Knew that we had a military installation there. Hello youre watching the national im rosana loquitur thank you for joining us. One of the democratic president ial hopefuls most known for her hard antiwar stance is now in a spot with the Democratic National committee shes accusing the d. N. C. Of bias she failed to qualify for the next round of televised debates began to garner attention after her performance in the 1st 2 events she was the most searched for candidate on google following the 2nd debate in late july but this time around the Democratic NationalCommittee Says she didnt hit the threshold required something has called into question saying the process lacks transparency. The whole process really lacks transparency. People deserve having that transparency because ultimately its the people who will decide who our democratic nominee will be and alternately who our next president commander in chief will be and when you see that lack of transparency it creates you know a lack of faith and trust in the process its Primetime Television if you want to be anybody in the Democratic Party you better make sure you get on the stage at the president ial debates so what do you need to do to make it 2 things 1st get over 130000 unique donations to get at least 2 percent in a National Poll but heres where it gets tricky not every poll is the same and if the Democratic National committee doesnt like you they can reject the poll results that show things in your favor now tulsa gabbert has met the donations threshold hes got over 2 percent 126 different National Polls however the Democratic NationalCommittee Says that doesnt count they have their certified list sure its important of that information its being provided but lets take a quick look at some of the polls that were rejected politico the economist reuters if these widely respected outlets and News Agencies arent credible in america then who is polling in the United States there is a. Network of Close Associates and friends and they frown upon those polls that are either new or are now members of the club or the association so i would certainly speculate that has something to do with that it is a partisan organization the Democratic National committee so any poll say that may have a tradition of leaning republican or not considered to be in the mainstream of democratic artists and ship you know would be would be ruled out even the polls deemed credible. The Democratic Party have a margin of error of between 2 and 6 percent and when the criteria for being in the debates is only 2 percent a margin of error like that is a pretty big deal so tulsa gabbert could have between 0 and 7 percent support among American Voters now keep in mind there are over 200000000 people who are registered to vote in the United States of america so whats the difference between 0 and 14000000. 00 well whatever it is it is apparently not important to the Democratic National committee there is a margin of sampling error so if the margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent what is 2 percent in the polls if if its 1. 51 percent that the candidate has then does get rounded up to 2 percent whereas the 1. 44 percent which is meaningless one could argue the Democratic National committee is a private organization we can establish our own rules but then they also have to be open to the charges by somebody else again but who says this doesnt smell like its fair and frankly i agree with the right of people skills that are now the d. N. C. Doesnt exactly have a reputation for impartiality and fairness leaked emails in 2016 show that the Democratic Party leaders were working pretty hard to defeat Bernie Sanders and make sure that it was Hillary Clinton who ultimately took on donald trump now after the outrage in 2016 the new Democratic Party chair tom perez promised to empower grassroots activists i am more committed than ever before to restoring votes is faith in the democratic process because even the perception of impartiality unfair advantage undermines our ability to win that is unacceptable to that end the new d. N. C. Under my leadership is committed to the tosk of making sure that all 2020 nominating process will be unquestionably fair and. Transparent so as the list of candidates gets whittled down to one final nominee voters will have to decide as to whether mr pereiras is living up to his promise. R. T. New york. Meanwhile another democratic 2020 president ial hopeful Bernie Sanders has come under fire for a remark about china the u. S. Senator praised beijings efforts to reduce poverty prompting condemnation from politicians and the media as arties more against the of explains. Its the strangest thing there is Bernie Sanders one of the leading Democratic Candidates for the nomination and that of the blue the goose that does something that new god fearing american should ever do said something almost complimentary about china. Is a country that is moving unfortunately in a war with libertarian where you have them directions but what we have to say about china in fairness to china and its leadership is if im not mistaken they have made more progress in addressing the extreme poverty. Than any country in the history of civilization bad bernie good thing there are patriotic journalists free media and honest politicians to remind me that its not nice to say nice things about china it was seen as bernie basically praising the Chinese Communist party you know which is probably killed more than any other regime on earth do you think this will be a problem for him going into the general election i think. This again it was a wild way to answer that question well