is a war criminal and then spends full time during the course of this campaign again criticizing the democratic party yes yes. gabbert should be calling out war criminals when she sees them and thankfully she can see a whole lot of them in her very own democratic party yes who can forget the great clinton kissinger from the past 2016 you remember that one or criminals so today let's dive into the latest democratic debate and take one step closer to finding out just who could be the next corporate approved president of the united states. but if. you. like you know that i got.

one of them on watching the irrelevant turn today we bring you our annual thursday panels of power in this week features r.t. america correspondent out of canada alex mahela bit the host of the big picture holland cook r.t. america correspondent rachel blevins and our 2 americas sports producer jim thank you all 4 of you for coming i actually want to start with you alex because you do not reside here in the u.s. so you actually have a very i'm always curious to get that outsider's perspective whenever we have these debates what is your take on this round of the debates featuring the democratic candidates for president. i think harrison bodies everything that's wrong with the united states when it comes to politics not only from the democratic but from the republican side and when you look at somebody that's all about party it's all about the democratic party look what gabbert saying about the democratic party she's putting party before the people of the united states of america that in itself is

disgusting and then the accusations against gaghan scabbard a perp. who actually served in the military a person was actually trying to bring peace to the world and it just you're seeing this the motion of the military industrial complex the breath of it through the democratic party and people like harrison now even warren elizabeth warren order which was a shocker to me but it looks like you know these people are being more and more bought by these industries by that corporate structure gabbert is one of those few individuals that stuck to her guns for a lack of a better term and that actually is pushing something that people outside of the united states want to see and that's one of the united states that's america 1st in the sense that stop diving into other people's business and 2nd of all start taking care of your own economy build it we want you to be number one we want you to lead the world when it comes to environmental energy we want all of that and the only way to do it is to follow somebody like gabbert and get your nose out of everywhere

else and start caring about yourselves who've yeah ok that's interesting to promote there what about you what do you guys feel when after watching those debates last well if you squint camelot heris is to joe biden this time what gabbert was to bernie last time. class couple you remember last time where tulsi gabbert was doing political commercials for bernie and really looked like she was angling for a v.p. we don't know what her plan b. is because she has already announced she's not going to run for reelection to her house seat from hawaii camelot harris's and up until 2022 so she doesn't need a plan b. but if you squint i think you see people angling for v.p. you could see that i guess what how do you guys both of interesting it to look at it from someone maybe who doesn't cover politics enough but watching the debate last night gathered stuck to her guns and doesn't tell the party line she's that

kind of candidate that the american public could resonate with like wow she doesn't you know. not out by corporate interest she's not having money money funneled into her pocket to advance the democratic party ideals she's kind of like you know these are your ideals great i'm adding mine because i'm the i'm the candidate this is what you want your kid to be is real and i think the american people hopefully will understand that that's what the president should be it should be someone who can lead our country build our economy but also is a real individual that has the people's best interests at heart that as the democratic fund one of the biggest things that i've noticed off of all of this is when you see gathered criticize harris she points to her record she points her time as a prosecutor she points to the movements that she's made that have specifically targeted minorities and targeted for people in her state but then when you see harris criticize gabbert she's criticizing her for going on fox news or for having meetings with president trump or syrian president assad so she is toeing the party line but she's doing it in a way that call and completely ignores her record as

a veteran and as a representative notice who was not on stage last night and i'm going to give you the hottest conspiracy theory from back home in new england deval patrick running as the spoiler to eat into the new hampshire primary lead for elizabeth warren knocked her down become joe's v.p. very interesting very interesting you know but the 2 the 2 names that were bandied about the most by the lack of a better term corporate mainstream media was amy colbert sharpy due to judge of all things now i want to ask you guys what a geologist are with you what did you think of those 2 was was corporate mainstream media correct in saying those 2 just you know out of a dull debate made the biggest millions. of course i mean they're dredging up people from the bottom to the top. it's the same thing we keep seeing this over and

