health care professional i look at most of these public issues through the lens of common sense and history and i suspect that this thing is going to go up and down we'll see spikes and valleys and spikes and valleys for some time so you know i don't think that it's a major crisis that we see some of these numbers going back up we'll probably see him go back down and maybe go back up again until things settle down for the year but you were an analyst for the cia what's your reaction to reports that russia has offered bounties to develop then a link forces push killing coalition forces and includes american troops. if something's fishy in this marriott just doesn't make a lot of sense to me 1st of all i have not seen any information that the intelligence if it is accurate intelligence has been verified so i think it's has been released for political purposes and is being used improperly but even if it

is accurate intelligence is really just doesn't make any sense why would russia become involved in trying to go after u.s. troops indirectly when the u.s. under the trumpet ministration is taking steps to extricate itself from afghanistan if it doesn't ring true larry well who could explain putin's. well i guess. we do have some folks at the at the cia where i used to work years ago who are expert in trying to figure out what goes on inside the kremlin and inside the you know the minds of these former k.g.b. officials. but it just doesn't make sense from russia standpoint to do something like this and the timing doesn't fit and you know you get reports back when i was with the agency years ago you get all sorts of raw

intelligence reports but you know every time you get a report even if it is somewhat alarmist you don't go running to the president and you don't go running to the congress you wait until you can verify it one way or the other and then you notify the officials you're the president and c.e.o. of the law enforcement education foundation it's been over 4 weeks since the killing of george floyd in many outposts an incident that has sparked protests across the country how do you see this playing out long term. long term by long term i guess nowadays that means simply between now and the election i suppose. i don't i don't like the way it's been playing out so far because there to me larry is a lot of room to institute some meaningful reforms with policing across the country in terms of better training more appropriate funding and priorities for our

local law enforcement and it just does not seem to be getting done either in the congress or at the local level and that's a shame because we ought to take the opportunity of the tragedy of the george floyd murder to take a real positive look at law enforcement in terms of making some needed reforms. the president has described racial justice and police reform demonstrators as terrorists bugs anak as agitators looters and lowlifes do you think you ought to temper his language a little. bit certainly when you look at some of what's going on in the last several weeks larry there are violent elements there are there are those who have used the excuse of the george florey murder to engage in arson looting and burning. and that's unfortunate but by the same token i do think

that there is a lot more room than either the democrats were the republicans in the congress are willing to accept in terms of some meaningful reform and i'm you know i'm sorry that that really seems to be getting lost in washington these days what don't you like about the democrat the house proposal police reform. it gets too much in the weeds larry when when you look at some of the details in the house bill that relate to for example use of force. there there is a laundry list of steps that a law enforcement officer would have to go through before initiating force and it would depend in terms of use of lethal force there would be a whole mechanism for after the fact objective review as opposed to looking at the

the view the reasonably reasonable view of the officer on the scene which is really what's critical and the of the house bill it gets so detail larry that it would make a violation of a person's civil rights if an officer exerts any and i have a certain size the word any because that's in the in the legislation any for any pressure on a person's throat or neck i mean that that is simply a way to detail how many practical how the and deal with the word reasonable one police officer does seem reasonable one way and one can see it another right. that certainly is true but over the years the standard that that the courts have applied and have instructed juries have actually worked out fairly well i think if you go back and you look at the use of deadly force cases that have come up over

the years i think juries and judges most times the vast majority of cases get it right by looking at whether the officer on the ground at the time had a reasonable fear of serious bodily harm or death to himself or herself and other persons if they did not use deadly force. saying well we're going to throw that standard out and we're going to have have a standard where i some officer who was not there looks at it after the fact with 2020 hindsight i think is terribly unfair to the officers on the ground. surprise the reason associated press poll shows 29 percent of americans say the u.s. criminal justice system needs a complete overhaul 40 percent say it needs major changes is that does that

figure surprise you. and in a sense it does because our criminal justice system is not broken fundamentally it doesn't surprise me from the standpoint that because there has been such tremendous pub listen to you about our criminal justice system recently that you know a lot of people would believe that simply because they keep hearing it over and over and over again our criminal justice system by and large has worked very well is a perfect no but there is no perfect system are there are some changes that can be made with regard to policing particularly i think in the area of far better training and leadership absolutely there are. as a former u.s. attorney what are your thoughts on the recent to molton southern district of new york the ousting of u.s. attorney jeffrey berman a trump appointee and the naming of j. clay who's currently the head of the securities and exchange commission didn't they

