on the outside looking in this is very confusing and we're supposed to be experts to be able to figure this stuff out go ahead michael. i think one of the hallmarks of trump's foreign policy is that it's trump it's not a collective view of the state department with way and this from d o d and other places and intelligence it's trump. and he's proven to be fairly adept at it so far however you may or may not like the outcomes he's gotten in with korea he's reworked trade agreements in europe and elsewhere some of it has been to our total benefit some of it has been a conciliatory benefit. we enjoy a relationship with china we haven't had and maybe ever. i don't know that what he's doing is confusing bad evil wrong or fattening but what i do know is that it's in his head and it's been working with us far. talking diplomatic level and so i'm not prepared to throw it over just because i don't understand no no you know i get

on with that which i don't understand i can't i get your point maybe i get your point i mean in the way he sees the world here and his base and i think you may go back to northwood here it seems to me. even a year a year and a half in the dawn of time doesn't have a lot of interest in foreign policy he's made a group of promises on the stump and he's committed to realizing each one of them i've never seen it a president so adamant going through his checklist ok is it really his that he is. idea of american exceptionalism american first is it really does domestic politics driving it for him. well i think you're right i mean there is a very very great interest in domestic politics and he has made all the promises and as you say i think the first thing that steve brandon did but he had to the white house it's a wants to put up a white board with a whole lot of the promises made and and start taking them all up but i think the

foreign policy perspective the president from hers is one of increasing american power and extracting as much of value economically commercially financially and so on from our allies associated powers and on enemies and i think all that is down to who's our long term idea that america has been ripped off and i think if you look at domestic politics then the kind of people you defined as or americans. basically selling been so you message that you have been ripped off white american men in particular by women by minorities by immigrants and so on and you lost status of what he's going to do or restore american greatness and again going to just going to many areas all male of whom we have an american we are really have a large brain reserve sort of after all i'm going to short break we'll continue our discussion on american exceptionalism stay with.

the idea of spending money to acquire region to acquire territory to acquire wealth is an oxymoron there there's no more wealth to acquire the ecosystem is collapsing . the economy is flooded with worthless paper and the species is migrating over to the digital sphere feasibly these networks and platforms people are uploading their minds into cyberspace and hope to become immortal so and we dollar spent on defense every dollar spent by the pentagon is a wasted. dollar it's a nineteenth eighteen seventeenth sixteenth century mindset it's completely antiquated and it's utterly worthless. zia's says harlan kentucky. the oldest moved them

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a little girl such a woman you know. oh i've got the feeling that i did it you could get it. welcome back across the uk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing american exceptionalism. ok david you know ever since trump entered the the oval office a lot of it's been trying to understand if there's a rhyme or reason to his foreign policy and i think that even on this program it's kind of coming together it seems to me it's kind of like going back to the nineteenth century great powers competition without all the values that were

pushed since the second world war it just it's just really kind of brute power and it vantage and looking for competitive advantage and it's very brusque and it seems to appeal just as interested pointed out to us in the first part of the program it does appeal to his base go ahead david yeah i think you know it appears to be all donald trump but just as you know reagan and gorbachev came out of the meeting and were told by their advisers no no no you can't get rid of nuclear weapons every time trump has a good idea like get rid of after nato he talks to his advisors and it's off the table i think that you know it was actually an actual break with u.s. exceptionalism is not on the agenda of donald trump or his advisors i mean it would look like joining the international criminal court joining the convention on the rights of the child joy in the united states is party to fewer major human rights

treaties then almost any other nation on earth it would mean giving up the veto at the united nations it would mean getting out of afghanistan there's a promise i'd like to keep i mean this is a guy who promised no more of these wars and bombed their family you know kill their families bomb the bleep out of them so it's easy to say he's keeping his promise because he promised a black and white but the ones i'd like him to keep he's not keeping us. well as you know a few like building the wall and walking up hilary that i don't necessarily need him to keep either but this is not this is a guy who thinks it's running the world and it's dangerous to what extent he is but he's not overruling the weapons dealers or the big players in washington d.c. you know yeah michael that seems to be very contradictory because he said in interviews that the united states shouldn't be the policemen of the world but in fact it remains the same ok am particularly you know i mean if you look at the korean peninsula i mean a peace between the koreas denuclearization maybe the american troops could go home

