united states has shifted public opinion. there is strong public support for julian assange in the united states. but i do think at the end of the day, this is about to leaders of countries coming together to resolve this matter, irrespective of public opinion in other countries. i started this conversation by a referencing alex st. involved and there are many other positions, acres whose prosecution of persecution is followed closely in the west bay if a case like this where it to play out in china in russia or. busy in some other countries, i think that that would have been a major western reaction, but not here. do you think the handling of the, of these cases damaging to democracy? democracy as a system of government as opposed to a toll prosy? i think it's damaging in this sense that people are rightly cynical about why and which countries like the united states and started trying to support right then certainly support freedom of push and make a point of support in general around the world other countries. and that's, t

i mean, certainly the expenditure has been outrageous and that's taxwise in the united states, and that kind of strategy will tank this. i think there's no doubt that the security state in the united states has been and the military stay in the united states has been embarrassed by the revelations which wiki lakes has put out numb reviews, particularly for example, the collateral murder video. the fact that the revelation war crimes not wrong doings committed by the united states and have kind of a rock. and there's no debts that the united states is determined to have a man. you can only explain what is otherwise a highly a russian conduct collie. a russian conduct on the part of a government which purports to subscribe to the rule of law. i wonder if at this point, it's more we came to political retribution. you know him making those embarrassing revelations or is it still about damage control as far as you can tell, do you think julia massage can still be in possession of some information that could be damaging to the american powers that be i think that there is a combination of mot

where a lot of that plays out is at the united nations page joining me is the united states ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas-greenfield. welcome back. >> delighted to be here with you. jonathan: thank you for coming back to the podcast and you are coming back now and there's so much breaking news to get to about ukraine. and that is secretary of state antony blinken is heading to that region. do you know what precipitated this travel to the country. >> president biden wants to put diplomacy first and the most important diplomat is secretary blinken. he is using his platform to engage with partners including the ukrainians. although you may not have known about this in the past, it has always been on his agenda to engage with ukrainians on a regular basis as i have engaged with them in new york and with our partners in new york. we are putting diplomacy at the forefront of all of our engagements to address this issue and we want to be engaged with the ukrainians on this jonathan: -- secretary blinken and president biden have both said they will not have it without you. thi

the united states senate it takes a super majority. 60 votes. toach get a vote. instead of 50. to protect the right to vote. state legislators can pass anti-voting laws with a simple majorities. if they can do that, the united states senate should be able to protect voting rights by a simple majority. [applause] today, i am making it clear. to protect our democracy irk support changing the senate rules. whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights. [applause] when it comes to protecting majority rule in america, the majority should rule in the united states senate. and make this -- i make this announcement with careful deliberation recognizing the fundamental right to vote is the right from which all other rights flow. and i make it with an appeal to my republican colleagues. to though republicans who believe in the rule of law. restore the bipartisan tradition of voting rights. people restored it who abided by it in the past were richard nixon, gerald ford, ronald reagan, george h.w. bush. george w. bush. they all

the united states senate it takes a super majority. 60 votes. even to get a vote. instead of 50. protect the right to vote. state legislators can pass anti-voting laws with a simple majorities. if they can do that, the united states senate should be able to protect voting rights by a simple majority. [applause] today, i am making it clear. to protect our democracy irk support changing the senate rules. whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights. [applause] when it comes to protecting majority rule in america, the majority should rule in the united states senate. i make this announcement with careful deliberation recognizing the fundamental right to vote is the right from which all other rights flow. and i make it with an appeal to my republican colleagues. to those republicans who believe in the rule of law. restore the bipartisan tradition of voting rights. people restored it who abided by it in the past were richard nixon, gerald ford, ronald ragan, george h w bush, george w. bush, they all supported the voting

