almost primal instinct toward self destruction or at the very least we can be pretty cavalier with our own safety both personally and mouse from the kid on the escalator acting the fool to our national leaders and their strange low b. and fingers on the button yes to the button today we are going to start this party my friends with a bang a nuclear bang in the form of a new princeton based video simulation currently making the rounds on social media that proves there is no such thing as a limited small tactical nuclear war called plan aids researchers at princeton university science and global security lab created the form in the animation to show the potentially catastrophic consequences of current u.s. and russian nuclear war plans according to the researchers the simulation is based on an actual independent assessments of current u.s. and russian forest postures and nuclear weapon targets in total after all the birds of launched as you can see here in the video yet the estimates more than 91000000

people in russia the united states and nato allied countries might be killed or injured within 3 hours following a single nuclear warning shot 91000000 people and that doesn't even take into account the deaths from nuclear fallout and all the other long term health and environmental effects from a full on nucular exchange it's sobering videos and statistics like these that remind us that it isn't duck and cover that will keep us safe. it's watching the hawks. wonder what. it looks like. it's like. at the bottom. of the day like you that i got. with. the.

welcome we're going to watching the hawks i am tired robot and i'm up with a lot less. dramatic video after about a pretty girl well then we will forget just how big these like air strikes like it's nice to sit in say in your in your comfy house or your comfy apartment and say well you know i just think we should bomb iran i mean what's the big deal anguished totally new i mean we've heard people we've had people say that this doesn't say yes that is a great idea with that there's that next day after it's great that you get your little bit of revenge and you feel a little right righteous about it but. there's the day after there's the week after there's the years after and then go to her russian and talk to switch you know 1st you don't there's nothing until you talk to someone who's been a direct victim of

a nuclear blast and there's only a couple places you can do that i just don't think that people really understand that that's the plan that's plan a yeah yeah that's what you see in this video is that you what you see exactly how the plans will play out if followed as the as both votaries russian made oh u.s. of all those military plans were to be put in place and there was go time up of one strike this is exactly what you'd see happen there is the u.s. rockets flying through the air then you see russians coming up then you see nato's that's all nuclear weapons that's. everywhere would hit according to plan essentially russia launched $300.00 nuclear warheads with the goal of wiping out a response of $180.00 nukes of its own the us launches its smorgasbord of nukes and that is the whole bang 90000000 people wiped out in a span of 3 hours if we're not careful if if cooler heads don't prevail well and

that's the problem is that you have a system set in place in which cooler heads aren't supposed to the media doesn't want most news doesn't happen saying over there thinking about this they're thinking about this though and we saw the release of those pentagon documents about how we'd handle nuclear weapons what the current plans are in case this happened just earlier this year the doctrine for joint nuclear operations on the. joint chiefs of staff website back in june there was this interesting. note from that document which said integration of nuclear weapons employment with conventional and special operations forces is essential to the success of any mission or operation also according to the document the us doesn't have a no 1st use policy so we don't technically have a policy saying nuke 1st shocking i know we've only done it before they're prepared to use them in any way that's conventional non-conventional which

i think goes back to the point of you know we're looking at entire generation of soldiers that were in iraq who have either are suffering with cancer or died of cancer because of burns what do you think they're going to come home with if you drop a nuke and then say ok guys go on in there and finish the job and what do you think happens what's the environmental impact how many vets are going to come home. i mean you talk about climate change. and that's something that nobody takes into consideration this whole simulation was based on the idea of the put forward numerous times in the last 2 years ago we can use. nuclear weapons unlike conventional small little places like we can drop like one tactical move and that somehow that's ok you know this is where the doctrine live regular bombs don't just kill people right there that's an invention a nuclear weapon obliterate the whole area and makes a place on lovable for a large amount of time. if it were not in defense of american of them if not it's

barely a weapon it's a toy for psycho this is it truly is what's more frightening too is because of the way technology and launch technologies and it has been approved and built upon in an article for war in the rocky rocks out of the low 3rd quarter smooth get them to argue that given the technical bounce made since the cold war in the 1st strike technology but it may be no surge to develop a new system based on artificial intelligence with breed of german response decisions that detects decides in direct strategic forces with such speed that the attack time compression challenge does not place the united states minimum possible position in other words what they're arguing is a i. have everything over to ai they can strike quicker if someone launches at us 1st which is essentially the plot of terminator 2 i was going to you know we want that we want. u.s. pilots flight attendants nuclear power plant operators and railroad and bus drivers

