demick germany brazil and other countries around the world were claiming that the united states government was either swooping in and out bidding them after sales were already finalized or the us was just plain downright stealing or as we like to call it here confiscating everything from face masks to ventilators as the item sat on the tarmac in china waiting to be shipped off to the country that rightfully purchased the world appears that there's no holds barred loop grab perpetrated by the united states bedroom government has of correspondence way back home yes multiple state officials and local health groups from massachusetts to illinois to texas have been sounding the alarm that various federal agencies have been scooping up shipments of personal protective equipment and other valuable medical supplies for quite some time now according to a letter published in the new england journal of medicine by a medical doctor andrew artin steen with bay state health massachusetts 1st after spending valuable time just trying to convince the f.b.i.

not to confiscate his shipment of k n 95 respirators and face masks he was then soon shocked to learn that the department of homeland security was still considering redirecting his pee pee only some quick some quick calls leading to intervention by our congressional representative prevented its seizure others my friends have not been so lucky remember back in march massachusetts governor charlie baker revealed that a shipment of 3000000 masks were seized by dorothy's and then later the beginning of april in new jersey freeholder director chanelle robinson that somebody somehow is at these hospitals p.p. equipment so they want to deny those requests so what does that leave states to do other than to try and find this stuff on their own and the problem is the states don't get the luxury of the federal government they can't create money to buy things they can't just go to the fed and say print to subsume more money you know the states can't do that. they can't deficit spend it's

a lot of times in their very state state constitutions that they can't do that so they're dependent so when they're being outbid or having to outbid the feds or other countries or whoever that's all coming out of that state budget that they can't get back you know and that's what's really bad colorado was in the process of buying ventilators when fema swooped in and outbid them and just took them away governor jared polis declared either be in or out either let us know what we're going to get and when we're going to get them or stay out and let us buy them you can't play both sides and that's exactly what trump and the federal government congress and all them are doing right now because no one's put a stop to it and the governors have spoken about this and they have sounded you know loudly that they are not in a position to compete with the federal government in the open market for the reasons that you just stated you know and journalist david wall as well as actually wrote new york magazine he really kind of sum this up i think really good in that article he said we don't know where these supplies are going we don't know on what grounds they are being seized or threatened with seizure in the absence of an

explanation it's hard to come to any conclusion other than that this is simply a mafia government exerting control for the sake of control and that is a scary thought in a time of crisis that that's how far this country has fallen and that we have no real requests what happens when the government is actually the federal government is actually putting the states in a very tough spot because they're not supplying this material to them at all they're ignoring their requests they're ignoring the requests for funding as well and these things have to go on their own but now you know the federal government is jumping in and feeling things from them as well as some other countries that you know what for those of liberty and that like you know for those of the liberty bell or those who lean on the right and go republican this is something that you should be up in arms over this is something that you should be screaming at donald trump and congress and i will say why are you doing this the fed should not be coming in and doing this whatsoever i'm a states' rights person you know where are those people sounding off against this i'm out here and i'm get out there let them know what this is not good they choose their protest with them they chose the wrong ones. these are true. while kobe 1000

tests remain in short supply and funding for virus treatment is dismal at best president trump and conservative activists across the country want to open america a.s.a.p. and who better to kill to carry the message and tow the line than trump's favorite crony attorney general bill barr falling under the weight of his ill informed commander in chief and crazed conservative activists barr is now threatening legal action against state governors the attorney general of the united states is willing and ready to encourage enjoying lawsuits brought on by upset citizens over the business restrictions put in place to save their lives meanwhile the trip administration refuses to accept its all culpability in ignoring coronavirus alerts from the world health organization china doctors and scientists leaving america behind in preparedness and relief but rest assured trump found someone to blame china and the president's minions in conservative states followed his louis

missouri attorney general eric schmidt filed a lawsuit against the chinese government tuesday accusing them of lying and covering up the coronavirus we might be in for the longest election cycle ever as the blame game for corona virus and the economic fallout it's caused rages on joining us now is our team america correspondent. thanks for having me guys always love coming on always a pleasure. so what is this lawsuit and why now so it's interesting so as you mentioned. turner general eric schmidt he is leading this case after talking with economists at the university of missouri where the state is actually looking to get upwards of $44000000000.00 now missouri is the 1st state to file against china and to seek damages in this way and it could be the 1st of the many states doing this now according to the lawsuit it reads quote during the critical weeks of the initial outbreak chinese authorities deceive the public suppressed crucial information arrested whistleblowers tonight human to human

