in the final larry go read this and be the one percent. of the room six. greetings and salutations we begin today with the latest intriguing headlines coming out of the caribbean island country of haiti yes hawk watchers there's been a new development of the story we've been following of the seven mercenaries who were arrested by haitian authorities on gun charges and then just as quickly released and handed back over to the united states and disappeared into the interns according to matthew cole and kim i was at the intercept the latest twist in this

ongoing tale of mysterious mercenaries an international intrigue is that the group was actually down there working security for an eighty million dollars cash grab by the embattled haitian president or with us in a poorly executed but serious effort by moyes to consolidate his political power with american muscle the mercenaries were apparently told that by simply escorting a presidential aide to fritz louis during the transfer of the eighty million from a government oil fund into an account controlled by the embattled haitian president they'd be preserving democracy in haiti. and you know personally pocketing about thirty thousand each to preserving democracy and thirty grand now actually the already beleaguered and very motivated for political change haitian people are not going to take this news well but fear not my us empire loving friends haiti will not be throwing off the yoke of u.s. control any time soon because thankfully one of the best and brightest u.s. politicians and political orders of our time working day one marco rubio the

republican senator out of quarter traveled to haiti on wednesday in order spend the day urging dialogue between the country's embattled president and opposition parties calling for his resignation because if there is anybody who knows how to put dialogue over rhetoric it's our little buddy marco i mean look at the bang up job he's doing right now representing peace and dialogue in venezuela now let's start watching the hawks. it's. like you know that i got. him on watching the hawks. turn joining me today to talk

a little mercenaries haiti rubio and forced us had him only in the caribbean and latin america is the host of by any means necessary and spotlight radio eugene for your eugene thank you so much for coming on and joining us today interesting interesting stuff thank you so much for having me i want to start when you look at this latest twist i've been we've been following you know these mercenaries are kind of showed up armed to the teeth and then disappeared were arrested disappeared don't know what happened what what is most intriguing what jumps out to you the most about this story well then let me. that is most intriguing is how shambolic in many ways it appeared that they were i mean they didn't have any official approval they didn't even have insurance extraction plans nothing of that nature yet allegedly they're working with something close to the president now of course president moyes i'm sure wanted to keep some level of plausible deniability but i mean it seems as if he went far beyond plausible deniability here to just sort of asking one of his friends to try to take care of it and it turned into the situation that we've seen now so i think it also speaks very heavily to the deep

decay that is happening within the government itself you know it's interesting because when i when i read the story the inner self story i couldn't decide if like the deal was was legitimate or not in the sense of you know was it really just this series of mess ups in this disorganized like you mentioned they didn't have any insurance and this so one part of my brain went ok is this like a limited hangout where it's like ok we're going to kind of say that this was just a massive home this but really we're kind of giving you half the truth of what was really going on with these guys or really was just this kind of disorganized thing that we do you think this was just a series of mistake was do you think there was anything that like points to anything more nefarious of what these guys were doing down there are going on there well i think it does point to something that i do is very wary i mean that's the on the fairest of them for answering eighty billion dollars in there but yeah i mean i think really the one thing is the use of private mercenaries i mean you see that even then you have the justice minister actually called to try to get them out of jail and my immediate thought was ok well the police are holding them up the

justice minister is unable to even get them out of jail initially and it seems at the very least that president morsi has at least lost control perhaps of a significant amount of his own security forces and his ability or desire i should say to bring in all these different forces and this one was a little shambolic but say this works out so he gets control of the eighty million dollars is blackwater next or any of these major private military contractors p.m.c. as they call themselves but ultimately i think that this trend towards using mercenaries to back the power of the president to me seems to suggest and even really quite frankly sort of. the way he's dismissed the prime minister and done this with this money that perhaps at least he was looking towards a coup or something of that nature to stay in power in the face of these large popular demonstrations which there's another large demonstration call for march twenty ninth so he knew that things were going to start to flare up again so it certainly speaks to the abrogation of democracy perhaps being something that was on the agenda for the president before we get into to our one of our favorite politicians here i'm watching the hawks marco rubio but before we get into that you

know i just for the background for people that haven't been following the story like you know what is the nature of what's happening down there why are these people protesting wires are suddenly this much destabilization in haiti and people looking for a change in government yes absolutely so the proximate issue was a huge raise in the fuel prices there but what that really started to kick off was anger around the general corruption of the government for folks who don't know haiti for some time has been a part of something called petro korea which was a program started by president chavez from venezuela provide cheap oil very very cheap oil from haiti many would say that after the earthquake and some of the other natural disasters hurricanes and the like this was what really allowed the country to not completely and totally collapse that they were able to use a lot of this money for some development funds but about two billion dollars of the money was stolen so you had a government that all of a sudden already was it you know terribly popular and comes in really sort of in many ways imposed the past couple governments but you have a government that comes in it's relatively unpopular it's deeply corrupt people know and then it tries to impose austerity and i think people ultimately were fed

