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extremely irresponsible, narrow minded president biden. and his foreign policy has once again generated attention. but one of our allies, while motivating an adversary to take action against even more, we will bring you the world reaction as well as how china might potentially respond to the new deals. and ukraine might be the new home for the u. s. army iron down. but what does that mean for us? russian relations going forward? we will explain. and in washington, dc, bigger possi is putting up her own iron down in preparation for a raleigh in support of the january 6 protesters that's been arrested. we will have a report from the capitol as well as look at all of the measures the capitol hill police are taking to ensure their will not be repeated. the events of january sick . i'm going to use these stories and more on today's news. you to use right here on our t america. let's get started. ah,
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well, a day later we are now starting to find out the details behind the surprise announcement regarding the new alliance between the united states, the u. k and australia. now the deal is for the u. s. to sell nuclear submarine technology from the u. k. and the u. s. they all came together at the g summit street 7 summit earlier this summer in june. now this would be the 1st nuclear powered submarine acquired by australia in fear of the growing military strength in china. now, originally the antenna was for australia to buy 12 diesel powered subs at a cost of $90000000000.00 from france. so as you can imagine, the french were not happy at the loss of the projected revenue. and the foreign ministry of china had this to say, may war us the u. k. and australia, cooperation unit, nuclear submarine yearly damages, regional peace and stability arjun intensifies the arms rates and jeopardizes of
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the international efforts and promoting for the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons . us a new case action of exporting highly sensitive nuclear submarine technology. once again, they are using nuclear export tool for political games and adaptive double standard . this is a highly responsible to go to, but china dismay was countered by taiwan and japan, who are jove, joyful at the new partnership, saying it provides a additional security for the south china sea region, or to show it to ben sky is in paris and has more of the reaction from the french capital. this was like a knife in the back. so you can imagine what people are saying behind do the reaction he is. you re, theory even on the forum. and it's also saying this is not what i like. do you treat each other? and essentially this is something that he would have expected from the trumpet administration. not saying that he didn't expect this from the biden ministration,
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but i think you can read between the lines that the armed forces minutes. the hearing problems also said that this would have seniors consequences for geo politics and international relationships. and this is all over the fact that australia has not canceled that mole tree tens of billions of dollars worth of a deal with france to build a submarine fleet instead, shimming up to the us and deciding to opt for the nuclear submarine. please. if you think that europe at the moment is just reeling from the idea that the us with ritz troops must chemist on without even bothering to let them know what it was doing, the time scale, it was doing that too. and over the last few weeks we have seen so many you ministers, politicians, leaders even suggesting the european to do is to have more strategical told me that means kind of pull it away. you back from the united states. it felt like it was left in the deep and are gonna stand. coupled with this,
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the realization is that perhaps america is not the part that it thought it should be under by didn't, after the trump era. so discuss his new development and what it means for the future. us partnership to bring it forward. naval entail intelligence officer, john george. and john, thanks for joining me on some 1st. i just want to ask you this idea that this is something that the french president thought under trumpet. you know that this is a trump would do. did trump ever do anything like this, where he actually sold out his ally and went behind his back and sold it to another country to make money for his own country? well, i don't think this is about making money for the united states. this is, there are several parties to this and destroyers one, but no, trump didn't do that. all truck did. by the way, the europeans were equally unhappy with him. when trump insisted that europeans, including the french germans, the english, english and, and others live up to their obligations under the north atlantic treaty in terms of their defense expenditures which they hadn't. and the u. s. had basically made up
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for that was subsidizing europe. they didn't like trump for that. in this case, it's still deciding that they need a different system. diesel electric submarines like the french french we were charge of selling our short range. they have the surface every few, every day or so to recharge their batteries and their real tactical limitations. and there's also, they're also not able to operate unsupported over long distances. in this case, the australian rail, as troy navy made the determination that they needed a platform that could operate further north, that could protect destroyers interests more than a few 100 miles just off shore that could operate cooperatively with taiwan with japan, with the united states. so this is much more a decision by australia than any else. remember, australia is the customer, and the u. s. in the u. k. decided that they were going to sell the technology, which in this case is not merely just reactors, but the propeller design generators, electrical systems. and most importantly of all, the acoustic protections, the ability to keep the submarine silent, and
