greetings and sal you take us on a previous episode of watching the hawks we covered how the united states was running a wild west style smash and grab when it came to securing valuable medical supplies during this pandemic 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 them well appears that there's no holds barred loop grab perpetrated by the united states bedroom government has of course found its 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 federal authorities and then later at the beginning of april in new jersey freeholder director chanelle robinson announced that a shipment of 35000 masts had been scooped up also by federal officials these actions by the fed seem to fly in the face of the great brand name and cheap us president battle drums continued orders from up on high for states to be responsible for securing their own medical supplies and not reliant on the federal government. was how can you do that donald when the federal government keeps out bathing or outright stealing from them with no real explanations as to why sounds like a good time to start watching the hawks before you know the feds come confiscate

all of us. what's going on a city the streets. that are so let's see the crisis you always state. rice is crazy see this least systemic dissent says the late show which we saw with. the welcome everyone to watching the hawks i am sorry robot inter-island so major they are just snatch and grab and all across the country now for the last 2 months or so absolutely hate the 1016 really crazy but when you see it in action it's a whole different level governors are trying to protect their their p.p. equipment trying to make sure that they have what they need especially those in blue states because the president trump has announced that he's really not trying to help them and and i think that you know what we're seeing happen in real time is something that we haven't seen in this country before especially not in pain to

make times and. and even in my home state of illinois we've seen j.b. pritzker actually announced that he was not going to share any information it was that something that was leaked but he definitely wanted to make sure the illinois residents were protected and he knew that he couldn't count on the federal government so he actually got supplies from china and thinker and they were secretly flown into the state to make sure that the top administration wouldn't compensate them that's incredible would you have governors like secretly flying in supplies just to keep the feds from from stealing them and then the crazy thing is is that the feds haven't given really many good reasons as to why they're doing it they still when confronted it's kind of like well you know all to mentally the state got what it needed to over here after the fact or whatever even confronted at the international level as to why we're suddenly scooping up as we kind of don't really get any solid answers at least i haven't seen any of the research that i was doing today in the trying to find a good answer from the feds no we're absolutely not getting those answers and we the other problem is that the federal government has pushed back in many times that

the requests that the states are having so remember of the later requests that came from new york all of a sudden we hear no they don't need those ventilators they don't need this p.p. equipment somebody somehow is at these hospitals p.p. equipment so they wanted 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 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 various state state constitutions that they can 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 with 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. 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 has put a stop to it and the governors have spoken about this and they've 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 the states have to go on their own but now you know the federal government is

jumping in and stealing things from them as well as some other countries you know what for those of liberty and the like you know for those of the liberty of 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 in the middle saying 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 where this is not good they choose their protests the thumb they chose the wrong one this is very 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 keep help carry the message and told the line than chumps favorite crony attorney general bill barr bowling under the weight of his ill informed commander in chief a crazed 2 conservative activist 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 chimp ministration refuses to accept its all culpability in ignoring corona virus 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 lead missouri attorney general eric schmidt filed a lawsuit against the chinese government tuesday accusing them of line 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. her attorney 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 whole 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. or and that is what gives them the legal argument that they can sue china because the amount of states and loves its frivolous lawsuits. was a steve 1st of many lawsuits coming down the pike great question tyrrell 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 allowed 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. and that's

a lot 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 bar 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 we 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 a 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 there are even forecasting you know schools are going to open this fall so it will be interesting we're in it for the rule and you know it's interesting to look at the chinese you know lawsuit thing just to touch that 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 that 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 like oh hey you know but if the iraqis bring a lawsuit against as we did in the iraq war with no no no no no no we're not going to consent to that. you know it's absolutely ridiculous but man alive 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've got a traffic ticket and they say get get to court me show you can be like really have to go that's kind of the old think it's also then too 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 our 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 our initial really slow response to that was of the intelligence community of other people had said even the americans working at the show said even all the way back in november that they were telling us of the schools and 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 that 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 it's going to be dead on arrival most likely yes you know i it's going to be hard to bring a lawsuit the thing i want to thank you as always for coming on for another on that goes a pleasure all right as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t.v. which is available on smartphones do google play and the apple app store by simply searching portable t.v. or you can stream us to your t.v. by downloading the portable t.v. . apple t.v. and online portable. the yes this app will be available on more devices coming soon and coming up here on watching the hawks it appears that there is always time to rattle a few sabers for war and former cia agent whistleblower john kiriakou joins us next

