mean, so he did honest journalistic work when he was starting his career according to even the washington post, had nothing to do with the gray zone at the time. and yet the post, the way they frame it, is that the iranian government is actually paying the gray zone. and so since this articles come out, i've had to, for example, address this with like college buddies who say. so the washington post says that iran controls the gray zone. what's up with that is really media i 24. and it's really the government linked media's out media outlets reported that iran and russia are funding the gray zone in a bold print headline. a complete lie that's not even backed up by this washington post article. so the point of the article is to create a kind of steel darcy, a situation where they slap together enough innuendo. outright lies and smears to convince people in the 3 letter agencies that maybe they need to get a fight as a warrant on us. maybe we need to be investigated, maybe f b i agents need to show up at my door, but certainly i need to be harassed because as this article explicitly acknowledges

well, first of all, it's — i mean, when we sayjust one newspaper, the washington post — the washingtonndent, quality journalism, investigative journalists and holding the powerful to account. so, that matters right there. but also it would speak to some other trends that are happening in media. one is, you know, the fact that it is owned by a single billionaire owner — and we're talking about jeff bezos, of course — who has the sole power to hire and fire, and what does this say about hisjudgement? it also gets at the very — and you alluded to this in the intro, ros — is the very different standards between quality american journalism — there's plenty of low—quality american media — and the difference between that and sort of the practice of tabloids in the uk, it's really shined a light on different — those different practices. and if i could just bring lewis goodall back in from the news agents here, i wonder how you view this. and in terms of the kind of differences between american journalists, how they see themselves and british journalists, do you sense there's a difference, a di

i should mention thatjeff bezos has sent a note to all the staff at the washington post saying, "our ery high. "that can't change, and it won't. "you have my full commitment on maintaining the quality, "ethics and standards we all believe in." now, at the beginning of the programme, we were talking about the reuters institute and its latest report, its digital news report, which it publishes annually. there are lots and lots of interesting details in it. one of the interesting details is not a surprise, that it's highlighting news avoidance. lewis, i guess this is a factor that is in the mind of all journalists these days. you're notjust competing for news consumers, you're trying to make sure people are consuming any type of news. yeah, look, i can sense this even, you know, travelling around - the country for the general election _ there is such a disconnect between the kind of, - i mean, there always is, but it feels particularly. acute at the moment _ between the sort of frenetic nature of the westminster conversation and the sort of, the air war, - and a complete kind of indiffer

so the washington post is looking to change its strategy.'ve asked a number of times on the media show over the years, but it doesn't make it any less pressing. you've called the election consequential and unusual — i'm sure there are other words you would use, too. how do you, as the editor of a hugely consequential magazine and publication in the us, approach the challenge of covering donald trump? and i'm interested to ask andrew and caroline the same question afterwards. you know, we... we had this problem in 2016, where we were trying to... you know, we were following the old rules, you know, to some degree, which is... and the old rules were the old rules of coverage, what people would call "both—sider—ism..." the old rules worked...when you had candidates who operated within certain lanes, lanes of self—restraint, lanes of adherence to democratic norms, when candidates felt shame and repositioned themselves based on feedback, regarding the things that they do. you know, the most important thing for me, and, you know, we try to get it

and also, as krotevych claims, the washington post writes, and then he also witnessed how, in response to a request from one of the commanders to provide instructions, sodol said: we are finished and hung up. well, yes. also this is again i will remind you, this is us now we are quoting from the washington post, and the journalists claim that they have at their disposal a statement to the security intelligence service written by bohdan krotevych against yuriy sodol, although krotevych himself did not specify any surname, he simply spoke of the general. we will return to this statement, and now we will begin our own discussion, what prospects await yuriy sodol, and in general, what this whole story is about, gennadiy druzenko, public activist, co-founder and head of the first voluntary mobile hospital, joins our broadcast named after mykola porogoov. congratulations. good day. glad to hear from you. each other tell me, please, what do you think about this story with yuriy sodol, does he now have any prospects of remaining in the army in a leadership position? well, in principle, he hold

