all right that's is a balance of from the freedom house thank you. thank you so much. about desk oil and screeching ty is spinning is the fos just going motorsport in south africa it was once shrouded in darkness again as he and gangsterism today a new generation of privacy is pushing to make this subculture mainstream and they're pulling crowds to race habs across the country was interim deal. screeching tires roaring motors and the empty of adrenaline this is the dog of south african street speak. spinning it's like a drug you have to be pretty tough for me to understand it's turning it's all about . the president i mean. you know just feel yourself going. to their rooms simply see how many death defying stunts you can perform before the engine gives out spinning evolved during the 1980 s. at the height of the upper tide regime and expensive cars which were considered status symbols of white supremacy stores and jews to perform stunts as an act of defiance they were also the perfect getaway cars for galveston's i think. that the north has changed scenes a young gener

based in geo freedom house ses governments all spending millions buying sophisticated technology to monitor behavior online now in africa the culprit saw and go into uganda kenya and nigeria now in addition to surveillance there is also the restriction of online activity now here's a snapshot of internet freedom on the continent according to freedom house of the 11 sub-saharan african countries that were surveyed ethiopia and so done ranked the worst with $100.00 points being the perfect school now some bob way was also singled out in the report it's a country that has lost rules making it legal to monitor people's online. if he where government critics have been charged and a fake news and hate speech laws and where the internet has been shut down by people they say a major threats to intonate freedom is that data costs are so high the price of data is his father featured evidence about when it's now in legs you know we've got bread and bust but the issues some. buying now seems just like you could you can you can do without it prices rise daily but people sellers don't go up in tandem so

to get basic security that's something that people really need to see this country report from freedom house said asylum seekers to your country are routinely detained and conditions and conditions in detention centers are generally poor why why do you keep to the poor conditions the question is probably for the ministry of interior. we have seen you have listed on the government haven't. done any and then stops in the process. the country has been. the destination for many of them. in the past especially from the east let's be clear there are not only movements from the south from the from africa or from middle east but the dozens of 1000 people coming to the opinion from the east from eastern europe from asia and only at last year we had $30000.00 nuclear incoming people from countries like ukraine mongolia central some to asia so that's also focused not only on $11.00 the flow of flows and in this regard we're trying to have a regulated process through which we can allow people to get freedom house also reported that xenophobia and t.v. refugee rhetoric had been voiced by your prime minis

to get basic security that's something that people really need to see this country report from freedom house said asylum seekers to your country are routinely did so you sure seem to step down and i think this is a question for the for the party for our coalition partner not for us to decide much of a senior member of the julia but of our agreement it's just that we are not commenting on personal policies of caution partners the head of the odious opposition party. the largest opposition group said he respected the prosecutor's decision not to press charges but said the whole case leaves behind a bad taste and the divided society you would you're not in you agree with do you. believe that. it leaves but. i believe that our judiciary play perfectly tourists are fully independent and if they come up with some decision that is outcome of independent inquiry the influential financial terms of the conflicts between mr publishes extensive businesses and his role as prime minister a stain on czech democracy just to silvio berlusconi tarnished it in this reputation 2 decades ago i wonder how low you

watchdog freedom house my colleague. talk about that report. akeaways from the report basically this year's report said that for the 4th year in the row freedom on the internet is on the decline worldwide basically the report pointed to 2 sources which you just kind of mentioned right there based on the one side we have online extremists basically extremist groups attempting to hijack a public display of discourse and debate online and attempt to take into a new kind of anti-democratic direction and on the other side you also have individual governments and also government agencies using the potential of social media to spy on their own citizens and how exactly are political extremists taking advantage of social media well i mean basically everyone has kind of seen it in the recent years i mean starting in 2016 there's been this onslaught of fake news of propaganda of distortions online especially when it comes to social media and basically it allows these these radical groups to kind of hijack the public discourse and taken to a completely new

watchdog freedom house my colleague is here now to talk about that report of the main takeaways from the report basically this year's report said that for the 4th year in the row freedom on the internet is on the decline worldwide basically the report pointed to 2 sources which you just kind of mentioned right there based on the one side we have online extremists basically extremist groups attempting to hijack a public display discourse and debate online an attempt to take into a new kind of and a democratic direction and on the other side you also have individual governments and also government agencies using the potential of social media to spy on their own citizens and how exactly are political extremists taking advantage of social media well i mean basically everyone is kind of seen in the recent years i mean starting in 2016 there's been this onslaught of fake news of propaganda of distortions online especially when it comes to social media and basically it allows these these radical groups to kind of hijack the public discourse and take into a completely new direction basically

