they just expanded their credit card they expanded their capacity to print and borrow and give away cash to their friends causing this huge crisis. joe biden is sworn in as the $46.00 president of the united states and promises to end the quote civil war between republicans and democrats we look at whether the rift can be. either we're going to resolve these issues peacefully through the battle of ideas or in 10152100 years we will resolve them violently is just a full blown assault on behalf of the democratic party and their alliance with tax national media and tyrants to eliminate any boy straight any opposition any any political dissent that's going to challenge the radical left agenda. the former

u.s. president leaves the white helmet. security operation in washington d.c. for the inauguration. i guess is there any. chance but it doing so they've closed a lot of this is pretty much the whole downtown area just a check point there's no concrete blocks everywhere never seen security like this here or anywhere in america. had on the program a powerful blast ripped through a residential building in madrid killing at least 4 people sleep is suspected but we hear from eyewitnesses of the scene. we were working near the building we heard a massive explosion and we all ran outside to help people. we felt the vibration we thought it was in the university and when we went outside there was rubble in the street.

just a few moments into a brand new day here in the russian capital welcome to the program my names you know no new. joe biden has been sworn in as the $46.00 president of the united states bringing to a close donald trump's 4 year term in his speech biden call for unity a quote historic time of crisis and challenge ahead of the an organization some 200000 flags were placed on the national mall they represent the people who were prevented from attending the surname only due to the back of their safety measures don't relate to covert though an unprecedented 25 fellows and national guard troops are in washington to maintain security artie's john he was following the inauguration ceremony for us. in past inaugurations during i guess you say

a normal inauguration there'd be hundreds of thousands if not more people behind me instead there are flags so obviously the coded pandemic we knew this was going to be a much scaled back and smaller and much more subdued affair because of the cove in 1000 pandemic but then add in what happened january 6th and the intense security the red zone through you know around the national mall and around the capitol that massive security perimeter of the 25000 national guard troops but nonetheless joseph r. biden giving a speech about a 20 minute speech a message underscoring unity in america perhaps one of the most divisive and divided times in this country's history saying that america or democracy is precious democracy is valuable this is a day about democracy not about the candidate and that despite the events on january 6th democracy has prevailed jennifer lopez saying also lady gaga you know sing the national anthem but you know it is it is obviously this is

a much more scaled down affair and just getting here it was very intense you know getting through the city we had to go all the way around the perimeter we had to go through a covert testing site where they made sure that you know we were we were tested as far as those in attendance you know you have cabinet future cabinet officials you have the supreme court justices you have members of congress plus one they are only allowed to bring one guest usually members of congress would have a contingent of people that have basically a number of passes they could give out that wasn't the case this year so these are all things that are representative of the day which is you know nonetheless is a sunny sunny beautiful but cold and windy windy day. and just carrying on from what jill was saying during his inauguration speech joe biden also said america needs to confront white supremacy in an apartment reference to certain from supporters it comes of course amid a climate of highly charged language being used by both democrats and republicans

against each other or to america who's been sworn earlier spoke to his podcast guests about a system that. the use of language is so important as a journalist i know words mean something and we constantly use language to to demonize and dehumanizing people on the other side it's leading us towards very drastic measures and i write about that or my overstating that no you're absolutely right listen the use of language is the most by which we communicate yes some of our communication modalities are non-verbal but we are a dialoguing animal and so to the extent that we can serve the meaning of words then we control the narrative and so let me give you an example rape used to mean that you know the reprehensible diabolical crime that it was i mean typically a male who you know a service the right of a woman to have freedom of choice in terms of who she wishes to mate with but that

wasn't enough so now we talk about things like visual rape right so if a man liers at a woman the wrong way well it might be reprehensible maybe you shouldn't do it but it's not a form of sexual assault but by altering the language such that someone who approaches you in a vulgar manner is engaging in linguistic rape someone who stares at you in a leering way is engaging in visual rape you create a new reality so of course language matters and you're exactly right that it's dangerous and to call your next door neighbor who is a white male who voted for trump the mystic terrorist is not going to result in good downstream effects and i always tell people there's only 2 options either we're going to resolve these issues peacefully through the battle of ideas or and 10152100 years we will resolve them violently is there something that needs to happen in terms of trying to find some form of unity from now former president from

or about to be former president trying to create a feeling of unity he has talked a lot about defending his supporters and protecting them but at the same time what could he do to say there's got to be a better way to treat these people and to not not as demonizing the but the humanize them. yes so i mean frankly i think the message of this unity. is not coming from trump it's coming from the incoming administration that strongly a spouses identity politics as a way to organize society identity politics by definition is the opposite of unity because it get allies us into tribes whether it be political tribes whether they be sexual orientation tries were there be skin color tribes it is the opposite of a unifying message add a moment where there is such rage toward the losing side i don't think we've ever seen this happen before where rather than taking

