all right. you know ejected to hong kong and supported. the congo by the west. it has nothing to do with fairness because again if we want to be fair the brother guy is free to speak in bolivia you know there is a horrible situation in the gauntlet and it is not being recorded at all while hong kong is constantly under the scrutiny is this under the microscope or there is enormous. media presence so my for the ground at the beginning will be served. there was the reform the little 1000 and so we're calling goose while media goes well in the places where actually the right wing robust and the right wing is furthering people that is that we're going to cover it ok andre when you back in hong kong maybe we'll catch up with you again then i hope for now they're under a veil check thanks for joining us on r.t.

definitely thank you so much. gets news in a 247 with the r.t. app on your mopar your next update from us is say in just under half an hour we're off to washington d.c. next though for today's watching the hawks. readings and salyut asian. well our watchers it's on us those are the immortal words tweeted out by a system editor of the new york times news desk katie roberts when the news broke that the u.s. house of representatives welp initially begin drafting impeachment charges against united states president donald trump u.s. speaker of the house nancy pelosi led the charge at

a press conference thursday morning who comparing trump to a despotic tyrant and then laid out the president's supposed crimes against america the facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security by withholding military aid and crucial of the office meeting and exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political rival and i'm speaking of military aid in ukraine right on cue with thursday's events depends news is now reporting that according to a senior pentagon official u.s. president donald trump will seek at least another $250000000.00 in security a crane and his 2020 budget request to congress and this request my friends includes of course the new javelin anti-tank missiles which are being which we are being assured will only be used to dieter any russian aggression in ukraine undersecretary of defense for policy john road told reporters in terms of their

usage in the field there are restrictions on that bear in mind these are defensive weapons provided with the expectation they will be used for defensive purposes the intent is to deter russian aggression. look i don't see why he'd be so worried i mean what are the chances that the united states weapons could end up in the wrong hands or are in the oh oh right yeah that one i mean but but lie oh yeah and that one time in yemen too that happened there too boy. all right let's talk impeachment arms and a whole lot more as we start watching the office. that's . what it's like you know that i got. this.

welcome i've been watching the hawks i am pro for me for this week's panel and some of the hottest news stories going is from san francisco mr de watkins author and editor at large at salon dot com the host of the world according to jesse former governor jesse ventura r t america sports producer regina hamm and the other host of the world according to jesse the one and only those thank you everybody for coming on today lots to talk about all right i want to start with everybody's thoughts on the drawing up of imprisonment charges by the house on president from jesse will start with you well the 1st thing i want to get to that strikes me is now trump's come forward saying he's gone 250 more 1000000 in defense spending for ukraine and yet at the same time they're going to take 700000 people in our own country off of food

stamps so it's more important for us to send weapons around the world than to feed our very poorest people in america now i got that off my chest and now we'll go. to impeachment. that irks me but anyway i don't she there's a choice because you know like myself i took an oath to protect the constitution and the bill of rights now if the president has knowingly violated the constitution you took an oath you have no choice you have to move forward with impeachment and allow the process to take place because if you don't it's going to open the door up to where every politician can now seek whatever they want from countries outside the united states in a far less corrupt enough believe me after this happens you might as well throw it

to the wind it will he show much quickly de watkins what are your thoughts on these impeachment proceedings finally i guess moving forward in the house. you know i wish i wish i could be more shocked like i was i wish there was like a bill of the that would allow me to believe that i was experiencing some type of surprise but donald trump has been a liar and a crook before he even thought about politics he was a liar and a crook throughout his whole campaign he was a lie and a crook throughout his whole term so you know can we remove this lie this very says crip that's what i'm sitting back and i'm waiting for is that election year coming up that we have the opportunity to choose a new leader but i mean you know is i'm happy that it's happening but i will i would love i would love for us to finally successfully remove someone from office and they were and it would be great for it to be him at the party. and have a system of checks and balances for a reason the 3 branches of government are the accountability so factoring you know

what the executive branch do you what you want have it your way jesse was right that opens up a pandora's box to allow other politicians on the federal state and local level to be like you know what. the highest office in the country is getting away with this why can't i. and why should i exactly i have so many start with yes i agree with jesse they need to put it on the record i do think that there were arguments to be made that they should have and could have gone after impeachment a long time ago when trump 1st got into office there were a lot of things there quid pro quo that people could have looked into regarding as variation or japan or china there were other things that they could have looked into unfortunately they waited until the 2020 alexion they are probably not going to get those 20 republican senators to flip against their party and removed from office so it's unfortunate that this is happening at this time for people who do

