why are we explaining jim crow laws to a child the child sees or a car true it doesn't understand that but when you tell somebody you see what this is this is racism what racism this is racism why are they racist because people hate people because of color why you actually can do more harm so is this a good idea which is you know it's the wrong message so what have you done have you made me smarter or have you shown me the diversity and the perhaps even the splendor of of racial symbolism sometimes we just explain too much sometimes it's best just to shut up play the movie and let kids watch it after all just a movie schist a cartoon that simple thanks for choosing r.t. international this hour we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines you see that.

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graham and adam schiff mugging for the cameras on and bliss wash rinse repeat spin cycle of iran syria ukraine russia to iran syria ukraine russia get iran syria ukraine russia get you to yet another new or really really old democrat joining the race for their presidential nomination well hawk watchers i think it's time that we have to ask ourselves the question that will stump and confound historians for years to come is this truly the best politics the united states government has to offer its people i mean really palosi schumer mcconnell trumped this this is the cream of our crop i mean here in washington d.c. walking down k. street these days it's like wading through a wolf a wall street party sequence thanks to this motley crew of democrats and republicans and all the party marches on capitol hill it's the rest of us my friends it's the rest of us that have to deal with the aftermath like say a nuclear aftermath when one of our leaders drunk on russia date or cold war 2.0 who accidentally bumped the button and up. and smoke we all go all thanks to the

nuclear weapons complex that many of our politicians are so eager to feed again and it's not just washington feeding the most dangerous of beasts according to a new report by the international campaign to abolish nuclear nuclear weapons and titled schools of mass destruction new american universities and the u.s. nuclear weapons complex nearly 50 u.s. universities are involved in the research and design of u.s. nuclear weapons largely in secret and in contradiction of their school's mission statements and friends of the tentacles of the beast run deep which is why we must always be watching. like you that i got.

welcome around watching the hawks i am tyrrel them for joining us of a brave back to back panel discussions or investigative journalism r t america correspondent and the tag team of our team america sports coverage regina hammond steve christakis thank you all for joining us today later we'll be getting into a fascinating discussion of the status of collin capping but i want to start today with the impeachment circus taking place in the house you have democratic presidential primary heating up and going insane and social media playing such a vital and wonderful beautiful role in our national dialogue and wash in washington d.c. i have to ask do you feel is this the best of times for u.s. politics or is it the worst of times for u.s. politics or somewhere in between what you feel well look it's a clown show at this point i mean we all know how broken the political system in america is there's no question about that we've known it's been broke. for some

time the problem with what we're seeing right now though is that it's gone to an entirely different level where no one's even vying anymore to persuade or to draw anyone else in these ridiculous moments on television where everyone talks about somber moments of the nation let's all pray and hold hands and and this idea that everyone's taking the so seriously and it's absolute lunacy and here's what i think is the most interesting thing there's a report out today that says of people who are watching what's going on with the impeachment that virtually 100 percent of the public watching says that they will not change their minds it does not matter what they see so if you're over here on the right cam you're say i'm going to believe the president no matter what and if you're on the left side you're saying i believe in the democrats no matter what and what we're ignoring is that about half of the electorate and are no longer affiliated republican or democrat anymore and those are the people who have been left out who are trying to tune the thing out and say i just want to be a part of it all because it's nonsense of the system totally destroyed at this point of the worst it can be your what if it seems like political theater at this

point i mean a lot of people tend to talk about sports as being like a circus but to me i look at politics as i typically focus on sports but when i look at the politics aspect with impeachment it seems like from what i've heard if this even makes sense of the senate they've said to be dead on arrival so what's the point at this point it seems like the trickle forms and i have to agree with you brooke it's become really a circus it's all you're hearing is really sound bites everywhere and there's just too much information not invite enough information and there is that one side of that saying again just like ben said you know if i'm a republican i'm against this whole entire circus show if i'm a democrat you know the president trying he's wrong he should be removed from power so it's just it's really just become crazy went into something that thinks that actually so i would actually revise something i said i called it a circus but i actually say it's a sport that's actually what's taken place is that politics and you can actually think c.n.n. for this more than anyone else because jeff zucker when he took over at c.n.n. explicitly said that he wanted to cover politics the way that sports are covered. no if you look at where we are

