mostly led by republicans and john avon democrats like brock obama did not like the practice and thoughtt was corrupt. that is why it ended ten years ago. board people realized over the next decade that it really devalued with a member of congressss was doing. because you reach a point we are average rank-and-file member of the house of representatives struggled to explain what they were doing in washington.ad they had nothing to deliver for their constituents and created an environment that they would always think the government funding bills to keep it open to get those federal agencies that was a secondary task they did not care about as much they had no skin in the game with a bipartisan special committee that concluded one of the reasons there are so many government shutdowns, 17 or 18 days and 35 days or 19 they said part of the reason is because members themselves did not have a real input or any good coming out of it's another democrat led majority try to bring the pack —- the itpractice back. host: if you want to ask our guestar questions sending money back to constituents paul

mm americans. brock, obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism, which i think it means living to a higher moral ideal based on democracy and freedom and human rights. and that's just simply untrue. so the exceptionalism in one regard, claims to be a license to do anything without fear of repercussions. it's also an indicator to the world that the exception was on the american uses. and its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the, to the populations of different nations. ah, methods of warfare are becoming increasingly sophisticated. new tactics have arrived to replace the colonial conquests of the past. no genji, she should be sure to madame you, betsy gospel that show me about a j reach. name me? yes, i was on that domain. yeah. so it was on. is that why the most it not them? yes, because i know you spoke changed. your report are go via how will support you more the flu, g. e. then it says showing you what changes swaby, are you scared go downstream. jungle? yes. continue with the was peaceful. your is danny, soon he please consult fee mi

but also of brock obama who dismissed russia as, as a regional power, which was a slight, i think that putin neither forgot nor forgave. and i don't think anybody is looking at the situation now and is saying that russia is just a regional power. think the mistake that's off made is to sort of look at russia, t, d p and say, well, it's actually, you know, smaller than it's nice and hands it's, it's, it's, you know, as, as you said, and just a regional power. but it's not, you know, it's the biggest country in terms of it's geography in the world. it has a natural resources and it has nuclear weapons. so, you know, you cannot say it's just of each power and that, you know, we, we made that mistake. i think was a misleading of the fact you sound just a little bit so at least it could be construed that you sound like somebody in germany has been much criticized in the last week or so. the people who have tended to, over the years and more recently pluck kate is to work or is often use plaque. 8 flooding may poacher. know, i'm not in favor of that. i think that's a mistake. i think the onl

but also of brock obama who dismissed russia as, as a regional power, which was a slight, i think that putin neither forgot nor forgave. and i don't think anybody is looking at the situation now and is saying that russia is just a regional power. think the mistake that's off made is to sort of look at russia, t, d p and say, well, it's actually, you know, smaller than it's nice and hands it's, it's, it's, you know, as, as you said, just a regional power. but it's not, you know, it's the biggest country in terms of it's geography in the world. it has a natural resources and it has nuclear weapons. so, you know, you cannot say it's just of each no power and that, you know, we, we made that mistake. i think it was a misleading of the fact. you sound just a little bit so at least it could be construed. you sound like somebody in germany has been much criticized in the last week or so. the people who have tended to over the years and more recently plus kate is the worker is often used plaque. kate flooded me. poacher. no, i'm not in favor of that. i think that's a mistake. i think the only

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but also of brock obama who dismissed russia as, as a regional power, which was a slight i think that to team neither forgot nor forgave. and i don't think anybody is looking at the situation now and is saying that russia is just a regional power. think the mistake that's off made this to sort of look at rush s t p and say, well it's actually, you know, smaller than it's nice and hands. it's, it's, it's, you know, as, as the said and just a regional power. but it's not, you know, it's the biggest country in terms of it's geography in the world. it has a natural resources and it has nuclear weapons. so, you know, you cannot say it's just a regional power and that, that, you know, we, we made that mistake. i think was a misleading of the fact. you sound just a little bit so it least it could be construed. you sound like somebody in germany has been much criticized in the last week or so. the people who have tended to, over the years and more recently pluck kate is the work that is often used plaque. kate flooded me approach. no, i'm not in favor of that. i think that's a mistake. i thin

how about when brock obama rallied the world to destroy? what was then the most prosperous country on the african continent with nato bomb? i'm been asking this question over and over. why would we intervene and libya and i still haven't received an answer that totally satisfies me, but the most consistent one is because it be the right thing to do because people are dying for altruistic reasons. some us bombings don't even get coverage if it wasn't for african tweeting it out, people would have no idea the united states was currently carrying out strikes in somalia. somali us forces engage insurgents and supports the federal government of somalia. why criticize what your own government is doing when you can just as easily virtue, signal and block heartstrings feigning outrage about something that a government on the other side of the planet is doing? if only the russian military was headquartered in washington, then perhaps mainstream us media would be educating us about the beauty of the weapons. caleb martin, r. t. new york. we spoke to

and about previous times where miracle played such a vital role in managing putin because brock obama didn't want to. what is her absence to day mean? is europe playing the role? it should, does angle of miracles, departure from her role matter in the current equation is put and seeing that as an opportunity. what's your view on the kind of the western european dimension of this? yeah, this is an immensely complicated question as well. and kathy understands that so well, she a little girl with in budapest and spend time living in the u. s. embassy before the family able to get out of the country because of the rushing. we matches and looks after the $956.00 revolution. she understands exactly that kind of failure to respond when the, when the soviets are on the move concerning western europe cancel, miracle played a role. we kind of have to appreciate it, but also it was it enough. she kept europe on track united with sanctions against russia. because of their earlier invasion of ukraine and occupation of crimea. and so she refused to allow you sanctioned to be relaxed, even though th