a victory lap rather than celebrating the win we're seeing almost like what you might call a sore winner is that is that how you would describe it. yeah well that the left is definitely projecting right that's what they get are classic projectors i like to say that projection is their game fascism or fascist is their name because that's exactly what they're doing what conservatives are currently experiencing here in america and really all around the world regardless of which you know nationalist or populist movement you may be a part of is just a full blown assault on behalf of the democrat party and their alliance with the tech social media and tyrants to eliminate any way start any opposition any any political dissent that's going to challenge the radical left agenda and so you're talking about your politics people have a reason to be scared one side is not allowed to speak and it's more than just not speaking is it not it's you don't have the right to speak and we're going to talk

in your place in your stead about how you must be deprogrammed you must think differently if you don't change the way you think you should have a job you should be a lot of fly on airplanes you should be allowed to stay in hotels or air b.n. b. this is not a new phenomenon right this has been happening under the eyes and noses of lawmakers here in our country who have just decided to turn a blind eye to it because like you said it's easy for people to say well you know these things aren't happening or they can't happen on a bigger scale because you know maybe those people should have just found little quiet or you know maybe they were a bit too controversial but you know when you look at history and absolute horrors and acts of genocide and atrocities that happen this is the same behavior right that leads to it and this is exactly what happened in 1930 s. germany ok n a now president biden about president biden due to to assure people that hey we're

not all in the me here and we don't have to be in a muse we don't have to continue that how does this growing animosity but tween us as chaos we can just come together as americans. that is an excellent question so i think in order to bring we have to honestly address what was the cause of so many trump supporters who may not have really been stuff republicans but they were stopped republican support drop them out of the follow what made them so excited they will follow everything that transcend it and there's a part of america that feels left behind for whatever reason they feel forgotten and if you know that neither the political parties back then and strong into that base in a considerable way i think to bring unity we need someone to talk to that base that there is talk of how do we deal with a troll supporters and deprogrammed them it's rather disconcerting at the same time it's not surprising when certain media avenues and certain people and even

politicians have been convincing americans and other people around the world that donald trump was the 2nd coming of hitler that he was running concentration camps that he was going to genocide people that he's a white supremacist in a racist and all of this stuff and then a quarter of the country supports him 75000000 people voted for him if someone has been programmed to believe that then it's not entirely shocking nor surprising the way people are responding i think it was fairly easy to see it coming as i said at the same time it's extremely hypocritical one of the things that most one of the things that a lot of trouble opponents criticize donald trump for is that he is divisive and that he is polarizing and that he harms unity right so for people to say that and then at the same time be talking about you know reprogramming 75000000 americans or d. platforming them or trying to silence them or calling them you know nazis or nazi enablers all these very very you know inflaming terms it's extremely hypocritical because

they're doing the exact same thing but actually far worse than what they complain that donald trump or even some of his supporters have been doing and it's weird how people can sort of see that blind spot due to their own political bias e s. . well as biden takes the reins in washington he'll have to deal with a crisis of trust in the government a poll conducted after the storming of the capital find that 4 out of 5 americans believe the u.s. is falling apart a similar proportion of those surveyed said though they were still proud to be american we canvassed opinions in texas 1st new york. their real division and i think. there's a lot of political divides that. actually i think are true want to things that happen at the capitol i mean it's really easy to feel like they're going to be

people before i would say that we're like a good spot there that's a lot of. this country. playing the part. you know the. serious things about the president there are 400000 individual americans dying from coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have business is falling for bankruptcy to play issues between the current president and the president coming it's not a very. easy switch over i think a kind of what the current. president biden is doing its part trying to impeach steele trying to sell president to childish. well in the days building up to the inauguration washington d.c. saw a musts of security operation unfold with thousands of soldiers on the streets barricades drones in the er as well our senior correspondent morocco's d. of takes a look at who the operation was directed against. washington is on red alert had

locked out no huge crowds no fanfare they've even divided the city into color coded zones like baghdad residents could move around in green zones but red zones are restricted and guarded by 20 $5000.00 troops there guarding not against an enemy not against terrorists but against their room population. all of this of course following what they call the insurrection at capitol hill on january 6th since then the secret service the f.b.i. the national guard intelligence seemingly anyone with

