or inmate in the shadows greeting was an salyut asian. since u.s. president donald trump's drastic a devastating loss to former vice president joe biden, all the way back on what feels like ages ago, november the 3rd of our brand name in chief has been running a sort of scorched earth transition policy from outright denying his defeat in a half brained attempt to muddy the upcoming electoral college vote on december 14th to his randomly on purpose firings of pentagon and homeland security officials

who just happen to disagree with them about the election. trombones had the news media's and political punditry is far out. rage, machine running on time and it's on a full tank of gas $27.00 ratings, clicks and pearl clutching is galore. but it wasn't until recent reports that on his way out the door, the donald may drawdown or outright end the u.s., wars in afghanistan and iraq. that, that hit the washington d.c., where it hurts the most right between its military industrial complex legs. in fact, the hill is now reporting that acting defense secretary, christopher miller announced on tuesday that president trump has ordered the pentagon. the pole 2500 u.s. troops from afghanistan, iraq by mid january, and that the defense department will cut the number of troops in that ghana stand from 452500. the number of forces in iraq from 322505 january 15th, just 5 days before joe biden would get sworn in. naturally cries of national

security dominated the airwaves in response to this news. yes, it was an all out political news media blitz to convince you that somehow removing us troops and bringing them home from what are now multi-generational wars. that somehow puts them in more danger than being in a never ending war. but that wasn't the only bad news for the pentagon this week, as it appears once again. they just can't seem to get the old books right. reuters is now reporting that the pentagon failed, failed its comprehensive audit in fiscal 2 the and fiscal year 2020. that's the 3rd year, the pentagon has failed since the 1st audit was conducted back in 2018. but apparently my friends there misuse and disregard for keeping proper accounting of how they spend billions and billions of our tax dollars. apparently that's ok. you know, because golly gee, we had a,

they're getting better at it. at least that's according to department of defense comptroller, thomas harker, who told the media that hopefully by 2027, the pentagon will finally have a clean audit. it's time to start watching what's going on a city street. you want to see this joyce state great city, this least systemic deception is the late show which brings up the old one and all to watch in the harsh winter. and i'm going to cry. so let me show you here we go, man 2, big stories coming out of the military industrial complex. this week we got donald trump saying, hey, i might poll. 'd out of afghanistan, iraq, even syria, before he leaves office on the 20th of january and the pentagon just can't seem to

get its books right over. i mean, both of those stories are really being the one that's getting more, you know, news coverage. and the other one is obviously trump's pull out methods in part because nobody knew this was coming beforehand. he didn't talk about this during his campaign cycle. aside from you know that the ongoing, he just doesn't like wars. he had no real strategy of what the pullout was going to look like, who was going to still be there if anyone was going to still be there, and what that drawdown when that drawdown would start? so i think that now there are people who are questioning it basically on the basis of whether he can actually pull it off more so than anything else. yeah, i mean, other, i mean, i've always noticed over the years and nothing gets washington more frightening than someone saying, hey, we might, we might slow down the war machine a little bit. look, i, i am not a fan of donald trump by a member pertaining to be a fan of donald trump, but if someone wants to talk peace or at least get our soldiers out of harm's way, so we're stop killing civilians overseas. we stop seeing our guys die overseas and just stop that. i don't care who the guy is or woman is the bring our troops home.

i just want see him brought home. and i think that there are a lot of people who would agree with that. for me personally, it is more of a what are his alterio motives because i'm trying to pull troops out a long time ago. so you're going to need a full 4 term president. he could have done this towards the beginning of his time . we could've done in the middle, he could've done any time other than the time. he's also arguing that the results of the most recent election were false. and, you know, ballots went missing and all the crazy things he thing right now. i think that there's something more here. and there, i don't think you're alone. no, also remember too is that it's not like trumps of though because as well as he was talking about pulling troops out of syria down a stand, they were accused till talking about potentially bombing iran. so it's not like he's some big peacenik coming along. the other big story of this audit, which is really interesting, that the pentagon spot being audited for decades. and people forget that as our money at the end of the bay that they're using, that they should be responsible for. despite congress passing a law way back in 1990, requiring all federal departments of the government to be audited every year. it

took nearly 2 decades by the 1st pentagon, are to ever even be attempted, ridiculous. we're digging less and quite sad because it seems like federal agencies have no problem auditing individuals and more other federal agencies. so a think that when it comes to the pentagon, there is a lack left their process because in all honesty, there are a lot of skeletons there. everybody knows that. and i think that you know, that as best as they can, they've been trying to keep a lot of things under code. oh yeah. thomas harker of the acting department. the prince comptroller is kind of overseeing the audit that he said, what you are seeing is a mature ation of the process. many of the individual agencies or services are developing more capability and better accounting skills so that they can resolve a lot of the problems you're seeing. you're seeing significant process progress in certain areas. q magine telling the i.r.s. . if they came to audit, you don't want to get out. that's true. you know, but if you magine, the average citizen telling the i.r.s. look, i know your audience and i know i failed this audit for the last 20 years. but look,

