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a member of the alternative for germany party who was beaten up on monday evening has regained conscious. latest on the stories you can head to our t.v. dot com i'll be back with more headlines in about an hour's time coming up though it is a kaiser report as they look ahead to the two thousand and twenty u.s. election but if you're watching us in the u.k. . and they have the financial news for stay with. us. guys are this is the kaiser report show you love for years all over the world and for that reason we decided to do a new show on our d.c. called gonzo lax and stacey it's like this show except even better couldn't say it better necessarily but more to the stage when you're on the road for sure we're

traveling we see sunlight and no studios and no lights overhead it's real it's real it's on the road it's stream of consciousness is our experience of america and you know there's a lot going on in america since the new year we did some new year specials so i want to observe the fact that not only did we do gonzo but now one hundred sixteenth congress has taken place so we have a new congress but no government the government to shut down. a o c she's in the house alexandria cortez and she is really all eyes are on her she had a sixty minute special and for me i think that's going to actually harm the democrats in the two thousand and twenty race a.o. see herself as too young she's twenty nine she can't run for president until two thousand and twenty four so right now all eyes are on her nobody wants the cameras don't want to look at joe biden they don't want to look at elizabeth warren they don't want to look at any of these other jokers that are hoping to you know

continue that last few years of neo liberal economics. is in the house she's literally in the house she's in the house she's in the house of representatives and as you point out the camera can take its eye off her and this is the old donald trump trick where the media cannot resist focusing on trump they gave him billions of dollars of free advertising and he became president of the states similarly with say that camera can not. look at her she's charismatic and she doesn't know what she doesn't know which is extremely important for a presidential candidate you don't want to get too detail oriented they work for maybe bill clinton briefly but then his wife messed it all up and but she is going to be in talk but you know heading into twenty twenty twenty twenty four she'll be a kingmaker in twenty twenty so she'll go to the convention for the democrats will probably do the keynote speech like barack obama did launching his political presidency and she'll do an incredible keynote speech for the twenty twenty

democratic convention and they'll set her up for twenty twenty four i think the chances of her being president twenty twenty four right now are like eighty ninety percent i do want to say hillary is still behind the scenes meeting with those who wish to run in two thousand and twenty so my suspicion would be that she's very jealous and does not want to see to speak at the convention because the fact that you see is like a magnet for cameras from magnet for attention shows that perhaps the charisma or the absence of it in hillary might have been more to do with why she lost rather than the fact that she claims it's massage any clearly everybody wants to hear what she says whether or not they agree with it they just want to hear her so the other thing i want to talk about this remarkable story i just briefly touched on it is that. speaking of you know bonkers old sort of neal liberal ways of

thinking m.s.m. b.c. is the standard bearer of the sort of hillary clinton sort of democratic policy and they were covering for osha slee with all sorts the doc connecting that the russians had caused some sort of brain damage to cuba you know american officials in the cuban embassy in cuba. and it turns out it was actually crickets according to scientists i mean they are pretty annoying crickets if you listen to the audio well yeah i'm a zombie saying right so now don't remember is the history of this type of paranoid schizophrenic kind of screaming newscasting and it started really with alex jones kind of a pioneer in this effort to become. the focus of attention through conspiracy analysis conspiracy theories are great the clip you see that on facebook click like crazy headlines fake news they show over and over people can't stop clicking on it because it sounds crazy right oh my god what weaponized audie you weapons you know

want to hear that idea that the russians are attacking this embassy with sophisticated weapons turns out to be that the weapons are actually just crickets mating these are crickets mating so there's a lot of you know excitement in the cricket community but of course the fact is we use so many pesticides here in america on the continent so america that we don't hear crickets so much anymore so we've erratically that most of our while my right now just to follow the truth of what the so we had alex jones kind of pioneering this space thing glenn beck remember and oxen is he took the alex jones motif any plied to fox news and he cried on t.v. a lot if you the dot connecting on the whiteboard and you know there was crickets in the crickets or maybe and it was in cuba therefore it's putin you know and they put all the lines together in every it's all very you know conspiracy oriented so then when the twenty sixteen election happened and hillary shamed herself by failing to visit states that were pivotal is that hans and i was in china michigan

and lost because she's an idiot then rachel maddow decided that she was going to assume the mantle of chief conspiracy theorist of america yeah and chief among those conspiracy theories is that putin is in every pot and that's the thing about you know see emerging on the scene she just goes to periscope she just goes to twitter. and to graham and she could bypass the crazies on b.c. just like new candidates in the republican party can bypass the crazies on facebook on fox news so that's over jobs numbers were way better than expected everybody you know the markets leading up to the end of the year we covered this they were all down huge looking like definitely a bear market and then the job numbers came out and now it's all it's going to be an interesting time because it's very volatile and whether or not the fed can cut rates as ambassadors were hoping. that's another thing we'll be looking at this year as you point out. recently the jobs numbers great and keeping