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we go to work so straight home. all right earlier in the show we were discussing the recent protests popping up across the united states over the covert 9 teams stay at home on the social distance distancing orders and how the motivation by many of those protests were direct result of the manipulation of the us populace as fear of tyranny and loss of liberty and will stay at home mothers and social distancing for the safety of the community are not and should not be cause for constitutional concern that doesn't

mean citizen should not remain vigilant in their path. section of the most basic of rights in a time of crisis taking our eye off the ball is how we got stuck with constitutional shredding laws like those found in the patriot act and that is why many are starting to raise the alarm about the potential use of u.s. military personnel here at home in the battle against this virus newsweek reported recently that the u.s. military is preparing forces to assume a larger role in the coronavirus response including the controversial mission of quelling civil disturbances and them forcing the law a mission that the military has not engaged in for almost 30 years joining us now to discuss the dangers of deploying the u.s. military here at home in a time of crisis is not the freeman the member of the coordinator committee for the black a lives for peace and that always a pleasure having you on sir thank you it's always a pleasure to be on so i want to start with just give people an idea of what are the major potential dangers found in using the u.s.

military not just the national guard which is under control of state governors but the u.s. military army navy air force in operations domestically during a time of crisis. these are people who are pretty much strain and to confront enemy combatants as you will and really thinking thinking that or being trained dentists' to have the disposition that the people that they're fighting confronting are less worthy of humanity or life and liberty and so when you put them on the street and i'm again you have to remember that in the united states for its use commas people black and brown working class people already know who under a police state at the situation so that the danger in what you asked is what you describe is that there will be combining the mentality that is fostered in military training to fight so-called the terrorists in whatever. before you speak communist

and people who are not as worthy combine that with the sort of inherent. racists attitudes in class attitudes of the us with its force that is a barrier of cocktail. how there being any part of examples where the u.s. military would use domestically at a time of crisis and is there as if historical precedents for that kind of the point. there's been a few yes. we can look at and it's a few katrina hurricane katrina when that happened there was a number of people who were scrambling for survival and having to scramble and get whatever they could and it the military was sent in there and then people some people may not remember how old people are but we used to see in the mill in the media. reports of people called looting in ventilating when you really talked about

a dire situation people really just trying to scramble for whatever they could to deliver survive and in that instance if they were really cruel and it came had to come out later instances of people being actually just the chill of brutalized by both police and military i'm in one instance it was the men who shot in the back and then they proceed to kick him several times. the another other instances are doing the right making is that they were people who. you know of the beast pressure cooker was off after the beating of rodney king and a lot of the verdicts were really on people felt they didn't like the verdict so it was that they were rebellions we called everybody instead of rice because people we barely over centuries of police brutality not incident but in that instance they also brought the national guard in there were there were fatalities in terms of those exchanges and then during the same 3000000 joined dr king when dr king was

assassinated the same thing happened and then. we're also tallies due to you know the police did in the military next and the and we needn't black and brown people get the worst end of those. that makes it scary because that you see the idea being floated and kind of a common allies do you know in the in the language of the media i mean with more than a good healthy percent of the new york city police department officers recently reported due to illness or self quarantine of the numbers like over 15 and even higher police absentee rates elsewhere an opinion piece in the washington post help pontificated about how active u.s. military members could potentially fill the role those roles of the police writing quote they might need to backstop in back to a police force as a hard hit communities might soon need major assistance with patrolling the restraint streets in forcing restrictions on movement to turn to crime and other tasks there are those of this is pretty unbelievable language do you believe that

this could actually be a realistic possibility given the current state of the country to the days that something that we could see. oh i think there's no one there talking about it and i think the washington post piece you were talking about was coauthored by 3 people and they were they were it was the name of they make themselves the police department i think it was in new york city police and they were all from they're all now aren't working so people were consistent you people the u.s. army i think it was a couple over there in the u.s. i was about 3 ethics 3 people who are authors in that internet. article and what they're anticipating and i think there's also historical precedent in that and move we need to remember that the. there he values after that in the 1960 s. after the dr king they didn't really report they do write reports every now and then the. 2 to try to figure out the root causes and how to deal with riots or maybe avoid them and there was

a call to kind of chemistry 968 and so one of the things that the report showed and it was pretty i think certainly done report was the title civil unrest that we could see the type of dissatisfaction with basic things that we now know are going to be. are going to be. costs scarce we're going to look at 32 percent of the time they were predicting a 30 percent unemployment rate the biggest ever seen since the great great depression there's scarcely of food because of the supply of food they were being disrupted because of because of the cold in one scene in the social distancing in people being out of work the system the capitalist system and we have to attribute it to debt is not designed because we don't see that they're saying now come with the same situation another place that is not designed to handle the type of thing or not designed to create a lot of cooperation that is needed even on that on the domestic level or other

countries people are people are involved in organizing process there's a lot of peace. on to certain things and even to be able to manage things in a way that it don't make any serious that they are allowed to go to go to the supermarket maybe more distance regulated fashion the key thing is called and said here. powers that be are sitting in a threat to the status quo or people are seen that in the beginning fishes east of the net instead of capitalism and they don't want that to become even more formidable so they not instead of feeding people that housing people are things that we're seeing happen in us response to this but it's not for us that they don't and they don't want it for themselves but they can't last because they are going to capitalism so that their response will be too soon to the military in the police to try to quell dissent well basically we have a we got a good divorce put you out there are going to die on this and. all the barriers about kind of operating software always coming on about everyone always about us or

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