the rocky m.p.'s vote to boot out american troops in a furious response to washington's assassination of a wrong top general on their soil from both factions are off with sanctions never seen before. at the defense department it's a merge that the pentagon's been cheated for years by contractors using shell companies. in libya faces further fragmentation as turkey sends troops to support the un recognized government in tripoli if you think the administration based in the east.

from moscow thanks for joining us on our team to national i'm daniel walking welcome to the program. and little trump is warning iraq to brace itself for heavy sanctions if it expels american troops from the country iraq m.p.'s voted to kick out foreign forces in response to washington's assassination of a rod's most powerful general in an air raid at baghdad international airport on friday we have a very extraordinarily expensive ear piece that's there it costs billions of dollars to build long before my time we're not living unless they pay as back for it if they do ask us to leave if we don't do it in a very friendly basis will charge them sanctions like they've never seen before. it will make a rainy and sanctions look somewhat tame. iraqi lawmakers passed their resolution on sunday evening calling on u.s. troops to leave the country and also ask the government to pull back from military

assistance for the u.s. led coalition pushes for a formal complaint against washington to be raised at the u.n. for violating iraqi sovereignty and general consume some of mani's body was returned to iran on sunday the country seeing huge outpouring of grief with hundreds of thousands of mourners paying tribute to the slain c'mon the recross the middle east and beyond iranian leaders are vowing to venue sullivan is there but if explains it better playing a long game. on the face of it trump and iran they always wanted the same thing iran knew secret always wanted the us to get the hell away from it out of iraq out of the middle east and trump well he won the election promising to end america's wars we want to bring our troops back home and i got elected on that if you go back and look at our speeches i would say we want to bring our troops back home from these endless wars and i will say look i said i want to get out of these

endless wars i campaigned on that i want to get out i haven't left the white house except to go to iraq for a version of time where i had a great experience or actually met some great people some great generals we have great ideas having to do with syria it's working out very well in the hell out of isis and we're bringing our folks back home what a man wouldn't say to get elected in reality he escalated conflict after conflict where there was a scratch trumps policies would tear it open into a wound on the trump of america went from a fall with iran having a nuclear deal to assassinating iran's 2nd most powerful official i don't think trump expected this not me. medians morning a man that the u.s. claimed was a terrorist and i highly doubt he expected to have all his embassies go in lockdown

with crowds demanding death at the gates. i was due to meet a general solution at 8 30 am on the morning he was killed as he left baghdad international airport mr abdul marty said a general sort of money was carrying iran some response to a message iraq had conveyed on behalf of saudi arabia aimed at easing tensions between the 2 countries in the region so the money was apparently on a peace mission carrying proposals on how to reduce tensions in the region this is from the mouth of the u.s. backed iraqi prime minister versus him we have the state department it's sure and says that he was actually evil and take our word for it he was organizing imminent

attacks on u.s. bases take our word for it is there any surprise that iraqis voted to remove american soldiers from their country that iraqis don't want foreign troops murdering who they will when they will. they want to restart the civil war again among the shia we don't want this to happen we are not a battlefield between the usa and iran so whoever wants to heed the usa should do that outside of this country. all of these troops must leave because they have turned iraq into a battlefield the parliament has the side to ask the u.s. to leave once a prime minister signs off iraq will withdraw its request for assistance which they followed with a u.s. led coalition when isis was ascendant if the u.s. refuses to pull out if it keeps its troops that will. no longer be a friend it will be an occupier essentially in death sulaimani achieved exactly what he wanted for iraqis to expel america and if parliament doesn't do it we will

take greater action the white house is in panic trying to justify what it did why is president telling fairy tales trying to tie soleimani to $911.00 of all things trump threatening to bomb iranian cultural targets which would be a textbook example of a war crime that again i doubt he cares much in iran millions burden the american flag in america they're burning the book on international law and order the entire dynamics in iraq has changed from an atmosphere where iran was the culprit iran was voted out sort of by the street to get out of iraq everybody was for an accusation zz attacking purine embassies and consulates and so on and so forth to an entirely different position where and especially of those who

are affiliated with iran having sort of an upper hand legally to pursue their own targets let's remember that the americans since invading iraq illegally in 2003 they have spent trillions of dollars lost thousands of american lives and of course in the process they have killed hundreds of thousands of iraqis all to have influence in a very geostrategic part of the world now when the iraqi parliament asks them to leave of course they will eventually lead i don't think they will have a choice it's going to happen sooner or later this is going to be a very significant defeat for the americans i would say you would be the beginning of the strategic decline of u.s. power and influence in the region. and another development iran says it won't abide . by the enrichment limit set out by their waning 2015 nuclear deal but says it is ready to reverse that if washington lift sanctions now the u.s.