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a nuclear submarine can basically submerge and stay submerged from the 2 or 3 months. let us sum range to limited only by food and crew insurance. these electric submarines they go again, they have to pop up to the surface and recharge their batteries and are unable to operate unsupported for long distances a long times. so this is really a decision by the australians. ok, so i get that. so maybe they did a better product for what they were looking for. i can understand that. but why do you think there is so much contention coming from france and the situation? do you think that the french were given a heads out that this was going to be coming down or did they find out mainly by just turning on their television and seeing the announcement between the 3 leaders? well, who knows? i mean, you know, the french are famous for their flair for the dramatic and maybe they did get a heads up. maybe they didn't. but even if they didn't get a heads up, they're going to want to act like the aggrieved party because who wouldn't, they're the, they got a $90000000000.00 contract that they're not going to get that's a lot of money as a lot of money for france
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a lot of workers in france are going to be impacted by that the front president micron has to look good domestically and has to look sufficiently outraged because there's going to be domestic political fall inside of france over this. so. so $11.00 can understand why the french are upset, but it's not clear whether or not they had a heads up. well, and that's the bigger picture. this is the relationship with native right now obviously there's a lot of questions about the trust that other companies can have in there are other countries can have relying on the united states, but moves like this. do you think other countries will look and go, wait a minute, but this is your alley, this is your nato ally. will this have an effect on nato partnerships? do you believe moving forward, or will they always go? well, is america going to do to us? but we feel like they would, at least on the surface did to france what's a great question? i mean, certainly u. s. credibility was hugely damaged with friend and foe alike with the manner and timing of our withdrawal from afghanistan. however, the world is not all blacks and whites, there's very so shades of gray where most of the world world events happen this.
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and this is such a case here. remember as the royal australian navy that decided they wanted the nuclear submarines right. and the diesel electric summaries there wasn't a unilateral u. s. decision in to france is not part of the military alliance of native for the political nato lines. charles de gaulle pulled france out of the military alliance by right after world war 2. so are people going to see this being an example of the u. s. perfectly probably not. because the australians again are the customer party and the u. s. is merely and the care merely, vendors, nato was still going to look and wait and see where us actions and match up with us words. but i think in the final analysis, what's really going to matter is how well the u. s. and how consistent the u. s is in defending its nato allies, whether it's a eastern europe or our allies in asia with regard to china or allies in the middle east. if the u. s. starts to falter in any one of those places. that would be the
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probably, maybe the death knell of us credibility for quite some time. well, and i think that's what the question is up there right now. like i said, it's just because we've gone through the last 6 weeks before i let you go. you know, australia says they're doing this because they believe that china could possibly be aggressive to them and they want to be prepared. but are we seeing currently at least in the present, any signs of aggression against australia, specifically by china? any threats? well right now what you have is a deteriorating bilateral chinese australian relationship comp, camera, and beijing has been in a very strange but very intense trade conflict. now, for a couple of years, china has made very clear that it intends to expand its sphere influence. most south and to the east australia is naturally concerned by this because they are relative jill out. jo, geographic isolation from the united states. so strong is more or less looking forward. what we're looking forward in time and wants to be able to have the defend
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the systems necessary to protect its interests. and it feels that these nuclear power submarines are far, far more able to do so the diesel electric ones. but the con, to the conflict between china and australia is ongoing. it's unbelief. the surface is certainly in the western media, but it's very much there and the australians and feel very isolated. well, it will be very interesting to see how this continues and conversations do happen. again, between the united states and french, how that will go, maybe that is just to make out the french way. joining me while other countries in recent months, my feel actually a little insecure about their relationship with the united states. ukraine has nothing to worry about. since taking office, the vita ministration has made her to consistently continue the shipments of weapons and training to the cranium military, including more than $275000000.00 worth of support and equipment. but some members of congress, they want to do more and they have attached to the 2022 defense bill. a provision
