the other the headlines with our live on october, the national big announcement out of new york and governor andrew cuomo announces he is quitting them at allegations of sexual harassment. thereby, ultimately falling victim to the very me, to the core feed himself claims to support a blow to about to cause the head of a charity that support the victims of sexual harassment. also quit bombing to pressure over her ties to andrew cuomo or through in the program here on our team today. about 60 years since the u. s. first use agent orange and vietnam. herbicide proven to cause serious health issues among both local down soldiers on the program, a veteran tells us at the time a men we really need to sit down and take a look and say,

hey, where's is going to do not only to the civilians populations not only to the enemies, but also to both as newly obtained a pentagon documents shed light on how the u. s. department of defense pressures moving producers to portray the american military in a favorable life. ah, it is tuesday evening here in moscow and what started off as a con program has quickly escalated. welcome to it. here on the international the new york governor andrew cuomo hasn't asked. he will step down in 14 days. it comes on the back of months of allegations of sexual harassment, though he denies any wrong doing, despite his own earlier impassioned speeches on respecting women and their personal

space to sheep in or ridicule the pain, a woman suffers from the sexual attack is disgusted. i often will give them a grip of the arm, a pat on the face, a touch on the stomach, a slap on the back. it's my way of saying, i see you. i appreciate you. and i thank you to 2nd guess how a woman should have active or sexual is sexist and disgusted. i do hug and kiss people casually. women and men. i have done it all my life. it's who i've been,

since i can remember. i mean, it's just insensitive, you don't understand the pain you don't understand how the system tortures a person who wants to come forward. i have slept and called people honey sweetheart. and darley, i meant it to be in theory. in the not so distant past, cuomo was going to women's marches and speaking up in support of the me to movement condemning sexual harassment, talking about the rights of women. but in 2020, towards the end of the year, that image started to change. we had one a come forward saying he had been sexually harassing her for years that another age stepped forward, said he kissed her against her will. then someone else stepped forward and said he had inappropriately touched her on her, exposed, lower back, and then someone else came forward and said he had asked her about her sex life and

hinted that he was open to having sexual relations with somebody who is at least 22 years old, and at this point we have 11 women who are speaking up and saying that andrew cuomo engaged in inappropriate behavior with them. now. andrew cuomo has resigned. buddy insist that he is innocent. he says he did nothing wrong. it would simply be impossible for him to continue governing in this atmosphere created by these allegations. and at this point, he is, he is stepping down within 2 weeks. he will no longer be the governor of new york. here's what he said. the situation in moment, i'm not about the facts. it's not about the truth. this is about politics. and our political system today is too often driven by the extreme twitter has become the public square for policy debate. now, cuomo says this is politically motivated and that the only evidence is

a bunch of tweets on social media. however, while most supported this very same movement, the me to movement in similar situations, and many critics of me to have pointed out that all it takes in order to have a politician, step down is allegations the word of accusers, as well as social media outrage. there's really no procedure. there is no way of determining guilt or innocence. the accusations, fly, and careers are destroyed. now, many have pointed out at me to seem to be primarily targeting, you know, republicans and conservatives, donald trump. but cuomo is a democrat, and his accusers are democrats and the new york state attorney general lateesha james, who issued the report that seems to have been the last straw, was also a democrat. it seems like the fallout from the new level of awareness spawned by the me to hash tag campaign on social media is continuing with andrew cuomo who has

been governor of new york since 2011 being forced to resign. i also spoke with legal and media analyst, lionel he says, quo a resignation was really only just a matter of time. he perhaps gave one of the worst defences ever in the history of defences. i mean, it was a man who was completely divorced from reality. it's like nothing you've ever seen . you could not have possibly handled this worse by the way. he has multiple criminal charges that are pending. this is a man who was responsible, so they say for 15000 elderly people meeting their maker rather early. because he moved coven patients into nursing homes. why you might ask some say, to avoid making it look like donald trump was helping this had to happen. and today, as we speak because of his inability to appreciate consequence, he's saying,

well, i'm going to step down. not because i'm guilty, not because i did anything wrong that because any of these accusers are correct. but for the sake of this state, for the sake of governance, i'll do the right thing and fall on my sword because that's the kind of magnanimous person i was kind of surrounding quote, most harassment case became even bigger after a group fighting sucks. if you got involved, but not on the side, you would expect the leader of the char heat times up, which supports the victims of sexual harassment. resigned of the coming of the fire for her ties to the new york governor office. daniel hawkins joined my colleague niel harvey earlier in the studio to discuss this angle to the story. will roberta kaplan is a lawyer and she's one of the co founding members of the times up shower seats, organization that defends and supports the victims of sexual harassment and sexual abuse. it's

