You even have your managers in ring ballets and just like professional wrestling most of the characters you see on t. V. Are being manipulated and created by the one percent who owns the business all in an effort to get you to part ways with your money and your free time modern Politics Today even runs the same story lines as professional wrestling take the recent headline making Peace Agreement signed over the weekend between the United States and the taliban that turned out to be pure w. W. Wheat you had your faces in the form of my pail in the trumpet ministration and then you had your your heels of the form of the taliban just like every contract siting on a w w w e violence erupted before the ink even had time to dry political reports that just hours after United States signed what was billed as a Historic Deal with the taliban to end the 19 year long war in afghanistan fighting had resumed between the taliban and the Afghan Security forces marking an end to the reduction in violence that paved the way for the agreement that was signed on saturday. See thats the real world equivalent of the scene putting daniel bryan through a table after signing the deal thats the real world version except tragically in this real world version the violence after that the at tricks isnt staged and actual lives are at stake as historian and writer Stephen Wertheim points out americas fantasies of what it could achieve in the war even after it became a washington cliche of the war had no military solution consigned thousands to needless deaths. This is no peace deal my friends this is just more of the tricks designed to confuse you distract you and ultimately steal your tax dollars for the military Industrial Complex and your vote for the put up puppet politicians and that my friends is why we are watching homes. In the city you streets. That are so slick see see this is your choice just state and see a rolls royce graves see this least systemic deception is so but it sure does sound like some real. World women are watching arcs i am tired and im a me to me joy thing pure wrestling this week im watching the signing this d contract it is the means we could fight or a private not really because i think there was a certain level of the president trying to once again shift the media narrative we saw all of the coverage of the coronavirus than what was happening with the markets and President Trump you know hes thinking in Campaign Mode all this year and what better thing to say then oh i have this deal thats obama yeah i brought peace to afghanistan i ended the mighty near long war 1819 year old long which realistically all of the people coming out and theyre criticizing this saying really its just a piece of paper it really will have no real effect on the outcome of this war the war still going to be fought i mean representative barbara lee out of california believe so the statement on her web page she said this socalled peace deal is anything but it leaves thousands of troops in afghanistan and lacks the critical investments in peace building Human Centered Development or government governance reform needed to actually rebuild afghanistan and representative lee is probably one of my favorite people in the black caucus i think shes 100 percent correct here because what President Trump has done is something that he does often this is a piece of symbolism he knows that this this hasnt. Realty there is nothing that is going to actually bridge the taliban in the United States and i dont think that that was what he was trying to do what it seems that hes trying to do is make you believe that thats what is happening and as much as he can push it in as much as his people can go around and you know shout in their echo chambers then its a win for him because there are a lot of folks who just arent digging deep enough into this and as you know talking about the taliban working with his son in law to try to ensure that he has some middle east policy that can not necessarily have legs but can at least get into the media cycle is what hes been known to do when i think that after a while people were asking where is this policy because as you can recall hes been talking about this taliban deal for the past 2 and a half years and its interesting to note to the right now the talk about were bringing all these troops home and things like that when really the deal is the way it seems will still leave about 2 thirds of current u. S. Forces there are no longer going to be fighting the taliban the taliban are just going to be there counterterrorism purposes they are battling names in the detail but this is such really puts everything back to roughly the same number of troops that were there from came into office i mean its again its a stalemate exactly he shifted priorities and hes not actually removing troops and i think that you know that its something that is problematic to tell people because it is literally a law i think but in addition to that if you feel like there are more troops stressed the need to be there for counterterrorism reasons why not just come out and say that you dont tell people that the troops are coming home when that is factually incorrect its complete its complete fallacy and again i think you may have been there on the head of its Election Year politics politicking in electioneering what you what they want you to believe at the end of the day is that look at all these accomplishments i did i handled the coronavirus i brought peace to afghanistan but at the end of the day none of thats going to be true and none of its going to hold water for a long period of time because thats what politics is today its wrestling. On the show the bad guys the