up and it's important i think to connect this to the fact that you know really since the late one nine hundred eighty s. the haitian popular movement has consistently risen up and tried to put in governments that are at least to some degree oriented towards the needs of the people and consistently the united states is trying to overthrow those governments impose new governments keep in you know what is really an unbelievable sort of sweatshop style labor regime with a handful of elites on the top so i think this is not only the immediate anger around this issue but also the long term builds up anger over what is really kind of the stolen future of haitians most definitely. and now we got to get to marcos trip he's coming to haiti you know under his arm bringing dialogue and bringing peace to want to get these two sides together maybe you know bring unicorns to we don't know but now what do you believe was marco's some of the real purpose in going down there i mean is a really just like he's that worried about this guy losing power or is there another is there a broader picture a bigger picture of work here i think the two things are connected i think he is

very concerned about president moyes losing power for a couple of reasons one the just traditional reason why the united states has back to his in haiti promoted coups in haiti and the like in sort of this very rich country and certainly the country the great moral authority and so the thread of a good example as well is trying to keep a very rich country within the broader sphere of american north american economic interest so that's one piece that i think historically the u.s. has tried to make sure you have the right kind of friendly guy but much more relevant i think to our current moment is the issue of venezuela now haitian governments even the most government had been traditionally quite friendly to venezuela of course they were getting a lot of development aid from venezuela as i mentioned but then as these protests started started to lose popularity in order to try to shore up his rule then he turned his back on venezuela supports this fake president won why go and then of course is it becomes a you know it's a major major country in the caribbean in many ways large especially because of the history of haiti then it becomes a key cog in the machine of this broader attempt to isolate the material government

and if this government was to fall quite frankly i think whoever would come next would almost certainly be more friendly to venezuela certainly potentially hostile to the united states and i think if it is a government or any sort that is trying to speak to those or for those or is raised up from the people who have been out on the streets it would also be potentially hostile to the united states and historic intervention of the united states so things could kind of spiral out of control here in the caribbean and in the americas and it's important to remember that caricom has been holding strong against the u.s. coup attempts. and some of the countries that are not friendly with venezuela and consistently they have been pushing back on the attempts of the lima group of the united states and the european union to impose a government on venezuela so having haiti go into the camp of countries in the caribbean and in the western hemisphere that's opposed to this effort i think you'd have a big diplomatic effect and i think also a big effect on the region i mean if there is a revolution or even a major popular uprising that leads to a governmental change in haiti it will inspire others around the region i think you

could see it you could kind of i mean a lot of it reminds me a lot of what you saw in the fifty's and things like that with the cuban revolution polluters because with that because then it's like once cuba went then everyone was very oh we're going to lose the rest of latin america. what people need to understand about the situation in haiti and in latin america in general that you feel is not getting enough coverage that should be being talked about more well i think the one thing that we really have to talk about is the rootedness of popular movements and haiti and the region and that so much of this i mean we talk so much about what's happening in venezuela and we forget kind of the prehistory of venezuela where after the kerik oslo and eighty nine you have this rise of popular movements against neo liberalism happening in that country and haiti is a similar country they overthrew a dictatorship at the end of the eighty's they brought in a jump into an area steve who was mildly social democratic president and that really this is part of i think an extended history in the caribbean and in latin america of pushing back against the neoliberal i.m.f. imposed washington consensus of the seventy's and the eighty's that's where

a lot of these progressive governments come from that's where these mass movement come from and consistently it's been short circuiting call this act or whatever you want to call it by the u.s. government and i think that rather than looking at it strictly as just sort of one offs or whatever it may be i think we have to start to look at the long view of what has been happening in this region and what the role of the united states has been to sort of stifle the will of popular where do you see this going do you think do you think that this new set of protests is going to truly enact change i mean it has been have the other broke of the jack out of the box i mean is this is this going to go through are they going to change a government i think it's very possible that. i think that there isn't really a strong there isn't an heiress type figure for those to rally around or a single party like the loss on the way there was but i know there are conversations happening in haiti people trying to come together and i think the feeling on the streets now seems to be one of total rejection of the current government and one that's also a total rejection really quite frankly of the u.s. role in the region and i think that given what we've seen so far given the steadfastness of what is going on i think it's going to be very difficult for president moyes to hold on and i think quite frankly this mercenary story and the

eighty million dollars speaks very heavily to i think how much he's saying you know by his fingernails got to say thank you so much for coming on but looking forward to having you on for a while but really appreciate you having me on you very much all right as we go to break cock watchers i don't want you to forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered today on facebook twitter and you tube and see our poll shows that are to dot com coming up investigative journalist ben swan brings us the latest on the coup taking place here in the united states against the great wall of trump. and the republicans are actually taking part in it so stay tuned to watch the whole.

