and judging what was opinion did not fare much better for our over fifty crowd with only twenty six percent of them identifying the five statements as opinion only that much. this of course leads to the all important question of why why is our learned elders here in the united states having such a terrible time discerning fact promote pinion alexis madrigal for the elastic he posits this he says the real correlation with poor performance is exposure to television news which has fallen off among young people but remains very very high among older people yes ladies and gentlemen it appears that our poor parents and grandparents branes up to living through the rise of talk radio and twenty four hour cable news networks bill o'reilly and wolf blitzer may have finally melted it may have finally cracked from all that. but you know what rather than leave them abandon them frothing around in the can be land world of the mad i was in the head

of these let us throw them a line and get them started watching the whole. you. want to go to. the for. real with this one. as a lot of. what they like you but i got. was that we. would. be. welcome everyone the watching the harks i am i robot and on top of a lot of lives seem to have the old a waters of even more when it comes to discerning fact from opinion the news stories about suburbia infotainment is a thing and it's causing problems well i'm not entirely surprised i'm not you know i mean we've talked about a lot of how how the change and sort of legacy media into new media and how people

are digesting it and trust but i think what's interesting is is how people actually try again they notice the difference but do they actually trust the media that they're watching that's a good question and one of the another study is a recent study by the american press institute found that younger americans are more likely than older americans to lack trust in both the media in general and even news sources they rely on i don't even trust they don't fully trust the news sources they rely on for their news and converse lee a majority of adults forty five and older is fifty two percent call the news media trustworthy while only a third of those under five under thirty five thirty five percent agree so. if you're younger you're much more discerning you don't trust as much where it seems like if you're over fifty five they are really trusting to have. have the does that mean that the millennial is are questioning more oh me nice channel plug there i

like that was that according to. our viewers there are very heavy five thank you even if you know what's right so here's we're going to have some of the ten questions that were used in this pew research poll to you know basically these were as i said earlier were posed to people and said ok is this a fact or is this of opinion it is your job to say whether this this statement is a fact or opinion all right democracy is the greatest form of government this is one of them is that a factor is out of opinion that's an append you are correct and so are eight to seventy six percent of eighteen to forty nine year olds also correctly label that as opinion only sixty one percent of those over fifty correctly labeled that as an opinion that's incredible all right next one ready immigrants who are in the u.s. legally have some rights under the constitution correct that's correct again ok you got that right. that is a fact yes there you go as a fact out of the sixty percent of eighteen to forty nine got that only forty eight

percent correct of over fifty correctly identify that as a fact and not a no pinioned you see i'll let you know what that partisanship believes in two facts and opinions health care cost per person the us is the highest in the developed world is that a factor of opinion i would say about that fact you are absolutely correct it is a fact eighteen to forty nine year old seventy six percent had that correct interestingly ages fifteen up also got that correct as a fact so that's one of the few that were dead he even were both age groups knew that that was that we pay so much for me yes that we paid too much for our health care but it's actually how like that's kind of a truth that everyone knows but you had something like immigration oh i didn't know what it was factual the constitution actually halves you know illegal immigrants you know issues that the team lost. generally people we've decided on our constitution that all people are to be treated like that regardless of their

citizenship so you. know it's interesting when you look at the use of the younger the. yeah i mean the i think what's interesting is the you know their mug with those under fifty five are much better at discerning the concept of what is an opinion and what is fact and that's the thing like you can say i but i agree with that but it's a fad it's not a fact when you have you know numbers but money knows are less likely to strongly identify with a particular political party or a particular religion and i think you know part of that is that it makes it easier for them in some way it's that's why their ability is stronger to be able to discern what is a fact or what is an opinion because they don't they weren't you know they're not sort of blindly following whatever ideology is there they don't have faith in the ideology they have faith in the fact they push back against indoctrination and they don't want they want you they want solid want to we want to actual things that are happening it's all this other stuff just isn't that interesting to millennial is

and china. i wonder what government body is really really old and decision that would kind of screwed things up. wait how old is congress. and do have have they taken must i wonder they got every sixty five seventy eighty years old most of them still. there is nothing better than a god precious talk watchers the great patriotic moment when you and other like minded individuals gather in a public place to speak your truth raise your voice of power bring to light the great injustices of the land and collect your well deserved protest chaps wait while. oh yeah actually welcome to the world of crowds on demand it beverly hills counseling firm that specializes in hiring background actors for protest rallies and flash mobs for your favorite political events. boyd nothing says you got

someone to rally behind your cause and you've got to pay people to show up. most politicians have to pay people to be nice to them and pretend that they like them so it's not that they're actually paying people to come and pretend like they like them in public that's a good point and you know it's interesting is this this is this is about brand new twenty first century digital age than ours i mean you've been seeing this kind of thing in u.s. politics it's like the big it's a boss tweed in new york good luck but the art of the century and the eighteen hundreds of just there given you know given the crowds out there given the side just so it looks like there's a supporter thrown into a voting booth and vote for tweed you know we've seen that over the years constantly yeah well one of the things that came up and we've talked about on this show is barack. where you were running a six twenty fifty and when donald trump first announced there were stories going around that he had maybe used another company that was like it came out that he did

