because in all of the u.s. congress and president trumps hayes to reform the tax code last year and lower corporate taxes from thirty five percent to twenty one percent they accidently purpose left in place the legal loopholes and special tax breaks that allow a corporate giant led that like netflix to pay no taxes and get a rebate but it wasn't just hip streaming services getting in on the game nunu according to bloomberg news major us banks shaved about twenty one billion from their tax bills last year almost double the i.r.s. as annual budget and while the brakes set up a gusher of payouts to shareholders the firms cut thousands of jobs and saw their lending growth slowed down so today my friends i think it's time we net flix and chill america's corporate tax system as we start watching the hawks.

this week. as. to. what it's like you know that i got. with. the. welcomer on the watching the hawks i am a robot and i'm top of the law and. the bomber. acts as a monstrous amount of money that they made eight hundred some million dollars and not didn't have to pay a single dime in taxes though apparently they you know epic iranians even got twenty two million back and i mean i'm sure they paid sometimes they just enough to pay more and. zero. zero. credible really. no.

well when you look at those as they are so according the twenty seven that's the i-t. e. p. report that netflix is is one of the one hundred most is one of the one hundred most profitable fortune five hundred companies so it's not as if it doesn't do this because it clearly made it so they paid zero percent federal income tax rate. and at least one profitable year between two thousand and twenty fifteen actually if you look at the report according to the icy. mix paid an average tax rate if it literally pains me to say of a thirteen point six percent from two thousand and fifteen i haven't paid a thirteen percent tax rate since i was a teenager and had like three part time writing i don't know who gets to pay that tax rate netflix and other big corporations like during that time what they're saying is that they managed to shelter their profits so well and yet our profits

are income as a human being as an actual single human being with a. brain and all that and appalls. i don't get to do that i don't get any hope might my profit get cut it's a mixture of other things it's really incredible i mean the banks the bottom of the mouse now flicks. they're doing of this is legal it's not like netflix is breaking a rule somewhere to do this this is all above board or maybe they've got to make more content just a money market. no one big banks are doing it considering everything that happened to fascinate us the thing so late when you look at the big bags you're talking twenty three u.s. . banks the federal reserve deems to be the most important to our nation's economy ok so there are effective tax rates fall from the twenty three percent they paid in two thousand and sixteen down to nineteen percent now this saved them roughly twenty one billion and these banks then boosted their dividends and stock buybacks

you know basically including it all to their shareholders one percent while limiting roughly forty three hundred jobs so even though they've made they've saved themselves twenty one billion dollars then they decided well well we still need because jobs that's really discussed i mean leaves netflix when they're making a movie some were talking earlier today they're at least paying in the union there aren't. there you get a little bit of socialism is what i'm going to unions are when you put into the unions you're paying these people's insurance or paying into their retirement all that. yeah i guess netflix isn't the biggest deal but when you look at that amount of money from the big banks them from netflix we're not getting money from our taxes while we all the rest of us have to pay according to bloomberg you have twenty one billion saved by the banks so decide how much that what that could be that's greater than massa's a request for fiscal twenty nineteen. the nasa budget for fiscal year twenty one thousand is one thousand point five billion and it's more than

double the budget of the federal bureau of investigation and twenty nine t. even with the lol are in resignation they couldn't spend more money. than. the banks saved. it truly is only we have the money. this month the vatican women's magazine donate or women church world in english opened up about a sex abuse scandal that has been going on in the catholic church quite frankly for centuries and it is leading jewish intellectual on a full wrote of the abuse of nuns by priests which the publication said was made many see full believe that simple human touch has been turned into an expression in itself suspect and virtually obscene thereby creating scandal in addition to violence and pain the editor. scarf went on to write in her piece that despite decades of reports by nuns in asia africa europe and beyond of sexual harassment

coercion and rape by priests as she points out if we continue to close our eyes to this scandal made even more serious by the fact that the abuse of women could lead to procreation and therefore as the origin of the scandal of imposed abortion or of children not recognized by priests the oppression of women in the church will never change and it seems despite many problematic decisions by the top pontiff even pope francis agrees on his way back from a historic trip to the middle east he told reporters this. mistreatment of women is a problem but i would do to say that humanity has not yet mature women are second class citizens and it starts from there it is a cultural problem. the catholic church is as former canon lawyer for the vatican embassy in washington an advocate for clergy abuse victims tom doyle put it the last absolute monarchy in the world today think about it only a man can lead it only men can decide who gets to lead nuns like all women are

