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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 what he says organizations a foundation and a nonprofit fund donated 2 $108000000.00 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 where the 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 leases love of the environment and other causes is clear his love of trying to steer the american political machine. it is 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 overboard winning writer and professor 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 the story what do you say to that. you know at the end of the day you can't be against something and then smile. in your favor and this is just another example of why we need. we need to reform the whole campaign system because when. money was just money and general control of the people with the responsibility of creating policy going to the state so that you know you know the same decision in the brain when talking about what republicans do what people on the right do the same energy i would bring the people on the list we just need reform and i know it was a crazy time you know we may not have been in america less is you know if we have 4

more years a truck but we still need to play about a rule so we can talk about it yeah 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 of that yet yesterday the the narrative machine the great american narrative machine which is big tech big media and big government rehashed the

russian hoax there's a judge who says oh my gosh it's still there at the moment reporting something special it said one of the greatest hoax is perpetrated on the american people but very effectively done meanwhile we find out that this swiss citizen maybe he's american i don't nobody knows spend hundreds of millions of dollars look there's more 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 dragged 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 admitted 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 sink 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 this when you think neutral right and though nestor sure of 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 is 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 picks swiss rule a swiss rule euro lecture on which was dominated to buy full solid gay shuns of russian interference from the 2 european countries interfering in your politics

it just wasn't russia full marks to 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 that you didn't really pick the lions of all things and on the do your wife in public for the record of people don't know dandelions are considered weeds so. maybe you guys are definitely resolve this side of the pond and now now gentlemen mr mr vice sits on the board 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 kept 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 vice might actually have in the policies that we're seeing coming out of capitol hill and from the white house at 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 50 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 as the races but look the influence is obvious 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 e.u. 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 lifted 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 the other way and looks the other way we're talking about changing the very fabric of this republic because of this so you know again 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 they want your take on this there is

a clear link with the clintons john podesta straight over to joe biden. finishes that 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 what i what i will say is. the way our previous president conducted himself is probably yes. hard outside of america. 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 that own donald trump was known for was that being said regardless that we should be able to carry 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 that 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 jewel by dunn left makes me a lot of going to tell you if i thought they really were left i will be on their side but there are 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 political it is the kind of globalist neo liberalism that is represented by people like mr weiss and i don't follow. or

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 door 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. didn't they

just 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 the solution lists. but i think we're missing an opportunity here to bring the country together everybody talks about unity unity unity and healing america and bringing us together and this is one issue that we cannot 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 all of these are in on it they're all in on this is this is a racket you know 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 than there's mental let me from the moment 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 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 and continue to flow all right we've got to leave it right there gentlemen do you want ken's george galloway ed martin gentlemen thank you for joining us. world powers coming together today and calling for a peaceful end to the escalating violence across colombia currently over a dozen people have been killed and almost a 1000 people injured well discuss and remember to keep up with all the latest news or catch up with anything you might have missed download the portable t.v. apps he can watch us quite everyone we'll be right back.

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the international community is calling for calm as violent protests continue in colombia at least 19 people have been killed and many others injured with most of the blame directed at the colombian president and accusations of excessive force by authorities r.t. is alex lyall which has the story. 7 days of mass protests was in violence. thousands of people in colombia initially took to the streets last week to demonstrate against a coronavirus related tax reform proposed by the government one of these tax increase will impoverish the middle class of this country and enrich the wealthiest in this country colombia but according to the colombian government the tax which was introduced on april 15th is meant to boost latin america's 4th largest economy

which shrank by 6.8 percent to 2020 due to strict covert 1000 restrictions on employment in colombia reached 16.8 percent this past march well over 42 percent of the population of 50000000 now lives in poverty with thousands of colombians across the country rallying against the tax this past sunday colombian president even duke a took a step back i'm asking congress to withdraw the law proposed by the ministry of finance in urgently process a new law that is the fruit of consensus in order to avoid financial uncertainty but even after duke a withdrew the tax hike it wasn't enough to stop the protesters who are calling for improvements to the country's pension health and education systems and they're also demanding an end to excessive police force has said i'm. sorry i really don't know what will happen really don't know what other proposals the have we don't know what other name the situation be given we are concerned about health reform there's been so many other things that we are concerned about that how. haven't been taken into

account in this change so it's not something that we are happy about yet while many of the protests have been relatively peaceful there have been numerous cases of violence particularly in cali the country's 3rd largest city according to reports throughout colombia at least 19 people have died including one police officer police have been accused of firing weapons at civilians. over the course of the protests authorities have detained $431.00 people and the government deployed the military in the worst affected cities on monday colombia's defense minister blamed illegal armed groups for looting and vandalism during the protests with rallies continuing there have been calls from the united nations and others in the international community including the u.s. urging colombia's government to protect the rights of protesters here's yosef burrill the european union foreign policy chief at the g 7 foreign ministers meeting in london to condemn these 19 people being killed in the former situation.

