of us used to be able to just look across the country and get them do what they want. ah, now of course that's not working. so now they're throwing sanctions at these countries. and sanctions, you know, in a way are saying that, well, we can't, can't get them do what we want. so slow, assign to them is kind of like the last resort to look like you're doing something . uh and of course, the se shoes aren't working. a good best case has probably russia in china. but i would also say that, you know, maybe in a st. choose our work in general, because if you look at the, it's not heavy, any effect on washer. and economy rather sure, every effect on europe's economy. the sanctions did work in the sense that they drove russia out of the west european economies. and the last companies flowed into the vacuum, charge the higher prices and making euro more dependent on the you want us to economically. so in that sense, the sanctions in work plan b has worked the plan,

a putting direct pressure on countries is not worked and the sanctions obviously they look at, you know, the sanctions across the board. especially not having any effect at all. but if you've got to do something and makes it look like you're doing so when you for those items that are various upon the industry that has a raise in around the us, sanctions pushing for sudden interest in washington. and then now let's take a listen to this in washington, the swell of sanctions. i respond to a multi $1000000000.00 industry. foreign governments and multinational corporations spend exorbitant sums to influence the system. well, why to law firms and lobbying shops have built booming sanctions practices. in part by lowering government officials to cash in on their expertise. professor, what do you think about this? does this sound like corruption? well, of course it's corruption or else that's a contradiction in terms, but that's how the system works. legally it's,

there's corruption to the legal corruption and, uh, yeah, i mean, uh, you know, its capitalist system and you're going to have all kinds of advisors and consultants and friends or product additions or are going to dip into the the money and then spend thrown at making sanctions work because they don't. busy but they spend a lot of money and somebody gets that money to try to make them work and reporting on how they're working or not working or covering up the reporting or whatever. so yeah, of course a big, big uh, industry builds up around all this this thing with our to international up next on direct impact. the host of rick sanchez discusses the start simple standard between the false accusations of russian interference and us politics versus the open influence by is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the

the other. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact. and this is some of what we're going to be talking about today to a paid off because he's clear he's people to sit in their seats interior. that is what he says about maybe that. yeah, what's interesting, the matter was fired, telling the truth about the iraq war drops another truth from about being that at yahoo and he's not alone by the way. this is direct impact. i am rick sanchez. hey, let's do this. the the. so i was thinking this morning about what we're going to talk about, and i want to talk about something that you probably don't know much about. so let me just ask you, do you know what the during report is? the during report. you probably don't know,

you're probably shaking your head right now knowing what, what, what, what is the durham report? right? why would you, when the media probably gave it about 2 minutes worth of coverage, even though they gave the rusher gauge story about 2 years worth of non stop coverage? so here it is, john durham is this guy who was the prosecutor very well known, successful prosecutor who was assign a job of finding out if russia actually did interfere, which would be serious with us politics. right. and about a year ago, he finally put out his report that essentially detailed how the whole damn thing was a lie. there are some major takeaways from the report center on find that one the f b. i didn't have sufficient information to open the case investigating from so let's ties to russia. the bureau relied on raw on analyze uncorroborated intelligence, durham also criticizes vs. the inability to corroborate any of the infamous still da ca, which contained a series of salacious allegations about from and his possible ties to russia. the f

. b. i operated with bias and different standards between trump and 2016 democratic presidential law. many hillary clinton. and finally, even though the report offers a scathing review of the guys conduct regarding the trump russian pro, it does not recommend any new charges against individuals. so there you have it after essentially demonizing unimed, tire country russia for doing something they did not do. as you just turn, those are my words, right, that's on the kill as a report story. the day it came out, something they did not do interfering in us politics. this report comes out and essentially says, oh, sorry, it was all fake. it was a pretty good conviction, think investigation, essentially a fake news story, but it was pushed by. busy hillary clinton, a team or advisors who apparently were mad that she lost the election, i would be to get it. and they also have a reputation of being very anti russia before they lost the the election. so this

