we have a disagreement on this to spend on the pounds but not enough to help out puerto rico and wow when you see the official estimate sixty four compared to like over four thousand that's just ridiculous i mean to think that only sixty four people asked their lives during that is ludicrous i mean first of all there's this thing that i just don't understand this is the money if you're talking about defense defense and the u.s. you know our military even says that climate change and whether these things whatever is causing it is the biggest threat to our safety and to me it's not as if hurricane season is a surprise it happens every year you know you know when these things are coming you can watch why are we surprised why is there ever a moment when feedback every year should just be ready you are you know somehow if these things happen there should be a plan well i'm not i don't think that's a lot to ask for people know and that's the thing it's like we are priorities of what we choose to spend money on as a government what our congress dictates what our president calls for is absolutely ridiculous and like you said i think you hit the nail on the head we know these

things are coming yes we don't know how bad the devastation will be until after the fact but the trends have all been pointing pretty strong that you know category four category five want to after another after another we know it's coming june first we know june first in the middle member board likely probably going to be some major hurricane damage on the way why are we preparing for this because once again we we don't recognize puerto rico as part of the united states and those are american citizens as are american lives and you wouldn't do this any other place if houston said we lost four thousand people and don't don't underestimate the appeal of disaster capitalism either all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered in facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are t.v. dot com coming up we explore the new h.b.o. documentary on air was over senator john mccain with all the journalist but stay tuned to watch this.

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thank you. thank. you. and john for its epic western film the man who shot liberty valance a senior reporter after hearing the actual truth behind the legendary killing off with the title character proceed to tear up his notes and announce to shock jimmy stewart this is the west's or when the legend becomes fact print the legend. ask any student of real history of the united states and they'll tell you that more often than not it's the legend not the facts that are most often taught in high school history classes across the country this is why today in the age of fake news corporate censorship puffed up hundred three and twenty four hour cable news cycles the fight to print the truth before the legend is all the more important which brings us to senator john mccain in h.b.o.'s recently released documentary on the

arizona republicans life and times dramatically titled john mccain for whom the bell tolls for some the documentary provides a beautiful final bow to the ailing senators long career but for meeting including journalists the documentary puts the legend before the facts as t.v. rights and rolling stone quote the myths aren't just about mccain either but also an effort to gloss over about six decades of american history and how we got to the terrible place for him today so just how do you interest is the myth making surrounding our current political figures in times let's find out as journalists not their mad t.v. joins us now live from new york set a welcome. thanks to both of you know i got to say first i got to compliment you one of the best descriptive lines of former heads of state in this country was wax museum escapees which started all of your article really brilliant when describing the likes of henry kissinger who. you know what i want to ask you what stood out to

you is the biggest kind of myths surrounding the political legend of john mccain that were played so straight in this documentary. well first of all. i covered john mccain on the campaign trail a couple of times and. they always laid out very thick the idea that he was a maverick and a change agent that term was tossed around quite a bit but if you actually look at mccain's history he does have a history of opposing some people within his own party he's. and he has a history of personal dust ups with members of his own party but in terms of actual change he was very much in line with most american policy particularly when it came to military interventionism he was never really able to come to grips with the mistakes of the war on terror. or even really the vietnam era for that matter

and he was one of the one of the earliest proponents of the iraq war and i say this hating to criticize the guy who's a who's got you know terminal brain cancer but there was always this this myth making around him that was that was always laid on very thick and that is sort of the thing that makes a so hard to understand and i think that's what's and frustrating for a lot of people yes he's in this position and nobody's nobody's taking heads on and i think that that are more in ted but there is this idea that political legacy doesn't always ring true you know what do you write you know mccain's legacy will be like which of these sort of reality is our narratives do you think will ultimately went out the legend or the fact. well the problem is that there are two completely diametrically opposed ideas about what john mccain's legacy is if you

