some on the right to free speech but you're feeling good about it because this is extraordinarily. it's some. state gone. on as well as president nicolas maduro says that he is ready to talk to the opposition leader but. any possibility of dialogue. in venezuela and built in violence in divided between rival leaders we look at what appears to be america's tried and tested recipe for regime change. for political advisor to the term campaign's been released after being arrested by the f.b.i.

being detained on multiple charges as part of the ongoing will approach. the u.s. senate passes a bill to lift the government shutdown after a temporary deal between the democrats and president but the funding for the border remains unresolved. thanks for joining us this is. venezuelan president says that he is ready for talks with opposition leader one guy i don't know who has declared himself interim president but the opposition is refusing to negotiate vowing that more people will take to the streets. the first to be ready for any dialogue should be the president and he's ready for agreements which will take us anywhere i am personally ready for the dialogue. i want in

a position of minutes well to get out of the truck and i wish to of course. it must be very clear for the world and this regime nobody will take part in this breakdown . spoke this plus i where we are right now just hours ago he rejected any entreaties of dialogue to say those and one dany elections and he just wants moderate to back a he said that much right now is insisting on dialogue the dialogue effort began yesterday on thursday and is being promoted by you know why and make on a couple hours off there why the read that the dialogue initiative. speech in which he said he's ready to dialogue in all conditions seems more than willing for dialogue. on the rest of the opposition are wary they think it's just that the acting in order to gain time there are contras for and against both presidents with russia and china at the forefront of the group for mother while the u.s.

argentina brazil and colombia are for why they all fry they brought freefall in their violence that has been as well over the last three days it's been three days of protests mostly in the slums surrounding caracas which you saw before which used to be for chavez but now they come out every night protesting friday it looks in this part of her aka caracas very tranquil but we don't know how much this piece is going to last. illegitimate corrupt and incompetent the u.s. is calling the duros regime as the standoff continues to escalate in the capital of and as well and we spoke to former u.s. congressman ron paul who feels this ironic washington claims he is fighting for democracy in venezuela but implementing author terry methods. i think it's going to end up in violence and you could have a civil war some countries are lining up with him but we've been antagonizing and

threatening him and decide that we're going to install a president for them and i would think even the people that might not like madeira should like i said allowing the dispute is internal issue they should settle it and i think it's rather ironic for our government to say that they want to take care of venezuela because they're not democratic and we have to take care of it by you know authoritarian approach of buses stalling a president having a coup threaten them with military violence because because they're not democratic and i would hardly say that our position is very democratic. all we have to do if somebody wonders what could happen is a odd look at. u.s. foreign policy the past ten years or so more recently you know what's happened in syria what has happened earlier on with iraq and afghanistan in libya i mean every

time we go in and say well you need help you need to be american eyes you need to know our good values and and we want you to learn what democracy is all about and we'll give you a little money too if you have a us you know it's always that little ts but it just violates completely and totally the position that i hold and the ron paul institute hold in the head is nonviolence and not getting involved nonintervention ism it's not our business i'm sure there's some harm done by monsieur oh and others but where is it our job where do we get the moral authority to be the decider and say you are is worse than the southern side and that's why we're going to do it. with violent protest still hitting venezuela it's not the first time the washington's been accused of interfering in other countries if as and causing instability i guess they have looks at whether events in venezuela or following a tried and tested formula. starting an uprising a revolution is simple enough first comes the pressure sanctions built up

gradually first it was a few officials and then they sanctioned the president and state companies and the government itself through deed and word they helped show when they are into a crisis we are evaluating all of our policy options as to what can we do to create a change of conditions were either liberal decides he doesn't have a future or we can return. the government processes to their constitution we are not going to tolerate the dictatorship he's trying to create if venezuelan people deserve better than what the regime of nicolas maduro offers them now that the country and people are in economic misery and you vilified its leaders pick a hero like thirty five year old u.s. educated head of the national assembly which as it turns out the united states has been quietly assisting financially and helping for