want to see this president out of office but the election is coming so if the impeachment doesn't work vote him out it's interesting that the timing of this all and one of the things i want to put to you goes to is does this whole impeachment kind of circus a member jimi you were you were on the show a while back we talked about it almost as if it's like a sporting event you know it you know it really has kind of become that my versus your team how does this really affects people outside of the ivory towers of washington d.c. los angeles and new york because everybody talks about it there but is that really what people are talking about on the streets of baltimore or in kansas early other place across the country do you what do you think. you know every day people are too busy trying to survive to even deal with this man and this we didn't vote for trump we don't want to know why house but you know also before we jump topics i want to make sure we address the elephant in the room how cowardly and how scared a lot of republicans they are scared to go of this does donald trump could

literally punch mitch mcconnell's wife in the neck and he still want to vote against this 1st crazy it's like we're living in a silly. i don't know like public trust is public trust is it's going down. i mean the republicans own. portray themselves as tough guys like jim jordan mr tough guy mr rugged guys and yet they look like in the words of the navy seals they look like pew. that's what we used to call me you know what a puke is or a banana a banana someone who's soft on the outside and soft on the inside. you know it's interesting i want to get i want to get to this part 2 of this kind of pertains to that you know how people are feeling on the streets and i want to i want to ask regina bridgie to this as well but this is interesting common dreams is reporting that a group of more than 350 health professionals delivered a petition to the house judiciary committee thursday warning the president from

administration is basically that warning the present allegedly deteriorating mental state could result in catastrophic outcomes including nuclear war as the possibility of future looms almost kind of saying look he's so dysfunctional mentally. we believe that impeachment might put him over the edge and could put could put america in danger but what you've got. not that far from an idea however this is a man who held the nuclear codes he had access to all of these things think this is the cold war we've been told especially you know maybe our age we didn't live through the entire cold we're like oh we're in relative peace time things are fine and then this man comes along one thing couldn't hit him you don't know and if psychologist people who understand of behavior and study his behavior are saying this it should be worth at least garnering attention if not entirely believing i think. have probably tweaked the nuclear codes he is unlikely to say oh and we still we still have to deal with this and of people in his own party. they

won't say anything that terrified and it's crazy what i claim it would be clinton too well but i also go to brazil yeah i really want to say that us how this affects the american people sure in the short term maybe it doesn't seem like it matters but it 100 percent matters because trump is the 1st president to really say look i'm the president you really can't go after me and if they allow him to get away with that then that is going to affect the american public from here on out every single person after him could just come in and be more corrupt than he is just because the system has allowed him to it will affect people look at nixon he resigned because he knew that both parties were going to come for him he stepped down that is not happening today it's incredibly dangerous if they allow him to get away with it if they're able to prove that there was some sort of quid pro quo and we're just going to lead to he's already avoiding the constitution breaking the constitution if he gets reelected i fully expect him to say get rid of it i want 3

terms you know and blatantly doing it right in the face of the constitution and this i'm talking about you know there's a lot of the 3rd time and all the republicans will line up and say yeah. there's a. bully and you know down that road here's what's interesting to me though because i also look at it from the other side of this too is this is donald trump isn't the 1st corrupt politician we've had in the white house he's certainly not the 1st politician we've had in the white house who's totally completely ignored the constitution or got quid pro quo for domestic policies from foreign countries you know so i mean it's kind of interesting that like it's donald that's bringing all this out of light but you know are the democrats though being hypocritical given their own history of violating the constitution and quid pro quo they all are that's my god that why do you think i'm an independent i believe in the constitution i believe it's the sacred document the governors are. and you don't violate it both parties do it's ridiculous they only use the constitution when it

works in their favor when it doesn't work in their favor there nor it and i say they meaning both parties both yeah and i could've got to absolutely not like that but they didn't and it is definitely a political game because they're doing it because they went after biden i'm not saying they shouldn't be doing it now but they could have done it earlier i think very quickly. but how can you guys sit here and act like donald trump knows what quid pro quo i'm like this and that's just that's what makes it more dangerous is more dangerous is more dangerous than a crooked democrat because it least they not have rules they break it he doesn't even though he just wakes up in the morning and does stuff let's. agree with he. well you know here's the here's the thing that. people need to understand i remember when trump won and i had friends saying this is good now we'll get a businessman in there to run our country well people need to understand that

government and business government provide services corporations are bottom line profit makers there's a different when you difference when you work in one section to another and the government is there to provide services that's highly different than a bottom line profit corporation but in something run by a c.e.o. are we going to take our break so havior buddy as we go to break like watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover a video and be sure to check out watching the hawks the podcast which is now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you listen the podcast coming up george zimmerman george zimmerman is back in the headlines again with his announcement that he is suing trayvon martin's family for 100000000 damages yes the 17 year old he killed is now suing his family find out what our panel asked to say what about that when we come back stay tuned in the.