i'm progressing. it's getting a little better every year. you'd be in jail period, no question that they would come, they would take all of your stuff on you and that would be the end of it. and yet, and yet we let the pentagon get away with this. and guess how much it cost to just audit the pentagon $203000000.00 and about a $1000000000.00 in remediate cost to fix identified problems, not even the ones we haven't identified. the effort covers really roughly the $2.00 trillion tax dollars in department assets including and i didn't even know this, the roughly 26500000 acres of the way and that the pentagon homes talk about a massive agency that is the lot, not only cash, but also assets. the last interesting thing i got a note on this too is it's interesting how quickly both sides come together. we're talking earlier today when it comes to like saying, oh, maybe we should pull some troops out of certain areas of the world. and you have democrats and republicans jumping together to say no, don't do that,

which is interesting that they let it go. but one bottles talking about subverting the election process. no, i again, i think you're absolutely correct there because if they can stand out on this thing, they should have also been able to stand out on the total failure of the president to acknowledge that this election is over the mississippi known for its lack of civil rights progress holding on to the confederate flag for far too long. and systemic oppression has something new up its sleeve. recently mississippi governor and trump loving republican take reeves call for 3. $1000000.00 to protect children from far left socialist teaching. that's right. in the midst of this school, crisis cope with 19 job loss. the state that consistently falls at the bottom of the rankings in education, health care, and economic development. what dollars doesn't have a conservative driven conspiracy theory. the patriotic education fund, as it's now been deemed, has a few goals. according to governor reid,

who claims democracy, capitalism and other american values are quote, the victims of a targeted campaign from foreign and domestic influence. and no other nation has done more for its citizens or to advance freedom and prosperity across the globe. well, not to be outdone by the magnolia state florida too has its share of problems. the state's democratic party is under fire not only for its lack of unity and failure to deliver a win for biden, but for mismanagement from top to bottom. the florida democratic party has had one bad cycle after another, but 2020 takes the cake with question defeats all the way down the ballot, and internal party fighting hasn't helped, with trump's decisive win margin 2016. the state once considered a valuable swing state, lost that status completely in 2020, in the democratic stronghold, miami dade county jail, as well. democrat, sean scholl, a former state representative, summed it up with quote, we have to turn out problems, messaging problems, coalition problems,

it's up and down the board. well, florida seems to have 99 problems and they're all long standing. florida democrats have until the governor's office in over 2 decades and have been out of power in the state legislature for a quarter century. in fact, since obama won florida in 2012, democrats have only won one statewide race. a lot of blame is going on. the lack of latino support there for democrats. other call outs are centrist and socialist battles. and of course, funding issues. florida 99 problems and a democrat will mean one of their better hurt. and i mean, that's crazy. i mean, when you look at the issues that we're seeing in michigan and florida, i think both of these cases or indictments of both parties are certain agree because you see the, you know, what's happening in florida. the democrats just can't seem to get a win because they said, we don't know our message and we don't know what to do. and then in mississippi to waste $3000000.00. and it is, as i talk to you about this before. though i'm from chicago,

i grew up in mississippi and florida. mississippi is a state that is consistently the butt of all the rest of the state jokes because they rank poorly in health care outcomes in education. there isn't a marker of success that mississippi has done well. so we talk about the dollars for the poorest state in the union. we're going to throw it at patriotic education, which is something, as you probably can recall, came up during against b.l. . and he didn't want you to black lives matter. he didn't want to have a conversation about racial equity in classrooms. so his pushback was, let's talk about patriotic education. let's remove things that have to do a black people, even though schools talk very little about, you know, the plight of african-americans or the civil rights movement, or our time from slavery to now in their classrooms. any way the majority of schools have whitewashed education. now, the governor of mississippi wants to replace an already incredibly, you wore a blue education system with what he calls patriotic education. what they need to focus on is actually math science, reading skills, you know,

the regular education curriculum. and you know, if you have $3000000.00 to spend mississippi, don't throw it at some of the good news of the thing is you can't read the propaganda if you can't read, if you're going to change, or like at least teach kids how to read 1st, and that's when the and that tragically is one of the big problems, you see a lot of schools across the mississippi is just the basic level. like you said, mass science really focus on the who cares about what the core bunda mentals they don't have yet. this is red meat for a conservative base, which this is the irony here is ridiculous because mississippi is a solidly red state. it has no means or motive of turning blue. there is nothing that can be done and i'm sorry, you know, the democrats have to live there. there's nothing that can be done to quake that it went so hard. trump, but actually every single republican since reconstruction. it is very interesting that this is where they want to go. it's interesting. here's the other thing to know. let's look at florida because you have to bring the port of florida is interesting because look, they passed a $15.00 minimum wage there. that's

