what does lead us to this point re war entering into it's been the year that has killed thousands displaced millions and put an entire country on the brink of collapse still goes on without any real change in policy by the countries directly beating it. let's find out by watching the hawks. that the. real they would. like you that i got. with. them on the watching the hawks i robot and turn it down capitalists five years entering in yemen war has been going on about as long as we mean to have that right

you and i together. and i really give you one of those issues that got us both riled up and got us into this it was one of those things that made us go why is no one talking about this and to question it and here we are five years later and it still is if what who cares it's just another one of those never ending wars saudi arabia led there for military campaign which was called operation decisive store of these military campaign names and when they enter be in the you know in the conflict going on inside of him and back on march twenty sixth two thousand for their team which many people say about the start you know they just passed four years entering into fifth we just passed her fourth their anniversary of the i didn't put that together until you just when i heard they said just like. they were going never stopped and we said well we it's that's the tragedy of it is that we're talking about it but nobody else and i mean this new this bombing at the this hospital brought to mind the attack back in august of last year remember when we when we talked about. of the school bus that got hit were. aged six to eleven were

killed forty boys eleven adults also died in that strike. about seventy nine people were ultimately wounded. shoulder and if you remember that was back when we discovered that it was a lockheed martin the. school bus that tragic day because that's the problem was financing and helping and helping train and supply weapons and arms to say to the saudi led coalition in this strike and it's horrible it's tragic right and this is the kind of stuff that we look at we've looked at over and over again that you've seen this giving sort of covertly not covertly giving saudi arabia all of this muscle essentially between guns helping fuel planes in midair and giving them intelligence about where to strike it's hard for me to understand how we can continue to say this well we're not really we're not really involved you're telling them where to kill. that's

a pretty important thing that you should have down pat and there should be reason that you're doing it for the united states to be involved in that and quite frankly i mean what more do you need to know that you should question your allegiance to saudi arabia and their question saudi arabia's allegiance to human rights at the very least taking all of your foreign policy out of it why would you keep giving it to someone doing this the united nations refugee agency educated that more than forty eight hundred civilians have died and their injuries civilian deaths and injuries are reported in yemen last year and that's just what they know about what actually gets reported that's an average of what they're saying about ninety three civilian casualties per week that's thirty percent were killed or injured inside their own homes. and a fifth of all casualties were inflicted on children and to me i feel like there's this point where you just have to stop the generals everyone and ask yourself is

this worth it does this weaken our democracy around the world does this why are we getting involved i guess that's the question why we continue that is the question at hand and you know a lot of like you're talking had politicians especially in the right side will because. oh we have to stop their backing of the who things but the other major problem that you're having here is this lack of media coverage and the lack of coverage that actually informs the viewer piers robinson a professor at the university of sheffield told al-jazeera when you have coverage which doesn't really provide context or a proper understanding of the key actors in a conflict and also the role of their own government publics are left with a sense of a confused conflict where it's not clear who's right or wrong it's not clear whether or not involved in this and that's the problem you have a misinformed public and that's how you see these catastrophes take place over and over again now entering its. auditing the pentagon has been

a goal of many an elected official ever since the military industrial complex came crawling out from under a rock to suck up an endless supply of taxpayer dollars dollars not to make the country or the world safer but that line the pockets of the already rich twenty seventeen study by michigan state university found twenty one trillion dollars in an authorized government spending which led the pentagon to finally conduct its wait for it first ever audit ever it cost four hundred million dollars it took twelve hundred auditors and concluded that the pentagon's accounting was simply as matt taibbi of the role of rolling stone said to illogical to penetrate now whether it's the defense department of defense's habit of spending billions in the last few months of a fiscal year to make sure their budgets down there are kanan in comprehensible accounting systems or their routine of looking the other way. when theft occurs many believe fixing the problem is more dangerous than just feeding the beast and

