america correspondent rachel blevins and who the one i love doing now is former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary depends great title michael maloof we love and he always love having you know michael i so 1st and foremost i want to ask everybody else star was steve because he's far away in new york but 1st and foremost let's start the most important question should we take serious and do we believe the accusations that the former employee in henderson has come forward with and told to the u.n. security council should we take that seriously as the a whistleblower should we take him seriously steve. i don't believe we should you know he says things like the canisters of nerve gas may have been dropped by syrian helicopters and may have been placed at the site and that the symptoms of of the victims were not consistent with chlorine gas but never addresses what it was that killed them and what caused these symptoms and then you know then you have a robert fisk writing a piece talking about a he gave a speech and then a guy in a nato military uniform came up to

and editor at large for salon dot com the one and only be walk ins are to america correspondent rachel blevins an artsy american sports correspondent stephen christakis shows and we've got a full show for you we go from war to new year's eve shootings to n.b.a. commissioners we've got a whole lot to get to but 1st let's start with the recent protests and siege of the u.s. embassy in iraq and i look almost immediately since the start of this the u.s. spin machine jumped led by president trump put all of the blame on the protests on iran and iranian backed militias in iraq let's get the big huge monstrous elephant out of the room and me ask this panel. are what we're seeing happening in iraq right now harbinger of a potential war with iran using iraq as the battlefield i'll start with you jesse. well of course it is you know you have to look at it the congress just appropriated $800.00. $50000000000.00 to the department of defense which should be called the department of off friends and they've got to have a way to spend all that money now allegedly they're trying to get us out of afghanistan bu

against netanyahu on corruption charges that were just announced earlier this week are to use rachel blevins as the raiders' latest. presidential pronounced his deal of the century a plan for peace in the middle east today during a press conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu now as part of that plan trump claims that the u.s. could recognize palestine as a state but only if it agrees that israel's condition i want this deal to be a great deal for the palestinians has to today's agreement is a historic opportunity for the palestinians to finally achieve an independent state of their very own after 70 years of little progress this could be the last opportunity they will ever have the deal which was reportedly written by trump's son in law would recognize jewish settlements in the west bank as israeli land opening up or your freeze on settlements it would also provide a pathway to statehood for palestine under certain conditions up by israel in the us and it would enable israel's policy of maintaining what they refer to as security control of the region but the major problem

right everyone i want to thank you all for coming on today alan origin and thank you as always rachel blevins armand to steal christine christakis great conversations we all were nice and polite and look i'm biased we were to each other and made congress could do this and that is our show for you to day remember everyone in this world we are told that we love that stuff so tell you all i love i have been through a keep watch from the hawks and have a great day and i. want to spaceflight you literally leave legal problems behind you fly everyone and everything and. if you see any good old bold alonzo to disappear you see that up planet is not as we're taught in schools with different countries mucked in different colors separate from one another you see that all planet earth is just another will be a big international space station on a mission in the vastness of space just like the i.s.o.'s. descriptions. even for the owners so how to choose his pet food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than was necessarily good for the pet turns out

cavalcade of personality immigration attorney alan thank you very much our to america correspondent rachel blevins and ceremony. sports correspondent. thank you all for joining us today well citizens united 10 years old how are we all celebrating this this wonderful gift that's been given to our electoral process because again i think constitutionally it was decided wrong and it's proven to the fact that it's not just about the billionaires in the united states well the companies it's about foreign companies here in the united states who are donating this money to their foreign policies so little bit greater problem than just the amount of money that sort of spent into it not to mention that all that money could be used for something else besides the election it was all they could otherwise control so it's sort of spinning out of control and that's really the problem that is really the problem well i think it's interesting that they're trying to present it as a free speech issue because of course the 1st amendment is something that we take incredibly seriously here but at the same time when you ha

america correspondent rachel blevins joins us now with the details on those dollar signs rachel how did the markets respond to the latest tensions in the middle east well it's no secret that any time there's a chance of a new we're a chance of an escalation with an ongoing war the stocks for the top defense contractors in the united states all we seem to vallance up and to be really really happy about it and that is exactly what we have seen with the latest escalation between the united states and iran if we take a look specifically at the numbers in the days after iran in general stolen money with killed we saw the stocks for more threat gruman were up 8 percent lockheed martin was up 4 percent and raytheon was up another q percent and it seems to be no coincidence there that us foreign policy a lot of. times act in a way that is great for the top defense contractors and we see if you look at trump's cabinet and the same way that he has a lot of officials that seem to fall right in line with wall street and have ties to wall street he also has a lot of officials that have ties to defen

personalities immigration attorney alan order your thank you very much our to america correspondent rachel blevins and sara month. r.t. america sports correspondent steve christakis thank you all for joining us today well so.

and editor at large for salon dot com the one and only walk ins are to america correspondent rachel blevins and american sports correspondent stephen chris tacos and we've got a full show for you we go from war to new year's eve shootings to n.b.a. commissioners we've got a whole lot to get to but 1st let's start with the recent protests and siege of the u.s. embassy in iraq and look almost a meeting at least since the start of this the u.s. spin machine jump led by president trump put all of the blame on the protests on iran and iranians backed militias in iraq let's get the big huge monstrous elephant out of the room and on the ass this panel. are we seeing happening in iraq right now a harbinger of a potential war with iran using iraq as the battlefield i'll start with you jesse. well of course it is you know you have to look at it the congress just appropriated $850000000000.00 to the department of defense which should be called 'd the department of off friends and they've got to have a way to spend all that money now allegedly they're trying to get us out of afghanistan but we're a war

that one up again in a later date but i want to thank my panel jesse ventura the watkins rachel rachel blevins and steve christakis thank you so much everyone for coming on always a pleasure that is our show for you today remember when in this world we are not told but we are loved enough so i tell you all the love i am tyrone been through and keep on watching all those hawks out there a great day and night. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race on the dramatic developments only and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful betty to kill time to sit. leeks laws leave. when you're. in the present pick with the biggest and most of the book movie subpart. it's going to show us that it's a bit soon. there's. just a little. thousands of american men and women she was just sort of in the country's military decision little sheltered lives every thing came to a complete. the day that i was right all be instructed you know told to shut up or they'd kill me and i see how destroyed my life and he screamed at me and he made me come in and y