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which would sell or just transfer the new air and missile defense system to ukraine . this would include the iron don't battery, currently operated by the us army. so to discuss why this is on the table, we actually were former pentagon official micro maloof. michael sure can scratching my head because right now it seems like we're taking up every single ally that we can. and yet congress isn't so motivated right now. some members of them are so motivated to be loyal to ukraine. why do you think this is what we've been so disloyal to our other allies over the past few months? well, when we're going to do it, let's do it right. but just upset everybody and, but i think it's seriously, it's more aimed at anti russian thinking. you've got the nia collins, and within the, by the ministration that are still pushing to move nato up to the up to the federation. and they haven't ceased. and in this comes despite the fact that even
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our allies in the, in the post f t n period. now or even wondering about our commitments, the nato. so i think the united states is think it still thinks it's in a leadership role. but, but you got the allies and everybody and the rest of the world, scratch their heads above commitment from the u. s. on anything, any more. i think the ukrainians love it. they, they love getting the whatever attention they can out of washington and. but it's it, but the question will be what will be that commitment even to the ukrainians and the end given the track record of the by the administration. i think it's something that even the ukrainians are going to have to be a little concerned about. as for the iron dome, it's a nice advanced system, but it, it, it may not work all that well in that environment. because where it was whereas to
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be placed in the eastern part of the, of the ukraine. and that, that doesn't lend itself for the type of, of air defense system that this is, isn't more of a longer range defense system. and it would, you would need a shorter range defense system in that area. but, you know, the members of congress are just on a spending spree, so they'll, they'll spend money on anything, not withstanding what the commitment some i, what the capabilities might be and the need. and the other or other systems would be more effective if, if the, by ministration is going that route. but iron dome given its performance recently by the israel is against the palestinian rockets. they think it's the best thing since sliced bread was interesting. michael, because, you know, earlier this summer you saw the ukraine was hinting, i said i will buy it now of
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a sudden you have us congress or, you know, well actually just give it to you. it's very interesting relationship, but that goes, it's not just what this administration continuously, whether you're talking about bite and trump obama, even back to which there's always money going to ukraine from the united states. more than a lot of other countries in the country that gets a lot of focus more than other countries the world. so what is the united states gain a more importantly, it's usually their politicians gain by sending support to ukraine. well, i think it's because of its anti russian position. that's it all about it. that's basically a plus. you have nato try and doing increasing its military exercise with a non nato country in an area that we don't belong in. and it's really in russia's sphere of influence and, and, and it's meant to propagate it's, it's, it's a, it's a provocative thing. and if you,
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if you recall that victoria nolan was right up there, involved in the coo that brought down the previous government there. even though it was supportive of russia, but she's now the under secretary of state for political affairs and she, she, them, they're constantly pushing that near con, that narrative as well as her husband who was robert kagan and he is the nia collins near town. so, and their whole idea is to push nato to the break of the, or to the, to the border of the federation. and if they can, they're going to do wherever, wherever they can. but these countries are going to have to reevaluate and reassess u. s. commitment on anything at this point, and you can put money into the, into the ukraine it's, it's just, it's just means that russia is going to put in counter systems that are going to be just as effective, if not more so. and there's just so much money to be spent and analysis and
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assessment needs to be made on, on just how important we need to continue doing all this was happening. megan, it's the what the actual, dangerous, and how much just because we have our equipment over there in the region. if that means the united states actually has it's, that's the same as saying, we're going to fight with you. if it comes to point that you have to use the equipment in real quick, i've got to let you go on this. but my other thought that i do have to ask you, is this more about making sure that nato gets involved in ukraine? is that why ukraine's reaching out right now? encouraging it? yes, nato will. ukraine will not be able to join nato. the members of nato are, are against the same with georgia. we had just in 2008 when we did military maneuvers in georgia. we had just left when the russians came on, came on in, that just shows you the extent of us engagement with and commitment to,