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since the early days of the great wall of trump when it was just a glimmer in the brand name and cheap sigh well on the twenty sixteen campaign trail he promised us many times over the this wall would be paid for by the mexican government well as we know that wasn't going to happen in fact that was never going to happen but you know who is going to pay for the great wall of trump whatever that turns out to be. the u.s. taxpayers and just where will they be taking this tax money out of our two americas matushka suite out of the story. the president is looking into budgeting a southern barrier and to do this properly the white house has been in talks with the pentagon to see which military construction projects could take a back seat right now there are some four hundred military projects scheduled the pentagon released a twenty one page document including twelve point eight billion and plans that could be used under the president's declared emergency more than one billion of it is in california alone the lump sum is nearly four times the three point seven

billion the president would need for military construction to complete a southern barrier but this is the new concept nearly seven hundred miles of wall was built under presidents george w. bush and obama after a thirty five day government shutdown over while finding the president declared a national emergency last month passed a resolution against president trumps emergency declaration which gave way to his every force veto it is a try to mend is national emergency and there's a tremendous crisis less my boy than seventy six thousand illegal migrants arrived at our border we're on track for a million illegal aliens to rush our borders people hate the word invasion but that's what it is but senate democrats continue to push back on president's proposal on border security i think the only way we'll get a budget is the way we got when the last two years if the president stays out of it i think if you talk to my republican colleagues and they told you what they're telling us they'd say the same thing apparently not all republicans nor the

majority leader but on the issue. i think everybody in my conference is in favor of the president's position on border security now lawmakers are complaining they don't know which military projects are on the cutting block but they have been assured no military housing barracks or dormitories would be affected the house is scheduled to vote on the president's veto on march twenty sixth. but neither chamber will likely be able to override the president's emergency declaration in los angeles in hospice suites r.t. . and in the world of washington d.c. politics while push back in the democratic controlled house of representatives from speculation was a declaration was expected it was the republican controlled u.s. senate passing a bill to block trumps state of emergency funding grab as unconstitutional that surprised most political walks here in d.c. joining me now to discuss why twelve republican senators broke ranks and voted against their president's wishes is investigative journalist ben swan ben thanks for coming on today and getting into this with me i think right off the bat the

biggest question of the day is why did these twelve senators break with their party and the president and look some of these folks who did this aren't exactly newbies to the party they're not freshman senators coming in cause and causing a ruckus. right well of the couple things first of all the republicans who broke rank and there were twelve of them as you mentioned kind of i think the biggest name that most people would know out of that group with the senator rand paul kind of leading the charge on that but we saw others lisa murkowski susan collins gillett's there were a number of senators who did and i think what really stood out once the fact that the senator had enough swaying it because of the number of them that switched to actually take the republican controlled senate and move it into the category where they were able to ask this resolution that essentially rebuke the trumpet ministration tries to block that order while funding but what it really comes down to is the fact that these republicans and some democrats not all let's be honest

some democrats are voting against this just because they don't like trouble but for those who saw the constitutional issue here then yes intially saw that the constitution does not permit the president the authority to spin money that has not been allotted to him or her and the problem is it is not a national emergency so these republican senators did not vote against this because they said trump doesn't have the right to declare a national emergency he absolutely does have the legal authority to do so what he doesn't have the authority to do is declare a national emergency and then to allocate funds that have been allocated for something else to that national emergency congress asked to do that under the constitution and that's not what's happening it's interesting i'm curious to see this kind of republican defection in the house vote as well as i mean in the house is controlled by democrats and that this was coming from outside but did we see republicans on that side as well also kind of move because of this constitutional because of the unconstitutionality of of what trumps doing. so what's really

