trita parsi of the quincy institute for responsible state craft observed israel is a prime suspect because of a few factors it has the expertise to the capacity and has done it before and it has the motivation but it's not just the israeli government too is catching allegations in the wake of this assassination simon tisdale speculates in the guardian that quote donald trump in cahoots with hard line israeli and saudi allies may be trying to lure the turan regime into an all out confrontation in the dying days of his presidency so while many have been lamenting the fact that u.s. president donald trump was the 1st u.s. president and i can't even remember how long to not start a brand new war or conflict during his term just remember that there are still a whole lot of shopping days left between today and january 20th for him to start one so let's start watching. what's going on on

a cd you streets you want to see. there so you. see this is this release state all see a. great city desolate systemic deception is the late show which. so brings up the field as. well when watching the. winter and joining us today to discuss the latest on a potential ramp up to war with iran is the former senior security policy analyst in the office secretary of defense the one and only michael maloof and investigative historian and journalist on the national security state the always great gareth porter thank you both gentlemen for coming on with us today to. do so michael i'll start with you what is the significance of this assassination for the nation of iran and this is not the 1st time we've seen iranian nuclear scientists assassinated in recent years as it. no it's not and there's been about 4 or 5

others prior i think for iran it shows 1st of all vulnerability and i think that a lot of this was probably not only israeli instigated but also part of an inside job use an image or even kurdish officials because after all. israel has a base up and up in the north eastern part of syria in the kurdish controlled area and there's a lot of kurds in. iran however this is significant because a little clearly it means that iran has very little taste for dealing with the west and certainly now with the biden administration and i think that that was actually the motive. given this time period in this limited time period if he couldn't get the united states to initiate attack and attack at least he could get that lay

the groundwork so that the climate and the foundation for any future discussions and moment with the iranians particularly by the by the administration toward. trying to renew for example the jason p.o. way or the iranian nuclear agreement just just wouldn't happen and i think you may have succeeded. this is as a nation comes just a week or so after u.s. secretary of state might pump over solly highly secretive meeting between israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and saudi crown prince mohammed bin from summit do you believe these events are connected and what do you believe is behind that timing of this is that the nation politically. it's very difficult to believe that there was no connection here in the with. netanyahu and. all in one. room there is going to be

a discussion of the question of how to provoke iran which is what certainly i'm peo and netanyahu have been working on a situationally for the last year and a half so i have no doubt that that was being discussed and but that is indeed the intention of the israelis in carrying out this assassination. and they will then or will take some action that will allow. the u.s. government which will allow people in the u.s. government to somehow prevail upon these pump aoe basically to prevail upon trump to be. somehow aggressive militarily against iran to carry out some sort of military activity which would then set in motion some escalation i personally don't think that's going to happen. primarily because pump a.o. 'd has tried at least twice during the trump administration to do precisely that

in situations which are far more fraught with regard to u.s. perceptions of threat or or challenge than this situation and so i don't think that trump is going to be responsive to any effort to get him to do that and even if trump were responsive i can tell you that the u.s. military is dead set against any use of force against iran under these sorts of circumstances i want to ask you this character do you think that these kind of chains of events and why why this is happening now do you think this is something being you know pushed forward in order to kind of lay the table for the next administration to raise the bar i mean i know i know that joe biden has kind of come in at least saying that he wants to relook at the nucular deal and bring that back but that doesn't change the hardliners in this country and the military industrial complex who wants to see more war in the middle east especially with

iran could this be laying the table for that to come for the job by the ministration to give us reasons as to why you would might try to kick up a war with iran. i'm not sure that it involves the notion that the biden ministration is at all likely to x. a bait for a war against iran but i do believe that the israeli challenge us. is certainly about the thought that they could manipulate a new biden ministration off politically in a way that would make it far more difficult to. reach some kind of intent if they're all to give. a chink that they are probably right but they can manipulate. they have very strong friends who are already in the national security positions in the state department and in the national security council and. also security advisor to biden these are people who are going to be

listening to what israel is up to say and on top of that or underneath that perhaps more precisely the israelis have already manipulated opinion in the united states and elite opinion in the united states by being able to purser a this assassination as being something that was taking out the leading nuclear scientist in iran and i notice that r.t. itself has fallen for that manipulation and it's there's absolutely no reason to believe that that he in fact was a leading nuclear scientist and probably he was not a nuclear scientist at all that was not his background and i think one of the ways in which the israelis have succeeded successfully of manipulating the entire world politically is that they were able to portray

a fuck riza day as being somebody who was involved in. a set of activities that the u.s. government u.s. intelligence people were. involved in that is the the portrayal of a an effort by the iranians to obtain the. technologies that they needed to enrich uranium this was back in the early 1990 s. and they managed to portray crees a day as being in charge of that by saying that he was at the instance the institution that they were holding the us intelligence people were holding accountable the fact is he was not at all involved in that institution and this was proven later on by the iranians in their documentation they gave the. that's what it's not all you can hear that is absolutely fascinating and now michael what

