aid begin a united states damage assessments from either or already reaching the millions even before ida is out to see we will bring you the latest on the recovery effort and the e. u has removed the us from it's a safe list. we will tell you what that means for americans who were planning to travel to europe in the near future, as well as the cdc now says, should stay at home this fiber day weekend. and did you know that netflix didn't do business in china? well, why not? well known actor claims. he was asked to rewrite a film because it was on service, doesn't occur there. sean stone joined us to discuss. i'm going to use and you're watching news views right here on our t america. let's get started. ah, thanks for joining us. you know, you current president of lot america. lensky has met with president joe biden in

a comes at a time when the validity of us security commitments are being questioned. this is the 1st time as alliance. he has been given an audience with the us president, despite multiple attempts since 2019 to buy it and reaffirm the u. s. commitment to ukraine while the landscape, thanks the present for $60000000.00 and military aid. united states remains firmly committed to ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of russian aggression and, and our support to ukraine, euro atlantic aspirations program took in shuttle. and thank you for the $60000000.00 program out for defense development of green till the end of this year. we appreciate this contribution to give us some insight into what zaleski wanted to accomplish. we bring in german cuz we're off a managing editor of covert action magazine. jerry,

thank you so much for joining me on today. i know it just happened. they're just kind of breaking up. we don't know much, but i realize that you are probably watching the conversation. so what do we know about today's conversation between the 2 presidents? those law unusual talk about russian aggression and i think is on the clip. there was significant was another $60000000.00 in security assistance to add to is already $275000000.00 that the by an administration has provided since it's come in in january. and that includes anti anti javelin, and they are missiles. so pretty heavy duty military equipment and there was a major defense agreement that was concluded at the pentagon yesterday to increase cooperation, the block c and intelligence sharing. so i think we see, you know, the strategy and the united states where they're moving, you know, they end of the war and afghan, stand in the u. s. involvement, but they're focusing now on russia and china and beefing up, you know, us alliances with countries that are from the containment of russia and china. yeah,

it's really interesting because i, i agree with you that they added another 6 to made it to 75. but is that really a lot and we're talking about military vehicles that cost to $1000000000.00 or military things that are the items that are needed that have are upwards of several $1000000.00. i mean, is that really considering how much money the us just finished spinning in afghanistan that were supposedly going to get it not have to spend anymore. it's like that budget free. you know, could, does this actually show that ukraine, where does it fit into the bio ministrations realignment where the us global commitment is, the u. s. really standing behind ukraine like it might look like at initials at initial site? i mean, i think so since 2014 on the out to the pro ration present us as committed over thing 2500000000. so that is a lot of money. i mean, i could find a lot of teachers and infrastructure here in the united states. so, i mean, i think it's pretty significant commitments, and i think we see that the, by the ministration as focused on china and russia,

made your adversary to be noted, states. and we're going to see more of this. i think we see with taiwan, the u. s. has been providing extensive arm sales to taiwan and trying to counter china. so that seems to be the focal point right now. and they want to extract themselves from middle east. so i do have this question 2500000000. you're right. that is a lot of dollars and a lot of money that i think here domestically in the u. s. they can be used in places, but to $5000000000.00. what it's actually being is that money being used for in ukraine, can you see it on the ground? what are the ukrainians doing with $2500000.00 or $1000000000.00 worth of american taxpayer dollars? well, i think you raise afghan stands, a similar situation where the money is kind of going into black hole. i mean, the war in eastern ukraine is like the war enough galveston unwinnable war. it's going on for many years now. it's kind of a quagmire. ukrainian military is not really committed to fighting it. that's why

