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breeding and salutations. democrats and republicans are at war with each other little substance of change can happen in this clash of power different visions on basic things like what it means to be a democracy the role of the police what it actually even happened on january 6th and who won the 2020 presidential election republicans are leading the charge on misinformation lives and fighting to maintain a white supremacist status quo recently the centers for disease control and prevention c.d.c. added another wrinkle to the growing partisan divide c.d.c. director will show will and is on the defense after the agency told people who are
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fully vaccinated against kobe 19 if they can go without a mask the c.d.c. recommendation comes at an odd time considering america is nowhere near herd immunity to mask or not to mask that it's a question well masking fell along ideological lines from the very start conservative states largely refuse to mandate it in those states also have lower vaccination rates but more importantly how do restaurants bars grocery stores and other public spaces know who's vaccinated and who isn't will they be checking for vaccine cards or operating on an honor system these are the primary questions state and local governments are grappling with now. once he made her sunday morning t.v. rounds with a stop on n.b.c.'s meet the press in fact this today. this was not permission to shed masks for everybody everywhere this was really science driven individual
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assessment of your risk. well the problem with that statement is far too many americans never saw it as a threat to begin with and the c.d.c. updated guidance could bring unintended consequences and to make matters more prickly the largest nurses union condemned the new c.d.c. nasa guidance saying it's not based on science so who should we believe and may is mental health awareness month and all indicators point to disaster for americans particularly children the stressors of covert 19 job loss housing and security in school closures shot the rates of anxiety and depression through the roof with masking mental illness and a partisan divide it's time we start watching the hawks. on a cd the streets. are so what you see see this is the only state and city police race crazed city this sleaze systemic deception
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police show which. some real. welcome everybody to watching the hogs on the beach across the rio is on vacation joining me now is infectious disease expert dr bob arnot good to see you again dr bob over use your granny for a while. well dr bob i wish we were having a conversation under better circumstances but the c.d.c. its latest guidance is sending a lot of people into confusion the c.d.c. says the update is backed by the science particularly science driven by israel but doesn't israel have a much higher coby vaccination rate in the u.s. in or their risk associated with unmasking america. great questions for former show us she runs the c.d.c. defy the brightest infectious disease expert of all time i had a chance to work with her team a couple films this year she's
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a phenomenal visual i think though that you know she has a weak team in terms of prevention at the c.d.c. that counted almost everything wrong you weren't supposed to mass they only came to mask you rather than mass producing you know and 95 calling hi folks ration mass people ended up these terrible massive provided like 3 percent protection the school guidance kept most schools closed this year you know or you know it and up and thank you the spillage in haifa fresh mass and here in vermont we stay open all year so i think the advice is terrible for us on this earth you say the very one huge reduction and that is. incredibly high vaccination very cut it has a hurry high vaccination rainy nothing very few tests hospitalizations serious illness with the vaccine trial and you pointed this out. 41 percent of republicans are getting the vaccine the united states is going to devolve into a series of many states are going to have green states like vermont you know we're
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number one in health care and for people colors well we're number one in terms of actually asian mississippi is number 51 vaccination 51 in terms of health you're going to have the states we have very low vaccination rates you have the various new insurgents of unity to all and it's going to be a disaster the worst part though is to have all these patients or say don't you know vastly more that was not the intention but i love your expression of that is it's the law of unintended consequences that is the idea was to say hey you could have actually next great we're going live to take off your mask you know what if you haven't gotten one yet here's a lure get the vaccine you just heat up your mask i think is a disaster i think it's very much like what you did back in february when he told the indian population that code was over the high seas were empty. a better life was normal and as you saw these huge religious schools political role as a lot of the coach shots of the group now will shoot through the roof here because
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of action. but nonetheless i think you're going to see the slow unintended consequences that were and you can see your number of sessions highlighted by the yankees. greats to infections on the johnson and johnson back see more to come and you can jump the shark on me a little bit here dr bob but since you let into it private industry is already jumping on in the mass mandates we have some of the biggest places starbucks target trader joe's and wal-mart they're all basing their is on some type of honor system they had do you have a vaccine do you not have maxine i'll take your word for it how can that possibly work and do you think this new c.c. mandate causes more problems specifically for state and local governments. because it's huge for state governments especially in red states where there's no reason at all where a mask you know it's so interesting is you know a year ago february. they figured out how to basically cover the content case try
