i. haven't told anyone this is american lawyer joe biden had a strong showing last week on super tuesday and nobody was happier about this than wall street major u.s. corporations are celebrating because they know biden's going to protect them instead of consumers and they wanted bernie knocked out for that reason but the race is far from over and tonight we'll tell you what happens next also tonight the u.s. supreme court has overturned a kansas decision giving states the right to criminally prosecute undocking like the immigrant for i.d. theft and later in the show trucks been boasting about his new u.s. in ca trade deal with a major loophole gives american oil and gas firms a leg up when doing business abroad don't go anywhere america's war starts right

now. my. wall street is in party mode now that joe biden is the front runner in the democratic race because they know that if he gets the nomination they have nothing to worry about do they fear and that ferran cousins from trial lawyer magazine to talk about this what's your take on this it was like party on wall street there they were popping champagne corks and the you know it was just so obvious that they love this guy because they know he's not going to change anything for right right we we went through days and days of just the stock market tanking because of kobe had 19 and then suddenly joe biden 1st gets the endorsements from club charm buthe gedge and at that point the health care stocks on monday of last week took off super tuesday happens market opens wednesday to a huge rally and these. esther's the economist they all say it's because of biden's

victories and some of them some of them who run the financial houses out there actually said this happened because joe biden is not going to change things he is not going to regulate us he is not going to tax us we know that with joe biden there's a big payday around the ok we saw it if you think back we saw it with obama and course clinton bill clinton invented this whole wall street relationship remember he came out and said look them accredits can't win unless we start this love affair with wall street from that point on consumers started getting hammered really bad under obama we'd like to think will that change it didn't change the reason they like obama was the same reason they like this guy the same reason they like it already what what they're really saying is their term is he's middle of the road what that really means is he's not going to change anything he's going to get us

let us get away with the same scams we've always gotten away with there's not going to be any regulation nobody goes to prison when they come in with a white collar criminals permit when they when they engage in the worst conduct we saw that with eric holder he just let them all go what's your take where does it go now that bonds of kind of a front runner for the democrats honestly it's really terrifying if we get to a general election that's biden versus trump wall street has nothing to worry about you know the wealthy elite have nothing to worry about because they know that whoever wins at that point their lives don't change the regulations don't change the rules don't change and they're all set but bernie sanders and his supporters understand that and they saw all these rallies they knew why it happened there have been tons of articles in just the last week about why it is and they're out there doing their best trying to warn people that this is not ok if something makes wall street you know the. defense contractors their stocks went up if their stocks are

going up you should be concerned because that doesn't end well for the american public we know what that means there are a hell of a quote there are kind of equating burning to the coronavirus you know that's really what they were doing is this awful person is going to make he's going to change life on wall street which is in effect he was he was going to make it tougher for wall street to commit crime the new report shows that drug cost of risen more than 3 times faster than inflation for the past decade and so far consumers aren't getting any relief is not the better it is not going to get a better under biden who we just talked about nothing really changes but these numbers frankly are pretty startling i mean i we've been doing these stories a long time right and we've been talking about inflation area aspect of drugs and but this this is this is gone crazy 159 percent 159 percent when you can when you take the inflation rate compared to everything else that comparison is pretty ugly

right i mean even if we weren't already paying in some instances $20000.00 times more in a markup now we have to deal with 159 percent increase over that of in like when as a matter of just a 2nd i think people that just heard that number thought that was an exaggeration really ferran 20 thought yes yes the number is 20000 we are senate we actually have documents we do have some drugs that are 200000 percent markup on those 20000 honestly that's a middle of the road number we typically see between 10 and about 30 or 40000 percent markup between cost to make and sale to consumer and so yet just to put that in perspective but this number here it's not only that the 160 percent above inflation is horrible because it is but even when you take the low income people who have the rebates they get the coupons they get medicine for next to nothing there. costs still increased by 60 percent more than inflation so even when you're

on these rebate programs and you are paying less than others because you're you know financially unable to pay the full price they want to charge you you're still getting gal just at the pharmaceutical account let me let me talk about some here just a 2nd the viewers don't understand ok when they think that this is uniquely one party that is pumping up the pharmaceutical industry let them get away with absolute murder absolute murder. but the truth is it's by it's bipartisan isn't it we saw we saw a cory booker who was a presidential candidate we saw we saw a chance of all things coming from trump trump said you know why why can't we just import drugs and take advantage of drugs that come out of canada and it looked like it was going to pass and like at the rat last minute cory booker goes around and he put 16 democrats together and they defeated now that ridiculous argument we don't

