. >> we are the lavelle family. >> they may interview me, i'm the new preacher. >> suzanna lavelle is1 and tonight getting ready to undergo this unusual rite of passage. >> what do you expect from people out there on the streets? >> a lot of people get really mad. and they -- claim that you are shoving your religion down their throat. >> reporter: the lavelles long had their children accompany them on street missions. >> the preachers will come down and ruin everything. >> reporter: their fundamental belief that churches preach a candy coated watered down message to skirt some sins in order to apale to a broad audience. >> this is what you call love speech. we're told the truth here. we, we love you. >> reporter: where you stand their version is either tough love or annoying and inappropriate. friday we catch up with them outside one of their favorite targets, the spokane islamic center. >> all you can -- he deallah do give you power to be holy, what does allah give you. >> they have a belief different than yours. you are shouting theirs is false. >> is false, right. probably pretty d

. >> we are the lavelle family. >> reporter: the lavelles have long had their children accompany thempreachers are going to come and ruin everything. >> reporter: their fundamental belief that churches preach a candy-coated watered down message skirting sins in order to appeal to a broader audience. >> this is what you call love speech. we're telling the truth here. we love you. >> reporter: depending where you stand, their version is either tough love or annoying and inappropriate. friday, we catch up with them outside one of their favorite targets -- the spokane islamic center. >> allah didn't give his life for you, allah doesn't give you power to be holy. what does allah give you? nothing. >> reporter: when they're not preaching, they live a quiet life. no television, homeschooling, all of them in it together. some of spokane's religious leaders worry that what the lavelles aren't doing isn't just free speech, it's dangerous. >> i feel for the children who are with them. they are shouting, if you will, a message that's cruel and hateful and that drives people away from christianity

i couldn't pick a better honoree than chuck lavelle. an outside the box kind of guy. when not tending to the 2500 acre tree farm outseed of atlanta as author and conversationist, he is keyboardist and music director for the the rolling stones. a job he had for 32 years and counting. do you pinch yourself. life in music must be a joy. >> it is a joy. up on stage. and go flying past. is that kooe richard. all he wants on the drum. every time is like the first time. i love the gig, guy. music. the planet has become his passion and cause. he raises money and has pub leshed books on the subject. with 7 billion people on earth and counting. chuck talks about the train we are asking our planet to bear. >> we are not going to stop growing. we will tooin grcontinue to gro. and we have to be aware that we will grow. and the climate. environment in general. waking up to it. optimist. glass is half full. peopling abecoming aware of it. as for the stones. they're still out there on tour. europe and south america, later this year. >> we always get a little nervous when the tick goa

joining us now is patrick lavelle and the film's executive producer adam brothman bho helped finance it's nice to be here. >> patrick, you focus on the real human impact of the financial crisis, and your own story is a perfect example of what happened to so many people. i mean, you won't from making six figures to food stamps practically overnight. how did that happen? >> he well, it was unbleechbl. i was working on a television show where i was traveling the country giving away houses to deserving people, and that was an amazing experience. i thought i had built up my karma battery for life. then suddenly in september -- or i should say august of 2007 the executive production operation of this company went upside down overnight. they were out of seattle. i didn't understand what was going on. had i known what was going on, i would have tuck tailed it and run the other way, but, unfortunately, i decided start my own company, the realization of, you know, 20 years of being in the business and everyone's dream to be autonomous, and i had the investments, capital set up on september 159

below and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle indecision and paralysis two words to describe ukraine today with the government in kiev lacking legitimacy in meaningful political resources washington in brussels face a public relations disaster of epic proportions meanwhile russia watches from the sidelines. to cross the ukraine crisis i'm joined by my guest mitch firesign in moscow he has thirty years experience in financial marketing and is author of planet ponzi also in moscow we have andrew he is a political analyst and journalist and in dallas we cross to bear he is a political analyst and editor in chief of news junkie post sorry gentlemen crosstalk rules and in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it andrew here in moscow how would you assess the situation going on in ukraine right now we had there the so-called anti-terrorist operation stopped in one day by civilians that doesn't look very promising for the government and can't what's your take. you know what i think i think the situation is very unstable and i think th