is the best course of action for iran right now is there any option that keeps going from providing more excuses for 30 arabiya israel and the u.s. to ramp up tension. by i think they're going to be much more strategic in their thinking they may not do something immediately i think that they they will probably hunker down and. continue on their course working more toward an alternative world order working more with russia and china they will they will try to become much more self-sufficient so sustaining internally and build up their own industries but they have no stomach right now in dealing with the west or for that matter for much of the e.u. for that because of the because they basically let the e.u. basically let iran down however i am really concerned about is that netanyahu for 4 months has tried to get the united states to take the initiative and in an

attack on iran has failed and what we're seeing now is netanyahu basically developing bases not only in azerbaijan. because of the military assistance is given does it but also into the u.a.e. . with this so-called normalization approach he wants bases in both of those countries which thing gives him a forward force projection to launches and initiate his own attacks in the future because he's absolutely made it a red line that iran will not be able to do a nuclear program. allegedly toward nuclear weapons and i think that this is something we've got to be really concerned about and sensed by and comes from the obama biden administration in terms of leading from behind they're not going to have any control over. who now who is made that very very clear why i want to thank you both for coming on and then lightning our audience today and really making this

thing good and giving us some good information once again michael maloof always a pleasure having you both thank you so much gentlemen. thank you. all right as we go to break remember that you can also stop watching the hawks on demand or the brand new portable t.v. which is available on all platforms will definitely pick it up coming up we're going to delve into the latest on the rising covert numbers here in the u.s. and canada and then we break down the chaos and confusion surrounding the pandemic lockdown regulations and how confusing they can be stay tuned to watching the whole .

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the u.s. is facing a possible surge of coronavirus cases after a few busy weeks days of travel surrounding thanksgiving and many experts are worried that infection numbers may finish rise as was the case in canada just a few weeks ago after that country celebrated the same holiday parties alex hellish as the story. as thousands of americans took to the sky this thanksgiving travel season was like no other it's still a little scary but you know we've tried it sanitize a lot like use hand sanitizer as much as we can and we just keep our masks on pretty much the whole time even with the 2nd wave of the coronavirus in full swing more people jumped on board planes than any other day since mid march according to the t.s.a. 1170000 people traveled by air in the u.s.

on sunday alone last a flyers but a big drop from the same day in 2019 when 2900000 people were screened by the t.s.a. the reason many chose to stay put the states giving is obvious namely the coronavirus pandemic u.s. officials warned against travel over the holiday this after seeing a dramatic jump in covert 19 cases north of the border in canada canadian celebrated thanksgiving a month and a half ago and since then the nation of 37000000 has seen its daily coronavirus case count nearly triple. according to the public health agency of canada the number of infections has gone up from 2000 new cases a day in mid october to around 5500 a day with few canadians flying to get their turkey dinner many are blaming the festive gatherings themselves and not travel for the surge if the current trend continues public health officials in canada say that the country could see up 260000 new cases of covert 1000 per day by the end of december in the states

a search like canada's would likely take the country over the edge currently the u.s. is seeing approximately $200000.00 new infections a day with the current trends christmas will likely be very different this year in both the u.s. and canada but there is a light at the end of the tunnel vaccines are being fast tracked to combat the virus and one of the front runners from pharmaceutical giant what derren inc has joined the list asking for emergency approval in the u.s. and other countries the vaccine is expected to be highly effective at preventing symptomatic disease and very effective at preventing severe outcomes from the disease in fact we're down to claims their product is over 94 percent effective the other vaccine in the running for fast track approval comes from pfizer and its german partner beyond tech while pfizer's vaccine will be the 1st the u.s. looks at for fast track approval canada is set to become the 1st country to clear

my dharnas covered 1000 vaccine the boston based biotech has a deal with canada for 20000000 doses of its vaccine with the option to procure i didn't dish will 36000000 the u.s. is also on the list with 500000000 doses secured and the u.k. and european union have agreements with but they're not as well. while hopes for the release of an effective vaccine are high many continue to be concerned about the possible ramifications from a relatively new inoculation but according to but paranoia based on what they've seen so far there is little to be worried about in terms of significant safety concerns serious threats we've not seen any such concerns to date of course we continue to monitor and we'll continue to monitor all the safety is a top of mind like with the other shots one major question remains with more down as covert 90 vaccine and that is how long will it be effective none of the coronavirus vaccines have been around for very long and

a positive vaccine response doesn't mean it will be long lasting for watching the hawks i'm alex. cohen 19 has changed the world as we know it everything from concerts and schools to weddings restaurants and bars have been up ended but a vaccine would just may be on the way but they're not announced today that it would file for f.d.a. authorization of its covert $1000.00 vaccine which is shown to be safe and 94 percent effective. but another issue has been brewing for months state and local governments are at odds over the covert 19 relief response because president trump threw all responsibility over to the states the fallout has largely been managed by them no place is this more evident than new york and illinois where governor cuomo and governor pritzker are at war with the mayors of their state's most vital cities governor cuomo in new york city mayor de blasio consistently but heads over the closing of schools governor pritzker and chicago mayor like that have the same