jobs numbers bad is what keeps interest rates low yes and keeps monitor them and the a liberal in them and milton freedom. can only go so live so we can get jobs up because that would show inflation for real yes so the engines are rising well i've always said this is part of why america is such an aggressive foreign policy and send american troops overseas is that it gets rid of potential people working in the workforce because they get killed gets certainly gets rid of cash we don't not too many soldiers die these days compared to old and more is because it's all via drone and computer screens but as you lay zone is still happening by the way i want to stay on the news because we talked at m.s.n. b.c. the parent company is n.b.c. and that did not get much attention at all in the media here especially not on m.s.n. we see that an n.b.c. journalist for n.b.c. nightly nightly news his name is william arkin and he resigned. basically saying

that the network is is all pro-war including m s n b c and that he's sick of this. doing this doc connecting and pushing for war is everywhere so they don't cover that but we will cover it here you know it was an attempt to create a conspiracy theory to the point where it toppled the president it was a soft coup put together by n.b.c. and their parent company comcast and it failed now responsible journalists are saying i've had enough i'm leaving the other resigning on air basically and you know rachel maddow will have to work in musical theatre over the show be like starring in the rachel maddow show the musical on broadway and a year from now and it's also going all dancing and it's all very beautiful now here's another headline that was in the first week of twenty nineteen that again i just love these headlines because we talk about this sort of stuff it's a wall street journal headline and now that we speak about it then the d.n.i.

the defense national intelligence agencies whatever will say that it's somehow a conspiracy theory or they'll talk like rachel maddow in the start dot connecting and somehow crickets will be involved in having you know procreating outside our window about this but the fact is here is a wall street journal headline fracking fracking secret problem oil wells aren't producing as much as forecast data analysis reveals thousands of locations are yielding less than their own earth projected to investors quote illusory picture of prospects how many years of we have been reporting on this seven and then the mainstream and those super intelligence agencies who are always right well they say that's a conspiracy theory but again the wall street journal which is primarily read by a few thousand guys on wall street who are look. king for genuine information not

fake news not spawn because they need to make sure that they're investing in the right products and make investments well they're saying that in fact they're not making any money the wells aren't making money they keep on saying one day we're going to make money we're going to make money we're going to make money it's like great but they're not making money again this isn't the wall street journal this past week they're saying their analysis shows that they're not producing they don't have the reserves they said they would and a lot of the problem is exactly for the reasons that kaiser report continuously highlights and that is the red queen syndrome that's why our red red queen syndrome is that you have to keep on drilling just as they just flat on production because the oil these wells in particular burn out after eighteen months to twenty four months eighteen forty four months are gone their wells like dow are in saudi arabia you stick a strong the ground is good for fifty years and just cost is a dollar i think i think ours like eighty year is going to cost of a dollar's

a dollar a barrel you know here the energy the bt use that go into fracking is greater than the bt use coming out so in that interview negative the capital that goes in is greater than the capital it comes out so it's capital negative as well as water the toxins we just talked about the fact it's environmental and i grow gets in america because because we have so many toxins in the years of high energy negative cash flow negative environmental negative it keeps banks going because banks lend into this industry they love it because they're making loans and then when they go bankrupt and they can't bear the loans then they write them off and guess who bell is about america and rachel maddow it's the new musical on broadway that pension funds have been dumping money in there because of the yield and that's why they keep keep on rolling over but again go back to the top where i said that the jobs numbers are looking better than they thought they were going to be at the end of the year and now they're better so the investors have been hoping for another rate cut not a rate rise in march now because of the jobs numbers. looking like there's not only

robust job growth but income growth it's up point four percent so that means this sort of boondoggle could be added very and just in time for a green new deal and twenty twenty four. game deal for twenty twenty four as well thought you know i think i'm going to go on record i'm giving her the eighty percent ninety percent chance of winning in presidency in twenty twenty four hours i'm going to vote for that would be two queens people in the house there's no way the bookie down bronx i don't progs yeah but she's a problem queens that's mine zone sun is sad ok sounds good well we're going to take a break and when we come back randy volar is in the house not the house of representatives . sorry randi.

that's braced for a single. super. training very young. eight months of intensive school. reps. and they save lives. what is happening with trump's decision to leave syria and are you ready for the twenty twenty presidential sweepstakes also is there any integrity in the integrity an issue.