and drove by the american author and blogger, max blumenthal has the, revealed all about the washington post the recent attack on these investigative news outlet. the greys of the post head piece, coal for its employees to be investigated by the federal government or arrested for exposing israel's propaganda to justify its warrant. guys that are the optical, also links the grey zone to the russian. iranian government marks the men's, all sides of those claims are a complete lie. and not even backed by the article itself is the guest on the latest episode of going on the ground. everyone's talk today on r t dot com. but here is a preview. this is the 2nd intelligence inspired attack on the gray zone this year by the washington post. think the 2nd largest paper in the united states owned by one of the world's 3 richest men, jeff base. those who signed a deal with the c i a to host it's cloud for $600000000.00 at amazon, just days after you purchased the washington post. in both cases, these attacks relied heavily on fronts for us. it is rarely intelligence. this article, this most recent artic

palestinians from us, the american author and blogger mazda blumenthal, has reviewed all about the washington post the recent attack on his investigative news outlet. the greys owed the posts head piece cold for its employees to be investigated by the federal government or arrested for exposing use roles but baganda to justify it's warren guys, that the article also links the gray zone to the russian. and the ronnie and government box blumenthal says that those claims are complete, lie, and not even backed by the article itself. he's the guest, all the latest episode of going on the ground airing on site today, right here in our team. here is a pv. this is the 2nd intelligence inspired attack on the gray zone this year by the washington post. think the 2nd largest paper in the united states, owned by one of the world's 3 riches ben, jeff bezos. who signed a deal with a c. i a to hosted cloud for $600000000.00 at amazon, just days after you purchased the washington post. in both cases, these attacks relied heavily on fronts for us. it is rarely intelligence this article, this most recent article by

to folks outside of the beltway, who is running the newsroom at the washington post. >> the washington one of the most important news organizations in the nation. and really in the world. so, it and it has, as i think people may remember, a really strong history of holding powerful people and institutions accountable. most notably during the 1970's when it broke the watergate story and helped to unseat a corrupt president and richard nixon. but in many cases since then, the kind of journalism the washington post does, investigative work it does has been extremely important, and has resonated through all of the media ecosystem, and has made a difference in our country. so, it is not just one newsroom. who cares. it goes far beyond that. >> we have seen billionaires have increasing influence, that includes jeff bezos, the owner of the post. i to this say about his leadership? he said he wanted an ethical paper for the next dawn of journalism. >> bezos has been a good owner for the post. when he bought the post for a bargain price of $250 million in 2013, he, don graham, the graham family

that is the washington post. of the editorials from the wall street journal concerning hunter biden's guilty verdict,. second editorial, the editors writing should junta receive a jailen a -- should hunter receive a jail sentence? hunterseptember when he is scheduled to go on trial for tax charges for which the evidence he knowingly understated his income and overstated his debt is also compelling. he is plead not guilty on those charges. the guilty verdict is likely to mitigate any political impact. the justice department first tried to let hunter off with a slap on the wrist plea deal. attorney general merrick garland -- those are some of the editorials based on the events of yesterday. we will hear from randy in michigan. democr line. go ahead. caller: i would like to start by thanking you along with all of the other men and women it take to bring this program. it does a great service to the nation. the man was convicted by a jury of his peers. no matter whatever else they say he was brought to trial and he wa

all about the washington post's recent attack on his investigative news outlet. the grey's own post head piece quote, for its employees to be investigated by the federal government or arrested for exposing easels propaganda to justify its war in gaza. the article also linked to the grey zone to the russian, and the iranian government. marx blumenthal says that those claims are a complete lie and not even back by the article itself. he is the guest on the latest episode of going on the ground. everyone saw today right here, and auntie. here is a pv. this is the 2nd intelligence inspired attack on the gray zone this year by the washington post. think the 2nd largest paper in the united states owned by one of the world's 3 richest men, jeff bezos, who signed a deal with a c. i a to hosted cloud for $600000000.00 at amazon, just days after you purchased the washington post. in both cases, these attacks relied heavily on fronts for us. it is rarely intelligence this article, this most recent article by the washington post, so called digital threats editor, joseph men,

