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our top story this hour there are new reports that a swiss billionaire quietly donated almost a quarter $1000000000.00 to groups aligned with the democratic party and its leaders raising questions about the influence of so-called dark money in american politics so who is this billionaire and how is he aligned with the dems john hardy has the story. his name is hans york weeks the founder and former president and c.e.o. of synthes usa a medical device manufacturer born in switzerland but now living in wyoming wheezes long been known to be an active donor to environmental and political causes well a new york times reporter digs even deeper on his most recent donations writing that newly obtained tax filing show that quote 2 of mr wiesel is organizations a foundation and a nonprofit fun donated 200 $8000000.00 from 2016 through early last year

to 3 other nonprofit funds that doled out money to a wide array of groups that back progressive causes and help democrats in their efforts to win the white house and control of congress last year it's unclear if we says a u.s. citizen or permanent resident but foreign nationals without permanent residency are not allowed to donate directly to federal political candidates or political action committees pacs for sure but that doesn't stop the so-called dark money spending generally by nonprofit organizations that do not have to disclose their donors the ways foundations website describes itself as a private charitable foundation dedicated to supporting innovative lasting solutions that improve lives empower communities and strengthen connections to the land it goes on to write that we static 8 of his life to philanthropy by fostering new ideas and new tools for among other things medicine education the arts and land

conservation but it's clear is donations go beyond those worthy endeavors he's also reportedly donated to a host of democratic candidates over the years and liberal think tanks such as the center for american progress whose chairman is john podesta a top aide to former presidents clinton and obama wiese also recently pulled out of a bid to take over the tribune publishing company so while we says love of the environment and other causes is clear his love of trying to steer the american political machine. it's also becoming even clearer for our to john hardy. and joining us now to discuss for some international perspective we will talk with former u.k. m.p. george galloway and award winning writer and professor di watkins gentlemen good to see you the let me start over with you i know i know you for years now over the years you have not shied away from blasting democrats when it's called for right

when they're in the wrong they have railed against dark money for years since the citizens united ruling more than a decade ago but here they are reaping the rewards nancy pelosi nobody not no one in the mainstream media media has even touched this story what do you say to that. you know i do end of the day you get something and then smile. in your stephen in this is just another example of why we need. the same. campaign system because. you just want your general to control the people with the responsibility of creating policy going to constrain it so that you know you know the same deceit and the blame when talking about republicans do people on the right do the same energy i would bring the people of the less we just need reform

and i know it was a crazy time you know it may not have been in america less is you know if we have 4 more years a truck but we still need to play a lot of rules that we can talk about it you know i can certainly appreciate that i want to bring in one more voice to the conversation let's add in new york times best selling author and president of the phyllis schlafly eagle forum ed martin is here with us. since 26 we heard it from the laughed you know russian influence on our elections but now here we are turns out that the. their swiss influence on our elections we often hear about george soros but here's this this swiss billionaire in wyoming who has basically kept a low profile i guess for decades he's a harvard graduate from the 1960 s. but we don't really know anything else about him what do you make of all of this. well there's a couple observations number one you brought up the russia you know just yesterday i think or that you have a yesterday the the narrative machine the great american narrative machine which is

big tech big media and big government rehash the russian hoax there's a judge who says oh my gosh it's still there and the mother reported something special it said one of the greatest hoax is perpetrated on the american people put very effectively done meanwhile we find out that this was citizen maybe he's american i don't nobody knows spend hundreds of millions of dollars look here's where left and right can come together dark money in politics needs to be given by the shine by the light of day but here's where it's my colleague just said as long as we get rid of trouble i'm not sure right now that we're not in danger of losing this republican what we have the democrats brag to after the last election about florida buying the election with tens of millions of dollars dark money where they went in they changed the rules most of the time it looks like at least that they have made it that it was legal but it wasn't it was dark money it was foreign money it was foreign influence and now we're just getting to the tip of the iceberg the bacolod i from joe biden is that he didn't know anything about all this stuff this

is an outrage it should sit in his presidency but watch the narrative machine move on to the next thing and just kind of roll their eyes and we'll talk about joe biden picking dandelions for his wife it's outrageous well george when you think of the swiss you think neutral right and though mr lice doesn't represent the swiss government he clearly is not neutral and has objectives here in supporting one party in the us over the other do you think there's more than meets the eye here that it's not just a wealthy swiss immigrant donating money to push causes important to him can it be just that. well when i think of switzerland i think of the sweetest of deserves which we call a swiss rule this is one judge gunn dick's worse rule through his rule you're a lecture on which was dominated by a full solid gauge shuns of russian interference from the european countries

interfering in your politics it just wasn't russia full marks on must do the new york times not my favorite publication this is a cracking piece of investigative journalism and should bring the house down just said but we'll see if it does by the way it is perfectly possible that joe biden didn't know anything about any of this because he doesn't even know who really picked the lions of all things and on the do your wife are in public for the record of people don't know dandelions are considered we said no but maybe you guys are definitely we are on this side of the pond now now gentlemen mr mr advice. for and of the very last leaning think tank called center for american progress which was founded by the noted clinton acolyte john podesta at the white house