to do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. somehow want to be. the two going to be press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. question. welcome back to the kaiser report imax guys are time now to turn to randi of all our. local legend former mayor of pittsburgh north carolina the former head of the north carolina democratic party we're going to talk about vote rigging gerrymandering and the new shining star of the one hundred sixteenth congress a oh see randi welcome back great to be back max yes great to get your insight into

really on the ground politics what's happening especially in the democratic party and talk a little bit about that north carolina is in the news these days it's a national story the for vote rigging and gerrymandering let's talk first about the vote rigging allegations and the twenty eighteen midterms what are the allegations and what's happening with the basic allegations is that a guy named alice mcrae won and used absentee ballots where you go door to door and people could you could request about the two mail in a north carolina by a law and you could have two witnesses sign or could be notarized and he ran an operation that was probably a little bit close to the line and maybe breaking the law and so you have a situation where people's ballots may not have been mailed in properly or delivered so votes were lost and you have a potential situation where his people may have filled out the votes themselves. all right well north carolina is

a swing state in these national elections is very important election and pittsboro is kind of like at the center of north carolina is so it's a key place and that's why invariably we come to you for these types of insights and jerram mannering is a huge problem in north carolina yes and it's really swung in favor of the right i would say is very very effective in carving up the state for a right wing republican agenda is there anything moving forward to rebalance that saddam. well there's been legislation that's been put forth in the state house over the last cycles about. redoing i would do elections maybe doing things like they do it in california or iowa or other places where you go to nonpartisan riddick's redistricting set i mean yet you know that in the states the states can draw the congressional lines all over the country then of course they can redraw the lines for state senator state house so even in this past election when over fifty percent of the voters voted for right around fifty percent for

a democratic state senator or a democratic state rep and for a democratic congressional member we didn't end up at fifty fifty and that's truly it would gerrymandering does it created a giant red wall right so a court has ordered the state to on gerrymander can they do that it sounds what's the status of that well there's been numerous cases that have gone to cases against group who is one of the legislators on the republican side that helped redraw the map center rico and i think most recently in the news there was another court order and of course was one involving the state board of elections that's been disbanded the one that's supposed to certify the ninth so so we have a bit of chaos here that's the result of creative law making on behalf of the republicans that have been in charge in raleigh sense of the two thousand and eleven all right so randy and i've been on the shelf or on numerous occasions and we've been talking for a few years now and usually my position is you know democrats stank and is never

any good leadership and they're uncharismatic and you never going to win anything ever again and that but things have changed of course and we have a new star on the horizon a oh a sea of cortez she is smashing it in d.c. forcing all senior dems to take notice. we know will the questions would be will the party be pushed to the left a medicare for all and a green new deal now that i see is the face of the party she's really captured the guy sees blown hillary away completely now we know that that old bag of bones is not going to be a factor going forward anymore and you know i am totally love this a.o. c. woman she's got the energy she sees she doesn't know what she doesn't know and sometimes that's very powerful in politics randy your thoughts well she came forward with a plan and some ideas and i really i don't like the labeling of left or right i

think it's more about values i mean they say she's a democratic socialist so the first narrative is she's a nuber leftist will democratic socialism is a form of government and a number of european countries that do quite well she's coming out with ideas and these are even radical ideas she said oh we should have a seventy percent marginal tax rate on incomes over ten million dollars ok the tax rate under eisenhower under f.d.r. under j.f.k. was sixty five percent i mean for incomes probably far lower and yet that was seen as this uber socialist idea or even communists right it's not it's just she's talking about policies like the green new deal putting people to work addressing some of our real issues which are climate change and issues going on our biosphere now she's talking about income inequality and wealth inequality real problems in our democracy not just in america but in the world now i've heard her being

described as returning to a pre reagan economics ok so ronald reagan ushered in along with margaret thatcher in the u.k. this era of neo liberalism when israeli had to give banks of the power over governments and we all saw this was created trump because during new york city's crisis of the seventy's. as when donald trump moved in and became the financier to help new york city get through its bankruptcy problems run any interim taking over some properties and that was the rise of donald trump and so neil liberalism is now seemingly under attack both in the u.s. and in the u.k. with movements like brags that are in france with the movement like the liaison the yellow vests this is the end of a forty year you know reagan and thatcher experiment called neo liberalism it seems as though they were coming to an end say cortez is expressing let's call pre reagan economics as you know it that for the better or worse it is do you see it as

