But the coronavirus made a surprise visit to what was once the republican partys safe haven the conservative Political Action conference or c. Pac yes now thanks to its cameo in c. Pac the corona virus has forced u. S. Senator ted cruz to self quarantine for 14 days after he briefly shook ands with the sea pack carrier but coded 19 sounds like come on irene isnt the only small little virus leaving bodies in its wake and making headlines these days no blackwater zone former founder erik prince is back in the hot seat after a New York Times investigation uncovered that the war profiteer helped recruit former american and british spies for a secretive intelligence gathering operations that included infiltrating Democratic Congressional campaigns labor organizations and other groups considered hostile to the trump agenda. Or other words just another day at the office for the mercenary mogul and younger brother of secretary of education betsy the boss. Who they are actually brother and sister so with viruses making headlines stock markets falling or oil wars brewing in erik prince of mercks caught spying i think its a good time to for us to start watching the hawks. If you want it was going on in the city the streets you want to see. There so you like to see the prices you always just stay and see a rolls royce gracie suggests least systemic dissent says the late show which would be so when the real. World when watching logs i am tyrone ventura and im in the chicago boil boil me should look at this we got coronavirus scares and people locked down the countries and all the way comes with the whole so weve got the other my other favorite virus erik prince back in the headlines again yes the former blackwater mercenary maestro got caught spying on everyone. Here in the United States and its interesting its also it seems like everything and everything everybody thats close to bit the devout in them getting caught up somehow not necessarily extremely shocked but he got to work on his high game a little bit yeah you know it was interesting because it you know it sensually this is a New York Times you know kind of uncovered that he allegedly teamed with was a famed project veritas which im sure you you know well james all keeps wonderful interesting weird journalistic company the ones that always are unloading videos of somebody saying something crazy from the left. The campaigns are pretty incredible prince allegedly orchestrated the infiltration of a Congressional Campaign the Congressional Campaign a sort of former cia officer abigail spain birger in virginia. The campaign discovered the operative that he had sent in there via a project to cover operative and fired or you also had 6 officer richard sudden who ran a 2017 operation to copy files and record conversations get this in the Michigan Office of the american preparation of teachers thats one of the Largest Teachers Unions in the nation suddenly even directed an undercover operative to secretly taped the unions local leaders and find information that could basically damage the organization publicly thats a big deal when one of the people running this operation is the brother of the secretary of education spying on teachers and its also a big deal when you think about the impact politically of the American Federation of teachers is not only one of the Largest Teachers Union is also the one that backs and helps to fund some of the most progressive but also people who are going to pass legislation and help a lot when it comes to Teachers Union funding when it comes to making sure the teachers the millions are met and that includes governors that includes house reps that includes senators they have been very vital in pushing some of these people forward so ease dropping on those calls you know implicating a lot of that infrastructure also opens them up to what could be a lot of potentially damaging information because they do a lot of this not necessarily out in the public no virtue im to me its like the danger lies in the connections to be administration its one thing if this guy wants to go off and join projects on his own and do these and. Send spies and moles in which im sure hes breaking some kind of laws or maybe not i dont know. In the background we dont see betsy theres no flame throwing coming from Anyone Around this story in terms of her possible removal or because because of the because of the closeness obviously. I think that makes a difference hes already probably privy to a lot of information that the average person wouldnt be just considering his sisters position but in addition to that he. Found a way to again be able to infiltrate the a. F. C. Which is someone whos work in education policy and really understands what that means that is a very High Level Organization when it comes to not only organizational structure but making sure that you buy multiple campaigns so who knows that the only campaign the only information he got was for the specific one that he was targeting or how long he was actually doing this because again they fund multiple campaigns over multiple cycles in addition to stepping out and doors and came early as well you know the Consumer Watchdog Group allied progress called on the House Oversight committee to essentially step in and conduct an immediate investigation into what device knew about her brother a Little Brothers activities a lot of progress director martin stated quote secretary divorce the boss his brother was directly involved in a spying scheme in her home state against the Teachers Union shes been hostile with for years if that doesnt clear the bar for an immediate congressional investigation nothing does i i actually agree with that and when we know that erik prince is dirty at the end of the day i mean this is the guy who ran blackwater which is responsible for war crimes and after iraq a lot of these people went on trial for being you know for shooting there of the square this is not a good above board and we also know that betsy deval is 100 percent anti Teachers Union type teacher she is all about privatization of education so i think that theres also something secondary there we may not be able to do that report so how much she knew or when she knew it would be hard for me to believe that she did know anything we had when we got to fight the viruses from abroad we also have to fight the virus is here at home too. Youve trained your whole life beginning as a small child balancing being grueling exercises targeting choir muscles and finally becoming one of the nations elite gymnast only to fall victim to sexual abuse at the hands of your team doctor thats exactly what happened to 517. 