so much emphasis placed on the fact that everything is offensive in this p.c. culture that we're starting to take things way too seriously you know you're tearing about a book that was written in 1999 and the book that is a fiction book things in fiction don't need to be historically accurate and not only that they don't necessarily have to be really a description that fits reality you look at a fiction book we've got wizards we've got things that are not of reality so why are we taking a fiction writing so seriously they were applying it to racial division and making it something that is more of a nonfiction topic because you know see that's the news from the back again at the top of the.

ratings and sell you terry as you. welcome to 2020 hawk watchers i hope i hope you all had a beautiful fun safe new year's celebration with your favorite family friends and your pets i have missed you will admit i've missed you all so what so let's ask ourselves now though what has been happening since we last saw each other well it appears that just a few days before we were drinking champagne and kissing strangers in times square the wheelers and dealers inside the white house and the pentagon decided it was a good time to drop some bombs on iraq and syria once again last sunday the guardian reported that according to the pentagon the attacks were defensive strikes against the kottayam the hezbollah militia group which u.s. officials said was backed by iran 2 days after a u.s. civilian contractor was killed in a rocket attack on an iraqi military base and as physics has taught us for every action there was a reaction and in reaction to the united states air strikes killing at least $25.00

of these militia fighters in response to the death of just one u.s. contractor many in iraq took action and that actions was a massive $6000.00 plus protest in front of the u.s. embassy in iraq a protest that included a small siege on the embassy the washington post reported that members of the u.s. trained iraqi security forces stood by as supporters of the qatari but hezbollah militia surged into the usually heavily guarded green zone breached the main embassy reception area and then set it on fire naturally all this led to a tweet off between u.s. president donald trump who blamed iran for the protests and embassy and the embassy siege and iran supplying leader ayatollah ali khamenei who called bollocks theory tweeting out that guy has tweeted that we see around responsible for the events in baghdad and we will respond to iran 1st you can't do anything 2nd if you were logical which you are not you would see that your crimes in iraq afghanistan have

made nations hate you. yes my friends it appears that despite our best hopes twitter will still be the diplomatic tool of the 21st century so with tensions once again rising it appears that war and conflict in the middle east may well be washington's new year's resolution as we roar into the roaring 2000 twenties and start watching the hawks. like you that i got. welcome everyone watching the hawks i am tyrrel been turned joining me today for our weekly panel discussion on the news of the week as the host of the world

according to jess the former minnesota governor jesse ventura author and editor at large for salon dot com the one and only de walk ins are t. america correspondent rachel blevins and archie america sports correspondent stephen criss stock goes and we've got a full show for you we go from war to new year's eve shootings to n.b.a. commissioners we've got a whole lot to get to but 1st let's start with the recent protests and siege of the u.s. embassy in iraq and i look almost immediately since the start of this the u.s. spin machine jumped led by president trump put all of the blame on the protests on iran and iranian backed militias in iraq let's get the big huge monstrous elephant out of the room and i mean i asked this panel. are what we're seeing happening in iraq right now a harbinger of a potential war with iran using iraq as the battlefield i'll start with you jesse. well of course it is you know you have to look at it the congress just appropriated

$850000000000.00 to the department of defense which should be called 'd the department of off friends and they've got to have a way to spend all that money now allegedly they're trying to get us out of afghanistan but we're a war culture now so we have to stay at war so they have to develop a new war if there's not going to be one in afghanistan now all get political for a moment defy were president i would welcome back to 850000000000 did the department of defense but rather than spending it on the aircraft carriers and rockets and weapons of mass destruction i would go out you spend $200000000000.00 on those machines that clean up the ocean then i'd spend another $50000000000.00 training the united states navy how to use them and we would start a war on cleaning up the ocean guess what the rest of the world might like us again but what are the chances of bad know of course we're going to go to war again