pulled out of the agreement when president trump took power but leaders of germany france and the u.k. have issued a joint statement calling on iran to avoid measures contravening the nuclear deal is what middle east experts have been telling us about the deepening crisis gripping the region they hope that iran will not take a hard decision that they will lose the europeans because we all know that the reappearance at something different from the americans so it's a balanced it's supposed to be a balanced political process that iran should do. i'm not iranian to say things that it's supposed to be known everything in iran but at least i'm outside the box and seeing is that iran also just like the united states both of them are on the edge both of them have capabilities and both of them can hurt each other but what are the consequences it seems now that hate the united states and the whole of the middle east is kelly the people really you only will the american

city. a manly the 2nd strongest man in iraq so i think middle east actually is facing a huge day limit now. now in the u.s. it's emerged that the pentagon's been cheated for years by contractors using shell companies it's been revealed in report to congressional committees by the government accountability office the department of defense faces several types of financial and nonfinancial fraud and national security risks posed by contractors with opaque ownership. well the document reveals that firms frequently use subcontractors from different countries such as turkey and russia usually that's against the rules because it means military equipment being manufactured in foreign countries jobs of course that should only go to domestic firms and shell companies have also been used to inflate prices and given contracts that had already been marked for other bidders the us defense department accounts for roughly 2 thirds of

all federal contracts that's why it's been affected the most in 2018 it was around $38000.00 contractors with more than 570000 new deals to $350000000000.00 many of those companies provide services for u.s. military forces former pentagon security analyst michael maloof believes that private contractors need to be held accountable for their behavior. defense department contracts with major defense firms it's what these in turn what these defense firms like lucky and what have you then sub contracts and then the subcontractors may sub sub contracts and that's where this problem arises at that lower level i think they were aware of it i think it is what they needed was a study like this to galvanize attention to it and thereby initiate action up until now they've just taken the word of the car the contractors the major contractors

that the products are sound and what have you but those those defense contractors those major was like the lockheed so what have you really have an obligation to do their own quality assurance controls and they're not doing it that also they're also going to be helped to have to be held accountable. so his soldiers are on the way to libya according to an announcement by turkey's president out of all the turkish parliament voted on thursday to back the un recognized government in tripoli and greenlight a troop deployment close the meeting of the un security council has already been set for monday to discuss the situation in libya is a rival of ministration based in the east of the country voted against the deal with ankara. i learned your. it was decided to cut ties between the turkish regime and the states of libya and also in today's session a unanimous vote was passed in the general command authorizing the armed forces to

disable all airports ports and one ports under the militias control due to the danger they pose to the country's national security by bringing the colonists to our country. libya has been in a state of war since protests in 2011 on the ousting of the country's leader moammar gadhafi in recent months generally for half the libyan national army have been gaining ground against the un backed government of national accord which requested military aid from anchorage last month general have to us forces currently control most of libya's territory including crucial oil and gas resources iow johnson a founder of viewpoint africa believes that even with turkey's support it will be hard for the un backed government to deal with general have to us forces. i'm afraid libya has been a bit of a mess since gadhafi went many people are saying that is very much like syria number 2 mr have to who controls a large swathes of the country or protect

a period of time has the swing of the pendulum but on the other hand when you have a government which has been supported by the united nations a government that's supported by the united states i'm think. has a faction or an opportunity of winning but it's going to be very difficult i can't see physically how which is why he's been propped up and supported by the turks who are who have already expressed to send their military might to support him there are too many actors playing and supporting a competing factions which for we know we're not sure exactly who's going to succeed in the why the actual let's get to into. taking stock of 2019 next as we reflect on more of the events that marked the year just got. i. well

one notorious name from the past year was that of a disgraced american financier and paedophile geoffrey epstein and his role at the head of a traffic sex trafficking operation catering for the rich and powerful he was found dead in prison in august while awaiting further trial his death was officially ruled a suicide but it failed to draw a line on the epstein sordid story as caleb moore penned explains. imagine a billionaire who is friendly with u.s. presidents like bill clinton and donald trump imagine he's also tight with the british royal family and now imagine that he's also heavily involved in running a sex trafficking network where he gives clients access to under-age girls.