over again the media you know somebody saying something that makes sense somebody saying something that could save them. somebody saying something that the rest of the world we want to see like i said before we want a good america we want america that's that's prosperous and we want to america that's strong but stop pushing these people from out of nowhere to the top that it should even be there in the 1st place and for what reasons and sort of political correctness some sort of you know this is this whole democratic thing they all my gosh we're the party of this we're the party that you're the party of nothing and this is why they're going to lose again to donald trump simply because they can't get their act together and they keep pushing party before people interesting interesting interesting one of them that i haven't heard brought up at this table was like bernie sanders and you know he spoke out very strongly in the anti-war stance last night as well and you know what a lot of we all feel about bernie's performer he seems to be doing an imitation of himself. caricature you're right and he did come out

a very strong the really he called joe biden a specific way when he was talking about the iraq war and pointing to the fact that while biden went along with it sanders led the opposition against and that's something that he stood by for all of these years and something that a lot of us now are looking at and going oh maybe we should have gone about where maybe we should end the war sometime soon so to have a candidate there that is actually saying hey this is been my platform for all of these years and i haven't been bought and paid for on that does really stand out as a part of the thing though he hasn't been bought by the corporate he kind of shut it and that is why he probably doesn't get as much attention because the people who funnel the money from the corporate into their campaigns they're getting the attention including your last night you know like alex said are bringing up these no no name people she took a hit at the president saying nancy pelosi be some around after sound bite that's her moment that's great why do we care like cool she says i'm awesome. to run she

did it like subzero temperatures in minnesota and rather than moving into indoors into a gym she made everyone stand in iowa. in these like subzero temperatures well she gave this long speech of the band playing well people are freezing that to me doesn't say leadership if you can't say hey let's move inside because it's too cold out here i don't know if i trust you as president well as a picture and in this binge viewing culture we have you can almost see the next several episodes that are going to drop don't be surprised if mayor peter wins in iowa because his ground game there is delivered in the latest poll numbers and how will amy clovis neighborhood minnesota nice thing play then on to new hampshire is there any momentum from there you get that idea that south carolina but all of that is for play come march $314.00 states 34 percent of the delegates on super tuesday so it gets later early that's an interesting thing you bring up in terms of march 3rd i mean about how many debates we've had how many candidates now we mean

from bloomberg dipping is telling are we actually at a point now where we're already sick of this presidential election before it's actually really even begun. yes everyone kind of universe agree on the fun is a job you got a nominee what about you alex as a point now or just like we're tired of it we're tired of the names we're tired of the people involved. we just went there electioneering kid i'm so sick of elections you can probably imagine right and our r.'s don't last very long either the whole thing rolls up in a couple of months it disappears i don't know how you guys do it this whole thing of just campaigning 4 years oh my goodness and the amount of money that's a wasted on it's just absolutely incredible and mind blowing it's all about. this issue here well you know these superstar politicians are people who look new who are are charismatic it's just people fall for the stop and that's why you got like

mayor p. there that you had bait fortunately a little. but there but hey i don't know you really needs to be streamlined a little bit and done a little bit faster and it's really an unnecessary process of money he's making a point that is more obvious on all the other cable channels because you don't see their commercials here on our t. but this is a nice chunk of change for us how mercial t.v. the new hampshire primary most new hampshire voters are in the boston t.v. market pitching very good all right everybody stay with me as we go to our next subject coming up next but right now before going to break walk rogers don't forget to let us know where you pick the topics we've covered over social media be sure to check out watching the hawks the podcast just spotted by apple music and everywhere you listen to your favorite or not so paper. coming up the minneapolis police department is left with a neck and untested rape code a very curious new anti-drug message just to watch.