they have these private militias. so, you know, a lot of it's going into thing like surveillance technology, drones, and just perpetuating this war there could be end is. and so it's just money into a block hole and into defense contractors, just like, you know, people been talking about, up canister and how much money's been wasted there. so it's not the same scale as you point out, but it's still all the money. and then the ukraine government, very corrupt. so the u. s. is also providing, you know, united charities, they say and aid packages, but that's very corrupt governments. and i think, you know, the us taxpayer is not seen a good return on that money. well, and that's the thing, you know, and, and, and maybe maybe that's one less than that comes off gaston right now we're looking at the how many billions of dollars lives lost in our case. and i will say that the president, craig, but look, you don't have american soldiers and ukraine, you just have your dollar. so you should be as upset as you are. you're not going to see is big of a fiasco with the withdrawal. but i have to wonder what i'm looking to do you think that now that americans are waking up seeing how much money was wasted as gas and

both for the last 20 years. but this last withdraw that they might demand from accountability for the amount of humanitarian in the money that we're giving to ukraine to see where it's actually being spent. and is it actually going for the mission that the united states supposedly committed to? yeah, i think it's up to us isn't to scrutinize their government and you know, to cast attention on the situation ukraine. very few politicians. busy who've challenges in either party, and who pointed out that this is a very corrupt government. lensky was supposed to bring in reform, but he's very much tied to this warlord. you her whole moist key. and i think ukraine's are losing patience with him. his popularity rating is promising so. busy americans have to pressure their politicians. and again, you know, the democratic party has been strongly support this policy in ukraine, this new cold war. and i think we need a new generation of leaders and we need a population to pressure the leaders to, to end this. and to,

to challenge what they're doing well, and it'll be interesting because i think even just looking at the ground and what we know of what's going on right on the crane. the quality of life is not improved despite that was the campaign promises that were made, something that i think and forts who were feeling here in the united states. and that's the only way that you get to have the people's attention to pay to when they go to the voter box. that goes my life better today. when this person, when it came into office, like they promised, or has it decreased severely, us makes that decision. ukrainians are actually asking that same question. thanks for joining us on this issue. now, new visual from the secretive and highly secure ca, compound and get us and have been released by the new york times. the base had a training area for african counterterrorism units in an area section, offer torture and questioning detainees prior to leaving the ca, detonated explosives, destroying almost the entire area. anything which could have been used by the taliban in the future. so here's where the questions are being raised. see,

i began destroying buildings back in april and may immediately following president biden's announcement that us forces would leave the country by september, ammunition depots, and containment buildings were also completely destroyed by august 27th. even the evacuation of staff seem to be much more organized according to these photos, with everyone being clear to by august 28th and the taliban took their 1st steps on the property. meanwhile, the last call between president biden and african president asked ref ghani, which lasted 14 minutes and was on july 23rd. president biden told ghani to change the perception whether true or not. that things were not going well in terms of the fight against the taliban. to discuss this, this was whether or not the us will be sitting humanitarian, a dentist. and we bring in former pentagon official, michael willis, who joined us just yesterday, talking about how actual valuable that these weapons were, that the military did not destroy in an easy fix for an expert. so i wanted to make sure that i got you on the follow up seeing after with the c i a did. thanks for

joining us. michael. my pleasure. thinking okay, i want to start with a phone call. i think it made or would have made even a month earlier if god would have been more honest and had a plea for help in fighting the taliban and keeping asking what had made a difference if he were just been honest, realty, and just stated in the office i think that would have made a lot of difference to show leadership. it was clear that by, by then i picked up what trump did much, much earlier that gunny did not exhibit any semblance of leadership. he was or that could emission probably was a smart guy. but in terms of starting leadership, trump wanted him replaced ultimately and, and for by them just suggest look, just you know, just do a new something, show some appearance, whether or not it's true of leadership and it's pathetic. and this is what we were dealing with, and he was the 1st to run. he got on

a plane and took tens of millions of dollars. and he's over in the u. e. spending it now over. interesting to see how if anything, followed up with that, like i said that's i think it's really odd for one leader of one country. china don't tell the truth about it, but at least look like it's willing well, when it's not it, it's sent a bad signal to the troops if our president is leaving. and the fact too that the united states earlier had stopped support, stop providing other other types of assistance. what, what did they ask in military begin to think and that was highly demoralizing, that lack of air power. they were trained by the way, they were trained to have air support in their and their activities. and that was taken away from the, by the, by an administration. well, and that's what i want to also get to is what they were trained on here. this military and now that we know the ca, properly disposed of everything that they had there and we had this conversation.