transmission destroyed medical research had millions exposed to the virus and hoarded protective equipment causing a global pandemic that was preventable now today the chinese government called missouri's lawsuit absolutely absurd saying that it's purely malicious violates basic legal principles and that the chinese government has sovereign immunity because you can't sue an entire country now this lawsuit will face a number of a pole battles because of that but the missouri a.g. says that he's already one step ahead of this arguing that the chinese communist party is a non-state actor and that is what gives him the legal argument that they can sue china because the amount of students and loves its frivolous lawsuits. was a steve 1st of many lawsuits coming down the pike great question tyrrel and you know what actually it was announced this afternoon that at the time of this broadcast the mississippi will actually be also filing a lawsuit their state's attorney general saying that they too have suffered because of this outbreak but now you also have both missouri and mississippi say geez

they're calling on their states congressional delegations to back a new bill put out by republicans tom cotton and dan crenshaw that would amend the foreign sovereign immunity as act to create this narrow exception and to allow people to actually sue china people suing china now this bill is modeled after the justice to get sponsors of terrorism act which allow. americans to file civil claims against a foreign state for any injuries or death and that was passed 4 years ago with 97 of the 100 senators saying yes to it. speaking of attorney attorney generals and lawsuits you now have bill barr saying d.o.j. is looking into suing state governors right and this is actually interesting because this is all over the clashes between president donald trump as you mentioned trying to open up the states and the state governors saying no and how kind of to respond to the whole coronavirus most of it you know with most if not all states are on lockdown and both trump and barr say that businesses they need to have more freedom to operate and trump says that some governors have gone just way

too far actually even accusing governors of keeping their people on quote house arrest now we have the cd see who is as far as that's who we look to as far as you know seeing this research and one that's going to peak as far as this outbreak but there's new surprising coming out that it's a for a form of national defense scientists at the los alamos lab in new mexico now these scientists they consistently beat the c.d.c. when it comes to forecasting infectious diseases in particular like the bird flu ebola unfortunately these scientists go all the way down to the hour of when a virus is at its peak for new york state alone the forecast says that there is only a 60 percent chance that infectious infections have peaked and they also forecast that major populated states could be on this quote house arrest all the way until the end of 2020 they're even forecasting you know schools are going to open this fall so it will be interesting we're in for the overall you know it's interesting

to look at the chinese lawsuit there just to touch the really quick but i am fine if we were going to have the ability to sue other countries than the united states we cannot we we have to but allow other countries to sue us for our actions while we can you know we can't have it both ways we can't be good oh ok you know but if the iraqis bring a lawsuit against israel we do. in the iraq war no no no no no no we're not going to consent to that yeah no i mean you know it's absolutely ridiculous but really more lawsuits that's what's going to solve this problem and you know what's interesting is that you know china has come out saying that there is absolutely no way with these allegations the w.h.o. you know they could actually take china to the international court of justice but here's the cabbie out here people you have to consent to go to court who's going to want to consent to go to court you know you get a traffic ticket and they say get it to court me show you can be like really have to go that's kind of the old think it's also them to is it's like i'm tired of the scapegoating you can't hold china accountable for our employers structure failure

you can't hold china accountable that are you know health care industry was a mess that our economy was a mess that all of these things were a mess that then led us to the state that we're in today you can't hold them accountable for our initial really slow response to that was of the intelligence community and many other people had said even the americans working at the show said even all the way back in november that they were telling. congress that hey this thing could be coming down the pike might want to prepare for it and speaking of coming down the pipe you know not just these states and possibly the idea of you know american citizens suing china you also have germany now is wanting to file suit against china for all their wrongdoing and they're asking for $162000000000.00 and it's kind of one of these things again china has to consent so is it going to be dead on arrival most likely yes you know i think it's going to be hard to bring a lawsuit don't want to thank you as always for coming up on that goes with pleasure all right as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the

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for the purpose of distraction number one to distract us from the business and reality of why we go to war but also to distract us from problems here at home and the tune of wag the dog is still being played at various levels to this day even this very week when us. resident donald trump yes the brand name and chief tweeted out on wednesday morning i have instructed the united states navy to shoot down and destroy any and all raney and gun boats if they harass our ships at sea and so donald trump like past presidents before him when confronted with major epic problems at home does whatever a good us president has done for the past 50 years aimed to start a war abroad joining us today to discuss this latest way the dogs of war and us foreign policy is author and radio show host a former cia officer and whistleblower john kiriakou thank you. happy to do it tyrone thanks for having me so jon we are facing

a scenario in the persian gulf war against iran is a real possibility taking taking place during this pandemic or is this kind of the way of the dog scenario of just trying to bang the drums a war to distract from the crisis of the home. i think the latter probably and what it reminds me of is the bill clinton administration when bill clinton were the bombing of the shifa a pharmaceutical plant in sudan ostensibly as retribution against al qaeda for an attack but it just so happened to come on exactly the same day that the monica lewinsky story broke this is what this is what presidents do wag the dog was it was a true to life film president seek to produce their wars and and planned them for the most convenient time i hate to say it but you know we need to watch very closely what our government does in the persian gulf versus iran in venezuela in