good guys fight each other but then theyll go home and eat dinner later you know theyll go home and go to the same restaurant they get paid by this. Same big political benefactors at the end of the day promises made promises broken thats most definitely most definitely true theyre just gets over busker. Be conservative Political Action conference c pac came to a close on saturday after bringing thousands of maga supporters to d. C. Under the banner of the u. S. Versus socialism Trip Administration officials like Vice President pitts and secretary of state might pump aoe join trumps Reelection Campaign top brass in the duel better suited for Comedy Central dominance still at the annual conservative circus there was no shortage of lies and comedy descending on the Nations Capital last week. Amid all of the jeering racism geared at preserving isolationist policies that anti immigrant sentiment from agenda of dismantling womens reproductive rights and spreading stories about gun grabbing democrats coming to your most prized possessions there might be a deeper story here to break down the Republican Party annual gathering of white this is redacted tonight correspondent and early editors hey welcome back those that was brave to go to spend some days at sea packer a there are those not so brave when you look like i do yes thats true it was soul sucking but you do have a beard which can be very. Well so i got to say look the biggest theme to come out of sleep in this gathering of conventions very political but the biggest theme was kind of you know america versus the evils of socialism right. There pretty much lumping all democrats together as socialists is this characterization fair i mean after all the only the only actual social would assume the race is Bernie Sanders democratic socialist. And the Democratic Party doesnt really seem to love him that much anyway so who did you mean is this help me understand what the pm was for this year right well i think the the rights of the Republican Party are prepared to run against socialism in the general election and when you talk to people have packed theres not really a clear consistent understanding of what that means and i think thats also the case with the Democratic Party except for Bernie Sanders who does have a clear message for what he means but if you have another nominee like joe biden is going to make the discussion about socialism is going to try and tara biden with that label and theres not going to be really a clear response because thats not at the same time biden is trying to get sanders supporters he will be if he wins the nomination but also not run as a socialist so they dont really i think know what to do if sanders wins the nomination because for so many decades republicans are used to just running against Big Government and social. And now that you have somebody whos actually saying yeah i i want that i am a socialist there kind of an exercise crisis i like how you can lead into my next question can we break down socialism just a bit here because there is a big difference between democratic socialism the branding of as well as Bernie Sanders versus socialism in its Historical Context when we think about countries in latin america 6 and a lot of the a lot of what i think the branding of the Republican Party is right now when they talk about socialism does this type of separation need to be made more evident by democrats. Or is that will or are they going to be at a loss in terms of fighting back against the republican rhetoric yeah well i think the 1st step is to actually take them up on the issue and not try to dodge it but actually say this is what i mean by socialism and youre right its all it often goes back to venezuela and places like that or poor countries you know because unfortunately when no matter what kind of system you have in the 3rd world its going to be bad you know its going to be really tough to to improve standards of living when when you have an economy thats you know suffered under years of imperialism so what i think sanders is trying to do is conjecture lies it in a 1st world context you know he talks a lot about scandinavia which you know conservatives will try to hit back and say like oh theyre actually a capitalist country well if you look at the facts theres actually more state control over the norwegian economy and im a little biased on allegiant you really yes this is where we get the phone. But theres actually more state control over the region economy than there is over the venezuelan economy so thats something that i think only someone like bernie is prepared to an argument only hes prepared to make you know i want to ask you because you know youve got a big audience around the World International audience right now who you know theyre looking from the outside i mean a lot of us citizens across the country dont really understand what its like to walk the halls of a major Convention Like c pac and washington and what that like kind of you know with what appears to be there so i ask you you know what what not only surprised you but describe what that whole mess is like you think yeah its you know its a coalition of and i think this is what conservatism fundamentally is is a coalition of people who have a vested interest in the status quo and not changing things whether its the economy making things more turning the economy or gender equality racial equality they want to preserve things its a coalition of them and people who might benefit from some changes in the society but are just confused you know theres a lot of men. Cranks and sort of corporate goons thats kind of what it is and i think historically conservatism has been a reaction to