speaking to a member of the rand corporation. if you want to join this conversation, we are opening up our phone line steel. if you are a democrat, call (202) 748-8000. if you are a republican, want to hear from you at (202) 748-8001. independents, your phone line is (202) 748-8002. we are always reading social media. what is the current status of iran's nuclear capability? guest: we have a very clear picture of their activities. currently being observed by their national atomic energy agency, which keeps reporting frequently sang what is going on and how they are implementing the deal. largelyram right now is verified by the international atomic energy see agency. host: eric is calling from compton, california on the democratic lane. good morning. caller: good morning. could you please explain to america that based upon the u.n. treaty that there is no nuclear weapons allowed south of the 33rd degree parallel line. i ran is a country that sits south of the 33rd degree parallel line. they have already sworn it would not make a nu

director of the center for middle east public policy at the rand corporation in santa monica california that's where she joins us from tonight's welcome to the day it's good to have you on the program today both pump aoe and the supreme leader of iran they both almost at the same time said we do not want a war with each other who's telling the truth there. well hopefully they both are i think i would welcome they are saying at the escalations of the current rising tensions i think there are you know there's credible evidence to suggest that either side would want to war a war with iran would be incredibly costly but i think it's also important to remember what brought us to this point and the main trigger frankly was the u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear agreement which was a internationally accepted agreement that iran was compliant with so i think a lot of the friction that we've seen over the last year building up to this point on the one year anniversary really stems from that that you know lateral u.s. decision and fortunately unilateral is the operative word there that brings

doesn't cave directly at him for the middle east public policy at the rand corporation in santa monica california so we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you well the iran nuclear deal and the european union what can or what should europe to brian cook is senior policy adviser to the u.s. secretary of state he was in brussels yesterday the w.'s next often spoke with hookah began by pointing out that glaring difference washington has ditched the iran nuclear deal europe is sticking with. that's no secret we disagree on the iran nuclear deal but everything outside of that when you look at all of the non nuclear threats the missile proliferation the missile testing the regional aggression the human rights abuses the arbitrary detention of dual nationals we are in full agreement we have the same threat assessment and so you have seen that over the last year in the time since we've left the deal europe has taken a series of actions to counter iranian aggression not only in europe but also in the middle east jeremy hunt the u.k. foreign minister it warned specifi

doctor dalia dassa kaye from the rand corporation, thank you very much —— certainly all eyes on the middle other news. an american man who murdered a couple in their home and kidnapped their 13—year—old daughter has been jailed for life. jake patterson seized jayme closs last october and kept her locked in a cabin until she escaped three months later. teachers and doctors have been demonstrating in the honduran capital of tegucigalpa. they say the proposed reforms in education and health will lead to privatisation, which they fear will lead to job losses. protests have been held since april. an explosive device has gone off in a shopping street in the french city of lyon, injuring eight people. the blast happened outside a bakery near the city centre, as hugh schofield reports. the device went off at around 5:30pm in the afternoon, outside a chain—store bakery, on a busy pedestrian shopping street near lyon city centre. eyewitnesses say it contained nails and nuts and bolts. those injured, who include an 8—year—oldgirl, seemed mainly to have had cuts to their legs. translation: i was worki

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before we dive into that report , remind us what what the rand corporation is and what you do. guest: rand is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, founded in 1948. most people know us for the work we do on national security. 8. most people know us for national security. we have a strong portfolio of domestic work looking at civil justice, education, health care. our mission is to inform policymakers with research and analysis. we publish 1000 reports each year and they are all available for free on our website. and.org, where you can find this report. report?you do this guest: a couple years ago, last aar actually, we published report on truth decay. we use that term to refer to the diminishing role facts, data and analysis play in our discourse. we look at this phenomenon. among the drivers, we talk about changes in the media ecosystem, anything from changes in the speed and volume with which we are able to get information, the rise of social media and the internet, algorithms that feed info to us non-subjectively and we want to quantify what those changes look like