00 teens and young girls in the usa Gymnastics Team a trauma each of them will carry for the rest of their lives. The former National Team doctor larry nasser was convicted his victims are still suffering reigning olympic champion simone biled took to twitter recently to boyce her prescriptions the u. S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee are doing their level best to silence the victims and push their experiences under the rug the u. S. A. G. Released its settlement proposal for the victims and shockingly range individual settlements with some recipients as high as 1230000 and others 82000 dollars it begs the question can you put a price tag on the abuse these women suffered how much are their lives truly work. But money isnt the only thing causing major concern in the firmament the most outrage is being saved for Something Else the settlement will release the former us chief executive the former u. S. Team coordinators coaches and many others from liability despite a congressional report revealing their role in an elaborate cover up that led to hundreds of young women suffering sexual abuse here to shed more light on this developing story is r t america sports producer. Gino always a pleasure having you on the edge seems the usa Gymnastics Team when you look at the stories trying to essentially close the books on the sex abuse scandal for good thats been played in this organization for years now what point do we say this is just to silence them or is there sincerity in their effort to compensate these victims that its a you know theres no sincerity and thats all they are absolutely trying to get out of any responsibility they could have nassers publicity came to light 26 team all of this came out he had hundreds of victims coming up to michigan to speak to him in a court and to share their stories to share their trauma and for us age of nasa makes you know they filed bankruptcy in 20000. 00 because of this their insurance they claim allows them to give 250000000. 00 these girls are obviously way more and its sad that theyve broken it down theyve put a price tag on suffering theres necessarily when you put a price tag on suffering. If you compete at the top of your game youre at the olympics or at the world or at the nationals you get about 1250000. 00 like me says that if you just file in indiscriminate claim against a doctor or a coach youre worth 82000. 00 they put a price tag on that that some of these units were sexually abused and that that theyre saying you know what your abuse wasnt really worth that much in all the years of trauma theyve gone through and its horrific its absolutely horrific the abuse is the same with her you know whether or not you did well with the olympics it will change what you get back thats terrible and what type of message though is this sin to parents because you when you think about it its these people who are interested their babies these were Young Children when they 1st started getting trained for the olympics they trusted their babies to these coaches they trusted them to these trainers and now theyre looking at the fact that their children are being basically dismissed and the level of trauma that they have and theyre going to carry with them for the rest of their lives doesnt really seem to matter no it doesnt and thats the thing that used in gymnastics by having this settlement and thankfully anybody with a brain has rejected it theyre saying you know what all the years of trauma these are things you had to work through in therapy that you probably still carry some of these women were well into their twentys and thirtys these are not kids anymore theyve had that for decades and the fact is you mastic says trying to smooth it over as a parent you want to see them held accountable you want to see them held to the highest degree of justice they can for your child this is something you the someone you have raise you have given birth to that you hold in such high esteem and theyve gone through something horrific that we would nobody would wish on anybody and us as a mass is kind of shutting the door and hoping like a fender bender inevitably goes away and it wont its interesting too because you know a lot of what theyre asking form of the victim is saying look money isnt whats the issue here its the culture that allowed this guy to operate like this and changing the culture so you dont have a repeat performance from another predator that comes on the one are there any new policies or procedures you know what type so they can for that need to. Put in place to prevent this kind of sexual abuse. Genetics is undergoing what they call a restructuring of theirs they have a new c. E. O. In place shes putting implementing rules in deeper background checks into doctors more check in on team events when youre traveling abroad elliptic nationals what have you theyre trying to be more transparent with how their training is what kind of doctors they implement what kind of rules they implement and thats all well and good you can say on the outside hey lets implement all these new changes lets have parents understand that we care so much about their drugs there are boys who can be gymnastics to this just predominately happens to be 517 girls theyre trying to say were changing how we view