bungle at it could have been handled much better although in today's environment where everything that the administration does is going to be looked at by many in the media in the worst possible light i'm not sure they can you know do anything without being criticized but i do think it could have been handled better the timing of it and how the public the public word was put out i think it could've been handled lot better but ultimately of course any u.s. attorney particularly an acting u.s. attorney in which mr berman wise serves at the pleasure of the president and if the president through the attorney general asks the person to step aside they really ought to merely have no choice but to do so yeah but in the middle of an apparent investigation of trump's friends that doesn't paint a pretty picture does it. well mike i say the timing of the timing could have been

a lot better if in fact the administration had a significant or serious problem with the acting u.s. attorney they should have made that known a long time ago and not waited until you know in this case several months before an election with those sort of sensitive cases pending so. i agree with you a good time the timing was not very bright you know more than 1000 x. justice department officials signed a pulp with letter calling on william baudot resign more recently more than 1200 acts d.o.j. officials called for an internal investigation into bars role in the clearing a protest is from one of the at square how do you regard that. i think it's an overreaction i have my own views on what happened with my fired square i'm not sure really young understood the point to it in the 1st place but you know

simply because the attorney general does something that a group of people even lawyers disagree with does not mean that we ought to go rush to either have them removed from office or impeach them we're going to have him like ssion in just a few months they'll be plenty of time to make those kind of adjustments later on but i think it's an overreaction larry a surprise that biden's poll numbers. and in a sense i am because he he really hasn't done anything i mean he's been reclusive in his in his home basically what the numbers tell me whether in terms trumps numbers being very poor or biden's numbers being actually fairly solid is that this is going to be a clearly a referendum on the president and right now i things don't look terribly rosy for

the president's reelection bob always good having you with us thank you so much my pleasure larry. more politicking right after this. the primary purpose of history is to understand the cost as a guide to understanding the present and future because she should not be deemed as feeling goodness style just because a lot of history is painful it is shameful so how should we find the right balance is that you signed the right answer. god no team no crowd. no shots no. action. well struck no 1st. points your thirst for

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the means of production and the guest starring in the 1980 s. that became obsolete because. all wealth was tied to money printing today 2020 so that would be 40 years later than this phenomenon 1st to call activists and labor rights activists and workers are figuring out that the problem is not about the means of production the problem is the money printers and they're taking. welcome back to politicking we now welcome retired army general russel honore a he joins us from where i object general where are you located baton rouge louisiana baton rouge louisiana he played a crucial role speaking of louisiana in post katrina relief efforts and he's been

critical of the trumpet ministrations response to the pandemic he joins us from louisiana what do you make of these reports about the russians paying a bounty to kill american soldiers in afghanistan. a very discouraging but to be expected from the russians they will do is lawyers they could go to impose their will other will also use it for mission operations to exploited this to you cause to send in the american people so they will use a soft power and the apparent limited use of this direct power by giving money to the taliban that kill us so does this. one get the word come out about it well that night like you know we will. blow it up in the press and media all social media because dissent usada united states so it's that this when america's both

ways blair. former congressman bob barr was with us and he tended to not believe the reports because they were to him with no sense for the russians to do anything like this what he were going to say route it. it doesn't make sense but under they had this information misinformation remember their job in the russian intelligence agencies because dissent inside the american government i too would like not to believe it but at telus disproven at this time i think you've got to go to the fact that they have done it well remember how strong you are with katrina what do you think of how we're dealing with call the 19 well i think we you know in every war you got to have priorities we were saying the right thing they want to save people lives but we confuse that with one note the economy too early and we put of

a political message ahead of public health is start an american people and those who have done it successfully lie new york you know others who put public help in front of sustaining the economy when economy was close we're still at 70 percent of an operator in most places but this move to i think we rushed to figure. but not allowing the messages of public health keep things locked down making folks aware to mares and i'm saying make it because it should be of no mass no hitter we send out and maybe your knowledge is trump won't wear masks the vice president will merom as then he doesn't wear a mask the president doesn't talk about called the 9000 anymore. when i want to seems like a loss well when you look at the number of people were losing every day. many

a couple weeks of over a 1000 they i think last week were over 300 a day if an enemy force came to america during that we'd be a full hour battle around a war and this bar assist treatments that we but we've got to fight it with the tools of public health and that has to be done we were going to have to give up in some case adjusts our culture to be able to suppress this virus and we need you more testing not less testing and this whole. bumper sticker that the white house have the more tests you do you do more you have my garden where you get who planted that in the white house greenock sound like a bit more gritty was what what is new york new jersey and connecticut done right are they close it down. they kept all the non-essential businesses close are only keeping the supply chain open so to

