welcome back to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle were discussing syria. we can't go back to in leads here i mean we can discuss the origins of all of this i would disagree with our guest in doha it wasn't all peaceful in the beginning they were people that were using force and looking for force regime change which of course those elements have been there for a long time and we know who have been backing them so and also i'd like to point out is that in this horrible horrific civil war when you look at the casualties how of them of big government troops fighting for their country fighting for their their right to exist ok the people they were fighting well they were more interested in ethnic cleansing ok so i think we should have a sense of proportion i've seen i mean i'm really still very concerned with this element with turkey here how do we get through this here because it seems to me that one has this kind of a neo ottoman view of the conflict he's digging in in northern syria and he plans to stay it looks like so much for the sovereignty of syria and

were all things considered i'm peter lavelle with the islamic state in its many confederates defeated or facing defeat in syria what is next for this war torn country what justification exists for the us to maintain military forces there does washington want syria partition if so and why. cross talking syria i'm joined by my guest jonathan steele in london he's an international affairs commentator in leeds we have here he is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford and in doha we cross the mohammed should we he is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university and author of what is unlike continuity or rupture in the wake of the arab uprisings all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate if i can go to you first in leads here let me read some of the headlines here tillerson touts indefinite u.s. presence in syria and assad must go in new plan also tillerson u.s. military presence in syria open ended will ensure regime change i thought we got way way past that with the col

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle it's a new year but the same stories persist out front is the chaotic trump white house followed by the steel dossier and a possible breakthrough with north korea. in the new year i'm joined by my guest mark lobo that he's an international affairs and security analyst and we have to me he's a political analyst we spoke nick international ok gentlemen as always crosstalk rolls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let's talk about michael wolff fire in fury i look at it is basically political gossip something that something's in there we've already suspected but one of the things i thought was interesting that i pulled from the exit i haven't read the book i haven't seen the whole thing but you know when we have these conversations with steve bannon the former strategist. and being thrown to the curb later by mr trump the collusion with israel again this story pops it doesn't get a whole lot of coverage because people want to hyperventilate about how crude or rude or si

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle are the mainstream media intentionally gaslighting the public against president donald trump the reverse appears to be equally true trump does with style gaslight the media what kind of body politic is this creating has the us become a collection of hysterical drama queens. cross-linking gaslighting i'm joined by my guest reverend jesse lee peterson in los angeles he is a counselor activist media commentator as well as on ther of the antidote healing america from the poison of hate blame and victimhood also in los angeles we have ron paul cohen he is a comedian and a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming program get your news on with wrong and in new york we cross to political pundit and journalist contributing to the huffington post all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate ron let me go to you i mean who is gaslighting whom here and is that a country that is just turned into a bunch o

this hour but peter lavelle and guests are cross talking right after a short break. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle well the four page memo detailing extensive fives of course abuse changed the course of what is known as russia gate also does the trumpet ministration syria policy make any sense and who is the real boy from the media. cross talking real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have alex christopher oh he's the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with sputnik international are gentlemen as usual crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate alex let me go to you first this four page memo now if you watch fox it means something and it means something big you watch c.n.n. you might not even hear about it is this a partisan thing or is there is something they are there to be honest we don't really know yet. i mean you have fox which is building it

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welcome back to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing release the memo. ok kevin let me go back to you in atlanta i guess we have another dilemma facing us here again you know there's a viewer of c.n.n. or m.s.n. b.c. if they accidently tuned into this program here they wouldn't have a clue of what we're talking about ok and i'm talking about release the memo and of course you know i'm really glad that twitter and facebook corrected the record you know it's not actually we're using the hash tag for this program right now but after facebook and twitter said it wasn't russian bots ok so i want to know we're in the clear here across the uk but kevin here this memo either is going to show you know it's good to unglue everything or it's the all time nothing burger because depending on what media outlet you're watching you have what you have a choice go ahead kevin. well you know this memo could and probably will unravel the russian collusion narrative right now over the memos classified secret and unfortunately the government over uses that t

a low and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle bitcoin for some it's the perfect marriage of technology and finance for others it's a get rich scheme though no one can deny its market value was soaring and becoming an attractive alternative to the current global banking system is bitcoin revolutionizing the world. across talking bitcoin i'm joined by my guest firesign in new york he is a fund manager and author of the book planet ponzi in atlantic we have jeffrey tucker he is director of content for the foundation for economic education and in cambridge we cross the garrick hileman he is a research fellow at the university of cambridge all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it gary let me go to you first in cambridge explain what is going on with bitcoin i mean i'm of the age and i used to work in finance i can remember the dot com bubble and then it's melt down here not being very well versed in bitcoin what is going on here is this just speculation or is this the new shiny radiant