he reportedly hired actors to cheer on the announcement of him and is announcing his presidency back in two thousand and fifteen am which became kind of the joke because everybody was looking at it going to be higher those people because they look i got to. and then they kind of that you came out and said we're going to be there for them but this is something that's used a lot i mean you know here's a flash mob about those surveyors you know these moment these stunts these p.r. moments i mean it's just p.r. now it's p.r. and advertising multiple politics and elections are so why are we surprised are you saying we shouldn't be and then the tragic thing with this is whenever you i think when you see manipulation where people are using an agency to fill a crowd for a cause or using an agency to make someone seem more popular than they actually are things like that the thing that upsets me about that is that makes when you know the. parks department in front of the white house or the national mall says well we need to start charging the protesters that gives them credibility to do things like

that because of protesting is now just basically a corporate event you know and we've turned it into that right then that gives them justification to say well it's all fake anyway so why shouldn't we charge them for the bathrooms why should we charge them for their security you know are we really corporate ties when our first amendment right you know i mean if you go to protests at a congressional hearing you know you're going to get a fine you know you're going to get so ultimately why not if people want to pay for cover someone else's cost to find those the idea i mean you know what happens i mean things just because it's fun t.v. and just as a politician says it doesn't mean it's the truth in fact most people lie. yes trust no one all right as we go to break god watch don't forget to let us know what you think of the property of government based on twitter and see our poll shows that are too dot com coming up we break down domestic violence and examining the just laws in an equal culture if you're in the united states that causes it

with author educated b. watkins and finally a time warp later the gentleman may have occurred over the sunny skies of southern california so stay tuned for watching the whole. after all the arts we are all the world we have the most gold we had the sound this current say we had low interest rates and we were american century ready to go. off to get a lottery winner that blows it all here we are twenty eight saying having kind of

plucked. pranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rushed to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore just slowed down so much they lost jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. this is says harlan kentucky. overboard this move the employees

the warren street families. a co money since it was almost no. jobs are great all the films that showed. that it was love to see these people the survivors of disappearing before their own i. remember thinking when i was younger that is anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. to seventeen years of war in afghanistan the country is stuck in a vicious circle of violence elections the sense in the nations and reconciliation talks with the world around afghanistan changing the country be able to escape its

bloody cycle. according to the centers for disease control and the justice department thirty three percent of women have been victims of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner with and their lifetime that's one out of every three of your female coworkers your female friends your girlfriends your sisters your wives and your mothers one out of every three in fact one about every seven women in their lives have been stalked by an intimate partner to the point that they were in fear for their lives or the life of someone close to that one out of every seven women domestic violence in the united states of america and around the world is

a very serious issue but tragically more often than not the laws and punishments surrounding the violence is colossally and adequate and nowhere is that more apparent when you compare the cases of former n.f.l. player a career. and florida woman arrested alexander group was sentenced to twenty years in prison for successfully conspiring to murder his pregnant girlfriend and attempt to murder his infant son meanwhile morris alexander was sentenced to twenty years for firing a warning shot into a ceiling and invent them to protect herself and her infant child from an abusive husband author a speaker do walk and broke down the two cases highlighting the ugly and equality is found in domestic violence in a recent salon article and he joins us now to discuss welcome. this is these are two it's a fascinating article and fascinating two cases that you kind of lay out here i mean what is it about these two very different but very similar cases of domestic violence or you know domestic violence around them that makes them so you know

indictive of our current criminal justice systems treatment of domestic violence so we know the courts have their own different state laws and you know we know we can't really compare what happened in those two different courtrooms but at the same time this is two states apart in one instance you have a person to be in sentence who actually conspired to murder a person in an effort to avoid child support and a woman who had a husband who she already she already spoke out about him abusing her he even in court said that he was violent towards her and still with all of the assess he still had to serve close to six years on him present in house arrest and i think it's a problem that we need to look at what's going on and we need to acknowledge these things because if we don't they're just going to keep happening and happening and happening is for that's for sure let me ask you looking at the statistics of domestic violence against women and curious to get

a man's perspective on this because why do you think that there is not only still so much violence domestic violence but there seems to be even an uptick in. by mentor. when men and in this day and age when you can literally facebook alive someone and you think you can everyone can know where they used to be sort of an idea of shame around. why do you think that they're so why why is it so vile and why is it happening when you know you can be called out first problem is that is so prevalent in our country it has been normal people actually think it's ok they almost expected you just read the stats one in three women number two one of the women you know bravely tell their stories being taken seriously in support of the system isn't doing enough to get behind women who are brave enough to tell

their stories not saying the ones who don't so are brave but at the same time the incentives in that so if you are part of a system that's just going to stand on its hands and allow it to happen and you have to go back home alone and you have to deal with that abusive person who's not be held accountable and do well and in this case her husband said it you want to record if you want to have records she was trying to protect herself and her newborn from him and she didn't shoot him she fired a shot in the air when you know she thought that her lawyers thought that was you know stand your ground in florida she stood our ground zero right but you know apparently that law doesn't apply to a woman you know a big misconception as a lot of people think it's that's i was george zimmerman one that's not actually how he won but you know they would china say how you know how to read or it seemed different for him than a different her unlike zimmerman who actually murdered a person who was just trying to walk home from the store and is zero time in jail she actually was protecting her baby and she had to pay for that and that's what