there'd be no reason from the be there and then the entire foreign policy elite has their hair on fire like oh my god please don't let it break out it will change our world ok i mean it seems to me that he just go and really up against the street you know against the the stream there and he keeps coming out with these ideas i mean you know i said earlier i mean you know threatening iran in the most course way and then say i'd like to meet you in no condition preconditions i mean the outside looking in finds that very very confusing i mean the rains have already said through their aides is that while we sit down with someone that broke a country that broke a treaty that we just signed only a few years ago i mean i how does that show that america leading go ahead michael. you know it wasn't a treaty and they didn't sign anything but that's that's a semantic problem we have been able to know well it's an international has agreed i mean no they were it was a it's multilateral it wasn't just with the americans ok go ahead. but i

think the the the the point you're making is good and it's correct but if it stops and i think that's what we have to focus on is that the goals his foreign policy goals are as the professor correctly observed although i think for two reasons different than he observes and that is that we are interested in better trade we are interested in exercising our trade power and to increase american presence and wealth at home american exceptionalism america first through trade treaties through trade work as opposed to naked aggression and use of foreign power which other presidents have used obama was soundly criticized on the right for wanting to meet with the iranians with no preconditions i find it interesting that my brothers on the right don't have a problem with trump doing the same thing i just i just throw that out as an observation well i mean i think that you know but michael back to hang on hang on but hang on michael i mean in in the same week basically threatening hostilities

with the rand and then saying you want to meet with preconditions you don't have to worry about your friends on the left or right you have to try to figure out what the president is talking about ok that's not my point and you know this was the same. you know your point is right but this is the same tactic we took with north korea you know little camera man blah blah blah you know terrible person going to face the earth are going to blow us off face here at the next thing you know we're meeting in singapore this is the art of the deal this is a part of the tactics of moving forward this is part of the noise involved in making the deal and making the negotiation and doing the work and it's trump he is unique he is rare he is something we haven't seen before the swamp can't make head or tail out of them and nor can anyone else and this goes back to my earlier point which was just buckle up just as you've observed many times peter buckle up and you're just going to have to wait to see how a boils out will do their best to keep their arm around it i just don't know how it's going to work out ok brace for impact ok let me go back to you here then and

then ok so what is the justification for the united states being in afghanistan it's not bringing democracy there anymore apparently what what what how is what's the justification for the illegal behavior of the united states in syria is it bringing democracy there anymore it's not apparently so why are they still there so i mean this makes it very patently obvious that just brute force beyond international law this is what trump it is opening up to go ahead. well i think you know when we look at the big picture of global change we have a whole range of new emerging powers some of which are very very powerful economically and increasingly powerful militarily and they're looking around the world for resources and they're looking to increase their influence in order to protect their lines of communication china for example is building the one built one road initiative which is going to be on the right across from china all the way to spain and include the indian ocean you've got non-state actors like isis and

other organizations also challenging the stabilizing allies and other regimes as well and i think what really present trump is trying to do is effectively grapple with the same problem which post cold war president so i've tried to outline which is the whole world environment has changed the big difference i think with president trumpets he doesn't really look at the idea of enjoyment of building an orderly system or an ordered a rules based system or rather he wants to open it up he wants to loosen it up and he wants to make it more transactional so i think what he's trying to do is say look we've got this big international series of regimes america's been ripped off it's paying too much it's has too many large deficits with everybody and what we're going to do is we're going to flex our nationals and try to read negotiate our position within it and effectively the board and the everybody else. ok.

ok again like i said it looks like it's going back to the great powers of the nineteenth century without all of the rhetoric at least it's more transparent david you you mentioned russia is it really worth it for trump to go down this path that we had the helsinki summit i was critical of the president's delivery at the press conference like i was in singapore is well it's not his forte it's got to work on his game there and then he wanted another summit and then walked walked it back the russians and invited him to moscow why is this so important to him is it a campaign promise or is it just you know the media hates it when he does it and that he just pushes back to show that i am president i'm going to do what i want to do what is his fascination here go ahead david. well i think there is is all kinds of pressure on him to meet with and work with russia and to not do so and to treat

