sco row 'd ties to the test in recent years they've appeared to be much better compared to how russia is getting along with some of the other major european union states rome doesn't exactly see eye to eye with brussels on issues like anti russian sanctions and also the russian covert vaccine and besides we can remember how russian military flying planes sorry were flown to northern italy to help the country deal with the pandemic there's now a big question mark next to that warmth according to italian police one of its special operations units swooped on a russian military representative and and italian navy officer during what they're calling a clone destine meeting the italian national is accused of handing secret documents to the man he met and the car park in exchange for money reportedly the

sum was 5000 euros and also other reports say that the documents contain secret information related to nato perhaps that explains why the italian minister of foreign affairs called this a very serious affair now in the meantime the russian officials have expressed hope that this incident wouldn't enormously harm the ties between the 2 countries so that word documents initially worth 5000 euros with consequences that now could cost much more than that are to syria to trying to thank you for bringing us that report that's been your breakdown of today's top headlines for now thanks for tuning in wherever you may be.

the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person it was great. seeing. dear to ask. the outpouring of grief and anger is once again happening here in america following 2 mass shootings and multiple acts of random crime resulting in the loss of innocent lives however what makes the last 2 weeks crime sprees different from other weeks is that for the 1st time almost every demographic is represented not

only as victims but also as perpetrators i'm scouting out houston on today's news that we are going to take a special look at what is motivating these crimes and ask whether or not what is being said or more importantly not said is causing us to further divide. thank you for joining us today for a very important conversation which many avoid because sometimes it might make one uncomfortable you know acts of violence have been a plague in the u.s. all in the month of march or to correspondent a toss just wait walks us through these recent horrifying events. from lethal carjackings to mass shootings violence is on the rise in the us it all comes as we enter our way closer out of the pandemic but these events are far from what we can even consider to be normal take a look at this video where any goober each driver hangs on for dear life in his

vehicle while it's being stolen in d.c. last tuesday the car crashes killing 66 year old mohammed and war police say 2 girls aged $13.15 assaulted the victim with a taser while attempting to steal the vehicle the 2 were arrested and are being charged with felony murder and armed carjacking both have pleaded not involved the juvenile privilege of not guilty their next court hearing is scheduled for wednesday a go fund me page has been set up for and wars funeral costs for teenage boys also arrested for other armed carjackings in d.c. just days later on saturday local police arrested 213 year old boys for 2 armed carjackings happening less than 2 hours apart later in the week 2 other boys ages $13.14 were also arrested in d.c. for an armed carjacking and enrico county virginia a 13 year old 8th grader was shot and killed while walking home from school with a friend by a 14 year old boy last friday authorities say the victim lucienne bremmer nor her

friend knew the suspect the juvenile was arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder and possession of a firearm prosecutors say he may be tried as an adult then in boulder colorado last monday a grocery store shooting took the lives of 10 people including one officer 58 minutes of terror plaguing those inside i saw him run off i ran in the other direction and i was a lot slimmer. and seconds faster i would. say you see 21 year old elmont alyssa being escorted out of the scene in handcuffs authorities say alyssa carried a rifle type of firearm and a 9 millimeter semiautomatic handgun his defense lawyer asked for a mental health assessment. he remains held without bail on 10 charges of 1st degree murder and following the tragedy many lawmakers are using the situation to propose a gun legislation i've already committed to bringing universal background checks legislation to the floor of the senate the senate judiciary committee under

chairman durban held a hearing to examine several commonsense proposals to reduce gun violence this morning on march 16th 3 asian massage parlors in the atlanta area were targets of a shooting reportedly carried out by the same suspect probably by your ordinary. money. that was the no 11 call released by atlanta police when an employee of golden spot was hiding from 21 year old robert long long reportedly killed at least 8 people at 3 different massage parlors long claimed he had a sex addiction and apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation but with 6 of the victims being identified as asian women the stones in the shooting motivated violence protests emerging nationwide that while all these crimes seem to vary in motive authorities are still working to uncover specifics in

all of these tragedies reporting for news. are to. you now to give us to give us the 1st 6 of you on this issue we bring in our panel of legal and media analyst lionel lake up till a conservative commentator and alan or of the american immigration lawyers association and i thank you gentlemen for joining me in this conversation today lionel i'm going to start with you just for the stairway to realize the killing do you think right now in the place we are considering we're coming out of pandemic that we can actually have an honest discussion about these crimes the motivation behind them and what we can do without have this idea of fear retaliation for what you're saying might not actually be politically correct or fit a narrative. no. absolutely not no one is interested in discussing the facts before us nobody wants to talk