to something that it's really. only calls for. a month and a denial as equated use of force earlier this week colombia's finance minister resigned the government is asking for a national dialogue in hopes of restoring calm for t.v. i'm alex my i love it. and earlier today i was joined by james patrick jordan being national coordinator for the alliance for global justice for his take on all of this here's what he had to say. human rights organizations on the ground are saying the situation is even more dire than is being reported what are you hearing. that is what i'm hearing it's much more dire the latest. statistics i have to speak of 26 people who have been killed but that information it's over

a day old. we have heard of rip reports of at least 9 women who have been sexually violated by members of the armed force and especially the aged right police a small. pattern of shooting protesters in the eyes i hear reports from. different people in colombia and again i can't verify this but i'm hearing it from multiple people that say they had talked to family members who were in the military and are hearing that they have been given. orders to shoot to kill it's just brutal i also understand that there are and again these are reports i'm hearing in real time for my contacts on the ground but i hear that there's been disruption of social media and i don't know if that's true or not but i know that i'm getting less reports right now than i was a straight day even though based it's too new and yet these anecdotal stories are

are very important for us at least here stateside to understand what's happening on the ground and you know what colombia is kind of the u.s. is dirty little secret in latin america i mean many would argue that their human rights situation is is way worse in that region yet they are never the target of regime change efforts and it's just the opposite in fact they receive a great deal of support from the united states what's the situation like for activists and dissidents on the ground in colombia and why does the u.s. provide so much support to the colombian government. well i just want to say that you can't call her about colombia without argue about the most way to 1st of all and you're hitting on something very important here. the united states has a blockade against them swale it is using colombia as a base of operations for interference in venezuela and every time anyone has a hard time getting something to eat because of the blockade in been

a swale and we hear about hunger every time there's any kind of protests we hear about disruption human rights violations and so many times what we're hearing are lies and distortions but we never hear about what's going on in colombia we don't hear about the you know the thousands of children indigenous children that have died in hunger and log right here of because of transnational corporate practices we don't hear about how every day more than one person is being killed every day in colombia is a social movement leader or a participant in the peace process we don't hear about those and you ask why why because colombia is a let's and a loyal servant in the designs of the u.s. and nato empire in latin america heard around the world colombia has a close connection with the u.s. military colombia has. i don't know the latest statistics of colombia's

train something like 50000. military personnel police personnel prison personnel in other countries especially in central america and mexico but elsewhere they are partners with nato they have patrolled central american and west african c. spaces and sky spaces with the us military they've sent troops to afghanistan to yemen so they are the reason we don't hear how them is because they are such important partners in the empire in its quest to dominate the world for the privatization of resources that's some what it is well some u.s. lawmakers are uncharacteristically there now thing that colombian government for their actions here why is that happening right now and white telecom. denouncements . will fortunately there is a good strong core of u.s.

lawmakers who have taken crits stance on a colombia including jim mcgovern has been the leader my congressperson role. record on that and these denouncements are very important i think they're having others having to denounce because it's just so shocking but the reality is that there has been bipartisan support for increasing military and security aid to colombia even in the midst of this crisis in the midst of a brutal were christian by the. police were created by colombia by the united states government who were armed by the united states government even when they were committing massacres against protesters in bogota even as the humanitarian crisis and the murder of social movement leaders has increased the us. congress passed in the military and security package to be of the highest in

9 years so clearly sorry to go on or cuckold what's happening. absolutely we'll have to leave it right there james patrick jordan of the alliance for global justice thank you so much for joining us today. over to latest coben 1000 numbers now worldwide those cases topping 154000000 with about 3000000 reported deaths the u.s. still leading the way with the most confirmed cases about 32000000 here followed by india and then brazil here stateside the death toll about 578000. and more on the coronavirus front the white house now announcing it supports waiving intellectual property rights for coded 1000 vaccines the world trade organization made that proposal for a temporary waiver to help speed up global production currently cases of infections are surging in countries where it is hard to procure and distribute those shots. that does it for me right now make sure you keep up with everything in question at

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