so i mean the crisis in ukraine peter lavelle asks a panel of experts whether it's a risk of becoming a failed state a quick preview of what's coming up for you in about twenty minutes. collapsing ukraine with ultimatums being issued separatism in the air and complete economic breakdown imminent this country is on the verge of becoming a failed state now there are no simple solutions for ukraine it would seem poor specie change was the easy part. eleven ten am here in moscow despite off to mystic talk of a successful economic rebound butlins finance minister believes greece could actually need yet another bailout package the german chancellor is due in athens to offer some reassurance that it's on the right track to recovery but mass protests over austerity suggests that is the minority view. in the greek capital for us. german chancellor angela merkel coming to the greek capital during a very tense time a backdrop of protests here people who are angry with the austerity policies that they're suffering under here in athens and across the country she's meeting with antinous amar's the

monica lavel, has the story, we want to warn you some of these images are disturbing. >> as we were coming into land we could see the dead bodies on the road from the air and streams of people making their way from the town of bentu to the u.n. base in the small sister town of racona. they were carrying building materials on their heads, apparently determined to set up new places for he themselves, just outside those gates there was a pile of dead, difficult to count but in the tens, and it's certainly been there for a long time. they were bloated, decomposing just left out in the sun. when we went into the mosque we found just eight corpses inside but according to the human rights investigators, many, many more were massacred inside there last week, they believe 200 of the 800 sheltering there for protection. by the time we arrived, most of them had been removed. >> allison mcgiffen, good to talk to you. now we were aware of what happened last thursday i believe in, but we're just learning more -- in bor, but we're just learning what happened in bentu, north of the country, as anna was ta

phil lavell has the story. >> even if you have no interest in planes you've got to admit this is impressive. solar impulse set a record last july when it flew across did united states. not the first to do it but definitely the first to do it without a single drop of fuel in its tanks. in fact all that plane needed was thismentful sunlight. perhaps the most natural form of fuel there is, enough to power its solar batteries and keep it in the air. that flight was deemed such a success that here in switzerland where it all began they've made a sequel. and here it is, premiered on wednesday. the name not so imagine tha imae boeing 737, this is a huge craft, covered in solar cells but weighing just 1 and a half tons. the plan is to comply it around the world. >> flying to 9,000 meters the attitude of the airliners, fill up the batteries, in the evening you could land, during the day, the more you fly, more energy you get. >> the pilot needs to be comfortable with their own company. there is barely any room to stretch let alone fit another one in. there wit with it be no heatingo pressurized cabi

international just a couple of seconds here it will be crosstalk with peter lavelle unless you're in the u.k. and you can find out what it's like to be the leader of a nation as we spend a busy day with the bolivian president evo morales. lucky . pluto. it's for forty eight. minutes alone mr president welcome. home. from. the eleven thirty am to eleven am. it's four forty five pm. we are proud to be bolivian it's the mobile. home. from the eleven pm ok almost twenty hours from eva golinger reveals the of the side of presidential my life in a new special project from a. drama. truth be ignored. stories others refused to notice. faces change the walls of lights never. the full picture of today's sleeps. on demand from around the globe. up to. fifty. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle after the famous but failed washington moscow reset it appears now the obama administration is preparing to embrace a very different though historically familiar policy towards russia it's called containment it worked during the cold war against the soviet union w

hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle. irrational fear and hatred of all things russian the west mainstream media echo chamber is consumed by what should have been a relic of the cold war appears to be an essential part of the west's foreign policy today this is not only tragic but it's also dangerous. to cross talk was a phobia i'm joined by my guest george samuel you new york he is a fellow of the global policy institute of london metropolitan university in london we have alexander across if he is a political commentator and a former kremlin adviser and here in moscow we crossed to dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with the voice of russia radio station all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage alexander if i go to you first in london you're a russian living in the u.k. what's worse a phobia like. well i think the language shows these days we're hearing from politicians and some commentators i stress some commentators sweats of the cold war