about what really happened what didn't happen what usually happens you know if you bring up race gender geographic location if you talk about anything other than a blanket statement that tragedy you'll get into trouble or if you can somehow work in it we need to work on comprehensive gun laws because you see if we had gun laws this wouldn't happen they would be saying but we have murder laws do why would those laws not work well that's a good question but imagine your question very succinctly no we can't we have to just mount the usual acceptable platitudes and move on lest we feel do a lot of consternation fall upon us all this and i can already tell you just by what we're going to post is that you know one of the title of this is i'm already going to get lots of the hate e-mails you guys might get to i apologize ahead of time these are good you got exactly yes but we need to have this conversation allan

do you think that is what the problem is why we're seeing a rise in crime more importantly younger crime is that's what got me about natasha's story we're seeing younger people now getting involved in these very violent crimes do you feel like right now we're at a place in america and should we be talking about the difference between crime and hate crime and what is motivating them. right so our laws talk about the difference between the levels of crime and crime has a higher sort of tension level because they want to sort of deter that but exactly as previously that if the deterrent is the crime and the murder laws the brass don't want underway so therefore you would use a resource levels to say well maybe we can resource guns and do some sort of take your guns and the like but i think the question isn't really about having a true conversation it's about the root cause which is the high unemployment educational gaps a lack of infrastructure and basically the whole sort of scene around the united

states right now where there are constant protests everywhere our capital was recently the seach so it's gives a sort of about i want to get balance which is a very american thing right we watch it all the time and those are the talk shows well and that's i think in the lake how much does pop culture have to do with this conversation whether we're talking about the music that's happening right now the movies that people are able to watch is pop culture having the influence and having a negative influence on the events or gee i hope i don't get the arrows that are going to be truly shot my way but i'm going to say something a little different here i don't i think that those elements are important even pop culture is important but we're really talking about personal responsibility the 1314 year old that has nothing to do with resources it actually happened in the navy yard area where there are half a w1w dollars condos really a hop skip and jump away from my home and now obviously i don't live in that

neighborhood but we're really talking about personal irresponsibility i don't think that those other elements they contributed in some way but i don't think that that has anything to do with it in too often what we've seen is that when we've had these conversations and actually i'll circle back very quickly to what my colleague my favorite colleague lionel said i agree we actually can't have this discussion honestly. because we really don't want to really dig in what we what we like to talk about is white supremacy that's when we're talking about race but outside of that we don't get the discussions at all because we see that so many of these instances whether there are the the culprits are black or hispanic or any of that we don't like to talk about that because we're concerned about cancel culture well if we want to have an honest conversation about it i'm all for it and i think we're well past that time where we need to do that alan you heard what molly said what is your thoughts on that is it is it become basically down to race and not be able to

talk about one versus the other. out of all the stories that you presented tonight that i know all the facts and only one has a race factor the others are just crime right because in most of these factors the one thing that is they're all american so when someone talks about white supremacy race issues you know it's a very american example so yes we need to address those issues that cause for the structure in the very conversation that we have right now about society resources in education addressing our crime because we can't like everybody you know because that doesn't work as well as a crime so we're tells us that we have other issues that we need to address the root cause is some kind of national basis or in races that you know we should address that but it is also in resource bases and people just not having access and maybe not having the program resources to get an education to go like this isn't the appropriate thing to do. to say this is an appropriate thing to do for society and those are the problems that we need to address so i'm saying that these people are just flawed is a very american thing to say well i want to bring in manila chan is host of in

question here on our to america when this happened a week and a half ago i reached out to you and i had a conversation about as well on talk of the atlantis i think that's what i was referring to is the known hate crime that's been identified when it happened there were marches there were corporate calls to action there was social media hat hashtags but sadly the violence did not stop despite all of that and i want to warn our audience of the graphic footage we're about to show that is a march and it's of an asian man who was pummeled unconscious by a stranger on the brooklyn subway train that just has come out then there was another attack also in manhattan just yesterday where a 65 year old woman was kicked to the ground her head stomped on and anti asian remarks were made this is a building worker was standing there and watching that's just as shocking and did not come to her as a manilla these stories are not new to you you've covered them as a journalist but also as a member of the asian american community you know do you think do you feel the

reaction last week that we saw initially that came out had any long term effect on bringing the spotlight to the anti asian hate crimes that are happening in america today. well i think what happened in atlanta i think really galvanized be asian american community who before that i think we kind of felt like we were the invisible minority i mean we were often used as the model minority myth and you know we're not a a monolithic group right people have different experiences different waves of different groups of asians that came here so we didn't have very different experiences i want to address real quickly the the white supremacy you know that people are directing towards not only what happened in atlanta i think that was more of a of a sexual in nature supremacy not a white supremacist issue that comes from you know a different kind of sexual deviancy however that that's