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to defense of georgia. and that's the same will apply to ukraine. well, and i want to continue this conversation like always michael, thank you for putting in some light on this situation. sure. coming up, we will have a report from the capital and a look at all the measures that capitol hill police are taking to ensure there will not be a repeat of the events that we saw in january 6. states in the, in the back guys are financial survival guide. when customers go buy, you reduce the price now well, reduce the lower the best under cutting, but what's good for food market? it's not good for the global economy. ah, it was picking down months ago and now it's back up. the fencing around the
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nation's capital has returned at reports of a right winged rally scheduled for september 18th. that's this saturday. started making the rounds online. and while it's still unclear how many plans actually come to dc to attend to the rally, please, we're not going to take any chances this time. and law makers continue to point the fingers as to who's responsible for the event of january 6. our foreign project shows us what it looks like actually at the capital. and will we see this every time? there is a raleigh particularly if it's a right wing rally the perceived threat that put back up the fencing brown. the capital is the justice for j. 6 rally on the west lawn saturday, september 18th. this is a little bit above smaller fence than what we had seen before. kind of the in our perimeters, the rally is to support some $600.00 defendants imprisoned for their participation at the january 6th riots. the capital simultaneous j 6 rallies are expected in 13
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other locations around the country. when it comes to washington, d. c. one rally organizer, a former trump 2016 campaign employee, says they expect around 700 people to attend the police sports decision to resurrect the fence. was announced monday after presenting a classified briefing, the capital police chief saying the fence will go up a day or 2 before the rally and will come down soon after. if all goes planned, we know that the capital police have equipment on loan from the department of defense, special surveillance equipment that they had requested months ago. that is just now arrived at the capital, which is likely to be used for saturdays rally as well. just extra eyes of yours for police to be watching. the original fencing was put up after the january 6. riots along with 26000 troops deployed to the capital. a barbed wire fence was then installed around the capital, which costs $50000000.00 to install. originally slated to be up till this fall
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fences were taken down in july after lawmakers said it was making their accessibility to and from work inconvenient the weekends rally will present law enforcement officials with the 1st large scale security test to the capital. since january capital police note that since then, the agency has improved training install a new emergency response plan at an additional equipment. launch of the department wide operation planning process and have met regarding saturdays event for the last month. congress has not slated to be in session saturday, but the national guard has been called back to guard the capital over the weekend as lawmakers will then return monday morning. we want to return the capital to a place where people can come. children can learn. families can celebrate together the greatness of our country, the new protective barrier, even if only temporary brings the argument. is congress once again walling itself off above and apart from the people it represents. will that perception further
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widen the distrust between the government and the people and the more expensive question? will the new fence be reinstalled every time a plan rally threatens potential violence against congress for news vs hughes? i'm fair in front back. for more of the situation, we're drained by a martin president of the shapely ego form someone that played a small role in the original planning. but really just, you know, he was there on january 6, all the events that happened. but he was actually a part of the peaceful rally that was before when to the cap. i just and i thank you for joining me on this. i've welcome. i'm a little frustrated. i got up this morning and i actually went out there about 7 am and i wanted to see what i'm calling nancy's play pin. and i didn't see any benches i saw. they say they're at the corners, but it's nowhere near to what i experience last spring when i was walking around. so is this a little excessive, considering even the organizers are saying,
