obama has been soldier that's why it's a bit close to. criticizing people on this stage affiliated with the democratic party when donald trump was elected not even sworn in buddied up to steve bannon to get a meeting with donald trump in the trump tower fails to call a war criminal by what he is as a war criminal and then spends full time during the course of this campaign again criticizing the democratic party. 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 friend 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. this. welcome on watching the hawks irrelevant and 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 whatever 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 person who actually served in the military a purse. it was actually trying to bring peace to the world and it just you're seeing the motion this 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 it actually is pushing something that people outside of the

united states want to see and that's that 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 would you guys feeling after watching those debates last well if you have 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. could see the other guys out 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 is he bought 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 her as she points to her record she points or time as a prosecutor she points to the movement that she's made that of pacifically 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 not 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 you know for lack of a better term corporate mainstream media was amy colbert sharpie but

a 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 miller's. of course i mean they're dredging up people from the bottom to the i mean 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 america 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 out of nowhere to the top that 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 that 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 that's something that a lot of us now are looking at going. maybe we shouldn't go into that war maybe we should end the war sometime soon that i 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 our 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 beat them around that's. sound bite that's her moment that's great but why do we care like cool she thought them off. to run she did it in like subzero temperatures with minnesota out of the moving it indoors and with jim she made everyone stand on an island in these like subzero temperatures well she gave this long speech of this 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 4 see the next several episodes that are going to drop don't be surprised if mayor pete wins in iowa because his ground game there is delivered in the latest poll numbers and how

will amy close neighborhood minnesota nice thing play then on to new hampshire is there any momentum from there you get nevada you got south carolina but all of that is for play come march 314 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 there are writing about how many debates we've had how many candidates now we i mean from bloomberg you know dipping is telling are we actually at a point now we're already sick of this presidential election before it's actually really even begun yes yes yes this is everyone kind university agree on this one is just being done and all i mean what about you alex is it a point now or just like we're tired of it i mean we're tired of the names we're tired of the people involved. we're just what they're electioneering kit and i've been so sick of elections you can probably imagine right and our ours to it was 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 for years oh my goodness and the amount of money that's wasted on it it's just absolutely incredible and mind blowing it's all about you know we've had this issue. here well you know these superstar politicians and people who look good who are are charismatic it's just the people fall for this stuff and that's why you got like mayor pete barrett you had bedo fortunately you got a little kick in the butt 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 that's 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 a summer szell t.v. the new hampshire primary most new hampshire voters are in the boston t.v. market pitching very good all right everybody so you would 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 which is now available on spotify 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 kit in south dakota a very curious new anti-drug message states to watch. and i'm going on the guys in my town the way they're both that's so. bad it could still go to see if i. was in this way got to go through the thing in the

distance at this moment than what i can take away and i don't think it's too much and i think. this is the only thing that we really do is losing because everybody wants a. link. the floor looking for a 50 without a visible persuaded on her throughout the whole movie about a lot of them. but i think it is this is the found that is a compliment. thanks. good food descriptions sound appetising even for the owners so how to choose this cat food industry is telling us what to feed our pets is really more based on what

they want to sell us than was necessarily good for the pet turns out may not be this people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes and arthritis they have auto immune disorders allergies we are actually creating these problems it's a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making it a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. already welcome back let's start the 2nd half of the show if they would aggravating

news stories 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 19 ninety's a backlog that officials say could take at least 2 years to clear this joins as the books the put the number of untested rape kits currently backlog in please departments across the country of somewhere between 202400000. 400000 mike sorrow a retired detective 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 undo them into the national database so we can't test them. all right well let's start with rigid rachel what does this tell us about law enforcement's priorities when it comes to the crimes committed against women when you have been

able 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 follow report 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 i want to 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 solute 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 a police department 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 the kids are being tested they're putting people in jail for nonviolent crimes like smoking 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 instead 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 there 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 too that's interesting because it's whatever you see budgets get cut you

know ok and police departments and detective and media in detectives in media it's 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 here's one thing that a good me as as a journalist the past almost 20 years now the thing is that we call something sexual assault or rape as 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 crime 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 that you know

the the detectives or the the the police department would say that well you know what if somebody doesn't actually have a report in then 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 and 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 could agree more with what you said alex because everyone you what i look back at when i look at these crimes and things like that i can't the excuses don't add up to the severity of the crime you know and in the fact that they can take d.n.a. from you know people entering this country now the fact that they can spy on everything that we do through the n.s.a. and they'd have all of our metadata there is 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 advocate paintings of all time are good friends. south dakota recently released the following onto an unsuspecting public take a look. i'm on it too so am i so. i'm not. 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 method but i 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 you say oh my god 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 although 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 meth 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 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 is the fact that it's become actually now this kind of viral comedy it actually bringing attention to south dakota's math problems and then by accident by extension is that actually doing what it kind of is supposed to be doing is bringing awareness to the issue of meth in south dakota to alex as a kind of back dooring its way in the world hey we're all talking about it. we're talking about a trump like brilliance here where you toss something you know something well.

worth it. 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 it'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 quote unquote drug war is that you know most of our solutions what was it was you know the egg in the frying pan and it 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 'd 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 matt 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 at camp could this set up better myself than i think you have and i want to thank you all for coming out alex mahela bitch i can have a. column cook the host of the big picture always a pleasure rachael blevins regina all 4 of you thank you so much for coming out today and ladies and gentlemen that is our show today remember everyone in this world we have not told the room of the number so i tell you all i love you i am tired rover and for i keep. watching those hawks out there and have

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