it may cheer but this is a dark moment for press freedom. i couldn't agree more with mr snowden and i'd like to add that as a taxpaying citizen of the united states i am deeply ashamed of my government's actions against mr assad who like him or not is ultimately practicing the art of good journalism but in these times when our most important rights like freedom of press are being threatened. we need to be watching the hawks. it looks. like i got.

in time to have a while i said joining us now to discuss the arrest of mr. is the author of management of savagery max thank you for joining us good to be here wow merrick so i want to start just asking you you know this other grew up about ten million women time five this morning you know what was your reaction the moment you heard this news that the woman was drugged out and the rest of them well i just remember myself saying under my breath they finally did it and you know wiki leaks has been posting images of you know snatch and grab teams undercover outside the embassy while people were kind of you know more mainstream journalists were mocking the rest of us for saying that there was a sealed indictment over the years and at the gray zone the website i run we reported evidence through statements by the grand inquisitor of russia gate representative adam schiff that there was a secret indictment that the u.s. had and then it was revealed through a mistake i think made

a clerical mistake made by us federal court so this sort of became inevitable once we realized that the u.s. had an indictment but sanchez wanted in the u.k. this is supposedly he's being arrested and being put on trial for a crime that has maximum twelve months punishment but now if you look at the u.s. indictment i mean let's talk about the u.s. indictment for a second it sets. president for journalism that is absolutely terrifying and that will destroy shred and burn the first amendment because it's putting them or it's indicting him for espionage espionage when nearly all he did was published classified information which is what the washington post the new york times which neglected to defend him in these past months have done and continue to do so any journalist who publishes classified information could now be a target and he's mentioned in the indictment for using secure drop which is something you do to protect your source so even mainstream first amendment

advocates like the knight center have said that this is an attack on journalists ability to defend their sources so any journalist and i've seen many who've come out and tried to defend what's happening to julian assange right now is destroying their own profession. that's pretty incredible well i i absolutely i think with both of you know is that you know there's a lot of things you can not like julianna about but those things don't have anything to do with the work they had i mean yeah i mean there's a lot of things there's a million reasons but one and actually there's actually if you do and how someone is being treated at and i'd like to bring someone else end of this discussion now. the you my you might know him actually showing us to say. well it's nice to be here you know we got some horrible weather hitting most of the midwest so making connections today is pretty tough for evan to jump through a lot of obstacles the weather here in the midwest is horrifying no speaking of horrifying there's also this this kind of arrest of julian assange and so i guess i

want to ask you just as what is what what is your thoughts. and what were you thinking when you got it were you know what what came to your mind the moment you saw him brought to him. well first of all i'd like to make this statement we've been at war now for just about twenty years twenty years during that entire targeted. not we haven't committed one war crime moloney it's because of julio sosh that we know we watched helicopter pilots murder people down on the street with machine guns the bradley manning or chelsea manning situation and all of that julian assad brought out you know we have war criminals here in the united states now but yet you don't see one of them being prosecuted none of them george bush and dick cheney to me are war criminals they advocated torture and it was because of

julian assad there we learned of all this we wouldn't have known about the torture we wouldn't normally about the brutal murders that took place and the sad thing years assad is going to go to jail and these guys that machine gun from a helicopter all these civilians they probably got medals for it didn't they. and. one of those things that bad you know there's always this national security question that's it always seems to come up in iran is it is you always hear them kind of hide behind well we have to go after we have to go after you know wiki leaks over national security maxims the start of this quickly start with you you know is that you know is that something that's legitimate to hide behind i mean the . indictment claims that julian assange is knowingly did harm to u.s. national security by for example showing the digital murder tapes which show actually the murder of journalists who were working for reuters and their camera

sticks were mistaken for guns that's or were told you know i don't think that harms u.s. national security i think the war in iraq harmed u.s. national security i think the u.s. national security state. is falsely named is wrongly named and that's what i actually illustrate in my book the management of savagery using so as a journalist and so many other journalists have been if any journalist has as. used wiki leaks to show the public what this opaque unelected national security state is doing often to violate the rights of people under international law across the world and to sacrifice the national security of americans they have an obligation to stand up for julian assange right now and to stand up for the constitution because this indictment is a violation of the first amendment. from what is with most of them we are as you have just seen as a former special forces bertram and governor and former governor you know where do you stay out of this idea that the kind of use the the bug you know and you use the