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there's not going to be that many people here. yeah, of course. look, this is all done as theater, it's political theater. in this case, it's political theater to try to hammer home that the political prisoners that are in the jails in dc held without proper hearings without the right kind of due process. all this time, the people that were there on january 6th and he went to broke the law. i'm offering forcing a law. but i tell you this if you are writing in the big cities in america last year, most of those people were let loose. they never had anything charged against them. so this is all done. he did this after january 6th, to masterful effect, the media, the mainstream media, the fake news media plays along all these images. all this fear book congress isn't then. it's is an obsession on saturday. if the capital police can't control something, when there is no one in in session, i mean this is just all done for theater. i do think it's the worst kind of political theater. and i think the fact that polosa gets away with that and isn't called out on it is extraordinary, and the world is watching. that's the problem,
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scotty. the world is watching and saying this is pathetic area of thinking. it's pathetic because there's not a real threat or they're thinking, wow, america must be under siege. and that's a lie from the f b i from the capital police from anybody. that's what this, that was a lie, it is a lie and it will be a lie tomorrow is, are causes right to peacefully protests. and that's one of the things that you to every american. and they forget that. so, i mean, unless there's a credible threat, even though you hear once again, a non sources popping in. and i just ask you though, in the various different groups that you belong to are who is actually promoting this raleigh who is behind it, who is advocating for do you know people that are coming on saturday? are you seeing any organizations that your organization knows of that is saying, hey guys, everybody come to d. c. sort of like what we did see back in december amongst a lot of church and other conservative groups. as to perfect question, scotty, when they say, oh, my gosh, as a big organization, as you mentioned after november, 3rd, i was involved in grassroots organizing in the 3 events that took place, including january 6 peaceful protesters. people coming,
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i've heard of no one saying they're coming for this. i've heard no group promoting and i've heard no one say that they're agitated about it. nothing. and i'm dealing with faculty families of those that are political prisoners right now. i know what's going on again, this is engineered by the biden pelosi regime to get the kind of sympathetic images in their mind of the country under assault. and to talk more about this, it's, it really, again, is the worst kind of political theatre. and it's a kind of betrayal of the american public and the biggest problem, scotty is other than you asking that question. most of the media is playing along, including the conservatives. so showing the images and saying, oh my gosh, they've got a wall this off. it's so terrible and terrifying. it's it again, as you point out, there won't be anyone there the people that will be there, they'll be a few people. they'll cherry pick the weirdest and worst and have them on tv and say, look at this, this guy's got a swastika in his cousins yard. isn't this terrible? it's nonsense. it's insulting. and it's degrading our republic in front of our eyes
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. well, and talking about political theatre real quick at 30 seconds. it just came down that michael sussman has, who is a it was just indicted by as a cyber security attorney saying that he lied. and john durham is actually going to go after that. he lied to congress, say that there was a meeting between the trump organization and russia baked. that was a lie. is there anything that's going to come out of that political theater yet? yes, of course. what we're going to do, hopefully get to the bottom because there's more lying by political players, and then we have to hold them accountable. so we need more indictments, and let's get it out into the open. if he says he didn't lie, put him under oath. and let's hear what he has to say, because the russia, russia, russia hoax was a lie, the find people hoax was why the january 6 was a lie, it goes on and on, on all done right below she and the left. by the way, political agenda meant to accomplish their own narrative. thank you so much for joining me on this. well, that's all the time we have to show it, but i promise this is a conversation which you can you follow me on twitter as got in use. here's the hash tag team and the h version more down at the portable that to be after your app. or android device.
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thanks for watching. ah, ah, i have often said transparency for the powerful receipts and the last bit cares about privacy. what people care about is power tuning and sons is become a symbol of the battles of brevity. information is power. that's what's going on, or a huge struggle with the government's corporations who want to keep information secret and others who democratic rights should be pushed forward. and people have a right to know what to do. watch how assange helps shift the conversation around transparency and see what that battle has done to him. i feel like julian's life might be coming to an end. we are in a conflict situation with the largest and most powerful employer. in such
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the france councils and embassy celebration in washington in protest against the new us security packed with the u. k. spring the resulted in the loss of a lucrative submarine deal. or if we get reaction on the streets, this is not the 1st time tonight. the stage has taken contrast. mosley, a very good at that. we did not respect anyone from themselves. the act like most of the world, they shouldn't have done that because i think it front it's the same. they would have complain giving the game away while washington.
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