everything but yet theyre still trying to hide from their paths are still trying to get out of what theyve done and if that doesnt show that they havent really changed our culture at all i dont i dont know what that is will thank you for giving us a real insight into whats going on with the story powerful story all around regina thank you so much for coming on today all right as we go to break lock watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics weve covered over social media and be sure to check out what the arts the podcast theyll build on spotify up the music and everywhere you listen to your favorite or not so favorite you can also still watching the hearts of the man through the brand new portable t. V. Up available in smartphones through google play on the app web store by searching for the t v or streamers to your t. V. Buy down or the t. V. Or the novelty of one or the t. V. Coming up we look at the us president ial history of racism here in the United States with all the margaret from the state to the little trickle. Down outlines up. The definitions into. Im back and. Jane in the night it was it was just it to me put up the banner and then youre just going to bring. It was that the. Movie he was this. Was you know well that beach im here. To do this just kill him if one means i love just not enough but hes just numb tokyo find it hes going to go. Do it. This is what it was because did it because you dancing with the culture the interview you for the grammys. And my. American exceptionalism patriotism and a high regard for the oval office or ingredients to the secret sauce we call the usa but america has always been a tale of 2 countries if youre a minority or underprivileged you know all too well that the American Dream explained to you our president s even the ones often heralded by historians as the most progressive and woke at least for their time want thats right lincoln f. D. R. Clinton and obama just to name a few all they all short. Systemic racism and discrimination seems to have a steady flow throughout presidencies from members of both Political Parties a new book president ial black america and the president explores the complex relationship the oval has with black america earlier my cohost tyrrel sat down with president ial author Margaret Kimberly for deep dive on her book he started by asking her how does her book shed light on the role president s have with the black community juxtaposed to the stories many of us are taught. Were told that our president s are great and wonderful its part of an effort to have people believe in our system and support our government and frankly not to question the history of this nation america was founded as the colonial state based on murder and theft of the indigenous population and on chattel slavery so. If you talk about that if youre truthful about that about those facts then you have a problem in uplifting these people and elevating them to this stature this reverence we have where cities and towns and schools are named after them where their faces are on our money were told about chopping cherry trees and all all sorts of things that are fanciful in order to cover up the history of this country its truly amazing what we dont want to learn about from our history we want to shield for most i mean from from slavery to reconstruction in the Civil Rights Movement political leaders like Lincoln Johnson and kind of the have you know theyve sanitized their kind of sanitized versions of their roles of oppression and opposing freedom and rights for good for black folks these these stories are not told what these people will really like to the black community do believe sharing them you know kind of takes away from the idea that americas project of democracy is one. The world should follow. Through it does it does take away from it but thats a good thing we need to question we need a wholesale questioning of this countrys history of how this government has functioned domestically and abroad and i think it is very important to question american this notion of democracy the 1st 12 president s 10 were slave holders those the word not held that system slavery didnt end until there was a war lincoln was thought of as the great emancipator but he actually wanted to send black people out of the country and was planning to do so up until the moment he was assassinated and then we were that was followed by a 100 excuse me 100 years of jim crow segregation and the effort to fight against it and its important that we know this truth and that we question everything were told about this country then we can have a really great country if we have honesty the idea of loving a country. If if that love is based on lies and if people have to feel comfortable in order to feel comfortable feel they have to hide and omissions are lies as well thats very damaging so we should have a love of country thats based on truth i couldnt agree with you more you know this is thats one of the reasons why i love this book so watch is because of hate i hate the white washing appears tree i was taught contemporary history a little bit you know. When you look at the current president barack obama for example and his legacy is not a bright spot for black america. Wellesley black people were happy im not opposed to happiness but he was he was he did what his predecessors did he came into office in 2008 and its interesting that he rain. 10 times as much as john mccain did so it was clear where his allegiance lay where all of them lay with defending the interests of Corporate America of the capitalist system so he bailed out the banks the banks that created the financial crisis he gave them money 5 even obamacare which we are told is the 1. 00 thing we should never criticize it was a bailout of the big pharma and the Insurance Companies and we still have millions of people not covered so this. Whitewashing allows the the word continues into modern history and we have a party in his case the