jordyn wieber even today, kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago. is the u.s. making amends for the tragedy and help to the people need in that little landmines figures, including a former prime minister, condemned reports that the country soldiers tortured and murdered dozens of afghan civilians. we heard from people in couple who say they want justice in apology is not the solution. no afghan wants these foreign powers to control the country. don't think geez, enough. french catholics rally against the ban on religious gatherings that during the lock down amid a surge in cold cases, one more pointed to disturbing historical parallel in french history. this isn't

the 1st time they're going to mass is being considered illegal for the churches have been lost. or that going into mass could be considered a crime. and wrestlers from countries including russia help the refugees to return to and rebuild their homes. but many find they have nothing to return to can check out our t. dot com for more on our top story. this hour. cook talks, politics and much more on the big picture that's coming up right here on every 4 years,

the usa votes and the world is watching after of the last 4 years and the last 3 weeks. what do they see? let's ask, john said lady geo political strategist with trilogy advisors, john is a plum, a c. consultant to the united states department of state. and john, i'm about to say something i have never said to any guest takes 6 minutes to answer the following question and pay sure self. how is this 2020 election per seen by world leaders and those they lead and whose perception matters most? well, i'm going to start off with the obvious answer holland, and that's going to be china. and general secretary, xi jinping, the leader of the chinese communist party and the relationship that develops between abided ministration and beijing, is going to form this treaty chick axis, around which global commerce, global security, global governance, and global technology standards will revolve around and will be set and the degree

to which a biden administration is also dealing with chinese belligerence and asia in the south china sea, against taiwan, against japan, against india. and now even countries in central asia will also be a major test. but we hope that we can get you as china trade relations on to study your ground, even as we're dealing with a technology cold war. that general secretary, she launched in 2015 under the mubarak of made in china 2025 so that china can one day become the global dominant power in about 10 to 12 leading technology sector. so there's a full plate for abided ministration to deal with. but china has to be number one, number 2. well, the other great superpower is always russia, and the relationship between president biden and president putin is going to be critical. but russia is a very important country for the united states every day of the year, right?

18th of the world's landmass a very, very rich country in terms of oil, natural gas, minerals, diamonds, timber, but also a very important country because it projects power in asia, in the middle east, in the caucuses and in europe. but i think vladimir putin is looking for a different relationship with the by did ministration from his perspective. i think you'd like to recalibrate relations with washington so that russia is no longer dealing with anti-tank weapons that are sold to the ukrainian army. no longer dealing with oil and natural gas exports from the united states at a crushing russia's export revenue. trying to deal with a different type of the nato alliance, where president trump was able to get nato countries to spend $100000000000.00 more to beef up their defenses against russia. and also looking to ease up dozens of sanctions imposed by the trumpet, ministration against russian financier's business executives in corporations own

such certainly are number one and 21 of the other hot spots that are going to show up on biden's map. john, i think the relationship between the u.s. and germany is going to be critical here. hollande, clearly there was a personal rank or between chancellor merkel and president trump. and i think president biden who's a very eurocentric has been in his decades in public service, is going to look to repair the relationship between the u.s. and germany, because germany in a post brags that european union is clearly the economic driver of the block. and as germany goes, so goes the european union. and if there is going to be hope,, at least for e.u. u.s. free trade talks in 2021. and also looking to see how the european union can act as it geo political player and the european and world stage, because only france now post brags it is a nuclear military power inside the european union. but the germans also want tens

of thousands of american troops to defend germany against russia, while germany doubles its energy dependence on russia and sends billions of dollars to moscow. so these are issues that are going to have to be worked out by the biden administration with chancellor merkel successor because she already announced she's resigning in 2021. so they'll be new leadership in washington and new leadership in berlin, starting the 2nd half of next year. i remember that frosty photo op with chancellor merkel early on in the administration, when trump wouldn't shake her hand. where else is watching us like a hot car? we look over our shoulder at north korea, iran, turkey. i've got a couple of minutes left. well, let's take a quick look at 2 major asian countries, holland, if we might, japan 1st of all is a very under appreciated ally. it's a critical ally of the united states when it comes to economics in the g. 7 in

promoting democratic systems against a techno authoritarian state that is now china in promoting technological progress and advancements in compliance with the world trade organization as opposed to china's deceptive into intellectual property theft. and also working with it to provide security framework in asia, australia, japan, india, and the u.s. to help check china's very belligerent activities and india in the same way as the world's largest democracy, holland. and it is potentially going to be giving a number of the global supply chains that will be leaving china in the years to come. and it also is a great, great partner of the united states in terms of security and in terms of balancing china's activities in the indo-pacific region. and if we have it, i mean it, i'll close in turkey if you think that's an appropriate country to mention here, because iran has long been seen as one of the most dangerous countries in the world . and it continues to be the world's leading state sponsor of international terrorism. but the other great power now in the middle east in many ways is turkey,