is a, this is a perfect opportunity to make up this story that worked so well for them, right? that they get to make up a lie about brush, or while at the same time, they're trying to make copy of that right. that story that went about russia, trump and interference, caused an i know it's an old story, but trust me, there's a reason i'm telling you this today. so the story is about trump and interference, and the media, the democrats, the corporate military establishment, and the meal neo cons, had to create this story, to put it in the collective mines of americans. and in the meantime, they go crazy with the story. they seem to be enjoying it. they went down as completely nonsensical rabbit hole, which was based on the following narrative. okay. now, this is what we're talking about. how dear any country, no less russia, interfere in america, interfere and our politics, and tell us who we can vote for,

or what we can do. now, the reason i'm telling you that story is here is the double standard. all right, and you should know this, those who attack israel will pay a very heavy price. that's what total victory means, and we will settle for nothing less. talk about interfering important. so you are the best guy, this guy, and that's it. yeah. so he picks up the phone, he tells congress he needs to come here and give a speech, and that they need to apply to him. then he talks about killing and continuing to kill as many people as he wants to, for as long as he wants to. and they stay and got a lot of him. remember, the majority of americans don't like this guy in there against the massacre. he's conducting gaza, that's official. go look it up. right. last time i checked, it was all between 53 and 60 percent of americans don't like it. don't like what he's doing of gaza, but condo or is, is a part of him,

which is essentially like saying go ahead please interfere with our politics. all you want. do what you want wherever you want. we got your back. you think? i'm kidding. you think, i'm kidding. when i say the congress told them we got your back. in fact, the but licking of nothing. yeah. who is so bad? so grotesque. but the guy who is in charge of congress, right? the speaker of the house, he actually put out a statement saying that anybody who publicly disagrees with method. yeah. who would be or where did you want is. so we did, we got it scheduled. it will be next week. it will be a big thing and i want you to know that there's a number of democrats in the house who have said they're going to boycott the event in yes and um and, and then and then some others are going to protest listening. we're going to have extra sergeant at arms on the floor and if anybody gets out of hand, the speaker of the house are banging together, we're going to arrest people. if we have to do it, we're going to get the we're going to arrest people who may disagree with what the

president of the united states. pardon me, the president of israel has to say. it's like he's saying and that's and yahoo, please come here, interfere and our politics. and if anybody gets on your way, we'll take care of them and make sure nobody hear from them or hear what they have to say. so much for democracy, right? this is our country, our beloved country. these are our leaders, right. so why is this incredible double standard happening now? here's a former us weapons inspector, scott ritter, who tried to warn us about a rock and was pulverized by the neo cons for doing it. has to say about the method . yeah. who's speech to a paid off. he is, he's clear he's people to sit in their seats interior and he's paid them so well that the head of the guy who is the speaker of the house, mr. johnson is a threatened to arrest people and charge them. should they somehow disrupt the the, the, the, the scripted?

seeing that's going to take place. how is the wrong manila? is this not one of the most preposterous examples of a double standard that you have ever seen? well, i mean, it, i think it goes beyond double standard at this point. it's just how washington operates. rec, i mean, i've been here for over a decade now and i've seen it firsthand and i think more recently we can attribute the, the new information that's been brought to light to congressman thomas massey, of kentucky. when he was interviewed by tucker carlson on his independent on on carlson's independent network, when he revealed that every member of congress accept him. so 434 members of congress have individual a pack handlers. the pack of course, is the largest lobbying group for israel in particular. it's a joint american is really lobbying group that does not have to register under

farrah. they have, for years and years. i mean, all of the, the latter half of the 20th century are outright lobbying for the benefit of a different country. and they've never had to register under the for an agents registration act, which is mind boggling when you compare this to what you opened with, with a during report that shows all of that was big phony fake, lied running based from the hilary clinton campaign. it was a campaign hit job that kind of off to push this way out into the east or into the american east. those and most americans still believe that rick and yet they believe that israel is america's fund. yeah. so how do you, how do we square that? it's almost like one country is punished for interfering even though they didn't interfere. and the other one is really. busy good for interfering as much as they

