it is they hope the move to prompt the authorities to still ignoring the plight of my clients and force them to take action to show that even ski altie paris. marie abortion that made headlines last month after being arrested in the us for being a russian agent she now faces further allegations such as learning american money to russia r.t. america had a chance to speak to her lawyer the full version will be up soon on our to america's you tube channel. well i think if you read the indictment in the case she's alleged to be an agent over russia who failed to register with the attorney general and so essentially that means is they haven't charged with espionage and if you read the ganster know the allegations or have anything spy like about it the sense of the government is conceding that even under their own theory it should fall the piece of paper with the attorney general's office at the beginning of her trip to america everything she did was legal and so my point is

this is more of a registration type crime than a crime and yet the media and the government some extent are treating it like an espionage crime. well i mean i think that allegation was particularly damaging to maria because it makes it more like a spy novel and frankly easier for the public to digest and so editors and producers like those kind of allegations because it seems like this is more like the red sparrow and that was an allegation that was set forth in a proffer by the government meaning they did not produce evidence to back up that allegation at the time we're still waiting to see that and we're not sure it exists or it exists in any meaningful form in the interim it's very hard to see your client kind of dragged through the mud like this which is why i've been trying to push back on that. south african comedian and the presenter of the daily show trevor noah has shot to the top of america's t.v. personalities chart that's based on popularity on social media platforms and

television and it seems he has global appeal as well but for some people his jokes go beyond the pale. old woman of interest can be beautiful and i know some of you are sitting in the yard but i've never seen a beautiful aborigine but you know what you say you say you that's to say yes because you haven't seen all of that right plus it's not always about looks maybe aborigine women do special things like jump on top of you in. the. effort to watch out for one of the world cup africa one well. i mean i get it i get it they have to say it's the french team but look at those guys your guys you don't get that ten by hanging out in the south of france my friends.

klutz. well that was the stance. but it wasn't it was the police this is the miners and they wanted money and it was a sad situation no one really knows what happened but everyone has an opinion i like this that last joke has provoked a new wave of outrage on social media though it's been years since it was first cracked it's about the two thousand and twelve american masacre when police in south africa killed dozens of people during a minor strike some on twitter slammed him for using such provocative humor to build his career union neal asked comedian john f. adonal and legal analyst lionel if there should be boundaries in comedy. comedy today is being infiltrated with these croyde ian screw ups these demented

twisted angry sexually backwater we're forty and nightmare these these these pair of files who think it's funny to shock and to say something and whatever they say we're supposed to accept the reality is once we start letting these kind of p.c. monsters come into place and having like you know people decide what is you know what is tolerable and what is good we do cross a mess that we do cross a dangerous line and if somebody does a comedian does want to of their own volition apologize for a bit i think that that is ok like he did apologize for this the bit about saying you know aboriginal people are attractive to me everything is valid in terms of whether you call it humor or pekin commentary if you don't like it turn it off but a rule might be don't joke about something called a mass occur just saying i mean i don't know if there's any rules but i stay away

from master curry humor let me tell you what bothers me in addition to this and i'm no real big fan of trevor noah and that doesn't mean anything you know read anything into that how many years ago were some of these jokes is there a statute of limitations number one do we just dredge up stuff that's number one and number two i don't mind or i do mind should say when some people get away with things and some people don't who decides who gets away with what who gets to say you could say you could say it right that you are but you can't that's what bothers me we have to go back to the maracana musser in the way trevor joked about it let's again listen to a short clip. why didn't i use rubber burning so i didn't use i'd said yes because those things don't work anymore. these are the whole wheat and they couldn't control people so that's come with ammunition for those guys had weapons plus i guess is a waste of time which strikers have ended because of tear gas live of that on the

news and yeah it is a very you know disparate and you to kind of say something like that and then kind of have this thing you know i wrote say this was this was five years ago and i was saying it's like how long do these our age police get to you know exist like what's the statute of limitation on saying something as comedians as creative people we're coming up with a lot of content we're throwing a lot of things out there sure if we say something that's you know that's really inflammatory and you know there can be a backlash and that's something that we have to we have to deal with right or wrong and let's also remember this is trevor no are ok about it so get crazy but if he did made there's jokes about palestinian riots for our prize ings with israeli soldiers. no no no no so there's no applicability to humor across the board it's all what's in and what's not black lives matter sacrosanct the massacre that that's what it will what's the word not oh yes edgy is there a point there that maybe breviary is being lost in company a little bit the easy