know that the canadian drugs are as good as ours that was really their argument ok so talk about that because people don't get it it's is a democrat issue just like it's a republican issue that's why they love biden being a contender right now well you know drug companies are pretty smart with their money when they buy off politicians they are slightly more republican with it but by one or 2 percent they typically spread money evenly so that way no matter who wins they win and that's what happened with cory booker he's from new jersey a lot of drugs are manufactured in new jersey that those are his people that's who he represents and that's who he's going to take care of and that's why he did this but you know to say that we don't know canada is testing their drugs like we do we don't test anymore no we don't test nor do we hold the drug companies responsible when they screw up and create a defective drug that kills people they at least do that in canada a major online retailers like amazon could soon be held legally liable for selling

counterfeit goods on their website now ok. this story struck me this way when it comes to money issues the congress says oh my god we have counterfeiting going on and we have wall streeters that are losing money because of counterfeiting and so we need to hold these campuses responsible they say that even at the same time that we let them sell pharmaceutical narcotics killing people all of the country without any regulations we human trafficking is at a halt all time high on the internet congress takes no action there give me your take on this on this was very interesting because obviously the internet is still the wild west with in terms of regulations there's nothing really there policing much of anything and honestly the counterfeiters are huge problem and you have these sellers like amazon who are letting people buy all these counterfeit goods from other countries with the you know very lax regulation that

a lot here and so yeah that hurts american businesses but of all the things to go ahead and tackle with the internet you start with the one to say oh my god corporations are losing money let's help them know we have people who are having their data their location stolen from them and sold to the highest bidder. that's ok right are we doing nothing about any of that as you said nothing about human trafficking or opioids or any of the other criminal activity happening on the internet but god forbid corporations are losing a couple of dollars here and there because somebody wants to buy a knockoff watch and raise it and they actually as they go forward with this this legislation it's a good it's good legit said is and i'm glad they're doing it but for them to say this is more important this is a lot more important than what the tech companies are doing to us where they're invading our lives they're taking everything we own as far as our identity unit and then they're selling it the sum to somebody else and you know congress says well

that's ok this is america that's good capitalism but where comes to counterfeiting something like. you know some of the stuff they're califate ing it is serious i mean they've got they've got some some types of vitamins that are counterfeited the formula they be forming is that it's that's true they they need to do something about that but they need to handle this in a way that we can look at and say you know they're kind of doing this with an even hand they're holding the tech companies responsible for all the bad 'd things that they're responsible for right now right and what we need honestly at this point we need a new government agency we need somebody in a department overlooking the internet these days that that's what needs to happen we need to have broad regulations not just to make sure the internet's being fair but to also protect the companies as well we've got to take care of them but there is so much happening so much that congress is over looking for them to prioritize the profits of these companies and it's because they give them money for their

campaigns it really kind of stings a bit as a consumer because i've had my data stolen you know and nobody nobody is doing anything about that fair and doesn't think you for joining us will continue all of these stories because they get weirder almost every week i do want to come up the u.s. supreme court has overturned the kansas decision which would allow state courts to prosecute undocumented immigrants for using aliases and fake social security numbers when they apply for jobs that more when we come back to. the saloon see the blue of them someone. who moved before. much of those who heard it's

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those you do choose to go to some are too stupid to move to new cars or those the girls who were used to prudish to solution shouldn't be you should look to for the one who's doing. it. i don't trust medical authority at all ever and the reason for that is i had this horrible autoimmune disorder growing up and it turns out it was completely alleviated with very drastic dietary measures and i went to a number of doctors to discuss what happened to me and i was basically laughed at like diet has nothing to do with our meanest orders so my suggestion to people who have health issues they can't figure out if they're going to see a medical professional and they have been going for 10 years and they're still on the same place they should probably take it upon themselves to start testing things out testing out diet testing out exercise and try and figure out things on their

own to. elite. u.s. supreme court has overturned a kansas ruling involving the prosecution of undocumented immigrants using false social security numbers when they apply for work this is going to open the door for states to more aggressively crack down on the immigration we're joined now by alan or vice president of the american immigration lawyers association and all around very soon very smart lawyer has done a lot to help america help immigrants all over this country allan how 'd are you well thanks for having me. 1st of all could you tell us a little bit about kansas you know what the way i understand this is it's