russia as having attacked the united states and started a war and to engage in war with russia and everywhere in between i think that it's appropriate that the united states and russia as the major nuclear weapons powers meet and get rid of those damn things before they destroy us i think it's critical for the united states and russia as two of the nations doing the most to destroy our natural environment to meet and start reversing all the policies david that's not so much on the agenda. i mean complete agreement with you in english they would they would have what why it seems to me that. trump engagement with russia should come out very clear twitter is fine with me and i need to deal with a lot of your putin to sign a new arms control agreement it's about to expire in two thousand and twenty one this is what's most important to all of humanity why can't you just write that i mean that is barry straightforward and you know what david it's transactional what

trump is supposed to be all about go ahead david well it would make perfect sense it would fit with some of his agenda of body it is not where he comes from it's not something he knows anything about it's not something he's hired anybody to keep around him who would advise him to do and it's you know the got the us media and the democrats and half the public screaming at him not to do anything cooperative with russia even if it kills us all so it's not shocking that he hasn't come out with that position of but he should eat good in the world and russia should be pushing him in that direction ok all right michael. where does he go from this from his russia gambit now i mean he's put it off until next year because of the midterm. arms because he can't do anything transactional because just like david said perfect crystal clear even trying to save humanity he's the bookie man

donald trump is evil incarnate even if he wants to save humanity that's a problem in the united states that's a problem with american exceptionalism forty seconds to you michael my friend last word. real quick and i promise to stay and save my time what the trump never telegraphs what he's going to do will make promises in a campaign context he'll have elude to things in a domestic policy context he's never going to say up front what he's going to do it's one of his huge criticisms of his predecessors and so because he hasn't said it's there doesn't mean it's not going to be there and he's had some surprises foreign policy wise stuff no one expected but it was always part of his design and i think that we just have to buckle up and wait well you know that's why i call you one of my donald trump sharpers that was a very good answer i like that that's all the time we have gentlemen many thanks to my guests in washington charlottesville and in northwood and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember.

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an independent investigation traces weapons found in palma islamist strongholds in syria back to western money front euro's. american the us state of over again orders police not songs remerging to schools for immigration agents who are being harassed by protesters against president trump's micro-cap done. it's revealed the manchester arena bomber was rescued from war torn libya by the british navy three years before he killed twenty two people. and spain adopts new emergency measures to control the flow of refugees into europe while an italian charity claims migrant children are being sexually abused the man offered to help

and said he would shelter me in exchange for sexual services been alone with my father's friend who before continue the journey subject of me to riccio and abuse me. on cape cod when you're watching the latest headlines here we're talking international thank you for joining us. weapons discovered in the syrian former terrorist stronghold of peace in aleppo have been traced back to western manufacturers war correspondent robert fisk identified the weapons through serial numbers then tried to discover how that ended up in rebel hands auntie's credible reports this is a weapons factory located in bosnia most likely you have never heard of it but it's here that the weapons were manufactured for one of the bloodiest battles in syria lots of homes were destroyed and lots of civilians were killed in western aleppo by

those questionable rebels. we got it almost exactly eight o'clock in the morning and it happened at the worst possible time just as thousands of children would go into school the first shell actually came in between these buildings and you know that then the children were on their way to school when a mortar shell landed at the end by a few of them were killed i knew them they went to maher screw a thirteen year old. lost her foot in a rebel shelling three weeks ago and never did this does. the rebels launch the rocket and it's ten o'clock in the morning seconds later a tate the national school of aleppo three of the children died on the spot so the rebels and now pushing closer and closer. we're in the island.

and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. by sunset nine dead over one hundred civilians injured. now most of those rebels are tied to the al qaeda linked al nusra a terrorist group but let's focus on those weapons that they used robert fisk an investigative reporter was able to trace those weapons back to that very factory in bosnia he was able to get a hold of the factories logbook and getting in touch with the former weapons control director the director recognized his signature in the logbook and from there was able to determine who the buyer was it's a warranty for the hundred twenty millimeter shell this is now standard it went to saudi arabia it was posts of

