Millions of americans are struggling to get their stimulus checks but even if they can get through the i. R. S. Website they could still have banks steal their money join me to talk about this is fair and cousins editor the National Trial where the magazine this this story i again its no surprise right this whole living the whole nature of this legislation was to put money in the hands of people so they could eat so they could pay their rent now we see the threat of banks saying what well the banks are saying hey you have Overdraft Fees from a couple years ago oh youre youre behind on this payment that you know this debt that we hold for you were going to steal your money and the worst part about this is not just the fact that the banks are doing this its that this was intentional this was intentionally put into this piece of legislation because they wrote in a provision congress did as part of the stimulus package here that the federal government cannot seize any of this if you are the government any money with the exception of child support. But they didnt include that provision for banks instead the rule says were going to leave it up to the treasury run by steve maneuver the banker hill decide if banks are allowed to take your money and of course minucci did the very predictable thing which was to say absolutely banks if somebody owes you money this stimulus check is going right into their account at your bank you can go ahead and keep it that is what they explicitly told the bank teller and extent the bill exactly limit you the back story a little bit more Treasury Department is having this massive webinars telephone conference with banks all over the all of the u. S. And they they say by the way is it ok if we take this money that comes to us the 1200. 00 check and if they owe us money on overcharges are they on us money on delinquent payment on a loan that we can take that money and real cutesy she says well you know theres nothing in the explicit that says you cant add other words youre right they understood this when they went into it. 1 understands that hes looking out for the banks the whole concept of this is a put money in the hands of people who have to pay for things like food and rent or whatever they might their needs be what that does is it empowers the economy ok you got what 350000000000. 00 worth of money flowing through the years that this was the half a 1000000000. 00 of us about how about half of ok so the money is flowing through but im talking about the total money thats flowing through the entire process right right right so so the money is flowing through and its the notion of it is brilliant for the 1st time because it is saying we dont really want to worry about trickle down trickle down doesnt work its a lie when a corporation gets their money they buy their shares back none of that money. Those in the economy and now maybe theyve embraced the notion because theyve been forced to that trickle up makes a lot more sense if you put hand money in the hands of somebody whos going to go buy something really is going to engage with the economy thats what boost the economy not these folks at the top the corporate elite at the top this and they dont then i go buy anything there you know i mean how many bentleys can they have i mean how many shares can they own in a corporation so so the point is this actually had a good idea behind it the idea was empower the bottom let them pay for food let them pay for. Or whatever and that money trickles back into the economy right right and its great in theory unfortunately congress wrote this legislation in a way that prevents that theory from ever becoming a reality and heres the kicker to you had 3 wonderful senators you had a lizard with warren Sherrod BrownSheldon White house they all before this decision was made to let the banks tanker money they all petition the Treasury Department they said please make the right decision here which if they knew anything about this Treasury Department about steve. They knew this was going to happen but the fact that they had to petition and beg them to not make this decision shows that they knew this was in there and they knew that it would lead to this and thats what people need to focus on here Stephen Newton was completely predictable but what we had in this legislation written by democrats written by republicans written in part by minucci himself is that it was designed this way they made it to where the banks can do so so really the it comes down to starve people but make sure that that overcharge at the bank is paid for thats how ugly this is theres another another ugly part to it and i love this part 1st of all let me throw out the palosi issue got to do that. Yesterday palosi is that. By 5 there shes asked the question did you know that you have democrats 567 democrats that are saying please dont hold up the the Business Loan the small Business Loan issue and and now whats happened is shes put herself in a position to worse now shes the focus the democrats are the focus of the bad guy give me a got about a minute tell me tell me that part of the story well whats happening at this moment is that yeah democrats are trying to get some concessions from the republican side these are extremely weak concessions they include the extension of cobra benefits so that we can still Pay Insurance Companies rug but people dont have to pay for a month or whatever it is but they have put themselves in a position palosi has as the leader of trying to make concessions from behind shes always behind the curve behind the 8. 