hello and welcome across talk were all things were considered peter lavelle it would seem the more the anti trampers push to have the president removed from office the more we learn about the media in such places as the f.b.i. how they really work to date the investigation known as russia gate has revealed preciously little though we're learning there was collusion elsewhere. across talking real collusion i'm joined by my guest richard goodstein in washington he is a democratic political strategist and a former adviser to hillary clinton's two presidential campaigns in miami we have john carville oh he is host of off the cuff on rebel media and in phoenix we crossed to josh bernstein he is a t.v. talk show host all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate josh i'm going to go to you first because one of my one of the crosstalk rules is always go to the person that got up early is for this program and that is you want to talk about some of the things that's coming out of the the f.b.i. in the in the special investigati

welcome back across like we're all things considered peter lavelle reminder we're discussing still another washington scandal. ok let's go back to phoenix i know you've got a lot to say go ahead. well look i think richard is the one that's actually in alice in wonderland because he's ignoring the facts that there are all these other conflicts of interest as well as all these other crimes that have taken place here and yet we're sitting here concentrating on something that's already been debunked and the fact that there was no russian collusion we now know that james comey is even admitted in testimony that the president united states was not under surveillance and he was under surveillance he was not under investigation and if i was the president united states i would do i would do basically one thing i would instruct my department of justice to immediately start five counter investigations i would look into robert mueller and his ties to raney and one and the russians i would look into james komi as leaking of information that he testified in the senate judiciary committee i would also op

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle we're told a secret society existed within the f.b.i. with the sole intent to undermine canada and then later president donald trump also we're told the f.b.i. last text messages from members of this secret society with russia gate rapidly losing steam we now have f.b.i. get. cross talking release the memo i'm joined by my guest the annual ferrazzi in washington he's director of grassroots political consulting and in atlanta we have kevin ship he is a former central intelligence agency officer as well as author of from the company of shadows and lake jackson we crossed to daniel mcadams he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity all right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime and i always appreciate kevin you drove three hours to come to this program so you get your you have the honor of having the first question here ok. kevin you know when i when i was growing up i was a young boy but i used to play hooky from school to watch the watergate

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it's being called an olympic truce after months of over the top rhetoric the two careers are talking again the first time in two years is this a serious diplomatic opening or merely a ploy south korea appears to welcome this opening as the same apply to washington . talking the koreas i'm joined by my guest michael maloof in washington he's a former senior security policy analyst in the office of secretary of defense also in washington we have set up he is a senior fellow at the institute for china american studies and in london we cross the charles bridge he is a security analyst and. former u.k. army and counter terrorism intelligence officer origin across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate charles let me go to you first here of course looking at the reactions to this olympic truce the one word keeps coming up wedge the north koreans are trying to wedge the u.s. away from south korea well of course they are the whole idea that's what's called a pol

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it's a new year but the same stories persist out front is the chaotic trump white house followed by the steel dossier and a possible breakthrough with north korea. cross talking the new year i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and we have to he's a political analyst we spoke nick international ok gentlemen as.

welcome back across like we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to mind you we're discussing some real news. ok gentlemen let's switch gears here. we're being promised i don't know if it's going to happen victor but this week we'll get that four page memo released to the public that is details the use or misuse of pfizer warrants to listen in to american citizens the g.o.p. of course is spinning this is some kind of silver bullet the left is dismissing it as a conspiracy if there is another silver likely to change the trajectory of the investigation and that he is. he's way towards. elected american president however however it's part of. the. of the american political war there now the what democrats and security seriously this started to. hoping to move really back to that we see that and yes they will go one they will try to remove but at the same time whether the same time. the damage that they're suffering it's not just them but the in the global system he couldn't you're consistent in your position and i like it i'm going to see how it plays out i'm keeping track of everythi

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle it's a new year but the same stories persist out front is the chaotic trump white house followed by the steel dossier and a possible breakthrough with north korea. in the new year i'm joined by my guest mark slobo though he's an international affairs and security analyst and we have to me he's a political analyst with international ok gentlemen as always crosstalk rolls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let's talk about michael wolff fire in fury i look at it is basically political gossip something that something's in there we've already suspected but one of the things i thought was interesting that i pulled from the exit i haven't read the book i haven't seen the whole thing but you know when we have these conversations with steve bannon the former strategist. and being thrown to the curb later by mr trump the collusion with israel again this story pops up it doesn't get a whole lot of coverage because people want to hyperventilate about how crude or rude or simpl