you mention you read the washington post.his on their website last night, the executive editor of the washington post since 2021 has stepped down according to the publisher, william lewis. he announced that late yesterday she will be replaced by the former editor-in-chief of the wall street terminal. previously the executive editor at the associated press, the first womanqy to lead the nearly 150-year-old washington post. i need t to give one more paragraph that i want you to respond to. the departure comes at an already tumultuous time for the sh which lost $77 million over the past year, according to the ceo. it offered buyouts to a couple hundred staffers to help bring costs in line. as a reader, what do you think? it upsets me very much that journalism now has become'? these people work for the post, they were investing their own money to keep it running and they had to walk away because they had to pay the bills. everybody i america is on the hamster wheel. ey don't have time to do anything other than i've got to look ou

a washington post source under the pseudonym "deep throat" claimed that the trail leads all the way tong all the conversations in the oval office, when the investigation demanded to provide the film, it turned out to be damaged in the most important place. it turned out that nixon personally tried to hush up the matter. after this, impeachment became a foregone conclusion even for republicans. in august '74, nixon resigned. in 2003, american diplomat joseph wilson published an article in which he stated that the george w. bush administration launched the war in iraq on the basis of deliberately false intelligence. in 2002, he traveled to niger, where he became personally convinced that saddam hussein was not was going to buy yellow uranium for the production of weapons of mass destruction, but the white house deliberately did not make this information public. a week after the article was published , an action followed: together the press published material that revealed the identity of his wife, undercover cia agent valerie plame. this put an end to her career and endangered her loved

faculty of the creative writing at the university of pennsylvania, and a staff writer at the washington post. he lives with his wife, cecile, a retired nurse outside philadelphia. and in washington and d.c. please for his books at a site that will lead you to your local independent bookstore. but tonight we also have books for sale in the lobby courtesy of books on call nyc over there. paul and i will be in conversationor 40 minutes or so and then we will take questions from our live audience. we will try to end this program after about one hour. tion for funding this and all our events. so paul. paul, i begin you say this book has been simmering. you use that word for at least half century but it is a memoir. is it a memoir or is it a biography of your father? what's the difference. oh, boy. a great question. and when i fige o tell you, i call it a reported memoir. i'll just in a minute, try to say a little more about that. but i asked my on the way in if i could just make some acknowledgments. thank you's right heree detour d do that. so many of my books to take a detour or take a tangent.

the journalism at the post and been a supportive and good owner so now the question is which "washington post he wants to be the owner of? the one that he bought or something else that is -- seems to be on the horizon right now. >> your last column was the post was a warning and clarion call to journalists about the 2024 election year. the stakes are so high. how is journalism shaping up right now to deal with this? >> i think journalists have learned a lot since the mistakes of 2016 when they really didn't see donald trumpet coming entirely and they've self-corrected somewhat but i think what needs to happen is for journalists to emphasize, as my friend and colleague jay rosen says, not the odds but the mistakes. not the horserace or the polls and who's up or who's down but what are the consequences of this election so i would like to see newsrooms really stress that in the months ahead because american voters need to go to the voting booth knowing exactly what's at stake. >> margaret sullivan, thank you so much. >> you're welcome, thanks. william: this morning's supreme court ruling marks a