a shift in. the cycle that we are in fact saying goodbye to an era is this a dawn of a new era in what are your thoughts about that well first of all i'm not sure whether we'd say that is a cycle we know that keynesian economics was was holding before and we know that over this the last forty years most of what milton friedman and the virginia school of economics which nancy mclean professor ling talks about in democracy and chains it is this notion of free markets kind of restructuring democracy in the can and was really in the no notion of let's go restructure what let's democracy take hold so that corporations and wall street can run amok essentially that you take away the ability for the common citizen to use alexion results to kind of overturn or or impose what they want right we don't want to wreck

referendums for instance it doesn't work i mean if you look at the results of the last forty years it doesn't work so i don't think it's a cycle i think finally we have a young person a you know a millennial coming out and saying the emperor has no clothes and she has a platform that didn't exist before where she can go on instagram she. in tweets you can do other things and people are listening for the first time and we don't have it filtered by the mainstream media that is interest is to sell neo liberals ok right i mean it's an interesting point so let's dig into it a little bit more about this idea is it a cycle or is it an abject failure of neo liberalism and i think that what we've seen around the world is attempts to go socialist that have failed some attempts to go pure capitalism in the us it's a it's a failure because it empowered the financier's to the point where they took over government and simply changed the laws to make them even more powerful so in the

two thousand and eight financial crisis. you know hank paulson was trying to nationalize citibank but barack obama said no no no don't do that and because he's in the pockets of wall street and that's an atrocious example of corporatism in america so it seems like there's an ebb and flow between the side of governments can provide all governments can't really do anything the markets are great the markets are not any good in northern europe as you point out you do have these mixed economies and they do have results that would appear to be quite solid and enviable but it doesn't match with the american mindset because in america for example the second amendment gives everyone the right to bear arms you don't have that in northern europe people don't have the right to carry guns except maybe in switzerland so it's a lot of legal belt on that first of all the second amendment is an interpretation and up until forty years ago when the n.r.a. decided to take a different interpretation of what case law said we lived in

a different world i mean they have pushed this narrative now i mean if you read the second amendment if talks about a well regulated militia doesn't actually talk about my right to pick up and they are fifteen and fired it will not get in but nevertheless they want to my point is not necessarily the minutia of the second amendment good good. culture in america is one where they see things like climate change as a hoax they see things like school so-called socialism socialism as a threat right so even though they they in america let's go back a little in that make a point so they did taxes might be less but the social contract the bargain is horrible what i get for the taxes i pay in america is nothing i don't get any so and i get no medical care i get no education i get no transportation i get nothing for the taxes i pay and when i was living in france and the taxes i paid i got

incredible services back for the taxes i paid i wouldn't you know them saying like we don't get nothing for our taxes here in america. let's go to a o c now it's because they all see the candidates of the democratic nomination for twenty twenty are not periscope ing from their kitchens so elizabeth warren she has been now reinventing herself as a media friendly you know social media friendly candidate is that trend going to continue and will she be successful and who else is going to emerge do you think in the democratic party leading up to twenty twenty one when there's already been a you know a list that's kind of come forward that we've seen i mean you've got name server only joe biden obviously in the loop with warren bernie sanders you know cory booker amy quo bashar. who's a medo or who's hosting the senator from and exactly center from from minnesota but i mean there's this list that is thrown out ironically for the longest time it was it was governors who were getting elected president until barack obama broke that

story with you know being a senator right right and now of course before him i think kennedy was the last one that was u.s. senator now everyone has to come out of the u.s. senate kind of strangely enough right so twenty twenty looks like not a strong slate on the democratic side but twenty twenty four you could have court has running. you could and how do you think that'll play out because in my view i think she's got what it everything she takes to be president united states and what do you think. well i think certainly she could she could mobilize a large and vast demographic slices of the american dinner over by and i could like well first of all she's she's in a power woman of color who's speaking truth to power and she's saying things that are uncomfortable the folks but she's saying them from personal experience and so they're attacking the messenger right and she's in a safe district you know she won that primary it's a blue district in new york it's going to be hard to to an elector right so she she

she has the freedom to go out and speak these troops and you know the latino vote has not or the spanish vote is not exactly been mobilizing at the level we have in this country but if they were to get an emergent leader and there are other leaders around the country too and of course the head of the democratic party a president's friend but if you were to get someone like her whether she is running for president or helping a candidate it could be electric yeah it's already i'm feeling it right now i mean i'm i'm you know i was more i'm a democrat as because of the failure of nixon and then i became a stockbroker so i sway you know republican but now you know as a first democratic candidate that i think you know i'd be willing to take a look at but randy rata time thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser stacy herbert like to thank our guest randy valar if you want to catch us on twitter as kaiser report until next time.

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