address you know washington d.c.'s mid winter formal might not be taking place this year thanks to president donald trump nancy pelosi in the going bedroom government shutdown now i know i know we were all hoping for one to keep us warm on these cold winter nights here in america but yes sadly according to house speaker nancy pelosi the state of the union will more than likely be postponed my friends listen and listen quietly and you just might hear of the gusts of the bitter are you see winter winds hundreds of capitol hill journalists cable news pundits and late night t.v. hosts wailing tears and anger over their last ratings bonanza that is the state of the union oh. and yes watching grown men and women in bad suits applauding lived we each other while standing up and sitting down more often than the catholic mass is truly fantastic television there was another story this week of grown men and women in bad suits lying to each other on capitol hill that as a potential bigger impact on our lives than they postpone state of the union

address i'm talking of course about the new attorney general confirmation hearings taking place this week and this very very peculiar exchange between minnesota senator amy club which are and nominee bob barr take a listen. so i want to ask you something i asked turning general sessions if you're confirmed will the justice department jail reporters for doing their jobs through. i think that you know i know there are guidelines in place and i can conceive of situations where. you know as a as a last resort. and where a news organization has run through a red flag or something like that knows that they're putting out stuff that will hurt the country. there might be a sit there could be a situation where where someone would be held in contempt.

holding out stuff that could hurt the country. well that is a frightening leap begged to hear from an attorney general. who i mean you know it's answers like that my friends that is why we always are watching the hawks. you. want to see the street that looks like real that this would be the last to leave the bottom if you like what they like you know what i got. with the please. please please. please. welcome everyone to watch your dog

i robot and i'm tabitha well as in i'm ready to get jailed for say and stuff yeah that might hurt how right purposely saying stuff that might hurt the best artist. you have to think about this literally though first. oh ok so anyway i mean i don't actually literally i did like. the first time i really am. wow so i. i'm curious to know what exactly in europe are the because there's apparently a kind of very good we don't know what exactly would be construed as hurting the country according to mr william butler. kind of ridiculous about. something that's hurting the country well that doesn't even give you any idea of what's what you know there's no middle ground there's no understanding there's no what is that and here's the thing she asked

a very specific question you know she did not hesitate she did not start or she said very clearly would you jail a journalist for doing their job that job is protected. and. this is exactly what i and other people here we all said about the way that our t. was treated during all of that and being treated as if somebody else gets to decide who is media and who is not and it was like well you know if you do this you're going down a very slippery slope and it will be used against you and here we are and this is why this is why you don't use journalism as a weapon exactly and you know that his answers come. because you know they've been trying to go after him would you leaks now you know that that's going to be top priority when they get in there plus the u.s. from what i understand can actually spied on journalists legally in this country absolutely this is we don't have laws protecting those kinds of things actually

corkery or with the intercept reported that according to certain released documents obtained the u.s. government can monitor journalists under a foreign intelligence law that allows invasive spying and operates outside the traditional court system the law known as the foreign intelligence surveillance act requires approval from the justice department's highest ranking officials. in the. video that goes. through your. and let's not let's not forget those two look you know james rise and all these nervous associated with whistleblowers were like hunted down and chased during the obama administration that in just a trump issue this is an administrator and this is you know it's kind of aggressively work yes and let's remember to d.h. as department of homeland security last spring was seeking out contractors to help them track the comings and goings of journalists bloggers and other media influencers through a database they were looking for

a private company to do this the company would have twenty four seven access to a password protected media influencer database including journalists editors correspondents media bloggers the like all in order to identify any and all media coverage related to the department of the h.s. or a particular event that sounds creepy to me i'm sorry it's the modern equivalent of have you now or have you ever been or do you know anybody who is a member of my space right you know i mean this is we know you're on instagram haven't tweeted ten minutes and i'm sorry the government shouldn't be making lists of journalists or bloggers or anything like that there's no excuse possibly that they could ever have for this kind of behavior. but seriously. the word. the cold hard facts are that men are still trapped in an antiquated world in which they are expected may require to adhere to stereotypes that not only assume men are

intellectually incapable of thinking for themselves but also that any question of these stereotypes is an attack on masculinity case and point to what who premiered it's the best a man can get ad campaign during the one nine hundred eighty nine super bowl has flipped the script with this year's super bowl ad and a new slogan the best men can be the ad takes a long hard look at the effect of bullying sexual harassment and gender based stereotypes the majority of the examples used in the out are how men teach boy of how men treat other men how men teach boys out of beat men and ultimately ask the question is what men are teaching boys the best a man can get of course because men haven't had to deal with marketing that criticizes them men's rights activists and failed c.n.n. host piers morgan tweeted i've used to let razors lend dollar entire adult life but this absurd virtue signaling p.c. may drive me away to come to