little more than a symbol of temptation to the church and the men who run it so hop watchers is the abuse of nuns within the church a symptom of our collective human lack of maturity as pope francis suggests or is the church and its patriarchal monarchy the carrier of the disease itself. that's a good question and you know it's interesting about the question just hearing it as you say right now to of i think it's i think it's you could doesn't the word website is weighted more but i actually think it's a combination of both when you really look at the problem not i mean because as you laid out when you have a page or hardly the best it can is in the power structure of this set up yeah you're going to have abuse especially when you have a society that does not think women are equal right in their communities right it is a cultural problem but keep in mind about that cow clicked church held over here especially european culture and a lot of places for

a very long time they were the ones who set it up and that's a good point and so i'm going to ask you to how does this kind of thing happen. how does a good this war well it's explained in the catholic church one of the things you have to understand is that women are sort of women are deemed inferior by society we know that in the us women are not actually guaranteed equal rights under the law . just go look up the full rights amendment that hasn't been ratified. and when women are considered. we're ear in a society in an organization they're taught that they're inferior and then told they must obey authority figures if you have someone to use these these young women many of them young women going into the church they're there to serve they're there to be servants and unfortunately you have priests who there isn't there's no power structure to allow them the women to say no and there's no power structure to keep priests in line. so it's been there's a certain surely

a lot of. even worse i mean it's a lot of like we're seeing you know with the mood to movement in general and you know you have to restrain power generally a man at the top you know people you know the women work and underneath this person know where to go no one to talk to you know there's no way the only words you know it's not as if there's an h.r. department in the vatican and that nuns can call and say hey i'm not being that and i know it's interesting because as you mentioned earlier it's happening all around the world i mean about africa in one thousand nine hundred five signora maura donohue a position with the medical missionaries of mary briefed the prefect of the vatican congregation for religious life on the abuse of nuns in africa she say stated noted sadly the sisters also report that priests have sexually exploited them because they too had to come to peer contamination with hiv be by sexual contact with prostitutes and other women. so in places like africa asia where there is the

cultural dominance of men that is the on on from millennia and this is where they're culturally conditioned for one meant to be subservient to men in a lot of cultural situations mouth about not everywhere but it's very much a part of their culture their you are the wife and these priests believe that these women are their wives that they are property given to them by god and whatever money is made and that that's it's easier you can scare them they're naive they're young or they're just too afraid to say no and it's gotten to the point where you have a lot of their vanity issues and france there was a lot of the situation was just one recently what they described as sexual slavery where priests used. a. group of nuns pretty much as sexual slaves are yours at this event it's not new and the reason it gets covered up is because they were a man to syosset in the church for centuries and there's this idea that they're

called romantic stories loosely translated from italian. yeah women are not property and that and told the church does something about that but i don't think that a patriarchal monarchy is going to suddenly magically become. power friendly over probably not but that's a while before it has to happen you can't get away from it at this point that's what we talk about these issues is the hope we see that institution reform itself all right as we go to break or watchers don't forget to let us know what you think at the top of a couple of facebook and twitter zero four shows that are coming up in light of the state of the union address we talk american exceptionalism r t america host scott i know. you stay tuned to see.

gyptian. revolted against mubarak will have another political system that's over. for a social justice. and the specter of human dignity and so on but if you look like it's over what is going on in egypt right now most of the people have the feeling that. it was even better. mubarak could you know they don't speak any i mean you ration over the situation. oh you mean. the most. south.

korea you. know. in the good of the day. that. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure more somehow i want to. let you go right to be prosperous like that before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in my heart. for sure. when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the room

in closest to protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. that's not doing or middle of the room signals. to leave the room very real news for the world. you know if putin said suddenly that oh i we recognize nancy pelosi has the president united states there we're not going to talk with donald trump the world of the you know how rage but of course the u.s. has a stereo exceptionalism and that no law applies to them and so the. they can do whatever they want but by the central banks find gold as they are they are now coming to the conclusion that america has lost its mind and then when they run out of gold to buy i guarantee that they're going to start fishing out of the market.

here on capitol hill this week harper watchers you can practically cut the american exceptionalism with the knife can smell it feel it all around you yes washington politicians party bosses and pentagon types have been getting a this week not only from the warmer temperatures hitting the district but also the red white and blue dog and pony show that is the state of the union address and the feeling that the u.s. is once again ramping up for the possibility of another u.s. humanitarian intervention this time in venezuela i mean there is nothing nothing like talk about good u.s. intervention in the state of the union address to whip up the standing ovation to ourselves that is the very definition of american exceptionalism after all it was american exceptionalism that brought us such great adventures in democracy building

