in the united states today big pharma and the one percent then you know mix them all up together with one of the biggest sky is falling cable news stories of the year the coronavirus epidemic well i think it would look a lot like what came out of the mouth of u.s. health and human services secretary alex a czar when he testified in front of the house energy and commerce committee this wednesday on capitol hill you see it is our when when questioned by the u.s. representative on a illinois jan schakowsky about whether vaccines or treatments for the coronavirus will be affordable and fairly priced for all us u.s. citizens he offered up this rather curious response if i could just reaffirm then you're saying it for sure if for a couple for anyone who needs it i'm saying we would we would want to ensure that we work to make it out of affordable but we can't control that price because we need the private sector to invest the priorities excellent in this race neutral i don't get us there it's just secretary all right so for those of you not familiar

with k. street speak you don't lobby you speak statement roughly translates to trust me my former big pharma colleagues are going to get their sweet sick there's money off of this pandemic aids are by the way was president of lilly usa the largest affiliate of the global biopharmaceutical leader eli lilly and company where to his loyalties lie what a way to drain the swamp after hearing after the hearing representative chicago tweeted i just gave secretaries are 3 chances to assure us that the coronavirus vaccines are treatments developed with us taxpayer dollars will be affordable and accessible to everyone and he flat out refused to do so he is giving big pharma a blank check to monopolize them instead so my friends as the news media continues to scare us with constant chatter of global pandemic some by will outbreaks big pharma and their capitol hill cronies are seeing dollar. and sing in their ambient

induced dreams which means it's time to start watching the harks. on a city new street. or so let's see. this is joyce state i'll see. grace suggests least systemic deception is to late show but she does so with some but you'll see. what we're going to watching the. winter and i'm. sure you shocked it all by. mr big pharma himself i thought he'd be a little bit better and lying at least we seen very few surprises from those far but this one i will say kind of took me aback because i felt like he would have put on a type of put it he was being 100 percent on it yeah which is rare you know and congressional testimony is rare you see that kind of honesty when he just jumped in there and said well i mean we need the pharmaceutical companies to we can can tell them what

how much to charge for this the fact of the matter is though he absolutely chaos. we can we can make this work he can they can work with the pharmaceutical companies to get a drug to get it back to whatever it is and make it affordable for those who are going to be in dire need of this it is completely unbelievable to me that when health care is the top priority for americans going to vote in november that when you have a health care crisis you decide that well we're going to leave this up to the pharmaceutical companies then whatever they charge they charge good luck to you because it's like look no one likes the pharmaceutical companies at this point unless you work for them but if you took a poll right now most people are going to say like no they charge me an arm and a leg i'm not happy with the services rendered absolutely unless you work for them unless you're part of the lobby unless you sit on one of their corporate boards nobody else has a huge band bombs to go and look at like this look trump has just demanded $2500000000.00 from congress to fight this disease which he said trump said would go towards developing backs. things and supporting local governments among

a lot of other things well developing vaccines means what you just go hambo over taxpayer dollars potentially to these pharmaceutical companies to find a vaccine for this virus but then at the same time not tell them hey keep the cost low absolutely ridiculous to me we're going to effectively what he is saying is that those who can afford the vaccine are going to be good you're gonna be taken care of but anybody outside of that you're can own your own good luck i hope washing your hands of the only thing you really have to do to fight this and it's upsetting again because this is one of the top things that people are voting for it doesn't matter what side the political are you're on people care about the cost of pharmaceutical drugs they care about these things are lifesaving in many ways and coronavirus is just one of thousands of examples and we're not seeing any type of remedies no we're really not and that's the real scary thing but you know we can take comfort that you know mike pence is going to be the new coronavirus so are these the coronas are i know brett kavanaugh i really want that title coronas are the same my parents who didn't believe that smoking will cause any type of danger

cancer death or anything else i have a role belief that my friends of the person who should be leading anything related to health care in america. is pretty ridiculous but i mean it's you know it really speaks to the middle event of the day the amount of corruption or just kind of a revolving door of corporate america into some of the biggest positions that we have health and human services would be one this guy comes right out of the pharmaceutical industry it's not a shock that he's going to do makes them money or not really don't necessarily need those type of people in these government roles because at the end of the day it's very hard to remove yourself if you've had this history of always defending and standing up for the pharmaceutical companies your main goal was to maintain their bottom line i don't think he has separated himself from that you know and then there's no chance we're going to see that kind of separation regardless of who's in office as long as we keep picking people like i understand you want to pick people for these positions who have you know good knowledge of the industry or things like that of course but you have. to maintain some kind of laws and regulations of

