clues, a guided missile destroyer guided missile frigate and an anti submarine. what's called corvette ships will also work and bilateral exercises with naval units, from singapore, vietnam, indonesia, and the philippines. all this is us, vice president, common harris is scheduled to take her 1st trip to vietnam and singapore in 2 weeks time a trip aimed at rally international support to counter china's increasing global influence and powder and power that according to the white house, we're also looking at the deadly wave shootings here in america the summer as the murder rate continues to climb nationally in new york city, 10 people were wounded when 2 gun mentioned there followed by 2 accomplices motor scooters. open fire outside a restaurant in queens. well, that shooting, but just want to several in the 5 boroughs over the course of a weekend in which 18 people were wounded. 3 killed by gunfire, just one of the cities dealing with increasing violence in portland, oregon. as the murder rate there continues to skyrocket. a police department is having a hard time recruiting people and speaking of having

a hard time finding workers, america, airline industry continues to struggle despite a massive federal bail out. during the pandemic, flight delays and cancellations continue to grow despite increasing numbers of people flying even as the delta various of the coven, 1900 virus continues to spread all this and more to drill down on today on john hardy. and this is of course news we choose right here on our t america. let's get to it. ah . all right, so the white house, as i was just talking about, says that vice president harris will quote unquote underscore the u. s. has message regarding free passage for trade through the south china sea during her trip to vietnam and singapore. as i, as i talked about later this month. well this is indian germany or the. busy last countries to send warships right there to the south china sea. so for more discussion on this, we bring in political commentator and former us naval intelligence officer,

john jordan. john, good to see you. i know you know this region very well. so i wanna, i wanna talk about exactly what's happening here. you know, we'll, indian germany sending naval ships to the south trying to see what will that accomplish if anything, will this essentially intimidate china? is that, is that really the, you know, the move here if you do significant, john, and there's really a couple of different parts to this. first of all, the british sent in their new aircraft carrier queen elizabeth with f. 35 jets on it. and now you have germany doing the same now can germany in england really project military force in that region? not really. what it does do is send a message to beijing is that future attempts as my dad would call it, to turn south china sea into a lake aren't going to be tolerated. that's a hugely important trade route. the most important from there to the straits them off as most important trade route in the world. and we're not going to, nobody is the you is not going to tolerate that being turned into something that is

controlled by china exclusively. and there's going to be economic and political consequences. that's what those worship deployments by germany in england communicate to beijing and no uncertain terms. now, the indian deployment is another thing entirely. the indian navy is actually quite, is quite large and quite formidable with its own aircraft. carriers, huge, obviously, based and largely in, in the indian ocean goes without saying, the indian navy is very potent and is a huge strategic potential threat to china militarily. unlike germany in england, because india is in a position to sever china's oil trade routes to the middle east, separate in china's tray, into europe and to africa. because the chinese military cannot contest. you cannot, cannot compete with the indian navy in the indian ocean through which those trade routes go. so the 2 very significant deployments for very different reasons. you mentioned, you mentioned the u. k. and i want to, i want to drill down on that. china says that it's launched multiple military

drills as the case aircraft carrier, the h m, as queen elizabeth, enters the south china sea. it calls the ships to visit quote, unquote, colonial and warrens that attend intrudes on chinese claimed islands and reeves, it will be expelled. what exactly does that mean? a whole lot of nothing. because there's not much the chinese can do about it unless they're willing to actually engage in direct military conflict with england, which phasing is not prepared to do. they're not going to be able to expel what are they gonna be turning around and kick it out when china says things like that, a lot of it is for its own domestic consumption, right? because the chinese companies powers and communist party as an autocratic regime and they have to say things to appear struggling to appear righteous. and that's why these throw terms like colonial around the british haven't had any interest in it really in that part of the world. since they seated control of hong kong per

treaty in 1997. so that's just really domestic fluff for the chinese public. do you think, you know, you know, having said that, that china, whatever, open fire, you know, we have that incident on crimea between the, you know, between russia and the u. k. russia, according to the russian navy, russian defense ministry, opening fire, fire and warning shot at, at the u. k. ship, do you, do you see anything like that potentially happening as a warning from china? no, the chinese play a different game and this is a very different environment. then the credit and the crimea and the black sea. the chinese were to do that in a major trade route. they're risking having a naval action, basically several other economic lifeline. this is different from the in the case, this is very different from the ukranian, the black sea case where there isn't an existential threat to russia. ukraine in the black sea where that in the, in the south china sea, the contested military. the economic consequences for china would be calamitous,