. >> dan, the ref lavelation toda from bridgette kelly's lawyer she has not been invited to the grand jury what do you make of that based on where we are on the calendar? if you are representing somebody in this investigation, i would think you would want them as a witness. that would confirm for lawyers, your client is not in harm's way. the fact that she hasn't been called. either means she is not an important witness or they're looking carefully at her conduct. >> the politics of this. just nothing good here for christie. in terms. of course our focus on this. greatly enhanced he is a potential canned date. i declared the campaign over from the time he did the press conference on this thing. there is no wave he can go forward with the presidential campaign with the big u.s. attorney any investigation hanging over him. when heap is out there the rea we don't hatch the story with bridgette kill yo she its pleading the fifth amount. she believes she is so potentially liable. she has to plead the fifth amendment. >> we saw january 8th press conference. the press con frefrs a few weeks

blowing welcome to cross talk we're all things considered on peter lavelle pivoting russia the western engineer crisis in ukraine has put russia and the west on a collision course the drumbeat for greater sanctions against moscow continues but russia has options it could seek intensified relations with the east how will this change the geo political border. to cross-talk pivoting russia i'm joined by my guests. in washington he is a professor of international relations at the american university as well as author of the new book the end of the american world order in london we have n.s.a. han he is a lecture on international security of east asia at the university of london and moscow we cross to alexander mean curious he is a writer on legal affairs and him and also. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want alexander franco to you first here in moscow. tell us how we got here because at the beginning of this century vladimir putin just became president in two thousand he reached out to the west he reached out to the west and on many like different levels economic security

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle collapsing ukraine with ultimatums being issued separatism in the air and complete economic breakdown imminent this country is on the verge of becoming a failed state now there are no simple solutions for ukraine it would seem forced regime change was the easy part. to cross talk ukraine i'm joined by. my guest recorded in orlando he is a former american intelligence linguist in london we have neil clark he is a journalist broadcaster and specialist in eastern european affairs and in new york we cross to jeannie zeno she is a professor at iona college and new york university or across the uk rules in effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage and scott in orlando if i can go to you first is ukraine as i said in my introduction on the verge of becoming a failed state well not necessarily the grain is just like any other state in the dimes you know we have you call the americas a failed state look at the financial situation that we're going through you know you basically

oh and welcome to cross talk for all things considered on peter lavelle chicken care of the western backedoup regime in ukraine appears powerless to stop the rapid collapse of the economy and official structures the agreed roadmap to deescalate tensions has gained little traction from the white house and the people of east and south ukraine the west started this crisis will be left to russia to end it. across not the ongoing crisis in ukraine i'm joined by my guest alexander me curious in london he is a writer on legal affairs and an analyst in san francisco we have mark hacker he is an author and columnist for sole of the east dot org and in moscow we cross to mark's lowballed he is a senior lecturer in researcher at moscow state university or a gentleman crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it alexander if i go to you first in london what's going on with this roadmap at the end of last week we had this agreement to deescalate the situation in ukraine but over the weekend it rapidly deteriorated in ukraine so we said a dead letter.

welcome back to cross talk we're all things considered peter lavelle to mind you were discussing thearab spring. ok i like to go back to the bill in london i think one of the interesting things that have happened the last few years in the region is saudi arabia's role in a very reactionary regime and its funding quite a few people that are just as reactionary in the region and i'm thinking of like the military government in egypt of course we have the civil war going on in syria but this is a big important dynamic as well saudi arabia's new role or growing role in political change. well absolutely and not least of all because saudi arabia is absolutely terrified that to see arab spring happening again that's why it's reacting in the most reactionary and indeed repressive in not trying to protect matter manner interfering not only you know interfering in what's happening around around saudi arabia and other internal affairs of other countries and it has you know. terrified as i said because they've witnessed a swift change that can happen very suddenly in countries and see. despots be

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things were considered on peter lavelle after the famous but failed washington moscow we said it appears now the obama administration is preparing to embrace a very different though historically familiar policy towards russia it's called containment it worked during the cold war against the soviet union will work against today's russia and does this mean washington has declared a new cold war. to cross-talk washington spinning of containment i'm joined by my guest stephen cohen in new york he is a professor emeritus of russian studies and politics at new york university and princeton university and author of the recent book soviet fates in last alternatives and in chicago we cross to john mearsheimer he is a professor in the political science department at the university of chicago who has written extensively on international security his latest book is the tragedy of great power politics all right gentlemen cross talk rules and that means you can jump in anytime on steven cohen if i go to you first i read your article in the nation the cold wa