why did not the us military follow the same on the ground? how valuable is this military equipment that was left behind compared to what the taliban previously had and why couldn't the military follow the same sort of protocol that the cia did and had been preparing for months for this? what ultimately happened? well, as i said yesterday, i'd like to see the videos because i don't believe a word that's coming out of the pentagon. now their credibility is shot because you saw row upon row upon row of, of these they have the helicopters night vision. i'm. i'd like to know that my vision technology was destroyed, that that is a that is a type of a technology that gives you added benefit on the battlefield, especially when you can, can undertake activities at night, and not to mention the howitzers. and what have you, these kinds of things they, it really was a value added tremendous value added for them. and i've seen pictures now of them

actually sending some of that, those weapons and what have you to iran neighbor in iran, so it's not staying put. well, it'll be interesting now that we have the us treasury, the already set up to move humanitarian aid to get into people. i think all of us are question. would it get to the people or will it be taken by the taliban as well? like always, great. to talk to you, michael now, ida is moving at the eastern united states as a tropical depression, sparking flash floods and tornado damage. that's for the gulf coast. people in new orleans across the louisiana are facing a long road to recovery. power still out for nearly a 1000000 people, and officials are still assessing the extent of the damage, which they say is devastating and widespread are due to my borrows has the latest like most of the city of new orleans, 66 year old are gone. greenberry is living without power, he has no way to keep its food, or is how cool during the hottest part of the summer. and they were doing all right,

so, well, you know, i mean, low we got and you know, we could cook so they have got to go do some ice or something. you know, if it is just me, you know, because we are pretty radar and have me to go and quit, you know, nearly a 1000000 people who are still without electricity after hurricane either came ashore on sunday is one of the largest storms on record to hit the state about 25000 crews are working around the clock to restore power. some areas will have it back on and days, but it will be weeks for the hardest hit places, the category for storm ra, flooding and punishing. when throughout the state, anthony staggers, wrote it out and applaud louisiana, or know her, and i did no more power within the re. you and the train. it would you don't. jason keller watched either pounding wins, topple a tree right onto a home. during that time we've got a category 3. i would assume it's like a 12535 miles per hour winds blowing. so i could actually see the sea 3

cavity back and forth in the roof example me out of the grass. i knew the fall in the house. hundreds of people are rescued from homes where they were less stranded by flood waters. the louisiana national guard activated nearly 5000 personnel and helped move almost 200 people in their pets. the higher ground fishermen, roy commer dow in alabama, louisiana spot a losing battle to save his home and his livelihood from the storm. he may have to survive on his savings until he can get back to work. i don't know when we be able to get solid when we finish down the road in venice. be ours area. so like for katrina and all that, it took us over 2 months before we could even go ride down to see what we had left . tragically, the death toll from hurricane ida is now it's 6 after 2 electrical workers in alabama died repairing power. good damage caused by the storm. 2 others died in louisiana. one man was killed when a treat on at home, and another drowned cross

a flooded road. while in mississippi, 2 people died and 10 others were injured when flooding caused the highway to collapse. in laplant louisiana residents like an all of that the are assessing the damage in grateful to have survived. and i'm so sorry to be like this, but we have any choice. we thank god for life because he could have been wasting a lot of bodies could have been quite dead. people could a bit q in all because what god now when we return europe has decided to limit travel from the united states. we will give you the details on who is still a lot in all after the break and the when i was shot the wrong when i was just don't the

road. yes. to shape out the thing because after an engagement equal the trail, when so many find themselves well, the parts we choose to look for common ground in so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only mostly i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk to the families that up with mark sounds good. i took my new function. you got a good way to

