when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. among the stories ahead this hour donald trump refuses to approve a covert stimulus package negotiated for months by the us presidency spending too much on foreign aid don't provide enough support for american. congress found plenty of money from foreign countries lobbyists and special interests while sending the bare minimum to the american people. for our us military contractors who were jailed for their involvement in the iraqi civilians in 2007 given presidential pardons their own clemency lists which notably exclude prominent

whistleblowers. the french government backs a controversial bill on so-called green passports allowing travel and other activities to be allowed for people vaccinated against critics say the move will turn everyone else into 2nd. life from moscow this is r t international my names you know me alone 30 minutes of news and views start right now. donald trump wants congress to make changes to the much force over a $900000000000.00 covert relief bill he's called it at the screen for including provisions not related to the pandemic such as foreign aid funding the us president is also demanding a one off payment to eligible citizens to be increased from $600.00 to $2000.00

each. congress found plenty of money from foreign countries lobbyists and special interests while sending the bare minimum to the american people who needed it wasn't their fault i am asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculous lilo $600.00 to $2000.00 or $4000.00 for a couple plenty of reaction as you might expect high speaker nancy pelosi. republicans for not providing information on what a month the president self expected to be written in the package she said democrats are ready to discuss the matter as soon as lawmakers gather again this week there are other things in the bill the trump teams unhappy about since it combined the relief package the government spending plan in one documented features a lot of proposals including military spending as well as more obscure issues to the outgoing president has threatened not to sign it if amendments aren't made

different takes a closer look. hollo lou it the warring sides in congress have finally set aside some of their differences and agreed to dish out $900000000000.00 in covert 19 relief for families and businesses but the $600.00 stimulus checks which are half of what people got back in april have left many under well one time payment of $600.00. isn't joe and jobless no health insurance this isn't going to cut it congress. some senators even took offense at people questioning their life saving bill oh it's real help it's a trillion dollars for god's sakes what is that $1000000.00 and. 1 there is no money fairy we don't have this money we don't have 5 percent of it sandra we had to borrow it is real help will it be enough i think it will be but we're just going to have to

wait and see but the covert relief package didn't come alone the absence of the money fairy didn't stop congress from slapping on a $1.00 trillion dollar spending bill which combined with the covert bill made the overall document over 5 and a half 1000 pages long the behemoth took so long to upload to the internet that congressmen only received it on the day of the vote and it's kind of hard to believe they managed to read the whole thing before passing it. for congressional leaders refused to put any legislation on the floor to be considered and scrutinized and amended now they release a $5593.00 page bill with no opportunity to read it let alone amend it no responsible legislators should vote for such a thing this is going to take those over 3 hours just to prove that it is. impossible. you need one without the opportunity to read between now and the time we vote if you take a closer look at the bill you can see there's

a lot more than covert relief in there military spending for example. it was more of a talking point than the pandemic and words like missile aircrafts and munition appeared far more times than anything related to health care masks weren't even mentioned once in the document foreign aid also proved to be a high priority billions of dollars are said to be poured into countries like ukraine israel and cambodia funds that could have been spent on domestic needs and then there's a whole bunch of other issues that were deemed very crucial like ensuring the integrity and fairness of the election sorry horse racing how could that sport survive without money from the government also investing in general programs is something the u.s. just can't do without be it programs in pakistan or commissions on determining gender equality in statues and even the dialogue reincarnation gets mentioned in the bill because in case you forgot he can't get reincarnated without u.s. taxpayer dollars this jumbled mess of spending proposals caused even some senators

to trash the bill. tonight i voted no against the suppose that covert relief bill because it sells out billions of dollars to foreign governments the sudan gypsum military and not more important than american citizens and now many are calling on trump to veto the bill. you must read of this farce. of bill this isn't a stimulus package this is a message for and. every american left and right should be calling for a veto on the stimulus deal which provides more funding to foreign governments and term merican arts centers than to their merican people covert relief might be badly needed but while 600 bucks my do some good for americans in a tough spot senators are obviously willing to put a lot more money behind their own agendas if you look where the expenditures went look we know what this is this is nothing but a con it's a ruse it's

a chance to to provide special interests and special issues the money that normally wouldn't be able to be earmarked this is guaranteed to provide monies that would normally not be able to be available but now they are which is a christmas tree the idea is that you take something you slap on benefits and expenditures and bills but america needs something so we hold the american public hostage in the meantime they get a pittance of what they would normally gotten before but maybe rather than giving all this money for covert relief why don't we just remove the lockdowns wonder we remove the dish shackles because businesses are under these more draconian measures why don't you do the very act instead as just give money here's your 600 bucks maybe 1200 bucks now leave me alone be happy and shut up. another story we're closely following today donald trump sparked outrage with his latest list of

