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on this week's show has the u.s. intelligence community gone deep state is there a political bias within the cia and the national security agency at the pentagon insiders speak out but first venezuela at the boiling point after a failed coup attempt this past week what next there and a troubling trend here in the usa spring is suicides i'm holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our t.v. america.

as opposition protesters took to the streets this week and venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president won cleared there's no turning back. u.s. secretary of state might pompei oh calls american military intervention there possible russia's foreign minister calls washington's interference a gross violation of international law warning that the continuation of aggressive steps is fraught with the most serious consequences only the venezuelan people have the right to determine their destiny as the united nations urges all parties to exercise maximum restraint venezuelan military leaders remain loyal to elected president nicolas maduro is that support he too much duro maintaining control let's ask dr glass a loop a correll cabrera a professor at george mason university welcome back to haunt the trumpet ministration war hawks paint

a picture of untenable chaos in venezuela and people coping in survival mode what if the united states just left venezuela alone what's the worst that could happen. i think everybody needs to leave when a swell of alone it's difficult to talk about this country right now because it seems that minutes with us are really not the ones that matter here. and the united states is backing an opposition that the opposition does not represent the venezuelan people but the sad time nicolas muddles stay in power i mean when he stays in power is just causing a lot of affection alyssum division which regards to this issue so it seems to me that it's a little the about the united states it's about also model himself you know i'm here at very important confrontation on a military intervention and maybe you know there are all that russia also plays in

venezuela what's called problems with the united states' interest in venezuela and that's with be a fight among two powers and what is going to happen with the business well and people it. a proxy war and exactly venezuelan people caught in the crossfire as we tape the show here on friday afternoon we are just learning that president trump invited mere putin spoke for an hour and a half on the phone in venezuela came up we don't know what was said but the so-called operation freedom protest this past week that sought to turn venezuela's military against president maduro fizzled and the u.s. government bristles at the term coup here as national security advisor john bolton . it's not a coup when the legitimate president gives orders to his government what is a coup is the presence of cuba and russia directing the type of fares of the government of venezuela that this is our hemisphere it's not where the russians ought to be interfering this is a mistake on their part it's not going to lead to an improvement of relations our

hemisphere he says professor there seems to be a bold line between northern and southern hemisphere but not between eastern and western hemisphere is. i don't i don't think that they have a serious up nobody it's not i mean it's not that i be hemisphere does not belong to anybody and that's the problem but here thinks have not been done in a very intelligent a way because we in the sake of you know defending the mongo doctrine continuing the monroe doctrine you're willing to do whatever you know leaving people. like in the middle of a possible war i mean i would like i would i would i would like that everybody takes their hands off of than it's well because because it's about us i mean philippine american people we need to we need to define our own rights and we need to be left alone in so many ways but at the thing time you know mother has also caused a lot of division in his country sure and they're yeah but what multan is saying is

that he's taking it because of his hemisphere he's looking at these as a geopolitical issue and so that gives them a right to interfere that they're not give them the right to interfere but that the cannot give them or any other country the right to interfere in the matters of a country that's reaching natural resources sure the biggest oil reserves in the world which has to have something to do with it but to your point consensus among venezuela watchers is that as long as president maduro enjoys the support of the military leadership he will probably maintain control do you agree on how. room is that support well. this point is has been for and at this point one way that all the united states and the plot the part of the plan that they had been trying to demean and try to advance that they failed military coup was failed

exactly because they didn't calculate well that was an operation that looked very clumsy. because the military leadership is with nicholas mother will they are the owners of the country as well we have to also remember that they have a they're on the lost interest and they have a lot of things to lose if they lose power it's not just like giving them agnes and then they will accept apathy their own arse up that nation as well well as a parliamentary leader why do enjoyed immunity from arrest until now we've has been withdrawn and the duro regime has threatened to arrest him frankly i'm surprised they haven't yet how surprised are you that he's still in country razan holder that's exactly yeah i'm also surprised but he's also kind of wrong to the spanish embassy or something like that right so any embassy of a country that's that's friends with with both that that has recognized why bill as

the interim president of that country i think that they could do with that but also that's what elevate the tensions and that would probably give another reason to be united states to intervene militarily that's probably why it has not happened i've only got about thirty seconds but i am going to put you on the spot prediction where do you think we go from here in venezuela. it's really difficult to know but i don't i don't forsee a good future the deterioration of the economy the relationships between the two countries that are interested in supporting one and the other side you know it's getting to the limit and the. elko i mean it's probably going to bring different i mean and another reaction because at this point the united states has not learned really smart and really well thought maybe the third option the last option would be a real intervention might be a good night it's safe there rackley thank you george mason university professor