online statement we hear this in public protests in india that's what i don't hear if you think freedom house is the latest report which says that despite a vibrant media indian journalists risk harris meant death threats and physical violence in connection with their work such attacks are rarely published and some have taken place with the complicity or active participation of police. i think it is shameful whenever any journalist is attacked indeed there have been some attacks and maybe there are people complicit at the lower level but prosecutions do happen to happen and i can you know i can tell you very comprehensively it is not the indian state it is not the indian government and it is not the b.g.p. which condones this what is telling is the latest annual crime report which is more than a year later leaves out some rather important categories like attacks on journalists nothing about human rights violations by security forces or attacks by vigilantes when asked about these gaps your home affairs ministry said the data for these categories had been withheld because it was unreliable and

charles: a new report from think tank, freedom house, they are using social media to manipulate elections citizens, finding it easy to put own propaganda on internet. china gets a title of the world most abuser of internet freedom. founded by iran, cuba. kristin tate joins me. they say the united states which is still relatively free of this kind of stuff has also been declining in recent years. the internet, via the social media every aspect of our lives. >> it is concerning. social media platforms are providing useful platforms for hostile actors, both foreign and domestic. the question what will we do about? a lot of people need to, when regulatory powers that already has are subject to misuse and handling under the obama administration. irs unfairly targeting conservative groups. more recently fbi agent peter strzok was fired because he hana investigation with objectivity. when we increase the government's powers, conservatives historically are not treated fairly. another point i want to point out, terms, disinformation and fake news people throw around, they talk about concerns with

all while america is becoming less free, according to freedom house.historical ams menesia kick in. and even worse, glimpses of a kitchy romanticization which does deep respect to the 100 million people killed in its name. as does on the flip side, the impulse to attack policy differences in a democracy, a slippery slope to soviet state. these are arguments we hoped would be on the ash heap of history by now. then again, when i read about the fall of the berlin wall back in high school, i never imagined that defending liberal democracy would be a core responsibility of my generation. but there is a defiant optimism that lingers as a legacy from the spirit of 1989 because none of the experts predicted the fall of the berlin wall or soviet union. it came about not just because of western leaders like regan and thatcher and pope john paul ii but primarily because of countless small acts of courage by people behind the iron curtain who refused to live in fear. small bands of dissidents who refused to conform to communism and give lip service to lies big an

funk a research analyst for freedom on the net at the democracy and human rights organization freedom house she joins us from new york so obviously there are concerns about the risks to privacy about how this sort of system could be misused against political opponents just tell me a bit more about how india what do we know of the government's plans precisely how they want to use a centralized system of this nature. well 1st off thanks so much for having me on today i'm really happy to be here to talk about this important issue so and then since in india it seems that they want to out they want to roll out a nationwide facial recognition program so police can use it to do kurt to deter crimes like you mentioned but it's really alarming because these tepper technologies can facilitate facilitate mass surveillance we know that the technology it's an accurate we know that it has very intense privacy risks to it for example you know if if a database is hacked a facial scans you somebody can simply go get a new face and we know that there really grave consequences for human rights here because we

. >> this was a study done by an independent watchdog organization, freedom house. 40 out of 65 countriesudied they say instituted advanced surveillance programs. that gets us to that nearly 90% figure. nearly 3 billion people we're talking about fall under some sort of surveillance program. that is just a staggering number. >> well, so we just did that story about tik tok and whatever. social media. when it comes to social media, we know that it's full of bad actors. people manipulating, trying to manipulate elections, everything else. so you've got to see it for what it is. but recognize it. that's the important thing. >> absolutely. >> recognize the dangers out there. how about, speaking of bad actors, russia. some russian star apparently has come up with trying to get people to clone themselves with robots. >> robots? yeah, they can make them look like any person on earth. the robot's face has 18 moving parts there. that allows it to make 600 different micro-expressions. and its artificial intelligence contains 100,000 speech modules. the good news here or the bad news depending how y

