and in lake jackson, we have daniel mcadams. he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity. our child in cross talk, roles and effects. that means it can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate, let me go to you 1st, re your the spoke on the program. i think when you were coming up through the ranks, we don't have to look at all of the decades, but i think you were coming up. that was all healthy suspicion of people like you in the ca. i remember the church commission and now speed up to the present. why does the liberal media adore the intelligence community so much? what changed? it's a remarkable change. if you look at m s m, b, c, i mean when tucker carlson claims that he was being surveilled by the n s a, you had a whole of these 4 former bush cheney officials saying no tucker must be out of his mind. or he has a different agenda here. these are all on m s, n, b, c. these are all bush cheney people. ok. i mean, how did this all happen? go ahead re well, one has to understand that

daniel mcadam, thank you so much for joining me for it with us. thanks for having scottie amazon. just finish it. a secret cloud computing contract was up to $10000000000.00. now the decision was made public by a lawsuit filed by microsoft. or it's a tech giant, it's challenging the contract. boom bus co host, an investigator has been swan is looking into this story for us. was gotta, you're not gonna believe this, but the contract name is actually get this wild and stormy. that was the contract that was drafted between the n s a and amazon for this 10000000000 dollar cloud computing contract. and it turns out that this is now the 2nd contract in just a year between the u. s. government and major tech companies valued in the billions of dollars in november the ca, awarded c 2 e contracts potentially worth tens of billions of $1.00 to $5.00 companies, a, w. s, microsoft, google, oracle, and ibm. originally that contract was offered to only microsoft, and it was challenged in court by amazon, amazon, claiming the president trump had steered the contract away from amazon and to micro

so to give us the details to bring down mcadams, executive director of the from paul interest institute. thank you so much for joining me, daniel. hi, scotty. you know, i just want to start off with just some background to this. you know, i hear a lot of things actually being exported out of canada. agriculture energy. great honey. but rarely do we actually talk about military items. so how big is the military trade into 3 out of candidate? well, karen is not a major player in military exports, but it certainly is a modest player, a middling player, i would say. it ranks probably 12 or 13 in the world in terms of arms export, but significantly for the topic that you bringing up today is the 2nd largest exporter to saudi arabia after the united states. so a major military trading partner of saudi arabia, if not a major arms export or on the world scene, which daniel has to help raise his red flags right there to be canada. so do you actually hearing the story? no, in the background looking at it, do you actually believe candidate is in violation of the arms trade treaty and will actually suspend their partnership with saudi arab