now a story like that cannot be ignored no matter how hard some might try i had a falling out with them a long time ago i don't think i've spoken to him for 15 years i wasn't saying i was not a long time ago it starts it may be 15 years and it would be. a considerable stress to say that he was a very very close friend but it gets better magine that certain media had been

suppressing the story after being put under pressure she told me everything she shares everything she was told for 12 years has turned out we can surface after us it was unbelievable what we had when everything that the palace found out that we had her whole allegations are false and true and threatened us a 1000000 different ways now imagine that the billionaire at the center of the child sex. trafficking ring ends up dead in his prison cell and the official story is suicide i can understand people who immediately whose minds went to sort of the worst case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw ups now imagine that this suicide was preceded by a series of mistakes such as the guards taking him off suicide watch and then falling asleep and falsifying the records we're told that the video watching his cell just had a serious glitch and somehow was not recording what took place but then after

a while a video does surface now 8 different prison officials insisted that he not be left alone in his cell but yet prior to his suicide his cellmate was transferred and he wrote a will 2 days prior the family noticed injuries on his wrist and shoulders that the autopsy report never explained and forensic experts say the coroner is wrong it looks more like homicide than suicide i think that the evidence points to a home so. high because there are multiple 3 fractures in the hyoid bone the fabric cartilage that are very unusual for suicide now what would you believe about such a case polls show that more than half of americans believe he was killed by someone else and less than a 3rd by the official story that he killed himself alone in his cell there's no way that man could have killed himself i've done too much time in those units it's an

impossibility between the floor and the ceiling is like 8 or 9 feet there's no way for you to connect to anything you have sheets with the paper level not strong enough she was 200 pounds it would never happen the news media should only report the facts never speculation and we don't know what went on in geoffrey epstein cell but it has officially been ruled to have been a suicide however given all the facts we just went over is. really shocking that millions of americans are saying to use of old timey but t.v. appropriate language i call ball doing what mop and r.t. new york. 2019 also saw a fair bit of political maneuvering and we're dealing over weaponry and the iran nuclear deal unraveled in a new arms race waited in the wings the u.s. withdrew from the i.n.f. treaty of limiting ballistic missiles in 2018 and russia then took the scrub as a symmetrical response the following year he was fond of takes a close look at how it developed. an arms race cold war

a nuclear crisis it seemed all these things both sparked and faded out of historical relevance in the past millennium but 2019 saw all of them make a comeback the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal the u.s. unilaterally demolished a pillar of international stability crushing its i.n.f. treaty with russia. fears of the past century resurrected immediately the u.s. is pulling out of a decades long nuclear treaty with russia sparking fears of

a new arms race we thought was confined to the cold war now there's concern a pullout could lead to a new arms race it's clear that the threat of a new arms race is real we go into a nuclear arms race like we saw in the 1960 s. only more expensive and more dangerous it seemed the 2 countries were again trying to outpace each other on the military speed track with a nuclear winter right past the finishing line washington no longer bound by the i.m.f. shackled started the mess out tests right away 2 weeks after the pullout and then again in december this in turn kicked russia's military into action too as it accused the us of premeditating their withdrawal national beacon for us pounds had to be only east and straightforward with us they should not have used trumped up accusations and allegations to unilaterally withdraw from. it's like they did in