i mean, the russians are put united states on notice that, you know, the united states must come up with an agreement, a verifiable agreement that shows respect for russia's national security interests and in the region in ukraine and throughout europe. the united states. i don't believe at this point time is prepared to do that. and if this discussion is left purely on the merits of that, it's not going to bode well for united states. so i think the stage is looking for every opportunity to divert attention away from its own weak position going. and i think because then in the instability there is something that the united states in you to exploit for its own benefit. how many? thanks for calling us today. scott ritter, a former us marine corps intelligence officer. thank you. ok. ok. let's move on to more world news. 21 minutes into the program. the british prime minister is once again having to fend off corruption allegations after emerge . he withheld revealing text messages from a watchdog probing sleaze in the bras. johnson asked a party donor for more money for luxury refurbishmen

and then me, united states cannot react. so this is the beek, not bad now. because the state of war, the country in fact, that you cannot even reason that but dialogue. and this is very several years ago, the new book, that se, will these at 9 is me kevin now, and thanks for watching over a good evening to ah, ah ah ah ah ah exaggerated rhetoric, massive arm shipments and endless threats. this is how nato presents asian a pan european security. meanwhile, moscow wage to the u. s. and his eyes to respond to his demands and vision for the say. the status quo is hunter. with without federal enforcement of the new civil rights legislation, the states enacted the black co.

and then some allies especially the united states, canada, united kingdom are supplying trainers comes systems and someone to ukraine. but it think it's important to distinguish those two tasks come support ukraine, yes important. the commitment to protect and defend allies, that's our core task and it is absolute commitment from all allies and germany and france is part of that. >> but what i hear you saying is the intention of the deployment would be to contain the possibility of regional conflict that would affect your members, not to deter russia from attacking a country that is not a member although a valued partner. is that correct? >> it's correct were not planning to deploy nato combat troops to ukraine. >> but don't you think -- tonight is the united states. president biden has made that clear and that is been one of the criticisms of nato to date that because, going back to 2014 the united states and native were not willing to use force to deter aggression and annexation of territory from a nato part of your i know not a member but vladimir putin saw that and that he knows n

how is it that we can sit here in the united states? american diplomats can look at russia situation and not even understand that they have a legitimate national security interest when we're militarized around its border, especially caucasus right in eastern europe, going right to russia's doorstep. for me, i haven't trouble seeing this as diploma. so we have tried and said that he's going to focus on diplomacy, diplomacy. first, we're not going to fight wars and regime changing. we're going to focus in diplomacy has this diplomacy when you, when you came in display the most basic people skills that they didn't, scott, i'm glad that brad brought up the cuban missile crisis, because we go back in time. i mean khrushchev, we say, well, cube is a sovereign country, it can have any kind of weapons. it was going to have to be alliance relationships at once. and kennedy made it very clear. he said, if you don't take those missiles out, we will. why is this a reverse situation? because it seemed very clear to me, and this is what the russians

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you can only imagine somebody who served for 36 years in the united states senate, reveres the united states senate, still sees himself as someone, as a senator, and that is in fact to his detriment sometimes as president. but that's his identity. and so when those insurrectionists came in, and were destroying it, imagine how he felt. not only as somebody who was going to be sworn in as president of the united states, but it was like coming into his house, where he had been for decades. and so to add to kaitlan, it is so important that they do this, right there, at the scene of the crime. because this is the scene of the crime. >> and, jamie, you know, it is really startling is that so many of the republican leadership on that day and the days that followed immediately condemned trump but since then, they have gone silent. >> remember, kevin mccarthy, remember mitch mcconnell, remember lindsey graham, they all stood up and said exactly what had happened, and called out donald trump. and then 48 hours later, a few days later, everybody caved. and just went back, fell in line, kevin mcc

and they do in the united states. and so when they're being turned on in the united states, there, that's what's causing this interference. a new report has claimed that former pope benedict, the 16th failed to take action in 4 cases of alleged sexual abuse. while he was serving as archbishop of the german cities of munich and facing of the study by a german law firm, looked into cases of abuse between 945 and 2019. and how church officials handled them. according to the report, over 2 thirds of people investigated, turned out to be priests of the report also said that the former pope supported this latest inquiry but denied any wrong doing. we spoke with wilfred feldman, who says he was a victim of sex abuse by the clergy during that period and he told us what he has been through. that's why it happened in the summer of $979.00. i was 11 years old back then pastor act served as st. andrew's church and when he left s and groups of people started attacking me. they knew i was one of the reasons he left. we moved to ano