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journalism study says the media has become more biased over the last 30 years in fact and this is a rand corporation study and what they did is they studied hours and hours and hours of news footage over the past 2030 years and what they found was that indeed it has become more subjective and emotional and they mention in fact that our research provides quantitative evidence for what we all can see in the media landscape that there. there is a truth to k. that the declining role of facts and analysis in civil discourse and its effect on american life journalism in the us has become more subjective and consists less of the detailed event or context based reporting that used to characterize news coverage and that's one thing i am particular when i'm looking at headlines i provide context always even if i have to go back 10 years to find the context for a present day headline and i think that's why we get so attacked by the likes of emmaus him b.c. who doesn't they don't provide any context at all for any of their audience what a great phrase.

emily hawthorne is a middle east analyst at the rand corporation.in in texas. what do you make of this and what is most likely to happen next? this is what's interesting is that in three of the corruption cases prime minister netanyahu is facing, he is going to face a hearing in early october. the attorney—general has been pretty clear that he's not going not budge on that date. that means these new elections come weeks before he is facing that hearing, so he will not be able to cobble together any sort of immunity legislation and that was part of the coalition discussions up to this point and possibly part of the reason why these coalition discussions have failed, because he was asking for some of the politicians in his coalition, or prospective coalition, to grant him immunity if he gave them positions in the government and it appears that gamble did not pay off for him. we have got much more on this story on our website at bbc dot com forward slash news. you can also download the bbc news app for the latest news and developments. stay with us on

oming up saturday morning, the rand corporation on tensions between the u.s. and iran and the future of the iran nuclear agreement and legal director for the human rights campaign talks about amending civil rights laws to include protections based on sexual orientation you and gender identity. and then national review contributor robert atkinson on his recent article examining china's economy. be sure to watch creem's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> the house today approved a disaster relief bill. the bill includes funding for puerto rico hurricane relief and floods in the midwest. next week, the house takes up a bill to outlaw employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. and also prescription drug legislation. for more on next week's legislative agenda, minority whip steve scalise and majority leader steny hoyer spoke on the house floor. objection, so noted. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana, the minority the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentle

dr dalia dassa kaye is director of the center for middle east public policy at the rand corporation.what the troop deployment meant. well, it might be an attempt to have a very calibrated, measured approach but the problem is in the context of three weeks of ratcheted up tensions, the message might not be received that way in tehran and it could be that even if the us is not interested in war and it doesn't seem like the iranians are either, the iranians could interpret this as an offensive measure and threatening, and because of this broader context, so we have a real dilemma that both sides are ratcheting up tensions. they say it's for defensive reasons, but it could be miscalculated, especially because there's no direct communication between the us and iran right now. at least in the white house, there certainly seems to be a bit of a conflict. donald trump saying he doesn't think iran wants a war, but we're hearing reports that national security adviserjohn bolton is talking about intelligence on iran as a threat that is deep and serious. is it perhaps that the white house isn't

journalism study says the media has become more biased over the last 30 years in fact and this is a rand corporation study and what they did is they studied hours and hours and hours of news footage over the past 2030 years and what they found was that indeed it has become more subjective and of motional and they mention in fact that our research provides quantitative evidence for what we all can see in the media landscape that there. there is a truth to k. that the declining role of facts and analysis in civil discourse and its effect on american life journalism in the us has become more subjective and consists less of the detailed event or context based reporting.

host: we are joined by ariane tabatabai of the rand corporation.iscussion about the tensions between united in the future of the iranian nuclear agreement. week, john bolton said the following about what is going on. "in response to a number of troubling indications and warnings, the united states is deploying the uss abraham lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the u.s. if a command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to the iranian regime that any attack on united states interests or on those of our allies would be met with unrelenting force. united states is not seeking a war with the iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the islamic revolutionary guard corps, or a iranian forces." what is going on right now? guest: there is a lot going on between the united states and iran. the move of sending a carrier to the persian gulf is not that unusual by itself. we frequently have assets that go there. unusual is the statement you just read out where john bolton essentially s