a recent piece for rolling stone investigative journalist matt tyee be called the bad egg on the world's largest producer of wrong numbers and ingenious bureaucratic defense system that high and all the other rats nest underneath here to discuss the rats nest cheating taxpayers out of trillions of dollars contributing editor at rolling stone investigative journalist and author not be welcome at. how are you doing with matt always a pleasure having you on i got to say a little over the years we see a lot of hay made about you know ten thousand dollars toilet seats but but that is one of the major problems causing all this last year it was revealed that the mabel contractor mitnick the fat one hundred was charged in pled guilty to bribing maybe officials and you know in exchange for prostitutes cash in exchange for classified information is the pat letter case and out of there's this kind of tony soprano style business is part of the course for a pentagon that loses you know the misplaced his woods twenty one trillion dollars and can't be found. i think the twenty one trillion dollars figure is

a little bit misunderstood but it is actually the root of the problem it isn't actually that they lost twenty one trillion dollars of money it was actually misspent it's that the pentagon's books have twenty one trillion dollars worth of wrong numbers in them basically what happens is every year when they submit their request to congress for a budget instead of actually counting up how much money they've actually spent and producing the audit trail for what was spent they just fill in numbers that they think are supposed to fit the budget requests so they're make they're essentially making up their financial reports and the cumulation of all those wrong numbers is how you get that twenty one trillion figure those those wrong numbers are called plugs and the problem is when you're plugging. everything. corruption or news of somebodies overcharging you you'll never discover it because somewhere up the chain

the numbers are going to be fixed and so that's how you never never find out about any of the corruption in the news. and i think that's the sort of shocking about the as i call fat leonard case which generated the for the viewers at home it was there was this gentleman was given he was giving prostitutes and cash and luxury guests navy members of the navy to get a leg up on military contracts and this is what made me wonder about this is that we have you know the u.s. has eight hundred military bases and over eighty countries one of the biggest things that kept coming up to this was this we don't know how many i mean it notoriously as you put aside your article that sort of notoriously known the pentagon for not being able to count buildings or planes or blackhawk. so it's like if we know this if there's if we know that there's little to no oversight of their spending or what they have how can we begin or how do we begin to rein in or reappropriate funds for more productive endeavors then say i don't know the f.

thirty five or the fourth class aircraft carrier like you could we may how do we get that money away from those things and into things that are more productive. well the two fixes that are obvious is that you have to have a single unified integrated modern accounting system where every transaction would be registered automatically throughout the entire armed services and also i think you would need to have something like radio frequency id or at least serial numbers on every single item that they have. an amazing story they didn't even have serial numbers on nuclear bombs until two thousand and six and two thousand and seven when two things happened one they accidentally sent nuclear nose cone parts to taiwan when they were actually ordered who'd actually ordered helicopter batteries and another case the accidently flew six live warheads across

the united states over population centers because the misunderstood the thought these were decommissioned weapons that they were carrying so they started to put serial numbers on nuclear weapons they haven't done that to everything else if we had like radio frequency id and serial numbers and everything and we knew where everything was at all times fast would be impossible. or at least very difficult and we'd have a much better handle on where everything is and it's possible i think that's what's really possible about this is that you know i work for a big company if i could believe me and they do track everything from toilet paper to the pens you buy and it's hard to imagine why we don't here it is truly it is truly truly sad mad to hang out we're going to be right back with you but for now we've got to go to a break so let's go to the break as we regulars do not forget to let us know what topics you what you think of the topics recovered up facebook twitter and you tube and see our poll shows that are to dot com coming up we continue our discussion

with journalist and author matt taibbi as we venture into the fallout from the end of russia state of washington. brakes had come joan. manufactured sentenced to public wells. when the room in closest to

protect themselves. with the flaming. lips and neither one. nor middle of the room six. of. the ukrainian presidential elections are just days away was a quarter of eligible voters still don't know who to support with thirty nine candidates in the race is the choice too broad powers to focus addictive. private companies that have got a lot of p.c. venture capital funding are ready to go public this year i saw the last they're all

going out of forty fifty sixty seventy billion dollars valuation so the prediction here is that it will be the end of this cycle you're going to have a like two thousand and one style crash and. that due to the fact that there's nothing to support the valuations of these companies and i'll doubt it very quickly well. the investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities twenty three magic little words that have thrown the united states political scene and mainstream news media that covers it into a level of chaos spin piece matching and skullduggery not seen since the royal rumble was held in the upside down of stranger things since the election of donald