you don't have to set foot in the united states. it's enough that you have revealed and published material which the united states seems to be barest embarrassing war, a country to its national security was trying to strike in journalists as written, assign st. i want to stand the consequences of this guy. so that's why it's really, i mean, it's ironic, of course to strike to racially criticize the chinese government, the new laws in hong kong. one of one aspect of which was that any journals to criticize china, even without being in china, could be subject to the laws most trying to criticize that. this is no difference. this is the 1st time that domestic is been honest, legislation has been aimed at someone who has no connection to the u. s. years now mr. sanchez has been able to evade extradition for almost a decade. but it seems that the specter of it is now more con critize than ever. you mentioned be the ruling by a british sport by the in fact the u. k. hi port that allows for that extradition. do you think we receive? well,

the united states is choose that involves many sounds. if not, millions of people that also has to be mentioned is still just about the united states. it's about the security of the whole world. anyway, mr. barbie, we have to live here. thank you very much for your time. thank you. thank you for watching hope to hear again next week. and of course in the me i welcome to max as his financial survival guide, looking forward to year as we go. yeah. this is what happens, dimensions in britain. del, at this happens, you watch kaiser report july, an annual festival in st. petersburg dedicated to dust i ascii. ah, the great writer, think around psychologist, people often turn to his work to understand russia and russians perhaps even themselves. they put, they sing on, what do you see, what they think about the flooding needs, changing a rita, transforming them as they read that does die. estes unique ability to stay ascii wants to tell us you can better yourself. he makes you face your true self and we could move beyond conventions, rules of sc

the united states, canada and united kingdom are providing weapon systems to ukraine.t is important to distinguish those two tasks. support ukraine, yes, important. the commitment to defend allies, that is our core task, and france is part of that. >> what i hear you saying is the intention of deployment -- regional conflict that would affect your members, not to deter russia from attacking a country that is not a partner, is that correct? >> we are not planning to deploy nato combat troops to ukraine. >> neither is united states, president biden has made that clear. that has been one of the criticisms. going back to 2014, the united states and nato were not willing to use force to deter aggression and annexation of territory from nato partners. vladimir putin saw that and he knows there is a willingness to not use force to stop him. why should he take nato seriously now? >> because our main task is to support allies. not america and europe. that is our core task. defend and deter any attack against nato allies. i am sure president putin takes nato seriously and our ab

crushing everyone who questions the hegemony of the united states and the united states and lay to want to direct the resources of control europe and lead in america to attack those whom they consider their main threat in this whole story. neither spain nor the e u has any role our troops should not become cannon fodder for this most enormous machine of genocide in history for nato. on friday, russia's top diplomat spelled out clearly that the country does not want war, but that he can allow its interest to be ignored either for ministers. the gate of rob shed his thoughts during a 90 minute interview to russian media. history of the, the if it's up to russia, there will be no war. we don't want any wars. but ignoring our interest is not something we can allow either. americans are trying to create a hysteria of the escalation around ukraine, burrell and blink, and repeating it to some kind of a mantra. they say we hope that raja is going to choose the path of diplomacy. and i can tell you that is something we've always stuck to since soviet times. and the outcomes of this diplomacy inc

first, the united states remains in a state of armed conflict. as such, we are entitled under international law to detain an enemy for they did -- duration of hostility, including the terrorists currently at quintana mouth -- guantanamo bay. this is the first where we've let the enemy go during the war. because of the hard work by the bush and obama administrations, we know who each of these detainees are, the threat they pose and the risk that we would need to accept if we decided to transfer any more of them before the conflict ends. second, since at least 2005, the defensive -- detents -- detention facility has been secure in compliance with article three of the geneva conventions. that is not my finding, because the finding of the administrations. after the deputy head of the organization for security and cooperation in europe visited guantanamo in 2006 he told a newspaper in belgium following, it is a model prison or people are better treated than in belgian prisons. there was, as is well documented , detainee mistreatment when the facility