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see if you can contact to somebody with code if you were one of these mobile cabins and i slipped they went down that you know 0 number case the other the chinese have done over the last year is that they have had actually passports and their passports as your vaccination status is the number animal as you have it has test results if you want room apartment we can move it or you have actually asked for we're underneath it and we have a little piece of paper but now they're selling the shelf chowderhead ones so there's no way of knowing who so so you know in the name of sort of then you know not oppressed human rights you know we're going to lose tens of thousands of more people because we don't have the right kind of actually passports what. you see you really know is somebody's a back not so you know years next news wires will be lost and to your point i think the largest nurses union actually agrees with you and they have condemned the c.d.c. got it guidance saying quote this newest cd 3 guidance is not based on science does
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not protect public health and threatens the lives of patients nurses and other front line workers across the country now is not the time to relax protective measures and we are outraged that the c.d.c. has done just that we are still in the midst of the deadliest pandemic in a century you are a letter that was the word of a lot of what were they shut down a year ago i mean it's as if we said hey you know i hope you don't deaths are down you don't have to are safe you don't anymore to take away the speed zones it's ridiculous i think part of my fundamental most important thing is the c.d.c. has gotten the disease completely on this is an area more numbers great article in wired just a couple of days ago indicating that you know because this is so. you go through the year. no red zones. or you know whatever it is if you don't have the right kind of ventilation there then you know one can become a superstar of this virus every claims you know we know that you things were. worse
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and you know that hi folks where she acts words don't change he goes away and we learn what you do or take you know exactly at the moment disaster. and we just have a very short amount of time left but i want to get your thoughts on this may is mental health awareness month and after the year we've all had stressors anxiety and daily life triggers have caused lives to spiral out of control during the pandemic 4 in 10 adults across the u.s. reported symptoms of anxiety and depression what do you think it's going to take to get us back on track and do we have the infrastructure to support these critical mental health needs. oh so we don't have an infrastructure i don't want to react with. psychiatry massachusetts general hospital rated number one in the country he's a couple interesting things one is it's ok not to be ok and a lot of us are this sort of very large you or so the inside brush but he also has some interest in them which is that a year ago 5 percent of their patients were chosen treatments that's now it's like 95 percent still have the tools we have tell us that anybody in the country can he
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still holds medicine rules allows people be able to access that kind of care and that's you actually said that is a likely that tell us a guy who's going to be going to stay there rather than sit here under doctor's office and having to park all the stress and anxiety it's only your thoughts and what not city for us i 1st you get to know that the sort of extra layer of protection in the street so i think the resources can be there if we use terms like i agree and if we have parents and relatives and brothers sisters will step up to say look you need help and i'm taking the extra steps to get that help and dr bob i'm going to have to stop you there i totally agree with you as a matter of personal privilege i am doing tell a pair of the myself i can say that it works thanks for joining us and we look to have you and mary 6. model but. there
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seems to be no end in sight to the latest round of fighting between israeli forces and hamas the conflict started 2 weeks ago after violence broke out when israeli authorities in east jerusalem pushed to evict palestinian families in order to make way for jewish settlers now an international call to stop ongoing bloodshed it's falling on deaf ears israel valves to push forward parties alex the hell of it as the story. as israel's iron dome takes so rockets fired by hamas a new day brings fresh is really strikes to the gaza strip. as the current round of violence enters its 2nd week. entire families were exterminated and their homes were demolished on top of their children by the raid that spread death terror and human remains in the rubble that destroyed buildings and streets the palestinian death toll is approximately 200 including $59.00 children. and they are
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children they are 234 years old what did they do that made it necessary to kill them one of the targets the israelis were after they talked to the missiles at small children who did nothing wrong they were torn to pieces by adding to the dead over 1200 palestinians have been injured and what some are calling unprecedented attacks a journalist on the ground reporting for to describe the scene as really intensive ever strikes killing women and children inside their homes and it is important to note that israel did not send out 3 warning for these buildings this board before they bombarded them which is something the new 3 said as israel used to warn to people before they attempted to strike and even think that is really saw it there have been at least 10 deaths including a 5 year old boy killed by hamas rockets while much of the world is asking for a cease fire to end the bloodshed including some of the u.n.