want. meanwhile, we're giving them a ton of money, which they're then using our money to buy our politicians, to get a bb and t and yahoo, an audience and a standing ovation. this is crazy. i will say this though, to be fair. there is some semblance of democracy remaining because there were some elected officials who have spoken out. you mentioned thomas massey, he's one on the republican side. not afraid to tell the truth. on the left, there are people like bernie sanders and jerry, jerry and adler. by the way, both of these guys are jewish american. let's take a listen to the best of my knowledge. however, tomorrow will be unique. in bridge, in 5 minutes, the notes and yahoo to address a board meeting of the congress. it will be the 1st time in american history that a war criminal has been given that on his political interest is to keep the word going as long as possible because he knows it. as soon as the words overlap the face, a condition of inquiry as to why he was telling cutter to arm from us before the

election. and why he uh um, ignored the warnings from the military of the c attack here on october 7th, which they had of weddings about a few hours earlier. and why you, for that matter, it took us 12 hours for tanks to come 60 miles from the west bank to the, to the people. it's him on the guys a border. by the way, for those of you watching us millions of you, i know who watch the show regularly from all over the world. please understand that what you just saw there is not typical of us politics. those guys are out there right, making this point, the real fear is that after paying off the us congress and getting their approval and that's and yeah, who will not continue his totally war and engage our country and the. busy world in more wars as he wants to bomb 11 on bombing. yep. a young man. and who knows where else with our money and our weapons, until it gets us into a war with iran,

and possibly the precipice of world war 3 while we're applauding. yay! keep going, do doing it by the way, history cheerleader also came out and finally spoke last night. he didn't look so good by the way. here's, here's a clip of president button. ben franklin was asked to emerge from the account and make sure the conventional right now where the founders have given america, monetary republic, the frank and we response was republic. if you can keep it. i think he was trying to say franklin, but he said frank and i think he was trying to say constitutional convention. and instead of, pardon me, congress. and he said convention and he was reading this stuff off the teleprompter . manila i already said my piece about joe biden. i stopped looking at him as the commander in chief as the president of the united states. much,

much less the leader of the free world these days. rec, so you know, i, i just, at this point see the, the human side and all i see is, is a defeated and feeble old man at this point. so it's hard for me to kind of late into them and be journalistically fair cuz that the human side of me just just sees this, but we are look, he, he has met privately with benjamin netanyahu, of despite the fact that that bite in refused or i don't know if he refused, but he did not go to the joint session and neither did comma harris, where nothing you all who gave that hour and a half long war hawking's speech as bernie sanders alluded to there. but at this point, i mean, there is no separation and no daylight between the joe biden administration and the nets and yahoo administration and their ongoing efforts in gaza. there's so much money being exchanged,

left and right back and forth top to bottom. there's no more extracting the 2, the 2 countries are the us and israel are marching lock step in all the atrocities that we're witnessing and gaza. and it's all has to do with money rec, all of it. yeah. and what a picture of the real president of the united states looking like, he's in the critical care unit of an old folks home. while the real president of the united states is giving a speech in congress and getting a round of applause for it. it's just a weird time to live in this world when we come back. thanks manila, when we come back, let's, let's talk a little more about that. those optics that i just described, right? we're going to discuss lebanon as well, with the journalist and political commentator. and we will have to, who is one of the most prolific and courageous voices coming out of the region these days. she's going to join us here and just a little bit don't go away. the, the

show seemed wrong. just don't have to shape out the application and engagement equals the trails when so many find themselves will support we choose to look for common ground the the okay, welcome back on rick sanchez and this is a direct impact on joining us now. is layla how to, she's a communications ex expert sheet. she's a journalist. she has had a role in government. and it's important to be able to talk to somebody like later to get a different perspective. especially on a day like, uh today. uh like, uh, i want to start with something i was just thinking about as i was here in manila talk and it's, and it's almost like the,

the optics of what happened in the world yesterday and in the united states, specifically in the us congress. so here's how i see it. we have the president of the united states, right. and he is speaking to the country and he's doing so in congress. while i'm getting a rousing ovation from all the members of congress, he's determinative, he is forceful. he is vindictive, and the more he talks about war and killing the more applause he gets. and then we have the other guy, the guy named joe biden, who gives an 11 minutes page where he can barely pronounce most of the words that he's really not reading off of a teleprompter. did you ever think the world would come to this point? i never thought of it, even in my wildest dreams. i mean that's one point to another. do you have someone who do you didn't even expect for the last 11 minutes. he's also 11 minutes, but we didn't understand

