ricing power is all on one side the the taxpayer continues to subsidize you there so when united health care looks at this and said united health group report says that medicaid costs forty three percent less than exchanges thus saving money for consumers and federal government public exchange coverage is more costly and less effective than medicaid to them first implemented in two thousand and fourteen as a cornerstone of the affordable care act public exchanges were in visioned as a new health insurance marketplace where millions of uninsured americans could shop for compare and purchase and affordable stable health coverage the new exchanges sought to provide subsidized coverage to americans who are not eligible for medicaid well in fact according to united health and with a look at it. and yet tax hers won't vote for this because the socialism medicaid costs the government you the taxpayer forty three percent less than forcing those people onto a stupid exchange. it costs you way more cost you thousands of dollars more per

year but because you're a fundamentalist and say well that's capitalism that's free market competition to force them into some exchanges with only has one health care provider but that's capitalism well let me say something maybe a model a controversial ok you know people are looked at because poverty rates are going up in america mortality rates are increasing mortality rates are increasing as allegedly more people are getting health insurance life expectancy is going down so america is at a huge health crisis despite the unbelievable amount of money being dumped into this wasteland and i think that this is contributing a lot toward an epidemic of violence in america now i recently saw some videos from a famous clinical psychologist jordan peterson who likes to point to the inability of young men to pair off and have a fulfilling relationship in this world as contributing cells are called yes there

are rich. guys who can involuntarily so they sell them so they they kill people have our documentary that in my view i think this crisis is more it is to blame for the rise in violence ok well we are end of empire days and end of empire days see a bread and circuses and i want to show another chart that again this is provided by united health group the largest health insurance group in america and they're the ones that saying. put people on medicaid because this is stupid to have these exchanges because those public exchanges were meant to according to the c.b.s. show have twenty five million people on them by now but according to facts in fact they. ten million people if you look at this this is the health coverage in the us twenty seventeen employer sponsored insurance provides insurance for one hundred seventy four million americans medicaid seventy five million medicare fifty eight million and the public exchange ten million and that i think that is like there is

sort of you know the coliseum the the gladiator sort of games is all of those ten million eighty percent receive subsidies from the taxpayer is two million people that are forced on to these gory exchanges where they're getting twenty thirty forty percent increases annually and they have to fend for themselves and the like provides amusement to people like these in cells who are angry because they can't find a mate. i think there's a correlation there as i pointed out but clearly the situation is leading toward a complete societal breakdown. well perhaps but nevertheless i'm just showing you that this is a scandal and one of the arkansas going to pay seven hundred four billion dollars for this scam over the next decade well i guess is back to france. well perhaps you know that's fact based and we don't live in a fact based world we live in a polarized emotion based crucible of nonsense conspiracy

nonsense well we've got to take a break don't go away much more coming your way. stay that. long. you never know what's around the corner you never know what's in the pub you're going to walk into excitement it's that not knowing that's where the adrenalin much comes from. and you can use a nice blend definition and the extremes will supply. the violence is a part and it's almost a schizophrenia gang culture where you can do all these things and behave badly.

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there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the oldest did not shoot around a corner. welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to turn to seth shapiro of alpha network seth welcome to the program thank you max big fan all right let's get right into it you say the media business is fundamentally broken how so and what do you do in a fiction over there alpha networks if you think about the major areas of the media business that we've kind of brought up with for a while cable made sense before the internet you had these hundreds of channels but at that point there was no broadband so there was nothing else there was no other game in town so economy the economic says doesn't make sense anymore people pay for hundreds of networks they watch maybe a dozen of them you tube seem like it would be a solution but as you know like most content creators can't make

a living there three percent of you tube is make above the poverty line so that's not like you know hothouse success as a business model price for most of them and news is the same stories over and over for an audience largely paying what is alpha networks so we're doing is we're building a netflix like platform powered by this connected to a block chain and we're all about finding new authentic voices and then finding ways to take the audiences from some of those people cross-pollinate them to other audiences and build new new content brand i let me play the role of jimmy song for a moment ok why block saying what does that add to your business because the part of the problem with traditional media is you have these huge budgets for movies and things that are kind of completely based on projections but they somebody's always disappointed so you have big budgets for a t.v. show on the talent makes this massive amount of money and then if it fails the studio is upset because they spent all this money and it's a loss if the talent hits it out of the park then they feel like they got under compensated so if you can actually create