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thought. all right everybody welcome back let's start the 2nd half of the show with they would have a group baiting news story straight out of my hometown of minneapolis minnesota where recently it was reported that an internal review of sexual assault cases in minneapolis turned up an estimated 1700 untested rape kits from as far back as the 1990 s. a backlog that officials say could take at least 2 years to clear this joins as the books that put the number of untested rape kits currently backlog in police departments across the country is somewhere between 202-400-4000 extension 00 mike sorrow a retired lieutenant who ran the minneapolis sex crimes unit in 2015 told the star

tribune quote people have this misconception that all kids have to be and should be tested and that's just not true if you don't have an official police report made we can't enter them into the national database so we can't test them. all right well let's start with regina rachel what does this tell us about law enforcement's priorities when it comes to crimes committed against women when you have many people 1700 across the country 202400000 think about the women who have been raped maybe in the past immediately a week you see this report come out you see this number 400000 rape cases rape kits these are women who are looking for justice needs some kind of closure it's a horrific thing and the police go well you know you don't holler for a lot of rape victims don't file a report because they're afraid so now you have those women who are going to come forward and women that have come forward if it wasn't the official police result

they're just they're just sitting around a one when when do i get my closure when do i get to put my perpetrator behind bars where do i get these consequences and that's disheartening i was. i agree and i think we also have to remember too that the process of getting a rape kit done is traumatic for women especially when you've already gone through the trauma of being raped then you go through with the rape kit and you're just hoping that maybe some justice will come out of this and now to hear police departments say oh well not all the kids are going to be tested and we have this ongoing epidemic and at the same time we also have to remember what are police doing instead of making sure that these rape kits are being tested they're putting people in jail for nonviolent crimes like marijuana and that type of thing they're using their resources for other things that are much easier and that return much bigger profit and stead of going after actual violent crimes some of the details are not as intriguing as the headline as you mentioned if the police report doesn't get filed nobody goes and retrieves the kid is that a lot of these crimes may go unreported out of shame or embarrassment etc it's

a tough crime to get a guilty plea in as lawyers will tell you and my friends in blue will all roll their eyes when you talk about cutbacks because in the local municipal police department the 1st target when the budget ax falls is detectives so sometimes it's a charge to that's interesting because it's whatever you see budgets get cut you know ok and police departments and detective and the detectives in media it's a long term investigative journalist alex what's your thoughts on this you know why is the you why do you think the u.s. is having such a hard time actually you know prosecuting these horribly heinous crimes against women. but you know here's one thing that is a good me as as a journalist the past almost 20 years now the thing is that we call something sexual assault a rape is a rape but i'm glad that we've called it a rape up to now everybody has said rape not sexual assault here in this country we're going to hear sexual assaults across the board that could be somebody getting

their butt slapped or somebody actually being raped it's all deemed as sexual assault let's call a rape or rape 1st of all because that is the type of the. it is in my eyes that's worse than murdering somebody because this person has to live with that for the rest of their life and for a police department to be doing what this police department is doing or not doing for that matter is absolutely despicable now the fact of the matter is that you know the detectives or the the police department would say that well you know what if somebody doesn't have a report that it's difficult to push these kids through how many thousands of times or hundreds of times i highly doubt that so something has gone wrong but the good part of this story is that somebody is actually looking into this now this is being addressed and that being addressed is probably the most important thing that's going to happen and hopefully set a precedent that this never happens again at that women get the justice that they deserve and these people that perpetrate these type of crimes are behind bars for a very long time i would say for life i think we all couldn't agree more with what

you said alex because everyone you what i look back when i look at these crimes and things like that i can see excuses going to the severity of the crime and in the fact that they can take d.n.a. from people entering this country now the fact that they can spy on everything that we do through the n.s.a. and they have all of our method there's no excuse at this point for any law enforcement organizations say oh well we just couldn't sorry about that i want to. i want to bring up this next story it's fascinating to me. meanwhile. in what has to be one of the most unique public ad campaigns of all time our good friends in south dakota recently released the following on to an unsuspecting public take a look. i'm. ringback so. well i can assure you hawk watchers i am