a few years after that that's literally what's happening right we're where when you watch a sporting event you don't care how you win you just care about winning and winning that's what works right it's not about right and wrong it's about winning losing that's what we've devolved to with politics it's not about right and wrong at this point it's literally about winning and losing i'm really excited to see what fantasy leagues are rising because a lot of us i'm really excited about are as having very you know donald trump team verses who you know as nancy pelosi team and it's interesting because i think when it comes to sports as well you want people to watch you want to have that that moment so having a speaker pelosi go up and announce they're doing the impeachment in the house that was the moment that's how people got interested that's how people started watching so then you're going to tune in you're going to want to watch it like you have a saving game to win the capitals on the stanley cup everybody watch that even if you're not a hockey fan you're going to watch the rest of the series here i want another one i want to it's almost an adrenaline rush for people and that's a politics has become it's almost become like

a drug where we need the next breaking news the net need next headline we need to be entertained you know speaking of adrenaline rushes of fear i want to jump over to what i talked about earlier with the universities now you know with this new list coming out of showing watch which u.s. universities are truly complicit in the nuclear weapons complex in this country the united states and this is an amazing number the united states is currently engaging in this kind of renewed nuclear arms race that we've seen kind of a little bit started under obama trumps really ratcheted up we're spending nearly $100000.00 a minute of taxpayer money the reinvigoration in the upgrade of our nuclear weapons arsenal according to this i can report you have 50 universities have signed formal agreements with millions even billions of dollars with this industry to manage your partner with nuclear weapons development and production sites oftentimes going directly against their mission statements john hopkins mission statement says and they're one of the biggest perpetrators of this you can see the map or. there those

are all the universities tied into all this john hopkins mission statement says it includes to bring the benefits of discovery to the world how can you bring benefits of discovery to the world when you're spending all of your time helping coordinate the building of nuclear weapons is that even possible for these universities to try to do plays both sides of this. well look i jump into it and i think that this is kind of systemic of what we're seeing across the big education complex that we have built in this country right now which is essentially selling themselves for any kind of research grants they can possibly get what's interesting is that if you dig into that report a little bit from i can you find that not only do we have a massive number of universities that are taking money to do this research but that students who are involved in this are immediately getting high paying jobs when they come out and so it's become a system where there's a lot of criticism right now of kind of the college system in general where you say well these people pay for big degrees they spend years trying to get this money

they have all this debt and then there's no job for them this is a particular area where there is a high paying job waiting for you on the other side so it feels like in many ways it's bribery at its worst you talk about the things we want to talk about you research how we want you to research and you give us the kind of p.r. that we want and in exchange we give you big dominance and your students make money when they get out. and i want to add to this that you know of partnerships between universities and the us government and developing any kind of research and development in nuclear weapons it's actually nothing new in this started back during world war 2 when during what they call the manhattan project which really started the started the building of a nuclear bombs and that's because it was through last on was laboratories in new mexico with direct partnership with the university of california that they developed nuclear bombs so this is actually nothing new now the only difference is is that now much of the universities are keeping this as classified information from. wouldn't and faculty members so the students and faculty members don't aren't

actually aware that these university are getting such a big grand such a big support from the u.s. government in terms of to get any kind of research or development to work with this industry but surprising and interesting enough a new report came out by the an r c a couple of months ago the nuclear regulatory commission and about 30 percent of their workforce is going to be retiring now these are signs we're talking about scientists here so who is going to be taking their place it's going to be big the exact programs and grants that they're providing to these universities in these exact industry that they're hoping they will play and what's dangerous too is that you know when you look back at the sixty's that's where a lot of like the protest against new nuclear weapons really came out of was the campuses of universities and things like that but now if your university is tied into this and i mean when you look at the list of universities that are involved we're talking michigan we're talking per do we're talking notre dame we're talking