a model where you're looking at the actual consumption and pay people for the views that they actually generated that's kind of a i think a big deal it's the it's is different in a way from where we are now as cable will. from broadcast different economics you're trying to help you're putting the distributor and the talent on the same side of the table because we both make money as you are you become more successful we both make more money right so the ad revenues are distributed to the consumer direct as well as to their to the can yes right it's that split yes all right so now there's competition in this space for sure ok or not the first of the rodeo now that it's true there right there along the line of bloody bodies what differentiates often outworks we're doing this with a really sophisticated series of not to get too boring and we're doing with watson with i.b.m. so we're using all the stack that they've been building for a long time to kind of create more intelligent networks and we're building from the ground up the tech to do this so if you add to our system your data is completely

private we don't know anything about that we don't know that you're max but we're following everything that you watch more constantly looking for patterns that are emerging so for example kind of a crude analogy is brazil change their t.v. last like six years ago when i was over there and they were doing more kind of local brazilian content less western kind of global content and it turned out there was this interesting overlap between brazilian tele novellas and korean soap operas so the two countries had started talking about formats and there was a sort of weird completely non hollywood exchange of creative between brazil and korea and the time it kind of felt would be cool to develop more of that more out of doors in brazil the show they actually turn the sound down because i perceive max and stacey as a telling novella right right they could just add their own voices they just said they just to fill in the gaps doesn't matter they can i can record that in air because yeah for a nominal fee so you were hollywood for twenty years what did you do there still ab so i got to hollywood from new york from here about the time that the web was

starting and there was almost nobody then who could code so i was a programmer and i've been a pretty i'm a geek yeah how actually shocking to look at me yeah i don't get the. skill desperation i was a music producer here at a record label coming at n.y.u. and obviously all the money to write good prior they're on the same time yeah it's a good school eighty three i think it's still around yeah the n.y.u. they're real state property developer and it's right out of the education business it's a much better business education's a horrible business all right so let's move on to the me too movement which is taken down some of the most powerful men in hollywood of the past decade miramax was a huge player and they produced like you know three hundred a movie titles come out here in hollywood there are later thirty of them huge prestige oscar winning case now they're gone basically there now is that change the industry now i don't think so i mean they're going to be more people like that will be more outings because it's been kind of a dirty secret for

a long time but i don't know that it fundamentally changes the industry i hopefully it sensitizes people to the fact that not everything is how it appears but i my friend alec baldwin who is trying to report me to the f.b.i. last year is doing a deal with a ton of a similar platform where they're raising money via a blocked chain enable trip once again i'll say that's like a three ok a list or a name ok p p pop pop pop he announce they like that ok so are they are they. talent open to the managers or the agents that william morris is if you come to them and say hey i've got a blog chain unable distribution platform that's going to give everyone a more equitable distribution all the success that's going on here what's their view of things thrive they're kind of more than ever in the private equity business because the old business that ca and morris and those guys were in was. representing huge movie stars that got you know north of twenty million dollar deals that's

a harder business now the movie business isn't what it was or they did t.v. packaging so now increasingly they're trying to finance stuff and take equity and other things right go out so i think probably there will be more of them trying to matchmake between tech companies and an. because that's a growing business and well look at this to get more into the business model here so alpha networks it's a platform yeah like a netflix but you create do you do you create content yeah we got to create content with radical media it was a major production company here in new york and l.a. oh or did they do that david letterman thing they do they do they do the letterman show they've got about four shows on netflix they do everybody from lady gaga to american expand the excess the access to platform you know well we're building it now but you'll access it on the web on a browser or via an app same way you would have access netflix is going to be in up by down the wire and now i'm gettin a slice of the pie yes you are ok as i said this is a bit of a crowded space and like ok let me ask you this but here's

a look really be the bad guy right you all right ok ok amazon has got a frickin here its platform and they they finance a ton of content every year now right and so why couldn't they put you guys out of business didn't intermedia you guys by simply offering a cryptic point well we know those guys and their shows that they're generally going to do are going to be big budget like licensing the old h.b.o. back catalog for two billion are doing original predominate by my show i can't talk about that i way we're going to migrate to different arcs as a good we're going to go to america. to be considerable yet more than just the dollars it would be over for because you know we only work here for a vodka that's all we get it that's all let me consult my attorney yeah i think we can go to another system so what i've just asked you know nuts that's it will throw in will throw an eggnog and mango not i'm i'm over that now cable news viewer numbers are soaring with thirty million dollars because of the theater right because of the spectacle of you know it's trump how did rachel maddow go from being