00 ball never in front of the issue and playing hardball saying this is whats going to happen and her weaknesses have been exposed now i mean the Shrub Administration is exploiting this tremendously ice cream thing what right the ice cream thing man shes businesses need the money and shes out there showing talk show host her ice cream collection church trying to appear human yeah and relatable but in fact youre in front of 48000. 00 worth of freezers with ice cream thats 12. 00 a pint again you think this makes you a little democrat leadership had the right they had they were perfect position perfect position to make this work for them and then this has been this goofy has been palosi no leadership blows it again the small Business Loan program contained in the stimulus bill has already run out of money partly because large corporations were able to exploit loopholes to get their hands on this money wow ugly story they were talking about giving money to Investment Bankers thats what this is thats what this is about yeah it really is. And of course obviously weve all seen the stories over the last few days with these major restaurant chains shake shack ruths chris getting their hands on tens of millions of dollars shake shack of course they gave back their 10000000 they said oh im so so out of it love that i mean its great that they did that they only did it because people got fieri assim you know but he had paid attention shake shack what a love to have chris 2020 1000000 dollars they dont give a bad theyre keeping you got all kinds of big corporations here that are giving that money back so you know if you compare to what shake shack did i dont know i dont have the interest and shakes but ill have a david 10000000. 00 but the problem is the way again this was written allowed these major firms which includes a lot of hedge funds to come in there and say whoa technically im a Small Business yes i control 16000000000. 00 in assets but i meet your criteria i dont have 500. 00 employees i dont technically own these assets that im controlling so you need to give me a small Business Loan because golly gee i dont know if im going to make it off my 16000000000 and they give them the loans i mean were talking about 75 publicly traded companies at this point have gotten small Business Loans these a 1000000000 multibillion dollar wall street Silk Stocking elite. Thugs really and so so the people that i thought this was interesting the people who advise these Investment Bankers theres something called a kasia ok all these Investment Bankers they go to these consultants and they say what should we do give us the their what do you think the trend is occasion says what ever you do what ever you do do not take this money right good advice its wonderful advice and actually rather shocking that they would go as far as to say that but but again they know their clients they know what these people will do they know these people only care about money and if you can get 20000000. 00 at one percent interest theyre going to take that loan all day long meanwhile as you mentioned 350000000000. 00 gone this was supposed to help mom and pop businesses you know the little pizza shop around the corner the boutique selling out an athletic clothes down the street those were the places that needed this money they needed it to survive and pay their employees and they cant get it because ruths chris want to let me get back to this issue because its. Nerving to me ok i dont know i dont know who has got out of the way to try to advise the d. N. C. More than you have that you know obviously they dont listen so now what what is the image of what we see with this whole palosi thing the the deal with her ice cream freezer and and she has 75 or 7 democrat senators and dont you see whats happening here wont you please make a move to support Small Business she is completely utterly tone deaf to what the average american what person gets in front of a 50000. 00 refrigerator or freezer and says hey let me talk to you about the economy got i got about 30 seconds well its really interesting here because not. Only are we seeing all the weaknesses that palosi has as a leader but were once again saying the democrats are absolutely the worst group of humans on this planet when it comes to messaging they could have been in front of us they thought it won the issue but there are so few good ones left that you could count on to he ends even if you are missing a few very are blind followers yes just like weve seen with the republicans for so many days for so many decades they are blind goofy followers who rather than thinking for themselves look to this has been palosi to say what do we do and theyre terrified of the us currently they are terrified of the ice cream lady which is beyond totally beyond me i dont get it fair and cousin cite you for joining me ok thank you for coming out it turns out that the federal government can request wide volumes of consumer data without needing to disclose a reason for its collection despite a lawsuit filed by twitter that more when we come back. 