trump to the us presidency in two thousand and sixteen the us news media stoked by grandstanding politicians anonymous intelligence sources and rising ratings created a cottage industry pushing the rush again narrative that the trump campaign had colluded with the russians to influence the outcome of the election and put a putin controlled puppet in the oval office but now those twenty three magic little wards have all but destroyed that cottage and have brought to light a us news media failure on a scale many believe is even worse than the iraq w n do you debacle joining us at once again is the author of this hero book a how and why the press makes us hate one another welcome back matt taibbi how you do it. i just want to play this right away off the top thank you for the good work that you've done on russia good over the years in the coverage of this you one of the few say voices out there kind of was looking at this realistically it honestly and also but why do i feel good finally being able to have this honest discussion

with your pup because it's been just rain right i mean it's been difficult you know were a few days in the aftermath after they dropped this one. a you know you kind of talked about the potential fall out the bad happened earlier this week on sunday but now a few days what do you make of the fallout from this you know is that what you predicted you know what what what do you see happening. i think it's about what what we could have expected of you know obviously there's if you watch innocent b.c. they're not going on air and saying god we got to run we're really sorry we're going to go back and fix that you know who you trust us for we're going to go under the hood and get this right they're actually just basically doubling down on this and moving on to a new. idea which is that the thing that's important is obstruction and not collusion i also think with everybody should be on their they should be cautioned

if and when the report sees the light of day it's going to be full of all kinds of stuff and the people who always believed that there was a collusive arrangement between trump and russia are going to go back to believing that again they're going to take whatever that information is in their report and they're going to construct a case and say well it didn't legally meet the standards for a crime but it's still true so we're in kind of a purgatory right now where you know that there is a statement out there that says the it didn't happen but it's by far not over let's get some and that's the way to put it most definitely you know in the aftermath of the malar report c.n.n. presents out soccer in defending the network's coverage of the russia which i before i say this quote it just has a lot that he came out to a pot already had to make a statement to get ahead of what he thought if if they didn't do anything wrong and

they felt that their coverage of stellar something held me back or would be out defending the network in the new york times but he did and what he said is that quote we are not investigators we are journalists and our role is to report the facts as we know them which is exactly what we are what we did not if we are a journalist coming from a family of journalists did c.n.n. one just report the facts and what are your thoughts on zachary statement that we're not investigators we're journalists we're here to report the facts as they are as we know them. well look that's that's an incredibly self-serving quote and its purpose is it is incredibly obvious what what that's all about is if this thing goes sideways we're going to blame it on our sources. so we're not the investigators they are they told us this stuff we believe them this is exactly the same script as the w m d mess you know we did our jobs how can you blame us we're just good honest journalists were you know we report we're told and you know how

can you blame us for that that's just bogus all journalist service to gator's it's our it's our job to be on the lookout for the possibility that we're being lied to that figures into the equation of everything that we do and we're also responsible for looking. at the forest for the trees every time we sit down to do a story there's a story makes sense internally does it make sense in terms of in the context. of a larger series of events that we've been looking at over the years you know we we have to make those judgment calls it's not as simple as yes a high ranking official told us something and we put it we put it down on paper we have to we we got to make all those calls so it's on us if this turns out to be true it's one hundred percent our fault most definitely and you know one of the things that i think unlike a lot of the author networks are you know you're on most of the seas you see amends fox even do certain extent you know one of the things that they're not doing is

actually asking why did this happen how did this happen what factors played into allowing this level of lack of journalism take place. you know so i ask you you know what happened why did how did we get to this point what what let's do our own look at it and do what they should be doing and ask ourselves how did we let it get this far. well that there's three questions we've got to ask one of them we can't we can't know the answer yet because it hasn't been reported the first question is how to russia good start what's the origin story of this we we've heard something very vague about how the british g c h q ended up briefing the cia because they intercepted something that troubled them a lot and that turned into the f.b.i. investigation but we still don't we have no idea what the actual timeline is there and what what they were actually intercepting and what prompted the actual