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle a cursory glance at the media environment could easily give you the impression that the vast majority of journalists studied psychology at university so many are convinced donald trump is not mentally fit to be president or the same journalist suffering from trump derangement syndrome. crosstalk in the media i'm joined by my guest steve malzberg in new york he is a conservative political commentator and bloomington indiana we have kevin howley he is a professor of media studies and deval university and author of drones media discourse and the public imagination i love that title.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated and revived america's global defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for a massive defense spending what he calls a defense strategy critics say is a blueprint for wars without it. sucking endless wars i'm joined by my guest michael in washington he is a professor of strategy at the johns hopkins university also in washington we have christopher wayne he is a former army police sergeant iraq war veteran and contributor to the hill newspaper and in person bill we cross to philip giraldi he is a former cia counterterrorism specialist who is now executive director of the council for the national interest or a generally crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you wanted i always appreciated philip let me go to you first and percival i read the report and i and i will repeat what i said in my introduction i found it to be rather dark vision of the world is less about defense strategy then preserving or advan

welcome back to crossfire were all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing stories in the new year. ok gentlemen let's move on to the united nations and iran and we know that the at the end of two thousand and seventeen in the beginning part of this year there were a number of protests in iran and we saw a flurry of particularly. congressional officials and course the media. excited about the possibility of giving freedom to the iranian people they didn't really understand the story and these were economic protests and when push came to shove there were a lot more pro-government protesters going out and supporting of the government here then you had the humiliation of the united states again in the security council when most of the permanent members saying what are we doing here why are we here it's an internal problem for iran to resolve the united states again standing completely alone of course the iranians were claiming there's some kind of colored revolution that we're it was in the works we've seen this play book before but it's very interesting the is

hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered on peter lavelle release the memo russia gate morphs into the f.b.i. gate also are the u.s. and turkey on the path to confrontation in syria and the great debate jordan peterson is called a one man army and is taking the internet by storm. king f.b.i. gate i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have it he's a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst with sputnik international right gentlemen crossed liberals in effect and you always can jump in. me go to you first hear. a we're going to see a new member new debate. like who lost turkey because if you remember when the communists came to power in china that was lost china and it ruined a lot of careers because people didn't get it right ok well we who's losing turkey who's gaining turkey going well let me remind you that in one thousand nine hundred eighty there was a big debate who was russia and the it was at the times when sup

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated and revived america's global defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for a massive defense spending what he calls a defense strategy critics say is a blueprint for wars without it. cross talking endless wars i'm joined by my guest michael de la hosts in washington he is a professor of strategy at the johns hopkins university also in washington we have christopher he is a former army police sergeant iraq war veteran and contributor to the hill newspaper and in personal we crossed to philip giraldi he is a former cia counterterrorism specialist who is now executive director of the council for the national interest or a generally girls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you wanted i always appreciated philip let me go to you first and percival i read the report and i and i will repeat what i said in my introduction i found it to be rather dark vision of the world is less about defense strategy then preserving or adva

welcome back across like we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to mind you were discussing some real news. ok gentlemen let's switch gears here. we're being promised i don't know if it's going to happen victor but this week we'll get that four page memo released to the public that is details the use or misuse of warrants to listen in to american citizens the g.o.p. of course is spinning this is some kind of silver ball that the left is dismissing it as a conspiracy. is another sort of likely to change the trajectory of the investigation and here's. he's way towards. elected american president however however it's part of. the. of the american political war there now the what democrats. started to. hoping to move really back where we see that and yes they will go one they will try to remove but at the same day whether the same time. the damage that they're suffering it's not just them but the in the global system if you're consistent in your position and i like it i'm going to see how it plays out i'm keeping track of everything you've said on this mark. but still i would say cou

welcome back to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok mark you want to finish up on the syria has a basically what we've got with this turkish attack on our friend is we've got a mexican standoff a three way mexican standoff between russia and the syrian government on one side between turkey and its proxies which are al qaeda in the thirty one flavors of jihad its support of the whole war. including the formerly u.s. backed free syrian army on the other and the u.s. and its kurdish proxies on the other and they're in a three way faceoff russia would like turkey of the united states to fight to drive a wedge between turkey and nato the united states would like the turks to fight russia over african canton because that would help destroy this very fragile essentially falling apart agreement for the stabilization of syria with the austin our agreement and it further destabilize syria and this is where we're at it's an extremely tense situation the writing was on the wall long time we've long argued it was going to happen

below and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle are the mainstream media intentionally gaslighting the public against president donald trump the reverse appears to be equally true trump does with style gas like the media what kind of body politic is this creating has the us become a collection of hysterical drama queens. gaslighting i'm joined by my guest reverend jesse lee peterson in los angeles he is a counselor activist media commentator as well as author of the antidote healing america from the poison of hate blame and victimhood also in los angeles we have ron paul call and he is a comedian and a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming program get your news on with ron and in new york we crossed to rob how he's a political pundit and journalist contributing to the huffington post all right gentlemen cross in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want my all. appreciate ron let me go to you i mean who is gaslighting whom here and is that a country that is just turned into a a bunch of dram