were to watch this film the idea that you would get is that john mccain represents a time in a place where reaching across the aisle and. and and dealing with the other party and compromise. we're encouraged that this sort of presented him as a kind of modern day henry clay but the reality is that john mccain really helped usher in this era of divisiveness he played a crucial role in the narrative by bringing sarah pailin on to this ticket in two thousand and eight which as a. everybody admits within the campaign was a calculated gambit design not for any ideological reason or because they thought it was a good idea but purely because they were they were desperate and they felt that they needed to do some kind of a strategic hail mary in order to win so i think you have to look at it in terms of the latter you know bringing pailin in on leash something within the republican

party that we're still dealing with today and that's what i want to ask you about too is when you mention and when you watch the documentary you do get this feeling the kind of the good they do they gloss over about the decades of u.s. history that all kind of these political decision making was to us the brought us the age of schumer and ted cruz and trump and what we're dealing with today and now it's never just one thing when you look back at history but if you had been marrow it down what do you believe is the biggest kind of political decision this responsible for the state of things in d.c. today at the we just refuse to acknowledge it as a process and as a public. but i think the ongoing theme in john mccain's career certainly is is just it's all centered around this idea of america's role in the world and military intervention isn't continuous war and whether or not that's

popular and whether or not there's a backlash against that i think the the backdrop to what happened in two thousand and eight when mccain took on barack obama was not just that mccain had the misfortune to be to be opposing a historically gifted politician in terms of his ability to rally his base and barack obama but also there was an incredible amount of discontent not just over the economy which of course was cratering at the time but over the iraq war i mean . george w. bush's approval ratings were lower than don. ever we're at the end of his presidency he was down in the in the low twenty's at one point and that had almost everything to do with the iraq war an invasion which mccain and most of the people featured in the film supported or wrote it for and so i still think we haven't come quite come to grips with the enormity of the error though was our decision to

invade iraq and the subsequent decision to remain in the middle east and to have this expansive presence everywhere to openly. what do you think the reason is that we're so quick to go for the legend instead of the reality i mean is it really as simple as we don't want to you know hit somebody when they're down we don't want to be that person but you know what is it they keep says or what one makes journalists jump to that well i'll tell the maverick story as opposed to looking at things realistically you know george w. bush we've seen them all everybody like oh is that me or darling of the lad. why are these why do we do that. in the simple answer and as a former campaign reporter i would say is that when you're covering a campaign you just have a tendency it's unavoidable to reach for the nearest cliche. and. essentially

covering a presidential campaign is two years of covering a story we're not a whole lot happens and so the press and the having to invent story lines and to shape and mold the story in order to get people interested and one of the things they do in order to make the story more digestible for audiences is they create a caricature is of the people involved so john kerry looks french and is bookish and is an intellectual and an upper class windsurfer who is out of touch with the and where is john mccain as a. straight talker and that cliche of course was taken a bit heavily advantage of by the mccain campaign which immediately started painting buses with names like the straight talk express so we come up with this shorthand caricature is as a way to kind of so the characters in the campaign drummer and political dramas and it's the same way we do it with you know reality shows everybody in survivor or you

know. flip but i love that we all give them what of shorthand the same thing and we do that with this wow so like rock of love bus and capitol hill are really talking about us and. you know it's interesting because when you when you look at history and when you really look at the you know the different versions of history that were always sold you know i have to ask is going forward how dangerous is this kind of mythmaking of political figures and their actions are just in general and we kind of well let's take the better so let's take the side of the page that's in the best light as opposed to the reality of what we did how dangerous is that. i think it's incredibly dangerous because it leads us to subsequent errors i mean if you look at the arc of mccain's life and again i hate to talk about the example through the lens of his personal experience because he undoubtedly suffered horribly in

vietnam in a way that you know put somebody like me could never comprehend but the reality is you know our presence in vietnam as a country we never really came to grips with what we were actually doing there the enormity of the damage that was done to that part of the world the number of civilians that were killed the number of people in countries like cambodia and laos that were killed in bombings that had nothing to do with with any real milt military reason our failure to come to reckon with that history leads directly to our failure to to realize the mistake we were making when we when we go. to iraq and so we continue to perpetuate these mistakes and the inability to puncture these myths leads to electorates and to enter groups of politicians who continue to repeat the same political mistakes over and over again so it's always dangerous when you make myths and in modern american in the modern american american lead media landscape are always making myths that are comfortable for audiences to