foundation and cap have now merged they are one in the same a woman called molly make you sick is the president of the vice foundation and coincidentally she was also a part of the biden transition team when joe biden took office so just how much influence do you believe mr rice might actually have in the policies that we're seeing coming out of capitol hill and from the white house and i'll give that to you 1st. well look and i can lump both parties together on this because i started on the republican national committee and 3 others usually 13 through 15 and i saw that the money you need to run for president it has to come from somewhere it comes from corporations it comes from individuals and both parties are in this trap one of the reasons why they hated trump because trump didn't need the money at least in 2016 the same way i know the races but look the influence is obvious and to me is completely obvious now and let's be clear the left doesn't care about switzerland

or america they're a globalist entity their dream is wrapped up in the and in multilateral deals and gutting american sovereignty and china is now out of the atlantic is writing a piece that china's not so bad they're kind of have their own trouble they're not so bad look we're in a battle to keep america rather countries to keep their own countries forget about whether it's wish or not here's what george said and george has lent this if you get a journalist that writes just story that's got real meat in it you've got to go to the bottom of it and if the government covers up what's happened and turns yellow away and looks the other way we're talking about changing the very fabric of this republic because of this so you know again that the democrats bragged in newsweek or time in december about how they were fortifying the election using this kind of money so let's follow the money it clearly made a difference by the way republicans do it too don't get me wrong but usually the smoking gun is not so clear as it is right now do you want your take on this there

is a clear link with the clintons john podesta straight over to joe biden. to the urgent don't we expose this issue and then we talk about it and then we push towards campaign reform again. in a democracy you should be able to elections with what i what i will say it stick. the way our previous president conducted himself has probably spied so many parties outside of america. and tried to it's all it's the election because it was just so ridiculous with the racism in the sexism in all of the different things their own donald trump was known for was that being said regardless and yet we should be able to have fairy lectures here and we should not have politicians pay because this just makes the whole think pain and it is just it's not good and i think this is

a great opportunity for people on the left and right to get together it is fight against it because it's definitely needed yeah there could definitely be a chance for some bipartisan work together here in georgia and your final perspective from the outside looking over at the u.s. . well as oscar wilde said we are 2 people divided by a common language and the idea of john podesta the clintons and joe biden are left makes me a lot of going to tell you if i thought they really were left i will be on their side but they're not at all there is no such thing as a free lunch this bill you are now are gave hundreds of millions of dollars for something and i think not something is said i'm sure we don't agree on hardly anything politically is the kind of globalist neo liberalism that

is represented by people like mr weiss and i don't fall or. work to kill our path and america shore america is on its knees. because of the kind of politics represented by the clintons and the rest but the ultimate because for me as someone who defended russia through all of these false allegations that they were all looking at the wrong european country for whose stall america's i lecture yeah and and d. and ad i want to go back to for one more i'm just i'm really shocked right now that nobody on television right now is covering this story and why do you think that is i mean this should be a huge story campaign finance outside money coming in why is nobody talking about

it. it is the right to say this is it was like i think people need to. you know i just can't speak for the beach news agencies because i don't have any solutions lists. but i think we're missing an opportunity here to bring the country together everybody talks about unity unity unity in sheelagh american bring us together and this is one issue that we can get behind the elections need to be fair and i'll give you the final word. oh it's very easy they're all in on it all that all the cable news networks are all . in on it they're all in on this is this is a racket here this is america's become a racket and they can't talk about true stuff they're going to run images of race riots when the american people there's no more racism in this country then there's metal any from the moon let me say it differently there are racists but we're not a racist country but what they have to do is hide the ball because the same people

that made their money under bush cheney made it under obama biden and tried to make it under under our trump and they got him out and so now they're back to the same system and i worked at c.n.n. i was hired by c.n.n. i was fired by c.n.n. to be a contributor these people are in on the racket they're not in it for the truth but they're in it for the money and the power and they'll do anything to keep that wind of a lot of power and money in can continue to flow all right we've got to leave a right there gentlemen de watkins george galloway ed martin gentlemen thank you for joining us. and still ahead facebook up holding donald trump banned from the social network we'll get to the latest head over at the sports h.q. regina hamm brings us your early play on the historic moment as 1029 year final 4. and remember to keep up with all the latest news are kept up for anything about it that tell of the portable t.v. ads people watch whenever you want well great that.