a company less eager to fuel the current pathetic global assault on. what boys are boys what. ladies. pierce figure is spoke of his pain on good morning britain saying quote this is a result of the ongoing war against masculinity driven by radical feminists he caught us just kidding actually piers the reason you are so triggered by the gillette ads and sausages and meghan merkel's rejection of you is because you've been programmed to believe that the ads you grew up with they promoted domestic violence against women they told you we are in a man's world they insinuated women need a man to open a bottle. even allowed you to ponder isn't always the legal to kill a woman this was all to sell stamps coffee and beer the ads we women grew up with told us we were too fat too thin too pale too dark to feminine to masculine

and generally that every inch of our bodies needed to be changed because men are disgusted by the natural female body except they wanted all the time it's very confusing so the reason people like piers morgan are so offended by what they see as p.c. culture run amok is because less than half a century ago delicate snowflakes terrified of social change got their way they got to segregate drinking fountains schools and lunch counters because they weren't triggered by being near those they sell for less than them they kept women out of boardrooms because their femininity was too distracting they publicly trash women who spoke up against sexual harassment and gave their abusers a seat on the supreme court of their shoulders sorry guys but the patriarchy hurts men too and if you think crying over razor commercial makes you masculine. here is yet you kind of proved the point the ad was making. i got i got to say i'm

offended by your toxic femininity right now just toxic which is just toxic angry feminism's is radiating from this are you kidding me this is not a good. now if you're a bended by a razor blade. you have to seriously question your manhood you really like if you're a very if a razor blade ad causes you to be like i'm offended i'm never going to use gillette ever again it's like our operation jumping on a movement to better their image and maybe sell more razor blades and promote a good message that's all it is it's not the end of the world i mean look piers swearers got this piece of swears he's not a you know he's not angry about razors he's tweeting no i'm angry and a campaign to end mankind which is strange and odd because he and other men's rights as active advocates have decried any suggestion that words like mankind are

gender based uses and gender based anyway. until it changes in the next thing that's a good point it's absolutely we're didn't like is that anyone was offended by it. you know asking men to be better men essentially but you really need to question him and you really have to ask yourself you know what was the whole am i getting this right. not to say that the ad is perfect right as far from perfect here's the thing you have to understand about advertising and i have to explain the cement because you guys have not had to deal with what we've dealt with for years but now their words marketing to men is it's not the same as my it's sort of the same but not the same as a marketing to women advertising works on this sort of idea of two basic catalysts the desire to gain approval from one's peers and the desire to do what is socially popular now the gillette ad does the desire in me. and to gain approval but it also suggests that the popular social norms of boys will be boys is wrong so it's it's

not a great ad and actually going to them because it's giving two separate idea that stay out earlier like you at the start of this i could have joked about toxic femininity but i think you know we hear that all the time toxic probably doesn't really exist but that you think feminism is about. the whole point the entire goal of feminism is to topple the social norms i'll go this again for pairs of everyone in the group to say it's the whole idea of feminism is to end equality is to topple social norms that put pressure on gender is to hyper sexualized our bodies these subservient to corporate ideals of pleasure and pain or to only express our anger in specific ways toxic masculinity forces men to the side of sanders in order to get to the top of a social mountain toxic family and femininity does exactly the same and we as women are just now learning through me too and our treatment of other women that has fed them such a name it does exist that's what we're working on so they don't. as we're going to

break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think the topics are covered on facebook and twitter and you tube and see our poll shows that are to got com coming up we talk donald trump's past food nation and bag of books and prison with author and speaker watkins and all of us that stay tuned to watch. trump when he was running in twenty sixteen articulated a vision of foreign policy that was clearly at odds with what you would consider the sort of post-war liberal international consensus that that americans want policy is still. there might be some claim that there are elements that critique that house and the liberty here's the problem though it's not enough to offer a critique you can say that there are problems with the existing foreign policy and then you have to offer something that's better person period. and this is where i think trump is this failed miserably.

president donald trump just repeatedly said the u.s. will withdraw from syria it would seem he's the only one in his administration backing this move is trump in charge of his own foreign policy our john bolton and my campaign actually. looks like there's someone else living inside of me or controlling my body. the byproduct of that drug the cause like severe depression. because it will be neat and then to zombie it's crazy. you know we don't have to do anything it's not our fault you know shoes clothes and all that.

