that russian security services were behind the attempted murder but junkers wife earlier said he had been shot in the back we'll have more on this from our correspondent a bit later in the. now the doctors who treated the ex russian spy sergei script power and his daughter following their poisoning in the british city of seoul spree in march have appeared in a b.b.c. documentary and says it sure can it has been looking into what new things we've learned about the case. this is a b.b.c.

newsnight program documentary has certainly highlighted some more curiosities about the whole script all saga adding just a little bit more mystery to this whole story if we didn't have enough already now this is a firsthand account of the medical staff doctors and nurses that were treating this compiles when they were admitted to hospital in solsbury following the poisoning and for starters some of the things described in this documentary were that initially it was assumed that the script all had experienced an opiate overdose and there were no extra precautions taken in that regard it was no indication of the fact that there was a gent and therefore we take no more protection when any patient comes in which has no point taken any extra precautions in terms of protecting ourselves the screwballs were found on a park bench back in march on march fourth on a sunday they were taken to hospital then by tuesday police officer nick bailey was admitted into the hospital and then only after it was that based off of red

flagging from a scientific lab porton down that it was revealed that a nerve agent had been used and despite all this and all the talk of the harm that this nerve agent potentially being what it is could cause those who poles were sort of miraculously cured and this is something that a doctor in this documentary described as well that it came as a surprise how quickly they had recovered meanwhile a russian chemical expert that we spoke to said that the symptoms associated with an opioid overdose would be very different from those associated with a nerve agent poisoning which going in the initial police report stated grupo was swinging back and forth while seated on the bench and also raised his hands multiple times this description resembles a drugs overdose and the initial version was the scruples were suffering from friend to. total forms of military groups substance poisoning or rapid pupil

construction spasms and you really incontinence all the symptoms are absent from the initial reports photos well certainly lots of curious details and to this day it seems clear that there are still lots and lots of details in this whole case to be addressed well after the incident the u.k. keyes russia of carrying out the attack saying that only moscow had the means and the motive as well as the track record russia has repeatedly though tonight it had anything to do with the solving poisoning it said other countries develop more the chalk and made it clear it had traded clear powell in a high profile spy swap on the former agent posed no threat to the country's interests moscow also says the fact is being denied access to. a russian citizen is suspicious of former un chemical weapons expert and told us it is hard to fathom how the medical staff avoided toxic exposure themselves given they weren't wearing

protective gear for the first few days. well it seems to me that there was no. any poisons on the skin or on cloth of patients because they would be stripped of the cloth and they would be. too. hard trade you know other stuff and of course there would be contact between the bras and the victims so it seems that. it raises more questions the agent was introduced in their bodies how they were exposed. in a surgeon believe was also exposed and look he actually contacted screwballs for just about several minutes and he was exposed but the person now

who dealt with scruples was not exposed but as mentioned the u.k. government accuses moscow of poison script power and his daughter and in some surprisingly blunt terms to the u.k. defense secretary might remember once even told russia to shut up and go away but i asked later whether he actually regretted that remark kevin williamson did try to dodge the question. about to pay tribute to the health service personnel if you answer them or even though not you regret using that kind of casual language the world your world united behind britain and one more time would you please answer the question we came together with our allies and we're not just absolutely sure that interview terminated because you won't answer the question good luck with the african elephant for a project. in other news tonight the budget commissioner has apologized to made a backlash over his recent remark that italy should take its key from the markets when deciding whether to vote for populists. and that's my expectation is that the

coming weeks will show that the markets government bonds and the economic development of italy could prove to be so drastic that this would be a possible signal for voters not to vote for populists and the left all right. political uncertainty in a city has shocked financial markets worried about italy's possible exit from the euro however one of the leaders of italy's failed coalition still to know such measures were ever in their program. for you to get out of the markets are worried italy could leave the euro that's because someone has been saying this government wants out of the euro despite that never having been our plan. well when the euro skeptic coalition failed to form a government its leaders them blamed pressure from meaning to all of us has more now on the role brussels has played in italy's ongoing political crisis. on sunday night when sergio meltzer rela the italian president vetoed the proposal of

a euro skeptic for the role of economy minister he essentially scrapped a coalition between the populists of the five star movement and league and nord already also did was he sent a tally and voters back to the polls he sent the markets crashing down and he sent accusations flying that the e.u. had put a bit of pressure on him to do just that a lot of it i mean i'm wondering if we are in a democracy and if in italy the italians decide or the germans to sign the french decide it's incredible sensually these comments from they played right into the hands of the euro skeptics because they're now getting ready for new elections which could come as soon as september they can now say to their voters look we said last time they were trying to take your sovereignty away look what they did when we tried to put in place a government in italy so it was ultimately left to the european commission president to try and smooth things over between the populists and euro skeptics in

italy and the commission in brussels italy's fate does not lie in the hands of the financial markets regardless of which political party may be in power italy is a founding member of the european union that has contributed immensely to european integration the commission is ready to work with italy with responsibility and mutual respect italy deserves respect as i said those elections in italy could come as soon as september and between now one polling day we're sure to be a lot of people keeping an eye on what comments are coming out of brussels with regards to which feet which direction it to the should proceed in the future. donald trump has appointed a new commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan in two thousand and one shortly after the nine eleven attacks washington said it was intervene. to get rid of terrorists there and has never left well lieutenant general austin miller becomes the eighteenth

commander in the seventeen year campaign despite the constant turnover of commanders the latest us sportstalk report says that the campaign has brought little good to afghanistan. while some in afghanistan who had hoped that america's presence would assure in a new period of peace and stability have paid a hefty price as america expects.