a preemption what we would call a fight on a preemption issue which is the the what what is the relationship between a state's right versus the federal preemptive right to preemptive orders that's kind of what this is coming down to isn't that right exactly it's coming down to federalism and an understanding of who enforces immigration laws is it a federal issue or is it a state issue and when there is a written context with and federal statutes with regards to what form information on that form can be used for can states use it for something else that is specifically what it sort of narrows down to so kansas look we have the right to criminally prosecute if we have laws that put these to say that this particular person did something wrong yes we're familiar with the fact that the feds have some involvement in this arena but we haven't lost our right under and what we call health safety in welfare protection of our citizens to do what we wanted to do so

what they've done is they've said immigrants what are they saying immigrants right and so i think it's a far stretch and to just talk about the facts of the case specifically in this case these 3 individuals were pulled over for a traffic violation so it wasn't an audit procedure at a company to see if the check in the company documents what the what the government can do at any level which is sort of relegated to the federal government and then they sort of went and found these documents and then they added on this charge and people being here undocumented is a simple violation right something and in most states when you volleyed an identity it is a felony so it is a work around to give states the ability to sort of force some type of immigration law because charging them with that felony would make them automatically deportable . so what we have here is we have 'd it's kind of a bonanza to go after immigrants on issues like you know i use this this id because i needed work i need to use a i do use a social security number because i needed a job to support my family and they're saying well you shouldn't be here to begin

with so we're going to use this element of violating the law really is a reason to send you back to where you came from of until this ruling how his work authorizations 'd for undocumented immigrants been handled by our court system up until the time that this kansas case has been tested by the supreme court right so this case is specifically about the form so generally the local state and force my officers would not use and i non-form to enforce some kind of state rules such as the sort of identity fraud rules it would only be the federal government that would come in either through an audit or through some kind of enforcement action to sort of get these documents and sort through them for the company. you know alan as i look at this here in america you know you're dealing with on the law of the time constitutional all the time and we talked about on this program sometimes when a state aggressively goes after the argument to say look we respect the federal government we know you have your rules we have our rules to our constitution our

state constitution says above all things where it comes to the states right we have a right to protect health safety and welfare now what i'm saying what i'm saying is a pattern i'm saying the supreme court this is this is a series of immigration cases that we're seeing right now in the supreme court is saying yes you're right state you have this right under health safety and welfare protection it seems to be expanding doesn't it you know well if you see in these immigration cases as you've already said as a number of them and they're all $54.00 which falls along political lines what sort of tells you that immigration has now become a political football but in this specific case what they did was they've also expanded the scope of an employer's liability under the same rules so now the employer that takes that information and knowingly provide that to that state on some other form right knowingly doing so is also now involved in this sort of identity fraud you know schema and therefore should also be subject to these

federal penalties so i think that's the undergirding from the legal analysis of how it sort of follows that i don't think they sort of thought in this case what they saw in this case was now we're going to be able to get these immigrants and be able to deport them quickly and to sort of get them a felony crime because once again i want to state that the underlying document issue here has a deeper penalty than actually coming to the united states without documents one is civil the other is federal. alan of interview just before and i remember my last interview you said that as we expect to see conservative courts are going to further enable the not only federal government but they're going to enable the state govern. it's to figure out ways to say you shouldn't be here you came here illegally and now we're going to find ways to turn all that around this is one of those things your statement i think last time we talked is we expect to see this expanding more and more at the state level and at the federal level you see that is

is what's unfolding here absolutely our problem is immigration is relegated to a federal issue and for whatever reason our congress is broken right the senate has not moved on any bills from the immigration they haven't worked on immigration in 20 years either party right so this becomes a football and it goes to the states to sort of now sort of say we're going to do what we want to do here which then makes greater disparity because these foreign nationals that are in one state that are enforcing it in other states aren't are just going to move to the other state when in fact we both know if someone's using someone else's so security line that it is not a hate crime in that sense because basically what they're doing it's paying taxes for someone else to get benefits for in the future. yeah let me make a prediction somebody's going to be smart and smart enough to raise the commerce clause here somewhere in this argument but we'll talk about that another day alan or thanks thanks for being out there on behalf of people who need your help thank you for having me creating the new north american free trade agreement has indeed