2002 they violate everything and find excuses to put the blame on someone russia does not pose a threat to anyone any actions we take are retaliatory that is to say in defense we never seek confrontation we do not want it specially with a global power like the us the civil it's been known from october of last year when the us national security advisor john bolton visited us he said that donald trump's a statement about washington's withdrawal from the treaty is not an invitation to dialogue it was a final decision maybe even earlier the u.s. started preparing the missile test banned by the i never treated them and whatever the timing of the pullout washington has indeed been making its point about the i.m.f. for a long time pretty well being violated and being ignored by. other countries for years russia has violated the terms of the intermediate range nuclear forces freely without remorse adding fuel to the flames was the fact that just

a year before that russia unveiled new weapons an explicit demonstration that if it wants to retaliate it well. both sides have been accusing each other of violating the i never deal but more school has also insisted that it has been unprecedentedly transparent in attempts to demonstrate compliance paraded the very message washington claims violated the i.m.f. russia invited international experts to come and be judge and jury what the rocket could and couldn't do the americans didn't come despite an almost personal invitation. for many years we propose decide. talks but our initiatives have not

found the support of our partners in fact they always find pretexts for dismantling the global security system. russia says it's still tryst with the iron of deal flatlined it suggests that arms control can be achieved through expanding another deal start and response washington talks at length about its gargantuan plans to include china and other nuclear powers in a new deal just some new deal even the u.s. seems to have little idea about where through that the u. really starts expires february the 5th 2021 we have until then to resolve the situation our proposals is still on the table with the herd i understand that now it's up to washington to decide i hope that we're able to get everybody in a very 'd big and beautiful role and do a new treaty that would be much better all the while as nuclear parity hangs in the

balance purely on the good faith of a few individuals coming up next that's crosstalk took us intolerance and division it more than politics and for our u.k. views it's hot race cold dogs following a winter race across russia's far east working 30 minutes with the latest. but if she warned you didn't i do the dishes at the bottom or those jeans nudist beach and you see me we need to you. know when you. can use i mean that is without infringing balls. a lot of you will see flowing in as if i could each other both. as you did with

me as if. the. cabinet 5 days doing. who simply use a new. reality has mandates of its own that go beyond what our wishes and preferences are. and our utopian visions may be we're going to get a new deal but it may not be the green new deal that people are expecting will get the green new deal that we have we deserve rather think we are going to get a green new deal because the green new deal in compass is things beyond just what infrastructure health care is in the new deal there are other elements if you go back to one it started in 2006 that we are going to get and that are popular in

this country. here's a thought experiment and a bit of a prediction for 2020 going back to saudi aramco around town as it went public just recently at a market valuation an excess of $1.00 trillion dollars i think at $1.00 trillion dollars i think that we're going to see them make a hostile buy of a company maybe facebook for example and it could be the 1st. trillion dollar hostile raid history because they've got the balance sheet out if you've got a 2 trillion dollar balance sheet that means you've got you know the ability to borrow another trillion so you've got a 3 trillion dollar war chest if you go after an apple or even a berkshire hathaway 5 or $600000000000.00 why wouldn't saudi aramco buy berkshire hathaway just as a hostile right and then they own a huge portion of the whole global market the american market why not they've got the balance sheet now they want to diversify away from oil and gas and i think

we're going to see a little like that the next 6 to 9 months. time after time called parishioners repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to excel or a transition to sustainable prize board sustainability spain amana a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hama's. because. it does not the companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something else this must be going down even as i need money. this is the move in this new me do me man an einstein theme that may be based on that understood look to what.

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and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle up until recently politics were about policy preferences and ways to implement them that is not the case today your political views are now what define you as a person and there is a moral dimension bias against those who are not politically correct is the last acceptable form of discrimination this is the end of politics. cross-linking political intolerance i'm joined by my guest kevin chavez in washington he's managing partner of the chavez group as well as former president of d.c. young democrats also in washington we have christopher he's a political analyst and iraq war veteran also in raleigh we cross to ryan he is the

national co-chair and founder of students for trump card gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate ok kevin i'm going to go to you 1st because you're on the odd man out i want to make that clear i'm going to make sure that you get equal time on this program because i always welcome different opinions have any and in my introduction here i said that you know the last bias that is politically that is acceptable is discrimination against people because of their political views i mean that is on steroids right now and i think that is very it's terrible for our political discourse i'm sure i would disagree with you on many many points but i'm welcoming you on this program and i'm i actually i'm very interested in what you have to say because i don't see that in the national media much anymore go ahead kevin why is the case well i think you know what you're referring to is is the fact that people who are so used to consuming the media that they want to consumer affairs sort of validates their personal beliefs that they're not really open to hearing other sides.