Russia that challenge our interests our economy and our values in confronting these horrible dangers we know that weakness is the surest path to conflict and match power is the surest means to our true and great defense i was just a watching mainstream coverage earlier in the only criticism they had well these Foreign Policy wise was that he was apparently too soft on russia. Thats not close live to our guest patrick heading saying executive editor of twenty First Century wired dot com thank you for joining us on r. T. International mr headings the now in the state of Union Address mentioned china and russia as rivals who challenge American Values and interests why theyre taking such a harsh rhetoric against moscow and beijing. I think its important for donald trump that theres some concessions that he needs from people within his party who quite frankly want to see him go and the democratic side the house and senate as well so he does still have to make some concessions and make some dog whistle noises to the neo conservatives for instance and you know the United States requires to have major enemies to justify the seven hundred billion dollars Defense Budget which is actually one point one trillion if you break it down in reality and talk of expanding the Defense Budget and over the next two years to officially a trillion which would probably be more like one point three trillion in reality so these are all important noises for the president to make the state of the union to sort of shore up support from the defense bloc as it were. That china has already responded to transfer moch saying they reflect cold war thinking would you agree that the president s address was quite aggressive. I think from a chinese to that perspective yes it does ring a bit cold war ish to russia however were beyond cold in terms of the cold war the rhetoric is much more aggressive much more pursuit for us the agenda is much more pernicious even when the cold war was happening between the u. S. And the soviet union and its become a centerpiece of u. S. Partisan politics the whole russia gate issue unsurprisingly chuck used his address to promote his America First message once again saying the u. S. Should maintain its troops overseas to fight terrorists is not quite a shift from his president ial Campaign Promise that america would no longer be the policeman of the world. Yes it might appear to be but this president has made a number of departures. All of his Campaign Promises more or less in terms of Foreign Policy in terms of domestic hes hes very much on track with a number of items hes doing exactly what he said he was going to do but in terms of Foreign Policy i think the neoconservative war hawking elements have managed to get control and surround this president the the military the generals james mattis and so forth and this Interest Group and the companies which they essentially represent are definitely steering the president s overall tone of the Foreign Policy thats evident in madison is National Defense strategy and the United StatesNational Security strategy papers over the last two months Patrick Henningsen executive editor of twenty First Century why dot com thank you for your time. It was a common Aussie International hackers claim a canadian champions positive doping test was covered up ahead of rio twenty six. Well you after this break. Heres what people have been saying about rejected and this is. The only show i go out of my way to you know what it is that really packs a punch. Is the john oliver of our three americas do the same. Apparently better than. The c. People youve never heard of low taxes and. President of the world bank very. Seriously send us an email. The currency market itself is still on track to eclipse the Global Banking all adopt only which is what we need what we want and ive always said its a Bank Circular thats the primary use of bitcoin. Welcome back now the russian Hacking Group is claiming the Canadian Olympic Committee covered up its National Poll vote champion testing positive for doping prior to the rio olympics. Joins us in the studio with the details now so what are they claiming to have dug up here the activists have found an email exchange and it is supposedly between the people from the Canadian Olympic Committee and also on another canadian sport fourteen which is responsible for sport ethics in the country and the emails reveal some of what allegedly was happening behind the scenes of canadian sport around the rio olympics and you wont be impressed because it looked like attempts to play down an antidoping rule violation and also. Quickly. Trying to do some quirky damage control so heres the athlete to the center. Well its all about the case of former hold champion shawn barber in prior to the olympics he tested positive for cocaine but instead of being thrown out of the olympics after several and tarnal Disciplinary Proceedings and cat of the for the pole vaulter was allowed to go moreover for a while this case was hidden from the international Olympic Committee the c o c was not permitted to disclose sean sue wish and prior to or during the games we do not condone this behavior sean has apologized for his mistake and poor judgment. Now for a moment just think about the treatment that the russian athletes have been getting all this time and listen to how sean barber was cleared basically what he did was claimed that some hearings that he had ingested cold came during a sexual act with a woman he called a professional woman plus barbour apologized so canadian sports authorities were happy to let him go and keep the i. O. C. In the dark about this but by the way just for your information a few months after the olympics barber came out as gay and said that hes proud of it i would assume the i. O. C. Would treat this very very seriously today not well i can tell you that first of all when they found out it was too late to do something about it because the olympics were already over but there were some people within the international Olympic Committee that werent so happy with what was going on president thomas bach allegedly called the ruling a decision influenced by National Interest in the meantime if we go back to the emails canadian top sports officials were allegedly doing their best to make sure that this case doesnt get any other attention whatsoever including legal attention it does not seem bright that this is being suggested publicly one of the independent process determines the athlete was no folds in this case what are the fan the i. O. C. Had the right to appeal the decision at the time a number of them did. So the warning as you can see is suggesting that anyone whos asking questions or anyone whos somewhat concerned about this case is there when something wrong and this is the point where i want to go back to the decisions that are being made about the russian both in rio now ahead of the winter Olympic Games in young chang and i guess this is what we may refer to as to double standards absolutely highlighting some very serious or double standards there thank you for those details lets go. Israeli legal activists have filed a lawsuit against two New Zealanders one of whom is jewish herself and thats because they apparently influenced pop star lot to cancel her tell of even gig lets get the details now from arties paula paula good to see you can you from is there on the details how did all this come about when late last year the new zealand pop star norwood announce that she was canceling a performance that she was scheduled to have given here in tel aviv in june of this year now it seems as if her announcement was made following an open publication of a call by two New Zealanders urging her to boycott the country lord posted her response on her twitter feed. Noted in speaking with many people about this and considering our options thank you for advocating me i am learning all the time to. Now israeli activists are suing those two New Zealanders in what appears to be the first lawsuit filed under a controversial israeli and he boycott law the law goes back to two thousand and eleven and it could