a badge has been moved to prevent trump supporters from trying it again and everyone's a suspect even the troops stationed in washington being screened for right wing sympathies by the f.b.i. this is like something out of north korea we're continually going through the process and taking 2nd 3rd looks at every one of the individuals assigned to the suppression we need to be conscious of it and we need to put all of the mechanisms in place to thoroughly vet these men and women who would support any operations like this. and. distrust and fear are in the air hagon like like a poisonous me step 3 way and doesn't matter which way you voted people are statistically warrant this isn't the country they've lived in their entire lives i guess it's pretty. tense but they do it so they close a lot of people downtown areas to barricade the checkpoints that no concrete blocks

everywhere so you really can't get anywhere near the national or constitutions i mean you know it's really sad that it's lived in washington for 20 more than 20 years i've been to a lot of inaugurations and i've never seen security like this here or anywhere in america and it isn't just washington d.c. it's it's all over the country never is good cause one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected one and 3 hold this radical view and you were out so k. that's bad but in america where the most guns per capita in the world at really really bad right now there's too much going on in our country when all the election is on one side and a trumpet ministration if you're scared of a long gun our country was born on long guns the revolutionary war was won and fought with longer we have a country that's getting more deeply polarized because we have 2 political parties

that are playing each other for each other's problems and issues the politicians of the parties because something needs to be done these these congo law in the country needs to heal right you can't very well run a country with this kind of divide brother against brother neighbor against neighbor and if you listen to democrat press statements that's what they've been trying to do think the events of the past few weeks have proved out just how damaged the soul of america has been and how. important is to restore it that work starts on wednesday the thing with press statements and i can tell you this from experience as they are wholly strewth and in this case it isn't that preaching peace but what they're doing is something else entirely that turning the 74000000 people who voted to trump and to lampas to be shunned and costs that there has to

be consequences but history shows this is not react not forcing accountability only and all then it's those people and those movements i don't know if there's such a job as a political exorcist but they need to do something to fix the republican party to get this demon as out there are republican members of congress i know who clearly have lost their minds who just will not accept reality when it comes to the facts about donald trump if you voted for trump you voted for the person who the klan supported you voted for the person who nazis support you voted for the person who the all right supports that's the crowd that you are in and no one's trying to be the better person here trump is skipping the integration and flying those into florida not so much as the good luck to biden too offended themselves good britons they say what next merica hasn't been this divided since the civil war but nice to

think that it'll be better off for the inauguration but why would it no one seems to be in any rush to make the 1st move actions run high in america today and. i think every precaution needs to be taken to ensure that a repeat of january 6th doesn't occur. on inauguration day trying to disrupt the you know your ration of joe biden. but the the imagery $25.00 a nation governed. government there is not recognized by that number that you know that percentage of the americans. you know this is it's going to be a very difficult 4 years for the united states i don't know if we're ever going to be able to recover from this the partisan political divide is so deep and so wide joe biden is not the politician to bridge it he is one of the reasons why this

divide exists so is donald trump and there's there's now joe biden will speak of unity he will speak of healing but the fact of the matter is he doesn't have the trust of a significant percentage of the american people and there will be no healing there will be no unity and one of his final acts as president before leaving the oval office donald trump granted last minute clemency to more than $140.00 people among those pardoned was trump's former aide to steve phelan he was charged with fraud last year over a fund raising campaign to build the mexico border wall although he pleaded not guilty another well known figure is rapper a little wayne whose real name is doing carter he had pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a goal plate of one can trump also pardoned former google self driving car engineer anthony leavened who was sentenced for stealing hundreds of trade secrets at the same time despite widespread polls donald trump did not include wiki leaks founder

julian assange on his clemency list joining the sons faces 18 charges in the u.s. with all but one for espionage if he faces up to 175 years behind bars earlier this month a court in the u.k. refused to extradite him to the u.s. over mental health concerns over washington is appealing the ruling therefore they whistleblower remains in jail. group of prominent figures had sent a letter to the man president trump urging him to pardon among them for a nobel peace prize laureates 5 former presidents from around the world and filmmakers such as director oliver stone the u.s. prosecution of a songes unprecedented he faces 175 years in prison for the same publications for which he's been nominated for the nobel peace prize they said prosecution threatens the constitutional protections that americans hold did by offering a pardon to put

a stop to the prosecution of a song your presidency will be remembered for having saved 1st amendment protections for all americans. let's go live now to robert barnes political commentator and constitutional attorney who signed the letter in self good to have you on the program are you surprised by the donald trump chose to ignore your joint pleas how confident were you that the letter would make a difference. well everything that everybody did made a difference because the president almost every in fact every trump loyalist and trial lawyer in the white house or around the white house urged him to pardon julian the sog and the he considered it up to the very last minute shows ultimately not to do it will be ongoing debate as to why but it's important to remember it was the trump justice department that indicted the sonnes the trump state department that sought to extradite him from vice president mike pence who extorted and bribe ecuador into giving up julian assange so there was

