you. greetings and salutation with millions across the united states facing eviction is over 150000 u.s. citizens no longer with us due to the u.s. government's abject failure in responding to the cold with 19 pandemic and weather experts now predicting hurricane season is set to unleash at least 13 brutal hurricanes on the u.s. shores in the coming months i bet with all of that you cannot guess are the priority of the united states congress were focused this week if you guessed funneling more money into the pentagon you my friends are correct you win the new car yes time magazine is reporting that tucked neatly into the senate republicans

latest one trillion dollar covert 19 response package is a nice $8000000000.00 into pentagon weapons systems built by defense contractors like boeing lockheed martin and general dynamics and what kind of virus and disease fighting weapons will this $8000000000.00 buy us taxpaying citizens well time magazine goes on report that the bill would deposit $2200000000.00 in pentagon ship building accounts it would boost missile defense systems in california and alaska and deliver about $1400000000.00 for the c 130 transport planes and f. 35 fighters manufactured by the good folks at lockheed martin. and as journalists and activists around the us begin to uncover this latest $1000000000.00 defense contractor gift basket they are being labeled as adversaries by the pentagon politico is now reporting that a new mandatory pentagon training course aimed at preventing leaks refers to

protestors and journalists as adversaries in a fictional scenario designed to teach defense department personnel how to better protect sensitive information adversary is the term they use yes those working on the print lines of the 1st amendment to our constitution protesters and journalists are now considered adversaries and pentagon training camps but are we really all that shocked i mean after all we are living in a country where roughly a month ago the united states secretary of defense mark as recently as governors to dominate the battle space battle space when describing efforts to contain and disband black lives matter protests. which is why today we'll be knee deep in the battle space of the 1st amendment as we take on the military industrial complex and their benefactors and start watching the whole us if you want to know what's going

on a city street you want to see that is so you can see the prices you always stay i'll see you always throw strikes mass graves see this least systemic deception is the late show which i would say that you feel as. welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyro of and. joining us today to discuss the latest domestic military industrial complex news is the former senior security policy analyst from the office of the secretary of defense the one and only michael malone michael we haven't had john in forever thank you for coming on today. my pleasure thanks for having me so michael bottom line is there any real world military justification for putting billions into the f. 35 an arms spending into a covert 19 recovery bill. oh absolutely not in fact i'm shocked that.

even the senate republicans would even buy into that simply because. they made a very strong point that they want to strictly for stimulus to put people back to work there's no place for this kind of stimulus package for the military at this point. in the stimulus package there the the congress passed a $740000000000.00. defense budget already and they and they can always add supplements later but keep the divorce from this is just a mess he's the priorities and it really shows that the trump administration's priorities including the defense department is very very skewed. and we're seeing a lot of our congress people actually shout out what they think is wasteful spending from the pentagon right now and not presently just hash tag yesterday defund the pentagon domestically what could the pentagon be doing in order to actually help u.s. citizens and others during this pandemic. well they can lie low and not put

these kinds of things into stimulus packages or for covert number one but number 2 the rhetoric that you pointed out was very very ill advised and very unfortunate as you pointed out we have a 1st amendment and even though there's a opsec op. policy that has just. it's. they they are looking at the press in that particular scenario as adversaries and that's wrong. you know the press is the only profession that is mentioned in the constitution the united states the only one and yet the pentagon is calling a member sorry i think esper is asleep asleep at the switch be should be looking this stuff over and he made one error on that the battlefield where where protesters were even called them targets so his his his rhetoric is just

inflammatory at best and people need to calm down the military as you point out needs to be helpful they are they have a they have a rental. in terms of trying to assist people at a very critical time maybe delivery for example i have vaccines when it becomes available that's going to be a legitimate outreach for them but in terms of dealing with peaceful protesters no that's that's the that's the job of the local governments and the state governments now the president could invoke the $1807.00 insurrection act but he's been counseled that that's just overkill and it's totally on the search and it is what's happening today is totally unlike what happened in 1968 i was around in 1968 and everything was out of control at that time not not like today you know i want to ask you getting back to what you mentioned about the media in the. spawn's to