welcome back to where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the ongoing crisis in ukraine. ok i'd like to go back to mark here in moscow when i talked about ukraine's agency that the agency of the ukrainian people you really perked up there you want to follow up. yeah i think that this is been really crucial to understanding the plans and the policies of both the western countries and this puts regime that they have helped install and backed in kiev is this denying of political agency and even of the very existence of the people of south and east ukraine this has been instrumental we have to remember that this puts regime has absolutely no constitutional legal or democratic legitimacy it was installed at the back of violent street protests mobs at the hands of an ultra nationalist vanguard that murdered police young men in uniform on the streets of kiev in order to seize power so in order to help legitimize learned more of the market here in moscow market well that's not true i didn't hear that on c.n.n. i didn't hear that on b.b.c. i didn't read

welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the recent developments in ukraine. ok maturing go beyond the fog of western media on this crisis in ukraine you know if you pointed out this country is in severe economic crisis and its neighboring russia and russia is really the only country they can be part of the solution in a very big way but lo and behold we have sanctions and more sanctions are expected square the circle for me because it doesn't make any sense at all. you know the circle you know i don't know what's happened to democracy but last time i checked i mean they've had to technocratic government in italy mario monti who is an ex goldman sachs came in and took over the reins and now they've got a new technocrat was appointed now i don't know in ukraine the government that's currently in power that was all appointed i don't know where they came from i mean that was never told to us but it seems that there are accepted by the un accepted by merkel and accepted by the white house as a leadership so i you know i don't kn

need to lavelle for those of you watching as in u.k. his own special report on zero tolerance in u.s. schools on any kind of misbehaving. a little while back a monument at a michigan university that resembles a wrecking ball was removed due to waves of students trying to imitate the sexy miley cyrus music video where she swings around naked on a wrecking ball well they did take down monuments that are magnets for acts of public stupidity is not important what is important is that this illustrates just how much the media affects us all monkey see monkey do is a reality after avatar came out every person hollowing paid themselves bright blue and when i was a kid literally every child want to jump off their bed and be a pro wrestler like hulk hogan heck every little opiate mayberry now wants to become a rap star people say that religions traditions and government propaganda indoctrinate us but they forget to make sure that corporate imagery does exactly the same thing as honestly much better at it maybe people don't want to accept the fact

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things are considered on peter lavelle conflicting narratives in competing interpretations this is that the heart of the ukraine info war while washington western media go to great lengths to demonize russia for everything happening in ukraine there's no denying the west is pulling the strings and kim not wanting to take responsibility russia is playing. to the ukraine info war i'm joined by my guest mark levine in washington he's a truman national security fellow who formerly served as legislative counsel to congressman barney frank and in orlando we cross our record he is a former american intelligence linguist all right gentlemen cross talk rules in fact you know how that works gentlemen as we start this program here the government in kiev is started using force again against the people in the east so a government killing its own people scott if i go to you in orlando how do you look at media coverage of what's going on in ukraine right now well it's very one sided in the in the west we've had quite a bit of information you know referring to

hello and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle a military alliance without a mission this is what critics say about the north atlantic treaty organization nonetheless nato continues to expand and according to moscow at russia's security expense has the crisis in ukraine given nato a new lease on life. to nato i'm joined by my guest james carafano in washington he is the vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the heritage foundation in paris we have john laughlin he used to director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation and here in moscow we cross to erich krauss he's an independent political risk analyst or a gentleman cross-talk rolls in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want john if i go to you first in paris very simple question what is nato's mission today. nato mission today is to justify its own existence in other words to do everything it can to strengthen its political membership and its military capability we've seen in the ukraine crisis a number of leading military men in nato rushing to say that this

peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the ongoing crisis in ukraine. ok i want to go back to patrick in london it seems patently obvious to me patrick that the west is escalating the situation in ukraine what do they hope to achieve do they want to provoke russia into some kind of military action because i seriously doubt russia will do that only if ethnic cleansing is committed in the east in the south then it would be a right to protect operation and russia would not care whatsoever what western media has to say about it but i don't think it's going to get there because we have so many of ukrainian soldiers just giving up their arms and actually joining protesters in the east so what does the west want because it looks like they have their goal but it doesn't seem like they have the pieces on the ground to achieve their goal and we have to do two shows we have the show on the surface which is the media show it's the western propaganda show and then we have the agenda under the surface what's on the surface was really enabled by during the cold war th