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the most urgent and depressing at this moment is to the cease fire and the stuff is israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is not ready to comply our battle against the terror organization continues in full force we are charging very heavy crisis from hamas bearable aggression the i.d.f. carried out attacks and more than 1500 targets during the last days according to the israeli military it has destroyed 15 kilometers. militant tunnels in the homes of 9 hamas commanders in addition this airstrike is said to have taken a hard hit the commander of the northern division of islamic jihad on saturday president joe biden spoke with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas calling on hamas to seize rocket fire into israel in addition today abbas met with a u.s. diplomat in ramallah biden also talked to netanyahu get
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a rating his strong support for israel's right to defend itself and let me while raising concerns about the safety come journalists in the war zone over the weekend an office tower which housed several international media organizations was destroyed by the i.d.f. . netanyahu when it's really military officials said they've transmitted intelligence to the united states which shows hamas was using the building for their operations however the u.s. secretary of state while on a visit to denmark countered that claim i've not seen any information provided and they spent the day it is based on intelligence that would have been shared with other colleagues and i'll leave that to them to assess. efforts to stop the violence are being blocked as u.s. representatives to the united nations continue to obstruct efforts by other countries who are asking for a joint statement from the u.n.
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security council which would condemn the violence and calls for a truce so you know that not for watching the hawks i'm alex marquardt. as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t.v.'s available on all platforms coming up we explore how one mississippian received life in prison for marijuana possession and why you can't reform policing without qualified immunity stay tuned to watching the hawks. all the feel we go through. every the world experience.
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and you get the old old. the old according to just. walk up to my world come along for the raw. data. could you source the story about the fact that delayed maxwell will like to take others down i guarantee you there's a lot more going on. in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez and protesters who are not happy this is what we're going to drill down on right here on news rick sanchez where we really do believe it's time to do . this type of america is doing very well but then there's these guys over here who are doing so well but if you drill down to look at the real numbers and
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inequality and racism are the foundations of the american criminal justice system blacks are charged at rates higher the whites serve longer sentences and year after year cycle repeats itself. the war on drugs is ill fated in targeting as it is is doing exactly what it was designed to do. case in point russell allen allen is a black man serving life in prison stemming from a marijuana conviction in mississippi that was uphill just this week the mississippi court of appeals denied russell's appeal arguing he is a habitual offender that classification eliminated any judicial discretion and basically guarantees harsh sentencing even when the offense is nonviolent. and i know what you might be thinking 3 strikes laws and yes this is similar but you offender statutes have a scrutiny across civil rights and criminal justice advocacy circles and poor
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really good reason they systemically attack blacks who are 3 times more likely to get arrested for marijuana infractions than whites even though use and possession rates are similar across both demographics in alan's case the 38 year old was found guilty of possession in 2019 but because he had 2 prior charges he is facing life. but his case isn't unique the mississippi clarion ledger reported just last year that there were 86 have been to a pender's serving life without parole because of convictions for nonviolent crimes just like alan. the bite administration for its part is working to make a campaign promise a reality police reform. but to get a police reform bill across democrats the republican support it's no secret that police reform is needed last summer's george boy protests put the issue front and center and both sides could agree on that but the sticking point is qualified
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immunity republicans one except a bill that includes it progressive democrats want except one without it but moderates like house majority whip james clyburn signaled that he's willing to compromise on joining us now to discuss criminal justice reform and police accountability as former police officer and prosecutor are the riser good to see author. a life sentence for nonviolent offense things particularly egregious but allen's case is that rare a louisiana man with given life in prison for less than $30.00 of marijuana considering states themselves are finding ways to profit off of marijuana why are these sentencing stater still occurring. i mean this is. over heritage from the war on drugs and other types of trickery and cruel justice measures that we saw kind of in the 70s i will say this is a business a bit of a misnomer since it was sentenced to life for. 3 series which is
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you for 2 for burglary and one for firearms. and. look at past inventions in a term i mean what are your sins going to be in fact. things that you were convicted for eternity or sentence but i think this really is a testament to how the war of drugs as lost its way particularly kind of ignores what we know about the chronology and i mean this individual is in the east we know it all starts. people out of each out of crime. just stop committing crimes after a certain age and particularly in the early thirty's i'm 44 there's no way we communicate this to all. and we kind of ignore these things as relates to sentencing and looking at past visions yes he looked he had some serious because in the past but i don't think we know about why. it's also that this last addiction is it indicative of