a problem directed towards asian women and how we've been marginalized to be nothing more than than sexual beings that you can discard like a sex doll and i think that was the problem in atlanta by a large i don't believe personally that that white supremacy is the huge. problem facing the asian american community if you talk about white supremacy in the way of the k.k.k. there's no more than maybe about 5000 or so klan members across a country of 330000000 people so i don't think that's the problem i think the problem here is that we have an empathy problem in the us i think a lot of it comes from that council culture where you do one thing wrong and i think touched on this you do one thing wrong and you are forever marked for life you're the you're you are labeled whatever that is in that one moment because we have lost empathy in this country and that's why we cannot get along ok but that's the thing the lake empathy that is a key word that all of you are shaking your head on that we all agree we've lost it

but how do you get it back case in point boulder shooting last week a lot of people think that once the name was released of who. as this story was going on and you never saw the same type of reaction for the victims in that shooting that you might have seen in the one just days prior do we not have enough in things should we put the spotlight on those victims were cardless of who they are what they are where they're at when it happened so that we try to deter others from doing it again to a nother community if i could dance on camera i would be doing that right now you're absolutely right scotty and i think part of the problem is that it goes back to people being afraid to get into certain discussions well before what happened in atlanta and i think her name is dee on t.v. or something i follow her on instagram she's an asian american reporter out of san francisco she has posted story after story after story of attacks on the asian

community i do believe that we need to make a distinction between attacks on people who happen to be asian american and those that are actually hate crimes those are 2 different things but what we've done is we've conflated the 2 where it's much sexier to talk about what's you know everybody wants to have these stop asian hate size which only only when it's related to white supremacy what what they believe is white supremacy but any of these other instances for instance which you talked about in manhattan which you talked about in brooklyn you will never hear a conversation about let's protect asians and tying that to the race of the culprit we need to get out of the race discussions at all and talk honestly about the victims victims matter that's what we should be talking about good versus evil and why don't i want to bring you in on an element that we haven't brought up is that do you think that there are actually people and i think we can actually all agree that there are people and there are groups that actually benefit from

a continued hostile atmosphere and discourse but are we allowing ourselves as a society be even manipulated by those groups to not find a solution to not have that empathy are they actually taking advantage of this situation unfortunately at the cost of continued lives that we're losing. well the answer is yes and let me tell you you're not going to find a solution to this there's always been crime in crime over a period of time ask allays but me say to be right now i hate hate crimes i hate that term because if you could tell me what a love crime is good for you do you know what happens to a prosecutor who has to prove a hate crime let's say in any of the cases you have to be so easy to go in there is say i have to prove that this defendant intended to kill or hurt these people that's a point i'm out identify and that's done but now when you call that a hate crime part of my level of proof part of my burden of proof is i've got to prove the motivation and the animus and if i can't prove that the reason why these

people in atlanta were attacked was because they're asian or the reason why this asian woman in brooklyn was attacked because she was just there 1st or she was an asian person and i'm a lose my case we love this term hate crime it is a it is a is a hobgoblin you don't want to do that you don't want to complicate the case and i must say just quickly ever since i can remember as a kid everybody has been always trying to appeal to confuse relation and cause we've been hearing everything in my lifetime from ozzie as more to before that to frank sinatra to elvis to you name it to to video games if you look at cultures like japan that have historically some of the most violent video games and culture at their hand you don't see this there is something that is my a ligament in our culture what it is what causes it you tell me we are a unique people and very quickly don't give me his business about guns because there are more guns in mexico and other places than here but the reason why they

kill each other is because our drugs we kill each other because we're having a bad day we kill each other because we just we can't get a date or we're forcibly celibate we are a demented society that's the problem while lionel monella malique and al. and we could go all our i want to thank you for joining us now is a conversation like i said i'm going to apologize ahead of time people be nice to me at least they're willing to talk and i think that's part of the issues right now thank you for joining me we will have these conversations again after the break i want to talk about the different types of quarter different roles that are being changed around the country regarding crime and they're actually going to make our streets safer in the future states and. welcome to max kaiser financial survival guide. looking forward to your pension

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and baltimore there's going to be no more prosecution for a drug presentation prostitution or a low level crime and most major city councils are looking to pull fund from their police budget and relocate to other community based initiatives and programs but to move like this bring peace or they may communities less safe tell us that conversation i want to bring an end to the air i think i think it's time for liberty and to tell a democrat strategist thank you so much for joining me gentlemen great to be here that have to know and i want to start with you since you obviously you're also a radio host there and baltimore do most of the residents of baltimore know these changes and how are they being received within the community well they do very much know that know about these changes and it's funny it's very much a mixed bag obviously if you are someone who is a fan of the criminal element and of committing petty crimes you are someone who is very much in favor of this but a lot of baltimore residents have been left easy the reality is that you know you