presidential pardons it includes military contractors jail for killing civilians in iraq but no whistleblowers on the list this point calls for rights activists picking up the story this hour artie's kill a blocker. well it is the holiday season and the outgoing presidential administration seems to be in a mood for clemency at this point we have 15 pardons that have been issued as well as 5 commute and there has been a wave of anger and criticism of who it is that the president of united states has decided to show mercy to now one of the people involved is george papadopoulos this is an associate of trumps who was caught up in the russia collusion investigation and charged with lying to the f.b.i. the white house made the decision to grant him a pardon. at the time that mr papadopoulos allegedly made the false statements he was not represented by counsel and after he was arrested mr papadopoulos gave additional information on his prior statements to the special counsel today's

pardon helps correct the wrong that mueller seem inflicted on so many people now in addition to george papadopoulos there has been widespread outrage about the trump administration's decision to grant clemency to some members of the blackwater military contracting company these were guards who were employed by blackwater who killed civilians in iraq or the north american authorities or. they were dead bodies everywhere in the syrian government going to be on the only 2 people in authority among the dead body of the ministry that those who were chosen in the next 7 years old.

paul slow evan liberty and dustin heard were convicted for involuntary manslaughter and the individual nicholas slotting who opened fire and 1st started shooting into the crowd of iraqi civilians he was convicted of 1st degree murder but now the white house is letting all of them off they will no longer be in prison serving their sentences they have been pardoned and this is the feeling of the white house about why they made this decision when the convoy attempted to establish a blockade outside the green zone the situation turned violent which resulted in the unfortunate deaths and injuries of iraqi civilians further prosecutors recently disclosed most. 10 years after the incidents that the lead iraq investigates who prosecutors relied heavily on so very far that there were no incision victims and to collect evidence may have had sonny's to insurgent groups himself now at this

point there is widespread outrage this seems like the trump administration is almost approving of the killing of iraqi civilians 2 children were among the 14 people in the crowd who died as a result of their gun fire but at this point people are also looking at the fact that trumps education secretary betsy to vos is the sister of the founder of blackwater erik prince now there's also been a lot of outrage about who is not on the list of trump's pardons among the 15 people pardon and 5 sentence commuted it's the names that were missing that many were optimistic and hopeful about were julian a son john edward snowden these prominent whistleblowers had many people calling for the trump white house to grant them clemency among those who called for them were not just activists and advocates of civil liberties and for the protection of whistleblowers but also representatives of the united nations take a listen on hoping that he will julian

a son it's the right thing to do don't trump since you're given pardons to people please consider pardoning those who at great personal sacrifice expose the section and criminality of those in the deep state if president trump is true as well you don't think the least you could do is to end the suffering the beauty the songs to pardon him this man has for be enough for the interest of the public will and will now trump still has time to grant a pardon to edward snowden and to julian a son she can grant clemency up until the moment he leaves office he could do it at the very very last minute however the number of people that were pardoned today and the information about who they are seems to have many pessimistic many of the activists supporting the whistleblowers feel like the. indicates the trumpet ministration is moving in a very different direction with its clemency. ok a lot of chatter about this next topic the french government is pushing for the

introduction of so-called green passports allowing greater freedom of movement to cope would amuse people critics say though those who decide against getting vaccinated will be essentially treated as lesser citizens that's as the latest polls suggest some 6 in 10 people in france do not want the job ortiz paullus near reports. france is preparing to end its health emergency by april the so says the french prime minister john kass takes he's presenting a bill in the national assembly and establishing a so-called long health emergency management. simply to it is vaccination and those opposed to it might just find themselves in trouble even if they just planning a trip around the city. the prime minister made on to the plan measures make the movement of people and their access to transport subject to presenting test results showing that the person is not infected is falling vaccination or remedial

treatment to some politicians the may still believe i'm vaccinated people feeling as though they 2nd class citizens if this bill has really been tabled it must be forged but all elected officials and citizens committed to democracy and freedom in the face of this senseless deviation it is up to us to bring the government back to a semblance of reason this is the bill establishing a long term health emergency management regime which has just been introduced by cast x read the following and this law the prime minister can make you a 2nd class citizen if you refuse the vaccine we must wake up it flies in the face of a promise made by french president emanuel not quantities government they should skeptics their feet and covered vaccination which begins on sunday would be purely voluntary . i want to be clear i will not make the vaccination mandatory but the idea of a stick to certain freedoms for vaccinated people has been mentioned several times