hello and welcome across talk world all things are considered i'm peter lavelle instead of deescalationin ukraine the war of words increased tensions on the ground continue to see a showdown of some kind this is pitting washington against moscow is this artificially induced crisis in ukraine turning into a defining historical moment. to cross-talk the ongoing crisis in ukraine i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's the editor of politics first magazine also in london we have patrick and he is a journalist writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wired dot com and in cleveland we crossed a vladimir switch on he is a professor and former diplomat or a gentleman cross-talk rules in fact that you can jump in anytime you want a market so i go to you first in london not only are tensions growing on the ground in ukraine but where the media war is heating up too so let me see what we've got we've got a fake anti-semitic pamphlet and just recently we have a few odd looking pictures coming from out of eastern eastern ukraine with men wearing funny hats and v

and crosstalk in a couple of minutes peter lavelle and his guest discuss the media speculation surrounding the crisis in ukraine. exactly sixty years ago according to the guardian the soviet union actually tried to join nato to create an allied air of peace and a post world war two world and what answer did they get nato said the offer was unrealistic and not worth discussing one year later the warsaw pact was born and the cold war started decades later nothing has changed nato continues to expand despite breaking agreements not to expand which surrounds russia and china with bases all offers from russia to jointly run the missile shield that nato is setting up in europe are totally ignored hillary clinton may have given russia a nice reset button but the state department that she used to head continues to funnel a lot of money for democracy development and regime change into the former soviet union ukraine got five billion alone as revealed by assistant secretary of state nuland in her own speech these sorts of things have pushed russia to form the shanghai cooperation organization with c

welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle mind you we're discussing whether nato has a mission. ok john i go back to you in paris the russians are very concerned about nato because as we've been said on this program already at the end of the cold war the wausau pact dissolved itself but nato didn't and a military alliance continues to get closer and closer it's already on russia's border and it could even get closer is it justified to be worried about it from moscow's perspective. i think so yes i mean i would. say that question by answering the question which erich krauss erich krauss put rhetorical just now he when he said who is the enemy he obviously thinks as i do that there isn't really an enemy and that russia isn't a threat but what we've seen in the last few weeks over ukraine and especially over crimea is the resurrection in the minds of nato policy makers of the idea of a russian fret or threat and this has given them a new lease of life and they're all rushing around saying that we need to deploy troops to the eastern european member state

so amid the crisis in ukraine peter lavelle asks a panel of experts whether it's a risk of becoming a failed state find out what they say and craft are better today. despite the optimistic talk of a successful economic rebound greece could actually need another bailout package the german chancellor is a do in athens for talks a visit events been preceded by public protests against ongoing austerity cuts much as it is in athens right now for us now matt break this down for us do the greeks have any cause for optimism. the greeks do have some cause for optimism sean but i'm telling merkel meeting with the greek prime minister amid a very tense time here in athens we have already mentioned about how there is a backdrop of protest here in the city already even a backdrop of violence yesterday morning there was a car bombing here which no group has yet claimed responsibility for but all agree is a precursor and a early warning message to the german chancellor about the dangers of austerity that are being wrought upon greece as we speak she is meeting with the parliament going to speak with

we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle we're discussing the ukraine in full war. ok gentlemen i want to ask both of you the same question your first got here is this all about nato expansion expansion expansion of american power and to confront and intimidate russia. no not exactly i mean nato expansion is just a result of really the the i.m.f. control of the militaries and governments around the world i mean if you look at the kind of influence that. these bankers have had on government so the politicians come and go as well as the militaries come and go but the banks have been around for over one hundred and fifty years in the united states affecting our you know really the the democratic state of the of the united states really the votes haven't really counted in the united states because the both the both of them bought in the united states since the eighteenth sixty's today and it's interesting to see that you have you know guys in the i.m.f. like bruce rapport who is you know been tied to israeli mossad he's been tied to all of the laundering he even did wor