the white house at the time i was covering the white house, the time really was under president brock obama, that they could understand the move for crimea as ukraine moved away from russian influence. crimea isn't a very important russian base so they could understand that they are still a ramifications. but what the bite administration is trying to say. busy is look you thought you survive those sanctions and that's great. that's nothing like what we're going to do to you. so not only would they sanction people target people, they basically put them on a list of where they couldn't get specific equipment. they could be used for the military, and the bigger things there there said is we're going to keep giving arms and weapons to ukraine. so although officials here in washington say, it's really not a contest. if you put the russian army against the ukrainian military, although they are much better than they were in 2014, they will b outgunned out mand. but they are saying this is not going to end well for you, because even if you invade, even if you are able to put in a sympathetic govern

but you know, this changing global ordered the kelly, you know, brock obama came into office and the miracle had to form a chance or had to do with an america that wanted to pivot to asia. remember that, and then we had for you as president trump come in, who had a very belligerent on tone and attitude towards nato. and the trans atlantic relationship is now you've got by who came in, who talked about it in for be an inflection point in history. because of what's happening around china right now. it's democracies against autocracies. and we're sitting here talking about somebody that sounds very cold war esque. you know, the west against russia. well, i'm saw that oliver in sitting in the sea will also have something to say about this, that maybe the tone has changed drastically. but the underpinning of policy of demanding more from you, nato partners, and demanding more leadership and out of europe, and actually demanding europe in germany to stand on what the us feels is the right side of history, which is with them when it comes to china. and that has not changed significant, but

talking with jason firm and who was the top economic advisor to the white house under president brock. obama serving as the chairman of the council can amik advisors. he now teaches economic policy at harvard university, jason firm, and it's great to be with you today. i know that you understand inflation and it's writers better than anyone. but you know, i mean it's kind of put up some numbers here that we've just gotten from the u. s. department of labor, food up 7 and a half percent peanut butter is actually something joe mansion put out on his sweeter a 15 and a half percent. gas, 40 percent electricity, 10.7 percent cars, 40 percent. so we have a surge in a lot of these numbers in basic staples that, that people are interacting with. now, wealthy people can get by, but a lot of other people are going to be, you know, in, you know, struggling with all of us. can you give our readers and understanding of what happened between last year and this year that has sent this, this, these prices surging to levels that we're seeing? yes, steve, we're, we're really seeing inflation. at 1st. people

and brock obama not meeting in january of 2017. they were taking upon themselves to change the norms of behavior, to break the law in my opinion and change it. here's where jake sullivan fits in. yesterday on, on cnn, jake sullivan was confronted by jake tapper, who said, hey, why is it you guys are leaking all this classified material? you keep coming out and saying, oh there's going to be a false. why ah, we have true moments. and solomon's answer was, we have to do that because we've judged that this is such a hard time in the world. who to heck is jake sullivan? he gets a change all the rules and all the laws because he has a preference. okay, well i'm going to take a lesson on that cuz that's that quote right there, stuck out to my team as well, where they happened. so here was, yeah, this is exactly what was said yesterday on jake tapper cnn show. first, we're not putting forward this intelligence to start a war which has happened in the past, jake, we're putting forward this intelligence to stop a war. and i think that funda

but also of brock obama who dismissed russia as, as a regional power, which was a slight, i think that putin neither forgot nor forgave. and i don't think anybody is looking at the situation now and is saying that russia is just a regional power. think the mistake that's off made is to sort of look at russia, t, d p and say, well, it's actually, you know, smaller than it's nice and hands it's, it's, it's, you know, as, as you said, and just a regional power. but it's not, you know, it's the biggest country in terms of it's geography in the world. it has a natural resources and it has nuclear weapons. so you know, you cannot say it's just of each pollen that, you know we, we made that mistake. i think it was a misleading of the fact. you sound just a little bit so at least it could be construed. you sound like somebody in germany has been much criticized in the last week or so. the people who have tended to over the years and more recently pluck kate is to work or is often use plaque. 8 floating may poacher. know i'm not in favor of that. i think that's a mistake. i think the only langu

and and i do so i don't think was a exaggerated that kennedy inspired catholics that the same way brock obama did for african americans and so how cath your parents we would go to church every sunday a saint rose. i had to go, you know, i deeply avoided doing classes at the church. i did but i didn't like, you know, i thought i did enough by just doing you know going to mass. doing going in doing going to confession it seemed to me enough on my billet, you know, they pushed it a little bit more but rosary beads and the hail mary and our father and it stayed with me all my life and the it may have ended up by my sister went to notre dame catholic school and i ended up coming to georgetown catholic school and in so anyway, we incidentally one other interesting thing at ohio state so when i'm telling you i'm working. i liked working. i like making money. i like putting i had the energy to work and i got a great job. senior year as a waiter in the faculty club well at two o'clock we stop serving lunch and at about 158. every day woody hayes the football coach would come. and he'd eat by himself a

brock gets on the phone. and he says he says what it was going on. how are you? i say senator, you know. i'm on my way to constitutional law class. why did i tell barack obama i was on my way to constitutional law class. but because barack obama used to do what? teach constitutional law and so he starts pepper me with questions about where we are in class and i was like any good law student, which means i hadn't read all semester. i know you know where we were i was i was just trying to balance the world on my shoulders. and so finally i'm like look senator like, you know, that's kind of get to it. i'm about to walk into professor brown constant brown and i constitutional law class and he said well bukhari now is the time i want you to endorse me to be president. i see how deuce going to two conditions one is that my mom gets to work on a campaign and two is that you come to my district? he says done and done. and so i endorse the president and over the senator at the time began to travel the country with them. and usually i'm with like tatiana ali or cowpen from harold and kumar one time i even get to campaign with michelle obama. it's just an amazing expe