Has been afforded to them. What is happening is a normal unfair and liable to create injustice continue if allowed to continue. Abnormal unfair and creating injustice my for and seems to be the name of the game when it comes to the freedom of the press in 2020 lets find out why as we start watching the hawks. On a city street. Or so you. See there is this you always still see a. Great city desolate systemic dissent says so. So when you feel. Welcome aboard the logic dogs i am. And im of the cross well a major. Theres 18 new charges against drilling the sounds coming down the pipeline superseding the olds the charges a lot of them are very similar but the big question is at the end of the day should the government still be prosecuting and trying to extradite Julian Assange to face prosecution here in the United States should they still be pursuing this even in the era of coping in the era of criminal Justice Reform in the era of what were seeing with this case so many violations of rights. And ramped up efforts to basically shut down journalist and journalism that the u. S. Government doesnt necessarily approve of both from journalists abroad as well as journalists within the United States its not surprising but its detrimental to our countrymen think its just downright wrong i couldnt agree more than the thing is too is a look look i understand people join of songes a divisive figure some people dont like him personally some people love him your opinion is personally of who the man is as a person that shouldnt matter when it comes to whether or not what he did was acting in the best interest of the public as a publisher or as a journalist which he was now you can critique the methods he used you can critique you know should he have reacted name should be redacted names but to me those are all kind of you know. Inside baseball kind of arguments of well he should have done this he should have done this at the end of the day he shouldnt be being prosecuted for what he did chris hedges host of on contact your honor to you he joined manila chan in question earlier and to touch on their sons case here is what he had to say. Oh after figures. And not. Evidence. A court system. Into the same. European court. Security. Area radio into. Numerous. Activists. Are skewed a goal busy. But it is stir. It represents is. This separation. That chris brings up the good point you see this of Service Aeration the constitution of verse aeration the rule of law but were not seeing that were seeing this not only in the major scale of the songs but were also seeing this across the country in light of the black lives matter protests and how theyve been treating press who covered that especially independent press exactly what. Well watching is a full scale disillusionment of the press as we know it happening on the administration happening fast and were watching these journalists who are literally trying to get information on the ground to really tell people what is actually happening which in many cases specific to the protests is in stark contrast of what were hearing come out of the white house and he is doing everything that he can to make sure that they are not on the front lines that they cant tell that story that they cant tell the story of the activists on the ground and that the true painting of a picture of whats happening in these protests will never actually reach the American Public its interesting that you say that because when you see this kind of fight over how journalism is covering the protests specifically a lot of times independent journalists or you know folks are you a citizen journalist and things like that there is this fight over what message do they have an agenda do they not have agenda and theres this kind of brewing battle over whos messages are getting out you saw the local states and cities say no no police shouldnt touch these journalists and then they actually pass laws saying that bad u. 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District judge Michael Simon of the originally barred federal officers who were deployed to portland from using physical force arresting or dispersing anyone you could reasonably call a journalist or legal observer covering these protests now interestingly just a few weeks back to trump appointed judges in the 9th Circuit Court of appeals up to the government challenge that law and challenge report was doing to protect journalists theyve now temporarily suspended those restrictions on federal officers interaction with legal observers so now youre seeing these kind of politics play out in the courtroom where 2 trump appointed guys are saying no no no you can go up but do you go up to them and when asked would you respond to this but i want you to respond to what william barr said when he found out about them overturning this the Appeals Court william barr attorney general United States says in practical effect the District Court order prevented the federal government reflectively addressing violent mobs to the general crowd control measures that are required and it unacceptably increased the risk of serious injury to a Law Enforcement officers a measure how does it how does it increase the. 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Just blows well 1 into the narrative that chaos is on the ground and anybody standing near is going to be a problem and i think that you know hes using bartok here in the water obviously bill barr knows that this is legally something that should never happen its something that is a and it was at the war to our Constitutional Rights it diminishes the role of the press but hes going to stand by president no matter what and i also find it problematic that what were seeing isnt necessarily getting the level of attention that it should thankful that youre bringing it up here and you know how its viewers are actually paying attention to it but here in america in our major media you will see it maybe one story blip and then folks have moved on this is one of those instances where when you dont have journalism that is going to be on the ground that is going to report specifically what they what is happening live youre going to have issues with how america views these protests and it allows for president trying to create a narrative that is totally false to whats actually happening and i think that hes going to try to use that to his advantage come november. Critter group the more. Drain the swamp it was a battle cry for donald trump in 2016 he stepped it at nearly every Campaign Rally interview and basically to anyone within earshot or with a twitter account trump positioned himself as a washington d. C. Outsider coming to change politics as usual and root out corruption but instead of draining the swamp trump has become king among swamp creatures a recent opinion piece by fox news political analyst Juan Williams reveals just how deep and full the swamp has become undertones presidency in his op ed swamp creature at the white house were going to states trying to open the door for 281 lobbyist to work for his administration in the 1st 3 years former lobbyist now run for agencies including the departments of defense and interchange. Troops using the white. As a campaign prop during the Republican National convention was a clear violation of the hatch act and though conservatives argue most people dont even know what it actually is maybe some truth to that what americans do know is corruption when they see it just last year trump put a former coal lobbyist in charge of regulating air pollution guess how much cleaner air quality got after that small getting one shot recently fired the state Department Inspector general and for what might you say well the Inspector General was investigating how secretary of state might pompei o was using Department Staff to run personal errands like picking up his food orders and his familys dry cleaning. And this is the same pompei o who spoke at the Republican NationalConvention Live from jerusalem on taxpayers dime and to top it all off the office of special counsel sent 130 or letters warning federal workers of possible illegal actions during the 1st 3 years of the Trump Administration the small just got a lot more gators you know. Thats perfect one of the weird thing to be is its like every time im as a as us citizens were almost conditioned im sure its like this and other governments which are almost conversion to certain point to say what some of the campaign trail. You might get 50 percent if youre lucky but most of the time was Just Lip Service but to run on drain the swamp and then pretty much be like any lobby that was a 200. 