american now let's get the thoughts now of dan kadlec he's a human rights lawyer and he joins us and you very welcome dan from your perspective do you think the treatment of maria. is justified in any way by the authorities no in fact i think it's a violent how she's being treated is a violation of both the u.s. law or the u.s. constitution which forbids cruel and unusual punishment in also violates international law clearly she's being subjected to sleep deprivation being woken up every fifteen minutes she's been. subjected to strip searches after visits. none of these things are justified these are clearly designed to put pressure on her to subject her to emotional distress and i think people should be very upset about ultimately very by carrying out this sort of treatment what would they be hoping to achieve it you say they hope to break a but for what gain. well it could be one of a couple reasons i mean one it could be that it is intended that they actually think she did something wrong and they want her to admit it or to give her more information or to roll on somebody else or f

informant back in may he rights lawyer dan kadlec believes there are far more reasons for washington to worry about its election system than alleged russian meddling. here we have no evidence that russia is trying to interfere in the midterm elections do you thousand and eighteen and yet they take the somehow the new york talent takes the absence of evidence as evidence you know but that that seems par for the course for the scandal and i would say that people probably have a right not to believe in the us electoral system but not because of russian alleged russian interference but because frankly you have a system that is skewed by moneyed interests by mass disenfranchisement of people particularly african-americans. you have a lot of gerrymandering which benefits one party over another usually the republicans those are things that people should worry about and not russian interference or new foreign so comfy to sas spanish football fans have been outraged at news this summer the games a set to be played on u.s. soil will have of the details to stuff the price. wrong. just. to shape