university california wisconsin but i mean it's across the country you know and it will to i was going to say to go off both your points to keep up with the nuclear arms race the these major research into institutions will do anything to you know keep to basically keep up a relationship with the state right so these kids come in and there needs to be more transparency as he said because they are 1819 year olds can be easily taken advantage of and manipulated not necessarily knowing that they're building and designing some of the most deadly weapons on earth so you know they when it was right look at it almost as a bigger picture the act the education system as a whole that were being put in debt we're meeting these high paying jobs to pay off said debt so we're not living in cardboard boxes or our parents' basements for the next 1015 years and it's almost like we're overlooking the ethics of it we don't care because at the end of the day this system is so flawed we need to have that breach of ethics we need to have that lack of transparency and able to do star nucular arms that everybody enjoys having a gas and. so you know people have put up

a map again just going 2nd because i think what's significant about this too is the number of universities that are involved all together when you have that many universities that much grant money going to me that looks like more than just an issue of saying we need the best in the brights it looks to me like you are spreading out across and some of these universities like university of new mexico or texas tech and these are big universities. where you are almost as i see it creating a p.r. machine if you tie up this many universities major universities doing research for you what universities are doing the research right now that is anti nuclear weapons where those programs being developed and that maybe in some very small ones but when you're funding that to this height a lot of times when journalists or even politicians draw conclusions based on information they go back to a university study university study shows this or proves this and i think that's part of what they're doing here that is really interesting the p.r.

game in the because you know what what campus let's say if your campus is making a big you know a $1000000000.00 or multiple hundreds of millions of dollars off this what campus is going to then allow nuclear power program. you don't protest to rage at that at that moment in time was like well we're making money off this we'll just keep you guys quiet and we already have a problem with free speech being silenced on universities right now it's going to be interesting to see how the story develops all right as we go to break cock watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover to give the sure to check out watching the hawks the podcast which is now available and spotify apple 2nd everywhere us of the progress coming up the n.f.l. is invited collin kaplan it back on the field but is there more than meets the eye our panel discusses this next to you watching.

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welcome back all right hauke watchers it appears that after just over a 1000 shopping days the national football league looks to be opening its doors to crack to potentially let back in the free speech wielding n.f.l. ostracized quarterback collin capper make the ringer is now reporting that despite the circumstances still being a bit of a mystery the n.f.l. asked him to work out in front of the league's power brokers and that according to league sources all 32 teams were sent the memo on tuesday stating that a private workout would be held for cap and rick in atlanta this saturday on wednesday afternoon capper nick tweeted out he was delighted coming back into

a league that essentially forced him out for taking in me in solidarity with the black lives matter movement during the playing of the national anthem at games with katherine tweeting i'm just getting word from my representatives that the n.f.l. league office reached out to them about a workout in atlanta on saturday i've been in shape and i'm ready for this for 3 years can't wait to see the head coaches and g.m.'s on sunday so my panel what does the future hold for the civil rights and free speech icon and is the n.f.l. actually serious about wanting cabernet to come back in a uniform or do you think i'll start with you see well i got to say when i 1st heard about this as a football fan and a fan of fairness i was excited to see him get a shot and then the more i thought about it and read into it you know it does seem like somewhat of a sham possibly and a little bit fishy because there's a lot of murky details 1st of all the short notice it's on saturday which is only what 4 or 5 days before typically free agents get the workouts on tuesday when teams want to look at them and right now they're not releasing the 1st it's going to close the media that's another aspect of it that's kind of odd 2nd of all they're not releasing an official list of the teams attending however there are

teams who have said they are attending confirmed it but the n.f.l. won't release that list and there's no defined throwing script typically quarterbacks on a pro day which this is basically his own individual combine or pro day they get to define their own script they know who the receivers and running backs will be he doesn't know. any of this so it's a little it's a dog and pony show is exactly what it is the new senator out the n.f.l. is hosting the league itself is hosting for this event they're putting it on they are having the controlled explosion troll experiment really is what it is where setting the conditions where telling you what teams are coming giving it such short notice it is 11 weeks into the season and now all of a sudden like you know what now is a really good time to have him come in normally if you're having a pro day for any player so your kicker is really terrible need find you when you do it like steve said tuesday wednesday when you you're done for the week your games are over for the week you don't just spring this on teams 24 hours before games start with a no idea of what's going on no idea even who's going to how how it's going to be