a while who would have thought if by now you should have caused enough trouble problems on top of everything out starforce even the app political into the streets the more noise the better and you mustn't let things calm down keep shouting keep agitating and. you're going. ah in the. chaos the confusion comes a special moment when lord breaks down when loyalties crumble when brother turns on brother in the street partly thanks to you that moment do something crazy

like denounce the government proclaim a new and elected president. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision by one gado the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira or your syrup or and call for the establishment of a transitional government now is the time for more direct action get all your friends on board as many nations to recognize one go edo as president as quickly as possible as no going back now alone b.-a colombia recognizes one quite as president of venezuela and will assist in the transition to democracy to liberate the venezuelan people from the dictator rather brazil has just issued a note recognizing one why go as venezuela's president he will support this

realization in a democracy alongside other countries in the immigrant we recognize and express our full support for the presidency of venezuela assumed by the president of the national assembly one guy though it is clear that nicolas maduro is not the legitimate leader of venezuela so the united kingdom believes that plan is the right person to take venezuela forward there's heavy pressure from the us certainly all of the allies i mean countries like under us that are allied with the united states are going to be expected to parrot this line if you go back to one nine hundred seventy three in the attempt to overthrow salvador allende it was exactly the same playbook we're watching a replay these are the kinds of tactics that the american government is used to overthrow regimes that it considers hostile to us business interests certainly smaller countries will feel the pressure especially within latin america from the united states to play the game you see if your country just so happens to be in the

americas you're in washington's hemisphere which it seems justifies medley. interfering in changing governments at will but just to be sure bully them let them know that if you don't get what you want you'll beat the lights out of them and take what you want. without considering anything but all options are on the table is that the degree to which are all options or with all options and there you go sparking uprisings one o one now this may all take some practice tweak here or there but it works tried and tested time and time again but the consequences are a whole other story. a long time political adviser of donald trump has been released on bail after being indicted on several charges for just loans detention came as part of the ongoing investigation into alleged russian

collusion auntie's killer morgan has details. well roger stone a long time republican strategist going all the way back to the nixon era apparently in the early hours of the morning he was arrested we now have a twenty four page indictment from the f.b.i. and from the federal courts he's essentially being charged with making false statements on multiple occasions witness tampering as well as obstruction now what's interesting is that this arrest is pretty clearly coming down as part of the bob muller investigation into alleged collusion between the trump campaign in the twenty sixteen election and russia however the word russia does not show up at any point in the indictment we have heard from roger stone now that he has been released and this morning at the crack of dawn twenty nine f.b.i. agents arrived at my home with seventy vehicles with their lights flashing when

they could simply have contacted my jersey was and i would be more than willing to surrender voluntarily. and they terrorize my wife my dogs and i wound not guilty to these charges and i will defeat them in order i believe this is a politically motivated investigation i have trouble by the political motivations of the prosecutor and now we have a response from the white house as well sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary has pointed out that the arrest and the indictment have nothing to do with the president and we have donald trump speaking up on twitter about the nature of the arrest and how it was carried out. greatest witch hunt in the history of our country new solution border coyotes drug dealers and human traffickers are treated better than who let it sit ins it be that now this comes after

a wave of similar sentiments expressed on social media with many trump supporters and others outraged about the fact that it appears that the f.b.i. may have tipped off c.n.n. about their planned arrest so they could be on the scene to record roger stone being taken away in handcuffs people see this is actually collusion between the f.b.i. and the media done for the purpose of trying to publicly humiliate roger stone a republican strategist so there are big divisions in the united states the special counsel investigation continues there is outrage on one side and joyful celebration on the other side as it appears that roger stone a prominent individual in donald trump's presidential campaign and a prominent republican party strategist has been arrested it is now facing charges . just not the done elizabeth joins me on the line could speak to. the charges some quite serious obstruction witness tampering making false statements he of course denies any wrongdoing how bad do you think this looks for