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world. the politic sport business. i'm show business, i'll see you then me the just ahead of the holiday weekend in the united states, the cdc is telling and vac said americans not to travel for labor day. i didn't that even the fully vac said it could be taking a risk that. meanwhile, the european union has dropped the united states from a faith list. that means new restrictions are on the way for american tourist, even if they've already gotten their shots. shoddy, edward, the da, she has the story from london when it's bad news for those of you that are wanting to seize the last of the european sunsets across the pond. as the united states has now been removed from the use of country american forest drive. and travel ahead to the european continent to foreign or even now the

brandy comes is a delta variant is very rampant across the united states. and so many european member states are hoping that that doesn't happen here in europe as well. so it really seems like all of this policy is very much dictated by the day, or as we know, the private cases in the united states have average now 162000 cases every single day, just last week alone, which is the same kind of patristic that we saw back in january with hospitalized asians as well. a very high indeed a 5000 on the death right over 1200 a day to several consecutive days. so that the 6 to the e. u is particularly worried about on surprising that they're putting in place some tight restrictions for american tourists. however, you may not phase one of those tied to restrictions if indeed you are fully

vaccinated. but as we know, it's not just the house implications, but there are other implications to was 50000000 americans. yes. visited europe before this con demik and pump billions of pounds into the european economy as well . things said, all of that the united states has yet to reopen its own borders to you, tourism, but it's not just america alone, just to mention all for israel cost of a leopard, non montenegro on know face the border, restrictions in europe as well. but for the travel industry, all of it is pretty much bad news. it's huge trouble. yes. to get sex for the very much all you be hit, one of the hardest throughout the whole, you know, just in terms of waiting to reopen again, but also having with jobs to the rule, changes in europe and lines also come out to say that this decision is extremely

disappointing for tourism. in general. however, you must rest assured us there is a pipe or american horror. you guys can always come here to the united kingdom because these rules do not apply here in britain as we know. a the u. k has left the european union, so it's a totally different picture. the only thing is, i can't exactly promise to say your opinion sunset. you may have to even pock your umbrella, but a holiday is a holiday. nonetheless, this is shaggy edwards dash d for news views hughes now while experiencing a slower subscriber growth due to more options on the market. the streaming service, netflix is still valued at over $228000000000.00. spite not being one of the most popular regions in the world. adam sandler, the popular actor writer and film director, was planning on his film actually being based in china and film there. however,

netflix asked him to change the script in the location. so to find out why we bringing so maker and authors, sean. sean, thanks for joining me. you got it. okay, the shot. why not let the water boy come to china? well, according if you believe you know the, the official narrative. netflix, as we know, as global now they have stream, their streaming service is all around the world, including an india with every country except china is not a country that allows netflix. and i think this has to do with some level to political control from chinese perspective. and also economic financial because the chinese government, when not netflix quarter them a few years ago, refused it seems a chinese want to be able to distribute because they want to get power for distribution to their own streaming services, right? contenders to netflix much the way there are. there are contenders to facebook for example when you tube in china. so because netflix is not distributing the china,

the presumably they said to sandler, there is no point in basing your film there and we just, we have no reason to, to do it. we're not, we're not making this for a chinese audience. essentially. it's interesting because when you talk about the chinese want to make this to be able to have their own distributions that you have . netflix is no longer just a distributor. as you know, we've talked about this, they're actually content creators. they're producers, they're doing adam sandler sound. so i find a very curious that china thinks, i mean, does this mean that china doesn't want to have any access to netflix and streaming services? because guess what? when i was watching the oscars and emmys a few my without this past year, the majority of them were coming from streaming services. they're original content . sure, sure. i knew netflix also and i was getting into the gaming business future. so we understand that trust that netflix is like a studio in the sense that they produce original content. but you know, you look at what china is doing. china is not necessarily courting hollywood. in