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something for you on your sports h.q. . all right over to the latest 1000 numbers now worldwide those cases topping 154000000 with about 3000000 reported deaths the u.s. is still leading the way with the most confirmed cases a little over 32000000 here followed by india and then brazil and here stateside the death toll is now more than 578000. and today a so-called facebook court a group of self-appointed oversight board members comprised of lawyers journalists law professors and even former elected officials decided to up hold the suspension of former president donald trump the move stunned social media experts and even the

former pows himself with trump lashing out in a written statement saying this quote what facebook twitter and google have done is a total disgrace and embarrassment to our country and he went on to lambast the tech giants and quote radical left lunatics so joining us with your thoughts on all of this is pulitzer prize winning author and journalist hosed up on contact chris hedges chris were you at all surprised by today's decision. i was a surprised but i was appalled and as appalled as when they 1st took trump off the digital platforms not because i embrace trump but because this is an unaccountable unelected opaque group of people who run a for profit corporation who have the power for wholesale censorship nobody appointed them we don't know what the internal review process is we must remember

they know everything about us we know nothing about them and it sets a very dangerous precedent i want to be clear that you know they've done this before they did this to wiki leaks a lot to julian a songe out of his own credit card account so they shut down any way that you could fund wiki leaks state created electronic interference every time we try to hold event they have used algorithms which hasn't has affected my writing has affected our t.v. and so this is part of a steady march of the of a very frightening form of censorship so you know normally when a libel is committed i used to work for the new york times you take someone to court it's an open process you defend yourself in court a judgment is made now it's a whole new paradigm and one that i find very terrified. this oversight board by

definition is a kangaroo court their opinion though on matters on on those social media platforms i guess that facebook allen's critics such as yourself a facebook and say that they do need to do more and clearly defining their rules their policies what those punishments might be and some say that trump was treated differently than any other user who might have a spouse any of those same thoughts you know the thing you know calling the election fragile in our what happened what are your thoughts on that side of it. well they shouldn't have the power of censorship i mean they have created these digital monopolies which should be broken up and i don't think it's. incidental or you know not important that the leaders of most of the european countries also register their protest and trump being removed from social media platforms because if they can do it to a head of state like trump they can do it to

a head of state like merkel or somebody else that they don't like we don't want to allow these digital media companies to have that kind of power to essentially shut someone down remember that when the contents of 100 bines laptop were exposed by the new york post twitter a lot the new york post out of its own account and it was clear collusion between the democratic party establishment and these media and it is so they're hardly nonpartisan ardley objective and is just it's a dystopian world we don't want to go into this really begins to further muddle the argument affection 230000 i mean defining social media sites as publishers rather than platforms. right they're largely aggregators they collect information this is what's happened to the news media so apple and you know these other entities will coli all of the new washing post they're going to they don't actually produce

anything or they produce very little so yes there but we have in our legal system has just not caught up with the technology and this is for me another example of tremendous abuse by this technology and let's not forget i come from the left it's always the left who pays yes they've gone after trump by what they really want to shut down or any critics on the right or the left of neo liberalism of corporate capitalism of the crimes of imperialism and. we just it's not a world that we want to enter because it essentially snuffs out of a free flow of information and lastly chris and i want to ask you kind of a philosophical question and you touched on this you know that if this can happen a tron it can really happen to anybody you think maybe alan merkel one day you know mate or any anybody can happen to you and mean joe schmoe anybody but at the end of

the day when you're blocked from facebook or blocked from twitter or instagram or tectonic whatever does it really actually matter what does matter makes i'm not on it but. it does matter to a lot of people who use that those social media platforms as their primary forms of communication and it does matter in a sense that it restricts the kind of flow of information and again let's go back to locking the york post out of its own twitter account there you had a report that was detrimental to the biden campaign and they essentially shut down the ability to share that information alone nobody ever challenge to the veracity of it they remember the accused in fact of being russian propaganda but nobody just like the john podesta emails that were disseminated by wiki leaks as well nobody ever challenge the ferocity old new york times will call the desk the e-mails

dissin from asia it wasn't this information was factually true so what you're what you're really seeing these media platforms do and you know this is. predates pushing trump off these digital platforms is lock out information not information that is you know disingenuous or wrong but they've been locking out information that's factually correct i don't believe that wiki leaks has ever had a written tract a story that they've put out now they are batting a 1000 and like you chris i'm not a big fan of social media and they're but i like existing in the real world and i felt like touching paper and reading 5000 well that's what i write books that's about right i read them are right chris had as we'll leave it there thank you for joining us ok monella thanks. prominent art auction house is now saying they will accept cryptocurrency payments

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2nd water milan though will get their opportunity crease caleb's. will have that done to get 3928 with the hosts in front 437 will be left in the 3rd milan the 15 point lead of visitors feel by byron's game and you take the downtown exit the room makes it 6354th quarter though things get interesting final minute of the game a lot of 9 point lead bad task hits reynolds with the steal and dump to make it 9184 we go to 20 seconds left in our reynolds will nail the 3 probably on the ark communal actually get the steal once he stinks it this time with baldwin gets the nod his lawyer is going to be good to me get 9189 but i'll be calling sean chilled and byron will get the ball that files and seconds one barely hanging hangs on to the 9189 lead as their 1st time to the final 4 mil in istanbul in years that is quite the drought. will be right there again a hand thank you for that that does it for us right now make sure you keep up with

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