blows my mind about that is that he was someone no one got hurt she fire warning shot into a ceiling over a home no one got hurt and then this guy more proud of a guns didn't children where they had to tell them not to shoot their guns into a hurricane. and you can't you literally are telling a woman that she can't eventuate out a warning shot worse or second amendment right there's another one why was this one of them n.r.a. as ever a rallying in the court room for the alexander and it doesn't exist and what we call them for instance when we call them sexist people look at us like we're crazy but then we have case after case after case when i make it a point to show you who they deal with and what sort of people they are that's a really interesting point because it is it is you know when you see a case like hers it doesn't feel like and it doesn't fuel like oh this is just kind of a once in a lifetime random thing you know what should we walk away when we see her case and

specifically here is a woman who is. trying to defend herself. what should we learn from a case like this what should we take away from try to be fixing i think what we need to do is we need to understand the urgency of these situations because women die at the hands of abusive men they die so at the end of the day if you know something they have been in you feel like the person is in a position to speak for themselves or they don't want to you you know you speak up you scream you become a foot and we have to we have to stop acting like it's happening to us you know moms and daughters and realizing that there are people just like us who are being hurt we're not doing enough about it but we have to act like we have to understand that you know we have to break this culture because right now the message violence in america is normal and we have we have to end it we have to. let me ask you about this because i think what these two k. what these cases show is as a whole other problem that we have which is mandatory minimum because unfortunately

mandatory minimums never take into account the severity of the actual crime that's in the context of the actual crime the person who may have either been the victim or the perpetrator well you know what do you think how does the melissa alexander case show that because it just seems just the most like utter disgrace at the justice system to. her that she is twenty years like obviously it's because of minimum standards are forest why are why are these minimum so that because we sit around. we have so many complaints about the system and when the lection big comes it is time to kill local politics that is the big good judges in the movie makers in the tournaments these things we just don't do it you know one of the saddest things for me was watching is so many people would rally around dr for it all you had to do was wake up on election day and there would be no cabin on there would be no kavanah all you had to do was put this same image e into the same system that people ignore year in

a year out everyone has something to say about the results everyone has a say about mandatory minimums but you can't you don't have a right to complain about any of these things if you try to change it that's where you need to get out of vote you know let's see what's happening to georgia right now you can see what's happened in a good gubernatorial race in florida right now like this and one thing people only think about you know voting in an election and the bear and the presidential elections or the midterms and what most people don't realize is the stuff that really is heading your actual thing that really that is that is taking money out of your pocket is being decided less than ten or twenty miles from politics local politics also local politics is the shady and the most corrupt there the most disgusting but that's where you can get in and do it you could run for local politics change the parking change those things change those mandatory minimums what is interesting about these two cases too that i just thought of is when you

look at like recruit he gets out right now and he paid a man who's going to sit in jail till he's eighty five about what he paid a man to basically assassinate you know this woman carrying his unborn child and was able to just a lot of double should have been it could have been a double murder easy. not only mel has to understand fighting for custody or fighting for parental rights for the child is eighteen. but everyone's talking about second chances for cruz you know what i'm tired of it you know what one in three women don't get a second chance at life because we have to live with the fact that we were assaulted or via violence perpetrated by someone we cared about you know we've had you know one in seven of us don't get a second chance on our life after being starved or being attacked in our own homes by someone who was you know a lover or whatever so i mean for me i don't care you guys can work on that all you want and that's that's your lane is figure out how to get second chances when and

when someone who perpetrates the violence and that's awesome and my son and i'm like we don't we don't get stuck in chances we have that trauma you don't get a second chance for a police treat you know you know we don't get a second chance to go back and live our life without you advocate for a second chance when it wasn't your sister or or not you know mother who was a murderer it is an issue or you know one of these your your aunts or your you know lover on earth somebody you know who has to be afraid of going outside after dark for the rest of their lives or has to lock the door seven times so second chances are good luck with that so let me let me ask you both this with a minute left let me ask you this how do we change go bob changing the community and getting this to stop you know how do we move forward to get this kind of abuse and get this kind of thing to kind of five will be put to bed and get behind versus aside i do want you guys you guys are really it's not going to change it to everybody understand that it's our problem if you know someone's getting beat man

or woman. be owning abused two or three doors down that's part of your community that's part of your problem and it's just a simple when we got to understand you know regardless of where we come from regardless of ethnic backgrounds variance or whatever you want big family and if somebody has been your family it may be don't you want to we had that mentality and can. other than trying to be so the visit it's nothing's going to change that's a really good point that's going either way and if we do that you know some people we could we get oh we avert our eyes when some time when somebody is being racist in a store or during i don't know i say just get that loud mouth and just i know that's gross you're disgusting shame on you you deserve better yeah better do walk ins author educator baltimore's old thank you so much for coming today. it was world war two all over again for commuters in southern california on tuesday this week when a plane straight out of the german la louve to waffle crashed on to the iconic one

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