what holds institutions to. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. some want to that's. it's a great thing for us is it like the 3 of them would be that. interested in the what is it that. this should. all right welcome back watchers the man who shot and killed 17 year old trayvon martin back in 2012 mr neighborhood watch him self george zimmerman is back in the headlines again for a lawsuit that is almost too unbelievable to believe the washington post is

reporting that zimmerman has filed a $100000000.00 lawsuit wednesday against the teen's family and a publishing firm and a law enforcement agency for defamation and malicious prosecution yes my friends george zimmerman the man who shot and killed trayvon martin the man who dodged a guilty verdict by claiming a 17 year old with some skittles put him in such fear of his life that he had to gun him down is now suing the family whose child he snuffed out he's suing that family $100000000.00 the lead defendant in zimmerman's suit is sabrina fulton martin's mother martin's father tracy is also being named along with their lawyer ben crump publisher harper collins various members of the prosecution team and the florida department of law enforcement according to the washington post the lawsuit claims all defendants have worked in concert to deprive zimmerman of his constitution and other related legal rights so let's turn it over the panel was it all one big conspiracy against zimmerman was it

a hoax that was built upon witness fraud to frame him up to charge him. for the trayvon martin just 1st of all i'd like to say it doesn't bother me that harper collins was in this lawsuit because they're the book company that wrote the defamation book on me with the navy seal sniper yes so if they take harper collins as money i have no problem with that being a little tongue in cheek sarcastic i know but anyway getting back on this is so outrageous there is no judge in the world that isn't going to throw this out my opinion how could a judge at least i certainly would tell you any of the 73 that i appointed while i was governor of minnesota would laugh right out of court i would freak that's what'll happen i hope that's what will happen to one day i want to go to your what are your thoughts on mr zimmerman making headlines again. he's a clown he's a coward he's an idiot he's a full every and any and everything that makes them up is the reason why people

outside of america and a lot of people in america hate this country he's a joke like the whole idea that that this is even a thing is beyond disgusting it's crazy it's crazy he's out of his mind i don't even understand you know his whole story. you know his fame and what this is the same guy who was autographing bags of skittles and a gun conference this is how disgusting and evil this man is. you know i know sabrina and you know i know tracy and they're great family and they're good people and they lost their son and they've been through a whirl of just pain and you have this clown i have planned what it is this is the problem this is same thing what a person like trump you let these clowns run wow what i'll stop him they may spiral out of control and look look at the mess we live in right now that is a good point he said i mean it's a good lawsuit because i saw some pretty evil things about his careful isn't like

he's also got he said thank god i never bumped and. you have part of the problem is we have an issue with giving every paul blart want to be mall cop a gun in this country that's a huge problem 2nd of all my brother was murdered and going through legal proceedings in a criminal investigation is devastating for the families involved and like everything they have to go through so he already got away with it and watching him sued the families like devastating for me to watch this is completely devastating it's adding insult to injury it's like you already lost a loved one why why come back and do this there's no reason for whatsoever he you know mr neighborhood watch as we call him this is someone who is going to be honest twenty's now who could've been in college contributed into the betterment of society grown in a community and instead someone who thought that he went against the cops orders and trailed him further for no reason made a completely biased and races assumption on a person and took

a life is like you know i you guys heard me like that if that doesn't make your blood well maybe you're not a human maybe you're a robot which is why trump probably would be best friend well you know and that's and it's going to it's like the a student is obviously a social and i know for a fact it with doctors i've spoken to social pass can't be cured that's the one you know if you are one you are going to be one. and you develop and become one clearly that's what this. because this is soul utterly ridiculous like i said i can't see this even any judge is going to look at this i would think and toss it immediately there's a question that i have that's interesting as well you know we talk about men like zimmerman and the other kind of as you know decent these kind of clowns and people that we've seen over the years come up what what what is where is this coming from where are these people coming from that they believe that they can kind of get away with this and i would what are your thoughts on that of like why you know how are we giving rise to these type of people you know that really are the what are they

going to believe in them but why but why is trump getting a rise you know i mean there's obviously something behind all of that and even more there are people who think oh my gosh someone who finally agrees what i believe is in a public light and because they say it's ok i it's ok for me to do and that that's just. wrong this is wrong on so many level 3 justice system is incredibly broken he got away with it he got away with other things too you know he has a history with the law things that he's been accused of and gotten away with and that's just the society we live in family and we live in a litigious society you can sue anybody you want it does not mean you're going to win i really don't see him winning and no i don't either i mean it's pretty ridiculous let's go back to what he said he would say. you know why is the guy. you know you know at the end of the day it's a win for a very suspicious it's a win for people who hate oprah's people it's a big win you know zimmerman who is of hispanic descent got