questions about this use of the term adversaries in reference to journalists and protesters in this training drill pentagon spokesperson lieutenant colonel your royal or will and told the media quote attempting to read more into the use of the term obvious scapes the clear purpose of the training to prevent information from falling into unauthorized hands regardless of its potential use you know michael well i think you kind of mentioned this earlier but should the pentagon whether for training purposes or any other kind of purposes be using terms like adversaries when describing journalists and protesters you know at the very least journalism protestors working on their own shores or even you know journalism protesters in general around the world is adversaries a term that we we you know i think they're kind of saying like well don't it's just a term don't play into it don't read into it but what should we. well it's a it's a very unfortunate use of the term adversary and as i recall that. doctrine was meant to be that policy was meant to provide

a scenario and calling the press the adversaries it was was it was dead wrong and what i think they were getting at was trying to guard classified information to ensure that it's not leaked out to the press and that's that and they got carried away with their rhetoric and the leaking that has occurred. and that's what this the drift of this doctrine was about was to try and prevent leaks but the leak of this document itself was leaked and it was and it was something that was done from the inside and if it was classified then the press has every right and every legitimate right to reproach to report on it and it's just it's the same issue where the russians were recently accused based upon very raw uncorroborated intelligence of putting bounties on american soldiers in afghanistan and yet even

the president had to repudiate that that information and and so did a lot of in the pentagon now the pentagon has got to watch its. terminology it has to respect the 1st amendment it shouldn't be calling. peaceful protesters adversaries because they are exercising their constitutional right it's only when we have violence and what have you but then the states have a responsibility to take over and i think that. esper needs to be more mindful of and and have a little more oversight of what goes out of the pentagon i'm just astounded that he hasn't got better control over his own. department. michel switching gears just a little bit congresswoman alexandria kasi a court is currently pushing to bar funding for military treatment in u.s.

public schools and on digital streaming platforms like twitch what are your thoughts on reforming the u.s. military's recruitment practices. well they have a legitimate right to go in and recruit on universities for example i mean i was in there o.t.c. when i was at the university and it was fine i think that. at least they're not bringing back the draft. and i think maybe that might be something of a but. i would say that humorously but at any rate. she's got her own agenda and she wants the military out of everything she wants and she has she has she wants nothing to do with the military and if and i have a i have a grandson who just got out of high school and he saw that the military actually provides an opportunity for him and he qualified in every field including nuclear

engineering and that's where they're going to put him he's going to have a career in it and he's college he's capable of it and given the training so i think in some sense it gives people a legitimate. a gateway to better jobs and opportunities to to better themselves and i think that she changes once too i don't personally agree with her on this and i think that the military has a right so the cia goes. and other agencies go out and recruit universities and even in high schools i remember when i was in high school at the state department come around and give us a pitch so it's very legitimate and and as long as it's. you know it's done to offer them opportunities people opportunities. why not you got to remember because you know cortez has also told apple to go fly a kite and they want 25000 jobs up in her district so her her ability to call the

right shots is questionable at best why you know i think you're lucky i never of the state department come to my high school and ask me if i want to join the state department or anything like that so you know i members of your not. i guess so yeah no i mean i think you make a good point at the same time i do think that there needs to be some rames put on of at what age the military or the cia or anyone can start kind of going after these kids because they should be of an age that they can make that decision without being unduly influenced whether it's through a video game or other such things like that michael i had to i would agree he i think i think in senior high school it's is about the right time because kids should be thinking what career path they want to venture into the exact right michael i want to say thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure having you on sir. thanks for having me all right and as we go to break my friends remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand to the

