oh dependence is really on the state you know and i think this is the mainstream media's problem as well they need access to the state they need access to power they also need access to corporate ties and money and hence they become a tool of government where they become a tool of corporate propaganda the same goes for the silicon valley facebook might be democratic progressive in the united states but believe me they're absolutely colorblind internationally because they need access to all these markets so so i guess we're talking about media i think we can open up the conversation now a little bit more but but in terms of the united states unfortunately even if as your previous guest said they're going to be briefed by the white house team i think they would throw that briefing in the waste bin if they received it before from the you know the press pool received under this administration because they're hell for leather really just bent on you know having this president impeached yeah well that's a lie let me go to lionel before we go to the break here i mean you know i see

ideological possession i mean it's a demonic ok on ambition on c.n.n. an end and i say b.c. i mean it's it's the point of being irrational it's not even fun to watch anymore i used to poke fun at you know brian stelter i mean the stupidest guy on t.v. but at the even now that's not funny forty seconds before we go to the break first of all i love you to death i give you a kidney that line for somebody else's if you needed it and i got it he wanted it there are two things my friend amber why you never did that. and you're living in the past you're talking about white house new polls when they say this is a grandpa wake up ever tell you. you can't get past it ok well you go lionel go only you're going to have here you're going to say an example of of ideological possession you know ok i think that. kind of created a lot of old called me his one son not two years older than me. twenty seconds

lionel keep going. but it's true this is no twitter is love they told as they are with the fireside chat you can't talk on the radio the presidential need i say more we've got to wake up and smell the coffee kids it's a new day ok i'm going to jump in here guys we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion of a trump arrangement syndrom state with arctic.

there are one other act another. out of the month out of the money that they are planning to make. this was a good time to. try to move there right now. that. why not act and then again why. people we believe here. but i can say that about them up with johnny

they are at the moment i don't know that having. the right community will do enough to go out to the people i don't want to put out a other party with the mother brother. welcome back to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing trump derangement syndrome. ok i want to go back to rob in new york and i want to ask you all the same question a hypothetical rob hypothetical situation blander me or putin in the kremlin. media ops they get together and they start attacking donald trump how long will it take this for c.n.n. and m.s.n. b.c. to join in all of sudden wow glad we resign are inside now ok i'm asking this

seriously ok go ahead what kind of attack is this going to be your foot soldiers marching marching up our shores or as you know it all right no no no no no no no no i'm media taxing he's not a reliable partner we can't work with him we can't work with him ok ok that's what i'm getting at ok and i and i'm sure the left would be all over it in a heartbeat keep going rob. no i don't think that's going to happen think they're going to say see how how fickle they are now they've turned against donald trump and this is. keep your foot in problem hypothetical hypothetical well i don't. brian stelter is not even got to put up for that as long as there is a story there or we're going to milk it ok patrick i just i think you guys are grasping at straws here no no no i'm trying to make a point here and i it's a valid point i think is well all right i'll come on line i'll have

a little bit of fun you know you're acting like you know what was his name bob you're acting like you're acting senator dole right now get off the grass ok time passed i could see that he had tricked let me go it is hard patrick patrick again what i'm just saying is that anything i know no matter how bizarre and how you know out of the park it is they will pick up on this ok because they have picked up on every single else real false imagined and run with it like fools they would do it again patrick. russia versus trump does that hypothetical peter liberals love during hypotheticals by the way. i'm just going to say yes peter one hundred percent really one hundred percent they would open up a shrine to vladimir putin outside cnn's offices in atlanta they would start rachel maddow would go to saudi and start doing fluff videos about what a great holiday destination it is that's what would happen because media. is

colorblind the sense don't go to where the political with the political power is so you know i don't think i don't think i think they would pivot would definitely because it was i don't want to get rid of trump and i think that's right of trying right enemy of my enemy that friend that is exactly right that's what i'm getting at here all right lionel pretty please come out of your hole now and you can answer the question my friend. he's been so convivial today i know i know i don't think he's in a good you know he's in a good mood today ok keep going on you know when you take a happy pill bell you're a genius first of all you confound port talbot the hypothetical i mean it's not what's a hypothetical right listen what you're doing is terrific what you're saying i don't have as i think of that have you already noticed that i notice when he. well that's that's really how you parrot this is ever heard this is cross-eyed this is crossed off into saurus edition ok go ahead lie all right here that's what the