the left the left has fought for minutes with tory issues and conservatism is really kind of fungible because its always changing its position to whatever the opposite of the left is doing so its really just time is that and thats i think thats kind of the existential crisis right now with the pact they dont they know theyre against socialism but its hard to kind of be really adamantly procapitalism when weve seen what its done over the past its not its a tough so even for storage conservatives you know across the country and things like that its going to be a tough sell when everyone is feeling the brunt of the restraint capitalism from the last few years. Back of gotten a lot more politically laden heavy from the white house than weve seen in previous years yeah im being an undergrad 2008 everybody was going to think that but that everybody was strong libertarian green right people who want to hear about the free markets they want to steal your Campaign Books so when we see see pag now we see that there are you know the president s top brass people from his Administration People from his campaign there are folks who are really trying to set the agenda for the Republican Party do you think that this is that that that was the right use of his efforts and his time because the president was there as well as was the Vice President as well as the secretary of state were also in the midst of the Coronavirus Spread markets were plunging more and more diverse and young voters are expected to come out during this Campaign Cycle in this election cycle that weve probably seen in history we know that the more that happens the list advantages that is for republicans do you think that that was a great bit of time that with a smart thing for the president to engage in considering the fact that there are so many other buyers right now they havent done yet well of course as a citizen of the country i wish she was dealing with other things although you know maybe its probably better to leave it to someone else but. I think from a political perspective you know as you mentioned just 4 years. Ago there was some sentiment that would be allowed in the spaces like c. Pack and that was not the case here you know i jokingly asked a couple of people a sport jumper bill well you know i think bowling at point 3 percent in the republican primary and everybodys pretty much on the on the trump train so i think there is some political benefit to consolidating his base disciplining people who may have been skeptical of him but yeah in terms of a appealing to a broader public will say i dont know if thats going to be that effective its kind of looks like he was playing to his own crowd yeah like were going to grab it imo you all agree fantastic anderson thank you so much for braving seek. Out his coverage on redacted tonight later this week a believe you have a great piece you have a friday at 8 pm friday if you check it out thanks as were going to record watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics would cover the social media be sure to sign up for our exclusive newsletter at least slash watching the hawks you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t. V. App which is available on smart problems the google play and the Apple App Store by searching portable t. V. Coming up cia whistleblower jeffrey sterlings joins us to discuss his brand new book on the wanted spy you do not want to miss this interview faith to the watching what. A. Good number to the police want you to that you did. Dont get a. Good that you did down the episode that are both use in the boardroom is it has a. Significant effect like our younger. People. It. Was a pretty all they were driving this one that i wanted to buy these are. Some of the. Girls were given. These are these are their gold is the answer. For the supreme. Whistle blowers are a vital part of our democracy they can serve as a check to power uncover wrongdoing and bring to light some of the dark behaviors a powerful people as much as were taught about protecting these brave souls and the integrity of the information they bring forward whistleblowers are warily seen as heroes in fact they are suffering from great losses just for telling the truth and making our democracy live up to its creed case in point former cia agent jeffrey Sterling Sterling joined the cia in 1903 and just 2 years later was promoted to Operations Officer in the cias near east and south Asia Division focusing his efforts on iran he later recruited iranian nationals as agents for the cia as part of a secret operation involving irans weapons capacity being a Civil Servant committed to his job of protecting democracy stirring did what we are all expected when we see wrongdoing he raised concerns and marched. 1003 he communicated with the Senate Intelligence committee about a poorly executed and dangerous operation merlin a cia led covert operation that was supposed to slow down Irans Nuclear program he blew the whistle. Sterling had been in contact with journalist james risen and was thought to be a key source for his book the state of war detailing americas botched covert operation to disarm Irans Nuclear capacity through a series of traced phone calls and intercepted communications sterling was pegged as the inside source for rides and book in december of 22 in the Us Government filed an indictment against sterling with charges ranging from obstruction of justice to an otherwise disclosure of National Defense of permission without supporting evidence sterling was charged under the espionage act fighting key evidence that persuaded a jury to convict sterling on 911. 00 counts as intercepted records and emails but this communication on