and then there's andrew mckay the f.b.i. director who was fired without benefits now mccabe has already managed to raise five hundred thirty nine thousand dollars this issue of him raising some money in order to pursue this you know that's one issue it's an absolute core issue it's it's something that you know doesn't reflect good character and if you want to get more creative than crowdfunding you can always write a book i'm a rose i'm an adult newman's new book on hinged tells stories from inside the white house thirty four thousand copies were sold within the first ten days and before on the rose it was james komi the fired f.b.i. director now he wrote a book about donald trump and within the first week six hundred thousand copies flew off the shelf writing books about donald trump is a smart move this year every single title on the new york times nonfiction best seller list has been about donald trump so it double trouble yells his natori

a sketch phrase that you don't sweat it it could be a ticket to making more money than he paid you to begin with what people have to realize one of the bout is a donald trump has been more. a source of jobs for more people who have done nothing more than become or exist as a disgruntled either former trope fan oh see it i mean right now it is an o.c. it i mean right now it is a cottage industry to see how much you can hate donald trump be trade donald trump and cash in in the mean time i have never seen any thing like this and obsession a fixation and obsessive compulsive disorder a focus to big way should i can think of no other way no no psychological construct that can best describe this unnatural and unhealthy.

focused rage and not just. that let me clarify not over a particular policy program platform vision idea no it's just. for escaping islamic state imprisonment and fleeing to germany a girl from iraq his cd minority says she's come face to face with her i still kept her and rapist not once but twice in the european country we spoke to who told us she still lives in fear can come while we were standing seven girls captured by fighters and taken to syria the worst time in my life was the moment when i still separated me from my family they took us away from our mothers fathers brothers they even abducted eight year old girls they tortured us raped us sold us into slavery we were looking for gasoline anything sharp knife scissors we couldn't find

anything to cure selves with. because one of thousands of slaves by us. the medical profession does they're going to get children that a say. without an invaluable push but i know boring pressed on whether you know though that the woman in question. you know now is not. the love out of the lower level and the alpha would buckle someone.

has now nineteen she was captured by i so four years ago this after several months managed to escape and flee to gemini once that she claims she again met tests woman . had with us that germany was willing to take in one thousand women who had excused from i went there to forget what i'd been through i saw a boo as i was going home after school i couldn't believe my torture could have found out where i lived the next time i saw he was two years later a car pulled up beside me he asked me if i was walking and i said i didn't know him or schlock how is it possible that my rapist is living here and has the same rights as me my boss called the police and told them what he looked like and they scratched his face and it looked the same i told them there had been no other witnesses i told them i'd never imagined possible for an fight or to be in germany however the police were unable to trace his name german prosecutors however say the information provided by our questions enough to identify the man fairing for her

safety in germany she decided to move back to iraq. i think i told my dad that the person who raped me was in germany that i didn't want to leave there no matter what my dignity is more important than being in germany i put my life in danger to escape from i still retain my dignity and he wanted me to stay in germany you know in the one who was responsible for my misery is free in that country all i wanted was to be somewhere safe but after meeting him i was afraid the whole time that he heard me again so i couldn't stay there anymore. now police in the u.s. city of jacksonville in florida say two people have been shot stabbed during a video game tournament as an entertainment complex there were three deceased individuals at the scene one of those being the suspect who took his own wife. there were nine victims transported by the year forty to area hospitals seven of those had gunshot. in addition there were two additional gunshot victims is still

transported themselves to local hospitals i'm happy to report that they are all stable condition at this time. shortly after the first reports of the attack began circulating video appearing to show the incident to mesh online just to warn you you may find the following footage distressing borgerson that it will be hard for stories to start to talk about. the. place of identified the shooter as a twenty four year old man from baltimore they say he used at least one hundred gun witnesses have described the chaos that ensued after the shooter opened fire. last game. he said he'll leave. anything to change he will kill each other

look easy by acting like a philadelphia phillies may like to. because it is he. sees people coming outside the girl supply like. other people land out into the. thousands of people rallied in central dublin on sunday to show solidarity with the victims of institutional abuse in ireland the stands for truth march coincided with the end of pope francis's historic visit to the country which was marked by a papal mass. there is participating kerry's banas embrace and with slogans like truth justice love they marched in silence towards the last night and then laundry to close in the country the laundries were predominantly catholic run confinement institutions for women who became pregnant outside of marriage the pope's visit to ireland has seen people airing their grievances savor