him. for him he's facing a serious fight of a mule or is is a very dogged prosecutor and he will undoubtedly use the full force of his office to put him in jail what do you think of president trump's response slamming twitter as usual the probe calling it the greatest which and in the history of our country is this trump exaggeration or would you agree with him. it's a big it's there's been a lot of which chance in american history so it's a bit of an exaggeration but however i think this arrest shows desperation on mueller's part i mean sending out two dozen f.b.i. men to arrest him. ridiculous show of force and and the indictment there's nothing in the indictment about collusion about russia about any

of the things that mueller was this was supposed to be investigating it simply is you know charges of lying to congress that arise as a consequence of the mueller investigation so mueller is his investigations leading to crimes that he is then prosecuting but he's not getting to the bottom of any kind of collusion for the simple reason that i don't think collusion exists you mentioned it and so did registered him self so many f.b.i. agents sent to his house he said he would have just walked him self in if they just called and asked and all these question marks about how to c.n.n. know to have the cameras in position to record the whole thing was the f.b.i. trying to put on a show here theater i think quite clearly yes i mean it was a ridiculous show of force completely exaggerated over the top ridiculous and i think that show of force is made was it was an attempt to

make up for the lack of substance in the indictment. the approach been going on for just over almost two years now as he said there's no evidence yet of russia collusion how long do we anticipate this is going to go on for can get an endless mandate. well he. i assume it will be over a few months i can't be sure but i think some time in by early to two thousand and nineteen it should be he should wrap things up but as it seems quite clear that he will come up dry when it comes to any evidence of collusion whatsoever because i just think that the the very notion figment of the democratic party's imagination there was no collusion essentially and it kind of as you go down the rabbit hole in this investigation it gets stranger and stranger and it seems like it's hard to

separate fact from fiction miller's office rejecting just recently the bush feed report saying that directed this is formula michael cohen to lie to congress weiss huge contradictions in the claims being made. well the press has been going wild the press the mainstream media the corporate press or are vehemently anti trump and so they have been taking the lead and printing every rumor every false report someone has counted more than fifty such false reports which flared briefly and then quickly died off over the last two years the press is has completely lost control. descended into depths of irresponsibility that i would have thought were impossible to i would have thought were impossible a few years ago. but the press is has bought into the story very heavily it wants to believe that there was collusion between trump and putin and so therefore it is

setting out to prove it and it's going to ever more desperate extremes to do so daniel fussily did speak to appreciate on i guess journalist author daniel. thank you. the u.s. senate has passed a bill to lift the partial government shutdown which has been in place for a record thirty five days and it comes of the president trump announced the deal with the democrats to temporarily and the standoff i am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government in a short while i will sign a bill to open our government for three weeks until february fifteenth. this is the longest shutdown in history now on day thirty five president trump you heard him planning on tentatively reopening the government for this longest shutdown who's impacted eight hundred thousand federal workers he has thanked them

for their devotion in the face of hardship president trump also mentioned that he will work hard to have those people affected by it to be repaid soon for the all the money that they've lost so back pay he's looking to do that for these federal workers now he also went on to say that border security is a big issue this was one of his biggest campaign promises he is still promising hoping that this is the democrats will come to an agreement with him on that wall he also said wall should not be controversial so he is planning on still working with the democrats who haven't yet budged to get that wall now if a deal is not reached by february fifteenth the deadline that he signed he said he would have to use emergency powers now what that means is that he could declare a national emergency on february fifteenth will have to wait and see what he says as far as a state of the union which is scheduled for next tuesday january twenty ninth he was looking for other places to hold that seat of the union as far as when that

will be if that will still take place on tuesday we do not know but this could be one of the many reasons that he signed that executive bill for now. it's a reason to miss it takes a swipe at the foreign affairs chief in a row over immigration story after the break.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand distance is just the dance the right questions to the right answer. question. welcome back to these interior ministers taking a swipe at e.u. foreign affairs chief federica mogul raney matthew salvini said she'd forgotten her italian roots his words came as the e.u.