a very left under the leftist is under the terminology, leftist progressive kind of thing, but yet the whole state got behind that. so why aren't they getting behind democrats? so it's an interesting question you ask and i think that to flow back to a previous conversation we've had florida is a state that is very much a worker state. and at the end of the day, we have so many people who are blue collar workers who have a lot of people who work in who work in the hospitality industry, people who work in the tourism industry. these are individuals who want to see more from their wages. that doesn't necessarily mean that they are the same folks who stand and hold banners under the socialist mob. i think that what the democrats can learn from this is that don't run away from things that people actually want to see happen. if you think that they are democratic socialist who also agree that the minimum wage or living wage is a good thing. that's cool, but people outside of that want to see it happen as well. you know, i think that's a problem is that the democrats right now are so afraid they're having such an identity. crisis of being so afraid to be labeled as social you're part of the party is like all over socialism is so terrible, then the other party is like, no,

no, we love this. and the problem is i think that they have lost a lot. this election showed us, at least they lost a lot of the blue collar base that they thought they had. no, that's absolutely true. and i think the other big story about floor that democrats are focusing on is you, as you can recall, former d.n.c. chair, debbie wasserman. she's a floridian. i'm still a representative there. it becomes very hard for democrats to figure out what happened in florida when the diverse counties, miami dade didn't show up when you have the latino population, which they claim to invest in for the past few years showed up in large numbers for donald trump in the largest number of any state in the country florida did in terms of its latino voters. what can you do? i think the problem at the end of the day for me is i think, i think there's too many democrats who are trying to utilize the old ninety's era ideology of, well we got to go more, right. if we go more right and become republican lite or you know, pro-choice republicans and then suddenly miraculously will get those republican vote. it's not about giving republican votes, it's about getting blue collar and worker votes and blue collar worker votes respond to things like 15 dollars in which they respond to things like universal

health care. not because they're socialist ideas, but because we need those ideas that could have saved us from the situation room in, the country. absolutely wrecked. that's why we're seeing them link up with f.b.i., you know, which is something that nobody would have ever expected. but that $15.00 minimum wage matters good point. all right, as we go to break, remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new, portable t.v. which is available on all platforms. definitely pick it up, coming up america's lawyer. yes, the one and only mike pesca, tonio joins us to discuss and intrigue, who was, who coming out of florida against one of the world's biggest multinational construction companies do not want to miss this conversation. so stay tuned for watching

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and construction projects keep america going. but the companies that make it possible rarely make headlines. but that all recently changed. a construction industry giant that is making waves for all of the wrong reasons. 23 sconce a construction barges carrying cranes, beans, and other equipment broke free during hurricane sally. this cause major devastation across the scandia and santa rosa county. and while thankfully no injuries were reported. the barges cause damage leaving the pensacola bay bridge out of service for 6 months. locals are holding sconce go countable because they are upset with the company hasn't been open about their world in the disaster, nor have they done much to remedy the affected parties. this is notable because god's good makes big money in the u.s. $2700000000.00 in commercial and multifamily projects. the company built structures

like the world trade center, met life stadium where the new york giants and jets play, as well as several airports hospitals, and other structures. but scott's got also has a long history of problematic mistakes, and some are deadly. the company has been charged with fraudulent labor practices bribe really bribery scandals, and black contractors filed racially motivated harassment claims against them. in florida, local businesses, what's going to pay up revenue losses resulted from the bridge outing and claims of sconce going not following hurricane protocol have erupted here for more on this developing story. it's my cap and tell you host of america's lawyer. welcome, mike. thank you. opened the program, i thought it was an interesting story. rule about the pentagon was so interesting because it, it's, it's kind of the macro of what we're talking about here in a more of a micro story. and that is accountability. who's, who is watching the people who are making decisions about things like the pentagon

and with america's lawyer. we've been trying to analyze what's, what's happening with the new infrastructure build out. ok. we, we have, we have a, a lot of the infrastructure build up taking place all over the country in various places. but what we're not doing is we're not really looking we, it's almost like we've abandoned our responsibility to say, let me show up at the hearing that we're going to have with a company like scott and so where they says where they say we're the people that are going to improve your infrastructure, we're going to build a 400000000 dollar bridge, and you can count on us. and what we, we, we've analyzed this and nosh and we, we've taken a look at, you know, mass protests taking place on the streets. individuals going to state the state on big national issues, but we've forgotten about what's happening in our backyard. this, this, this act of forgetting what's happening. our backyard probably will cost this, this community billions of the economic loss. and as you pointed out, this was