in public debates since this presidential announcement for example a member of the union of democrats and independent party bellamy 6 has proposed the issuing of green pos folds to people who have been immunized with the public we could take the example of israel which grants each vaccinated person a green passport allowing them to go to places of culture and to restaurants and to get back to normal living the french inoculation program will target the most vulnerable members of society 1st such as the elderly and only oscar and medical examination and come since he has given it's a great start but it's what comes next that has people here worried policia out see paris. quarter of an hour into the program we keep the news going in 90 seconds from now to stay close.

that's geysers financial survive they say the girl much. loved it is it this is essential packs of 4 diagram is going to cover my mouth a stop to that. seems wrong oh well oh just don't call. me if you get to shape out these days become active. and engaged because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. a lot of questions what does it mean to be conservative it is coming from the

conservative and the change with means to be conservative the issue in mind. for conservatives to live. alone again u.s. president elect joe biden is vowing to respond to the recent cyber attack on u.s. government agencies which he strongly suggesting was curried out by moscow it was due to lux leadership by. initial indications including from secretary pump a our secretary of state attorney general william barr suggest that russia russia is responsible for this breach this is all happened on donald trump's watch when he wasn't watching. it still his responsibility as president to defend american interests for the next 4 weeks rest assured that even if he does not take it

seriously i will. be its own u.s. government systems was the scabbard earlier this month by a private cybersecurity company and it's believed to have gone on since march targeting multiple government institutions including the treasury and the nuclear security administration russia has denied any role and president trump has played done the allegations against moscow the cyber hack is far greater in the fake news media than in actuality i have been fully briefed and everything is well under control russia russia russia is the priority chance when anything happens because lynching media is for mostly financial reasons petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be shina it may. well it's a pleasure to welcome to the program former cia officer ray mcgovern for his take ray good to see you killed 2 biden said initial indications from bar

pale suggest it was russia u.s. intelligence us they'll not made such an occupation are they all jumping the gun here. us the right questions. first dr let me say that a career analyzing so be it propaganda. now issue is to really be surprised and sort of a left wing that some of the terms used. lulz to beat ski a can of the tsetse. wall street bloodsuckers i said come on that's a that's over the top well guess what. that's all we're dealing with here we're dealing with a military industrial complex which now includes the media and the intelligence agencies and congress and what we have here is a an attempt to make sure that we have a potent enemy out there so that all the money that we appropriate and that we

spend to build weapons to sell weapons to get some of the profits into the pockets of the congress people who appropriate and then they were appropriate it and i mean is this a great country or what that's what's afoot here now going from the macro to the micro. we propaganda analysts are very very careful not to put words in very prominent people's mouths like got a trough or like mr putin or like president elect biden now this may be a distinction without a difference some of my friends say it is but i think it's significant that biden has not said russia did it. were he to have said russia did it he would be committed to following the path that has been followed for the last 4 years now why

is that important well biden can talk about what pump aoe says not too many people take for what pump aoe says seriously he can talk about what other people say barr for example who has quit who has left the sinking ship but he doesn't that he needs to say i have determined with the help of the intelligence agencies that it was russia russia now he only said russia russia 2 times you're supposed to say russia russia russia 3 times so i have some reasonable expectation that biden will wait he'll wait for some proof and i think there's some hope that biden will will avoid but i will call. the the opprobrium of getting fooled twice and what i mean by that well there's an all american expression fool me once shame on me for me twice shame on you or see other way

around asia i phone once shame on you follow me for me twice shame on me now what does it mean well the 1st russian hack. it's a so-called hack of the democratic national committee. has been proven to have been nonexistent not only is there no forensics to prove that but we know technically that it was possible it was a hack it was a leak it got to wiki leaks by a thumb drive or something like that so it's but i didn't going to let himself be fooled twice and then we shame on him i think there's a there's a hope that he will hold his fire here he'll even tell his people not to blame russia directly just quote pump a 0 and bar and the others pending the time when he has some intelligence information ok and pending it's time when hopefully mr putin will reach out and say