polysyllabic going to war there were sorts of sorrows but i digress come on please you're what you're by erosion of my time now let's assume this so that reporting tomorrow comes out and let's say worst of that leavelle let's say he places facebook ads now imagine something that shows aide to say something negative against south now most people would say the left is the prototypical fascist corporate left would say wait a minute how can we agree with them now when we did the like of a week ago the enemy of my enemy is my friend are we going to be that craven of that that venal i go along with him or you must or you know he's lying only it makes her do what time i hear again me it makes perfect sense because liberals used to believe in civil liberties two years ago they don't get any more out of paul man or ford ok i mean for tax evasion the average person convicted of tax evasion go to

jail for a year now paul minor forty faces three hundred years ok what happened to the liberals ok but you still believe in the civil liberties they gave him and i. got an ostrich colt i'm sure so i how it they are going to do a high bit out of their god the explanation line and it's very easy they're ideologically possessed they've lost their marbles rob give me a hypothetical peter that. went to so she died mysteriously a card of biking accident that's what would happen they don't disappear her. i just don't see it as a viable thing. you know but all a lot of really wouldn't be all that happy about it. rachel maddow would sort of say i love it and i don't have that as a talking patrick but you know if your analogy back it up ok i get a break she could do a cameo in a pussy riot video and some toss outs are showing up and down and you know it but

over no pornography no pornography and i don't know what's going on that one is peter peter the point is you're right ten or twenty years ago they would have rallied around the president in that scenario but we we are not in that time anymore now there is a kind of a political ideological obsession a fetish if you will and a total derangement to get this rid of this president so what might have been true twenty years ago is not have wouldn't happen now in that sense yeah the media is completely out of it's out of its tree in that sense but i think the point is as well that you're not going to get any political objectivity from this mainstream media and in a sense they're going to hand donald trump reelection in two thousand and twenty if they continue down this road i think it's wishful thinking that they'll be able to personally that they'll be able to impeach the president if they win the midterms but the media is just going absolutely nuts in the run up to the midterms with with

all these are going to ramp it up and it's just going to go nice and unfortunately it's kept this gate nonsense going here go ahead lionel. peter let me assume argue one doe that i was going to ask you a hypothetical question or a rhetorical question watch tubbs face now but do you think these democratic folks recognize that if for some reason under the rules if trump is removed mike pence is the president do you think that in their hate. verily but you've never even fly out of there and have absolutely are successful you're absolutely right but this again kind of confirms i guess what most of us are saying here and most viewers that are watching this program they don't think these things through very well do they ok i mean that's why it's called trying to wrangle that senator bob was because well no i mean. mike my pants wouldn't bother me and my character is it ok please do.

well first of all i'm going i'm going to kind of side with the with patrick and lionel here. the liberals have over promised and under delivered and then promising and peach meant they've been promising the end of trump every day and people are tiring of it there and it's beginning to make them look a little ludicrous where or where is this impeachment where is this end of trump you've been telling me about for months and i see it more than anywhere remarkably on facebook with different journalists i know who shall go on name their one of the movies rights cue the jaws theme all over killing the jaws of them so much the the cello guy's fingers are probably broken by now and it's just not whether it deserves to have going to or not it's not happening soon it hasn't happened and they've shot themselves in the foot in that regard you know so i don't know is this in agreement with lionel and i think i well yeah i think we're in broad agreement

here with patrick the thing is though in the time from the campaign to inauguration to the president going to green with rabin i mean they've always looked for the end of something the end of trump the end of this administration you know impeachment but because they are so focused on that they haven't thought about anything else to run on and so they're going to run on hating trump and if you look at the public opinion polls i mean what is it eighty eight percent eighty to eighty eight percent of republicans are staying with the president you know after you know ninety eight percent of the airwaves a barrage against one man i've never seen it in my life i mean it's all about one man all of the time it's really exhausting because i like you i'm a policy guy the rest of it's kind of like tinder to entertainment ok go ahead patrick. you know the problem is while they're going crazy trying to come up with the latest sort of gotcha for donald trump and there's like one there's multiples

