i guess joe lauria in washington he's editor in chief of consortium news dot com and author of how i lost by hillary clinton with a forward by julian assange also in washington we have gareth porter he's an independent investigative journalist and historian as well as author of manufactured crisis the untold story of the iran nucular scare and in plymouth we cross to patrick kennings and he is a journalist writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wired dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it and i to open up by saying thanking all three of you to come here to speak out on the behalf of the profession known as jerk.

ok let's bring in joe lauria he's an independent journalist and author and former wall street journal correspondent great to have you on with this show we've been talking this evening about the many foreign owned firms who donated millions to the midterm elections i mean technically legal although it seems a lot of people frown upon it what exactly are these companies planning to get in return. i'm sorry you said foreign companies are giving money to to the political parties in the us in the midterms you know i've got a thing about six pages here of different companies of. money but i think as one of our guests ron paul said it's legally via the employees u.s. employees of the companies based in the u.s. which gets the money to as he explained it it's kind of a loophole but ultimately the accusation is that you've got foreign companies funding candidates they just wanted you know why would companies do that from abroad well what are they looking to get of it. well that would depend on what the companies are in which countries yes it's a little you go through for foreign foreigners to

about a year when trying to contain it was in full swing former wall street journal correspondent joe lauria told us they're helping efforts to stop trouble meeting with putin ever since their summit in helsinki last july. time very well timed release of cowen having lied about want not about collusion to change the election results but about a business deal or have been going on and maybe was still going on and he lied about it because he was afraid that it could be construed that way i don't really know exactly the details of the business deal but there's still no collusion but trump you will see how russia gate even without proof of collusion is having its effect on relations between the united states and russia you had to cancel this meeting and this is a very serious matter it's just it isn't terminal politics that's having an international effect that g.r.u. indictments were far more serious and this summit was far more important terms of its build up and trump went to the summit house thank you of course and the reaction here in the u.s. was beyond belief this time i think maybe trump

talks continue well into trump's presidential campaign so many details are taking the let's talk to joe lauria independent journalist north are joining us live on the line may headspin all this doesn't it joe thanks your time today so michael cohen admitted making false statements just hours before trying counseled the putin meeting and then that brings about a bit of deja vu here just what four months ago kind of could be something similar happened remember that trump putin summit in helsinki just before the much vaunted meeting though there was twelve russians were indicted for interfering in u.s. politics is there a partner merging here or is it just simply coincidental. how could i forget that oh probably there's a pattern here but that g.r.u. indictments were far more serious and this summit was far more important terms of its build up and trump went to the summit house thank you of course and you could play those clips the reaction here in the us was well has beyond belief. brennan from syria director john brennan called him a traitor. you heard anderson cooper of c.n.n. saying he'd neve

across talking julian assange which i'm joined by my guest joe lauria in washington he's editor in chief of consortium news dot com and author of how i lost by hillary clinton with a forward by julian assange also in washington. gareth porter he's an independent investigative journalist and historian as well as author of manufactured crisis the untold story of the iran nuclear scare and in plymouth we cross to patrick kennings and he is a journalist writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wired dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it and i did open up by saying thanking all three of you to come here to speak out on the behalf of the profession known as journalism it's all it's pretty scarce profession at least. acted out in live by professionals so i'm glad that you're here gareth let me go to you first and let's talk about journalism because julian a songe is his case his case study as it were is a precedent in the making and it really galls me that the profession cannot see the slip