because the military industrial complex hastur spend that budget they've got their spend it or lose it what you guys feel should we be fighting the war on climate or should we be fighting another war with iran do you guys see a war with iran coming down the pipe or 2021 is interesting because there are just a few months ago the top u.s. officials like mike pump a.o.l. 'd and then john bolton were all saying hey watch out iran is going to use these smaller militias to go and attack u.s. troops and they kept warning about that even though iran was saying we don't have any plans to do this and now all of a sudden you have a one tack i sat with this long list of the killed one you know u.s. servicemen and now all of a sudden they're going off in their honest saying hey we didn't do this it lines up with that narrative that they have in place and so now they're able to say oh look at this and of course how dare these protests. come and storm this and this me and speak out in a country where the united states hasn't been for several years with no plan of leaving. the planet we need new leadership. everything is

just the whole idea of the military industrial complex will as a new one every year and it's been that way since this country began and it doesn't work for the people it doesn't put your thinking on this i mean well we could talk about whether who this militia was and you know where they were on in or just iraqi people and what whether it was justified to bomb there or not but at the end of the day like rachel said we've been there since 2003 in iraq and unjustly so eventually people are going to rise up and when the bully keeps on punching you down and kicking you we're going to punch back in the mouth and i think that's what happened and the u.s. is being a bully over there and they're bound to get get what they have coming it's interesting too because what you see happening too is remember they didn't know it was thankfully killed in the siege on the embassy was mostly just property destruction they didn't get into the actual part of the embassy where people were i mean you know so one of the interesting things to the jump out at me is the iraqi security forces actually let these protesters into the green zone like these are the these are the security forces that we've been training for many years we've been there.

and then respond then you also saw that in response to the original u.s. airstrikes that killed these 25 iraqis they may have been in this supposedly has been iranian backed militia militia group there's still 25 iraqis that we killed iraqis iraq's prime minister adel abdul mahdi stated we have previously confirmed our rejection of any unilateral action by the coalition forces or any other coalition forces or any other forces inside iraq and we consider it as a violation of iraqi sovereignty and a dangerous escalation that threatens the security of iraq in the region are we seeing in real time the united states kind of lose its control over the country that it toppled its government like we said back in 2000 to 2003 are we are they losing control of this country. jesse tyrrell i'm still waiting for the day dick cheney told us we would be greeted in the streets like a liberator a i'm still holding my breath let's get dick cheney out here and explain to us why

it's nearly 20 years later and we're still not being looked at by the liberators you know when your country goes out and they wage war simply for regime change years this is the blowback you went up with so everything that's happening now is the result of the misguided law war the iraq war was and that's all they do now is live to get us into war now we've learned afghanistan's been a big live from start to finish where the people going to wake up to these lies and finally say no to the wars i don't think dick cheney has ever been greeted anyway every. detainee has the greed in his own country let alone somebody else's of it kind of makes us so big. and i know we've removed but we consume easy on the bush administration you know trouble comes in this is goofy and out of control and

we kind of for get like those years if you want to talk about him and how much damage was wrought they want him out and being a citizen in iraq you know you had the united states come in way to this war and all this and it starts coming out that this weapons of mass destruction claim was all a big lie and yet they're still there there's no accountability for any united states basically says hey guess what we're camping out here and if you try to do anything about it and we're just going on the launch more airstrikes in this country where we aren't even supposed to be in the 1st place i mean that has got to be incredibly frustrating point then i think you know we use the narrative as that isis is our biggest threat and there are these big scary boogie men over there but i would if i heard correctly this militia was fighting leading the fight against isis as well and we're bombing the militia that is leading the fight against our biggest threat that's a very i don't know if they actually were they were what i will be doing. let's throw a measure to their would be are you serious if we hadn't invaded iraq 6 in the 1st place did not exist until we invaded iraq there are the leftover of saddam's

regime that we didn't pay or keep on the payroll when we got there they went up north reformed themselves so our use of suits our frankenstein it always has but it's very interesting that like in response to the protests and the burning of the guard stand at the embassy president trump and all of his glory treated iran will be held responsible for lives lost or damage incurred as any of our pows sylvie's they will pay a very big price this is not a warning it is a threat happy new year should the year. literally under the tree would have. a u.s. president or any other elected representative or official from the united states is a very serious be threatening nations or our nations people or anyone whatsoever on social media savvy allowed at this point know why a lot of our nouns in the zone and it. was the element of surprise my point are you