that's acting as a disrupter inside the nato alliance. it is involved in the military conflicts in syria and iraq in libya, and it relating the exclusive economic zones of e.u. countries, greece and cyprus in the eastern mediterranean. but if they do, who are the s. 100 missiles dave acquired from russia, you may see a by did ministration, slapping very severe sanctions on turkey in ways that are unpredictable for the us turkey bilateral relationship and also for the nato alliance. john, this president elect has a lot on his plate. i appreciate the summary. you've just given us john siddle ladies trilogy, advisor, united states ambassador to fill in the blank has got to be the ultimate presidential appointment president trump sent mrs. newt gingrich, to be ambassador to the vatican. president obama gave japan to caroline kennedy. richard nixon sent shirley temple to guyana and

a local real estate magnate and former providence, rhode island, mayor joey pale. leno got them all to giggle. let's ask a 6 minute civics lesson of a long time united states foreign service officer jim jotter us about what happens when a new administration shuffles the diplomatic deck. jim embassador serve at the pleasure of the president. how common is it for an ambassador appointed by the other party to stay on when the white house changes hands? will it depends. the large majority of embarrass yours are actually career foreign service officers, and very often they stray over. let's recall for example, maria johann, of the true test of our duty in ukraine hearing, who was obama's when brasher in kiev. and obviously was not anybody who was at all on trump's team. and even though she was technically the personal representative

president. so i, yeah, we do, i think we have a great deal of continuity in most countries. now you do have cases where somebody has a friend owner, whatever it is supporter of the president, and that person will be out pretty quickly in a new administration. that's not necessarily a bad thing, hala especially, i remember back during the war with the union that it was often the case that you wanted a political ambassador in moscow so that people could understand that what they were hearing from this person was the president's thoughts. not the thoughts, career, bureaucracy, and history department now was considered very important by the soviets in those days, maybe less. so now when we have much more, let's say, easy communications international. you have just use a couple of terms that we want to make sure the viewer understands in washington speak, appointed government employees are called political. they often come and go as administrations change. but most federal workers are bureaucrats, and that's

a term that has a negative connotation. elsewhere, but in the washington area, there are several 100000 career people to use the term you used. they keep the lights on despite who's president among ambassadors, borrowing out as president trump was coming in, was caroline kennedy, who wrapped up in japan in january 27th teen. in march, the president appointed william haggerty to replace her. and haggerty took over in august. in between in june 7, u.s. navy, sailors were killed, and several others were injured. when our destroyer, u.s.s. fitzgerald collided with philippine flag, containership, 80 nautical miles off tokyo. jim, anticipating whatever lead time is built into senate confirmation, isn't making these moves a priority for any presidential transition. to tell the truth, paula: no,

i don't think so historic where i must say. i disagree with the notion that we are necessarily looking at a trend issues transition. i think that's likely. one never knows that we are now in an extremely divided country for the future are very rocky. any way you look at it, and i'm sure we'll see what happens the next few months, but assuming biden does take the reins or more properly, harris. sure. whoever forces are behind the both of them. no, i don't think this is actually that big of a priority. that they are, whoever is there will act as a caretaker till a personality is there. a lot of it now does come from the career foreign service. there are a lot of a lot of e-mails and phone calls or go back and forth to give instructions to the ambassador. so there is usually less and less leeway for the ambassador in his or her personality. in the conduct of relations with foreign posts like the vatican or malta sound like pretty sweet gigs, but where in the world is the choice of ambassador trickiest right now.

i think it's always going to be with the big boys. it's going to be moscow and beijing, and i would not be surprised if both of those are stray within the hands of our career foreign service officers. because there will be a high degree to which they want. basically somebody who can perform the city to buy the book, tax of diplomacy, which are fairly minimal to tell the truth with respect to moscow. and this, by the way, is one where, where i disagree with my friend, john sibley. these the previous guest, i don't think will be anything like the reset with russia. if biden takes the reins . and i don't think the russians are foolish enough to expect. when a new ambassador takes over, we often see a t.v. news video of the ambassador, presenting his credentials to the country, where he will now be stationed to countries ever reject the ambassador we sent. can they they can,

it's very rare because usually if the country is so are concerned about that they will make that known before the ambassador is even confirmed by the senate and the president will withdraw the nomination because they know person will not be accredited. it's very rare to do that. it's especially rare for an american ambassador to be refused given be there handsome, on extending to the united states has of the world that in many countries where the ambassador, let's be brutally honest about holland, is that effect the ruler of the country. they're not about the throne, died down while the government is not really fully sovereign. state veteran diplomat, jim jatra, son r t contributor, thank you. as always for stepping into the big picture coming up new captain, new course or same old same old. this is the big picture on our team america.