issues they're publicly feuding over what to do about restaurants specifically outdoor dining in the closing of bars in a city and state already up to its neck in debt and folks are questioning the protocols as pandemic logic continues to be fluid and at times contradictory research suggests that when people congregate indoors in effect the person is almost 20 hives more likely to transmit the virus than if they were outside but in new york and pretty much everywhere across the american south restaurants remain open for indoor dining. if indoor dining isn't see why are some cities and states allowing it to put your chicks well they want exactly reliable either most people without preexisting conditions are asymptomatic when they have hope at 19 so they've never actually present a fever at all in june in australian hospital found the majority of those that made it with cope at 19 did not have a fever and curfews we've seen them at least in major cities but how did they

stop cope with 19 spread. the national disaster brought on by cope with 1000 left a hodgepodge of state and local leaders to design policy no more truly equipped for and even among states that seem to control the pain to make will as soon as people got comfortable business and restaurants reopened and the surge began again there seems to be no end in sight and states are at their wit's end. and you know there were some of the people are at their words because you know as we were talking about earlier they manalive like you get so much conflicting information about what is allowed what's not allowed what should be allowed what shouldn't be allowed and really at the heart of this i think one of the major problems is that states just are at the they don't have the capacity in the building to truly address this without some kind of federal you know mandate or overreaching look at what to do absolutely so the argument for small government doesn't work in a pandemic it doesn't work because these states many of them are cash strapped already they don't have the infrastructure available they don't have the the

wherewithal to handle a pandemic some don't have the wherewithal to handle regular health issues that happen at the local level but what we're seeing is that there is such a crisis because states even states that have leadership of up a partisan likeness there we're seeing states where there you have a republican governor and a republican you know several republican mayors there still are going back and forth isn't a partisan issue as much as it is there are people who aren't equipped for what they're having to deal with a lot of it comes down to money according to a report from truth in accounting at least $39.00 states lack the money to pay bills but work over $90.00 the total debt among the 50 states accounts for over $1.00 trillion dollars these states are already underwater and pretty broke before coburn 1000 hit and now they're expected to develop response plans so you know obviously during the during the start of kobe 1000 we heard from president trump over and over about how he wasn't going to help or bail out these democratic states that were already in trouble while factually the majority of american states were in trouble whether they were blue or red and i think that that also you know helped

to fuel this problem by. and there's just no money for a lot of the advancements and a lot of the pushes they're trying to implement as well and that's the thing that always gets me when you see people on t.v. and they're talking about ok well you know these schools need to put in covert restrictions and things of that nature we need to you know get the school ready to have kids so they can be distant you know that could be 6 feet apart and things like that of these stadiums with these infrastructure these health care facilities when we get the q. or a room we get the vaccine you know have to be ready to be able to administer the infrastructure has to be there there's a lot of communities across this country that don't have that kind of infrastructure in their community they don't have the health care infrastructure in their community to be able to get those vaccines out to everyone there who wants them and who needs to take them exactly and that's one of the major issues i don't think is talked about and no there are huge funding crunch at the county level at the state level at the city level that make it extremely difficult to implement even some of the things that we heard from the pandemic task force and a lot of them were great recommendations but when it comes down to it if the funding doesn't flow to these areas they need it no matter how much they want to

implement them it's going to fall short oh most definitely most awful and it's interesting when you said you brought up are you you know how are you said you know the governor's fighting with mayors and mayors fighting with governors across party lines doesn't matter all of that because chicago is really fascinating when you really break that down as an example of this kind of infighting that's happening now absolutely because chicago chicago is a major day anyway and they have been for years at this point a lot of it is related to their pension crisis but in addition to that you have a governor who handily won his election you have a mayor who is getting a lot of kudos online for her response to colbert 19 at least initially with the shutdowns and now because they are getting so much pressure from the business community particularly the restaurant association and others around you know chicago's a city of chicago the bar city 9 there they are begging them to find a way to keep these things open because they're about to go for broke completely and a lot of their business is already closed with no sign of reopening and no funding to help them do that so she's basically going back and forth pleading with the

governor in some cases arguing and threatening making threatening appeals to the governor. to make a different decision and where we're just watching it crumbles it really does come down to the fact that we have this conflicting thing in this country between the kind of greed and love of our capitalism and protecting the community and these things just don't fit when you get into the covert issue that we've been talking about that for the last year no you're absolutely correct i think that what ended up happening was and this goes for both both political parties i know that trump hearkened so much on the businesses and why we need to open everything but cities and states that the exact same thing with a republican later democratically a because at the end of the day i don't think anyone expected this to take hold as long as it had in march close a couple things expecting that we would be fine before the summer we're going into we're in the fall we're going to be in the winter and there's no signs of this stopping in town to see how devastating stuff but we'll keep an eye on it for everybody all right everyone i got to say thank you all for tuning in today that is our show for you today remember in those worlds we are not told that we are loved

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