2 years old come on a man like you is out of control i think that you know enough and is i think the president should be kicked off a twitter yes i'm surprised because you know we live in a day and age where white trampolines becomes headline news as a result the main stream media takes that they carry this narrative right all this and they say well the president claims that iran was behind these attacks so now we have to go forward and spread that claim and spread that claimants one of those things where honestly they weren't behind them so if it's a lie that spread enough times and eventually becomes the truth and regular americans sitting at home are watching this on fox news or c.n.n. and they're like well they said iran is after us and they're killing our soldiers so now we have to go after them good point good point just going to say oh but he. just is joe but i am. laughs let's remember. this was the twitter of a draft dodging power when it was time for this guy who serve what did he do he paid big money and got out of that that's why you said tough guy because he himself

never would ever fight himself he told your colt and let you fight tough guy on twitter but not in real life it's not exactly what i say just an example of a bully who should not be a leader in any way shape or form at all because like i said earlier when you if you eventually are big bad bill you're going to get hit back in the mouth and he it's just a bunch of empty threats it is it is and that 3 is the danger i see in that kind of thing it's like look i don't i have i'm fine with you want to talk policy on twitter you want to tweet out what your ideas are for the country want to have that communication with your base directly and not have to go through the media fine you can do all that but we don't need to turn twitter into like a 16 year old war that i see in high school between countries i mean see and then they all run as leader fire back at donald donald but i get that i'm tired of it i don't want to see it anymore unless i honestly do so unlike a lot of people who go to the social media his tweets matter yeah i don't know i don't think we're going to get tweets matinée have this viral implication until until we get a president who doesn't own a cell phone or doesn't is not on social media i don't think we're going to see

that end anytime soon all right we've got to move on as we go to break card watchers don't forget to let us know when you think of the topics we've covered on our social media be sure to check out watch knox the podcast which is now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you listen to your favorite or not so paper podcast coming up the panel that's discuss the bible and start to the 2020 here in the united states and then finally we journey into the land of basketball and look into the legacy of be a commissioner david stern and stay tuned to watching the ball. over the past week we've heard a lot about escalation deescalation and what is proportionate. i've also heard the word. this is how the u.s. and iran conflict is described what is not talked enough about is the necessity of ending the american military presence in the middle east these endless wars must

see. show small seemed wrong. when all the roles just don't all. mean you get to shape out these days to come to agitate and engagement because of the trail . when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. on january 1st of all most of us were waking up with a hangover and some. memories of what was a glitter champagne or beer and pizza some of us were not so lucky some of us waking up with a loved one in the hospital or even worse a morgue thanks to

a friend stranger a loved one who misused or on purpose used a gun to inflict hurt in fact the new york times reported that in just the city of st louis by new year's morning the police were investigating 10 shootings including 5 deaths across that city the times went on to highlight that during the 48 hours of new year's celebrations a man in cleveland firing off a gun to celebrate accidently killed his girlfriend in florida 2 men were killed in a shooting inside a nightclub and in baltimore which closed 2019 with the city's 2nd highest number of homicides on record the police were investigating 2 killings that happened a few hours before midnight and these were just a few examples of multiple shootings and killings that took place across the country just in time to welcome a new year so as we start this new decade with what appears to be no end in sight to gun related violence i asked this panel what would you like to see over the next decade take place when it comes to curbing gun violence start with the panel rachel