the chinese socialists killed millions of poor people so theres that dead people are poor just dead they call that the great leap forward and after that they used a tool that bernie despises capitalism i wish there was a visual metaphor for bernies argument. I just have to keep watching i dont know why just to bring everyone up to speed what bernie meant is near enough 40 years ago about 9 out of every 10 people in china lived in poverty 9 out of 10 today 2009 seed its one in 100 people one person in every 100 thats below the poverty line that its. Sounding yes the great news for a 1000000000 people yeah but its china if we lived in a fair world that send them a congratulation note and flowers dont china does something bad to raise hell about it does something good very well ignore it oh in russia dont forget brought here if they want to join us are knocking out isis that is just fine as far as im concerned worked together to beat a monstrous group thats killed untold thousands and so on terror worldwide Work Together not a few are god fearing american donald trump believes that russia is our great ally against isis in syria but what russia is doing in syria is setting up missiles that only shoot down planes which isis does not have i think its incredibly naive to think that Vladimir Putin would do anything in the us press interest and then he may run among us president s forgetting things like when jimmy carter praised yes praised hugo chavez well no he didnt really praise him but just to clue we came to know a man who expressed a vision to bring profound changes to his country to benefit is specially those people who had felt neglected and marginalized and once again in the free media and patriots had to remind mr carter that chavez is bad and venezuela together with china and russia iran may be a little north korea definitely geez bernie better grab a pen them and more than a baddies and even if they do what america does you cant compare the 2 because you actually cant compare them its entirely possible and even reasonable but because just dont. Sound out when asked by a journalist about president Vladimir Putin being a killer do a lot of killers go out and kill as well you think our country is so innocent roland well its technically your right but its not what america wants to hear one patriotic american put it and no i dont think theres any equivalent i do think america is exceptional america is different i think theres a clear distinction here and when youre exceptional you dont have to make sense you are just special you do bernie and be quite so nice here. A french mayor has lost his fight to protect people in his village from pesticides although he banned they use a court overruled him and hes now appealing that decision for his case has inspired other mayors across france to take similar action and charlotte events reports. This tiny Breton Village of language has found itself at the center of controversy in the battle over the pesticides in may the local mag to court some saw as being a Bold Decision to ban the use of pesticides within 150. 00 metre cordon over the village farming unions were furious on the matter and did up in court now the man daniel coeff had his ban overturned but the debacle is now shining a light on the deep political contradictions so rounding pesticides in france well president might call and praised his intentions for tackling phosphates a burning issue over Health Concerns he said the solution was not to issue a decree that doesnt comply with the law so macko if thats a double standard. I dont understand what is happening in my craw and the ecology minister said that i am right and doing a good thing to protect my people but in the meantime im facing court for a decision to keep pesticides at a distance of 150 metres i dont understand politics now it seems the decision by the court to take his ban all pesticides was illegal has also earned good residence in this usually sleepy village. 2 children wit lots of fields around long where and its Important Health matter for us especially for children we breed the in the press the sites we did during testing the amount of best the sites we found was alarmingly high even though we eat organic and we grow some of our own food that is also organic. I think the government isnt doing its job and theyre the 1st to say that there should be no past decides they did nothing and it was in the genes or q porsches we were in a small village that is close to a farming area we need to protect people we never know what kind of Health Issues could be created by pay. So i think the decision by the mayor was intelligent and he needed to make a decision to protect the people but now he has difficulties with the Justice System the World Health Organization has said phosphate often used to weed killer probably causes cancer while gov phosphate has hit the headlines over Health Concerns much corn had promised to ban the use of phosphate by 2021 that provoked an outcry by farmers in unions who said they needed an alternative mark and then pushed the ban back to the following year when the current license will expire now across france the ban imposed by mcewan has gained traction he may have lost the 1st battling court but now around 20 other mess have followed his lead banning the use of pesticides close to homes of farmers furious and decry these bans as being politically motivated saying they are getting on the environmental bandwagon ahead of my oral elections. Mayors are already thinking of the next election environmentalists a regular havoc on our agriculture in our only factories floundering unless these mayors are outstanding