a reasonable voice of the left to becoming an alex jones like foaming rabid psychopath kind of notice that she used to be relatively calm right now probably because. if the other side's in power even a good bit over to marks for now it's become a partisan hack yeah i think because that would you mind it when i just you know pick pick fights with my competition at the expense of the other i want more i don't know please kids like all right so amisom bases because conspiracy theories and ok so the point is though that the consumer is left a bit adrift because they are tuning in to cable news and their news is it's all basically polemicists that's right there's no debate we were talking about william buckley earlier and his debate with the gore of the doll touring the nine hundred sixty eight presidential as attention election that opened the way toward an interesting debate format in american william buckley went on to host fire i and

other shows and there was intelligent debate but then i guess under reagan they passed the fairness and media law which opened the way toward the rush limbaugh's who are just totally partisan and you are not required by law to have an opposing viewpoint right and so year and a veteran of this industry did that what did that do it seems my point being that it open the way to this hyper partisanship polemicist fox news drivel but what is your view what you think you're exactly right so when you want to figure out how an industry works follow the money now you've got more and more outlets that are preaching to the converted telling people what they already want to hear that are paid for by brands that want to reach that particular demo so a lot of that because we're going to i'm a right when you talk about these hot topic issues political issues everyone knows the wedge words and the buzzwords and they they're no one ever has a meaningful insight into the debate anymore they just know the words and they spew them out you they vomit the words out you you mentioned hillary clinton dell dell

v.l. still spit out depending on their party affiliation a few words and then if that doesn't work that you get into a fight you get over a brawl right like there's no dialogue at all anymore in media in the news even the news i mean that is. times was always slightly you know biased but now it's like a rip roaring frankton propaganda yeah and t.v. used to kind of be a little bit more open and more theatrical like written about before like john lennon hosted the mike douglas show right back then you had people mixing it up something like working as joplin on dick cavett they go right exactly right you said you don't see that type of thing now tom slater with the last of the great late night talk show polymaths that's right now no more of that saturday night live and we'll have about thirty seconds they seem to have ignored comedy. you're racially they're just going with hyper partisanship yeah and pull you out of right right there's no there's no given it it's just the same banging on the guy in the white house every week right so you know there's no surprises there it's just so

it's just it's just it'll come back and i saw alpha networks as the platform. it sounds like you're entering a world of pain with this project and to the church i mean you're competing with some heavyweights in hollywood. take people out the stretcher if you cut into william morris as action or whatever i mean this is a cut throat business hollywood you know where you it's like i don't gosh course am i you are yes all right ok so i'm ok like the waiter all right thank you this is the one that's going to survive in what twenty seven bucks oh i'm worth twenty seven bucks so you know they're shrewd that's right well thanks for being on kaiser more banks present to be on alpha network oh hey that's going to do for this edition of the kaiser of course me back eyes are as they surveyed want to thank our special guest seth shapiro of alpha networks if you want to catch us on twitter it's kaiser report until next time by oh.

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very good evening to you my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international. the russian foreign minister has met with north korean leader kim jong. un prepares for a possible historic peace summit with south korea and the united states and r.t. going to exclusive access to kim's palace very own only international correspondent to be there. well i spent an hour and a half came john policy and can yank with my camera without being told what to do so journalists so we're going to be allowed there but then suddenly at the last moment we got a tip from these foreign ministry officials that i can take my camera and come it was a long journey we're following a black mercedes along the streets of being angry and then we realized that we ended up in a completely deserted area where there were no cars on the streets or people and

then i saw this big palace and we seemed to get into the palace through some kind of baggage door gates and only then i was able to realize that this is the actual villa and kim was waiting behind the wooden door as sergey lavrov arrived in a few moments and all kinds of interactions between the russian foreign minister and the north korean leader there of course precious to watch i just want to share one of the moments with you. it's a food tomb in pyongyang isn't it pieces. yes it's my third time and i must say for nyang is only getting better again nobody around us was speaking russian or english i don't speak korean so we couldn't really understand where these people were taking us but i guess the moment when i realized that this is definitely the palace the official residence of kim jong hoon is when i saw kim sr she was trying