a single word of what he said. and then you had somebody coming over and feeling and basically i'm making the basically attend that affairs, a slandering part of the population in the us. they think what she wants to say is only lawyers and basically your congress toughest to give him way to do that. and then club for him. it doesn't make any sense to me. but then again, we list the and the words very basically. uh, the oddity is more, uh why that's why the, than the fiction from part of the, to the, the, the opinion i think in america and i just looked it up because i wanted to make sure i was right about this. the majority of americans don't like being at them, yahoo! and they don't like what he's doing 53 percent. so. okay, in america it's only 53 percent and our media only tells us he's a great man. he's doing great things, etc, etc. so that, that in and of itself is impressive. i think that, you know, 53 percent of americans are thinking for themselves. what's it like if you're a citizen of the world, looking at america and seeing what happened last night, that helped me as an american,

understand how the rest of the world views us as well at the moment, the meaning the for the past, the 2 years or so the world has changed the way it looks at us, they have looked to spec to the us. they have at one point on others in discussing it as a surface at the moment surface sort of show business. and some of the symptoms of the look of the way for your present and just the last basically take the further popcorn and the weights for joe biden to come on the on stream. basically and meshes works together and everybody just last of all, to the next day, even your media makes policy of their own president. and then basically you bring those over to the congress and you saw yesterday what you call the the, the actual presence of the united states. maybe nathan? yeah, hold on. his last name is media cowski. by the way. it's not something. yeah. how about to change that just to fit the agent over here in the end of the month, he built his own circus with him. if you look at this, he brought an example out of every single $334.00 circular, but he kind of puts his hands on. he brought people from if you,

if you had just to talk to the black community. and he brought basically people from the business, the site that the printer's, not all the selected, the theaters within that suffice. it got to work with it's reduced. i'm just trying to insinuate, but the muslims and the been a society actually likes and worse for the defensive. and this is not true. and then he wrote in this different theme and the dusky nose. so the white people who are part of the suckers and basically also they live and find you as part part of the community. but if you look at the larger picture, the whole world has been totally focused against this month. everybody is getting him and weren't coming in the i, j, it should basically something says and then i felt like that is what like vision decision. i guess these people, the as part of the sports, i guess him and his at the generals army generals. and they've called that spite his name for the 1st time. and it's a notion of court. there's to save it as readers are committing genocide against the policy news. mm hm. the only the notion ones are the congress and the, the was on purpose because they get paid by like, as a said, as the american population who are part of them are oblivious because of what the

media shows them. how as the products, the genocide, i think after. yeah, but this is there, it is a good thing, but it but even nothing. yeah. how, how far will this blind and crazy uh, support that my government officials, not my country. my country is a great country and its people are great people, but the people in washington who are all on the take and are corrupt, are making these decisions. i just wanna make sure we're, we're straight about that. how far do you fear that they will go and they are collusion? and there's support a baby in it and yahoo because it seems to be when he's done killing palestinians, and there's no palestinians left to kill. he's going to then move to yemen, and he's going to move to obviously, you know, the situation with the 11 on and, and who knows how long before we're in a full at war with iran. i mean, and this is not me saying this, this is a lot of geo political minds who have come together and said they're very concerned

about this. about this concept. i mean, you have the image and the size of maniac over here during the show for on behalf of your own country and your presidents. as of stopping him. the congress has not stopping him. it's up to the, on the people of the united states to stop him by you're basically looking towards the idea is that the media is not showing them the whole picture, investor suck parts. so the population who are not always under is basically going on throat. that's what they're doing is trying to tell the rest of the americans that there's a genocide happening over here. we are possibly in think on the doors of that's a word or 3 that starts from the phones because of this month. but the focus built over here, you know, until you, when you're on lucky, lation would continue to accept the politicians that then by the nose and from one or to another from new york all the way up to them now and lie about the reasons why they're going into the border. i don't know. yeah, yeah. you have to something, i mean, those are your people. well well actually it's, it's no,