keeping them from just diving right back into that industry the moment they're done beings are whatever or before they can rejoin up again maybe they have to have like some kind of window of hey you can't have worked in the industry that i'm yours something something anything to keep people like this from is basically what we get people once they leave office not before they come in which is also problematic and of the $400.00 bills that have died in the republican led senate several of them at least 6 were designed with pharmaceutical companies in mind to be able to price match for those people who again need things lifesaving drugs to price much some of the countries that are also developed that have drugs that are affordable for people like canada and we've seen this administration not take those things seriously and not push them forward so this is par for the course for the top administration but we're now seeing it at this dire rate because people are really scared and people are wondering. look at themselves in the mirror and say why why are people so on board with universal health care why are suddenly medicare for all

so popular these days like they all kind of like look at this epic bargain in washington we don't understand why people are up there as well when you've got a guy sit in front of congress saying like well i was going to get they're going to get their cut of the coronavirus spoils. we do about it. well look while we are on the topic of controversy in coronavirus this week a senior member of the international olympic committee stated that if things prove too dangerous we may just lose our summer olympics this year i'm not making this up the former canadian swimming champion who has been on the i.o.c. since 1978 estimated there is roughly a 2 to 3 month window to make the decision since the games are set to begin in japan on july 24th told the associated press quote i'd say folks are going to have to ask is this under sufficient control that we can be confident about going to tokyo or not. joining us now to discuss this incredible pop. ability of

a cancellation of the 20 twentieth's lympics is r t america sports producer regina had already to thank you very much recall the problem what a weird world we live in right canceling a lympics that's that's a pretty tall order i was not expecting it so look we all know the panic around the growth of virus you know bug mr problems comments were not received well in the host country. what did olympic organizers there have to say they weren't they weren't thrilled you know he's not he's a rank and file member he's been members the 1978 he's not current leadership had he been i'm sure japan would have taken these with a little bit more more heart really ended like we should take this seriously and said you know you're going to have 11000 athletes in a little over 4 or 5 months descending on japan and then you know 4400 athletes of the paralympic games afterwards that's a lot of people not to mention 7800000 people coming to watch the games and already japan in a sign that maybe you can take what they should actually listen to mr pound they have delayed training for the 80000 volunteers that are supposed to come help these

are free volunteers they don't get paid they come and volunteer for the game so you know the c.e.o. of the organizing committee feeling for the olympic games to share muito kind of had some some bite back to this he wasn't really thrilled we shouldn't hear us say . thank you. i don't think i can discuss based on presumptions over what might happen months ahead the prime minister has announced measures to be taken over the next 2 weeks and so we too are taking that into consideration the biggest problem would be if this noble coronavirus infection spreads far and wide so the most important thing to do is to take measures to prevent that from happening. so it's more prevention not so much you know let's look at this and say let's examine the possibility this might not happen we have seen how japan is reacting but if that's really out of the norm how we see this previously in olympic games you haven't seen cancellation due to a virus or any sort of global pandemic you have seen a cancelled 5 times since the modern era the games in 1906 you've seen it in 1960

which were the berlin olympics were world war one was going on you were going to have the games you saw the summer and winter games in 1940 canceled as well also due to world war 2 in 1904 as well didn't world war 2 so it's common for times of conflict to cancel these games last games before world war 2 or 1936 jesse owens in berlin that's a memorable moment for history but after that you just see it kind of tail off during the course you don't see it even with deacon choice 16 in rio they did not cancel the games or not postpone and they did not move them they kind of more just put a advisory guidelines for the didn't affect as many athletes in the way that coronavirus does or this can kill people you know the wall that's kind of interesting because when you see when you look at like how they very moved like you said in brazil was the good things like that is this really kind of more about just kind of fear mongering that we've seen over and over again with crowed about where everyone's like oh my god oh my god oh my god but you know do we really i mean is there really a reason the predicate is this really going to be something that we're going to see i wish it was that simple guys to say yes or no in

a degree we should be concerned i think panic in so incites panic so you really need to use the right word when they're you should be concerned you should take safety precautions wash your hands doing all the things that the c.d.c. and the world health organization to. you to do but i think pants a little too early the world health organization like luck that's who the i.o.c. is going to determine what happens they can't predict more than 3 weeks live in 3 months or that's a good point regina med is always always a pleasure and you know i mean who wants to have it should be a no thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure having you in your insights into the sporting world you are watching all excited you so. all right everybody as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered our social media be sure to sign up for our exclusive newsletter at. the slash watching the harks you can also start watching the harvest the brand new portable t.v. app which is available on smartphones google play and the apple app store by searching very simply portable t v all right coming up law enforcement. law enforcement is crafting even more

diabolical ways to get your d.n.a. from you in the solving of crimes a man who shall greenstein as the latest chelsea manning his quest for freedom don't want to miss the 2nd. nuclear become a battleground in the u.s. . people of demanding the shut down of a local plant for my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous. power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactive beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts

a magnifying glass where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of the traditional disappearing to barker caesar. financial. aid. from the future trucker. in london julian assange standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u.s. to face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher. even. freedom of speech on trial. stream media.