arrogant stance towards his new reporters how is it the british invasion is taking control of the washington posturnal, ap, new york post and cnn whose boss ran the new york times cavity before that i worked with were for plenty of british journalist and they are sharp and sound twice as erudite with those accidents, they are scrappy and scoop artist but the fuzzy ethics of fleet street can get them into trouble, as the royal family, some of that is not going to fly included the washington post which in fairness today is a front-page piece on safety problems in the medical unit of jeff bezos amazon, next on "mediabuzz" donald trump goes to capitol hill and the press loads on what he says or didn't say about milwaukee. ♪hu kayak. i like to do things myself. i do my own searching. it isn't efficient. use kayak. i can't trust anything else to do the job right. aaaaaaaahhhh! kayak. search one and done. this is our last chance to help save thousands of holocaust survivors who are suffering in the former soviet union today. the needs that these forgotten jews have are something beyond anything you can

a washington post source under the pseudonym "deep throat" claimed that the trail leads all the way toident recorded all conversations in the oval office, when the investigation demanded to provide the tape, it... george w. bush started the war in iraq on the basis of deliberately false intelligence. in 2002 he went to niger, where he became personally convinced that saddam hussein had no intention of buying yellow uranium to produce weapons of mass destruction. but the white house deliberately did not make this information public. a week after the article was published, an act of revenge followed. the press released material that revealed the identity of his wife, undercover cia agent valerie plame. this put an end to her career and endangered her loved ones. the white house denied all allegations. in november 2009 , before the un climate summit in copenhagen, the so-called climate gate. hackers leaked correspondence from employees of the university of east anglia. documents, after which he fled to hong kong. there he described how american intelligence agencies spy on internet users

the american publication washington post writes about this, in particular. my name is vlasta lazur, this is svoboda live. the ukrainian authorities are doing enough or not enough to eradicate illegal enrichment and bribery and all that we call corruption. the last meeting between president volodymyr zelenskyi and us secretary of state anthony blinken was tense. the ukrainian leader thanked washington for the military assistance, but looked disappointed. he did not like that the american official focused on corruption, the washington post writes. referring to unnamed interlocutors familiar with the content of the conversation. the content of the conversation between zelenskyi and blinkin. i will remind, during the last visit to kyiv, blinkin said that victory in the war against corruption will not allow ukraine to become like russia. and it seems that kyiv just didn't like it. the article of the washington post talks about high-profile cases of recent times, such as accusations of illegal enrichment against the former deputy head of the president's office and

washington post sources about the need for better training of the military before going to the front.tly , the deputy commander of the battalion of the 47th brigade, oleksandr shershin, also spoke on our air. let's listen to a fragment from this broadcast, what he said. in my opinion, it is necessary to prepare, because then we already spend time here on the spot to prepare the staff that will leave. if there is a place, for now, well, this is their task, if their work, if they will treat these things more. responsibly, accordingly, we will be able to spend less resources on this here and do our work better on the spot. we will talk about the quality of education further on our broadcast with the guests of this broadcast, and in the meantime, you can write again in the comments about your experience, perhaps about the experience of your relatives who have completed this training or are currently undergoing it and have something to share, to our roman donik joins the broadcast. head of the instructor-teaching group of the 151st of the training center and andrii zayets, a teacher of psy

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that's the washington post. here's the washington times. several major u.s.gencies say the lab leak is the most likely explanation. that is the washington times reporting. from the office of the director of national intelligence. they their report on the origins. this is from cnn reporting and the office of the director of national intelligence. "no consensus among intelligence agencies. every intelligence agency unanimously agreed it was not developed as a biological weapon. most agencies assess covid-19 was not genetically engineered but no consensus on that let's hear from howard in minnesota, democratic caller. good morning. caller: good morning. i think dr. fauci is a national hero. president biden should could hit him the congressional medal of freedom. host: why? caller: i was a health care chaplain during the crisis. patients in icu's. i saw so manywe lost 75 seniors. another facility we lost 55 seniors. this politicization of this issue is adolescent. those lives matter. we need to protect the vulnerable during a time of a health care crisis. dr. fau

