breaks it count down. most people have this picture. change rather remote part of the world probably the pomp of the plan that. we have political terms economic in scientific terms the most. transformative. picture of a. much more. fundamental. post of the. greetings and salutations well after seven long years julian assan just finally

out of the ecuadorian embassy and right in the hands of british authorities in fact he was quite literally dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy by london metropolitan police at ten am london time thursday morning while holding a copy of gore vidal's book history of the national security state the founder of wiki leaks had his asylum status revoked this week by current ecuadorian president lenin miranda who tweeted in a sovereign decision ecuador withdrew the asylum status to julian assange after his repeated violations to international conventions and daily life protocols after to after he was taken into custody assad was almost immediately then found guilty by a magistrates court in westminster for a two thousand and twelve charge of failing to surrender to the court and right on cue proving that assad and his supporters were not conspiracy theorists or just being paranoid these last seven years the united states justice department unsealed their charges against the wiki leaks founder announcing that a songe was arrested by u.k.

authorities so that he could be extradited to the united states to face a federal charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for agreeing to break. password to a classified u.s. government computer the charges you see stem from massages roll and whistleblower chelsea manning's massive leak of thousands upon thousands of iraq and afghanistan war reports along with over two hundred thousand state department cables in response to the arrest whistleblower edward snowden tweeted. critics 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.

pretty. good that's. what they like that i got. the. world remember watching. in time to have the wallace and 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 max so i want to start just asking you you know this i think up about ten am london time five this morning you know what was your reaction the moment you heard this news that they that they'd won in this drug drought 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 a precedent 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 night 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 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 at work i mean yeah i mean there's a lot of things in there million reasons but one it actually there is actually if

you do and how someone is being treated at and i'd like to bring someone else into this discussion now. the you my you might know him. the host of the world according to jesse i would like to introduce. that as a former minnesota governor as the inventor and thank you so much for joining us sesay. well it's nice to be here you know we've got some horrible weather hitting us in 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 is also this this kind of arrest of julian assange and so i guess i want to ask you just this is what is what it what is your thoughts on this arrest and what were you thinking when you got it were you know what what came to your mind the moment you saw him brought 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 and during

that entire time not we haven't committed one war crime moloney it's because of julian assad 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 assange that we learned of all this we wouldn't have known about the torture we wouldn't know one of about the brutal murders that took place and the sad thing is 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.

it's one of those things that you know there's always this national security question. it always seems to come up in the right as 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 max of the start of this quickly start with you you know is that you know is that something that's legitimate to hide behind but i mean the. indictment claims that julian assange 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 many of the documents that were produced by wiki leaks i've relied so much on wiki leaks as

a journalist and so many other journalists have been if any journalist has ever used wiki leaks to show the public what this opaque unelected national security state is doing often it 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 stuff from what is of most of them we. just see as a former special forces by term and governor and former governor you know where do you stand on the side do you that that kind of use the the bug you know when you use the idea of mash and 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 the you know the other people who are always like screamin you know they're always screaming like oh we have to get disarmed you have to get

a song as well you don't want to say how move on is that you know the big question thout hero or trader error and then. something i just want to point out that people at home china is not americans that. is not american citizens so this idea that he somehow sold things to somebody he is not an american citizen and he has no. responsibility to do anything the united states so i think everything the sender stand that he has a story and was actually dorian for a short amount of time but i want to this chuck schumer tweeted today quote now that julian a sound 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 you say i'm a good old chuck schumer you have seen this from a lot of democrats i saw this from the foreign affairs committee from their account and 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 absolutely no way given this atmosphere that these partisan hacks of encouraged or given might pompei a word 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 u.s. 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 stay . and 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'd like to see if this before we run out of time is that there or is there another person right now because of this and that's chelsea manning who is a marine corps member was again put into jail for not testifying in the same stuff she's already had testified against which has to do with chile and signage and so now here we are looking at something that looks very much like a calculated thing but the truth is there is nothing that chelsea manning is going to say in a court that's going to be any different i want to before she's already testified to these things and quite frankly as much as i like a son like we need to just like. i 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 we know it's true because of the sealed 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 who 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. were never going to happen and they didn't have to use ruptly footage and. it's a day that was about those little guys weren't there to get the news you know where to bad things and it's take that roger stone's house but they weren't there for this because their national security state masters didn't send them exactly. one thank you so much for coming on and joining us i'm talking about this important issue it was to benefit the governor. because because of the storms he was talking to always a pleasure having you both very much so much as we go to break off watchers don't forget to let us know what you think about tougher to cover the facebook and twitter of you tube and see our poll shows at r 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 is true to chavez brings us the latest of our friends in big pharma. skyrocketing prices of lifesaving drugs in some states to watch the.

u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defenses officer says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for

a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy for us. it is finally how often julian assange was arrested within the 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. so we came here where you were before you came here when you live well death row in many u.s. states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor of the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to split them up this summer. these unproven innocent don't think it's going to destroy the army more exonerations is going to take some work

we as a society realize this is not working and we actually do something about. 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 og watchers when the us house of representatives passed the taxpayer first act no 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 and 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 in our blogs d.i.y. tax products however only three percent of eligible people 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 incentives 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 criticized 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 corporations a whole quaters is a time to stop corporations from profiting from your entire. says when they don't even want to pay their own. walls thank you for making that point at the end there

how many of. you now you know we see corporations over and over again they don't pay their targets they find the legal loopholes and now here in what should be a boon 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 have to pay nobody don't have to join so our us government program. is lobbying groups as otherwise as medicare and they work really hard to make sure that people don't know about it they don't market it among 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 the free versions so some of them it's only people between twenty five and thirty five and some people that's between fifty and sixty five and so they make all these little rules and they sort of make it so you can't really make use of those 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 basic talismans and that's it they don't have it's all very like fill in the blanks 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 mean i made that joke going to the break but it's kind of true this is like privatizing you know paying your taxes it's ridiculous if you're going to take it and just see 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 people that's very very kind of cloak and dagger behind closed door you're going to want people to get it for free if they can charge them and that's capitalism. there's a free market acceptance not a firm 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 is ron wyden discussing this at the hearing so the bill. taxpayers shouldn't have to use a private company to fill file their taxes online i support the lowing americans to file directly on line 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 those important reforms. well 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 at least a lot of scope 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. i 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 feel is 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.

americans treated the shot as the story. the biopharmaceutical company sent off a says that it will sell month 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. cept prices of ninety nine dollars for one ten milliliter bottle or one hundred forty nine dollars for one box of insulin pens it has become reaches slee 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 today. 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 him to police he saved is scared child ereka

heard 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. well community. it's nice to see that and it's nice to kind of close the show on now with all the bad news we seem to have the course of of today lost some story awesome story that is our show for you today and remember everyone in this world are not told but we all love them so i tell you all i love you i roll them and capital i keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great night everybody. guys are financial survival. when customers go by you're just a. good now well read you some lower. that's undercutting

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good. luck. to. the world braxton's wiki leaks founder julian assange faces charges both in the u.k. and the u.s. many expressing concern that a dangerous precedent has been set by his arrest editor in chief told us that they were for caution. this is a threat to journalists and journalists and the freedom of the media oldworld. a man allegedly willing to wiki leaks founder julian assange is arrested in ecuador

that just hours after police dragged the whistleblower.