operate under very restrictive schedules to avoid things like sleep deprivation and judgment lapses as well as 15 again psychosis however while you are in the sky there is one member of the flight crew not protected by those guidelines among others and the result is being called a crisis federal air marshals part of the t.s.a. consists of about 3000 covert armed guards who are deployed on commercial passenger jets to protect the crew and passengers from acts of criminal or terroristic violence while in the air however a series of reports government investigations and a month long a.b.c. news investigation uncovered that this elites force of. sharpshooting sky cops has seen a major increase in suicides murder suicides psychotic episodes fatal health issues and severe depression in recent years the president of the air marshal national council's sonia hightower the bosco told a.b.c. news that the crisis is here it's an epidemic if we don't try and stop this i'm in

fear that the next time i turn on the t.v. it's going to be an airplane taken down even more disturbing is the fact that the t.s.a. the transportation safety administration has made a habit of destroying the careers and lives of air marshals who choose to blow the whistle on waste fraud mismanagement and abuse so the question remains who is looking out for the people who look out for the rest of us. to understand is that we just have to put all of our trust and faith in those people they know better the government always knows better the government doesn't mistreat any of its employees they're happy all the time and are never stressed and they never do anything wrong ever how patriotic it is and that but that's the mentality they just tell you like don't whistle blow the air marshal their super human rights i mean well here give you 2 years they've. responded to the report saying that quote federal air marshals dams are

a critical and successful part of layered approach to transportation security the health and welfare of every man and woman who serves in the fans as t.s.a. the highest priority t.s.a. and federal air marshal leadership take care of every federal air marshal very seriously rigorously and dispute any indication otherwise. yes because a.b.c. news and all these people are making this up they're not overworked they're not overstressed and their job is nothing but sunshine and flowers obviously i'm glad you and. wow accept or i don't know the ts is required by law or policy to keep a record of these suicides by air marshals but still it's there somewhere between 3 to 5 or you're right so remember a couple weeks ago the n.y.p.d. about a week or so ago when the air or the officer who who murdered eric garner losses was officially lost his job and they were all kind of talking about this this how

many suicides there was this you know complaint that it was a strike in a number of suicide suzanne there isn't something again or talk about a huge difference of a number see you about 3000 federal air marshals and then when you look at the n.y.p.d. which is something like 91 i'll say it's a large when you go there yes like maybe 6000 people it would be the equivalent of them having 30 to 50 suicides in a year. if you look at them like currently so they had 9 this year 90 some of 1000 police officers the n.y.p.d. 3000 of these specially trained highly trained sharpshooters on a plane never quite understood that but this is a person who's now not being looked after is going through a very stressful and or they don't really have a union you know so we're kind of looking at a thing where they're not protected in that way. there was a congressional report entitled urgent reforms needed at t.s.a.

from september of $20000.00 allies a cummings in congress to part of it said that the report revealed a pattern of mismanagement at t.s.a. and v.h.s. including arbitrary and retaliatory personnel practices the lack of uniform civil service protections has led to numerous deviations from agency and deployment policy and from government once standers. which has which in turn has chilled whistleblowers harmed morale and negatively affected agency operations here's where this is the thing you can sit in have your oh they should be tougher all well it's a tough job oh well we do the best we can that's not ok you cannot treat people are supposed to be like the elite of our country and these people and tell us we're keeping them safe it's the same thing with cops don't sit there and tell me that when you're when you're doing everything you can to punish anybody who finds wrongdoing and wants to make things better you know the whistle blowers are there especially in those businesses they're there to try to make things better they're there to say hey the system is working correctly stop major things from happening

and to do his air marshals job has got to be garbage think about that 5 we have to work on a plane what are the top 12 hours a day and you can't fall asleep you can't read a book you've got to be actually going to read it and you're armed boy that's the person i want in a stressful situation the 1000 feet right and i know the iraqis ever understood why the solution to our safety as some of the gone on other than i'd like to rethink that whole idea so our screwed what are right on that note we will go to break our watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on our social media be sure to watch and watch the podcast which is now available on spotify up and there's a good everywhere you go to the podcast coming up we discuss the release of edward snowden the. who we discussed aebersold his legacy and his new memoir permanent record with the best going to burgle it but we've stayed till i want to miss this.

and then pain years then cross started 10 years and i think it's time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe the format here is what i've been thinking about next season related episodes filmed on an island 10 expert fight about for a trophy what do you think ok a more affordable option 25 packs for. one red rose another suggestion political jeopardy parody no political cookout where we will literally wrote the elites. late night show it's a rare format these days and it's cheap all you need is an old microphone in

a printed banner but to leave me with one of my girls i can do this and laughter politics gone wild like music. ok crosstalk is not about hype it's about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong. peter if you want to change something why don't we get rid of the bow tie no that is too much. for some may 20th 2013 was just another day like any other in our lives but for one