interesting about this in the senate obviously the republicans as you mentioned house is controlled by democrats almost the exact same number of republicans defected even though the percentages are different the same number so twelve in the senate defected thirteen republicans in the house actually affected in some of those names you know just that i'm on michigan and it's nasty of kentucky in these are it's the liberty caucus republicans in the house again they did the same thing look there are people who are very angry about that to see what it means about it right now where there are so many of these republicans are traitors not traitors they're actually patriots that they're standing up for the rule of law instead of the cult of personality and not saying anything it's wrong when this president does it and you're choosing a different party but it's ok with our president doesn't because the there in our party for too long that it's been the way washington is operated and it's it's a sports rather than about morals not about right and wrong it's about which team

you're on and my team doing it when it's ok but if your team's doing it it's wrong and so would what these men and women have done i think is pretty courageous and that they said look for too long congress is silent on the issue of the way that national emergencies are used the good news out of all of this is that even though trump has been told this already and you already used the first presidential veto of this resolution the good news is is there are now a host of new bills being created. i think will get passed that will now win in the authority of the any of the national emergencies act that will no longer allow president to simply declare them and keep them open i mean i wrote it in mind right now there are thirty one states of emergency in effect in the country so i'm going back to the ninety seven minutes never been rich and it just they just remain in effect even after a president leaves office and some of these bills are going to end that's incredible and actually those was i was going to ask your next as you mentioned kind of the history of this you know these kind of. whether they're state of

emergency those are the someone called these kind of presidential power grabs like look i was putting i want to do you know a maneuver that's not limited to just president donald trump like but what are some of the other examples going back that we've seen this used over and over again for i mean i understand it ok hurricanes things like that but are there any examples words like a trump example where he's using it to pass a pass policy rather than actual emergency. some of them have been i mean one that a lot of folks would remember and this was done under president obama was ebola remember we had a sequel of there a few years ago where incidentally we the president declared it was a national emergency going to poland was coming into the country even though i don't think it's a person in the country ever even contract i think with people who were coming from overseas to work and so at the national emergency declared and then what do you do what's different about what trungpa is doing compared to what's up with other presidents have done is it once the national emergency was declared

a bill let's take it to congress saying you know i think at the time one or two billion dollars that they need to get to the c.d.c. to help people or congress still had to pass that whether you agree with it or not they still have the money had to be allocated or traumas then as you say can be extraordinary step of saying i'm going to now find the money in all these different other venues and i'm going to reroute it into the border wall that i want because it's state of emergency and what the authority of the president is not is not included in the authority of the president i should say is the ability to designate funding congress has to do that and it's a what really was the constitutional issue this is about it has congress for so long to serve its authority and abdicated its authority in terms of the power of the kurds and what point do they take it back there's a lot of republicans who would say it's very unfair that right now under this president it's going to be take it back but it has to be taken. at some point i

mean whether it's a republican or democrat it should have already happened i couldn't agree with you more and should we i mean is there something should we be getting our hopes up i mean when we see are we seeing the beginnings of like a real challenge to what you're talking about you know a real challenge to unchecked executive power and that mentality that's taken hold and not just the republican party but the democrats under obama or is this kind of a one time one issue stand i mean is this going to be has this taken root. i think it's a really good question look i would say that i'm still grateful for president trump for a couple of reasons one of those reasons is because it's personality it's so large i mean it's. that they are actually him for doing things that greatly other presidents have done. for him because it's such a strong. reaction for the obvious like we were and the way we. couldn't is that our we are the one that's good

if controlling states you know we're in on the republican or they can just allow president obama and they'll actually pass along. power in trump it's not about the next president the next two presidents i for instance the president openly we see that restraint on our so that's that's what i'm hopeful for i think we have to really pay attention to though is that unfortunately because of the fact that so much of this in the media is tight trunk earth ality not to the power of the president as soon as trump is out of office democrats won't want to do it anymore republicans won't want to anymore because now they're teammates if you will their team is now in charge and so and back to winning things the way they were they like unchecked power in the executive branch they just don't like it when trump is. you know it's interesting too because when i look at when i look at this and i look at the you know there's many different things that went into this on chuck power and

there's many different. you know from from from ego to look you know from the george bush era of the obama are all that the other thing that i think also plays a role in this and that one the reasons trump thinks he can get away with this without understanding the cost of doing this is because when you come from the c.e.o. background when you come from that business background that they all kind of sell we need more businessmen in in washington you just get the ability to say i can take money from here and here and here you can do that in a private business but you can't do it you can't do it in a government because government is not a private business i got to say but thank you so much for breaking this down for us today it's always a pleasure having you on the show and a fascinating topic to see what happens i really hope that moving forward we're going to see this become something that's a staple in the hope these republicans continue to stand up it's always nice to see thank you so much. you know it might be time to rethink your morning coffee or tea hock watchers i look before you strike

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