not in fact i have never even taken meds twin brother adderall unlike some political journalist i know yes my friends that is the new anti-drug campaign coming out of the state of south dakota that has left many questioning the efficacy and logic behind the creation of the campaign itself because while south dakota is tragically suffering from a meth and by the mean epidemic one rightfully wonders if the best way to combat that epidemic is by giving almost happened $1000000.00 in state funds to a minneapolis ad agency that gave them that ad in return so i'll ask my panel is this one of the biggest drug boondoggles of all time start with you alex. i have to say that i my feet were at one point in the ad industry so i know this process and this is unbelievable to be because it happens all the time this is the perfect example of how ads get to t.v. or how marketers get their their billboards up somebody comes along be it

a company or a government agency they say we need a camp 8 then these creatives at the ad agency come up with all these brilliant ideas and then a bunch of people a room sit together from both sides and might be somebody else involved as well i think so yes fantastic great idea so this is not one individual that came up with this year say oh my gosh somebody was stupid a long life this is a whole bunch of people that put their minds together and said yeah this is the way to get rid of the meth problem. is absolutely money that i would do it with this is what happens all the time you've got to fire everybody. that would have to move you know it's it's almost happened $1000000.00 to get you know beautiful people saying that we're on it now obviously i think the idea is the saying like no we're on solving it we want to stop it but that's not what comes across the media to say we're on the case governments don't message well every state is trying to come up with a slogan that works as well as pure michigan. but where i live in rhode island they

flopped they announced the slogan was going to be that we're cooler and warmer and i'm sure that that was a big hit my conference room somewhere but the problem is they're pushing the message at people and in the firestorm that erupted with people mocking the slogan you go online and people were posting great ideas you should make it a contest the oddest version of this that i have witnessed is in wisconsin and you'd think i was making this up but they actually had to change the name of the state. department from wisconsin tourism federation to tourism federation of wisconsin and they didn't make the change until the big press moment where they unveiled the logo but i rest my case. with one of those of you above because you know a lot of times whenever you see these political ads that are trying to get you to not do math they post pictures of people who are actually on meth and you look at

that picture and you say oh no i don't want to look like them so maybe i'm just a away from this so it's interesting now that they're using all of these people of all ages including students in school and almost making it sound like this is a drug that people are taking malika new form of adderall the hope you in school or something like that i mean if it is an interesting case we'll see if it actually has enough that's over almost 500000 dollars you could put into a program to help people who are addicted to meth i think 12 to 17 year olds in south dakota are meth addicts that's a lot of those are kids who are growing developing we're becoming adults and said you're having you know johnny johnny football go hey i'm on meth and you're like i can't serve. but let me pose you this though because at this obviously this ad because of its bizarre. kind of lack of self-awareness of what was going on in the it's obviously taken off and become a social media viral sensation everyone's talking about. so does the fact that it's

become actually now this kind of viral comedy hit actually bringing attention to south dakota's math problems and then by accident or by extension is that actually doing what it kind of is supposed to be doing is bringing awareness to the issue of math and south dakota alex as a kind of back dooring its way into a we're all talking about it. we're talking about a trump like brilliance here where you toss something out and said well. you know. do i really did ok ok yes they want to say we're going to. get us into talking about this issue. it's nobody's going to stop doing meth because that's just put it that way no they're not and i think it's speaks to that kind of long problem the united states has had with its called it quote drug war is that you know most of our solutions what was it was you know the egg in the frying pan and there was nancy reagan just saying no you know these really ridiculous things

that me all to 1000000 maybe i'm a conspiracy theories but to me it wasn't really about ending the drug war it was about getting people angry enough about the drug war that they're willing to give up their tax dollars to fight it we've lost the war yes completely and interestingly enough this week of it was in the house they actually passed of vote to a huge leap forward to actually the legalization of marijuana so it's an interesting kind of the column in the u.s. is and it's something that you're seeing evolve into a bigger topic of discussion you know marijuana is you know they would tell you in high school was the gateway drug and you know it maybe it was maybe it wasn't depending on your on your person you as a person but people are getting put in jail for something so much as carrying marijuana something that you know there are words like net there are worse things like math to go to jail for there are worse things and we need to be devoting resources to maybe just combat if i help people get better if that's something they want set of. temperedness said it better myself than ad campaign if you read now i

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