a range of historic of the scandals involving the catholic church. if a room in ireland wasn't marriage and good pregnant she couldn't go into not hospital run by the st they had to go to d.c. and that's because they were sinners. i. mean. i. think. at that time we were all locked into a cell there will likely some sounds and there was no mattress on the floor we did get abuse in there in different things they played mind games with downs. i. indulged lloyd's to chicago verse to the last two children to adoption and they were told it was

abortion shame that they are going to have to let little shorter children i turned my back on the church because the church exposed the church false backstreets you know and they hate so much miss even their original baptism certs. the roman catholic church at the global level directed by the bunch of them has called for the crimes of priests and has left. children and women from the bible. study you posed a danger to them well pope francis has pleaded for forgiveness over the catholic

church's handling of abuse cases and on saturday met with a group of victims to head their stories he expressed outrage over what he called repugnant crimes and promised to work to stamp out abuse in the church. it is a measure of a british police officer slapping a fourteen year old girl during an arrest the images soon spread online and divided public opinion just a warning the video contains scenes of violence. with your was ok. to drink soda you know was ok sure it. was funny oh. yeah right like ok i'm going to cause all around that ok education. police say they responded to

a disturbance involving a youth fighting and attempting to get the go under control a male officer struck the teenager in the face they claim it was in response to her trying to grab a taser and police radio the go under fifty two year old woman were arrested on suspicion of assault two offices how to receive medical treatment for bites on cards has just some of the reaction that's been to the incident. why would a fully grown man police officer need to palm strike a fourteen year old girl the video shows nothing more than police brutality agents and done no excuses for resisting arrest there's no deserved or not about it he used adequate force to protect himself and detain the suspect the open palm head was to disorientate her so they could get her arms she was being very violent in my opinion and that force was very necessary the officers in question need sacking.

police chiefs have justified the office's action saying the video does not give a full picture of the situation on our tape former british police inspector peter kay and social justice campaign and george debated the incident clearly to many people like myself it seems that there must have been a better way of dealing with that situation than bashing that go in the head in bashing the head into a metal shutter to grown place officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to them i'll tell you what you say tell us i just tell us if that's why this is this is wise and tell us your the police officer you tell me the only alternatives available to that officer that i could see were allowed to keep a name and snatching his taser and radio was very well taken to the ground and you've been moaning about police officers on the four year old girl on the ground and if the officers use of force isn't right then he would be prosecuted all disciplined for it that act of bashing that bashing that girl in the head and i do think it

makes a difference that she was a forty year ago if she was a you know six foot called man i think would be a different situation in terms of place because i think if the police aren't trained to deal with fourteen year old girls that are being violent in ways that don't require them to bash them in their heads into metal metal shutters since any police officer uses any force whatsoever it's described as police brutality which it isn't you also keep saying for a lot that has any relevance fourteen year old girls can cause are just like anybody else telling me that two grown police officers two grown police officers with four limbs to deal with on one person they can't restrain those four limbs and and the body without bashing the head into mental chatter and to go back to a point i made before and i don't feel you just wasn't bashing ahead to a man you should have taught was that. this is about recognising that if the police can respond to a video like that with with pure defensiveness i think the problem is. really going

to get worse between sections of the public they already have a lot of doubts about the place that clothes matter in the us for instance it's not as if the police haven't been brutalizing people for many years it's that people now have smartphones and to record it you would be better off supporting the police in trying to keep order and questioning why fourteen year old girls of brawling in the street with other children of that age instead of questioning the actions of the police doing their best to deal with that situation. precious defense ministry has warned of an imminent provocation being prepared in syria that claims that terrorists are going to stage a chemical attack and lay the blame on the assad government a strike on cases item using poison laid missiles is planned within the next forty eight hours that some players outside the region are preparing yet more provocations on syrian soil involving chemical weapons with the aim of destabilizing the situation there and undermining the positive dynamics of the