piers traumatic takes time to get rid of. the former secretary general of the united nations kofi anon once said literacy is a bridge from misery to hope and for an inmate locked up in here. and here in the united states of america the world's incarceration capital it's most often donated books that act as the bridge to hope this is why it's quite concerning when we see . reports of the long time practice of sending books to prisoners is now being banned in states like pennsylvania yes according to slate dot com now no such

direct donations are permitted instead the department of corrections says it's beginning a transition to e-books coupled with a bolster d o c library system in order to fight the flow of illegal drugs into facilities statewide but like most problems in this country this appears to be another case of blaming the object rather than the perpetrator because contrary to official belief most illegal drugs find their way into prisons prison employees like the one in pennsylvania who was recently busted for passing inmates drugs of years to do a good book i guess we should now claims who don't really like it anyway so tell us the way through this prison punishment jumbo and a few other headlines this week is the other speaker how do you feel about sort of yes should we ban it no. i haven't played it in the really. curious what you know as as an author i want to have you have prisoners read your books as

an author and or book how are books important for the rehabilitation of prisoners i know we don't talk about rehabilitation in the u.s. prison industry. but but the power of that are in the open. to more jails to do book talks than of being to like literally book clubs in the. presidency was so hard and so dangerous they can just see the conditions just drive people crazy that books books are one of the few things that help so many people get through it bit so the fact that like the jail will want to deny our people of that is just it's just goes to show you know let's blame the victims you know let's let's point the finger at the wrong people. one of the reasons they say they're doing this is is switching to something like an e-book and a reader which on the one hand seems like you could actually provide more it would be easy. but it's so cost prohibitive that i have to ask do you think this is actually something that's helping to bring you know prison libraries into the

future or is this just another way to scam off people's families on the outside but have to suddenly pay extra for something oh i'm so glad you asked that. it's a scam and there's a lot of that's not true because i've been to even more public schools than i've been to jails and they don't even have a religion so why are you going to start giving them the present is like it just doesn't make any sixty any sense what they're trying to do is they're trying to stop protesters and people from like marching against it they want to just try to ease everyone to say look we're going to replace just with something better and it's not going to happen and you know honestly. it's very easy to send books to prisons without people smuggling drugs and you know because this book the federal prison every month you can ship it right to amazon so that the amazon box comes in what the amazon sale you slip it open that up look inside of it no drugs just books and you get to the people who are who ordered them or who are sent the people who are who are supposed to receive them i do it all of the time so i just i just don't

think it's true. when you see these like reports of in the u.k. even they said that the biggest people bringing drugs and things like that into prisons were were there guards and that's unlike the u.k. you know here in time you see guys guys in georgia big group i think those are forty some odd guards got busted smuggling drugs in the prisons in georgia i mean it's kind of all those things words like you have to look at the employees yeah you know the reason drugs are getting and prison is really because somebody who works there are allowed only reason the only reason that is the the there's zero other reason for drugs at that way to get drugs and this is where it gets silly because they know this like they know it they know it but again like you said you know we don't blame the people it's actually causing the problems we figure out a way to put it back on the victims and you know the books and i pads you know they're going to be cost them so you're going to cost of these prisoners money they're going to cost their families money going to download the book they'll be like twenty dollars. one hundred and seventy so you know they'll charge more for you creating like a new light something new like a new revenue stream and

a new revenue stream and a job because people are going to get a crack going to hear from. you know if they actually ever get them if they get you know personally not to sound too radical but i think that every thing every president especially ones who exhibit good behavior under those conditions deserve a cell phone and they should be you know if you are already locked away you should be able to have contact with your family your children your friends something to help you get through well there's a lot of people don't believe that there was the idea that look originally prison was supposed to be a place to rehabilitate someone like lock them up throw away the key and hope they come back because that's what it kind of seems like to me you know yeah there's no there's no rehabilitation there's no this idea it's keeping people out of society but i don't know that it's ever i don't know that it presents ever really been rehabilitated at least here i mean it was slave it's a way to get away with slave labor at least here and you know that became the making of slave labor and cheap prices and. everything. so this week

president donald trump apparently due to the federal government shutdown is limited serving options at the white house had to serve the college national football champions the clemson tigers the billy clubs and. he gave them fast food during the white house visit. what do you make of this now infamous kind of thousand burger dinner that goes with mcdonald's burger king when the now the president gives promise he promised taco bell was good paper the whole meal. could listen to this but it's just when you think you get one. it will surprise you you know. devon sent me a message earlier everyone was mad at michelle obama for trying to get kids to eat vegetables and i was like man like you hit it right on the head like you know. it's disgusting and it's his words very very very very very very very very.

very disrespectful i mean it seems here's a billionaire i mean he bragged about a pig that he uses on money i'm like that's the best you could do like the restaurant here but there's a ranch that. literally three blocks from a block away there's a ton of great restaurants in the city some of the best in the world and you can just order a mop but i will say the one thing i found really ridiculous like if you are going to do this and you're gonna bring in mcdonald's and you're going to bring in fast food i think it was very un-american that trump did not include a make read. we do have to not only that we like to play fair we like to play fair so we do have to acknowledge that. even. so he's not giving them something that he does it in dollars so every change that we're going to would include do they remember of bill clinton back in the day would jog around washington and then stop by mcdonald's stop the. truck it's k.f.c.