journalism study says the media has become more biased over the last 30 years in fact and this is a rand corporation study and what they did is they studied hours and hours and hours of news footage over the past 2030 years and what they found was that indeed it has become more subjective and emotional and they mention in fact that our research provides quantitative evidence for what we all can see in the media landscape that there is a truth decay that the declining role of facts and analysis in civil discourse and its effect on american life journalism in the us has become more subjective and consists less of the details a vent or context based reporting that used to characterize news coverage and that's one thing i am particular when i'm looking at headlines i provide com. text always even if i have to go back 10 years to find the context for a present day headline and i think that's why we get so attacked by the likes of them and same b.c. who doesn't they don't provide any context at all for any of their audience what a great phrase to stick a truth to sounds like to decay no but as true as dec

emily hawthorne is middle east analyst at the rand corporation.austin in texas. what do you make of this and what is most likely to happen next? we are ina most likely to happen next? we are in a precedented territory for israel. we've never had to snap elections in one year, we've never had an israeli prime minister not return back to the president to find another prime minister designate to conform a coalition so we are in new territory but what will happen next is yet another election campaign and we already had a very... emily, we are breaking up. we will see a lot of dynamics... we will see a lot of those same dynamics come to the fore here as we are trying to see the centre—right government defend its position against centre—left contenders. we will see hardline security policy emerging. different policy promises emerging. we're going to see a lot of the same dynamics we saw leading up to april leading up to september. mr netanyahu leading up to september. mr neta nyahu was certainly leading up to september. mr netanyahu was certainly talkin

journalism study says the media has become more biased over the last 30 years in fact and this is a rand corporation study and what they did is they studied hours and hours and hours of news footage over the past 2030 years and what they found was that indeed it has become more subjective and of motional and they mention in fact that our research provides quantitative evidence for what we all can see in the media land.

from the rand corporation. and from russian influence. so in finland they are bombarded in their elections from russia with their proximity. they are engaged in an education program starting in grade schools to basically i guess build resilience among their population among their kids. so that they are much more judicious and selective to scrutinize the social media information they are confronted with. it seems to be it's very difficult to do something like that. what are your thoughts on that? . >> media literacy is a vital component to misinformation and disinformation online. we are partners with literacy groups worldwide we believe it is essential and we are absolutely committed to promoting media literacy in anything we can do to work with this committee to expand those media literacy programs we are happy to do so. >> i wasn't sure, this is your world. i look to you to come up with ideas. not congress. this is your world. you created some of these problems. it would be good if we got some direction from you for what would work best

he was a military analyst who worked with the pentagon and the rand corporation.joins us now from berkeley, california. welcome back to democracy now! your response to this unprecedented series of charges against julian assange? >> i was sitting here listening to your stunning litany of events going on now in the country. you started out with mentioning prime minister may in britain, efefforts and the failurure of r efforts to exit from the european union from brexit. it made me think of the other news you're giving a president trump's two years ever to exit from the american constitution. you mention the 14th amendment under attack. yesterday is a day that will be -- live in the history of journalism, of law in this country, and of civil liberties in this country because it was a direct attack on the first amendment. an unprecedented one. there has not been such a significant attack on the freedom of the press, the first amendment, which is the bedrock of our republic, really, our form of government, since my case in 1971 48 years ago. i was indicted as a source.

he created thee, army project at the rand corporation as when -- and was a big believer in computing analysis on all doing with recruiting. the analytic pieces began to fall in place. they studied advertising and things like jingles, the army college fun and bonus programs that were put in place. ultimately, things began to turn around. by 1983, the volunteer army was performing well in terms of meeting the needs of the market and the needs of the army in that it had a good supply of young americans who were willing to serve on terms that met the -- army' s needs and that is the trajectory that brought us to today. i would argue that we are very in terms of ain very good change of direction of the united states army with how we will operate within the volunteer army. i will hold that for a few moments. i already told you some things i will tell you again. to think about the structure of how the army operates today. it would bes that very difficult to bring a draft back. first, we call the structure of the army the total force, the guard, reserve and the active component. linked toe i

in about an hour, we will discuss news media bias with jennifer kavanaugh of the rand corporation.rovingussion about higher education with richard vedder, author of "restoring the promise." ♪ ♪ host: good morning. it is saturday, may 18, 2019. yourgin on the topic of news -- how much news consumption do you think is healthy? is following the news key to citizen or could it be a civic duty to tune out the news? eastern and central time zones, 202-748-8000. mountain or pacific time zones, 202-748-8001. you can also catch