a big huge hurdle to even get into the room to discuss julian assad and the great work of a wide range of people from cassandra fairbanks to oliver stone helped at least get it on the discussion table and put the most possible pressure and it was the number one subject of debate within the trump white house the last day where all the trump loyalists took the same side they said to pardon julian a son unfortunate the president did not pull the trigger tucker carlson's explanation has been the threats from mitch mcconnell and the republicans in the senate that they would vote to convict him upon the impeachment trial if he pardoned isaan who was the final straw that broke the back in favor of not pardoning a son and just a few days before trump had been inclined to grant the pardon so it's it's going to be a stain on the president's reputation and record depending on what happens with julian and songe but the fact that it was his administration to indict him his administration to seek his extradition his administration to bribe an extraordinary

way to ecuador releasing him and his administration that failed to pardon him is probably one of the worst stains on the trump administration's tenure your take on the situation at large washington is appealing the decision of the u.k. court to extradite the songe well it's. there is talk in washington of withdrawing that extradition request and withdrawing that appeal to some of the new biden people in were part of the obama administration that had constitutional doubts about seeking the extradition indictment of julian the songe songes deteriorating health has been in additional factor there's also a group of people coming in under the by the administration that are part of the dns to to tional ization in decriminalization movement that does favor over criminal prosecutions and punishment in general so it's going to also be a debate within the biden administration because unlike the obama administration the even before you remember about a 10 years ago it was quite a statement

a high tech terrorist yes and that's why it's going to be an internal debate you're going to have the deep state apparatus that wants songe made an example out of but you have some younger members of the biden administration that don't favor that position and assad has increasing support in the antiwar left and the question is this could be a place where biden can give them some remedy and relief where he's not giving it to them broadly speaking so there's still a decent chance that the by did ministration ends up not pursuing the full extradition of julian songe we'll know within about 3 to 4 months robert appreciate your time thanks for coming on the program constitutional attorney robert barnes. a powerful explosion in central madrid destroyed a residential building owned by the catholic church killing at least 4 people eyewitnesses gave us their records of what happened. we were working near

the building we heard a massive explosion and we all ran outside to help people when we arrived smoke was coming out of the building had collapsed there was a pile of rubble on the ground that could have crushed people they say it was a gas leak i have no idea let's hope everything is ok i think only think if we felt the walls vibrating we thought it was in the university and when we went outside there was rubble in the street one of our colleagues went out to rescue a person who was injured police began to arrive and evacuate the area they closed off the street so we could no longer see what was going on we only knew that there were many injured. it seems to have been a gas explosion the city fire department is still working in the building inspecting the damage you can see it at the top 4 stories are destroyed firefighters are also going through the surrounding buildings checking whether they are safe. well madrid's mera said the blast appears to have been caused by a gas leak local journalists the last quiz spoke to merrier. we know little about

the explosion we know that it might have been a gas leak they say that they were doing some repairs seen side of the field in jury interplast we know that there are some scientists police specialized units of the police here trying to find out exactly how this blast happened around 3 india afternoon today we see some flames are developed on of the building still and we know that the 5 stories of the building the top of the bill in half seriously damage there's a care home with 55 elderly people nearby these bilin and also a school the yard of the school was absolutely food of rubble after the explosion and fortunately not any of the populace of the school and also 'd the residents of this care home were injured the police has also sent some conine

brigades on the rescue dogs to find out if they might have stills be somebody inside of the building or could be trapped in the remains of the building after these huge blast. was the residence of some priest and church workers unfortunately it looks like it could have been even worse the explosion could be felt and heard from several kilometers from the spot the neighbors started recalled in with the phones right away with the flames and a lot of dust coming out of this building they were really worried about you know the situation especially for example the parents of those popeil some of these nearby school and also the relatives of the you know the elderly that live in these

care. home finally when we found out that it was you know these buildings were not affected and it was just more reduced damage unable to start to to be more. calm but but definitely they were really really really worried and some of them they are still not able to go back to the buildings because it's not safe because that structure has been seriously damaged and that firefighters are now assessing what are they going to do with the building there's a still some flames and to add to bottom so this situation continues to be quite unstable and we don't know exactly how it is going to play yard what is going to happen with the building and when the neighbors will be able to go back to their homes for the latest developments on the deeds a recap and more insight on what's been a historic day in washington plenty of other news and views as well besides do at

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