a supply of five hundred moves as i remember the saudi shipment well the saudis came to a factory to inspect the weapons at the beginning of. twenty sixteen but the response from saudi officials was pretty much a denial they said that the investigation was vague and undefined however their response seemed pretty vague as well saudi arabia is a leading voice within the international community in support of a diplomatic solution to the conflict in syria while at the same time working with our neighbors and allies to counter the growth of forces of extremism but it's not just saudi arabia the former weapons director says that nato and the united states pretty much run the show at the weapons making facilities when the saudis came to our factory to inspect at the beginning of twenty sixteen there was a saudi minister and some saudi officers who was they came to inspect the weapons before receiving them the offices will civilian clothes the minister was in a robe or low production off to the bulls and war is under the control of the

americans and nato who are always coming here and they know each and every piece of weaponry that leaves off factory. we also asked nato for a response but they didn't have any details to share even though the weapons were actually made to the nato standards need to doesn't transfer arms or i mean nation for and for the questions we would refer you to national authorities now another trace from the basement of this former terrorist base in aleppo is the markings on the casing of a missile now if you take a look the first number here this represents the type of missile the second number however is the stock number you'll notice that it contains the figure zero one now that's the nato code representing the united states it turns out that this t o w anti-tank missile was manufactured at a facility in the united states by the raytheon systems company this missile would

have been manufactured and sold by huge raytheon absolutely legally to a nato nato or friendly on the pro american power government defense ministry you name it and they will exist for it's an end use this is to forget it and e.u. see the documents of impeccable provenance which will be signed by the bias in this case by the chaps who purchased the town missiles in very large numbers stating that they own the final recipients of the weapons this is not the first time this has happened syria is actually littered with weapons that are made to nato standards and some of which have actually been manufactured in the united states the question now is how much do washington and nato know about their weapons falling into the hands of the very terrorists they claim to be fighting there is a deafening silence a purposeful lack of interest a purposeful apathy and the reason for this is simple the us government and the

military industrial complex and the corporate owned media that functions as an echo chamber for the military industrial complex actually does not care the us gov. prosecute those who they say aid and abet terrorism well guess what american war contractors are aiding and abetting terrorism but the u.s. judicial system the justice department the long arm of american law enforcement will not be used against the same military corporations which in fact are subsidized receive a form of welfare from american taxpayers every year. further rallies against donald trump's divisive immigration policy are expected across the us some previous protests turned ugly when immigration officials facing threats violence and one city police even refused to help miracle on explains well imagine if you were just going about your day trying to do your job and you were confronted

by a bunch of protesters who appear to be threatening what would you do well call the police i'm assuming but what if you were ignored because of the reputation of the agency you work for now if you're a us citizen this could be claimed as a violation of the constitution and apparently this is what's happening to immigration and customs enforcement or ice employees in portland oregon now ice an agency tasked with cracking down on illegal immigration has accused the mayor of portland of violating the constitution by not allowing police to interfere with an anti ice protest for about a month until july twenty fifth activists were preventing ice employees from going in and out of their building protesting against the trump administration's policies towards illegal immigrants but anti sentiment is widespread protests or is across the country have denounced the agency making some very interesting comparisons i see as the modern day american get stopped. we cannot stand by more or in just agencies.

when ice called the portland police. department mayor ted wheeler who is also police commissioner refused saying his officers would not bail out ice here's how he explained his stance in this case i have consistently stated that i do not want the portland police bureau in gauged in securing federal property but the house is a federal agency with its own federal police force ice accuse the mayor of creating a quote zone of terror and lawlessness but this conflict between wheeler and the trumpet ministration has been going on for months now and january attorney general jeff sessions ordered sanctuary cities like los angeles chicago portland etc to comply with immigration enforcement efforts now these cities refuse with wheeler calling it one of the most disappointing actions he's ever seen from the white

house but protests against ice have sprouted nationwide an anti-us sentiment has trickled up to effect trump officials even press secretary sarah sanders and secretary of homeland security kiersten nielsen many by now have heard that i was asked to leave the restaurant this weekend where i attempted to have dinner with my family my husband and i politely left and went home i was asked to leave because i work for president trump. ok you. write. this latest case shows that the us is growing more and more polarized and it's not just limited to protesters we're now witnessing disagreement between the federal government and the state government which could potentially have very severe repercussions political blogger arms neubrunn logan says the mainstream media has contributed to the ongoing hysteria surrounding the eight.