Days after an article from the New York Times alleged russia was paying bounties to the taleban to kill american soldiers theres now a fallout over that over the information from the Intelligence Community as far as what they knew as top lawmakers call for action while President Trump calls the entire story another hoax Rachel Blevins is joining me live in studio to break down all the latest details here so rachel what if we heard from within the Intel Community well the director of the cia released a statement and she actually didnt mention russia or afghanistan but she said that the Intelligence Community is constantly getting reports about possible threats to u. S. Troops on the ground and working to decide if those reports are legitimate now we did see another report which cited an anonymous. Fishel in which he specifically said that while intelligence on this subject was received it only reached a low levels of the community and never moved out because they determined it was uncorroborated now the official said the n. S. A. Assessed the claims but found that they did not match up with stablished and verifiable taleban and connie practices in the region so then how has the New York Times responded to all of this criticism of this initial report where the New York Times actually doubled down and they have said that they have evidence of financial transfers from the Russian Military to tell about now moscow has denied any involvement since the very start but secretary of state mike pompei o did address this topic and he actually said that when it comes to the situation in afghanistan they are constantly saying transfers of money from a number of countries and its interesting there that he brings up the money because the United States has poured more than 2. 00 trillion dollars into the war in afghanistan and as we saw with the release of the afghanistan papers last year it revealed that billions and billions of dollars that have been spent by the u. S. Had actually gone to the enemies that they claim to be fighting with no oversight whatsoever and what about here what are the lawmakers saying what is the no surprise that Top Democrats in the house and senate have used this story as another way to tie trump to russia without actually looking at the evidence take a listen what they had to say should be considering what. To further determine russias malign activities. Further ingratiating russia into the community of civilized nations above all going after putin this president has been played like a fool by president putin every time they negotiate putin wins and he loses hes afraid to talk to putin one can wonder why. But at the same time Top Republicans in the house and senate have also said they believe the report is accurate despite the evidence simply because russia is the subject here is what they said. The current. Rumors that all of you are writing about. But what i would be surprised if the russians were doing so but not the absolutely not and we remain concerned about russian activities in afghanistan and around the world were going to continue to work with the administration we anticipate additional briefings on this issue. So now the topic of conversation seems to have shifted to what president knew were what he should have done as opposed to what these reports said and whether or not they could be verified. By joining us to weigh in on russia gate 2. 0 former cia analyst and whistleblower ray mcgovern who also wrote about this very subject on Consortium News which you can go check out so right 1st can you please explain to us how these president ial briefings work you have been in that role to brief a few u. S. President s i mean poetess received a big folder called the p. T. B. A president ial Daily Briefing if something was truly that credible of a threat would the Intel Community have just left it in print in the p. T. B. Or would they have verbal e addressed potest face to face. Well the task for intelligence analysts of course is to put all of the the information together lay the proof anonymous were comes from and then only give the president verified or substantiated corroborated intelligence you wouldnt bother the president with a bunch of raw material sort of things some of which obviously had agendas behind them a lot of this comes from interrogations led by f. B. I. Intelligence services if mubarak has lots ariss afghans want to stay in afghanistan as all kinds of abuses that happened because of interrogation so what we have here is the New York Times really seizing the lead here to make sure that russia russia russia russia doesnt disappear from the consciousness of americans at a time when the allegations about russia gave you know from collusion to the actual russian hack yeah have been have been debunked yeah but there. New york has not replayed that. Alright russia has actually been host to a taliban delegation after peace talks between them and the us failed last year the russians are trying to broker a peace deal which the us has been unable to do in nearly 2 decades of war so who stands to gain from this maligning of russia. Well the people who are behind russia gate in the 1st instance the afghans that want the us to stay in the us people want the us to stay in afghanistan in the 2nd place you know when you look at the New York Times and you see in order to pull by david sanger you have to realize that you for iraq. 8 months before you are q. Wrote a piece that 7 times genocide weapons of mass destruction as flat shanked sangers the archdeacon of flesh act when i checked turns out to be very ephemeral you know and the n. S. A. And the cia your old employer seem to have 2 different conclusions on this russian bounty story how common is it for these 2 big intel agencies to differ so greatly on any given subject and what does that mean when they do. Well you know there are all kinds of interpretations of the Evidence Department of defense also says its not corroborated so what youre having is here a bunch of leaks that are. Purposed to discredit what trump has done or what hes about to do or where she still what he hasnt done so if these reports are true then they can make trump out to be a. Pocket and thats the you know the sorrowful thing here is that there is such a thing as truth we should try to get it that when we wrote the p. D. P. The president s daily brief and we used to try to corroborate things and figure out whos saying what for what purpose at doesnt seem to be the case anymore. Its very different when people leak this thing and that thing and particularly when its picked up by pundits like david sanger who as i say is