for example, germany uk etc along with the united states. yes, they conducted in the 1990s operations with mi6 because poland had traditionally during communist times been in a place that exported weapons to terrorist organizations such as the ira in this case mi6 and the polls work together to export weapons to the ulster volunteer force, which was a protestant radical group in northern ireland that the weapons that were then captured by the brits and some ulcer volunteer force officials were rolled up the polls had very close relations with the israelis because the polls in 1990 1991 had an operation to move soviet -- from the soviet union to real and that needed a lot of security and the polls have had grown their relationship with the germans as well. and but particularly once germany was brought into nato the polls wanted to see that happen first, and then they opened really good relationship with the bnd the german forces as well. um, let me ask someone as commented did did poland at times feel or did polls feel insulted that they were

swallow is that so many this weekend we heard last weekend we heard from the president of the united states come from elected officials, u.s. senators and a former senator who come from states who have some of the most least restrictive voting laws in the country. and again mr. president, it's not just me making up this argument. this is an article i submitted for the record last week from the atlantic magazine. the atlantic magazine. not a republican mouthpiece by any measure. i'm going to read extensively from this article that came out last year because it really makes the point i'm trying to make. quote, biden has assailed as an atrocity akin to jim crow in the 21st century for the impact it could have on black citizens. but even once the gop passed measure takes effect, georgia's says citizens will have far more opportunities to vote before election day than their counterparts in the president's home state, where one in three residents is black or latino. two republicans, biden's criticism of the georgia law they have a plant. the state is playing catch-up, the state of delaware in a l

russia perceives ukraine as a public state of the united states. it has basically not agreed to any of the proposals put forward by ukraine to have some sort of negotiation on their own. and indeed president zelensky has put together a new program which advocated the return. these are simply unacceptable for russia. i am very skeptical whether president putin will engage with president zelensky as an equal and a one on one basis. instead i think the talks in geneva are ongoing is what boudin wants. a bilateral negotiation between the united states and russia so it is perceived russia is an equal power and its concerns are being addressed right. >> we are talking about russia and the forces they have put on the border, on ukraine and the rising tension on those actions between the united states and russia. we are taking your comments and questions as well. george and bellevue, washington independent go-ahead. >> good morning. >> good morning george. >> good morning. i just want to ask, i want to thank you for talking with us first of all. i want to

and the remainder who we, that we wanted to prosecute, or we felt were too dangerous to transfer united states. and i think those who argue that it's not safe to transfer the united into the united states is that is just hogwash. you know, we have maximum security presence, either a military presence or civilian prisons. and i think if we were to transfer the remaining number of these detainees at guantanamo to either a military facility or, or a civilian facility, they are not going to be walking out the back door. i have confidence in that. well, thank you john. karen, i know, i know both you and john, you know, live this story and i've been working on these issues so deeply which is why we are talking to you. but as you go out and take the temperature, as you talk with senator dick durbin, who chaired and held these her hearings earlier on, potentially closing, want on a mo, at do you sense that there's any shift in this time of biden, the biden era, to actually doing things that other presidents couldn't do. the article that you wrote sounded pessimistic yet funny. i started out very optim

united states. so is the military president guantanamo morally unacceptable? and can it be shut down for good? today we're talking to john bellenger, the 3rd, who served as legal adviser to the national security council, and senior associate council to president george w bush during the establishment of the detention facility in guantanamo. and he was a leader, chief legal advisor, the secretary of state kind of leads arise. and he also helped draft legislation that created the office of the director of national intelligence. he's now a lawyer in private practice with a law firm arnold port porter in washington, dc. and karen greenberg, director of the center on national security at fordham university school of law. she's the author of several books on the ways that the war on terror impacted justice in law inside america, including the least worst place. guantanamo the 1st $100.00 days. it's really great to be with you both, john bellenger. let me ask you, you were there at the creation and written