corporate arbitration for most industries but loopholes give major concessions to the u.s. energy sector artie's bridgette us on those joins me now to talk about the story bridgette. we started talking about t p p couple years ago didn't we united a couple segments on t p p and the thing that you raise the some of the issues you raised are exactly coming to roost here right now you talked about the i s d s problem which is this is that under the under the t.p. p. under nafta under cast you had foreign corporations that were able to boss us around according to our laws they could come in here and say you can't enforce environmental cases because it affects our business or you can't enforce safety cases of any kind pharmaceutical name it because it affects our sales so you're right there pick it up what can what can you tell me about this new trade pact and how it effects the spirit of. yeah president donald trump has rebranded the north

american free trade agreement aka nafta with a new pact known as the us mexico canada agreement the us and ca passed with bipartisan support from congress democrats and republicans both cheered the gutting of nafta as controversial investor state dispute settlement clauses which empower multinational corporations to sue governments when laws threaten investor profits like you just said for example if the u.s. were to implement new regulations expanding environmental health or labor protections canadian or mexican companies could then sue the american government if those new laws undermined that company's ability to profit now under the same i.s.t.'s rules american companies are also free to do the same so the new trade pact is different because it's actually abandoned an investor state dispute settlements for most industries but there is now an exception for american oil and gas firms that have government contracts in mexico so u.s.

energy is really the big winner of this new north american free trade deal. well i mean the point is lou when we drill down to what the whole problem is with globalization one of it is we're able you have a foreign a foreign country you've got france or wherever mexico asia or wherever they come to the united states and we they say to us you have affected our right to go to to come to america in cut down all of your timber you have affected our right to take our toxins and put them in your streams because you're affecting our business this is the same kind of analysis here but we're giving this extra protection to the american oil and gas industry why and why is mexico significant to this particular part of the story. well mexico significant because international companies now hold exploration and production rights and offshore and onshore blocks of mexico mexico

is the number one destination believe it or not for american gas oil and refined product exports and before nafta only mexico's state owned petroleum company could operate in the country's upstream segment but recent reforms in the last few years have actually opened the country up to more privatization and the problem is that these new trade agreement this new trade agreement locks those reforms in and makes it really hard for future mexican administrations to change their policies without the risk of being sued by the american energy industry the whole reason these are problem is because they really impede on the sovereignty of these nations. well that's the whole idea with this whole globalization though you know which i think about what you just said i mean i hope the viewers caught that if if if mexico passes laws in they say to the all industry what you're doing is hurting our people what you're doing is destroying our waterways it's destroying our environment they're not able they're not able to push back when the oil company comes back in

and sues them even though even though there's laws on the mexican books that say you can't do this oil company the old company says those laws in affair with our right to do business no matter how horrendous the business may be my point is they were trying to do that in the united states under globalization in that we're seeing it play itself out right here for those who don't know brazil how do investors stay dispute settlement how does that harm taxpayers the most people understand how to fix taxpayers. sure well these cases are heard outside domestic courts and private arbitration they basically create a shadow legal system for corporate polluters and criminals and their decisions cannot be appealed and when corporations when taxpayers foot the bill to cover losses on a company's estimated future profits i'll give you an example american taxpayers once paid canada over $1000000.00 after the u.s. based from a u.s.

based pharmaceutical company eli lilly lost the lawsuit that it had brought against the canadian government for the country's drug patents system we're constantly told that congress is completely divided among party lines but here it is again uniting for corporate interests. globalization is a disaster thanks for joining me with rizzi let's let's let's talk about the story some more in the future ok. and left to think in folly tonight some good news apple has agreed to pay out $500000000.00 to settle claims that they've been intentionally slowing down older i phones to force users to purchase new phones big surprise there this practice is called planned obsolescence and it's one of the major reasons users in the buying new cell phones every 2 years complaints for consumers have been pouring in for years all across the globe and apple's been hit with lawsuits in both united states and europe for slowing down i phones

intentionally but don't feel bad about that $500000000.00 because the truth is the company pulls in from new apple i phone sales in the u.s. every month based on their quarterly profits their sales are about $8000000000.00 a month worth 'd of new i phones that's in the united states alone by the way this settlement should have been much much higher but sometimes you have to take whatever victory you can get and hopefully the company is going to change its practices as a result of this that's offered and find us on twitter and facebook at facebook dot com slash r t america's will or you can watch all our t. american programs on direct t.v. channel 3 to one in streaming live on you tube and be sure to check out our tease new cortical phone app where you can watch any show you want to on your right there on your phone i might have an tonio and this is america's lawyer where every week we tell you the stories that corporate media is ordered not to tell because their advertisers won't let them. have

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