a company, it's a foreign company that shows up in pensacola. they make a presentation to city council that are half asleep on what's going on in state. you know, state legislators who are completely out of the ball game. politicians who care about how much money they can give me the media, barely paying attention to it. and we don't show up. the people who live here don't show up at that meeting. and had they done that, they would have found out that this is a company that's paid $20000000.00 fines, accused of bribery in argentina. critical to the fact that they almost can't leave business in south america because of their criminal conduct, cited for using subs sub standard quality equipment. so the standard materials, but here's my point. the point is we have to worry about those bigger stories we have. there are things we have to show up in the streets about who we have to get back to the days when we're showing up at those hearings. and we're talking about

a company that has $170000000000.00, global revenue, who has now left us in a position in this community. and i can take this story and i can superimpose it all over the country, whether it's building roads, whether building bridges, building infrastructure, where the people living in that community have abdicated their responsibility to show up and ask questions. why it's so bad that what we've done it with our, with our farmers, we were committing ourselves to following stance, go wherever they go in the country, wherever they make a presentation, we're going to be there with the scans. historically, the outrageous quality of negligence that took place there and their absolute denial of any responsibility. so we're going to show up with those stories, but i think we have to go back to the days where maybe, you know, it was a generation that only showed up for the center. and you know, if there was, if there was a public hearing about a building, a new park, if there's

a public hearing about building a new road, people were they are. and it's almost like there's a generational disconnect where we're not showing up at like, i want to ask you how often do you see these big super conglomerate multinational companies like building our infrastructure in our backyard here in this country. because to me that seems like a job that the government should be doing itself and providing those jobs, not outsourcing it to some company from what sweden or scandinavia. yeah, you hit it on the head. you have you stolen my talking. sorry. there is, there is no, if you're going on the hit, there was a time when we had government that did this. we didn't go to sweden or germany or china, or, you know, japan to, to build our infrastructure force. you remember? i mean, where you can still see it in your, in your, in your head jansha, the building of the sky scrapers that took place at the turn of the 19th century. you know that you have those leisure was when it was an american,

it was american undertaking. and then we got into this idea where we can spend our business to companies like scans go, rather than holding a local company responsible for what we're doing. we've, we become so globalized, that it's become a point that we have forgotten our responsibility to show up at hearings in stopping this thing. that no matter, no matter whether i win this case or not, there will be no way to correct the damage has been done to hundreds of businesses . 2nd, 3rd generation businesses. you remember i handled the b.p. case, it was the same kind of problem, but there, there, that was a different now says here we've invited them into our house. they've taken advantage of us. and now they're going to go back to sweden and do it to somebody else unless we change the way we think about how we do business in the u.s. and this infrastructure. this infrastructure to this is just a really sad situation like and i told a closer i lived in pensacola and pay both a campaign and santa rosa county respectively. so i know the importance of that,

of that bridge to those businesses. but this isn't the 1st time the construction company had a foray into bad press or lawsuits. how were the other allegations handled, you know, 5 deaths in orlando highway project project labor practices racially motivated harassment? who were there so much the list goes on and on. how they got above those things from how did, how do you think this is going to play out just about a minute? have you all been written? have you been reading my notes when you get to the middle? the only way it plays the only way it plays out is this. we have to perp walk criminals. ok. when people do things wrong, knowingly, when they engage in bribery, whether it's in argentina or anywhere in the country. when they, when we have, when we find them, they're using substandard quality material to build our bridges or roads. we have to treat them the same way that we would anybody else who's guilty of those violations. we have to put him in, in a perp walk. we have to say who made this decision? who knew that,

knowing that it was going to be our arms for suitably resulting in the kind of disasters that you bring from that kind of business. so you have, we have to treat them like we have to treat them like they are just because they're dressed up in armani suits, doesn't change. and most certainly might. we need a lot more folks like you and thank you for that call action. and for people to get out and pay attention to what's happening in their local neighborhoods in their backyards, because that's how you get a change of government front to back. thank you so much for the good work you're doing. and i always welcome on this show. i was a pleasure having you on, sir. thank you. i sure appreciate it. mike and his fireman, he's right though people got to get out. he's definitely ready. and i think that that call out was extremely important because there was a time where people were a lot more engaged before business than business practices came in. that might have some type of negative effect. now there are very few people who show up to those meetings, but the stern aeration, these drones, even lawyers, they're taking to the streets. so we might see if we might see in the future, we are everybody about is our show for you today. remember in this world we are not told we love the not so i tell you all, i love you,

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