i was always on the bull, but i'm pleased to show you big city, bright lights, huge opportunities and many dangers because of the risk that the blighted atlanta. it's also a city where up to $300000.00 crimes are committed every year for the last one, but it will be the new most. it's filled to the reserved least one police officer. if every $200.00 residents in russia's capital cost on the list, i didn't put them out of my tree that i will not go through an exploit soon for the good for the muslims. because already i'm too mostly

is you'll be via reflection of reality. in a world transformed what will make you feel safe, isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being that direct? what is true? what is faith? in a world corrupted, you need to descend to join us in the depths, aura, made in the shallowness. meet

the new boss. same as the old boss as administrations change. what won't? let's ask the author of battlefield america, the war on the american people. john w. white head founder and president of the rutherford institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit group committed to the principles of the constitution and bill of rights and artie's own elite camp. thoughtful with the sharp elbowed host of redacted tonight. here john glass half full, we call them civil servants, glass half empty. they have been characterized as the deep state either way they stay as presidents come and go. how much john? can any president steer the ship of state? well, i had say, there's always

a shadow behind the presidents and politicians and you call it the. but if you look at the fact that they don't abide administration, i mean we call the obama biden a notification. i mean, they were doing threat assessments, start a thread assessment homes in a safe car, their program around the world where they set up a global surveillance. they were downloading millions of phone calls, granulate, all of our information downloaded want to raise militarization of the police. a 1000 swat team range going on american annually. being the national defense authorization act, which allows the president appoints somebody and say you can be take it away, you don't see your lawyer or your family. and you can, we have a case like that by the way, where we say that, that, that happens in the purchase of bullets under the obama biden ministration. that's even men up there in the front of the distractions. the 5 1.6000000

bullets and they see a 80 k. corporation. and now there are 175000 federal agents running around the country. the smithsonian institution for magic's i recall has a lot things and all one bullets and all that stuff. i mean, it's going to continue because they have the power now and again, most people are not paying attention to what's going on in our country, which is you move into a total militarized state and any point on selling people making plans now close the door and wipe you out and i slime encouraging it. you're going to please do it properly. nonviolent protest organizer, well that mark is again dead and people like that. and we can see some changes going to get involved locally by the. 'd 'd way, 10th amendment, people don't know the bill of rights. this doesn't matter. says hey, you know why the constitution, man, if you look there was no arms. they were going to put up a law that some prison time and that we disagree with our police having a grenade launcher. we don't put up with that. it john ever since has said hala to

bullets for the ag department, i'm going to have bad dreams. leave central casting presents donald trump as a friend to big business, and joe biden, fighting for the little guy candidate. trump warned us that if biden won, the markets would crash and they immediately went on setting records for consecutive days. will corporate clout, take a hit under the new regime or will the boardroom simply amp up the dough raimi that continues to ensure its influence? yeah, these are, these are, they're both corporate candidates that are both essentially owned and operated by wall street. i mean, the main problem that kind of corporate america had with donald trump was that he wasn't a clean, stable c.e.o. for america incorporated. that's really the only problem in terms of the actual, you know, on the ground functioning of wall street. it didn't change much under trump,

you just gave him a tax break. it's not going to change much under biden. i mean, the democrats and republicans came together to give wall street $4.00 trillion dollars during this pandemic. and probably more to come. yeah, those things are not going to change. and it's, and it's the same with it with the endless wars really end to end our military state. i thought i was going to be the only comedian on the show here, but the 1st guess you had certainly filled the role of calling a ron, the largest sponsor of take a state sponsor of terrorism. no, my friend, that's the good old american government. we drop roughly a bomb every 12 minutes on foreign countries under obama. his final year it was around 30000 that year of trump's 1st year. it was over 40000. we are by far the largest state sponsor of terror. so, you know, i got some good laughs in that in the 1st guest. well, i'm still,

i'm still going for a clump about the ad department with a hollow points but lee, what else to spite bold biden promises? do you expect to continue as business as usual for the next 4 years? well, yeah, i mean, so much of it and this is gone for this isn't just a biden thing. this is gone for the 2 parties for a few decades now, where they agree on 80 percent, 90 percent of the structural issues of this country. and that all basically continues a large princeton study. found that when the american people want something that does not align with corporate america, it has all nearly a 0 percent chance of happening. basically never happens unless it aligns with corporate america. our system has been bought out from under us. and that is, that is how it works now. and so another idea, the largest and most crucial example of what's unlikely to change much is around climate change in the environment. biden will give speeches, unlike trump about how trump's