tell us what might happen if we are not smarter and have a better policy towards china and the united statesnd china don't find common ground to work together on global challenges w but instead are more in a confrontational state going forward? are we in a cold war is another way of asking that. >> me start with the book if i may it's set in 2034 and people have said to me you've written a word of predictive fiction. no, this is a work of cautionary fiction. i wrote this book specifically to show both of the united states and china can make mistakes, can make miscalculations, that can lead to a loss of control, the ladder of escalation that leads to a global conflict. you know, when did that happen before? try 1914 when the european nations havepe miscalculations following the assassination in a dusty corner in the balkans of the austria hungarian empire 1914. by 1918 the austria hungary and empire is gone. the ottoman empire is gone. the russiann empire is gone. so, the essence of the book is we ought to be very concerned. and this, by the way, this novel isn't good guys, bad guys, good guy

when the united states and the europeans violated all of their commitments under trump and the unitedabide by all of their commitments. for a full year, iran was the only side abiding by its commitments, and then only after that, in five stages, which took a year itself — a second year — did the iranians gradually decrease their commitments to put pressure on the europeans to do something about these violations. yeah, i think we've gone through the detail and i'm not sensing much movement, and it's fair to say that there isn't much apparent movement in the us position or in the iranian position. do you accept that 2022 could be an extremely dangerous year in the middle east because the americans are convinced you are now, in the words of antony blinken, are convinced you are now, in the words of anthony blinken, the secretary of state, "a very, very short time away from iran getting enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon." and we know the israelis are watching this very closely. and their prime minister, naftali bennett, has reserved the right quite explicitly to not be bound by

, the the united states had no navy and so one of the first things the congress stated upon declaring independence was to prepare to send benjamin franklin off to france to try to negotiate a treaty of alliance between the united states and france and it was a difficult undertaking because while the french wanted revenge against britain for france's defeat in the previous fighting at the end of the french and indian war, france had been ejected so britain claimed all of canada, spain wound up with louisiana and the french were looking to get back and the americans knew this so they were thinking france is going to be inclined to support us but it wasn't automatic. it had to be negotiated and the french had to be persuaded because from the standpoint of france, taking on britain, weakening the empire is a plus. we like and will support them but the other side was these are revolutionaries and they began by overthrowing and king louis started thinking we don't want the french people getting ideas like this, so it was a difficult negotiation. he had a lot of persuading to do and it requi

first, the united states remains in a state of armed conflict. as such, we are entitled under domestic and international law to detain opposing enemy forces for the duration of the hostilities, including the terrorists at guantanamo bay. this is the first war in history, as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the bombing of pearl harbor, where we let the enemy go during the war. and because of the hard work by the bush and obama administrations, we know who each of the 39 detainees are, the threat they pose and the risk they would need to accept if we decided to transfer anymore of them before the conflict ends. second, since at least 2005, the detention facility at guantanamo has been a safe, secure and humane detention facility and in compliance with the article 3. that's not my opinion. that's the opinion and findings of both the bush and obama administrations. in fact, after the deputy head of the organization for security and cooperation in europe visited guantanamo in 2006, he told a newspaper in belgium the following. quote, at the level

and that's what makes missouri the best state in the united states. [applause] we were also able to host the bicentennial parade and the inaugural ball that was enjoyed and celebrated by missourians from all over the state. our historic parade included over 100 entries and proudly showcased communities all across missouri. including the lincoln university marching musical storm, the budweiser collidesdales, chinese dragon dancers, and the negro league baseball museum. it marked the first time in our state's history that the inaugural ball was held outside and we counted ourselves fortunate to be able to celebrate with thousands of missourians, many of them which had never experienced an inaugural ball. but none of this would have been possible without the efforts state government undertook to lessen the impacts of covid-19. [applause] when i stood before you last year, our limited supply of covid-19 vaccines were available for only a small group of missourians. no one had a road map or a playbook and we knew we faced difficult times ahead. nevertheless