idea of security of mean you've spoken out of a bunch of times you know it's also interesting when you look at the other side of we have to get the story and you have to get a song as well you know one of these i'll move on is that you know the big question is out here over trade or air and vitrines something i just want to point out to the people at home china is not american citizen. is not american citizen so this idea that he's somehow sold things to somebody he's not an american citizen and he has no inalienable were sponsibility to do anything the united states so i think every this understand that he has a story and was accurate dorian for a short amount of time but i want to this chuck schumer tweeted today quote now that julian assange has been arrested i hope you will soon be held to account for his meddling in our elections on behalf of the russian government max. anything

i loved you say what do you say about a good old chuck schumer they also took the chance to attack dan cohen a correspondent here you can see hillary clinton dead enders like neera tanden use the same language and this demonstrates an important point that i think the public needs to understand in order to prevent julian assange and his extradition which is that there is. no way given this atmosphere that these partisan hacks of encouraged or given might pompei a war for him to wiki leaks as a non-state hostile intelligence operation that he can get a fair trial in the united states let me read to you article three of the convention of torture ratified by the u.k. which is holding julian assange in one nine hundred ninety eight no state party shall expel return or extradite a person to another state where there are substantial grounds for believing that he or she would be in danger of being subjected to torture not only will it not receive a fair trial in the us given what happened to chelsea manning which was

a possible form of torture and led to barack obama's pardon there is reason to suspect that julian a son could be subjected to harsh treatment by u.s. authorities so it's now the job of the public to prevent this extradition and stand up for international law against these partisan hacks and these fanatics in washington who care about nothing nothing but their own power. yeah and i seen this before we run out of time is that there is there's another person in jail right now because of that and that's chelsea manning you know as our own car member was again put in jail for not testifying in the same stuff he's already had testified against which has to do with chilean aside and the numbers nothing that chelsea manning is going to say in a court that's going to be any different i want to say that before she's already testified to these things and quite frankly as much as i like a son like we need to just like. have respect for a law and human rights around the world chelsea manning has reason to be in jail

she's done everything she is supposed to do and now they have her sitting in solitary confinement while we wait for a sign that another legal circus can happen and none of it really shows how much how many of our rights have been taken away and how many people's lives are at risk because of this circus that's a huge point that's a huge point and we know it's true because of the unsealed indictment today there is nothing that chelsea manning could have offered that would have been new and therefore as chelsea's lawyers have pointed out her detention is purely punitive it is pure unadulterated sadism and yet amnesty international refuses to make chelsea manning a prisoner of conscience while they're going bonkers you know pumping up donald trump's coup in venezuela they refused to do it the committee to protect journalists has refused to stick up for julian assange and i say we rename them the committee to protect empire because they clearly stand for nothing except their corporate donors this is expose the hypocrisy of everything but especially

america's national security state which is running the whole show and using the u.k. as its marionette and we're never going to happen and they didn't have to use ruptly footage of our trade today that was one of those little guys weren't there to get the news you know where to invent things in that state that roger stone's house but they weren't there for this because their national security state masters didn't send them exactly barbara. thank you so much for coming on and joining us and talking about this important issue it was to benefit the governor. because now because of the storms he was talking to always a pleasure having you both i'm sorry i'm so much as we go to break off watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered a very spoken twitter you tube and shows at our t.v. dot com coming up top of the walls pulls back the curtain on how congress just privatized paying your taxes and r t america's trigger chavez brings us the latest of our friends in big pharma. skyrocketing prices of lifesaving drugs in some

states who are watching. it is finally he. was arrested within the embassy in london is widely expected he will be extradited to the united states to stand trial expected charges are

espionage this is truly a dark day for journalists and journals. but i think. this is. the first one to. go from one hundred words. to me to sort of. think it was. a little. bit. of. one of the few. because you. should in the light of the dismay of. both of you. oh someone to believe me

because it sounds like you were eighty. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going on for the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there are already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense's office that says we're going to attack and destroy the money others with the lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort and easiness for.

