it's really. like that i got. the. welcome on watching the hawks. turn joining me today to talk a little mercenaries haiti rubio and force us had your money in the caribbean and latin america is the host of by any means necessary and sputnik 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 the thing to 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 idea was was legitimate or not in the sense of you know was it really just this series of mess ups in this disorder that like you mentioned they didn't have any insurance didn't 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 mess in the home this but really we're kind of giving you half the truth for what was really go. going on with these guys or really was just this kind of

disorganized thing that they 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 worrisome and that's the on the fairest of them for answering eighty million 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 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 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 going 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 why is there 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 is 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 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 built up anger over what is really kind of

the stolen future of haitians most definitely and now we've got to get to marcos trip he's coming to haiti he says i'm bringing dialogue i'm bringing peace i want to get these two sides together maybe you know bring unicorns too we don't know but now what do you believe was marco's senator breaux beals real purpose in going down there i mean is there really just like you 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 moise losing power for a couple of reasons one the just traditional reason why the united states has backed dictators in haiti promoted coups in haiti and the like it's sort of this very rich country and certainly the country the great moral authority right and so the threat of a good example as well as trying to keep a very rich country within the broader sphere 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. as well now haitian

governments even the most government have 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 more 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 even some of the countries that are not that friendly with venezuela and consistently they have been pushing back on the attempts of the lima group of the united states of 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 was 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 absolutely just because with that because then it's like once cuba when everyone was worried all we're going to lose the rest of latin america. what do people need to understand about the situation in haiti and in you know 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 in the region and that so much of the . yes i mean we talk so much about what's happening in venezuela and we forget kind

of the prehistory of venezuela where after the care cause zero in 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 steed who was a mildly social democratic president and that really this is part of i think an extended history in the caribbean and in latin america pushing back against the neo liberal 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 move 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 the has the other brokers the jack out of a box of business is going to go through are they going to change government i

think it's very possible i mean 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 in 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 steadfast 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 i got to say thank you so much for coming on but looking forward to having you on for having allowed me to 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. coming up investigative journalist bias one brings us the latest on the coup taking place here in the united states against the great wall. all of

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about the modern civilization of america. eleven the wealthy in america decided we're up playing anymore we're going to just grab as much as we can of the cash out there in the system and put it you know offshore and that's why there's not twenty two trillion offshore and so there you battle of credit in the system strong the central bank instead of punishing the banks just flooded the system with more of the fia money and then those who are the paranoid have yachts versus the have nots decided you know we're going to put that more offshore so they just keep trying and shipping it off shore it is completely bypassing the economy and so the economy is getting more starved for credit and the people are getting more restless.

since the early days of the great wall of trump when it was just a glimmer in the brand name and cheap so i was on the twenty sixteen campaign trail he promised as many times over that 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 trouble whatever that turns out to be. the u.s. taxpayers and just where will they be taking this tax money out of our to america's matushka sweet as 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 in 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 ski of way to his every force veto it is a tremendous national emergency and there's a tremendous crisis last month for them 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 the only way we'll get

a budget is the way we got one 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. everybody in that 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 and sweets r.t. . and in the world of washington d.c. politics will 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 the state of emergency funding grab as. to tional that surprised

most political wong's 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 the day 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 causing 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 access resolution that essentially rebuke the drug administration

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 trump 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 you know we're going to knew 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 is in the senate obviously the throw by republicans of the 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 when our president does it 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 teams 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 chicken 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 that's already in there to use 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 that have never been written and they just they just

remain in effect even after a president leaves office and some of these bills are going to end that's incredible now actually those 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 nerve someone called these kind of presidential power grabs like look i have this pet thing i want to do you know a maneuvering 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 other running 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 would come in from overseas to work and so that the national emergency is 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 was taken to congress saying you know i think at the time were 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 had the money had to be allocated or trauma is done 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 it's authority and abdicated its authority in terms of the power of the purse

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 whether it's republican or democrat should have already happened i couldn't agree with you more and should we i mean is this something we should be getting our hopes up i mean 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 is this taken root. i think it's a really good question but i would say that i'm still grateful for president trump for a couple of reasons one of those reasons is because he is personality is so large i mean it's nice. that they are actually him forgive me greatly other presidents. for it because it's such

a strong. reaction. i'll get like will and the day when you. couldn't is that our president who are you one that's good if interims face you know or get on board republican or they can just allow president obama and they'll actually pass a lot of power in trumpets out about the next president the next two presidents the president openly we 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 trial earth ality not to the power of the president that's going to trump is out of office democrats won't want to do it any more republican anymore because now they're there if you will their team is now in charge and so and back to the way they were 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 go to look you know from the george bush era of the obama era 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 constitution 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. 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

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