can use statistics in many different ways for state's attorney marilyn moseby to say well you know we have these restrictions the beginning of the pandemic which they resulted in 80 percent reduction in in the rest well that's a still fulfilling prophecy if you're going to substantially reduce the number of arrests you're going to have a fewer number of arrests but for the local residents who are dealing with. filthy streets and teenagers run amok they've got a huge problem with the very aggressive squeegee kids in baltimore that have been themselves accused of a number of well more violent crimes you have folks who are feeling very very much uneasy on that's the thing anthony you know i don't know how you feel about these laws but does not having consequences for small crimes lead to more and what about those victims of those crimes did they not have a right to justice in this situation or protection. well obviously they have a right to justice and protection but i think when we're talking about what no

broken crimes are or broke window crimes we call them low level crimes i think the point is you know the punishment that has been doled out and how it's been doled out disproportionately to black into hispanic citizens throughout the country and throughout the history so if there's any type of program that could reduce or that could that could kind of foster a safer better way without the costs and the costs of tax and the cost of taxes to the taxpayer just to cover a low level crime to prosecute someone from a misdemeanor i've been a criminal defense attorney for 20 years and a prosecutor someone for $2000.00 crime can cost up to $200000.00 so you have to look at the costs how severe is the crime if there's not any type of true injury to the to the victim maybe there's some type of finance to tenants that the that the defendant could pay as opposed to prison and jail right well and that

you know i have to ask you ask you though how does reducing law enforcement we've seen this idea of defund the police happening how does the concept of reducing law enforcement budget specially in these high crime areas help make those communities better and does it make them safer that's my main concern on all of this yes there might be some bad apples but the nice place forces they need to be taken care of my concern are the good people that reside in these areas i don't want them to move out or feel like they're forced out because a crime and without law enforcement there who's going to keep these communities safer. well i'll throw that question back to you who keeps communities safe in higher income areas they have private security you know if a stockbroker or a high level accountant gets drunk in parks in his driveway the private security make sure he gets home safely so i'm thinking if these communities can come together and provide some type of private security that that is in conjunction with the police force i think that may be one way of reducing of defunding the police or

reducing crime and making it more say i understand your concern but i think that you have to look at it from a perspective as to how we treat certain citizens how we penalize other citizens for the same so he crimes or even if they become violent well and i want to find out how would that work with them you know all the more. well here's here's the problem right when you have a situation in baltimore where you've had a crime crisis right of both violent crime and low level crime for a very long time and the problem of course is that it's only the well heeled only the wealthy who are able to secure themselves secure their property secure their families take their kids out of the really bad public schools and put them in good schools and for those folks who can afford that but who can't afford to stay but who can afford to leave baltimore they will in turn leave baltimore and so as people are concerned about the income gap and income inequality baltimore is certainly a prime example of this the problem of course is for the folks who are left behind who are victims of these crimes and there are victims sure you even when we're

talking about broken windows policing the the idea that somehow broken windows in a neighborhood or public urination or public def occasion doesn't have an impact on a community it doesn't drive down property values doesn't make people feel unsafe or unwilling to get outside of their homes you know when i drive to my station in baltimore i drive through west baltimore and it is it is a in fact i've got colleagues who who don't understand why i drive through certain neighborhoods it happens to be the most convenient way to get to and from the station these are communities that are being left behind the idea that they can somehow band together and form private security to deal with this it's just it doesn't bear fruit in terms of reality and real quick if we can ignore the fact that maryland mostly the state's attorney in baltimore announced this right after she and her husband it was announced are under federal investigation there is a craven political angle to this that that we just we cannot ignore that this is being extend well anthony well i don't know about i don't know of whatever is going

oh in maryland will be but what i do know is that you know the taxes that that some of those said is that a lot of the citizens pay in a city like baltimore or a city like detroit where i'm from i'm from or sick aagot i don't have those taxes who go a lot better ways than paying police officers to come in there and beat them up and sue them up so i think there's a much better way that their tax money. could be spent and i'm talking about the factory workers i'm talking about the bartenders the nurses i'm talking about those people who are paying high level taxes and the and the police and some of these communities and a small amount of police not all police but some of these bad apples that you just mentioned go into those scented meanies and beat and shoot up and kill the people who are paying taxes so i think that's one of the issues that is more gravely that more gravely needs to be taken care of as opposed to whether or not maryland moseby is in trouble with the federal government but that's the thing at the a lot of these communities they continue to reelect the same people over and over again i've got about 30 seconds left why is that they cannot continue to vote

thinking that they're doing a good job well no they can't and they've been and this is been going on for for 40 years but you can say the same thing about about the other side of the aisle certain certain groups just elect people who haven't done anything in our good interest we can look at appalachian for the same for the same blue collar whites what i think needs to be done is there needs to be some new writer teaching way of family in crime in there and i'm not going to have that when i had to continue that conversation and i think andrew thank you so much for joining us and that is actually going to get in my way south that way that we're having a conversation like this we will see you back here tomorrow make sure you download part of that t.v. ad for all of your stations and mark thank you and have a great night.

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