it isn't often that the democrats the republicans are able to put their differences aside reach across the congressional aisle and make things happen well they did just that this week up watchers when the u.s. house of representatives passed the tax payer first act now one provision of the bill impedes the internal revenue service from developing their own free to use tax preparation software instead forcing the i.r.s. to work with private tax prep companies like turbo tax on h. and r block on their programs what most people didn't know is that if you make less than sixty six thousand dollars per year in the u.s. you qualify for free. use of turbo tax and h. and r block will actually take advantage of it why well it's because of

a little group called the free file alliance a lobbying group made up of the top private companies that provide tax prep software companies that have zero incentive to allow the i.r.s. to provide a free version of their product to the public even if the people it's for are the ones who can't afford their product in the first place but most disturbingly the democrats that vowed to protect the interests of the working poor if given control of the house chose to let the bill go through democratic representative roe conn of california criticize his colleagues who voted for the bill stating it goes against everything we ran on it has to be addressed it's a huge benefit to the corporation so hock watchers is a time to stop corporations from profiting from your taxes when they don't even want to pay their own jobs well thank you for making the point at the end there how many of. you now we've see corporations over and over again they don't pay their taxes they find the legal loopholes in the now here in what should be

a boom to the poor and working class people country and say hey guess what the i.r.s. can do some free taxes for you you know you can join up they go free program don't even have to pay nobody don't have to join so i.r.s. government program new food is lobbying group says otherwise and they work really hard to make sure that people don't know about it they don't market it and them each one has different rules so each one of these twelve companies twelve tax preparation software companies they each have their own guidelines for these free versions so some of them so many people between twenty five and thirty five and some people it's between fifty and sixty five and so they make all these little rules and they sort of high to make it so you can't really make use of this and the truth is seventy four seventy percent of americans who pay taxes don't need to itemize so what that means is all they really have to do is to fill out some basics and that's it they don't have it's all very like fill in the plague. there's no reason they should have to pay someone to put it together there isn't really and

it's your taxes at the end of the day it's like how we go i made that joke going to the break but it's go to this is like privatizing you know paying your taxes that's ridiculous i'm going to take it and just say you know who these like free file alliance people are they are actually a coalition of twelve industry leading tax software companies that have partnered with the ira since two thousand and three to help low and middle income americans complete and file their federal tax returns. but as you said they don't advertise that they don't make it known to the people it's very very kind of cloak and dagger behind closed doors that i want people to get it for free if they can charge them and that's capitalism. there's your free market does not refer market. i want to go a little bit about. ron wyden who had a few things to say about this this is one issue that he and a number of democrats and republicans for a very long time have said that we need to reform this the free tax thing was put

into law in the ninety's obama ran on it again saying the idea and a lot of republicans all the way back to ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty five saying people most americans like this should be able to just sign a little thing here's ron wyden discussing this at the hearings with about. taxpayers shouldn't have to use a private company to fill file their taxes online i support the allowing americans to file directly online with the i.r.s. i have also proposed bipartisan legislation several times to create an optional simple return system your form throw up completed and all you have to do is check the numbers no more headaches for more complicated filing process and suffice it to say the tax preparation industry their software tax preparation folks spend millions of dollars millions of dollars to hold off the. it's important reforms.

now so this happens over and over and over again and it's decades of them saying there's there's just sort of no reason but here's where it gets even worse so for those people who do need a tax preparer what h. and r block what intuit who owns turbo tax are trying to do is cut out the accountants cut out the tax preparer as first place so one of the things according to their d.i.y. on line returns increased ten point four percent over last year from twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen dry and driving an overall d.i.y. growth of seven point nine percent what this means is h. and r block will eventually in the next couple of years mark my words they will start closing most stores that you say they will not have those open they will not have tax preparers and you will not have accountants there what you'll have is on line software and maybe once during tax season the pop ups you know and this is what they want to pay insurance and they want to pay salaries to people. in those

groups because it's like look right now i do business with one of these talks between companies and i do my taxes every year because but you know if it was available through the i.r.s. i would do it through the i.r.s. because i don't like having to have this other party involved in one of the most intimate aspects of my life which is our taxes you know and look there's a least let us go there was thirty six other countries including germany japan the united kingdom the permit return free filing for for for some taxpayers thirty six other countries around the world doing it rather than those were the ones where i do this this this sort of thing and you look at those like you see in the in the video where you show is these you know these tax preparation it's just an app it's this it's all these things how much information are they holding how are they are they keeping it safe none of these things are asked and why why i can you not simply do what you can do on a million other things the d.m.v. and a lot of other agencies but i can't i have to pay a private company in order to have the right. to file my taxes absolutely