it's not. it's not about my people layla. it's about my colleagues in the media as you probably know, i'm sure you look me up. i was the anchor at cnn and was fired for being critical of the thing that we're talking about now. because i told the truth, i worked at fox news. i worked at nbc, i've even worked with univision and hispanic television and i've learned that now more than ever, the members of the media even down to be not just the editors, but the actual talking heads are in collusion with the forces who are bringing these things about the ones or hey jada is to start off with the roster and for some reason of course, i mean like think about this young baptism of fire. but by this, the working with both of these entities, i'm, you know, them from inside the outside. you know, how they are, they do, you know, the agendas. the 2nd part is that they play the zoom and zoom out game whenever they want to show you that basically be the successful speech of the congress. they would only show you parts of the congress that's coughing for him. barely do they

show you. basically the ones that are discussing with him and they don't want him. and the south part is that the media is also playing the game. basically they're claiming that the democrats have worked, or they basically board call to this session, right. and i wasn't a discussion with other me the other than i had to explain to them that the democrats didn't go into a or basically to that speech, not to because they are against the genocide, but because they have given up. and, you know, the democrats have been trying to the place to be nothing, you know, how, with many guns with basically the parent and it's sort of yeah, it's true. and it's really entity the only ones to actually get about this genocide for the saw part of should have play will actually have a profit saying you're gonna watch them. and then you're committing genocide. and basically did bernie sanders, who had called him a once in a often the and this guy basically is a jewish representative of the people in the congress. and he actually called leaving us in the, i'm about almost, we didn't say anything. actually most of them actually have both. it's for the, for uh, for giving arms and the funding for this radius of one point to another,

to support them with this ongoing genocide. what about the gulf states in the air world? what about the saudi arabia's and the cutters, and the jordans and the egypt uh, and loving on. i mean are, are, are, are those leaders? are those countries doing enough to push back? i almost get the sense that they're not, but i'm not an expert. i leave it to you. all right? so as you know, basically there are uh, accounts use that house normalized plays with is reduced. doesn't include some of the gc countries, not all of them. they not that i'm, it's for example, they have great size, but this radius button as well. so that'd be on. so no, they refused to normalize. far as i've seen that as soon as i guess it's a state solution, that's what the stipulation, once you agree to that we would normally size would be what should be me is basically in principle, they have no problem with normalizing 5 for the visit this month, so long that the person has good their own state as well. and when it comes to the i have to send you. i mean, that's one of the very few colleges, anybody's of us fighting on behalf of everybody else. because this is continue to

keep by the venue for the 30th and we have, it is this stuff that's very well on very websites and his re disputed. and that's basically it's not only hezbollah, but we also have 6 functions of the stuff. but it could basically had it cuz i'm of the such and that's, that's a, that's a some d and others. so when it comes to the doing is part. but so i think it's important for us to news. i think the pressure is really ministry to start with sward when it comes to god. we said that many cars under this is have some images or to the bottom to actually try to convince that it needs to stop fighting on behalf of the boston youth. and the base of the on some businesses to see smart and, and the, we're not going to stop the extra ones. and also know that as soon as i'm done, because i'm trying to push the button over though, when it comes to i'm going to countries, i mean human is doing a phenomenal job. mean they have the least least are of the army. yeah. they have been doing good something, but nobody else could. they said in the face of the street is they actually must have some to me all the way and hit the the in the heart. the am i speaking at his

latest, my thoughts, connect people and goes out some point of it. and the, basically the drink all the guns that you know, because as well that the sinews, i mean, they don't, that's what our under most actually their own. what them from inside because of the customer number 6 for the past 15 years. there's so basically making 2, but they come to the golf 5th of states and jump and muslim states. 57 of them. they're doing nothing. yeah. sign of yeah, that's a sports. nothing, silence, and that's a sad point. i'll said, well, you know, thank you so much. we appreciate your time. i look forward to talking to you again . you're a great person to talk to. you have a very important voice that needs to be heard. and my appreciation to you. thank you so much for your time. i thank you for your best care for hosting you have no thank you. fix our show so much. thanks to all of you. remember to always look outside your own box truces. we like to say they don't live in boxes. gotta ask you gotta look, you've gotta find them. rick sanchez will be looking for you next to

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