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join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics business i'm show business i'll see you then. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to 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 this 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. for me too to allegations of racism sexism and intimidation the lights of hollywood are filled with stories of rampant abuse many of these stories never even get the coverage they deserve despite hollywood being considered

a liberal bastion and that brings us to the ellen de generes show the popular daytime television show has become the subject of an internal investigation by warner media after numerous accounts of workplace problems emerged the issues that circling the ellen degeneres show though are new employees have been speaking out for over a decade but just last month their voices finally gotten heard executives from show producer telepictures and distributor warner brothers television sent a memo to staffers that interviews with current and former staffers about their experiences on the set are underway in a variety released a scathing article where crew members shouted out their disdain for being fired at the height of the coronavirus pandemic only to be replaced by nonunion workers and cheaper labor in july a report of racism and intimidation made the front page above speed news in it 10 former ellen employees said they were fired after taking medical leave or bereavement to attend family funerals one employee walked off the job after growing

weary from consistent inappropriate comments on race all employees speech to describe the environment on ellen set as toxic 10 hour plus work days are the norm but with a rotating group of contractors production crews and other staffers the montreux remains this is as good as it gets this is ellen you'll never find anything better . and considering the competitive dog eat dog nature of hollywood people often take the bait and kill the physically and mentally can no longer handle the abuse former employees want to see ellen held accountable for her positive public brand that just doesn't jive with the behind the scenes experiences of her staffers but willing to cancel the verdict is still out on that she's a media giant. a 32nd national spot during her show cost a whopping $51570.00 the show raked in over $35000000.00 for warner

brothers each year and more than $50000000.00 for host ellen degeneres movie who are monstrous numbers i don't know if 51000 dollars for one i have you know i worked in hollywood for a long time before i came into this into this business of doing this show in the news business and you know prior to the me too movement a lot of the rumors and everything that you say yeah people are abused people not just sexual and sexist and bigoted but you know they're also physically abuse they're also you know worked 18 hour days there you know it's a it's a brutal industry to work yeah and it seems like the reports were there people were speaking out and they were either getting blacklisted so they just lost their job completely blocked from working on other threats or they were ignored completely and giving harsher hours because what ends up happening is and you probably know this well it's really easy to find somebody else to sign up a production staff for a major show and yes it is yes i mean the thing in hollywood is always the case of

hey there's another bus load there's another train a young you know young kids 1821 years old who are ready to sign up and that's both for like people on the camera and off the camera you feel that constant pressure that hey they'll just get someone younger to replace you or they'll just get someone who will put up with the abuse to replace you there's a great great film called swimming with sharks that stars kevin spacey really documents the abuse that a lot of people both in the office and outside of the office in hollywood face which as you pointed out is weird one it's a city but it's like a bastion for limit you wouldn't think that working conditions like that would exist in a because a lot of the people who are involved in these things are the same people who will speak out about working conditions outside of hollywood and there are people who will leave the campaign shout wave signs hash tag tweet meanwhile ignoring it on their own front door and. look at the end of the day too let's not forget that you know no one goes to football games with war criminals like our former president george w. bush you know come on now we've talked about on this show whatever happened it's

like optics clearly you know with all the with all these reports coming out we want to wait and see what happens in the best occasions for is just to get the full depth of what what actually went on on the show but the biggest question is what happens going forward while their arguments that it's going to be really hard to cancel ellen burstyn foremost because the advertisers haven't backed up we have seen it year after year these conversations happen and now they're just now getting a lot of attention but not a single advertiser has backed out of the ellen show and we talked about the whopping cost of having an ad buy during that show it's actually the largest by cost of any daytime t.v. period while so there's a lot of money associated with this and her high profile guests have been start stop showing up to the show either so it's hard to tell what's going to happen it truly is i think you brought up some great points there but i think that you're going to see i think once this investigation really reaches its zenith and you hear a lot more people you know speaking out you really hear what's going on because there's a certain point like we don't know if ellen was directly responsible for it but the

end of the day it's her name on the show her pictures on the show whatever happens behind the scenes still ultimately is going to fall on her whether she actively took part in it or you know claim i didn't know it was happening you know which is always kind of the one thing you know is that i didn't know they were being mean to the staff or crew will be ok even to pay attention when you're walking the set. and that's the one thing that a lot of these former staffers are arguing that you know the environment is so toxic that anybody who's there can obviously see this happening it's not happening in a silo or behind closed doors people are extremely abrasive racially insensitive doing some really bad being talked about them you know laying people off at the height of the pandemic but also firing people who've taken off time for bereavement if a family member dies that is a cover thing like you're not supposed to be let go of your job because you attended a funeral you know you absolutely should. b. and like you said ellen show is not the only show where these kind of things happen to you i think people would be surprised that this is more the norm live it is the exception than the intense internal assessment is that. 3 months after