a charity that raises funds for that legal costs and their main slogan. the slogan behind their mission is that no woman should be left behind, nobleman should be left voiceless. they should be able to tell a story and get the support they need. no matter how powerful they were. the cues is up. you deserve more than just the you are showing others at no one has the right to strip your voice, no matter how known and powerful they are. well, you can even buy merchandise, clothes and other items with that mission statement on limits. very well run organization that's no doubt helped many, many women in the darkest hour. so what was cap plans, involvement and all this? well, a report by the new york attorney general lateesha james mentions on multiple occasions saying she actually helped to review and draw the letter written by under quote, by which allegedly calls out attacks and diminishes the allegations put forward by his victims. the letter went on,

published apparently not enough. people were willing to sign it to actually get behind the new governor, but nevertheless mention in the report design good many victims and survivors of sexual abuse. they've written an open letter around 30 signatories, which have criticised cat plan for taking part in the writing of this letter, which would describe what critics is victim shaving and castigating those victims who wanted to come forward and tell a story. unsurprisingly, it was viewed as untenable with her position as the head of a, one of the heads of a women's charity. this is what cow plant said in her resignation statement. i can offer the degree of transparency about my firms matters now being demanded. since that would be contrary to my responsibilities as a lawyer kaplan's also, the law representing elizabeth seen carol lots of rights of suing donald trump defamation with ross to re publications made many years ago. is that a whole lot of damage into the story as well? yeah, once it's showing a human rights campaign,

is reputation that tarnished it seems by involvement with the quote most scandal tell us more about language. well, the human rights campaign is the most prominent l g b t. i advocate advocacy group in the united states. it defends, it promotes lobbies for minority rights across the whole country and it's presidents. often, david found himself under fire as an internal investigation is launched into his role. he was also mentioned in the attorney general's report, allegedly releasing the victims personnel file to the governor's office when those allegations were made. now he's somebody else who said his behavior was entirely legitimate. he acted well within his room. it was nothing illegal untoward. and what he did, nevertheless, and in time of estimation has been lost, and no doubt a shadow will be cost over that lobbying group. as the 20th anniversary of the 911 terror attacks nears the family of those who lost their

lives to be a trusted one, joe biden. to stay away from this years memorial event, at least if he doesn't declassified documents, but some suspect provide evidence of saudi involvement. 6 months ago, the 911 community had great hopes that president joe biden would be the long last champion of those directly affected by this murderous attack on our nation. since the conclusion of the 911 commission in 2004 much investigative evidence has been uncovered, implicating saudi government officials in supporting the attacks through multiple administrations, the department of justice and the f. b. i have actively sought to keep this information secret and prevent the american people from learning the full truth about the 911 attacks. as we approach the 20th anniversary of 911 and having been used as a political bargaining chip for 2 decades, our patients has expired. president biden says he supports

a recent department of justice decision to reopen the investigation into the classified documents. i think he would strive for maximum degree transparency under the law without though compromising that of state secrets. the saudi government has long denied any role in the terror attack. so let's bring in monica. i can the founder and president of september's mission. that's an organization representing the families of those who died in the twin towers. tragedy. monica, thanks for joining us here on our team and to national you did suffer a profound personal loss on 911. why are these documents so important to you? what do you expect to learn from them? well, for me actually, you know, i didn't really get involved in an island commission, but i think it is important for us to really understand what took place that day. my, my goal is always to been positive and try to focus on not the negative because we can't bring our loved ones home. and it's so important that we don't let this

happen in the future. so i think we need to have to have an understanding. i don't really need it, but i think our future does need to know what happened that day and have the transparency that they need to make sure that that never happens again on american soil, especially after what happened at the capital. i think we really need to step it up a little bit and make sure our leaders to the right thing for our country and making sure that that, that never ever happens here again to our loved ones and the future that it's coming up from this year. well, there are suspicions that have been raised by a number of people over the past 2 decades about about possible saudi involvement in 911. of course, washington is not going to want to implicate riyadh and anything to do with this when you think about saudi arabia, the petro dollar, and how the petra dollar is basically that the spine of the wells, number one, global reserve currency. if you go into something like wikipedia that i don't always recommend, but wikipedia says there were 15 saudis involved. there were members,

people from yemen, the u. a. e, lebanon, egypt. what do you think of that? i mean, does that sound about right to you about those who are involved in this terror attack? sounds, it sounds accurate me and i, you know, i keep telling people like, you know, for me, we can't bring our loved one home. so, you know, i have to be honest, i didn't know what a terrorist was until i learned about what they were. so i didn't know we had evil people in the world who believe they should take plains and kill innocent people work. so that was all new thing that i think, you know, as a new yorker, a native new yorker, i maybe called myself my eat. but i learned a lot that day about what's going on around us. and in the world we live in how people really are able and they to us. so i think we really need to be prepared to make sure that does not happen. i have 2 girls who are 13 and 15. i don't want to have to worry about them growing up in our world that we have to be fearful that