scientists they are taking advantage of peoples fear to make this kind of decision which is good for their images protectors of the environment and the population but it seems the government has been backed into a corner there must be a minimum distance between residential areas and best decided sprain i will advise in the coming days forming unions and the companies that produce pesticides are sure to have something to say about that but so too does make us who believe that these things all the only way to protect people who live in their farms which use pesticides otherwise he says their health is screwed schalit even ski for altie lang go it in pretty. Donald trump has announced plans to slash by half the number of american troops stationed in afghanistan with further withdrawals dependent on the outcome of peace talks with the taliban were going down to 8600 and then we make a determination from there as to what happens well make a determination but were going down to 8600 were bringing it down we have a very well controlled after nearly 18 years of war there are currently around 14000. 00 u. S. Troops in afghanistan even if half an hour pulled out its unclear when the u. S. Will fully withdraw and remains vague how the situation will change in the region back in 2017 there were 8400 soldiers stationed in afghanistan and that number has since almost doubled and thats despite longstanding plans to withdraw all troops from the country. Starting next month we will be able to remove 10000. 00 of our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year and we will bring home a total of 33000. 00 troops by next summer fully recovering the surge i announced at west point after this initial reduction our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace by 2014 this process of transition will be complete and the Afghan People will be responsible for their own security. Middle east expert at the risk thinks the complete withdrawal of u. S. Troops from afghanistan cannot be expected any time soon. Trump is being subject to some significant pressures within america pressures from the deep state there are close allies to trump in the Republican Party who have voiced objection to any complete withdraw i refer here to Lindsey Graham of the well known republican senator who was also closely allied with trumpet Lindsey Graham has been very vocal in saying that deal with should not completely withdraw in fact he had an article in New York Times with the former a year where survives chief of staff jack keane in that article graham and mccain said that the withdrawal shouldnt be a withdrawal which is all which meets the conditions of the taliban and shouldnt be there for. A process which only satisfy the demands of the polly byrne but should satisfy the demands of america or meet the american conditions so we do have these well known figures within the United States who have clearly object to our complete with drew have been very vocal in that and it appears that board trump has succumbed to those pressures. A group of military experts is calling on congress to force the disclosure of the number of us overseas bases in that set they describe the information currently provided by the pentagon as limited and frequently incomplete. The pentagons annual a base Structure Report provides some information about the number and size of base sites overseas however it fails to report on dozens of well known installations in Countries Worldwide and frequently provides incomplete or inaccurate data many suspect the pentagon does not know the true number of installations abroad. My colleague Jacqueline Vegas spoke here in the studio 2 retired u. S. Army colonel a signatory of that letter and write she thinks u. S. Citizens should know whether military is. So were seeing this letter requiring asking the pentagon to be more transparent about its u. S. Overseas bases why did you choose to sign that leathered well im a u. S. Army colonel i spent 29 years in the us military and i think its very important that american citizens know how many bases we have where they are and how much it costs to run them most americans dont realize we have over 800 bases now and that we have new bases that are being established particularly in africa do you think that this is a problem thats specific to the u. S. Do you think other countries are more transparent about the amount of bases they have well there are very few countries have bases outside their own countries i mean the u. K. Has the french have some russia has a few many china has a few not many but its primarily the United States overwhelmingly has the overseas bases or bases in other peoples countries in that letter it says that there are some 800. 00 insolation throughout the world and those roughly cost u. S. Taxpayers about 20000000000. 00 per year but youre implying in this letter that thats not an accurate number how much bigger do you think is the actual amount of money that is used from u. S. Taxpayers well we think it may be double that up to 15000000000. 00 that are being spent by the u. S. Government to. Equip train have military operations for. Men and women in our military and also department of defense affiliates that are assigned to these bases you know we have large numbers of bases still in germany and japan and south korea but most people dont realize that we now have some in Eastern Europe right on the border of russia and in fact the military exercises that the United States has been having both in Eastern Europe and in scandinavia is one of the concerns that we who signed that letter. Half do you think that disclosing such information as the number of mil