cuba and elsewhere because i think the really really wanted to strike us. and john does this potential ex escalation with iran fall in the actions of the iranian government or the actions of the u.s. government and president trump who's causing the escalation at this point. oh i think the trump administration is cool. the escalation for a couple of reasons 1st. we've been in the persian gulf militarily for a very long time and we've had multiple ships in the gulf for decades you know the iranians and swift boats to harass our ships to take photographs things like that it's happens all the time so why is this episode different why does this episode necessitate the president of the united states threatening to start blowing things up unless it's to distract the american people from a bigger problem so you know i think this is largely occur for full of american making

it's unnecessary. you know we're it's interesting too because at the same time as we're just talking about the previous segment we're also seeing this incredible pivot from not only president donald trump of democratic presidential nominee joe biden to kind of cast all of the blame for the issues of the viruses caused in the u.s. on china i hate to say it but is this also more of that kind of wags the dog style tactics of distraction you know don't blame us for your failed health care economy we can blame china and the means for you to hey just don't look internally. yeah and to shows you the weakness of the democratic party's presidential nominee or would be presidential nominee this is all he can come up with is just to point the finger at china the cold war is not over if it's not russia gate and then russia gate narrative falls apart now it's going to be china you know when when joe biden finally comes out from under his rock once or twice

a week to say something to the to the media because the guy's almost impossible to find in the media what he chooses to say is about china you don't have anything else to say about p p e or about vaccine development or about increasing financing for the c.d.c. or for the now. national institutes of health you want to talk about china and blaming china like he's never heard of the seasonal flu before this just seems to be really bad politics to me. there's no question that joe biden is going about because the election cycle the wrong way but john as a former analyst and case officer for the cia do you think congress and the administration excuse that they didn't see this coming old water in your experience of what kinds of intelligence they're regularly briefed on oh no no this doesn't hold any water whatsoever the cia is on china like white on rice and it has been since the 1960 s.

we're earlier just like the chinese are all over the united states spying on us we are completely in each other's business we've always been in each other's business and pandemics our intelligence issue frankly you know if this is going to bring the entire country to a halt if this is going to practically bankrupt our government this is an intelligence issue and when we hear reports in the washington post in the new york times the intelligence community warned the white house and warned the congressional oversight committees as early as december we have to take that seriously i know in my own experience at the cia and i was there almost 15 years that's exactly what the cia did they did warn the white house they did warn the congressional oversight committees when things like this would happen when i was still there it was some hours i mean the cia was all over sars reporting every minute development to the appropriate policy makers i can only assume that they

were doing the same thing in this pandemic so this is truly a failure of u.s. policy breakers to best prepare this country i mean that's really ultimately where this blame should lies and. i think that's right tyrrell i think that you know every administration has policy failures but this is one for the history books i think we've really blown this in a big way. it is truly staggering when you really look at it where do you see this going john with your expertise as a former analyst you looked at the world you looked at how countries are reacting where do you see this pandemic going in terms of the political ledger and how the world will kind of stay together if that's possible to support. well you know that would be an easy question to answer if donald trump were rational actor and let's face it he's not any other president would be trying to reassure the country would be diverting money and attention to vaccine development would have all of the the greatest minds in the country standing next to him and he would be he would be

talking to the american people from the heart and he would be convincing us telling us that they're doing literally everything to protect our health to protect our safety and to try to defeat this thing and that's not really what he's doing sure he's got anthony up there next to him but appointing his daughter and son in law to a committee to reopen the economy prematurely i might add and then tweeting few days ago or on friday and saturday liberate michigan liberate minnesota liberate virginia and then encouraging these right wing demonstrations and marches on state houses that include flying the the defeated rebel flag in some cases the nazi flag well that's not being a rational actor that's not instilling confidence in your government a true in so that it truly oh yeah it truly is and that's 40000 lives and climbing

i want to thank you so much always for coming on john always a pleasure so my pleasure thank you thank you. pretty incredible when you hear john break it down like that at the end of the day you know when you hear you know someone who was in that business literally say like yeah this was a total failure on every front absolute i can't think of a more credible person to offer up that type of analysis no because john john is known as a whistle blower he's always going to step forward and tell you the truth as he sees it and i mean that bad it's sobering when you hear it now people are paying attention all right everybody that is our show for you today remember in this world we are not told that we love them up so i tell you all i love you i am tired robot into and i'm in the shop to keep on watching all those hawks out there thank you for watching us have a great day and by the but if. you're

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tell me she had us under just you to. comment is on the ground for. my health. 3rd and for bush myself what it is for me in the 5 years ago to. go. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. this is a story about what happens off true stray bullets kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida

know the mother daughter is very serious and terri it really messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police need is a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pen this than him and what happens in court the. shock shock is far more society. we don't know children just from. the end of this trial unfortunately you too will still not know childress. people are really remarking that 2020 is a mirror image of 2008 is the exact same problem banks over leverage blew

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