guadalupe correll cobra appreciate your context and perspective on this important story thank you. for many springtime means rebirth new beginnings but for some it's a dark time the national institutes of health reports that the majority of studies confirm that suicide peaks in spring mainly for men older individuals and for violent methods of suicide and this isn't just a usa phenomenon studies from both the northern and southern hemisphere report the same seasonality why let's ask psycho therapist nancy collyer author of among other books the power of off the mindful way to stay sane in a virtual world nancy welcome back thanks for having me as always at the bottom of the screen you're going to see the number for the national suicide prevention hotline and let's leave that number up there for a while it's eight hundred to seven three t a l d

a that's eight hundred two seven three eight five seven three eight five five nancy your book title suggest one obvious issue at least to this layman has our gradual migration from the real world to the virtual world made some of us terminally lonely yes is the short answer to that question there are so many reasons and so many reasons for us to be concerned right now about the doubling of the teen suicide rate and the rates overall but certainly technology plays a part in isolating us. oddly although we think it connects us in fact what we're finding is that people become more attached to their devices and are spending less time out in the world in hobbies in communicating in person with other people and what we're finding is that actually people feel sad or they feel more depressed

and of course online if people have depression already they can find all sorts of groups and. other sites where suicide is talked about suicide is were mental size so it's a problem but we're living in a culture right now holland where you've really valuing the wrong things you know somebody said to me the other day about this college scandal why would that child want to go to school she's a you tube star and i thought what is going on in our world what we value is fame what we value is money what your is getting had these are not the things that nourish the human being right on i'm not at all surprised by the rise in depression and now suicide has become a real option shows like thirteen reasons irony being social media is making us the anti social the spring time data surprised me we hear so much about end of the year

holiday season blues does your practice reflect increased aches this time of year. it's interesting because it is a paradox we think of you know the holiday season with family and then we think of the darker shorter days but what we've found in the research is well couple things one is just biological there is some evidence although not entirely robbery to buy it is that pollen may trigger certain immune response which sets off mood disorders so it's a funny thing we don't know about that but one thing i certainly find in my practice is that people look around and. you see this wonderful weather and they see how everyone else talked about the internet looks happy just look at your instagram feed look at what everybody's you know on their catamaran in bali springtime everybody has this feeling they're supposed to be out with their loved one walking in gardens and of course very few people are certain are and that's

wonderful but there's a sense of i'm not living the spring that i'm supposed to be living in paris then and that gets triggered which sets off a depression and so on and so on and so on the other thing i've noticed in my practice is that spring time has a tendency for endings you know we break for this some are our communities take pause is and we need community we need community to be well and so if we already are suffering with depression and our places of contact are closed for this summer we see actually a rise in suicide makes sense a recently released gallup poll data demonstrate that americans stress worry and anger intensified in twenty eight team asked about their feelings the day before they were surveyed those polled said nearly half of us feel worried a lot more than one in five feel angry

a lot and americans are among the most stressed people in the world with the fifteen to forty nine age group most stressed and this comes as the economy is roaring though gallup tells us that unsurprisingly lower income americans carry a greater emotional burden than upper income people and this data tells us that those who approve of president trump's job performance are significantly more likely to experience negative emotions than his supporters disapprove or feel more negative than supporters nancy does this validate what rush limbaugh and his army of imitators call trump do you arrange mint syndrome. it really does and anger does not lead to happiness anger leads to stress all of the stuff that trump and this whole administration is fomenting leads to misery so we don't get happy when we're hating we don't get happy when it's us against the other right

none of this works you know and in this country what we need right now is we need to start focusing on mental health and what makes us well more hate us not make us well and it does not make us happy and it does not make us rich and so we we absolutely need to bring some sanity back to the way we're living that actually makes people well suicide is going up because the whole way that we're living not only the economic insecurity not only the rage that's being fomented and worked not only the climate insecurity not only that everywhere you look somebody is being blown up about some reason for hate right but none of this works so we've got to get back to some sanity make sense thank you author and psycho therapist nancy collier. coming up is the united states intelligence community compromised by political bias is the pentagon insiders speak out next

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we think of the central intelligence agency as clandestine of voiding attention but these have become familiar faces john brennan was the cia director for nearly four years under president obama and now he is a n.b.c. news and m.s.n. be seen national security analyst you may recall how the white house revoked his security clearance characterizing his on air statements as unfounded and outrageous allegations you might also recognize james clapper a former director of the national intelligence in the obama administration and previously hundred. secretary for intelligence under president george w. bush you've seen him on the sunday morning shows on c.n.n. when you see them they are often critical of the administration clapper is called president trump having the nuclear codes pretty damn scary his words. is this

symptomatic of an institutional political bias within the intelligence community let's ask former cia counterterrorism specialist and military intelligence officer philip giraldi and former pentagon official michael maloof welcome thank you thank you very gently who spent twelve years as a cia analyst is now a prophet georgetown and columbia university's recently wrote he reckons that a considerable body of evidence much of it fragmentary indicates that many cia people have left leaning political preferences but less evidence shows that political bias influences cia analyses fill our president has introduced the term deep state into our lexicon based on your experience is it a stretch to fret that the intelligence community has become so politicized as to potentially impact the direction of u.s.