ongoing peace process my colleague mickey aaron talked to don quarter about the story. well the latest report comes from residents from the province in syria and they say that a group of civilians is being trained in a nearby area called coffers to carry out the aftermath of a chemical attack to be blamed on the assad government now eight barrels of chlorine have already been apparently delivered there and the white helmets are ready to perform a fake rescue basically as the ministry says they want to send footage to arab in english speaking media outlets and we asked the white house once for their comment on this on their involvement in the situation but they have yet to respond now muska has raised concerns not just about the possible actions of those on the ground has that yeah absolutely just a few days ago quite out of the blue actually john bolton said that washington would be willing to respond very strongly if it thinks that the assad government potentially used chemical weapons let's hear what he had to say we now see plans

syrian regime. syrian regime resume offensive military activities. we are obviously concerned about the possibility that it may use chemical weapons again if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly now interestingly enough around the same time as john bolton statement the u.s.s. the solomons was deployed to the persian gulf and according to the russian defense ministry this is a destroyer class ship armed with cruise missiles and the ministry also claims that the u.s. the u.k. and france might be prepared for a strike there now it providence what is the situation there at the moment who controls well it's the last terrorist stronghold in syria after the syrian government's victory in and around damascus they cut a peace deal where saving thousands of civilian lives but the trade off was safe

passage for the remaining terrorists in the area they were sent in buses to adlib now for terrorist groups now control. in that area the most powerful being. formally known as ties to al-qaeda and the others are jaish al islam and. now they're not exactly unified they started warring putting thousands of civilians in danger there's already reports regularly coming out of the area of beheadings caging people and even using people as human shields and other reports are suggesting that some of these groups are gathering for a final push against government areas hoping to stage both a chemical attack and to gain support from the west now the situation is made even more fragile because this this specific area was deemed a deescalation zone after negotiations between russia turkey and iran so with these reports pointing to western intervention the reorganization of terrorist groups

it's hard to see how any d.s. school is deescalation would happen any time soon. french have described the southeastern city of carnaval which is near the outs as the french chicago due to its rocketing crime rates then now calling for radical action to restore little annulled. we are too many things happen or not we are afraid you're afraid to go out in the evening why we can steal your jewelry we can rob your bag we have never seen anything like that the police used to be more tough but now even they're afraid. to out. her.

sourly to the crime rate is significant in grenoble compared to cities of the same size the city is plagued with drug trafficking there's not a single week without a knife attack or criminal settling their schools. had to have a new theory of the fact that interior minister came to visit because in the assam region he thought he would visit grenoble even for a short visit. in the future we will of course make additional efforts in this area . click on that so i'm talking preserve phrase because there again he's both male and female who just come and rob them in broad daylight and no one even moves because they're scared to death the police are afraid of those crooks because they have kalashnikovs they're on to the teeth with the weapons of war and the municipal

police have nothing by the national police are barely fish and it is the criminals who are the law in this city. those are the stories the shapes the wait for more updates is just a click away thanks for being with us this hour.

hello and welcome to crossfire were all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of crossfire we consider one question is donald trump america first policy in contradiction to the washington consensus idea of american exceptionalism the answer to this question will likely define trump's presidency and change the world in the process. cross talking american exceptionalism i'm joined by my guest michael flanagan in washington he is president flanagan consulting and

a former congressman in charlottesville we have david swanson he is the director of world beyond war dot org and in northwood we cross to introduce paul maher he is a professor of international politics at city university london all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to david first because he's written a book on the topic titled curing exceptionalism ok we have about a year and a half of this presidency i'm getting a pretty good idea what america first means in the mind of donald trump and i know very well what american exceptionalism is and i'm not a big proponent of it. are is donald trump incompatible with his american first policies with washington's insistence. and digging their heels in very deep that american exceptionalism must be maintained go ahead david in charlottesville. i guess the short answer is no i don't see it i look at what donald trump does in

terms of foreign policy in terms of continuing. u.s. imperialism and he is dropping more bombs he is building more bases he is getting more military spending out of congress demanding more military spending out of europe shipping weapons to more places including ukraine continuing to insist on the us right to do what it wants in places like ukraine and nicaragua and around the world he's not switching policies allowing the people of afghanistan or nicaragua or anywhere else to decide their own fate i mean the changes are all rhetorical and and in terms of mannerisms and style people in. people abroad outside the united states who see him as radically different because he blurts out things he doesn't act on like nato is obsolete seems to me as as superficial as people within the united states who say the people the vote in