look mr biden they're trying to handcuff you into a negative position toward russia realize that we can do business but not if the media and everybody else chooses russia russia and russia 3 times of doing all manner of evil things eve touch props on the next point range but it's an interesting angle an aspect that i think donald trump said that he's been fully briefed on the hook and he thinks it might be china the idea seems that being totally dismissed by the media are all focusing on the russian angle your thoughts . well this is the these are the operating orders on the media they follow put the government tells them to it it really is very much like the soviet union ok now those are the instructions and what is the evidence well there is no evidence yet just as there was no evidence with respect to the original russian act

if rachel maddow of n.b.c. or the other said $100.00 times that is not proof ok so we have a situation here where were we really have to wait for the intelligence people to come forward and hopefully there are enough honest intelligence folks that they will resist being enlisted into this political this political fight where you get you get promoted if you say russia russia rights or say times if you say could be china well you me and i get promoted now our forensic experts in veteran intelligence professionals for sanity tell me it could be anywhere and it could be china it could be israel it could be any number of other places like north korea or iran but nobody knows so automatically it's russia russia russia biden should know that and if biden is honest enough to see that he's being mouse trapped here some hope that he can prevent this from from making us russian relations into

a state of complete disrepair so do you see this really as a continuation of the russia just to remind people nothing was proven after years of those investigations so are some people in the establishment perhaps trying to save face. well you know we have done our utmost we veteran intelligence professionals for sanity to mourn people as a matter of fact 40 years ago ok on december 12th 2016 we issued a memorandum which says it is technically impossible by the rules of physics that the d.n.c. emails were hacked they were hacked it was leaked upon what did we depend well aside from the principles of physics we had to form a technical director of the national security agency on our staff and we also had

thank god all those lies that ed snowden brought out when he did when he came to caen kang and then that russian in hong kong he gave charts to show not only how all this information is tracked but to trace points in the network and we published 5 of those shorts in that memo he semaj wealth 2016 more recently when year later the head of stroud strike the cyber firm that the f.b.i. deferred to to do the forensics admitted quote there is no concrete evidence from forensics that there was any exfiltration namely hack it must have been a year or he didn't say this but that's the only alternative mechanically downgrade down there loaded thumb drive kind of thing right to just a pretty touch another issue why do you think people always assume not a government is behind hucks of this kind even if iranian chinese russian as you said or as really hikers where the breach us systems how could anyone know who was

actually directing them. well i'm very it's very sad to say this most of the american people are just brainwashed because of what they hear in the media whatever media they listen so matter of fact one prominent newspaper person roche look we don't have the evidence yet but blame russia blame russia well you know again i'll return to the macro part of this and that is that we needed enemy if we're going to if we're going to spend 700 and $40000000000.00 with a b. dollars a year on defense that's what was just appropriated now you know al qaeda isis they don't qualify as a suitable and appropriate enemy russia does still and americans just don't know the real story here that in my view russia poses no threat to the united

states and those threats are western europe oh no threat certainly to china anybody else so why are we building all these sophisticated armaments we're taking a lot of your time but i just finish on this point for a 4th celebrations can be dangerous when you only have to look at iraq and w m d and think of the long picture shouldn't people be more wary of i mean by people those who are making decisions on behalf of the american people of the risks of blaming other countries. they should be more worried it's become very very dangerous indeed and if i were mr pushing certainly when our president was on steroids i certainly would have had my forces on higher alert so we'll have to see what happens if biden is as bad as trump in not being able to rein in the military industrial congressional intelligence complex do you think he will raise tensions

do you think he will be able to do that right just briefly you know i have to be honest here. the deep state has won a big one. you know i didn't vote for trump i think it was a terrible president but the other thing the other part of this is that the people that should be going to jail the people that tried to do really his campaign and then the mess you lay him when he became president they're the ones that violated the laws of the constitution and call me old fashioned but i took a solemn bow to protect and defend the constitution as states against all enemies foreign and domestic so trump is beyond the pale and it's just too bad that people don't realize that the deep state did him in he couldn't accomplish anything that he wanted to accomplish particularly with respect to a well to a thaw to

a detente or perhaps even a rapprochement with russia that was beyond the pale because we need russia as a threatening and i mean i think mr putin understands that i hope he can reach out and reach out to mr biden before mr biden gets persuaded to go down the garden path and believe everything he reached in the media ok a pleasure having you on the program as always ray mcgovern former cia officer life are too interesting most welcome well that is our house our local news update for now but i'll keep the stories coming at the top do you hope you'll stick with us tell them more great programs right to life from moscow as it is art.