like the iraq war vietnam and libya just to name a few it was american exceptionalism that built us into a war economy where we spend close to a trillion dollars a year on all things war and war related and more war and it is american exceptionalism that has pushed us into a new cold war and possible nuclear arms race with russia with they believe that pax americana is the only way to peace so joining us to discuss american exceptionalism and its hold on u.s. politics is one of the many exceptional on this here on our continuing our guests got him out of use of news he was exceptional that was the softball and. he's run to right on now and with an exceptional i think about their very except for the work that you do. there's nobody that talks about such closer than they are exceptional president and last night we saw that on full display what i found interesting is no shocking america first has always been his idea his thought and i'm ok with saying that work sessional i think that that builds pride the question

is you actually have to have the actions that back it up and you need to look at exceptional saying you're proud of yourself not because you tore other people down or took it that you're superior to other people you're exceptional standing on your own and i think that's where america gets in trouble in their foreign policy if they think that there's a period to others question that kind of on this one to start with you scott and tab as well as we talk about the subject of our leaders but far too seduced by the idea. an exceptional nation or that we are the exception to the rule of how to kind of get along in the world and where our spending should be because in my opinion i see it's far too often kind of treating ourselves like hey we're the best and the greatest there ever was will be and forever so everyone else fall into line you're son of a british right now i'm just letting you know normally that's what i feel comes from the british that kind of attitude but i'm seeing it here in our own politicians in our own shores and you see it last night many standing ovations

every time someone just says america great but that this is not what we want though i mean if our present present sounds last night i got up there and said you know what america is the fourth best economy in the world we're always like oh my gosh i mean the market this morning wake up and tank to be honest with you but you do want to hear a sense of that coming for the problem that you get i also have an exceptional friend that if i'm at the bar and someone's going to come after i want to accept a friend to go first so and that's i think america has become america's become that friend of the bar that if you're in trouble you want to have that guy on your side fighting for you doesn't mean he's the best fighter in the room but you know he's the one that's going to go in for that fight and unfortunate with this image we're finding we have a group around this president that actually benefit from being in on that fight it's not about the humanitarian side of. taking care of others they actually personally reap the benefits of us getting involved in that fight so of course they can be easily taken advantage of around the world most of them are doing most of them do you think the difference there's a difference between this sort of having pride and real pride in something that

you've accomplished or you know i was have pride in america being a melting pot. i don't i don't know if that's what we're going toward anymore and i thought that was the good part but didn't there's a difference between having pride and this belief that no matter what we do it's always right part of american exceptionalism or even if we do something wrong we did it for the right reason so we're sort of off the hook living at the start as an american i have a minutes prior to this that i am extremely proud of this country our past what we are going to do in the future hopefully and what we're doing currently there is a reason why we should be very proud to be americans today i would also look at someone that lived in another country and say you should also be proud of living in your country most countries now there are some the devil i would go through as a woman you would even be able to see. that you're a woman to those those issues but so i think in any kind of there's no reason why we should not be breeding proud of being american the question is are we using it to intimidate others are we are we getting played by others which is what i feel

like and our motivations the correct one getting into it do you feel your mom i'm a dog mom and dad i don't trust. my dogs my love my child they know that right now . it's like exceptional but you know when you're teaching your kids right from wrong when you're teaching them the basic moral compass that we all have you know how to just be a good person whatever religion you are. does it feel like you're watching politicians having to really learn or not learning things that you've taught your children when they were. so you know what i mean don't touch that don't be mean to other people don't be a bully. last night that's exactly what i felt and even prior leading into it listen i don't want somebody who's actually given alexandria. a lot of credit i think she's mobilized but going into it she tweeted out that like who's watching

say the union tonight not me and i think that's something my pre-teen daughter would say to me and she would be probably grounded for that you're right politicians across the board do need to be reminded of it but here's the great thing about the country we live in when one party is bad we have a chance of putting another party into power and that's why we keep saying it back and forth back and forth because unfortunately we're fighting as it is today power corrupts and so if you're in power more than likely you're going to be corrupted you start all hopefully with less intentions but eventually and these guys that have been there for twenty twenty five years. were tories going to be lovely for this one thing the thing that i see though that really gets under my skin and you bring up you know we should be a come through lots of options and especially different political options i know that they you know they read them socialism last night but you know to me it's like to be a better country we should be able to have all sorts of different political ideologies at play because then you can find the best one for each specific problem that comes up. but at the state of the union it was interesting because both democrats and republicans cheered president trump but he talked about regime change in venezuela

like directly meddling in that country's political affairs and i don't care what somebody's opinion of that country is at the end of the day it's venezuela's problem but his way was people we could stand back and say hey we'll give it a or food or something like that but we should not be picking out who's going to be the leader of them is way low but here you have both parties kind of jumping on that with this idea that well hey we're america works up channel we can tell you who your leader is well and it's. that yes there's been problems long term problems that have been going on there but have been his way they did not hold the largest reserves of oil in the entire world and would not even be looking at the country in the end that is exactly what it comes down to and it's very sad because there are people down there hurting but if you really cared about the humanitarian effort on the ground you would release the sanctions because all that unfortunately sanctions do is heart the people are now going forward with it where do we go from here because you're right republican and democrats both agree that there needs to be some sort of