storylines every day that are being invented along those lines while they're doing all that the world's turning the world is moving on the united states has business to do is a country and only extend this i think the mainstream media are going beyond partisanship and sort of the democrat party and sort of the never trumpets for that matter they're undermining the actual business of the united states i can't imagine more of an unpatriotic thing they might think that they're saving the world from a russian invasion or something like this but the fact the matter is they're undermining the u.s. credibility internationally they're keeping the u.s. from from doing its business internationally and on a diplomatic level and also on and other levels internationally in international relations so that's the real damage that i think i think i'd like you said peter you said the beginning to show that domestic politics is shaping international politics and they used to not be that way it is now and that's really dangerous you know line and it's getting sentient what patrick was saying there is that this

whole obsession here it's destroying the institution of journalism it's destroying the faith people have in the democratic process they and it's their faith in destroying their faith maybe even in the democratic party rob i'd like to have you back on and talk about that you know you know the bernie side of it the this a young woman from this alexandro. has i mean you know this is a direction here the donors are terrified palosi is terrified schumer's terrified there and it's all because it's an obsession with ending the political career of a man that was duly elected go finish up on the program finish up go ahead lionel. peter let me just remind everybody do you remember in recent history any president at his or her well his rally that was ever able to invoke and inspire this frothing frenetic excitement ever when you saw all

rallies did you ever say yeah one was a smoother presidential and obama was this and that but this president has tapped into a sizable portion of this country that the a leader is fascistic corporate ted baxter sockpuppet media have never been able to compromise it's a different game and by the way journalism is dead all right and i got a job and here are seven eight and i could do it entire program to selecting the last three sentences you just said here that's all the time we have gentlemen many thanks to my guests in new york and in plymouth and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember crosstalk rules. it was you know provision on my bike when i wanted to. ask but i.

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doesn't last i'm not touching him in my life. i see him on have to die. for man are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not share around a corner. journalism

finds itself in the media's fault line to the us after c.n.n. refuses to retract the trump collusion story even after the networks back tracked on its most serious crime. more cracks emerge in europe over the migration issue is the french president says he's now the main opponent to the hard line anti migrant leaders of its elite and hungary. and with the decisive battle looming over the last rebel stronghold in syria the russian foreign minister warns that the u.s. seemingly prefers regime change and removing terrorists.

very warm welcome it six pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me the carrying on our top story c.n.n. is under fire after it refused to retract a breaking news story on collusion between donald trump and russia despite the news channel's source publicly withdrawing a significant claim the whole story was based on hear the details in the studio with me is a. thanks for coming in so how does this work exactly why has the network been standing by the story. this is a special one and i mean here to tell you the nuts and bolts of the rush collusion storytelling we have gotten used to the case when a number of media organizations come out with sensational stories because a number of anonymous sources tell them this and that but my question for you

is what happens if the anonymous source suddenly reveal his identity or says that he has made a mistake possibly the story was false perhaps you'd expect the outward to take a step back at least consider some skepticism maybe make a correction or even take down the whole story altogether not if you're c n n. we stand by our story and are confident in our reporting of it and here is their original bombshell story from a month ago sources with knowledge tell myself and call that michael cohen claims then candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june twenty sixth meeting in trump tower crucially these sources tell us that cohen is willing to make that assertion to the special counsel wabbit mohler so the big sin sation was that

the president's former lawyer would tell american investigators that mr crump had known about the infamous trump tower sit down featuring his son and the russians and sure that counts for a sensation as many people would take it as prove the collusion had been there well a few weeks later a man cold windy davis who was michael cohen's own attorney said. that he was one of c.n.n. sources b. that he had made a mistake and see that his insight into this complicated matter had been misinterpreted in fact he even peered on c.n.n. several times later trying to reiterate that. the reporting of the story got mixed up so michael cohen does not have information that president trump

