in the political debate some are using it. in order to buy new religious or agents from the public debate forms of critics for and it's not a good way to deal with problems here in france the trouble with. the arrival of the news in new promos is that they turn to us some difficulties to adapt to the french culture and you know where we can understand them because if we prisms them the french culture is something that does not accept religion's told it's not a good mode or to assimilate themselves to the french culture and their way to assimilate it is understand and see if everybody understands that the christian made this country now those are true but was immigration in france it's so that some are getting crazy and are ready to let our is tory go in order to abide by these are let's say. you know secularists viewpoints ok watching out international lots of places you can be i know this friday evening so grateful

to have your company stick around for updates on our top stories all written that in minutes. greetings and. because there is so much to talk about today hawk watchers let's not waste any time and jump right into the brilliant exercise in humility and public service that was the latest democratic presidential debate on wednesday evening blaring out onto our airwaves live from the tyler perry studios in atlanta this latest round of democratic debates was roundly criticized for being not only incredibly dull but also highlighting everything that's going wrong with the

current version of american idol that is our presidential election coverage and while the washington d.c. press corps seem to all but forget about the debate in the shadow of the current presidential impeachment circus taking place in the house of representatives that didn't stop this current crop of candidates from trying to create one winning exchange of sound bites like joe biden's brilliant strategy when asked about me too and violence against women he said the following. no man has a right to raise a hand to woman in anger other than in self defense and that's rarely ever occurs and so we have to just change the culture period and keep punching out and punching out of. i'm punching out a punching out of we're talking about violence against women joe. yes this new debate even featured yet another round of this year's now infamous gabbert vs the hair a side bar brawl when maris went after gabrielle apparently while record voile record

of talking to people she disagrees with. it's unfortunate that we have someone on the stage who is attempting to be the democratic nominee for president the united states during the obama administration spent 4 years full time on fox news criticizing president obama that's already been a soldier that's what it's about. 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. 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 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 the watching the hawks 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 bij 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 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 motion this the military industrial complex the breath of it through the democratic party and people like harrison now even warren elizabeth warren were 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 out 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. could see the other guys out what how do you guys bode and it's 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 it's heavy. i doubt by corporate interest she's not having money money funneled into her pocket to you know 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 candidate 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 interest at heart set of the democratic fund one of the biggest things that i've noticed off of all of this is when you see gabbert criticize her as she points to her record she points to her time as a prosecutor she points to the movement 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 calls gabbert out and completely ignores her record as a veteran and as a representative notice who was not on stage last night i'm going to give you the hottest conspiracy theory from back home and knowing deval patrick running as the

spoiler to eat into the new hampshire primary lead for elizabeth warren to knock her down because joe's v.p. very interesting very interesting you know but the 2 the 2 mames that were bandied about the most you know for black of a better term corporate you know mainstream media was a mea culpa char and pete buthe judge of all things now i want to ask you guys what a jury would do 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 noise. of course i mean they're going to 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 said something that could save them. erica it's somebody saying something that the rest of the world we want to see you like i said before we want a good america we want america that's that's prosperous and we want to merica that

strong but we stop pushing these people from out of nowhere to the top that that should even be there in the 1st place and for what reasons and some sort of political correctness some sort of you know this is this whole democratic thing like oh 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 you know the bernie sanders and you know he spoke out very strongly and you know in the anti-war stance last night as well and you know what or what are we all feel about birdies perform he seems to be doing an imitation of himself. caricature you see you're right and he did come out a very strong he really he called joe biden out specifically when he was talking about the iraq war and pointing to the fact that while biden went along with that sanders led the opposition against it not something that he stood by for all of

these years and that's something that a lot of us now are looking at and going oh wait a 2nd maybe we shouldn't kind of out 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 interesting and that's part of the thing though he bernie 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 her last night you know like alex said her bringing up these no no name people she took a hit at the president thing nancy pelosi beats him around that's her sound bite that's her moment that's great but why do we care like cool she says i'm off. to run she did it like subzero temperatures of minnesota rather than moving it indoors and with jim she made everyone stand in an aisle. 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 foresee 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 is telling are we actually at a point now or we're already sick of this presidential election before it's actually really even begun. yes everyone kind of universe agreeing on the fun is

a job you got a problem i mean 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're just what they're electioneering kid and 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 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 good who are are charismatic it's just people fall for this stuff and that's why you got like mayor p. there and then you had bait fortunately a little. but there but ok i don't know you really need to be streamlined a little bit and done

a little bit faster and it's really an unnecessary process of money and 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 on mercial t.v. the new hampshire primary most new hampshire voters are in the boston t.v. market. very good all right ever wonder if they 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 what you think 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 favorite. coming up the minneapolis police department is up to its neck in untested rape kits in south dakota a very curious new anti-drug message state to watch. is

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all right everybody welcome back let's start the 2nd half of the show if they would aggravating those 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 police departments across the country of somewhere between 202-400-4000 extension 00 mike sorrow a retired to try to round them in the up will start school. 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 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 the 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 or 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 is that a lot of these. 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 hard to that's interesting because it's whatever you see budgets get cut you know ok and police departments and detective and media 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's one thing that as a good me 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 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. safer life i think we all could agree more with what you said alex because everyone knew 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 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. i'm i'm into so am i so. i'm not. well i can assure you hawk watchers i am not in fact i've never even taken maps 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 buy 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 gosh somebody was stupid a long line 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 the way we do it this is what happens all the time you got to fire everybody. that was one of the 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. live in rhode island they flopped then 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 says you're having you know johnny johnny football go hey i'm on meth and you're like i can't serve. no 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 it so. does the fact that it's become actually now this kind of birol comedy it 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 were going to move around they were 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. 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 what 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 and fight helping people get better if that's something they want set of at camp good. said it better myself the mad cow thank you ed 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 rachel blevins and regina ham all 4 of you thank you so much for coming on today and ladies and gentlemen that that is our show be 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 or i keep on watching those hawks out there and have a great day and everybody.

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