a gene change we need more which i'm at the same time you know you have present trying complain of these caravans that are coming up well guess what happens if you do a regime change they're going to be better then are terrified of chaos in that area because that's how it's worked as history has shown so i think we do need to have it that's the problem of who is benefiting now is the for who's benefiting and the timing of it and force there right now the american people i think they do have a good heart and want to help the people of its way that that's the images they're saying and for say what they're not saying is that venezuela is actually full of oil more than saudi arabia more than russia more than any other country it always comes down to oil because it might not know. some of the problems with this kind of blind belief in exceptionalism was that we can do no wrong and we're going to just lie to you and tell you everything's ok you know. what i did in there take advantage of a good heart and that hearts that's the american that's the america i'm proud of the fact that we do have heart and we do care for the. are hurting but unfortunately those that are corrupt in the government like to take advantage of

that do you think we have like a minute or so left and i want to ask you this is that if we believe that we're the greatest nation or we could be i think we can be i think we're we're growing more like a baby and the amount of nations in the world i mean you know our ancestors and that only came here in very short time about comparatively so i want to ask you real quick if we're the greatest nation in the world and you know we have the ability to be so great do you think that maybe our focus should be more domestically on our own our own mistakes our own move forward and rebuilding our sense of america for actual america that message wins across the board regards the political party that you're in you once again we are a great country i do believe that we are an amazing country i'm so proud of her but that's because we are america it's not because we took down some other country we made another count country feel inferior we took their oil it's because we are great here we can improve we can always improve and that i agree with so many people feel about right now is we need to focus here at home that's

a present from got elected that's right america first agenda that's why people cross the lines to vote for people you've got to clean up your own backyard before you can even begin to comment on other people's backyards discarding millions a lot of so thank you so much for coming to be always a pleasure having you on and it was exceptional it was a subset of those other exceptional. the first interstellar object found passing through our solar system was discovered on october twenty seventeen as it was passing twenty one million miles from earth heading away from our son and since it was found scientists across the world of debated whether it was an asteroid a comet or an alien probe no seriously the chair of harvard's astronomy department obvious low believes it's the debris from advanced alien technology which isn't too far off from another new theory suggesting that is a monstrous fluffy dust cloud seriously again meaning it wasn't a solid object at all but a cloud of stardust the paper suggests that like other objects that get close to

the sun all more and more of one to have been able to withstand the heat and would have broken up before its closest pass near the sun so there it is. is eyes are the leftovers of a crashed alien ship or the result of a frail comet becoming a monstrously fluffy cloud as mystery well what about the third option. if it's a spaceship. one of. it's coming together how did you know that's really fascinating and then you know that i think the reason there's so much curiosity when that was kind of it is it's like the first visitor to our solar system that has all these questions to a jeweler when what is this thing and the link that of time and effort and energy that it took to get here right and we don't know how to actually where and when and that it came that close to our sun. one of the unknown still still it could still be an alien i mean like i've heard of astronomer and harbor it's still an alien he

still contends that it could still be an alien maybe only it will come here once we get rid of all the exceptionalism and practice realty the american military that the well every every alien movie they always come to the united states. you know they remember everyone in this world we're not. so i tell you all i love you i am tired and i'm tired of i'll keep on watching those hawks out there and every great thing that everybody. does this is a stick from the old water bottle found in the stomach of the fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad was there the litter bugs are trying this way industry shouldn't be blamed for all this waste the company has

long promised to reuse the plastic. that seems cool set their plastic was sixty costly on my end are you staying on your own as that special projects funding me. on i knew that that is the end of it for the team up to now the mountains of moist only grow higher. than. a church and people revolted against mubarak to have another political system. a social justice. and a specter of human dignity and so on but if you look at the what is going on in egypt right now most of the people have the feeling that. it was even better during. mubarak to do you know they don't feel any i mean judicially of the

situation. the stand. alone one has. i know good armor are more trouble than they are rather rough but out of the four for every kid that. i'm going to let compatible and i'm catching them you can keep an eye on what i had flew to china for truffle that it. was. doing. its

hole for bush the i knew you didn't pay i think to a mysterious. british. model for the look of well fuck around mr hates it for jim and then oil for food are fairly close. to the money. from. this hour's headlines stories triggered by a meeting between me i tell you and deputy pm and yellow vests protesters fronts recalls its envoy to italy for talks on mic to reaching relations between paris and rome. president trump promises a complete victory over.