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a public sex concern public seem to concern really should be what we're looking at if this individual is not dangerous then there's no reason to put in a prison a little hole in a prison for a license and that is cost or else it doesn't make you safer and it costs a lot of money and then. i mean the fact that so many black folk are held up in this way and this is not something the south this started in california you kind of spread its way through its country it's been active in the south and really is a testament to. stop the war on drugs as it's currently being. and not there is there any value to have been lost and considering they have such a long history of abuse and structural racism do you think there is hope of having them rooted out. sure i actually do not like a visual for the precise reason i just when she was that it doesn't take into
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account what we actually know what about why he didn't commit crimes when people somebody who is incredibly violent. or the time i think other. they really kind of the answer me it's. like a mission people just don't do things as they get older i mean i used to be an avid snowboarder of historical. 3 months ago and i decided i'm never going to be i'm just you all for the same thing that happens with any type of behavior that people the other thing about have visual laws is that when you create a system that doesn't have a lot of c.g. valves people who have those weakest voices are the ones the economy quieter and in this country you know that. traditionally and historically have been. minorities and children and the fact is it's not you know rich black people who get
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caught up in this is it's not rich white people it's primarily poor of the jewels and then great sort of the individuals that almost always get wrapped up in this and again it doesn't make a secret if i could look at the data in the data said to me yeah you know what these laws actually our streets safer i have a much harder time to sit. you're telling me that restructure our. don't work i mean this is goes back to also be the super bowl that we had children back in the eighty's they go actually make a secret because it only has a provision will be a vampire. and moving on to qualified immunity i know you've written a lot about it you've spoken a lot publicly about it qualified immunity has become one of the most controversial legal theories can you explain to our audience what it is exactly and why criminal justice reform advocates argue it has to end before any true police reform can take place. yes surely the real quick history lesson qualified immunity started as a weapon for free black people after the civil war that's why it was designed to do
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just that probably knew that the law that said you can sue the government who are violating your constitutional rights and what happened in the sixty's that the powers that be got nervous and civil rights leaders were more sophisticated and then started using makes it through was. 18 if you want to actually go in and change the way that the fox news was reply and so we come out of this judgment doctrine which is quite crazy as we conservatives you know support this now because they hate just being doctrines and the jesuit doctrine it's pretty simple basically says that if even if we can prove that your constitutional rights were violated you have to go to the 2nd step and show that that was clearly established within that jurisdiction and within the law we're still. very wary routes because. we want to give something have
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a barrier and ensure that police officers and other government actors as there's always talk of cops but it wise to everyone and give them an extra layer of protection so i mean all you need is protected cops who you know shot and. you know man who was lying on the floor. you know while there were a need for a fairly pass if a protective police officer who purposely allow those dogs are sick and by an individual who is forever in handcuffs and years that were. it blows me away also stole money during the search were prosecuted for that and are still protected under the civil side under qualified immunity rather than protect officers who actually already has metastasizing injury and your. wrongdoing and this is really a that's police reform you know doesn't have the crack about me cases that i'm just
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more of give you a really quick you know are there i wish we could but we are really running up against the clock here i'm definitely going to have to have you back on to give us that last easter byron passion was definitely there thank you so much arthur rising . and that is our show for you today and remember everyone in this world we're not told we're loved enough so i tell you i love you i'm amazed across people watching those talks and have a great day and night if. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic hallucinations that emerge fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most deluded society on politics as
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a species of endless and needless political theater politicians have morphed into celebrity are 2 ruling parties are in reality one party or party. those who attempt to puncture this vast breathless universe of fake news designed to push through the cruelty and exploitation field little or are forced so far to the margins of society including by a public broadcasting system that has sold its soul for corporate money that we might as well be mice squeaking against an apple puts we must. why in the world does he think this is
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a positive idea for the united states. well i think you're playing exactly the role that a good journalist ought to know why this had to happen at this exact moment there's already so much instability within the middle east is this is probably just one of the many voices on television right now that have ties to those the benefit from going forward thank. you guys i made a professional is power point show you how r.t. america gets into the greater media landscape is not all laughter all right we are a solid alternative to the both liberal or conservative and as you can see that is bar graph we don't skew the facts either talking at lefties talking at righties oh there you go above it all to look out world are see america is in the spotlight now every really hard no idea how to classify as when it actually took me way more time than i care to admit.
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*. welcome welcome redacted denied this is a comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents a lot of americans seem very excited about the fact that joe biden gave a lovely speech to congress a couple weeks ago they say biden has already exceeded progressive expectations he's the most progressive president since f.d.r. as long as we keep our daughters away from him we can be thrilled that he said things like this by the way they are thinking about standard things and my guess. that's raised the minimum wage to fish. a no warranty.
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