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Really been pulling for these folks im not a huge god i never i dont even tweet im not a twitter person i think it might be because you know donald ran me off from even being interested but what can you tell me about the lawsuit what happened here but this was 1st filed by twitter in 2014 against the obama era government but it has since been amended to challenge the government under President Donald Trump the so social media giant sued because they have wanted to include information about the number of surveillance requests it receives from the federal government every year as part of its public transparency reports the requests which are known as National Security letters however are designed to be withheld from the public so a federal judge in california after 60 years has now dismissed the case handing a victory to the federal government. No surprises here. Id like to know more about the appointment of the judge and what their pedigree is but i probably could guess what does this mean for the public are they going to ever learn about the government spying i mean they at least have a right to know you youve been spying on me and it leaks let us know that that happened thats thats probably not going to happen though is it. No its probably not and the federal government cannot continue to completely Ban Companies not only from saying anything about government surveillance requests but even that they have been doing them in the 1st place National Security letters are Law Enforcement tools that are similar to subpoenas and theyre most commonly issued by the f. B. I. However other agencies can also issue them an s. L. Force companies to turn over information about certain customers for National Security related investigations but theres no way for companies to even know whether the government is legally doing this or whether theyre violating the law with these requests so these companies are now forbidden from disclosing how many requests theyve received or that theyve received any in the 1st place all we know is that the federal government has issued over 300000 and s ls in the past 10 years we dont know where they were issued or what they were issued for. You know what try to call balls d and strikes on the show as much as possible and you know people get mad at those because were not tribal and we dont have one position so the balls and strikes in this in this situation is the other side of the story is when we compare how we have been able to suppress terrorist activity United States because of this type of spying its nothing less than spying thats what it is that when we compare ourselves to europe in asia in other parts of the world we have done far far superior and when you build in this this is the our the argument is this is part of the reason but the Empirical Data is we have done far far better than the rest of the world and so we hear that argument whether its accurate or not i dont know but the argument is certainly out there if you compare apples to apples yes were doing far better as far as the 1st amendment goes is this a violation of the 1st minute i dont know how it could not be but tell me what your opinion is. Yeah i think that it is but unfortunately by citing National Security concerns the government can always find a loophole for warrantless extrajudicial surveillance and in this case twitter says the government was infringing on its rights to free speech by preventing it from publicly posting information and forcing it to engage in speech thats been preapproved by the government but this goes deeper because the government often passes that from these social Media Companies then down to consumers and users by basically forcing us to squash our own speech and when we talk about social media theyre also collecting massive amounts of data on people so theyre also doing their own form of corporate spiral spying and while the government cant legally squash free speech of course unless its given it this loophole of National Security private companies can squash that free speech they are free to do that and the government as i said does pressure social Media Companies to do that you know silencing certain stories or voices and that often happens and of course this is a bipartisan policy one of americas policies where both parties seem to agree it spans multiple administrations mass surveillance this is just the next chapter. Yeah well the companies you know whether its you know whether its facebook or twitter or whoever d you know theyve been if it from a they get they get they get a lot of benefit from federal government in breaks that the federal government gives them in the federal government is always has that hammer over their head if you dont do this then were going to do this and so thats always there its reality theyre terrified that theyre going to lose a dollar so i really love to see and twitter take this position but its no surprise to see a federal judge shoot it down because truthfully he probably they probably were on good grounds when it comes down to the 1st amendment are you argument versus police power federal Government Health safety and welfare Health Safety and welfare is going to trump Something Like the 1st amendment most of the time look thank you for joining me ok stay safe out there in l. A. Thanks a federal lawsuits been filed against the Chinese Government alleging that officials intentionally withheld critical information about the corona virus which eventually wrecked havoc on americas Small Business molly barrows is here to talk to me about it obviously this was this was filed by a very good friend of mine a lawyer out in the vatican whos extraordinary trial lawyer Robert Robert yes and hes the one that handled the Vegas Shooting case that thought everybody thought was impossible and he he went on 800000800 i mean so this this this is a real this is a real deal and if fascinated yeah 1st of all what is the is the this is a lawsuit just about all businesses are is a narrowed his his scope well hes narrowed it and its the simply representing 5 Small Businesses glower shops that sort of thing but it actually is on behalf of some 32000000 Small Businesses he says its going to impact what happens with these cases will impact Small Businesses across the country because theyve all been impacted by what he says is negligence on the part of Chinese Health officials as well as the