she's the director at the centre for middle east public policy at the rand corporation.ave any indication of what it is mike pompeo may have shared with what is so troubling with iran that made him shift his travel plans? well, i am not privy to private information but i think it is pretty apparent and public about the concerns of the administration with iran which is concerns about some of its activities in the region, militia groups and potential for sabotage. and of course, it's recent for sabotage. and of course, it's rece nt m oves for sabotage. and of course, it's recent moves on the nuclear front but all of this really started as we now have approached the anniversary of the iran nuclear agreement. i think this was not surprising. what do you make of what we are hearing from the persian gulf as we are hearing that does make saudi arabian oil tankers were sabotaged on monday. early stages to say that it was their proxies but... yes, i think we need to be really careful here and be very wary about beating the drums of war, we have an escalation, and not just the dru

, that assange basically did the equivalent of breaking in -- helping to break into the rand corporationo get the pent given papers, right? and for that obviously there would be liability but not so for the publishing. >> that's right, joseph. those parts of the charges people in the media are more divided about those. press freedom advocates are disturned by those because they say those aren't inappropriate. we certainly give that instub, do no sill is it illegal acts. can you receive classified information or stolen information and publish it. and that's most of the 17 counts. it's the publishing that's got pop ksh did it say he also demanded technical advice on how to do it? >> absolutely, that's part of it. and then i go to the password hacking karjs the charges involvings have publishing really crosses a line because publishing is what we do. >> ken dlanen and danny solve and coming up, new polling on the 2020 democratic contenders and which are the oful plus, one of those candidates essentially calls president trump a draft dodger. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ this is the couple who wa

coming up saturday morning, rand corporation senior political scientist jennifer kavanaugh discusses a new report examining how the news media has become more biased over the last 30 years. and richard, author of "restoring the promise: higher education in america" talks about his proposals to improve higher education in the united states. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> katlynn with "politico"

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from the rand corporation. and from russian influence.so in finland they are bombarded in their elections from russia with their proximity. they are engaged in an education program starting in grade schools to basically i guess build resilience among their population among their kids. so that they are much more judicious and selective to scrutinize the social media information they are confronted with. it seems to be it's very difficult to do something like that. what are your thoughts on that? . >> media literacy is a vital component to misinformation and disinformation online. we are partners with literacy groups worldwide we believe it is essential and we are absolutely committed to promoting media literacy in anything we can do to work with this committee to expand those media literacy programs we are happy to do so. >> i wasn't sure, this is your world. i look to you to come up with ideas. not congress. this is your world. you created some of these problems. it would be good if we got some direction from you for what would work best.

discussiond for that with jennifer kavanagh from the rand corporation on the changes in the news mediar the past 30 years. we will tell you about a study they did on that topic. vivian in springfield gardens, new york. caller: i just wanted to say hard sometimes to look at the news because of the opinion things being said. i like to decipher the facts from opinions so i can be more informed. it is too much opinion, opinion, opinion. i try to look at just the facts to make an educated decision. host: thank you for the call. julius in chicago heights, illinois. good morning. caller: hello? host: go ahead. caller: there used to be a saying that you can trust the american people to do the right thing. that's not so. look of the american people put whohe white house -- look the american people put in the white house. fox news is just a bunch of people telling lies. host: how much time do you spend watching the news? caller: i spend a lot of time watching the news. host: have you ever taken a break for a while? caller: i take breaks. matches. watch pool host: when do you know it's time to ta

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coming up saturday morning, rand corporation senior political scientist jennifer kavanaugh discusses a new report examining how the news media has become more biased over the last 30 years. and richard, author of "restoring the promise: higher education in america" talks about his proposals to improve higher education in the united states. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> katlynn with "politico" republicans a package which everybody is sort of quiet about and it's a good sign negotiations are narrowing, that we're getting closer to a deal. it seems like a lot of the disagreements over funding puerto rico, for puerto rico have been resolved. and notably, this package includes some of president donald trump's request for humanitarian needs at the border. now, democrats are not going to fund, you know, what they see as some of his harsher immigration policies. for example, he's asked for more funding for i.c.e. detention beds, but they do recognize there's an influx of immigrants and families and children cross

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