because china's economy is export driven. they're completely dependent on middle eastern oil and they would see that come to a screeching halt along with their economy. so the chinese are going to be far more circumspect. and the chinese in gauging and military naval conflict in the south china sea for that reason. moreover, the chinese strategy is very different. what they're trying to do is we're these little tiny islands. i talk to my dad about an hour ago. they build the little tiny air fields which are militarily particularly useful. they're trying to do is turn this in, kind of a de facto chinese lake. little by little they'll still one the entire beach, one grain, a fan of the time. and they're trying to do just incrementally make chinese dominance in the area. a defacto fact of life and what these deployments are saying, my england, the germany largest member, the u and in the are saying are saying not so fast. we're not going to see that. we're going to continue to have these freedom navigation exercises because these

are international waters. yeah, we'll see where it goes. john jordan, always great. have any on thanks for the inside. appreciate it could see if we continue to follow news near the metro bus station and later died at a local hospital. all the attacker was shot by the officer and died on scene. now the report of gunfire put the u. s. now the report of gunfire put the u. s. military headquarters on lockdown for those who aren't familiar with this location . it's a very busy area for commuters, especially for those of course who work at the pentagon. meanwhile, across the country, murder rates rose 24 percent in 32 american cities in the 1st quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year. this, according to a recent study by the council on criminal justice and no city it appears is immune to the violence that police departments are finding really, increasingly hard to counter in many of america's big cities. with more on this, we go to r, t correspondent and tosh suite. portland, oregon is on track to surpass its highest of homicides. this comes as

a city resurrect, gun violence production team. but the only problem is the one set out jobs is now not getting enough applications. shootings in portland, oregon has been store in for the past 6 months. so for at least $570.00 shootings have occurred this year. right now, the city is likely to surpass $987.00 which had the highest homicide rate recorded . the portland police bureau has lost $125.00 sworn officers in the last year alone . and their 10 wheeler is pushing for more. but in a climate where much of the country is calling to defend the police, after a few cases of police brutality officers are harder to come, bye, which official say is making crime even worse. on an incident to incident basis. the resources are very, very important. but it's hard to say if we had this many officers, we wouldn't have this type of thing in portland, just brought back. if gun violence reduction team of the 14 positions, only 4 had been filled in the new york city. borough of queens, 10 people were wounded when 2 men opened fire in

a large crowd. new york police department says the shooting took place outside a barber shop in the boroughs cronan neighbourhood just before 11 pm saturday. you can see in the surveillance video released by police to government arriving on foot, been flooded the scene onto mob heads driven by 2 other men. please say 3 of the intended targets are known gang members. other innocent victims ranged in age from 19 to 72 with crime escalating in new york authority, say they're noticing a common theme. that's gang members. that's guns. multiple guns on the scene. scooters been used masks. and lastly, unintended targets getting hit. and just like in portland, new york city is also needing help from police. so i always say, cameras don't take the place of police officers, right? so naturally we support our police and, and we always encouraging the city to give us more officers and in california. police are looking for a motive behind a movie theater, shooting that left people dead, including tick tock,

store anthony bronze. the shooting happened in a cronum theatre just 50 miles east of los angeles. the man accused of the shooting 20 year old joseph jimenez is being held on $2000000.00 bill. he could be eligible for the death penalty if convicted. now as all these shootings are happening around the country, the big question remains, will the public and police be able to make amends after what happens in 2020 or 40 for new few tooth and partial suites are all right, so for more discussion on these rising crime rates and stat across the united states. let's bring in our panel. matthew fog is retired chief deputy u. s. marshall and brock. lori is a lawyer, host of the brock, lori radio show and author of atheism kills. welcome to you both. thanks for coming on, gentlemen. brooklyn, let's start with you. there been a number of reasons given for the massive spiking in crime stat nationwide from more people carrying guns, guns, and gangs, as,

as the one chief said in new york to the ongoing, coven, 1900 pay. and then it calls for the funding, the police. what do you think is causing the increasing numbers? right, well, sometimes the simplest answer is usually the right one and, and i think it's because they've been demonizing that please. they've asked for the funding of the police. but it really is about the attitude toward the police. and because of that, we've got a whole new culture that has developed. we have a complete new culture where you decide that you can go ahead and rob a store for merchandise up to $950.00. and that's ok. well, i think that's partially responsible. it's not majorly responsible for the increase in violence in criminal activity that we're talking about. we've got 3 different categories of people, right? you've got the law abiding like you and i, we will abide by the law regardless of whether or not we're going to be held, arrested for something we just won't do it in the 1st place because we think it's wrong. and then you have those who,