nick: was julian assange a journalist and doing what the new york times and washington post do everyjamil: not even a little bit. he doesn't uphold any traditional aspect of the press. he doesn't vet his sources carefully. he doesn't take action to protect innocence involved. on the contrary he just dumps , documents out. revealed the names of many confidential informants that may have been attacked by the taliban and others and killed. the idea that julian assange is some hero for the little guy, he is not a journalist, he has never been a journalist. let's be real, honest journalists like you don't consider him a journalist. nick: regardless of my opinion julian assange posted documents , that did reveal the names of afghans and iraqis who were helping the united states. does this make him not a journalist? trevor: it doesn't matter if i think he is not a journalist or whatever you think. what matters is the acts he is charged under. thankfully in this country the government does not get to decide who is and is not a journalist. the first amendment provides that right to everybody.

have already started to talk, the washington post informs us that russia is accumulating troops for ann sumy region, that is , this time the washington post, well, let's say, it is wrong, there is no such, such a danger there, shall we say so or not , what do you say, mr. dmytro, mr. mykola, let's talk about the fact that not only, unfortunately, the washington post has been wrong for the past month, this is already some unhealthy trend on the part of the media, our strategic partners, the sumy direction, according to data... there is no reason to say that this is an invasion group, an invasion contingent, that is, if there is an escalation, it is appropriate in the plans of the russian occupation army, then we are talking about creating a zone of tension in the border areas again, that is, advancing deep maximum up to 10 km in order to repeat the factors i have already listed, this is a distraction. panic among the local population, etc., and i just want to ask you right now, here is a list of countries that allowed shooting at russia, yes without restrictions, and those that allowed,

up next is the washington post toast. assistant, and stylist. life's good.ve a plan. ♪ shame. it's been here as long as i can remember. living in glances of people i loved. and ones i didn't even know. (♪) but what good is shame when it comes to health? health is not about what weight we lose. it's about all of the things a body can gain. (♪) ♪ rising costs. selective coverage. for countless americans, the complex specialty care they need has always felt... just out of reach. ♪ at evernorth, we give members unrivaled access to the most complex therapies at the best prices. while providing enhanced support like in—home nursing at no additional cost. that's wonder made possible. evernorth health services. >> greg: five words. employees get reality check. yesterday the washington post published told the newsroom that we are losing large amounts of money, your audience has have in recent adults. i don't use that verb lightly. people are not reading your stuff anymore. and then employees, while they're being told that there screwed they also said louis cannot exp

democrats are in a panic, they doubt biden's future - the washington post concludes. his voice was soft and hoarse, he repeatedly tried to clear his throat, but without success. sometimes his answers were ambiguous, and sometimes one moment he froze, the next he began to answer about... abortion, before suddenly switching to immigration. when trump spoke, biden often stared, mouth agape, eyes wide. the split screen gives the impression of the aging grandfather that he is, rather than the shrewd leader he hoped to portray. donald trump won a convincing victory in this debate, 67% of americans think so. these are the results of a cnn operational poll conducted after the debate. another 33% of respondents awarded victory. biden, as a result of the joe biden debate only heightened the fears of many voters who believe the 81-year-old democrat is too old to be president. well, here too, if we are talking about age, then for the sake of justice it should be said that trump is not much younger than biden, he is 78, but, as political observers state, he looked more cheerful an

it means they can then turn around and use that on the new york times or washington post.er or not there are cosmetic differences between them. nick: jamil jaffer, trevor timm. thanks to you both. ♪ amna: in the day's other headlines, israel's supreme court ruled that the military must draft ultra-orthodox jewish men for mandatory service. the unanimous decision ends decades of broad exemptions. it also deals a political blow to prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his governing coalition, which had long objected to this move. and it comes as netanyahu's defense minister, yoav gallant, is in washington for meetings with pentagon officials. as the war grinds on in gaza, and fighting between israeli forces and lebanon-based hezbollah intensifies, defense secretary lloyd austin said diplomacy is key to avoiding a second front. >> hezbollah's provocations threaten to drag the israeli and lebanese people into a war that they do not want. such a war would be a catastrophe for lebanon and it would be devastating for innocent israeli and lebanese civilians. amna: meantime, u.n. o