to sneak out through the doors and i even said hello to kim sr here's what that particular moment looked like hello. every tiny detail at that location was really precious to watch i was fascinated to see kim john thune sitting alone on one side of the table without any aides or. since he was only accompanied by the translator and it was if you like seven on one talks because on the other side of the table there were seven members of the russian delegation facing him on his own and we will be showing you more of these exclusive pictures in the hours to come and on friday as well i can tell you that i had a very long day and north korea apart from this truly incredible visit to kim jong

il's residence so have a look at what else i saw there. so these are our first step in the democratic people's republic of korea. so thirty lavrov limo just departed and we're going to follow him right now. we just left the airport and we're trying to catch up with the serbian labrada limo but we seem to be a bit far behind or on the way to the capital pyongyang. this is a truly incredible opportunity forced to film inside the place where most high profile mean things and north korea happened just as the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is talking to his north korean counterpart behind closed doors right there.

at the moment when the russian top diplomat is n.p.r. and yang is absolutely unique on the one hand the resolution of the korean peninsula crisis might be just a few steps away with a 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. and up north because the top little russian diplomatic sources suggest that it was several invitations in a row by mr. park during his visit to moscow. we were also told that the north korean side wanted the trip to happen asap during

a traditional way chat with the journalists on the plane when we asked. why this was happening and what to expect of the visit his answer was well just have to see i don't know for now. with. the step by step approach to negotiation suggested by moscow is the only reasonable way to settle the crisis. the negotiations process has to proceed in a reasonable rational manner in view of the demand on the part of the united states that the deed nuke or a seizure and process has to be complete very fireball and the verse of all day is obviously a symmetry in the american demands and the. demands of from young soul the russian prime minister is by using a kind of step by step or stage by stage a kind of negotiation process which is obviously rational since it is rather

difficult to work to achieve to secure a complete arrangement in one goal. united states has announced it will slap the e.u. with painful tariffs on aluminum and steel imports from friday calendar mexico will also be hit or from first announced this move in march but in a concession to allies including the some exemptions were granted earlier i spoke to our correspondents in london and washington for the latest reaction from world leaders on both sides of the atlantic. the tariffs will reportedly threatened seven point four billion dollars worth of european exports to the u.s. and what's interesting about this is that wilbur ross u.s. secretary for commerce maybe announcement just hours after meeting with the french finance minister where they apparently discussed the matter amicably but the domestic reactions have been mixed establishment democrats and republicans strongly

oppose the move but trade unions in the u.s. applaud it trumps move but in his announcement today iraq's downplayed the terror of providing at least some assurance that they won't negatively affect relations with the e.u. there is a. groom. good over the course they do we just heard it in washington doesn't think these terms are going to be a big problem for europe is that the case i think they might be surprised if we look at the reaction that we've got from europe what could this mean for the european union you may aswell we've had the u.k. government responding with pure disappointment at the reaction for this decision in the e.u. . they're not happy either this could reportedly affect seven point four billion euros worth of european exports to the u.s. understandably there's a little bit of outrage going on there the most affected could be the ultimate bail

industry and that would mean germany would be hit that the hardest if that's the case because they are the powerhouse of course of the of that sector now the president of the european commission john claude juncker he has called this decision a horrible day for trade. except that it come to push you to look for measures when it comes to. create. because also this with. spawn's saying that countermeasures will kick in within hours he's also vowing to put the matter to the world trade organization because they are responsible for settling trade disputes and settlements of course i mentioned germany before they have reacted to the news the german foreign minister has also slammed the decision calling it illegal he's vowing a united response saying our answer to america first can only be europe united the

french president and manual at micron has also slammed the decision calling it illegal strong reactions as you can see all round lots of unhappy countries there we've previously heard from brussels they've promised to retaliate to america's protectionist steps with its own twenty five percent tyrus on various produce including motorcycles jeans cigarettes cranberry juice and peanut butter again. so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically stupid process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do it we will now impose tariffs on harley davidson motorcycles on levis blue jeans and board but we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid so the next question is of course how will trump reactive counter measures are enforced well he's all.