what can make crimes because they know they're going to go to jail. but there are other is that what i call the not quite criminal. meaning that the reason why they don't engage in criminal activity is because they feel like they will not be that they don't want to be arrested. that's the only reason why. but if we send the signal that the police are bad for it and that you won't be arrested well, then they'll go ahead and do it. and that's why we have this increasing crime. there's a whole new class of people out there that are arising to commit crimes because they feel that they can't do so with impunity. matthew, i want to, i want to turn to you. there's, look, there's been and listening to what brought you said. there has been a great deal of attention on police and particularly police brutality in the united states, particularly after, of course, the death of george floyd the subsequent trial during the show then. but clearly it's still happening. i mean, in miami, florida, just this week, 5 miami beach officers are now facing criminal charges. after repeatedly punching

and kicking a guy who was placed under arrest. i'm not sure why in the lobby of a hotel, but they really beat the hell out of this guy. and then the cops turn their attention to somebody, recording the beating on a cell phone and then attack him. it seems like some things just aren't changing though in many department. am i wrong on that? what do you think about what? what brought you said well no you that wrong one and i mean, i get 30, you have them on. i did a lot of drag that operation on us marches l. a. miami, chicago, p d that is being operation, but it's racial bias, boise, we do that. that's what we do. we get away with it and we used to doing these things and people and nobody does anything about it. now that when family to george thought think came out and we thought everybody actually watched this stuff. and so i go down. it said, wow, they couldn't believe it, but what's happening is this, the reason why you left out the one key component. the reason why the stuff is on the police, put the word out on this free call flow, be thrown down,

investigate nothing. i tell people all the time i said the mass over the place to run the show. if the rank and file that runs and happen in new york, when the, when the police department turned it back on. what we've got is we got long was been out there, letting the people know we're not investigating any crime. go after who you want do this step when you want. and that's the reason why you all of us that and saw a swing uptake. when it comes down to the number of guns on the street, you come down to the drug screen and all this other stuff. it's already been there . but just like alcohol prohibition, we learned real fast. that as long as you prohibit this stuff, it's going to turn to balance. and that's what has happened with this whole balance that we see. now. it's just that law enforcement as we're not going to do the job. we're going to slow down. we're going to quit, we're going to back off,

and the word is on the street. go ask that who you want to day, not going to stop that. it's real simple, it's not a lot of math today. i mean, i got to wonder who even want to be a cop these days. i understand why people get into law enforcement and look, there's good cops and back cart. i've come across both. i've been friends with police chiefs and i've come across them some officers that weren't including recently miami, i'm not going to get that story. a whole nother story that, that are respectful and that sometimes don't do the right thing, like the content in miami. first of all, why, why was there 15? 20 eyes on one guy. i don't understand that that it seems like a complete over reaction math brock. i want to get to you just on what matthew was saying, and then matthew, i'll give you the last word brocklow in. right, well, these are anecdotal stories that we're hearing about. of course, these are things to get into the media at the end of the day, but by and large, in fact, 99.9 percent, the vast majority as it were, police are doing fantastic jobs. the reason and i think the elephants in the room

is what happened in the past year and a half or so where we decided to demonize the police. we decided that there, we will not criminalize shoplifting. to a great extent, leasing california. i can tell you and then likewise with a no cash bell, when you, when you have that and the same time tell police, especially if he's a wife or that if he in gauges, he might very well be accused of racism and suddenly be on national news he says, no, thank you. thank you very much. i, i don't want to participate in this and then you have all sorts of concerns for their own safety at the same time. so to me it's no surprise that crime has spiked because of the demonizing of the police at the same time. these are all things i have completed together to make a police officer say, i don't want a part of this. it's a little bit like i don't see what the point of, of a police officer even arresting anybody. because to, to me it's a little bit like that. the gardener with the leaf lower trying to blow leaves during a hurricane. what's the point?

ok, well we, unfortunately, we're out of time guys. i got to get to break here. you know, we'll have you back on. sorry, matthew, and i know you wanted to jump in there. well, definitely have you back on again. well, this is not the end. we'll be talking about this a lot gentlemen. appreciate you coming on. thank you for flight delays and cancellations continue to grow despite increasing numbers of people flying. even as the delta very and of the coven, 1900 virus continues to spread. we'll discuss the troubles facing america's airports and airlines. right after the driven by remove shaped by those in . ah, there's things we dare to ask

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shallows ah, in the moon. the alright, well air travel in the u. s. is hitting new pandemic highs and airlines are scrambling really at this point to keep up despite increasing cove in 1900 infection rates nationally with as i mentioned before, the delta variance spreading really like wildfire. at this point, millions of people are still nonetheless flying on us airlines. and like myself, if you flown recently as well, i flew up here from miami. chances are your flight has been delayed or canceled, or both. it's a huge problem right now. many of the big airlines like american airlines, again, out of miami, where i live,

