look square the real key to almost everything we do in society the same plumbs can be part of you essentially disappear you should probably be companies trying to power is entirely. the. robot in a sworn in as the 46 president of the united states promises to end the civil war between a road republicans and democrats look at whether the rift can be healed. 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 democrat party and their alliance with. the untiring shield eliminate any always very any opposition any any political dissent that's not to challenge the radical left. little trump leaves the white house

summit a massive security operation for the inauguration in washington. at a loss to the residential building in madrid killing at least 4 people a gas leak is suspect it's real here from eyewitnesses in the city. on the we were working near the building we heard a massive explosion and we all ran outside to help people. we felt the walls vibrates and we thought it was in the university and when we went outside there was rubble in the street. from moscow just going to 5 am here in the capital we are watching all of the international markets. and joe biden has been sworn in officially as the 46th president of the united states bringing to a close donald trump's 4 years in office and his speech boughten called for unity

at a time of a historic time of crisis and challenge. well ahead of the inauguration 200000 flags were placed on the national mall they represent the crowds kept away from the ceremony due to the pandemic of the safety measures don't relate to cope with the unprecedented 25000 national guard troops are in washington to maintain security auntie's john hardy was following the inauguration ceremony. 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. during his inauguration speech show bought and also said america needs to confront supremacy and upon our friends through trump support as it all comes amid a climate of highly charged language being used by both democrats and republicans against one another. host been sworn to spoke to his podcast guests about that rising level of hostility. 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 am i right about that or my overstating it no you're absolutely right morris 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 trump 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 just demonizing the but the humanizing that's coming from the incoming administration that strongly a spouse's identity politics as a way to organize society identity politics by definition is the opposite of unity

because it ghettoize us into tribes whether it be political tribes whether they be sexual orientation tribes will there be skin color tribes it is the opposite of a unifying message at 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 the democrat party and their alliance with the tax national median tyrants. you eliminate any way start any opposition any any political dissent that's going to challenge you know 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 if 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 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 that 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 you controversial 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 means we don't have to continue that how does this growing animosity there's a part of america that feels left behind for whatever reason they feel forgotten and they feel that neither the political parties back them and into that base in a considerable way so i think to bring unity we need someone to talk to that base there is talk of how do we deal with trying supporters to extremely hypocritical one of the things that most one of the things that

a lot of trump 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 $75000000.00 americans or d. platforming them or trying to silence them or calling them you know nazis are 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 biases. meanwhile biden is already fast that work implementing the new administration's agenda the president has signed 17 executive orders reversing some of trump's most controversial policies that includes undoing a travel ban on some muslim majority and african nations rejoining both the paris

climate change accord and the world health organization the rockwell who's the editor of all dot com believes biden's intentions are very clear but i would say its agenda is undoing what trump did i mean i would say that's the 1st thing on the agenda they have other things they want to raise taxes and although they're going to undo the the trump tax cut so that. this is this is what they're this is what they want to do and i guess they have the support of the certainly their support of the media the media's being at the moon and cheering all that stuff they have the support of the immigrant a party and apparently the u.s. military to my guess is trump supporters are going to dislike everything biden does but. i don't think i don't think he's overshot himself i think he's got all he's surrounded by a huge staff of a lot of the people from the obama administration so they're used to this sort of thing and my guess is they've not overshot they're going to make all these changes

during the 1st 100 days despite such a promising beginning chris hedges doubts the new president will be able to carry out that many changes in the domestic and foreign policies of the united states. biden is a conservative he was picked by obama as a vice president because he essentially voted republican he is not a friend of the green new deal doesn't support medicare for all universal health care e is a strong supporter of empire a fundamental structure of the american imperial power and corporate power at the heart of the american political system domestically will remain untouched i think that we have to acknowledge that the wide divide now within the american public still 40 or 50000000 trump supporters believe the election was stolen is not going to be addressed or healed in less these people are really integrated into the society which the biden ministration has no intention of doing and i think that

there will be a particular target will be the left people who call these people out for who they are and they will play the game of the new cold war with russia in a way that the trumpet ministration did not i was brought in to take the reins in washington he'll have to deal with a crisis of trust in the government a poll conducted after the storm of the capital found 4 out of 5 americans believe the u.s. is falling apart and some a proportion of the survey was still proud to be american the reaction in texas a new york. i think there are real divisions and i think that comes around for the last the caste system not the south. i mean there's there's a kind of political divides that are often sort of manufactured i think that through walk through things that happen at the capitol and yet i mean it's really easy to feel like they're trying to be supportive for i would say that we're like i'm a good spot there has to be a lot of. this country is playing a part. you know that and then the tears serious serious things like you know the