u.s. army specialist vanessa gloom was seeing her family and friends came to washington d.c. today to demand justice for her murdered while they continue to call 'd for a congressional investigation lawmakers here in congress have introduced the i am the mess again bill which aims at changing the way sexual assault is handled in the u.s. military are to use rachel blevins joins us now to discuss rachel thank you for coming up thank you for having me so what can we expect from from this bill when her name what does this brokers of the goal of this legislation is to create an independent 3rd party where members of the military can report their sexual assault and sexual harassment because right now these soldiers are expected to report it through the ranks of the military they're expected to go to their superiors but what they found is that far too many times their abusers are their superiors or they actually report it and nothing is done about it and that's why this story of vanessa again

has really resonated with a lot of people who say they've been there they were in that place because her family and friends came out after she was murdered and they revealed that she told them that she was being harassed but she was terrified of telling her superiors because she feared retaliation and we have seen support for getting justice for her for this legislation and we saw president meeting with her family today we've seen dozens of lawmakers saying they plan to support this bill but it's all going to come down to oversight because even if this legislation is passed even if this 3rd party is created it's going to be about making sure that the military actually implements it and that these cases are taken seriously and rachel when it comes to those sexual assault cases in the military how rampant is this what exactly are the numbers one fortunately we've really seen a rise in these cases in recent years and i want to take. look at the records that were released by the department of defense according to their numbers they say that there were 20500 instances of unwanted sexual contact tax in 28

scene reports increased 38 percent from 2016 to 20 teens and that one out of every 16 military women reported being assaulted in that year and we also have to remember those are just the people who actually reported it because we have far too many cases of women and men who are terrified of reporting it and speaking out so the numbers are likely much larger. number 20000 is a ridiculous luling is that we do have to think about the it might be double that of the people who just don't report because they know that like i said earlier either nothing's going to happen or they're reporting directly to somebody who may have been the person who does them in the 1st place i have to ask what's next. in the future of fort hood because this isn't the only scandal with valving murder and things like that that have hit fort hood now in the last year or a while now her family is calling for a congressional investigation into her death because so far we've learned that she was mordor murdered at the fort hood army military base and that not only was she

murdered there but then her body was taken away from there by a fellow soldier so there's a lot of questions surrounding how that happened how that was able to be carried out and why we haven't gotten more answers so far and you know when we talk about fort hood i'm fortunately that's actually not the only deaths that we've seen there in recent months we saw vanessa again and her reported mean suspect in her death who reportedly took his own life but we've also seen a number of other deaths that have suspicious circumstances i want to take a look at some of those soldiers now they include make or more so i was on july 17th at the base near in a nearby dam his cause of death was reportedly drowning and now being investigated gregory scott morale it was on june 19th and a nearby field 10 months after he went missing his cause of death has not been. but police confirm foul play is suspected brandon scott rosencrantz was found may 18th his cause of death was a gunshot wound and it is being investigated as murder right even ingo dela cruz jr

was found in march 14th his cause of death was a gunshot wound and as was part of a triple homicide rate there for wayne sawyer was about arson bit of a cause of death has not been released but fall play has not been ruled out and then finally shelby tyler jones was found on march 1st and he was killed by a gunshot wisco a number 6 of questions there definitely a number of questions there rachel thank you so much for breaking all that down for us always a pleasure having you on thank you very much thank you all righty everybody that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are told we are loved and also i tell you all i love you i rode with her and i mean we should probably keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and like everybody. the

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trumpet administration is sending its highest level delegation to taiwan which is angering china why now and what will the trip mean for american chinese well ations will take a look at that on their side to. the politicking on larry king it was announced this week that u.s. health and human services secretary alex a's are will soon lead a delegation to taiwan the announce one has angered china which considers taiwan a rogue province so what's behind the timing of this trip and once its impact on american chinese relations let's start there with joel rubin former deputy assistant secretary of state in the obama administration and a democratic strategist he joins us from.