ridiculous when you are dead. according to the centers for disease control more than one hundred million belts in the united states are now living with diabetes or pre-diabetes and when you combine that with the fact that in just twenty two thousand and fifteen diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the us that makes insulin one of the most important drugs in the health care industry today and that is why on wednesday of this week lawmakers grilled drug manufacturers on capitol hill over the lifesaving drugs suddenly skyrocketing prices over the last five years which of caused many diabetics to start rationing and stockpiling insulin now in a move many feels kind of a preemptive strike against this rising tide of criticism insulin maker said nope he announced that it will sell monthly supplies of insulin for a fixed price of just ninety nine dollars r.t. america's tradition of the story. the biopharmaceutical company sent off a says that it will sell months supplies of insulin for

a fixed price of ninety nine dollars to cash paying patients in the u.s. the move comes after the company faces intense pressure by the trumpet ministration and congress to lower the cost of its nearly one hundred year old lifesaving drug the new plan comes as insulin has become a flashpoint in the drug pricing debate it's designed for people who are exposed to high out of pocket costs such as uninsured patients and for those who don't qualify for other access programs it's simply unacceptable that anyone in this country cannot access the very drugs that their lives depend on because of the price of insulin has gotten out of control now starting in june the savings program will allow people with diabetes in the united states to buy up to ten boxes of pens or ten milliliter vials per month for a total of ninety nine dollars with a valid perception regardless of the patient's income the company launched a savings program in april last year and at the time enabling those who pay cash to pay seven prices of nineteen. nine dollars for one ten milliliter bottle or one

hundred forty nine dollars for one box of insulin pens it has become reach of sleep expensive for instance the price of insulin has doubled since two thousand and twelve after nearly tripling in the past ten years the new ninety nine dollars per month price could be as little as one tenth the patients would have paid before and includes all senate fees insulin brands but critics believe the move is an attempt to woo lawmakers considering the company has been under scrutiny for its prices of insulin however the company says its decision to expand the program came out after it heard stories of people rationing the insulin because they couldn't afford it some even died as a result according to the c.d.c. more than thirty million americans have diabetes and the annual cost of insulin for people with type one diabetes in the u.s. nearly doubled from two thousand and twelve to two thousand and sixteen reporting in new york trinity each of us are two. at

a seven eleven convenience store in toledo ohio a sad but familiar scene was caught on camera and by customers the owner of the store just tendered saying a young man of about fifteen years old stealing food upon seeing with the boy had taken mostly cheap unhealthy snacks saying asked why and according to witness bishop the young man said he only wanted to feed himself and his little brother the owner said this is not food you want food i'll give you food that's been saying proceeded to not only stop as employee from calling the police but also to give the boy among other things a whole pizza sausage rolls and beverages to take home many noted that by not criminalizing the boy and handing them to police he saved is scared child a record that could haunt him for the rest of his life and he helped out to children in need and here's to those people who see a human being not a statistic and show the world what community. truly me. it's nice to see that and

it's nice to kind of close the show now with all the bad news we seem to have the course of today lost some story awesome story that is our show for you today and remember everyone in this world we are not told but we all love them so i tell you all i love you i am tired of them and capital i keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great night everybody. it is finally how often julian assange was arrested within the at dorian embassy in london is widely expected he will be extradited to the united states to stand trial for the expected charges are espionage this is truly a dark day for journalists and journals.

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the book different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else i just think i was going to go. by the way ways of that slide here. and use a bit like it's a. this if. you do this the first one to do for us we just can stumble through the pages. i just feel useful to do and to. see if it was matched.

at the base of the plane. to libya. it's a look it was supposed to focus. their full support squeeze one of these critics one of the most musical. because he's been. pushing into my for the smear. going to see if you go to. the post someone into believing it because it doesn't spell it you know it's pretty easy. since. i remain very much opposed to military intervention i am opposed to it because i fundamentally do not believe it is in u.s. interest there are several issues at play in venezuela one is the terrible terrible

humanitarian state into which venezuela has fallen under the regime of the first of which i wish and now you question much would that alone in my opinion is not a justification for an american invasion. but worse. was going on after almost seven years confined to the ecuadorian embassy in london the u.k. police trying to weaken excited to do the songs from means one safe haven and place him under arrest. most of all the law and no hero while the british prime minister

and a. fraser called all for ending a soldier's asylum it was a blown community brians it's a dark day for journalism. it's precision means there any journalist can be extradited for prosecution in the united states for having published truthful information about the united states.