other countries are trying to attack us and kill us are going work. i mean, that just should not happen. that he is a memorial event marks to decades on do you think joe biden should, should attend this service? i was there last year. i, you know, at the end of the day we need our leaders to be able to step up to the plate, and i understand there are going to be some pensions. if he doesn't respond to the families. i think they're pretty much habit. like you stated 20 years, it's been a long time. i think we need to know exactly what happened and how it happened and you know what countries were involved because obviously they know, so i think there, you know, if he does show up, he, you know, if he doesn't do the right thing, he's gonna have to prepare for families being upset with him, but he's our leader. so if he wants to be read it the right way, i think he needs to do the right thing by the time. as i mentioned earlier, it's unlikely the washington want to in any way implicated the middle east. i live

out of saudi arabia, but it might be worth saying perhaps, or washington knows very well. that's how the ravia in recent decades has been the number one finance of al qaeda. and of course, archive is blamed for the $911.00 attacks. so clearly we should have some responsibility here. monaco, do you think i agree. i think they need to be responsible and we all know that they were involved and we, you know, we're not rocket science. i think we just need people to own it and acknowledge what took place that day. especially now, with the 20th coming up and our leaders, we look to our leaders. we need them to do the right thing by us now and make sure there is transparency and, and knowing who really did, why. but, you know, as i always say, at least we have this world class will go around museum if they're proud of it. so have to be on the board of it and you know, it doesn't make it any easier for us, but at least we know we're trying to do the right thing to make sure that this does

not happen again to our future generations that are coming up monica, let's talk about these that this, this possible new investigation on the possible release of sensitive documents or the trump administration. also actually happen to sit on these documents. why do you think there seems to be so much reluctance to make them public? nobody wants to know the truth. that's why people don't want to. then the truth is scary because we all know that somebody dropped the ball on 911. people should've been able to get jumbo jets. take them out and go into building that shouldn't happen. and there was a lot of negligence will say, or not transparency, meaning, you know, they knew things and they didn't do anything. so i think it's the same situation. and i think that's part of the problem that, you know, we, we know that that happened. so i think we need to kind of expect that that's

because i feel that people know more than they're saying, well, obviously it was the george w bush administration that was in the white house at the time of the 911 attacks. do you think the george w bush administration was transparent at the time of 911-2001? i don't actually have an issue with the bush, family and pen as president senior and junior ice di i think it stems way back when there was oppertunity to do things that didn't happen. so you know, i don't think i don't blame anyone. i think there was people to blame, but i don't think is one particular person or one president. i think it goes way back. i think it goes back to the 93 bombing of the world trade center. i think it goes back to you know, back what i mean. i didn't even know what a terrorist status. so i think this goes way back and it's bigger than we really can conceptualized because, you know,

we need our leaders to be our guidance. you know, they're, they're the president for a reason. so i always feel that we have to have faith in that and i know that sometimes we find out things that we don't want to know and you talk about funding, things you don't want to know, are you sure you want to know what could be released from a new investigation and all these documents i probably wouldn't want to know because it's not going to bring my michael on. so for me, i probably rather not know, i think people do want to know and they need to know. and if they have that desire, i think they should know, and i think that that should be made available to them like the commission. i didn't get involved in an island commission because i at the end of their i'm looking to do something positive and make sure that this never happens in and create a beautiful, meaningful oral and now. so that's to me, the most important thing we can bring them home, but we do, or which of people that are in the know and need to know. you know that some people need to know they're defiant about that. they have to know who dropped the ball,

who did what? so, you know, that's their right. i always say you're right is to find out whatever you need to find out. and that means sometimes not things that you want to know about. monica can a founder and president of september's mission joining us here live. we're not into national, we appreciate you joining us and good luck. thank you. and i thank you for joining us as well here. when i change a national, your program returns and just about the the ah