Chinese Government in covering up and not giving enough Early Warning basically threatening doctors threatening people who knew about this virus when it 1st sprung up and if they had known they would have been allowed to be a part of the reaction perhaps send our own Health Officials over there and put a stop to it before it ever got out of the there are plenty of precedent for this as you know i have with iran and the banks that watched money for terrorists and in order to do that i had to bring iran into the into the lawsuit has billions of not trillions worth of assets in the United States right so im going to win that case i dont like that i will win that case and same way with china what i think is most interesting is the hes using the treaties that came out of this globalization the nafta the calf the type treaties on trade. And hes saying they have a responsibility under trade under these treaties not to do what theyve done what is he saying they did well basically you know if you go back even to some of the original doctors who were 1st responding they wanted to put the word out on social media they were tracked down they were threatened they were told not to tell anyone this appears they disappeared yes that mean there is just a whole slew of basically heinous allegations that are coming out that are not unsurprising if you will considering the crackdown that the Chinese Government has on their people in a variety of other areas as well that hes saying that they there were cover ups against journalists against doctors against the medical community that in essentially allow this virus to escape the borders and in fact in fact in impact the entire world and to the Small Businesses trillions of dollars as a result something they would have had to suffer otherwise but its a shame that you talk about how hes suing through that treaty lou poem and you know so much of the world is changing because of the corona virus and this is probably going to impact our global relationships there well whether its the European Union how do you see that i think globalization is is dead in the water globalization to me and theres just my opinion i mean everybody has a different opinion on this obviously it was it was it was a wrong start to begin with what it was was bill clinton was trying to embrace wall street right so one of the asks by wall street was can you let us push globalization and what that meant to them is when you let our corporations send jobs out of the country will you let our corporations be told what they can and cant produce that they sell it to the American People like youre going to get cheaper like this is going to be better for you and its a lie just like their ability to sue they can come here and we have this way mollies who are saying that they can come to the United States a Foreign Company can come the United States and say we dont like the e. P. A. Has told us that we cant dump our toxic chemicals into your river therefore were going to sue you and get paid by the taxpayer. So we can poison so we can poison you so thats globalisation so robert eglin hes again hes a brilliant lawyer hes taken hes taken the other side of it he said ok you can do that to us were going to do this to you right hes going to win well this case is going to this case has got hes got its going to be a year just going to the hague just to get him served because hes going to win this one it seems like theres a fairly broad jurisdiction and as much as if you do business in the United States then theres a good chance that we can see if you have more in country so its not unheard of like you said let him have tenure handling their own litigation against iran where do you see this going now other lawsuits being filed robert what i thought was interesting commented on a couple of other lawsuits out of florida that he said theyre too wide you know they are dismissed because of the trade angle when the florida cases are way too broad theyre trying to encompass too much this is a narrow case we can show that your conduct directly affected this business its called legal causation you have to be able to the conduct with the event and thats what hes doing. Barrows were you know this this is an interesting case is going to go on a lot for sherry talk about this one a lot thanks for joining me ok thanks that father and i had some good news a federal judge last week ruled that the permit for the keystone x. L. Pipeline was wrongly issued and therefore the permits not valid this is a major win for the environment and for activists whove been fighting against the pipeline for years and his ruling judge brian morris said that the u. S. Corps of engineers failed to do a proper Environmental Review of the project which is a violation of the law the reason the Environmental Review was not properly conducted by the government is because it would show without a doubt that this pipeline is going to cause more harm than good proponents of the pipeline of argued for years that its necessary so that we can Lower Energy Prices for americans but the truth is that this pipeline is going to stretch from canada to the gulf coast where the oil would be loaded on to oil tankers and shipped overseas not for us but for other people. The United States would assume all of the environmental risk while reaping 0 benefit from the increased pollution this pod line is a bad deal for both the environment and for American Consumers and the sooner the whole thing is put to rest the better thats all for tonight find us on twitter at facebook at facebook dot com slash r t americas motor you can watch all our t. America programs on direct t. V. 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