. what i think is one of those things that is going to take a cultural shift in you know we look at places where they've there's some cities where they've tried to enact gun control and they've tried to enact different reforms simply how that works you know specifically when you look at chicago and there are other places where it's just a cultural thing and there's going to be a number of ways in answers that work for different cities and i think that whenever you look at these places you have to look at how well the police are dealing with this whether they're even dealing with and all whether they're just looking at it and letting it go by and not really whether they're spending more time you know sending their swat teams to these huge marijuana. us then they are looking at these different homicides and i think that's something that we're going to tackle of the next decade most of all and most of it i just see what do you see what can actually curb gun violence in your mind as i know you're a big 2nd amendment advocate. well here's the deal look at it you know let's take a look at mexico for a moment mexico practices strict gun control there's big signs at the border you

can't bring in a weapon you can't even carry ammunition or you go straight to mexican prison you don't even get 200 bucks for cash and go but the point being is that the point being is that they practice strict gun control it's the old cliches the good people don't have them the bad people do because how many people died of gun violence in mexico now clearly we need to do better background checks people that are on drugs pharmaceutical drugs and mental drug should not have access to weapons and guns we need there would be a better job of that but it could start with our own government our own government setting the stage for us we are the larger seller of weapons throughout the world today what's the difference between a gun death or a rocket death somewhere else both of them kill women and children in the end and our government should take the example by getting off their high horse of being the

largest arms dealer in the world then come and talk to be about my gun. dealer you for. i live in baltimore from. this has been one of the most daily is the is ever closing with 340 murder is. you know understand every argument for the 2nd amendment i get it says hasn't been working even when you tried tough gun laws to police officers out playing guns on people that didn't have them that's right a lot going to people who are actually shooting people so it's almost like we've gotten to a place where we need to put a policy on a 2nd i'm in. we figured it's so me i've been shot before it doesn't doesn't feel good. i've been i've really hear stories about how old because this person had a gun they saved this family over because this person had a good that wasn't this mass shooting like you always hear something bad happening nothing good is coming from it it's empowering a lot of collards you know beyond everything we have been on new years just look at

all of the mass shootings that have been even. in the past 10 years like it's like the number is christmas the most it's a part of our culture now is something that we that we know is going to happen in the we need to figure it out because the way it is now working with all 3 of everybody on here on the panel you know i think a little bit everybody's writing a little there's a lot of it's very complex of course you want commonsense gun control but you also want to respect the 2nd amendment but that was also so long ago there might need to be some revision to that obviously because i was in a different time period there's been a lot that's happened since then but i think with common sense like jesse mentioned background checks closing loopholes like a gun shows and all that because you do want good people with good intentions to be able to have guns for whatever reason they want but maybe they are 15 or you know you know the automatic joins in then was that a gun show sign a bag of skittles like this to study this is this is where we need to have i mean it's easy to talk about different things than to say we need a possible 2nd amendment or we need gun control and that's not what you have to

assume that the government is actually going to carry that out in a legitimate way 1st of all and then at the same time was have to realize we have millions of guns in this country so let's say that we put out a new gun control legislation we start we're banning all in our 15th who's going to go in take those a ar 15 that's going to create a whole new war on itself that well i guess there 1 are a lot of problems at the same time guns do save lives and there are instances where when you look at the texas shooting there was a man who came out shot off 2 shots before he was shot in the head by another man who was there with a god and i didn't man and man did not have a gun in there at least by. other people that had their guns drawn at the same time we wanted easily taken them out whereas if no one else was ironman he would have been able to do whatever he wanted to do before police could get there jesse i see you try to weigh in on what you have to say. well let's also look to mass stabbing now too aren't they. right not now you're seeing the trend of people going in like that at the jewish place of mass stabbing so it's beyond weapons this is

a mental problem that's out there that we've got to deal with because it takes a mentally deranged person to do any of that in the 1st place i want to i want to finish off the show today and this week we saw the death of and be a former n.b.a. commissioner david stern the 77 year old passed away on wednesday after a 3 week hospital stay up or you know suffer every suffered a sudden brain hemorrhage back on december 12th starting served as the top man in the business of professional basketball here in the u.s. for 30 years serving and be a commissioner from 1900 or 2014 he oversaw billions of dollars rise of the n.b.a. during his tenure but also he was witness to many a controversy i want to ask the panel it's curious that you see a guy like this is such an impact on popular culture in this country he brought the n.b.a. and made it into a powerhouse he also had the help of a lot of big n.b.a. players along the way namely michael jordan and le bron james and everyone else