russia by american weapons, we are talking about a small radius of action, 70-80 km, and as the washington post writes, the russian army can still fire at kharkiv with some types of weapons, since the white house, as before, insists on so that ukraine does not use the most modern systems for strikes on the territory of russia. given this, russia will be able to continue, for example, to use aerial bombs, they are launched with a bomb. builders are deeply in russian territory, and it is extremely difficult to intercept them in the air, this is stated in particular by the authors of the publication in the washington post. vitaliy lytvyn, a hero of ukraine, an officer of the intelligence department of the rubizh brigade, joins our broadcast. i welcome you, dear studio, dear tv viewers, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, let's start from vovchansk, as far as i understand, there is now a fight for every street, or do you you know what the situation is there now, i would tell you, there is a fight for... not that there is a fight for every street, for every house, because the enemy desperately wa

why do we show you the "washington post" and their work walking through that? a message taking hold, many times based on lies and edited video. >> our friends with post grad degrees, our friends who are lawyers, our friends who are very successful will buy this hook, line and sinker. they did it after the horrible fires in hawaii, where biden at a moving memorial service at one point closes his eyes, and they freeze in on that. when you look at it in a full context, like any of us hearing these horrible stories, will close our eyes and reflect, et cetera, et cetera. they have donald trump saying crazy things about sharks and barack obama being president not being able to complete sentences. you've said it time and time again, willie. if people have the stomach to do it, they should watch an entire trump speech because the non seq.uitors. i had a friend call me and say he and his wife sat down and watched the entire vegas speech for entertain because trump was so crazy during that people. crazy is the wrong word. so unpresidential, so out of it, so disconnected

what more can you tell us about how this is expected to impact this media giant, the washington post yeah, i mean, it's certainly distracted staffers over the past several days in the newsroom at a really important time for national politics but this is something that's not going to end. just yet. really what's happening here is we'll lewis, who was tapped by jeff bezos, the owner of the washington post earlier here this year to lead the newspaper. he used to work for rupert murdoch and there are allegations that he helped cover up or the hacking scandal that rupert murdoch's media empire in the uk was ensnared in decades ago. and those allegations have been revived by a loss so that prince harry and another number of other notable celebrities have filed and it's making its way through the courts. and so what happened this week is after he dismissed sally buzbee as the executive editor it was revealed according to sally buzbee is account that she told others that he pressured her and breast his dissatisfaction with the washington post covering this lawsuit, which of course mentioned

don't you find it interesting, ironic, that "the washington post" poll, wash upon post which -- "washington nobody reads anymore, they're going bankrupt that is different segment, the point is on democracy that will come in tomorrow night. >> it is lawfare, ridiculous attacks, cases against president trump. it is 14th amendment issue. the democrats said the best way to beat president trump is not let him play the game, not let him run at all. they tried that. thank goodness the supreme court said 9-0 that's garbage. we put out a report yesterday where these 5intel 1 intel offis said the laptop was russian disinformation. they knew the facts. top people at cia reviewed the statement. we know agents were saying we shouldn't do this, this is political, a bad look for the cia we know some of the people who signed it were actually on contract at the cia when they did, they did this 15 days before a presidential election to mislead the american people. larry: so what happens? it's possible that hunter biden's laptop computer will come into play in tomorrow night's debate. if joe biden starts slin