targets are being deployed when it comes to the liberal versus conservative liberal . comics tend to you know go done the side of conservatives with the trouble ministration it's sort of sort of easy for you know mainstream liberal comedians to you know go after the ministration of the republican party that's the kind of the wheel has a house where they feel you know comfortable i go a lot of these shows would probably be considerably you know would would be happy if there was a hillary clinton presidency but they would have less fodder to go after you know if you're in the right group and the right person the sky's the limit if you're not republican trump supporter perceived to be right wing whatever you get no tolerance and no exercise of the free liberty of free speech that simple. coming up in the program as the u.s. looks to midterm elections facebook scraps accounts it believes were created to

impact the vote i'll bring you all the details after a short break. russia's one of the country's most by capacity and all the very high population does that mean russia does need to be concerned about sustainability i would say yes absolutely you are no lucky situation where you have a lot of farm per person so to say you know you have a lot of wealth ecological wealth and but the word is very scarce so that's a huge economic advantage as well and saying wow this is an amazing farm let's look after it well because that's said that the major loss to live well the long run. and what the politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express an injury. or some want to.

let you going to be this is what you look for three of the people. i'm interested always in the why. you're watching are to international welcome back to the program with the u.s. mid-term elections on the horizon the specter of alleged russian meddling house once again reappeared facebook has a root account which it believes are being used to possibly influence the outcome of the vote but as americans reports there is no evidence to point a finger at moscow. thirty two accounts were deleted to face the arms race presented by quote well funded adversaries with the apparent goal of amplifying already existing conspiratorial narratives the mainstream media displaying not an ounce of creativity went on to blame the usual suspect brush and actors continue to

try to disrupt metal infiltrate the u.s. political debate if not the elections themselves well russia is interfering there continuing to interfere russia has been mentioned as the likely source of this interference or attempts russians and other nation states absolutely are attempting to manipulate us but on what basis the report didn't find russia or russian entities or russian linked entities responsible facebook reiterated several times that they were unable to identify the culprit and even admitted that they quote may never be able to identify the source we're still in the very early stages of our investigation and don't have all the facts including who may be behind this democratic house minority leader nancy pelosi even demanded that facebook briefed congress on these critical developments which she took as confirmation of the intelligence community's russian interference claims the latest announcement confirms the longstanding findings of the u.s. intelligence community and national security experts that's russia is actively

utilizing social media in a car donated effort to sow discord among the american people and undermine our democracy but who are those three to accounts influential enough to undermine american democracy in fact most of the spot of materials have zero to ten followers and in the scope of about fourteen months ran one hundred fifty ads for approximately eleven thousand dollars if someone is against the us immigration policy which some of these anti ice accounts apparently were maybe they would like to conceal their identity maybe they're afraid of us authorities it's a strange thing are we allowed to be private think recorded these private us without people assuming that somehow they're simply. unhand meddling in things it's very strange but the real question is what does it mean that someone is trying to sow divisions among americans are we not allowed to disagree with each other on fundamental issues like immigration and other things and i looked at some of the pages and some of them were sort of pro-feminist women shouldn't have to cook for

their for their man i mean how is this supposed to is the russian effort to sort of visions americans have always disagreed that's the nature of society of a free society you disagree about the so these people i think the mentality is not like north korea or something it's very bizarre. the city of austin in the u.s. may have to rethink its name a report from the city's equity office raised the issue that the texas state capitol was named after a supporter of slavery and that's a sensitive issue for a city that's considered one of the most liberal in the whole country.

austin's equity office reviewed in fact all of the city's property and whether it has any ties to the confederacy and they came up with a whole list of street names and monuments that should be changed or removed although changing the city name is not likely to happen any time soon as it seems to have been given only a medium priority now the controversy here lies with the city's namesake stephen austin the father of texas was secretary of state of the new republic in the nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery advocate and even infamously said if slaves were emancipated they were turned into a menace he had slaves as well but back to the day naming the city after the state founder is common sense says media research relations consultant and local resident

john griffin. we've got this push in texas to try to you know be careful not to withstand anybody but texas is offensive because liberty's offensive but the fact that texas is named that its capital city is named for the person that started the colony in texas that became the state that's common sense the city council here in austin has made a few a few very bad decisions like banning over so the city council would rather waste taxpayer money on frivolous ideas like this then actually doing real work. one hundred three people including four crew members and two infants have survived a plane crash in northern mexico some of the victims were able to walk away from the plane that came down moments after takeoff from durango airport those with more serious injuries were taken to the local hospitals there on mexico flight was headed for the capital mexico city and initial reports suggest it was hit by

a gust of wind and the plane's wing touched the ground. that's our wrap up of the day's top headlines for now but in the meantime you can find us on all of your favorite social media platforms for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning in. the last of the people in my very lucid moment. we were in. the all day experience is that all of this. must have been the growth. and. the psyche would not. make this manufacture consent to stick to public will. when the ruling class