get food in essential medical supplies and they went big you know medical. it brought it 30000 medical workers into new york plus the several 1000 the military there the take care to people they went big but they have to go big you talk about a sickness apology of about 8000000 or less more than most of the states on average you support this twice the populations the louisiana and it went big and they did it right you know they disposed primarily with one voice those 3 states and that's helped them a lot general you're a member of a growing list of current and former military leaders who criticized trumps who responds to racial justice demonstrations some of your problems with how the president has handled it or not handled it well he's gonna look the

other way. and it could have been a lot more decisive in united in the country i think there's a majority of the population who the polls that i've seen on the topic of people have come to. understand the majority. in america to regard to race in america to white people in america it's come to fruition that he descended done right and we could do this better and now things that we've got in the past we need to correct but he's never made that step to said we've got to fix some of this all my watch is never a knowledge did. do you think he understands and respects the values and missions of the u.s. military i think he uses other toy and he tries as usual as a political lynch remote and as

a one liner it is speech the prime that we have no bullets or need took office that's not quite right did he put all the money into the military but on the other hand he took 3000000000 out to go build the fence wall which last week a judge declared was illegal when he took that money out of military or it's stop building houses for troops is stop building headquarters for troops is start repairing hospitals for troops so one hand move that money which military cannot commit you go to a border wall it stop military construction the very people he attempts in his speeches to put at the top of the pedestal in houses they used them as a political part and one liners. is a military veteran is it uncomfortable for you to speak against the commander in chief. i've never done that before my life. i was in korea as

a company commander when president nixon resigned and i thought the world was coming to him and it didn't that would happen in america and here we are low and behold. another crazy act. of if you could sis and see everybody respect that office or what that means or the most powerful man in the world i do wish he would respect that and try to live up to what is expected of people in that office but he continues out record entrepreneur as opposed to a statesman what do you make of the use of military to curb don't mesh the riots new bring in the military and local situation that is the. use of the national guard that's one of the purposes of them under the provisions of the governess that's the way that it should be done with

a couple exceptions we saw president kennedy in eyes now are mobilizing national guard to integrate schools which was a federal law that was being violated and it's done been done before and we saw the use of federal troops at an early when the governor of california in the mail or said jules as for federal troops to come. break pieces city of l.a. after the early rise but that is a selective too that should not be used very often and it should not be used as a threat on the people the president took it to another level well just send federal troops see us of federal troops there with them and hold you could you look like the war avid fund with this you know as opposed to regretting it really having to do this it was enthusiasm about what we do it and that's the impression i got sir. james carville the raging cajun i said the other day

that he start they share a narrow military base after you you should be honored how do you will that was purely in jest. while i appreciate your honor for my good friend that was clearly a just a bunch min much more worthy than our many of them make it back from battle many and in multiple tours it did now there are many more worthy and in our trusty what do you make of it what do you make of the statue situation i think some of should go away in a do you think the naming of dude's low terry a solution not to get better generals and colonels should definitely go away. but i take pause and i just beg to disagree with some of the movement to. take on the founding fathers and i could even give andrew jackson

a pass he did turtle case to the native people but he was a president in a way he tried to unify the country but the native people paid dearly for that thousands and thousands of but i could be on the fence with them but the founding fathers i think it was what it was and they get certifies a lot in not think we need to give them a pass washington. and thomas jefferson general in general i up domestic or pessimistic about where this country is going i'm out of mrs help as we got a resilient country and most people any given day are going about their business larry thank god is it was that needed service semi-retired to sit around and watch the news all day that's really lot of hell but to the average american they just want to raise their families. the limit now is the raw recess the pandemic

is hideous had it not been for the pandemic americans would be doing what they know we do in the summer out having fun and on the 3rd of november above percent i would go vote and we lucky think they're going to defeat the president in november i think with dependent again the state of the economy and some of the behaviors of the president i think you'll be a one term president and i'm not a political expert i mean look at the name of your show i'm sure you have people who have opinions about that ok and meet a lot more than i do but i think they're not an icon i hope to be a 1st a one term president and that's not that's not a 2nd place job to have been a one term president that's a pretty tough job the year he won it and he even worked his butt off the wind it but i think him being a one term president might be the best for the future generations in this country.

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dares thinks. we are here to ask. the one guy up here he was a navy found him literally dead like this standing up. a guard here and his girlfriend they were found in their apartment that they just. cut all up and they were dead for like 3 days holding each other this wall so people who have lost their lifes early today should get this is from akron. that crown is better known as the meth capital of the high and it's a city where the number of drug addicts keeps growing every year. i came across 14 and my whole family were drug addicts. throughout much of the 1990 s.

and beyond and the doctors were encouraged in some cases incentivized to overprescribe. i mean enough to sedate some. country well you should also hear about people that check your stuff and we got to go get to go crazy get you much you know you do it. there so coming you know one of the next. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area russia. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil.

take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on the story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. you can't be both with yeah you like.

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