beginning of this investigation but i think the real beginning of the problem was the beginning of the trump campaign when every single pundit in the universe dismissed as laughable the idea that could win the nomination you remember dana milbank from the washington post promising to literally eat his column if donald trump won the national nomination which he ended up actually doing humorously. and what was what's interesting about that is that the journalists total left audiences totally unprepared for the possibility of the trump could when they constantly told us that it would never happen and so when it did happen we scrambled for an alternative explanation and the conspiratorial one fit better than what they've been told i think journalists were just not tuned into the level of anger in the population that trump was the beneficiary of and so we haven't gone back and done

the job of explaining to america how was the dollar trump got elected what was the real reason is that he got elected it has written as a result we were overly susceptible to this conspiratorial explanation and the third thing quickly is that the money was huge because because of the nature of russia gate this thing sold like hotcakes or you know ratings for cable stations went up after. the election down by enormous number so that provided a huge disincentive to steer away from the from the narrative i think one of the things that keeps coming up at least and our discussions here about this too and that keeps showing to me is now you have a whole bunch of people that rachel maddow is who i guess can't i guess can she go back to fly fishing trout fishing now or not i don't know. if it's a thing where it's what do you do like what else do they do with their time and it brings me to this question that i have to ask you could how do we fix this it seems that this idea of access journalism they didn't need the facts and i'm sure the

rachel maddow and the dockers' of the world have their sources saying we absolutely have this we have them you know dead to rights we've got trump on a video or whatever that's within the intelligence community what do we do about that kind of access journalism where they're getting fed information and well i've i've written about this many times in the past this is a massive loophole in the whole system of western journalism this this problem of being fed things. and government sources and very often you'll see the traditions go to more than one person you'll see for people familiar with the matter or for current form or a former officials told us today and those stories here's the problem with those stories unless unless you're dealing with somebody with a reporter who has an established relationship with the intelligence community the

intelligence community has no compunction whatsoever of a burning the media they don't care they'll just go to the next reporter the next time. and so you saw in this instance with russia this enormous quantity of stories that just blew up in the faces of reporters you know the new york times is a story that says the truck campaign had repeated contact. russian intelligence for sources all unnamed then james komi comes out in testimony says it's not true. you have to be extra suspicious of those kinds of stories because that's where the potential for danger always is always the highest it was there with w m d it was there with gulf of tonkin with the missile gap you know you name it go back in time . is long as they don't have to put their own names on the information they managed to get it out there every time we got a force in the go on the record we definitely do and i mean that's what the that's

the thing that brings us up is i actually do have a lot of sympathy for the journalists who said well you know my government told me my sources intelligence told me and i think i'm doing the right thing and i think that just proves to us that our job is journalist any of this is the second quest this is second question a question that sources do you do become researchers don't be don't be is that correct or not they've asked then. you know. you're good going no. no you're going to say if i mean i think journalists need to be aware i mean all they have to do is read a history book and be be cognizant of the fact that there's an incredibly long and storied history of the government lying to reinforce it on unlike most normal sources where the they have to have a continuing relationship with the reporter and those relationships are very important the government doesn't you know they just don't worry about burning reporters the same way other sources kinds of sources do because the they're the

stewards of the information are the only ones who have the story so there's this thing reporters need to be more aware of that they don't and that's not to see that everything about it was wrong and you know there's a lot of stuff in there that was right but some of it was wrong you know and i think i think we've got to be aware that i couldn't agree with you more matt thank you so much for the great reporting you did on this subject and i look forward to seeing what you're up first on the one i would. a pleasure thank you. thanks charles expose them. benjamin franklin is a person one could say broke all the rules played all the fools and eventually becoming thunderstruck after e famously flying a kite and a thunderstorm now franklin was trying to prove that there's a lot of power in storm clouds now a group of researchers in india using the same technology that was used to find the hidden void within the great pyramid of these that have managed to find out just how much power is enough under a cloud turns out a whopping one to two google volts of electricity that is just around ten million

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