run it is completely a sham and i think they're setting him up to fail and it's kind of interesting too because according to cavernous representatives only had 2 hours right to to let the league know whether or not they wanted to do this after they were asked about it but you know look. teams don't want calling kaepernick and then that's part of the problem here of why the n.f.l. would be asking teams to show up and the like these guys are saying you know on a saturday when there's games on sunday so a lot of the high reps are not going to be there anyways most of the teams that were contacted by the ringer said we didn't even know about it so why they would even do this makes no sense it feels like the n.f.l. spent 5 minutes without a scandal 5 minutes without putting their foot in their mouth and then said you know what we've got to do something quick call colin kaepernick because that way we can make everyone angry again because all the people who don't like calling cab or nick will be mad at us and all the people who love 'd and we mad at this too i mean they can't get out of their own way it's interesting because i saw this and i have no evidence to back this up but it almost felt like after their p.r. thing with jay z.

about joining up in partnership with him it almost felt like you know it was a swarm of those things were secretly buried in the contract with jay z. would give caprona the trial you know they said publicly at the time and now they're kind of like when we got to make good on that sword stacked the deck as much as we come against them so you have actually been interesting you did some. searching digging into this story to and from some pretty interesting is that i actually spoke to 2 n.f.l. players today and my question was for them and they both asked not to be named number one because if they give any kind of opinion or anything i'm on kaepernick there they're going some i will get blacklisted drive because nobody wants to talk about this publicly but my question to them was is the statement correct that where they notified about this on tuesday or did the teams or did the players actually know about this prior to trial or to the tuesday date that we were told and no they were not told about this fire today they were told exactly the same time they teams were and they really are seeing this as a p.r. stunt number one the players have also been asked if they want to attend these 2 players will also as they can't obviously was able 5 games on sunday so they are

seeing this as again just a huge p.r. stunt by the by the n.f.l. just to kind of say that we're giving him a try but then again closed off to media so nobody could actually cover this to see what's going to be happening and is that something that the n.f.l. looks at it for them is a win let's say let's say they set it up and cap or take fails and they can point and say look at all of your hall of the lou over this guy and all that guy he was never really ready to go from the 1st place and all that kind of thing and then they can kind of say like look you know we were right in the long run it wasn't a conspiracy to keep him off the playing field because of his political beliefs we just felt he couldn't play i mean you think that's what that kind of trying to set up with us to go off that point while it is closed to media there will it will still be filmed of course it will be video that and he will be interviewed to see if he's mentally ready so that will eventually probably i'm assuming will be released at some point but to the n.f.l. discretion they could doctor that video or the transcript of the interview in any way to skew it one way or the other even if he does go out there and kill it maybe they will make it seem like he was just mediocre no team wants to sign him so it

seems like it's going to be hard for him he has to have the most amazing day now that has been the talk about sports but given what a polarizing figure he is and given the what i think is the iconic stance that he took in the bravery it took as being one of those athletes like a mom. well you do stand up and say i'm going to talk politics as part of my job as being you know being on the cover of magazines and being a figure it's interesting but the n.f.l. doesn't win with any of this and even with this it would seem saying the even if you doctor video when are you crazy would you doctor video of your the n.f.l. because that it's eventually the video gets out and then people say you doctored the video putting that on a saturday even the way they've set it up it's it feels as if somebody was bored and said we need a scandal and so we're going to do this but the other the other important thing is that's why not just put him on like everyone else and give him a shot and if he doesn't play well then he doesn't play well i mean i think there is something to be said and like hear from you guys on it but there is something to be said for the argument that some people claim that cabernet is not what he once

was he certainly wasn't by the time that he was out of the league what he was when he went to the super bowl but there are a lot of quarterbacks who aren't right and there's space right now with specially when you have a lot of people going down with injuries there is space right now for him so why not just give him a legitimate shot because at this point the n.f.l. only wins by him being back home but that's true they do and the you know about 2 hours ago there was a the n.f.l. tweeted out a list of 11 teams that would actually be attending this per cent my pro day i guess their photo foday if you want to call it that some of them are the new york giants the new york jets the washington redskins teams that are not doing well they are look they are relying on backup quarterbacks are trying to play quarterback like daniel jones who have never played before they are looking for people to fill this spot and cabinet could fill that void he's not going to run a warning over yet was there even if he's up and goes i'll be ready to be a sold out day for the n.f.l. i read and i write yes without you know what i want to i want to move on to one thing quickly here to capper that also came up in the credible statement by u.s.