then you have the washington post on this aggressive effort in the wake of the trump conviction. it's true but i would point out the headline like the new york times might lean a little far into the maga spin. you just heard with your own ears how much trump has been vowing to do this. his entire life and national politics from at least 2015. it's not a response. it's not the wake of the trump conviction, it's a continuation the associated press reporting republicans now val to indict the left. as if this is just an exchange of activity. or take the hill, which reports they are targeting the fbi and any prosecutors who are dealing with trump. some outlets have even missed the obvious conflict of interest. take convicted felon steve bannon. he is vowing that d.a. alan bragg will be jailed and at times he's been identified, am not trying to single out an outlet, but sometimes identified as a white house aide or trump guy and he has a podcast. but as i mentioned earlier, steve bannon is a convicted felon slated to go to federal prison so you can bet he will say what he can say to go

this news was announced by washington post. biden, the president of the united states had claimed that he had stopped sending these weapons due to the attack of the zionist forces on rifa. bombs that are just being made, like this bomb. they are tested somewhere far away from the city where there is minimal harm to living things. this bomb. hidayadeh is one of the members of the jbb family . gbus are made by the united states, but they are not tested only in the desert and distant deserts. the types of them that the united states provided to the zionists were used here in gaza, according to human rights organizations, only in but the number of civilians in gaza with this type the bombs are the victim. it reached the point where internal protests in america started regarding washington's support for the zionist regime. until the 18th of may 1403, which was announced by the politico magazine, citing american officials. they stopped sending these bombs due to concerns about civilian casualties in rafah. but recently, the washington post newspaper, citing two democratic representatives, an

a washington post poll found that by a 3 to 1 margin, american people supported a nuclear. what that what we have not nuclear weapons but what a frozen nowhere they. and it might sound like a good idea but reagan's whole approach was to build up to create leverage for arms reductions. so reagan faced a really big problem in the united states. a washington post abc poll, the same poll found that a significant portion of the american public has become in increasingly anxious over the prospect of a nuclear war. frightened over the buildup of the arsenal. and frustrated the lack of serious negotiation between. the two superpowers. so an awful lot of people in the also south korea, japan, taiwan. there afraid. and that's true in america. there is a second barrier he faced which is the perception that many people had that he was a mouthpiece piece that he had just been a grade b movie actor hollywood. that he was simply not up to the job. a british commentator, roy hattersley, labeled reagan, a man of naive ideas and simple opinions which he holds with the certainty of a midweste

a company the washington post mentioned, it sometimes offers a level of free advice as an entryway butter they are charged a price. how is it they are able to operate even if there is no penalty without anyone overseeing it, is it about the bureaucracy at the v.a.? >> the v.a. has sent multiple demand letters to these companies telling them to stop. it is a legal. and the department of affairs is telling them so. but sternly worded letters are as far as they can go because criminal penalties were removed reporter: i do not know that everyone realizes how large the act is. is this misconduct and illegal activity predate the pact act? >> it did. many larger companies operated for years. the pact act amplified what they are looking to take from veterans. v.a. recently announced the one millionth claim was granted. they are putting out so much more money into veterans pockets. a lot of these companies see an opportunity to take a cut. so it was happening. the pact act really amplified that. reporter: you have talked with veterans who have fallen prey to this. what has their experience been

too many people know about it, did you hear about the greys zone being targeted by the amazon washington post the other day. i know the grades on was and people can, which are interviewed next blumenthal in the studio here. the editor of grades and who, who is done so much to expose the lies coming from israel and propaganda outlets in nature. countries did it surprise you that uh they were not directly by the washington post or, i'm frankly, i'm unaware of, of, of this specific issue, but on the whole. no, i'm, i'm not just, i'm not surprised. i mean, the, the mainstream press has a history of not only suppressing an alternate alternative view points and suppressing descent, but also on attacking the sensors. i mean we, we need on the look out, for example, the us invasion of iraq in 2003 where it was the new york times and other leading newspapers and television stations that left the charge. that completely inflated these false allegations about a new rock in nuclear weapons program and w, m, d, and so on. and, and, you know, it's new york times is, is not known as american products for no