knew about the trump tower meeting with the russians beforehand or you know. it would seem that money davis's comments he made that being completely ignored has c.n.n. taken any steps to defend his position to still run the story well first of all what i want to point out is that they did nothing to warn their audience that the story could have been false in fact what they did was they started attacking mr davis blaming him for changing his mind like the wind however when c.n.n. first broke the news about this thing based on a tip from the sources it mentioned that twenty davis couldn't comment on the story now though we understand that their source and mr tait is is the same person. and was the reaction been like from as a u.s. journalists and other media outlets around the world and of course there are

employer and shill media outlets lifes of washington post or new york times who broke the story after c.n.n. and then they came out with follow up report and they also included a section with some sort of corrections they didn't say that the story was false altogether but at least they cast some sort of doubt and that was of course the moment when other journalists went to c.n.n. but the only thing the c.n.n. the said in response to their questions was we stand by our journalism and the story is still true because we heard it from multiple sources did we get any of these sources revealed by and c.n.n. the answer is no and as i was saying this is how it sometimes works with the russian collusion stories but there could be. much bigger issue behind this kind of news climate one congressman from the republican party has claimed

that serious people from the authorities the likes of the justice department could leak sensitive stuff to the media on purpose he says that this could be a tactic to trigger and loose rounds of probes we know that some people at the department of justice or the f.b.i. actually gave information to the media then the stories were reported then they used those reports to justify further investigations. was it in soviet russia that the news was watching you were not the other way around but it could well ok. thanks for bringing us that story. now that he is now the french president's build himself as a main opponent to the hardline untying my current politicians currently holding power in italy and hungary and also the pair united to fight take this thing even migration policies and vowed to take power into that own hands in the next

elections for the european parliament artesian i did by the ski reports from the french capital. we're seeing clear signs developing as we head towards the european elections in twenty nineteen and what we're seeing is the big divisions between the leaders of e.u. nations where the money will not go the president of france declaring today that he would be in opposition to the leaders of italy aren't hungry if that's what they wanted and he would stand up against their policies me. just because it is indeed clear that today there is a strong opposition between nationalists and progressives and i will not give anything away to nationalists and to those who deliver this hate speech and so if they wanted to see me as their main opponent they are right well that's what a president matt cohen had to say of that meeting on tuesday between the leader of hungary viktor orban and the deputy prime minister of italy matel yourself we need

now they met yesterday in a phone did very well one of the issues that they were discussing was the migration crisis that is ingolf over the last week is that you said that they would look to work together to solve the crisis. so the current situation is like that there are two sides one is led by matter on who is supporting migration we are on the other side trying to stop illegal immigration this issue is strongly debated inside the european people's party and we want all aligned to be accepted. we're asking for collaboration first of all from the large countries the countries that share a border with us like france the first person who should show his sensitivity and solidarity is the french president by reopening the border at ventimiglia and he can do so even tomorrow morning well the two you have not always seen one hundred percent on the issue of migration we know that much selvi knee in italy has talked

about it to be burdening too much of the responsibility of the migrants want some to be dispersed across your. whereas what we've seen from hungary's prime minister viktor orban as well as leaders of countries such as poland and the czech republic is a point blank refusal to take any more he quits each of the two have come together because they believe that they can the best and main opposition to the current status quo in the european union look at some of the figures now of the migration crisis in two thousand and eighteen the figures show that so far around eighty two thousand migrants have come to europe across land from the sea in addition to that fifteenth fifteen hundred people are feared to be missing or have died in the crossing in the mediterranean that's in stark contrast to the figures for the whole of two thousand and seventeen which saw around one hundred eighty six thousand people coming to europe now italy has been sharing the majority of the burden over

the last three years in two thousand and seventeen around one hundred twenty thousand people arrived in italy that compares to just under twenty thousand so far in twenty eighteen so you can see that the figures are anything but the reality is that this migration crisis continues to cause a huge rift here in europe and it looks like it's once again going to be one of the biggest platforms causing division in europe as we head to the elections just in eight months time the question is which side is going to win out. the last stronghold of rebel and terror groups in syria the northern province of adlib is surrounded by army forces with a decisive battle looming the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has warned that the u.s. seemingly prefers regime change rather than ridding the area of terrorists. which now when the us is stirring the situation around lib we want to know.