soccer star megan repeat no during an acceptance speech for $2900.00 lamb or woman of the year i want to take a listen to what made him so it's pretty incredible. i refused to do that there's going to be ladders on every side all over the place. and i'm not going to act like it wasn't calling capper nick to random burke in the me to movement con callers garzon to many black lives matter the women of times harvey milk gloria steinem audrey laura trayvon martin sandra bland. am. and the injustices that so many others face that put me in this very position and i'm not going to act like my whiteness has nothing to do with me standing before you now. you know those are strong words and also the fact that should we all be kind of taking lessons from you know meghan self awareness and even humility with you look at it and saying that like look you know about

a lot of breaks because of the color of my skin and things like that should we be taking lessons from or self-awareness and how we can be better allies to those trying to get equal rights whether it's in sports or in society and all across the board she sets a really good example of how to use your position as an athlete to use your global platform for good and some fortunate college happening probably because he is a man of color he is not given almost the same respect that megan is and that's a shame and that's what she's trying to push for and that's a groundbreaking stating the fact she's calling for all of these minorities people of color to be recognized for their fight to recognize for their sacrifices in some cases and that is something i don't think i've seen any other you know white athlete kind of do to a degree not like her and she doesn't just talk with all she walks it's because back in september 26th she was the 1st non african-american active athlete to kneel and be a part of that anthem protests and she took a lot of backlash from that in the soccer world so she's she's a woman of action as well and i think it is important for those people with that

platform to use it for others that don't have such a strong voice you guys work in sports all day long and i want to as you know been inside it too is people outside of sports but still journalists like do we need more athletes like them should we have more athletes or we're in the fray because of speak politically because absolutely because they're still role models i mean these are kids look up to this is it's not just about the sport is this is who people want to be this is who they tune in to so if they have beliefs and if and if they feel like what they think is the right thing they should be speaking up i think the ones that actually are not speaking are going are thinking more about just their job those are the ones that are not doing the team a favor and those are the ones that are really hurting in the league now would that be n.f.l. well baseball or woman soccer doesn't make a difference when you were. you know when you have that power and you're in that position and you're not speaking you are not doing you're not doing the whole world is a point to any favor i've yeah and i take the unpopular opinion here and i think that

sports itself has had a long history of activism whether it's you know someone like jesse owens who are behaving oddly but i also believe that sports is a great equalizer where for a long time. i wouldn't say always but certainly in the last few decades. color has been much less important in the sports arenas and fields than it is in other places in society because it really is a place where merit is measured that doesn't mean that it's always fair and doesn't mean it's always been fair but i think we're certainly in a better place now than we've ever been in terms of being able to save you have ability and you have talent then you're given a shot having said all of that take a full circle back to college happening i don't see it happening to someone who is necessarily sacrificed a lot because look he's got a huge deal with nike he's getting millions of dollars there a lot of people who have have taken stands and they wind up without anything so good on him that he had least has that but it comes on the merit right let him play let him try let him work out and if he does well he does well and point him on the dolphins. exactly exactly you know it's an interesting discussion when you look at

it and i think and i agree with you but in a sense but i also think that sports especially us sports does need to revolutionize who's in control of teams and ownership of things another it's you i think it is an equal playing field on the field and i think when you get into the business of sports it's still a very in the front office still a very heavy from the attic areas for college sports to college sports and i think i believe we should pay colleges where that is in some capacity are i want to thank you all for coming on one side. chris tacos and. a lot of people on it all right everybody thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure and that everybody is our show for you today remember i'm going to. tell you all i love. to keep watching the hawks number great writers.

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