policy or even the outcome of an election well i think i would have to agree that it has become that politicized but there are important caveats to making that kind of judgment there are twenty thousand people that work for cia it's divided up into a number of directorates which are then divided up into divisions and staffs. cia analysts or the seven thousand or so cia analysts are basically academics they come straight out of university they don't normally serve overseas and they basically have the same sorts of prejudice is a mindset that the the academic world has we. it means they're liberal democrats to a large extent it doesn't necessarily influence their analysis if you look at the other major part of the cia which is the clandestine service which is where i worked cia spies are a lot more pragmatic and scary spies tend to be very conservative so characterizing

the whole agency in a certain way is is probably inappropriate but the people at the top are political and the ones at the top that are political are the ones that we're just talking them right there in it for their own agenda their their own success their own careers well we are all only human and we all have our biases michel based on your time at the pentagon would you characterize those people the crew cuts in uniform i see at the pentagon stop on metro as validating the stereotype that military people politically right well they are conservative but now being in the pentagon i was a consumer of the intelligence that is generated from the from the agencies and at the cia and the thing is that what we saw was that analysts themselves were were good they really worked with the facts but as their analysis rose to the top the analysis became more and more politicized and i saw this. in two

thousand and two when i was there when george tenet presented to george bush the slam dunk evidence that he claims that. in iraq and i knew from the work that i did at my office that they didn't have the operational deby m d that he claimed that they had and we solved that it's because tenet was democrat we my view was that he was actually setting george bush up for failure wow from a policy standpoint because they had assets that they did not want to have and purged or are compromised in iraq and they also had other agendas a second agenda yes and we see. see that today in many respects with with regard to this deep state thing that you referred to they have they have they are basically a government unto themselves and that's what it but that is what has emerged and they they can i remember james woolsey told me one time that his operational so

basically slow rolled him he could not get them to do anything and even though he was clinton's. appointee he was also a conservative he was from the pentagon initially and he said the few times that he could brief. clinton. was it was. didn't happen very often he and he would joke about how that that helicopter that crashed into the white house was one of his attempts to get in to brief the president i'll assume or it was recently reported that the president called president carter for advice on something and despite past political acrimony ex presidents have traditionally. fraternal brain trust to the sitting president after john brennan's outspoken criticism president trump stripped his security clearance phil does the intel community

suffer did they lose institutional memory by freezing out somebody with brennan's no. well i would say it depends on the individual. brenna did rise up through the system but he was a senior manager right from the beginning so he didn't have a hands on feel for what was coming on in the intelligence community so i think he was probably the exception to the rule. twenty seven team six months after brennan left the cia he said that officers there had an obligation to in his words refuse to carry out trump orders if the president fired robert muller. the president did not but still what if well that would have been a constitutional crisis i think that britain has crossed that line a number of times and if we remember stories during watergate when nixon was

drinking heavily and talking to the portraits that people were told ask me first you think we're that close now could get that close now no because the players have changed. brennan was a unique quantity quantity or quality. was another one who accused trump of being a russian agent right so we had a lot of people who were who were very involved with the clinton campaign saying these things and i think that was that was unique michael the word bureaucrat has an unfortunate connotation here in washington thousands and thousands of work and staffs are career people and you mentioned a minute ago that you go higher up on the food chain and you're dealing with appointed officials inherently political if the intel community is biased is that bias pervades the community or where on the totem pole is the fifty yard line again i think it's at the at the higher higher echelons because

they do get involved the higher echelon types do are involved in policy formulation and decision they're in they're in gauged in the discussions that often go on and they're asked of their opinion about stuff off and i know when i was at the pentagon we had a lot of cia types who were in our office in the office of the secretary of defense which was a analytical policy job and we had him succumb to to us and they're also succumbing to the n.s.c. so they permeate all levels of government up to the presidency itself so they cannot so they are on the one hand they know what the policy folks are doing but on the other hand. they are able then they use that against them i had i had a case in where i would meet with rather regularly with german. intelligence in munich when i was a based in munich at the time and i come back give my report and i knew and i knew that the agency itself barred certain types of things to be passed up to the

policymakers they'd get my report and they'd be waiting for the policy reports are that the information the intelligence from the community and unless they came from the community it wasn't official and so consequently we had to deal with that all the time the wield a lot of power within the structure and this this also has a bearing on policy formulation oftentimes an episode basically is a heads up to a potential policy crisis and if they're not going to flag you on it then the policymakers blinded by it all right we're talking rank but michael how much of this is generational young people are less steeped in institutional tradition and their politics might differ from elders. it happens and i once you're in once you're in it and you've been burned a number of times you quickly become a sage and you begin to understand how it is that you mention the corporate memories or maybe. career types carry a corporate memory and then they at

a certain point they try to unload that because you know too much right and so this is what i had to encounter but so be it thank you philip giraldi and michael maloof pleasure having you with us and thank you and thank you for watching the big picture i'm holland cook in washington question more. do you know where the. underwater. total room go to. not mean we didn't. all. go to post due to the move for your.

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