00 some odd lobbyist 311 yeah. Thats a lot to go back on a Campaign Promise or even one of those and it wasnt just a Campaign Promise it was something that he said everywhere all the time he was tweeting it on every single show he talked about it it was in print it was you could not hear about donald trump without also drain the swamp it was as popular a phrase as make America Great and you can and i think that for those who have seen him in this position where he has included more lobbyists in this white house than any other Administration Prior now granted there are several administrations who have cozy relationships a lobbyist just how things work in the but appointing them to high level positions and federal agencies and making the white house advisers and putting them in these positions of power that takes this whole swampy nature to another level yeah i mean people criticized obama because it was buddy buddy manager with Goldman Sachs and you saw all those former Goldman Sachs like in higher positions in the treasury and things like that. And i think a lot of people who are on the fence voted for donald saying we dont want to see that youre the outsider you claim to be the outsider you claim to be that guy but is he really at the end of the day and thats not to say that look if joe biden wins this upcoming about whether trump or biden wins this upcoming election i dont see the change in the revolving door for lobbyists happening any time soon in this country but its still important for people you know to always Pay Attention look just because somebody tells you what you want to hear doesnt mean theyre going to do it even donald trump even a lot of these people that kind of come in with you know waving the banner that there are the people in there for cleaning up washington no absolutely and levet you touched on that point because one of my frustrations has always been in reading while wombs this piece as well is that it is very difficult to quote unquote drain the swamp it is not a talking point that is novel to President Trump it actually existed decades before trump got into office but it is one that a lot of people will state when theyre thinking about running it is we want. Change politics as usual and we want to you know is corruption but as long as money isnt politics there red occasion of corruption is not going to happen anyway youve got if youre going to do it then youve got to close off a quid pro quo style you know the way politics is done the washing of the potomac 2 step about quid pro quo hable be a revolving door of some big berm once you leave politics or we only hire the best and the brightest from this small group who gives money to both parties you know thats the real where the real problem of all this comes in exactly and that for that would be a part of frustration is that there is a currently any legislation on the books to do just that because both parties actually benefit from it so were talking about lobbyists who turn into Campaign Donors on either side or lobbyist who you know play both ends up the middle and just donate to both sides and see what happens these people know that their investment is going to turn into something later on so it becomes not a politics of the people but a politics of the lobbyists because theyre the ones who donated and guess what when somebody gets elected those lobbyist are the 1st people at the door on the phone you know they want their papers they want to make sure that policies that protect them in the organizations they represent are uphill and thats to the best in many cases of every day i mean you know as as you told pointed out to me earlier today were talking about the shows that look trumps daughter i banca used her White House Position the game trademarks from china killing him quite a conway then promoted of on his clothing and i mean when you see all the threads and bloggers a this isnt new to donald trump is an age old story and its going to keep repeating itself until we actually get congress to pull the money out of politics or demand in some capacity and something tells me were going to be writing a really long time oh man im all right everybody as we go to break remember you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t. 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The land of the free and the home of the brave is under attack and not from outside forces american exceptionalism is under fire from within President Donald Trump known for his love of hugging the American Flag and parading soldiers and high ranking military officials for Campaign Purposes hit a wall in the past week. The political fallout thats getting under his skin trump is known for his attacks on journalists calling them fake news and enemies of the people but military publications have largely been left out trumps full scale assault on journalism until now the pentagon recently delivered an order to in stars and stripes a newspaper that has been around since 861. 00 the publication is as old as the American Civil War and has existed across presidencies of multiple Political Parties serving as a go to source for military news and issues concerning the armed services. Truck gets his way stars and stripes will be effectively dissolved by september 15th but military Service Members past and present their families and current members of Congress Like combat veteran and senator Tammy Duckworth in addition to a small group of republicans are calling on defense secretary marc esper to do something before the publication is up and it even republican senator and trump ally Lindsey Graham is pushing against the imminent threat to funding for stars and stripes he said quote as a veteran who has served overseas i know the value stars and stripes brings to its readers. There are signs that trump might be succumbing to political pressure and he appears to be backtracking support for killing off stars and stripes the tweeter in chief offered this comment when he noticed how voters reacted to a potential in to the popular newspaper. Veterans advocate and political consultant rory riley thomas joins us now to discuss more welcome. Thank you for having me. All right i know that this is a story on top of a lot of peoples minds and as our expert here i have something for you why was removing funding for stars and stripes a priority to begin with especially considering that this is a tumultuous Election Year where trump has always posed him self as a chief defender and protector of u. S. Troops and their families. Well i mean i think the answer is basically what you just said in your opening the trumpet ministration has always been very critical of the news media and particularly news media that is critical of his administration so there has been some pushback that stars and stripes has been critical of the trumpet ministration in particular and particularly some of their decisions around defense issues so this was largely viewed as something t