democrats tucked it in a critical spending bill, hoping no one would notice, they did, it is weird, house freedom caucus, and house progressive caucus are natural enemies. think dogs and cats in bathes and fighting in same small tub but they are only ones paying attention, fighting to put this one to sleep for good, edward snowden would be rolling in his grave but he is giggling, they are too happy to give his administration even more abuse able opaque and unrepenting power. justin amash tweeted: when democrat signs i. >> trump and g.o.p. neither party is looking out for you that is why i'm an independent that is what this country is supposed to be rooted in not hyper partisan hypocrisy. started out at empathy, if the parties are not looking out for you, why do you still vote for them? or they are spying on you and stealing your money, what a country, that is the memo. kennedy: it year nsa temporarily suspended this mass data collected program, they don't know how to operate it without violating america's rights, why the hell does congress want them to restart it, here with me now, kentucky repub

your father still stands according to what you're saying why do you think that released him or freedom from house arrest today at this particular point well. we have what call everything but arms which is a trade privilege that cambodia receives from the e.u. and it's been under investigation because cambodia has been violating a lot of the principle but attached to the trade agreement and one of the recommendations from the e.u. is the release of my father comes along with many other things to restore democracy and that investigation that report writing from the e.u. part is coming to an end on the 12 and i think that plays a big part in the decision today and you yourself have lobbied for. you in the u.s. to take action against of the current government and in fact your father himself was accused of conspiring with the us to overthrow the government so are you not worried that the cambodian government will view you in the same way that it's viewed your father. i think their perception of us does not bother us at all because it means nothing to do cambodian public and whatever radix whatever pro

house freedom caucus chair congressman andy biggs, house judiciary committee or congressman tom mcclintocksenior advisor to the trump 2020 campaign jenna ellis. i think andy, all three of you, but in the end, i served with in congress previously but i think all three of you for joining us. i want to start with you. congressman mcclintock, you were on the house judiciary committee and if the democrats, and i think this is questionable whether or not they move forward, but if they were to move forward, the rules are different. and you get to call people. the democrats will get to call people. who would you like to hear come testify before the house judiciary committee? >> i'm hoping we could get viktor shokin. he's the ukrainian prosecutor general that biden had fired just as we were looking at the corrupt relationship between biden's son and burisma. that it be a very interesting conversation to have. obviously the so-called whistle-blower who concealed his relationship with adam schiff would be very interesting to hear from. i think that he has ties to the whole cabal that dreamed of this

and look at the freedom house report, nonpartisan. people should look at it. erosion of freedom here. look at the global attitudes project. it's about how we are perceived now around the world. and i think we have to begin to connect all these dots and say, who are we? what do we, the people, expect of our leaders and what do we want our value and moral system of government to be? >> yeah. very, very sage comments there. i know that you've also expressed particular concern about a comment from bill taylor, the acting ambassador to ukraine. i want to take a listen to what he said. >> i expressed my strong reservations in a text message to ambassador sondland stating my nightmare is the they, the ukrainians, give the interview and don't get the security assistance. the russians love it and i quit, and i was serious. i also said, i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. >> tara, why should people pay more attention to this? >> firstly, i worked with bill taylor. he's someone the entire country can be proud of, along w

, there has been talk about the democratic recession, which is a real phenomenon documented by freedom house and others. having said that, i think that has led a lot of people to conclude that democracy, promotion, and advocating for human rights more broadly in our foreign policy is sort of passe, we shouldn't really do it anymore because no one cares about it anymore. what is going on in hong kong, moscow, sudan, and other countries is an indication that people having that debate are largely ones that already enjoy the benefit of democracy. it isn't going on where people are being denied the fruits of democracy. if either president reagan or bush were here today, they would be wanting us to encourage what is going on in hong kong and moscow. two quickcharlie: comments on hong kong. the country that has drawn lessons from the cold war is china. the lesson is we aren't going to let that happen to us. that is in my mind one of the reasons xi is tightening things. i am surprised he has not gone into hong kong in a more aggressive way. i'm with eric on democracy promotion, but we have to do it