a climate arsonist. he called him and how trump's not doing enough about climate change, but the paris accords had no teeth in them. nothing to make sure anything happened . if you look at the countries that are still in the paris agreement, they haven't met any of the standards, any of the agreed upon measures. so really nothing changes. you just get a few speeches from democrats saying that they're going to care about climate change while california is literally on fire. our states are on fire and we can't get these politicians to do anything that doesn't just reward big business. big fossil fuels, big fracking, i mean, it's insane. a john, a former obama administration chief of staff and eventual chicago mayor rahm emanuel reckoned. you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. and what i mean by that is, it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not before. john candidate biden vows to hit the ground running on the pandemic. he says,

president trump bungled john. has the government exploited this coronavirus crisis or could it? oh, it already has, you have to understand that of the trumpet, ministrations, $23000000.00 to $7.00 major corporations with artificial intelligence system that will track our bodies where we so the things that began with the cold, with in terms of digital identity are going to increase and worship a what used to be outside around bodies surveillance on the inside our bodies eventually. and that's where it's going. and if you look at google,, who work for the n.s.a., their program of singularity, which they say by 2029. the human mind is going to see the artificial intelligence . you've got a lot in love with his neural language will be inserted into your prefrontal over it, or everything that you're seeing on your screen can be set in your head. so what's

going to happen and sort of the systems that we have now being extensions of us, we're going to come extensions of the systems, the artificial intelligence, and listen, if you don't back up and get educated and get alarmed, oh this and push back on some of this stuff, we're going to be a population that will not be able to tell the difference between a flat and a lie, even if it's put in front of the system. that's controlling things. and the n.s.a., like i said, has established a worldwide system called the flybys program go there. they've got bases all over the world. they meet annually with 17 major major countries across the world, the continuous surveillance china, russia, and the system. so we're basically today, anything we do or see and hear is the other thing i've noticed that we have a lot of cases in this area is the paranoia that comes out of the government. they're really having to predict policing that watching, trying to predict whether or not we're commit a crime when you have google, by the way, turning over information, the local police. now what you say and do on the internet. we're up creek with much

of the pavel, we're up against an amazing well and you know, we is right. there was a princeton study that showed a good 20 years of study of laws and policies asked, in washington d.c., along with northwestern university. they came with inclusion that were ruled, 580, 2 controlled. wow. when the 430 central agencies and over 1000 military bases around the world, no president coming in in round 130 or 1000 patients around the world. asked the question, usually running, which is you or somebody, you know? yeah, i see life turning into that tom, cruise, flick, minority report and remember, alexa is always listening. otherwise, how would you know? you said her name lee? i'm down to a minute, but i gotta ask, you know, we're talking pretty serious stuff here. and one of the reasons i've been looking

forward to catching up with you is to ask about your craft as a pro fashionable comedian. what was funny a year ago, that is no longer funny now and may never be funny again. oh man, i would say, you know, something that people still seem to find a little funny that is not funny at all. that is happening right now is trump, is a catastrophe on so many levels yet what he's trying to do right now and for the past year or so is take a lot of troops out of various areas around the world. and we've actually seen the military trial glee say that they've lied to him. they've hidden where the troops are. they've played a shell game. they've moved the troops around telling him they've withdrawn them. they've done everything they can to make sure the president does not have control over where these troops are and pulling troops out. i mean, that shows verify everyone whether you love trump or not. it's not funny anymore. i

think the last 10 minutes have given viewers plenty to have nightmares over leak captain john whitehead. thank you for stepping into the big picture. i want to close with a sad prediction on thursday. we're probably going to blow it. we are not the grinch are going to steal christmas. dr. in the biden transitions team, pandemic advisors and state governors are all pleading with us to skip thanksgiving this year. it doesn't take a rally, contact tracing pinpoints small social gatherings as significant spread or events. we are begged to zoom instead of hugging those, we only get to hug once a year. predictably, we will not comply. united airlines alone added $14100.00 flights for the holiday. then do the math figure 2 or 3 weeks like after easter passover weekend. then after

the 4th, then after justice komi berets, a rose garden introduction, hug grandparents on thanksgiving and yet might not be able to on christmas consensus forecasts at present rates. another $100000.00 americans will die before the inauguration in january will be worse than april was. nobody likes where we are, but we are. and science tells us that there is rough sledding ahead, so please be careful and please stay safe. and remember, we still have a lot to be thankful for have a good week, happy thanksgiving and question more it's

been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime, but old wounds still haven't healed before we go to you.