open the door to civil lawsuits against those calling for a boycott of israel including of lands occupied if it can be proven that that call knowingly in aid to a boycott knol the law is part of the israeli governments way to try and deal with the boycott sanctions and disinvestment movement that has been growing traction against israel in recent years it does allow the courts to impose damages against defendants now critics of the law of course argue that it stifles freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Polis lire live from tel aviv thank you for those details paula when a countdown is well under way for russias president ial election in march the incumbent lived in a putin is running for what would be his fourth term two parties the right wing l. D. P. On the more liberal leaning yabloko fielding the same candidates as before planted a zhirinovsky as grigori you have been scary there are also some new faces at Russias Communist Party is now represented by poker dean and known as the strawberry king thanks to his collective farms and then those eggs t. V. Hosts any assault chap who says that a vote for her is a vote against everyone aussies works on a boyko sat down with a. I want to show people russia that there is another point of view this is the goal of my compay i know you cant win on the elections where only putin always wins but in himself on many occasions that russia needs more competition both political but he never gives if. You know all the facts you are so subtle i dont hear forty two years im just a little blonde girl you know coming from going to shows and how to balance with me. Ive never said that a president should be you know one field expert. Of the only good way for us is along the way i know that many people want to foster change but change only happens as a revolution i am against. I want to educate people i want to bring them truth and i want together all their problems to make them federal its the same old russian paternalism waiting for the officials to fix the problem dont you think that you are essentially playing the very same kremlin tactic no im not i am the change people want to see. To northwestern iraq now where u. S. Led coalition as strike has reportedly hit civilians and local police instead of terrorists the incident took place on found today reports suggest at least eight people were killed and twenty injured heres what i witness has told us. You have to say ok when we ride by car to find People Killed or wounded the officer carried a wounded woman and laid her down in the car that same car was hit by a missile killed fifteen seconds later they opened fire on the people and their houses with a machine gun shortly after this missile hit a police car and officers were killed. Oh. Iraqi officials confirms they called for a u. S. Led air strike but insist it was to target a terrorist cell but u. S. Military command also says thats how things unfolded is that an investigation is underway. Iraqi Security Forces conducted a raid and apprehended a high value dash leader during extraction of the dash later a dash member reportedly initiated an exchange of ground fire and iraqi leaders called for Coalition Air support several people were killed and wounded during the exchange and the incident is under investigation by iraqi and coalition officials the coalition operates by permission and in direct coordination with the government of iraq and its Security Forces the head of the Iraqi Security and Defense Committee called on the government to adopt measures to restraint the u. S. Led coalitions actions in iraq. Back at the top of the hour the latest headlines are theater. And. This is harlan kentucky. Street. A coma any city with almost no coal mines left. The jobs are gone all the coal was a set thats the. Live to see these people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. I remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and its happening its happened. The whole blog sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the Chicken Hawks forcing you to fight the battle for food still. The new socks for the tell you that every gossip picked up like myself and most Important News today. By the author of advertising tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. These are the hawks for me im on the board of one. The best out of. The concept of paying to perform i actually pass myself to. This country. Yes. Hello and welcome to crossfire were all things considered. 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 distraction. Finally the public will decide. To cross knocking released the memo im joined by my guest Lee Stranahan in washington hes an investigative journalist and a cohost for faultlines on radio sputnik also in washington we have james chatteris hes a former advisor to the u. S. Senate Republican Leadership and in los angeles we cross the goodman hes a columnist and journalist published in the Huffington Post salon the hill and other publications right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you 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 enjoyed mccabe out. Rosenstein next then who else and talk about the state of denial in the liberal media go ahead ha its good to see you again its great to be here well the Obama White House illegally spied on trump since two thousand and fifteen this is according to the guardian. Q was sending information to the u. S. Intelligence Community Community about Trump Associates this is before the alleged russian hacking of the d. N. C. This is before all the facebook posts apparently gave swing states to try and this is before the russian hacking narrative. There is no crime that trump is said to have committed so theyve been spying on trump illegally susan rice on mask names illegally and they tried to find information on Trump Associates even though donald trump has never been accused of a crime and hes not the subject of a crime they havent found any evidence and its been since two thousand and fifteen the mulla probe is completely partisan and it was a result of james comey squeezy memos. Russia never interfered in the election to the point of giving the election to anyone what took place was it was a one point two billion dollar loss from Hillary Clinton and to cover up the loss we know that there was an insurance policy so peter struck in the Text Messages stated well i spoke to Andrew Mccabe and now mccabe is out. And we cant we cant. Question whether or not we have to have an insurance policy if in the event that trump wins then you have speedo struck ok all right. Ha you got a lot of material right there let me go to james here i mean has got it down cold here the facts here but james i mean the fact of the matter is that were going to actually see whats behind the curtain here how the Obama Justice department and f. B. I. Operated as they went through the election cycle this is the real scandal here because if you look at all of these things peter struck at his girlfriend and all these things with andys office and all that theres nothing about russia theyre absolutely zip but go ahead james. Thats have sure a little really right what were really talking about i think the key word here is conspiracy there was a conspiracy with and organs of the of the federal government particularly the f. B. I. I understand theres some reference to the cia in this memo as well well have to see if its in there or not but i think if you look at the hysteria with which the democrats have been opposing release of this memo and also the distraction that the media has been pursuing to take away the attention of this memo if you go to the three networks or m s n b c or or c. N. N. They dont lead with talk about this memo they talk about trump once thought about firing miller its the saturday massacre all over again its attempt to deflect deflect from the real news which is this thing which i expect in short order we will see whats what and i think i do think some other heads will roll you know just because you know its interesting you know the non news event is news i mean what kind of world are they livi