it's been documented by freedom house.ving said that, i think it's led a lot of people to conclude that democracy promotion and advocating for human rights more broadly in our firm policy we shouldn't do it anymore because nobody really cares about it anymore. i think what's going on in hong kong and moscow and sudan and various other countries is actually an indication that the people having a debate are largely ones who already enjoy the benefit of democracy. it's not going on in those places where people are being denied fruits of democracy and i think if president reagan or president bush were here today they would be wanting us. >> two quick comments on hong kong. the main party that strong lessons from the end of the cold war is china and their lesson is, will not let that happen to us. and in my mind that's one of the reasons that she is tightening things and i'm kind of surprised he hasn't gone into hong kong in a more aggressive way for start i'm with eric on democracy promotion but i think we have to do it steadi

this is the real phenomenon this been documented by freedom house. and others.at is led a lot of people to conclude that democracy and promotion and advocating for human rights broadly informed policy is sort of palisade we shouldn't really do it anymore. he is the whenever it cares about anymore and i say what's going on in hong kong and moscow, was going on in sudan and various brother countries is actually an indication that people are having the debate are largely ones were already enjoying the benefit of democracy has brought going on in those places where people are being denied the democracy and i say that if either president present bush were here today, to be wanting us to encourage was been going on and con hung hong kong and in moscow. >> two quick comments on hong kong. china. in their lesson is, were not going to let that happen to us. and in my mind, this one of the reasons that she is tightening things that i'm kind of surprised he hasn't gone into hong kong in a more aggressive way. i am with eric on democracy promotion, but i say that we have to

freedom of speech. as weijia jiang reports from the white house, there are new questions tonight about a phone call summaryhe president released today. >> i have the right to speak. i have freedom of speech, just as other people do. >> reporter: late today, president trump dismissed accusations he tried to intimidate marie yovanovitch and flipped the script on adam schiff. >> tampering is when a guy like shifty schiff doesn't let us have lawyers. tampering is when schiff doesn't let us have witnesses. >> reporter: but republicans did present new evidence today, a summary of the president's first phone call with the newly elected property of ukraine back in april, three months before their conversation at the center of the impeachment inquiry. >> i'd like to congratulate you on a job well done. >> reporter: released just in time for it to be read at the start of today's hearing. >> now the american people know the very first call that president trump had with president zelensky. >> reporter: republicans say the call proves mr. trump had other interactions with the ukrainians whe he did not discuss the biden

censorship here but once this is all up and running it's it will definitely limit internet freedom in russia. on house a car thank you so much for the explanation thank you. europe has a new monetary chief christine legarde is the 1st woman to head up the european central bank in frankfurt her predecessor has stuck with low interest rates to ward off recession legard once governments with big budget surpluses like germany and the netherlands to do more to boost growth. the new head of the european central bank hasn't given too much away about how she intends to proceed in her new job but she has given some indication of what she thinks the institution needs to do the z.b. needs to listen to and understand markets need not be guided by market but it certainly needs to listen and understand but it also needs to listen and understand the people. because a currency is after all a public good that belongs to the people we can work guard is widely expected to maintain the loose monetary policy spearheaded by her predecessor mario draghi the combination of super low interest rates and a massive bond buying p

house freedom caucus chair andy biggs on the democrats impeachment push. look at markets, trade, your money, your life, your everything. here comes "the five." ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody. i am jesse watters with jedediah, juan, dana, and greg. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." donald trump taking on liberal america. the president who made his name in new york, now escaping the high tax state for florida. leftist lawmakers are ripping trump for changing his residen residency. >> i don't believe he was ever a new yorker anyway because living in new york does not make you a new yorker. to be a new yorker is a state of mind, a set of beliefs. so i say, so i say, so i say good riddance, good riddance, mr. trump. >> jesse: disastrous new york city mayor mel the laws you -- bill de blasio. trump also continuing to call out to california for its out-of-control homeless crisis. the president hitting democrats like nancy pelosi for not fixing the problem. it comes as a new report shows the homeless death rate in l.a. county has jumped by more than