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is the separation of church and state the founding fathers of this country were pretty clear in their belief that religion and government just do not mix much like brussel sprouts and peanut butter they were so clear they put it in the very first amendment to the constitution not two not three but one the first one congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof i don't know seems pretty clear the government cannot declare one religion above all others nor can the government tell you who or what you can or cannot pray to clearly the boundaries of the united states wanted to keep church and state separate because one combined the word of the government becomes the word of god and that government becomes a theocracy and no longer a constitutional republic. a child could understand why that's a bad thing a child could but apparently not attorney general jeff sessions who this week after

watching way too many reruns of bill o'reilly's fox news war on christmas segments decided to create the department of justice is very own religious liberty task force yes the hill reports that sessions said the cultural climate in this country and in the west more generally has become less hospitable to people of faith in recent years and as a result many americans have felt their breeding to practice their faith has been under attack sessions went on to point out that quote we've seen nuns ordered to buy contraceptives we've seen u.s. senators ask judicial and executive branch nominees about dogma we've all seen the ordeal face so bravely by jack phillips the cake guy religious americans are no longer an afterthought interestingly sessions never mentioned or inferred anything about protecting the rights of say i don't know us muslims from being spied on or targeted by law enforcement agencies how curious. today let us navigate the divide

between the church and the state as we start watching the hawks. want to. get the. real deal with. the blood of. what they like you know that i got. there. because i. welcome are going to watch the hawks i am tyrrel them through and i'm top of the law list so george bush the state president just sessions is separating nuns and anything that i was. there just just to be clear right off the bat no none sperm made to buy contraceptives for themselves that's ludicrous

but i can see how just such an i wouldn't quite notice that no it was about the case that he was referring to was about a nursing home a group of nuns in a convent that had that run a nursing home and they didn't want to as hobby lobby offer insurance to their employees that included birth control because they say religious liberty whatever i say it's silly so it's really it's not it doesn't one thing you can't tell people that religion is about making the right choices and then make those choices for the interesting to me that's a part of this religious liberty that's not there you're forcing choices that you want someone to make from a moral stance that well first and make it's interesting because what sessions did this week in creating you know this kind of religious liberty task force at the religious liberty summit would make sure i was. very creative by the way they are and you know it really put an interesting thing because what the task force will be co-chaired by associate attorney general just pollute you know and the assistant.

attorney general for the justice department's office of legal policy beth williams you see them there you know what's interesting about this taboo is that it really does and they're kind of making the argument that we're we're separating church from state by enforcing the fact that the state cannot infringe on the rights of face of people practicing their religion that's like their argument but many other people are saying yeah but by the state kind of focusing so heavily on this you're actually are believing the two lines well you know it's a government department right belief in a major and see the controls and. decides whether or not it is being exactly i mean it is kind of this weird no gray area and that's just because it would be different if he said look this is going to be a whole set up of what's really going to happen i know it sounds crazy but we're going to have you know people from different faiths making sure where whatever you know we're going to have a muslim a rabbi you know this you've you had

a bunch and it was a board of people but to see these two people who are clearly neither of them probably most of them i met throw that out as a guess i might be wrong. but there's something about what it actually does so the force what they what the plan is this is to help the department fully implement the religious liberty guidance issued last year under session so he's creating entire task force to simply not follow laws but the guidance that he gave so much i walk around and wrap everyone's not calls when i don't do what they're supposed to so it's all about interpretating the religious liberty and protection. some of these include so the freedom of religion as a fundamental right of paramount importance expressly protected by federal law the free exercise of religion includes the right to act or abstain from action in accordance one's beliefs religious beliefs the idea of not going to war or. giving birth control a gas they're not giving cakes to say gay people americans do not give up their

freedom of religion by participating in the marketplace partaking of the public square are interacting with the government now all of that is perfectly fine except what he's doing is going into the public square as government officials and telling people how and when they should be able to express or not express all religious liberty and what's interesting in that the bait between the church and state is you choose your religion right there you're not you're not you're not boy you can be anywhere in that you can be born into it but you begin to as an individual make a choice i'm going to worship this or i'm going to worship right or i'm not going to worship anything at all that's the idea but you know let's say in the gay you know in the gay. debate you know that you know those people are born gay i'm sorry you're born gay don't make a choice at some point i never made a choice to be heterosexual i was just i realized as heterosexual that's where i want to you know i never made a choice i had that option never came up to me so but church you do make