president there are 400000 individual americans dying from 4 coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have businesses falling for bankruptcy you can't play issues between the current president and the president coming it's not a very. easy easy switch over i think it kind of what the current. president biden is doing as far as trying to impeach the i'll try to help president is kind of childish. you know gratian as of course been closely followed by media all over the world and after 4 years of critical coverage of the trump white house the narrative has seen in the media to see shane's legal and media analyst lawndale gave us his take on the press coverage so far. imagine every cliche everything you've ever thrown into a hat and just poured out and read and this dysphonia this almost execute

cult like it is incantations up the. stage at the new unity and what did he do within the 1st he went straight to the white house voc then and basically reversed answer to a number of serious 3 executive orders or help you got the president trump initially so in the day we were to say we're all coming together for all coming together the 1st thing he does is give me that pen and there you go there's your unity we went through 4 years of donald trump whether you're like a man not from the moment he even began to utter the words i'm going to run he had every intelligence agency i mean why did you tap it was it just incredible i kid if anybody ever had any doubt as to how bought in sold this mainstream media are how they are the the apparatchiks the i guess the agents

of the shadow government today was hit i mean it would trump's goodbye was i get down with it but joe biden this hercules in oratory where he said he wants to unite and not divide and then immediately starts talking about if you do have to white supremacy oh i'm i'm still visibly shaken as you can see from this when the days of building up to the inauguration washington saw a massive security operation unfold with thousands of soldiers and barricades on the streets and drones in the air or does they have to take a look now at the operation or is 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 even the 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 in doing so they close. pretty much the downtown areas to barricade the checkpoints there's 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 there is good cause one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected one in 3 hold this radical view and you were out so kay 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 one on the watch 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 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 at'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 who always truthful and in this case it isn't they're preaching peace but what they're doing is something else entirely that turning the 74000000 people who voted for trump and to lampas to be shunned and costs that there has to be consequences but history shows it is not reacting not forcing accountability only and all that in 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 a new ones 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 little be better off for the inauguration. but why would it no one seems to be in any rush to make the 1st move passions run high in america today and i think every precaution has to be taken to ensure that

a repeat of january 6th doesn't occur. on inauguration day or trying to disrupt the you know your ration of joe biden but the the imagery of 25 a nation governed. by a government that does not recognize legitimate by that number that you know that percentage of the americans so 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 has now the trust of a significant percentage of the american people and there will be no healing there will be no unity and when one of his final acts as president before leaving the

white house that will trump granted last minute clemency to more than 140 people among those pardon was trump's former aide steve benen he was charged with fraud last year over a fund raising campaign to build the mexico border will he pleaded not guilty and other well known figure his rap on little wayne whose real name is dwayne casa he pleaded guilty to illegally possessing and gold plated handgun troubles of pot and full google self driving car and today and i live on the ski he was sentenced for stealing hundreds of trade secrets at the same time despite widespread coast all trumped that not a clue that we can expound a songs on his clemency list. and songe faces 18 charges in the united states with all but one for espionage if found guilty he faces up to 175 years behind bars earlier this while the court in the u.k. refused to extradite him to the u.s. over mental health concerns however washington is appealing that ruling and

therefore the whistleblower remains in jail a group of prominent figures had sent a letter to president trump urging him to pardon assad's among them for nobel peace prize laureates 5 former presidents from across 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 price this prosecution threatens the constitutional protections that americans hold dear by offering a pardon to put a stop to the prosecution of a song which your presidency will be remembered for having saved 1st amendment protections for all americans we spoke earlier with one of the signatories of that letter political commentator and constitutional attorney robert bonds he believes the odds were always stacked against the sides. 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 his sons' the trump state department that sought to extradite him trump 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 assange and unfortunately 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 up on 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 assange and his administration that fail to pardon him is probably one of the worst stains on the trump administration's tenure. 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. powerful explosion in central madrid has destroyed a residential building owned by the catholic church at least 4 people have been killed and 11 injured i wouldn't say as gave us their accounts 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 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. madrid's said the blast their peers have been caused by a ghastly earlier we spoke with a local journalist i made. 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 after noon today we see some flames and devote on all of the building still and we know that the 'd 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 full of rubble after the explosion and fortunately not any of the populace of the school and also 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 really belong to that church. was the residence of

some 3 church workers and fortunately 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 their phones right away with the flames and a lot of dust coming out of this building there 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 neighbors 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 the firefighters are now assessing what they're 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 the director general of china's center for disease control and the man who released the covered 19 geno is the guest on going on the ground in just a few moments time but he went back in half an hour with the latest join us again then. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the

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i'm afshin rattansi welcome to another lockdown edition of going underground today on the day the joe biden is in or be rated as the 46th president of the united states of america in a ceremony guarded by 20 $5000.00 troops in the u.s. capitol washington d.c. it all comes just hours after a global debate over a pardon for julian assange the world's most famous journalist and publisher locked up in a maximum security prison here in london but hanging over biden just as it did don't trump will be the global coronavirus pandemic that is killed at least $2000000.00 people or all around the world joining me now from china is the director general of china's center for disease control professor george frugality thanks so much for coming on i'm going to tell you that 2000000 dead britain.