house freedom caucus chairman, congressman andy biggs. and fox news contributor roy murdock.gressman bigs, let me start with you. is it your sense that democrats are catching an ear full back home among their constituents and that they may suddenly get a case of the 4-real or less and reconsider their drive to impeach? >> in some districts they are. if you are in a swing district like the state you just showed a clip of, they are feeling some heat, some discomfort about pursuing impeachment. especially in light of what came out in the last two weeks of the open hearings. so first of all, it is obtuse. nobody can really explain what the charges are. so the people there who have said, we want impeachment, who are members of congress in a swing district are now feeling the heat about, you can't even tell us what the issue is. so yeah, they are feeling it in some respects. that is why i think they are looking for an off-ramp in some respects, if they can get on and off ramp. >> gregg: yeah, well, there are plenty of off-ramp's on that freeway. deroy murdock, you penned a column t

and former virginia congressman and house freedom caucus member. to see you both. congressman brad, i wonder what elizabeth warren is saying, her plan really costs $120 trillion. they looked at it and it might cost $52 trillion they say and that the middle class is actually going to pay for this, not billionaires like bill gates. >> i read that and that is right. thank goodness bill gates is stepping up. in the business class has been remarkably silent on democrat strategy in the past. warren and the democrats and the pelosi budget spending skyrocketed and what bill gates brought up was capital accumulation. that's the major cause of economic growth and when trumped at the tax cuts, now high school graduate wages are going up as a result of that capital accumulation. so warren has plans to give away more free goods at christmas time, but social security, medical care is insolvent, $20 trillion deficit and to trillion dollar in debt right now. >> ed: the trump administration has cut that debt down as you know which i'm sure marie is going to get you on the other han

most vociferous defenders like mark meadows and lee zeldin and andy biggs the chairman of the house freedomhere for every minute of the hearing. i barely see any democrats showing up. and you know, a lot of them have excuses. obviously, it's a busy day on capitol hill all the time. a lot of them sit on other committees that have hearings and meetings and obviously there's votes going on. all throughout the day as well. but i've been struck throughout this entire process, brian, to see so few members of congress actually show up and attend the hearings. it's usually been the president's defenders like the ones i just mentioned that have been in there for essentially every minute of the hearing. >> well, these are long days. we really appreciate you joining us late at night. andrew december derio, our thanks. and when we come back, the president talks about his health and blames the media for worrying his family about it over the weekend. amily about it erov the weekend mom, why do we always come here for the holidays? how did you find great-grandma's recipe? we're related to them? we're port

lou: tonight we have house freedom caucus chairman andy biggs who will talk about impeachment and theing put on in washington, d.c. we will be joined by national security expert fred white. this on a day when the attorney general william barr has declared the zte and huawei to be threats against u.s. national security. we will have the very latest for you. congressman matt gates with us. republican ed rollins and former congressman jason chaffetz as we take on the day's news and most important developments. please be with us at the top of the hour. liz, that's the preview. elizabeth: great to see you. off packed show coming up -- you have a packed show coming up. i will be watching. attorney general barr says the justice department watchdog report on the russia probe origins is quote imminent. let's bring in former federal prosecutor, great to see you andrew. do you expect criminal referrals out of the doj ig probe because remember horowitz made criminal referrals to comey and mccabe but they didn't follow through. what do you think? >> what i think is we will look at two separate iss

house freedom caucus chair andy biggs on the democrats impeachment push.arkets, trade, your money, your life, your everything. here comes "the five." ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody. i am jesse watters with jedediah, juan, dana, and greg. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." donald trump taking on liberal america. the president who made his name in new york, now escaping the high tax state for florida. leftist lawmakers are ripping trump for changing his residen residency. >> i don't believe he was ever a new yorker anyway because living in new york does not make you a new yorker. to be a new yorker is a state of mind, a set of beliefs. so i

freedom house does a survey every year about the as democracies dancing a receding? it's been receding for ten years or so. part of that is this rise of authoritarians, derisive flood and borders. it may be thank and i agree with the notre dame professor, is that liberal democracies nothing we felt was a birthright. it's something that was continued, the great martin luther king line, you know, the moral, , arc of the more you universe is long but tends towards justice. maybe it doesn't tend towards justice. we have to keep that are in line. one of the things the u.s. has i think that it is being a beacon of liberal democracy around the world. >> host: . we are not at the moment with the current administration, and so that is not advancing democracy. it's undermining democracy around the world. >> host: jack is in new york city. good morning, jack. >> caller: hello? >> host: jack, we are listening. >> caller: okay, hello. it's a pleasure to be talking with you this morning. i am really appreciated all the things he said especially the distinction between misinformati