fact, it's difficult. you know, if you're an american producer, there's only so many films that are allowed in china each year. so the chinese are more interested if you ask me logically and financially speaking and controlling the narratives. right. that's why when it comes to allowing up american films in and we've seen in the past with complaints from hollywood studios that both back and forth in dues and, and chinese basically, chinese saying that they're being misrepresented in hollywood. hollywood studios. not wanting to necessarily change things, they'll be forced to change things in big movies to, to placate china. so when you say like the chinese need netflix from their perspective, they're the 2nd largest box office or potentially the biggest box off the world. the moment they don't see any need for american films, in fact they're, they're making, they're producing so much and they get somebody found the biggest films in china, our chinese films now. so we're not at

a place where it's play was 20 years ago. and the way the world was waiting for american movies to entertain themselves well, and what i find interesting about this is that netflix itself has a lot of chinese films on his platform. so i find it very odd that netflix, if they really wanted to play ball, they're really not because china could do without netflix. but for some reason netflix can't do without china any reason for this? well, i would argue that netflix strategically is releasing certain chinese films just as they are doing indian turkish because they realized that their global audience includes people from across the asper. we have chinese americans, right? we have many people, you know, from china, in the other region than america and other countries. right. so i'm sure they would be interested in watching chinese was on netflix platform. so that way netflix needs chinese content. china does not necessarily need american content. it would seem at this point, ok, so from a film producer from directors perspective, when they go into country, whether it's china or any other country,

how much control is that film giving over to the government? how much controls those governments ask of films that come within their borders as in this case at china saying if you come over to us, how much control would they be given? yeah, we'll try to unique case. as we know, i mean the, the overall idea that western countries are more free. there's a reason there is a true to that. when you go, the reason i think netflix without an issue with streaming to china, the china is very much as censorship boards that go over the content. you know, even when you go to produce a fill in china, they will go through the scripts and make sure it can be approved. and this is just to shoot their, let alone to distribute them. so when it comes to netflix, wanting to, for example, the example wanting to shoot to china, they would have serious censorship issues with all the content they're putting out in a weekly basis. and i don't think china could even manage to go through their censorship for may not be big enough to handle the thousands of movies, documentary tv shows,

right that are coming out every month from netflix. so you know, it's kind of unique country in that regard. as far as the amount of government official st official censorship that occurs. i don't think most countries have that, but again, you'd have to go to the country by country. we look at what protocols norms are. well, and there's something that attracts all these films to actually be they get better attack, continue, whatever it is. it causes majority of films today to not be filmed here in the united states, which i think is quite surprising. people looked into where so their favorite films are actually film that sean, always great to talk to you and that's all for today show. thank you for watching. oh, the

only one main thing is important or not as an internationally speaking, that is a nation's allowed to do anything. all the master races, and then you have the mind, the nations who are the slave, the americans, rock obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism. international law exist as long as it serves american interest. if it doesn't, it doesn't exist by turning those russians enter this dangerous. go. you man, that wants to take over the world. that was a culture strategy. so i'm gonna be at noon. i english g i. b, i not leashed off. in one. interpret block nato. it's our we move east. the reason us hedge emory, it's dangerous is the the sovereignty of other countries,

the exceptionalism that america uses and it's international. war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nato, what is founded shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in large companies would lose millions and millions or is business and businesses good. and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is faster. sometimes a simplest answer is the correct answer. and a lot of people ask, why are these tax tax so high? why is the stock market so high? and the simple answer is that it's a transfer payment. the federal government is transferring the paper money that they print into the pockets of the executives. it's as plain as the nose on your face, and you can see in these numbers. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, 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 successfully very critical time. time to sit down and talk the ah, the british foreign secretary is created by mc questionable handling of the crisis and i've got to stop. and while he was relaxing on a beach one problem. when did you board holiday, what the gordon told interested in what i made to date, holiday phone secretary,

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