when the cops come knocking at your door in the absence of a warrant or your own attorney the best advice is not to talk to them but sometimes our better judgment and police officers have a bag of tricks designed to take advantage of those moments imagine this you and your husband are about to run an airing in 2 men are standing in your driveway they introduce themselves as detectives and after your help they're looking for the relative of a defeat person in our in need of d.n.a. india logical records to get a more complete picture of the person surviving family after all no one should die a john doe without any relatives aware. but a texas have already visited your sister so you have no reason to believe that the deceased person if you have every reason to believe that this person may be a relative of yours you have relatives out of state including

a niece who you haven't heard from in over a decade so you agreed to give that d.n.a. sample well that's where things went sideways for eleanor holmes and her husband turns out the detective story was a ruse and equipped with the couple's d.n.a. the police had enough to complete the mission they set out to do in the 1st place arrest eleanore son and charged him with a cold case murder a few days after her d.n.a. swab was taken holmes received a call from her son's girlfriend informing her that orlando police had just arrested digimon holmes jr for allegedly fatally shooting a college student her home in 2001 they've used the d.n.a. they collected from his own mother to tie him to the crime benjamin maintains his innocence and it's pled not guilty his case however sheds light on how police misconduct investigation using genetic genealogy a largely unregulated industry could pose serious threats could this be a tool for solving cold cases or another way to target test and seek d.n.a. from people who are suspected of

a crime. and this one just gets right underneath your skin doesn't like the. d.n.a. underneath your skin. but it does no it does this is this is one of those things where i look at this case it bothers me to mark or simply because here's police going up to a citizens door knocking on that door as you said and essentially lying through their teeth. just to get a d.n.a. and then telling them that hey someone in your family died by the way employees to this woman's fears because they already came equipped with the information that she had relatives that were out of state that she had what was remember they had already taken d.n.a. from another relative so she had no reason to believe that this is what this story was and on the up and up that she had heard from in years she as a law abiding citizen had no reason to be afraid of the police they came in they issued they they issued this information and she assumed that she was helping she was helping things out turns out within 3 days she gets a call from her son's girlfriend saying that he's arrested and the thing that got

him arrested was this d.n.a. testing and d.n.a. evidence you know i mean look we all want to see cold cases solved like i mean you always want to find justice for the families you want to you always want to find the killer. of an innocent someone who killed an innocent person or not innocent person but you always won't find the killer but this way in this handling of getting it to me is why we need better regulation in the industry and also why we need to have that serious discussion with law enforcement about what is and is not allowed you know we have that discussion many years ago with search and seizure you know and when it came time to like your miranda rights miranda rights came out of that discussion what do police need to tell you the moment they arrest you we've got to have that discussion with d.n.a. we i don't really i don't think cops should be able to walk up to someone's doorstep in a lie outright lie and get someone with the most intimate of someone's personality a person your d.n.a. and i agree with you and it's one of those things where we have been utilizing d.n.a.

since now probably 9495 so the point where we still don't have regulations in 2020 shows is that there are some deep seated problems there but beyond that i think that police and steve know that if they were to go around asking people to voluntarily give their d.n.a. the answer would probably be no so they've decided that they are going to develop these stories to make this work for them and this is. a side proud. those who are already taking d.n.a. from sources like ancestry dot com and these other things that people are giving their d.n.a. to to find out what their heredity is what country they may be from things like that but it's problematic because one it goes back to the thing that we talked about several times before there is increases police mistrust yeah you might be trying to solve a crime but in the process of trying to solve thick crime you've created this story the person on the other end of this thing by and large is you know buying into exactly what you told them to the point where they are really giving you this you never circle back with them and say hey this is what i would use for remember the

cops didn't come back to her at all she found out that her son got arrested she found out the d.n.a. was used all of that from the films girl ran after the arrest and that's right all that's horrible that's terrible you even follow through even i mean that that is such a yes you're exactly right that that puts so much distrust of the police into into a community that already has a hard time trusting the police to begin with that's vicious that is the other thing is i think that the majority of people when they hear d.n.a. they automatically assume somebody is guilty and we know that there are thousands of cases across the country where that was flat out wrong d.n.a. doesn't d.n.a. evidence does not automatically link someone to be the perpetrator of a crime and it could mean that someone was on the premises at some point it could mean that they were friends with somebody who got killed but it doesn't necessarily mean that they were the person who actually committed the crime and we also know that in many cases the people who are investigating the d.n.a. the folks who are in charge of actually analyzing it do it wrong so you have detectives who are basing their entire theory is off of this very large piece of