are dealing with worker shortages and the staffing problems that ultimately affect flights and effect the flight not only at one airport, but nationally. there's also been recent reports about fuel shortages that many us airports and some of the airlines even asking pilots to do their best to conserve fuel. couple of that with bad weather and you have serious problems. this, despite the $54000000000.00 taxpayer funded federal bailout given to the airline industry during the pandemic. so what's going on? what's the deal with more on this will bring in our next panel of experts to discuss the legal and logical aspects. molly barrows is legal analyst and contributor to american lawyer right here on our t america. and jamie finch is a former director at the n t. s. be good to have both of the on. jamie, let's start with you. when we're talking about airlines staffing shortage is fewer shortages, bad weather. and then the actually just came out with this article about an hour

ago having to do with spirit airlines cancelling nearly half its schedule this week . the 3rd straight day of hi cancellation numbers because of apparently a lack of pilots. you know, i'm saying to myself, what's going on here? i mean, certainly this isn't, this can only be covered, you know, pandemic related. well, what we're seeing here basically is a failure of the entire supply chain of, of the industry. the industry had really ramped itself down to a scale that was just minimal and we were only having, we got down to a point of only a 100000 people flying in this country every day. now we usually have $2500000.00 flying per day. and so we really, they had to narrow it down to be able to, to survive. now, there, as the shots came out and the vaccines come out and people are getting, getting back to aid and some of the restrictions were lifted. we of course some of them have been reinstated lately,

but when the restrictions were being lifted and people are picked up at home, ready to go. and so it's a combination of many factors of, of being rammed down, trying to wrap up too fast. and they can't keep up with the demands of the fuel supply being, it's not just the, the fuel was airlines just because the fuel is not getting to the airports because the, the, the fuel is up. but was it being manufactured by, by the distilleries or refineries and, and they can't get the trucks and the truck drivers to get it to to the, to the airport. so it's really a combination of multiple things. yeah. and then shortage of pilots, apparently at the spirit airlines. so we have the shorter the pilots. i mean that's, that's been an ongoing thing and they've had me years of warning about this and the airlines have been trying to get ahead of it because there's so many pilots that are retiring. and so they're trying to get a lot more people to go into flying and to get the number of hours so they can

become a commercial flight pilot. but, but at the same time, they also reduce the number of pilots and trying to get them come back to actually during the pandemic. so it's a combination of multiple factors. you can't just call it black and white one on one thing or the other. yeah, i mean it, look, it's in the pay is so low in the industry. we're talking about the flight attendants make such, well, i mean, they have such a grueling job right now, particularly dealing with unruly, disruptive and violent in some cases, passengers. at this point, molly, i want to turn to you there been at least 5000, you know, when we're looking at the numbers, 5000 delayed flights on most day since early july, according to some of the recent stats coming out with southwest american. as we talked about spirit among the airlines, with the biggest problems, shouldn't people have more recourse to recoup their money and time considering, you know, our money, our taxpayer dollars went to help pay for the 54000000000 dollar bail out? well, you would think so, john, but you know, most of the liability on the part of an airline is contractual. so that doesn't lead passengers or travelers with

a lot of legal room to pursue any compensation unless it's specific. now they have some, each individual airline has rules regarding reimbursement or regulations regarding re bookings. so there's like a small number, a small limited example of things that you could get re compensated for. for example, if your plane is overbooked and you are booted off the plane and voluntarily, then they have to compensate you to a certain extent or under federal law. then they don't even have to, you know, they have to give you a full refund. if there's a significant delay, and significant delay though is defined by each airline, individual a, but to hours is a good rule of thumb. so there are some options that the best thing you can do is just book your ticket through your airline as opposed to like booking through a booking company. because if you are going to have a problem, it's easier to deal one on one with the airline to get compensation. but from a legal standpoint, it's a very little wiggle room. yeah, i mean fingers crossed right when you fly. i mean, when i was going to my, anyone before i was coming up here,

i read the story about fuel shortages and i'm going is it even safe to get blake, jamie, what do you think? is it safe supply? i mean that's, you know, a lot of people are wondering at this point, put, put aside the coven, you know, in the delta very, and everything like that isn't even going to get in these, these points, in a word. yes, it's going airlines series when the say to say this mode of transportation in the world and always has been always will be where we're starting going. we're going to start getting into factors that are there are not really something that eric as control when they're bringing all these crew and they're trying to keep up with everything and they're working long hours and they're in the flight. it is the flight crews. everybody's trying to best they, they are there, they're losing, they have fatigue. and so because of the fatigue mistakes can start to be made brief, but we know it from our investigation to the n t s b. that is, that fatigue is a killer, is a dangerous, is as drunk driving. so you really have to be careful and be mindful about about to

distress and fatigue, but as far as traveling and flying and so forth. now i feel very safe. i don't know . i can't wait to fly home like that. all right, well that's all the time we have for today's show. thanks for watching. we'll see against him. ah ah ah ah, you know, believe it doesn't look like this is off the old see what was over to you to

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