in 2003, a credible military threat by the united states stop iran's program for a year. then you have the example of 2012, where prime minister netanyahu went to the united nations and drew his famous redline, and that bomb that he drew a redline on. that redline was that iran, if it moved to enriching a bomb's worth of uranium, 3.5 percent, 20 percent, and a 90% is the fissile material. 3.5% they had already done a bomb. they were moving into a bomb's worth of 20% enriched uranium. the feeling that israel had at the time was once they do the 20% and complete 20% enriched uranium, the difference between there and the breakup time to getting fissile material is so sharp -- short and may be detectable that israel cannot stop it, so we have to to put the redline there. what did iran do when faced with that redline? they didn't dismantle their nuclear program but they did not cross the line. they were going vertically up the line and then for a few weeks, just to save face, and then they started stockpiling many bombs worth of low enriched uranium. in a certain sense, they we

oh, it's quite possible that she will lose their elections and then the united states cannot react. so this is the big bad now in a state of war. the country is that true that you cannot even number dialogue in peace, very big. and just before we go, some breaking news, justin us president joe biden says he plans to position american troops in eastern europe in the near future, despite the head of nato saying that there is no certainty that russia would invade . our newsroom is staying a process, of course it will develop and we will bring you the latest as it comes across. you want your to international, say, with no look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such orders at conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. at that point, obviously is too great trust rather than fear a job with artificial intelligence. real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence with ah ah ah ah ah ah a ah ah! now we know you, this

or is this normally the purview of countries like the united states? it's funny when you reading the objections of the united states representatives are putting forward, they're demanding that russia deescalate, their aggressive behavior stops. inflammatory rhetoric is almost like a, a bullet point list of what the united states themselves are either doing or not doing. so to come to sal giving new meaning to swiping left or right. and you tend to stop election app has got france in a flap is supposed to match, made for photos and presidential hopefuls. but if accused of having an unfair crush on one particular candidate is on that story, when we come in with ah, is your media a reflection of reality? in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation, community. are you going the right way or are you being with what is true? what is great? in the world corrupted, you need to descend. i join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. now and all you see is a sphere. is your fast you're fall off and on the other side already came on your

restrictive voting laws in america come from the majority leader state and the president of the united states state. and yet, listen to their etrhetoric. listen to their rhetoric. republicans and republican states are quote, jim crow 2.0. mr. president, i was on the floor last week talking in particular detail about my states laws. we are all different states here but i knowla my states laws. i know them well as it relates to voting rights. and here's one thing i said last week. in some of the most critical issues in terms of voting rights legislation, early in-person voting, automatic voter registration, and no excuse absentee voting, the republican state of alaska, the great state of alaska has voting laws that are significantly more expansive than the laws of new york, then the laws of delaware, then the laws of connecticut, then the laws of massachusetts and new hampshire. it is a long list, mr. president, a long list. and you can see why senators like me, my constituents in t particular find it more than just a little bit annoying when you have these smug arguments of republican states b

nato membership is not just united states. within all of the 30 members, that is not the direction that our allies want to go because of the importance of upholding that principle. i do not think that some sort of tacit agreement is going to satisfy what putin is after. it is also about war and it is about nato and that is a key piece of it. for putin it is also about keeping ukraine in russia's orbit. even if we were to make some sort of agreement like that we should not be under any illusion that russia's attacks on ukraine and ukrainian democracies would subside. i do not think it is really what putin is after, it might be part of it, but that tacit peace is not early what he is after. he wants a formal guarantee and a tom amis for regions in the east that would give russia a permanent veeck -- veto over ukraine's foreign policy and that is what is at stake. host: richard in new york. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to say brian lamb is a patriot, and also there is a tremendous seaport that ukraine has that is ve

two landmark bills sit before the united states senate. john lewis voting rights advancement act, and the freedom to vote act. [applause] and these two bills represent the first real opportunity to secure the freedom to vote since the united states supreme court gutted the voting rights act nearly a decade ago. we do not know when we will have this opportunity again. senate republicans have exploited arcane rules to block these bills. and let us be clear. the constitution of the united states gives the congress the power to pass legislation, and nowhere, nowhere does the constitution give a minority the right to unilaterally block legislation. [applause] the american people have waited long enough. the senate must act. and the bottom line is this. years from now, our children and our grandchildren, they will ask us about this moment. they will look back on this time, and they will ask us not about how we felt they will ask us, what did we do? we cannot tell them that we let a senate rule stand in the way of our most fundamental freedom. in