a lot of praise from a whole lot of different races organizations and people at a rally around him he's the champion he's the regulus schmoe then and i'm going to hire him and i'm going to be around him but they can cheer for him or they can go to the gun show again to send a little bag of skittles and it's just sad as i said knock against america it's an act against cultures and people who have different social contexts and it's just it's sad and you know i agree with mr ventura any. judge is going to look at this and he or she is just going to laugh for what out but the fact that a lawyer would even consider this is just you know they should be disbarred i want to bring in all of your ject do you need to understand remember something the lawyers simply operate on money if you got the money and you hand the lawyer the money and he just you know he's going to represent you and i wonder if you know there's a quote from. from zimmerman's lawyer too that i want to reach is very interesting

he said george zimmerman seeks justice not just for himself but for all those others victimized by dishonest prosecutors who seek convictions to further their political and other unethical agendas to advance their careers what i found interesting about that quote is while zimmerman's case in this particular example is a ludicrous example of that. the lawyer isn't lying there are a lot of district attorneys in this country a lot of prosecutors in this country who do for their cases and who do prosecute people dishonest exactly to my family same thing exactly you know so how do we how do we let's take something as stupid and heinous as zimmerman's issue but let's bring it over to the other discussion where like you're saying we should how do we stop these prosecutors from going after people and from putting their own career 1st as opposed to actually process executing the law it goes back to the system that we have we value money over everything people value getting further in their

career having you know more media presence the fact that the stories even back in the news and he can get in his jabs to try to discredit the family in their defense because he's saying that they had false witness that alone just shows you how these people get away with it and until we start valuing something other than money and society there's no way we can fix it because everybody is just trying to crawl up to the top and of course the money funds them and lining their pockets in order to win you know district attorneys some of them that's what they want they want to become the next attorney general these are all political positions and you have to play a political game sometimes they'll just get a conviction because they want the conviction whether somebody is guilty or not because it looks good for them to have a 1000 convictions was on a very true yeah it's very do you only go about 30 so i decided to quit well then that's for me ok well what doesn't help is when you make him the poster child for fighting the issue this is how you lose you lose that issue when you make this clown the poster child of the fighting for justice and for prosecutors to actually do their job the way it's supposed to do the jobs that you and you've run up with

this guy then you lose that $100000000.00 out of he's never done anything in his life even warn him the extra $100000000.00 for anything. like that as this is a joke that's a great point that's a great point d.l. want to thank you for specifically for coming out and there you go to write always a pleasure having you on the thank you very much my duty for your support for your contributions to the great stuff you know when we lose. at this case it really i want to hit this last little bit kind of plays off of this also. in new you in the in monreal county in the state of new york recently they outlawed any behavior this is passed in this in this in this legislation they all out any behavior that intends to annoy alarm or threaten the personal safety of on duty police officers and other 1st responders many people are concerned by the term that they use there which was annoyed police because that's a very very a guitar how should we be annoyed by the vague language of you could be charged

with annoying a police officer of course if you're someone who lives in a minority community so you're just making annoying sounds annoying is a very vague definition because something i personally find annoying a cop may not find annoying vice versa so someone from a community that is minority dominated they could find themselves in prison probably they could find themselves in a dicey legal situation and that will only further the problems we have within the justice system that doesn't make about is making it worse as yourself to simply say how can simply be annoying be against the law because i have forgotten a little bit in new york they're going to start locking up people for being annoying but we better build a whole lot more prisons because half of the country can be annoying to republicans are annoying right now a lot of supreme courts have upheld the public's right to be annoying and to harass police flip them off whatever it's not illegal in many states according to their

supreme court also look at sandra bland she was smoking a cigarette that was annoying to the cop and she ended up getting arrested on a charge of obstructing arrest or resisting arrest and she ended up dying by an alleged suicide you know there's a lot of questions about whether it was or wasn't she did have some emotional problems with the bottom line is she was smoking a cigarette and it pissed off the cop it was annoying to her was it illegal no it. it's dangerous and you get into those kind of things i want to thank my panel today just i don't want to see flipping the bird against the law well it shouldn't be against what i want to thank you from the world according to jesse that call those of jesse ventura and bridges and those thank you so much and are to america sports producer jim and i am always a pleasure everybody thank you all right everybody that is our show for today remember in this world we're about to tell the world loved up so i tell you all i love a little bit further keep on watching those hawks out there an upgrade to the. my

feeling with this world it's white males who are so confused and fearful and this is certain generation that's controlling all the politics around the world still when that generation dies off and children are brought off in this new freedom movie our next materialistic don't really care about these things don't even more automobiles want to live by the side job want to ride a bicycle this movement is global and it's going the world is going to has to go in this direction and it's going to change. seems wrong. wrong just don't call. me. yet to stamp out disdain become educated and engage in it because of the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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