young n.s.a. contractor that is a day that would forever change not only a future of his life but that of the free world as well you see may 20th was the day that n.s.a. contractor edward snowden at just 30 years old 1st arrived in hong kong with a cache of top secret documents that he would later use to reveal that the free world was not as free as our leaders promised us it was now 6 years later edward snowden a surveillance state whistleblower heard around the world has released a memoir of his life entitled permanent record the book not only delves into the events and circumstances that made him a permanent figure in our collective history books but it also fits into a record his deep love and respect for another outside hero in this journey his wife lindsay mills and speaking about the release of the book snowden told guardian journalist ewen macaskill who was one of the original journalists he met in hong kong back in 2012 the quote you have to be ready to stand for something if you want to change that is what i hope this book will help people come to decide for

themselves and her stage right our good friends in the united states government to risk mind us all that snowden is still public enemy number one with the announcement that the u.s. justice department has filed a civil lawsuit against snowden and his publisher over permanent record joining us now to discuss edward snowden's new book as legacy and the justice department's no lawsuit is investigative journalist and spawn thanks for joining us then you have a for having me on. first let's get into this lawsuit and why is the u.s. justice department suing edward snowden and. and one of they even remotely hoped to get from the lawsuit it's kind of comical on some levels if it wasn't so bizarre but essentially what they've done is they filed a lawsuit to say that they know they can't stop the publication of the book because the 1st amendment was in the constitution so instead what they're they've done is they've gone to a judge and said he should not be allowed to profit off of this book so they're asking the court to essentially allow the government to seize all the money that is

made from the book itself and for the government to be able to keep that money and not only that but to go a step further and to also file on for the court to essentially put out an injunction that will say that snowden can give no speeches in any locations around the world about the book or the contents of the book so that's what they're asking the court to do wow read them it's not of like freedom and it's just going to add in this really quick what's really interesting about this is the other major whistleblower chelsea manning she is now getting fined $1000.00 a day every day that she's she's being held in jail edward snowden they're going after his money that's an interesting kind of tactic that the government's taking now let's go after their money and let's cut their source of funds let's not let them earn a living and that kind of attitude that's really frightening really frightening. what are the apologize a lost audio here for it's like oh it's ok oh well it's moving on as

a responsible lawsuit snowden had tweeted today this is the book the government does not want you to read i can't flee the justice department went hold my beer and said yeah obviously i did did the justice department and edward snowden the biggest free pub less than a for a buck ever in the history of anything ever. right right but they obviously have it i mean the idea that the justice department is essentially giving some attention to the book is one thing but i think what's kind of interesting about the book itself is the way it's been laid out an opportunity i guess for snowden to try to explain to the world his position in all of this it feels a little bit like it's a bit of a p.r. campaign to go around and maybe i don't want to rewrite history i don't think it's trying to do that but certainly to give his side of the story on many levels here you have to figure that still needs to give his side of the story because he's never really been given the war for the opportunity to do that it's been very

difficult for him because media controls a lot of what is said about his book and about essentially what he ultimately did in the 1st place so i think that's fairly interesting the other thing that i think is kind of interesting about what has come out of this is this discussion essentially about the fact that snowden initially wanted to go to wiki leaks and he wanted to have you know a song to put everything out but because of the rules for wiki leaks where they do not edit information they don't control the information they simply publish the whole thing and put it all out there snowden didn't go through that channel and that's why instead he went to the guardian and to walk oh absolutely put out the story in the 1st place because assad would have demanded complete transparency and he wasn't willing to give that complete transparency that's interesting is there from the other new revelations from the book have been able to kind of dispel some of the rumors. or innuendos surrounding snowden's actions i mean i know i know that

he's kind of come out now and said you know very clearly a no china no russia no one was pushing me to do this he lays that out in the book that you know what what are some of the things we've seen in the book or some of the conversations happened around that that we just didn't know 6 years ago. yeah well i think one of the things we didn't know before at least i didn't know this before is that you know snowden talked about the fact that there's been a lot made of the fact that he wound up you know 1st going to hong kong and then ultimately to russia of course he didn't plan to be in russia he didn't plan to stay there it was actually the state department the pentagon that canceled his passport so he couldn't leave once he landed in russia but one of the things he said was that he actually destroyed a lot of those files that he took with him before he left hong kong so when he originally landed in hong kong and he gave this 1st round of interviews you know sat down with glenn greenwald and laura trail and and it kind of laid out the story in the beginning before he left hong kong he destroyed what he had with him he did not want to take that with him because he says he did not know where he was going to ultimately wind up which i think is

a pretty interesting way of viewing it especially when again the accusations that have been made against him for so long are that well you know snowden was. an operative of russia he was trying to do this to harm the united states he was trying to give information to the enemies of the united states that's been the what the intelligence community has claimed about him for a very long time and i think one of the things that you start to see if these things are true is that stone had a very different idea in mind for what he was trying to do he says and has said that he was not trying to break or destroy the n.s.a. he was trying to reform the n.s.a. he was trying to change those practices and he himself has said that in the past because this looks a lot has a lot to do with kind of his own personal beliefs and his own history that in the past he had a very different view of things and that view has obviously changed once he got inside and began to see what that surveillance apparatus looked like and i think a large part of that also within the book and what you understand now is that he was this pretty conservative guy was all about like what's classified as classified