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60 years since the 1st use of agent orange by the us military in vietnam, of a highly toxic herbicide and the folio. and of course, the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who have been left with lasting effects and warning you may find the following images disturbing. the address about 5000000 people in vietnam who has incurable chronic diseases due to agent orange and the complete normal life, a fine job the i was a simple soldier in a bomb squad. my task was to clear paths and demolish things. area was poisoned,

but we didn't know it back then. we just went on with our lives. we only realized when we started having children that go along the same genius and also when people started having children was normal to stuff that work. you know, they realized what orange pe needs to tell me when i hear from those how the parents were shocked and i like the panel immediately goes with the former american soldiers are also still struggling with their exposure to agent orange, retired u. s. navy commander and lawyer, john wells spoke to us about the consequences of the chemical and the attempts of

veterans to claim compensation. significant portion we would say, currently we're looking at about 110000 claims have been filed. some of those are the same person, multiple plans for the same person, but it's probable that we're, i would say 706070 percent of those folks had some problems. today there was cases what they call the ring per besides. and it was use primarily for d, for the asian edge in orange was so name because there was an orange strike around the center of the barrel. of the things like agent blue had a blue stripe, agent, pink, pink stripe, and so on so forth. as far as we know, edge and orange was the worst that some of the others herbicides have the same chemical component. well they, i grow chemical dry and monsanto with one of the companies under fire. it was

a major supply of agent orange during the vietnam war, despite facing a barrage of legal claims. both it and its parent company, bay maintain. they can be held responsible for how the chemical was used. john wells again says to many people have suffered needlessly. i think primarily the v a system is over bureaucratic and they have difficulty processing them by even now, you know, we've had 2 and a half years since that court decision. they've only processed about 60 percent of the claims that are in file. we really need people to sit down and take a look at and say, hey, what is this going to do? not only to the civilians populations not only to the army, but also to our own troops. if the world or united states had learned a lesson, and i certainly hope they do because, you know, we wind up spending a lot of time causing a lot more pain and we have to out there, or is it easy?

it's never easy. but it's, you know, we should do everything we can to minimize the effect on we all really on everybody . so the pentagon has apparently been routinely bullying hollywood movie makers into portraying the us military and a favorable light. while this is all according to a newly obtained documents, apparently the day often demands script editing with one tv series even getting his wings clipped by the top us bras. as r t z concepts in a rush gulf now explains propaganda on the silver screen. so the d o d 's been waging war, the creative freedom is scrape writers and directors. perhaps the most blatant case is the 200-1900 c b s. trauma serious. the code about marine corps lawyers, which was canceled soon after release school pack, were headed towards the as it turns out,

the military saw the 1st effort i was before they went on air and was upset about his story line showing a marine turned congress magic. he's the brutally execute and then iraqi civilian and another service man who killed a spanish citizen while drunk driving. marine corps leadership was apparently provided advanced copies of several of the episodes and was displeased enough that they communicated what they saw a serious shortcomings in the depiction of the marines. cbs television has indicated a desire to correct the problems in future episodes by accepting d. o. d assistance as a 1000 pentagons official web page. the department has a long standing relationship with hollywood. what it keeps quiet about is how many trade offs had cost the filming community. remember, homeland and american long run and espionage thriller, the carrion cobble for a week or 2. when, according to the files, the producers asked the us army to support the final season, filming,

but initially were turned down by the military. after they saw the script on the entertainment office is currently in talk of the producers of homeland who have asked the modern army support initial request was declined due to a storyline, that was not an accurate portrayal of soldiers. sure, in a responded with some significant edits to the problematic areas. army has agreed to provide support as requested. show runners responded with significant ad. it's what they were. we don't know by what we do know is that how lens final season speculates on a full story that the russians funded tally about insurgence also plays off the consequence of the us withdrawal from against them. sounds like something that american army bosses might like. the pentagon doesn't always get its way though the same internal reports, jas. christopher, no one. a hot shot hollywood director simply snubbed the military as they showed their appetite for a script at its continued discussions for support of christopher nolan thriller,

merry go round working titles, support request includes use of our spring tional, airframes, n g b, an air force of indicated interest if military characterizations are read with an emphasizing military mission request for support of chris nolan thriller, merry go round working title seemed have stopped likely causes that produce the director were reluctant to make changes needed to gain d o d support. others like captain marvel, co director of an a, bowden and wine flag had to cozy up to the defense department report leave. they had lunch with air force top command and took part in a professional development session. whatever that means, before the film's release. no wonder a marvel movies are being branded as military propaganda in the media. more and more. the internal reports coverages. 2 years of pentagon, hollywood cooperation from 2017 to 2019. yet they cite scores of famous movies and tv shows that gain support or a green light from the military, including and former is the last night fast and furious. a tom cruises top,

gone to the list, goes on. but those are the films that made it to the big screen despite the it is a lot of stories like a documentary on guantanamo bay. trials have been rejected completely and never came in to be. all right, thanks for joining us or naughty international that wraps up this half hour's news program for this hour though in about so even as time went back with more of your worldwide uses. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have is crazy. plantation let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful,

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