what it makes in the fourth most elegant he said. because. let me just let me let me ask you guys what was it like for you both to produce on this is you know there's people though that argue that this is people are making too big a deal about this kind of thing and. i'm curious like what do you what do you feel is it is people making too big of a deal out of this and this is kind of like so the president and some fast food the white house but a football team what does that really. i think it's a disrespect of the food itself it wasn't put out very well those fries were put in like cups you do like mouthwash and they were like dixie cups of fries under a lamp not even a lamb but i just i feel like if you're going to do that do it don't put a bunch of ranch dressing in a gravy boat that's like fine silver that was designed by a power hundred years ago by past presidents wife maybe don't. put that in there just why couldn't you just do the same thing yeah i also think that people get

a little too obsessed with every little thing that he's doing and of course he does this so that we don't talk about anything or i think it's disgusting and i think people have a right to be upset because if you're going to go to the white house first of all. you know some of the things that he said in some of the things some of his actions that turned off a lot of people which is why i had to go to state and go which is well a lot and i felt players so the fact that these young kids are going to the white house which might be their only chance to ever go to the white house and their loves and should at least serve a decent meal you should serve fast food you can even but a time they got the security and all of the stuff that stuff is probably cold and disgusted and it's just it's just not cool like you know a billionaire flip show it you know get some some duck and some some fancy gravy is some type of some lunch with drizzle over the top in surprise it wasn't for. me burgers and fries it's not something that you are in the club for you because you want to absorb some alcohol before you drive home while it's all over do you know what i would say i think that's a great point this is

a look at it that's exactly the point when it's on the taxpayer dime it is fine linen and the fast food and everybody and if it's some or if it's you know a prime minister from some other country that we want to sell arms to they lay out the red carpet when it's just american football players and oh it's then it's like well like cheeseburger you know that's the group that i thought was a really good point to the fact that look these kids might not be able i mean they might not there's a person only trip over to the white house you know why get why it kind of have that memory when it could have been a little bit more like you said fancy burgers and i have to say that well he's on furlough right now because no no he gets to be a centrist and i think the president not a president has to eat there has to be on every problem and i would hope so will do walk ins are going to say thank you so much for coming on and it's always a pleasure having you on and look at your important of these many many issues affecting the world today thank you. if you apply. sprouts two hundred thirty eight thousand miles from earth doesn't make a life in the case of

a cotton seed it does at least for a little while the chinese lander a chunk for beamed back images of the very first plant to grow as far as i'm aware on the surface of the moon the pod which costs one million dollars to design it also contains air water so oil east and fruit fly acts through this the chinese scientists are hoping to learn more about creating working biosphere so withstand the negative one hundred seventy degree celsius temperatures of a night on the moon's far side if you're more of a chris french fry chris kind of person don't despair though because four is also in the process of growing potatoes on the moon and they expect much better results for them in the next one hundred days it's. the come so. little guy didn't make it like this. but seriously why fruit flies like i got a fruit fly problem already at home like i don't need to worry about them going to the moon and having to deal with brute fly zones are annoying you can't get rid of

those space is going to get rid of them. i don't know what i'm going to do i wanted to send us what i was. disappointed show for the third member of the women's world here about real love them up so i tell you all i love you i robot on top of the wall is the problem with the talks never great paramedic. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. an officer. told him to get up off the ground the officer began to pet him down.

and then prints on the sounds of kind of fighting into the grown man like wrestling essentially the officer who. drew his or her own. individual twisted away from the officer pulling the toy out of his crib. they obviously did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then what happened on three swung at the hands didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the two any kind went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and he did it on three. there's albeit a whole cost going on in america for profit and the drug companies are killing millions of americans for profit and if no politician does anything about it i mean i look around the world and i see this relational and the frats protests and i see

that as growing going globally and john locke said in sixteen of the ninety i believe that if the social contract was broken that it's up to the people to revolt the social contract has been shattered revolution isn't assessed. when they came back from iraq oh marijuana her was cocaine methamphetamine see anything that's altering trying to get us out. that bad mindset using the chemical that would be so. i want to be drinking and drinking ino new nope just killing myself. now go home links don't drink to get drunk alcoholics drink to feel normal. that's why it's this way drug out if you. shop while still for the near here star cool under which these

guys are going through to it it just means to. need to be hoped and not get pushed on by the v.a.'s are as drugs go and stuff they need to be built. and they've really shouldn't be looked at like numbers they should be looked at like people if they go to a veteran center for health issues be considered as someone who really needs attention and. ah is to the right three hundred sixty the never used to the last three hundred twenty five so the new seven is having fun thanks. a turbulent week in british.