digest that don't scare or upset them and that's just very hard to do and when when you're talking about the cold hard facts of history it most definitely is and that's the thing that i think i applaud you know journalists like yourself and others who are out there you know kind of challenging the contemporary myths and there's a lot of great documentarians lot of great journals to go out there and do the good work to then challenge the historical missed of that where we can have a better idea of how to vote how to make decisions as an informed public moving forward matt taibbi always a pleasure having you on thank you very much for all the great work. thanks so much sorrow take are. the cornea is the highly sensitive our most layer of the eye that's responsible for remaining transparent to allow light and well you know to let us see however according to world health organization cortical blindness is the fourth leading cause of blindness in vision loss globally with over fifteen million people around the world requiring a cornea transplant and while the causes of such vision loss may have why vary

widely scientists at newcastle university may have just saw the light on how to fix it three d. printing that's right by using a mixture of stem cells i will generate and college and scientists from the university were able to form a special bio ink and three d. print the world's first human corneas researchers say they hope that after further testing the new three d. printing technique could be implemented worldwide combating the shortage of corneas for transplant wow that's that's incredible yeah that's and it's really people the inner city don't always know this but when you you know if you donate your body or donate organs one of the things you can do is corneas and it's very it's one of those things are really neat but those means that we can drive a lot more people bring site back up that's where those are those things when i see stories like that and say look at how far we've come but you know we can't save the people of puerto rico like that's the thing it's like we have the technology to do it we just have to get our elected officials to actually listen to whisper a change that's the challenge i put out to you guys all right that is our show for

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there was. some bit of a little bit of the. russia's foreign minister meets the leader of north korea and says the denuclearized sation of the pin in china can only happen gradually and also if sanctions against pyongyang lifted. the coming european court of human rights rules that nifty way here and from mania with complicity in the told to al qaeda terrorist suspects in the cia's program of secret black sites attentions and journalists worldwide are outraged by ukraine for the staging of the first stage in the murder of russian

opposition journalists. plus. both in syria was a bold winning about all the things revealed this of them in both the point and we all know it so how can you use chemical weapons against civilians that you wanted to be supportive of to. an exclusive interview with r.t. syrian president bashar assad insists he would never use chemical weapons against civilians and says the conflict in his country should not be described as a civil war. well welcome it's three pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international. now the russian foreign minister has met with north korean leader kim jong earnest pyongyang prepares for a potentially historic peace summit with south korea and the u.s. although sergey lavrov has warned the peace process remains fragile. it was

regarding sanctions it's completely obvious that when we start talking about the nuclear issue and other issues on the korean peninsula it's with the understanding that nothing can happen with sanctions still in place how that's going to be achieved is another question a matter of the art of the goshi ocean but it can't be done in one go just like denuclearization can't that is why there have to be stages in progress at each stage or mr lavrov added that russia is interested in working with both careers and that the north should consider all factors in the peace talks including recent history our correspondent is in p.r. yang right now with some exclusive images from inside north korea. this is a truly incredible opportunity for us to film inside the place where most high profile meetings in north korea happen just as the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is talking to his north korean counterpart behind closed doors right there

the moment when the russian top diplomat is gang is absolutely unique on the one hand the resolution of the korean peninsula crisis might be just a few steps away with the massive concessions the north and the south have both been making and even donald trump to however we understand that any wrong move can make everything collapse so the question is why exactly surrogate and it up in the north korean capital russian diplomatic sources suggest that it was after several invitations in a row by mr lavrov apart during his visit to moscow we were also told that the north korean side wanted the trip to happen asap during a traditional quick chat with the journalists on the plane when we asked. why this was happening and what to expect of the visit his answer was we'll just have to see

i don't know for now we have to try and go from the monsoon to power the home of the north korean parliament in pyongyang. well the russian foreign minister didn't arrive in north korea empty handed it did have a small present the country's leader a little russian keeps a box. mostly just it also has a key you can look away some secret stuff. on the top diplomat also invited kim jong un to russia and passed him a message from vladimir putin in response to the north korean leader send his warm greetings to the russian president but it'll analyst says that moscow could play a crucial role in any peace negotiations. well basically russia has been at important in the korean peninsula it has been a part of the six party talks and certainly it can as porton role in the i suppose since the economic ties between russia and the united