considers shutting down the italian led search and rescue operation for migrants in the mediterranean. the person who represents us and europe was put in that position by the talon left because of the now off to be in the point it got how to be in the tallinn. meanwhile salvini could face trial over his refusal to let a group of migrants disembark from a rescue vessel last year and so after a court in italy overturned previous ruling by prosecutors to drop charges the politician known for his hard stance on migration is suspected of abusing power and holding people against their will something he reacted on twitter say that he could face up to fifteen years behind bars he also said the decision left him speechless but that he feared nothing about to continue defending italy's borders in the meantime an opinion poll by the world economic forum shows italy among the most skeptical of european countries when it comes to mind prince more than two thirds of italians questioned consider having migrants in the country to be mostly bad we

heard from representatives of both right and left wing movements in the country about solving these migrant policy. that all of this is support. because you know he's defending. us this is. us amused or if. this is off this year he's there so that the. us and us defended the more lives of all europe so we have to support him in the most of the people should i don't think the majority of people want that there was such a bad situation my grandson or literally. on the. left stranded in the sea and acting the italian government against the agreements there are some noles which are barbie dolls and they are italian government and.

all mankind. suspect lives and song may be. able to spot this is one of the migration problems not the major with the biggest one we have wasted and. the long term supporters in the us are being compared to members of the ku klux klan a number of media outlets and celebrities have likened the make america great again hats to the white hoods of the infamous racists creep into trying to reports. this is a hat where it says make america great again they now call it the maggot hat this is a kook look squire and hoot they used to terrorize fried african americans and those different shapes eras purposes however this make america great again hat is just as maddening and frustrating and triggering for me to look

at as a k.k.k. hood. many people have called donald trump of filthy racist in the past what's up with this new wave of hat hate now even though something that's now compared to the k.k.k. fashion has been worn by african-americans or the l.g.b. t.q. community well just remember that white teenagers versus native american vets situation the viral video sweeping the internet of a mob of maggie wearing high school students surrounding a native american chanting and drumming in the nation's capital it is disturbing students mocking a native american man some of them harassing and jeering at a native american elder so much and the story was twisted as we learned from videos that emerged later as you can see the teen dubbed as a shameless bully was just standing still and smiling at the man with the drum who had come up to him but that's not important because the student was wearing a mag i hat people who judge me based off one expression and they've gone from

there to titling me and labeling me as a racist person do you think if you weren't wearing that hat this might not have happened or it might have been different that's possible oh the had does mean so much and again don't forget that from now on in the minds of so many people people whose voices matter the red mark a hat is the new white hood without white boys being able to empathize with other people humanity will continue to destroy itself. and so it's probably only natural that americans wearing maggots have gotten themselves in trouble. when the first. sports. help your cause you're.

just been asked to leave the store trying to get your hands if you threw your hat my hat i don't. like. that. so who knows how far that kind of bowling may get soon some of the media have tried very hard to make you associate mr trump with the k.k.k. now with this hat situation it must have become a much easier job like this thing that they went on to international mccully commission set to bring you right up to date on the top of their. thank. you.

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tribalism we're in the thick of it and living with its tongue sequences how did we get here you take a look at that on this edition. of the politicking on larry king were a bitterly divided nation with a deeply dysfunctional federal government and at the top a presidential lightning rod inspiring other loyalty and absolutely. how did we get to this point a provocative book the red and the blue you see it now points to the nine hundred ninety s. the author is steve kornacki n.b.c. news and there's a. horse upon it with great pleasure i welcome him

from new york city and steve is a to rethink but you should be very proud larry that's that's really kind to say i appreciate it and i got to say my going back and researching this book about the politics of the one nine hundred ninety s. is a huge part of it not not just not just try to be nice to those here was larry king live you really were the that show in one nine hundred ninety s. was one of the prime movers of american politics back then thanks they will get into the book in just a moment i want your thoughts on donald trump's first term so far how do you assess it it is more than any other presidency obviously that i've seen it's a presidency that is just a total continuation of the campaign. campaign that preceded it you know there wasn't that obviously that that typical honeymoon period that you talk about.