what are your thoughts on the david stern also howard stern star on the david stern legacy of the n.b.a. all star with the jesse. well i just like they have one year of his salary. and so i can't imagine how i can imagine how much money david made guiding this $1000000000.00 empire and tip your hat to it i mean yeah you do things wrong bad things can happen that did happen the c.e.o. of any industry over a 30 year period but let's look at the. positives david's gone now what he did though he took basketball international now look at the teams in the n.b.a. they are not dominated by just americans now you've got an international field the place you have literally the greatest basketball players on the planet and david stern's directly really respond i want to get to you steve as the r.t.

burke a sports guy what we are what what's your feelings on stern jumping off what jesse was just touching on internationally was a huge aspect of david stern's tenure 30 years in the in the n.b.a. from 84 to 2014 and he organized over 150 international games he struck t.v. deals in over $200.00 countries in over 40 languages that was huge that was unprecedented for any sports league at the time and now you see the n.f.l. follow up they have games in london every year so he kind of set that precedent and trend but also going off the money that he's made for the n.b.a. the value of the franchise in total of all the french as has increased over $18000000000.00 since he took over to now so that's a massive game is there a definitely the n.b.a. like i think of a lot of controversy people really had to sit back and say how he caused the expansion of the league and created of so many amazing areas like even before the jordan era and sort of showtime that was don't stand that was so to have created probably more n.b.a. and did anything you know the robin reasons and. rachel your thoughts of david

stern's history. you know i think when you again fenland legacy there may be a little going to here and there but ultimately handing over him for what he did and for what you contributed for him i mean i also have to say that i still believe the n.b.a. draft is rigged i think that started out a way that stern of the lottery yeah i think it's rigged for a big market teams i think there's a lot of behind this i think anybody who's watched n.b.a. coaching over there is now whether this falls on david stern's back is commissioner whatever i think when you watch n.b.a. n.b.a. refereeing over the years you can clearly see n.b.a. referees favoring certain players certain teams certain markets. over other teams and players and markets the probably going to last time. i don't understand the names i get the calls of course the browns going to get a call or he doesn't get to call for travelling ever but also another aspect to david stern he really changed a lot of social issues such as when people were afraid of hiv when they didn't know too much about it back in 91 when magic johnson was diagnosed and he had to retire stern actually let he was the magic johnson was the leading vote getter for the 92

all-star game and stirred a poll as opposed to even players that want magic johnson played he let him play in that game and shook his hand and that quelled the fears that you're not going to catch this virus from just touching something that had a big impact like across the world yes and you know i don't think. and let's look at the bottom line panel look at what these guys are making sure they money and you've got to give credit to a commissioner that was in there 30 years that would be building a business to where i mean a $1000000.00 a year now is looked at is chickenfeed true it's true it's true basketball's an incredible force and i think it always a lot well it owes a lot to david stern and what you put in and also i think we talk about earlier this what touch of us to start also drop all the controversy things like that best but it still allows a lot of the players to be the individuals they want to be and to speak out politically the way they want to and things like that that also started under david stern and i think this important thing to know about his legacy with that yeah

basketball players coming off as a revolutionary yet again that these folks are players that is there anything about nothing and they think oh no not at all not at all adam silver credit to him the commissioner audio audio like hey how do you like the fact they're going to let antonio brown maybe play golf with a ball but they won't let cap or neck at all let tapper in it because they're that good topic and we'll pick that one up again in a later date but i want to thank my panel jesse ventura the watkins rachel rachel blevins and steve christakis thank you so much everyone for coming on always a pleasure that is our show for you today remember when in this world we are not told the beloved enough so i tell you all i love i am tyrrel them through and keep on watching all those hawks out there have a great day and night everybody. this

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