information that could be not actually leading to the person they're looking for at all i mean we all love watching the forensic files and cold case and all that and it's fun to watch but you're exactly right you hit the nail on the head a lot of times after the fact you will see these people sometimes are good they get caught manipulating d.n.a. evidence in the lab to make it look to go on a certain direction and. things of that nature people always want to close big cases they want to close cases that they've had open for 2030 years i'm a native chicago and there are a lot of dead bodies across the city and people want to see you know who did it and want those people to see their day in court what we're seeing is that in that rush to make those to close those cases that they're losing a lot of information that would be very pertinent. amazing amazing case and i hope that people start like speaking out and start bringing this issue up to the forefront because that's the most important thing you've got to speak out of this we've got to have that conversation on every level society what we're going to allow the police to do when it comes to d.n.a.

whether that's dealing with ancestry dot com and getting warrants for that or simply talking on your door and knowing that hey we can go up and live i don't understand why they couldn't just walk up to this web site and say hey look your son's involved in this investigation we're going to give you know can we have your d.n.a. because maybe it excludes him you know i mean there's a 1000000 reasons you can come up and ask legitimately say you know we want your d.n.a. because it might exclude him from the crime but you've got to ask you got to be aboveboard of the government absolutely. if you thought the horror for chelsea manning was over after president obama commuted her since you'd be wrong she's currently being held at alexandria detention center in virginia she's been there for over a year the reason manning refuses to testify in front of a federal grand jury investigating wiki leaks despite massive fines to the tune of $230000.00 and counting as well as the loss of her freedom manning has made it crystal clear that she will not be bullied into speaking to get more of

a deep dive into the latest developments we have our team america correspondent michelle greenstein. the airstrikes heard around the world video from a u.s. apache helicopter with u.s. air crew indiscriminately shooting at civilians in iraq you suffer this classified u.s. military video along with thousands of other documents. diplomatic cables were published by wiki leaks about a decade ago but for leaking them chelsea manning is still paying the price today so as we can leaks founder julian a son who's wanted by u.s. authorities the justice department says he broke the law by working with chelsea manning an intelligence analyst for the u.s. army in iraq at the time to obtain and publish these materials chelsea manning is also wanted herself by the u.s. as a witness to testify against a songe but manning refuses and instead has been sitting in a jail cell since march of last year attempting to chorus me with a grand jury subpoena is just not going to work i will not cooperate with this or

any other grand jury manning's lawyers filed a grumbles motion saying that according to federal statutes she should be released from jail and their argument is that since she's proven in the past 11 months that she will not be coerced into testifying the contempt citation under which she's being held should be terminated writing that the sanctions exceed their lawful civil function as coercive and not punitive sanctions as atocha leonard from the interest of points out the sole purpose of manning's attention has been to coerce her to testify and it has failed manning says that although she's paying a heavy price for her refusing to cooperate is a matter of principle i have been separated from my loved ones deprived of sunlight and cannot even attend my mother's funeral it is easier to endure these hardships now then to cooperate to win back some comfort and to live the rest of my life knowing that i acted out of selfish interest and not principal. meanwhile as the hearing on julian assange his extradition to the us continues songes lawyers are

insisting he isn't being given a fair trial with a sound just position in the courtroom being in a bulletproof glass box away from his legal team and even when he does confer with his lawyer security guards are present meaning he doesn't really have access to his attorneys in private his lawyers also say he's being persecuted for something that shouldn't even be a crime publishing information today the united states took the remark position that any journalist any. where in the world can be subject to extradition to the united states for publishing truthful information i am confident that at the end of the day this court will not accept that proposition for a presidential candidate ron paul indicates that not enough eyes are on the cases of chelsea manning and julian assange and that partisan whistleblowers get lots of media attention while what he calls true whistleblowers see nothing but persecution i just wish more americans knew about it and cared about it but have have you heard that you've watched some of the debates i haven't heard that come up they don't talk about the federal reserve they don't talk about deficits and they don't talk

about you know what's going on with assad engine and how we treat our our true whistleblowers i argue if you have a true whistle blower. they go to jail if you have a political. pretend whistle blower you know that's a different story you know they're there law to do that and they're there on it for watching the hawks michelle greenstein our team. we all learned our consonant sounds as kids i was homeschooled and distinctly remember my mom's lessons on the letter some time to tart some time that socked it confound like in giraffe mimicking the letter j. or it can sound like go in gait. seems simple enough right but if you were one of the thousands of people confused on how to say just or is that if i've got some quirky news for you but james smucker company that makes you know the peanut butter

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