a choice so that's very interesting because the problem is when church and practicing your religious beliefs does suddenly supersede on someone else's individual rights that's where the whole in a problem comes in exactly you know. the facts where we're going to has moving things up one of the things we have talked about earlier was this idea of unnamed sources now one source says and mysterious reports from the unspecified u.s. intelligence agency is nothing new that is what the washington post revealed on monday under the headline u.s. spy. agency's north korea is working on new missiles stating that the information is according to the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe classified intelligence even going as far to claim as to claim that quote senior north korean officials have discussed their intention to deceive washington about the number of nuclear warheads and missiles they have as well as types and numbers

of facilities and to rebuff international inspectors according to intelligence gathered by u.s. agencies and yet in the entirety of the over twelve hundred word article the only u.s. intelligence agency named is the national geospatial intelligence agency which is the combat support agency of the department of defense which is focused and focused on the collecting analyzing and distributing of satellite imagery for the military for natural and manmade disasters and for security planning of events like the olympics no other agency is named no u.s. government officials are name nor is the source of this report that is the core of the narrative that newark korea is a party pledging to default on a new denuclearization agreement that hasn't even been made yet couple that with the fact that the images used by the washington post from a company called planet labs incorporated a private corporation that provides satellite imagery to commercial and civilian clients and you have a very strange narrative that actually contradicts itself while it contends that

the mysterious secret classified report apparently based on imaging data easily legally obtained on the internet for a small fee is the source it also reminds us that these sources and experts don't even agree on the analysis at least none that we're willing to be so are we just going to keep gobbling up these dangerous narratives that threaten the most tried and true basics of diplomacy and peacekeeping. of course we are. going to be sort of in the works now as anonymous those synonymous with somebody in the government was this guy who told me very first gospel and it was as long as it pushes. genda must be a gospel lot of times as the nuns were forced to buy north korean contraceptives. and maybe that's the latest in a line you gotta watch out these days that i know you know and you know it's amazing this article we were talking about it last night just how much it's completely based on interviews with me on hearsay and this is the thing that

everybody that started repeating and between this are coming one or two missiles are making one or two missiles even though i never said that the fact that the report or the article claims that it just doesn't even like claiming that their missiles are the currently being constructed as false according to the very images and assessments in the article so they claim the the article claims that the reports backed those buildings are still being used for possible all for the us because they see people and trucks near the buildings while people in trucks. move clear buildings like i would imagine there would be i can't imagine that we're suddenly just decide to like oh well let's take all the trucks home and leave a nucular building where you want to be one way that they want energy to just empty the public we're going to dismantle all this stuff that apparently magically is supposed to dismantle its cell and the. satellite launching station is in the process of being dismantled according to both unnamed again intelligence sources

but the washington post piece claims that this is only symbolic and that it can all be rebuilt in a matter of bugs so it's really don't trust the fact that it is being dismantled the facility has not been confirmed as a site for uranium enrichment by european intelligence services or other agencies and yet the broad consensus among u.s. intelligence agencies that. is one of at least two secret enrichment plants i remember the broad consensus is broad consensus is we're all over the story overboard back in the old let's go into iraq and saddam had w m d's i remember that very clearly remember it was seventeen intelligence and. yeah which by the way if you believe that each one of those intelligence agencies really assess to the issue then the geospatial he didn't see also you would take if that's the person you're going like well of. course could you want the liquid satellite imagery is i going to help i want to ask you that or tyrol one of the things that keeps getting

brought up about this is this sort of cornucopia of contradiction. is the idea that well north korea's never going to give up their nuclear weapons are not going to totally disarm which they were not totally disarmed but they're not going to do any of this because that would mean that regime change is on the table considering that like regime change has been a failure in every single attempt by the u.s. government. well you. know i mean it's really going to have a regime change in our experience on it would be because we don't i don't believe even if we went in and let's say we bombed the hell out of north korea to remove him from power we're not in any capacity to rebuild that country without any capacity to reeducate you know the people living there we don't have the patience for it you saw with iraq we don't have the patience to rebuild iraq in any meaningful way you know and that's why regime change doesn't work and that's why you have to read between the lines when you see stories like this at the end of the day. as we go to break card watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of

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