and this is all of this and it seems that you know part of that was his now wife and part of his that journey of learning mess other it's like when you suddenly are on 2 different sides of the aisle. you come together and you sort of have an eye opening experience and i think now looking back we're 6 years removed from the snowden leaks then what do you think are is the biggest impact that they have had on the public and the u.s. government. well it's a good question i mean ultimately i mean the biggest impact is just knowledge for a lot of people who had you told them 6 years ago that this was happening but have said it's absolutely not happening the government's not reading all of our e-mails they're not capturing all of our text messages they are not conducting this broad vast surveillance today 6 years later every single american not only knows that to be true but completely understands that is what our government does the negative of

that is nothing's really changed the positive is the awareness but the negative is what's actually changed from it i mean we did have this law passed in 2015 under president obama that essentially said we're going to change the way we do surveillance but they didn't lessen surveillance it actually increased surveillance on many different levels so that was a huge problem obviously continues to be so there are some positives of what we know now compared to what we didn't know but in terms of what is that knowledge done about changing the world or changing our reality it hasn't necessarily changed you know snowden i think in some of the interviews around and as a book of sub very strongly that in order it's not just about giving getting government to change policy but i think it's also so that it's up to us to kind of really start standing up for the things that we want to change and with the surveillance state in reference to that instead of so massive now in every country around the world and in private industry that he says it's going to take something like the same reaction we're having the climate change it's going to take kind of

a global protest of people standing up saying i don't want to be tracked everywhere i bring my cell phone i don't want to have those people involved in our lives like this i still believe very strongly and i'll always say this i think there's a hero. i think is a whistleblower and i think it's good that he put this book out your friends one thank you so much for coming on and having this conversation with us today. wildly regarded as the one of the founding mothers of national public radio mary martha curran morrison claiborne boggs more commonly known as cokie roberts passed away this to say at the age of $75.00 she not only made a name for herself at a time when very few women were presenting or shaping the news but also along with susan stamberg nina totenberg and linda one timer created the very concept of what n.p.r. has become in her expansive 4 decade career cokie roberts won 3 emmys wrote 6 books

mainly about the women history for guess was a clear living legend by the library of congress and was regularly known to file stories for 4 different shows on 2 different networks in a single day cokie roberts revolutionized the world in which i report to you today and i leave you with her advice for young women entering this still somewhat male dominated industry and world she said don't get all involved in the politics of your institution or competition in your institution just do your work and get it on the air and then people will see if you're good here's to cokie roberts who told us all told us all to be brave be bold and please trails wherever you may go. runnable job as you said. putting in like 4 stories the day to 2 different sets of serious work it was she was i was working both at n.p.r. and at a.b.c. news for a long time and she was you know she was a congressional be

a reporter you know this is a time like when she started n.p.r. and radio she was a foreign correspondent in greece and i think when you look at what she came up in that time and who have shaped what upon. our entire public n.p.r. public radio which i think is one of the most important institutions media should be protected she was at the core of it with a group of women who in 197879 were literally shaping the world we are now and i will and i hope that we can look back to those those one men and those people who made those kinds of decisions and shaped those things and see the next generation of women how the next part i hope we really. write everybody about is our show for you to bury remember everyone in this world we are told the real blow up so i tell you what i love you i am i robot or on top of all i keep on watching dogs never great.

thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and their decision little sheltered lives every thing came to a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed. you know told a shot to kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and you can my arm and he right mean. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tat happening but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who suffered military sexual trauma reporting brain is more

likely to get the victim punished than the offender and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the list. this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. wouldn't make this manufactured to sentenced him to public wealth. when the running closest to protect themselves. with the crime larry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. from the real news group.

he. she. has logged on the. recall no going to does it cause you know the false soldier you can see each element of them with bullets of them some of them some of the lots and lots enough something. it's a good video the british wrote a song sit on me she's on that sound a small following up keep it down this time i don't. need to promote. more than 50 feet the can conduct a little for you so she could pull the ripples for the way. cool off.

did long to point israel 2nd election this year is on course for yet another stalemate prime minister netanyahu. failed to get a majority signaling the talks. in the coming days will convene negotiations to assemble a strong zionist government i intend to speak with everyone starting tonight we will work to form a unity government. also ahead while saudi arabia proves who was behind the devastating drone attacks on its oil facilities last saturday the u.s. to face the accusations of pinning the blame firmly on iran.