the archdeacon of finding feith facts where there are none and lastly wait russian officials are understandably very angry about this accusation they have so far taken a very measured response why do you suppose that is and do you find anything odd about the timing of this new russia gate. Well it comes just days after the 1st meeting of u. S. And russian negotiators on whether we have new accords on Strategic Missiles and strategic weaponry now thats suspicious it comes just as the u. S. Has to get out of afghanistan. Any way the trump wants to do that that is suspicious but it also comes when russia gauge has been thoroughly debunked and let me just give you one example and that is that the head of crowd strike which was supposed to do the forensics on the russian hack of the d. N. C. Has now said hey guess what it was no russian hack there was no air. Filtration from the d. N. C. Of lawyers he is me emails and thats on the record in secret testimony but its been resumed since the 7th of may so it makes about 8 weeks the New York Times had said a word but that theyre preparing to russia russia russia and then. Afterward another week or so david sanger well rated oracle saying well yeah the head of child showed should there was no russian exploit we still think there was there are. Always good points ray mcgovern thank you so much for your expertise. Youre most welcome. 3 months after Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and Sexual Assault now another potential victory for the disgraced movie moguls and victims arties fair project has that report the man who gave rise to the need to have met Harvey Weinstein and his former studios board have reached a nearly 19000000. 00 settlement with 9 of his accusers and a Class Action Lawsuit this settlement is for any woman who was used to having weinstein she need not have come forth far she need not tell her story in the. 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So what do you know today is that we secure justice for these women 68 year old weinstein was diagnosed back in march with coronavirus just days after he was moved to new yorks maximum security correctional facility near buffalo to begin serving his 23 Year Prison Sentence the District Court and a Bankruptcy Court need to sign off on this deal which is set to be signed july 14th where women have 90 days to come forward for t. V. Im here in front that. Other news from across the nation a confederate statue in Richmond Virginia coming down now in fact the mayor of the city ordered the immediate removal of all u. S. Confederate statues on city land mainly due to safety concerns as protesters have continued to vandalize confederate monuments and in some cases toppling them today work crews used heavy equipment to remove confederate general stonewall jackson. 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Ambassador from the south american nation following the announcement of new measures against 11 individuals in the latest round of sanctions so joining us to discuss this is professor danny shah hes a Senior Research fellow with the council on Hemispheric Affairs danna good to see you so president maduro has denounced all of this saying that thats enough of european colonialism and were expecting a response from the e. U. However its unclear if the commission would have the authority to expel the venezuelan ambassador a measure that would have had to come from the host state of belgium but then Opposition Leader one condemned the door of actions siding with the e. U. So what do you make of the latest escalation between the e. U. And across the world weve got to a new round yes well. Actions are cruel just as they were. People were in the right. So many of the countries really anybody that goes into the building will be not so wrong why do. You. Manage. To do that. Getting it would be good for the goose is good for your well in the government right. Now im glad you brought up Leopoldo Lopez the wall street journal just came out with an article last week detailing his role hes currently a host in the Spanish Embassy in caracas sources close to him say he was behind he was the mastermind of the plan to topple nicolas literals government the plans included meetings with the former u. S. Green brain jordan control who was if we all remember that failed operation earlier this year and as well it denounced the use of the spanish diplomatic status to plan what they deemed terror attacks so is there any accountability on the part of the Spanish Government here. The wall street journal article. Local. Group. What the general attitude. Is. Well. Under. The chin you brant open is used in on going as well and of course being in the European Union was trying to paint themselves as true 30000000 people. Right as well or no people should be a guy asked. 19 how many millions of men and 3000000 or so. Refuge. And thats another point of discussion but as we were lucky that it will be abused or beijing implantable venezuela who would have probably be you know. Right. Yeah absolutely good points now part of these latest sanctions the e. U. Is accusing the head of the Venezuelan Legislature luis spotter and others of undermining what they call democratic functioning this is happening as venezuela has called for parliamentary elections later this year its a divisive issue amongst venezuelan opposition and in a press conference just today the u. S. Secretary of state my pump arrow celebrate a vote in the organization of american states last week listen. 21000 s. Member states voted last week to condemn them adore regimes attempt to suppress independent Political Parties in venezuela our region has categorically rejected the attempts to create a phony image or friendly opposition and damn it why does the us get to continue we choose who are the good guys who are the bad guys and the winners and the losers. Same reason the whos who unites the thing you do on armed africanamericans and latinos because one word lets call it punitive is were on to bring us in the expressions these coorong war criminals from whorish to obama. John came out with this work which speaks to some of the divisions in the room and clothes and so they have their day in court in their day behind bars they think they can in bringing any country across the world from out in as the powers that be to syria to get words in the works and they think that theyre on such a house or throw rocks people rise up theyll continue to ride roughshod over sovereignty you know make a mockery over the foreign c. E. O. Of the world people and so good and real quickly lastly i want to go back to jordan goudr