crimea to rejoin russia was the big threat to peace and stability in the rule of law of the past centuries. looking at actions rather than at. ment's i don't see it continuing us policy but the good points made there michael none the less we we have the reaction of where you are this the epicenter of the swamp they see trump is being very much a threat to the outlook that has been cultivated and enforced i would point out since the end of the second world war particularly since the end of the cold war so i mean michael is right on all these points here but that's not how the people that we used to run the show see it that way and they're pushing back against them in very very severe very peculiar ways and in using the media to push against him go ahead michael. i think the swamp has a collectivist view definitely denies american exceptionalism writ small and that

is america has the best workers in the world and we have an exceptional view of our future and we are we view ourselves as as the shining light of the world and then you have experiment exceptionalism writ large which as a matter of foreign policy means that we'll run the world. the i think writ small trump is a huge champion of that written large i think your other guest is correct he's he's not he's not a big champion of america around the world in the sense that we will make foreign policy for the world but we will behave any way we need to to protect our security and that that is often irrespective of what nicaragua wants or what what anybody else wants and i think trump is definitely a proponent of that the swamp would rather have us collectively sit with the european powers basically europe almost exclusively and and discuss what we need to do around the world while we pay the freight and they make the decisions

and i think trump is trying to bring an end to that by threatening nato not as an institution like eisenhower did by the way and his presidency but to say that it's not an organization that we're going to support exclusively and move on forward with interjected you know combined of what we just heard from michael and david so america first in american exceptionalism they have to find the worst possible elements of both and they're being can bind that's what i've gotten from this conversation so far go ahead and norwood. i don't think i would violently disagree with. you just. i think american exceptionalism is a difficult kind of not. that nationalism as a touch to it a great sense of the uniqueness and superiority to a large degree it's also vast. but it's behind certain kinds of the news and. where president trump probably it differs from his previous esas by president obama and

george w. bush as well is that in a way he's he's rejected the rhetoric of values of democracy or human rights and promoting those kind of liberal values in favor of the kid our so i would say that that's the principal difference between those two there is also a strategic disagreement as well and i think that largely is around. the relationship that the united states or president trump is building with russia and the bigger geopolitical picture i think which he has in his mind possibly by and reconsider the home secretary of state about some kind of a possible russian chinese splits and i think there's a big disagreement about that but that's a strategic question the overall united states continues to exert its up but i think the rhetoric around values i think president trump doesn't have any time he's

much more about asserting or aren't out of the dollar or any of the trade of market access and of the american military ok well david i mean it i guess in a way trump is probably more honest than his predecessors because he doesn't talk about democracy promotion as you know but that it's always been a cover and i think only people in the swamp actually believe in that rhetoric anymore forcefully bringing democracy to the world i don't see where it works no one's ever empirically proven it to me but but so really it's the same thing. it's american exceptionalism with the just a different rhetoric i guess you know that makes a lot of sense go ahead david. that's exactly right the rhetoric has changed a lot more than the substance of the disagreement between the make america great again people and the america already has great people is not around the need for the united states to have double standards and a set of laws only for itself and superiority the rest of the world that is

universally agreed upon in washington the disagreements around rhetoric around domestic policies and around russia and the demand from the from the democrats i wouldn't dignify it by calling it strategic it's more trying to explain hillary clinton's loss and hating anything trump does so if he threatens north korea that crazy if he fails to threaten russia that's crazy you know that the disagreement is is around this this mythical story of the evil deeds of russia and their gargantuan significance in the in the context of the good us law abiding behavior and there you know you can give trump credit for refusing to bow to the russia gaiters otherwise i give him very little credit for anything. as he continues disastrous policies that are taking this country and the rest of the world over a cliff you know again. the rhetoric is is certainly different but and some of the

actions are too i mean i don't think any of us really took seriously that there would be a meeting with kim so soon nothing much came of it and now he wants to meet with the iranian leader a days before in capital letters on twitter threatening and i mean michael how do you explain that or is that just expediency the midterms it's the here and now and worry about the implications later because i mean from the 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 and with weigh ins from d.o.d. and other places and intelligence it's trump it's any proven to be fairly adept at it so far however you may may or may not like the outcomes he's gotten in with create he's reworked trade agreements in europe and elsewhere.