states are more limited. then russia certainly can stand up to american pressure more than china more easily than china and it is in the interests of russia to achieve didn't the deed nuclearization of the north korean peninsula certainly nuclear weapons program. will likely provoke so korea and japan to develop nuclear weapons to the strategic disadvantage of russia and china. now journalists have rounded on the ukrainian authorities for faking the assassination of a russian opposition reporter in kiev international media and security watchdogs have slammed the stunt as deplorable and regrettable. the staged murder of journalists are crazy bludging could buy the ukrainian security service is distressing well the reappearance of the reporter may be

a great relief it is deeply regrettable the crane's authorities have played with the truth no matter what the motive relieved that are currently but it was alive or deplored the decision to spread false information on the life of the journalist it is the duty of the state to provide correct information to the public well earlier the ukrainian authorities had claimed that found russian journalist arkady bob genco with gunshot wounds in his flat in the capital it was claimed that he died on his way to hospital however late it was revealed that the murder had been staged apparently in order to foil an actual russian plot to kill a journalist. who is a prominent kremlin critic whose condemned russian activities in ukraine and also syria is a contributor to the major u.k. news outlets like the guardian and the b.b.c. r.t. is done quarter reports now on the for lack from the controversial case. when a russian journalist was pronounced murdered in the ukrainian capital it didn't

take long for the ceremonial finger pointing at russia to begin he was only working on things that were critical and investigative of russia and of the russian government as well he said there was nothing that was critical of ukrainians of course that network and its boss placing the blame on the kremlin and on russia journalist known political leanings have led some to point the finger in one direction it was a calculated deliberate international terrorist crime committed on the direct instruction of the russian authorities he figured it's who can blame them when the story has all the perfect ingredients the russian totalitarian machine putin's regime going after the kremlin critic except the guy turned up alive and well a magic in everyone's confusion what on earth is showing on fred all of these developments in just the last hour or so i know the ft house absolutely gobsmacked when a second so what the heck actually have been here russia said it was relieved that our cause alive but also fiore us and understandably so after being falsely accused

of murder questions of life and death in ukraine as well as the international community's trust in its politics are not thing more than a bargaining chip for the kids regime to stir up on t.v. russian hysteria fellow journalists were outraged too when a state says a prominent journalist who had received threats was murdered i think the media have to report it but with the fake news in ukraine have reduced all of our credibility trump would be proud had learned not to trust ukrainian authorities on don't best warrant but assuming something like this fishel confirmation was solid apologies it's on wikipedia is most notable fake death so what gives while the murder was staged by the ukrainian secret service to foil an alleged kremlin plot they say they did it secretly not even his wife knew imagine what the poor woman went through. but one ukrainian lawmaker thinks this is ok because sherlock holmes

successfully used the method of staging his own death to effectively investigate difficult and complicated crimes well if it happened in fiction must be good in real life till whether ukraine will produce evidence that there was ever a russian plot in the first place remains to be seen but after a stunt like this it's hard to imagine many will take anything at face value the taming is key i think just before we start the world cup in russia which is a shock yes event for any country that will cut their or sort of cut and suddenly we're getting the story switches design which are designed i would speculate to discredit russia and discredit russia and out of the world just as the supposed to horst the wall clock and so this is a very elemental campeon it's been targeting russia because it's no interfering in areas in which all nations in the past understood that they are off limits when it

comes to using them for propaganda purposes such as trying to use the world cup to undermine the horse nation that does nor good to anyone especially entertainment we need to try and form an understanding. now the european court of human rights has ruled that little mania and for mania precipitated in the cia's program of secret black site detentions and also violated the prohibition on torture by helping the agency with the interrogation of al-qaeda terrorist suspects one of the suspects was according to the cia a key al qaeda figure no charges they were brought against him he was arrested in two thousand and two and is currently being held in guantanamo bay as part of his interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times said he lost his life left eye during cia torture the other detainee was also captured in two thousand and two and subject.