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it's being called an olympic truce after months of over the top rhetoric the two careers are talking again the first time in two years is this is a serious diplomatic opening or merely a ploy south korea appears to welcome the opening as the same apply to washington. crosstalk in the koreas i'm joined by my guest michael maloof in washington he's a former senior security policy analyst in the office of secretary of defense also in washington we have set up he is a senior fellow at the institute for china american studies and in london we cross the charles bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counter terrorism intelligence officer origin across the girls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate charles let me go to you first here of course looking at the reactions to this olympic truce the one word keeps coming up wedge the north koreans are trying to wedge the u.s. away from south korea what's going to be our the whole idea that's what's called a

flow and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle if you trust the mainstream media well then you're in the minority sadly a great deal of media today is not designed to inform but rather confirms political bias this approach of the news is not only polarizing but it's also lowering journalistic standards is this why readers and viewers seek their news elsewhere. across talking the news i'm joined by my guest charles or tile in new york he is a private investor and a writer as well as host of the podcast show sunday with charles and in williamsburg we crossed to andrew langer he is president of the institute for liberty as well as the host of the andrew langer show on a.o.l. in baltimore all right gentlemen crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it charles let me go to you first i mean one of the reasons why i wanted to do this program is the scandal around. brian ross over at a.b.c. and of course that was a horrific mistake and. the perception is there that that wasn't very good journalism and it's true

welcome back to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok mark you want to finish up on the syria has a basically what we've got with this turkish attack on our friend is we've got a mexican standoff a three way mexican standoff between russia and the syrian government on one side between turkey and its proxies which are al-qaeda and thirty one flavors of jihad its support of the whole war including the formerly u.s. backed free syrian army on the other and the u.s. and its kurdish proxies on the other and they're in a three way face off russia would like turkey and the united states to fight to drive a wedge between turkey and nato the united states would like the turks to fight russia over african canton because that would help destroy this very fragile essentially falling apart agreement for the stabilization of syria with the austin our agreement and it further destabilize syria and this is where we're at it's an extremely tense situation the writing was on the wall long time we've long argued it was going to happen an

polo in welcome across the uk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle a cursory glance at the media environment could easily give you the impression that the vast majority of journalists studied psychology at university so.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it's being called an olympic truce after months of over the top rhetoric the two careers are talking again the first time in two years is this a serious diplomatic opening or merely a ploy south korea appears to welcome this opening as the same apply to washington . and cross talk in the koreas i'm joined by my guest michael maloof in washington he's a former senior security policy analyst in the office of secretary of defense also in washington we have set up he is a senior fellow at the institute for china american studies and in london we cross the charles bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counter terrorism intelligence officer. origin across the rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate charles let me go to you first here of course looking at the reactions to this a limp dick truce the one word keeps coming up wedge the north koreans are trying to wedge the us away from south korea well of course they are the whole idea that's why it's

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle with the islamic state in its many confederates defeated or facing defeat in syria what is next for this war torn country what justification exists for the u.s. to maintain military forces there does washington want syria partition if so then why. cross talking syria i'm joined by my guest jonathan steele in london. an international affairs commentator in leeds we have here he is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford and in doha we cross the mohammed should we he is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university in arthur of what is unlike continuity or rupture in the wake of the arab uprisings or a german cross rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate i've seen if i can go to you first in leads here let me read some of the headlines here tillerson touts indefinite u.s. presence in syria and assad must go in new plan also tillerson u.s. military presence in syria open ended will ensure regime change if you like that we g

oh and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle the release the memo moment is upon us republicans are billing it as some kind of silver bullet revealing political corruption at the highest levels of the department of justice and f.b.i. the democrats on the other hand and their supporters in the liberal media as a distraction finally the public will decide. talking released the memo i'm joined by my guest lee stranahan in washington he's an investigative journalist and a co-host for faultlines on radio sputnik also in washington we have james jatra sees a former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership and in los angeles we cross to ha goodman he's a columnist and journalist published in the huffington post salon the hill and other publications right gentlemen crossed the girls in fact that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate a.j. as usual you got up early as for the program god bless you glad to have you with us all right we have our heads beginning to roll we have andrew make a butt out. is rod rosenstein next then who else

hello and welcome to all things considered i'm peter lavelle are the mainstream media intentionally gaslighting the public against president donald trump the reverse appears to be equally true trump does with style gaslight the media what kind of body politic is this creating as the us become a collection of hysterical drama.

hello and welcome to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle if you trust the mainstream media well then you're in the minority sadly a great deal of media today is not designed to inform but rather confirms political biases this approach of the news is not only polarizing but it's also lowering journalistic standards is this why readers and viewers seek their news elsewhere.